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Junior Veronica Li, above, is one of the Stanford womens tennis players vying for the Pac-10championship this weekend in Ojai, Calif. This tournament is a tuneup for NCAAs.

Player The Skinny Wes Bunting, Shane P. Hallam,National Football Post Draft Countdown

CB Richard Sherman A tall, converted He has stiff hips and doesn t run realwide receiver who well, but some people like him becausestarted the past two of his size.years at cornerback. Projection: Priority UDFA.Had six career interceptions,including four in 2010.

Honorable mention All-Pac-10this season.

Individuals go for conference crown

By CHRISSY JONESCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Having just wrapped up a flawless season

with an 8-4 victory over the USTA Junior Na-tional All-Star Team, the Stanford womenstennis team travels to Ojai,Calif.,today to par-ticipate in the Pac-10 Championships thisweekend. The Cardinal (23-0, 8-0 Pac-10) willretain its No. 1 ranking and its Pac-10 title re-gardless of the results of this tournament, asplayers will be competing individually. Theevent should provide the women with anotheropportunity to focus on their individual gamesbefore the NCAA Tournament rolls around atthe end of May.

Stanford will be sending a sizeable contin-gent to Ojai, including freshmen Kristie Ahnand Nicole Gibbs, sophomores Mallory Bur-dette and Stacey Tan and junior Veronica Li inthe singles main draw. Stanford also has twodoubles teams in the main draw, includingAhn/Gibbs and a pairing of Tan and seniorCarolyn McVeigh. The Invitational divisionwill include freshmen Elizabeth Ecker andAmelia Herring, sophomore Natalie Dillonand McVeigh in singles. In Invitational dou-bles, Stanford will send Burdette/Dillon andHerring/Li.As a rookie,Ahn is looking forward to playing

in Pac-10 individuals,her first such tournamentas a Stanford student-athlete.

Im excited to take a break from duals andfocus on some individual matches, which will

most definitely prepare me for the NCAA in-dividual event that follows the team event,Ahn said. Any match under the belt beforeNCAAs will be beneficial a chance to com-pete and get back into battle mode.

The Pac-10 Championships will occur at thesame time and place as other tournaments forother age groups.The Ojai Tennis Tournamentis celebrating its 111th year and welcomesmany of the nations elite to its courts.

Ahn will be facing UCLAs Pamela Montez whom she defeated 6-4,6-4 on March 25 in the first round of singles play Thursday.Dou-bles matches are set to begin on Friday.

Because its an individual tournament,theres always the possibility that you will playagainst a fellow teammate, but it tends to be afew rounds in as opposed to a first-roundgrind,Ahn said.

One teammate that Ahn will definitely notbe competing against is senior Hilary Barte,Stanfords No.1 player,who will be sitting thistournament out.

Yeah,her ranking is safe,and shes had an

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JUDGEMENTUDGEMENT DAYThe NFL Draft begins today at 5:00 p.m.and will continue through Sunday.

Two draft analysts spoke with The Daily to discuss the professional prospects of

Stanfords top graduating players.

His big physical nature is going to endearhim to some team. Good for a Cover 2 schemebecause of how physically he plays. Th eresbig upside there.Projection: Sixth Round.

Started at nose tackle in Stan-ford's new 3-4 alignment. Aspace-clogger who had ninesacks in his career. Second-teamAll-Pac-10 in 2010, honorablemention all-conference in 2009.

DT Sione Fua "Hes a better as a 4-3 nose. He's notphysical or big enough to be a 3-4 nose.He needs to do a better job finding theball but he's tough to move. Good motorand work ethic."

Projection: Midrounds.

Fits better as a nose tackle but views himselfas an under tackle who can do some passrushing, so that versatility is nice for him. He'slimited to a 4-3 system.

Projection: Fifth Round.

Two-way starter at both fullbackand linebacker as a senior. First-team All-Pac-10 in 2010 afterbeing named honorable mentionall-conference in the prior threeseasons. Winner of the inauguralPaul Hornung Award for the mostversatile athlete in the sport.

FB Owen Marecic I like Marecic, he's the best fullback inthe draft. As technically sound as anyfullback Ive seen. Doesnt have eliteathleticism but hes athletic enough.


Hes intelligent and able to play both sides ofthe ball. His motor is out of this world. Hes notthe most physically figted fullback in this class,but those traits means that hes probably goingto be the first fullback off the board.


Made the transition to outsidelinebacker from defensive end, leftStanford with one year of eligibili-ty remaining. Had 19.5 sacks inhis career. Freshman All-Americanin 2008, honorable mention All-Pac-10 in both 2009 and 2010.

OLB Tom Keiser Dont know why he came out this year.Decent athlete but nothing special. Anover-acheiver who knows how to use hishands to shed blocks, but isnt overlyphysical.

Projection: Late rounds.

He is a guy who has some athletic skill and Ilike, physically, what he brings to the table. Ithink a lot of teams are looking at him as aspecial teamer instead of a starter, at thispoint.

Projection: Seventh Round.

Former walk-on who became amulti-year starter for the Cardi-nal. Finished his career with140 catches for 1884 yards.Honorable mention All-Pac-10in both 2009 and 2010.

WR Ryan Whalen Has a good feel for the pass game andcatches the football well. Dont thinkhe's ever going to separate versus mancoverage in the NFL, but he knows whereto sit down in a zone.

Projection: Late rounds.

Even if he doesnt get drafted, he can go intoa camp and impress people and s tick around.He has nice hands. Built for the slot in the NFLand his route running is above-average.

Projection:Seventh Round/Priority UDFA.

One year starter at right tackle.Made the transition from defen-sive tackle earlier in his career.Honorable mention All-Pac-10

in 2010.

OT Derek Hall A lot of upside to his game. A better runblocker than he is a pass protector.Needs to tighten up his footwork a littlebit, but hes a good enough athlete to

work on it and become a player.

Projection: Fifth or Sixth Round.

Hes a player that sits right in that right tack-le mold. Dont see a lot of versatility. Couldadd some strength.

Projection: Priority UDFA.

Three-year starter on the Cardi-nal offensive line, with experi-ence at both right and leftguard. Honorable mention All-Pac-10 in both 2009 and 2010.

OG Andrew Phillips Hes gritty, he's tough. Hes a velcro-typeplayer. Doesnt have a great burst but hecan create good levarage for himself and helikes to finish. I give him a draftable grade.

Projection: Late Rounds/PriorityUDFA.

Lack of athleticism will knock him out of a lotof teams systems and limit where he could go.A power run team could use his intelligenceand power to their advantage.


A former Oklahoma transfer whoemerged as one of the nation'smost dominant centers. Wasfirst-team All-Pac-10 and a con-sensus All-American in 2010.Earned second-team all-confer-ence honors in 2009.

OC Chase Beeler Hes undersized. Decent enough ath-lete, not overly phyiscal.


I dont know if hes going to be able to holdup in the NFL. I don't see one attribute thatstands out.

Projection: Priority UDFA/UDFA.

Made nine starts for Stanfordafter transferring from NotreDame in 2008. Finished his ca-reer with 27 receptions for 351yards. Honorable mention All-Pac-10 in 2010.

TE Konrad Reuland Nothing special as an athlete. Decentblocker, but those guys are a dime-a-dozen.

Projection: UDFA.

Hes not going to be elite for his position, butI like what I saw in terms of blocking. Stanforduses an in-line blocker a lot, and that will helphim with teams that need a goalline tight endwho can block downhill.

Projection: UDFA.

A force during his freshman sea-son, then reemerged as a starterin 2010. Led Stanford in recep-tions, yards and touchdowns asa senior. Second-team All-Pac-10 in 2010.

WR Doug Baldwin He wasnt on many draft boards, doesnot appear to be a real serious option.

Projection: UDFA.

Havent heard much buzz at all. Youre notgetting someone whos particularly crisp orathletic. Im not sure hell be able to hold upagainst NFL corners.

Projection: UDFA.

A Notre Dame transfer who con-nected on 33/41 field goals inhis Stanford career, including17/19 in 2010. First-team All-

Pac-10 in 2010, honorablemention in 2009.

K Nate Whitaker Wasnt a highly rated guy. Not in mytop 600 prospects.

Projection: UDFA.

Havent heard his name tossed around toomuch but there are teams that need kickers.He's not in my top 10 kickers, but hell at leastget a shot with a tryout.

Projection: UDFA.

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World ExpoBy ISSRA OMER

The World Expo,an internationalevent occurring only twice every 10years and attended by millionsaround the globe,could be coming tothe Bay Area in 2020. Californiasbid for the Expo may greatly impactPalo Alto and the greater Bay Area.

A proposal from the Bay AreaCouncil, which represents the re-gions nine counties, is currently inthe works to bring the Expo to Mof-fett Field, a 1000-acre civil militaryairport between Sunnyvale andMountain View.

The Expos benefits to Palo Altowould include an estimated $6.1 bil-lion revenue over its six-month dura-tion.

Having the visitors would leadto spending on hotels, transporta-tion,commerce and generally lead to

more spending, said ThomasFehrenbach,economic developmentmanager for Palo Alto.

Fehrenbach said that having theExpo in the midst of the technologi-cal advancement of Silicon Valleywould highlight innovation and in-genuity. Other supporters say thatthe Bay Area would be able to put anew spin on the World Expo.

If the Bay Area bid wins, theExpo would conveniently be placednear important companies.

If you look at the location, youcan see that it is right in the heart ofSilicon Valley,said John Grubb,sen-ior vice president for external affairsfor the Bay Area Council.Google ison the north side, Yahoo is close aswell and Microsoft, Facebook andLinkedIn are all close by. All thesecompanies that are connecting the

Class of 2015arrives for

Admit Weekend

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Today marks the official start ofAdmit Weekend for prospectivefreshman (ProFros). The three-dayevent will provide high school stu-dents admitted to the Class of 2015 ataste of life at Stanford.

According to Director of Admis-sion Bob Patterson, approximately1,300 of 2,427 accepted students areexpected to arrive on the Farm.

President John Hennessy,Provost John Etchemendy Ph.D. 82and Dean of Admission Richard

Shaw will deliver the official wel-come today at 1:15 p.m. Otherplanned events include open houses,academic expos,a Q&A session withHennessy and a speech by Pandorafounder Tim Westergren 88.

Admitted students have untilMay 1 to accept Stanfords offer ofadmission.

An Le Nguyen

Academy ofArts andSciences honors

scholars

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Eight Stanford scholars havebeen selected by the Academy ofArts and Sciences to become part ofthis years induction class of 212 newmembers.

The Academy, a policy researchinstitution founded in 1780, focuseson studying multidisciplinary solu-tions to world issues. It currently has4,000 American Fellows and 600Foreign Honorary Members.

The honored Stanford scholarsinclude Graduate School of Busi-

ness consulting professor AnthonyBryk, linguistics professor PenelopeEckert, biology professor Russell D.Fernald, physics professor AndreiLinde, chemistry professor Todd J.Martinez, economics professorMonika Piazzessi, psychology pro-fessor Brian Wandell and physicsprofessor Shoucheng Zhang.

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By AMANDA ROST

If it is possible for White Plaza to look

normal, it has started to look consider-ably more so since the whimsical whitetents, stages and displays were takendown after last weekends artistic exper-

iment. For the later part of last week, WhitePlaza was graced with musical performancesand student art displays that represented morethan Stanford kids in spring quarter overdrive.

They were Vision eARTh, Stanfords firstannual three-day arts and sustainability festi-val, which lasted from Thursday, April 21, toSaturday,April 23.

Vision eARTh is novel in name, but estab-lished in concept. In past years,Vision eARThwas a series of two separate events: An Art Af-fair,hosted by Student Organizing Committeefor the Arts (SOCA), and FutureFest, hostedby Students for a Sustainable Stanford (SSS).

According to Sarthak Misra 13, VisioneARThs main organizer and SOCA directorAli McKeon 11, the approximately 20-mem-

ber Vision eARTh team is composed of stu-dents from all over campus who share a com-mon aim to broaden peoples definition of sus-tainability.

We wanted to combine the events because

this way well be able to address sustainabilityissues using artists as a platform, Misra said.

The term sustainability has a nuanced defi-nition across different campus populations.To

the Vision eARTh team,sustainability formal-ly means anything I do that will allow otherpeople to have access to the resources I haveaccess to,according to Misra.

The multifaceted nature of the event re-flected the concept of sustainability as a way ofthinking rather than a narrowly defined action.Over the three days of the festival,passersby inWhite Plaza were offered a myriad of attrac-tions, including two tent installments of stu-dent art.

It was fun just being in White Plaza andcatching people as they walk by, said con-tributing artist Katharine Matsumoto 11. Itwas a good way to engage people who werentplanning on going.

Vision eARTh and SOCA marketing direc-tor Jasmine Mann 11 described the laid-backenvironment of this years event.

We want to provide the most relaxed,mostopen environment, Mann said. It doesntmatter how small, how awkward or howeverweird it is; we want your art.

And indeed,undergraduate artist contribu-tions ran the gamut of style, from a facial por-trait composed of bottle caps to a painted mir-

ror arrangement flirting with consumerism toan arrangement of photographs on recycledCDs.

Other main attractions included a Sustain-

able Fashion Show, put on by the SustainableFashion Collective. Another highlight was aconcert organized by the Stanford ConcertNetwork (SCN) featuring indie music groupBroken Social Scene.The performance drew asurprising crowd of 300 spectators,perhaps be-cause of the groups growing popularity andrecent appearance at Coachella.

The ASSU, Green Living Council (GLC),Stanford Farm Project and BeWell also partic-ipated in the event,as well as a number of stu-dent groups ranging from belly dancers, to acappella groups, to Cardinal Ballet and theStanford Improvisers (SImps).

As a ballerina I never thought Id be danc-ing for such a groovy cause, said AudreySolomon 14 of Cardinal Ballet.I loved look-ing out into the audience and seeing their facesfull of hope for a green and sustainable future.

The logic behind hosting so many differentartistic performances goes back to the waymost people view sustainability, according toMann.

The idea of Vision eARTh [is that] mostpeople see sustainability as Oh, its an engi-neering problem. Its a political problem. But

its also a cultural problem.Its approaching sustainability from a dif-

ferent angle,she added.The event culminated in a release party for

the SOCA-produced Stanford Soundtrack. Ahighly anticipated appearance by venture cap-italist and self-proclaimed environmentalpragmatist Vinod Khosla was made beforethe release of the soundtrack.

Kholsa spoke to a tent-full of audienceabout the hard part of sustainability, pokingfun at idealistic environmentalists includingAl Gore,whom he described as a close friend for being skilled at identifying environmen-tal problems but lacking in solutions. Khoslatold his audience that he has real beef withenvironmental trends that are more foundedin fashion more than practicality.

Kholsa emphasized the importance ofbridging the gap between making things hap-pen and wanting to make them happen. Inline with Khoslas warning to avoid reducingthe green movement to silly fashion state-ments, Vision eARTh strove to show thepower of appealing to both aesthetics and en-vironmental consciousness to promote sus-tainability.

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Letter to the Editor:Sorority Recruitment

Dear Editor,In response to the April 14 arti-

cle Rushing to Bid Day,we wouldlike to address some of the claimsmade by the author regarding par-ticipation in the Inter-SororityCounsel Formal Recruitment andsorority life at Stanford.

Our chapters are some of themost powerful womens organiza-tions on this campus. The benefitsof membership enrich every part ofour lives as Stanford students.Theauthor is not someone who wentthrough our process genuinelywith the intent to join one of ourorganizations. We feel that her as-sessment of the process was thusbiased and unrepresentative of theamazing opportunity Greek lifecan provide.

While Formal Recruitment ismore structured than the processes

used by other organizations at Stan-ford, our process works because itexposes prospective new membersto the full range of chapters withinthe Inter-Sorority Council. Many ofour new and current chapter mem-bers ended up someplace theynever imagined they would love asmuch as they do.

Being in an ISC chapter, AlphaEpsilon Phi,Alpha Phi,Chi Omega,Delta Delta Delta, Kappa AlphaTheta,Kappa Kappa Gamma or PiBeta Phi,means a lot more than get-ting to wear matching T-shirts orchanting Greek letters to catchytunes. During Recruitment, wereonly able to show a glimpse of whatcomes along with membership: ahuge cheering section for yoursports games or plays, mentors forselecting classes to finding jobs,study partners, dance parties andlifelong friends.

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Dear Readers,Since 1973, The Stanford Daily

has valued its established role as anindependent campus newspaper.With it comes great responsibility toour readers to ensure that our cov-erage remains unaffected by, and

unaffiliated with, the University.The Daily failed to live up to thisresponsibility on Wednesday bypublishing the front-page article,University alters nondiscrimina-tion policy. The story, written byformer Daily staff writer and re-cently elected ASSU Senator Bri-anna Pang,violated the core princi-ples of this independent organiza-tion. While I fully support Ms.

Pangs intentions in reporting as anobjective student journalist, her af-filiation with the ASSU,compound-ed with the ASSUs public relation-ship with the University, places thepiece in discordance with TheDailys values.

The Daily takes tremendouspride in its independent status andwill take all necessary precautionsto prevent a similar error in the fu-ture. Thank you for your continuedsupport.

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Between Easters religious re-minders and a molecular evo-lution class overdose of pop-

ulation genetics, I shouldnt havebeen surprised to wake up yester-day from an unsettling dream abouttaking my midterm exam on NoahsArk. The ocean was rising, Noahwas hustling animals aboard, and Iwas battling asthma (thanks, furryanimal allergies). But what both-ered me most about all this wasntthat Id forgotten the formula forheterozygosity. It was that therewere only two animals of everykind.

Religious beliefs aside, todaysscientific consensus is that you needmore than two individuals to save aspecies.

Thats because species survivalisnt just about baby-making poten-tial. It also depends on genetic di-versity: the number of traits (in hu-mans, things like skin color, heightor even intellectual aptitude) pres-ent in the breeding population.Thisdiversity may be obvious, it may besubtle or it may be invisible, de-tectable only by extracting and se-quencing samples of DNA.

The more genetic diversity apopulation has, the more resilient it

tends to be.When the environmentchanges, the population faces newadaptive pressures. In a diversepopulation, its more likely thatsomeone will have a set of traitswell-suited for the new conditions.The idea also suits a well-developedNFL defense: the team practices avariety of plays so that its preparedfor any offensive strategy.

As you might expect,the smalleryour team (or your population), theslimmer your adaptive playbook.So unless they got really lucky, thepair of animals you picked for yourmodern-day ark probably wouldntbe able to re-establish their species.

In genetics, we use the phrasegenetic bottleneckto describe di-versity loss in a shrinking popula-tion. If the breeding population gets

too small, the negative effects of in-breeding may run rampant.Think ofthe Romanov family and hemophil-ia, for example, and youll begin tosee some biological reasons for thesocial stigma surrounding incest.

If the population isnt fraughtwith lethal genetic disorders, it mayrebound to a substantial size butthat doesnt mean its safe. It takesmillennia for genetic diversity todevelop (through the slow accumu-lation of changes to the DNA se-quence),so even a large populationmay still bear the low-diversity sig-

nature of bottlenecks past.Thats a major reason that chee-

tahs, for example, are hovering onthe brink of extinction. Of course,cheetahs face the same humanthreats (habitat loss,poaching, etc.)that most African wildlife does.Butwhile other species are recoveringslowly under watchful conservationeyes, the cheetah isnt sprintingback. The secret is written all overits DNA.

Where most mammals shareabout 80 percent of their genes withother members of their species,cheetahs share 99 percent morethan you or I have in common witheven our closest relatives (save foridentical twins). So the miraculousgenetic reshuffling of sexual repro-duction which evolved to pro-duce varied offspring to meet a vari-able world cant help cheetahsclaw back into synchrony with a

changing environment.The original cheetah bottleneckprobably happened about 10,000years ago, but other bottleneckshave been much more recent. TheEuropean bison, or wisent, popula-tion dwindled to 12 in the 1920s;Californias sea otters trace theirancestry to only 50 individuals alivein 1938.We may yet see the legacy ofthose bottlenecks in our conserva-tion efforts.

But while most of us love ani-mals,all of us depend on food.Andthe most troubling bottlenecks ofall are those of our key crops,cut offfrom wild populations through do-mestication and further winnowedby breeding and (lately) geneticmodification to just a few varieties.

In a stable environment (like the

one we create with irrigation,fertil-izers and pesticides),it makes senseto plant only the highest-yieldingvariety. But monocultures are risky:The Irish Potato Famine killed onemillion people because single-vari-ety crops were entirely vulnerableto disease.

Today, you can see the impor-tance of crop diversity in easternEthiopia, where a hard year meansa hard life (not just an expensiveone).There, Romina Cavatassi and

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When people ask me why Iwanted to study abroad inOxford, I can give them a

variety of reasons namely, theincredible academics, the perfectsetting and the multitude of ex-tracurricular opportunities here.Or maybe because Oxford wasfounded in 1167, making it some-thing like seven times older thangood ol Stanny U. Or maybe itsthe fantastic architecture and in-credible scenery. Obviously, I camehere for all those things, but thatsnot really why I came here. Stan-ford likes to tout the academics ofits study abroad programs andwhatnot (especially Oxford), butforget that. Those aspects arentthat important in the grand schemeof things.

You know what is the most im-portant thing? The British accent.You can laugh at me all you want,but you know its true.For us Amer-icans,there is no more attractive at-

tribute for a member of the oppo-site sex than an awesome accent.Onthe entirely subjective 1 to 10scale of rating the attractiveness ofa potential date, a great British ac-cent easily adds an automatic 1.5points no matter what. Its justhow these things work. I mean,Iveonly been here a week and I alreadylove the town and the culture hereat Oxford,but I already go to an in-credible university back in Califor-nia. If I only wanted academics andawesome opportunities, I couldhave just stayed in my room inFloMo for this quarter. If you giveStanford 700 more years of history,

Im sure it could morph into some-thing reasonably similar to Oxford,too.Yet the fact is,even in those 700years, most Stanford girls will al-ways lack a British accent andthats just unfortunate. Its why Ihad to come here.

Its not even just the girls. Im ahuge Coldplay fan, obsessively so,actually. (I know, I know,I pretendto be all indie in some of my othercolumns and then I admit to reallyliking Coldplay? What a cop-out.)Ive seen them live seven times.Yeah, seven times. And I kind ofhave this massive man-crush onChris Martin, Coldplays leadsinger. It could be because of hisimmense musical talent. Or itcould be because hes absolutelyperfected this charmingly awk-ward thing that Ive been trying tonail down for years now. But morethan likely, its because of his awe-some British accent.

Then,of course,you also have to

realize that our generations lovefor Harry Potter decidedly skewedits perceptions of England.Serious-ly,you cant walk two blocks in Ox-ford without hearing about howsome college or another was usedfor filming in the Harry Pottermovies. Unfortunately, I cant findany shops in Oxford that sellChocolate Frogs or Bertie BottsEvery Flavor Beans,but somehow Ithink Ill survive that sad fact.

Quite honestly,my greatest take-away from the Harry Potter filmswas that they firmly set me andmost guys around my age in lovewith Emma Watson. For me, that

probably happened somewherearound the age of 12 or 13. Youknow what, I think even most girlsour age are probably in love withEmma Watson. Like really, haveyou seen this girl? Wasnt Hermionesupposed to be kind of ugly? (Hon-estly, I take it as a personal offensethat she went to Brown over Stan-ford. Shes apparently transferringsomewhere else now.Lets hope shemakes the right decision the secondtime around.) Anyway, I dont wantto pretend that my love for Englandcame solely from Emma Watson,but she definitely helped to swaymy decision.

Of course, Emma Watson alsohas one of the most beautifulBritish accents that has everreached my ears, so that cant be acoincidence, right? These days,when I walk in Oxford amongstbeautiful medieval buildings, I haveto stop myself from asking nearlyevery English girl I pass on a date.Icant really help it they haveEmma Watson to thank for thatone.

Do you know where to get ChocolateFrogs in Oxford? Email Shane direc-tions and your other Oxford tips at

[email protected].

If I had to summarize the reportand recommendations of the Fac-ulty Senates ad hoc committee

on ROTC in two words, they wouldbe Country First,the shallow,pop-ulist slogan of John McCain andSarah Palins presidential campaign.These words come to mind because,having dismissed some of the mosttrenchant arguments . . . againstROTC on the basis that they weremarred by naive and derogatorystereotypes (without providing anyexamples of such stereotypes or

enunciating the basis on which thecommittee found them to be naiveand derogatory), the ad hoc com-mittee proceeds to justify its recom-mendation that the military be givenspecial treatment, compared toother, more peace-promoting andinternational-law-abiding institu-tions,by wrapping Stanford Univer-sity in the American flag.

Needless to say, jingoism has noplace in an academic institution ofStanfords caliber, and by concludingthat establishing an on-campusROTC facility would be consistentwith Stanfords civicmission, the adhoc committee undermines its owncredibility. Furthermore, given theflaws in the report, the committeefails to provide members of the Facul-ty Senate with any legitimate reason

to accept its recommendations.I do not deny that Stanfords civic

mission may include a special re-sponsibility to contribute to the suc-cess of [the United States] public in-stitutions, as the committee sug-gests in its report. The committeeclearly errs, however, when it as-sumes: (1) that contributing to thesuccess of the military means pro-

viding the military with a training fa-cility on Stanfords campus; and (2)that ROTCs consistency with theUniversitys civic mission can be as-sessed solely in the context of thisspecial responsibility.

Assumption (1) is reminiscent ofthe false,support-the-troops patriot-ism that flourished in the aftermathof 9/11 and which remains promi-

nent today. It is equivalent to the no-tion that those who love their coun-try dont criticize their country.Who is to say, for example, that aprincipled refusal by Stanford toprovide the military with an on-cam-pus training facility would not be thebest way for the University to con-

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A SubGallery of the Thomas Welton Gallery, located in the Nathan CummingsArt building, featured student Elise MacMillans sound art piece incorporating

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world together, which is what theWorld Expo is all about.

The Bay Area is definitely thecenter of innovation in the U.S. if notthe world, Fehrenbach added.There is so much to offer in termsof technology and innovation.

Excitement over the prospects ofhaving the World Expo so close toPalo Alto has also spread on cam-pus.

Natalie Cheng 14 is particularlyenthusiastic about the 2020 Expo,after having seen the Expos inShanghai,Germany and Italy.

The Expo embodies so manydifferent cultures [and] it always usescutting-edge technology to displayhistory and culture, Cheng said.Having the World Expo in the BayArea would be great for people whowant to get a taste of countries allaround the world without having totravel as much.Its like bringing theworld to America.

Still, despite the enthusiasm,there are a few roadblocks slowingthe progress of the Bay Areas bid.According to Grubb, one key barri-er is the fact that the U.S. is not amember of the Bureau of Interna-

tional Expositions (BIE),the organ-ization responsible for choosingWorld Expo locations.

Local congresswoman AnnaEshoo has been leading the effortsfor the U.S. bid.

To bid for the World Expo, theU.S. needs to rejoin the BIE . . . AU.S.-hosted World Expo has thepotential to create jobs, enhancediplomatic relationships andshowcase the innovative strengthof our country, Eshoo wrote in aletter to Secretary of State HillaryClinton.

According to Fehrenbach, thereis also the question of financing theWorld Expo. Because of the eco-nomic recession, Palo Alto hasfound it difficult to squeeze moneyout of the expenditures.

Having said that, I think it isworth the costs;it has a potential up-side that is worth exploring, headded.

City officials,after all,are expect-ing the World Expo to leave a lastingmark on Silicon Valley.

When you think of Silicon Val-ley,the image you get is nondescriptoffices or buildings, Grubb said.When you think of Paris, you getthe image of the Eiffel Tower or theSpace Needle for Seattle. All ofthese landmarks have been the re-sult of past World Expos this isthe Silicon Valleys chance.

The BIE is expected to make itsfinal decision regarding the 2020World Expo location in 2013.

Contact Issra Omer at [email protected].

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colleagues from the UNs Food andAgriculture Organization foundthat growers whod switched tomodern monocultures sufferedmore crop failures than their na-tive-mixture-growing neighbors even though, in a good year, mod-ern seeds performed better.

Worldwide, though, agricultureis shifting from diverse crops to in-dustrial monocultures.Were losingthe very varieties that spareEthiopian fields as a result. At atime when climate change and fuelshortages loom on the horizon, itsnever been more important to savethat diversity.Who knows which va-riety holds the key to drought toler-ance? Or will resist the sweep of thenext major pest?

While squirreling DNA away infreezers and seed banks has wonfavor amid desperate conservationefforts, in reality the best way topreserve genetic diversity is to pre-serve it in situ. Today, we awardhuge grants to jet-setting scientists,who stock seed banks with 70-per-cent redundant collections. Instead,we should reward the farmer forplanting his familys heirloom vari-eties instead of Monsantos global-ized products. And we should ex-pand biodiversity to mean ge-

netic diversity, and protect ourwildlife (and our crops) from futuregenetic bottlenecks. Because a ge-netic bottleneck, like a real one, isnearly impossible to break out of.

Holly hopes that knowing the impor-tance of diversity will encourage theBio 244 graders to accept a diversityof midterm solutions. She also wel-comes reader feedback [email protected].

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tribute to the success of the mili-tary? In other words, why shouldStanford surrender its moral agencyand let the military decide what is inthe militarys interests? From theUniversitys perspective, contribut-ing to the success of the militarymeans, inter alia, critiquing the mili-tarys failure to reflect the values ofthe University; it does not meanblindly acquiescing to the militarysrequest for an on-campus facility.

Assumption (2) is even more in-sidious. The committee acknowl-edges in its report that the Universi-tys commitment to freedom anddemocracy is not confined to thefate of any single nation.But it thenconcludes that on-campus ROTCwould be consistent with Stanfordscivic mission, without mentioningthe interests of anyone outside theU.S.(i.e.those who are most likely tobe harmed by the militarys actions)!In other words, while Stanfordsfounding grant calls on the Universi-ty to exercise an influence on be-half of humanity and civilization,the Ad Hoc Committee believes it issufficient to ask whether on-campus

ROTC would constitute an influ-ence on behalf of the U.S. military.

Moreover, the committees re-port relies on a conception of themilitary that ignores the violence it

perpetrates,on the basis that such vi-olence is the result of the purposesto which the military is put by civil-ian leaders.But no one would acceptthis reasoning in any other context.In the case of murder, for instance,killing at the instruction of anotheris generally considered a moreheinous crime (and comes with a

greater sentence) than killing ofones own volition.Furthermore,thebrave actions of the military person-nel who refused to serve in the Iraqwar (and others) demonstrate thatthe military does have the capacityto defy civilian orders on moralgrounds,such that its refusal to do somust be understood as institutionalcomplicity in the violence itself.

It doesnt take the critical think-ing skills of a Stanford student to re-alize that the report and recommen-dations of the ad hoc committee onROTC constitute a cowardly and su-perficial appeal to patriotism. TheUniversitys only hope is that theFaculty Senate doesnt succumb tothe same temptation.

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There are a few downsides tobeing a foreign student inthe U.S., from the steeplearning curve of a new ac-ademic system whats a

GPA? I have to do homework? Andmidterms? to the fact that evennow,I occasionally get confused lookswhen using particularly British wordsor phrases.Oh, and that on more thanone occasion, someone has in allseriousness asked me who theQueen is. When it comes to sport,

though,its all good.Sure, I can feel a little homesick

when I realize no one around me haseven the faintest clue about vitally im-portant sports news back on the otherside of the pond,and its worrying thateven in this globally connected world,it can be far too easy to lose touch withthose events myself. But being astranger in a strange land has some se-rious advantages.

Back home, it doesnt take toomuch to expose the gaps in my sportsknowledge.The soccer team I supportisnt in the top English league, so myawareness of the cutting edge of thesport can be a bit lacking, and eventhen, I rarely go to games because I

just cant afford the week-on-weekdrain on my bank account. Andthough I watch my fair share of sportson TV, I still cant measure up to thetime put in by serious devotees.

In the U.S.,though,all the cracks inmy identity as a fan dont matter.Notbecause the bright, mysterious worldof American sports helps patch overthose when it comes to my Ameri-can sporting knowledge, those crackscan turn into bottomless chasmsbut simply because Im not a local. Idont do a good American accent, soas soon as I speak, peoples expecta-tions of me as a fan are different.

If I didnt know the basic rules ofsoccer, I might feel a little unworthyback in Europe,but here I can ask themost stupid questions and get gener-ally patient answers.I do have to occa-sionally deal with someone explainingto me why my foreign sports are so in-ferior, but thats a two-way street. Ireckon I could get away with sayingpretty much anything about Ameri-can sports, because when it comesdown to it, most people will writethese outbursts off.I didnt grow up in

this particular sports culture, so Imnot really expected to get it. I canearn forgiveness just by breaking outmy charming accent.

But that brings up another issue.Like with any good infomercial host,Ialso perhaps worryingly thinkthat people sometimes turn to me foran expert opinion on overseas sports.For some reason,Ive watched my fairshare of these feature-length advertsin the past, and a defining aspect ofpretty much all of them is the pointwhen they roll out the British ex-pert.This is invariably someone whois apparently famous back home(though unknown to me) with a pro-nounced, supposedly British accent.All I need to do, then,is crank up theBritishness a notch and suddenly peo-ple start to trust that I really know

what Im talking about.The whole point of going out into

the world is to broaden your horizons,though, and that is really why spend-ing a few years of my life in the U.S.isa great thing,especially as a sports fan.I wont flatter the Americans readingthis by claiming that I have been com-pletely won over by sports here Im not about to switch my loyalties but theres definitely something

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Mens golf plays host to Pac-10Championships

The Stanford Golf Course willhost the 2011 Pac-10 Mens GolfChampionships, which are set tobegin tomorrow.All Pac-10 teamswill be represented as Stanfordvies for its first team title since1994.

Players are scheduled to play apractice round Thursday beforeteeing up 36 holes on Friday and18 each on Saturday and Sunday.The first Friday tee times are at 8a.m.

Washington is in town to de-fend the team title that it won forthe second consecutive seasonlast year in Tempe,Ariz.The tour-nament will also see the return of

Cal senior Eric Mina,who will de-fend his individual crown fromlast season.

UCLA is the team favorite thisweekend, as the Bruins areranked third in the nation. Fourother Pac-10 teams Cal at 18,Stanford at 20, USC at 21 andOregon at 22 are also rankedin the Golfweek/Sagarin pollstop 25.

The nations No. 2 and No. 3players will also be on display thisweekend, as Stanford freshmanAndrew Yun and UCLA fresh-man Patrick Cantlay are bothshooting for a Pac-10 title in theirfirst collegiate seasons. Yun haswon one tournament this seasonand finished in the top five in fourothers.

This is the ninth time the Stan-ford Golf Course will host thePac-10 Championships. The lasttime the Championships wereheld at Stanford,Arizonas RickyBarnes, now one of the top play-ers on the PGA Tour, took homethe individual title with a score of268 (-16). USC grabbed the teamchampionship,one of its record 18Pac-10 team titles.

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Junior David Chung, above, is one of Stanfords top golfers this season.Chung and the Cardinal will try for Stanfords first Pac-10 team champi-onship since 1994 at the Stanford Golf Course this weekend.

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awesome season, Ahn said. Shesalways ready to compete, and Imsure she would have loved to playOjai one last time, but I think thesmarter decision for her was to sit

this one out.Barte,who is individually rankedNo.3 in the country,advanced to thesemifinals of the Pac-10 Champi-onships last year as a singles playerand captured the doubles title withthen-partner Lindsay Burdette,whograduated in 2010. As Ahn ex-plained, Barte plans on resting upfor the upcoming NCAA Tourna-ment, in which the Cardinal will befacing the nations top programs as ateam.

The Pac-10 draw will be particu-larly tough this year, as Ahn attests.

One of the countrys best,MariaSanchez of USC, is playing, whichwill definitely put us to the test,she

said.Sanchez is currently ranked as

the nations No.2 singles player.Practices have been flexible lead-

ing up to the tournament, allowing

individuals to work on areas thatneed refinement.Practices have been focused to

playing at Ojai; whatever we feellike we need to work on,we can justgo ahead and ask each other or thecoaches for help,Ahn said.Weretrying to fine-tune our games for thepostseason, just doing everythingnecessary to get ready for NCAAs.

The team believes Stanford is fin-ishing its season with a lot of confi-dence.

Our team has developed a win-ning attitude and I think that itsvery apparent when we take thecourt, Ahn said. Pac-10 individu-als will be a great opportunity to

make one last leap in my confidencebefore NCAAs roll around.

Ecker echoed that sentiment.Ojai should be a really good

way to get us ready and in a good

frame of mind for NCAAS, shesaid.Ecker, who has never played the

Pac-10 individuals at Ojai before,has gotten help in preparing for thetournament from her teammates.

The Pac-10 Championship isknown for its fun, slightly more laid-back atmosphere. We are all so ex-cited to compete, but it cant hurtand can only help your ranking andgame going into NCAAs.

The Stanford women begin post-season play at 8 a.m. today at theOjai Valley Athletic Club.

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about US sports thats truly unique inthe world.Its not necessarily a betterway of doing things, but simply a dif-ferent one.

Instead of trying to make com-parisons or even find those thingsthat I think are done better overhere, perhaps its better to explainthat the best thing about Americansports is their newness to me.Theres

always a new rule to learn, new tac-tics to understand, fresh allegiancesto be taken up and new chants toshout out. Its a bit like learning anew language:picking up those firstfew words like learning to sayhello and count to 10 is far moreexciting than fine-tuning my graspon my own mother tongue.

Tom Taylor is still trying to under-stand the infield-fly rule and why thequarterback must be in the pocket forit to be intentional grounding. Ex-

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