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THURSDAY February 2, 2012

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CARDINAL SIGNS TOP RECRUITING CLASS IN SCHOOL HISTORY

By JACK BLANCHAT
MANAGING EDITOR

BEST CLASS EVER

one of the best classes in the history of the school, said head coach David Shaw. But its not just about the rankings or the stars, its about the quality of the individuals that we added to our team. Needless to say, we are excited about this. Shaw and his coaching staff had already compiled an excellent class of commits before Wednesday, but National Signing Day saw three five-star recruits all commit themselves to the Cardinal. Stanfords biggest grab came early in the day, when offensive tackle Andrus Peat, a 6-foot-7, 307-pound native of Tempe, Ariz., spurned Nebraska, Florida State and USC to come to the Farm. Peat, the countrys sixthbest offensive lineman, was ex-

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Raking in the recruits

Five players sure to make a difference for the Cardinal in 2012

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STUDENT LIFE

DOE selects Stanford solar team

Student team to compete in solar house competition
By MARSHALL WATKINS
DESK EDITOR

Its not often that the sweetest sound on the Stanford campus is that of a screeching fax machine. But that was the story on Wednesdays National Signing Day, when the Stanford football team signed its best recruiting class in school history. The Cardinal signed 22 players from 14 different states on Wednesday, including three fivestar prospects and three of the top eight offensive line prospects in the country. Altogether, the Cardinal finished with the nations fifth-best recruiting class according to Rivals.com, trailing only Alabama, Texas, Florida and Ohio State. I think weve got probably

Andrus Peat
6-foot-7, 305-pound OT from Tempe, Ariz. Five-star rating by ESPN, Rivals Highest-rated Stanford recruit ever in ESPNU 150

Kyle Murphy
6-foot-6, 270-pound OT from San Clemente, Calif. Five-star rating by Rivals, Scout Top-four OT recruit nationally by ESPN, Rivals, Scout

Noor Davis
6-foot-4, 233-pound OLB from Leesburg, Fla. Four-star rating by ESPN, Rivals, Scout 2011 High School Butkus Award winner

Aziz Shittu
6-foot-3, 275-pound DT from Atwater, Calif. Five-star rating by Rivals 89 tackles, nine sacks as senior

Barry J. Sanders
5-foot-10, 190-pound RB from Oklahoma City, Okla. No. 9 RB recruit by ESPN, Rivals, Scout Son of Hall of Fame RB Barry Sanders

pected to join the Cornhuskers in Lincoln, where his brother is currently a defensive tackle. The Cardinal offensive line then got another boost when Kyle Murphy, the third-best tackle in the country, promised himself to Palo Alto. When Murphy added his name to a list that already included Peat, Joshua Gar-

nett the nations second-best guard and three other fourstar offensive linemen (Nick Davidson, Brandon Fanaika and Graham Shuler), the Cardinal had pieced together the nations most talented and promising group of offensive line prospects.

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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected a Stanford team last week as one of 20 collegiate teams set to compete in the biennial Solar Decathlon competition. The Decathlon, hosted by the DOE, offers participating teams $100,000 in seed money to design, build and operate solar-powered homes with a zero net energy footprint. The Stanford team will have two years to build its home, which the team will assemble in Orange County in 2013 for a DOE panel to assess. Stanford progressed through a selection process that pitted the team against around 40 different universities from both the U.S. and abroad. Each university submitted a 30-page proposal that outlined the teams concept, organization, fundraising and scheduling. The Stanford team submitted its proposal in November and received word of the applications success last Wednesday. Derek Ouyang 13, co-founder of the Stanford Solar Decathlon team, noted that the Stanford team faces an inherent disadvantage in numbers due to the Universitys small undergraduate population relative to competing engineering-focused schools. While typical Decathlon teams number in the hundreds, Ouyang currently expects a committed Stanford team of around 40 students. We expect that our team will be composed of about 25 percent graduate students, 75 percent undergraduate [students], said Taylor Brady 13, co-founder of the Stanford team, in an email to The Daily. Brady said most of these students will be from the School of Engineering, but the team will also include a fair portion of students studying business, economics and marketing, as well. Brady added that he anticipates the team splitting up into smaller groups, each focusing on an aspect of the houses design

Freedom Riders inspire, encourage activism

By EDWARD NGAI
STAFF WRITER

Black History Month kicked off at Stanford Monday evening with a panel of three of the original Freedom Riders, civil rights activists who participated in the iconic Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips from Washington, D.C., to the Deep South in 1961. Freedom Ride participants Rip Patton, Helen Singleton and

Dr. Bob Singleton joined moderator Clayborne Carson, professor of history, on a panel hosted by the Stanford NAACP, Black Student Union, History Department and the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. We want to get the student body to think about [the history of our civil rights] and to get students to see they can influence the system, said Shawn Dye 14,

chair of the Stanford NAACP political action committee. The Freedom Riders were our age when they were [fighting for our civil rights]. During the half-hour panel, the Freedom Riders shared personal stories and reasons for embarking on their history-making journey. Helen Singleton recounted how traveling with her family informed her participation in the

Rides. We were happy until we got to Washington, D.C., Helen Singleton said. And as we pulled out of Washington and headed into Virginia, we could feel the tension in the car, because here was my father who was nervous because he was going into territory where he couldnt protect his family.

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Bach in time

WORLD & NATION

Knight Fellow alumni start Egypt project

By MARWA FARAG
MANAGING EDITOR

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Richard Egarr performed a harpsichord solo last night in Dinkelspiel Auditorium as part of the Stanford Lively Arts program. The audience heard works such as Bachs Well-Tempered Clavier.

NEWS BRIEFS

FounderSoup aims to combine ideas and technical talent

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF FounderSoup a collaboration between Stanford, the venture capital (VC) firm Andreesen-Horowitz and FounderSoup president Michael Dorsey MBA 10, M.S. 11 is a new organization aiming to bring talented innovators and entrepreneurs together to change the now standard startup cycle into a more collaborative process. FounderSoup seeks to reverse the typical

VC funding cycle, turning this process on its head, according to the groups website. FounderSoup seeks to bring together the technical talent necessary for putting ideas into practice instead of following the traditional founding route of a company. The idea for a simplified founder search started when Dorsey began to receive inquiries from entrepreneurs looking for technical talent to round out their teams. This simple idea grew into FounderSoup, which had its first event of the year last Thursday at the Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school). More than 170 Stanford students were in attendance, eager to hear pitches and network after the event. Fifty founders submitted their ideas for review, and 20 were given the opportunity to make a 90-second pitch to the group.

Aside from giving founders the stage to present their ideas, FounderSoup also provided pitch practice sessions to help perfect founders presentations through constructive feedback.
Roberto Vargas

Iconic Great Depression photo series comes to Cantor

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF More than 125 prints of the works by

At a moment when technology and journalism increasingly intersect, two former Stanford Knight Journalism Fellows have launched #18DaysInEgypt, a collaborative documentary project about the Egyptian Revolution. Co-creator Jigar Mehta and story producer Hugo Soskin are members of the Knight Fellowship class of 2011. On Jan. 19, a group of about 400 people gathered in Tahrir Square to launch the projects public beta, which relies on contributors to submit self-generated media to create a crowd-sourced documentary about the 18 days in early 2011 that resulted in the resignation of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The documentary will also cover developments in the nation since Feb. 2011. During the revolution, I was impressed by how much media was being created by people on the front lines, Mehta said in a Skype interview with The Daily from Egypt. He cited images of protestors recording events on cell phones and the use of social media during the revolution. I posed the academic question: is it possible to do a documentary based on all the footage being created? Mehta said. After multiple iterations, the project became #18DaysInEgypt. It is a documentation process about the ongoing revolution, Mehta said. Its a living, breathing . . . toolkit that allows people to tell stories of any moment of the last year or the ongoing revolution through their media. The project receives 15 to 20 streams of material a day. Most recently, users have contributed media streams to document Egypts Port Said soccer riots on

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Great Depression photographer Walker Evans went on display Wednesday at the Cantor Arts Museum. The collection, meant to juxtapose the struggles of the Depression era with the economic struggles of the present day, will remain on display until April 8, according to a University press release. Evans, who passed away in 1975 at the age of 71, resented developing social programs of the era. According to English professor Gavin Jones in the press release, the purpose of Evans art is, respecting the moral integrity of the poor while recognizing in these tenants something transcendentally human. Jones will host a free book discussion on Feb. 25, as part of the exhibit. His book titled, American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, which examines the works of Evans and others in the era, will be the subject of the event. The display, entitled, Walker Evans, also holds the work of James Agee, a Depression-era author who worked and traveled with Evans while reporting for Fortune magazine. Agees writing helps enlighten Evans photographs and provides context, according to the press release. Agee sees the poor as beautiful but does not believe they are capable of recognizing their own beauty, Jones said in the release. Sometimes it seems that he finds them beautiful not despite but because they cannot appreciate their own value. The display also features an online photography series, Walker Evans of the Week.
Matt Bettonville

Stanford Cancer Institute opens new Survivorship Clinic

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The Stanford Cancer Institute opened a new clinic this week with the intention of providing better care for patients after cancer treatment. The clinic, which will initially to be open only to gynecologic cancer survivors, will focus on assisting patients through issues

such as fatigue, anxiety, body image, sexual function and relationships, according to a press release from the Stanford School of Medicine. Weve done a beautiful job of helping rid people of their cancer, said Kelly Bugos, a nurse practitioner and manager of the Stanford Cancer Survivorship Program, in the press release. The piece thats been missing is helping them to return to wellness after treatment. Its time for us to give people tools to make that transition and extend the treatment safety net a little bit longer. David Spiegel, director of Stanfords Center for Integrative Medicine, said that the clinic will provide both emotional and medical support for cancer survivors. Patients treated at the clinic are expected to be cancer-free or have a high probability of achieving long-term remission. These survivors will be seen by nurse practitioners with which they have already interacted during the treatment process. The nurse practitioners will help patients cope with any of the ongoing physical or psychological pain following treatment and direct them to physicians or support groups if necessary. We know that when treatment ends, the cancer experience continues, Bugos said. The clinic has been in development for more than a year, and the press release identified LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center for Excellence Network as a source that Stanford utilized during the planning stage. The LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center, which was founded in 2005, provides up to $250,000 per year for five years through a competitive request-for-proposal process to institutions that promise to increase access to and quality of survivorship care. Stanfords Survivorship Clinic is not listed on the LIVESTRONG Survivorship Centers website as a sponsored network member. According to the press release, there are currently more than 12 million Americans that have had cancer, a number that is growing. Our health care system is much more geared to acute rather than chronic care, and we havent had a good transition back to routine care, Spiegel said. People develop significant issues after cancer the question becomes how to live with this for the rest of your life.
Kurt Chirbas

EGYPT

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Feb. 1. The tool allows contributors to compile photos, social media inputs and videos into a slideshow. The site currently supports Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter, as well as user-uploaded photos, videos and text. Tags identifying place, date and other information are then added to the stream. The final slideshow creates a story of the moment in a manner that allows for group storytelling, according to Mehta. Its not the journalists who are taking photos; its everyone, he said, explaining the focus on citizen journalism and crowdsourcing. Its kind of crazy how much media is being created. The Tribeca Film Institute of New Media Fund awarded $100,000 to #18DaysInEgypt in Oct. 2011. #18DaysInEgypt has since launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund fellowships for Egyptian journalists and students to travel through Egypt to

Its not the journalists... taking photos; its everyone.

JIGAR MAHTA, Knight Fellow
collect stories. Ive always been about making a project that was accessible . . . that could be a place for Egyptians to tell their own stories, Mehta said. We can build what we think is the perfect product in Silicon Valley . . . but coming to Cairo is like YouTube coming to life. Mehta outlined the next steps for #18DaysInEgypt as increasing the number of contributors and retaining them, as well as recruiting high-profile media creators to contribute streams. The next turning point for us is how to get people to continually

use the site, he said, highlighting the role of the local fellows in developing this aspect of the project. GroupStream, a private, beta, collaborative storytelling platform similar to Storify, powers the venture. The interactive project has attracted the attention of tech magazines, while GroupStream has been named one of the 50 finalists for Start with Google, a Googleorganized competition for the best technology start-ups in Egypt. Mehta, however, focused on the iterative process of building a better product based on user feedback. We understand that its [in its] early days, he said. Were really learning along the way. At the same time, Mehta said he sees potential in documenting the revolution through user-created media. Egyptians are recording history that theyre participating in, Mehta said. And thats something that weve never seen before. Contact Marwa Farag mfarag@stanford.edu. at

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and construction and meeting multiple times each week. The team has already begun to plan and design the house, a stage that is scheduled to continue into winter quarter of 2013. Construction will take place on campus during spring quarter of the same academic year, before the Sept. 2013 competition. The team has received assistance from faculty from a variety of departments and is currently looking to develop partnerships with the Graduate School of Business (GSB) for marketing support and with the School of Engineering for facilities and funds. Both University President John Hennessy and Dean of Engineering Jim Plummer wrote letters of support for the team during the selection process. Richard King, director and founder of the Solar Decathlon, noted that the overall cost of competing for teams could rise to multiples of the DOE seed money. Teams are expected to independently raise funding for the design, construction and transportation to the testing site. Its almost a small business endeavor, King said. Not only are you designing the house and organizing a team, but youre raising the funds and reaching out to corporations and other entities for support. The Stanford team has already identified potential financial, material and mentoring partnerships with large firms such as General Electric (GE) and Facebook. Ouyang added that the team intends to develop partnerships with Silicon Valley companies and local construction firms as well as solar panel manufacturers. Ouyang emphasized that the Universitys close ties with California firms may help provide a competitive advantage. The

house will, however, be constructed entirely by students. The Decathlon assesses competing teams houses through 10 equally weighted categories, with the highest cumulative score determining the competition winner. Grading categories include market appeal, feasibility, concept presentation and performance. The latter is assessed by having six team members live in the house and perform tasks, such as cooking or watching television, over a 10-day period while only using solar energy. The DOE has credited the competition with workforce development in the energy sector as well as educating the public. King noted that teams concepts and blueprints are made available to the general public and have in the past sparked interest from the private sector, with some teams from previous years going on to form successful companies in the energy sector. Brady and Ouyang noted that the projects future after the Decathlon will depend largely on public reception and competitive success, but they envision potentially returning the house to campus to serve educational, residential and research functions. Past competitors have toured their projects for educational and commercial outreach or sold or donated their houses to homeowners and museums. Brady noted that the principles developed and utilized in the houses construction represent the future of the building industry. He highlighted the opportunity for innovation and social impact provided by participation in the Decathlon. Stanford is in a great position to excel at this competition, being at the heart of Silicon Valley and an innovator in green technology, wrote Ouyang in an email to The Daily. Weve built solar cars before; its about time we built a solar home. Contact Marshall Watkins at mtwatkins@stanford.edu.

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SOUTH AFRICA
Courtesy of Irteza Binte-Farid

LEADING THE WAY IN

NOTES FROM ABROAD

COSAT

lmost all the South Africans I have met here in Cape Town have been filled with a radiant energy and a willingness to share. This attitude was clearest on our trip to Khayelitsha, one of the poorest townships in the Cape Flat area, a region outside of Cape Town. Our group visited Rosie, a local woman who runs a soup kitchen. She charges 60 cents per meal, but those who cannot pay this price can provide kitchen labor in exchange for food. Even amidst the rows of shacks and mounds of trash, there are initiatives to provide ways in which the poor can procure cheap but quality food. When we got off the bus at Rosies, a group of 20 to 30 children came to greet us. Some of the Stanford boys played soccer with them, while a group of 15 boys aged between 6 and 15 came over and wrote their names down in my journal, because they wanted me to remember them. This page of names is going to be one of my most valuable possessions from this trip. Seeing the children playing and laughing reminded me that children everywhere are happy
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creatures: they need only guidance and a safe, loving environment. It saddens me that lack of opportunity allows so many of them to fall prey to drugs, violence and teenage pregnancy. There is, however, reason to hope for the children of Khayelitsha. We visited the Center of Science and Technology (COSAT), a school that has been declared one of the best in South Africa. COSAT educates the poor children of Khayelitsha free of charge, using funding from non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Adolescents from grades eight to 12 are given rigorous educational training they attend school from Monday to Saturday and receive subsidized transportation and free lunch. The funding, teacher dedication and student passion for learning, despite parental apathy in many cases, ensures that these children have a chance to attend tertiary educational institutions once they graduate from COSAT. The schools matriculation rate is 83 percent! COSAT has set an example in the region, with other schools attempting to copy its model.
Irteza Binte-Farid

SEARCHING THE STACKS

PROFILE
By CHRIS FREDERICK

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icture yourself in a library. As you walk down row after row of books, panic begins to set in. If this were the moment for a casual stroll through the stacks, breathing in the smell of weathered pages and perusing an intriguingly titled volume, perhaps you would enjoy the sight of such grandeur, but at this moment, all you can think about is the 10-page paper you have due tomorrow and how you have no idea where to find your next source. This is where SearchWorks enters the picture. One of the primary functions of a library is to enable people to discover information that might be useful, said Tom Cramer 94, associate director of digital library systems and services at Stanford. This is an especially demanding job at Stanford, a university with collections made of 6,825,821 information resources. To organize such a vast quantity of information, librarians have needed to collaborate and think creatively. The result is SearchWorks, Stanfords next-generation library catalog. At the heart of SearchWorks is Blacklight, a software project developed at the University of Virginia. Blacklight is powered by Apache Solr and Apache Lucene, the same open-source search engine software used by Netflix and Ticketmaster. While Stanford was the first university outside of Virginia to adopt Blacklight, about eight other universities, including Columbia, Johns Hopkins and the University of Wisconsin, now use the project. At first, libraries relied on commercial software, which often simply replicated the traditional card catalog in an online form. These commercial solutions proved inadequate, however, so li-

braries decided to collaborate and create new software for themselves. This approach matches the historical behavior of libraries, according to Cramer. There are more books than librarians in the world, and labor is expensive, so libraries have been very good about figuring out how to share and cooperate with each other for centuries, he said. SearchWorks debuted in the fall of 2010. It took three years and a team of about 16 people to produce a replacement for the previous catalog, Socrates. While developing SearchWorks, the team made a special effort to consider the unique needs of the Stanford community. For example, Chris Bourg, assistant University librarian for public services, drew from her experience working with undergraduates while a graduate student at Stanford. I represent the scholars point of view, the students point of view, Bourg M.A. 98 Ph.D. 03 said. A feature SearchWorks has that Socrates lacked is relevancy ranking, which makes results appear in order of their relevance to a search. Because SearchWorks is open-source, librarians can tweak the ranking to suit an academic environment. For example, journal titles show up higher in the list than they would otherwise; they get a little boost, Bourg said. A student who runs a search using the keyword science, therefore, will find the journal Science included near the top of the results. Faceted search, another important feature, allows users to limit their search to particular kinds of items. For example, a user can search only for videos located in the music library. If you look at the interface, it has a similar feel to Amazon or Zappos, or other kinds of online

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e all remember the firsts. Pasted into scrapbooks, framed on the wall, documented in writing, they surround us with memories of the beginning. First word, first step, first day of school, first kiss, first love, first loss.These are the stuff of stories, easily recalled at family reunions and dinner parties. But how often do we remember the lasts? Whether I like it or not, my time for firsts at college is coming to a close. Halfway through senior year, the moment I never thought would actually come graduation is barreling toward me. Where did all that time go? I remember thinking about high school graduation in a similar way: one of those oh-so-distant events that I knew would have to happen in theory but couldnt picture in reality. Only this time around, college graduation is that much more of a surreal milestone; its practically hitting me between the eyes, and I still cant fully process the reality. The thought of my last day of college is a little terrifying. But what really scares me, more than graduation itself, are all the other lasts that get lost along the way. At least I can ready myself for my last day as a Stanford undergraduate. But will I really remember the last time I walk through the Quad? Or buy coffee from the Bookstore? Or say hi to those same two cashiers at TresEx? Those are the little moments that I wont realize are happening until theyre over. Where do all the lasts go? They are elusive, hard to pin down or identify. Theres no way to know when the last time we see our parents will be. Or the last time we kiss our boyfriend or girlfriend goodbye. Or the last time well sit down for coffee with a best friend. Or the last time well think of ourselves as children. Certain lasts are out of our control. But there are others we have more of a say in.As hard as it is to know that the end point is approaching, at least we have more opportunities to make each preceding moment count.We can choose to fill our time with more firsts and more meaning. We can take advantage of every moment on hand, so that when the last is finally here, were content with what came before. Its a challenge, to say the least.

Leslie Brian
Ill be the first one to admit not being particularly adept at it. I mean, lets be real: once I finish my columnist stint, my sanity will more than likely go down the tubes without these obligatory weekly reminders. As much as Ive griped over deadlines and column ideas, Ill actually be sad to let this huge time suck go. Now that I only have one last shot, I cant believe I was ever at a loss for words. Theres so much I left unsaid. Ive been thinking a lot about this last column. Number 13 to be precise. What I wanted it to say, and what I wanted to leave you with. So, in the spirit of lasts, please indulge me in a short take-away moment. If you (or I!) get anything out of this column, I hope its this: Life isnt a constant trajectory. It has its ups and downs. It zigzags. It bobs and weaves and traverses shaky terrain. We can never know for certain where well be 15 years down the road or where were ultimately heading. But every moment is a step in a given direction. And as long as you take each step with purpose, chances are that youll end up where you want to be. When you live a life of satisfying moments, youll end up with a satisfying life. I feel like this column has been a bit of a downer, but that really wasnt what I intended. The point was that its never too late to turn a year of lasts into a year of more firsts. I dont have a choice about graduating on June 17. That date is set in stone. But I do have a choice in how to live my life up until that point. There may only be half a year left at Stanford, but what a half a year it will be. So, until then, wish me luck on the journey! I wish you the same. Lets see if we can both follow my own advice. Luckily for you, this isnt the last time youll have to hear from Leslie. You can always email her at labrian@stanford.edu.

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ment become messier than a delicious steak quesarrito when we view it within the context of relationships. Everyone has their own subjective expectations of reality that create their definition of fair and deserving. European imperialists may have understood their actions in the 19th century as fair. (The take-what-isyours mentality is extremely appealing when you are the one that defines what is yours.) And this is the problem. Weve been imprisoned within in a world of entitlement. Some fail to see the doors are locked. Others fail to see the bars at all. But we all, to some degree or another, have become slaves to our own sense of fairness and what we believe we deserve. I would argue that living your life according to fairness and entitlement, for both yourself and others, is captivity rather than freedom. I see a great example in romantic relationships. Lets say one person gives loving gestures, reaches a certain level of honest vulnerability or even lets the other persons mistakes slide over and over. These are very normal and necessary things to maintain a relationship, and if they are done purely out of love and appreciation, everything is fine. But, sometimes they are done less out of love and more out of an unspoken expectation that things will be reciprocated because that is what is fair. The first person will begin to feel they deserve the actions to be reciprocated, and if they are not, then the person grows resentful. Ultimately, our desire to always get what we deserve is an attempt to grasp an illusion of control on the world around us. If I study so many hours, then I will get a good grade, because that is what I deserve. If I sacrifice my time helping others or go to church or am a good person, then good things will happen to me, because that is what I deserve. But it is just an illusion of

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control. I have a good friend from high school that was recently involved in a serious car accident. Broken bones, collapsed lung, internal bleeding and signs of brain damage. He didnt deserve that. He was a great person, but regardless of moral characteristics, no 21-yearold deserves that. No person deserves that. But it happened. Beyond anything that he or I or anyone could control, it happened. Suddenly, even the little things seem like a blessing an act of grace. I believe there is a world free of entitlement if only for moments and instances at a time. If I wake up every day feeling entitled to a certain career, a certain quality of friends and a certain level of happiness for whatever reason, then anything less is the taunting cry of dissatisfaction. But, if I wake up everyday and tear up the scorecard of the things Ive done and the things I deserve, then the act of waking up in itself is already more than I am entitled. Everything else is icing on the cake. The good things are that much better, and the bad things dont seem as bad. I can do the really hard things, like forgiving and being grateful and sacrificing and loving in the most difficult of times. You know, the things that are worthwhile the things that are, by definition, unfair. I have the words nothing is alright written on the cover of the journal I carry. Sometimes nothing is alright is my answer to how things are going with the world, and sometimes, if Im lucky, nothing is alright is my answer to what I am expecting of the world. In the end, we are beggars all . . . And ladies, Chase knows that youre begging for his love. In this case, he thinks reciprocation is fair. So why not email him at ninjaish@stanford. edu.

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shopping, Bourg said. Were making the library catalog experience similar to other experiences that people have online. Features particularly useful to students include the cite this button, which produces a bibliographic citation in MLA, APA or Chicago format. Users with smart phones can also store information about a book by taking a photo of its QR code or sending an automatically generated text message to their cell phone. Some may argue that the efficiency of SearchWorks takes away from the library browsing experience. Theres this [lost] notion of serendipity, where if Im walking down the library stacks I can find a book just by looking at the books to the left or the right, Cramer said, highlighting the spark of discovery. However, the reception from users of the new catalog has been positive, as students usually need to find sources immediately for projects. SearchWorks is not a one-time project but rather an ongoing program. One new aspect of the SearchWorks team is the addition of more images to the catalog. By the end of this year, there will be something like 50,000 [digitized images] in there, Cramer said. Another area of future development would enable users to search in non-Roman scripts, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This addition would benefit speakers of foreign languages and allow the catalog to be more userinclusive.The key to the continued improvement of SearchWorks, according to Cramer and Bourg, is feedback from users. What I hope students and faculty know, is that [SearchWorks] evolves based on whats needed by students and faculty, Bourg said. Contact Chris Frederick at cfred@stanford.edu.

ets talk about entitlement. (I had about three paragraphs of witty humor and background on the issue of piracy including a killer Sir Francis Drake joke to provide a topical and relevant introduction before I pulled the ol bait-and-switch, as usual, but due to my limited word count, I was forced to reduce those paragraphs to this one, long, most likely run-on explanatory sentence.) We all place expectations upon others and ourselves which color the way we operate and behave throughout the day. These expectations become our normative standard for what is fair and deserved. If I give the lady at Chipotle $6.55 plus tax, and she gives me a delicious steak quesarrito (quesadilla + burrito) then everything is kosher (well, at least in the non-Jewish sense of the word; Im not sure by what dietary laws Chipotle prepares their meat). But expectations and entitle-

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So when the opportunity came in the spring of 1961 for students to protest racial discrimination, the Singletons and Patton decided to join. When the [first] bus got burned and the second bus got beat up and the third bus got beat up and they called for more because they wanted the Rides to continue and show that violence would not overcome non-violence, it was a no-brainer for me, Helen Singleton said. Little deterred the panelists or their fellow activists from continuing the Rides. Each group that was arrested, they would be put in the paddy wagon, Patton said. And they would sing We Shall Overcome. The panelists also had words of advice for young idealists seeking to change the injustices they witness in the world. Theres no love in iPods; theres no love in computers. We

didnt have those things . . . we had each other, we had love, Patton said. We need to get away from [the gadgets], either get away from them or learn how to use them to find a way for this country to move forward. What was overt at that time is covert now. Many of the discriminations, we could stare them down. Now, theyre hidden, Bob Singleton said. They still discriminate . . . [so] you have to get together and ask yourself, How do we combat [this]? His wife had a more direct advice. Whatever pisses you off, thats your issue, she said to laughter and applause. Finally, the speakers called on young people to remember that much remains to be improved in racial equality. Dr. King didnt die getting a civil rights bill, Carson reminded the audience at the end of the panel. He died fighting for sanitation in Memphis. And those are issues we still havent dealt with. Contact Edward Ngai at edngai@ stanford.edu.

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Junior Stacey Tan (above) won both her singles and doubles matches in the No. 2 Stanford womens tennis teams season-opening 6-1 win over No. 58 UC-Davis on Wednesday. Tan lost just four games in her singles match as the Cardinal had no trouble dispatching the Aggies.

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By CHRISSY JONES
STAFF WRITER

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Weve had great results together so far and were looking forward to improving our chemistry and match play, Gibbs said. Its a privilege to be on court with her, and Im going to continue to work on getting closer to the net, finishing points more effectively and making more returns. The other two courts followed suit, as junior Stacey Tan and Tsay defeated Koehly/Zamudio of UC-Davis 8-5, and sophomore Amelia Herring and senior captain Veronica Li also beat Curry/Edles 8-3. Singles matches began soon after, as Gibbs remained on court one to compete in her opening match as the Cardinals top player. It was definitely an honor to be playing at this spot in the lineup, but in terms of strategy, it was the exact same, Gibbs said. I was

The Stanford womens tennis team reappeared on the Taube Family Tennis Center courts to kick off its 2012 campaign without a home winning streak, without former No. 1 player Hilary Barte and without holding the top spot in the ITA national rankings. Even with the new flavor, however, the No. 2 Cardinal (1-0) breezed past No. 58 UC-Davis (1-3) to capture the win, 6-1. The match had several firsts, with sophomore Nicole Gibbs debuting at No. 1 on the ladder, top-recruited freshman Ellen Tsay participating in her inaugural collegiate dual match and three doubles teams consisting of completely new pairings. First didnt translate into foreign though, as Stanford demonstrated its familiar powerful doubles play with three straight victories to gain the first point of the match. The No. 1 team of junior Mallory Burdette and Gibbs pumped up the Cardinals spirits as the duo crushed the Aggies Chui/Heneghan 8-1 in the first match.

just trying to put a win up on the board for my team as I tried to do all of last year. Gibbs gave her team more than just a win as she delivered a devastating blow to Dahra Zamudio of the Aggies, 6-0, 6-1. She finished at about the same time as Li, who blanked Nicole Koehly, 6-0, 6-0. The two victories collectively gave the Cardinal the morale boost it needed to close out the match. Although junior Natalie Dillon fell to Ellie Edles in a tight, three-set match, 6-0, 4-6, 1-0 (7), Stanford managed to pull out the victory with wins from Burdette on court two, 6-7 (6), 6-2, 1-0 (8), Tan on court three, 6-3, 6-1, and Tsay, in her first dual singles match, on court four, 6-1, 6-2. We were all really impressed with her performance and her constant positive outlook throughout the match, Gibbs said of Tsays triumph. Its tough to step into your first dual match as a freshman, but she definitely took advantage of the opportunity. Stanfords victory over the Aggies was the

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TROJANS, BRUINS COME TO FARM

By DASH DAVIDSON
STAFF WRITER

At No. 6 in the nation, the Stanford mens tennis team heads into its most important weekend of the young season with a lot of momentum. This weekend promises to be full of action as two of the Cardinals biggest rivals UCLA and USC visit the Taube Family Tennis Center. Stanford is coming off two dominant wins against Saint Marys and Santa Clara, but No. 1 USC and No. 9 UCLA will surely provide a fierce earlyseason test for head coach John Whitlingers team. Stanford (4-0) is still awaiting the return of its two-time All-American No. 1 player Bradley Klahn, who is out for the next couple of weeks with an injury, so the Cardinal will be without some of its top firepower against the tough Southern California teams. Klahns absence has, however, provided an opening in the lineup for a couple of the teams new faces: freshmen John Morrissey and Robert Stineman. The two freshmen have already proved that they are not players to be trifled with, regardless of their age. Our freshmen played awesome. You wouldnt have known it was their first dual matches, sophomore Jamin Ball remarked after last weekends wins. Surely the mental resolve of these rookies will be tested against by far the Cardinals toughest opponents of the young season. On Friday afternoon, the highly contested rivalry between Stanford and USC will resume. Last season, the teams played twice in some of the fiercest matches of the season. USC escaped both times with victories, but during the teams second match, the Cardinal had several chances to win before ultimately falling 4-3. USC is the three-time defending national champion including last years national championship victory on the Farm. This will be the Trojans first trip back to Taube since winning the nation-

uiz time. Whats the best way to remove all questions about the future stability of your program when youve got a first-year head coach and your three best players headed to the NFL? Answer: sign the best recruiting class in school history. By signing the nations fifth-best class (and the countrys best class of offensive linemen) on National Signing Day, the Stanford Cardinal announced to the college football world that its recent success will not be short-lived. But perhaps the most interesting thing about Wednesday, other than the Cardinals massively successful day, was the Cal Bears rapid fall from the top of the nations recruiting rankings.Together, the rise of the Cardinal and the fall of the Bears revealed something interesting about the Cardinals recruiting and how much more stable the Cardinals future is when compared to every other program in the country. Less than a month ago, Cal was expected to bring in the best recruiting class in the Pac-12 and one of the top 10 classes in the country.After securing commitments from safety Shaq Thompson, defensive tackle Ellis McCarthy and receiver Jordan Payton, head coach Jeff Tedford and the Bears were the talk of the Pac-12. Then it all came crashing down. When Cal head recruiting coordinator Tosh Lupoi left to take a job on Steve Sarkisians staff at Washington, the Bears started losing top recruits faster than a snake sheds its skin. On Wednesday, Thompson followed Lupoi to Washington and McCarthy and Payton both went south to UCLA. High school athletes are fickle, and they didnt want to be a part of a program that didnt have the guy that recruited them still on staff. Meanwhile, across the Bay, the Cardinal also saw its recruiting coordinator head off for greener pastures this January. Brian Polian, the Stanford special teams coach and chief recruiting coordinator, joined the Texas A&M staff in January, but, unlike Cals recruits, the Cardinals prospects didnt stay away. Instead, they flocked to the Farm. At the same time that the Bears recruiting class fell apart, the Cardinal crystallized the best class in school history. When asked if the Cardinal coaches had to change their approach to recruiting when Polian departed, head coach David Shaws answer contained some interesting revelations. No offense to Brian, who did an outstanding job here, but there was absolutely no change to our recruiting, Shaw said. Thats because these kids are attracted to this place, to Stanford University, to our style of football, and thats not going to change. A lot of things happen like that at other places, but for here, what weve got going here, if one or two guys left, theyre not going to deter what weve got going and the style that we play. All year long, Shaw said that Stanford was the only place that had a topfive BCS team and a top-five education, and thats what set the school apart from anywhere else. And if Wednesdays recruiting results are any indication, that top-five education coupled with a top-five football team was such a big advantage that losing a critical coach didnt make any difference to the Cardinals recruiting class. In essence, Stanford can now claim something that no other school can claim: it is impervious to losing recruits strictly because of coaches. Every year, coaches like Lupoi switch schools and recruits follow them. But as Shaw said, that same kind of exodus from the Farm isnt likely to occur just because one guy moves along. While it might not be smart to draw grandiose conclusions from just one recruiting class, instead of no longer being a school where you can get a great education and, oh yeah, theres a football team too, Stanford is now a truly great football school where you can get a great education and no one guy can make or break a recruiting class. That makes it different from any other place in the country. Make no mistake, college football world as weird as it might seem, Stanford is a football school now. And its going to stay that way for a long time. Brian Polian may have left, but Jack Blanchats columns are staying on the Farm. Ask Jack how he singlehandedly convinced so many top recruits to attend Stanford at blanchat@stanford.edu or follow him on Twitter at @jmblanchat.

Stanfords recruits here to stay

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Junior Denis Lin (above) will need to step up this weekend as the No. 6 Stanford mens tennis team welcomes No. 1 USC and No. 9 UCLA to the Farm. The Cardinal is still without senior Bradley Klahn.

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FOOTBALL|Cardinal inks 22 recruits on National Signing Day

Shaw said he and the coaching staff knew long ago that this crew of linemen would be more than capable of replacing NFL-bound offensive linemen Jonathan Martin and David DeCastro. [The coaches] had a conversation last spring that Ill never forget . . . The comment was made in the room that this could potentially be one of the best offensive line classes in modern football history, Shaw said. Its just the combination of size, athletic ability, toughness . . . its rare that you get that many guys that can play this well. Shaw said that getting a big class of offensive linemen was the Cardinal coaching staffs number one goal this year and that the Cardinals ground-based offensive philosophy made it easy to secure such a good class. We have a great offensive line here, but we havent had the volume of guys that we needed in the last two classes, to be honest, Shaw said. We needed to make a big push this year not just for quality, which you always want, but for quantity as well. I think weve got outstanding teachers here in [offensive line coaches] Mike Bloomgren and Ron Crook, as far as the techniques that help these guys to be successful on this level and the next, Shaw continued. We play a scheme that translates very well to the NFL. I think thats extremely attractive [to recruits]. In addition to the Cardinals big commitments along the offensive line, Stanford got a boost to an already-solid defensive class when defensive end Aziz Shittu, the third-best defensive end in the country, became the third fivestar player to sign with the Cardinal. Shittu committed to the Cardinal last year, then decommitted in June 2011, but finally wound up back where he originally started on Wednesday. While Peat, Murphy and Shittu stole the show and the headlines on Wednesday by choosing the Cardinal, Stanford also (finally) officially secured the services of players like Barry J. Sanders, Noor Davis and Alex Carter, who all committed to the Cardinal months ago. Sanders, the son of football leg-

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The Stanford football team, fresh off the best two-season stretch in program history, welcomed 22 members of the recruiting class of 2012 on Wednesday. The Cardinal signed the highest-rated class in school history, including multiple five-star recruits and one of the best offensive line classes in college football history. Head coach David Shaw expects many of the incoming freshmen to compete for jobs in all three phases of the game.
end Barry Sanders and the nations ninth-best running back, will bring his 4.4 speed and shifty moves to an already-deep backfield. We didnt need a running back, weve got a great group of running backs, so [the coaching staff] said, if were going to take one, were going to take a guy thats a difference maker, a guy thats special. And we found one in Barry Sanders, Shaw said. Davis, the nations fourth-best linebacker, adds to a corps of linebackers that is already stacked for next season. Weve got a really good group of inside linebackers and outside linebackers, but when you run across a guy like Noor Davis, you cant pass him up, Shaw said. Hes that good as a football playhave its second opportunity to develop and improve. Even though Stanford cleaned up last year with a 7-0 win against the Ducks, the women are not entering the match with a lackadaisical mentality. Our expectation is always to win, and I think well be able to do that, Gibbs said. Individually, though, we always have to expect a battle. Im looking forward to matching up to a higher-ranked team and continuing to build. The action continues in Eugene this Saturday at 12 p.m. Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj@ stanford.edu. er, and the high character as an individual that you want to surround yourself with guys like that. Finally, Carter, the nations third-best defensive back, could fill in right away in the defensive backfield for the Cardinal, which will lose three senior starters from 2011. Were always looking for defensive backs, theres been years where weve gone through classes without a single one, Shaw said But to get a guy like Alex Carter, whos that big physical corner that NFL teams are looking for. While the Cardinal already has one of the nations finest groups of recruits assembled for 2012, it could get even better this Friday or next Wednesday if Jameis Winston, the nations top quarterback prospect, decides to switch his commitment from Florida State and come to the Farm instead. Winston committed to the Seminoles some time ago but recently has wavered in his commitment since learning of his acceptance to Stanford and decided to delay signing his letter of intent to later this week. Altogether, Shaw assembled a class that topped the Pac-12 in his first-ever recruiting class as a head coach and a class that far outranked any of the recruiting classes of his predecessor, Jim Harbaugh. However, Shaw didnt hint that his new group of players would come in with any special privileges in 2012 some will earn their way onto the field, others will be redshirted. There is a possibility that these guys can come in and compete, Shaw said. But at the same time, guys that come in ready to play, those are the guys that are going to play. I tell the guys all the time, I dont care what year they are. True freshmen, fifth-year seniors, the best guys going to get on the field. With a recruiting class this talented and deep, Shaws biggest problem might just be finding enough spots for his best players. And with the new precedent hes set in the recruiting game, that job might get even harder when the fax machines start screeching again next February. Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@stanford.edu.

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first step in its journey to fulfill an obvious season goal: winning the NCAA Tournament. I think we see our goals in terms of the big picture, Gibbs said. We are narrow-minded in that we are looking for a championship. We wont be perfect on day one, but we hope to be as close to perfect as possible come May. The Cardinal heads north this weekend to face Oregon and will

MENS SWIMMING AND DIVING

By GEORGE CHEN
DESK EDITOR

Card preps for California tri-meet

Three of the top six mens swimming and diving teams in the country are set to compete at the USC McDonalds Swim Stadium this weekend with regular-season bragging rights on the line. In this matchup of California schools, No. 3 Stanford (6-1), No. 5 USC (3-1) and No. 6 Cal (3-1) will have the chance to display some fast swims and also make a case for the Pac-12 to be the best mens swimming and diving conference in the country. Conference pride aside, Stanfords main priority will be to bounce back from a close loss against No. 1 Arizona, another Pac-12 foe, two weekends ago. This Friday, Cal will square off against USC while Stanford will swim exhibition, meaning that the Cardinals swims will not be officially scored. The day after, it will be the Cardinals turn to battle the Trojans with Cal swimming exhibition. This means that Stanford will not officially compete against Cal at this quasi tri-meet. The muchanticipated matchup between the two cross-Bay rivals will not come until Feb. 18, the last meet before the Pac-12 and NCAA Championships. Looking at the possible matchups against USC, the Cardinals strongest events also seem to be the Trojans forte. Both teams have already posted some speedy times earlier this season. In the 200 backstroke, Stanford has three of the eight fastest swimmers in the country, with freshman David Nolan leading the way. But the Trojans also have three top-12 swimmers in that event. One of them is junior co-captain Alex Lendrum, who owns the secondfastest time in the country about a second faster than Nolans time. The same scenario holds true for the 200 individual medley. Stanford has four swimmers in the top 12, but the fact that two USC swimmers have the third- and fourth-fastest times in the country may very well nullify the Cardinals strength in that event. Stanfords best bet seems to be in the distance events, which have always been a consistent source of points for the team. In the 500 freestyle, Stanford has five of the nations top-10 fastest swimmers compared

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al championship over Virginia. On the court, USC is led by defending NCAA singles champion Steve Johnson, who played as an amateur on the pro tour in the fall, making him ineligible for the current collegiate rankings. Johnson and Klahn are old rivals and have played several scintillating matches against each other over their college careers, but with Klahns injury, the task of neutralizing Johnson will now fall to Cardinal senior Ryan Thacher, ranked No. 46 nationally. UCLA is 4-0 in the early season and will play Stanford on Saturday at 1 p.m. The Bruins are a perennial top-10 squad and have

been worthy rivals of Stanford for several decades. Last year, however, the Cardinal easily handled the Bruins, defeating them 6-1 at Taube. The Bruins are led by a core of underclassmen that are supplemented by more seasoned players at the lower singles positions. Their top three singles players No. 72 Clay Thompson, No. 86 Marcus Giron and No. 94 Adrien Puget are two sophomores and a freshman. Before playing Stanford on Saturday, UCLA will do battle against Cal on Friday. Historically, whenever these Southern California schools venture up the coast to the Farm, great tennis matches are waged at the Taube Family Tennis Center. This year promises to be no different. Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@stanford.edu.

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MENS VOLLEYBALL
By MIKE SCHWARTZ
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Stanford travels to face No. 1 BYU

A year that began with national title aspirations hasnt gone according to plan recently for the Stanford mens volleyball team. After suffering an early-season loss to No. 3 UCLA, the Cardinal dropped another match to the No. 5 Penn State Nittany Lions last Friday. However, the No. 7 Cardinal redeemed itself with an impressive win over the defending national champion No. 9 Ohio State Buckeyes at their arena. The Cardinal will look to take this momentum into Provo, Utah, as the team gets set to face off against a very tough BYU squad. After losing to UC-Irvine in the first game of the year, the No. 1 BYU Cougars (6-1, 4-0 MPSF) have been nearly unstoppable. They have won their last six matches in a row, most recently beating USC 3-1 and 3-2 in a pair of weekend matches. This streak includes two payback wins over the formerly No. 1 Anteaters. The Cardinal (52, 2-1) will look to hand the Cougars their second and third losses of the year this weekend in a highly anticipated matchup between two mens volleyball juggernauts. Leading a balanced offensive attack for the Cougars are sophomore outside hitter Taylor Sander and senior opposite Robb Stowell. Sander is posting an unprecedented 4.90 kills-per-set mark, while the 6-foot-7 Stowell is not far behind with 3.58. The pair has wreaked havoc on opposing defenses, using their above-average height and athleticism to overwhelm their opponents. In their last match against USC, the duo combined for 46 kills. Stanford will need to step up on defense to stop the talented BYU attack. This daunting task rests primarily on the shoulders of Stanford middle blockers Gus Ellis and Denny Fells. However, the team will also need a strong effort from sophomore outside hitter Eric Mochalski, who leads the team in blocks this season with 15. While the Cougars are known for their offensive firepower, they boast one of the nations best defensive units as well. Junior middle blocker Russ Lavaja leads the team with 42 blocks and a 1.45 blocksper-set average. Lavaja is one of the nations best defensive middle blockers, and he will not make things easy for the Stanford offense. Still, the Cardinal players like their chances. Senior captain Brad Lawson summed it up, saying, weve been watching them on film all week. We know they have great blocking, great attacking, but were ready for the challenge. Lawson, who has easily been Stanfords most dominant player this year, will lead the offensive charge. Lawson leads the Card in total kills (170) and kills per set (3.52). He is clearly looking to earn a spot on this years AVCA AllAmerican First Team, just as he did last season. A strong effort against the No. 1 Cougars would certainly help his case, but Lawson is more concerned with his team. Pitching in for the Card is sophomore outside hitter Brian Cook. He leads the team in hitting percentage at a solid .350 mark and is not far behind Lawson in kills per set with 3.20. Both Cook and Lawson recorded 17 kills in their last match against USC, propelling Stanford to a much-needed victory. The pair

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to USCs two. In the 1650 freestyle, the duo of senior Chad La Tourette and freshman Bryan Offut has made it difficult for opponents to outscore Stanford in distance events. On top of that, veteran La Tourette is arguably the countrys most reliable distance swimmer in dual-meet situations he hasnt lost a dualmeet event since his freshman season. Stanford may also be able to exploit USCs weakness on the diving board. The Trojan diving squad consists of two freshmen and a junior competing in his first collegiate season. Cardinal freshman Kristian Ipsen will look to lead the way in capitalizing off USCs inexperience. Ipsen is undefeated in the springboard events so far this season, often dominating his opponents by over 50 points. While Ipsen is not overlooking his collegiate dual meets, he is also preparing for bigger international meets at the same time. Hell be competing in

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will need to bring their A-game if the Card wants to upset BYU. Its a test, but I think [we] are excited to play such a talented volleyball team, Lawson said. As far as tests are concerned, a midterm exam may more accurately describe this contest. Stanford has yet to play a team as talented as BYU, and might not for the rest of the year. Still, the Cardinal has the discipline and talent to beat any team in the country, including the Cougars, and a sweep of BYU this weekend would certainly turn some heads in the world of mens volleyball. These two matches start a stretch of 18straight conference matches to finish the regular season, so positioning in the MPSF will be on the line as well. The Cougars and Cardinal square off on Friday and Saturday night. Both matches will begin at 6 p.m. P.T. Contact Mike Schwartz at mikes 23@stanford.edu.

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The Stanford mens swimming and diving team will take on USC this weekend at a tri-meet with Cal. The Cardinal will start off with exhibition on Friday while Cal faces USC, and then Stanford will battle the Trojans on Saturday.
one of them, the London World Cup, starting on Feb. 20. USCs most powerful weapon may be sophomore Vladimir Morosov, the fastest sprinter in the country. As a freshman last year, Morosov was the 2011 Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year, a four-time All-American and a top-six finisher in both the 50 and 100 freestyles at the NCAA Championships. Morosov has continued to push down on the gas pedal this season, as he currently owns the countrys fastest times in the sprint events by absurd margins. Given that the Cardinals sprinting duo of junior Aaron Wayne and senior Geoff Cheah will at least push Morosov, there are bound to be some eyepopping times in the sprint events on Saturday. Stanford will swim exhibition against USC and Cal at 2 p.m. on Friday and swim dual against USC at noon on Saturday. Both meets will be at USC. Contact George Chen at gchen15@ stanford.edu.