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November 9, 2010 Issue 38

NEWS BRIEFS

Casa Italiana resident

hospitalized with
meningitis
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
A resident in Casa Italiana has
been hospitalized with a bacterial form
of meningitis, according to residents
and staff members of the Italian-
themed Row house.
Ira Friedman, director of Vaden
Health Center, spoke to the house’s
residents last night regarding the iso-
lated case, offering the option of re-
ceiving antibiotics as a precautionary
measure against possible exposure.
Staff members did not release the
name of the infected student.
Jack Jorgensen ‘12, financial man-
ager at Casa Italiana,described the res-
idents’ meeting with Friedman, calling
the talk “an overview” of the situation.
“There really is nothing we have to
do right now,” he said. “They offered,
as they do with other cases of infected
people . . . antibiotics to those who had
close contact with the resident as a pre-
cautionary measure,but that was up to
students to decide.”
Jorgensen went on to confirm that
students did not express a desire to
move out of the house in light of the sit-
uation.
According to the Center for Dis-
ease Control, “meningitis is a disease
caused by the inflammation of the pro-
tective membranes covering the brain
and spinal cord.”The illness can devel-
op due to viruses or bacteria, but only
the bacterial form is treatable with an-
tibiotics.
Fever, headache and a stiff neck
characterize the onset of meningitis,
later followed by nausea, vomiting,
sensitivity to light or altered mental
states.The bacterial form of the disease
can be transferred through the air or
by contact with infected throat secre-
tions.
About 10 percent of those infected
with meningitis die of the disease.
— Ryan Mac
Clooney,Prendergast talk Sudan
Actor and United Nations “Messenger of Peace” George Clooney discusses Sudan’s future in front of a
large audience in Cubberley Auditorium on Monday night.
ACADEMICS
University encourages juniors to declare
By CAITY MONROE
DESK EDITOR
Axess has been open for winter course
enrollment since Oct. 24, but currently un-
declared juniors are unable to register due
to the hold placed on their accounts pre-
venting winter quarter enrollment. Though
technically required to choose a major by
the end of sophomore year, a handful of
VIVIAN WONG/Staff Photographer
juniors delay this deadline until the end of
fall quarter of junior year.
At the beginning of fall quarter this
year, 471 juniors had yet to officially choose
a major, which was down from the 505 un-
declared juniors in the fall of 2009. As of
Monday, there were 218 undeclared jun-
iors.
The account holds, which will be lifted
once the students declare their majors, is a
Students attend Cubberley event
By ALEX YU
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The political geography of Africa
may change radically on Jan.9,2011.As
a result of referendums stemming from
the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agree-
ment in Sudan, southern Sudan will
vote on its independence, deciding
whether to remain part of the north or
become its own state.
January’s referendum was the topic
of discussion on Monday night at Cub-
berley Auditorium, where approxi-
mately 400 people gathered to listen to
John Prendergast, co-founder of the
anti-genocide Enough Project, and
George Clooney, actor and United Na-
tions “Messenger of Peace,” discuss the
upcoming referendum and the future
of the Sudanese state.
Stanford STAND, a student anti-
genocide group,which in June received
national attention for its campaign
against “conflict minerals” in the De-
mocratic Republic of Congo, co-part-
nered with Crothers Memorial Hall,
the global citizenship academic theme
dorm, to sponsor this event.
The Freeman Spogli Institute invit-
ed Prendergast, who has written 10
books on Africa, as a visiting professor
final attempt to encourage students to
move from academic exploration to a par-
ticular focus. It is also meant to provide stu-
dents with the necessary push to seek de-
partmental or Undergraduate Advising
and Research (UAR) advising instead of
continuing to put off the paperwork in-
volved in declaring a major.
Please see MAJORS, page 3
from Nov. 1 to 12. During his visit,
sponsored by the Charles Riddell
Fund, he has given a number of talks,
his first entitled “The Good News from
Africa: Success Stories and their Impli-
cations” on Nov. 4.
Along with STAND, political sci-
ence professor Stephen Stedman,
Crothers resident fellow, also coordi-
nated with Prendergast to organize
Monday’s event.
Stedman moderated Monday’s
talk, introducing Clooney and Pren-
dergast to the audience. Crothers
theme associate and STAND member
Alice Bosley ‘11, STAND co-president
Mia Newman ‘12 and STAND co-pres-
ident Marloes Sijstermans ‘11 joined
Stedman in guiding the talk. Prender-
gast began discussion by describing the
current conflict with the Sudanese ref-
erendum.
“Now, here we are, 60 days away
from the conclusion of [the 2005 Com-
prehensive Peace Agreement],” Pren-
dergast said.“The fact is that the north
does not want to give up the south be-
cause it has most of the oil.”
Newman guided the conversation
to discuss the notion that southern
Please see SUDAN, page 3

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Event looks at
race, gender, ERIC KOFMAN/
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sexuality STUDENT LIFE

Stanford Students for Queer

New extension
Liberation hosts ‘Intersections’
By MARGARET RAWSON
causes privacy
DESK EDITOR

A Monday lunch discussion on “Immi-

gration as a Queer Issue” marked the be-
ginning of “Intersections,” a series of
events this week sponsored by Stanford
Students for Queer Liberation. “Intersec-
tions,” currently in its first year, is being
billed as “a week of exploring and celebrat-
ing the intersections of race, gender and
queer sexuality.”
The week of events aims to highlight the
connectedness of these issues, said Alok
Vaid-Menon ‘13, co-president of Stanford
Students for Queer Liberation, previously
known as the Emma Goldman Society.
“Most gay rights organizing doesn’t
bring up race,” Vaid-Menon said. “We’re
trying to dispel the notion that racial jus-
tice and gay rights are separate causes.You
concerns on Web
RCCs discuss University’s stance
toward ‘Firesheep’ add-on
By VIVIAN SHEN
A recently released extension for the Mozilla
Firefox Web browser highlights a serious security
JIN ZHU/Staff Photographer flaw in many major websites, including Facebook,
The red atrium of the Y2E2 building, above. The Yang and Yamakazi Environment and Energy building serves as a model of Amazon and Twitter. The extension, Firesheep, al-
sustainability in building design and houses academic departments that focus on issues of energy and the environment. lows any user to impersonate another person on
these websites and potentially induce heavy social
ENVIRONMENT consequences.
“It’s not really hacking into other people’s ac-

Stanford gets high sustainability marks

can’t fight for one without talking about
the other.”
The event aims to “bring a lot of people
into the room, into the audience, that might
not interact otherwise,” said Holly Fetter
‘13, co-president of Stanford Students for
Queer Liberation.
“Intersections” will include a discussion
on indigenous queer identity, a panel of
local transgender-identified activists of
color and an open forum for discussion,
among other events.The weeklong series is
Please see EVENTS, page 3
By CAROLINE CHEN
STAFF WRITER
For the third year in a row, Stanford re-
ceived an A- in the Sustainable Endow-
ment Institute’s annual Green Report
Card, earning it an “Overall College Sus-
tainability Leader” designation. The re-
port card reflects a surge in sustainability
initiatives on campus, but both the admin-
istration and student leaders believe there
is much room for improvement.
Stanford’s scores in the annual report
card have been steadily rising over the last
five years.This year, it earned an A in eight
out of the nine categories, and the overall
A- grade places Stanford on par with Har-
vard and Princeton, while Yale earned an
A and Cal a B+.
Notably, Stanford raised its climate and
energy score from a B to an A this year.Fah-
mida Ahmed, director of the Office of Sus-
tainability,credited this improvement to the
school’s new energy and climate plan,
which was released in late 2009.According
to the fact sheet online, the plan proposes
that by 2020, Stanford will reduce its
greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent from
Please see GREEN, page 3
counts because you don’t steal passwords,” said
Zahan Malkani ‘12, residential computer consultant
(RCC) in East Florence Moore Hall. “This is essen-
tially assuming other people’s identities.”
“To log in to one of these sites you need to log in
and identify yourself, which creates a unique identi-
fier,” he said. “But, you don’t need to identify your-
self again at any page, and people in the same net-
work with this plug-in can take your previously cre-
ated unique identifier and be you.”
Because most Stanford students work on the
Please see FIRESHEEP, page 3

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FEATURES
‘FACTS, NUANCE AND
INTELLECTUAL DEBATE’
Stanford students partake in rally hosted by Jon
Stewart and Stephen Colbert in Washington, D.C.
By SOPHIA VO
“I
disagree with you, but I’m pretty sure
you’re not Hitler.”
“I prefer facts, nuance and intellectual debate.”
“One of us, or perhaps neither of us, may be right.”
“Death to nobody.”
These were a few signs waved at the Rally to Restore
Sanity and March to Keep Fear Alive,attended by at least
a handful of Stanford students on Oct. 30 in Washington,
D.C.
Any event that claims to be like “Woodstock, but with
the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagree-
ment,” is bound to be different than your average gather-
ing. Television satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
took on this challenge. Stewart, well known for political
satire on “The Daily Show,” dared America to join him in
Washington, D.C., to promote rationality. Attendance
topped 215,000, according to some estimates.
Colbert, host of “The Colbert Report,” immediately
opposed this, announcing the March to Keep Fear Alive.
The day of, he tried to scare the audience with a false at-
tack by killer bees.The amusing tete-a-tete between Col-
bert and Stewart involved arguments about who is “more
American” and whether or not citizens should cower in
fear. Guest performers also stole the stage, from Sheryl
Crowe to the Discovery Channel’s MythBusters.
Students from Stanford in Washington had a special
section reserved nearer to the stage.Adam Adler ‘12, who
interns at the Capitol, made his way there six hours be-
fore the event. After small talk and mingling, he said
everyone was genuinely thrilled to participate.
“Since we came as fans of ‘The Daily Show,’ we shared
the same moderate approach to rallying,” Adler said.
The attendees were diverse, with members of differ-
ent political parties and ethnicities.
“Talking to people from all over kept conversation in-
teresting,” Adler noted.
Adler contributed by making a sign prioritizing fears,
Stephen Colbert excites the crowd in a wacky superhero costume.
The Stanford Daily
with bears and girls listed as severe threats.
“Leading up to rally, I worried that Stewart would be
controversial,” he said. “He did a good job of not attack-
ing specific political figures or views.”
What began as a mockery of Glenn Beck’s Rally to
Restore Honor this summer actually shed light on how
individuals go about political movements, according to
Adler. The rally showed how humor is funniest when it
contains truth, and humor reveals societal assumptions
that seem ludicrous when we stop to think, he said.
Joshua Khani ‘11 flew to D.C. from Stanford to see
Stewart and Colbert in action. He explained that he pur-
sues reason in political discourse by encouraging open-
mindedness. In his opinion, individuals must judge a situ-
ation by its context, not by personal preconceptions, he
said.
“It seems silly to blame-shift,” Khani said. “The para-
dox of selfishness is that when we justify harming others,
we excuse others to harm us.”
He pointed to the media’s role in propagating radical-
ism.
“The media targets groups of people and creates a
fear that wasn’t there before,but we’re all using some sort
of reason to get where we are,” Khani said. “Issues arise
when everyone acts as if others don’t have good inten-
tions at heart.”
A concluding speech by Stewart was a call to action,
using the analogy of a busy highway for worldwide team-
work.
“Yet these millions of cars must somehow find a way
to squeeze one by one into a mile-long, 30-foot wide tun-
nel,” he said, highlighting that society is based on com-
promise. “And they do it, concession by concession. You
Courtesy of Adam Adler
go. Then I’ll go.”
The final words struck a chord with Khani, who be- Adam Adler ‘12, who is interning in Washington, D.C., holds a comical sign at the event on Oct. 30.
lieves that this mutual understanding is continually
achievable.
“It’s only when you cause all this shouting that there’s
aggression towards one another,” he said. “We already
have this ability to interact peacefully, so just work with
it.”
Contact Sophia Vo at sophiavo@stanford.edu.
Courtesy of Adam Adler
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SUDAN| Prendergast and Clooney discuss Sudan’s upcoming referendum

Sudan is the victim of northern Sudan’s subjugation.
Prendergast affirmed the multifaceted nature of the situ-
ation in Sudan but stressed that the majority of human
rights violations can be credited to the oppressive Su-
danese government located in northern Sudan.
“There is a lot of blood on a lot of hands in southern
Sudan,”Prendergast said.However,“the vast preponder-
ance of the human rights violations were committed by
the forces of the government of Sudan and the associat-
ed militia.”
Grounding the conversation in realistic terms for
politicians, Clooney implied the need to incentivize Unit-
ed States intervention in Sudan by highlighting the im-
mense benefit of interceding the conflict: the opportuni-
ty to tap into the Sudanese oil wells.
Sudan “also happens to be a place where we could use
some oil,” Clooney said. From the perspective of United
States politics, he added, “we could dip into that oil well
as well.”
Prendergast discussed the possible objectives U.S. in-
tervention could have. “What the government in Sudan
spends all their time talking about is when can they get to
roll back all the American sanctions, to get off the terror-
ist list, to remove all the scarlet letters on their vests that
the U.S. has been putting on them for years,” Prendergast
said. “The Sudanese government cares about these
sometimes symbolic economic and political points of iso-
lation.”
In Prendergast’s opinion, though, the real potential to
invoke change in Sudan emerges at the local level, partic-
ularly at politically active institutions such as Stanford.
“If you want to make a change somewhere, you have
to have the political will,” Prendergast said.“Political will
has been generated over the last number of years be-
cause of schools like Stanford, which has generated stu-
dent movements with respect to Darfur and south
Sudan.”
Clooney concluded the discussion, expressing opti-
mism in placing the future of Sudan in the hands of the
individual and exhorting the audience to speak out
against allowing ambivalence to exacerbate the Sudan
conflict.
“We have always in our lifetime caught these things
after they happened,” Clooney stressed.“We were late to
Rwanda.We were late to Bosnia.We were late to Darfur.
You have an opportunity that has never happened be-
fore: to stop it before it happens . . . your voice right now
can save lives.”
VIVIAN WONG/Staff Photographer
Prendergast and Clooney discuss the likelihood of serious violence in Sudan’s upcoming referendum and emphasize the need for the United States “to stop it before it happens.” Contact Alex Yu at alexyu@stanford.edu.

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“The ones who have come to talk
to me have known what it is they
want to declare — mostly they have
just had a lot of inertia,” said UAR
academic director Kristin Black. “I
think it was actually a good thing that
they had a hold on their account so
that they would go and talk to their
department.”
A host of new or intensified ef-
forts to help students declare are
available for students well before the
ultimate hold on undeclared juniors’
accounts. According to Dean of Un-
dergraduate Advising Julie Lythcott-
Haims ‘89, those efforts include Ma-
jors Night, Sophomore Symposium,
an academic “agora” and the new
freshman requirement of regular
meetings with pre-major advisors.
Lythcott-Haims hopes these ef-
forts will help more students declare
their majors during their sophomore
year.
“I hope that over the next couple
of years we’ll drive that undeclared
junior number down to as close to
zero as possible,” she said.
Stanford offers more than 80 ma-
jors and considerably more sub-
fields. Such variety is conducive to
academic freedom and exploration,
but it can make the selection process
daunting.
Daniel Ong ‘12, who declared his
major in computer science just last
week, had difficulties deciding on a
major after taking classes in a variety
of disciplines — all of which he en-
joyed.
“When you come to Stanford,
they give you a lot of latitude . . .
when you explore classes you find
out the stuff you like and are able to
do,” he said.
Ong, who started out interested in
political science, has pursued a few
potential majors.This doesn’t bother
him, though, because of the less-ex-
tensive minor requirements of many
of those departments.
“The minor system is pretty awe-
some too,” he said. “When you go
down a few wrong routes you can
still graduate with minors.”
Black agreed that spending the
first few quarters at Stanford unde- sense of belonging to a “community
clared helps open students’ minds to of scholars by participating in events
new areas of interest. She was quick sponsored by the department, for-
to emphasize, though, that waiting mal advising, and informal mentor-
too long can prevent students from ing” as some of the benefits afforded
fulfilling the potential of their under- to those with a declared major.
graduate education.
“I want students to get connected Contact Caity Monroe cmonroe@
to a department so they can start get- stanford.edu.
ting the benefits of actually having a
major,” she said. “There are a lot of
resources through a department and
once you’ve declared you have ac-
cess to those resources much better
than before you declare.”
Lythcott-Haims also emphasized
the importance of choosing a “disci-
plinary home” in order to take ad-
vantage of the resources each de-
partment has to offer.
“The study of the major is a cen-
tral facet of the undergraduate expe-
rience,” Lythcott-Haims said.“A stu-
dent who has not found a discipli-
nary home by the start of the junior
year risks not being able to take ad-
vantage of what it means to have a
major.”
Lythcott-Haims cited the oppor-
tunity to get to know faculty, the pos- ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily
sibility of doing research and the

EVENTS
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co-sponsored by 24 other student
groups, Fetter said.
As a few dozen students sat at-
tentively Monday in El Centro
Chicano, Neil Grungras, founder
and executive director of the Orga-
nization for Refuge, Asylum and
Migration (ORAM), and Chris
Barnett of Out4Immigration spoke
about their work to help LGBT in-
dividuals escape persecution.
“We are one big family . . . we
need to start taking responsibility
for one another,” Grungras said.
The ORAM, founded in 2008,
advocates for refugees fleeing sex-
ual and gender-based persecution
worldwide.
Grungras stressed that the
biggest obstacle for LGBT
refugees is finding protection.
Many LGBT refugees become
stuck in hiding in countries of tran-
want a home,” and refugees should
be granted this right without re-
gard to sexual orientation.
Eric Griffis ‘12 and Imani
Franklin ‘12 were two students in
attendance.
“It’s really important to empha-
size that these issues don’t fit into
strict categories,” Griffis said after
the discussion.
Franklin expressed her desire to
find a way to reach out to different
people with these events.
“I hope students outside of the
queer community and communi-
ties interested in immigration were
present,” Franklin said.
“I hope we weren’t speaking too
much to the choir,” she added.
Michael Picasso ‘12 commented
on the goal of the week and why he
thinks integration of different top-
ics is important.
“As a queer person of color, it’s
very important to talk about how
mainstream issues are affecting
queer people differently . . . and
how queer issues affect queer peo-
ple of color differently.”
FIRESHEEP
Continued from front page
same wireless network and the traf-
fic is unencrypted — or not scram-
bled in a way that only the sender
and receiver can understand — any-
one can grab someone’s unique
identifier authentication cookie as
he or she interacts with the server.
“It’s like having a conversation in
a public coffee house,” said Rincona-
da RCC Brian White ‘12. “And any-
one can hear other conversations
and use that information.”
This general problem has been
around since the beginning of these
websites, except before it would take
a particularly skilled programmer to
work around the security flaws and
actually obtain information. Now,
Firesheep makes it simple for any-
one with the same wireless connec-
tion to access other people’s ac-
counts, allowing them to use any-
one’s accounts on certain websites as
if he or she were the actual owner.
Though the ramifications of the
extension are mostly social conse-
quences, an attack could seriously
damage someone’s reputation or
compromise personal information.
For example, someone could imper-
sonate another person on Facebook
and change his or her status, or go
through personal messages — the
possibilities are extensive.As of now,
there have been no reported cases of
severely malicious use of this plug-in
— most of the incidents have been
more minor jokes or pranks — but it
is still dangerous to be vulnerable to
such a large community using the
same wireless network.
“The most shocking thing is that
it’s so easy to exploit,” White said.
“The potential damages are obvious-
ly pretty major concerns, but the true
fear is that these websites have such
major security flaws.”
There are multiple ways to pre-
vent such attacks from happening.
On the website company’s side, the
company could encrypt all traffic be-
tween the user and the server to pro-
tect other users from accessing it.
However, this is a costly and lengthy
process, so students cannot expect to
rely on the companies for safety.
There are also simpler steps that
the user may take to protect him or
herself. There is currently a Firefox
extension that a user can down-
loaded that requires sites to use a se-
cure connection through HTTPS in-
stead of the regular HTTP and en-
crypts every page visited. Using a
wired connection would prevent
such attacks as well. Simply remem-
bering to log off these sites — in ad-
dition to not logging onto any of
these websites at all — would also
help prevent attacks, because the
unique identifier is deleted once a
session is over.
The University administration
has already taken a firm stance
against the use of the plug-in, White
said.
“Basically, the administration
equates using the plug-in to identity
theft,” said White.“It’s a really stupid
reason to get suspended from Stan-
ford. They’re sending the message
that this isn’t something to be played
with lightly.”
Jose Valdez, a network adminis-
trator for academic computing serv-
ices, also emphasized the severity of
an infraction of this kind.
Forgery or other misrepresenta-
tion of one’s identity through elec-
tronic communication, like other
types of communication, is a Funda-
mental Standard violation, Valdez
said in an e-mail to The Daily, adding
that prosecution under state or fed-
eral laws may apply.
Contact Vivian Shen at vshen@stan-
ford.edu.

sit because they face difficulty in
coming to the United States.
Seventy-five countries criminal-
ize same-sex relations, of which
seven apply the death penalty,
Grungras said. The process of com-
ing out and seeking a safe haven
can be both extremely frightening
and deeply shaming, he added.
“Things are improving because
we’re talking about the issue,”
Grungras said.
When asked about his work ad-
vocating for refugees, a community
often aided by the Catholic
Church, Grungras spoke about
“finding a common ground to alle-
viate suffering,” rather than cutting
ties with the Church by pushing too
hard for language concerning
same-sex marriage.
Grungras said his emphasis to
the Catholic community is “we just
Fermin Mendoza ‘11 said the
event was “very reaffirming” for
him as an immigrant and queer
person and reflected on his identi-
ty as a queer immigrant in a
Catholic family.
“It’s hard being stuck in both
worlds,” he said. “This is inspiring
me to build bridges between both
communities.”
“Intersections” includes
lunchtime and evening events
Tuesday through Friday and will
culminate in a vogue dance per-
formance and panel by local
dancers from the House of Revlon
Friday at 7 p.m. in the A3C ball-
room. An unannounced, direct ac-
tion event will also take place on
Monday, Nov. 15.
Contact Margaret Rawson at
marawson@stanford.edu.
GREEN
Continued from front page
1990 levels and its domestic water
consumption by 18 percent.
“We now have a path that we will
follow to reduce our emissions sys-
tematically and progressively,”
Ahmed said.
Stanford received a C in the en-
dowment transparency category,
which is the same grade it has gotten
in that category since 2007. This ap-
pears to be a trend among Stanford’s
peer universities, many of which have
similar reports with straight As except
for a C or D in endowment trans-
parency.
“That’s a complex issue to try to
tackle,” said Molly Oshun, ‘11, presi-
dent of Students for a Sustainable
Stanford (SSS). “But given the size
and influence of our university, en-
dowment transparency has the po-
tential to influence a lot of invest-
ment policies across the country and
across the globe. So I think moving
that step forward . . . would be a real-
ly big improvement.”
The report also suggests that Stan-
ford has been focusing its sustainabili-
ty efforts more on large-scale projects
than at an individual level. In re-
sponse, student groups on campus are
working to engage the student popu-
lation this year with a number of im-
portant new initiatives. SSS has just
started a Green Events Consulting
Program, which will pair up trained
SSS students with student organiza-
tions to help make campus events
more sustainable. This spring, the
Green Alliance for Innovative Action
and the ASSU are collaborating with
the Student Organizing Committee
for the Arts to produce a three-day
arts festival focused on local and glob-
al sustainability challenges.
There are also long-term goals to
create a green-living themed dormi-
tory on campus, complete with sus-
tainable technology, and SSS has
also proposed to add a “sustainable
civilizations” option to the Global
Citizenship GER requirement.
Their proposal is currently under re-
view.
Overall, the leaders in the sus-
tainable Stanford movement are op-
timistic.
“There is exponential growth in
student interest,” said Theo Gibbs
‘11,ASSU executive chair of sustain-
ability initiatives. “Students are
thinking about [sustainability] more
because there are a lot of classes
touching on these issues, and student
initiatives have a high visibility on
campus.”
Ahmed agreed about growing in-
terest on campus.
“I see interest everywhere,” she
said. “I see faculty more open to col-
laboration, and staff working harder
than ever to make sure everything
they do is integrated with the princi-
ples of sustainability. People know
that sustainability is a priority for the
University.”
Ahmed urged students not to be
complacent about their part in pro-
moting a green Stanford.
“No student should feel helpless,”
Ahmed said.“Individual action com-
bined can make a huge impact. Every
action counts. Every bit counts.”
Contact Caroline Chen at cchen501@
stanford.edu.
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s reported in The Daily, this past
October saw the grand opening of
the Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Re-
search Building. The most recent addition
to the University’s School of Medicine, this
$225 million, 200,000-square-foot project,
now the largest stem cell center in the na-
tion, was received with fitting aplomb. In its
construction, the University further
demonstrated its commitment to staying
on the avant-garde of pioneering technolo-
gy. The University’s work is not going un-
noticed, and rightfully so. Reported yester-
day, the California Institute of Regenera-
tive Medicine awarded $2.3 million to ge-
neticist Michele Carlos for her work on
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
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dogmatism consume, and thus hinder, the Copy Editor
actual science of stem cells, Stanford has Zachary Warma Begüm Erdogan, Marie Feng
chosen to instead lead on the issue. The Editorial Board Chair Sales Managers
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the globe. Researchers at Stanford are al-
ready studying the potential effect of stem
cells on leukemia, type I diabetes, multiple C ONTINUED
sclerosis,sickle cell anemia and Parkinson’s
disease, to name just a few.
There are legitimate concerns the edito-
rial board has with aspects, both trivial and
otherwise, about the decisions made by
various functionaries within the
Socially Handicapped Jade
Wang
labyrinthine University structure. Howev-

I
The motto of Stanford University is er, developments such as the ones listed t’s time for me to face the music — I’m ience of ripping the ear buds out for an awk-
“Die Luft der Freiheit weht” — the wind above should serve as a reminder to both kind of awkward. I can’t think of conver- ward four-second conversation. I pretend not
of freedom blows.At the school’s founding, the board and the campus that the institu- sation fodder fast enough to fill those to hear the random yelling people or political
the Stanford family dedicated the Univer- tion that we inhabit is world-class and help- silent gaps, and I often wave to that person on activists seeking my time, money or signa-
the street who’s actually waving to the per- ture, which would ordinarily make me feel
sity to the education and improvement of ing to shape the future in bold and exciting son behind me. My voice gets a little shaky rude, but I don’t feel so bad with the head-
California’s sons and daughters. With its
bold support of stem cell research, the Uni-
versity is embodying both the motto and
ways. Coupled with the recent completion
of the Huang Center, the Gunn SIEPER
building and the soon-to-be-completed
when I’m excited. I use phrases like “face the
music” only partially ironically.
Awkwardness is a favorite topic at Stan-
phones on.
I am also becoming increasingly depend-
ent on text messages for basic communica-
It’s time for me to
the ideals instilled by the Stanfords. Knight Management Center, the editorial ford. We seem to have an entire choreo- tion. By no means would I be considered a
When much of the country lets the stain board very much believes the future of this graphed dance routine for this conversation, good phone conversationalist even on a good
of partisan fervor shrouded in religious great university will only continue to grow. beginning with mimicking marine reptiles
and spiraling into an entire menagerie of
awkward. Acknowledging the awkwardness
day, but my increasing reliance on text mes-
saging has made me, if possible, even worse at
leaving phone messages.While texting is suc-
face the music —
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not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Daily staff. The editorial board consists of seven Stanford students leviating it. Pushing through is difficult and submission, my phone messages are always
led by a chairman and uninvolved in other sections of the paper. Any signed columns in the editorial space
represent the views of their authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the entire editorial board. To
contact the editorial board chair, e-mail editorial@stanforddaily.com. To submit an op-ed, limited to 700
potentially emotionally scarring. Given these
less-than-appealing options, what’s a girl to
do? I might speak too quietly under normal
meandering messes. Politeness dictates me to
flounder with one-sided conversation before
I ask the single question that is the purpose of
I’m kind of
words, e-mail opinions@stanforddaily.com. To submit a letter to the editor, limited to 500 words, e-mail circumstances and too loudly when I’m excit- my call. Sometimes, I am forced to leave sev-
eic@stanforddaily.com. All are published at the discretion of the editor. ed, but I still want to converse with other eral messages in a row with a series of self-
human beings, volume-control problems
notwithstanding. Luckily, the Internet and
assorted technologies are there to support
corrections, each more frazzled than the for-
mer. I held off on purchasing a real texting
plan for what felt like a long time, so I faced
awkward.
O P-E D me through these difficult times and provide
me social crutches. Social crutches are items
my social awkwardness with a stubbornness
born only of having no other options. Since
or services that give a social pardon and I’ve given in, however, I’m even more afraid

Greed, For Lack Of a

allow me to avoid an awkward situation. of real phone conversations than before and is, admittedly, ridiculous. But, losing my self-
For example, months ago, my non-ridicu- gravitate toward text-based communication confidence and ability to relate to other peo-
lously-sized headphones broke, and before I whenever possible. ple in real life may be cause for concern. I oc-
super-glued them (and also my fingers) back My inability to walk to class or make a sim- casionally consider weaning myself off the

Better Word
together, I was forced to walk campus sans
ear buds. I didn’t anticipate the strangeness.
I’m hardly hip enough to be lost in musical
nirvana all the time, but life without the ear
buds was profoundly unpleasant.
ple phone call without a social crutch is mild
in comparison to my utter incompetence at
flirting. After I caught myself actually
twirling my hair on one occasion, I banned
the activity from my arsenal entirely.The ad-
crutches, but my plans never become reality.
I’m not going to take any drastic action un-
less I actually become a bona fide hermit. If I
do, chances are, the only plea for help I’ll be
able to manage is a chat status update, so

I
have noticed an unusual air grip fellow
upperclassmen as they go through the re-
cruiting process for positions with some
of the most prestigious names in the finan-
cial and consulting fields. Students aspiring
for careers in those industries, the two that
perhaps offer the most streamlined post-
graduate paths for today’s students, are com-
monly being slandered for a lack of original-
ity and commitment to service. Our school’s
pre-professional crowd and student organi-
zations have been hit with a wave of cynicism
akin to the phrase “followers of the mob.”
Standing in marked contrast to Stanford’s
strong roots in public service, careers in in-
vestment banking have been subject to
forceful bashing on campus. And, alas, the
irony of it all: our most talented lot gloating
with five-figure offers after having dispar-
aged Goldman Sachs as home wreckers and
tuous of the financial services industry and I think I use the headphones as some kind vent of Likealittle, like a flirty or creepy Twit- keep an eye out.
favor openly articulating their interest in of awkward person crutch. With the head- ter, has made me reconsider my stance.
pursuing pre-defined career paths. Similar- phones on, I don’t have to ask that acquain- Social crutches worry me a bit. My very Don’t worry, Jade doesn’t get overwhelmed by
ly, their majors and coursework have not tance in White Plaza how her quarter and first-world problem of having too many op- receiving e-mails. The only way to receive an
been handpicked and tailored to conceal possibly year are so far.A short wave is suffi- tions for communication and leisure time overanalyzed response is by e-mailing her at
practical interests by means of fancy engi- cient, because nobody wants the inconven- that I have forgotten how to speak to humans jadew@stanford.edu.
neering degrees, which rarely abstract from
building foundations in business operations.
There is something shameful about going
to Stanford and failing to emerge having
carved out differentiated life aspirations.
G IRL YOU K NOW I T ’ S T RUE
Stanford students’ growing repudiation of
lucrative careers in finance and consulting
may be part of an emerging trend of the
same intellectual elitism once exclusively
used to caricature Ivy Leaguers.
Eight Celebrities More Interesting than
George Clooney
Stanford’s select few headed for star-stud-
ded careers in either consulting or i-banking
have woefully been placed at the forefront of
Stanford’s long-standing battle to bury de-

perpetrators of the financial crisis.
Stanford students, like college students
anywhere else, like to be reassured that they
are diverse creatures or rather, clear outliers
in the pack. At first I was naively surprised
to see Stanford students using buzz words
such as “sustainability” or “development”
(arguably the most ambiguous words for ex-
pressing career interests) and attracting
envy and respect from their peers. Appar-
ently doing anything at all, besides the
cliche of finance or consulting, of course,
could potentially convey an authenticity of
character. Surprisingly, however, students in
less prestigious universities (for lack of a
better word) don’t seem to share Stanford’s
disapproving outlook on glamorous career
paths. In my experience, students attending
state schools are particularly less contemp-
L ETTER TO THE
Let cyclists use the tunnel
Dear Editor,
Please don’t forget Stanford’s responsibil-
ity in the tragic death of cyclist Lauren Ward
on Nov. 4. Because Stanford Management
Company is the largest landowner and the
source of much of the automobile traffic in
the area, Santa Clara County has been trying
to get them to build a pedestrian/bicycle trail
under Highway 280 just south of Alpine
Road for 10 years.
Less than a mile south of where Lauren was
killed, Stanford owns a cow tunnel under
Highway 280. The local community has been
fined paths to success. Not surprisingly, the
years preceding the financial crisis witnessed
pre-medical and pre-law students facing sim-
ilar antipathy. Stanford faculty, most notice-
ably former vice provost John Bravman, en-
couraged students to be bold while planning
careers, while President John Hennessy con-
cludes almost every address with the shared
theme of service. Opportunities such as
Teach for America, which are able to com-
bine public service as well as retain exclusiv-
ity, have seen a tremendous surge in appli-
cants.While both public service and lambast-
ing the greed fueling the recession have
moved our student body as a collective, noth-
ing matters more than differentiation or indi-
vidual branding to the Stanford student.
SHAHRYAR KAMAL MALIK ’12
E DITOR
begging Stanford to open this tunnel to the
public as an alternative pedestrian and bicycle
undercrossing. We sincerely believed that
Stanford would be required to open this tunnel
as mitigation for the development rights they
received from the county in the year 2000.
Many people who work at the University,
the hospital, the Stanford business parks and
downtown Palo Alto who live in Portola Val-
ley and Woodside would find bicycling to
work safe and enjoyable if Stanford would
only allow them to use this cow tunnel.
ELAINE HAIGHT M.S. ’88
Palo Alto
T
here is nothing that gets Stanford stu-
dents more excited than Darfur. I
mean really, how else to explain the
overwhelming interest in yesterday’s event
on the topic. Sure, professional handsome-
man George Clooney is speaking, but there’s
no way Stanford students were lined up
around the block just to see the guy from
“Leatherheads.”
But just in case we actually do care about
celebrities (and not boring, unsexy African
genocides), here are a few more big names
and the righteous causes they could drone on
and on about in exchange for allowing us to
soak up their magic fame-glow.
Kevin Bacon, Gates Foundation
We’ve all played six degrees of Kevin
Bacon so surely he could come here and talk
about the Gates Foundation’s new pilot pro-
gram Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon for se-
lected high-achieving students. Participants
are given full scholarships on the condition
that they enroll in an innovative
M.A./D.D.S./M.B.A./J.D./Ph.D./G.E.D. pro-
gram. The program is hard work, but it’s still
more fun than trying to remember who his
co-stars in “The Woodsman” and “Hollow
Man” were.
The Three Non-Bono Guys from U2, Potato
Famines
Tired of hearing that attention hog Bono
always talking about how much he’s doing to
make things better in Africa? So are the
other three guys from U2 (for what it’s worth,
they are: Larry Mullen, Jr., Adam Clayton
and of course, The Edge), which is why they
have been inspi(red) to stay home and solve
the very real problem facing their native land
of Ireland: that their entire national existence
is still dependent on potato farming.
Jordan
Carr
Natalie Portman, Fighting Poverty Through
Microfinance
Oh wait, this one actually happened three
years ago. Still, it’s better than the time Fla-
vor Flav lectured on fighting tardiness
through macro-clocks.
Lil Wayne, Presidential History
Listen, in prison, there are two choices:
convert to Islam or hide in the library and
read a ton of presidential biographies. No-
body knows why that is, but prison is a
frightening and mysterious place. In any
event, the upshot is that Lil Wayne is now a
certified expert on Tha (Jimmy) Carter Ad-
ministration. Now that Wayne is a free man,
he would surely be willing to give a lecture
comparing the Iran hostage crisis to the time
he realized he could write a song about
blowjobs and nobody would know the dif-
ference if they thought he was talking about
lollipops.
Lady Gaga, Heart Disease
Heart disease is the leading killer in the
United States, and yet it doesn’t get nearly
the publicity that it deserves. And if there’s
one thing Lady Gaga can do, it’s create a
spectacle. Maybe we’d all pay more atten-
tion to heart disease if its spokeswoman was
riding a giant mechanical flamingo that
breathes fire or whatever it is she does at her
shows.
John Boehner, Skin Cancer Awareness
A trip out here would give the new Speak-
er of the House the opportunity to taunt the
vanquished Nancy Pelosi in her own backyard
as well as visit El Camino’s “A Tan for All Sea-
sons” for a photo op. He’s very tan, you see.
Keith Richards, Drug Awareness
For all the talk of the Rolling Stones gui-
tarist’s drug abuse over the years (after
spending a decade on the Most Likely to Die
list, Richards’ immortality was eventually
ceded), he has made it into his mid-60s and
shows no sign of slowing, except for that he
looks 15 years older than his age and was
spurred to quit cocaine four years ago after
falling out of a tree in Fiji, but not before he
snorted his dad’s ashes.
His recent memoir “Life”is a bestseller that
has gotten a lot of attention for its references to
Mick Jagger’s “tiny todger,”and other potshots
at superstars — Elton John? “An old bitch.”
John Lennon? “A silly sod.” Prince? “An over-
rated midget.” Let’s have him lecture us on the
secret to his longevity, as revealed in his book:
using only the “finest, finest cocaine and the
purest, purest heroin.” So, um, kids, don’t do
drugs. But if you do, get the good stuff.
Ke$ha, Mental Health Awareness
Are you a blonde, white girl who wakes up
in the morning feeling like P. Diddy? There’s
a chance you may have dissociative identity
disorder. Get that checked out. TiK ToK,
you’re on the clock.
Know any other celebrities more important
than charitable causes? E-mail Jordan at
jcarr1@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily Tuesday, November 9, 2010 ! 5

SPORTS
NORPAC CHAMPS
Zach MEN’S WATER POLO
Zimmerman 11/7 vs. UC Irvine W 7-2
Dishing the Rock
UP NEXT
UC DAVIS
FIELD HOCKEY
Secondary 11/6 vs. CAL W 2-0
(15-8)
11/12 Davis, Calif.
6 P.M. EST

improving UP NEXT
MASSACHUSETTS
GAME NOTES: Stanford enters the final week
of its season on a season-high five-game
winning streak. The Cardinal hopes to ride
that wave of momentum into the upcoming

for Card (15-6, 6-0 Atlantic 10)

11/9 Amherst, Mass
1 P.M. EST
MPSF tournament. UC Davis comes in hav-
ing lost its last two matches.

M Holding
y weekend was un- GAME NOTES: After beating Cal to claim the Nor-
doubtedly better than Pac title, Stanford must travel to Massachusetts
yours for one reason: I and beat the Minutewomen in an NCAA play-in
made my first career game in order to earn a berth to the NCAA tour-

appearance on Sky-
cam. The suspended camera that fol-
lows the ESPN crew on Saturday nights
is one of my favorite sports creations of
court at
nament. Massachusetts just won the Atlantic 10
championship and has won 11 consecutive
games.

all time. Inventor Garrett Brown has to
feel snubbed by the Nobel Prize com-
mittee.
While I could never have envisioned
accomplishing such a lofty life goal, my
two seconds of fame placed runner-up
in the list of I-can’t-believe-that-just-
happened moments during the
matchup between Stanford and Ari-
zona.
This is because the Cardinal second-
ary played well for the second week in a
row.
I’ve harped on the safeties and cor-
ners for the entire season. They have
been the whipping boys on the field and
in the media.We have blamed them for
nearly every ounce of team failure this
year.
Deservedly so? Maybe.Through the
Washington State game two weeks ago,
the defense had been torched through
the air.Excluding Sacramento State,the
secondary had only given up 231.6 pass-
ing yards and 1.4 touchdowns per game.
While these stats appear decent, they
fail to account for countless opposing
drives that consisted of quick pass after
quick pass after quick pass that disman-
tled and exposed the entire defense.
More telling is the fact that three of
Stanford’s top five tacklers (safety De-
lano Howell and corners Johnson
Bademosi and Richard Sherman) are
members of the secondary. For weeks
on end, opposing teams found expo-
nentially more success throwing quick
outs to their receivers than they did run-
ning the football. I can’t even begin to
count the times I’ve vocally — and I
mean really vocally — questioned the
decision to give receivers six yards of
cushion on every play.
After letting Washington State’s Jeff
Tuel, of all people, go off for 298 yards
and four touchdowns, I couldn’t help
but shiver at the sound of two pending
matchups with Jake Locker and Nick
Foles,who,despite injuries and mild dis-
appointment, are two of the best quar-
terbacking talents in the nation.
And what did the Cardinal second-
ary do? First, it went into Seattle and
forced Locker, once a potential first-
overall pick in the NFL Draft whose
value was upwards of $50 million,into a
7-14 passing performance for just 64
yards and two interceptions. It held
Husky receiver Jermaine Kearse, who
came into the game with 10 touch-
downs on the year, to just four recep-
tions for 53 yards. Although the defen-
sive line deserves credit for making the
quarterback literally run for his life,
Stanford’s secondary blanketed the
UW receivers and elicited one of the
worst performances of Locker’s career.
By KABIR SAWHNEY
MANAGING EDITOR
With three strong performances in the
NorPac Tournament in Davidson, N.C.,
over the weekend, the Stanford field
hockey team (14-5, 5-1 NorPac) took
home its fourth consecutive conference
title. Sophomore defender Becky Dru
won the tournament’s MVP award.
The Cardinal opened the tournament
on Thursday against Appalachian State
(3-12, 1-5), the fifth time in six years the
two teams have faced off in the tourna-
ment’s opening round. With four straight
wins over the Mountaineers in NorPac
Tournament play entering last weekend,
the Card continued its success, notching a
10-3 win.
The scoring was evenly distributed for
Stanford with four players — Dru, sopho-
more forward Kelsey Lloyd, sophomore
forward Katie Mitchell and senior mid-
fielder Xanthe Travlos — netting two
goals apiece. The Cardinal offense simply
overpowered the Mountaineers, firing off
41 shots against just nine for Appalachian
State.
On Friday, Stanford faced off against
Longwood (7-13, 4-2) in the tournament’s
semifinals.
This time, the Cardinal offense gave
the team an early lead — it scored three
goals in the first 25 minutes. Stanford
never looked back, with junior goalkeep-
er Alessandra Moss making two saves in
the cage to notch her first shutout of the
season in the 3-0 win.
Like its match against Appalachian
State, Stanford found balance on offense,
without relying on a single scorer alone to
generate points. Dru, senior forward
Katherine Swank and freshman forward
Please see FHOCKEY, page 6
SPORTS BRIEFS
Women’s soccer earns No. 1 seed
A day after sealing the Pac-10 title, the Cardi-
nal learned today that its undefeated effort in the
regular season has put the team in excellent posi-
tion to pursue its next goal, a national champi-
onship. Top-ranked Stanford (18-0-2, 9-0-0 Pac-
10) has earned a No.1 seed in the 64-team NCAA
Tournament field, a rank that grants the team
home-field advantage for the first two rounds.
Stanford will begin its postseason against
Sacramento State (9-9-1) at Laird Q. Cagan Sta-
Sophomore Becky Dru was named MVP of the NorPac conference tournament. Despite being listed as
a defender, Dru scored five goals and had three assists in Stanford’s tournament championship.
dium on Friday at 7 p.m. That match comes on
the heels of a 4:30 p.m. contest between Santa
Clara (12-6-2) and Long Beach State (14-5-2),
which Stanford will also host. The winners of
those games will play each other on Sunday at 1
p.m.
Fresh off its second consecutive undefeated
season and riding a 17-game winning streak, the
Cardinal enters the tournament as the unani-
mous No. 1 team.The other No. 1 seeds are Port-
land, Maryland and North Carolina. Stanford
fought through two overtimes to force a draw
with 2009 champion North Carolina in August
Stanford Daily File Photo
and defeated Portland, 2-1, in late September.
The Tar Heels defeated Stanford in last season’s
NCAA Tournament final. The Cardinal hasn’t
faced Maryland this season.
Sacramento State earned its way into the
NCAAs for the second time in school history
after defeating a powerful Northern Arizona
team, 1-0, in the final game of the Big Sky Con-
ference Tournament. The only other time the
Hornets advanced to the national tournament,
Stanford defeated them, 7-0, in the first round.
— Nate Adams
home
Water polo extends
home win streak
By DASH DAVIDSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The No. 4 Stanford men’s water
polo team had two big days at home
this past weekend, vanquishing a pair
of top opponents in Long Beach
State and UC-Irvine.
The Cardinal (12-5, 5-1 MPSF)
added to its streak of strong perform-
ances at Avery Aquatic Center, with
its two victories over the weekend
contributing to a home winning
streak that currently stands at 13
games and dates all the way back to
the 2008 season. That streak bodes
well for the end of Stanford’s season,
as the Mountain Pacific Sports Fed-
eration (MPSF) Tournament will be
hosted at Avery Aquatic Center over
Thanksgiving break.
Saturday afternoon’s contest saw
No. 8 Long Beach State taking to the
pool against the Cardinal.An unusu-
ally high amount of physicality char-
acterized the game — the first quar-
ter alone had 11 penalties called on
the two teams.
Stanford stayed strong in the face
of aggressive play by the 49ers. It
managed to keep its composure, exe-
cute on penalty shots, take advantage
of unbalanced goal-scoring situa-
tions and hang on for a hard-fought
11-6 victory.
Junior driver Jacob Smith had an-
other big day for the Cardinal, scor-
ing four times. Senior utility Jeffrey
Schwimer, Smith’s main partner for
carrying the offense over Stanford’s
past few games, did not disappoint ei-
ther, scoring three goals of his own.
Senior driver Sage Wright, junior
driver Ryan Kent and sophomore
driver Paul Rudolph rounded out
the scoring for the Cardinal. Red-
shirt junior goalie Brian Pingree was
staunch in the net, holding down the
49ers with eight saves.
Please see WPOLO, page 6

Card’s captain of
Then Arizona, a top-15 team with a
top-10 defense and a potent passing at-
tack,came into town looking to make a
statement and vault itself into BCS con-
tention.Foles,who many pegged during
the preseason as a better quarterback
than Andrew Luck, was expected to
pick the secondary apart. We thought
the damage was inevitable,the question
was just how severe.
consistency
Foles threw 20 incompletions, one
interception and was held to just 248 BY MILES BENNETT-SMITH
yards. This same guy annihilated Ore- CONTRIBUTING WRITER
gon State to the tune of 440 yards and
three touchdowns. Suffice it to say, the
Stanford secondary was up to the task.

The implications are obvious.When
the secondary does its job,Luck and the
rest of the offense perform better. Dur-
ing the heart of the defense’s struggle,
the offense had to play mistake-free
football. It needed to score on every
possession, as punts routinely led to
points. But now, defensive holds at the
beginning of the game produce big
leads early, and this, in turn, allows for
more creativity and risk-taking, things
that make one of the nation’s best of-
fenses just that much more potent.
With three games remaining, the
Card looks poised to make a BCS bowl
appearance.While I’m sure most of you
will bombard me with our mathemati-
cally slim chances for getting an at-large
bid if we fail to make the Rose Bowl,I’d
have to politely disagree and say that a
top-six BCS team that wins out will ulti-
mately be chosen one way or another.
Please see ZIMMERMAN, page 6
O
n Sept. 7, 2007, a freshman midfielder on the Stan-
ford men’s soccer team came off the bench in the
23rd minute of a 1-0 loss to Wisconsin and finished
the game with one shot that sailed wide. It was the
otherwise unremarkable second game of a season in
which the Cardinal would finish 7-6-5 overall. It was also the first
and only time in his Stanford career senior defender and captain
Bobby Warshaw did not start a match for the Cardinal.
In four years on the Farm, the 21-year-old Warshaw has com-
piled a heady soccer résumé — 18 goals, five assists, 41 total points,
three-time team scoring leader and two-time All-Pac-10 selection.
In the four years and 73 games Warshaw has played, the team has
won 31 times. Warshaw has 10 game-winning goals.
Last season,Warshaw became just the fifth Stanford men’s soc-
cer player ever to be named to the NCAA Division I All-Ameri-
can first team. He is also a Hermann Trophy semifinalist and a fi-
nalist for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, with a good chance of
being named an Academic All-American for the second consecu-
tive year.
The list goes on, but when asked what being named to so many
Please see WARSHAW, page 6
Stanford Daily File Photo
6 ! Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Wrestling drops close season opener to Northwestern WPOLO
WRESTLING
11/6 vs. NORTHWESTERN L 18-16
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CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD
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11/13 Bakersfield, Calif.
4 P.M.
GAME NOTES: Both teams will be looking for their first wins
Saturday. Cal State Bakersfield will be having its first dual
meet of the season, while Stanford is coming off of a
close loss at the hands of Northwestern in its first match
of the year.
Despite winning five of the 10 matches Sun-
day, the Stanford wrestling team fell to No. 17
Northwestern, 18-16, at Burnham Pavilion. The
showdown was scheduled to be held outdoors at
the Taube Tennis Center, but was moved inside
because of inclement weather.
Cardinal wrestlers won four of their first six
matches to give Stanford an early 13-6 lead.The
Wildcats answered, however, winning three
straight to take an 18-13 lead before Cardinal
senior 165-pounder Lucas Espericueta won the
final match of the day over Northwestern’s
Robert Kellogg. But it wasn’t enough to give
Stanford a victory.
The four other winning wrestlers for Stanford
were junior 174-pounder Nick Amuchastegui
(ranked No. 6 nationally), senior 197-pounder
Zack Giesen (ranked No. 11 nationally), senior
heavyweight Dylan Rush and redshirt sopho-
more 133-pounder Matt Sencenbaugh.
Sophomore 184-pounder Spence Patrick,
sophomore 125-pounder Ryan Mango (ranked
No. 15 nationally), redshirt freshman 141-
pounder Jordan Grey, sophomore 157-pounder
Mike Kent and redshirt sophomore 149-
pounder Timmy Boone all dropped their match-
es for the Cardinal.
Stanford returns to the mat in search of its
first victory on Saturday at Cal State Bakers-
field.
— Daniel Bohm
FHOCKEY
Continued from page 5
Emily Henriksson each scored a
goal, while Travlos pitched in two as-
sists and Dru added one of her own.
With its win over Longwood, the
Cardinal advanced to its fourth
straight conference final, where it
faced a familiar foe in rival Califor-
nia (10-9, 5-1). Stanford has squared
off against the Golden Bears in the
last four NorPac Tournament finals,
and coming into Saturday’s match, it
was riding a three-game win streak
against Cal in tournament play. The
Card extended that streak to four
with a 2-0 victory to earn its fourth
consecutive conference crown.
Against the Golden Bears, there
would be none of the scoring balance
that had characterized Stanford’s
early tournament wins. Dru took the
game into her own hands, scoring
two goals in the first 20 minutes to
give the Card another early lead.
The Stanford wrestling squad opened its season with a close loss against No. 17 Northwestern on Sunday. The Cardinal won half of the day’s 10
individual matches, but lost to the Wildcats in total points, 18-16. Stanford will try to notch one in the win column Saturday at Cal State Bakersfield.
Travlos added an assist on Dru’s sec-
ond goal.
The performance in the title
game sealed the NorPac Tourna-
ment MVP award for Dru. She fin-
ished the tournament with five goals,
three assists and 20 shots to her
name.
However, the real story for Stan-
ford in the Cal match was the
strength of its defense. The Cardinal
held a 16-3 advantage in shot at-
tempts, and Moss made two saves to
take her second shutout in two days.
Next up for the Cardinal is a play-
in game for the NCAA Tournament.
The NorPac Conference doesn’t re-
ceive an automatic berth for its
championship into the tournament,
so Stanford will take on the Atlantic-
10 champion University of Massa-
chusetts Minutewomen today to de-
termine who will move on. Stanford
has won two of its last three NCAA
play-in games, including a 3-2 over-
time victory over Boston University
last year.
Stanford will take on Massachu-
setts with an NCAA Tournament
berth on the line at 10 a.m. PST on
Tuesday in Amherst, Mass.
Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawh-
ney@stanford.edu.
ZIMMERMAN
Continued from page 5
Winning out is the key, and with
matchups against Arizona State, Cal
and Oregon State left on the schedule,
I’m feeling pretty good. The Cardinal
secondary just stifled two of the na-
tion’s best in Locker and Foles. Steven
Threet,Brock Mansion and Ryan Katz
don’t hold a candle to these guys,some-
thing Stanford fans should feel confi-
dent about.
It took a while to put all the pieces
together, but the secondary finally
joined the party. Stanford is no longer
just a strong offensive team.
We have ourselves a complete
team.
Zach Zimmerman needs to do some-
thing more exciting than appear on
Skycam. Give him some ideas at
zachz@stanford.edu.
WARSHAW
Continued from page 5
All-American teams and trophy lists
meant to him,Warshaw replied in his
typical blue-collar fashion.
“All of that doesn’t mean that
much to be honest, because it’s more
about winning games and champi-
onships than awards for me,” he said.
“It’s an honor and I respect it and re-
ally appreciate all of them, but to win
any award and not make the NCAA
Tournament is a really crappy feel-
ing. So if I could win games and not
awards, I would take that in a heart-
beat.”
Unlike previous Stanford stand-
outs, Warshaw has had the difficult
task of making multiple position
changes.
As a highly-touted recruit from
Mechanicsburg, Pa.,Warshaw quick-
ly found a spot in the Cardinal’s line-
up as an attacking midfielder, consis-
tently getting forward and becoming
the first freshman to lead Stanford in
scoring since 1991. But after some
shuffling the next year, head coach
Bret Simon needed Warshaw to play
as a forward, away from his natural
midfield position. Facing a tradition-
ally difficult transition, Warshaw
started every game and again led the
team in goals with three.
The next year, however, saw the
departures of several key defenders,
and Simon asked Warshaw to move
all the way back to central defense.
The team took off, led by a defense
that allowed just 18 goals, and War-
shaw still found ways to score, lead-
ing the team with a career-high six on
just 21 shots.
“Soccer is soccer,” Warshaw said.
“It’s the same sport no matter what
position you’re at. I’m not a forward,
not a midfielder. I believe I’m a soc-
cer player. Yes, I’d like to be part of
more of the creativity and excite-
ment up the field, but if it helps us
win games, then I’m happy to stay
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back.And no matter what, I’m going
to do the best that I can.”
The best that Warshaw can do has
been a great deal, but when you ask
teammates what about Bobby
makes him so good, it isn’t his techni-
cal skills, but rather his competitive
fire.
“Bobby is
just all
about
excellence.”
— THIAGO SA FREIRE
“I believe he has this little thing
inside of him, something extra that
makes everything a competition,”
said redshirt senior Thiago Sa Freire.
“Add in the fact that he is by far the
hardest worker I have played with
on any level, and Bobby is just all
about excellence.”
Simon said that a lot of what the
team does begins and ends with War-
shaw.
“He always trains so hard, it real-
ly sets the tone for the training and
everything we do on and off the
field,” he said. “He’s the catalyst, if
you will, and his willingness to out-
work people is something that leaves
a mark on a team for quite a number
of years.”
Redshirt freshman goalie Jason
Dodson also commented on War-
shaw’s seemingly religious commit-
ment.
“Bobby definitely has a conta-
gious work ethic and his attention
and commitment to detail is remark-
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Sunday, in the rain, the Cardinal
battled No. 5 UC-Irvine, with second
place in the MPSF standings on the
line. Stanford used its best defensive
showing in weeks to hold down the
Anteaters for a 7-2 victory.
Despite rainy conditions, the Car-
dinal got off to a hot start and never
looked back. The Stanford squad
scored three goals in each of the first
two quarters of the game, while man-
aging to hold UC-Irvine off the
board completely until the five-
minute mark of the third period.
Stanford continued to use the
same formula for success, with
Smith, Schwimer and Wright han-
dling most of the offensive output
and Pingree locking down the de-
fense.
Both factors in the formula came
through on Sunday, with Smith and
Wright netting three goals each,
Schwimer accounting for the other
one and Pingree performing won-
derfully, totaling 11 saves in perhaps
his best game since his dominant
showing of 14 saves against USC on
Oct. 9.
With these two in-conference
victories, Stanford is securely in sec-
ond place in the MPSF standings,
trailing only top-ranked California.
These two teams may very well be
No. 1 and No. 2 in the conference
when they meet for the final game of
the season — the final tune-up be-
fore the MPSF Tournament kicks off
— on Nov. 19 in Berkeley.
In order to make that a possibili-
ty, Stanford needs to take care of
business against UC-Davis, which is
not in the MPSF, and Pacific, which
is currently ranked No. 7 in the
country. The Card will travel to
Davis, Calif., to take on the Aggies
on Friday.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@
stanford.edu.
able,” he said. “He won’t accept any-
thing less than perfection. But he
also brings an energy you can feed
off of. He’s always going, and it’s al-
ways something you can get behind
as a team.”
Sophomore midfielder Hunter
Gorskie said that much of the impact
of the player whom teammates af-
fectionately refer to as “Bob” came
off the pitch.
“He’s a great guy to hang out with
and a great friend off the field, and a
lot of what he does is trying to make
it so people are doing the right things
all the time,” Gorskie said. “He is all
about the game and not letting op-
portunities get away.”
The focus on a winning attitude is
perhaps the hallmark of Warshaw’s
time at Stanford.
“The biggest thing for me has
been rebuilding a winning mentality,
an atmosphere of winning and being
good,” he said. “If you get into a pat-
tern where you make a bad pass in
training and you tell yourself it’s OK,
or if you lose a game in practice you
say, ‘That’s OK, that’s just what we
do,’ you have to learn that it’s not
OK.”
Being a perfectionist on the field,
however, hasn’t stopped Warshaw
from acknowledging that much of
college soccer is about the bonds
that it forms. When given the chance
to name his favorite experience at
Stanford, Warshaw didn’t hesitate.
“The guys, the teammates, that’s
the best part. In any sport you’re
going to win games and lose games,”
he said. “The results and scores will
change, but your friends and team-
mates at lunch and at parties and at
practice — that’s what will be re-
membered.”
Thursday afternoon at Cal, War-
shaw and his “family” will have one
last chance to show off the talent and
leadership that have MLS teams
calling to check on one of Stanford’s
brightest soccer stars.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-
bs@stanford.edu.
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