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CCNY partnership will absolutely continue

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By CATHERINE ZAW

In spite of Stanfords decision to withdraw its application from the competition to build an applied science campus in New York City, the Universitys partnership with the City College of New York (CCNY) will absolutely continue, according to a recent University press release, which also stated the two schools would be moving forward with a joint development of an undergraduate curriculum in entrepreneurship. Stanford submitted a bid to build a $2.5 billion graduate school of applied science and engineering on Roosevelt Island at the end of last October, responding to the New York City Economic Development Corporations (NYCEDC) request for proposals. Two weeks before Stanford unveiled its final proposal, the University an-

nounced that it had partnered with CCNY, which would have temporarily hosted Stanfords academic program by providing space for faculty and classes until the proposed Roosevelt Island campus was completed. Instead, Stanford withdrew from the contest in mid-December. Three days later, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that NYCEDC had selected a joint proposal prepared by Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology as the winner. CCNY was not involved in Stanfords decision to withdraw its application, according to CCNY officials. CCNY President Lisa Coico joined Stanford President John Hennessy and other Stanford administrators in the first-round interview with NYCEDC, but CCNY was not involved in the subsequent negotiation process with the city, which was handled by a smaller Stanford

team. Stanford also prepared its final proposal independently from CCNY. CCNY officials said they are disappointed that the partnership as initially envisioned through the Roosevelt Island bid could not go forward, but also said that they are prepared to play a significant role in enabling Stanford to create a robust presence in New York City through other means, stating that CCNY would be willing to provide on-campus space and other amenities necessary for Stanford to accomplish that goal. Mary Edmondson, the vice president for communications at CCNY, said that the continued partnership [with Stanford] will provide transformational opportunities for our students and our faculty scholars. Reciprocally, we will be able to provide research opportunities for Stanford students and faculty in New York City. Stanford and CCNY have built a strong part-

nership that isnt directly related to the proposal for the Roosevelt Island campus, according to officials at both universities, who said a by-product of this collaboration is the continued development of a joint curriculum. Like all university curricula, the curriculum of this program would be developed by faculty and then reviewed by the appropriate faculty senate and senior institutional leaders at each of the respective institutions. We are still having conversations about how that might be possible without a Stanford faculty presence in New York City, said Lisa Lapin, assistant vice president for university communications at Stanford, in an email to The Daily. Under the Roosevelt Island bid, the best undergraduate engineering students at CCNY would have been able to apply during their junior

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WORLD & NATION

High-speed rail meets roadblocks

Peer group advises state legislature to not approve the release of funds
By JAMIE KIM Concerns about the feasibility of funding Californias high-speed rail (HSR) project led a peer review group to conclude last Tuesday that the state legislature should not approve the release of billions of dollars of state bond money to fund the first phase of construction. The California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group, consisting of renowned transportation and financial experts, was commissioned by Proposition 1A to advise lawmakers on the rail plan, which would connect Northern and Southern California by a 520-mile-long high-speed bullet train that would travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles in two hours and 40 minutes. Since first being approved by voters in 2008, the rail plan has come under increasing fire for inaccurate estimates of cost and potential ridership. Last November, Californias High-Speed Rail Authority released a new business plan, which estimated that the train would cost around $98 billion, almost triple the $33 billion estimate that voters were given when the plan was first approved. A study published in October 2010 by Stanford management professor Alain Enthoven, former World Bank analyst William Grindley and Silicon Valley financial consultant William Warren concluded that based on the history of high speed rail projects around the world, there is little if any chance the system will pay for itself. The study further reported that the train would be lucky to draw 10 million riders, a mere fraction of the 90 million figure that was initial-

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Stanford sold out its allotment of 17,500 tickets for this years Fiesta Bowl, a feat that the University was unable to accomplish last year with the Orange Bowl. Many have attributed this rise in attendance to fans desire to see Andrew Luck play his final college game.

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Fiesta Bowl sells out ticket allotment

Ticket sales grow from last year, but Fiesta not more profitable
By JULIA ENTHOVEN
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NEWS BRIEFS

Research links protein complex with pancreatic cancer

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF A recent study by researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine indicates that a protein complex called SWI/SNF could play a previously unsuspected role in slowing the growth of pancreatic cancer cells. The study, which was published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used samples of 70 different pancreatic cancers, which were provided by the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In onethird of these 70 cases, at least one subunit of the multiunit SWI/SNF protein complex was deleted, mutated or rearranged. Forty-eight of the cancer cases used in the study were primary samples from human patients, then implanted into immune-deficient mice. The other 22 cases were grown in the laboratory. Using a technique called array-comparative genomic hybridization, which involves using a single-stranded DNA to seek and bind to its mirror image, researchers were able to pinpoint all the disparities in the genome between normal and cancerous pancreatic epithelial cells. Researchers discovered that genes for individual subunits of SWI/SNF were altered 5 to 10 percent of the time.

Ticket sales for this years Fiesta Bowl far exceeded those from last years Orange Bowl, echoing the desire of Stanford fans to see Andrew Luck play his last college game, as he led the No. 4 Cardinal against No. 3 Oklahoma State. We got the same allotment of tickets 17,500 from each bowl, said Brian Talbott, senior associate director and CFO for Stanford Athletics. We sold out in less than a week for the Fiesta Bowl, and last year, for the Orange Bowl, we actually did not sell out. Ever. Since Stanford sells bowl tickets for the same price that it purchases them, any amount of unsold tickets represents a net cost for the athletic department. There is some reimbursement that the con-

ference offers us for unsold tickets, Talbott said. So we are able to recover some of the money that way. This year, obviously, we didnt need to do that since we sold all of the tickets . . . but we dont make a profit on [ticket sales for bowl games]. Talbott said he wasnt sure why there was such a difference between the amount of tickets sold for these two bowls. I would think mostly its proximity, he said. The Orange Bowl is a lot farther away, and we have a smaller concentration of alum supporters out there. [For] the Fiesta Bowl, some people could even drive. The Cardinal fell in the Jan. 2 Fiesta Bowl to Oklahoma State, 41-38 in overtime. Last year, the Cardinal beat Virginia Tech 40-12 in the Orange Bowl in Miami, which is more than 2,000 miles farther from Stanford than Phoenix. Talbott also inferred that the assumption that it is Andrew Lucks last year caused some people to want to see that game, leading to increased ticket sales in two consecutive years. Our season ticket sales went up . . . more

than 50 percent this year as compared to last year, Talbott said. Not only were the bowl sales up, but ticket sales in general for our season were up. The Fiesta Bowls success, however, was not due to a dramatic increase in student ticket purchases. Talbott said that a little fewer than 1,500 students bought tickets out of the 17,500 provided, adding that the bowl tickets went mostly [to] general supporters: season ticket holders, other interested parties . . . [and] general fans. Overall, Talbott said, It ended up being about as expensive to go to the Fiesta Bowl as to go to the Orange Bowl. It was a roughly similar experience for us financially. Although he said that it was too early to tell, Talbott is optimistic about next years season even with a new quarterback. We have some [new season ticket] interest in deposits for next year, which is obviously positive, he said. Contact Julia Enthoven at jjejje@stanford.edu.

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SMC continues to diversify its portfolio

By MARSHALL WATKINS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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The Stanford Management Company (SMC) has continued to re-align its portfolio in response to losses sustained during the recent recession, according to SMC president and chief executive John Powers. The SMC has attained an annualized return of 9.3 percent over the past 10 years, with its merged pool including most of the Universitys endowment, as well as capital reserves from Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital growing to $19.5 billion as of June 30, 2011. However, the height of the recession saw the SMC sustain heavy losses, with the merged pool shrinking by 25.9 percent in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009. As of the 2011 fiscal year, Stanfords endowment has not yet returned to pre-recession levels.

What was really singular about that fiscal period was that, with the exception of treasuries, there really was no safe haven, Powers said. All asset classes got pummeled. Since then, the SMC has sought to lessen its exposure in private equity and real estate, two asset classes that were principal contributors to losses sustained, in the aftermath of the recession. The SMCs real estate investments had reached a plateau in the years before the economic crisis. Powers stated that the SMC was looking to gradually reduce the pace of new commitments to both assets until their share of the portfolio was re-aligned appropriately, but he emphasized the incremental nature of the adjustment and the potential for future investments. Endowment managers at peer universities have also sought to limit their exposure to

risk. Last November, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Harvard Management Company, which manages the $32 billion endowment of Harvard University, was seeking to sell $1.5 billion of its holdings in private equity funds. If the question is whether weve lost our enthusiasm for private equity or real estate, in the case of private equity, no, Powers said. In the case of real estate, were changing the risk profile of our real estate portfolio, which probably will never be as large [as the stake held before the recession], and then from time to time well opportunistically increase exposure when the time seems right. Losses sustained in the recession have affected the SMCs portfolio composition and investment philosophies in the years since. Powers noted a renewed emphasis on invest-

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or senior year to co-term and earn a Stanford masters degree, according to Lapin in a follow-up email. She said those students would have attended classes at the new applied science campus in NYC. The idea was that they would attend Stanford classes in NYC, so without those classes being held there we need to rethink how such a program would work, Lapin said. Lapin added that now that Stanford has withdrawn its bid, CCNY students would likely need to come here for the masters degrees. The collaboration process on the joint curriculum has already begun. Lapin cited the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) as an example of a similar collaboration project. STVP, which is located in Stanford Universitys School of Engineering, is made up of entrepreneurship educators, faculty and staff. The program was given a five-year, $10 million grant by the National Science Foundation and is dedicated to accelerating high-technology entrepreneurship research and education for engineers and scientists worldwide, according to its brochure. However, Lapin noted that CCNY will be the first campus we work with, and that partnership is already under way. As a first step, [we] are looking to send a cohort of our most talented students to the summer research experience for undergraduates or the Summer Institute for General Management [SIGM] at Stanford, Edmonson said. College juniors, seniors and recent graduates can apply to SIGM, which is a summer program hosted by the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Select students receive the academic instruction, professional guidance and leadership training essential for making an immediate impact in the workplace, according to the programs website. Lapin said the exact number of CCNY students participating in the program is not yet known. Our partnership remains strong, and we anticipate that elements of the collaborations that we have been discussing will ultimately go forward, Edmonson said. Contact Catherine Zaw at czaw13@ stanford.edu.

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Lydia Liu, professor in the humanities at Columbia University, spoke in the Philippines Conference Room at Encina Hall about how the appearance of different writing forms affects the way we look at both ourselves and other cultures, analyzing the distinctions we make between pictography, ideography and alphabetical writing. Liu also connected her analysis to current work on digitial writing.

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fy the SMCs objectives, Powers said. The SMC aims to enable the endowment to pay off approximately 5.5 percent to the University to cover inflation and to then grow the endowments real value. The high levels of growth expected necessitates significant equity exposure, according to Powers. The portfolio will always have a significant equity component to it, Powers stated. That was the case before the market mess, and that will be the case going forward too. Within that, we think we can prudently diversify and lower our risk, but we will always have a significant amount of long-run equity exposure. While the SMC currently has a little over half of its portfolio invested in the United States, Powers stated that in the long run investments would become increasingly tilted towards Asia and other emerging markets. Well look to be broadly reflective of global market capitalization, Powers said. We will continue to slowly become less and less U.S.centric, while recognizing that there will [still] always be, from time to time, opportunities. Contact Marshall Watkins at mtwatkins@stanford.edu.

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ment diversification and an aversion to certain asset classes. Weve increased our exposure to hedge fund strategies that have historically shown low correlation with equities, and we are overweight with our market allocations in natural resources, Powers said. The SMCs speedy recovery from the recession it recorded a gain of 14.4 percent in the 2010 fiscal year can be attributed to both market conditions and SMC investment decisions. Powers stated that the development of a very heavy value credit exposure was a critical component in profits generated during the economic recovery. Powers said that negative experiences with illiquid assets during the recession had increased the value that the SMC puts on flexibility within the portfolio. He acknowledged, however, that the SMC is still in the process of getting back to the level of liquidity that we would like to have. Extensive exposure to equities, however, may be necessary to satis-

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A glimmer of the future for a symbol of Stanfords past

By LANA HO & SUZANNE STATHATOS
tanfords campus is known for, among other things, its aesthetic beauty, its rich history and its forward-thinking modernity. But the old chemistry building, with boarded-up windows and doors, surrounded by a tall chainlink fence tagged with No Trespassing signs, doesnt quite fit with the last of those three. The building has been unused since 1987, when the University deemed it a structural and fire hazard, and when other old buildings were repaired after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, Stanford left it a relic. But it may not stay that way for long. The old chemistry building, built in 1900, was the first reinforced concrete building west of the Mississippi River. It was built on Lomita Drive away from the Main Quad to prevent the rest of the Quad from being affected by potential explosions, according to chemistry professor Michael Fayer. In its golden days, it housed beautiful wooden lecture halls, spiral staircases, student and research laboratories, a library and administrative offices. The old chemistry building had real character, Fayer said. Then the University built more buildings. By 1974, when Fayer arrived at Stanford, the chemistry department had expanded into the three Stauffer Laboratory buildings west of the old chemistry building. Fayer conducts his research using lasers, which require very stable conditions. When he arrived at the University, his team was placed in the basement of the old chemistry building, where its antiquity proved useful: there were no vibrations from air conditioners or elevators to disrupt the tranquil environment needed for his work. At the same time, the building also showed signs of deterioration. Asbestos-covered steam pipes lay exposed, and when the carcinogenic material would occasionally fall

off the pipes, people in HAZMAT suits had to remove it. The pipes also leaked and Fayer and his team shared their space with rats, which scampered across the floor above. He recalled one particular game that he and his team played with the rats. Youd hear this rat running from one side of the ceiling to the other, he said. Youd hear the rat running along, and at just the right time, you jumped up and pushed the ceiling up whoom the rat couldnt stop and would just come falling out there and would be running around on the ground. To end the rodent infestation, the department tried rattraps. These failed, so they chose to poison the rats. However, the end of one infestation led to the beginning of another. All the rats died, and then the flies came, Fayer said. We had weeks of dense flies within all the rooms . . . thousands of flies. Many faculty moved their offices to the Mudd Chemistry Building, the Chemistry Departments new headquarters built in 1977, to avoid such conditions. However, Fayer stayed in the old chemistry building until 1987, when the University drilled into the building and found that the rebar that initially supported the buildings frame had corroded to tubes of rust, making it structurally hazardous. The University deemed the building unfit for earthquake regulations, and shortly thereafter constructed the Keck Science Building, where Fayer now conducts his research. Their findings proved serendipitous, as two years later, the Loma Prieta Earthquake struck the Bay Area.

Bob Wheeler, the facility manager for Zone B (the region of the University where the old chemistry building is located), and his team work to keep the public from accessing the old chemistry building. Occasionally, his team finds compromised windows and doors, and they work to secure these access points. Wheeler believes Stanford hasnt made changes to the building because the University hasnt identified the funding to make the repairs that need to be made to do the seismic upgrade, he said. Some, like Wheeler, would move to maintain the buildings appearance and recondition it. Ive always thought that restoring a building from that era would be a wonderful challenge and great fun, Wheeler said. It is a piece of history and the architecture then is much different from the architecture now. According to Andrew Herkovic, director of

communications and development at Stanford University Libraries, the University has discussed turning the old chemistry building into a library, but no specific plans have been made. Indeed, Stanfords 2011-2012 capital budget and three-year capital plan lists Old Chemistry Classrooms with Library as a delayed project for the School of Humanities and Sciences. To the best of my knowledge, there has been no architectural programming done on that prospective library, other than that it would be poured somehow within the shell of Old Chem, Herkovic said. The cost, however, poses a major obstacle to that path forward. In 1999, University planners and administrators estimated that it would cost at least $35 million to renovate the building to adhere to earthquake safety standards,

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The old chemistry building stands separately and alone from the rest of the Quad next to the Oval during the 1946-47 academic year. The photo was taken with a Brownie camera and was likely shot from Hoover Tower.

Q&A

Ryan Mayfield, Stanford superfan

yan Mayfield 13 has been featured on Sports Illustrated and ESPNs websites as the football fan of the week. Every Saturday last quarter, he could be found covered in Cardinal gear at Stanford Stadium, and over winter break, he made his national television debut at the Fiesta Bowl. The Dailys Kimberly Bacon caught up with Mayfield to talk about his life as Stanfords superfan. The Stanford Daily (TSD): What inspired you to become such a big fan? Ryan Mayfield (RM): Ive really always been a huge football fan. My father is a huge football fan, so when I was growing up I think I went to several hundred high school games in my hometown. When I came to Stanford it was kind of just a natural progression. TSD: Whats your normal routine before a game? RM: My sophomore roommate, Eddy Albarran 13, and I go to the game together. Its so much fun going to the stadium because I have the flag whipping behind me and . . . the older fans milling about are laughing at me. Im usually in line about three and half hours before the game. TSD: Do you think that Stanford fans have become more energetic in recent years?

RM: Oh, without a doubt. My best friends brother [Class of 06] . . . talks about how this year we won more games than his entire time here. He is a football fan but he never even cared that much because they always lost. I was really inspired at the end of the Oregon game. With four minutes left [and] down by three touchdowns, the student section was full. I would like to think that, even if we started losing, the fandom would continue at the same level. TSD: How would you respond to a claim that Stanford fans are apathetic and fair-weather fans? RM: I dont think we can know that for sure yet. Obviously if you look at the past 10 years of Stanford football I would agree with that when we were terrible no one came and now that were good the student section is full. We are just such a small school that we have a hard time getting people to create a big following. So I dont think that question can be answered yet. I think we are moving in the right direction. TSD: Were you at ESPN College GameDay? RM: Yes, I was. I went at about 3:30 in the morning. It was fun; it was a little crazy. I had never been to one before. It was cool to see that many people there, that much passion, that much excitement for the team.

TSD: How did it feel to be voted a Sports Illustrated Superfan? RM: It was a little weird but it was really cool. I would put it as one of my happiest moments because it was cool to see that Sports Illustrated was finally caring about Stanford. The fact that they care about our fans means . . . that they care about our team. And I think that that is the bigger thing. I dont want it to get to my head or anything because, whatever, Im a fan. TSD: Have you received recognition from the team? RM: No, no. I dont know, it would be cool maybe, but I dont necessarily want it. Im a fan. Were sitting in the stadium screaming while theyre getting punched around on the field. Lets put the tribute where its due.
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It was a little weird but it was really cool. I would put it as one of my happiest moments because it was cool to see that Sports Illustrated was finally caring about Stanford.

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his is going to be a simple column. That is what I have to tell myself as I sit down in front of the keyboard and write this column every week. I know I could spiral effortlessly into the black hole of unintelligible hyper-intellectuality, something only possible when we remove ourselves from real life. Im tempted to be over-comprehensive and cover all theoretical corners to prevent potential criticisms against my ideas. But, more than that, I want to write something clear. I want to be understandable, in the hopes that you, my reader, happen to relate to me. Its nerve-wracking sometimes. This column is around 800 words on an interior page of the Tuesday edition of one schools newspaper a little thing. Yet I still get remarkably nervous on Monday night about the next mornings paper. Despite my desire to express something honest, something fascinating, something that I hope benefits everyone, its almost too much to expect that I could accurately share any observation of our lives in black and white type. Our very complex lives . . . Heres what is not too complex: Taylor Swifts music, which filled my car over winter break. Swift is a self-proclaimed boy-crazy country starlet that sings about Romeo and Juliet, being 15, romantic moments and enchanting first acquaintances. Her music is crush-heavy, exaggeratedly dreamy and well-fancied by a surprising number of my guy-friends who would love to be a Swift muse. Overall, though, most would only blushingly admit to liking Swift, and shallowly at that. So why did I appreciate it so much over winter break? The past several weeks, I was with a young woman whom I love and regard as my little sister, a girl who has been navigating certain pressures in life Ill never know. Unexpectedly, that music provided random relief as we held numerous karaoke sessions on the road. The subject didnt matter it was easy listening. At a time when all else in her life was hitting painful extremes, this kind of simplicity like board games, trips to farmers markets, Zoolander, handmade Christmas cards meant everything. It was like interrupting ones thoughts, often dark and selfdestructive, by just breathing. As we get older, we build increasingly lofty infrastructures out of our lives as we pursue what we presume will be a better one later. Its not always intentional (unless one chooses to live apart from society). Like our evolving schoolwork, from spelling tests to theses, our personal lives become frilled with higher stakes and bigger consequences. We grow up feeling obligated to other people and their standards and expectations. We

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have the power to influence their lives, as they do us. We overanalyze their opinions even while we muddle through our own. We make more choices and supposedly get wiser as we do. We think a lot, especially about if and how others are thinking about us. But I was thinking about it . . . and realized that when Im happiest, Im not thinking. In fact, while at peace and/or laughing hysterically in tears, Im sort of mindless. It turns out contentment isnt complicated. And most of us would agree in words, before we turn back to how we actually live. By now, experience has taught us that the world is a convoluted place. And so, voila! We expect complexity, so we make create it. And in a way, we feel thats the natural, mature thing to do. Complaining about busyness has become a competition in disguise for so many of us students, when in fact our greatest difficulty seems to be sitting still, alone, quietly. By letting so many other voices into our heads, its now hard to be accompanied by our own. But many of us have seen, in our friends and family, how uncontrollably this tendency leads to crisis. This column doesnt aim to explain all of the ways our lives in this modern world are complicated they undeniably are. This column just wants to re-appreciate the simplicity we seem set on abandoning as we grow older and more expectant of ourselves and others. I just wonder if, before we get onto saving the world, we should recognize when we have to be saved from ourselves, first. Goodness, however our personalities and passions define it, is something we pursue with every ounce of academic and extracurricular energy we have. Thats commendable. But what is true, noble, just, pure, lovely, virtuous, praiseworthy . . . is also the smallest, most immaterial thing in the world. Thats all I wanted to say. Its childlike, really which means its crucial. As I recall my most desperate moments and those of the people I wish I could rescue, I realize we have to return there to remember why we choose to live for the next morning at all. Think Nina has oversimplified life? Or is secretly into Swift? Nina wants to talk to you. Email her at ninamc @stanford.edu.

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SPORTS
Tom Taylor

Move on to womens basketball

A week after the Fiesta Bowl, I know it still hurts. Those missed kicks, those chances lost, a depressing 12hour drive home from Arizona in defeat. But this is sports. When you go down you dont stay down. You get up fighting and move on. I dont mean to trivialize what it feels like to lose, let alone to lose in that way. Winning would be meaningless if losing wasnt so painful. The great thing about sports, though, is that there is always another chance. Another game, another season or even a different athletic discipline. College football is dead at least for the next nine months. Long live college basketball! The Pac-12 season is already four games old and Stanfords mens and womens teams are tied for second and first, respectively. The women are also ranked No. 4 in the nation, and though unranked, the men have been receiving votes in both the AP Top 25 and coaches polls. But Im going to avoid the obvious and not write about the mens team from here on, partly because theyll get their fair share of coverage from other sources and partly personal bias; I do report on the womens team, after all. The cruel reality of the sports world is that some get all the attention, and so it is on the Farm with football and mens basketball. The core of Stanford fans, the students, rarely make it to any of the other varsity or club activities on campus rival students might probably claim we hardly make it to those either. Perhaps this is because you are academic overachievers and struggle to find the time outside of classes and assignments, but that doesnt really feel like a good excuse. Many of the athletes on campus are professional in all but name, and we get to go watch them in our backyard for free. Take senior womens basketball forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike for example. Over the break, when most of you were relaxing with family, she scored 174 points in seven games and just 209 minutes of play; thats just over 0.8 points per minute. She broke into the exclusive 2,000-point club last Saturday against Oregon State, and she is on pace to finish second on the all-time Stanford scoring list by the end of the regular season, behind guard Candice Wiggins school record of 2,629 points. Many people expect undefeated No. 1 Baylor to sweep this year, in large part because of its Naismith College Player of the Year favorite, 6-foot-8 junior forward Brittney Griner, a player who is already on the USA Basketball roster. And can dunk. But if anyone can upset that apple cart, it might just be Ogwumike. She was named the United States Basketball Writers Association National Player of the Week for a 42-point, 17-rebound destruction of No. 6 Tennessee in the final days of 2011 and just seems to be getting better. Even in the last two contests against the Oregon schools, in which Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer claimed Ogwumike might not have been on her A-game, she averaged more than 30 points per game. But perhaps the bestplaced people to comment on her abilities are those who have to come to Maples Pavilion and face her. Shes obviously an incredible athlete, said Oregon State head coach Scott Rueck after his teams recent loss to Stanford. Shes got the combination that the greatest players in her sport have. People come to watch her because she does things no one else can do. Its not only athleticism and skill, but shes got this fire and drive in her. This passion that her whole team can just jump on. And to make matters worse for the Cardinals opponents, she has a younger sister on the team, sophomore forward Chiney. So when you need a break from homework this quarter and youre missing being able to watch the nations best college football player strut his stuff on Stanfords field every weekend, come on down to Maples. In tight games the Cardinal could certainly do with your support, and players like the Ogwumikes deserve it with their skill and commitment. But more than that, you can erase the pain of the Fiesta Bowl with the dream of NCAA glory. Tom Taylor is really a ladies man at heart. Catch some other womens sports with him at tom.taylor@stanford.edu.

CARD CRUSHES CANADA

STANFORD WINS FIRST TWO MATCHES
By JORDAN GUNNING
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ll is not lost.

The No. 4 Stanford mens volleyball team (2-0) started off its season with two wins this weekend against the Thompson Rivers WolfPack of Canada (0-2). With six of seven starters returning including first-team All-American seniors Erik Shoji and Brad Lawson the Cardinal went into the weekend poised to win its two exhibition matches.

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Senior libero Erik Shoji is one of Stanfords two first-team All-Americans, along with senior outside hitter Brad Lawson. The No. 4 Cardinal won its first two matches this weekend.

The two teams met for the first match at Maples Pavilion. As the heavy favorites it was no surprise that the Cardinal won the match, but it was a surprise when the Cardinal lost the first set to the WolfPack. In the first set of the match, Thompson Rivers went nearly point-for-point with Stanford and took advantage of the Cardinals five service errors and eight attack errors. A kill from Thompson Rivers Krzysztof Orman ended the set and resulted in a 2523 Cardinal loss. With the first set of the season going down as a disappointing loss, the team came back to win the following three sets convincingly. The Cardinal came out swinging in the second set, easily trouncing the WolfPack 25-13. The Cardinal had 15 kills in the set to Thompson Rivers four. Sophomores Brian Cook, outside hitter, and Denny Falls, middle blocker, each had four kills in the set. The Cardinal also managed to hold the WolfPack to a .000 hitting percentage. The third set was also dominated by Stanford with a 25-18 score and only one Cardinal service error. The final set of the match was another 25-18 victory to net the Cardinal its first win of the season, three sets to one. Even with the rocky start, the match was a strong showing of Stanfords skill. The Cardinal was led by Cooks 16 kills and Lawsons 12. On Saturday the teams met again at Burnham Pavilion for their second exhibition match. The Cardinal swept the match with wins of 25-21, 25-16 and

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GUNN NAMED HEAD COACH

By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR

Fresh off a runner-up finish at the College Cup and just two years removed from leading the Charlotte mens soccer team to the programs first NCAA appearance a turnaround engineered in just five short years coach Jeremy Gunn was poised to turn the 49ers into perennial NCAA contenders. But when Stanford Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby came knocking, looking to find a replacement for Bret Simon, who stepped down in November after 11 years as head of the Stanford program, Gunn couldnt say no. In the 40-year-old Gunn, Bowlsby hired a veteran coach with plenty of wins and postseason success on his resume, although he does not have much experience. Jeremy Gunn has a proven track record of winning and developing student-athletes and programs everywhere he has coached, Bowlsby said. We are very excited to welcome Jeremy Gunn as our new mens soccer coach. His teams are known to be extremely well-organized, deter-

mined, hard-working and well-coached. And conversely, the allure of coaching on the Farm, despite the Cardinals spate of up-anddown years since the teams last sustained run of postseason success in the early 2000s, was ultimately too much for Gunn to pass up Charlotte reportedly made several attempts to extend Gunns contract and retain the English national. I am truly honored to accept the position as the new head mens soccer coach at Stanford University, Gunn said. I am excited to begin a new era of Stanford mens soccer and am thrilled to be given the opportunity to become a part of one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Growing up in North Yorkshire, England, Gunn was outstanding at both cricket and soccer. A member of Englands U-17 national team in cricket, he was also a youth player at Gromsby Town F.C. and Scunthorpe United F.C. before coming to the United States to play soccer for Cal State Bakersfield he went on to become a first team All-American for the Roadrunners. After graduating from Bakersfield, Gunn began his coaching career as an assistant at his

alma mater while continuing to play soccer professionally in the United States he spent several years with the Chico Rooks Pro Soccer Club in Chico, Calif. and the North Bay Breakers of Rohnert Park, Calif. before playing in the United Soccer League for Nashville and later Charleston. He served on both the mens and womens coaching staffs during his seven-year stint at Bakersfield, helping the Roadrunners to the 1997 NCAA Division II national championship and an appearance in the 1995 national semifinal. The success propelled him to accept his first head coaching job with Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. There he built a D-II juggernaut, winning the Rocky Mountain Conference five times and playing in three NCAA Championships in eight years with the Skyhawks. In eight seasons, Gunn won an average of 15 games each year, going 22-0-1 en route to the 2005 NCAA championship. He picked up right where he left off after accepting the job at Charlotte. During the five sea-

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SPORTS BRIEFS
Stanford baseball trio named preseason All-Americans The junior trio of pitcher Mark Appel, third baseman Stephen Piscotty and shortstop Kenny Diekroeger were all named preseason All-Americans over the break, leaving the Cardinal with lofty expectations heading into the 2012 season. Appel who many analysts have predicted will be a top-five pick in Junes MLB Draft and Diekroeger who is a potential first-round pick were both selected to Collegiate Baseballs All-American teams, with Appel earning first team honors and Diekroeger finding his way onto the second team. They join Piscotty, who was named a first team All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. After losing to North Carolina in the NCAA Super Regional last season, the Cardinal figures to be a mainstay in the national title picture this year after returning seven positional starters and the majority of its weekend rotation. Pollsters have certainly taken notice Stanford is ranked No. 3 in Collegiate Baseballs preseason poll, the highest ranking for the program since being No. 1 in the 2002 preseason. The team will face several stiff tests early on, as No. 5 Texas and No. 7 Rice are both on the Cardinals non-conference schedule, as well as No. 23 Vanderbilt. Stanfords season kicks off on Feb. 17, when the Commodores visit the Farm for a three-game series at Sunken Diamond.
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Both fencing teams finish in top three in season opener

At Sundays Western Invitational in Colorado Springs, Colo., the Stanford womens fencing team placed second and the mens team placed third. The tournament used a best-of-six-match format, and the Cardinal teams went 5-1 and 4-2, respectively.

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Junior shortstop Kenny Diekroeger was one of three Stanford baseball players to be named a preseason All-American, along with pitcher Mark Appel and third baseman Stephen Piscotty.

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sons he spent with the 49ers, Gunn compiled a 64-26-14 record, including a 5-2 mark in the NCAA Tournament his teams also won a pair Atlantic-10 conference titles in 2010 and 2011. Bowlsby hopes Gunn can bring a spark to the Stanford program, which has made the NCAA Tournament just one time in the past nine seasons after three College Cup ap-

pearances in five years from 19982002. Gunn is passionate about teaching and developing his student-athletes as soccer players and young men, Bowlsby said. With Jeremy at the helm, we look forward to returning Stanford mens soccer to national prominence year in and year out. The mens team will have several months to train before the Cardinal sees its first action under Gunn when the spring schedule opens in April. Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu.

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25-20. In the first set the Cardinal and the WolfPack stayed even for quite a while. Then when Stanford trailed 21-20, the team rallied for five straight points, with two key blocks from sophomores Denny Falls and Steven Irvin to win the set.

The Cardinal never let its opponent win points on serve. Irvin led the team with seven kills in the 2516 set. Stanford finished off the WolfPack with a 25-20 win in the third set. After the early non-conference matches, Stanford will open MPSF play with a road match at Pacific on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Contact Jordan Gunning at gunning@stanford.edu.

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On the womens side, all five wins were fairly comfortable, as Stanford won the first five best-of27 matches by at least nine-point margins. However, in the title match, the Cardinal ran into a buzz saw in Northwestern, with the Wildcats winning 25-2 to take the title. The men had the closest match of the tournament, barely edging out

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After scoring four goals and tallying two assists, finishing second on the team in scoring, junior Adam Jahn was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of Americas All-Far West Third Team. The Davis, Calif., native has scored 11 goals in three years on the Farm, and was also named second team All-Pac-12 this year.

UC-San Diego 14-13 after three blowout wins. Stanford lost twice, though: once to host Air Force and once to eventual champion Notre Dame. Freshmen led the way for both teams, as Cameron Lindsay went 14-4 and Jonathan Lee went 13-5 on the mens side, while Katya Savitsky was 11-4, Julia Klepner was 12-5 and Lily McElwee was 14-3. Stanford does not compete again until the Midwestern Invitational on Feb. 4.
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from Fort Wayne, Ind., previously worked for The Chautauquan Daily in New York and the Mail & Guardian in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she covered refugees, migrants and human rights issues. She will return to Johannesburg this spring for her work with The Wall Street Journal. In her application essay titled Writing in Shades of Gray, Chaykowski wrote that Pearls attention to the ambiguity and surprises he encountered yielded stories that delve far beyond the black and white. It is the gray the small, human moments, the contradictions that I aspire to capture through my own reporting. Chaykowski was selected from an applicant pool of undergraduates and graduate students by Stanford communication faculty and Wall Street Journal staff.
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According to the study, the link between the mutations in the SWI/SNF protein complex and pancreatic cancer had not been encountered in the past because these genetic differences are spread amongst the five different subunits of the protein complex. Researchers said it was not until the data was considered together that they realized more than a third of the cancer samples contained a deletion, mutation or rearrangement in at least one of the five subunits in the protein complex. This is really strong genetic evidence that this complex plays a role in pancreatic cancer, said Jonathan Pollack, associate professor of pathology and senior author of the research, in a press release by the School of Medicine. It suggests the influence of the SWI/SNF complex is on par with that of other well-known tumor suppressors, such as p53. Upon this discovery, researchers then experimented by engineering the pancreatic cancer cell to re-express the altered subunit. They found that the artificial expression slowed the growth of the cancer cells and even caused them to enter a permanent suspended state instead of dividing wildly. According to the press release, the researchers now plan on working to identify which particular genes are responsible for the growth of pancreatic cells by experimenting with the expression of genes on the SWI/SNF subunits. Graduate student Hunter Shain is the first author of the study. Other contributors include graduate student Craig Giacomini and former pathology resident Karen Matsukuma.
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ly sold to voters. According to Enthoven, in an email to The Daily, the California High-Speed Rail Authority recently published a 2012 draft business plan that raised their estimated costs for the segment connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles from $43 billion to some $98.5 to $117 billion. Enthoven wrote that this is based on 15 percent completion of engineering work, far from enough to have a truly reliable estimate. Histories of other mega projects suggest the total eventual costs could exceed $150 billion. Enthoven is currently studying the 2012 business plan and aims to complete an analysis by Jan. 16. Last November, Palo Alto City Council members were unanimous in their opposition to the proposed high-speed rail. The council voted 81 to charge its Rail Committee with drafting a request to the state legislature to either abandon the project or put it in the Nov. 2012 ballot for reconsideration. According to an article in the San Jose Mercury News, Larry Klein, a Palo Alto city councilman and the sole dissenting vote, said that the council knew enough and that further input from the Rail Committee wasnt necessary to take a formal stand. Klein, who chairs the city councils Rail Committee, wrote in an email to The Daily that he voted in dissent because he wanted the full council, which was already unanimously against the rail plan, itself to take action rather than refer the matter back to the state legislature. Klein said that voters now real-

Stanford libraries help digitize papers of Europes first female professor

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The Stanford Libraries have partnered with the principal municipal library of Bologna, Italy, and the Istituto per i beni culturali della Regione Emilia-Romagna to grant public access to the papers of Europes first female professor, Laura Bassi, an 18thcentury Italian scientist. The institutions will work together to scan Bassis archives, which include 6,000 pages documenting her life and work. The documents, which are now in the archives of the Biblioteca Comunale dellArchiginnasio in Bologna, will become accessible online later this year. Stanford will assist in creating an easily searchable website to grant public access to the documents, which will be translated and explained. The second woman to receive a university degree in Europe, Bassi lived from 1711 to 1778 and was known for conducting experiments in her home with her husband, also a scientist. Bassi was the first woman to be offered an official teaching position in a European university. As an erstwhile student of Italian archival material, I am very pleased that Stanford is working with the Archiginnasio to bring the Bassi material to a wider audience, said Stanford University librarian Michael A. Keller in a statement to The Stanford Report.
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ize that what they voted for was a mirage. As the recent field poll shows, the voters would today overwhelmingly reject the HSR proposal. The estimated cost hasnt really increased. Many people knew the original estimated costs using the HSR Authoritys own internal numbers were unrealistically low. What has changed is that the HSR Authority, faced with a barrage of criticism, finally acknowledged more reasonable cost numbers. The city council last acted on the matter at a meeting on Dec. 19, when its Rail Committee drafted a formal written opposition to the rail project. The position, adopted by the full city council, was transmitted to state legislators and Governor Jerry Brown, among others. It basically cites HSRs exorbitant cost, its overestimated ridership, the misleading information provided the voters in 2008 and the environmental damage HSR would cause as the reasons for our opposition, Klein wrote. The project has encountered other setbacks as well. In November, a state judge ruled that that the HighSpeed Rail Authority would have to reopen and revise its environmental analysis after a lawsuit was brought forth by a coalition that included Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto. The cities, in coalition with various nonprofit groups, first challenged the Rail Authoritys selection of the Pacheco Pass as the placement of the San Francisco-Los Angeles line three years ago, contending that that the rail authority failed to sufficiently analyze the traffic impacts of the proposed line at Monterey Highway south of San Jose. The ruling created an additional setback for the rail authority, which was forced to further revise its program-level Environmental Impact Report.

The high-speed train project is of particular interest to Stanford, which owns 36.2 acres of land along the rail corridor in Menlo Park and Palo Alto. A statement issued by the University in June 2010 details Stanfords various interests in the alignment of the train. Primary among those concerns are improved operation and viability of Caltrain, the economic effect of taking or impacting University lands and the transportation effect/impact of any newly created physical barriers between Stanford and the surrounding communities. On the possibility of a high-speed train station in Palo Alto, the statement, while acknowledging the potential economic benefits and increased ease of travel to Palo Alto businesses and to some of the businesses currently on Stanford-owned lands, brings up that Palo Alto and its neighboring areas have very little available traffic and parking capacity for such a facility. The statement expressly states, a station for HSR would not, in our view, constitute a priority justifying further reduction of this limited capacity. Stanford Director of Land Use and Environmental Planning Charles Carter, who represents Stanford on the City of Palo Alto Rail Corridor Task Force, said that the Universitys fundamental position remains unchanged. Protecting residential uses, improving connections through the corridor and identifying opportunities to develop supporting civic and commercial uses in the corridor were the big ideas, along with design enhancements to the primary roadways in the corridor to make them complete streets that serve all modes of travel, Carter said. Contact Jamie Kim at jbkim1@stanford.edu.

Chaykowski awarded 2012 Pearl internship

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Kathleen Chaykowski 13, current editor in chief of The Stanford Daily, has been awarded the 2012 Daniel Pearl Memorial Journalism Internship, which funds an internship in a foreign bureau of The Wall Street Journal. The internship was founded in 2003 to commemorate the work of Daniel Pearl 85, a communication major at Stanford. Pearl was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in 2002 while working as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He was 38. Chaykowski, an English major

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Others, like Fayer, argue that keeping the building itself intact isnt necessarily a priority. It would be much cheaper to just tear down the old chemistry building and build a new modern building, Fayer said. It would never be useful as a science building. That would be fabulously expensive, because it just doesnt have the systems for air handling, water and electricity. Fayer also identified the potentially toxic problems related to Old Chem. In the early 1900s, scientists poured raw chemicals down the drains (a forbidden practice in modern labs). These chemicals festered in the pipes, and over a long period of time, began to permeate the entire building. Its my guess that it would be almost a toxic waste disposal problem to get rid of whats in the contaminated wood and all of the stuff thats in this building . . . the place is so polluted with 75 years or more of

chemicals. Instead of trying to save the building or leave it untouched, Fayer suggested replacing it with a new joint chemistry-biology library or another administrative building, optimizing the use of the 60,000 square feet the current structure covers. Alternatively, Fayer said he wouldnt mind if they just tore it down and made it into a new grass field. After watching it for almost a quarter of century just sit there, it just seems to me like something should happen. However, it is unlikely that the University would demolish this building since it has historical significance, said Craig Tanaka, director of the Department of Capital Planning and Space Management. No plans have been approved for the old chemistry buildings future, Tanaka said, but senior administration officials will discuss it during the upcoming capital plan cycle. Until then, Old Chem is caught in limbo. Contact Suzanne Stathatos at sstat@stanford.edu or Lana Ho at lanaho@stanford.edu.

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