Today Tomorrow
FEATURES/3
KALMAN’S
SNAPSHOTS
FRIDAY
The Stanford Daily
January 28, 2011
STUDENT LIFE
Frat
heads to
hearing
Kappa Sig faces
nationals in Vegas
By ELLEN HUET
MANAGING EDITOR
About 20 Kappa Sigma mem-
bers are set to travel to Las Vegas
this weekend to meet with the fra-
ternity’s national Supreme Execu-
tive Committee (SEC) to address
allegations of misconduct that led
to the chapter being put on suspen-
sion by the University last October.
Mitchell Wilson, Kappa Sigma
executive national director, called
this weekend’s planned meeting a
disciplinary hearing in which the
committee, comprised of five mem-
bers of the board of directors, five
support staff and volunteer offi-
cers, will review allegations that the
chapter violated the Kappa Sigma
code of conduct.
“Kappa Sigma members will
have the opportunity to come in
and make their statements,”Wilson
said. “The board can ask them
questions and, if allegations are
true, decide what will be done
about it.”
Wilson said it is “more than like-
ly” that the committee will make a
decision regarding the allegations
that day.
Harris Brown ‘11, former Kappa
Sigma president, said it was likely
the chapter would know the results
of the SEC appearance “shortly”
after the discussion, but said the
possible outcomes of the decision
“span a wide spectrum.” He de-
clined to say what consequences
the group might face.
Wilson said the committee
would evaluate a presentation by
Please see KAPPA SIG, page 8
Though the season is young, Brad Lawson, left, has done plenty to distinguish himself. The junior outside
hitter leads the team with 81 kills, averaging 4.05 per set. That mark puts him at fourth in the MPSF.
SOCAL GAUNTLET
Card looking to bounce back
on trip to top-15 foes
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
STAFF WRITER
After a series split at No. 11
Hawaii last weekend, the men’s
volleyball team is back on the road
to continue Mountain Pacific
Sports Federation play against No.
13 Cal State Northridge (2-5, 1-3
MPSF) tonight.The No. 2 Cardinal
(5-1, 4-1) will go on to face No. 5
Index News/2 • Features/3 • Opinions/4 • Sports/6 • Classifieds/7
INTERMISSION/INSERT
KEBAB KITCHEN
CARDINAL TODAY
An Independent Publication
www.stanforddaily.com
OWNING
OREGON
MID-WAY THROUGH PAC-10
SEASON, CARD FLYING HIGH
OREGON
STATE
(7-12, 0-8 Pac-10)
Corvallis, Ore. 12 P.M.
COVERAGE:
RADIO:
KZSU 90.1 FM (kzsu.stanford.edu)
UP NEXT
ARIZONA STATE
2/3 Tempe, Ariz.
COVERAGE:
RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM
(kzsu.stanford.edu)
NOTES: Stanford continued to roll
through its Pac-10 schedule with a
convincing 91-56 win over Oregon
on Thursday night in Matthew
Knight Arena in Eugene. The Cardi-
nal will head to Corvallis to play the
Beavers, who have yet to win a
game in the conference this season
- their last win game on Dec. 21
against Eastern Washington. Ore-
gon State lost at home to Cal on
Thursday night, 60-47.
Long Beach State (4-3, 3-1) tomor-
row.
“Both teams are ranked in the
top 15, so it won’t be easy,” said
Stanford head coach John Kosty.
“Long Beach has a very experi-
enced setter that runs a balanced
and fast offense, and although
CSUN lost a lot of players to grad-
uation, they still have a strong at-
tack on the outside and good size
in the middle.”
The Matadors are coming off a
loss in their home opener to UC-
Santa Barbara, but they have al-
ready faced five teams ranked in
By JACK BLANCHAT
and NATE ADAMS
The No. 4 Stanford women’s
basketball team had a good day
duck hunting on Thursday night,
polishing off Oregon, 91-56, and ex-
tending its winning streak to 11
games.
The Cardinal (17-2, 8-0 Pac-10)
dominated all facets of the game,
and the Ducks (12-7, 3-5) had a
tremendous amount of trouble
stopping the Ogwumike sisters.
Freshman forward Chiney Ogwu-
mike tied a career high with 18
points and 12 rebounds, while jun-
ior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike
had 16 points and eight rebounds.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
STANFORD 91
OREGON 56
1/27, Eugene, Ore.
That said, the Ducks weren’t
able to stop any of Stanford’s stars.
Senior guard Jeanette Pohlen had
17 points and six assists, senior for-
ward Kayla Pedersen added her
fourth double-double of the season
with 11 points and 14 rebounds, and
junior forward Sarah Boothe con-
tributed 16 more off the bench.
The Cardinal’s success was
largely driven by the Ducks’ inabil-
ity to make shots, as Oregon missed
a whopping 57 attempts.The Cardi-
nal, in turn, pulled down a season-
high 62 rebounds.
Stanford held Oregon to 56
Stanford Daily File Photo
the national top five, including a
win on the road against then-No. 3
Pepperdine.
Northridge junior setter Matt
Stork passed the 3,400-assist mark
in his last match against UCLA,
but he had his consecutive start
streak end at 70 matches after suf-
fering an injury against the Bruins.
Stork is questionable for the match
tonight, meaning backup setter
Jeff Baxter would run the offense
against the Cardinal.
However, the match likely rests
Please see MVBALL, page 8
Nnemkadi Ogwumike, above, was her usual dominant self in Oregon
last night. The junior forward from Cypress, Texas, posted 16 points and
eight rebounds in the Cardinal’s victory over the Ducks. With 16.8
points per game, she’s currently the team’s leading scorer.
points (its season low) thanks to
tough defense, forcing the ice-cold
Ducks to take a huge number of
long-distance shots. When the final
stats were tallied, Oregon shot just
25 percent, including a miserable 3-
for-32 from three-point range.
Guard Nia Jackson paced the
Ducks with 21 points and forward
Amanda Johnson had 15, but the
scoring dropped off significantly
after that, with only one other play-
er scoring more than four points.
Stanford started the scoring and
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Card falls to Ducks,
losing streak at four
By ZACH ZIMMERMAN
DESK EDITOR
The Stanford men’s basketball
team failed to break out of an offen-
sive slump on Thursday night, losing
just its second home game of the
year, 67-59, to Oregon. The loss was
the Cardinal’s fourth in a row and
marked the seventh consecutive
game that the team failed to eclipse
the 60-point mark.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
OREGON 67
STANFORD 59
1/27, Maples Pavilion
Stanford (10-9, 3-5 Pac-10) was
overcome by the feisty full-court
press of the Ducks’ defensive unit,
turning the ball over 17 times on the
game. Coupled with 6-for-19 shoot-
ing from three-point range and
61.9-percent free-throw shooting,
the Cardinal was unable to come
away with a much-needed victory.
“I don’t think we played particu-
larly well,” Stanford head coach
Johnny Dawkins said. “We turned
the ball over too many times.”
For Oregon, the victory marked
the first time in 25 years that the
Ducks (10-10, 3-5) won in the con-
fines of Maples Pavilion. Oregon
head coach Dana Altman was re-
lieved to put that streak into the his-
tory books.
“We needed that,” Altman said.
“That was a big one for us.It’s some-
thing that we finally got out of the
way.”
Sunny
56 44
Partly Sunny
59 37
Volume 238
Issue 68
Stanford Daily File Photo
never trailed, rushing out to a 19-1
lead halfway through the first half,
buoyed by five early points from
Pohlen. Jackson then did her best to
bring the Ducks back from the
brink by herself, fearlessly cutting
to the basket over and over again,
able to finish off her dribble and
add 13 points for Oregon over the
last 10 minutes of the first half.
Jackson helped the Ducks fight
back to just 10 down with only two
Please see WBBALL, page 6
Freshman forward Dwight Pow-
ell led the way for Stanford with 14
points on 6-for-8 shooting from the
field. He and classmate Anthony
Brown, who netted 11 points on the
night, were the lone bright spots for
a seemingly dysfunctional offensive
squad.
“Dwight gave us some energy,”
Dawkins said. “I thought he re-
bounded and scored the ball well.
He was aggressive, he was attack-
ing.”
Junior guard Jeremy Green, who
entered the game as the Card’s
leading scorer at 14.7 points per
game, continued to struggle from
the floor, hitting just three of his 10
attempts en route to a disappoint-
ing 13-point performance.
“I thought Jeremy’s shots for the
most part were good,” Dawkins
said. “When you’re getting looks
like that, it’s also a function of,
you’re going to have periods and
times of games where it doesn’t go
for you how you want it to.”
Noticeably underutilized in the
game was redshirt junior Josh
Owens. The star forward had a
string of strong performances lead-
ing up to Thursday’s matchup, but
recorded just 23 minutes on the
night. He finished with four points
on just three shot attempts.
Dawkins credited the Duck de-
fense with denying ball-entry to his
best low-post presence.
“We couldn’t get it inside,”
Dawkins said. “We want him to get
Please see MBBALL, page 6
Recycle Me
2 ! Friday, January 28, 2011 The Stanford Daily

NEWS
ACADEMICS

Despite tenuous market,

Stanford law grads find jobs
By ROBERT TOEWS
STAFF WRITER
In spite of a still-slumping econo-
my and amid indications that law is
becoming a riskier career choice fi-
nancially, Stanford Law School stu-
dents are continuing to have success
landing competitive jobs after gradu-
ation, according to administrators.
As the number of law degrees
granted nationwide continues to rise
— up 11 percent from a decade ago
— tens of thousands of legal jobs
have vanished amid significant cut-
backs at firms, according to a report
by The New York Times this month
that drew wide attention.
The result is an oversupply of
with hundreds of thousands of dollars
of debt from student loans, find them-
selves forced to work for low pay in
jobs for which they are overqualified
— babysitting and waitressing, for ex-
ample.
It seems, though, that these trends
have been much less pronounced at
Stanford, whose status as a top-tier
law school has allowed its graduates
to continue finding success in the job
market. Stanford currently ranks
third in the nation in the U.S. News &
World Report law school rankings,
behind only Yale and Harvard.
“Every graduate of Stanford Law
School has a good chance of landing a
job at a firm or in a practice area that
he or she wants,” said Larry Kramer,
every graduating student was em-
ployed within nine months of gradua-
tion.A majority of them — 152 out of
172 — were working either at law
firms or in judicial clerkships, accord-
ing to school spokeswoman Judith
Romero.Those positions are general-
ly considered to be the most sought-
after positions for new J.D. graduates.
The 2009 figures compare favorably
to years before the economy col-
lapsed, suggesting that Stanford Law IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
School graduates’ job prospects in- In his Thursday afternoon presentation, Duke professor Charles Clotfel-
deed remain positive in spite of the ter claimed that many faculty and administrators ignore the large im-
economic downturn. pacts that athletics inevitably have on their respective institutions.
Current law students echoed these
sentiments.
“I think it makes a difference what
law school you went to,” said Marisa
SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Duke prof discusses role

lawyers, thousands of whom are un-
able to find jobs in the legal profes-
sion. Many of these people, saddled
“Every graduate of Stanford Law School has a good chance of landing a job
at a firm or in a practice area that he or she wants,” said Larry Kramer, Stan-
ford Law School dean.
Stanford Law School dean.
The statistics seem to support this
point. In the class of 2009, virtually
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
Diaz J.D.‘13.
Diaz, who is interested in public-
interest law, hopes to make use of the
law school’s Loan Repayment Assis-
tance Program (LRAP), a program
offering financial help to recently
graduated law students pursuing pub-
lic-interest careers. Furthermore, she
hopes that in her chosen field, she will
be “able to compete better because of
the name” of Stanford Law.
In response to suggestions that the
legal profession may be becoming
less lucrative, students and adminis-
trators pointed to the cyclical nature
of the economy.
“I feel that the claim that law
school is a financially risky choice is a
little short-sighted,” said Nikola Mi-
lanovic ‘11, who is currently applying
to law schools and plans to pursue a
career in law. “The decline in legal
jobs is just reflective of current eco-
nomic belt-tightening, and probably
not an indicator that the sector will be
less hospitable in the long run.”
Please see LAW, page 5
of sports at universities
By MARGARET RAWSON
DESK EDITOR
Duke professor Charles Clotfel-
ter spoke Thursday at the School of
Education about the role of big ath-
letics at American universities.
During the talk, presented by the
Center for Education Policy Analy-
sis (CEPA), Clotfelter raised fun-
damental questions about higher
education and the role of athletics
at institutions like Stanford.
“What are the aims of the great
institutions we revere?” asked
Clotfelter, an economics, public
policy and law professor.
Despite routinely being ignored
by scholars as a subject of inquiry,
“sports is a big deal,” Clotfelter
said. “The universities are being
bashful about their big-time
sports.”
In his research, Clotfelter cited
that of 52 schools with top athletics
programs and mission statements,
only 10 percent mention athletics in
their statements.
The question, Clotfelter said, is
whether universities should add en-
tertainment to their official goals of
research, teaching and service.
“These scholars are acting like
they’re in a parallel universe,” he
said of faculty who ignore the pro-
found effects,negative and positive,
of their schools’ athletic traditions.
Clotfelter listed four factors
often touted in favor of intercolle-
giate athletics: life lessons for stu-
Please see SPORTS, page 5

UNIVERSITY

FIRE paints free

speech red on Farm
Stanford ranks low in
free-speech report
By BRENDAN O’BYRNE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In its annual report on campus
free-speech policies, the Founda-
tion of Individual Rights in Educa-
tion (FIRE) ranked Stanford as a
“red-light” school on the grounds of
“serious and substantial restriction
on freedom of speech.”
The report, which ranks 390 uni-
versities according to their on-cam-
pus freedoms, put 67 percent of all
universities into the red-light cate-
gory, with 27 percent receiving a
yellow light and 3 percent receiving
a green light. Another 3 percent
went unranked.
For the third year in a row,
trends show that universities are be-
coming more free and tolerant, ac-
cording to the organization,
which says its mission is to
“defend and sustain
individual rights at
America’s col-
leges and univer-
sities.”
Stanford re-
ceived a red-light
ranking because,
FIRE said, the
University re-
quired visitors
enter a SUNet ID
and password to
view its speech pol-
icy on the use of
White Plaza.The rank-
ing organization handed two other
universities red-light rankings for
the same reason. The New York-
based nonprofit decries such ac-
tions as deceptive, claiming they
deny “prospective students and par-
ents the ability to weigh this crucial
information.”
FIRE’s report included a screen-
shot from Stanford’s old Student
Activities and Leadership (SAL)
website requiring login informa-
tion. In June 2010, the organization
found the site password-protected,
said Samantha Harris, director of
speech-code research for FIRE.
But Vice Provost for Student Af-
fairs Greg Boardman noted in an e-
mail to The Daily that Stanford’s
White Plaza usage policy is, in fact,
accessible to the public without any
password-requirements. Snehal
Naik, associate director of SAL,
added that though Stanford has
changed some of its websites’ de-
signs since last year, the policy has
always been public.
“It’s never been password pro-
tected through WebAuth before,”
Naik said. “The website may look
different, but it’s always been open
to the public.”
Boardman said he agrees with
FIRE that prospective students and
parents should be able to read Stan-
ford’s policies before deciding
whether or not to attend, and that
he would follow up this issue with
FIRE to resolve their conflicting ac-
counts.
Harris said now that the site is
not password-protected, she plans
on reviewing the ranking.
Last year, Stanford would have
ANASTASIA YEE/
The Stanford Daily
received a yellow-light ranking if
not for the password issue. Though
Harris said she can’t formally up-
grade Stanford’s ranking until she
reviews all of the University’s po-
lices, she is “hopeful” that she will
be able to upgrade the Farm’s rank-
ing at some point.
FIRE gave the green light to
Stanford’s policies regarding sexual
harassment and network and web-
site terms of use. It gave the yellow
light to policies regarding the Acts
of Intolerance Protocol and the
Fundamental Standard.
The Acts of Intolerance ranking
was because of the University’s pol-
icy language regarding intolerant
behavior, which the group called
Please see SPEECH, page 3
The Stanford Daily
FEATURES
GEARING UP TO TAKE FLIGHT
By ZAHRA TAJI
R
oom 001 of the William F.
Durand Building in the
Engineering Quad, the
Space and Systems De-
velopment Laboratory
(SSDL), is clustered with a variety
of tools and machinery. At the en-
trance, there is a shelf lined with
rovers that once moved across the
Quad in search of water on an extra-
terrestrial planet. On one of the
shelves, there is a black and white
photograph of The Stanford Daily’s
photography team in 1981.The walls
are covered with satellite images,
and flow charts and formulas are
sprawled across whiteboards.
Sitting behind his desk is Andrew
Kalman ‘85, professor of aeronau-
tics and astronautics, typing away on
his computer.
“I have been playing catch-up
with my schedule for, like, 10 years
now,” he said.
In 1981,when Kalman was an un-
dergraduate at Stanford studying
electrical engineering, he was an
avid biker, frequently visited the
Dish and photographed for The
Daily. While he was on the Farm, he
discovered the mechanical engi-
neering shop and spent most of his
NEWS
NEWS BRIEFS
Charity Fashion Show
leaves Stanford for
San Francisco
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Charity Fashion Show (CFS) an-
nounced today that it will hold its an-
nual fashion show at San Francisco’s
Fort Mason Center, not Stanford, in
April.
CFS producer Thom Scher ‘11
said CFS is intent on maintaining
some connections to Stanford, but
said the organization is no longer an
official student group and technical-
ly is no longer associated with the
University. Stanford students will
still organize the event and hope to
call upon Stanford community
members as both attendees and
models as it has in years past,he said.
SPEECH
Continued from front page
vague. Though students may not be
expelled or officially punished for
intolerant speech that doesn’t qual-
ify as a hate crime, they may be dis-
ciplined through educational
means if they fail to respect “order,
morality, personal honor and the
time working there, indulging in his
passion for design.
Breaking and Mending
While he was working on his doc-
torate in electrical engineering at
the University of Florida, Kalman
started working as a junior engineer
at Stanford Research Systems, a
company started by Stanford gradu-
ate students. He later left to start an-
other company, Euphonics, with a
few friends.The company grew to be
a dominant pro audio-mixing con-
sole company in the United States.
However, he also left Euphonics in
1994, not entirely satisfied because
he was not a musician at heart.
He went on to found Pumpkin in
1995, which, initially meant to be a
data acquisition company, soon be-
came a real-time operating system
company.
In 1998, Kalman returned to
Stanford, where he learned about
small satellite activities. He started
teaching and doing research at the
University, later becoming a con-
sulting professor in aeronautics and
astronautics. In line with Kalman’s
interest in small satellites, Pumpkin
launched the CubeSat kit, a small
satellite that was built to go into
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) missions.
Around 2008, he became the di-
Last spring, CFS faced a deficit
after its event and could not make a
donation to its charitable recipient,
Kiva.The group encouraged individ-
ual donations instead. Scher hopes
that this year, given the new location
and new fundraising freedom that
comes with no longer being a stu-
dent group, CFS will raise more
funds for its yet unnamed charity
and avoid last year’s situation.
Fundraising guidelines and
event planning at Stanford make
hosting a large,sponsor-driven event
such as CFS “sort of a challenge,”
Scher said, who was a Student Activ-
ities and Leadership peer advisor as
of fall 2010.
“As a student group, we were
bound by guidelines,” he added, say-
ing the situation made it hard to cap-
italize on sponsorships and made the
process “financially difficult.”
— Ellen Huet
rights of others,” in the words of the
University’s Fundamental Stan-
dard.
The password-protected speech
policy issue was the only red-light
ranking Stanford received in the re-
port, making an upgrade of status
seem likely. According to Harris,
the review should be done by mid-
day on Friday.
Contact Brendan O’Byrne at bobyrne
@stanford.edu.
rector of SSDL, where he focused
on ensuring that students have the
chance to gain real hands-on experi-
ence.
“I think it’s critical that students
go beyond writing up a proposal and
doing some analysis in MATLAB . .
. to actually building the real thing
and iterating upon that,” he said.
Kalman said his best learning ex-
periences are often not his successes.
“I learn by doing and by making
STUDENT LIFE
Stanford,you’re hired!
‘Apprentice’ spinoff
comes to Stanford TV
By ERIN INMAN
STAFF WRITER
Eight Stanford undergraduates
will soon face off in a Stanford-pro-
duced version of the TV show “The
Apprentice,” competing in business
situations for a final prize.
The show is a collaboration be-
tween the Stanford Cardinal
Broadcasting Network (SCBN)
and the Stanford Pre-Business As-
sociation (SPBA), the group of un-
dergraduates who coined the idea.
Following roughly the same for-
mat as the popular NBC show, each
week the teams will be introduced to
a challenge, develop and execute a
business plan and be judged on their
success, said assistant producer and
SPBA member Matt Ikeler ‘14.
“This is a business-related
show,” said Michael Wheet ‘11,
SCBN station manager.“One of the
goals is to give students the business
experience in a competitive envi-
ronment, to see what the real busi-
ness world is like.”
Before each competition, the
two teams of four will have access to
a team of advisers consisting of
M.B.A. students from the Graduate
School of Business, local entrepre-
neurs and venture capitalists.
Stanford’s “Apprentice” has al-
ready gained the support of Silicon
Valley by procuring sponsorships
from Bling Nation and Mohr Davi-
dow Ventures. Mohr Davidow Ven-
Two teams of Stanford undergrads, techies v. fuzzies, will face off in the board room in Stanford’s rendition of
the popular NBC TV show “The Apprentice,” which is set to air locally this spring.
Friday, January 28, 2011 ! 3
“I learn by doing and
by making
mistakes...but by
doing so,it’s made me
a better engineer.”
— ANDREW KALMAN
mistakes,” he said. “I’ve broken
many machine tools. I’ve screwed up
parts when I was making them . . .
but by doing so,it’s made me a better
engineer.”
Over the course of his engineer-
ing career, Kalman found that he be-
came better at looking at ways he
could improve his own performance.
“I think as a student you have to
be more than a little bit receptive to
criticism,” he said. “I think at this
tures’ client base of angel investors
will help develop or participate in
the challenges, while Bling Nation
will help with transferring the funds
that teams win in challenges.
With contestants selected just
last week, the producers are still de-
veloping three to five weeklong
challenges, the first of which is set to
occur during “Entrepreneurship
Week” from Feb. 23 to March 2,
Ikeler said.
Applicants were required to sub-
mit a one-minute video showcasing
their talents. In reviewing the appli-
cations, SPBA was looking for peo-
ple who had camera appeal, said ex-
ecutive producer and SPBA board
member Chase Harmon ‘13.
“My friends came at me with a
video camera and said, ‘You’re
going to do it,’” said applicant Kevin
Shutzberg ‘14, who was eventually
chosen as a contestant for the
“techie” team.
“This is a
business-
related show.”
—MICHAEL WHEET
stage in most young peoples’ lives,
everyone thinks they know every-
thing.”
Kalman said two important ways
of coping with failure are to keep try-
ing and to seek help from teammates
who have more expertise.
Progress “doesn’t happen
overnight,” he said. “You’ve got to
work on that and work on that and
work on that.”
Looking to the future, Kalman
said having a diversified skill set
might be a key factor in differentiat-
ing engineers. Kalman himself is a
digital and analog electronic engi-
neer, an embedded coder and also
works on PCB board layout and me-
chanical design.
“I try to be as multidimensional
as I can, and I’ve developed those
skill sets over 25, 30 years at this
point,” he said.
Kalman noted that one of the
best parts of his job at Stanford is the
opportunity to interact with stu-
dents.
“The students at Stanford now
are way smarter than they were
when I was here. I don’t think I
could get in anymore,” he said,
laughing.
Contact Zahra Taji at ztaji@stanford.
edu.
Successful video applicants were
offered interviews and evaluated
for their ability to think outside the
box and be part of a team, Harmon
said.
The producers chose to focus on
a team format. “Students can align
with their self-designated side and
see how each side of the mind
comes to work and how different
approaches come to be,” Harmon
said.
While details of the grand prize
have yet to be determined, Harmon
said the current $30,000 in accrued
prize money might go to companies
to sponsor summer internships for
the winning team. Contestants
could also win prizes for each chal-
lenge, such as golf outings or lunch-
es with big Silicon Valley thinkers.
Seven SPBA associates will
begin production in February.
SCBN provided the necessary
equipment, crew and distribution
and has given SPBA creative liberty
in editing the footage, with no cap
on the number or length of
episodes.
Both organizations are opti-
mistic that the first episode will pre-
miere early spring quarter on
SCBN’s Channel 5 and website.
SPBA is working with MTVU to get
a broadcasting deal.
The association is confident
about reaching “all members of Sil-
icon Valley interested . . . by the
amazing Stanford student potential
showcased by the show,” Harmon
said.
Contact Erin Inman at einman@
stanford.edu.
Courtesy of Kevin Hardekopf
4 ! Friday, January 28, 2011
OPINIONS
L ETTER FROM THE
Lessons in the Daily
archives
W
hen a federal judge in San
Francisco ruled Proposi-
tion 8 unconstitutional
last August, two of my Daily col-
leagues jumped into action to cap-
ture reactions in the Stanford com-
munity. On deadline, they reported
an excellent story for our weekly
summer edition,bringing us candid
scenes happening in the wake of
the ruling.
They found one senior, Aidan
Dunn, savoring what he called “a
great day” after his years of ac-
tivism.“For me personally,”he said,
“it means that someday I might be
able to marry the person that I
love.”
I turned to The Daily’s archives
that day, hoping to understand the
context of the moment for Dunn
and others.What I found was an as-
tonishing trove of work from the
nearly two years since Prop.8’s bal-
lot appearance. It spanned several
Daily volumes, bearing the names
of more than a dozen writers and
photographers, and probably in-
volved as many editors. It chroni-
cled the struggles of hundreds of
Stanford students — students on
both sides of the issue — in the
streets, the classroom and the
polling station.
What stood out, particularly,
was the persistence of The Daily’s
coverage, even as the organization
saw changes in leadership and staff
over the years. Each story mat-
tered. Each one aimed to advance
our understanding of the issue as it
played out on campus.And,little by
little,each one succeeded.The story
by Amy Julia Harris and Jane LeP-
ham in August became the newest
S ENSE AND
Pathways for Angels
A
t a Faculty Senate meeting
last November, the co-chairs
of SUES (the Study of Un-
dergraduate Education at Stanford)
presented a draft document propos-
ing three broad and overlapping
aims of a Stanford education: first,
the acquisition and creation of
knowledge;second,developing intel-
lectual and practical skills; and third,
helping equip students to live cre-
ative, responsible and reflective lives.
In the Q-and-A from Faculty Sen-
ators, one professor posed an inter-
esting question:“I don’t see why you
need the third piece of this puzzle. If
we have people acquiring knowledge
and intellectual and practical skills,
why do we think there’s some other
thing out there about living a creative
life which we haven’t provided them
with the knowledge and tools to ac-
quire or act on?”I can’t help thinking
the professor might have felt as if, to
paraphrase Albie Sachs (who was
paraphrasing Shakespeare), some
men are born politically correct,
some achieve political correctness
and he was having political correct-
ness thrust upon him!
The professor’s question prompt-
ed a couple dozen faculty members
to almost jump out of their chairs
with protests, so it looks like the third
goal of fostering creative,responsible
and reflective lives is here to stay.But
the professor, I think, had a point
worth exploring: Is an institution of
higher education about formal, engi-
neered learning alone (embodied in
knowledge and skills) or does it also
have a job to play in a less formulaic
arena? Should questions about a
good or meaningful life be regarded
as central to a liberal education? Can
the University do anything to help
students ask or answer those ques-
tions, and do they require more than
formal knowledge and skills?
A look into history seems to shed
some light on the question. In
“Roads to Modernity,” Gertrude
Himmelfarb draws an interesting
contrast between what she suggests
were distinct British and French En-
lightenments. The French moral
philosophers aimed to rigorously
apply high-scale philosophical think-
ing to political communities and
were much more adamantly opposed
to religion than their British and
American contemporaries. The
British Enlightenment figures
looked to social virtues more than
the force of reason as the basis of a
healthy and humane society. The
E DITOR
in that body of work.
It was invaluable that day, and
remains so.As Bill Keller, the exec-
utive editor of The New York
Times, wrote this week, “Ninety-
nine percent of what we read or
hear on the news does not pro-
foundly change our understanding
of how the world works. News
mostly advances by inches and feet,
not in great leaps.”
For the Stanford community,
The Daily’s archives contain count-
less stories that did just that. They
draw people to the office to this day
— researchers, alumni, students
and passer-by alike, all finding
value in the persistence of this his-
toric community newspaper over
the decades.
Advancing the news is what I
hope we have done in Volume
238, a volume I have been hon-
ored to lead for nearly seven
months. I thank our selfless and
skilled deputy editor, Jacob Jaffe,
and the rest of the terrific team
that produced this volume. I’m
confident that our work has, little
by little, added to the larger Stan-
ford story, and I couldn’t ask for
much more.
The next Daily staff will pick up
that responsibility, and with it,
enjoy editorial independence and a
home in the heart of campus. I urge
them to take that seriously, to find
their own ways to advance Stan-
ford news and to enjoy the experi-
ence.
Our readers are in great hands.
With thanks,
ELIZABETH TITUS
Editor in chief
N ONSENSE
Aysha
Bagchi
How can
we create
the good
society?
question for both was: How can we
create the good society? The French
answer was by serious, sophisticated
reasoning (the head).The British an-
swer was by fostering a certain spiri-
tual temperament (the heart).
When it comes to fostering a bet-
ter society, I see the two philosophies
as closely related. Knowledge and
systematic reasoning can have major
effects on the degree to which an indi-
vidual leads a creative, responsible
and reflective life.Take responsibility.
Knowing more about the underlying
causes of poverty and knowing how
to engage with arguments about how
best to help the world’s poorest will
help us lead more responsible lives.In
this sense, we see that knowledge and
muscular thinking are strong tools
with which to better guide our deci-
sions.
But knowledge and muscular
thinking are not at the heart of living a
more creative, reflective or responsi-
ble life.They are merely tools that as-
sume a prior foundation.For example,
knowing more about poverty and
knowing how to think critically about
the arguments involved only helps me
live a more responsible life if I care
about poverty, and if I care in more
than an intellectual sense. This is a
question about whether desolate
human conditions make me feel
Please see BAGCHI, page 8
The Stanford Daily
Established 1892 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Board of Directors
Elizabeth Titus
Managing Editors
Jacob Jaffe Wyndam Makowsky
President and Editor in Chief
Mary Liz McCurdy
Chief Operating Officer
Claire Slattery
Deputy Editor
Ellen Huet
Managing Editor of News
Kabir Sawhney
Columns Editor
Stephanie Weber
Head Copy Editor
Anastasia Yee
Vice President of Advertising Managing Editor of Sports
Head Graphics Editor
Theodore L. Glasser Chelsea Ma
Managing Editor of Features Giancarlo Daniele
Michael Londgren
Web Projects Editor
Marisa Landicho
Robert Michitarian
Managing Editor of Intermission Jane LePham, Devin Banerjee
Jane LePham Vivian Wong Staff Development
Shelley Gao Managing Editor of Photography Business Staff
Rich Jaroslovsky Zachary Warma Begüm Erdogan
Editorial Board Chair Sales Manager
Contacting The Daily: Section editors can be reached at (650) 721-5815 from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. The Advertising Department can be
reached at (650) 721-5803, and the Classified Advertising Department can be reached at (650) 721-5801 during normal business hours.
Send letters to the editor to eic@stanforddaily.com, op-eds to editorial@stanforddaily.com and photos or videos to multimedia@stanford
daily.com. Op-eds are capped at 700 words and letters are capped at 500 words.
O H ! S WEET N UTHIN ’
Standard Time
A
lan Lightman wrote a book in business and then — wouldn’t you
1996 entitled “Einstein’s know it — time is no longer absolute.
Dreams.”Einstein was famous Electricity is magnetism. The earth is
for his facility with hypotheticals, and round.
solved some of physics’ hardest prob- Please appreciate the delta caused
lems by spinning yards and yards of by the discoveries. So much happens!
thought experiments.He had enlarged Imagine living to see horse-drawn car-
parietal lobes,apparently. riages replaced by automobiles.It only
“Einstein’s Dreams”is a fictional ex- took a few decades. If you’re in your
ploration of what those experiments 20s in the trenches, you’re in your 50s
might’ve been, as Einstein toiled away when they drop the bomb, and you’ve
in a patent office,dreaming up relativity. still got ‘Nam, psychedelia and the
It tastes like Calvino.In one world,time flower people ahead of you. Imagine
passes more slowly farther from the growing up in a world of high neck-
earth’s center. In an attempt to “live lines, where the phonograph was a
longer,” in this world all the rich build novelty,as was jazz,and ending up in a
their homes,shops and gymnasiums on world of Elvis and broadcast televi-
stilts.The poor sow their seeds in the for- sion.No wonder they were so ornery.
gotten soil and frolic in the abandoned The idea of the event horizon is
brooks and rivers. In another world, borrowed from physics. It describes
time passes more slowly for something the line of proximity to a black hole,
the faster it moves through space. This beyond which events (and light) can-
chapter is buried in the middle and full not affect an outside observer.
of preternaturally powered automo- “Einstein’s Dreams” is about the
biles. different worlds beyond the different
Finally, in a third world, time is possible answers to the problem of rel-
merely stretched. Or man’s experi- ativity. How ideas shape history. Our
ence of it is compressed.It takes a liter- narrator is pessimistic for the individu-
al lifetime for the earth to complete a als who get lost in the flow of time:
full rotation. People age as we do —
process the world and each other at
“When the sunrise comes,” he says,
“those born at sunset are over-
the same rate as us — but we only see whelmed by the sudden sight of trees
one day, as opposed to 25,000. Born at
sunrise, you’re middle-aged at sunset,
depending on the season.It is a terrify-
and oceans and mountains, are blind-
ed by daylight, return to their houses
and cover their windows, spend the
ing environment. rest of their lives in half light.”
In this world,each individual has to But we’ve already crossed one
witness a grand transformation. event horizon in our lifetimes.We were
Whether born in night or daytime, young, sure, but still, we made it! Re-
someday the world suddenly, defini- member before the Internet? Re-
tively (though not without warning), member before the household PC?
becomes a completely foreign place. The laptop? The cell phone? The
This world can be interpreted as smartphone? People our age were
our own, as I’m afraid they are all keeping paper address books and
meant to be. Because this happens. using landlines less than a decade ago.
Over the course of a life the world mu- Somehow we went,in my own person-
tates beyond recognition. You go al memory, from nobody in the U.S.
about your life minding your own suburbs having a cell phone to every
F OREIGN C ORRESPONDENCE
The Real Madrid
I
had to go looking for Spain. In two weeks in Spain, we did all the
preparing for the trip, I had things we had predicted that we
worked so hard to cover all my would — we listened to a lecture in
bases — to plan ahead for imminent the Prado, eyes dutifully directed to-
contingencies, to have all the scraps wards the works of Goya, el Greco
and bits and bones of America in my and Velasquez; botellon-ed in frigid
suitcase and at an arm’s reach — town squares at midnight before
that I almost missed the country I venturing off into thumping discote-
had to come live in. cas that showed no signs of slowing
I am fortunate in that the current down at four, five and six in the
group of students in the BOSP morning; voraciously tore through
Madrid program is extremely close Big Macs when we weren’t sure of
— surely an anomaly among abroad what else to eat; spoke English.
experiences.Accordingly, in our first This was comfortable behavior.
The Stanford Daily
Incorporated 1973
Tonight’s Desk Editors
Cassandra Feliciano
News Editor
Nate Adams
Sports Editor
Stephanie Sara
Chong
Features Editor
Ian Garcia-Doty
Photo Editor
Helen Anderson
Copy Editor
Roseann
Cima
Calcutta rickshaw walla carrying one
in his dust-saturated shirt.
And just think of all the software
that’s changed our lives. Life (or re-
search) before Google? Nobody reads
the whole book anymore! They just
sample a few pages and slap it in their
thesis paper (for which, if it’s vetted
enough, someone else will likely do
the same).And Facebook was merely
budding four years ago.
I’m not saying each of these tech-
nological and cultural advances consti-
tuted an “event horizon” in and of it-
self.But I am saying the world is a rad-
ically different place than it was 10
years ago, and while we were young
and supple then, adaptive now, there’s
certainly more to come.Computation-
al genetics and artificial intelligence
are ticking time bombs of the future.
There are a couple big paradigmatic
problems, and once we’ve moved past
them, who knows? (People making
machines making machines making
people.Maybe.That’ll be interesting.)
It’s unclear whether we are
doomed to hiding in the dark. Some
seem to think we’ll be able to keep up.
This may just be naivete,but I’m some-
what convinced when people say the
cultural/technological rate of change
seems to be increasing. Lightman’s
days are getting shorter before our
eyes, to the point that we’re almost
used to it.Hence the hope for a psychi-
cally comfortable future. But I don’t
think we’d ever get off that easy. If
we’ve adapted to constantly adapting,
that can change, too: a shift abstracted
up a level. Whether darkness or light
lies beyond the horizon,we’ll just have
to wait and see.
Thanks for reading! Keep in touch at
rcima.stanford.edu.
Clayton Holz
Yet as I Skyped my way home every
night, started a 60-hour internship at
a local bank, and awoke my first Fri-
day, Saturday and Sunday with the
sun in descent, I began to realize that
this was not the Spain I had come for.
Rather, it was Stanford, cleverly dis-
guised in tastefully restrained Euro-
pean clothing. I was neglecting to
live in the real Madrid, a city of seri-
ous faces,gorgeous glimpses into his-
tory and a language that bombarded
Please see HOLZ, page 8
The Stanford Daily
SPORTS
Continued from page 2
dent athletes, attention to universi-
ties resulting in admissions and do-
nations,revenue and increased sense
of community.
Citing revenue as a reason for
universities to maintain big athletics
programs is a losing argument, he
said, as “most of those programs lose
money.”
Many argue big-time college ath-
letics are too commercial, causing
schools to abandon academic priori-
ties, compromising academic stan-
dards and exploiting players.
Though NCAA athletes are un-
paid, a draft-worthy football player
may be worth as much as $500,000
per season, while a draft-worthy bas-
ketball player may be worth more
than $1 million, Clotfelter said. Stan-
ford’s annual athletics budget in
2009 was $74.7 million, according to
Clotfelter.
“Who gets more Google hits —
your football coach or your Univer-
sity president?” he asked.
Salaries for football coaches at
American universities increased by
a factor 7.5 between 1986 and 2010,
while professor compensation in-
creased by 32 percent, said Clotfel-
ter.
“Why in the world are universi-
ties spending all this money?” he
asked. “Why would they be doing
something stupid?”
Contributions provide the top
source of funding for “major pow-
ers”with successful teams,but lesser-
ranked schools must rely on subsi-
dies to support their programs.
Despite high costs,“it’s the excep-
tional university that gets out of the
business,” Clotfelter said.
He pointed to influential booster
coalitions, such as the Buck/Cardinal
Club at Stanford, and University
trustees who “want to have a com-
petitive team.”
Clotfelter did highlight two “un-
heralded benefits” of collegiate ath-
letics. The consumer surplus associ-
ated with college sports leads to hap-
piness and pride within the commu-
nity, he argued, calling it “an impor-
tant spillover effect.”
He also discussed the positive ex-
ample teams provide of interracial
groups succeeding, though he ac-
knowledged the example is an im-
perfect one.
Clotfelter made his appeal to uni-
versities:“Be candid about what it is
that you do and what it is that you
value.”
Clotfelter urged Congress to “re-
examine the tax deductibility of do-
nations” to college athletics. Cur-
rently 20 percent of donations are
deductible, but Clotfelter advocated
that the number be diminished to
zero.
Throughout the talk, Clotfelter
used Stanford’s football program as
an example of big-time athletics at a
university with a primarily academic
mission.
“Who gets more
Google hits — your
football coach or your
University president?”
— CHARLES CLOTFELTER
The e-mail Provost John
Etchemendy Ph.D. ‘82 sent encour-
aging faculty to be flexible with stu-
dents who missed classes for the Or-
ange Bowl in January,he said,was an
“indication of the true importance of
big-time sports.”
On Clotfelter’s point that univer-
sities are forced to make academic
concessions to have successful ath-
letics, Earl Koberlein, senior associ-
ate athletic director who attended
the event, said, “I beg to differ on
that. We haven’t lowered our aca-
demic standards.”
Koberlein reflected on Stanford’s
victory at the Orange Bowl, saying
that he expects a “bump in donations
because of how the Orange Bowl
played out.”
And about quarterback Andrew
Luck’s decision to stay at Stanford to
complete his degree in architectural
design, Koberlein said, “You can’t
buy that publicity.”
Contact Margaret Rawson at
marawson@stanford.edu.
RESEARCH
Stanford tests stem cells
University joins world’s
first trial study
By ELLORA ISRANI
STAFF WRITER
On Monday, doctors at Stanford
Hospital and Santa Clara Valley Med-
ical Center became the third group cer-
tified to participate in a nationwide
trial of embryonic stem cell therapy for
patients paralyzed by spinal cord in-
jury.
Funded and run by Geron,a Menlo
Park-based biopharmaceutical com-
pany, this is the first clinical trial in the
world of human embryonic stem cell
therapy. Certified by the FDA for test-
ing on 10 patients,the phase-one study
aims to test the safety of this treatment.
Stanford’s involvement began in
2007, when Geron contacted Gary
Steinberg, chair of the Department of
Neurosurgery.
“They contacted me because of my
interest and involvement in stem cell
therapy for neurologic diseases,”Stein-
berg said.“I’ve been involved for a long
time, both in the laboratory and clini-
cally.”
“At the microscopic level,what was
happening to the spinal cords [in in-
jured patients] was the axons — the ca-
bles running past the injury — were
still intact, but the lining, the insulation
of the nerve cells,had died,”said Marco
Lee, professor of neurosurgery. “The
thesis is, can we replace the cells that
had died which were responsible for
remyelinating — that is, relining —
the neurons?”
The theory for the trials comes from
successful experiments done at UC-
Irvine that delivered a similar treat-
ment to rodents with spinal cord in-
juries.
LAW
Continued from page 2
Kramer recommended consider-
ing the history of the legal profession
over the last few decades, rather
Friday, January 28, 2011 ! 5
After Valley Medical Center
identifies and pre-screens a pa-
tient, Geron will deliver em-
bryonic stem cells to Stanford,
where they will be prepared
and checked for viability and
stability. The actual injection of
the cells will take place at Valley
Medical Center and will be per-
formed by Steinberg and Lee.
“The procedure is to deliver an
embryonic derived cell. It’s not actu-
ally the embryonic cell itself, and
that’s a confusing point sometimes,”
Steinberg said. “These are human
embryonic stem cell-derived oligo-
dendrocyte progenitors, which are
the cells that produce myelin, the in-
sulation of nerves.”
The other two approved sites in the
country — Northwestern and the
Shepherd Center in Atlanta — have
already injected one patient with the
stem cells and screened another.
Geron has proposed a total of seven
sites.Ultimately,the distribution of the
10 patients around the country will de-
pend on subject availability.
“The patients will be enrolled by
different sites,”Steinberg said.“There’s
not a limit necessarily to any one site
enrolling more than one, but it’s a rare
disease. It’s a rare injury. So it’s unpre-
dictable where the patients will be en-
rolled depending on which sites are up
and going.”
Researchers are also facing the
challenge of retaining the subjects they
can find. Patients are physically dis-
abled — most have suffered injuries
from car accidents, falls or sports —
but mentally stable.
“Like Christopher Reed,they have
all their mind there,” Lee said.“When
you run a trial like that, it’s actually an
important consideration. You need
motivated patients to stick with you.A
trial is not simply injecting stem cells.
than just the last few years, to keep
things in perspective.
“The legal market grew by much
more during the last 25 years before
the slump than it declined during the
slump, particularly among the elite
and prestigious firms, while the top-
tier schools stayed roughly the same
size,” Kramer said. “Most of these
ERIC KOFMAN/
The Stanford Daily
It’s everything that comes after that.”
The first goal of this trial is not effi-
cacy but rather safety — that is,the de-
termination of the treatment’s safety in
humans before it can be tested in a larg-
er group.
“Phase one in any trial . . . is always
about safety,” Lee said. “But, having
said that, we’re obviously not going to
run a trial and just look at safety, even
though that’s our primary aim. So we
have secondary aims . . . which [are] to
see whether patients have recovery.”
Their recoveries will be measured
with physical and psychological assess-
ments in the year after the injection,as
well as continuing follow-up for 15
years after treatment.
Ultimately, if the phase-one trial
proves the safety of the treatment,
phase-two and -three trials could test
its efficacy,especially in a greater num-
ber of patients with less severe spinal
cord damage.
“The greatest benefit would come
to people with mild weakness. It could
convert them back to normal,” Lee
said. “Or they have severe weakness,
but you could convert them back to
mild weakness.”
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-
ford.edu.
firms are now well on the path to re-
covery — growing more slowly than
before the slump, but still growing.”
Samantha McGirr contributed to this
report.
Contact Robert Toews at rhtoews@
stanford.edu.
6 ! Friday, January 28, 2011
SPORTS
OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT STANFORD SCOREBOARD
CARD BESTS BRUINS,
READY FOR SEASON
By BROOKE DAVIS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Stanford women’s gymnastics team
made its home debut last Sunday, taking on
No. 1 UCLA in a preseason meet at Burn-
ham Pavilion. The No. 2 Cardinal left with a
196.200-194.825 victory and high hopes for
the fast-approaching season.
Leading the way for Stanford were Shel-
ley Alexander and Ashley Morgan, who left
the meet with high rankings and a few com-
mendations. Alexander, a senior from
Seguin, Texas, was named the Pac-10 gym-
nast of the week while Morgan, a sophomore
from Danville, Calif., was awarded the Pac-
10 special performance of the week. Both
gymnasts hold national top-10 rankings for
their events, with Alexander ranked sixth for
all-around and fourth for the beam. Morgan
also holds two rankings, first for the floor ex-
ercise and sixth for the beam.
WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS
UCLA 194.825
STANFORD 196.200
1/23, Burnham Pavilion
As the season continues, Stanford will
need leadership from its core of four cap-
tains: Alexander, fifth-year senior Allyse
Ishino, junior Alyssa Brown and senior
Danielle Ikoma.This will be Ikoma’s second
season as captain. Last season, Stanford fin-
ished fourth at the NCAA Super Six Finals,
and even with the loss of first-team All-
Americans Blair Ryland and Carly Janiga,
the Cardinal is working to surpass its fourth-
place finish in last season’s finals.
This Friday, the Cardinal will face No. 4
Utah in Salt Lake City. With Stanford at 7-0
and the Utes at 3-0, the meet will determine
which team moves on with an unblemished
record. Although Stanford is the highest-
ranked team on Utah’s schedule, the Cardi-
nal has never defeated the Utes in their
home arena.
The Utes faced UCLA on Jan. 7, narrow-
ly defeating the Bruins by four-tenths of a
point. More recently, Utah is coming off a
victory over No. 3 Georgia on Jan. 15. Both
meets were away from Salt Lake City, and
Stanford will be facing the Utes in their
home opener.
For all their talent, the Utes will be miss-
ing one of their best gymnasts. Kyndal Ro-
Please see WGYM, page 8
WBBALL
Continued from front page
minutes left in the first half, but a late
layup from Pohlen helped Stanford
hold onto a 41-25 lead at the break.
The Card once again had a strong
start to the second half — its trade-
mark this season — opening up with a
16-2 run in the first five minutes after
the break to go up by 30 and snuff out
all hope for the Ducks.
With another big win, the Cardinal
is now undefeated since Dec. 22, and it
has done it in convincing fashion. The
average margin of victory in its 11-
game win streak is 35.9 points,with the
Continued from front page
MBBALL|No answer for Ducks’ defense
the ball more. It’s a function of us be-
coming better and seeing what’s
available.”
Oregon played far from flawless
basketball. The Ducks committed 18
turnovers and had just 10 assists on
the evening. The difference, however,
came at the free-throw line, where the
Ducks went 12-for-13.
The Ducks were fueled by redshirt
senior forward Joevan Catron. The
245-pound big man muscled his way
through the Cardinal frontcourt to
the tune of 15 points and six re-
bounds. Altman took advantage of
Catron’s strength down low and ran a
high-low game with senior guard Jay-
R Strowbridge. The 5-foot-10 speed-
ster fearlessly slashed his way into the
paint and revived a Duck offense that
stalled near the end of the first half.
Despite a strong effort on defense,
Powell stressed the need for improve-
ment on that end of the floor.
“We just gotta do it on defense
first,” he said. “We score best when
we’re getting stops.”
Stanford began its night by scoring
just two points in the first five minutes
of action. Timely long-range shooting
by Green and Brown prevented the
game from getting out of hand. The
two teams entered the break dead-
locked at 29-29, thanks in large part to
unforced turnovers by Oregon.
The Cardinal came out in the sec-
ond half with better intensity and
rhythm, and led 38-32 at the 15:57
mark. That would be Stanford’s
largest, and last, lead of the game.
The Ducks never looked back after
The Cardinal is looking in top form through seven preseaon rounds, re-
maining undefeated ahead of its meet with Utah. Following its victory
over No. 1 UCLA, Stanford has top-10 rankings in all major events.
closest game being a 12-point win over
UConn.
Unfortunately for Stanford, even
in another big win, there were still a
few things left to be desired. The Car-
dinal matched a season high with 18
turnovers and struggled behind the
three-point line, going 6-for-23.
The team has a good chance to ad-
dress those few blemishes tomorrow
night, when it travels to Corvallis for a
game against Oregon State. The
Beavers (7-12, 0-8 Pac-10) are stuck in
the basement of the Pac-10,having lost
eight straight games since the confer-
ence season started.
Oregon State most recently fell to
California, losing 60-47 despite
outscoring the Golden Bears 31-30 in
the second half. In the first frame, the
On a night when his team struggled to find the basket, Dwight Powell, above,
led the Cardinal with 14 points on 6-for-8 shooting. The freshman forward is
shooting 50.9 percent this season and averages 8.9 points per game.
going on a 12-point run, stretching the
score to 44-38.Back-to-back buckets by
Powell and junior guard Jarrett Mann,
along with a free throw by Brown,
closed the margin to three points, but
Oregon sophomore guard E.J. Singler
made a clutch three-point play to effec-
tively ice the game at 63-57.
Stanford Daily File Photo
Beavers shot just 18.5 percent.
In a season that the Beavers might
prefer to start over, a few players are
having respectable performances
overall. Sage Indendi leads the OSU
starters in accuracy, shooting 40 per-
cent and scoring 10.4 points per game.
Alyssa Martin leads the team in total
points with 279, averaging 14.7 per
contest. El Sara Greer is deadly from
beyond the arc, shooting 59.5 percent
at long range.
The contest in Corvallis is set for 7
p.m. Saturday night. The Cardinal will
return home next weekend to host the
Arizona schools.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@
stanford.edu and Nate Adams at
nbadams@stanford.edu.
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
Stanford will look to erase its
longest losing streak of the year when
it hosts Oregon State on Saturday at
Maples Pavilion. Tipoff is set for 7
p.m.
Contact Zach Zimmerman at zachz@
stanford.edu.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
OREGON 67
STANFORD 59
1/27, Maples Pavilion
TOP PERFORMERS
JOEVAN CATRON, ORE 15 5-10
DWIGHT POWELL, STAN 14 6-8
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
STANFORD 91
OREGON 56
1/27, Eugene, Ore.
TOP PERFORMERS
18
C. OGWUMIKE, STAN 8-18
N. JACKSON, ORE 21 8-18
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
STANFORD
OREGON STATE
1/29, Corvallis, Ore.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
OREGON STATE
STANFORD
1/29, Maples Pavilion
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
STANFORD
CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE
1/28, Northridge, Calif.
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
STANFORD
LONG BEACH STATE
1/29, Long Beach, Calif.
WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS
STANFORD
UTAH
1/28, Salt Lake City, Utah
* ALL TIMES IN PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
Tom Taylor
Sexism in sports:
How ‘equal’are we?
T
wo soccer commenta-
tors in the UK were in
trouble this week after
making degrading off-
air comments before
kickoff about a female soccer offi-
cial last weekend. On the grounds
of her gender,they questioned her
understanding of the offside rule
— often considered the most con-
fusing law of the game — but,iron-
ically, she then went on to make a
great call in a difficult offsides situ-
ation early on in the match, cor-
rectly allowing a goal. One of the
gentlemen in question seemed to
have survived by making a swift
phone call to apologize to the offi-
cial, but has now resigned, and the
other was fired by Sky Sports after
the network uncovered many
more sexist outbursts behind the
scenes.
The fall from grace of two of the
U.K.’s biggest soccer pundits has
seemed as shocking as it was sud-
den.These two men have been the
face of Sky’s coverage since the
channel was launched over 18
years ago.Almost no one, though,
has stood up for them to claim this
was simply harmless banter; few
who have heard or read the full
transcript could conclude anything
else but that they were spouting
heartfelt prejudice.But are they re-
ally as alone as they would seem? If
two high-profile sports commenta-
tors could last for so many years
with their chauvinism both intact
and unrevealed, then surely we
must suspect the problems of sex-
ism to remain widespread within
the industry.
Back on America’s side of the
Atlantic,Title IX enshrines equali-
ty in college for both male and fe-
male athletes — but even then,it is
not a true equality. Similar num-
bers of both sexes are eligible for
scholarships and the funding for
men’s and women’s teams are
equal, but football remains exclu-
sively male,the sexes remain segre-
gated and female sports in general
fail to attract quite the same sup-
port as male ones.
This is, of course, clearly due to
more than just legal inequality.
There are undeniable physiologi-
cal differences between the sexes
— men are on average bigger and
stronger and thus better suited to
power sports like football — but
this doesn’t explain everything.
The variation in the physical abili-
ties of the human race is great
enough that there are likely to be
many women who could do a bet-
ter job in a male team than some of
the present incumbents.But I don’t
want to get into that here; there
may, or may not, be valid reasons
The Stanford Daily
Points Shooting Pct. Assists Reb.
50% 1 6
75% 1 6
Points Shooting Pct. Assists Reb.
44.4% 2 2
44.4% 1 4
12 P.M.
7 P.M.
7 P.M.
1 P.M.
6 P.M.
for keeping athletes and sports di-
vided along gender lines, and I
want to avoid dipping my toe into
that controversy. What shouldn’t
matter, though, is the sex of the
people on the sidelines.
Even the most hardened bigot
should feel insulted by the asser-
tion that a woman wouldn’t be able
to understand the rules of sports.
For a start, this is not exactly brain
surgery or rocket science, but that
argument misses the point.As gen-
der equality pushes back barriers,
hard, incontrovertible statistics
show that girls in many countries
are consistently outperforming
boys at school: If we question any-
one’s intelligence, it shouldn’t be
the women’s.
And though men undoubtedly
still dominate the ranks of sports
enthusiasts, there are a huge num-
ber of passionate and well-in-
formed female fans. Many will
have actually played the sports that
they follow and have just as com-
plete an understanding of the rules.
There is absolutely no reason that
many of these women cannot step
up and get involved as referees or
even coaches.In fact,the process of
turning any fan into a professional
will fill in the knowledge gaps that
might still remain.
This is not a question of affir-
mative action,but simple numbers.
Officials and coaches should be
employed and evaluated on the
basis of their abilities,and to get the
very best people in these roles, we
should be actively recruiting from
all areas,not ignoring 50 percent of
the human race. Unfortunately,
though,a quick bit of research out-
lines that equality here is far from
being a reality. There are just a
handful of women officiating or
coaching men’s sports, especially
when compared to the number of
men taking up these roles in
women’s sports.
I don’t have a good answer for
how we redress this balance, but
we can certainly start by taking a
stand and rejecting the purveyors
of outdated and downright nasty
views. These two ex-pundits can
certainly boast to have revolution-
ized the way soccer is covered dur-
ing their tenure, but U.K. sports
won’t miss them.In fact,the united
front shown against their sexism
makes it better for their leaving;
the most important impact of their
careers might just be the way they
ended.
He doesn’t want to admit it, but
Tom Taylor is just trying to hit on
every girl that reads this column.
Hit him back at tom.taylor@stan-
ford.edu.
The Stanford Daily Friday, January 28, 2011 ! 7
CLASSIFIEDS
YOGA
Nationally recognized Yoga
Teaching Training Center walk-
ing distance from Stanford, led by
Stanford PhDs and internationally
known instructors. Drop-in class-
es seven days a week, early
morning to night, in a wide range
of styles for all level students, be-
ginners to masters. Registration
now open for Avalon’s 17th 200-
hour Yoga Teacher Training Pro-
gram, which starts Feb. 18. In the
center of the Calif Ave district, 370
S. Cali. Ave. Full data on classes
and Teacher Training at www.aval-
onyoga.com, or call us at 650-
324-2517. FIRST CLASS FREE for
all students, staff, and faculty who
mention this Stanford Daily ad.
WANTED
Exceptional Egg Donors Needed.
$8000-$10,000+_Ages 20-29, educat-
ed, clean genetic history.
Nicotine/Drug free. Committed._ All
Ethnicities. Support by experienced
EggDonor & reputable agency (since
1998) Excellent references._Informa-
tion provided@ www.FertilityAlterna-
tives.com/eggdonors_ Contact Dawn,
w/questions/application._858-391-
8393
1/28/11 1 2011 The Mepham <roup. Distributed by
Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.
(650) 721-5803
www.stanforddaily.com
/classifieds
EMPLOYMENT
Stanford’s WorkLife Office is looking
for students interested in providing oc-
casional child care. Please call
(650)723-2660.
iPhone Developer Opportunity - Be
part of a team of Stanford graduates
working to build an innovative applica-
tion that will fundamentally change
product placement in social network-
ing. We are moving towards launch at
a fast pace, and are looking for devel-
opers to assist in that process. Our
ideal individual would have strong pro-
gramming skills (iPhone experience
preferred, not mandatory), personal
drive, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Contact us:
antbert@stanfordalumni.org
Campus babysitter for two girls. Email
chwest@gmail.com
TUTORING
Chem Phys Math Stats “I make it
easy!” Jim(307)6993392
Level:
1 2
3 4
Complete the grid so
each row, column and
3-by-3 box (in bold
borders) contains
every digit, 1 to 9. For
strategies on how to
solve Sudoku, visit
www.sudoku.org.uk
SOL$TION TO
TH$RSDA,-S P$//LE
8 ! Friday, January 28, 2011 The Stanford Daily

POLICE BLOTTER
By IVY NGUYEN
DESK EDITOR
This report covers a selection of incidents from
Jan. 21 to Jan. 27 as recorded in the Stanford Depart-
ment of Public Safety bulletin.
FRIDAY, JAN. 21
" At 1:10 a.m., a man was stopped at Sand Hill Road
and Pasteur Drive and cited for driving unli-
censed.
"A license plate was found at 5:49 a.m. in the
Maples Pavilion parking lot.The plate is currently
stored at SUDPS.
" At 12:15 p.m., a man was cited and released near
campus on El Camino Real for driving with a sus-
pended license. The vehicle was towed.
" At 5:05 p.m., the right wheel of a golf cart was
damaged when the driver hit a bollard. The bol-
lard’s condition is unknown.
" At 11:50 p.m., a minor at Bob was cited and re-
leased for possession of alcohol.
SATURDAY, JAN. 22
" At 1:08 a.m., a man at Pi Beta Phi was transport-
ed to the San Jose main jail and booked for pub-
lic intoxication.
" At 1:10 a.m., a person at 110 McFarland Ct. report-
ed receiving obscene phone calls from a blocked
number.
" At 8:45 a.m., three stolen golf carts were recov-
ered at Arrillaga Sports Center.
"A U-locked bike was stolen from the racks of
Sigma Nu between 8 and 9 p.m.
SUNDAY, JAN. 23
" Between 2 and 2:50 p.m., a U-locked bike was
stolen from the bike racks outside of Arrillaga
Sports Center.
" In the same period of time, an unlocked bike was
stolen from the Lasuen Mall side of Old Union.
MONDAY, JANUARY 24
" At 4:40 p.m., a golf cart was stolen from the front
of Burnham Pavilion.
" At 12:45 p.m., an unknown suspect approached a
person in Meyer Library with an open folding
knife in hand. The suspect did not speak to or
threaten the victim with the knife.
TUESDAY, JAN. 25
" At 1:24 a.m., a car parked in the Rains parking lot
was towed after its alarm had gone off for 24
hours.
" At 12 p.m., a fire alarm activated in Building 260
after water flooded the basement. Facilities oper-
ations, EH&S and restoration management were
notified.
" At 5 p.m., a pair of Oakley sunglasses were stolen
after they were left unattended on a bench in a
men’s dressing room.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26
" Between 12:30 and 1 p.m., an unlocked bike was
stolen from outside the post office.
Contact Ivy Nguyen at iknguyen@stanford.edu.

MVBALL
Continued from front page
on how well Stanford’s defense and
blocking can handle Northridge’s
young talent. Freshmen Greg
Faulkner, Brandon Lebrock and
Cory Wagner all feature heavily in
the Matadors’ offense — Lebrock
leads the team in kills and aces and
is second in digs.
Stanford leads the all-time series
33-25, but has dropped seven of the
last nine matches dating back to
2008. The Cardinal has not won in
the Matadome since 2004.
Kosty is more concerned with
how his team is doing now than with
how it will match up against its op-
ponents.
“We really need to focus every
day on improving both individually
and as a team,” he said. “This is a
very long season and we are only
four MPSF matches in.”
46 and 27, respectively. Mochalski is
hitting .438 and had the match-win-
ning kill against Hawaii last Sunday
— Cook had his own match-winner
earlier in the season against BYU.
“All seven of our freshmen have
done an absolutely incredible job
for us thus far,” Kosty said.
Junior outside hitter Brad Law-
son leads the veterans with a team-
high 81 kills, averaging 4.05 per set
— good for fourth-highest in the
MPSF. First-year setter Evan Barry
is averaging over 10 assists per set,
tied for second-best in the MPSF.
But it was Spencer McLachlin
who carried the Cardinal in the sec-
ond match against Hawaii.The sen-
ior outside hitter and Hawaii native
had a career-high 29 kills in tight
win against the Warriors.
This came after Stanford laid a
collective egg in the first match
against Hawaii, when the Cardinal
was swept, 25-22, 25-21, 25-17, in
Honolulu.
“Hawaii came out on that first
night and dictated the action from
Stanford struggled to connect
passes and hit a season-low .200 as a
team. Defensively, the team could-
n’t stop outside hitter Jonas Um-
lauft, who hit .500 and had 22 kills.
The Cardinal will face a similar
challenge against Long Beach
State’s Jim Baughman.The junior is
averaging 3.96 kills per set for the
49ers, often thanks to senior Mike
Klipsch’s setting. Klipsch is averag-
ing 10.5 assists per match and had
46 assists with 10 digs in the team’s
win against UCLA — as a fresh-
man, Klipsch led the nation in as-
sists per match with 13.8.
If the Cardinal is to maintain its
No. 2 national ranking, it will need
to continue its recent success
against the 49ers. Stanford trails in
the all-time series 40-25, but has
won the past five meetings.
The match against Northridge is
scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight in
Northridge, Calif., with the clash
against Long Beach State sched-
uled for 1 p.m. on Saturday in Long
Beach, Calif.

Freshman outside hitters Brian
Cook and Eric Mochalski are third
and fourth on the team in kills with
the first serve,” Kosty said. “We did
not do a good job countering their
game plan.”
HOLZ
talking like old friends. The inferno
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at seemed to have dissipated, and I
milesbs@stanford.edu. thought I could see a smile hiding
Continued from page 4 behind that pair of wrinkled eyes
that I did not yet understand. We
spoke of idiosyncrasies, our families

KAPPA SIG
Continued from front page
Kappa Sigma members based on
the terms of the national organiza-
tion’s code of conduct. He added
that “each case is different” and
that there is not a “real set form of
discipline.”
Asked about the possible out-
comes of the hearing,Wilson said it
would be “irresponsible” of him to
speculate.
The hearing is set for Kappa
Sigma’s national convention, which
happens twice a year.
Campus officials placed Kappa
Sigma on provisional alcohol and
party suspension in October after
reports of an alleged unregistered
event during New Student Orien-
tation. A Greek organization can
be put on suspension if it violates
the University’s controlled sub-
stances and alcohol policy, which
includes hosting parties during
“dry” weekends.
Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stan-
ford.edu.
me at largely unintelligible speeds.
During my first week of real
classes,I returned home from the In-
ternational Institute and got to my
front door. I opened it and walked
inside,but,for some reason,the door
would not close. It seemed that the
lock was jammed, so I went and
asked my roommate for help, but
neither he nor my host sister was
able to do anything about it. Bewil-
dered, I told my host mother, who
was busily preparing lunch, that the
door wouldn’t close.After a hasty in-
spection and a slew of maldicciones,
she stormed off to call a locksmith,
proclaiming the door inexorably
broken. My roommate and I ate our
food in tense silence, listening to our
host mother’s shrill ranting through
the walls. After a few minutes she
walked in: “Alright, which one of
you am I going to kill?”
I tepidly raised my hand, at-
tempting to utter an apology but
finding the Spanish words insuffi-
cient and awkward. “I’ll pay for it,
an-and wait for the locksmith so that
Stanford Daily File Photo
you don’t have to — I, I’m so sorry,”
About 20 Kappa Sigma members are set to travel to Las Vegas this week- I stammered.
end to meet with the fraternity’s national Supreme Executive Committee “No, you won’t be able to pay be-
(SEC) to address allegations of misconduct that led to the chapter being cause you’ll be dead before he gets
put on suspension by the University last October. here. D-e-a-d,” she spelled out. Her
fuming needed no translation. “I
thought you kids were supposed to
and the like, and I thought that I just
might be in the clear.
Thinking things assuaged, I ven-
tured a joke: “Well, it’s a good thing
I’ve got this International Student
Card anyway, because with it, the
U.S. will pay for the repatriation of
my remains . . . “
The easy string of voluble dialogue
snapped; our host mother looked me
square in the eyes: “When I’m done
with you, there won’t be anything to
send back to the United States.”
And so began my first week of
life in the real Madrid.
So too began my faltering at-
tempts at using Spanish in stores and
with friends, my stories left utterly
without crescendo and climax in their
foreign tongue. I have sampled faba-
da,a Spanish bean stew,and la tortilla
espanola, which is nothing like the
tortilla we Californians know but sig-
nificantly better. I have spent whole
afternoons exploring the majestic
parks of Madrid,getting lost in the fo-
liage and farther from my iPhone
with every step. I have grown to real-
ly like my host mother, and I eagerly
await mealtimes, when I can eat her
delicious food and listen to her deci-
sive views on just about everything.
By no means am I any sort of expert
on the city of Madrid — ask any of
my friends how many times I’ve

BAGCHI
Continued from page 4
angry.It is a question about whether I
feel entitled to what I have. It is a
question about what kind of life I
think will be meaningful,of whether I
have even considered that question in
a personal way.
These questions are not answered
through knowledge transmission or
inculcating skills. That is not even
how they truly get asked. These are
matters of the heart, of igniting per-
sonal queries in students, of respond-
ing to hungers for a college experi-
ence that involves growing in pro-
found and transformational ways.
Such growth requires spheres involv-
ing some mystery, spheres in which
students will be affected in different
ways and to different degrees. The
people we connect with, the new
places we venture into, the teachers
and mentors that ignite fires within
us, the movies and music and books
and art that somehow manage to
transform us.These pathways toward
personal transformation make us
more appreciative of the opportunity
to learn, more deliberate in directing
our education and more reflective
about our lives beyond Stanford.
Dorm life, student clubs, studying
abroad, public service, teachers and
mentors, the arts, sports and hobbies,
reflection — a liberal education
must include pathways with unpre-
dictable outcomes, unspecified ends.
As Rabindranath Tagore describes
in his “My Boyhood Days,” we ven-
ture down such pathways so that
“some angel from a strange and un-
expected quarter may cross our path,
speaking the language of our own
soul,and enlarging the boundaries of
the heart’s possessions.” A Stanford
education is, in part, about opening
pathways for angels to enter.
This is Aysha’s last column for The
Daily.She would like to say a big thanks
to her great editors this volume, Wyn-
dam and Ellie,and to everyone who has
read her columns.She has loved writing
them! Send her your comments at
abagchi@stanford.edu.
WGYM
be smart — how could you break a taken the wrong Metro line, or taken
door?” the right one in the wrong direction.
“I swear, I just turned the . . . “ Rather, I am settling into the lifestyle
Continued from page 6 Before I could finish she stormed that I came here for,one that is decid-
out again. I looked incredulously at edly not Stanford. I know I will be
my roommate and began thinking back on the Farm soon enough.Until
For all their talent, the Utes that this wasn’t the way I had envi- then, I will continue exploring and
will be missing one of their best sioned my demise. peering between the hazy lines of
gymnasts. Kyndal Robarts, a sen- Then something miraculous hap- translation.
ior All-American ranked first on pened. Somehow over the course of
the vault, is out with a knee injury the next 15 minutes, the three of us Start the dialogue. E-mail Clayton
suffered on Jan. 22 while warming were sitting together at the table, Holz at holz@stanford.edu.
up for a competition in Nebraska.
In all events, the Cardinal
boasts national rankings in the
top 10. It is ranked second overall,
ninth on the vault, third on the
bars, first on the beam and second
on floor exercise. Stanford has
taken its team to the NCAA
Super Six Finals three out of the
last four years and hopes to take
this 2011 squad to yet another
final.
Stanford will face Utah on Fri-
day at 6 p.m. PST in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Contact Brooke Davis at bedavis@
stanford.edu.