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RESEARCH

Algorithm predicts cancer patient outcomeBy MARSHALL WATKINS

Stanford researchers recently developed acomputer model capable of both analyzing mi-croscopic breast cancer images and offering pa-tients a prognosis with unprecedented accuracyand consistency.

The Computational Pathologist system (C-Path) is able to classify the types of cancer cellspresent in a patient and the level of aggressionof the cells. The system also identifies key fea-tures in tumor tissue that may indicate chances

of survival. The model’s computer analyseswere a significant improvement in statistical ac-curacy over those carried out by human pathol-ogists using the same data.

Stanford researchers trained the computermodel using tumor tissue images from 248breast cancer patients whose survival data forthe subsequent five years were known to the re-searchers. C-Path examined 6,642 features inthe cancer image before independently identi-fying the most critical factors in determiningsurvivability. The researchers then created a

scoring system to predict patient outcome.C-Path also identified structural features in

the tumor tissue images as more important thanpreviously thought by pathologists in determin-ing patient outcome.

“We built a model based on features of thestroma — the microenvironment between can-cer cells — that was a stronger predictor of out-come than one built exclusively from featuresof [cancerous] epithelial cells,” said Andrew

By MARIANNE LEVINEDESK EDITOR

Residential Education(ResEd) announced changes tothe student staff hiring processfor the 2012-2013 academic yearMonday.

According to JenniferCalvert, associate dean of ResEd, the changes to the newhiring process were in responseto feedback from Resident Fel-lows (RFs), the Resident Assis-tant (RA) Advisory Board, stu-dent staff and the student body.

Among the challengesprospective staff members facedlast year was the different dead-lines for RA, row manager andtheme staff applications. Therow manager applicationprocess had a later start date andan earlier deadline than bothRA and theme staff applica-tions.To ensure that prospectivestaff members are not forced tomake a premature decision re-garding which staff position toaccept,all application and selec-tion dates will coincide this year.

“We are committed to creat-ing a user-friendly timeline that

allows for flexibility in theprocess,but isn’t overly taxing toour RF or student community,”Calvert said in an email to TheDaily.

In addition to creating a con-sistent timeline across all staff applications,ResEd is also intro-

ducing a new master-match pro-gram for prospective staff. Lastyear, many houses wanted toconsider certain prospectivecandidates for multiple posi-tions.However,due to the differ-ent deadlines for each position,matching candidates to specificpositions proved unfeasible.

“In the past,because manag-er and theme positions werematched with houses at a differ-ent time than RA positions,ap-plicants were ‘forced’ into a‘false’ choice,” Calvert said.“Opening up the ability to applyacross positions creates a greaterlevel of flexibility.”

The introduction of the mas-ter-match process has receivedpositive responses from studentstaff and RFs.

“ I think [the match process]gives staff more freedom to craftthe best staff possible for the fol-lowing year [by] choosing the in-dividual staff members andwhere they will best fit on staff,”said Sara Silberstein ’12, an RAin Kairos.

According to Christine MinWotipka, an associate professorin the School of Education and

the RF in EAST House,the newmaster-match process will helpprospective staff members whohave applied for multiple rolesmake an informed decision inchoosing which position to ac-

HEALTH

Vaden reports positive reviews

By ILEANA NAJARRO

Vaden Health Center administra-tors said that the majority of its pa-tient satisfaction surveys result in pos-

itive feedback; however, student re-sponse to the health center remainsmixed.

In spite of Vaden’s survey results,where were described by medical di-rector Robyn Tepper, some studentswho spoke to The Daily said they as-sociate dissatisfaction with,and some-

times a sense of stigma, surroundingthe services Vaden offers. Others stu-dents felt positively about their expe-riences at Vaden.

For Matt Hoang ’14,students’ neg-ative perceptions of Vaden may be aresult of students failing to under-stand and appreciate the health cen-ter’s limitations.

“They’re what you would expect

from student services,” Hoang said.“They’re not very personal or engag-ing — they’re just doing their jobs.”

Students “kind of go in with . . .low expectations of Vaden, and that’skind of how I felt freshman year,”saidDanielle Rossoni ’13, a Peer HealthEducator (PHE) in Faisan. “But for

me, going through the PHE experi-ence and being more involved withVaden and actually knowing the re-sources and what’s available there, Ihave a different perspective on itnow.”

John Lassere ’12 also respondedpositively when asked about his expe-riences at Vaden.

“For people who come from con-

texts where we have good insurance,some may not realize that Vaden ispretty good medical care that sees youpretty quickly and can really kind of take care of quite a lot for you,”Lassere said.

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Human rights journalistshares insights

By ARMINE PILIKIAN

Carol Rosenberg, recent recipi-ent of the Robert F. Kennedy Jour-nalism Award for outstandinghuman rights reporting, spokeWednesday and relayed some of herstruggles covering events in Guan-tanamo Bay, where she has loggedmore time than any other reporter.

“Carol has been an importantchronicler of the detainment of pris-oners at Guantanamo, and she hasimportant lessons to impart aboutthat experience,”said Jim Bettinger,

director of the Knight FellowshipProgram, a yearlong fellowship pro-gram that attracts seasoned journal-ists from around the world.

Rosenberg discussed her report-ing style, emphasizing that she em-ploys a straightforward,wire servicestyle in her writing, covering thebasic facts of what happens on a day-to-day basis.

“People on the right read my sto-ries, and people on the left read mystories; and they draw very differentconclusions,”she said.

Rosenberg currently writes forThe Miami Herald,which she said isthe only paper that covers everyhearing in Guantanamo. Accordingto Rosenberg, the paper has a veryclear reason for wanting to cover theevents in Guantanamo.

“If they were going to make aprison and a court out of reach of theAmerican people,we’re not going to

Rosenberg reflects onGuantanamo access

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The most common medical services students use at Vaden Health Center include those for physical injuries, STIscreening, contraception, skin problems, fatigue, allergies, stomach problems, eating disorders and asthma.

ResEd hiring

policy changesSpring class required of RAs,co-term students ineligible

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Gaieties takes the stage

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Gaieties opened Wednesday night at Memorial Auditorium. Brendon Martin ‘13 directed the production titled, “Leland Stanford Must Die,”whichmarked Gaieties’ 100th anniversary. The play will show Thursday and Friday nights at 8:00 p.m., concluding the festivities of Big Game week.

Tepper discusses studentview of misdiagnoses

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cept.“A few times we have had to

scramble to fill vacant theme staff positions because most applicantsaccepted offers of RA positions,”Wotipka said in an email to The

Daily.Although Wotipka said she is “ex-cited”for the new match process,shealso noted that the change will di-minish one benefit of the previoushiring process— the ability to as-semble a staff team with comple-menting skills and personalities.

In addition to the changes to thestaff selection process, co-terminalstudents will no longer be eligible toserve as dorm staff.While in the pastco-term RAs were able to staff in up-perclassmen dorms or Row houses,ResEd now requires that all appli-cants have another year of guaran-teed housing at the time of applica-tion. ResEd cites the growing size of Stanford’s incoming classes as theimpetus for this new requirement.By limiting staff positions to under-

graduates, ResEd hopes to reducethe number of unassigned under-graduate students during the drawprocess,according to the announce-ment. While unassigned studentsfrom last year’s draw were eventual-ly given housing, many of these stu-dents were assigned to off-campus orgraduate housing.

“This [new policy] will allow us tokeep our commitment to the overallundergraduate population by givingstudents with guaranteed years re-maining priority over those whohave already taken advantage of thisbenefit,” according to a prepared joint-statement ResEd staff wrote inan email to The Daily.

While the new rules for RA eligi-bility may reduce the number of unassigned students during the drawprocess, Silberstein described thenew policy as an “unfortunate conse-quence of the housing shortage.”

“As a first-year RA, I really feelthat all of my fellow Row RAs whoare co-terming this year have a lot tocontribute to the training processand to the community of Row mem-bers, let alone to their houses andstaff — especially those who haveRAed once or even twice before,”Silberstein said.

In addition to the changes listedabove, ResEd will require RAs toenroll in a training class spring quar-ter. According to Calvert, ResEd

staff and RFs have been working foryears to establish the RA class andare developing the course’s curricu-lum, which will focus on “the com-plexities of leadership and emotionalintelligence.”

“Our current training model al-lows for just a brief,cursory glance atthese skills over an intensive timelinethat does not lend itself to capaciouslearning,” Calvert said. “The RAclass will allow for deep reflective

thinking and the ability to practiceskills.”The spring-quarter course will

most likely be two-units, and ResEdis currently working with the BingOverseas Program (BOSP) to createa class option for RAs studyingabroad spring quarter.

Some RFs, RAs and prospectiveRAs appear to be responding posi-tively to the new RA class require-ment.

“I think a great part of being anRA is the RA community you join,”said Tiffany Kung ’13, who plans toapply this cycle to become an RA.“I’m definitely down to spend moretime with people who love Stanfordand am eager to be a part of the staff community.”

“I think [the class is] a good thing

because [training] is not all crammedinto such a short period,” saidMatthaeus Weinhardt ’13, a ToyonRA.“But on the other hand if peopleare taking it along with their othercourses they might retain a lot lessand forget a lot over the summer,”headded,raising one concern about thenew requirement.

Some current staff take issue withthe idea of a required transcript com-ponent to RA training.

“I feel strongly that making thetwo-unit course a requirement forthe job is not the best direction totake,” said Daniel Scott Smith ’12,the RA of EAST House, in an emailto The Daily. “As I just checked myUniversity bill, tuition is $13,350 perquarter. Does this mean that I ampaying approximately $1,335 to betrained for a job? RAs are studentsprimarily, and workers after that.Asa prospective RA,I would considerthis course potentially underminingmy rights as both.”

Applications for student staff po-sitions for the 2012-13 academic yearwill be made available on Nov.18 andwill be due Jan.17.

Contact Marianne LeVine at [email protected].

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NEWS BRIEF

PA judge dismisses

union complaint

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

On Tuesday, Chief Administra-tive Law Judge for the City of PaloAlto Shawn Cloughesy dismissed acomplaint from the Public Employ-ment Relations Board (PERB) onbehalf of the International Associa-tion of Fire Fighters,Local 1319.

Palo Alto firefighters protested anew ballot measure that preventsPalo Alto police and firefighters fromusing outside arbitrators in the settle-ment of contractual disputes with thecity.The PERB argued that the PaloAlto City Council violated Califor-nia’s collective bargaining law.

Palo Alto voters passed the meas-ure in question, Measure D, with a67.28 percent majority in the Nov. 8election.

Judge Cloughesy in his rulingstated that he dismissed the com-plaint because the City of Palo Altohad provided sufficient notice to

Local 1319. Cloughesy indicatedthat the union had enough time toobject to the new ballot measure,yetdid not object to the ballot measureuntil the last minute.

Local 1319 has 20 days to decidewhether or not to appeal the deci-sion and has yet to announcewhether it intends to take action.

Voters added the provision of binding arbitration to the City Char-ter in 1978, giving arbitrators theability to make binding rulings whentwo parties reach an impasse on payand benefit disputes.The move wasattributed at the time as a method tocounterbalance the fact that thecity’s firefighters and police officersdo not have the right to strike.

Palo Alto voters followed astatewide trend in passing Measure

D early this month. Vallejo votersalso repealed binding arbitration inJune, while San Luis Obispo votersdid so in August.

— Marianne LeVine

Engineers develop

low-energy diode


Researchers in the School of En-gineering recently developed a new,ultrafast nanoscale light-emittingdiode (LED) with the potential totransmit data using far less energy

than other data transmission devices.The new LED is able to transmit dataat 10 billion bits per second. JelenaVuckovic, an associate professor of electrical engineering, and GaryShambat, a doctoral candidate inelectrical engineering, were the leadresearchers in developing the device.

The LED functions as a single-mode device.By using a single wave-length, it resembles standard lasersused to transmit data, yet is able toperform similar tasks at a faster rate,using less energy by combining lighttransmission and modulation.

Unlike another device Vuckovicproduced earlier this year, this latestdevice can operate at room temper-ature, rendering it useful for com-mercial purposes and in answeringthe growing energy needs of thecomputer industry.

Also unlike pre-existing devicesthat combined a laser and externalmodulator, Vuckovic’s latest pro-duction is a single device completingboth tasks.

— Marianne LeVine

San Mateo imposesbuilding regulations


The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to im-pose temporary regulations forbuilding homes in the StanfordWeekend Acres Neighborhood.Thenew regulations will restrict the sizeof new homes by limiting the height,number of stories and floor space.The new restrictions were estab-lished in response to a resident’s pro-posal to build two homes on a 12,500square foot lot.

According to the new regula-tions, the maximum height of the

homes will be limited to two storiesinstead of three.In addition,lots thatare fewer than 5,000 square feet willbe allowed a maximum of 2,800square feet for floor space. Floorspace for lots that exceed 5,000square feet will be determined by aformula.

According to Lennie Roberts, arepresentative for the Committeefor Green Foothills, the majority of Stanford Weekend Acres residentssupport the new restrictions.

The Board or Supervisors alsoplaced a moratorium on new build-ing permits for new or major remod-els of single-family homes in theneighborhood in October.

— Marianne LeVine

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Beck,lead author of the study.“Thestromal model was as predictive asthe model built from both stromaland epithelial features.”

Daphne Koller, a professor inthe School of Engineering and thestudy’s senior author, said in anemail to The Daily that the study’sresults were “surprising and signifi-cant because today’s cancer grad-ing scheme looks only at the cancercells.”

“This finding supports theemerging view that cancer isn’t just

a bunch of cells gone awry, butrather an entire ecosystem,” shesaid.

Beck,now an assistant professorof pathology at Harvard MedicalSchool, originally undertook thestudy as part of his post-doctoralwork at Stanford. His research fo-cused on the concept of prognosisthrough algorithm,which stemmedfrom collaboration with Koller.Beck’s experience in pathology,combined with Koller’s expertise inmachine learning and image analy-sis,allowed for the study to developover a two-year period.

The study confirmed its resultsusing a “validation”set of data from328 women.The nature of the sub- ject material also complicated ef-forts to build the model.Among the

challenges researchers faced wasconverting images to quantitativedata.

Beck noted that there remainseveral obstacles to deploying thecomputer model for clinical prog-noses, but anticipated broader useof the model within a few years.Heindicated the model should be test-ed with larger images than the mi-croscopic tissue slides used in thestudy. Beck added that the algo-

rithm has to be able to adapt to thedifferent tissue staining proceduresused by different medical institu-tions.

Another challenge remaining isthe absence of lab standardizationfor the C-Path system. At the mo-ment, researchers have to retrainthe model’s epithelial and stromaltissue indicators when changingbetween data sets from institutionswith different staining protocols.

In the future, the researchersanticipate the model will be ap-plied not only to other forms of cancer but also to other diseases.The self-teaching algorithm that C-Path employs could train itself torespond to different training dataand parameters and could thus for-

mulate different predictions ac-cordingly.“One particularly exciting ap-

plication is to train the model on acohort of patients treated with aparticular disease . . . and predictwhich patients will respond to thedrug and which won’t,”Koller said.“This would allow the system to beused directly in helping guide clini-cal care.”

By improving the accuracy andconsistency of breast cancer prog-noses,the model may allow doctorsto make more informed decisionsand to tailor treatments to theseverity of the patient’s condition.While the model seemingly offersthe possibility of advanced prog-noses in areas traditionally devoidof expert medical coverage, re-

searchers intend the system to actas a complement for pathologists.

“This [model] will never replacea pathologist, but will eventuallyemerge as a decision support tool,”Beck said.“It will be one that deliv-ers improved information and re-sults for doctors and patients every-where.”

Contact Marshall Watkins at [email protected].

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FEATURES

By JUSTINE ZHANG

At 6 p.m.in Tresidder Union on acold Friday evening, membersof the Stanford Chess Clubcrowded around a board,brows furrowed at the puzzle

posed before them.The puzzle was this: place eight queens

on a standard eight-by-eight chessboardsuch that no queen is able to attack another.

The puzzle was posed by visiting magi-cian Brian Brushwood,who looked on aseight Stanford students rose to the chal-lenge, moving pieces around the boardand drawing on their intellect and chessintuition to find the desired orientation.

Their efforts were filmed by camerasand will eventually air as an episode of Brushwood’s popular web series, “ScamSchool.”

The premise of “Scam School” is to“teach you scams to mess with yourfriends, get the girl and (of course) score afree drink,” according to Brushwood’swebsite.

The puzzles posed by Brushwood tothe chess team are challenging, and in abar situation, would probably “frustratepeople enough to buy you a beer,”Brush-wood said.

Halfway through filming the show,Brushwood demonstrated the “Chess

ESP” trick, announcing that he and achess club member had been “struck byradioactive lightning” and gained themiraculous ability to read each other’sminds. While his co-conspirator lookedaway with his ears plugged,another chessplayer selected a piece and placed it intoBrushwood’s mug. Brushwood slammedthe mug onto the chessboard and told hisaccomplice to turn around and take aguess.

“White rook!” his accomplice said tothe stunned disbelief of the other clubmembers.

Intellectual pursuits“Chess should be encouraged so that

students can develop analytical, mathe-matical and critical thinking skills,” wrotechess club president Burjis Godrej ’14 inan email to The Daily.

Much of the challenge for club memberAndrew Rodriguez ’15 comes from “figur-ing out what to do” — or exploring poten-tial moves and their consequences.

For Eric Thong ’15, another club mem-ber, the biggest challenge in chess is com-ing up with a strategy to recover a losingposition. In such a case, one’s ability toweigh the risks of every move is com-pounded by the psychological burden of having to beat the odds.

Brushwood’s “intense interest in chess”emerged during his college years. The

heightened sensitivity to the opponent’spieces and their position on the board, es-pecially when one is at a disadvantage, iscomparable to the situational awareness amagician must adopt when executing atrick,Brushwood said.

A magician maps out these probabili-ties and possible audience reactions in thesame way that a chess player maps outmoves.According to Brushwood,having achess player’s intuition aids him in his per-formance. It allows Brushwood himself to“begin acts without having any idea how[he’ll] be proceeding,” because he hasenough tricks up his sleeve for every moveand outcome.

Unlike many magicians, Brushwood isalways eager to explain his craft. For in-stance, the “Chess ESP” trick wasn’tpassed off without an explanation to thechess team. Brushwood even had Ro-driguez and Parabal Singh ’15 reenact thetrick and “read each other’s minds,”givingthem pointers about showmanship alongthe way.

Brushwood attributed the reasons be-hind this teaching approach to the difficul-ties he faced in his early days as a magi-cian.

“When I first started out with magic, itwas hard to find tricks,” Brushwood said.

The shortage of magic tricks motivatedBrushwood to spread his own knowledge.This “open-source”approach to magic can

capture an audience as much as a well-ex-ecuted act,Brushwood argued.

The last actThe heart of Brushwood’s final trick

was in audience participation.Brushwoodexplained the classic ploy: a con manwalks into a chess club and demands 10 si-multaneous matches with the club’s 10best players, knowing that he will win ordraw in at least half of the games.

The con man’s trick is copying themoves made by one of his opponents play-ing white in a match against an opponentplaying black,and vice versa.This manipu-lates the conman’s opponents to playagainst each other rather than the con man.

Brushwood gave away the trick fromthe outset,because he was interested to seeif it would work in practice — to see if amagician possessed enough talent in mem-ory and situational awareness to pull it off.

Chess player Elliott Liu ’12 rose to thechallenge.He managed to win or draw twoof his four opponents, coolly meanderingbetween chessboards and trash talking ashe made his moves.

Liu’s confidence in the last act camefrom discovering the best ways to executethe trick, combining his skill as a chessplayer with a magician’s sense of show.

Contact Justine Zhang at justinez@stanford.edu.

PROFILE

By CHRIS FREDERICK

With his tweed jacket andtinted Ray-Ban glasses,Patrick Hunt makes astrong impression. An ar-chaeologist by training,

Hunt has traveled to digs around the worldto deepen our understanding of the past.Still,his pursuits defy easy categorization —when he’s not excavating or teaching, Huntkeeps busy as a writer, composer, poet andart historian.

At Stanford,Hunt is a lecturer in the Struc-tured Liberal Education (SLE) program. Be-sides teaching classes in the anthropology andclassics departments,Hunt is also the directorof the Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project,aresearch program that specializes in high-alti-tude excavations.Each summer,Hunt takes agroup of Stanford students to Europe to re-trace Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps.

Even in his early years,Hunt had a strongpassion for academia,even if it didn’t translateinto being a model student. As a boy in SanDiego, Hunt had a complicated relationshipwith school.

“I was truant a lot,”he said.“But they al-ways knew where to find me: in the library.”

A love for the written word inspired Huntto write poetry and even invent several lan-guages as a teenager.

Hunt was introduced to archaeology whena family friend invited him to participate in adig at the San Diego Museum of Man.

“That was where I first saw the disjunctionbetween looking at a site today and imaginingwhat it must have looked like 300 years ago,”Hunt said.“And that contrast really fired upmy mind.”

“I had these wild dreams about finding

buried stuff,” he added. “These were literaldreams about a burial of a unit of Roman sol-diers in my backyard. It was so real.I would

jump out [of bed] in my bathrobe and go get ashovel to check.”

Music was another major influence inHunt’s life,especially since his mother was aconcert pianist.

“My brothers and I ended up being an acappella singing group,and we did this quite abit around Southern California,”Hunt said.

In high school, Hunt fell in love with themusic of Johann Sebastian Bach.

“It was like wax plugs fell out of my ears,”he said.“I would lie for hours in the dark,sur-rounded by Bach [in] stereo sound,and it was

just incredible.”Hunt briefly attended a music conservato-

ry, but rebelled against the compositionalrules that limited his creative freedom.Huntrecounted a time when one of his professors

rejected a manuscript he had composed.“He told me, ‘Patrick, this is nothing butmelody!’”Hunt said. “And I just said,‘Thankyou.’”

Hunt’s compositions have been widelyperformed by professional ensembles in theUnited States and Europe.

Hunt arrived at Stanford by an unconven-tional path. After finishing his Ph.D. at the

University College London Institute of Ar-chaeology,Hunt moved to Berkeley,where hewas involved in Near Eastern studies re-search.

On a whim,Hunt wrote a letter to Stanford

asking about open positions.Religious studiesprofessor Lee Yearley forwarded the letter tothe head of the Classics Department. Huntwas then invited to be a visiting lecturer,andhe has been here ever since.

“That was complete luck, that somebodydidn’t put [my letter] in the trash pile,”he said.“These people [were] very open,kindhearted,really formidable scholars.”

Hunt’s enthusiasm for the humanities hasalso attracted attention outside academia:PBS and The History Channel have featuredHunt as an expert in their television docu-mentaries.Recently,Hunt was filmed in Italy

for a National Geographic special, “IcemanMurder Mystery,”which aired on Oct.26.

Hunt also maintains an active presenceonline. A few years ago, venture capitalistsencouraged him to found Electrum Maga-zine,an online publication guided by the slo-gan “Why the Past Matters.”Now,his SiliconValley patrons are seeking to expand themagazine.

To Hunt, new technologies like the Inter-net enhance the humanities, rather thanthreatening them.

“[The Internet is] paperless, and it doesn’tprovide instant gratification, but it does pro-

vide instant dissemination,”he said.Throughout his life, Hunt has never been

afraid to defy convention.“There have to be people willing to take

the boundaries out and do something inde-pendent,” he said.“They have to be fearless -or at least less fearful.”

Contact Chris Frederick at [email protected].

Scam School host Brian Brushwoodteaches Stanford Chess Club magic tricks

Courtesy of Patrick Hunt

This past summer, Patrick Hunt took a group of Stanford students to Europe to retrace Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps. He stands at the topof the Clapier-Savine Coche Pass at 8,500 feet, looking from France into Italy toward Turin.

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Irecently experienced the uncom-fortable situation of being forced

to watch a below-average roman-tic comedy with a girl who had anabove-average love and enthusiasmfor below-average romantic come-dies. (I stress, it was not a date.) Asthe credits rolled,she shouted,“Ah! Iwish my life were like a movie!”Maybe it was because I’m slowlyturning into an elitist movie snob,ormaybe it’s because I had just beensubjected to watching the art of cine-ma be viciously tortured onscreenfor the last 96 minutes, but my firstthought was,“No, you absolutely donot.” That brings me to today’s ad-vice. . .DO:Live life like a movie.

DOO-DOO: Live life like a Life-time movie. . .

Everyone wants the happy movieending,but everyone seems to selec-tively forget the hour or two of hard

work and pain and failure that thecharacter endures leading up to theresolution.For the girl to get to makeout with Ryan Gosling in the rain (orwhatever actor doing whatever ac-tion in whatever manifestation of weather is hot stuff right now), shehas to go through the pain of beingleft at the altar or cheated on by herfiancé with her mother (I swear, Icould write 50 romantic comedies ina week).

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According to Tepper, the mostcommonly used medical servicesamong students are services for res-piratory illnesses, physical injuries,STI screening, contraception, skinproblems, fatigue, allergies, stom-ach problems, eating disorders andasthma.

According to Tepper,Vaden fol-lows the average schedule for moststudent health centers, which isthree students per hour. Routineappointments typically last 20 min-utes with five minutes for medicalassistants to situate patients andperform standard procedures, liketaking blood pressure or tempera-ture. There are also 40-minute ap-pointments for women’s healthexams and some physicals. Thesetime frames, however,are not set instone.

“If a student is particularly ill,wecan keep them at Vaden for the en-tire day if we need to give them in-travenous fluids or other support-ive treatments,” Tepper said. “Wetry our best to see students the sameday if possible.”

While some students have ex-pressed concerns about misdiag-noses,Tepper said that Vaden has away of handling such concernswhen they occur.

“True misdiagnoses are not verycommon, but ‘perceived’ misdiag-noses happen more frequently,”Tepper said.

Tepper stated that a commonperceived misdiagnosis occurswhen students come to Vaden with

a sore throat or fever. In response,Vaden will initially screen for strepthroat, as it is a treatable illness. If the test is negative and symptomspersist, students will return toVaden and be tested for another ill-ness like mononucleosis. If the testfor mononucleosis returns positive,Tepper indicated that the situationmay appear as a misdiagnosis.

“If the strep screen is negative

and the student continues to be ill,we will screen for mono, not be-cause we can cure it, but becausethey may be sick for a long time andneed support,” Tepper said. “Sosome may see this as a misdiagnosis. . . but it is routine medical prac-tice.”

Lassere said he felt student per-spectives on Vaden as a whole arefairly positive,but students seem toconsider Vaden as formed by twoentities:Vaden as a medical serviceand Vaden as Counseling and Psy-chological Services (CAPS).Lassere said he believes that stu-dents recognize Vaden medicalservices as “essential,” but thatsome students associate some stig-ma with CAPS.

“There is still kind of that stigmaabout therapy,” Lassere said.“Something I’ve been seeing withmy friends . . . is kind of a view of therapy as indicative as somethingwrong with you — which is totallynot true.”

Despite some student dissatis-faction with Vaden, Tepper indicat-ed she and the director of CAPS areconstantly and closely working on aquality program that includes digi-tal appointment monitoring and

oversees numerous details, includ-ing reviews by students treated inthe Stanford emergency depart-ment.

“We work hard to insure thatour delivery of care meets and ex-ceeds accepted clinical guidelines,”Tepper said.

Contact Ileana Najarro at [email protected].

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Stanford ROTC’s future andthe civil-military divide

One of the main justificationsgiven by proponents of ROTC’s return to Stanford

was that an ROTC presence oncampus would help to bridge theperceived divide between civiliansand the military. Notwithstandingthis aspiration, or last year’s deci-sion by the Faculty Senate to inviteROTC back to campus, Universityofficials now consider an ROTC re-turn unlikely in the near future.The

reasons for this are understandableand valid;military branches simplydo not expect enough student par-ticipation in the ROTC program to justify its cost. Fiscal responsibilityby the Pentagon, even though ex-penditure on a Stanford ROTCprogram would be vanishinglysmall in the context of U.S.militaryspending, is something all Ameri-cans can welcome and encourage.Nevertheless, the University’s orig-inal goal of bolstering civil-militaryengagement can and should pushforward through other means forthe time being. Greater participa-tion in ROTC, if it is to come, willhave to follow other measures.

Several alternatives to a full

ROTC branch have already beenfloated, including Stanford-hostedROTC events and Stanford-locat-ed ROTC courses conducted inpartnership with other nearby uni-versities.The University is also con-sidering offering course credit forROTC classes.These ideas could becomplemented by courses open toall students dealing with present is-sues facing the U.S. military. The2011 iteration of Stanford’s “ThreeBooks” program, which providesthree books free of charge to in-coming freshmen with opportuni-ties for discussion and access to apanel featuring the authors,focusedthis year on the theme of “war

ethics.”Selection of this theme,cho-sen by political science professorScott Sagan,represents a good firststep in helping all students to con-sider the issue of war from manyvarying perspectives.

The U.S. military, for its part,could do more to convince studentsat top universities that servicethrough the ROTC is an optionworthy of consideration. Other-wise, there will never be enough

cadets at places like Stanford tomake the time and energy neces-sary to build a strong presenceworthwhile. There are likely manystudents who reject or do not con-sider an ROTC option simply be-cause its offerings are not a salientor well known. This is not to en-dorse a military career above oth-ers,but merely to note that studentsmay be unaware of their options.

The debate over ROTC’s returnlast year at Stanford proved to beone of the most divisive campus is-sues in recent memory. Some op-posed engagement with the mili-tary as a matter of principle, whileothers objected on the basis of transgender equality. With news

that the ROTC likely won’t be com-ing to Stanford any time soon,somewill likely ask whether last year’sseemingly endless melodrama wasworth it.Whether or not one feels itwas, and whether or not one ishappy with the result, it was inar-guably a good opportunity for allparties to air their opinions and par-ticipate in a rare dialogue about therole of the military in American so-ciety and on the Stanford campus.With nearly 3 million Americansserving in the military, Stanfordwould do well to make sure that thisdialogue and the good that cancome of it move forward in the fu-ture.

DON ’T SW E A T T H E SMALL STUFF

Have you ever tried to sneakup on a wild animal? Pictureit: you’re hiking in the forest

and, all of a sudden, come across adeer.You stand stock still, trying notto scare it off, then take a tentativestep forward. Its ears prick up, itshead lifts, somehow sensing yourpresence.You pause, then inch clos-

er. Closer. Then, bam! That deerpractically flies off into the trees.That’s evolution for you. In

order to survive, animals live in aconstant state of watchful appre-hensiveness. Their default state of scanning the environment andlooking out for trouble is what keptthem alive all these years.And for agazelle, that underlying sense of fear is still a pretty great adaptationto avoid being gobbled up by a lionwhile grazing in the savannah.

Fortunately,most of us no longerhave to worry about impendingdoom on a daily basis — unlessyou’re biking through the Circle of Death. Unfortunately, that default“survival” mentality is still in-grained. Though we aren’t con-fronting “fight or flight” on a daily

basis, our wired-to-worry humanbrain either creates imaginaryproblems or exaggerates the onesthat actually do exist.

It’s a pretty exhausting way tolive. No matter how good or bad agiven situation, our minds tend toblow things out of proportion. Butwhen we really stop and examinethe actual present moment, virtual-ly all of us are okay, even though itmay not feel like it. It’s only by pro-

jecting into the future (i.e. worry-ing) or ruminating on the past (i.e.regret) that we start to think we’renot.Of course, life isn’t always rain-bows and sunshine,but moment-to-moment, our core needs are met.Look around. There’s no civil war(unless you count Big Game), nobombs going off;you’re not drown-

ing. Right here, right now, you areokay.

So what can we do to fightagainst a constant state of worry,negativity and self-doubt?

As trite as it sounds, it all comesback to the power of positive think-ing. Our brain is like a sponge fornegative thoughts. No matter howmany things go right,all of our men-tal energy fixates on one that wentwrong or could have gone better.When I was younger, I’d judge myentire piano recital on the one pas-

sage that tripped me up. When mymom told me to think about all thenotes I hit right, I would absolutelyfume at her. Honestly, I thought itwas a pile of coddling bullshit.

But I’m beginning to see thelogic.

We all have ownership of ourlives. That includes problems weimagine, over-dramatize or that ac-tually exist! There are ways that wecan re-train our neural pathways toguard against the mental wear andtear that we too often put ourselvesthrough. When you feel like theworld is conspiring against you,takea step back into the present mo-ment and acknowledge that you arestill actually okay. And allow your-self to take in what positivity youcan: maybe you’re really down

about not having a boyfriend orgirlfriend, but don’t just dismiss afriendly hug simply because you seethe situation as black or white.

Blanket statement: this is mucheasier said than done.How many of us want to pull ourselves up by ourbootstraps and be glad the sun isshining when we just bombed aproblem set,or the guy we like justasked out another girl?

In the short run,playing the mar-tyr may seem like the more appeal-ing option. But in the long run, it’slike quicksand; it only leaves youmore mired in negativity and de-pression. Too often, we wait forother people to save us when we’rethe only ones who can choose tochange our own mindset.

That’s not to say that venting is

wrong.Having emotions and need-ing to express them is part of whatmakes us human.But after a certainpoint, venting is only productivewhen you take charge of your abili-

ty to change a given situation.Andthat doesn’t necessarily meanchanging a given outcome. Some-times, there is really nothing youcan do to change things. But whatyou can always change is your per-spective, the lens through which youperceive life.

I had to learn to rescue myself from— well — me. I’ve spent fartoo much time pretending every-thing is fine and then running off tocry in the corner,hoping that some-

one would miraculously swoop inand find me. I had to learn — andam still learning! — to reach out topeople and let them know I neededhelp.

We all face a similar choice.Chances are, there are things youknow will make you feel better, if you allow yourself to feel better.Give yourself the medicine you needfor positive thought: if you strugglewith insecurity or rejection, reachout for friendship and love. Or, if you’ve never felt like you couldstand on your own, fight for inde-pendence. It’s one of the hardestthings to do because it hits at ourdeepest psychological wounds, but itis within our power.And it’s some-thing that we all can do in order totake ownership of the moment and

feel a little better. Right here. Rightnow.

Is this too much Pollyanna for you?Tell Leslie at [email protected].

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rescue myself from — well — me.

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Social Media and the EconomySIEPR POLICY FORUM

Information Tools for Poverty Reduction Thursday, November 17 4:30 – 6 p.m.

The Design School at Stanford is well known for designing extremely

affordable new product solutions. Four student teams present their

new information technology designs and mobile systems to help

solve problems in the slums of Kibera, Kenya. Co-sponsored with

the Program for Liberation Technology, Stanford Computer Science,

and the d.school.

Social Media and a Connected EconomyFriday, November 18 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Social media has exploded worldwide – with user bases the equivalent

of large nations. Join us to discuss how this is changing the economy,

spurring entrepreneurial innovation, and triggering social change. Top

governmental officials include Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and

Assistant Secretary of State Michael Hammer. Hear top executives

from Facebook, Groupon, McKinsey, and bluefin Labs, along with

leading social media researchers from the University of California,

Maryland, and Stanford.

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failures, the excitement withoutheartbreak, results without time oreffort, self-awareness without hon-esty, redemption without humility,adventure without commitment,dis-covery without having to forgetwhat we know, glory without beingthe underdog,intimacy without vul-nerability and fundamental changewithout admitting our failure or re-linquishing control.

But how many movies do youknow of in which the protagonist isalways happy and behaves well andnever gets in above his or her head?Or where the team that wins thechampionship doesn’t have to workhard or overcome any obstacles? Orthe guy gets the girl and the movie is just watching them live happily everafter?

None. (Because those movieswould suck and never get made.)

And that’s because the value of theresolution is wrapped up in the fail-ures. It’s the passion and persever-ance that we admire, and that ulti-mately leads to fulfillment. It’s whenthe stakes get raised from mere com-fort to ultimate survival that we trulyinvest in the character; when theirreward becomes our reward;when itbecomes worthwhile.

I believe our life would be moreexciting and fulfilling if it were livedmore like a movie.But it requires usto be willing to risk everything.There’s a scene at the beginning of the iconic 80s movie “Say Any-thing”(it’s the guy-in-a-trenchcoat-holding-up-a-boombox movie)when John Cusack’s lovable char-acter responds to a friend deterringhim from chasing after a girl for fearhe’ll get hurt by shouting,“I want toget hurt!” There’s “Inception,” inwhich Leonardo DiCaprio’s char-acter is willing to risk everything forwhat he values as most worthy —reunion with his children.He is will-ing to enter into an adventureknowing he is fully committed and

can never opt out.There are huge lessons we can

learn from the silver screen. Weneed to embrace vulnerability, takebold risks and be brutally honestwith ourselves and others. It’s astrange paradox that fictional char-acters can be more real and honestwith other fictional characters thanwe can be with each other. This isnot just a Stanford thing or a collegething; it’s an everyone thing.

I think if we understood thevalue in failure, we wouldn’t killourselves so much to avoid it.Not tomention, there’s a value in true per-severance that would never belearned without failure. (“What dowe do when we fall off the horse? We

get back on!”“Sorry, Maury. I’m not a gymnast.” Name the Movie!)Movie characters are able to under-go fundamental changes when theyare willing to admit their failure andhumbly start anew.They find adven-ture when they don’t just accept,but

embrace their situation. They findforgiveness and redemption whenthey are willing to admit their faults,and they find glory when they ac-knowledge their faults, yet continuefighting.

The best characters don’t makedecisions based on what is safe.Theybecome so enamored by a person orgoal or ideal that they are willing tolet go of everything they have topursue it. Nothing worth loving issafe to love.

A truly captivating, influentialand worthwhile life story requiresrisks and failures — in careers,in re-lationships and in conception of theself — and the higher the stakes, thebetter the story.

Have you seen the romantic comedyin which the newspaper columnist getsa date with a beautiful girl when she re-

sponds to a piece he wrote? Chase has-n’t either.You can change that with anemail to [email protected].

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e Stanford Creative Writing Program o ers a variety of writing courses in ction, poetry and creative nonction. Our small class sizes help create a true workshop environment. Inaddition to beginning and intermediate courses in ction, poetry and creative nonction, weare o ering several special courses for Winter 2012. ese include English 190G e GraphicNovel, English 190F Fiction Into Film, English 191 (section 2) Stories On the Air, andEnglish 192V e Occasions of Poetry with former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück.

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allow it to be out of the reach of American journalism,”she said.

Rosenberg described the condi-tions in Guantanamo for both pris-oners and reporters. She indicatedthat although the conditions for theprisoners have been getting better,the conditions for reporters are stillrelatively the same.

“The problem with being a re-porter there is you can only showthe portion they allow you to show,”she said.

Rosenberg also complained of soldiers constantly listening overher shoulder, dictating the contentof her stories and accessibility of hersources.

Furthermore, Rosenberg statedthat one of the greatest challenges

of reporting in Guantanamo comesfrom the prison’s ever-changing re-strictions.

“You never know what you’re al-lowed to see,” she said.

Rosenberg indicated that one re-sult of the changing restrictions isthat there are always new escortsfor reporters. Still, Rosenberg saidshe did not have very much difficul-ty communicating with the guardsand the prisoners about their expe-riences, which she found illuminat-ing.

Rosenberg expressed frustrationthat her team was unable to account

for the costs of maintaining Guan-tanamo. There are a total of sevencamps at the base,with 171 prison-ers and 1,850 federal guards,and thebase costs $149 million a year, ac-

cording to Rosenberg. Eighty per-cent of the prisoners live in a com-munal setting, where they eat, prayand play sports together.

In response to a question fromthe audience, Rosenberg describedher emotional stance on reportingat the base.

“It’s not the most fun job,” shesaid.“There is something very satis-fying knowing the place as well as Ido,but there is something very frus-trating about going down there.”

Rosenberg also asserted thatGuantanamo Bay is vastly misun-derstood and that it is “not theGuantanamo that people remem-ber.”

The event, sponsored by theBowen H. McCoy Family Centerfor Ethics in Society series on Ethics

and War, attracted around 50 peo-ple.

“I was expecting a more emo-tionally charged perspective,but wereally saw how she covered thestory as a journalist and was reallyimpartial,” said Taz George ’12. “Iwas also really impressed by herknowledge of the details of every-day life . . . she spent the last 10years of her life there, so you couldsay she’s the number one civilianexpert for that area.”

Contact Armine Pilikian at [email protected].

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GAME NOTES: After a loss at Washington last

weekend, Stanford needs to win out if it would like to

capture the conference title for the first time since

2009, which came at the tail end of a four-year Pac-

10 championship streak.

GOING BOWLINGPredicting postseason scenarios

Stanford fans: we’ve had our four days to mope,weep,cry,scream,whatever.Now it’s time to takea realistic look at where Stanford is going to beheaded this postseason.

Above all,try and think back to just three years ago,whenthe Cardinal faithful was thrilled to be headed anywhere inlate December or early January.But believe it or not,an elitebowl bid is much more likely than your gut might have toldyou on Saturday night.Let’s start at the top,then:

Bowl: BCS National Championship Game,Jan.9, NewOrleans

Chance of a Stanford bid: 0.1%How:First of all,whatever anyone in the media is saying,

Stanforddoeshave a chance of ending up in the national titlegame.There are three undefeated teams (No.1 LSU,No. 2Oklahoma State and No.11 Houston) left in the country,andeight one-loss schools in the top 10 that have a shot at threat-ening No.9 Stanford in the standings.Assuming LSU — byoverwhelming consensus the best team in the country —wins out, the seven other teams ahead of the Cardinal willhave to end the season with two losses to guarantee Stanforda spot.

With a win against overrated Notre Dame, Stanfordwould pass No.8 Virginia Tech by the end of the season.Asfor the rest of the top-10 schools,the most likely scenario re-quires seven games to go in Stanford’s favor:one of them

highly likely (No. 6 Arkansas loses to LSU), two of themsomewhat likely (No.7 Clemson loses to No.12 South Car-olina, Oklahoma State loses to No. 5 Oklahoma), three of them somewhat unlikely (Oklahoma loses to No.22 Baylor,No.4 Oregon loses to USC or in the Pac-12 title game,No.3Alabama loses to No.24 Auburn) and one of them basicallyimpossible (Oklahoma State loses to 5-4 Iowa State).

Gulp.

Bowl:Rose Bowl,Jan.2,Pasadena,Calif.Chance of a Stanford bid: 9.9%How: Have faith, Stanford fans. The Cardinal’s easiest

route to Pasadena — finishing undefeated in conferenceplay — may be gone,but there are two highly plausible sce-

narios that would land Stanford in “The Granddaddy of Them All,”both of which require just one major upset. If Oregon loses to USC— which is unranked due to sanctionsbut has been playing like a top-15 team— and then falls toOregon State in a rivalry game (which is always unpre-dictable),then the Cardinal would regain its North Divisionbid to the Pac-12 Championship Game and would be onewin away from the Rose Bowl.Alternately, if Oregon winsout,Oklahoma State loses to Oklahoma and Alabama fallsto Auburn, Oregon would be vaulted to the national titlegame and the Rose Bowl would,in all likelihood,replace theDucks with Stanford.

In other words,if Oregon wins out or loses twice,the Car-dinal has a fighting chance.But if the Ducks only lose once,Stanford is out of luck.

STILLHOPE

By ANDERS MIKKELSENCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Fresh off last weekend’s disappointingloss to Washington, the Stanford women’svolleyball team heads home for a pair of must-win matches against Oregon and Ore-gon State.The Cardinal currently sits threegames back of conference-leading USCwith just three games to play and needs to

win out to have any hope of competing forthe Pac-12 title.

First up, No. 5 Stanford (20-5, 14-5 Pac-12) faces a tough test in No.15 Oregon (18-8, 11-7). The Ducks are currently tied withWashington for fifth in the conference, justtwo-and-a-half games back from fourth-place Stanford. A victory this Friday overthe Card would make a huge statement and

Spelling outour shot atredemption

W ell,that stunk.It turnsout that the WestCoast version of the“Game of the Centu-ry”didn’t turn out ex-

actly the way we planned it,either.On the whole,there just aren’t many

good things to reflect on after the Car-dinal football team fell flat on its face on

Saturday. But now that I’m past theshock/denial/pain/guilt/bargaining/de-pression phase of that game,it’s worthmulling over a few things before wefully move on to Big Game and thoseloathsome Cal Bears.

This week,I’ve given you a randomsmattering of things that stuck out tome this weekend,one for every letter of STANFORD. Just as my colleagueJacob Jaffe takes on the numerical sideof things in his “Stat on the Back”col-umn,I’ll take on the alphabetical side of things.Let’s get started,shall we?

S is for “Sky is falling.”As in,it is not.Yes, I know that loss was brutal. Butwith two victories over Cal and NotreDame,Stanford is pretty much assuredof going to a BCS bowl. And eventhough the Fiesta Bowl and Phoenixare less fun than the National Champi-onship and New Orleans, rememberthat two BCS bowls in two years isabout all a fan could ask for.(That factwas the only thing that kept me out of the bottom of a big,noxious bottle thispast Saturday night.)

T is for The Heisman Trust.“AndrewLuck,Superstar”struggled to keep theoffense in a groove this weekend, andthere’s reason to believe that his flat per-formance on the biggest stage of the yearmay have cost him his chance at the tro-phy. His performance wasn’t exactlywhat Cardinal fans hoped for,but I don’t

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Bowl:Fiesta Bowl,Jan.2,Glendale,Ariz.

Chance of a Stanford bid: 60%How: Don’t book your flights yet,

but I hear Arizona is pretty nice in earlyJanuary.

This is where things get confusing,all

you BCS newcomers. The four BCSbowls besides the title game— Rose,Fi-esta, Orange and Sugar— will alwaysinclude the conference champions of the one (or, in the Rose Bowl’s case,two) conference(s) traditionally associ-ated with that bowl,unlessthat team is inthe title game,in which case the next-best team in the conference is usually se-lected (with some exceptions)— if,andonly if,that team has enough wins and astrong enough ranking to be eligible foran at-large bid.In other words,after all issaid and done,there will be at least three

at-large bids available after the dust set-tles:one each in the Fiesta,Orange andSugar.

Assuming everyone holds serve inthe top 10 and no upsets benefit Stan-ford, the Cardinal will finish No. 6overall, since Oklahoma State-Okla-homa, LSU-Arkansas and Clemson-Virginia Tech will all play each otherin either regular-season or confer-ence-championship settings. Four of five teams ahead of Stanford will eachreceive automatic bids, Alabama isbound to replace SEC-championLSU in the Sugar Bowl,and the Fies-ta Bowl will likely replace Big-12-

champion Oklahoma State with Ok-lahoma.In other words, Stanford willbe the top at-large team availablewhen all the traditional conferenceroles have been filled.

This year, the Fiesta Bowl gets to

choose from the at-large teams beforethe Sugar or Orange, which is whyStanford is almost certainly going toend up in Glendale if it doesn’t make itto the title game or Rose Bowl. Thiswould set up a rematch of the 2009 SunBowl,which the Sooners won 31-27.

Bowl: Sugar Bowl,Jan.3, New Or-leans

Chance of a Stanford bid: 10%How: If the Fiesta Bowl decides to

pass on the Card.

Bowl:Orange Bowl,Jan.4,MiamiChance of a Stanford bid: 5%How: If the Sugar Bowl decides to

pass on the Card. Virginia Tech canknock off Clemson in the ACC titlegame to set up a rematch of Stanford’s40-12 win in Miami last season.

Bowl: Alamo Bowl, Dec. 29, SanAntonio

Chance of a Stanford bid: 15%How: There is one other scenario

that we’ve been carefully trying to pushaside.All the above bowl possibilitiesassume the Cardinal wins out, but if Stanford loses against either Cal orNotre Dame — or, God forbid, both— then an at-large BCS bid is prettymuch out of the question.

Even if the Cardinal ends the sea-son with three straight losses, it wouldstill finish with more wins than any Pac-12 team besides Oregon or USC —which, remember, is excluded frompostseason play this year due toNCAA sanctions. Thus, Stanfordwould be dropped into the best avail-able bowl associated with the Pac-12:

the Alamo Bowl.

And, those, my friends,are the sixpossible destinations for Stanford thiswinter. The Oregon loss put a bigdamper on the top of this list,but it’snot too shabby nonetheless.

Joseph Beyda hasn’t slept sinceSunday after spending the last 72hours deleting videos of “The Play”onhis Facebook wall posted by his Cal “friends”in anticipation of Big Game.Cheer him up with videos of Stan-

ford’s 56 wins in the series at [email protected].


CARD CAN TIE CAL FOR SECOND IN CONFERENCE

IfOregon wins out

or loses twice,

Stanford has a

fighting chance

[to go to the

Rose Bowl].

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FOOTBALL|BCS chances

By DAVID PEREZCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The No. 4 Stanford men’s waterpolo team will take on rival Cali-fornia in the annual Big Splash thisSaturday at 5:15 p.m. Both teamsare looking to improve on their

Mountain Pacific Sports Federa-tion (MPSF) Tournament seedingand bolster their chances of receiv-ing the NCAA Championship’s at-large bid.

Saturday’s game is the regularseason finale for both teams, andthere are postseason implications

galore.No.3 Cal (19-3,6-1 MPSF) iscurrently second in the conferencewhile Stanford (18-4,5-2) is fourth,with the final regular season stand-ings determining the seeding for theMPSF Tournament.

MEN’S SOCCER

Missed chancesdefine campaign

By TORSTEIN HOSETCONTRIBUTING WRITER

After an action-packed couple of weeks that saw the Stanford men’ssoccer team dismantle and blow out aranked opponent, lose heavily to the

conference champions on SeniorDay and shut out and dominate itsfiercest rivals on the road in the lastgame of the season— all before itscoach of 11 years resigned— theCardinal now goes into hibernationfor the winter.That’s not to say thatthe players will be slacking off; butafter an intense (albeit shortened)season,it’s time to take a little break,eat some turkey and ace those finals.

The Cardinal got off to a slowstart in the opening stages of the sea-son back in late August and earlySeptember.After dropping the sea-son opener to Santa Clara,the teamlost back-to-back road games on theEast Coast against current No. 5Maryland and Georgetown.The sub-sequent five games were played athome in Laird Q. Cagan Stadium,where the Cardinal notched convinc-ing wins against then-No. 15 Ken-tucky and Vermont as well as a sa-vory shutout of Harvard,which camein front of an elated sell-out crowd of nearly 2,000 during New StudentOrientation week.

These triumphs were, however,disrupted by a surprising loss toLehigh and a close match against SanFrancisco that ended in a draw.

Sitting with a mediocre 3-4-1record at the halfway point of theseason, having trouble finding theback of the net on the road and per-forming below the lofty standardfans have come to expect of Stan-ford’s athletic teams, the Cardinalwas certainly not looking like thecontender for an NCAA Tourna-

ment berth that it hoped to be.Juniordefender Hunter Gorskie admitsthat the team had mixed feelingsgoing into the second half of the sea-son.

“Thinking back, you’re 3-4-1 outof the conference, which isn’t ideal;you want to have a winning recordgoing into conference play,”Gorskiesaid. “But we were coming off twogreat wins against Vermont and Har-

vard, teams we had gone down toaway last year. Those are matchesthat feel really good to win for re-demption reasons, and they boostmorale, so we were pretty confidentgoing into the SoCal games.”

So the Card traveled south ridinga high wave of confidence and mo-mentum that naturally ensues fromback-to-back victories at home.Ranked opponents UCLA and SanDiego State proved tough competi-tion,though, as the Cardinal was shutout in both games and blanked on theroad yet again.

Gorskie underlines that the teamwasn’t wasting too much energy onthe goal drought,however.

“We didn’t really think about it,”he said.“We were just going out andtrying to play well,and it just wasn’tworking for us for a while. We wereplaying well, though, and knew thatthe goals would come.”

Broken and beaten, the team re-turned to Stanford for games againstCal,Washington and Oregon State.Astellar free kick from junior forwardAdam Jahn was enough to seal aclose 1-1 draw against the arch-rivalBears, and the Cardinal picked up asplit while hosting teams from theNorthwest — the Huskies proved

too fierce while the Beavers got theirteeth kicked in.A road trip up the Pacific Coast

for rematches the subsequent week-end would yield little in terms of points,as the Cardinal was swept andany postseason aspirations wereshattered.But a small light at the endof the tunnel could be found in TaylorAmman’s goal against the Huskies— the Card’s first away goal of theseason — which set up an interestingbackdrop for the season’s last awaygame at Berkeley.

The Cardinal then turned its at-tention to seeking revenge againstthe Southern California teams inStanford’s last few home games of the season.An outpouring of Cardi-nal goals saw San Diego State comedown hard to an uncharacteristically

well-playing Stanford outfit in a 4-1blowout win at Cagan Stadium —perhaps the Cardinal’s biggest upsetof the season.A tough loss to Pac-12champion UCLA on Senior Day puta dent in the pride of some of the sen-iors, yet they would soon redeemthemselves.

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Redshirt senior driver Ryan Kent has seen three Stanford wins in the Big Splash over his career. This year’sshowdown with Cal is as important as ever and will put the winner in a good position for an at-large NCAA bid.

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Midfielder Clayton Holz and his fellow seniors had a strong final season, butthe Cardinal still posted a losing record and a fourth-place finish in the Pac-12. Also leaving the team is head coach Bret Simon, who resigned Tuesday.

Last weekend,on the last day of the season, the Cardinal rolledover Cal in a match that saw fresh-man forward Zach Batteer, seniormidfielder Garrett Gunther andJahn each grab a goal in the deci-sive victory.

After the game, Gunther andJahn respectively won All-Pac-12first team and second team honors.Gunther finished the season as theteam’s top scorer with five goals andtwo assists for 12 points, two aheadof Jahn’s 10.When asked to summa-rize the season, which ended withthe Cardinal (6-10-2, 3-6-1 Pac-12)placed fourth in the Pac-12, co-cap-

tain Gorskie seemed disappointedbut optimistic.

“Result-wise, I think it wasn’tgood enough for a Stanford team,”he said.“We’re always talking aboutgetting results, winning games andrepresenting the program as one of the top ones in the Pac-12. In thatsense it was a tough year. We cameup way short of our goals,and that isunacceptable.”

“That being said, I think therewere definitely times in the seasonwhere — if the ball had bounced ourway — things could have turned outvery differently,” Gorskie added. “Ihave a good feeling about next sea-son; we’ll keep plowing forward.”

Which way the ball bounces nextyear remains to be seen.

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Although the top four teamshave beaten each other all yearlong, current conference leaderUSC (19-2,7-0) has emerged as theclear favorite to repeat as MPSFand NCAA champion.The Trojans

have a crucial season finale as well,against co-No.1 UCLA (19-3, 5-1),which is currently tied with Cal forsecond in the MPSF.

If USC wins that game andStanford beats Cal, there will be athree-way tie for second place inthe MPSF, with goal differentialbeing the tiebreaker. The threesecond-place teams would also bethe frontrunners for the at-largebid to the four-team NCAA Tour-nament, should none of them winthe MPSF Tournament and takethe automatic bid that accompa-nies the trophy.

“USC is the favorite,” said sen-ior utility Peter Sefton,“but if theywin the MPSF tournament, the at-large bid is up for grabs.”

A Stanford win in the Big

Splash and a trip to the MPSF Fi-

nals would make the Cardinal themost logical choice for the at-largebid to NCAAs, but that is mucheasier said than done. Senior driv-er Alex Avery knows from experi-ence how hard it is to win the eight-team MPSF Tournament, wherelast year Stanford fell short in thefinals against the Trojans.

“You are pretty much guaran-teed to have three tough games be-cause all eight teams are good this

year,”Avery said.In fact, the nine teams in theMPSF are currently ranked No. 1to No.9 nationally.

Winning the Big Splash will beno easy task, either. Stanford’sAvery Aquatic Center will surelybe sold out, as fans from bothteams are eager to see this season’srubber match. Stanford and Calhave already met twice this season,both times in early non-conferencetournaments. California took thefirst meeting 8-7 in the third-placegame of the NorCal Invitational.Stanford avenged that loss twoweeks later in a 10-9 overtime bat-tle to win the SoCal Tournamentchampionship.

With both earlier meetingsbeing so close, neither team seems

to have a real edge going into this

weekend. Stanford hopes that re-cent history does not repeat itself,however; the Cardinal had alsosplit its first two meetings of theseason with USC at those sametournaments,but the Trojans easilyhandled Stanford 8-4 in their con-ference meeting last month.

The Big Splash looks to be a bat-tle of strengths, with the Bears’ po-tent offense going up against thestingy Stanford defense. California

sits atop the MPSF in offense,aver-aging 12.5 goals a game,while Stan-ford’s defense in second in theleague,allowing only 5.41 goals pergame.

Saturday’s contest may wellcome down to which team’s go-toscorer can have the bigger impact.Cal senior driver Ivan Rackov isthe MPSF’s leading scorer with2.95 goals per game (62 overall).Stanford true freshman AlexBowen is not far behind him, aver-aging 2.52 goals per game (53total) and ranking third in theleague.

Stanford hosts the Bears atAvery Aquatic Center at 5:15 p.m.Saturday night.

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think his chances are up in smoke yet.His main competitor, Oklahoma Statesenior quarterback Brandon Weeden,still has a major test against Oklahomacoming up in two weeks,which meansit’s far too early to count the neck-beard

out.(As an interesting side-note,Luck’scompletion percentage, QB rating andpassing yards per attempt are all downslightly this year. Seems crazy to thinkthat his stats were better last year,right?)

A is for Aquatic misadventures.Forsome reason,the slick turf was a game-changer for the Cardinal,which had se-rious trouble staying upright on Satur-day.This particularly seemed to afflictLevine Toilolo,whose legs mysterious-ly flipped out from under him everytime the football touched his fingertips,much like the famous “fainting goats”that fall over whenever they are star-tled.Did they forget to turn the sprin-klers off the night before the game?More importantly, why did the waterseem to only affect the Stanford play-

ers? I bet Phil Knight has a hand in theDucks’ near-perfect traction . . .

N is for No more field goals,please.Eric Whitaker’s 48-yard field goal at-tempt in the third quarter was easily 25yards wide of the target — you couldhear everyone in the stadium thinkingto themselves,“Juuust a bit outside”—which gave an otherwise awful kick alittle sense of levity.

F is for Field goals, again.All jokesaside, what was head coach David

Shaw thinking when he decided to kickthat field goal? Earlier in the week,Shaw said that “time of possession plustouchdowns” is what you needed tobeat Oregon.And then he elects to at-tempt a low-percentage kick after Ore-gon got a touchdown on a fourth downearlier in the game? Something ain’tright with that.

O is for Offensive records.With justfour more touchdown passes,AndrewLuck (74) will pass John Elway (77) forthe most touchdown tosses in Stanfordhistory and set a new single-seasonrecord for most touchdown passes.Justsomething to consider these next twoweeks— will the Cardinal throw moreoften in the red zone in order to etchLuck’s name a little deeper into the

record book and bolster his Heismancampaign? Stay tuned.

R is for Rebound. This weekendagainst Cal,Andrew Luck will be tryingto rebound from a loss for just the sixthtime in his career. In his time on theFarm, Luck is 4-1 when coming off aloss.If this pattern holds true, it lookslike the Bears might be in for a longnight on Saturday.

D is for Defensive showdown. Inyears past,Cal has always had a major

offensive threat — Aaron Rodgers,DeSean Jackson, Jahvid Best— butthis year,the Bears have a “no-name”defense that has put up the best stats inthe conference.Cal is first in the Pac-12in total defense and pass defense,allow-ing fewer than 200 yards per gamethrough the air.Does this spell troublefor the Cardinal again this weekend? Isure hope not — I don’t think I cantake another weekend like the last one.

Jack Blanchat is thrilled to be your Official Resident Educator on GamesOf Note (OREGON) for Stanford

football this season.Help him think of other unfortunate titles at [email protected] or follow himon Twitter @jmblanchat.

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help propel Oregon into the Pac-12elite.The last meeting between thetwo teams resulted in a 3-1 Stanfordvictory at Oregon, and Stanfordwould like to replicate the feat infront of its home crowd.

The key to victory for the Cardi-nal will be containing the powerfulDuck offense.The Ducks rank be-hind just conference-leading USCin both kills and assists, riding oneof the strongest outsider hitter-set-ter combos in the league. Redshirt

junior outside hitter Alaina Bergs-ma is second in the conference with4.61 kills per set, while sophomoresetter Lauren Plum ranks second inthe Pac-12 with 11.77 assists per set.In the last meeting between the twoteams,Bergsma lit up the Cardinaldefense for a match-high 26 kills,while Plum posted a double-doublewith 47 assists and 17 digs.Keepingthis dynamic duo in check will in-strumental for a Stanford victory.

On Sunday, Stanford will faceOregon State (14-14, 6-12). In the

last meeting between the twoteams, Oregon State managed totake a set from the Cardinal beforefalling 3-1. The Beavers enter therematch on a four-match losingstreak and currently sit in eighthplace in the conference,but a victo-

ry over Stanford would help buildconfidence for a young team thatcould be carried into next year.TheBeavers have eight freshmen on theroster, including two-time Pac-12Freshman of the Week middleblocker Arica Nassar, and expect tocompete on a higher level as theygain more experience.

The Beaver offense is led by jun-ior outside hitter Camille Saxton,who ranks in the top-10 in the Pac-

12 in kills,points and aces per set.Inthe last meeting between the twoteams,Saxton posted a double-dou-ble of 22 kills and 12 digs,as well astwo service aces. On defense, Ore-gon State is anchored by sopho-more libero Becky Defoe, whoranks fifth in the Pac-12 with 4.65digs per set.

If either Oregon or OregonState is going to make a statement,they would have to get past the ter-rific Stanford trio of sophomoreoutside hitter Rachel Williams, jun-ior setter Karissa Cook and sopho-more middle blocker Carly Wopat.Williams and Cook are currentlytied for the Pac-12 lead in double-doubles,while Wopat leads the con-ference in blocks per set,with 1.57.

The series kicks off at Maples

Pavilion at 7 p.m. on Thursdayagainst Oregon,and then continuesat 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon againstOregon State.

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