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August 9, 2012 Issue 6SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION

Opinions 5If Egyptians have access to healthy food at cheapprices, why shouldnt Americans?

Sports 7Cardinal womens soccer begins the long road to

defend their national championship

Intermission 12The Bay Area takes on the Midwest at Chicagosthree-day music festival, Lollapalooza

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NEWS

STUDENT LIFE

Notes from abroad: exploring IndiaBy ANNA SCHICKELE

Although I have learned many things whileinterning abroad in India this summer, one ofthe most unique and important, in my opin-ion is the ability to discern between differ-ent types of stares.

Theres the standard double take; I get thatfrom everyone in Chennai, the city in whichIm working. Theres also the way auto-rick-shaw drivers widen their eyes when they catchsight of a moneymaking opportunity, the dis-approving glares from older women and the I-just-spotted-a-Western-sex-goddess oglesfrom young men.

Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, is oneof Indias most conservative and least touristycities. Its got the heat of the tropics and theworlds second longest beach a strangeboast, but Chennai is proud of its garbage-lined coastline. However, even if they clean upthe beach, the 60 percent alcohol tax and early-to-bed bars (most close at 11 p.m.) are going toprevent this city from becoming a spring breakdestination. The city is sometimes described asIndias Detroit, as its an auto-manufacturinghub. Everyone is here because its where thejobs are, not because they like the city.

The same goes for me. Im an intern for theInstitute for Financial Management and Re-search, a company that runs rural financial insti-tutions. I make 300 rupees a day, which is aboutsix dollars. Food is cheap, the company is alsopaying for housing and Stanford bought myplane ticket, so it really isnt as much of a terri-ble economic situation as it seems.

The three other American interns (twofrom Stanford, one from Dartmouth) and Ispend our workdays on the 10th floor of an air-conditioned office building. But to get to thatoffice building, we walk along a refuse-filledcanal and cross four directions of traffic toreach the company shuttle. The distance cov-ered is fairly small, but the walk can take any-where from five to 20 minutes, depending onthe level of aggression in your street-crossingtechnique.

The sights, sounds and smells of the streetare overwhelming: passengers hanging out ofbuses, beggars curled up and fast asleep, thestench of human excrement, honking cars andmotorbikes and trash everywhere. Thoughthey are rarer, there are pleasant sensations inthe streets as well: the smell ofsambar(spicylentil stew served with every meal), windowsfull of Indian sweets, the scent of the jasmine

flowers in womens hair and the semi-silencethat fills the streets before 7 a.m. or after 9 p.m.

To Chennais credit, its the safest place Ivevisited in the developing world. Theres therisk of getting hit by a motorcycle, but I dontfeel as if someone is looking for the opportuni-ty to seize my purse. I walked home with an-other female intern at 10 p.m. a few nights ago,and though three different people stopped usto tell us it was unsafe to be out so late, the factthat they seemed so legitimately concerned for

our safety was reassuring.But no matter what I do wear kurtis

(long tunics) instead of Western clothes,straighten my curly hair, learn a few words ofTamil I will attract gapes and stares. And inthis country there are enough surprising,amusing and cringe-inducing scenes to makeme forget my manners and stare back at them.

Contact Anna Schickele at annabs1@stanford.edu.

STUDENT LIFE

Escondido Village residents postpone chemical spray

Courtesy of Ramin Rahimian

Stanford students are making an impact abroad over the summer, some even as far awayas India. Working in Indias Detroit, Schickele recounts her experiences this summer.

By EDWARD NGAINEWS EDITOR

A group of Escondido Village (EV) res-idents have successfully delayed the pro-posed treatment of EV family courtyardlawns with herbicides. The plan, whichwould have seen the grass in all seven fami-ly courtyards sprayed with weed-killertoday, is now postponed indefinitely.

The family courtyards, home to around250 families, underwent a renovation fi-nanced by John Arrillaga three and a halfyears ago, when all the existing grass wasdug up and replaced. According to an emailsent to family courtyard subletters, the her-bicide spray was necessary to maintain thedonors gift.

However, Stanford Housing is adamantthat Arrillaga was never involved in the de-

cision to treat the family courtyards withherbicides.

John Arrillaga has nothing to do withthis, said Michael VanFossen, senior asso-ciate director of graduate housing. Colony[Housings landscaping contractor]brought the weeds to our attention, saying,We have done the best we can over the lastthree or four years not introducing chemi-cals, but [the weeds] are really gettingbad.

Since the renovation, landscaping staffhave been weeding the family courtyards byhand. However, the crabgrass and cloverhad grown to the point where Colony feltthey no longer were fulfilling their land-scaping contract with the University, whichrequires them to perform high-qualitygrounds/landscape maintenance. BothColony and Housing had agreed that herbi-

cidal treatment was the best way to satisfytheir agreement.

The herbicides proposed for use in thefamily courtyards are SpeedZone and Tur-flon, whose material safety data sheets cat-egorize them as hazardous to health wheninhaled. To prevent this, Housing request-ed that family courtyard residents stay in-doors and seal their windows for 48 hourswhile the chemicals dry.

I thought it was a ludicrous idea, saidNitzan Waisberg, a professor at the designschool and family courtyard resident. Itsmid-August, hot, and expecting people tokeep their windows and doors shut in apart-ments that dont have air conditioning orproper ventilation except for windows . . . itwas not a practical idea.

Additionally, many EV residents in thesummer are subletters and did not receive

the email notifying them of the spray andthe necessary precautions to protect them-selves and their families from the toxic ef-fects.

I was going to flier the entire neighbor-hood to ensure everyone [knows about thespray], VanFossen said. We only knowwho the [original] subletters are.

Many residents, however, were not con-vinced Housing was doing enough to con-sider the potential adverse effects of theherbicide. At a hastily-convened town halllast week, several families expressed a lackof confidence that the fliers would be ade-quate and were concerned about the long-lasting health effects of the chemicals.

VanFossen, insisted, however, that theherbicides were safe.

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UNIVERSITY

Cheritonsinvestments

fuel Valley

STUDENT LIFE

RISE opens doors to science careersBy HAELIN CHO

DAILY INTERN

Despite the early morning car-pools and two-hour bus rides,Deng-Tung Wang makes the longcommute to Stanford Universityfour times a week. Previously, anormal summer for him involvedteaching younger kids at his moth-ers summer camp. But this sum-mer, Wangs work environmentwas a little bit different; he tookpart in the Raising Interest in Sci-ence and Engineering (RISE) sum-mer internship.

RISE, recognizing the lack of

opportunities for underrepresent-ed or underprivileged youth, aimsto help students further their inter-ests and careers in the sciencesthrough a seven-week, hands-on in-ternship. The program targets highschoolers who are historically notwell-represented in the science,technology, engineering and math-ematics (STEM) pipeline or arefrom low-income families. Manyare the first in their family to attendcollege.

RISE has a focus on students

who may not have other opportuni-ties and resources available tothem, said Kaye Storm, director of

the programs Office of ScienceOutreach. They all have goodgrades, good academic records, butthey dont necessarily have a net-work or family support to helpthem explore a career in scienceand engineering.

RISE students are Bay Areahigh schoolers paired with a mentorand, in some cases, a professor, towork on research projects. Someare from underrepresented back-grounds; others are from low-in-come families.

Wang is one of the 25 studentsinterning at RISE this summer. Arising senior at Leigh High Schoolin San Jose, Wang worked on a pro-

ject involving biomolecules withmentor Michael Keeney, a post-doctoral research fellow, and FanYang, a biomedical engineeringprofessor. Wang worked veryclosely with his postdoctoral men-tor, but he also met with Yang oncea week for a scheduled meeting anddiscussion of the data.

According to Storm, most RISE

students work mainly with theirpostdoctoral mentors. For their re-search, they are compensated with

a $2,500 stipend funded by familyand corporate foundations likeGenentech and Microsoft. Accord-ing to Storm, these corporationsgenerosity is crucial to the program.

The reason that we even paythem and dont just have themcome as volunteers is because . . .most of them need to work duringthe summer, either because theyresaving for college or, in some cases,

just to help support the family,Storm said. I mean, its great tohave volunteer programs, but you

are then closing yourself off to thelowest income kids who just cantafford to be a volunteer for thesummer.

Despite what seem to be longodds for many of these students, allRISE alumni have gone on to col-lege and most, around 80 percent,major in the sciences.

For Wang, RISEs opportunityexposed him to opportunities in

Within four hours the chemi-cal is absorbed within the plant,and what little bit is not is dried,he said. To find more informa-tion I did reach out to others, andI was surprised to hear Yes, we

use Turflon. We use this.In a follow-up email, VanFos-

sen clarified that he consultedmultiple times with Colony andreceived information from theherbicide makers, PBI/Gordonand Dow AgroSciences. In theseconsultations, he searched for fea-sible environmental or non-chem-ical alternatives but was unable tofind any.

Yet a number of residentspointed out that they personallydidnt see any need to treat the

grass in the family courtyards.Whats wrong with cloverfields? one resident asked.

According to Waisberg, at thecore of the disagreement is theconflicting set of values betweenthe University and some EV ten-ants.

The EV community is essen-tially youngish people, and thevalues that we have today are in-creasingly sustainable. We cleanour houses with nontoxic things . .. we buy organic vegetables, shesaid. And we have this older

value system of how things look,this artificial ideal of living in agolf course community, with allthe things that come with it, likeintense herbicide use.

To resolve the situation, Van-Fossen has delayed the grassmaintenance to investigate othersolutions and get feedback fromresidents.

I wanted to rectify an issuethat I felt like was the right thingto do: to better manage the land-scape in the family courtyards,

VanFossen said. I sent to [resi-dents] all the information I had,heard very clearly from the fami-

lies that it was not the right ap-proach to take and now weregoing to rethink this.

Housings handling of the situ-ation was generally well received.

I think Housing was respon-sive, they were professional, theywere pretty good about takingcare of communication, saidJames Redfield, a second-yeargraduate student in religious stud-ies. I just think it was more of a

conflict between the needs of theparents and residents, and theneeds of the University as an insti-tution, which has other priorities.

For now, the grass in the fami-ly courtyards will remain as is untilHousing and family courtyard res-idents decide how to proceed. Ac-cording to VanFossen, any treat-ment, which would take place dur-ing school holidays, might have towait until spring, when the weath-er is likely to be more cooperative.

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By KYLIE JUEDAILY INTERN

A musician, windsurfer and Stan-ford computer science professor,David Cheriton has many interests.However, as the 19th-richest Canadi-an and a successful investor, he is bestknown for his interest in startups.

I get very excited about the no-tion of doing new and different

things, Cheriton said.Born in Vancouver, Canada,Cheriton was the third of six children.After moving to Edmonton at theage of five, he developed a passion formusic while attending public school.He studied musical theater at theBanff School of Fine Arts for twosummers and has performed in mul-tiple opera choruses and musical pro-ductions.

I look back and think that[music] was a good way to keep sane.Otherwise, I was quite involved in

more mathematical and technicalthings, Cheriton said.

Cheriton remembers his first in-troduction to computers during theprehistoric times of his late highschool years.

I recall my math teacher bringingup the topic of computers . . . but Imnot sure I had ever seen one before,Cheriton said. It was the first time itwas really brought to my attention,and it wasnt until the first year at myuniversity that I actually used a com-puter.

He went on to pursue his interestin mathematics and later computerscience as an undergraduate at theUniversity of British Columbia. Hethen received his masters and doc-torate at the University of Waterloo.In 1981, after being hired at Stanford,Cheriton came to the school to trysomething different.

Stanford had a worldwide repu-tation in computing, so it felt like anopportunity to run with the big boys,so to speak, Cheriton said. Ithought Id give it a try and see

whether I could measure up.But the turning point of Cheri-

tons career came in 1995 when he be-

came involved with a startup calledGranite Systems. Cisco would laterpurchase the company for $220 mil-lion, only 14 months after Granitehad been established. The sale ofGranite Systems provided Cheritonwith the capital necessary to test hisluck with other business ventures.

For the longest time when I wasa professor, I didnt really have any

money to invest, Cheriton said.Kind of overnight, more or less, Iwent from worrying about how topay the mortgage to posing whether Ishould just pay off the mortgage andnot think about it ever again.

Since then, Stanford studentshave come to Cheriton to ask him toinvest in their companies or simplygive advice. After Granite Systems,he contributed to a wide variety of Sil-icon Valley startups. His most well-known investment remains the$100,000 check he gave to Stanford

Ph.D. students Larry Page M.S. 98and Sergey Brin 95 M.S. 98, thefounders of Google.

I started having people come tome that were interested in starting acompany and looking for financialsupport, Cheriton said. I felt com-pelled to help them because otherpeople had helped me out along theway to get to where I was.

Besides investing, Cheriton hasalso served on advisory boards or theboards of directors for the companieshe has helped. With his expertise in

both computer science and business,

Courtesy David Cheriton

Computer science professor and

investor David Cheriton oncegave Larry Page and Sergey Brin$100,000 to found Google.

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Every four years, just asAmerica is at its most di-vided, we have a chance to

come together again throughsport. This election year, there ismore to divide us than usual.Thankfully, there is more to uniteus as well.

I write primarily about poli-tics, and the more I read and

write, the more discouraged Itend to become. Every day seemsmuch like the next: another Is-raeli-Palestinian peace plan fallenthrough, another shooting at acinema or temple, another bomb-ing in Iraq, another squabble overhealth care or tax returns or friedchicken, another fight betweenthe 1 percent and the 99 percentover, in Lasswells famous defini-tion, who gets what, when andhow.

Thats why I so treasure those

few truly politics-free moments the moments when we are nolonger Republicans or Democ-rats, upper-crust or lower-class,black or white or brown, but sim-ply Americans. Those momentsdont come often, and most ofthem seem to come at theOlympics.

It was impossible to feel cyni-cal about much of anything whenGabby Douglas smile lit up theworld after winning the all-around. The furor around Mitt

Romneys comments aboutBritains preparedness for theGames disappeared from memo-ry when Britains Mo Farah andour very own Galen Rupp, train-ing partners in Oregon, embracedafter going 1-2 in the 10,000 meterfinal two men of differentfaiths, different ethnicities anddifferent countries, unitedthrough shared, brutal effort inthe service of sport. Politics layforgotten as the entire countrywatched Alex Morgan put a bril-

liant finish past a horrified Cana-dian squad in the final minute ofextra time, snapping 122 minutes

of tension in one final moment ofglorious victory. To paraphraseBarack Obama: At that momentwe were no longer divided intored states and blue states, butunited as fifty red, white and bluestates.

When Im watching NBCswonderfully nationalistic cover-age of the Games, swamped in pa-

triotic slow-motion montages ofAmerican athletes overcomingtremendous adversity to run,

jump, swim and, in Ryan Lochtescase, give disastrous interviewsfor the stars and stripes, I forgetfor a moment all the things thatneed fixing about our country andremember everything weve doneright.

And among those things iscontinuing to support the Ameri-can space program, which recent-ly landed the cutting-edge Curios-

ity rover on Mars after a ridicu-lously complex landing proce-dure involving parachutes, rock-ets and, in the final moments ofthe so-called seven minutes ofterror, delicate landing cables.

These are the moments thatmake us remember why we live inthis country, the moments whenwe can honestly and unflinchinglycelebrate collective nationalachievements, the momentswhere rancor and bitterness haveno place.

They are also the moments onwhich it is most difficult to place aprice tag. Who knows what willcome of our distant exploration ofa mysterious planet, or whichchild will be inspired to do greatthings by watching MissyFranklin or Michael Phelps?

Already, however, critics onboth sides of the partisan dividehave raised complaints that weought not to spend the time andmoney to explore space whenthere are pressing problems here

on Earth; that pure government-funded research without a directand immediate impact on human

welfare is inherently useless; thatOlympic athletes get too much at-tention, earn too much moneyand divert our attention frommore important problems.

Those complaints constitute adangerous narrowing of our vi-sion and a frightening lowering ofour ambitions for humanity. Con-fining our discussions of the pub-lic welfare to narrow questions ofself-interest, division and distrib-ution robs the nation of its abilityto enjoy a good life that cannot be

captured by recourse to numbers,facts and figures.There is a time and place for

everything, and the problems ofour nation and the world cannotbe solved by feel-good heroicsalone. But as far as it is in ourpower, we ought to continue tosupport the projects, people andideas that transcend our small,man-made boundaries and enrichthe sum of this human experiencewe all share.

Share your favorite Olympic mo-ment with Miles at milesu1@stan-ford.edu.

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OPINIONSBETWEEN EAST AN D WES T

Fatima Wagdy

Imagine buying a pound oftomatoes for only 15 cents. I did

just that yesterday here inCairo. At a farmers market, Icould have bargained down to just8 cents per pound for tomatoes thattaste much better, in my opinion,than the ones in the U.S. The aver-

age price of regular tomatoes inAmerica was $1.28 per pound in2011, according to the USDA. Ilearned over time that not only aremany fruits and vegetables muchcheaper here in Egypt, but they areoften more affordable thanprocessed and packaged foods.And I think thats the way it shouldbe for the sake of a healthier society.

I noticed that while a pound ofgreen peppers normally costsaround 30 cents, a big bag of chipscosts around 50 cents and a box of

cereal could easily cost at least $2.In poorer areas, it is difficult toeven find processed foods or junkfood to purchase; here, it is the rel-atively wealthier families who eatat McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut.Cheaper produce means that low-income families can have a relative-ly healthy diet and avoid many ofthe health problems that resultfrom the overconsumption of nu-trient-deficient processed foods.

The USDA promotes a bal-anced diet that consists of several

fruit and vegetable servings perday. However, it is evident after aquick stroll through Safeway thatfruits and vegetables are very ex-pensive compared to chips, sodaand Twinkies. Students on a bud-get often buy ramen noodles andother snacks not just because theyare quick and easy to make, butalso because they are cheap. Stud-ies have shown that price is in facta barrier to eating more fruits andvegetables for low-income familiesin the U.S. This tells us that low-in-

come families buy fewer fruits andvegetables and usually have a lessbalanced diet, in part because of

the cost of buying fresh produce.The stark contrast between the

cost of produce in Egypt and thatin the U.S. suggests that maybe theU.S. should focus on making fruitsand vegetables more affordable.There are countless campaignsaimed at getting children to eat

healthy and to get their daily serv-ings of fruits and vegetables, butuntil it makes financial sense forfamilies to buy fruits and vegeta-bles, they are unlikely to do so.And maybe after eating so muchprocessed food day after day, peo-ple forget why they were buying itin the first place; they buy certainthings out of habit. This conclusionis not new; it is quite obvious, tosome economists at least, that therelatively high price of produce isrelated to lower levels of fruit and

vegetable consumption amonglow-income families in America.

Perhaps it is likely that if pro-duce had been as cheap asprocessed alternatives for the pastfew decades, more people wouldbe eating their daily-recommend-ed servings of fruits and vegeta-bles. Maybe we wouldnt havesuch a high rate of obesity andother conditions that result fromunhealthy diets?

All of this suggests that, rightnow in the U.S., produce is too ex-

pensive and many people do nothave a healthy diet as a result. Myexperience in Egypt suggests thatthis country does not have such aproblem, and I wonder why. Whyis it almost a luxury to eat fruits andvegetables in the U.S. whereas it isthe norm in a less developed coun-try? Shouldnt the country that istheoretically more advanced havesolved such a problem earlier on?

Perhaps we are not as advancedin some ways as we might think.

If you wish fruits and vegetableswere cheaper too, email Fatima atfwagdy@stanford.edu.

The price of produce

I DO CHOOSE TO RUN

Miles

Unterreiner

Sport, space and the nation

Those

moments dont

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most of them

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what makes STEP uniqueamong other teaching pro-grams.

I know there are manycaring, thoughtful, intelli-gent people, from Stanfordand other places, who go intoprestigious teacher pro-grams that require minimalup-front time and a shortcommitment to high-needstudents, Milks said. Per-sonally, I know my studentsare grateful to have me as ateacher largely due to what Ilearned in STEP from mystudents, my cooperating

teachers, my professors andmy fellow STEP colleagues.

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the sciences. With his schoolfacing financial difficulties,high-tech experiments like

those at Stanford were notoptions open for Wang untilRISE. Consequently,Wang said that the experi-ence helped him narrow hisbroad interest in biology toa more specific field cur-rently, bioengineering. Butthe challenges of lab sci-ence were not lost on him.

One thing I really gotout of this entire experiencewas how hard and how diffi-cult science can be and how

important careful proce-dure or precise data analysisproved to be when it comesto presentations or the actu-al, overall project experi-

ence, he said. [Until now],I really had no idea what sci-ence in a lab setting was re-ally about.

This sort of hands-on sci-ence education is the prima-ry goal of RISE, accordingto Storm. With the UnitedStates facing more interna-

tional competition thanever before in the fields ofscience and technology,Storm is convinced that sci-ence programs for under-represented youth can im-pact far more than just theyouth involved.

I think for our countrysglobal competitiveness, weneed a workforce that isvery strong in science andengineering, and if we cando that in a more home-

grown way . . . thats all thebetter, she said.

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he has not only interacted with

other investors but has alsobrought in customers andworked on product ideas.

Sam Liang M.S. 99 Ph.D.03, founder of technologystartup Alohar Mobile, reallyappreciates what Cheritontaught him. Having complet-ed his doctorate in electricalengineering under Cheriton,Liang asked him for advice re-garding a technology startuphe was considering founding,which would create more ad-

vanced mobile location tech-nology. Even 10 years after hisgraduation, Liang valuesCheritons high standards andharsh criticism.

[Cheriton] is the sharpestperson Ive ever met, Liangsaid. He thinks differently,and he taught us to think dif-ferently: dont just follow theherd or the fad. He wants hisstudents to think big and try tofigure out a way to change theworld.

When it comes to invest-ing, Cheriton explained thathe prefers to contribute to

companies that offer productsor services that he would per-sonally like to use, such asGoogles high-end search en-gine. In addition, he certainlynever feels pressured to followthe crowd.

I have always really ap-preciated his almost completedisregard for what is fashion-able or politically correct orconventional wisdom, saidone of Cheritons first doctoralstudents, Willy ZwaenepoelM.S. 80 Ph.D. 85. Zwaenepoelnow works at cole Polytech-nique Fdrale de Lausanne, aSwiss engineering school.

In the beginning I wascompletely flabbergasted byhis irreverence for what I

thought were well-acceptedprinciples, Zwaenepoel said.But over time I came to seehow it really opens ones eyesto new ways of addressingproblems.

Yet despite his success inthe industry, Cheriton valuesthe changes he has made tothe field of computer scienceover the money he has earnedthrough his investments.

I dont really find themoney element that interest-ing, he said. Its sort of a nec-essary evil to make new thingsa success.

Through his research atStanford, Cheriton has workedtoward improving todaystechnology. He is known forhelping to introduce multicast,which allows a single source todeliver information to multiple

places, to the Internet, and he iscurrently studying snapshotisolation in relation to buildingdistributed applications. Theidea involves creating applica-tions that will run across multi-ple computers based on a con-sistent snapshot. For exam-ple, Google runs across a largenumber of computers at once,and even though some mightfail, the software uses snapshotisolation so that those failuresare not seen by any of the users.

I view that Im just one lit-tle piece of all the researchgoing on in computer sci-ence, Cheriton said.

No matter what he studiesor invests in, Cheriton contin-ues to enjoy his work and har-bors no plans for his retire-ment, despite his 30-plus yearson the Farm.

I really like what Imdoing, Cheriton said. Imworking harder than I everhave.

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SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailyRedshirt junior Courtney Verloo looks to become a major contributor in the Cardinal offensiveattack after being sidelined by injuries for the entire 2011 national title season.

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By DAVID ENGDAILY INTERN

It was this time nearly a year ago.A battle-tested Stanford womens

soccer team had set out to capture the

schools first national championship,having faltered in the Final Four in eachof the past three seasons and in the titlematch in each of the past two.

Redshirt junior Courtney Verloo re-members one of those lazy summerdays quite well.

A returning starter at central de-fense entering her junior year, Verlooremembers feeling her left knee blownout after a weird plant during an in-trasquad match last preseason. Havingsustained both a small meniscal tearand a tibial plateau fracture in her left

knee injuries associated with ex-tended recovery time she watchedfrom the sideline for the entire 2011season, supporting the teammates shestarted 24 games with during her sopho-more year.

It was different just having to sitback and watch, Verloo said, referringto Stanfords unprecedented domi-nance (25-0-1, 11-0 Pac-12) en route tothe programs first NCAA champi-onship. But it was amazing to watch.

Now fully recovered, Verloo figuresto play a key role in her teams title de-

fense. But shell no longer be playingdefense like she did her sophomore sea-son. The Cardinal will need her toscore.

I think it will be a fine transition,said the speedy Verloo, who played for-ward during her freshman year on theFarm and for her entire high school andyouth careers. Im comfortable upfront, and Im excited to play up thereagain.

Verloo returns to a perennially po-tent Stanford attack recently ravagedby the graduations of key players, in-

cluding the loss of last seasons top fe-male college soccer player in TeresaNoyola, a midfielder who has led Stan-

ford in assists in each of the past twoseasons.

More of the younger players aregoing to step it up this year, Verloosaid. But we definitely still have agreat amount of talent.

Losing a Hermann Trophy winner tograduation has become almost standardfor the Cardinal, which has lost one ineach of the past three seasons. Whilethe program maintained its dominanceafter the graduations of Kelley OHarain 2010 and Christen Press in 2011, re-covering from the most recent string ofgraduations may be slightly more chal-lenging.

This season, not only will the teambe without Noyola; it must also contendwithout four of its top six point scorersfrom l ast s eason players who ac-

counted for nearly 60 percent of theCardinals goals. Furthermore, one ofStanfords top two returning scorers,sophomore forward Chioma Ubogagu,will miss as many as six preseasonmatches while playing on the UnitedStates under-20 national team in theFIFA U-20 World Cup.

Were going to really miss Chi justbecause she adds so much to an attack,Verloo said. But I think it will be goodfor other players to get a chance to playup there and hopefully make a big im-pact, so we can just have a more dynam-

ic attack overall.Despite the apparent exodus of an

attacking talent that outshot the oppo-sition by 142 shots on goal and scoredmore than eight times as often as its op-ponents did in 2011, 10th-year headcoach Paul Ratcliffe remains excited bythe extreme talent of his team and itschance to compete for a fourth consec-utive Pac-12 championship and secondconsecutive national title.

We control our own destiny, Rat-cliffe said. We have to train hard andimprove with every training session and

find the right chemistry among the play-

SPORTS

A NEW ERACardinal womens soccer undaunted by high expectations

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It is mid-afternoon at the London AquaticsCentre, and the focus has shifted on Day 11of the Olympics from speed to artistic swim-ming.

Twelve pairs of swimmers competing for theirrespective countries will now combine elementsof ballet, gymnastics and aquatics in three-minuteroutines in which duos in perfect unison performcarefully choreographed swims. It is as though thegymnastics floor exercise has been moved into thewater, as an international panel of judges scoresthe artistic and technical merit of the swimmingpairs.

Team USA came close to not even sending ateam to compete in this event, but a Stanford stu-dent, Mariya Koroleva 12, has made the sacrificesto train eight to 10 hours a day and has qualified tocompete in this event. Koroleva and Mary Kill-man will be the only synchronized swimming ath-letes the United States is sending to the 2012Olympics. Although she has only been pairedwith Killman for less than a year, Korolevas duethas surpassed expectations and made the cut inthe preliminaries. As I watch them in the surrealatmosphere of the Aquatics Centre, they now

compete in the finals for the gold medal.As Koroleva and Killman prance out to the

platform to begin their routine, polite applausegreets them. There is a small contingent of flag-waving Americans in the audience and even somediehard Stanford students and alumni proudlydisplaying their cardinal and white along withtheir red, white and blue. Yet, for the most part,

this international audience is comprised of fansrooting for the heavily favored Russian, Chineseand Spanish duos. The cheers are also loud for thehometown British team, which is, of course, thecrowd favorite. Unlike the American pair, theother duos have been swimming together foryears.

It is humid and warm in the Aquatics Centre an atmosphere clearly designed for swimmersrather than spectators. The synchronized swim-mers compete in the same venue that MichaelPhelps and Ryan Lochte raced in.

Resplendent in their zebra-motif outfits, Ko-roleva and Killman gracefully dive into the waterto the strains of The Buglers Dream thenow-familiar Olympic theme song. They will notbe able to breathe for two out of the three minutes

they will perform, and their feet must never touchthe bottom of the pool.

The enthusiasm of the American swimmers ispalpable as Koroleva and Killman effortlesslyperform a stunning combination of lifts, verticals,dolphin arches and knight variants. It is like water-based gymnastics or aquatic ballet. These are notstressed-out swimmers, not the diva athletes

whose histrionics have made other Olympicevents border on melodrama. Rather, they arestudents having enormous fun and showing it.The largely non-American audience senses theswimmers joie de vivre and high energy levels andgets behind the Americans.

The spirit of Stanford has momentarily takenover the Aquatics Centre. The only thing missingis the Band.

Now the eclectic musical score changes fromJohn Philip Sousa to Beethovens Ninth Sympho-ny, and the American pair shows that they canswim as well as the best Olympians in this arena.When they gracefully form the pattern of a flowerand mimic the opening and closing of its petals

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RUSH D

ENOUGH

Say what you want about

special teams, but Stan-fords pass defense cost itthe Fiesta Bowl.

On that fateful night in January,the Cardinal executed its gameplan to perfection in the threeother phases of the game: it rushedfor 243 yards and three touch-downs, allowed practically nothingfrom Oklahoma State on theground and benefited from a 27-for-31, 347-yard effort from An-drew Luck in his final collegiate

game. But with Cowboys quarter-back Brandon Weeden throwingfor 399 yards of his own, Stanfordcouldnt close things out the way itwould have wanted to, and Okla-homa State came out on top inovertime.

So as the Cardinal opened itsfall training camp Sunday withoutthe three graduated members of its2011 starting secondary, it makessense that pass defense would bethe squads greatest concern afterthe quarterback position. Defensewins championships, of course.

But as it turns out, to succeed inthe best passing conference in thenation, the strength a Pac-12 de-fense needs the least is . . . an air-tight secondary.

This conclusion, counterintu-itive as it may seem, is made readi-ly apparent by studying the correla-tion between the defensive stats ofeach Pac-12 team and how manygames the individual teams won fora single season. For the non-statsmajors in the crowd, correlation(with a magnitude ranging fromzero to one) is a simple measure ofthe interrelatedness of two vari-ables. A perfect correlation of oneindicates that, when these datapoints are plotted, they form a per-fectly straight line; a correlationclose to zero means that the datapoints are spread randomly. Forexample, you would expect a pret-ty high correlation between ateams wins and the number ofpoints it scores, but a much lower

correlation between its wins and,say, the number of fair catches it

Joseph BeydaSTANFORD HEATING UPBy KAREN FENG

DAILY INTERN

Stanford student-athletes and alumni arebusy competing at the Games of the XXX

Olympiad in London. Here are some of thehighlights from Day 7 to Day 15:

Third-seeded Kerri Walsh Jennings 00 andMisty May-Treanor defeated Austrian sistersDoris and Stefanie Schwaiger 17-21, 21-8, 15-10 on Aug. 1. Walsh Jennings made 11 killswith four blocks and three service aces.

In the first round of elimination, they post-ed a 21-13, 21-12 win over Marleen van Ierseland Sanne Keizer of the Netherlands at HorseGuards Parade. Walsh Jennings finished withsix kills, four blocks and three digs.

Walsh Jennings and May-Treanor then de-feated Italys No. 7 Greta Cicolari and MartaMenegatti 21-13, 21-13 to advance to the semi-finals. Walsh Jennings recorded 14 kills, fivedigs and two blocks.

The American duo claimed its thirdstraight Olympic gold medal in beach volley-ball by defeating Jennifer Kessy and AprilRoss 21-16, 21-16 in an all-American final onWednesday.

Cassidy Krug 07 placed 10th in the prelim-inaries of the 3-meter springboard with a score

of 320.10.She finished

fifth in the Aug. 4semifinal with animproved score of

345.60 to qualify forthe final.

Incoming freshman Nina Ligon of Thai-land finished 41st following the July 31showjumping portion of the individual eventfinals.

On July 31, rising sophomore Kristina Vac-ulik helped the Canadian team to a fifth-placefinish, its best-ever team result. She scored14.166 on the uneven bars to tie for 16th and

13.433 on the balance beam to place 20th.

U.S. mens eight crewmembers DavidBanks 05 and Jake Cornelius 05 contributedto a fourth-place finish of 5:51.48 in the goldmedal final.

Silas Stafford 08 and partner Tom Peszekfinished fourth in the first semifinal on Aug. 1with a time of 6:58.58. They finished second inthe B Final of the mens pair on Aug. 3 with atime of 6:53.30 to place eighth overall.

Please seeBEYDA, page 11

Please seeOLYMPIC, page 10

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Kerri Walsh Jennings 00 and her partnerMisty May-Treanor secured their third straightOlympic gold in beach volleyball.

Please seeMILLER, page 9

MARY ANN TOMAN-MILLER

Koroleva 12 makes big waves in her Olympic debut

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012 THE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER WEEKLY EDITIONN 9

TomTaylor

PISTORIUS

PUSHING

THE LIMITS

Congratulations Ameri-ca. Youve done yourvery best to steal Lon-dons thunder of host-ing the 2012 Olympic

Games by landing yet another roveron the surface of Mars. It is all veryimpressive, Ill admit that, though Iwonder if you couldnt have waitedjust a couple of weeks and let us

Brits have our time in the limelight.My friends in the States, a mix-ture of engineers and Americans, allseem very excited and inspired rightnow, if their Facebook statuses areanything to go by. Though the pic-tures posted are mostly grainyblack-and-white images, I have toadmit that what NASA justachieved is a pretty impressivehuman feat.

I should be transfixed by it too I did, after all, once dream of be-coming an astronaut but my own

attention right now is firmly on theOlympics. Aside from a few articleson that extraterrestrial achieve-ment, British media is concentrat-ing on the festival of sport in our na-tions capital. And it should be, con-sidering the great success that TeamGB is having as I write this it liesthird in the medals table behind twosports superpowers, the U.S. andChina.

And dont be put off by theshameless commercialization of thecompetition and the arrogant, over-

the-top posturing of athletes such asthe mens 100-meter finalists on thetrack last Sunday. There are thoseunfortunate sides of the Games, yes,but there is still a lot that is more inkeeping with the real, original spiritof the Olympics. Take, for example,South African sprinter Oscar Pisto-rius, also known as the Blade Run-ner.

A double below-knee amputee,Pistorius is a four-time gold-medalwinner at the Paralympics, usingflexible carbon fiber blade prosthet-

ics to allow him to run relatively nor-

Please seeTAYLOR, page 11

SPORTS BRIEFS

Stanford ranked 18th inpreseason coaches poll

The Stanford football team isranked 18th in the USA TodayCoaches Poll released last Thursday.

The Cardinal earned 497points, two points behind No. 17TCU and four points behind No.16 Nebraska.

The top three teams in the pollwere separated by 15 points. LSUclaimed the No. 1 ranking with1,403 total points and 18 first-place votes. Alabama, which re-

ceived two more first-place votesthan its SEC rival, came in secondwith 1,399 points. Rounding outthe top three was USC, collecting1,388 points along with 19 first-place votes.

LSU, Alabama and USC werewell separated from the rest of thefield, with Oklahoma sitting infourth place, 112 points behindthe Trojans.

Stanford, which was alsoranked No. 13 by ESPN yester-day, began practices this past Sun-day and will open its seasonagainst San Jose State on Aug. 31.

Danielle Henderson hired as new

assistant coach of Stanford softball

Former Ohio State assistantcoach Danielle Henderson will bethe new assistant coach of theStanford softball program, headcoach John Rittman announcedon Tuesday.

Henderson served as an assis-tant coach with the University ofMassachusetts, her alma mater,for four seasons before joining theBuckeyes coaching staff, whereshe stayed for the past two years.

In addition to her coaching ex-perience, Henderson was one ofthe greatest strikeout pitchers inNCAA history, tallying 1,343strikeouts over four years andbreaking 25 school records atUMass. She also won an Olympicgold medal as part of the U.S.softball team that competed inSydney in 2000.

Henderson will be replacingTrisha Ford, who left her assistantcoaching role to become the headcoach of the Fresno State softballteam.

George Chen

ers and get a little bit of luckdown the line.

Ubogagu, for one, has beentraining for the entire offseason saying she has never had anoffseason training that hard orthatphysical. She is poised to beone of the primary weapons forthe Cardinal during conferenceplay after tallying 10 goals and 10

assists in 25 starts during herfreshman year.Just being with the Stanford

team . . . everyone wants to getbetter every day, she said. Ubo-gagu hopes her offseason work-outs will only add to her greateststrength as a scorer attackingatpeople.

With the return of Verloo andthe continued emergence of Ubo-gagu, Stanford seems poised foranother deep run in the NCAAtournament. UCLA and Oregon

State provide tough competitionin conference play, says Verloo.Duke and Wake Forest are poisedto dethrone the Cardinal in thenational title hunt, says Ubogagu.But both women acknowledgethat any team could contend.

We need to realize were atarget. Never relax. Never getcomplacent, Verloo said. Weneed to make sure were alwayspreparing right and staying com-petitive every day.

Ratcliffe reiterated this senti-

ment; he believes that repeating inthe very challenging Pac-12 con-ference will be difficult because

theres more and more parity inwomens soccer. However, no

one can discount the Cardinalsexperience. The sophomoreshave won a national champi-onship. The juniors have compet-ed in the title game for two con-secutive years, the seniors forthree. All the while, none of thesecurrent players may have carriedthe team for an entire season not yet, at least.

Having the experience helpsus; it doesnt hurt us, Verloosaid. I think it will help havingthe experience. Knowing what its

like to win, everybody just wantsit more again.Stanford returns eight starters

from last season: Ubogagu, seniorforward Marjani Hing-Glover, ju-nior forward Sydney Payne, se-nior midfielder Mariah Nogueira,senior defender Alina Garcia-mendez, senior defender RachelQuon, redshirt sophomoreKendall Romine and junior goal-keeper Emily Oliver.

However, carving out an iden-tity distinct from the champi-

onship teams of past years may bethe most daunting task that liesahead not simply for the indi-vidual players, but also for theteam.

Were proud of what we ac-complished last year, but this is anew team, Ratcliffe said. Thisteam wants to prove theyre thebest team out there. Last year,they proved that they were thebest team in the history of Stan-ford womens soccer, and thisteam wants to prove the same.

Contact David Eng at david_eng@pacbell.net.

SOCCERContinued from page 7

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily

Head coach Paul Ratcliffe and theStanford womens soccer teamlook forward to a new

season, hoping to defend the na-tional title that they won last yearfor the first time in school history.

several times, the multinational audi-ence cheers.

Everything in synchronizedswimming is artistic, down to the exitfrom the pool after the conclusion ofthe performance. As Koroleva andKillman make their synchronizedexit, the audience gives them a well-earned sustained ovation.

Koroleva and her duet partner

score a combined total of 176.670points, earning 87.770 for the free rou-tine and 87.800 for the technical. Forthe moment, this puts them in secondplace overall. Although the Russian,Spanish and Chinese teams will sur-pass them and earn the gold, silverand bronze medals, respectively, theAmericans have clearly won the goldmedal for enthusiasm and energy.The pool rippled with hundreds ofconcentric circular waves, a sight ofbeauty that cannot be seen and appre-ciated from a television camera.

If Koroleva and Killman can per-form this brilliantly after so little timetogether as a pair, it augurs well forthe United States and StanfordsOlympic prospects once they havethe benefit of more extensive train-ing together. With Koroleva andKillman performing, Americas syn-chronized swimming prospects arebright.

The brilliant artistry of Mary AnnToman-Millers writing perfor-mance suggests she would do a bet-

ter job than a host of Olympicbroadcasters. Nominate her for Rio2016 at tomanmil@stanford.edu.

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Elle Logan 11 helped the U.S.womens eight defend its 2008

Olympic title on Aug. 2, posting agold medal-winning time of6:10.59.

Ryan Nelsen and Team NewZealand were eliminated fromcompetition on Wednesday after a3-0 loss to Brazil, finishing groupplay 0-2-1.

Ali Riley 10 played at left out-side back to help the New Zealand

team beat Cameroon 3-0 in itsfirst-ever victory at the OlympicGames.

Team USA co-captain RachelBuehler 07, playing at central de-fense, and Kelley OHara 10,playing at right outside back,helped the United States secure a1-0 victory over North Korea onJuly 31. Three days later, the Unit-ed States defeated New Zealand 2-0 in the quarterfinal with Riley andOHara playing all 90 minutes.

The U.S. defeated Canada 4-3

in the final seconds of extra time inthe Aug. 6 semifinal, guaranteeingat least a silver medal. OHaracontinued her streak of playingevery minute of every match,while Buehler was replaced in thesecond overtime after a collision.

Former Stanford goalkeeperNicole Barnhart 04, backing upAmericas Hope Solo, has not yetseen action.

David Dunford 10 of Kenya

failed to qualify for the semifinalsof the 100-meter freestyle, as histime of 49.60 was just the third bestin his heat on July 31. He racedagain in the fifth heat of the 50-meter freestyle competition, fin-ishing third with a time of 22.72,but again did not qualify for thesemifinals.

Jason Dunford 09 finishedfourth in the fifth heat of the 100-meter butterfly on Aug. 2 with atime of 52.23. He improved slight-ly in the semifinal with a time of52.16 but was unable to advance tothe final.

Tobias Oriwol 06 of Canada

and Markus Rogan 04 of Austriacompeted in the 4x200-meterfreestyle relay on July 31, withCanada taking seventh (7:15.22)and Austria eighth (7:17.94) in thesecond preliminary heat. Neithercountrys time ranked in the topeight and they both failed to quali-fy for the final.

Oriwol and Rogan competedagain on Aug. 1. Oriwol finishedfourth in the third preliminaryheat of the 200-meter backstrokewith a time of 1:58.06. He finishedseventh in the second semifinalwith a time of 1:58.74, for an over-all finish of 13th in the event.Rogan placed third in the 200-meter individual medley prelimi-nary heat but was disqualified inthe semifinal for an illegal turn.

The American duo of MariaKoroleva 13 and Mary Killmanscored 87.900 points in the prelim-inary technical routine at the Lon-don Aquatics Centre to place 10th,totaling 43.700 points in executionand 44.200 in overall impression.

Koroleva and Killman scored88.270 points to place 11th in thefree routine on Aug. 5 and are in10th place in the overall standingsat 176.170. They tallied 44.070 forartistic impression to qualify for

the final, where the pair finished11th overall.

Top-seeded Bob Bryan 98 andMike Bryan 98 defeated RussiasNikolay Davydenko and MikhailYouzhny in straight sets 7-6 (6), 7-6 (1) on July 31 in a second-rounddoubles match played at Wimble-don. The Bryans then defeated Is-raels unseeded duo of JonathanErlich and Andy Ram 7-6 (4), 7-6(10) on Aug. 2 to advance to thesemifinals.

In the Aug. 3 semis, they defeat-ed Frances Julien Benneteau andRichard Gasquet 6-4, 6-4. Thebrothers then captured their first ca-reer gold medal on Aug. 4, defeat-ing Frances Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 7-6 (2).

Mike Bryan 98 teamed withLisa Raymond on Aug. 1 for a 7-5,6-3 victory over Italys Sara Erraniand Andreas Seppi, and the third-seeded pair defeated ArgentinasGisela Dulko and Juan Martin delPotro 6-2, 7-5 in a quarterfinalmatch on Aug. 3.

Bryan and Raymond droppedtheir Aug. 4 semifinal match totop-seeded Victoria Azarenkaand Max Mirnyi of Belarus 3-6, 6-4, 10-7, but still captured thebronze medal with a 6-3, 4-6, 10-4victory over the German pair ofSabine Lisicki and ChristopherKas on Aug. 5.

Amaechi Morton 12 of Nigeriaqualified for the semifinals of the400-meter hurdles with a time of49.34 in the first heat, but pulled upwith an apparent injury on Aug. 4and could not make the finals.

Katerina Stefanidi 12 ofGreece cleared 13 feet, 11 1/4 inch-es (4.25 m) in the pole vault onAug. 4 but did not advance to thefinal.

Jillian Camarena-Williamsplaced eighth in Group A on Aug.6 with a toss of 59-5 1/2 in the shotput and failed to qualify for thefinal round.

Team USA, featuring FolukeAkinradewo 09 and Logan Tom03, defeated China 26-24, 25-16,31-29 on Aug. 1. Akinradewo tal-lied eight kills with a pair of blocks,while Tom had five kills, twoblocks and a pair of aces.

The United States swept Serbia

25-17, 25-20, 25-16 on Aug. 3 asAkinradewo registered six killsand five blocks and Tom recorded10 kills and two blocks.

Team USA wrapped up Pool Bplay with a 27-25, 25-16, 25-19 winover Turkey on Sunday. Akin-radewo finished with nine kills,five blocks and an ace, while Tomtallied five kills and a block.

Peter Varellas 06 recorded hissecond-straight hat trick, Tony

Azevedo 05 added a goal andLayne Beaubien 99 and PeterHudnut 03 played on defense tohelp the United States defeat Ro-mania 10-8 on July 31.

The U.S. improved to 3-0 with a13-7 victory over Great Britain onAug. 2. Team captain Azevedoscored four times as he and Varel-las each accounted for third-peri-od goals.

Team USA lost to Serbia 11-6on Aug. 4. Azevedo and Varellaseach netted a goal, while Beaubien

and Hudnut assisted on defense.They secured a spot in the quarter-finals with Romanias loss to Mon-

tenegro.The U.S. was again defeated on

Aug. 6, losing 11-6 to Hungary in

its final game of pool play. Azeve-do, Beaubien and Hudnut eachscored a goal.

The Americans then lost toCroatia 8-2 in the quarterfinalround after falling into a 5-0 holeearly in the game.

On Aug. 1, Annika Dries 14,Melissa Seidemann 14, MaggieSteffens 16 and Brenda Villa 03each netted a goal, as Team USAand Spain settled for a 9-9 draw.

Steffens led Team USA witha hat trick to help defeat China7-6 on Aug. 3. Dries, Seidemann

and Villa also saw some playingtime, with Stanford players scor-ing four of Team USAs seven

goals.Stanford alumnae accounted

for six of the teams nine goals ina 9-6 quarterfinal win over Italyon Aug. 5. Seidemann posted ahat trick and Steffens and Villaalso scored goals, while Drieshelped out on defense.

The US beat Australia 11-9 inovertime during Tuesdays semi-final match to advance to thegold medal game against Spaintoday. Steffens scored one of theteams two overtime goals.

Contact Karen Feng at karenfeng.us@gmail.com.

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Defender Melissa Seidemann 14 posted a hat trick in Team USAs 9-6win over Italy in the quaterfinal round at the Olympics. The U.S. teamwill be playing against Spain in the gold medal game today.

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records.Since allowing fewer passing or

rushing yards is a good thing, the

correlation between either of thesestats and wins is expected to be neg-ative, but keep in mind that its themagnitude that counts here. Acomparison of these correlations isa strong indicator of which is moreimportant to a teams success essentially, whether a solid sec-ondary should be valued over a for-midable front seven or vice versa.

Take 2011. Believe it or not, in aseason full of pass-happy offensesled by top-rate quarterbacks An-drew Luck, Matt Barkley, Nick

Foles, Brock Osweiler and KeithPrice, to name a few there wasonly a correlation of -0.07 betweenthe number of passing yards allowedper game by Pac-12 teams and howmany wins they recorded. This fig-ure emerges from the fact that noneof the conferences 10-win teamshad a top-five secondary (in terms ofyards allowed through the air), andthe best pass-stopper in the Pac-12,Cal, finished a mediocre 7-6.

The number of yards allowedper game on the ground, on the

other hand, was a much more accu-rate predictor of how many victo-

ries a team recorded, as demon-strated by the -0.80 correlation be-tween wins and rushing defense in2011. Twelve-win Oregon, 11-winStanford and 10-win USC finished5-1-2 in this regard, and no bowl-el-igible team in the top five in rush-ing yards allowed failed to qualifyfor the postseason last year.

The 2011 season was no fluke,either. In each of the past five sea-sons, the correlation between rushdefense and wins has been strongerthan that between pass defenseand wins; since 2007, when the twomeasures were nearly the same,the rush defense mark has neverrisen above -0.69 and the pass de-fense mark has never slippedbelow -0.29. (Remember, largernegatives indicate a stronger rela-tion in this case.) The same generaltrend repeats itself in terms of just

Pac-12 records.Over that same five-year span,

top-three finishers in the Pac-12average the third-best rush defensein the conference but just the fifth-best pass defense. On the nationalscale, just one 10-win squad (Ari-zona in 2007) also finished in thetop 10 in Division I for passingyards allowed, but Oregon hasreached double-digit wins andboasted a top-10 rush defense foreach of the last four years.

Theres an argument to be

made that, when comparing frontsevens with secondaries, yards al-

lowed are not the only (or even thebest) stat to use. A sack or inter-ception can turn the tide of a closegame, and bend-but-dont-breakschemes arent afraid to give up afew yards on shorter passes as-suming the timely stop comes.

Theres some data to supportthis assertion: the conference

champion has recorded the mostsacks in the league three of the lastfive seasons, and in 2010 the Pac-12s three top finishers Oregon,Stanford and USC recorded thefirst-, second- and third-most picks,in that order.

But not all big plays are madeequal, and again, the front sevenreigns supreme. There has been adecent correlation between sacksand wins over the past four years,as this measure has always fallenbetween 0.51 and 0.72 since 2008.

But when it comes to interceptions,things are much less predictable. A0.71 correlation between picks andwins in 2008 gave way to a mark ofessentially zero in 2009, yet in 2010the correlation was stronger thanever at 0.82. And in 2011, when sec-ond-place Stanford had the fewestinterceptions (seven) in the Pac-12,the correlation had plummetedback to 0.19.

The moral of the story is that ifyoure looking for a playmaker inthe Pac-12, a strong pass rusher is a

much more reliable bet to im-prove your teams fortunes thanan electrifying cover guy.

This season you can expect theCardinal to finish in the top threein the conference in both rushingyards allowed and sacks, and thesix Pac-12 teams that have donethat in the last five years have av-eraged 9.67 wins. So while the restof the world worries about howthe Cardinals young but talenteddefensive backs Wayne Lyons,Terrence Brown, Barry Brown-

ing, Devon Carrington, EdReynolds and others will definetheir roles ins a secondary that hadits fair share of struggles last sea-son, Im just going to sit back andrelax while Shayne Skov, ChaseThomas and the rest of Stanfordsdominant front seven do theirwork.

Dont forget, I have math on myside.

Joseph Beyda might be teaching anadvanced sports statistics course in

the fall. Let Professor Beyda knowif youre interested at jbeyda@stan-ford.edu.

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mally. After being banned in 2007,he was eventually given permissionto race in International Association

of Athletics Federations (IAAF)competitions against able-bodiedathletes in May 2008, and he quali-fied for this summers Games lastyear.

Some are vehemently opposedto Pistorius participation, arguingas the IAAF did in 2007 that his ar-tificial lower legs give him a signifi-cant advantage over other runners,and that allowing him to competesets a dangerous precedent for al-lowing future athletes to use similarequipment to gain an edge over oth-

ers.They are wrong, of course. We

already live in a world in which topathletes employ science and tech-nology to get them over the finishline first, from detailed analysis ofbiomechanics that change a run-ners gait to ultra-low-weight bicy-cles to high-tech clothing fabrics tocutting-edge running shoes to drugs yes, drugs.

As every athlete at the OlympicGames leaves the field of play, theyare faced with giving urine samples

so that any use of illegal medicationcan be identified. But there is also ahuge range of legal drugs; athletesdont just eat salads and drinkwater. Vitamins supplement theirdiets, isotonic drinks improve per-formance and anti-inflammatorypainkillers speed recovery from in-jury. That we can investigate andregulate these medications hopefully catching the vast majorityof cheats implies that we shouldsurely be able to do the same withPistorius blades.

The idea that he gains a seriousadvantage or that others may followhis lead seems crazy. In case youhavent been paying attention, re-gardless of the technology he isusing, Pistorius is a double am-putee. Life has surely not been easy,and neither has his training or com-petition. No one would ever want toreplace his or her lower limbs withcarbon-fiber blades just to win anathletic competition; no one wouldrisk major surgery on a perfectlyhealthy body just for that. But ath-letes who have had parts of them-selves replaced in surgery, such asACL replacements, are allowed to

compete, so why not Pistorius?The biggest justification for al-

lowing Pistorius to compete,though, is what his inclusion means.Simply put, he has an inspiringstory, a tale of someone who simply

refused to give up in the face of seri-ous disability. It may not have quitethe interplanetary reach of NASAslatest mission, but it too is a perfectexample of what can be achievedwith hard work and technology.You might argue about whether ornot he gains an advantage from hisprosthetic limbs, but you cannotargue about whether or not he em-bodies the Olympic Games.

In the end, while Pistorius madeit into the semifinals of the 400 me-ters, he went no further than that in

the competition. But the mosttelling moment came just after thatrace was run. The winner, reigningworld champion Kirani James ofGrenada, immediately went toswap race numbers with Pistorius,and the whole field embraced thedouble-amputee. It was clear thatthis South African sprinter inspirednot only the viewing public, but alsohis athletic peers.

Tom Taylor burst into tears of joywhen Great Britains Jessica Ennis

won gold in the heptathlon. Askhim how long it took to stop cryingat tom.taylor@stanford.edu.

TAYLORContinued from page 9 Simply put,

Pistorius has an

inspiring story,a tale of

someone who

simply refused

to give up in the

face of serious

disability.

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INTERMISSION

The Bay is replaced by Lake

Michigan, and the fog

trapped in the foothills gives

way to oven-like humidity. Deep

dish becomes the onlypizza crust,

while Derrick Rose jerseys of every

color replace Giants caps. E-40s

Function is a mere afterthought

to any tune by hometown favorite

Kanye West. This is no Yay Area.

This is Chicago. And on Aug. 3-5,

the city played host to one of the

nations largest music festivals:

Lollapalooza.

Founded in 1991 by Janes

Addiction front man Perry Farrell,

Lollapalooza has morphed quite a

bit in its 21 years. After a handful

of hiatuses following its beginnings

as a traveling festival, Lollapalooza

has recurred annually in Grant

Park since 2005. The acts have

grown with the crowds, morphing

Lollapalooza into an annual pil-

grimage for thousands of fans who

have fallen in love with the event.

For Stanford students, however,

making the lengthy trip to Lolla

can prove to be rather difficult. To

offer some insight into the festival,

Intermission made the journey to

Chicago to see what Lollas all

about.

Evanston

Like many Stanford Lolla-

goers, Intermissions adventure

began each morning north of

downtown Chicago in Evanston, a

neighborhood simultaneously part

of the burbs and the city. Evanston

is the home of Northwestern

University, a Midwestern academic

powerhouse where a Stanford stu-

dent is likely to have one or two

friends willing to let him crash on a

futon for the weekend.

When students wake on the

hot Friday morning (or, more like-

ly, early afternoon), they slowly

make the journey downtown.

Trains are packed with countless

neon tank tops, CamelBaks and

high-waisted jean shorts. All the

commotion, combined with the

growing frequency of late-morning

handle pulls scattered about the

train, immediately triggers memo-

ries of early-morning insanity on

the Bay to Breakers Caltrain.

When the train arrives, hordes

of festivalgoers take to the streetsof Chicago, charging toward Grant

Park. Thousands of people fill the

sidewalks, funneling toward the

famous Michigan Avenue, the

heart of shopping in Chicago.

Century-old buildings deemed

worthy of Christopher Nolans

Gotham cast massive shadows on

the crowds below.

Heading south on Michigan,

skyscrapers eventually reveal thegreen, tree-scattered expanse of

Grant Park, cuddled up next to

Lake Michigan. The fans have

amassed at the park, and late

Friday morning the gates open.

For the next 60 hours, Grant

Park will play host to 270,000 peo-

ple and 150 musical acts perform-ing on eight separate stages. In

2011, Lollapalooza reportedly

injected $100 million into the

Chicago economy, a number likely

matched this year, given the record

attendance.

Courtesy Colby Bjornsen

Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine performs at Lollapalooza,a music festival in Chicago, Ill.

MUSIC

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Lights shine on the crowd during a Lollapalooza performance.

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The world of progressive, meat-eat-

ing Southerners was rocked weeks

ago when our beloved anointed,

even Chick-fil-A announced its horribly

backwards stance on gay marriage (its

against it). Not only is this a blow because

of the general anti-free-love vibes which

are just harshing my mellow, but also

because I love Chick-fil-A. I mean, I want

to boycott the restaurant, but its just so

good. (But is it toogood?) This is no new

conundrum; people have been conflicted

with whether to buy or boycott since the

less-than-glamorous Boston Tea Party

though wed like to believe that that self-

inflicted embargo was because of the sub-

jugation of India and not high tea prices.

(Get it, high tea?)So how do we anguished aesthetes

grapple with such a seemingly inextricable

net of political incorrectness, desire, brand-

image, taste and pressure from our social

networks? Well, friends, free yourself of this

inner turmoil with some tips on how to

deal when your favorite brands forget social

corporate responsibility, back the wrong

political party or just plain screw up.

Put it out of your mindThe most basic and probably most used

tactic of the woeful consumer: ignorance. Its

not for real! These peeps just feign it, dont

talk about it and politely dismiss it like a

mother looking past her eldest sons growing

cocaine addiction. Confronting the fact that

Louis Vuitton doesnt actually make its bags

by hand, that theyre in fact made mostly by

machine, makes that label markup hit hard-

er. This ones easier when the corporate

crime is more chill (like being unfairlypriced) and harder when its something evil

(like ignoring sexual assault).

Rationalize

Like a next step in the Twelve, this one

allows you to still indulge in the forbiddenfruit of a fallen company, but with the men-

tal backing of some justified rationale. You

might cringe, for example, to learn that

Target gave money to support a candidate

against gay marriage but hey, they proba-

bly supported him for other reasons, too,

right? One issue cant be the onlything. And

boycotting only hurts those nice ladies at the

register with long nails and two mortgages.

Theyneedme to buy fairly priced generic-

brand over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. Ihavefriendswho have worked there.

Conscientious objector

This one is a deep rationalization. A

conscientious objector does not abstain but

instead partakes in the fun, and copes by

projecting some morally correct scheme

onto the consumption. I will not deny

myself (entirely) the tender-fried-goodness

of Chick-fil-A upon my nearing pilgrimage

back to the South, not because I support not

supporting the union of gay people I do

support their union but because I will

create change from within! I will fill out

cards, send emails, comment on FB statuses.

And its not for naught.

Think about it. If there were no consci-entious objectors, the world would be totally

bereft of sweet uniformed-kisses photos and

the tales of gay Marine fathers that both

break the mold and inspire. Thats not only

a shame; its a disservice (no pun intended).

If all those strong gay LGBT men and

women just said up yours to the Army,

the Boy Scouts, the football teams and all the

other downers out there and packed it up

for theater camp, wed have no change at all.

And thats worse than slow, painful, no-

chicken change.

Find a similar substitute

Naaahh.

Rally behind the ones that are great

Its a struggle that every well-meaning

hypocrite faces: I hate when companies use

their corporate power to support

political/social agendas I dont like, but I am

all for it when its a good one. So total bum-

mer about Wal-Mart, Chick-fil-A and Boy

Scouts of America, but on the flip side, think

about how great Apple, Google and Microsoft

which all support equal rights are every

time you make a call or listen to iTunes. Heck,

just watch Ellen and feel good about it!

Boycott them completely

For only the most hardcore of princi-

pled people, the boycott is an option,

though often ineffective and saddening.

Sometimes youve got to do it; sometimes it

makes no difference like my refusal tolisten to any Chris Brown song, even

though my literally quiet defiance of a frat

house iPod will affect no one. Sometimes

its an excuse to not like something you

already think is gross but for other, less

social reasons. This photo was enough for

me to hate all things Gap, Banana Republic

and Old Navy.

sasha ARIJANTO

contact sasha:sasha.arijanto@stanford.edu

TRAVIS HEYING/Wichita Eagle/MCT

Over 200 people braved 100-degree temperatures to stand in line for a Chick-fil-Ameal at the chain's restaurant in Wichita, Kan., on Aug. 1, 2012. The crowd wasbuying meals to show their support for the company that's currently embroiled in acontroversy over same-sex marriage.

PERSPECTIVES ON BRAND LOYALTY

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SASHANGELESHow to wrap your head aroundpolitical statements

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The new SHN production of War

Horse in San Francisco is all specta-

cle: amazing lights, sounds, sets, song

and staging, as well as some impressive life-

sized horse puppets operated by multiple

puppeteers. War Horse is the epic story of

a boy and his horse before and during

World War I and tells of how both sides

took turns caring for and loving the horse; if

you saw the Spielberg film last year, this is a

less polished version of the story. The play,however, equals, if not exceeds, the extrava-

gance and drama of the film.

The War Horse of the title is Joey, a

masterpiece of puppetry, with enough joints

and areas of manipulation and some

great voiced sound effects by his three pup-

peteers (Jon Riddleberger, Patrick Osteen

and Jessica Krueger) to create a real,

emoting character. Though the puppeteers

are very visible on stage, which is particularly

distracting in the foal version of Joey, you

get used to ignoring them and watching the

horse itself.

Joey, a riding horse, is bought by a farm

owner (Tedd Cerveris) whose son Albert

(Brian Keane) takes charge of his training

and upkeep, including teaching him the

impossible task of pulling a plow, a skill that

will later save the horses life. The burgeon-

ing friendship between Albert and Joey is the

slowest part of the play, as it was in the film,and exposes Keanes weak acting the most,

in large part because the dialogue hes given

to work with is so poor.

The play truly gets going when Alberts

father surreptitiously decides to sell off Joey,

for a pretty penny, to become the titular

War Horse. The stakes for Joey get higher,

and the atrocities of war expose humanity in

both sides. Albert, in turn, enlists in an effort

to find his horse.

Yes, World War I was fought with both

horses and tanks, and theres a devastating

scene when the British cavalry storm a

German camp and are surprised and obliter-

ated by machine guns. The storming of the

camp feels real; multiple horses are on stage,

and the devastation is heightened by the

sounds, flashing lights and pounding score.

Waiting for the play to begin, the audi-

ence can see only an empty stage with a

long, white banner present. The banner is

used to project backgrounds of the various

locations where the play takes place from

the idyllic English countryside, to the battle-

field and trenches, to the war-torn French

lands and it works remarkably well,

allowing for quick and seamless transitionsbetween vastly different locales.

The sets are all very portable: the fence

in the marketplace where Joey is first sold to

our hero is held up by the cast but looks

entirely real; the farmhouse consists of noth-

ing but a window, door and backdrop, just

enough to create the illusion of more; and

the supports for the ramp seen in the first

act become a great stand-in for the trenches

in the second.

The most impressive part of the specta-cle is the use of lights and sound. The play

has its own score by Adrian Sutton, which is

both affecting and effective, and is sung by

John Milosich, who acts as our guide. To its

credit, the emotional and sometimes har-

rowing music increases the drama signifi-

cantly. The terrifying battle scenes includ-

ing one with a very large tank that plows

through the stage are often darkly lit,

with bright lights used sporadically for shock

factor from things like explosions, along

with very loud sound effects and scores.

These are as sophisticated as you would

expect from a polished war film, which is

highly impressive.

The play, however, differs from the

film: It is all about how to tell this continent-

spanning story, with so many characters andso much drama and war, on a stage and

make it seem real, frightening, emotional

and cohesive. The production does all of this

and more, making the highly imperfect

script forgivable. This isnt a play about

words; its a magical and visceral experience.

War Horse runs through Sept. 9 at the SHN

Curran Theatre in San Francisco.

alexandra HEENEY

contact alexandra:aheeney@stanford.edu

BRINKHOFF/ MGENBURG/ SHNSF

Grayson DeJesus and Michael Wyatt Cox star in the Broadway production WarHorse, currently showing in San Francisco until Sept. 9.

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From left: Andrew Veenstra, Christopher Mai, Derek Stratton and Rob Laqui star inWar Horse at the SHN Curran Theatre.

THEATER

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Keep your expectations low

and enter with caution,

and you just may be some-

what impressed by Total Recall;

otherwise, the movie simply flops.

Directed by Len Wiseman,

Total Recall is yet another

Hollywood remake that has suc-

ceeded at nothing but crashing

and burning. The film revolves

around Douglas Quaid (Colin

Farrell), an Australian factory

worker who lives with his wife Lori

(Kate Beckinsale). In this futuristic

dystopia, chemical warfare hasdestroyed most of the world, leav-

ing only two inhabitable countries:

the United Federation of Britain,

which includes the United

Kingdom as well as much of

Europe, and Australia, known as

The Colony.

Quaid decides to go to Rekall,

a company that uses chemicals to

provide false memories, after feel-

ing as if there is something missingfrom his life. After policemen raid

Rekall and Quaid manages to fight

his way out, he soon discovers that

he is really an ex-spy who turned

against the government to work

for the Resistance, an equality-

focused group. With the help of

his former partner Melina (Jessica

Biel), Quaid begins to find his true

self again as well as try to beat

Chancellor Cohaagen (BryanCranston), who plans on destroy-

ing The Colony.

While the acting and casting

for each character was well done,

the roles are one-dimensional. A

notable example of this is

Cohaagen, who plays a typical cap-

italistic, money-hungry leader.

Theres little to no dimensionality

to his character, and while it can

be argued that this is because heplays a secondary role, his charac-

ter is significant enough to deserve

more depth.

In addition, the movie stum-

bles in several places. To begin, the

foreshadowing is blatant and awk-

ward. For example, before Quaid

finds out about his true self, he sees

a pianist in a bar and notes how he

wishes he knew how to play the

piano. Fast-forward to halfwaythrough the movie and you see

him miraculously playing a piano

by sense memory to decode a mes-

sage he left for his future self. In

addition, the plot drags at the

beginning with slow and unneces-

sary scenes, then rushes at the very

end by attempting to annihilate all

of the major enemies within the

MICHAEL GIBSON/Columbia Pictures

Kate Beckinsale stars in TotalRecall.

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MOVIES

As the self-proclaimed presi-

dent of the Forever Alone

Society, I have had my fair

share of kissing my mom at mid-

night on New Years and organiz-

ing singles-only Valentines Day

sleepover parties, where I wake up

alone with obscene things drawn

on my face and the menu screen

of Bring It On playing in the

background. So when a sexy

Scottish fitness trainer (lets callhim Braveheart) asked me out

for coffee, I took full advantage

and planned a date that was unlike

any hed ever been on, which

sparked this new summer dating

series.I decided to take on the new

journalistic project of experiment-

ing with various date ideas andchronicling these misadventures inan article. It is my fondest hope

that you ditch your drab movie-and-dinner date plans and opt foran outing that has a second-date

guarantee.As a brave dater myself, and

with my previous amateur com-

petitive eating experience, I decid-ed to take Braveheart to watch metackle the Hellfire Challenge at the

SmokeEaters wing bar inCupertino: 12 hot wings coated in

black inferno hot sauce in 10 min-utes without water or napkins.You do need to sign a waiverreleasing all your legal rights to sue

the restaurant for any unexpectedbleeding of orifices or accidentalcontamination of your eyes with

the sauce, but it is definitely worthit for an extra-large victory T-shirt.

Unfortunately, after a wing

and a bite of Hellfire, I started

bawling in a restaurant full ofspectators who laughed at my

defeat and then resumed watching

La Liga on the high-definition

TVs. However, this is the perfect

opportunity for brave date-goers

to lick hot sauce off each others

fingers and experience a hot sum-

mer night unknown to the likes of

Northern California. Braveheart

received extra points for bringing

me a lifetimes supply of Pepto

Bismol and running to the nearest

convenience store for milk.The perfect follow-up to the

hot-and-heavy Hellfire Challenge

is a cool-down nighttime swim at

Half Moon Bay. The journey, a

mere 45-minute drive from

Cupertino, provides a romantic

interlude for a million conversa-

tions to unfold. Listen to Frank

Oceans sweet crooning on his new

album channel ORANGE and

let the serenade set an atmospherefor the late night. On the walk

down to the beach, it is essential

that you guide your date down the

rocky pathway and take the

opportunity to hold her hand. I

offered Braveheart a piggyback

ride and won him over with my

bravado. If youre feeling particu-

larly adventurous, go skinny-dip-

ping and reenact that honeymoon

scene in Breaking Dawn.Afterward, keep each other

warm on the beach with proximity

and conversation. Be kind to each

other; the NorCal summer nights

are Siberia brutal.

Its the formula for a winning

first date and a guaranteed second.

Braveheart is already planning our

next outing.

heidi SIGUAcontact heidi:

hsigua@stanford.edu

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MICHAEL GIBSON/Columbia Pictures

Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell) sits inside the Rekall Tripping Denin Columbia Pictures action thriller Total Recall.

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Friday

Fridays lineup started the

weekend off with a bang. Daytime

performances included Passion Pit,

The Shins, Dev and M83. One of

the most impressive lineups of the

day could be felt emanating from

Perrys Stage, tucked in the corner

of Grant. Named after Lollas

founder, Perrys Stage has played

host to some of the most exhilarat-

ing electronic, house and dubstep

music the world has to offer. Once

a covered venue, the tent was

popped off this year to allow for

greater attendance. On Friday,

Perrys featured The White Panda,

Zedd, Porter Robinson and Nero,who blasted bass loud enough to be

heard stages away. To finish the

day off, Bassnectar headlined at

Perrys on Friday night, attracting a

crowd more than prepared to rage

to dubstep.

Outside of the moshing frivo-

lity of Perrys were some equally

phenomenal headliners. Wale

rapped on the PlayStation Stage,

while The Black Keys and BlackSabbath exhibited Lollas rock ori-

gins. All headliners, however, were

cut at 10 p.m. due to city noise

ordinances. Although a sore point

for many fans, the early end time

allowed for festivalgoers to experi-

ence aspects of Lolla that make it

unique to other festivals: its in the

city. Fans flocked to bars, hotels,

deep-dish pizzerias or one of the

more than 35 official after-shows to

cap off a wonderful day with some

downtown Chicago nightlife.

SaturdayWith a somewhat groggy start

from the day before, Lolla-goers

got after it again on Saturday fora while, at least. In the late after-noon, the event organizers chose to

evacuate the park due to severeweather warnings. Soon after theevacuation, a powerful thunder-

storm rolled through, pummelingthe park with rain, hail and wind.However, as the storm gave way,

the festival reopened to spectacu-larly muddy shows by CalvinHarris, Bloc Party, The Weeknd

and Franz Ferdinand, among manyothers.

As the sun set, fans made the

tough decision of which headliner

to see. However, it was impossible

to make a wrong choice. FrankOceans smooth R&B melted

hearts, Avicii melted faces and

Santigold eliminated all worries. All

the while, The Red Hot Chili

Peppers played a phenomenal show

to thousands of forever-loyal fans.

Sunday

On Sunday, people in Lolla

wristbands filled coffee shops and

diners to order breakfast at 1 p.m.

It was Lolla Sunday, and it was

time to rally. On the festivals final

day, committed fans flocked to J.

Cole, Sigur Ros, Toro Y Moi,

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Miike

Snow and At the Drive-In.

Although Zeds Dead kept the liter-

al pulse of Lolla at Perrys, Florence

+ the Machine may have captured

the soul of the festival. Retro

Hollywood movie-set spotlights

glowed at the crowd, and simplesilver fans blew Florences flowing

red gown, transforming Florence +

the Machines stunning voice and

beautiful instrumentation into a

spectacle to behold.

As dusk gave way to night,

Justice took over Florences stage,

while Jack White played at the

other end of the park. Kaskade

brought a powerful set to cap off

an electrifying weekend at Perrys.Comedian-turned-rapper (or vice

versa) Childish Gambino lyricized

his way through an incredible set

while his fans rapped right along

with him.

At the crux of shipping lanes

and interstates