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Maathai speaks on development, sustainability

Daughter of Nobel Peace Prize recipient discusses human development in Kenya
By NATASHA WEASER
DESK EDITOR

Future of Trail funds uncertain

By ILEANA NAJARRO
STAFF WRITER

Groups weigh in on Alpine Trail future; March decision possible

Wanjira Maathai, daughter of the late 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, discussed her mothers vision of sustainable development for Kenya, as well as the ongoing challenges the country faces, when she spoke to an audience of approximately 40 people at the Y2E2 Building Monday evening. She is the voice of the new Africa and has impressed her own footprints on the path of her mothers vision, said Tanaka Mawindi 13, copresident of the Stanford African Students Association (SASA), as she introduced Maathai to the audience. Wangari Maathai, mother of Wanjira, founded the Green Belt Movement (GBM) in Kenya in 1977. The GBM began as a grassroots treeplanting program intended to tackle deforestation and has since evolved into a global organization that addresses environmental and human development issues while fighting for female empowerment. To date, the organization has planted over 40 million trees in Kenya and around the world, a number it hopes to increase to one billion.

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Professor Lawrence Marshall discussed Juan Riveras successful appeal after 19 years of wrongful imprisonment. Marshall and 12 Stanford Law students led Riveras appeal.

Trustees elect new chair, Steven Denning MBA 78

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The University Board of Trustees elected a new chair at its February meeting, current chair Leslie Hume 71 Ph.D. 79 announced in a press briefing Monday. Steven A. Denning MBA 78, current vice chair, will replace Hume on July 1. Hume praised the work of Denning, chairman of General Atlantic Partners LLC, a worldwide private equity firm he co-founded in 1980. I could not be more pleased that Steve is willing to take on this leadership role, Hume said, referencing his impressive and varied leadership roles, including his work co-chairing The Stanford Challenge, the Endowment Strategic Review Committee and President Hennessys advisory committee on the Universitys proposal for a New York City applied sciences campus. Denning also chaired the Stanford Task Force on Globalization. Prior to his time at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), Denning served six years in the U.S. Navy and received an M.S. from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Denning earned his B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1970. He lives in Greenwich, Conn., with his wife Roberta Bowman 75 MBA 78, and their two children: Robert MBA 11 and Carrie 08 MA 09. Denning has served on the Board since his 2004 appointment.

Rivera shares 19 year prison ordeal

Wrongful imprisonment overturned with help of Stanford Law students, professor
By CATHERINE ZAW
STAFF WRITER

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Juan Rivera, released last month after serving 19 years in prison for being wrongfully convicted of murder, spoke yesterday afternoon at Stanford Law School about his experience. Speaking to an audience of over 100 students and faculty, law professor Lawrence Marshall Riveras lead appellate counsel recounted his clients ordeal. Riveras case began in 1992 when 11year old Holly Staker was found violently raped and murdered in her home. Rivera, in jail at the time on a minor, nonviolent charge, told a fellow inmate that he had seen a suspicious person entering and leaving a party in the vicinity of the

murder. On discovering that Riveras lead was false, investigators questioned the motivation for his misleading testimony. Rivera was brought up from custody and interrogated for three days, upon which he eventually confessed to the crime. But his confession was blatantly wrong, Marshall said. Although the confession that Rivera originally made didnt match up with the evidence from the crime, according to Marshall, they extracted a different confession, correcting the various mistakes within a few hours. Although the state sought the death penalty for Rivera, he was instead sentenced to life in prison.

After San Mateo County rejected Stanfords proposal to spend $10 million to repair the Lower Alpine Trail in December, how these funds might be spent instead remains unclear. Stanford Campus Residential Leaseholders (SCRL) and local environmental advocacy groups testified two weeks ago before the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors as to how the $10 million should be spent. These leaders spoke to The Daily about the future status of both the funds and the trail. James Sweeney, professor of management science and engineering and president of the SCRL, highlighted a strong push by advocates to use the funds for a community grant program. The initiative would provide grants for applicants subject to a competitive process. Larry Horton, senior associate vice president and director of government and community relations, emphasized, however, that the funds potential applications are limited. Stanford and Santa Clara County entered into a contract in 2006 that requires Stanford to pay this money to Santa Clara County if San Mateo County did not want to use it to fix their own badly degraded and unsafe trail, Horton wrote in an email to The Daily. That same contract also requires that this money paid to Santa Clara County must be used only to provide recreational opportunities for Stanford campus residents and facility users. Sweeney said that he hopes the funds will be used for projects that directly benefit on-campus residents including homeowners, students, faculty and staff. He recognized, however, that the county is unlikely to make a decision quickly. I think the County Board of Supervisors General Counsel is going to have to make some judgment as to whether that is even legal, Sweeney said, and then there would be the political judgment on whether the county board of supervisors wants to go beyond what were the legal requirements because there is a lot of political pressure on them to ignore the legal requirements. P.J. Utz, a professor in the School of Medicine and leader of the Committee to Fix Lower Alpine Trail, said that several local groups such as the Committee for Green Foothills have presented proposals to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to use the funds for various projects beyond the

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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

John Taylor discusses nations economic recovery with students

By JAMIE KIM John Taylor, senior fellow and former director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), spoke to a group of about twenty undergraduates Monday afternoon on how best to revive the American economy. In summarizing his recently published book, First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring Americas Prosperity, Taylor argued that the countrys best hope of economic revival lies in a return from its current deviation to its founding principles of economic freedom in fiscal, regulatory and monetary policy. Taylor stressed the importance of abandoning temporary fixes for the ongoing recession to adopt more substantial free-market, non-interventionist economic policies sustainable in the long term. Taylor previously served as an economic advisor in the administrations of President Gerald Ford and President George H.W. Bush, as well as the presidential campaigns of Bob Dole and George W. Bush. Taylor began his informal halfhour address by describing the five key principles laid out in his book, citing a predictable policy framework, the rule of law, reliance on markets, strong incentives and limited government. Taylor asserted that, historically, economic growth in the United States has coincided with adherence to these principles, from which Taylor added that recent administrations have strayed. Drawing the first of many comparisons to Americas economic history in the past half-century, Taylor noted that the current economic recovery has been slow in comparison to recovery from the 1981 recession. The gap, or the hole, is as deep

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John Taylor, an economic adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, discussed the recovery of the U.S. economy from the recent recession, arguing for a return to free-market principles to spur growth.

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active. Twelve students from Stanford Law School worked on Riveras successful appeal. Patricia Pei 04 J.D. 10 was one of them. Pei became involved with the case after reading an email about Rivera. We were lucky to meet Juan and see him face to face, Pei said. He was struggling through life in prison, but he was still maintaining overall a really positive attitude. I thought, if this is how the guy in prison is doing, I better work my ass off when I get home. The students showed me what humanity was, Rivera said. I was wrongly convicted, and I was in prison hoping someone would listen. In prison, Rivera educated himself. He would ask the students for books to read and thanked them for encouraging him to learn. I would tie the books up with string and use them as weights, too, Rivera added. You have to be both healthy in body and mind. Rivera also became a vegan during his time in prison and worse? I think its worse because they did those things. Taylor disputed the concept that economic policies are necessarily partisan, citing Nixon as an example of a Republican who campaigned on free-market themes and for political reasons flipped, and Clintons continuation of the free-market trend begun by Reagan. Student questions focused on the economic recovery and future government policies, with Taylor expressing uncertainty about the direction of the next administration. In addressing the effect of government policy as opposed to natural business cycles on unemployment levels in the current recession, Taylor stressed the importance of avoiding temporary and unpredictable policies enacted to generate short-term benefits. Incentives matter, he said. Business people talk about this great uncertainty which holds back hiring and therefore holds back demand. Taylor ended his talk by noting that developing countries have gone in the opposite direction from the United States, moving closer to these free-market principles even while America has been moving away. Thats why theyre doing well, he concluded. Contact Jamie Kim at jbkim1@ stanford.edu. helped cook food for fellow inmates. After my second trial in 1993, I thought myself a monster, but I educated myself to show others who I truly am as opposed to what Im convicted to be. I refused to come home uneducated, come home as Juan, Rivera said. Not everyone in prison is simply lost. There are preliminary things this case can teach us, Marshall said. On the legal side, we now understand the extent to which confessions are tremendously dangerous devices, especially with the way that they can be extracted. With a videotape of the interrogation, Rivera would have never been convicted. The jury needs to be able to see what was in the sausage of the confession. The other point that I want to make is that lawyers were not only part of solution but also part of problem, Marshall added. Juans prosecutors were condemned with a case of tunnel vision and became so wedded to the idea that he was guilty that they couldnt see what other people could see in the evidence. We have to remember to not be wedded so we can open our eyes to new information. Rivera received a standing ovation as Marshall offered him a cardinal Stanford sweater. Now I have the chance to go to college, go home, meet my parents, Rivera concluded. I love the sun; I love petting the dog. These are things we take for granted, but I cherish every second of life. I think its strange that people talk about how monumental these kinds of things are, because I feel that Juan did this for himself, Pei said. I want to emphasize that even though this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, stories like these exist, and they are waiting to be told, and its a matter of putting yourself out there to take on those stories. You have the opportunities and connections to make these kinds of things happen. If you have the chance to be a part of it, be part of it. Contact Catherine Zaw at czaw 13@stanford.edu. If the lawyers say you can build anything you want, anywhere you want, then I would not be surprised if there was a descent to going to court, but thats just my pure speculation. Horton said, however, that Stanford is still willing to negotiate some form of compromise. We have testified before the Santa Clara County Board that Stanford would like to work with the County to find a mutually agreeable resolution that is satisfactory to both parties of the contract, Horton said. Stanford remains a party of interest in this matter. As for the Lower Alpine Trail, which remains in a state of dangerous disrepair, according to Utz, while San Mateo County Supervisors are in contact with Santa Clara County Supervisors to try to receive some funding for the trails repair, the likelihood of any funding relief is slim considering San Mateo Countys earlier rejections of the funds in their entirety. If the funding is going to be used to build things on campus, Utz said, then there will probably be more discussions about trying to bring some of the money over to help fix the trail. But, again, I would view the likelihood of that happening as less than 1 percent. Contact Ileana Najarro at inajarro@stanford.edu.

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In 2008, the Dennings gifted $13 million to the University to endow the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SICA) directorship and to provide endowed funds for SICA programming, in addition to establishing MFA fellowships for graduate students in the fine arts. Distance learning Another significant discussion topic of the Boards February meetings was distance learning. Hume characterized a panel on the topic as the chance for the trustees to entertain three issues: the history of distance learning at Stanford and elsewhere, the experience of three courses offered online this past fall and what Stanfords mission regarding distance learning will be in the future. The trustees also heard a panel on entrepreneurship and took a moment to celebrate and savor the successful conclusion of The Stanford Challenge, a five-year all-inclusive fundraising drive that raised $6.2 billion in pledges to the University, Hume said. The Board also passed project and construction approval for several campus renovations, including the Stanford Research Computing Facility at SLAC.
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RIVERA

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I was surprised and relieved, Rivera sad. But I was a young kid and naive. Prison is still a death penalty; its just in one you die quicker than the other. Riveras case was reopened in 1996, with his defense hinging on an electronic tag, attached to his ankle, which showed that Rivera was at home the entire day of the crime. Prosecution claimed the tag had broken, and the evidence was disregarded. In 2005, a lawyer from Northwestern University heard Riveras story and got involved, pointing to a lack of DNA evidence from the crime scene. Juan Riveras DNA was not there, Marshall said. There was a single perpetrator. This is a classic false confession case. Instead of dropping the case, the prosecution forges ahead and says there might have been DNA contamination. The prosecution claimed that the girl was already sexually

TAYLOR

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as when we started, he said, referring to the current economic situation. In that case, the recovery was much better. The average growth rate in 10 quarters [then] was about 6 percent; in this case its about 2.5 percent. Taylor presented the countrys recent economic history in distinct phases, first faulting what he described as interventionist and unpredictable economic policies implemented in the mid-60s as contributing to economic instability in the 1960s and 1970s. By contrast, Taylor cited Reagans return to predictable free market policies in the early 80s as contributing to sustained growth and a model for future U.S. policymakers. He then criticized the recent regression to unpredictable policies, characterizing the Federal Reserves lowering of the interest rate near the beginning of the recession, as well as the subsequent stimulus package and bailouts as improvised and spontaneous. Taylor acknowledged the difficulty of assigning causality and correlation between these policies and the subsequent state of the economy. Thats still a big struggle, he said. Would things have been

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Stanford campus. Meanwhile, representatives from SCRL suggested several ways for the funds to be used, including the development of an inner and outer hiking and cycling loop trail around and within campus land. Other proposals included park restorations and the construction of a park near the Mausoleum. Sweeny said that, regardless of the current proposals, the SCRL is looking to create an internal process in which they can give a voice to all residents, including students, as to how the fund should be used. These proposals are suggestions, but we would like a process that allows a weighing in of those for whom the money was intended, Sweeney said. At the public hearing, Supervisor Liz Kniss requested that the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors lawyers report back on how the county can legally use the funds by the end of March. While there is no set time limit for the Countys decision, all parties must wait until the County lawyers investigate the legal limitations. It really all boils down to what the lawyers say, Utz said.

Stanford engineers improve solar panel technology using nanoshells

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF A team of Stanford engineers has pioneered the use of tiny spheres of nanocrystalline-silicon to increase light absorption in solar panels. Engineers coated small balls of silica with silicon and etched away the silica center using hydrofluoric acid. This process produces lightweight spheres of silicon, which prevent light from escaping the shell after initial absorption. Once trapped in the shell, light circulates within the structure, allowing the silicon to absorb the light as time elapses. Three layers of nanoshells achieved an absorption rate of 75 percent. A single layer of these nanoshells was also found to absorb a broader spectrum of light than a regular layer of silicon. The nanoshells are more costefficient, reducing both the amount of material used for the absorption of a unit of light and the amount of time needed to produce the shells. The nanoshells can be fabricated in just a few minutes. The shells also absorb different light angles to a greater degree, allowing solar panels to absorb more light from the sun even when originating from different points in the sky. The flexibility of the nanoshells further allows solar panels to be used in areas where incoming solar light angles are far from ideal. Researchers hope to extend the use of nanoshells to sparser materials, such as Indium and Tellurium, according to Vijay Narasimhan, a current doctoral candidate working in the lab of professor of Yi Cui and a co-author of the paper published in Nature Communications.
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Wanjira Maathai currently serves on the GBM Board of Directors and, since 2002, has been directing International Affairs for the organization. The event, titled, Trees for Africa and Beyond: The Vision Continues, focused on GBMs vision of sustainable development for Kenya, as well as the history of the organization and its future plans. The event was held in a question-and-answer format and was moderated by Alon Tal, a visiting professor at the Center for Conservation Biology. Maathai emphasized the widespread nature of GBMs work, which extends to food security, energy, education and womens rights. All these issues affect one another, she said. We find that the best way to address them is through community-level projects. It is key to point out the devastating effects of deforestation

from an economic viewpoint, she added. It leads to things like the destruction of water systems and the decline of tourism. This is a language that people understand. According to Maathai, her proudest achievement is the role that the organization has played in increasing environmental awareness in Kenya. The biggest challenge for us initially was that environmental [issues] became political, she said. Someone had to speak for the environment because the government was abusing it, and that got us into some trouble. Maathai said that persistent advocacy helped Kenyans become more aware and educated on environmental issues and helped the organization to win in the court of public opinion. Maathai invited Stanford students to become involved in the organization, citing her mothers 2006 visit to East Palo Alto to initiate a tree-planting initiative by Canopy, a local environmental non-governmental organization (NGO). To date, 1,600 trees have

been planted. Growing up, some people didnt really understand the value of trees, said East Palo Alto resident Nancy Leech, who was part of the 2006 initiative and attended Mondays talk. Wangari inspired the community to pay greater attention to the environment. Addressing the future, Maathai said the organizations main goal is to anchor its position and ensure that her mothers vision lives on since her death last September. The establishment of the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies in Nairobi, which she heads, has contributed to this effort, Maathai said. GBMs intertwining of human development and the environment is one of the most inspiring stories I have seen in the environmental sphere, said audience member Michael Peuelas 15. I was impressed by her incredible drive and the pertinence of the issues she raised. Contact Natasha Weaser at nweaser@stanford.edu.

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VOLUNTEERS PLANT OAK TREES ON THE DISH TO FILLAGE GAP

By PINNAREE TEA-MANGKORNPAN
avid Schrom was running on the foothills at the Stanford Dish when he noticed something disconcerting. There was an age gap between the oak trees on the Dish only very young and very old oaks were growing. He started to fix the problem using what he called a guerilla tree-planting thing. I started to plant acorns in little cages, and the cow came in and tore all those little cages, Schrom said. So then I took fence post and barbed wire up there . . . and got caught doing that. Around the same time, John Hunter Thomas M.A. 49 Ph.D. 59, professor of biology, was doing work on the flora of surrounding areas. Thomas and his students became interested in Schroms project. Schrom, a swim instructor at the time, talked to the students about the oaks. They decided to hire a consultant, who, after studying the foothills, supported Schroms claims that the trees needed to be replanted. In 1984, Schrom signed a contract with Stanford and started Planting for the Second Hundred Years. The project is run by Magic, a nonprofit corporation Schrom co-founded in 1979. Magics members practice valuescience science applied to shed light on questions of value, such as cooperation, healthy living, protecting the environment and the betterment of humankind. Planting oaks is a sophisticated process. Aside from digging a hole in the ground and putting the tree in it, planters also need to build berms to prevent water from flowing away since the oaks are planted on a slope. Planters place protection, such as steel bars and wire mesh, around a newly planted oak to protect it from animals. Volunteers also place mulch over the soil to retain moisture, reduce erosion, provide nutrients and prevent weed growth and seed germination. The volunteers plant two species of oaks live oak and valley oak to increase the survival rate. A planting session usually lasts three hours. Last

December, Magic called for volunteers from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. A lot of people hung on and pitched in extra work to make sure that it got finished up, said volunteer Chris Quartetti 98. During winter and spring, Magic and its volunteers make sure that the tree protection remains in place. They clear the weeds and renew the mulch. From May to October they hold watering sessions, when volunteers water the oaks to help them survive the dry weather. For the first two years, volunteers water the trees every week. In the third year, watering sessions take place every other week. Trees that have been in the ground for four years or more get watered once a month during winter and spring, and three times during the summer. Each watering session takes about an hour. Magic has a regular group of volunteers but invites Stanford community members to commit to onehour watering sessions at any time. Magic has planted more than 2,000 oaks, of which 1,000 have survived. In the early years, we were just learning, Schrom said. We were among the first people in the state to actively engage in regeneration of oaks. Now, according to Quartetti, the oaks survival rate is 90 percent. Other comparable projects have an average survival rate of 40 percent. The difference is that we really take care and put in all these precautions and protections, Quartetti said. Schrom thinks of the project as a communal effort. He is primarily concerned with the heads and the hearts of people who come out there, he said, and hopes that they reconnect with other people and the landscape itself. [We wanted volunteers] to get the sense that theyre part of something bigger, Schrom said. Theres possibility in working together to achieve things that seem daunting, but if we all pitch in, may be quite attainable. Contact Pinnaree Tea-mangkornpan at pinnaree@ stanford.edu.
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hile Freshman Sophomore College (FroSoCo) may be known on campus for its quiet and studious environment, on one evening every quarter, FroSoCaf brings lively discussion in a special format to the West Campus dorm. Hosted by Nadeem Hussain, dean of FroSoCo, at his residence, FroSoCaf brings students together to discuss a variety of intellectual and personal issues at five to six cafe tables, each with its own unique discussion topic. A host, or intellectual DJ, sits at each table, briefing new participants on the prior discussions. This allows newcomers to quickly build upon the ideas previously developed. After about a half hour of discussion at a table, participants move to a different table to explore a new topic. Questions considered by participants at the Oct. 21 FroSoCaf included Can science ever inform moral questions? and How do you feel about the duck syndrome that you observe around you? Participants also debated more personal questions such as, Who inspires you? and practical questions, such as, Is Stanford worth the cost? Jay Patel 14 created and implemented the idea of FroSoCaf, drawing on European and international educational models that strongly support students to cultivate the self. Sukrit Narula 14 and Sumat Lam 14 teamed up with Patel to bring his idea to fruition. Patel wanted to provide a forum to discuss topics beyond students usual comfort zones in a non-judgmental and calm atmosphere. He said he sees the discussions as a means of bonding the participants to form a tighter, more collaborative Stanford community. According to Patel, students can formulate their most original thoughts through informal conversation and communication.

With Frosocaf, the ultimate goal is to just bring the community together, Narula said. This event is an embodiment of the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Considering the opportunity that we have . . . being at Stanford, where the sum of those individual parts is very large already, we figured that we were doing our part for the community by bringing those parts together. FroSoCo-ans have responded positively to the idea. Students described the fourth FroSoCaf on Jan. 20 as invigorating, stimulating, relaxing, fun and deeply interesting. Perhaps of all its little quirks, I enjoy Stanford most for those spontaneous opportunities to share late-night conversations with roommates and neighbors from all manner of subjects practical philosophy, religion, Star Wars, entrepreneurship in Africa and music, said Justin Lee 15. FroSoCaf is a glorious dorm-sponsored extension of this fun with an engaging structure, delectable munchies and a soothing ambiance that perfectly complements the intellectual fire, he added. Some residents, however, would like to see more sophomore involvement in FroSoCaf. Being an event geared towards both freshmen and sophomores, FroSoCaf could better integrate sophomores to fully unlock its potential, said Shahab Fadavi 15. In addition to inspiring high-minded intellectual discussions during FroSoCaf, the program has the potential to affect the dorms regular culture, said one attendee. Giving people space to express themselves can be a norm we set, said Kelsie Pombo 12. Looking to the future, FroSoCafs main goal is to spawn similar discussion events in other dorms around campus. According to Patel, spreading and sharing insights with the rest of the Stanford community in a grand mix of ideas could unite international and American students, as well as the east and west sides of campus. Contact Shirley Yarin at syarin@stanford.edu.

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I simply do not have the time or the resources to answer each of these questions before every meal. Sometimes it seems like the more I learn about food, the less I feel qualified to make educated decisions about what Im choosing to eat. But even if my knowledge of the environmental, health and social-justice implications of food can be overwhelming, I still believe that an informed decision is much better than an uninformed one. In order to facilitate decision-making in complex, interdisciplinary systems with limited information, we need a set of basic guidelines within which to operate. Begin by considering what qualities of food matter the most to you. Being indecisive, I still try to seek out foods with positive environmental, health and social-justice implications. Though there are many problems associated with the organic label, it provides me with an easy way of guaranteeing that certain basic environmental and labor concerns are being addressed. Next, allow yourself some wiggle room, because you cant always be perfect. My eating behaviors have changed drastically since the days when my doctor-mother and nurse-father dubbed me the carnivorous queen of the family. Now I try to build 70 to 80 percent of my diet around locally sourced vegetarian meals, ideally based from whole food ingredients (bulk grains like quinoa and brown rice, dried beans, fresh produce). This gives me the flexibility to munch on frozen blueberries, splurge on chocolate peanut butter ice cream and eat locally sourced meat on occasion. Finally, accept that your food choices will probably differ from those of others. I know that my diet is not the best or right one. Some of my friends urge me to consider veganism, while others espouse the health benefits of protein-rich, lean meats. One friend can hardly let a week pass without tomatoes, even if all he can find in February are, understandably, flavorless, rusty-colored rocks flown in from Latin America. For the most part, I respect each of my friends food choices. I dont necessarily agree with them, but I am proud that they are at least making informed decisions about their meals.

very Saturday morning I wake up to a Weekly Kitchen Digest email, which is an update of what fresh produce my house of 50 will be enjoying for the week. Sent by the student kitchen managers at Synergy, a cooperative house, these emails tend to tickle my imagination with opportunities for the next week of chopping, steaming, sauting and eating. This past Saturday, the list featured co-op staples like kale and carrots, wintertime citrus treats, a few Fuji apples that have likely been in cold storage since fall and an array of produce items that, though they tingled my taste buds, left me wary about their origins. I love bananas and strawberries like no other, and I have been known to eat whole cartons of blueberries in one sitting. But sadly, my inner local foodie knows that even if it feels like summertime outside, these fruits have traveled many miles to reach my mouth in the dead of winter. For example, this weeks bananas are organic fruits sourced from Mexico and Central America. On the one hand, their fair trade certification gives me some reassurance that the plantation workers who helped grow these fruits were not mistreated in the production process. Still, each banana emits, on average, 80 grams of CO2 due to travel costs and the fossil fuels invested in production. These conflicting tidbits of information garnered from classes at Stanford, a fixation on food politics and an obsession with environmental justice can make choosing what to eat a rather complicated process. Every time I decide what to fix myself for lunch, I am confronted by a series of similar dilemmas. For instance, the strawberries this week are from Natural Choice Foods, which means theyre certified organic berries from Oxnard, Calif. Though theyve traveled a shorter distance than the bananas, and the company doesnt use the pesticides associated with conventional berry production, the strawberry industry still has a record of labor and safety concerns. And what does the company mean by natural foods? Do I want to assume the organic label meets my personal standards for sustainable food?

Jenny Rempel
It can be draining to contemplate the broad-ranging implications of every food we eat, but it is important to consider the environmental, health and social-justice ramifications of our eating behaviors. Im not advocating decision fatigue over whether you should reach for the strawberries or the tangerines, but it is important to reflect on the fact that what we choose to eat every day has implications that stretch far beyond our individual waistlines. Think you can teach the carnivorous queen a thing or two about food choices? Let Jenny know your suggestions by emailing her at jrempel@stanford.edu.

ve heard it said that there are essentially two types of stories: a stranger coming to town, and a person leaving their home on a voyage of discovery. In the former, the main characters familiar world is shaken and disturbed by an outsider to such an alarming degree that returning to the status quo is no longer possible for example, the movie Footloose. (I think. I havent actually seen Footloose. Though I have seen the scene in Hot Rod where Andy Samberg angry-dances in the woods, which I hear is an allusion to Footloose. I also danced to the song Footloose in an 80s musical in high school. And by danced, I mean violently hipthrusted behind everyone else the entire song.) The latter is an adventure story. The main character leaves home and must adapt and expand his or her worldview according to fascinatingly bizarre new interactions and discoveries for example, in Alice in Wonderland, Candide or The Odyssey (at least according to SparkNotes . . . just kidding, Honor Code). While both stories follow a characters changes and challenges, I feel the latter heavily embodies the college experience. A lot can happen away from home, away from familiarity and security. The people around you dont behave the same way, share the same beliefs or value the same things as the world to which you once belonged. It is a fascinating new world to freely explore or a menacing unknown to fear at every turn. In this sense, we are all nomads, pilgrims and wanderers, all on a voyage of discovery. But the more important discoveries to be made and tensions to be tamed are completely internal. It is the voyage of self-discovery. Only when weve left home and divorced ourselves from the influences and expectations of our friends, family and familiarity can we confidently distinguish where their perceptions of us stop and where we truly begin. Is this really what I believe, or is this just what Ive always been taught and expected to believe? Is this actually what I want to do with my life or just what my parents expect of me? Is it wrong of me to think Dubstep has no redeeming qualities? These are questions that dont have simple answers (except the last one, which is not just a definitive, resounding no, but also includes a shame on you for even second-guessing wag of the finger.) If we treat this time in college, our first independent steps into the real world, as an adventure, an exploration of identity and selfawareness, we gain a freedom and forgiveness incompatible with the stepping-stone-to-success mentality. In the success framework, a test failed or an opportunity blown is unforgiveable. You cant get it back, and theres no redeemable outlook. But there are no wrong turns in an adventure. There are dangers, setbacks and complications, but if you are seeking experiences that reveal who you are and who you want to be, every situation is a stepping stone. There is

Chase Ishii

There are no wrong turns in an adventure.There are dangers, setbacks and complications, but every situation is a stepping stone.
grace and redemption at every turn. This doesnt promise or imply that life will always be enjoyable. Adventures often include long treks across scorching deserts, over blistering mountains and through shadowed valleys. Honest introspection can easily lead to feelings of frustration, shame, inadequacy, bitterness or helplessness. But entering into this dangerous vulnerability is where we truly find ourselves, who we are deep down to the core. Its about this time every quarter when I begin to feel extremely restless, like Stanford is the last place I want to be. (Dan Campbell would say, Im not sad anymore, Im just tired of this place.) But as I learned last year, after spending a month at home and then three months halfway across the world, the restlessness really had nothing to do with where I was but rather how I was. I had to peel back layer after layer of ugly truth about myself to reach the dark heart of the matter a lot of unresolved bitterness. Only in comprehending the extent of how easily my actions could be guided by pride and resentment could I truly understand the necessity of forgiveness, humility and honesty in the person I wanted to be. The voyage of self-discovery constantly requires effort and intentionality, with many ups-anddowns, but it is an adventure nonetheless. We must dismantle to repair. If you have thoughts or questions or would just like to see Chase violently hip-thrust to Footloose live and in person email him at ninjaish dot stanford dot edu.

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SPORTS
By JACK BLANCHAT and ZACH ZIMMERMAN

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FIVE-SET THRILLER
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Tom Taylor

Long Beach States Walter Pyramid, the eighth wonder of the collegiate world, had been anything but wonderful to the Stanford mens volleyball team in recent visits. On Friday, the Cardinal took in the architectural anomaly with winning spirit.

MENS VOLLEYBALL STANFORD CAL.STATE NORTHRIDGE 2/11, Matadome

No. 4 Stanford (9-2, 6-1 MPSF) eked out a five-set victory in one of the nations most thrilling sagas, beating the No. 4 49ers 18-25, 25-17, 22-25, 25-20, 15-12. The victory snapped the Cards three-match losing streak to Long Beach State and continued Stanfords recent dominance. Stanford coach John Kotsy was impressed by his teams performance, particularly those of his middle blockers, Eric Mochalski and Gus Ellis. The two combined for 16 kills on .625 hitting, a phenomenal line symbolic of a careful team effort. It was an indication of our passing, Kotsy said. When the middles hit at a high percentage, it means were passing pretty well. Senior Brad Lawson added a team season-high 21 kills for the Cardinal, who battled back from a 2-1 deficit to grab a crucial road win. Sophomores Steven Irvin and Brian Cook joined Lawson in the double-digit-kills club, adding 15 and 10, respectively. The win was the fifth in a row for the Cardinal, but the team

went into instant-recovery mode in preparation for another tough road test less than a day later. And while Stanford had little time to recover for another huge contest against a ranked MPSF foe, it continued its winning ways against No. 11 Cal StateNorthridge (4-7, 2-5) the next day. The Cardinal walked away from the Matadome with its fifth consecutive road victory after a 25-22, 18-25, 25-22, 25-19 win, mostly thanks to a career night from Cook. The sophomore followed up his strong night against Long Beach by recording a careerhigh 26 kills against the Matadors the most kills by any player on the Cardinal this season. Cooks 26 kills surpassed his previous career-high of 20 kills and contributed his biggest kills when the Cardinal needed him most. Tied 1-1 after two sets, the Santa Cruz native threw down eight kills in the third set to help win the set and swing the momentum in the Cardinals direction. In addition to Cooks crazy night, Lawson was his typical outstanding self once again, recording 19 kills of his own. With just two games left on its 40-day quest away from the Farm, Stanford has now compiled a 6-2 record with the only blemishes coming against UCLA and Penn State. Kotsy said that solid record, as well as Stanfords current five-game win streak, indicated that the Cardinal is starting to gel at the right time. We see the light at the end of the tunnel, he said. Were learning how to win on the road. Thats the lesson here. Those are how conference champions are

Lovestruck by sports

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Middle blocker Eric Mochalski (No. 13) and the Stanford mens volleyball team survived a tough weekend on the road, winning close contests against MPSF foes Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge.
made. You make it a routine; you get in a groove. After earning its second consecutive weekend sweep, the Cardinal will wrap up its epic 10game road schedule next weekend at UC-Irvine and UC-San Diego, but the bulk of the tough MPSF schedule still lies ahead. With 13 games left against conference foes, Stanford is currently in second place in the MPSF, but it will need to continue its hot play to stay in the heart of the race against a league stacked with solid competitors. However, the Cardinal will play 11 of those 13 conference games at home over the last three months of the season. Stanford continues its quest for an MPSF title on the road this weekend in Irvine and San Diego, with the first match against the Anteaters at 6 p.m. on Friday. Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@stanford.edu and Zach Zimmerman at zachz@stanford.edu.

WOMENS SOFTBALL
SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Pitching perfection keys hot start at Kajikawa

By MILES BENNETT-SMITH The perfect game is every pitchers ultimate dream: 27 batters up, 27 batters down. The odds of throwing one is roughly 1 in 52,000 games pitched. It took Stanford softballs Teagan Gerhart and Nyree White just five games, as they threw a combined perfecto against UC-Santa Barbara in Sundays finale of the season-opening Kajikawa Classic. The pitching duo needed just 65 pitches to mow down Santa Barbaras lineup in a game that was shortened to five innings after the No. 9 Cardinal (4-1) scored four runs in the top of the fifth and run-ruled the Gauchos. The junior Gerhart opened with 2.2 perfect frames, including four strikeouts, before the freshman White took over and sealed the deal in a performance that was so dominant that the Gauchos failed to hit a single ball out of the infield. It was a nice cap to Stanfords season debut, which saw a mixture of the promise preseason pollsters saw in the team and the potential weaknesses exposed against top teams. The Cardinal got the ball rolling in the first game of the season on Friday morning against Cal State-Northridge. Coach John Ritmann used 20 of his 21 players in a 13-1 rout of the Matadors, and all eight freshmen saw action at some point in a game shortened to five innings by the mercy rule. Gerhart, Stanfords ace in the circle, retired

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NEW-LOOK CARD LOSES OPENERS

By SARAH MAISEL
STAFF WRITER

The No. 6 Stanford womens lacrosse team dropped its first two games of the season over the weekend, losing at home for the first time in more than a year.

failed to find the win column, falling to No. 18 Ohio State 14-10. This time, the team struggled with possession in the first half but did score on four of its six shots. Senior Catherine Swanson scored twice early on, while Farr and senior

Maria Fortino added the final two. Stanford went into halftime trailing 7-4 for the second time in as many games. The Cardinal offense returned to the field ready to play and tied the score less than three minutes

WOMENS LACROSSE OHIO STATE 14 STANFORD 10 2/12, Varsity Turf

The Cardinal held its own in the first half of Friday nights eventual 18-6 loss to No. 1 Northwestern, the defending national champion, with Stanfords backfield standing strong against the Wildcats relentless attack. Sophomore goalkeeper Lyndsey Muoz had eight of her career-high 13 saves, and the defense forced seven turnovers. Despite outshooting Stanford 19-8 and winning every draw control, Northwestern only led 7-4 at the half. After the break, the Cardinal defense held the Wildcats scoreless for eight minutes, keeping its upset hopes alive. Northwestern, winner of six of the last seven NCAA titles, finally broke through with 21:39 left in the game. The team scored three more times before Stanford sophomore Anna Kim eventually found the net with 13:14 remaining. Freshman Hannah Farr provided the lone other goal for the Card, while the Wildcats added seven more. Northwestern played a much cleaner game overall, committing a total of 12 fouls and 14 turnovers to Stanfords 34 and 20, respectively. The Cardinal did pick up six draw controls but could not convert on those possessions. Sundays game proved to be a better match, but Stanford again

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The No. 6 Stanford lacrosse team faltered in its first two games of the season, losing contests to No. 1 Northwestern and No. 18 Ohio State. The Cardinal faces another top opponent in Notre Dame this weekend and hopes to find its groove after graduating several key players.

in. Senior Anna Boeri scored right away off an assist from her sister, Emilie, who then also scored. Kim added the last goal to make it 7-7. Ohio State answered with three straight goals of its own, and the Cardinal never bounced back. Although the Cardinal outshot the Buckeyes by a 22-11 margin in the second half, Stanford simply did not convert often enough to win. Sophomore Rachel Ozer, junior Carolyn Bradley and Swanson scored the last three goals, but the Card could not capture the lead. The last goal gave Swanson her first hat trick of the season. Although this early struggle puts the usually dominant Cardinal into unfamiliar territory, the games provided the young team with valuable experience as it heads into another top-20 matchup this weekend against Notre Dame in South Bend. Many Stanford players are starting for the first time, with several freshmen reserves seeing their first collegiate action. The inexperience should fall away as the season continues, and the team will undoubtedly benefit from competing against elite programs. Starting the season with such challenging games should only make Stanford more competitive in the coming weeks as it tries to win its eighth straight conference title and make its third consecutive NCAA tournament appearance. We learned a lot from the games this weekend, said junior defender Nina Swanson. Obviously the turnout wasnt what we wanted, but it showed us what we have to work on for the upcoming games. Were excited for Notre Dame. Contact Sarah Maisel at sgmaisel@ stanford.edu.

o, in case you hadnt already realized it from the countless television ads and store promotions, its Valentines Day. Technically a holiday that honors a handful of early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine, today it is better known as a day on which people express their love. Id honestly rather write about golf than anything romantic, but I dont want to be accused of being a spoilsport. So, in my effort not to kill the mood, Im going to talk about my love of sports. My first love was Formula 1. I started casually flicking on the TV every other Sunday to watch the races, but soon I was besotted. The time I devoted to F1 spread from the two-hour race window to the entire weekend, from first practice through qualifying. My relationship became an obsession; I never missed a race, tuning in even while on vacation. I scoured racing magazines from front to back, reading every single word devoted to the sport. I had an unhealthy knowledge of statistics, down to a lap-bylap memory of races. I thought this would last forever, but then F1 began to change. It started flirting with the idea of drawing in new fans and inadvertently lost me. I cant quite say when, but somewhere along the way we drifted apart. That is when I really began to notice soccer. I cant lie and say Id never played or watched the game before I am, after all, English but outside of the World Cup and kicking a ball around in the park, it didnt play a huge part in my life. Perhaps it was better that way. Soccer is the one sport that always breaks my heart. There is nothing quite like seeing your local team relegated that desperate fall from grace into an unknown abyss or your national team coming up short (yet again). When I was a child, I guess I never quite realized how deeply soccer runs in the fabric of English life and how deeply the pain of consistent international failure cuts. Im not even sure if I enjoy watching the sport its such a painful experience, even when my team wins but nothing in this world, nothing at all, matters more than soccer. There are others, too, probably more than I want to mention in detail here. With cricket and rugby, it was never love at first sight. I honestly hated the two sports as a kid. Maybe it was some sort of rebellion against my family my brother, father and grandfather were all fans but just like onions, when I grew up I actually found myself enjoying them. On this side of the Atlantic, basketball was my first American crush. Unlike other American sports, I had actually played this (albeit badly I always seemed to end up sliding across the floor on my ass), so it is the one with which I feel I have at least some cultural connection. My childhood best friend also moved to Massachusetts for a couple of years when I was a kid, and through him and his brothers I found out about Michael Jordan and Shaquille ONeal. Now, even if it will never be able to compete with soccer for my affections, the college season, especially in March, is a highlight of my year. And finally I get to my current flirtation, football. This is the one that really makes no sense, as we share pretty much nothing in common. I get frustrated by the long breaks in play and struggle to get excited about the very narrow roles of many of the players. Some might spend their entire careers without even touching the football, let alone actively participating. It should also simply be genetically impossible for me to like this game; its not football, its American football. Football is soccer. And yet I traveled to two major Stanford road games last year, and I am already thinking about visiting Notre Dame next October and getting back to campus ahead of the start of term to hopefully catch another victory over the Trojans. I can no longer deny that I like college football. Just dont tell soccer.

Tom Taylors early love for Formula 1 leads us to believe that hes still looking for the one. Provide ideas for more acceptable mates at tom.taylor@stanford.edu.

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A GOLDEN UPSET
By GEORGE CHEN
DESK EDITOR

Much was at stake on Saturday afternoon, when the No. 8 Stanford womens swimming and diving team squared off against defending national champion and top-ranked Cal at the Avery Aquatic Center. In the final meet of the regular season, which held important implications for both teams heading into the Pac-12 Championships, the Cardinal pulled out a huge upset victory.

WOMENS SWIMMING AND DIVING STANFORD 174 CAL 126 2/11, Avery Aquatic Center
Recent history has intensified the rivalry between the Bay Area schools. After all, Stanford lost to Cal in last years regular season dual meet a tough 10-point defeat that came down to the final event. The Cardinal edged out its rival at the Pac-10 Championship, but went on to see the Golden Bears win the grand prize, the NCAA title. Fast-forward one year. The Golden Bears came into the dual meet as the No. 1 team in the country, looking to clinch its first undefeated regular season since 2006. The Cardinal made sure its

rivals had to wait at least one more season. Stanford (9-1, 6-0 Pac-12) defeated Cal (7-1, 5-1 Pac-12) by a margin of 174-126 in the highly anticipated showdown, and in the process, the Stanford women accomplished an impressive feat: upsetting three opponents ranked higher than them in the span of four weeks. Without showing any signs of intimidation, the Cardinal got off to its usual fast start by winning the very first event of the meet, the 200 medley relay. Cal led after the first two legs, but senior Sam Woodward swam a blazing butterfly to give Stanford a half-second lead. This allowed freshman Maddy Schaefer to hold off Cal senior Liv Jensen, one of the countrys fastest sprinters, in securing the win for the Cardinal. The win gave Stanford an 11-6 lead that it would never relinquish. In the very next event, sophomore distance specialist Andie Taylor swam close to her season-best time to win the 1000 freestyle. Taylor was neck-and-neck with Cal freshman Catherine Breed for the first 700 yards, but managed to pull away in the final few laps. No Cardinal swimmer won more than one individual event, but Stanford still managed to win 11 out of 16 events. Stanfords most impressive performance may have come in the breaststroke events, one of the teams perceived weakand the Cardinal took a brief lead in the fourth inning on Richs RBI triple. But the Aggies kept taking Gerhart deep, as she gave up three home runs in the final three innings, allowing A&M to push past Stanford and take a narrow 10-9 victory. The loss didnt linger, however, particularly with Gerhart. She picked up two wins in the circle on Saturday, racking up 13 strikeouts over 11 innings in wins over Portland State and Texas Tech. Against the Vikings, Gerhart escaped from a no-out, bases-loaded jam in the second inning with three consecutive strikeouts, and the offense picked her up from there with a steady smattering of runs. It was more of the same against Texas Tech, as Gerhart moved to 31 on the season despite giving up another home run to the Red Raiders star centerfielder, Mikey Kenney. Besides Rich, who has seven RBI and a .500 batting average after the first five games, Rittman can take away plenty of positives from the weekend tournament. Sopho-

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In the teams final dual meet of the regular season, the No. 8 Stanford womens swimming and diving team pulled off its biggest victory of the season, defeating No. 1 Cal in impressive fashion at Avery Aquatic Center.
nesses. Freshman Katie Olson edged out Cals Yvette Yong in the 100 breaststroke by two-tenths of a second. And although the Cardinal was less successful in the 200, it was outscored by just three points. Combining the two breaststroke events, Stanford outscored Cal 1918. One of Stanfords most reliable strengths is the backstroke, and that strength was put on display on Saturday. Sophomore Felicia Lee touched out Cals Cindy Tran in the 100 backstroke a remarkable win considering that Tran is the defending NCAA champion in the event. Backstroke star Maya DiRado also chipped in with a victory mores Corey Hanewich and Danielle Miller each had multiple extra-base hits, freshman Hanna Winter scored five runs and redshirt sophomore Tegan Schmidt recorded her first career at-bat and hit while driving in three runs over the weekend. The defense was very solid as well, committing just one error in the Classic. Although Gerhart struggled against A&M, the home runs were the only real blemishes on her resume in 23 innings she allowed just 13 hits and six walks while striking out 27 batters. The Cardinal will get another chance to work out the early-season jitters in a matchup with UCDavis on Wednesday, before hosting the Stanford Nike Invitational this weekend. The home opener is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on Friday against Pacific. Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu. in the 200 backstroke and put up a valiant effort against Cal junior Caitlin Leverenz, one of the countrys fastest swimmers, in the 200 individual medley. Leverenz had a spectacular meet, as expected, with three individual wins. In both the 200 butterfly and 200 individual medley, she won by an margin of five seconds. The swimmers werent alone in racking up points for Stanford. On the diving side, sophomore Stephanie Phipps swept both the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard events. On the 3-meter, Phipps obliterated the competition, winning by nearly a 50-point margin. The 1-meter proved to be much closer, but Phipps still managed to outscore Cal senior Molly Hayes by more than ten points. Although the Cal diving squads depth was able to essentially nullify Phipps first-place points, Phipps sweep ensured that Cal would not be able to gain back the points it lost in the pool by winning on the diving board. With the regular season over, Stanford will now take time to prepare for the Pac-12 Championships, held from Feb. 20-25, at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash. Contact George Chen at gchen 15@stanford.edu.

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the first six batters in order and allowed just one batter to reach base in three innings of work. White took over next and allowed two hits and one earned run in her collegiate debut. The Cardinal offense had its way with Northridges pitchers. Stanford scored 13 runs, paced by the usual suspects junior shortstop Jenna Rich and senior Ashley Hansen. All-Pac-10 second baseman Rich went 2-2 with three runs scored, and Hansen, last seasons USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, hit a home run to back the pitching effort. In the second game of the days doubleheader, however, the Card ran into some trouble. No. 15 Texas A&M locked in on Gerhart, scoring nine of the teams 10 runs off of five home runs. Stanfords offense eventually responded, as Rich smashed a three-run homer to left-center,

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Junior Teagan Gerhart (above) combined with freshman Nyree White to pitch a perfect game against UC-Santa Barbara at the Kajikawa Classic. The Cardinal won four of its five games at the three-day event.