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En Garde!
KUSF sale
undermines
KZSU
Plans under new ownership can
limit reach of Stanford radio
MARIANNE LeVINE
STAFF WRITER

Radio signals may be fuzzy for the Cardinal in the North Bay,
where new ownership of the University of San Francisco radio
station, KUSF, will move the transmitter to a high altitude loca-
tion in the North Bay and significantly limit Stanford’s range of
radio listeners.
“Essentially what’s going to happen is that a lot of our cover-
age in the East Bay and what we get in San Francisco is going to
be cut off,” said J.D. Haddon ‘13, KZSU’s sports director.“We are
losing a community.”
According to KZSU (Stanford) publicity director Adam
Pearson ‘11, the concession of the KUSF radio signal to the Clas-
sical Public Radio Network (CPRN) in January for $3.75 million
occurred behind closed doors between board members at USF
and CPRN. The deal was also made without the knowledge of
those in charge of the radio station’s day-to-day operations, Pear-
son said.
“This is an outrage not only to students who can no longer
JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily have the access to a radio station on campus and learn about
Self-defense instructor Jason Inay practices the art of eskrima with students in White Plaza. Eskrima is a Filipino martial art that broadcasting or music,but it’s more importantly an assault on the
emphasizes fighting with sticks or blades. San Francisco community, which has come to appreciate and de-
pend on the public radio services that KUSF provides,” Pearson
said,adding that the price paid for KUSF is a nominal amount for
NEWS BRIEFS STUDENT GOV’T the benefits it provides to the San Francisco community on a
year-to-year basis.

Groups advocate ‘abstain’

CPRN, a corporation owned by the University of Southern
GSC decides on event California (USC) and Colorado Public Radio, purchased
KUSF’s radio signal in order to spread access to classical music.
But KZSU business manager Abra Jeffers, a graduate student in
funding
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF on ROTC measure management science and engineering, believes there is more to

Please see RADIO, page 2

By KATE ABBOTT dents who either do not feel educated
At last night’s meeting, the Grad- DEPUTY EDITOR enough to vote or see the issue as one
uate Student Council heard and ap-
proved a series of funding requests
of civil rights. He said that students on UNIVERSITY
Over the past several weeks, a cam- both sides of the issue have joined the
for graduate student event plans.
The most costly funding request
of the entire meeting was for Fire on
paign to vote ‘abstain’ on Thursday’s
ballot Measure A-ROTC Advisory
Question has spread through email
effort.
“There are lots of reasons that peo-
ple are abstaining, and it makes the
Trustees discuss
value of Farm lands
Fire, a multicultural barbecue sched- lists and gained traction among sever- most sense for both sides,” he said.
uled to take place May 14.Hosted by al student groups, including the Stu- Haskell said that approximately 40
on- and off-campus international dents of Color Coalition (SOCC) and students met during finals week last
student organizations, organizers of the Women’s Coalition (WoCo). Liter- quarter to discuss mobilizing the Cam-
Fire on Fire requested $7,600 and re- ature on the Campaign to Abstain is paign to Abstain, but that it is “really a By BRENDAN O’BYRNE
ceived $5,000. being propagated through fliers, Face- grassroots movement.” STAFF WRITER
GSC drew from international book and pamphlets left in student “For me, I’m not voting no because
students, constituency outreach and dining areas. I don’t believe this is an issue about The Board of Trustees recently held a retreat that aimed to
food funds to help Fire on Fire pay The advisory question featured on ROTC, this isn’t a stance on ROTC, do away with business as usual, focusing on several issues of
for the raw food materials and the this year’s elections ballot will ask stu- it’s abstaining from a poll that sup- strategic importance. The three topics they discussed this year
hiring of a Colombian band for en- dents whether they support the return presses the minority voice,” Haskell were Stanford’s land use over the next 25 years, the value of the
tertainment. of ROTC to campus, with three possi- said.“When the elections process hap- 350-plus centers on the Farm and the potential New York City
The council granted $3,500 to the ble responses: support, do not support pens, it’s a lot about mobilizing and campus.
annual Graduate Family Carnival on or abstain. Last week, senators at- getting people to vote for a candidate. The retreat is an annual tradition that allows the Board to
May 21 and approved funding for tempted to suspend the rules during That process can trivialize what it break from its traditional meetings and think about big issues
two student groups — GradQ, a their Senate meeting in order to re- means to understand an issue. For this regarding the future of the University. The first issue discussed
pan-graduate LGBT organization peal the ballot measure, but failed to in particular, [the measure] has a last- was Stanford’s long-term land use over the coming decades.
for the Farm’s grad students, and garner the required 10 votes. The bill ing impact that goes beyond the elec- “Over the past few years, an area the Trustees have spent the
Stanford Ballroom, which needed was initially passed unanimously. tions season.” least amount of time talking about is Stanford commercial
money to pay a nine-person panel to John Haskell ‘12, a student at the However, some students feel that land,” said Leslie Hume, president of the Board of Trustees, in a
judge the 2011 Cardinal Classic forefront of the movement, said that it the campaign is another channel to sti- phone conference. Though there were no decisions made at the
Dance Competition on April 23. is not to be taken to be an anti-ROTC
A budget for the Graduate Stu- campaign, but rather an option for stu- Please see ABSTAIN, page 7 Please see TRUSTEES, page 2
dent Programming Board social
event is has yet to be determined.
GSC Funding Chair Krystal St.
Julien, a graduate student in bio-
chemistry, pointed out concerns
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
about the event’s schedule. The
party,slated to be held in the Munger
Courtyard, coincides with Admit Harris talk opposes
campus return of ROTC
Weekend, which the University has
designated as a “dry weekend.”

— Jenny Thai

By WYNDAM MAKOWSKY during the hour-and-a-half talk.

Polls open for ASSU SENIOR STAFF WRITER “In terms of massive practical
impact, it doesn’t have one,” Harris
Former student body president said of ROTC’s potential return to
general election and antiwar activist David Harris the Farm.
‘67 spoke to a group of 20 Stanford “But what Stanford does about it
By THE DAILY ASSU ELECTIONS community members Wednesday will be a tremendous statement,” he
TEAM night about his opposition to added.
ROTC. Harris, who served as student
The ballot for the ASSU general The discussion, held at the body president from 1966-67, raised
election officially opened this morn- Wilbur Meeting Room and spon- the issue of each individual’s collec-
ing at 12:01 a.m. Students can vote at sored by Stanford Says No To War, tive accountability for the military’s
http://ballot.stanford.edu/. touched on a variety of topics that actions.
Undergraduates will choose be- mainly focused on Harris’s personal “We will be responsible for the
tween three Executive slates, 41 Un- JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily
experiences and general topics re- end product of all of these ROTC
dergraduate Senate candidates and lated to ROTC reinstatement. officers,” Harris said.
numerous class president slates. American journalist and author David Harris discussed his views on the Transgender rights and the Cam- To illustrate the point, he
return of ROTC to Stanford. Last night’s event, which was held at Wilbur paign to Abstain were mentioned
Please see POLLS, page 7 Hall, was sponsored by Stanford Says No to War. only once by an audience member Please see HARRIS, page 2

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2 ! Thursday, April 7, 2011 The Stanford Daily
ACADEMICS
HARRIS
The question of educational vi-
tality is still present today and is

Campus reacts Continued from front page

among the larger issues that the cur-
rent ad hoc committee on ROTC is
considering.
“Stanford is supposedly a com-

to proposed
touched on Hannah Arendt’s munity of scholars in a search for
“Eichmann in Jerusalem,” a famous truth,” he said. “You’re not going to
scholarly work that examines the learn how to think in ROTC.”
manifestation of evil in the Nazi Harris was also dismissive of the

MCAT changes
regime. The book was published logistical concerns of having Stan-
and made its way around Stanford ford cadets travel to other schools
in the mid-1960s. Harris said one of for training.
the book’s major questions — what “The issues are a lot bigger than
fellow Germans did about atroci- anyone’s convenience,” he said.
CAROLINE MARKS/ ties committed by their govern- The greatest back-and-forth of
The Stanford Daily
ment — was relevant to the United the evening occurred when Joe
SAMANTHA MCGIRR largely derived from the cur- States both during Vietnam and Maguire ‘13 challenged Harris on a
SENIOR STAFF WRITER rent format. The verbal section would give way to a today. number of points and posited that
critical analysis and reasoning section, while a behav- “ROTC is the place where we an antiwar and anti-ROTC focus
Last Thursday, an advisory panel appointed by the ioral and social science section would take the place can address this,” he said. would be more effectual if it cen-
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) of the writing section. Harris, who was imprisoned for tered on civilian officials rather
released its recommendations for a new version of the The panel tailored its proposal to reflect what it 18 months for dodging the draft, led than the armed forces.
Medical College Admission Test, or MCAT.The panel’s considers to be changing face of medicine. a number of antiwar campaigns dur- “Policy needs to be addressed,
proposed changes include eliminating the writing sec- “You do need a solid foundation in the sciences, ing his time on campus. In 1966, he certainly,” Harris said. “But my
tion of the test and adding a social science section. but you need more than that,” Steven Gabbe, MR5 focused on selective service. In point is that we need less military.”
The advisory panel, dubbed the “MR5 Commit- Committee Chair and CEO of the Ohio State Medical 1967, he rallied against the Univer- “What’s needed here is not bet-
tee,” developed its recommendations after three Center, said in an April 1 interview with Inside High- sity’s cooperation, through re- ter-trained officers; what’s needed
years of research and an analysis of 2,700 surveys er Ed. search, with the Vietnam War effort. here is fewer officers,” Harris
from undergraduate and medical school faculty and “You need to think critically and reason, and un- However, he refused to take sig- added. “We can’t keep dealing with
students. If approved by the AAMC, the changes derstand the differences in our society and the pa- nificant credit for ROTC’s 1968 de- the rest of the world through our
would be introduced in the 2015 MCAT, 25 years after tients you see as a physician,” Gabbe said. “We need parture, pointing instead to a facul- armies.”
the last series of major revisions to the test. people who are critical thinkers and people who have ty decision on the academic merits
The proposed MCAT would include four sections. of the program’s curriculum that led Contact Wyndam Makowsky at
The first two are slated to be natural science sections Please see MCAT, page 7 to the program’s exodus. makowsky@stanford.edu.

RADIO
decision to sell KUSF to CPRN
highlights another concern among
the KZSU staff: the possibility that
Continued from front page the Stanford radio station may also
be sold some time in the future. In
fact, Jeffers said USC has publicly
the story. stated its desire to acquire a South
“USC recently bought up sta- Bay station.
tions, from Mexico to Canada, all The non-disclosure agreement
along the coast under the guise of between USF and USC is of particu-
saving classical music,” Jeffers said. lar concern for KZSU. Members of
“They have publicly said that they KZSU are currently discussing this
are going to use [their radio stations] matter with an intermediary board
for fundraising and publicity for between KZSU and Stanford’s
USC recruitment.” Board of Trustees.Pearson revealed,
In response to the change in own- however, that communication be-
ership, Stanford has expressed sup- tween the intermediary board and
port for the Save KUSF movement the radio station is limited.
in San Francisco. “Right now we’re independent,
“We’re asking for letters of pub- but because of our independence we
lic support talking about concerns wouldn’t know if we were sold,” said
over this disruption in our broadcast Pearson.
signal and we’re asking that these be KZSU is currently in contact
sent to us so we can file an informal with the chairman of the intermedi-
objection,” Jeffers said. “Basically ary board and plans to meet with
we’re trying to help out Save KUSF; Stanford Legal in order to discuss
it’s in our self-interest and an impor- how to best approach this growing
tant cause.” concern. Suggestions have been
Jeffers revealed that CPRN is no made to simply shift KZSU’s focus
longer classified as a non-profit due to online broadcasting. In spite of
to Save KUSF efforts, and is instead this suggestion, Haddon stated that
considered to be a limited liability this method would not reach nearly
corporation. As a result of this re- as many listeners.
cent change in classification, CPRN “This is a huge growing problem
can no longer be placed on the left for college radio stations,” Haddon
side of the radio dial, which is in- said. “This recent situation makes it
tended to be for non-commercial, a lot more real than most people re-
educational non-profit radio sta- alize and really breaks the Stanford
tions. bubble.”
Although KZSU’s present con-
cern is with the CPRN’s recent deci- Contact Marianne LeVine at
sion to move the transmitter, USF’s levine2@stanford.edu.

JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily

KZSU programming may no longer be able to reach listeners in the North
Bay communities as new owners of KUSF plan to relocate a transmitter
serving that area. USC bought KUSF for $3.75 million in January.

TRUSTEES
with directors of various centers on
campus. Many of the Trustees have
been engaged with the centers and
Continued from front page Hume herself was an advisor at the
Clayman Institute before becom-
ing chair of the Board of Trustees.
meeting, Hume said the Board The final topic of note was the
members discussed the tradeoffs potential New York City campus.
between developing commercial According to Hume, the Board re-
land for long-term income genera- ceived a thorough presentation
tion and the impact it may have on about the project and “was pleased
academic development and the with the quality of the proposal.”
local community. “I think the conversation John
“The land use policy that is in Hennessy will have next week with
place was adopted by the Board al- the Academic Council will give you
most 22 years ago,” Hume said. a sense of the conversations he had
She noted that the result of the with the Trustees,” Hume said.
Board’s discussion might “suggest The Board also received a pre-
modification to the land use plan, view of the site plan and the deans
and help frame future agendas” for of both the Business and Engineer-
the University Committee on Land ing schools gave presentations
& Building Development. about their curricular ambitions for
The Board also focused on the the NYC campus. Hume said the
various centers housed at Stanford; Board was able to talk over some of
Hume said she and her peers main- their concerns with Hennessy, rang-
ly focused on the 17 centers that re- ing from the proposed site of the
port directly to the Dean of Re- project to financial estimates and
search. These centers, which in- navigating the politics of New York
clude the Freeman-Spogli Institute City.
for International Studies, Bio-X When asked about the new
and the Clayman Institute, were ex- Manzanita Park dormitories for
amined in terms of how well they upperclassman, Hume said no ac-
meet the challenge of initiating tion was taken at the recent Board
multi-disciplinary study. meeting regarding the issue. Ac-
“We wanted to really learn more cording to the University’s time-
about these centers and the risks line, project approval should have
and opportunities they pose,” taken place in February of this year.
Hume said. However, no action has been taken
She described the discussion as since the original concept was pro-
“very informative and candid.” posed last year.
In addition to examining the
centers, the Board also participated Contact Brendan O’Byrne at
in a moderated panel discussion bobyrne@stanford.edu.
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Do Human Rights FEATURES

Have a Future?
Scotty McClennan, Harry Anisgard, Aimee Krause,
Roy King, Paula Hillard, Sonja Dieterich, Andrea Chambers,
Eric Hekler, Susan Scown, Marianne Neuwirth,
and Emma Pease

invite you to hear outstanding Human Rights

speaker Bill Schulz, former head of Amnesty
International, this weekend at the nearby
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto!

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Q&A WITH
Q&A
For those students who identify as queer
and Asian, one group comes out
By HELEN ANDERSON from parents and friends.And while
DESK EDITOR terms such as “gay,” “queer” and
“LGBT” are commonly understood
in the United States, in Asia, “you

“I
’d be fine if you came could use the word queer and no-
out as lesbian,” Nay- body would know what it means,”
oung Woo’s mother Woo said.
has told her. “Why “It’s very foreign, the idea of gay-
won’t you tell me that ness, and some parents just take it to
you’re lesbian?”

Dr. William F. Schulz

be very westernized,” she contin-
“Because I’m not, Mom,” Woo ued. “So they’re like, ‘Oh, you go to
replies.Which, in her case, is true. school in America and that’s why
Her mother’s willingness to ac- you got messed up.’ Or people think
cept her daughter’s sexuality runs it’s a phase.”
President and CEO, Unitarian Universalist Service almost polar opposite to what most
other members of Queer and Ques-
Still, in both Asia and America,
there is a similar stigma attached to
Committee Former Executive Director of Amnesty tioning Asians and Pacific Islanders being queer and Asian.
(Q&A) experience. “Asian parents invest a lot in
International “I’m like the joke of the group,” their children,” Woo said. As such,
Woo ‘12 said, referring to her parents expect a return on their in-
strange familial role-reversal.This is vestment, so to speak — they want
because in a typical Asian or Asian- their children to carry on the family
American family, homosexuality is line, a pressure that hits especially
Join us for great inspiration, debate, and wine and viewed as unnatural and shameful.
Children are hardly encouraged to
hard for queer Asian men.
Woo spent a portion of her high
come out to their parents. school career in the United States,
cheese after the Saturday, April 9th, 4 p.m. talk. Christopher Lee ‘13, for instance,
a Q&A member and a gay rights ac-
during which she joined her school’s
gay-straight alliance, even though
Or join in Sunday morning at either the 9:30 or 11 tivist from Korea, has not yet come
out to his parents about being gay.
her parents denounced “these peo-
ple”as unnatural,advising her not to
Lee said he is more concerned associate with them because “the
a.m. services, followed by lunch at 12:30 on the patio. about how his family would manage
the social stigma that would ensue
bible says it’s not okay.” However,
Woo said she has been able to
We hope to see you there! Email elsas@uucpa.org with his coming out than how his
parents would react to him person-
change her parents’ prejudices by
telling them stories about her
ally. He emphasized that in Korean friends and emphasizing “gay as
if you would like a ride from Stanford to UUCPA. society, the entire family is criticized
even if only one family member is
people” as opposed to “gay as a con-
cept.”
perceived of having done something This strategy seemed to convince
wrong or dishonorable. Woo’s mother, who now frequently
The differences between the expresses understanding for her
queer community in Asia — Korea, daughter’s friends. But very few
in particular — and the queer com- young Asians have this kind of open
munity in the United States was parental relationship.
something that particularly interest- Concern and confusion about
ed Woo. She had this juxtaposition coming out to parents is essentially
in mind when she contacted Lee to ubiquitous in the queer and Asian
ask if she could make a documen- community. It’s not an issue that
tary about his transition from Korea more mainstream LGBT groups ad-
to the United States. At the time, dress and, for this reason, has be-
Lee had just been accepted to Stan- come one of Q&A’s top priorities.
ford. “We don’t start with, ‘Let’s come
The film, which Woo began out, how do I do it?” Woo said.
working on the summer after her “That’s not our question. Is it wise
freshman year, is now being funded for me to come out? Will it hurt my
by the Stanford Institute for Cre- family? . . . How important are all of
ativity and the Arts (SiCa). those values, as opposed to my per-
“The documentary’s title is sonal identity? Because we have to
Should Be, Could Be, But Is,” Woo deal with a different question, we
said. “‘Should be’ as in what the need a separate community.”
Asian culture expects you to be, and In addition to comfort and ad-
then ‘could be’ as in what the Amer- vice, the organization provides a
ican LGBT culture thinks is possible sense of natural belonging for many
for everyone, but is.You know, we’re members.
neither. We can’t should be, and we “[Q&A] is a place where I don’t
can’t could be, so we’re just is.” have to feel Asian or queer,” said
When he moved to the United Lee, who didn’t originally didn’t de-
States, Lee immediately noticed the fine himself as “Asian,” having come
cultural differences that Woo was so from a mostly racially homogenous
interested in documenting. community.“It’s a place where I can
“The queer community here em- finally just feel like everybody else.”
phasizes coming out,” Lee said. “If This year, Q&A is expanding its
you’re a gay rights activist, you have focus from being solely a support
to come out to the whole society. group to promoting activism and
And you have to come out to your awareness of the issues faced by the
parents as well. But I think it’s the queer and Asian community. To do
opposite case in Korea.” this, they have organized campus-
Lee noted that while in the Unit- wide events and talked to queer and
ed States people typically come out Asian organizations at nearby uni-
to their parents first, in Korea, it isn’t versities. One issue that Lee espe-
uncommon for someone to be fully cially cares about is visibility.
integrated into the gay community
but still hide their sexual orientation Please see QUEER, page 5
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ook: cereal costs more Mary Liz McCurdy An Le Nguyen Jack Blanchat
Stephanie Weber
than beef, even though Chief Operating Officer Managing Editor of News Sports Editor
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cattle eat grain,” my dad
said. Claire Slattery Nate Adams Stephanie Sara Chong
Anastasia Yee
I was 7, more interested in en- Holly Vice President of Advertising Managing Editor of Sports
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joying our supermarket excursion
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than in deciphering his reference nancially intensive, so only large Jane LePham Staff Development
Zack Hoberg
to the imbalance in food prices farms have enough capital to pur-
Shelley Gao Managing Editor of Photography Business Staff
driven by government subsidies. chase (and efficiently use) heavy
As far as I could tell, cows ate grass equipment and costly inputs. Thus, Rich Jaroslovsky Begüm Erdogan
— and there wasn’t a scrap of grass many mom-and-pop farmers have Sales Manager
(or, in retrospect, anything natural been squeezed out of agriculture,
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ernment pays dairy farmers to Subsidies also serve the big
pour milk down the drain,” and I farmer more. Many farmers grow
revisited the topic of agricultural government-subsidized crops be-
subsidies. cause they are guaranteed a payout
While images of dairymen haul-
ing brimming buckets of milk from
even if their crop fails; thus, subsi-
dies actually boost supply, glutting C OLUMN I S I RONIC
cow to gutter seem ludicrous, they the market and shrinking profit

Can You Say “Palo Alto”

effectively cartoon the flaws of margins. But for a farmer with 100
U.S. farm policy. Since the Great times the acreage as his neighbor,
Depression, the U.S. has helped even a slim margin produces 100
farmers manage the risks of farm- times the profits, and he might just
ing so that America’s bread basket
would continue to flourish and the
country would not become de-
pendent on imported food. Today,
squeak by while his small-scale
neighbor goes belly-up.
The pattern’s results show in
today’s data: 10 percent of U.S.
in Danish?
W
farm policies have grown into a farmers receive 76 percent of sub- hile you guys are wrapping of the CoHo or the Palo Alto
complex subsidy network that sidy payments, while 62 percent up week two of the quar- Coupa — but infinitely more au-
costs more than $16 billion each don’t see a penny.Wheat, corn, soy- ter, my everlasting pre- thentic — in some European
year. bean, rice and cotton-growers col- Oxford spring break continues. building on a quiet pedestrian
Any politician will tell you these lect 90 percent of the subsidies, Needless to say, four straight weeks Shane street. That’s hygge. For example, I
while fruit-and-veggie farmers
policies are designed to keep the
small farmer in business. They in- labor unsupported.
in Scranton might get a little soul-
crushing, so I did what any sane
Savitsky found myself in this organic soup
shop situated in the basement of a
clude insurance to cover the value And, because much of our grain person would do: I took a trip to Copenhagen building the other
of a crop in case of natural disaster crop goes to feed livestock, most of Europe for the weekend. One of night. (Speaking of, we need an or-
and promises to buy up leftover the $5.5 billion we paid corn and my best friends from high school, immersion, but they really go for ganic soup restaurant in Palo Alto.
crops in the event of market fail- soybean growers in 2009 can get Sam, is currently studying abroad the lack of a drinking age and the Startup idea, anyone? I want cred-
ure. tacked onto the $1.3 billion dairy in Copenhagen. She’s always com- GPA boost. Do you really think it.) I was drinking an organic beer.
Yet, since the government farmers and livestock ranchers re- plaining how she once visited me at our students would want to end up There was some guy playing
began trying to level the agricultur- ceived directly. Stanford, but I never visit her at in some Middle Eastern country acoustic guitar in the next room. I
al playing field, the fraction of So it’s no surprise that a pound school. Problem is, she goes to with temperatures consistently in turned to Sam and her friend
Americans who farm has dropped of beef is so cheap: agricultural Macalester College in St. Paul, the range of “boiling” and a com- Lizzie and said,“Guys, I’m not sure
from one in four to one in 50, while subsidies are finding their way Minnesota — and while I love her plete lack of alcohol? I think not. if you realized this, but we’re hip-
the average farm size has more through the farming system and, dearly, I don’t love frostbite. Thus, Forget the Middle East, Bing. You sters.This proves it.”Any town that
than doubled. ultimately, to our waistlines. The seeing her in Denmark managed to want Copenhagen. Here’s the makes you an environmentally
The reasons for this are primari- average 18-year-old today weighs kill two birds with one stone: I got beautiful thing: the city is literally conscious hipster just by going out
ly technological — though they’re 15 lbs more than his or her parents to break up my extraordinarily long just like Palo Alto — only bigger, to dinner is definitely close to Palo
exacerbated by subsidies — and did at that age 30 years ago. Yet, at spring break and stop her constant colder and more European. Basi- Alto’s heart.
center around the Green Revolu- a time when most Americans guilt trips. I’ll call that a win-win. cally, it’s the dream place for the Plus, I don’t know if you’ve
tion, a miracle of crop breeding should be trying to slim down, our If my four days in Copenhagen next Bing program. Trust me on heard, but Copenhagen is damn
and innovation that allowed us to tax dollars are propping up an in- showed me anything, it’s that Stan- this one. expensive. The chili I had at that
double crop yields per unit area. dustry that’s keeping us fat. ford absolutely must make the city First off, take all of the yuppie soup place? Something like $17. A
The cornerstone of the Green Rev- After accounting for inflation, a the next addition to the Bing Over- and hipster elements so prevalent beer while out at a bar? Definitely
olution is its suite of hybrid crop comparison of food prices over seas Study Program.There’s been a to Palo Alto and port them to a city close to $10. Sound familiar? Oh
varieties, high-yielding plants that same 30-year time span shows lot of talk recently about adding a of 1.2 million people. That’s yeah! Palo Alto is the United
grown in vast monocultures. These that, while the cost of soda, steak program in the Middle East. Ap- Copenhagen. Danish culture has States’ most expensive college
single-variety plantings are nour- and sweets has fallen, fruit and veg- parently, that region of the world is this concept called “hygge.” (Don’t town. I know people who willingly
ished by massive inputs of fertilizer etable prices have risen an incredi- very pertinent to international pol- ask me how to pronounce it — be- pay like $15 for a salad at Sprout.
and water, protected by heavy ble 40 percent. All because, 70 itics right now. That’s all well and cause everything in Danish just Want to avoid the sticker shock of
doses of pesticides and most effi- years ago, we decided our farmers good, but Dubai or Riyadh is about sounds like prolonged mumbling.) living in Copenhagen? Just go
ciently reared and harvested when couldn’t lose their jobs. as far as you could get from The The word is usually translated to straight there from the Bay Area.
the labor of man is replaced by the Meanwhile, many of them still Farm. Stanford students might something like “coziness,” and you
labor of machine. claim that they go abroad for inter- can find hygge in most cafes and
But intensive farming is also fi- Please see MOELLER, page 5 national experience or language restaurants in Copenhagen. Think Please see SAVITSKY, page 5

O P-E DS C ORPORATE S PONSORSHIP

The Moral Implications of Special Fees I t was not long ago that tablets,
smart phones and tiny MP3 play-
ers existed more in the realm of
science fiction than in the backpacks
semiconductors) to ensure the chips
are defect-free and that chipmakers
like Intel can maximize the number
of usable chips they get from each

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tudent election season is here that the Special Fees process has We should base the morality of a of Stanford students.At the heart of wafer.
again,which means it is time for enormous, easily exploitable loop- Special Fees request on the princi- all these gadgets is the semiconduc- To keep up with Moore’s Law,
everyone on campus to be con- holes. It seems obviously immoral ple of universalizability. Universal- tor chip.The hunger for smarter and our tools must double their capabil-
fused about Special Fees. Special for students to game the Special izability, in its simplest interpreta- sleeker gadgets requires chips that ities every two years, so we face
Fees is an amorphous vat of money Fees process at the expense of other tion, states that an action is moral if are faster, smaller and more capable many daunting engineering chal-
outside of general fees to fund stu- students. But why? you would support everyone taking — all of which creates significant lenges. My colleagues at KLA-Ten-
dent groups that can’t be funded I believe it is possible to create a that same action under similar cir- engineering challenges for those in- cor, in a wide range of technical dis-
through normal bureaucratic chan- coherent moral justification for cumstances. In other words, if a stu- volved in the manufacture of semi- ciplines, grapple with Gordon
nels. Because of the opacity of stu- awarding Special Fees money.There dent group is requesting funding for conductors. Moore’s dictum every single day:
dent group finances, groups take ad- are right and wrong actions for stu- a specific item, it would only be In 1965 Intel’s Gordon Moore Mechanical Engineers:These en-
vantage of the system and stretch dent groups requesting Special Fees moral if it would be willing to sup- made a legendary observation that gineers work on mechanical stages
the boundaries of Special Fees legit- to take, independent of other stu- port every other group requesting the number of transistors on a chip that may require reliable positional
imacy for their own benefit. dent groups’ actions or the rules of funding for the same item given sim- doubles every 12 (later revised to accuracy of a few nanometers. Or
The Stanford Flipside, a weekly Special Fees. Just because the law ilar conditions. Or, from the per- 18-24) months. This observation, they may work on stages that only
satire publication, exposed this issue does not prohibit an action does not spective of a Special Fees voter, vot- which came to be known as require positional accuracy of 100
when it requested $7,000+ in Special make it morally justifiable, nor does ing to support one’s group’s Special “Moore’s Law,” has been the foun- nanometers, but must be able to
Fees to buy a Segway scooter. The the fact that other groups are acting Fees request is only morally justified dation and fundamental driver of move quickly and smoothly with no
Flipside’s satire attracted a fair immorally condone one’s immoral the semiconductor industry ever more than 5 nanometers of error.
amount of attention and made clear actions. Please see FEES, page 5 since. Amazingly, 45 years later, Because of Moore’s law, the stages
Moore’s Law is still essentially in- required in the next few years will
tact, and the transistor count on need to be even more accurate.
modern integrated circuits has risen Optical Engineers: These engi-

Campaign to Abstain Obscures Student from up to 500 in 1965 to over three

billion transistors today.
Not surprisingly, keeping up with
neers may work on lens assemblies
that require large, flat fields of view.
Such optics are used to image and

Opinion Moore’s Law has been no easy feat

for companies in the semiconductor
industry, especially those companies
that develop the tools necessary for
manufacture transistors as small as
22 nanometers, all the while using
light with wavelengths ten times as
large.This is like trying to stamp out

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hile I well understand the Stanford University; b) I oppose the here. But questions of descriptive the manufacture of the smaller and typewriter sized lettering with a
principled stance taken by reinstatement of ROTC at Stanford reality impel us to take into account faster chips needed to power new sledgehammer.
John Haskell in his Op-Ed University; c) I choose to abstain. considerations other than the pure- technologies. Electrical Engineers: Electrical
of April 6, practical considerations Recently, members of the Cam- ly moral. Whether we like it or not, As a software engineer with over Engineers design sensor boards ca-
compel me to state my reluctant op- paign to Abstain, Mr. Haskell Measure A is on the ballot. Let us 20 years in the semiconductor indus- pable of capturing images at 20
position to it. It does not seem to me among them, have urged opponents consider what the empirical ramifi- try, I have worked on and with a va- GB/sec (think of this as over 100 un-
that adhering firmly to established of ROTC’s return to choose option cations of that fact will be. riety of technologies to ensure that compressed 1080p HD image
moral principles will in this case (c), rather than option (b). The ra- First, it seems clear that very few the required equipment keep up streams). These boards send these
necessarily lead to the best practical tionale given for this argument is people who were previously deter- with Moore’s Law.Currently,I am at images at 20 GB/sec over fiber op-
outcome, as Mr. Haskell himself one of moral principle: that never, mined to support the return of KLA-Tencor, a leading semicon- tics to computers that process the
would probably define it, this cam- under any circumstances, should ROTC will change their minds as a ductor equipment company respon- images in real-time, looking for fea-
paign week. the natural or human rights of a mi- result of the Campaign and instead sible for manufacturing crucial in- tures that are too small to resolve.At
Today and tomorrow, the Stan- nority group — in this case, Stan- vote to abstain. It is thus eminently spection and metrology (precision these speeds and sensitivities, even
ford student body will vote upon, ford’s transgender community — likely that very nearly all the votes measurement) products and tools one hundred extra photons picked
among other things, Measure A. be subject to the caprice of popular the Campaign will garner in support for the chip-making industry. up or lost by the sensor matters, so
Voters choosing to record a prefer- plebiscite. of option (c) will therefore have Throughout the different stages of the challenge is to run extremely fast
ence on Measure A will be given The normative argument is a come at the expense of option (b). the chip manufacturing process our but without appreciable noise.
three options, as follows: a) I sup- bold one, and I will not venture so tools inspect and measure the pro-
port the reinstatement of ROTC at far as to pronounce upon its validity Please see CAMPAIGN, page 5 duction wafers (the base material of Please see KLA, page 5
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MOELLER FEES
More powerful, though, might Fees approval (including both print- fund the travel expenses in other
be a growing grass-roots move- ing costs and a Segway). ways should be allowed to ask for
ment: our grass-roots movement. I find this action immoral be- those costs in Special Fees; others
Continued from page 4 In a country where overproduc- Continued from page 4 cause it is impossible to universalize would argue that these are personal
tion and overconsumption have that expense. I cannot speak for the expenses and should not be.
become the norm, many of us are members of the Flipside, but it In these situations, the moral
are. And, while they know that responding to a growing sense of if the voter is willing to support seems hard to believe that these stu- onus more prominently falls on the
changes may be painful, they are discontent. every other group that has similar dents would be actively willing to student groups. Are these groups
joining the clamor for reform. The Given the fundamental reliance requests and faces similar con- fund Segways,parties or clothing for asking for money that they would
Farm Bill — which carries the au- of the Green Revolution on fossil straints. any other group.Most students,I be- consider universally supporting for
thority for many of our subsidy fuels, and the negative impacts of A maxim of universalizability is lieve, would be very hesitant to pay other groups in similar situations? If
programs — is up for renewal next industrialized farming on our envi- attractive because it allows for flexi- for some group’s personal expenses the answer is no, then according to
year and, in this time of fiscal crisis, ronment, the time is ripe for us to bility and differing moral judgments or fund anything that does not di- the idea of universalizability these
the Obama administration has look beyond the pail, beyond the between individuals. Students will rectly and irreplaceably contribute student groups should not be re-
proposed a $5 billion cut over 10 field and beyond the norm, to a apply universalizability in different to the goal of the student group. questing those Special Fees. So long
years and a restructuring to focus new paradigm for American agri- ways: some will be willing to deem The problem with Special Fees, as we agree to act morally to our fel-
subsidy distribution on lower-in- culture. more requests as universalizable though, is that as average students low students and community mem-
come farmers. But this is a drop in and therefore acceptable; others will we cannot tell what funds are irre- bers, loopholes won’t matter and we
the bucket and — like the 1996 draw a more stringent line. placeable and what funds are not. It can begin to restore the validity of
Farm Bill, which attempted to re- Did you know this column’s title was Unless a person believes in com- is impossible to fully understand a the Special Fees system.
form and even phase out many a pun? Neither did I — thanks Tall- plete moral relativism, however, group’s finances and budget re-
subsidies, but was supplanted a few Tom and friends! Send feedback and universalizability will lead to certain quests unless you are deeply en-
years later — unlikely to really witty title suggestions to Holly at hol- requests being roundly agreed upon meshed in that group. Groups often JOSH FREEDMAN ‘11
take hold. lyvm@stanford.edu as immoral.Let us take again the ex- request items like airfare for tour- EDITOR’S NOTE: JOSH FREEDMAN
ample of the Flipside: now that the naments, which, depending on IS THE FORMER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
members of the Flipside have point- whom you ask, could be universaliz- OF THE UNOFFICIAL STANFORD
ed out the flaws in the system, they able: some say that groups that BLOG.AN EXTENDED VERSION OF

CAMPAIGN
that the only effect of swaying some have continued their request and spend all year preparing for a big THIS ARTICLE CAN BE FOUND
voters from “Oppose” to “Abstain” are actively campaigning for Special tournament and could not easily THERE AT TUSB.STANFORD.EDU.
will be to split the opposition,giving
Continued from page 4 “Support” the clear plurality victo-

KLA
ry — and I think we can all agree problems on the wafers. Because the manufacture of the chips that
that the latter two of these three of 45 years of Moore’s Law, the fea- are the building blocks of their
Two problems follow from this scenarios appear rather a less force- tures and defects on the wafers are HDTVs, laptops, and increasingly,
assumption. First, students voting ful statement of Stanford’s opposi- Continued from page 4 so small they can no longer be re- even cars.
to “Abstain” rather than to “Op- tion to ROTC’s return than the for- solved by the inspectors. This is a The last 40 years have been quite
pose” can only harm, and cannot mer. problem similar to searching for a ride. And the next 40 years look to
help, their side’s chances of carry- Second, there will be no differ- Software Engineers: Software unresolvable extra-solar planets . . be quite a ride, too.
ing the day. And second, it will be entiation on the ballot between “I Engineers in my field work on pro- . but much faster. Here, state-of-
impossible to discern between vot- choose to abstain for reasons of grams with millions of lines of code the-art image processing tech- Watch a series of lectures by
ers who abstain for reasons of apa- principle” and “I choose to abstain and that run on clusters of ma- niques are employed, and the KLA-Tencor CEO Rick Wallace at
thy or indifference and voters who because I have no opinion or I do chines. The cluster might be a image processing still requires a the Stanford Business school:
abstain for reasons of principle. not care one way or the other or I unique mix of Windows, Linux, cluster of computers to ship with http://ecorner.stanford.edu
To address the first problem, let simply do not know.” All of these Apple and embedded systems. And each tool. Tools ship today that in-
us assign hypothetical values to this diverse options are covered by the the tools are programmed using lan- clude clusters that in 2007 would Mark Roulo is a Software Archi-
very real situation. I do not think it capacious and frankly rather vague guages from Java and C#, to C and have made the Top 500 supercom- tect at KLA-Tencor, a leading semi-
inapposite to assume for purposes option (c), “I choose to abstain.” assembly, to Python. puter list. conductor
of argument that half of Stanford Given that the primary reason for Algorithm Specialists: Algo- And all this out of companies test equipment company. For more
students support ROTC’s return Measure A’s existence is to inform rithm Specialists design and imple- whose names most people have information about KLA-Tencor, go
and half oppose it. In a world sans the Faculty Senate of Stanford’s ment new algorithms to detect never heard of, yet are central to to www.kla-tencor.com.
option (c), then, the vote would opinion on the potential return of
look like this: ROTC, I think we can also all agree

QUEER
a. 50 percent Support that a mass of undifferentiated and The ongoing discussion about gay for “this Asian American visibility
b. 50 percent Oppose unclear “Abstain” votes will do lit- marriage, Lee said, would seem issue” and the “lack of ethnic diver-
tle to accomplish that objective. wildly radical in Korea.Woo has ob- sity within the mainstream gay com-
Depending on how successful the For the reasons stated above, I Continued from page 3 served similar differences. munity.”
Campaign has been, however, we think that the Stanford community “It’s not important for some peo- He also hopes that he can use
could instead expect numbers any- would do better to state its support ple to hold up a rainbow flag and say, what he has learned from his own
where from of or opposition to ROTC’s return “In general, I think Asians kind ‘I’m gay, deal with it,’” she said, de- exploration to help others.
a. 50 percent Support unequivocally and in clear terms. of lack visibility in the media . . . in scribing how some of her Korean “I went through an identity crisis,
b. 40 percent Oppose Doing so will be better for ROTC’s America,” he said.“In movies about friends claim that they will wait being like,‘Am I Asian? Should I be
c. 10 percent Abstain opponents, who will have a better gay people, it’s always white people. “until their parents are dead” before more Asian, or should I be more
to chance of carrying the vote, and for So I always thought that being gay they come out completely and some queer? Can I not be both?’” Lee re-
a. 50 percent Support both the Faculty Senate and our meant you could only be white.” never intend to come out at all. called. “I’m trying to become this
b. 10 percent Oppose ROTC cadets, who will gain a more The queer and Asian community Reflecting on Woo’s footage thus role model for queer Asian Ameri-
c. 40 percent Abstain lucid understanding of student is similarly underground in Korea, far, Lee said he can trace the trans- cans, because there are so few.”
opinion. where many people end up getting formation he has experienced over
and anything in between. Given married to the opposite gender sim- the past two years. The film shows Contact Helen Anderson at helena1
these numbers, it becomes clear MILES UNTERREINER ‘12 ply to hide the fact that they’re gay. the emergence of his new passion @stanford.edu.

SAVITSKY
ing, partying! Yeah!” As it stands,
partying is the most useful thing
about a study abroad experience
Continued from page 4 anyway — just ask your friends
who came back from Madrid or
Berlin. And if most Bing programs
Problem solved. are just recreations of the Stanford
Honestly, I don’t think Stanford bubble in a foreign country, then
can miss out on this opportunity. why not have your European Stan-
Scandinavia remains untapped ford bubble in a place that reminds
within our vast study abroad re- you of Palo Alto?
sources. Everyone in Copenhagen Oh, and Danish girls are really,
speaks immaculate English, so really hot. That’s pretty important,
there’s no need for a language re- too.
quirement either. Less time spent
learning a useless language (would Still angry about Shane’s Rebecca
you ever use Danish, anyway?) Black non sequitur in a column
means more time going out. As about Copenhagen? Direct all your
Rebecca Black would say, “Party- rage to savitsky@stanford.edu.
6 ! Thursday, April 7, 2011 The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
ONE LAST Jacob
Jaffe

PUSH
Fields of Failure

Let’s say
Card faces MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
we end
final road trip 4/2 vs. PEPPERDINE W 3-1
today....
T
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
UP NEXT he Major League Base-
ball season is just finishing
DESK EDITOR
UC-SANTA its first week. Teams have
With just three games remaining
before the regular season ends and
BARBARA hardly completed one run
through their starting ro-
the Mountain Pacific Sports Federa- (13-11, 10-8 MPSF) tations, and already tornadoes of
tion Tournament begins,the Stanford 4/8 Santa Barbara, Calif. questions are circling teams. In this
men’s volleyball team is gearing up day and age — where every pompous
7 P.M. sports fan, arrogant writer and bored
for a dogfight.Although the team has
already clinched a spot in the post- GAME NOTES: Although Stanford has al- college student can post their
season — which in men’s volleyball ready clinched a playoff spot in the MPSF thoughts for the world to see — it’s
spans the annual conference tourna- tournament, the Cardinal is trying to im- never too early to jump to crazy con-
ment and four-team NCAA Tourna- prove its seeding this weekend with a two- clusions.
ment that follows — the No.2 seed in game swing against UC-Santa Barbara Of course,the natural reaction is to
the playoffs is still up for grabs as the and UCLA. If the Cardinal continues to dismiss these questions and point out
No. 3 Cardinal trails No. 2 BYU by play well, it can snag the No. 2 seed in the that every team is still in the first 5
half a game. MPSF tournament. percent of its schedule, meaning that
National No. 1 USC has already anything can happen and that the
wrapped up the MPSF regular sea- first week will be rendered virtually
son title by going 17-1 in conference and No. 8 UC-Irvine in the past moot.But where’s the fun in that? In-
play and 18-1 overall, and has to be week. But they have been able to stead, let’s buy into every last bit of
the current favorite to win both the protect their home court, having hype, throw in the towel when things
MPSF and NCAA titles. Stanford won seven of 11 games in Westwood look rough and jump to every conclu-
(17-7, 13-6 MPSF) is still trying to this season. sion we can after the first week of the
avoid being placed in USC’s half of Santa Barbara also enjoys playing season.
the MPSF draw, which it could do by with the comforts of home, where Playoff teams: If the season ended
finishing either second or third in the they are 7-5 this year. The Gauchos today (thankfully it does not),the Ori-
standings. swept San Diego — the team that oles, Royals and Blue Jays would all
Thankfully for Stanford, the Car- shocked Stanford in Maples Pavilion be rolling into the ALDS.That’s pret-
dinal swept the season series against in March — on the road last week- ty much what most people expected,
BYU,so it does in fact control its own end before falling at the hands of considering the Orioles have not won
destiny in the race for the No. 2 seed. UC-Irvine in Irvine. the AL East since 1997 and the Roy-
To achieve that goal, Stanford Junior All-American outside als have not won their division since
must take care of business this week- hitter Brad Lawson currently leads they were in the AL West way back in
end on the road against No. 6 UC- the team with 383 kills, and his .332 1985.The Blue Jays would be back in
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily the playoffs for the first time since
Santa Barbara (13-11, 10-8) and No. hitting percentage is second on the
7 UCLA (15-11, 8-10). The Bruins team among players with at least Freshman Brian Cook (above) and the Cardinal face just three more winning back-to-back World Series in
have struggled of late, dropping games before postseason play starts. If the Card can continue to play
matches to No. 11 UC-San Diego Please see VOLLEYBALL, page 8 well, it can grab the No. 2 seed in the MPSF tournament. Please see JAFFE, page 8

MAKING A NAME FOR “

EXHILARATING, AUDACIOUS
AND BOLDLY ORIGINAL!
SQUASH A non-stop thrill! Fast paced and full of wonders!”
– ELLE

BY CHRISSY JONES
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

we are near many

of our homes, so
we often get to
enjoy home cooking
and team bonding. All
our families are so on board and
very incorporated with the team.”
Another feature unique to Stan-

H
ow do you get noticed ford squash is the nature of the
as a sports program, team itself. Originally founded by
and a women’s one at enthusiastic undergraduate stu-
that, when you’re com- dents, the team still largely relies on
SAOIRSE ERIC

RONAN BANA
peting in the sea of the student-athletes for passion
top-tier programs that make up and commitment. The team is
Cardinal athletics? Try quickly ris- nonetheless managed and led by
ing to No. 6 in the nation and being Talbott, who himself was the No. 1
the only team of its kind in the state male squash player in the United
of California. That’s the reality for States from 1983-1995 and coached
the Stanford women’s squash team, the Yale women’s team to a nation-
and under head coach Mark Tal- al championship in 2004 before
bott, it has achieved this feat in just moving on to a new challenge in
six seasons. Palo Alto.
In 2005, the Stanford Athletic “I really wanted to help expand
Department announced that the squash to the West Coast,” Talbott
women’s club team would become said.“But one of the main reasons I
the first women’s varsity squash chose to move to California was be-
team west of the Mississippi River. cause my daughter has diabetes
and this was a better environment
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In 2011, the Cardinal finished No. 6

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in the nation after a tough season for my family. This is now my sev-
competing against the dominant enth year here and I love coaching
both the women’s team and the
ORIGINAL SCORE BY S
squash schools from the East
Coast. men’s team.”
ER
THE CHEMICAL BROTH
Co-captained by seniors Cecilia When Talbott first arrived, Stan-
Haig and Samantha Buechner, ford was ranked almost dead last in
Stanford finished the regular sea- the country. However, under his au-
son 9-5 and reached the final of the thority, the Cardinal has steadily
consolations in the Howe Cup, the moved up the rankings.
national championship, before los- “We are the only team that’s
ing to No. 4 Penn and finishing the played every single collegiate
season 10-7. The Cardinal traveled squash team,” Talbott laughed.
four separate weekends to the East “Because we started so far down in
Coast and hosted Bates College the rankings, we’ve moved up divi-
sions over the past years and now
CATE
and George Washington University
are part of the top tier. It’s a unique

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Haig recognized the hardships program with a huge amount of stu-
of trekking across the country but dent involvement.” To buy the ex
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Junior guard Jeremy Green (above), the Cardinal’s leading scorer this past
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SQUASH
everything faster. I was upset that I Head coach Johnny Dawkins does not anticipate the suspension to interfere
hadn’t played well, but my team-
mates encouraged me and told me with the 2011-2012 season.
Continued from page 6 that everyone gets nervous for her Junior guard Green suspended day, April 24.
first match.” The Cardinal leaned on Green
Talbott expressed satisfaction in
from school to be a major scoring threat this past
the team and his relaxed attitude is the team’s growing confidence lev- season, so his return is crucial to
Stanford junior guard Jeremy Stanford’s offensive game.
refreshing. Richard, our assistant els. Green, a first-team all-Pac-10 selec-
coach, is more structured and often “I think the girls are really start- Green’s 16.7 points-per-game
tion, was suspended from school on average was fifth-best in the Pac-10
focuses on drilling, whereas Mark ing to trust that they can compete Wednesday for academic reasons.
concentrates more on match play with the top five teams,” Talbott this past season. He was especially
Green, the Cardinal’s leading deadly from deep, as he made 88
— it’s the perfect combo.” said. “Trinity, for example, and scorer last season, was an integral
One memorable match for even the close match against Penn three-pointers; the second most in
part of a team with no seniors this the conference, and his 43 percent
freshman Serena Fagan was in the Howe Cup consolation past year, but the academic suspen-
against No. 3 Trinity College, a final.” accuracy from beyond the arc was
sion is not expected to affect fourth-best in the Pac-10.
powerhouse program in the squash Based on the past, the Cardinal Green’s status as a member of the
world, in which the Cardinal fell 5- should believe in itself — jumping This is the second suspension for
team for next year. SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
4. from an ambiguous 30-something Green in his time at Stanford. In
Head Coach Johnny Dawkins October 2009, Green was arrested After being swept by the Arizona
“I played first round and played to a No. 6 in the rankings in less expects Green to be back for next
so terribly,” Fagan said.“Collegiate than six years speaks for itself. on suspicion of domestic violence at Wildcats last weekend, the Stanford
season, but it is conceivable that the a campus dormitory and subse- softball team looks to get back to its
squash is a different pace of play- junior from Austin, Texas could de-
ing. People volley a lot more and Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj quently suspended for the Cardi- winning ways against UCLA, last
clare for the NBA Draft. The dead- nal’s season-opening game.
cut the ball off early so it makes @stanford.edu. line to declare for the draft is Sun- season’s national champion.
— Jack Blanchat

ABSTAIN
said that voting to abstain limits The results of the measure will
passing an opinion on civil rights be nonbinding; the ad hoc commit-
issue. tee investigating the ROTC issue
Continued from front page “Even people who may be pro- has indicated that the poll would
ROTC recognize that it will be the be weighed similar to the open let-
majority opinion coming through ters that were solicited in the fall.
fle student debate and serves to on this ballot box, and the minority “We want to find alternative
further the anti-ROTC cause. opinion is going to be neglected, ways to oppose discrimination on
“A student who doesn’t identify there are a lot of people who are our campus, rather than relying on
with a minority group should still the sympathetic to nondiscrimina- a ballot box to foster justice,”
have a voice in what happens with- tion,” he said. Haskell wrote in an email that has
in their community,” said Sebast- “Voting ‘no’ is still passing an circulated to many chat lists. “We
ian Gould ‘12, a veteran. “Tyranny opinion on civil rights,” added are striving to uphold our collec-
by the minority is no worse than a Leana Keyes ‘14. tive investment, as Stanford stu-
tyranny by the majority. Gould remains skeptical. He dents, in equal opportunity, as well
“I do believe it is an anti-ROTC said that these conversations will as the values espoused by our non-
movement simply because they continue to take place with or discrimination clause. We are cre-
don’t take into consideration the without a poll of the student body. ating precedent and making a
lives of the ROTC cadets and the “Voting on whether or not you statement for justice with this
veterans on campus when they talk believe we should have ROTC — vote.”
about these issues,” he added. because it would function as a “If you’re going to vote, then
Although Stanford Students for community center — is not differ- vote,” Gould said.
Queer Liberation (SSQL) presi- ent than voting on a group for spe-
dent Alok Vaid-Menon ‘13 repre- cial fees, because your vote ensures Contact Kate Abbott at kmabbott
sents an anti-ROTC viewpoint, he those groups’ existence,” he said. @stanford.edu.

MCAT
of depth at minority-serving and cial science classes are not stan-
other institutions.” dardized in the same way chem-
In 2010, white students who istry or biology classes are.
Continued from front page took the MCAT received a mean “I think social science is too
score of 26, while Latino students broad a subject to test,” Bautista
received a mean score of 21.3 and said.“What classes would students
sensitivity and understanding of black students a mean score of take? There’s no such thing as an
different cultures.” 19.7. Introduction to the Social Sci-
Dr. Lawrence Shuer, associate The impact that the proposed ences class.”
dean of graduate medical educa- MCAT overhaul would have on
tion at the School of Medicine, premedical education throughout Cassandra Feliciano contributed
said the proposed changes might the U.S. remains unclear, although to this report.
encourage a rethinking of the Shuer speculates the changes
qualities necessary to be a good would encourage students to take Contact Samantha McGirr at smc-
physician. more humanities courses. girr@stanford.edu.
“We don’t just want technicians “I would surmise that in some
or people who are just so into the way they’re suggesting to prospec-

POLLS
sciences that they’re not round tive medical school applicants that
enough to know about the human- they not just concentrate in the
ities,” Shuer said. “Much of being a sciences,” he said.
physician is being in human con- Hillary Lin ‘11, co-president of Continued from front page
tact.” the Stanford Premedical Associa-
Karen Mitchell, senior director tion, said the proposed changes
of the MCAT program, noted that would increase the relevancy of Fifty-one Special Fees groups will
the recommendations reflect the test material but questions the fea- go on the ballot as well, requiring
committee’s efforts to ensure fair sibility of testing knowledge in the majority approval to gain funding
testing of groups traditionally un- social sciences. for next academic year.
derrepresented in medicine. “Medical schools don’t look at The final item on the ballot will
“Questions of fairness have writing samples at all, so it’s a good be Measure A, an advisory referen-
been at the forefront of the MR5 idea to change it into a more appli- dum on the return of ROTC to
committee’s conversations about cable section,” she said. “At the Stanford’s campus.
the new exam,” Mitchell wrote in same time, how do you make ques- Polls will close at 11:59 p.m. on
an email to The Daily. tions that are relevant and testable Friday night. Results for all races
According to Mitchell, one of in the social sciences? I’m not sure will be announced at 5 p.m. on Sat-
the goals of the committee was to how they would do it.” urday at the CoHo.
ensure that the new exam tested Fellow pre-med student Jem
material “taught at the same levels Bautista ‘11 agreed, noting that so- — Kabir Sawhney
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MEN’S TENNIS
Stanford bests USD
in convincing fashion
By ALEX ECKERT of the pressure off everybody.”
CONTRIBUTING WRITER Wednesday’s match was the third
against a top-10 squad in a span of
The Stanford men’s tennis team five days for San Diego, and none of
recorded a commanding 5-2 win the three were pretty. The Toreros
Wednesday afternoon against the faced No.6 Pepperdine last Saturday
University of San Diego. and then No. 10 California on Tues-
The No. 9 Cardinal (12-5, 2-1 Pac- day, and both matches turned out to
10) jumped on the No. 29 Toreros be 6-1 blowouts.
(15-5, 1-1 West Coast Conference) The Toreros have shown they can
early and often and the match was beat quality opponents, but are 0-5
decided almost as soon as it began. this season against top-10 foes.To be
Stanford claimed the doubles fair, they have won all fifteen of their
point easily, winning all three dou- other matches, but the dejection was
bles matches. The fourth-ranked clear when they fell behind early in
doubles squad of Bradley Klahn and yesterday’s match.
Ryan Thacher continued their im- After a tough March, the Cardi-
pressive streak, winning 8-3. nal is playing some of its best tennis
The Cardinal then speedily of late. The young squad has won its
clinched the match, winning at the last four matches — all against
one, five and six spots in two sets ranked opponents — and looks
apiece. poised to make a run into the post-
The Toreros were able to get two season. With only six regular season
points after the match had been de- matches remaining, Stanford hopes
cided, but the Cardinal finished with to maintain the momentum it has
another impressive win over a quali- built in the last week and a half
ty opponent. through to the end of the season.
One player who has stepped up in There’s a lot of pressure for top
recent matches is sophomore Matt teams like Stanford to win, but
Kandath, who won 7-6, 6-3 yester- Hirschman noted that the team is
day. Kandath’s improvement is em- often more focused on having fun.
blematic of how both the top and “We kept being right there with
bottom of the Cardinal lineup has the best teams, but kept coming up
demonstrated they can carry the short and there’s not too much fun in
squad in recent matches. losing,” Hirschman said.“The way to
Senior Greg Hirschman talked have more fun is to get the wins, and
about the importance of every posi- the UCLA win was huge for us.”
tion in the lineup.
“It’s always helpful, as a team,
Stanford hopes to continue hav-
ing fun this weekend against a tough In a few years,
when you can rely on different peo- Washington squad, and it will head
ple stepping up,” Hirschman said.
“Not everyone is going to have their
to the Pacific Northwest to take on
the Huskies in Seattle on Friday at
someone special in your family
best day constantly, but a tennis
match is a four out of seven series.
1:30 p.m.
will look at a photo of you
It’s nice when we can diversify where Contact Alex Eckert at aeckert@stan-
we win because that takes a little bit ford.edu. and think about the great things
you have done in your life and career.
JAFFE
four home runs already, putting them
on pace to shatter Barry Bonds’ pa-
thetic record of only 73 long balls.
Continued from page 6 Light-hitting Willie Bloomquist
(give yourself a pat on the back if you Summer Session at Stanford awaits you.
knew he currently plays for the Dia-
1992 and 1993. mondbacks) has five stolen bases in
Non-playoff teams: As most peo- five games despite the fact that he has
ple expected, the Red Sox, Rays and only stolen more than 16 bases in a
Athletics have combined for fewer season once in his nine-year career.
wins (one) than Kevin Correia (two), Jonny Gomes has only two hits in 10
while the Twins and Giants are cur- at-bats, but he has already drawn a 2011 Undergraduate & Graduate Summer Programs
rently last in their respective divisions. MLB-high seven walks. But perhaps June 18–August 14
The Brewers and Cardinals, the fa- most impressive of all is Jarrod Dyson
vorites in the NL Central, have com- (give yourself a slap in the face if you Axess opens April 10
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(four) as the Pirates, who aren’t even even knew who Jarrod Dyson was),
winning the division. who has managed to steal three bases
One player is a whole team: Howie this year without a single plate ap-
Kendrick has scored as many runs pearance.
(seven) as the Rays, while John Lack- What does all this mean? The obvi-

VOLLEYBALL
ey gave up as many runs with one pitch ous answer is nothing, because there But while the veterans’ contribu- fall back into a tie with No. 8 Hawaii,
(four) as the Orioles’ staff gave up are still almost six more months of the tions have met lofty preseason expec- which currently sits in fourth place,
through four games. Fausto Carmona regular season. But it does mean that tations, the efforts of freshmen Brian assuming BYU does not lose both of
gave up as many runs (10) in his Open- baseball season is here upon us,which Cook, Eric Mochalski, Stevin Irvin its games against Pepperdine, and
Continued from page 6
ing Day start as the Braves did through means the floodgates of useless and Denny Falls have really been Hawaii somehow manages to knock
five games (two of which they lost). knowledge and even more useless sta- what’s put Stanford in position for off USC twice on the road. If that
Two different part-time catchers,Ryan tistics have just been opened. 50 attempts. Lawson and fellow another deep run in the postseason. were to happen, it would put a lot of
Hanigan and J.P. Arencibia, had as Will the Rays go 0-162? Will Joe outside hitter senior Spencer Outside hitter Cook is third on pressure on the Cardinal in its final
many homers in one game (two) as the Mauer finish the season with the sec- McLachlin have accounted for the team with 158 kills and middle match of the regular season on Sat-
Cardinals have had in six games.And ond-worst batting average among over half of the team’s 1,267 kills blocker Mochalski is hitting .432 urday April 16 at the University of
they’ve got a guy on their team named catchers? Will Albert Pujols finish on the season. with 142 kills, and both have started the Pacific in Stockton.
Albert Pujols.Oh,and one more thing with a worse OPS than both Peter And the questions surrounding almost every game this season. In The MPSF tournament begins
about the Rays:Alex Gordon and Car- Bourjos and Mark Trumbo? Will the new junior setter Evan Barry have addition, both outside hitter Irvin the weekend after that, with the top-
los Quentin have combined to outhit Orioles run away with the AL East? long since been answered — Barry and middle blocker Falls have come four seeds securing home-court ad-
the entire Tampa Bay lineup 22-21 Probably not. But with over 2,000 has racked up 1,075 assists and led a on strong of late with some critical vantage for the first round, with the
through five games. MLB games left this season, who strong Stanford offensive attack all stretches of inspired play. second round played at the site of
Absurd numbers: Forget going for knows what will happen? season long in filling the big shoes of If the Cardinal is to make it back the higher-seeded school. The
Ted Williams’ .406 mark; Quentin is graduated senior setter Kawika to the NCAA tournament, it will NCAA Tournament begins on
sitting on a .500 batting average Jacob Jaffe does know that teams who Shoji. Kawika, the older brother of likely have to at least make it to the Thursday, May 5, in State College,
thanks to 11 hits in his first five games start the season 0-4 only have a 24 per- junior libero Erik, was the AVCA MPSF Tournament final, because Penn.
along with 10 RBI, putting him on cent chance of making the playoffs, National Player of the Year as he led there is only one at-large bid.
pace for 324 runs knocked in. Mark though. Remind him of this fact at jw- Stanford to the NCAA title last Should Stanford slip up and lose Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-
Teixeira and Nelson Cruz each have jaffe@stanford.edu. May. both games this weekend, it would bs@stanford.edu.