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A n I n d e p e n d e n t P u b l i c a t i o nwww.stanforddaily.comWEDNESDAY Volume 241

February 8, 2012 Issue 6The Stanford Daily

NEWS BRIEFS

Stanford Challenge

raises $6.2 billion

UNIVERSITY

SFUSD, Schoolof Ed. partner

Tuition rises for 2012-13

academic year

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Board of Trustees approved a 3percent tuition increase for the 2012-13academic year, the University an-nounced Monday. This bump will affectstudents at all schools in the University with the exception of those at theStanford School of Medicine, who willexperience a 3.5 percent uptick in tu-ition.

In a University press release, BoardChairwoman Leslie Hume said the tu-

ition increase will offset the rising costsof salaries and health care. She addedthat the Universitys need-based finan-cial aid program will help to ensure thatstudents are able to continue to study atStanford.

Undergraduate and general graduatetuition will both climb from $40,500 to$41,250 next year. Graduate engineeringtuition will rise from $42,660 to 43,950,and law school tuition from $47,460 to$48,870.

Current business school students willnot experience a change, but those enter-ing the business school this fall will pay 3percent more at $56,850.

Room and board for undergraduateswill increase by 3.5 percent to $12,721,making the grand total cost of a Stanfordundergraduate education $54,506, from

$52,341.The Board of Trustees has approvedsimilar tuition increases in the past. Un-dergraduate tuition has risen by 3.5 per-cent each year for the past four consecu-tive years. Before that, the board in-creased tuition by 5.17 percent for the2007-08 academic year and by 5.4 per-cent for the 2006-07 academic year.

Half of the Universitys general fundscome from tuition, according to the press

UNIVERSITY

Chappell Lougee receives record apps

By MARY ANNTOMAN-MILLER

DESK EDITOR

In education, it is the worst of times andthe best of times, said Claude Steele, dean ofthe Stanford School of Education, at alunchtime presentation Tuesday that discusseda partnership between Stanford and the SanFrancisco Unified School District (SFUSD).Steele opened the event by stating that thispartnership is a model for how schools of ed-ucation can relate to real school districts.

The panelists said that though school dis-tricts are facing budget cuts, changes in tech-nology and educational research can make itpossible to get rid of old deadwood method-ologies that no longer work.

Finland, with the most equitable educationsystem, improved their schools using Ameri-can research, Steele said. He noted the impor-tance of coordination and the need to grapplewith practical problems.

Steele emphasized the need for a broaderrecognition of the importance of education toquality of life and the economy. He said hewould like to see a proper distribution of goodeducation into all communities the entirepopulation.

SFUSD Superintendent Carlos Garciatook time to thank Stanford for the partnershipand referenced the often political nature of de-bate about education.

After 37 years in the business, I learnedthat we all make a lot of assumptions, many ofthem wrong . . . and the world changes, Gar-cia said. He also noted that he believes factsshould be regarded as the most important indi-cator in debate, saying, the data does not takepolitical sides.

Garcia added that because of the economiccrisis, it is important that school systems do notspend resources on places that dont get us re-sults.

Nancy Waymack, SFUSDs executive direc-tor of policy and operations, agreed, saying, If

youre sitting on a dead horse, get off.Waymack referenced the idea that if an old

curriculum isnt working, it should be replaced,not constantly retooled.

The goals for this event were twofold: first,we wanted to bring a larger awareness to theStanford community about theStanford/SFUSD partnership, wrote LauraWentworth, director of the Stanford/SFUSDpartnership, in an email to The Daily. Second,we also wanted to share an exemplar of a suc-cessful partnership to inspire others on campusand beyond who are attempting similar typesof partnerships where research, practice and

policy meet.Wentworth added that this partnership was

formalized during the 2009-10 academic schoolyear to pursue the potential of making theStanford projects in SFUSD more strategicand aligned with the district goals.

Wentworth presented a detailed slide listingthe 28 current joint projects between Stanfordand SFUSD. She broke them into three cate-gories: access and equity, achievement and ac-countability.

Results of five-year fundraising initiative released

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Ghonim analyzesuprisings in Egypt

By MARWA FARAGMANAGING EDITOR

Egyptian revolutionary WaelGhonim spoke Tuesday on the sit-

uation in Egypt one year after theuprisings that toppled formerPresident Hosni Mubarak.

Ghonim was joined on thespeaker panel by history profes-sor Joel Beinin and Dr. OssamaHassanein, chair of the board atTechWadi, a Silicon Valley-basednonprofit that promotes entrepre-neurship in the Middle East. Allthree expressed optimism aboutdevelopments in Egypt.

Moderator Omar Shakir 07J.D. 13 highlighted the timelinessof the event in his introduction.The talk marked exactly one year

since Ghonims release from a 12-day detention by Egyptian statesecurity during the early 2011 up-risings, and a little more than oneyear since the beginning of

protests on Jan. 25.Its a time to reflect back onthe accomplishments of theEgyptian people, reflect on wherewe are today and how we can lookforward, Shakir said.

Beinin spoke first, highlightingtwo main changes Egypt has expe-rienced over the past year.

The most important thing . . .which cannot be reversed is thatthe Egyptian people recovered[their] voice and . . . dignity, hesaid.

By BRENDAN OBYRNEDEPUTY EDITOR

Stanford University announced the conclusion ofThe Stanford Challenge (TCS), its five-year fundrais-ing initiative, Wednesday. The project, a comprehen-sive fundraising push that raised $6.2 billion inpledges to the University, aimed to broadly improvethe Stanford educational experience and better pre-pare future leaders.

TCS provided funding for 130 new faculty posi-tions, 360 graduate fellowships, $1.5 billion worth offacility construction and improvement and over $250million in need-based financial aid for undergradu-ates, according to a press release.

In addition, over 38 buildings were added or im-

proved on Stanford campuses as part of the initiative including the Huang Engineering Center, Arrilla-ga Dining Commons, Knight Management Centerand the Stanford Center at Peking University in Bei-

jing.The response from the extended Stanford family

was tremendous, University President John Hen-nessy said in a press release. This was a community

joining together for something they believe in.Martin Shell, vice president of the Office of Devel-

opment at Stanford, said the idea for TCS came to-gether not long after Hennessy and Provost JohnEtchemendy Ph.D. 82 took office.

Combining efforts with faculty members, adminis-

By MARY ANN TOMAN-MILLERDESK EDITOR

The Chappell Lougee Scholarship for summerresearch projects received a record number of appli-cations by the Feb. 1 deadline, according to Christi-

na Mesa, an Undergraduate Advising and Research(UAR) academic director and the scholarships newcoordinator. Winners can receive grants up to$6,000.

More than 60 students discussed applicationsone-on-one with her, and nearly 40 applied this year,according to Mesa. Last year, 26 Chappell LougeeScholarships were awarded to 15 women and 11men.

The scholarship, open solely to sophomores, wasdesigned to give students in the humanities, creativearts and qualitative sciences an opportunity to spendthe full summer between their sophomore and jun-ior years pursuing independent research topics oftheir choosing. The topics need not be related to stu-dents majors.

Students working in the humanities and socialsciences ought to have the same opportunity as sci-entists to remain on campus or go somewhere to doresearch projects in a natural lab setting, Mesa said.

Mesa added that students proposed a wide rangeof interesting topics, from social media to theOlympics to the history of railroads. A Facebookpage for 2011 Chappell Lougee Scholars offers aspace for the researchers who call themselveschaps to chronicle their experiences.

The Chappell Lougee Scholarships were estab-

lished in 1987 to honor history professor CarolynChappell Lougees work as dean of undergraduatestudies from 1982 to 1987. The original funding camefrom Stanfords Centennial Campaign fundraisingand the Chappell Lougee family.

It was our hope that engaging undergraduatesin research with faculty members would offer stu-dents the advantages of being at a research universi-ty, Lougee said in an email to The Daily. The Chap-pell Lougee scholarships targeted sophomores as away of involving students early on in their under-graduate years.

Winning a Chappell Lougee scholarship does notaffect a students other financial aid. Although facul-

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Egyptian revolutionary Wael Ghonim spoke Tuesday evening one year

after his release from a 12-day detention by Egyptian state security. Hewas joined by professor Joel Beinin and Dr. Ossama Hassanein.

NICK SALAZAR/The Stanford Daily

Stanford School of Education Dean ClaudeSteele welcomed San Francisco UnifiedSchool District Superintendent Carlos GarciaTuesday afternoon, embracing partnership.

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Scholarship grants sophomores up to$6,000 for summer research projects

Senate criticizes LanguageCenters attendance standards

STUDENT GOVT

Bill urgeschange indept. policy

By JULIA ENTHOVENSTAFF WRITER

The ASSU Undergraduate Senateunanimously passed the Calling for Action

to Restore Decency and Equality in Non-accessible Language Courses (CARDI-NAL) Act Tuesday. The bill urges the Lan-guage Center to take immediate action inrevising its attendance policy, whichdeducts two percentage points from a stu-dents final grade for every absence, regard-less of the justification for missing class.

The CARDINAL Act, co-sponsored byMichael Cruz 12, ASSU executive presi-dent, and the Senates Academic AffairsCommittee, was authored by ElectionsCommissioner Adam Adler 12 and six sen-ators.

The bills central premise is that the cur-rent attendance policy violates the spirit ofthe Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990and Stanfords Nondiscrimination Policyby not accommodat[ing] students whomiss classes as a result of a disability or med-

ical condition.Senator Ian Chan 14, who co-authored

the bill and presented it at Tuesdays meet-ing, stressed that automatic grade deduc-tions discriminate against certain groups ofstudents.

In their discussion of the bill both thisweek and last, the senators also noted whatthey termed the policys inconsistent imple-mentation across departments.

Senate Dan DeLong 14 emphasized

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ty mentors are required, academicadvisors are familiar with this pro-gram and serve to guide studentstoward appropriate faculty to helpdevelop research projects.

Mesa noted that the grant is ap-propriate for students who canproceed with a high degree of in-dependence and autonomy.

Good research is responsiveand allows itself to be shaped byresources at hand, so curious,open-minded, teachable studentswho are willing to be wrong and doleg work are the most effective inthis type of endeavor, Mesa said.

Research can be conducted inthe United States or abroad and

the scholarship is open to interna-tional students.

Megan Winkelman 13 spenther summer at Oxford writing ashort novella about women andmental illness.

Working on my ChappellLougee project was the best sum-mer of my life it was rigorousand eye-opening, Winkelmansaid. I got the space to . . . experi-ment with history and literatureand settle into a place that fit methe best, a narrative-based healthstory telling the feelings of women.Mesa nurtured me and suggested Ilook at this my freshman year.

Brittany Rymer 13 researchedurban farming in the Bay Area, ex-ploring the motivations behind thenew concept of urban farmers dur-ing the past five to 10 years. Rymernoted that her project evolved sig-nificantly from her initial proposal.

The ability to change the focusof your proposal is one of the bestthings about the ChappellLougee, Rymer said. Its nice tohave the freedom to be able tochange and shift focus. As sopho-mores, were new to research andits hard to design a proposal, sothe flexibility is great.

Rymer said she hopes to ex-pand her research into an honorsthesis.

Mesa said she has witnessedChappell Lougee scholars bloominto Fulbright scholars.

People dont always start offamazing; they start off curious,Mesa said. Many students comeinto my office in Lagunita Court to

just have a conversation, with noidea of what they want to do.

Contact Mary Ann Toman-Miller attomanmil@stanford.edu.

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The second change, he said,was the repudiation of the ideathat Egypt and the Arab worldface a democracy deficit.

Beinin named four forces onthe ground that he believes willdetermine the outcome in Egypt:the Facebook youth, liberals, the

oppositional middle class intelli-gentsia and the workers, whomhe believes are an overlookedforce in the balance of power.Behind these four forces standsthe U.S. government, Beininadded.

I am very much a believer inthe notion that we have had arevolutionary upsurge in Egypt;we havent yet had a revolution,Beinin said. In the next fewmonths . . . keep your seatbeltsstrapped its going to be avery rough and, I think, exhila-rating ride.

Ghonim stressed the impor-tance of optimism when lookingat the situation in Egypt, despiterecent events such as the Feb. 1

Port Said football riots, which left74 dead.I see [that] despite all the

challenges . . . we have to look atwhats happening from a positiveside, Ghonim said. We haveachieved a lot.

Ghonim also addressed thedomination of Islamist parties inparliamentary elections, empha-sizing that he had full respectfor the results of the democraticelections.

I personally [took] to thestreet not to replace a dictatorwith another one, he said. I be-lieve Egyptians have been deniedthe right to choose whoever gov-erns them.

Egypt is going to have a

bright future if we all unite, forgetour differences and have the

Tahrir Square spirit that we are allone, he added.

Hassanein delivered a person-al, patriotic narrative of Egyptian

history. He credited Ghonim withuniting the youth and creating arevolution that gave the powerback to the people.

We have toppled the regime;now we need to clean up themess, he said. Hassanein closedon a message as optimistic as thatof Beinin and Ghonim: Whatdoes not kill us makes us stronger. . . Egypt will rise.

Audience members posedquestions on the transition peri-od, the role of the Supreme Coun-cil of the Armed Forces (SCAF),education and social media.

The discussion signaled dis-comfort with the dominant role ofthe SCAF in Egypt today, and theneed to end the era of military

rule that Egypt has been underfor decades, wrote Lina Khatib,program manager for the Pro-gram on Arab Reform andDemocracy at the Center forDemocracy, Development andthe Rule of Law, in an email toThe Daily. However, what wasmissing from the debate was themethod and mechanism throughwhich Egypts youth aim toachieve this.

Ghonim hinted that the ac-tivists and the people are learn-ing democracy through trial anderror . . . but there remains an ad-ditional need for strategic politi-cal planning that is currently lack-ing, she added.

Contact Marwa Farag at mfarag@stanford.edu.

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trators identified a variety of im-portant needs and potential newinitiatives, refined them into a set ofoverarching principles and beganto determine what it would take tofund them, Shell said. While at firstthese served as wish lists, fundingsoon came pouring in.

The original goal of raising $4.3billion was easily met by the Uni-versity, much of it through large do-nations from alumni. Most of themoney came from donations total-ing over $1 million donationstypically earmarked for specificprojects.

Historically, you dont seemulti-million dollar, unrestrictedgifts, Shell said. Thats pretty un-common.

While $1.5 billion was donatedfor facility improvement, one sixthof that amount $253.7 million was donated to supplementneed-based financial aid.

The TCS press release statedthat before 2006, 40 percent ofStanford students were on financialaid from the University, while now80 percent receive aid from Stan-ford and other sources.

However, Rebecca Vogel, assis-tant vice president for the Office ofDevelopment, noted that these sta-tistics are comparing apples andoranges. Only 49 percent of stu-dents currently receive need-basedfinancial aid from Stanford, a figure9 percent higher than before TCS.

Funding from TCS createdmany of the institutes on campus,such as the Woods Institute for theEnvironment, the Precourt Insti-tute for Energy Efficiency and theTomkat Center for Sustainable En-ergy. The institutes are part of theUniversitys recent push for inter-disciplinary research.

The arts also received a boostfrom TCS, with significant gifts andfunding going toward the creationof an arts district on campus nearthe Cantor Arts Center. The BingConcert Hall, Anderson Collectionat Stanford University and the Mc-Murtry Building will be located onthe northeast side of the Oval.

The McMurtry Building will ac-commodate the art and art historydepartments at Stanford when itopens in 2015. Although the BingConcert Hall has also not yet been

completed, it is scheduled to openfor public performances at the startof 2013.

Contact Brendan OByrne at bobyrne@stanford.edu.

CHALLENGEContinued from front page

that, because of confusion overwhat constitutes an excused ab-sence, instructors apply the policyinconsistently.

Not all of the instructors feelcomfortable enforcing this policy,

DeLong said. These [rules] arecoming down from the powers thatbe. And if they dont enforce thispolicy, which this quarter and lastquarter theyve . . . been forced toenforce, then they are insubordi-nate, and insubordination isgrounds for termination.

By not excusing absences due toextracurricular events, court dates,illness or any foreseen or unfore-seen event, the stringency of thepolicy also forces students to dropclasses, the bills supporters said.

The bill also argued that theLanguage Center policy pressuresstudents to attend class when doingso may jeopardize their health andwellness, and that of their peers.

Ive had to skip class because

Ive been sick and have been penal-ized, which I personally think is

ridiculous, said Senator Alon El-hanan 14.

Although he said he believesthat the Language Center has not[been] too cooperative in its meet-ings with the senators, Delong re-minded the senators that the poli-cys intention is good.

They want to encourage stu-dents to show up to class, he said.To learn a language, you have to bein an immersion course.

Earlier in the meeting, the Sen-ate also debated a bill granting anexemption to the Stanford Daily tobank with an institution other thanStanford Student Enterprises(SSE). The Daily has historicallybanked independently of SSE on aUniversity waiver, without receiv-ing a distinct waiver from the ASSUlegislative bodies. This year, Adlerfound a previously overlooked sec-tion of the ASSU constitution re-quiring action from the ASSU leg-islative bodies in deciding how togrant an ASSU banking waiver tostudent groups, suggesting that stu-dent groups must receive both anASSU and University waiver. Sen-ate Chair Rafael Vazquez 12 andAppropriations Chair Brianna

Pang 13 authored the bill to grantan exemption to The Daily.

Senators expressed their con-cern that public financial reportsand refund requests for studentsmay be less accessible if The Dailycontinues to bank externally toSSE. Daily Editor in Chief Mar-garet Rawson 12 responded bynoting that copies of The Dailysaudit are available upon request, aslegally required of the non-profit in-stitution, and The Daily complieswith all transparency requirements

of the special fees process. Rawsoncited The Dailys status as thelargest independent campus publi-cation as a key factor making exter-nal banking crucial to maintain theintegrity of the paper, which fre-quently reports on the ASSU and,subsequently, SSE.

Long-term practice has beenthat the only banking that was donewas the fee itself, Nanci Howe, di-rector of Student Activities andLeadership (SAL), said. [TheDaily is] audited; the ASSU gets acopy of that audit . . . That seemedto work.

The bill was on previous noticeTuesday and will face a vote nextweek.

Contact Julia Enthoven at jjejje@stanford.edu.

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Ihereby undertakenot to remove fromthe Library, or tomark, deface or in-

jure in any way, anyvolume, document or other objectbelonging to it or in its custody;nor to bring into the Library orkindle therein any fire or flame,and not to smoke in the Library;and I promise to obey all rules ofthe Library.

This is the oath that all newreaders must formally read aloud

and sign before being permittedaccess to the Bodleian Library, themain library of Oxford University.

Established in 1602, theBodleian, which is housed in sever-al buildings scattered all acrosscampus, is one of the oldest li-braries in Europe and a fundamen-tal part of my studies at Oxford.

I spend most of my time in theRadcliffe Camera, a classy old cir-cular library that houses booksmainly in English literature, histo-ry and theology. Like most of thebuildings here, the buildings gor-geous Palladian architectural de-

sign emanates an ancient andscholarly aura of European so-phistication. Even after fourweeks, Im still learning my wayaround Radcliffe Camera.

Three or four days of the weekI trek over to the Radcliffe Cam-era to read and take notes. Afterthe security guard at the frontdesk gives my library card a quickcheck, I descend the spiralingstaircase and pass through thedoors. My eyes feast upon thebooks, nestled in bookshelves so

high that readers can only reachthe top shelves by climbing lad-ders provided by the library. I takein the sweet smell of old books be-fore scurrying down to the tables,crossing my fingers for an avail-able seat.

Book learning is vital to thetypical undergraduate teachingmodel of the tutorial, so its notsurprising to see the library reachits maximum reader occupancy. Ifyou dont arrive early enough onsome afternoons, its impossible tofind a place to sit.

The impressive collection of

books here at Radcliffe Camera isonly an infinitesimal fraction of thetotal books the Bodleian Libraryholds. The Bodleian receives a freecopy of every book and periodicalpublished in the United Kingdom,amounting to over 100,000 newbooks a year. Most of these books arestored in large underground tunnels.Miles and miles of shelved books aretucked away from the light of day,only accessible by a file request.

Even storage of books on theopen shelves maximizes every

possible bit of space. In addition tothe ten-foot-high bookshelves,stairs connect the Radcliffe to theGladstone Link, Oxfords versionof Green Librarys south stacks only better lit and less creepy.

To access a shelf, you merelyturn the wheel of the shelf youwant to access. I always double-check to make sure no ones in theaisle before I start cranking on thewheel. Only at Oxford is the great-est hazard two rolling book-shelves!

Jenny Thai

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Q&AMATTOLSONTALKSJEOPARDY!

Confronting face blindnessBy LESLIE NGUYEN-OKWU

DESK EDITOR

During a polite conversa-tion in Stern dining hall,Sceth Ramlagan 13 casu-ally asked for his neigh-bors name. To his mild

surprise, he had already asked him be-fore nine different times. Whilesome people struggle to remembernames, Ramlagan can hardly recog-nize faces.

Born and raised in Trinidad and To-

bago, Ramlagan suffers fromprosopagnosia, a disorder more com-monly known as face blindness. Thedisorder is an impairment of the abili-ty to identify and remember faces. Ac-cording to a German study from theAmerican Journal of Medical Geneticsin 2006, it is estimated that one in 50people suffer from at least a mild formof prosopagnosia.

Additionally, Ramlagan has beendiagnosed with autism. The combina-tion of autism and prosopagnosia hascreated a unique set of circumstancesfor him to cope with throughout hislife, forcing him to teach himself thebasic social cues most people take forgranted. Ramlagan said he learnedhow to socialize using books, includingDale Carnegies How to Win Friendsand Influence People.

Many people dont necessarily de-tect that I have my high-functioningautism just off the bat, but I do get re-marks that I am very strange, Ramla-gan said.

The sense of being an outsider hasnot deterred him from interacting withothers. He hugs dormmates andfriends when they approach him andoccasionally signs his emails withHuggles, Scethy Poo. While part ofhis gregariousness may be due to thefact that he does not notice socialboundaries, Ramlagan often purpose-fully supersedes these boundaries asan intentional act of friendship.

I smile a lot and Im nice, Ramla-gan said. Im not defensive. I ask peo-ple about themselves. I try to paintthings in terms of other peoples inter-ests as opposed to my own. I use inclu-sive language like we. It may be im-portant to recognize that, for me, thereis no difference between genuinelywanting to do these things and just per-forming them. I am as sincere as I act.

Although he can recognize the shapeof a face and other objects, Ramlagancannot recognize a faces distinct fea-tures. To compensate, he instead memo-rizes others visual cues, such as manner-

isms, voice and even style of dress.One of the things that having

prosopagnosia . . . develops is a senseof knowing how other people act phys-ically, Ramlagan said. I can tell whensomeones style of dress has changed,and if I recognize you by your style ofdress and not your face, which is ofteneasier to learn, then I may simply notrecognize you when you change whatyoure wearing.

Ramlagan credits his social andcommunication skills to his upbringing.As a child, Ramlagan learned from hismother, who painstakingly taught himthe fundamentals of social interaction.

When I was small, my mom beatthe practice of looking people in theeye into me, Ramlagan said. Eyegaze is not necessarily something thatcomes naturally to an autistic person.It was a habit that was enforced withcorporal punishment. So I do look peo-ple in the eye out of very entrenchedhabit.

In some ways, Ramlagan is gratefulfor his family and community backhome. However, the environment hegrew up in was not conducive to his ac-ademic interests in mathematics. In ad-dition to his autism and face blindness,Ramlagan had to overcome the hard-ships associated with being a low-in-come student.

My academic drive is hardly moti-vated or a consequence of the people Igrew up around or the family I was in,

Ramlagan said. It would have beenprobably discouraged given my up-bringing and socioeconomic class.

I grew up in a particularly anti-in-tellectual milieu in a small village, headded. I liked books much more thanI liked people. I only decided to starttalking to people when I was 15.

Ramlagans passion for math cameout of his love for learning and readingbooks, something he continues to do atStanford. He hopes to finish his majorin mathematics and possibly minor inmusic.

Ramlagan cited a quote by mathe-matician Dean Schlicter as a descrip-tion of his love for math: Go downdeep enough into anything and youwill find mathematics.

That is what fuels my attraction tomathematics, Ramlagan said. I spentmost of my time on [math] for a lot ofyears, and Im just doing it to enjoy my-self. Math is one of those few thingsyou can do with just paper and pen, oroften just nothing at all.

Though face blindness and autismplay formative roles in his life, theseconditions do not define Ramlagan. Infact, he explained, he wouldnt have itany other way.

I wouldnt say Im just an autisticperson, Ramlagan said. But in themetrics that I have come to value, Iwould say my life would be worse[without it]. Im glad to have it. Ivenever felt a need to be like other peo-ple.

Over time, Ramlagan has come toappreciate his autism and face blind-ness as learning experiences. He useshis struggles to inform his empathy to-ward others, especially those with so-cially debilitating disorders.

It may have played a critical role inmaking me what I am, but I do not ro-manticize it, Ramlagan said. I dontidolize it. I dont think of it as some-thing to which I should be faithful.

Contact Leslie Nguyen-Okwu at leslie.nguyen-okwu@stanford.edu.

Matt Olson 14, a Daily copy editor, pro-gressed to the semifinals of the Jeop-ardy! College Championship after win-ning his quarterfinal game, which airedFeb. 6. The symbolic systems major com-

peted in the televised round against Monica Thieu fromthe University of North Texas and Zach McDonnellfrom the College of William and Mary. The prize for thefinal round of the college championship is $100,000.

The Stanford Daily (TSD): How did you get to be aJeopardy! contestant?Matt Olson (MO): I took an online test in the spring oflast year that was 50 questions [long]. People who dowell on that [test] get a call, so Jeopardy! called in Octo-ber for me to go to L.A. The other contestants and Itook a test with another 50 questions and then played amock game, just to make sure we could talk on TV.

TSD: Why did you want to be a contestant?MO : Well, Ive always been a fan of Jeopardy!. I start-ed watching when I was six or seven, and Ken Jennings[74-time Jeopardy! winner] was my hero. I tried outfor it in high school, but this was the first time I gotcalled.

TSD: How did you prepare for the competition?MO : I didnt really do anything special. Because thereare so many categories, you have to acquire the knowl-edge throughout your life. I did memorize world capi-tals, though.

TSD: Did you get to talk to Alex Trebek? What was helike?MO : Contestants actually arent allowed to talk to himoutside of the awkward interview segment and post-game talk, but we did learn that he drives a white pick-up truck. Also, when the crew counts down right beforethe game begins, he makes weird facial movements andwoop noises to warm up.

TSD: Did you have a strategy for this round?MO : I . . . had planned a few things, but once you get upthere you forget that! I wanted to bet a lot of money onthe Daily Doubles, to build up a lead. I wanted morethan double my opponents scores going into Final

Jeopardy! because no one knows whats going to hap-pen then.

TSD: Did you get to talk to the other competitors?MO : Yeah, they were cool. On the day of taping we gotto know each other a bit when we were all hanging out,getting make-up put on and signing contracts in thegreen room. Beforehand, we do a rehearsal game, andafter the tournament we had a little party.

TSD: What was your favorite category?MO : I liked the math one, and the womens sports. Notso much the dog one.

Olson will next appear in the college Jeopardy! semi-finals Friday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m.

Erika Alvero Koski

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Courtesy of Jenny Thai

The Radcliffe Camera building, part of the Bodleian Library at OxfordUniversity, contains books on English literature, history and theology.

Courtesy of Jeopardy! Productions, Inc.

Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek and Matt Olson 14 at thequarterfinals of the Jeopardy! College Championship.

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This week marks two yearssince the tragic car-accidentdeath of Brendan Burke, son

of Toronto Maple Leafs generalmanager Brian Burke and a stu-

dent video assistant for the MiamiUniversity (Ohio) hockey team.Brendan also happened to be

gay.It wasnt an easy environment

for him. Canada is a country wherehockey is the national religion, theToronto Maple Leafs its holiestshrine. Team general managers, es-pecially those running the centerof the hockey world, are celebri-ties.

And the Canadian hockeyworld spins a certain way. Grit.Testosterone. Pugilism. The coun-try is indelibly infused with hock-ey culture, a quite unexplainablemix of honor, toughness and man-hood. Brian Burke, himself not a fi-nessed goal scorer, was a career

minor leaguer who kept himselfrelevant through toughness. Whenhe built teams as a general manag-er, he described them as trucu-lent. You knew when a BrianBurke team was on the ice: youdfeel the pain.

The homophobic atmospherein many locker rooms is commonknowledge. There is no room for agay man there certainly not inhockey, where machismo coursesthrough the identity of the sport,and certainly not for the son of theultimate hockey alpha-male.

Yet when Brendan Burke verypublicly came out at age 19 in anESPN article, he was roundly, ifhesitantly, embraced. His hard-nosed father Brian, arguably the

toughest and most influential manin hockey, stood at his side thewhole way.

It was uncomfortable at times.The two received mixed reactionswhen they did a joint interview be-tween periods of a nationally tele-vised hockey game. Some TV com-mentators were visibly disquieteddiscussing it. Even James Duthie,

an award-winning anchor onCanadian national sports networkTSN, fumbled the word gay,which got stuck in his throat like itdoes every time one tries to come

out of the closet.But the issue remains. Gay menplay professional sports. Gay menare in the NHL. And yet the mostprominent openly gay figure inhockey is the son of a general man-ager. No active professional ath-lete from the four major Americanleagues has come out of the closet.And professional sports can hard-ly be considered a bastion of ac-ceptance for gays and lesbians.

LeBron James has gone on therecord saying that if youre gayand not admitting that you are,then you are not trustworthy.Braves pitching coach Roger Mc-Dowell was suspended for slursand lewd gestures at fans. KobeBryant was fined $100,000 last

spring for dropping a homophobicf-bomb on camera.But what would or wouldnt

have happened if the TNT cam-eras didnt happen to be pointingat Kobe? Arent these remarkstossed around all the time? Theycertainly havent been scarce in thehigh school locker rooms Ive beenin.

Surprisingly, it is the NHL, themost homogeneous sports leaguein America, a community steepedin inflexible and time-honored tra-ditions, which is leading the chargeagainst homophobia in sports.New York Rangers forward SeanAvery has partnered with theHuman Rights Campaign to pub-licly advocate for same-sex mar-

riage. The gruff, hard-nosed BrianBurke marched in two gay prideparades. And former Blackhawksdefenseman Brent Sopel spent hisone day with the Stanley Cup,viewed in Canada with a reverencebefitting the Holy Grail, not in hishometown, but at the Chicago GayPride Parade.

As the hockey world turns, so

too does the country that lives forit. Canadas most revered sportsfigures, from Burke to outspoken(and famously conservative) com-mentator Don Cherry, have, withvarying degrees of enthusiasm, de-nounced homophobia in sports.

In a country where gay mar-riage is politically uncontroversial,the last hurdle for acceptance re-mains in sports, which, in the Cana-dian psyche, is very little more thanice hockey.

And as hockey players began torealize they must change from theirself-admitted homophobic culture,so has the country that looks up to

their hockey stars like they do thereal ones.

To think it all began with onebrave story from a 19-year-oldvideo assistant.

Sports isnt all homophobic . . .there are plenty of people in sportswho accept people for who theyare, Brendan said, urging younggay athletes to keep hold of theirdreams.

Wise words from an inspira-tional young man who was takenfrom us too soon.

Any other inspirational stories thatdeserve to be told? Email Edward atedngai@stanford.edu.

In November of last year, the NewYork Times published an articleattempting to answer the ques-

tion of why science majors changetheir minds. The author cited theresults of a UCLA-led study thatfound that across the nation, fresh-men originally intending to major inengineering or follow the pre-medroute switch to non-STEM majors atalarmingly high rates.

Almost invariably, Stanford stu-dents know at least a few peers whochanged their minds about being achemist or engineer after taking in-organic chemistry, linear algebra orsome other difficult introductoryclass. Indeed, the author of theTimes piece concludes that attri-tion rates in engineering and sci-ences are higher than those in otherdisciplines, because STEM classesare so darn hard. While true to anextent, we do not think this accu-rately portrays the whole picture.

Take the introductory sequencein computer science at Stanford,for instance (CS 106A and B/X).According to CourseRank, the av-erage grade and hours of work perweek in these classes are compara-

ble to introductory classes in otherSTEM fields.If, as the Times article suggests,

high attrition rates are due to therigor of such classes, we would ex-pect Stanford freshmen intendingto major in computer science tochange their minds as often astheir peers in other STEM fields.But the opposite seems to be thecase; from many accounts, the in-troductory CS sequence actuallyattracts students to the major who,prior to Stanford, had scarcely en-tertained the thought of being aprogrammer. Is computer sciencesimply a more interesting subjectthan, say, mechanical engineering?Perhaps. But this Board believesthat variations in attrition rates

among similarly rigorous STEMdisciplines are more a result of dif-ferences in the presentation ofcourse content and its applicationin homework.

In a landmark piece on engineer-ing education, chemical engineer-ing professor and STEM-educa-tion expert Richard Felder arguesthat induction also called in-quiry or discovery learning - isthe most effective method of teach-ing applied science to undergradu-ates. An example of inductivelearning, defined broadly, is thetrial and error in designing a com-puter program to complete a cer-tain task; over time, the studentlearns which approaches work andutilizes these effective practices

when confronted with similarproblems in the future. Accordingto Felder, this type of learning leadsto increased academic achieve-ment and enhanced abstract rea-soning skills; longer retention of in-formation; and improved ability toapply principles (among otherbenefits). According to WorcesterPolytechnic Institute, incorporat-ing inductive learning into its fresh-man year curriculum has served tohook its students into STEM ma-

jors.We would hope, then, that induc-

tive learning is fundamental toStanfords science and engineeringcurriculums. On the contrary, itseems that Stanford is more alignedwith what Felder labels the tradi-tional college teaching method [of]deduction, starting with fundamen-tals and proceeding to applica-tions. Although it is beyond thescope of this editorial to study thecontent of every STEM class atStanford, the standard problem setmodel is certainly deductive; theorypresented in lecture must be ap-plied to solve homework problemsthat generally have only one correct

solution. The inductive element isoften lacking.Certainly, there are classes at

Stanford that incorporate an in-ductive approach to learning. In-troductory design and computerscience classes, for instance, assigntangible problems where the de-sired result can be reached in vari-ous ways. It should come as no sur-prise that these classes tend to besignificantly more popular thantheir purely deductive counter-parts.

Although focusing on technicalfundamentals is crucial to manySTEM classes, there are variousways in which some aspect of in-ductive learning can be introduced.This fusion, however, demands that

professors adopt less straightfor-ward methods of presenting thematerial and, when formulatinghomework, assign more than justconventional textbook problems. Itis certainly no easy task for profes-sors, especially those with limitedformal training in education. Ac-cordingly, this Board recommendsthat STEM departments work withprofessors to incorporate more in-ductive elements in their course-work. It is imperative, especially indisciplines that attempt to eitherexplain the world or design solu-tions to improve it, that classes atStanford and across the nation en-gage students in truly understand-ing what lies at the heart of thesedisciplines.

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Rethinking STEMeducation at Stanford

I

live for winter break, that re-freshing breath of cold air at

the end of fall quarter. Its somuch better than Thanksgivingbreak because the guilt of know-ing that there is work to be donedoesnt exist. Its long enough forme to remember why I missed myfamily, but not quite long enoughfor me to remember why I waslooking forward to college. Winterbreak and I have our own person-al love affair every year.

However, despite my desire tosleep all day and re-watch TheOffice, my parents always feelthe need to take me out in publicwhen Im home. Birthday parties,office parties, Christmas parties if it takes place during thethree weeks that I happen to bepresent, my mother insists that I

attend. So I plaster on my biggestsmile, put on my nicest sweaterand head out with the family.

Ive been attending these gath-erings since I was a kid, and theyusually consist of the same rou-tine: various adults Ive knownsince birth walk over, hug mewhile exclaiming how much tallerI have gotten (which is fooling noone Ive grown half an inch inthe last four years) and thenquickly lapse into talking to myparents about work or what hap-pened on the last episode of RamMilaayi Jodi (quite possibly theworst, and most addicting, Indiansoap opera in the world).

The moment I started going toStanford though, all this changed.Suddenly, people at parties wouldapproach my parents, slowlybroach the topic of Stanford inorder to confirm that I do indeedgo there and then shift over to mewhile shouting, You must meetmy son/daughter/offspring/pet!Theyre applying to Stanford!

Before I know it, I find myselfstanding face to face with a clear-ly embarrassed high schooler,with his or her overeager parenthovering. Awkward introductions

ensue and then, the questionsstart.

They usually start off simpleenough, questions about what Immajoring in and how I like thecampus, but its obvious that thisisnt what they really care about.The real Q&A begins when theparents start to ask about my highschool career what extracur-riculars I participated in, whetheror not I took four consecutiveyears of a language and what I goton my SAT, you know, just out ofcuriosity. The adults take notesand nudge their kids, and theytend to end the conversation byasking for my email.

Normally, the conversationsare harmless enough. They give

me a reason to blab on until theparty winds down and I can gohome to watch the episode whereDwights stapler winds up in Jello.Theres always one question Idread though, and thats the mo-ment when the parent jokinglylooks at me and goes, So, whatsyour secret? How does one getinto Stanford? See, heres theproblem: its clearly not in jest;this parent wants an answer, andtheyre usually not pleased when Itell them I dont have one.

I have yet to figure out what tosay to someone who wants toknow the secret to getting in. Eversince I got my acceptance, every-one around me seems to think Ihave all the answers. Ive been

asked to review applications, readpersonal statements and give ad-vice to kids I barely know. Peopleseem to think Im hiding some-thing from them when I tell themIm not qualified to review theirkids materials.

Im not quite sure how to makeit clear that there is no surefirerecipe for getting into Stanford.Coming here has only proven thatto me. I am vastly different frommy friends here. We have differentinterests, come from differentbackgrounds and are pursuingdifferent career paths, but at theend of the day, we all go to Stan-ford.

Instead of boring my new audi-ence with my thoughts though,

Ive settled for a much easier an-swer. I respond to the questionwith a smile and the most clichdline in the book: Just be yourself.

Im still not sure why I got in, but Iknow that Im happier at Stanford

than I would be anywhere else.

Tell Ravali your favorite Officeprank at ravreddy@stanford.edu.

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The teenager who changed hockey

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Sorry, I cant get your kid into Stanford!

CorrectionIn Stanford apps outpace Ivy

rivals (Feb. 6), The Daily incor-rectly reported that Yale Univer-sityreceived fewer applicationsfor the class of 2016 than it did forthe class of 2015. In fact, Yale re-ceived 5.8 percent more applica-tions this year.

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By JOSEPH BEYDADESK EDITOR

Stanford has benefited fromits fair share of sisterly love re-cently, with the Ogwumikes dom-inating the hardwood, the up-

and-coming Payne sisters emerg-ing on the soccer pitch and thepitcher-catcher combination ofthe Cardinals two Gerharttriplets ready to kick off anothersoftball season.

But with baseball season justover a week away, its a pair ofbrothers that could help take theNo. 2 Stanford baseball team toits next national title.

The Diekroeger brothers

junior shortstop Kenny andsophomore infielder Danny are both hoping to rebound fromsomewhat underwhelming 2011seasons. Kenny Diekroeger sawhis batting average fall 60 pointsafter a first-team All-Pac-10 per-formance in 2010 that alsoearned him Freshman All-Amer-ica honors. Danny Diekroeger,on the other hand, playing spar-ingly behind other members of

the Cardinals top-ranked fresh-man class and appeared in only19 games.

With a top-10 group of re-cruits coming in for the thirdstraight year, Danny Diekroegerhas kept his nose to the grind-stone over the offseason.

You cant worry about it be-cause theres nothing you can doother than work hard, he said.Positions might open up, andyou just can never predict stufflike that. Its awesome to have somuch experience on the team,but that also makes it harder to

crack the lineup, I guess. But itdoesnt change my approach.

His development included asummer stint with MoreheadCity of the Coastal Plain League,where he made 39 starts and wasfourth on the Marlins in battingaverage.

Kenny Diekroeger, mean-while, has also been getting usedto his increasing role as a leaderon the team after the graduationof catcher Zach Jones espe-cially as the only starting upper-classman position player fromthe squad a year ago.

Our class has really beenable to help the freshmen andsophomores get acclimated toPac-12 baseball, Kenny

Diekroeger said. Its also beengreat just setting a tone and an at-titude for the team, just buildingthat chemistry. Youre not goingto see that in the stats or anything

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SPORTS BRIEFS

SPORTS

Searching forStanfords

next superstar

DIEKROEGER DUO

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Brothers Kenny (above) and Danny Diekroeger both hope to rebound from forgettable 2011 seasons andpossibly be a big part of the Cardinals run to its first College World Series since the 2008 season.

By JACK BLANCHATMANAGING EDITOR

After a long weekend thatsaw the Stanford mens tennisteam drop a pair of matches, theCardinal proved it was not suf-fering from a hangover on Tues-day, dusting off Hawaii by ascore of 6-1.

Needing a big win after fallingto USC and UCLA on Fridayand Saturday, the No. 9 Cardinal(5-2) started off the day the rightway by blowing through theRainbow Warriors in doubles.Behind an 8-5 win from the duoof freshman John Morrissey andsenior Ryan Thacher, coupledwith a pair of 8-4 wins from jun-iors Matt Kandath and DenisLin and sophomore Jamin Balland freshman Robert Stineman,the Cardinal swept its way to anearly 1-0 lead.

The Cardinal didnt en-

counter much trouble after thateither, even with ace playerThacher sitting out the singlesmatches. Stanfords tennis qual-ity was highlighted by especiallystrong performances from Mor-rissey and Stineman in singles.Stineman was the first off thecourts with a dominant 6-1, 6-0win over Carter Lam, with Mor-rissey following shortly after bycruising to a 6-1, 6-1 victory overNils Schuhmann.

Ball, playing at the No. 5spot, wrapped up the Cardinalwin as early as possible when heblew past Jared Spiker, 6-2, 6-0.

Lin, who was the only Cardi-

nal player not to end up in thewin column, was the next to fin-ish, and then Kandath, whotoughed out a 7-5, 6-4 win overDmytro Kovalyov, the RainbowWarriors No. 1 player. JuniorWalker Keher rounded out theday for the Cardinal with athird-set tiebreak win overDanilo Casanova.

Stanford now has two days torest up for another big contest,as it welcomes No. 52 BYU to

the Farm on Friday for its onlymatch of the weekend. TheCougars (3-4) are coming offconsecutive blowout victoriesagainst Idaho State and Mon-tana State, but only after theylost their last four matches. Sofar, the Cougars have fallen toevery ranked opponent theyhave played this season, includ-ing No. 9 UCLA, No. 36 Vander-bilt and No. 52 Cal Poly.

After the Cougars come to

town this weekend, the Cardinalhas only one more home matchbefore it heads to Char-lottesville, Va., for the NationalTeam Indoor Championshipsthe next Friday.

The Cardinal and theCougars will face off Friday at1:30 p.m. at the Taube FamilyTennis Center.

Contact Jack Blanchat at blan-chat@stanford.edu.

SARAH MAISELCONTRIBUTING WRITER

After an impressive 16-3 regular seasonlast spring, the Stanford womens lacrosseteam looks to build off its recent success tofurther establish the Cardinal as a nationalforce in 2012.

The Card finished the 2011 season unde-feated at home and in the Mountain PacificSports Federation (MPSF), capturing itsseventh straight conference championship.It went on to earn its second consecutiveberth to the NCAA Tournament before aloss in the first round to Florida.

This year, expectations remain high forthe No. 6 Cardinal, despite the graduation ofthe 2011 teams four leading scorers: first-team All-American Leslie Foard, third-team All-American Lauren Schmidt, All-MPSF Sarah Flynn and All-MPSF KarenNesbitt. With many key starters returning,the holes in the roster should not devastate

the team, and head coach Amy Bokkernoted that new leaders have alreadystepped up to the plate.

Im really excited about our team andthe commitment level they put into presea-son, she said. Weve had good leadership

throughout the whole preseason from ourseniors Catherine Swanson, Maria Fortinoand Emilie and Anna Boeri.

Catherine Swanson, who earned All-MPSF honors last season, is joined by re-turning starters sophomore Nina Swansonand junior Liz Adam in the backfield. Soph-omores Anna Kim and Rachel Ozer bothstarted as freshmen and will provide theteam with valuable offensive experience.Kim, the reigning MPSF Newcomer of theYear, should help offset the inexperience ofthe Cardinals midfield.

Youll see a lot of new midfielders in themix, [but] whats nice about our team is thatwe run midfield lines, Bokker said. Theseplayers still have experience because theyran on lines with those players that graduat-ed.

Another relatively new face is sopho-more Lyndsey Muoz, the Cardinals newstarting goalkeeper. Muoz replaces AnnieRead, who graduated after starting in goal

the past three years. Muoz did receivesome playing time last season and she, alongwith Swanson and Adam, should give theteam a great defensive advantage.

I think youre going to see a lot of ex-citement coming from the goal cage.

[Muoz] is a dynamic, athletic player,Bokker said. She actually made an appear-ance in our MPSF championship game lastyear and ultimately was named MVP, so shedoes have some experience under her belt.Shes really confident she has a ton of re-spect from her teammates because of hercommitment to lacrosse and our program,so were really excited to see the year thatshe has.

The Cardinal will have to prove itselfearly and often, as it faces several elite non-conference opponents, including five top-20teams in its first five games. The toughschedule opens at home Friday against lastyears NCAA champion, No. 1 Northwest-ern. After Northwestern, the Cardinal willface No. 18 Ohio State, No. 20 Notre Dame,No. 9 James Madison and No. 19 Vanderbilt.Every one of the games against the top op-ponents will take place at Stanford in CaganStadium, except for Notre Dame, and thehome field advantage could be a differ-

ence-maker in close games. The Cardinalwill then make its way east to face No. 16Albany and Harvard, two other teams con-sistently ranked in the top 20.

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The doubles duo of senior Ryan Thacher (above left) and freshman John Morrissey (above right)handed Hawaii an 8-5 loss on Tuesday afternoon as Stanford cruised to a 6-1 team victory.

Brothers look for

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Kicking off spring against nations bestFootball assistant Anderson namednations top recruiterLess than a week after welcoming

the best recruiting class in team history,the Stanford football program was hon-ored for its efforts, as assistant coach

Lance Anderson was named the Na-tional Recruiter of the Year byScout/FOXSportsNext.

Anderson, who coaches outsidelinebackers, took on the role of recruit-ing coordinator after that position wasvacated by Brian Polian in January. De-spite Polians departure for TexasA&M, Stanford had anything but adrop-off, in large part thanks to Ander-son.

Head coach David Shaw empha-sized that Polians departure would notderail the teams recruiting efforts,telling ESPN.com, Losing Brian doeshurt because he was a good recruiter,but he wasnt recruiting everybody . . .Lance has the best relationship withour admissions people as far as makingsure these kids are taking the classes

and finishing strong and re-taking tests,etc.

Since coming to Stanford from theJim Harbaugh-coached University ofSan Diego in 2007, Anderson has beenthe teams liaison to the admissions of-fice and has held various recruiting po-sitions in addition to his work on thedefensive side of the ball.

Andersons work helped the Cardi-nal bring in the nations sixth-best re-cruiting class according to Scout.com,including five-star linemen AndrusPeat, Joshua Garnett and Kyle Murphy,five-star defensive lineman Aziz Shittuand several four-star recruits, includingrunning back Barry J. Sanders and line-backer Noor Davis. Stanford was ableto draw several high-profile recruitsaway from rivals like Cal and USC,

helping the Cardinal notch the bestclass in the Pac-12.

Jacob Jaffe

Spring Game returns to San FranciscosKezar Stadium

For the third year in a row, the Stan-ford football team will take its annualCardinal and White Spring Game onthe road to the city by the bay.

On Saturday, April 14, the Cardinalwill wrap up its spring practice schedulewith a contest at San Franciscos his-toric Kezar Stadium.

Last season, the Andrew Luck-ledCardinal squad blew out the White

team 42-3 in front of over 6,000 fans, butthis years contest should be compellingfor entirely different reasons likefinding out which quarterback is mostlikely to replace Luck as the starter.

The competition for Lucks spot, aswell as 10 other starting spots on bothsides of the ball, will conclude at Kezarafter the Cardinals spring practices.Stanford will split its workouts into twosessions, with the first seven workoutsbeginning February 27 and endingMarch 10. The Cardinal will resumeworkouts after finals and spring breakon April 2 and wrap up the spring onApril 14 in San Francisco.

Jack Blanchat

Please see BASEBALL, page 6

Miles

Bennett-SmithJacoby is my Homeboy

T

heres little doubt in mymind that Tiger Woods hasnever shown up for a tour-nament thinking he was

not the favorite. Sure, hehas had all sorts of setbacks rangingfrom the mundane various swingchanges to the crazy winninga U.S. Open on a stress fracture to the insane allegedly cheatingon his now-ex-wife with upwards of10 mistresses.

Through it all, however, Tiger re-mains Tiger. This week, he is justdown the coast in Pebble Beachopening his 2012 PGA Tour cam-paign at the AT&T Pro-Am. Its thefirst time hes played at Pebble sincethe U.S. Open in 2010, and he hasntwon on tour since 2009.

But man, does he look happy.And thats good for the game of

golf. Although Woods was recentlyrevealed to be one of Americas

most disliked athletes coming in just behind Michael Vick, with 60percent of those polled disapprov-ing of both high-profile sports fig-ures there is simply something

Please see B-SMITH, page 6

Please see LACROSSE, page 6

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The Stanford womens lacrosse team looks to establish itself among the nations elite this spring, as it takes onone of the toughest schedules in the country and pursues its eighth consecutive conference championship.

about the man that makes peopletunein to see him play.

In an individual sport that hasplenty of stars you might notrecognize if they were taking

your order at The Axe and Palm Kyle Stanley, Spencer Levin,every other golfer not namedPhil Tiger is the rock that an-chors the tour and allows theother players to reap the benefitswhen millions tune in.

After watching Tigers pressconference yesterday when hefinally seemed to be emergingfrom his shell and showing off thesame smile that captivated audi-ences while he fist-pumped hisway to victory after victory earli-er in his career I got to think-ing: when will Stanford turn outthe next superstar?

Will it be football player An-drew Luck? How about baseballstars Mark Appel and Stephen

Piscotty? Might freshman swim-ming sensation David Nolanhave what it takes to captivateaudiences in an Olympic sport?

Its hard to say, particularlybecause Tiger and John Elwayand stars like them often followvery different paths to success.

Woods has yet to graduatefrom Stanford but has main-tained that he will eventuallyearn his degree to fulfill a prom-ise he made to his mother whenhe left the Farm after two years in1996.

Elway stayed all four yearsand then took another four be-fore finally taking the Broncos toa Super Bowl.

With the 24-hour ESPN news

cycle, Twitter and the constant ac-cess to athletes even at the colle-giate level, I think it could be a lit-tle while longer before we see thenext star emerge from the Farm.

Increasingly, the players whomake an instant impact in theheadlines and in the rarified airof stardom are players who areless mature and rawer than thecaliber of student-athlete I think

this school produces.We dont have one-and-doneplayers on our basketball teams(at least not since the Lopeztwins), and the baseball playerslooking to make it to the Showhave all been here for at leastthree years. The football guysheading to the NFL are almost allseniors set to walk across thestage at Radio City Hall, but alsoto shake President Hennessyshand at Commencement.

The players like Tiger are theanomaly, which is why I think meand other people flock to them just like people went to watchJustin Bieber when he was ayoung unknown flipping his hairand belting out pop songs.

And even with all that, maybeStanfords next superstar couldcome from outside of the sportsworld. Its probably more likelythat another Stanford grad willend up as President before anothergrad wins the Masters. And with allthe impressive people on this cam-pus, the next Stanford superstarcould even be you. As Justin Bieberwould say, Never say never.

Only Miles Bennett-Smith wouldthink a two-time Heisman runner-up and future number one draft pick doesnt count as superstarstatus. Tell him why youll be thebiggest thing since Kanye at miles-bs@stanford.edu, and check himout on Twitter @smilesbsmith.

B-SMITHContinued from page 5

I think itll be a good meas-ure of where we are right away,Bokker said. We have a greattradition in the MPSF of beingsuccessful, and I expect this team

to uphold that same standard,but were aiming to be able tocompete against the top five inthe country every day when wego out on the field, so thatswhere we want to be.

The tough competition will nodoubt help the Cardinal in its cam-paign for an eighth straight confer-

ence title. After going undefeatedin the MPSF last season and regu-larly beating opponents by at leastfive goals, this years Cardinalsquad has already been predictedto win the conference once again.Stanford will have a new opponentin San Diego State, which juststarted their program, and as thepopularity of the sport travelswest, Stanford will most likely face

more regional programs.Colorado announced lastweek that theyre adding [a pro-gram], which is very exciting forour conference, she said. Obvi-ously we have San Diego State,who is new this year, and thenUSC will be competing with usnext year. So were moving right

along on the West Coast, and wewant to make sure not only thatStanford is on the map, but that itstays on the map.

We look at each year itselfand see how we can build on ourtradition of success from lastyear, she added. Were going toplay probably a little bit of a dif-ferent style because of what welost to graduation, but Im look-

ing forward to our team gettingbetter in each and every game.The Cardinal kicks off its 2012

season this Friday against No. 1Northwestern at 7 p.m. at LairdQ. Cagan Stadium.

Contact Sarah Maisel at sgmaisel@stanford.edu.

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like that, but showing up to thefield every day is a lot of fun forus.

Kenny Diekroeger has morethan enough experience in settingan example on the baseball dia-mond, having played alongside hisyounger brother since T-ball.When he graduated from MenloSchool in nearby Woodside, Calif.,to come to the Farm, Danny

picked up the slack at shortstop,hitting .462 and being namedleague MVP, like his brother be-

fore him.It might not have measured up

to his older brothers state MVPhonor as a senior, but after playingbeside him for so long, DannyDiekroeger doesnt feel like he hasto match Kenny stride for stride.

Its definitely cool to havesomeone to look up to like that, tosee what you can accomplish andtry to be like him, but I dont feelpressured at all, he said. Itsmore that Im just trying to do mybest, and hes just doing his best,and were happy for each other.

So when Danny Diekroegerchose to come to Stanford two

years ago, he didnt do so just tofollow in his older brothers foot-steps.

[Kenny being here] was defi-nitely something I thought about,but it wasnt the biggest part of mydecision, Danny Diekroeger said.I think ultimately the reason weended up at the same place was be-cause we had a similar attraction toStanford, in the combination ofathletics and academics.

Danny Diekroeger understoodthat combination well from thestart, according to Kenny, who saidhe was most useful in giving hisyounger brother insight into theday-to-day life of Cardinal base-ball players.

And Danny hasnt struggled to

carve out his own identity at Stan-ford, either; after arriving on theFarm as a management science

and engineering major just likehis brother he later made theswitch to computer science and be-came the teams CS tutor. Kennyenjoys playing old Nintendo 64games and lives in a dorm; Dannylikes to recreate tunes he hears onthe piano and lives in a fraternity.

But make no mistake: on theplaying field the Diekroegers goalremains the same, and their broth-erly connection doesnt end at thedugout steps.

We know what its like to playwith each other, but at the sametime . . . we get along really well,Kenny Diekroeger said. Us inter-

acting with each other, that rubsoff on other guys too, just the ener-gy that can spark between us.

Its nothing new to us,Danny Diekroeger explained,But I know other guys on theteam think its funny that werenot afraid to argue with eachother about stupid little things theway brothers do. We can be argu-ing one second and the nextminute well be laughing aboutsomething else.

With any luck they will bedoing a lot of laughing in the com-ing weeks, as the Cardinal takeson a series of top-tier foes to startthe season. Opening night is nextFriday, with Stanford hosting No.10 Vanderbilt.

Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@stanford.edu.

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Roughly 100 education profes-sionals and graduate students at-tended the panel. Other speakersincluded Pam Grossman and Su-sanna Loeb, both professors in ed-ucation at Stanford. The next meet-ing for the partnership will takeplace at Stanford on March 2.

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