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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Brinkley tells story behind Cambodias CurseBy KABIR SAWHNEY

DESK EDITOR

In an appearance at the Stanford Bookstoreon Wednesday afternoon, author and communi-cation professor Joel Brinkley signed copies ofhis new book, Cambodias Curse, offering an

inside look into the difficulties facing the countryand discussing his research for the book.

Brinkley opened the talk by briefly explainingthe recent history of Cambodia, starting with itsUN-supervised election in 1992.Though the elec-tion was very successful,with 90 percent of Cam-bodians voting,the country quickly fell back into

dictatorship its current leader, Hun Sen, hasruled the country autocratically since 1997.

According to Brinkley,Cambodia has becomeinvisible to the outside world.

The predominant view worldwide has been,Oh,but theyre so much better off now than theywere under the Khmer Rouge, he said. Noreason to pay attention any longer.

The enduring legacy of the brutal KhmerRouge regime,which killed around a quarter ofthe Cambodian population during its reign from1975 to 1979, continues to suppress Cambodiandevelopment up to the present. Brinkley de-scribed the prevalence of post-traumatic stressdisorder (PTSD) and other related illnesses inthe country. Between a quarter and half of allCambodians who survived the Khmer Rougesuffer from PTSD and a study revealed that 62percent of Cambodian emigrants in Long Beach,Calif.have the disorder,he said.

Soon that generation will die, you mightthink, and everything will okay, Brinkley said.Actually, Cambodia is the only place in theworld where it has been demonstrated that PTSDand the related traumatic illnesses are beingpassed to a second generation.

Brinkley described the dire state of Cambo-dias economic development with a per-capitaannual income of roughly $650,the country is one

of the worlds poorest, on par with Bangladeshand Afghanistan.The result of that poverty is astate where 40 percent of the countrys children

By MARIANNE LeVINESTAFF WRITER

Stanford recently named five faculty members to acommittee designed to determine the future of SearsvilleDam. The new committee, however, has sparked someconcern among due to its lack of representation from theoutside community or local nongovernmental organiza-tions (NGOs).

The Searsville Dam project has been a topic of contro-versy between the University and environmental ac-tivists in recent years. Environmental activists haveprotested the dams current interference with the naturalhabitat of the steelhead trout, currently an endangeredspecies.

I am concerned that at least for now the committeedoesnt have any outside participation, said SteveRothert, California regional director for AmericanRivers, an NGO that has long been concerned about thefate of the dam. I recognize this is a very complex andcontroversial issue. I recognize this is also Stanfordsdam. One might argue Stanford should make the deci-sion, but the dam also affects the community and publicresources that everyone has an interest in.

Rothert believes the University should seek advicefrom those who are not directly involved in the commit-tee or linked to Stanford to achieve a durable solution.

According to Philippe Cohen, administrative directorat Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford intends to

seek advice from public agencies and plans to discuss dif-ferent ways to engage the outside community in earlycommittee discussions. He revealed, however, that be-fore community discussion can begin, the committeemust outline its objectives for the dam.

I think that Stanford needs to identify what it consid-ers its highest priorities with regard to the future ofSearsville before engaging the general public, Cohenwrote in an email to The Daily. Without that internalclarity, there is too much potential for miscommunica-tion and confusion.

Cohen explained that communication with outsideagencies is not only important,but also necessary for theSearsville Dam project. He stated that regardless of thecommittees final plan, Stanford must obtain permitsfrom various agencies, including the National MarineFisheries Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, theCalifornia Department of Fish and Game and the StateWater Quality Board.

All of these agencies have public comment and out-reach components which further guarantees that there

will be plenty of opportunity for public input,Cohen said.Cohen revealed that the University plans to partici-

STUDENT GOVT

ASSU creates diversity board

By ELENA STEPHENSON

ASSU President Michael Cruz 12 andVice President Stewart Macgregor-Dennis13 are set to introduce the ASSU ExecutiveCommunity Board this year,a new body de-signed to better address issues of diversityand tolerance on campus.The organization-al chart on their website places the newCommunity Board on the same level as thetraditional Executive Cabinet.

The main reason for the change is thefact that diversity/tolerance is an importantissue, but ASSU has had a hard time pro-ducing results, wrote Emma Ogiemwanye12, ASSU executive chief of staff, in anemail to The Daily.The hope is that it will

be 1) a forum to discuss issues and 2) have adeliverable this year.

Such a deliverable, she said, would in-volve the use of ASSU resources to relieve

the strain on communities organizing nu-

merous programs and initiatives.The Community Board will consist of agroup of Community Action Representa-tives (CARs). In order to encompass abroad definition of community, any com-munity that applied for a position on thenew Board will be represented.

According to an open letter on the Exec-utives website, among the representedgroups are the Queer/LGBT community,the womens community, the religious/faithcommunities and various ethnic communi-ties, such as the Native American,Latino/Hispanic,Asian/Pacific Islander andBlack communities.

A new position, the chair of communi-ties, will be created under the new board.Along with the chair of student life, thechair of communities will serve as the pri-mary liaison between the CommunityBoard and the Executive Cabinet.The twochairs will attend both bodies meetings.

Community Board meetings will be held

Searsvillecomm.drawslocal criticism

Critics call for Stanford-onlygroup to include outside groups

Police locate firearm

involved in Lag

shootingBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Stanford University Depart-ment of Public Safety (SUDPS) is stillpursuing leads in the aftermath of theMay 14 shooting in the Lagunitaparking lot.

According to Stanford police ser-geant Chris Cohendet,detectives arefollowing up on statements made bywitnesses and by the suspects whowere taken into custody the night ofthe shooting.The suspects attemptedto speed away from authorities in avehicle, but were apprehended afterthey exited the vehicle and fled onfoot. Police officers examined thearea where the suspects were de-tained shortly thereafter.

An officer canvassed the areaand located the handgun along thepath where the vehicle was resting,Cohendet said.

Initial statements from witnessesdescribed the handgun in question assilver or black. The police found atwo-tone black and silver handgunwhich seemed to correspond withthese statements,Cohendet said.

Cohendet stated that chargeshave not yet been made since the in-vestigation is still ongoing.At present,the incident only appears to involvethe illegal discharge of a firearm,hesaid.

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Two students namedfinalists at Student

OscarsBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Stanford led the pack at the Stu-dent Oscars with two winners,accord-ing to a press release from the Acade-my of Motion Picture Arts and Sci-ences.Anthony Weeks and TheodoreRigby both M.F.A students were selected for the documentarycategory.

Weeks film, titled Imaginary Cir-cumstances, follows three actorswith disabilities who are currently

working in Hollywood as they ad-dress their ongoing struggle for accessand inclusion.

Executive Community Boardto promote student groups

Top Chef

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Students sample and vote on dishes for the Top Chef competition at Sigma Nu. The sustainability-themed contest was held by Stu-dent Organized Services and featured row staff and student cooks who vied to make the best risotto, salsa and amuse bouches.

JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily

Communication prof. Joel Brinkley autographed copies of his new book, Cambodias Curse, at theStanford Bookstore. The book studies the recent history of Cambodia, one of the poorest nations.

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STUDENT LIFE

Third Eye Blind to play at CoHoBy BRENDAN OBYRNE

STAFF WRITER

Verizon Wireless has teamed upwith the CoHo to bring San Francis-

co-based Third Eye Blind to campusfor a free concert on Thursday, May26.The concert i s part of Verizon In-siders Coffee Shop Series, a moveby the company to bring local bandsto bay-area coffee shops and pro-mote its new XOOM tablet.

As part of its marketing cam-paign,Verizon offered opportunitiesfor anyone to win free tickets to theevent by testing out the new XOOMtablet at the Palo Alto Verizon store.Links to the contest application arealso available on the CoHos Face-book page and on the Verizon Insid-er site.

It started about two monthsago,said Erick Guzman,director ofoperations for the CoHo.We want-ed to put together an event as ourway of thanking Stanford students

and it sort of fell into place.With several hundred tickets

available, the event is large for theCoHo, which will have to move outall of its tables and chairs and shut

down its food service for the night.In an email to The Daily, NanciHowe,director of the Student Activ-ities and Leadership,said the CoHohas been working with the Depart-ment of Public Safety, Office ofEvents and Protocol,Student Activ-ities and Leadership and othergroups to ensure the event goessmoothly.

In addition, Howe said the eventwould be treated like a typical con-cert, thereby requiring its organizersto abide by University policies re-garding crowd management, securi-ty and promotions.

The Third Eye Blind perform-ance is the latest of a marketing cam-paign by Verizon targeted at Stan-ford students. When asked aboutVerizons motivation for bringing

these deals to Stanford, JetteSpeights,public relations manager atTribal Brands for Verizon Wireless,said Verizon thought the tech-savvy, music-loving Stanford com-

munity would be a great fit for thenext program in the Coffee ShopSeries. Speights added that StephenJenkins, the lead singer of Third EyeBlind, grew up near the campus andused to frequent the coffee house inthe days when it operated under adifferent management team.

This recent campaign to gaincampus visibility may also be part ofa larger push by Verizon Wireless tochallenge AT&Ts dominance atStanford, an observation that hasspawned rumors of a University-AT&T contract in the past.The mar-keting push also coincides with therelease of the iPhone on the Verizonnetwork.

Contact Brendan OByrne atbobyrne@stanford.edu.

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Professors share Visions of TomorrowBy ELLORA ISRANI

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Stanford 2020 Visions of To-morrowSymposium brought sevenprofessors to Dinkelspiel Auditori-um yesterday to speak about the sig-nificance and future of their respec-tive research.

Event organizers Danny Crich-ton 11 and Adam Adler 12 de-scribed the event as a debate overconsilience the idea that all of

the diverse departments at this Uni-versity are universally connected.In an increasingly specialized

world, we want to show that no oneacademic discipline is most impor-tant,Adler said.The future will notbe made of techies and fuzzies.

Highlights included associateprofessor of computer scienceMehran Sahamis Grand Chal-lenges and Immense Impacts ofComputing, which delineated theneed for more computer sciencesmajors at U.S. universities given thethree-to-one job-to-graduate ratioin the field.

I chose that title because it was

sufficiently general and vague that Icould talk about whatever I want-ed, Sahami said. What I want totalk about is the lack of wizards inthe world . . . At a certain pointtheres so much technology underthe hood that it appears like magic.

He showcased various recent in-novations at Stanford including aself-driving car and the originalgoogle.stanford.edu as examplesof computing as an accelerant forgrowth which allows this kind of

magic to happen.He also mentioned the recent de-cline in the number of computer sci-entists, but juxtaposed this with the83-percent increase in students thatStanfords department has seen inthe last two years due to its curricu-lum restructure to focus on the holis-tic context of computing.Addition-ally, more than 1,600 students tookeither CS 105 or CS 106A this year.

Back in 2000 we were partyinglike it was 1999, partially because itwas really close to 1999, but 2005not so much,he said.Every singleperson from every single computerscience department, including the

very worst student from the veryworst department, can get a job.What can we do? Say Come to com-puting,weve got cookies!

Director of Iranian StudiesAbbas Milani spoke on Iran, Islamand Modernity: The Future of theMiddle East.He hypothesized twosituations of international relationsthat could exist in 2020.

Imagine a world where the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) has col-lapsed, he said. There are esti-

mates that by then, if there is noNPT, there will anywhere from 30 to40 countries with nuclear bombs. . .Imagine that radical Islamists fromthe Muslim brotherhood have wonpower in regions in Pakistan and inLibya and [that] the Hezbollah is theabsolute ruler in Lebanon.

The other scenario: there is nocountry in the Middle East that has anuclear bomb,he added.There aresecular democratic governments.The Palestinian-Israeli conflict hasfinally been resolved . . . [Scholars]

J is for Junkie

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Filmmaker Corey Davis spoke about the issues behind crack addiction dur-

ing a panel talk after the screening of his film, J is for Junkie. Following thefilm, panelists discussed what determines whether an addict can recover.

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are stunted from malnutrition and10 percent are wasting.

He pointed to endemic corrup-tion in the government as a signifi-cant contributor to this problemand said that Middle Eastern dicta-tors like Hosni Mubarak andMuammar Qaddafi are squeakyclean when compared to HunSens regime.

The only overweight peopleyou will find anywhere in the nationwalk the halls of government,Brinkley said.Many of them live inmansions the size of hotels. I did arough calculation of the size of the

deputy prime ministers mansion I estimated it to be around 60,000square feet.

Because of Cambodias uniquesituation and national mentality,Brinkley said he doubts the countrywill ever experience an uprisingsimilar to what is being seen in theMiddle East today. He contrastedtwo recent national surveys, onethat asked about peoples current

condition and another that asked

for their satisfaction with their lives.Only 3 percent of Cambodians re-ported that they were thriving,with 22 percent saying they werestruggling.However,75 to 80 per-cent reported in the second surveythat they were satisfied with theirlives and that their country wasgoing in the right direction.

Brinkley concluded his talk bydiscussing why the outside world,the West in particular, should givemore attention to Cambodia. Be-yond ensuring accurate oversight ofthe $1.1 billion in aid that goes tothe government every year, he saida strong Cambodia could help in theUnited States search for allies tocounterbalance a rising China.

China is virtually buying [Cam-bodia], spending many billions of

dollars building roads,bridges, damsand infrastructure so that they canget their trucks to natural resourceswithout any hectoring about democ-racy and human rights, he said.Shouldnt it be important to holdon to a state right in the center ofSoutheast Asia?

Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawh-ney@stanford.edu.

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pate with the San FrancisquitoCreek Joint Powers Authority toensure that the committee remainsin contact with communities thatare most vulnerable to changes inthe watershed. These floodplaincommunities include East PaloAlto, Palo Alto and Menlo Park.

The steering committee ascomposed brings such importantand diverse expertise bear on thiscomplex issue that,I think,for thefirst time there will be opportuni-ties to explain in ways that water-shed residents can understand thevarious and complex processesthat are at play when thinkingabout the future of Searsville Damand reservoir, Cohen said. Atsome point . . . some town-halltype presentations will be essential that includes an enhanced ef-fort at explaining what the risksare in the various options.

Cohen also expressed concernabout the risks the committees de-

cisions will have on the JasperRidge Biological Preserve, wherethe dam is located.

Despite Cohens assurance thatthe committee will eventually in-volve community members,Rothert said that as of publication,Stanford has not contacted Ameri-can Rivers.

Rothert described the absenceof outside community memberswithin the committee to be gen-uinely perplexing. Despite thisconcern, Rothert remains hopefuland views the formation of the

committee as a sign that the Uni-versity is finally confronting along-ignored problem.

Weve been trying to engageStanford in a meaningful evalua-tion of the dam and its impacts andhow to eliminate its impacts forabout 10 years, Rothert said.Itsour view that the University hasnever taken seriously the impact ofthe dam on the steelhead trout andtheir critical habitat. Im hopingformation of this committee signalsa new approach to the problem.

Contact Marianne LeVine at mlevine2@stanford.edu.

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By ARMINE PILIKIAN

Thesis-writing time? You meancrunch-time,ugly-time,deep-deep-thoughts-time, blood-sweat-tears-time, days-without-showering-time, girl-dont-even-think-about-

naptime time? Indeed, word associationmight be one way to go about writing a thesis choose a topic,break it down into about 17different parts, pick one, write 50 pages on itand have it represent your entire undergrad-uate career.

Undertaking such an endeavor takes in-tensive planning,a strict schedule and a heavydose of determination. Some students startpreparing as early as sophomore year. Chris-tine Kang 11 started planning at the end of

her sophomore year.It really helps to start early; then whenyou come across something inter-esting you can say,Oh, okay. I wantto write about that,Kang said.

Kang came across her topic,cor-porate insurance poli-

cies, while completing a directed reading inher junior year.She is analyzing various insur-ance policies to see what they reveal aboutthe corporate governance of companies.After Kangs professor encouraged her totake on the topic,the only problem was tryingto narrow it down.

Its just one paper, so it has to be a reallydirected question, testable and manageable,Kang said.

Kang took several classes geared towardshelping honors students to help work out herresearch plan,especially a thesis-timeline.

Everyone has their own timeline,which iswhats hard about the thesis, she said. Butthe honors seminar gives you a lot of sup-port.

Even though students follow differenttimelines, friends still manage to find time tocommiserate together. Irys Kornbluth 11

gave her friends cred-it for keeping hermotivated.

Talking to other people who are writing the-ses about their struggles is a really importantway to move forward, Kornbluth said. Youhave to realize that these frustrations are to-tally common.

According to Kang,one of the more popu-lar resources used by toiling thesis writers isGoogle Scholar, a specialized search engine.Kang used it at the beginning of her work toevaluate the scope of her topic.

You get a sense of different angles otherresearchers have taken, Kang said. Thenyou focus on that small aspect of it.

For Valentin Bolotnyy 11, finding thatsmall aspect to define was one of the more dif-ficult parts of the process.Bolotnyy only start-ed to zero in on a specific angle of his topictwo months ago.

I was looking at broad questions thatpeople dont really even look at in their Ph.D.

dissertations,Bolotnyy said.

Bolotnyys initial topic, the mortgage cri-sis,was much too broad.

What you end up accomplishing is a lit-tle underwhelming given what youve set outto do, he said. Youve set out to answerwhy the financial crisis happened, why themortgage crisis happened, but you end uptackling just one little part of it. Thoughwhen you get down to that smaller part, its alot easier.

A narrow topic, however, still presents adaunting time commitment. Bolotnyyspends 30 to 40 hours per week on his thesis,and the hours increase with each passingweek. But despite the long hours, bothBolotnyy and Kang believe the process isworth it.

It changed the way I look at the materi-als I study in classes . . . When youre askedto produce something original, it really testsyour understanding of what youve beendoing this entire time [in class], Kang said.

The process revolves around understand-ing how theories apply to the real world, re-searching a topic thoroughly and experienc-ing a rapid evolution of ones academic in-terests. Kornbluth appreciates the chance todevote herself to a topic she feels passion-ately about. Her research topic is the role ofcultural identity in the design practice offashion designers.

Getting to have so much time to work onsomething that Im so interested in is great,she said. And its cool to see a study that Ihelped design come to fruition and to havethat insiders perspective. Generally, its agreat way to step back and think about the in-dustry Ill be going into before I actually enterit.

Most important to the keen thesis writersis the rush of creating a work in its entirety.You feel like youre adding something

new to the field, an element of discovery, anelement of ingenuity,Bolotnyy said.

And ultimately, if youre going to be put-ting in gargantuan amounts of effort,time andemotional weight, you better love whatyoure doing.

Do it, Kornbluth said. Its for you andno one else.

Contact Armine Pilikian at arminep@stan-ford.edu.

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On Wednesday morning, Iwoke up here in Oxford to aFacebook feed filled with

friends excitedly discussing theirhousing assignments for next year.Super thrilling, right? With time dif-

ferences, I had figured I probablywouldnt see my housing assignmentuntil Wednesday night at best.Thank God for technical glitchesfrom the Housing department.Afterwrangling with Axess for the betterpart of 15 minutes,I finally was ableto log into the Housing website.Now, this climactic moment hadbeen kind of soul-crushing for methe past two years: I ended up inNaranja sophomore year (had been

hoping for Toyon) and rode a beauti-ful #2846 into Loro this year (FloMoagain? Really?).Though housing forboth years ended up working out,this was my time to use Tier 1. Nextyear will be my senior year my

last stand at Stanford. I didnt wantthings to be just okayand end up in717 or Timbuktu or something. Soimagine my surprise when I checkedmy housing results to see that I hadended up in Xanadu with a drawnumber of #12.TWELVE.This is thestuff of legend. Quite honestly, Ithink I might have won Stanford.

And so, my assignment inXanadu led to me checking out thehouse via Google Maps eventhough Ive been inside more timesthan I can count.You know,I was justexcitedly theorizing about where myroom might be and what kind ofragers I could potentially throwthere. Just the usual stuff. Ive want-ed to live on the Row for so long thatits kind of surreal to know that Imactually going to be living there especially in the exact house Id beenhoping for.

But then,a weird thing happened.My Google Maps exploration ofXanadu led to a Google Maps explo-ration of the entire Stanford campus.I was just zooming around checkingout all of the places where memorieshave been made for the past threeyears.That Google Maps session ledme to browse Stanfords Wikipediapage.From there,I inexplicably got astrange craving for a 4x4 from In-N-Out.

This all brought upon a realiza-tion: I really miss Stanford. I dontmean that in an I hate Oxford,and Iwish I was back on campus kind ofway. Im having the time of my lifehere,all while learning so much and

making tons of new friends. No, Ithink I finally just realized how muchStanford has become my secondhome.Its just weird to think how somany of the people and things I careabout are concentrated in one smallslice of California. Its also weird tothink that I had never set foot onStanfords campus prior to 2008,yetit can still mean so much to me now.

Ill tell you, going abroad has

been a rather interesting experiencethus far. Its forced me to reconsidermy thoughts about the way I ap-proach academics at Stanford. Itsbeen like freshman year all overagain in terms of making friends. Itsalso forced me to put words likecheers and quid and loo intomy everyday lexicon.Yet more thananything, being here in Oxford hasreally helped me to learn to appreci-ate things I take for granted back atStanford. I miss the weather. I misslending library facilities (Oxford li-braries are reference only). I missLag Late Nite. I miss all of my bestfriends, especially when a huge por-tion of them will be graduating in afew weeks.But above it all,I miss theFarm. Its where everything thatsgood or bad in my collegiate life hastaken place the place where Ivebeen able to make my proverbialstand. Its been the place whereIve been allowed to create my ownlittle niche in the vast cosmic uni-

verse. Like Ive said already, its mysecond home.So I guess its a good thing that Ill

be spending this whole summer oncampus then, right?

Shane isnt quite sure whether its goodhell be on campus this entire sum-mer? Email him your thoughts andreminisces about Stanford at savit-

sky@stanford.edu.

VICTORIA, BC I spend alot of time fear-mongeringwhen I write a column. I

think about the worlds numerousproblems and how to convey themin non-technical terms. I list theways these problems affect us di-rectly and brainstorm metaphorsfor their severity. Most of these tid-bits dont make it into the finalpiece,but my columns do fall large-ly on the gloomy side.

So, when I looked at the sched-ule for the second InternationalMarine Conservation Congress(IMCC),I was surprised to find theconferences first day dedicated toconservation success stories.

Upon further reflection,it wasnthard to come up with a long list ofhappy conservation outcomes. Butthe list of woes seems far longer.Sowhy, then, did an eminent group ofmarine scientists and conservation-ists earmark an entire day for thewincolumn?

Partly, Im sure, to give all of ushope in increasingly frighteningtimes.And also to remind us to foldthat hope into our stories,so that wecan continue to motivate othersconservation efforts with the prom-ise of eventual success.

Those of us at the IMCC share acommon passion: the oceans, theirfate and changing that fate for thebetter.Our sense of the relative im-portance of the key threats (over-fishing, pollution, ocean acidifica-tion, etc.) may vary and ourmethodologies for addressing them(research, advocacy, politics) areequally variable. But for most of us,our passion defines us.

At the ripe old age of 24, though,Ive finally figured out that noteveryone cares about my passion.(Itll take another 24 years for me tofigure out why theyre so misguid-ed.) Of course,Ive also gotten bet-ter at figuring out why everyone

should care the obvious result ofmany hours spent thinking and talk-

ing about the things Im invested in.We tend to care a lot aboutthings that are close to us: the localweather, for example, the syllabusfor our term paper,how our grand-parents are doing and why our in-credible best friendstillcant get adate.In other words,proximity rulesour passions.That proximity can bephysical, intellectual or emotional.Either way, the closer somethinghits to home,the more likely we areto respond.

Thats part of the reason wevebeen so slow to address global envi-ronmental threats. Sure, carbondioxide levels in the atmosphere arerising fast. Sure, some mysteri-ous models say that the climate willchange, and the oceans will acidify(and actual,tangible evidence is ac-

cumulating, too).But these changesare incremental, so gradual that itwould be impossible for you and Ito perceive a change on our own,the way we notice when the temper-ature drops 20 degrees Fahrenheitovernight. And the effects areequally incremental: glaciers dontmelt overnight and coral reefs dontdissolve in a day.

So how do we bring these effectshome? How do we motivate our-

selves to care?Communicating science in the pres-ent day of climate change and

ocean acidification, of global prob-lems with tough solutions is allabout balance.The fear balance.

Scare tactics can be effective to a point.Weve known since child-hood that fear of punishment is aformidable motivator. So we tellpeople that they dont want theirchildren to be spanked by sea levelrise. They dont want their favoritevacation spot to be confiscated.

But as an environmental com-munications professor once toldme,You need to scare people. Justnot so much that they shut down.Climate change, when we reallymeditate on it, is totally overwhelm-ing. The impacts are terrifying, butthe prevention steps are equallyparalyzing. How can we possiblyget offof fossil fuels? How can wetransition into a sustainable econo-my when we hardly know whatsustainable means?

Taken aback by the magnitudeof the problem, many people re-spond by ignoring it or by denyingits existence. So the conservationcommunity has taken to spitting outbite-sized pieces of advice. Driveless, bike more. Offset your car-bon emissions. Buy fresh, buylocal.Climate change has been wa-tered down for general consump-tion,and the drink is becoming pop-ular.

Losing your audience is the sameas saying nothing except thatyoure frustrated and out of breath.But it can be equally frustrating towatch people feel vindicated when

they remember their canvas shop-ping bag or when they choose onevegetarian meal out of five. Mostlywe tell ourselves,something is bet-ter than nothing, but sometimesthat something distracts us from thereal issues at stake, gives us a falsesense of security and allows us topush a serious problem to the backsof our minds.

Our challenge, now that the ma-jority of Americans acknowledge cli-mate change, is to keep the ballrolling. We have to know our audi-ence and the changing state of theirknowledge.We must reward successwithout indulging complacency. Wemust continue to push the bound-aries of our communication,to intro-duce new issues and their solutions.

The IMCC, bolstered by a first-

day jolt of hope, carries on with anoptimistic tone.The ocean is in trou-ble, but these people are busy find-ing solutions and communicatingtheir passion. At least here, in thismoment, in this place, the futurelooks dim.A long way from bright,but still better than black.

Holly welcomes rays of hope andlasers of criticism via email at hol-lyvm@stanford.edu.

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THIS COLUMN IS IRONIC

This is the stuff of legend.

Quite honestly,I think I

might have won Stanford.

And I Would Walk 5,335 Miles . . .Ba Da Da Da

The Girl Who Cried

Green!

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are starting to go back to the MiddleEast because theyre finding outthats where they can be more pro-ductive.

Other speakers included bio-engineering department chair RussAltman, history professor Londa

Schiebinger, English departmentchair Jennifer Summit, classics pro-fessor Ian Morris and communica-tion professor Clifford Nass.

The event was funded by anASSU Executive Action Grant aswell as the office of the Vice Provostfor Undergraduate Education andco-sponsored by several campus or-ganizations.

Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-ford.edu.

VISIONSContinued from page 2

Rigbys film, Sin Pais (WithoutCountry), tells the story of a couplewho,after living in the United Statesfor 20 years,are deported to their na-tive Guatemala.

In the coming month, Academymembers will vote to select Gold,Sil-ver and Bronze medal awards. Lastyear, one Stanford filmmaker teamwon a bronze medal in the documen-tary category.This years awards willbe presented June 11.

Ivy Nguyen

Gambhir to

head radiology

department

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Radiology professor SanjivGambhir will be the new chair of theSchool of Medicines department ofradiology.

Gambhir,an expert in molecularimaging, was trained in physics, ap-plied mathematics, cell and molecu-lar biology, medicine, nuclear medi-

cine and molecular imaging. His cur-rent research focuses on finding waysto identify and manipulate moleculesto study processes such as cancer andcardiovascular disease in the body.

Prior to coming to Stanford in2003, Gambhir spent 20 years atUCLA, where he served as the di-rector of the Crump Institute forMolecular Imaging and vice chairof the department of molecular andmedical pharmacology. Today, heheads the Division of Nuclear Med-icine and director of the Molecular

Imaging Program at Stanford. Healso heads the Center of CancerNanotechnology Excellence.

As chair,Gambhir plans to facili-tate more collaborative projects andestablish ties with SLAC and sever-al other Stanford departments. Hewill begin this position on Sept.1.

Ivy Nguyen

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once a week and will have two maingoals,Ogiemwanye said.The first ofthese goals is to share what CARsare working on in their respectivecommunities. A second objective isdiscussing sensitive issues related todiversity and tolerance and generat-ing innovative ways these issuescan be addressed in the StanfordCommunity.

More specifically, these issuesmight include advocating on behalfof the first generation community,opening up new community centersand forging a stronger connectionbetween student-athletes and theASSU,Ogiemwanye stated.She em-phasized, however, that the Com-munity Action Representativeswould have significant input in de-termining the committees activities.

Ogiemwanye also mentioned theExecutives hope that,in addition tohelping the Stanford communitiesmanage their variety of initiatives,ASSU resources will be able to facil-itate integrated projects betweendifferent communities.

Applications for the CommunityBoard were due by this past Tuesdayand more details about the boardwill be released in the coming weeks.

Contact Elena Stephenson at stele-na@stanford.edu.

BOARDContinued from front page

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SPORTS

Draft andlottery

both silly

The fates of millions of dol-lars,years of media coverageand many young menslives, all decided by a fewtiny, hollow balls weighing

about a tenth of an ounce.Nope, for once Im not talking

about Ma Lin or any other legendaryChinese ping-pong players. Its noteven the SAE beer pong tournament.No, its something much more widelyknown,and something much more pa-thetic than either of these.

Its the NBA Draft Lottery.Anyone who turned on ESPN a lit-

tle early on Tuesday night beforeGame 1 between Dirk Nowitzki andthe Thunder got the treat of one of theoddest spectacles in sports before thegame itself tipped off.

For those of you that dont know,the NBA uses a different system from

the other major sports leagues to de-cide the order of its draft. Instead ofmaking the order depend solely on theteams records and playoff perform-ances in the previous season,the NBAholds a lottery to decide the order forall the non-playoff teams.Teams withworse records still have the best chanceto get earlier picks, but there is muchmore randomness thrown in.

And, in this era where computerscan sort random numbers and displaythe results in the blink of an eye (Stan-fords housing draw apparently not in-cluded),its only natural that the NBAuses . . . ping-pong balls?

Softball starts NCAAs, Hansen winsPac-10 Player of the Year

The Stanford softball team earned an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament on Monday, grabbing theNo.15 overall seed and the honor of hosting one of the16 regionals.

In addition to the Cardinals postseason berth, No.19 Stanford (38-15) received more good news onWednesday when junior shortstop Ashley Hansen wasnamed Pac-10 Player of the Year.

Hansen is just the second player in Cardinal historyto earn the honor, and she did so mostly through herotherworldly offensive numbers. Hansen batted an un-believable .506 for the season 63 points higher thanthe next player than the next-best batting average and she also led the Pac-10 in hits (88), doubles (24),slugging percentage (.833) and on-base percentage(.568).

Hansen was one of just eight players to be earn All-Pac-10 Conference honors, as she and sophomorepitcher Teagan Gerhart were named to the First Team.Junior centerfielder Sarah Hassman and sophomoresecond baseman Jenna Rich earned Second Team acco-lades, while senior pitcher Ashley Chinn and freshmanoutfielder Corey Hanewich were named honorablementions.

The talented Cardinal hosts Pacific (38-17) on Fri-day in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament,and should the Cardinal overtake the Tigers, it willsquare off against the winner of Nebraska (39-12) andFresno State (34-17) on Saturday.

Stanford defeated Pacific by a score of 6-1 in amatchup earlier this year in Stockton,and the Cardinalis 21-10 all-time against the Tigers.

The Tigers earned a spot in the tournament by win-ning the Big West Conference this season, their first-ever conference championship. This is Pacifics firstNCAA Tournament berth since 2007.

Meanwhile, Stanford is making its 14th consecutivetournament appearance,and in that span the Cardinalhas won six regional titles and made two appearances inthe Womens College World Series, in 2001 and 2006.

Should Stanford advance out of the regional, theteam would travel to face the winner of the TuscaloosaRegion, which includes No. 2 seed Alabama, JacksonState,Memphis and Chattanooga.

First pitch between the Cardinal and Tigers is sched-uled for 6 p.m.at Smith Family Stadium on Friday night.

Jack Blanchat

Womens golf in 20th place after first dayof NCAA Championships

The Stanford womens golf team is in 20th placeafter the opening round of the NCAA Championships,shooting 308 (+20) when paired with Washington andFlorida yesterday. The Cardinal sits 19 strokes behindfirst-place UCLAs mark of 289,which is one above parat the Traditions Club in Bryan,Texas.

Sophomore Sally Watson,last years ninth-place fin-

isher, led Stanford with a score of 73 in the openinground and is tied for 23rd after the first 18 holes. Shehad just one birdie and two bogeys to put her one overthe par mark of 72.

Sophomore Kristina Wong and junior Lila Bartonrecorded Stanfords next-best scores, and are tied for81st after shooting 78 in the first round.

Brittany Altomare of Virginia leads all individualswith a 69 in the opening round,good for three under par.

Stanford will be paired with Washington and Floridaagain for todays second round.All three teams will beteeing off on hole No. 1.

Nate Adams

By ALEX ECKERTSTAFF WRITER

Now it gets interesting.Tonight, the eighth-seeded

Stanford mens tennis team hostsninth-seeded Texas A&M in theNCAA round of 16 and theremight not be two hotter teams inthe country right now than theCardinal and the Aggies.

Stanford (20-5, 5-1 Pac-10)comes in riding a 12-game win-ning streak and handily won its

first two matches of the tourna-ment, defeating Army 4-0 andNo.25 Washington 4-1.

Texas A&M (29-5,5-1 Big-12)recently claimed the Big-12 tour-nament championship,defeatingOklahoma in the finals, and ithasnt given up a single point inits last five matches.The Aggiesalso had an auspicious start totheir tournament,defeating bothNo. 34 Louisiana State and Al-corn State by counts of 4-0.

Senior Greg Hirshman ex-pects the match to be as good asadvertised.

I havent looked into a lot oftheir players, but I know thatwere eight and theyre nine, soits going to be a tough match,Hirshman said.When you play ateam in the top-10 it really comesdown to a couple of points hereand there. Not just in individualmatches, but in the entire teammatch.

When you look back to the[ITA National Indoor Champi-onship], where we went 1-2,every match was 3-3 in singlesand came down to who won thedoubles point, Hirshman con-tinued. Its going to be one ofthose matches that it comesdown to a couple of points and Ithink having the home court will

Cardinal and Aggies tangle in Texas-sized showdownTHURSDAY NIGHT LIGHTSJacob

JaffeFields of Failure

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SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily

Sophomore Matt Kandath (above) and the Stanford mens tennis team welcome the Texas A&M Aggies to the FarmThursday night for a duel to determine who will advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tennis Championships. Please see TENNIS, page 8 Please seeJAFFE,page 8

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Junior shortstop Ashley Hansen (above), the 2011Pac-10 Player of the Year, leads the Cardinal into the firstround of the NCAA Championships this weekend.

Stanford Daily File Photo

The Stanford womens golf team is in 20th place afterthe first round of the NCAA Championships in Bryan,Tex. The Card trails current leader UCLA by 19 shots.

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