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By MARY ANN TOMAN-MILLERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Stanford can claim five of the 32 recently an-nounced 2011 Rhodes Scholars more thanany other university and the most in Stanfordshistory.

Through their accomplishments and intend-

ed career plans,the new Rhodes Scholars repre-sent a microcosm of Stanford:a human rights ac-tivist, an economist,a medical anthropologist, abiomedical scientist and an opinion columnist.

Seniors Tenzin Seldon 12 and Ishan Nath 12and recent alumni Anand Habib 11, KatherineNiehaus 10, M.S. 11 and Aysha Bagchi 11

joined 102 prior Stanford winners of arguablythe worlds most prestigious fellowship, theRhodes Trust. Nath is a writer on The Dailys Ed-itorial Board, and Seldon serves as The Dailysstudent-at-large.

The Rhodes Trust announced the recipientson Nov. 19.The scholarship will pay tuition andexpenses for up to three years of graduate workat the University of Oxford in England.

To determine whom to endorse for theRhodes Scholarship, Stanford has a processwhich Bechtel International Center oversees.An internal Stanford committee composed offaculty and former Rhodes and Marshall Schol-

ars interviews candidates who are recommend-ed by faculty members. This committee evalu-ates potential Stanford applicants and sends let-ters to the Rhodes Trust supporting the candi-dates they choose to endorse.

I am delighted for the students, said JohnPearson,director of Bechtel.

According to Pearson, around 35 to 40 stu-dents seek endorsement from the Universityeach year for either the Rhodes or MarshallScholarship.He said this number has stayed con-stant over time,and noted there is no quota forhow many students the internal committee canendorse.

Pearson said a factor that has contributed tothe high number of University winners is the re-markable possibilities of engagement with sen-

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Emma Ogiemwanye 12 resigns in favor ofspending winter quarter abroad

By JULIA ENTHOVEN

Current ASSU Executive Chief ofStaff Emma Ogiemwanye 12 will bestepping down in January to spend win-ter quarter abroad.The ASSU is in theprocess of selecting someone to fill [the]role for winter quarter, Ogiemwanyesaid in an email to The Daily.

When asked if he thought the mid-year shift would disrupt the ASSU Exec-utives operations, ASSU PresidentMichael Cruz 12 said he was not con-cerned.

Emma has done a very good job of

laying really good groundwork and afoundation to ensure that while shewill be missed personally the workthat the ASSU has been doing will con-

tinue, he said.Ogiemwanyes resignation comes

after a series of shake-ups in the ASSUExecutive team this fall. In October,E2.0, a branch of the Executive formedto advocate for student social entrepre-neurs, separated from the ASSU withthe resignation of both ASSU Co-Chairsof Entrepreneurship Dan Thompson 13and Jon Manzi 13. Most recently, Chairof the Community Action Board Arace-ly Mondragon 13 resigned, citing per-sonal reasons.

To find Ogiemwanyes replacement,Cruz said there will be an open applica-

tion process, but well also be lookingheavily at candidates that we have al-

NEWS BRIEF

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Micro-finance CEO Scofield talks social-eBy CATHERINE ZAW

President and CEO of FINCA Interna-tional Rupert Scofield shared insights on so-cial entrepreneurship Tuesday in a speech aspart of a series of events hosted by the Grad-uate School of Businesss Public Manage-ment Program.

Scofield discussed the complexity of scal-ing social enterprises, the competitive land-scape for social entrepreneurs and the futurefor micro-finance.Using his experience withFINCA International as an example,

Scofield offered advice on how to be success-ful.

FINCA International is a nonprofitmicro-financing institution that is based inWashington D.C. and operates in 21 coun-tries.According to its website,the organiza-

tions goal is to provide financial services tothe worlds lowest-income entrepreneurs, sothey can create jobs, build assets and im-prove their standard of living.

Dont worry if your enterprise is smalland not visible, Scofield said.If you keepdoing the right thing, you will attract theright people to you.

Scofield said that there is still untappedpotential [in] social business, giving exam-ples such as corporate shareholders de-manding increased accountability for con-cerns other than greater financial profits,top

universities launching social entrepreneur-ship programs and billionaires like BillGates and Warren Buffett pledging to giveaway half of their fortunes to promising newcharitable ideas,as they announced last year.

Leave a little room in your life for

magic,Scofield added, referring to his ownpersonal story.

Scofield said he discovered his passionfor social entrepreneurship by chance whenhe offset his military draft to Vietnam towork in Guatemala with the Peace Corps.InGuatemala,he said he saw for the first timehow a small amount of capital could have ahuge impact relative to its size.

Later in life,after not being immediatelyhired after graduate school,he said he cameacross a flyer that eventually sent him towork in the Dominican Republic with a

co-worker who would eventually co-foundFINCA with him.

If I had gotten the jobs I had applied for,I would have been working for the necessity,

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Senate bill fails:5 in favor,4 in oppositionBy BRENDAN OBYRNE

DESK EDITOR

The ASSU Undergraduate Sen-ate broke down into tense, heateddiscussions at multiple points inTuesday evenings meeting. A billto admonish several members ofthe ASSU may or not have passeddue to an unresolved debate con-cerning the Senate bylaws. SenateChair Rafael Vazquez 12 an-nounced the measures failure be-fore the meeting adjourned, butproponents of the bill argue thatthe bill passed with a majority ofvoting members.

A bill to admonishThe controversial bill of the

evening, authored by ElectionsCommissioner Adam Adler 12sought to admonish ASSU Execu-tive Michael Cruz 12, among oth-ers,for not properly executing theirduties.The only Senator who wouldbe admonished by the bill, AlexKindel 14 voted in its favor.

The original vote count on thebill was five in favor, three opposedand five abstaining, however thisdid not add up to the 14 Senatorscurrently present, and multiple ir-regularities were noted by severalsenators.

Stephen Trusheim 13, who is not

an ASSU senator and served lastyear as Elections Commissioner,pointed out several flaws in the vot-ing procedure.

Vazquez quieted discussionloudly and called another vote, thistime resulting in five in favor, fouropposed and five abstaining. Thebills language stated that it re-quired a simple majorityfrom thevoting body to pass. Several Sena-tors argued that the bill did not passbecause the bylaws state that a ma- jority of present Senators is re-quired,as opposed to a majority ofvoting members.

However, the bylaws of the Un-dergraduate Senate state: Unlessotherwise indicated,all votes by theUS (Undergraduate Senate), or astanding committee thereof, shallbe by a majority of those memberspresent and voting.

In an interview after the meet-ing,Vazquez initially agreed that ab-stentions were not votes, and ac-cording to this language, the billshould have passed. Vazquez saidthe bill was amended to require atwo-thirds majority before passage.This proved to be untrue however.

Vazquez later said that an ab-stain counts as a vote in the Un-dergraduate Senate. RandomHouse Dictionary defines an ab-stention as a withholding of a

vote.Vazquez said the passage of the

bill does not matter,even to Adler,and if it did he would look into thematter more fully. Adler agreedwith this sentiment, saying the ad-monishment already had occurredby having the vote and introducingthe bill. However Adler said he be-lieves the bill did indeed pass.

Its not something Id bring tothe Constitutional Council, but Iam interested in how this turnsout,Adler said.

Leadership Development Program

The Senate also discussed the in-volvement or lack thereof ofSenate Associates in the Leader-ship Development Program(LDP).

A tense debate occurred anhour into the meeting when SenateDeputy Chair Dan Ashton 14 gavean update about the LDP, a pro-gram that assigns each Senator afreshman to mentor and teachabout ASSU leadership.

Members of the LDP have at-tended one full Senate meeting,however Senators Dan DeLong13, Janani Ramachandran 14, IanChan 14 and Ben Laufer 12 all

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RHODES| Bechtel International Center supports applicantsior faculty for research and teachingthat are offered to the undergradu-ate population. He also empha-sized the involvement of formerRhodes Scholars in the process,not-ing that prior Stanford winnershave used their experience to helpcurrent candidates.

Seldon,who became the first Ti-betan-American Rhodes scholar,also cited the involvement of theStanford community.

My professors and Stanford ad-ministrators were invaluable in thisprocess, Seldon said. Although atfirst I wavered in applying,my pro-fessors believed in me and told me Iwas ready for this.

In particular, Seldon lauded theassistance of both Pearson andDiane Murk,manager of the Over-seas Resource Center. She notedthat they nurtured her to thinkabout her role as a leader and wereboth supportive throughout theprocess.

Seldon said the best piece of ad-

vice she received was from the men-tor Stanford paired her with, 2007Rhodes Scholar Julie Veroff 07.Ac-cording to Seldon, Veroff coun-seled, Do not let anybody influ-ence who you authentically are.They are not always looking for themost charismatic leader, and in theprocess of trying to be what youthink they want, people lose theirtrue voice.

Seldon,an emerging leader of theTibetan diaspora who served as a re-gional coordinator of Students for a

Free Tibet, said that throughout herRhodes interviews which werefocused on international policiesand ethical dilemmas she alwaysstayed true to her authentic self.

That was something I neverlost,she said.

Seldon, who will study refugeeand forced migration studies at Ox-ford, said that in a time of turmoilaround the world including Tibet, Ihope that this achievement canbring about a lessening of sufferingand a smile to the 6 million peopleof the Tibetan diaspora andrefugees around the world.

Nath,who worked as an intern atthe Office of Economic Policy at theWhite House and as a consultant tothe Department of Energy, notedthat he hopes his future will also in-volve government service but asan economist.

It would certainly be a dreamcome true to follow in the footstepsof some of President Obamas eco-nomic advisers, Nath said.

A former political columnist forThe Daily, Nath said that winningthe Rhodes Scholarship is such ateam effort.

Nath said he is appreciative ofthe support that Stanford providedin the application process, addingthat the advice he received fromPearson was instrumental in help-ing him figure out which parts ofhimself and his passions to present.

This scholarship is, more thananything else, a statement aboutwhat is expected from you in the fu-

ture, Nath said.Theres definitelya sense of responsibility to use thisscholarship to the fullest not just inpursuit of my own goals,but also tomake an impact on the broader is-sues I hope to work on.

Habib,who will study public poli-cy and medical anthropology at Ox-ford, noted that he felt fortunate tohave had the opportunity to study atStanford, where so many resourcesare available. He said studentsshould explore all [of their] optionsat Stanford, and be thankful for allthe individuals ready to support youwhatever you choose to do.

Currently working in a commu-nity health program in Haiti,Habib said the key to success is tobe both your toughest critic andyour greatest cheerleader. Hepointed out that he has receivedmore rejections than acceptancesand advised students not to beafraid of failure.

Thinking about being one of 32Americans named Rhodes Scholar

still gives me chills, Habib added.Niehaus, whose work focuses onbiomechanics and its application tohigh technology entrepreneurship,said she would like to either be aprofessor or lead a company oneday using either profession tomake advancements in the field ofmedicine.

A former captain of Stanfordsvarsity track and cross-countryteams, Niehaus won the Pac-105,000 meters and was named anAcademic All-American. She said

that she learned through track thatshe only performs her best whenshes calm and confident, andknows despite my best, I might notreach my goals.

She also said she appreciatedhow Stanford handled the process.

I was quite surprised when Italked with other finalists to hearhow involved their schools are sometimes initiating contact withthem very early in their undergrad-uate career, making comments onrecommendation letters, Niehaussaid. I think that Stanfords ap-proach is more hands-off, which Ithink is good.

Niehaus plans to pursue a doc-torate in systems approaches to bio-medical sciences at Oxford. Shenoted how quickly the Rhodes in-terview seemed to go and howmuch she enjoyed talking with agroup of thoughtful, opinionatedpeople.

Rounding out the group isBagchi, who said she plans to pur-

sue editorial interests.I am considering going intoopinion journalism,a field I first dis-covered a love for as a columnist atThe Stanford Daily,Bagchi said.

She commented that she wasalso attracted to the idea of a careerin human rights, constitutional lawand public policy.She was the recip-ient of the 2011 Dinkelspiel Awardfor her contributions to undergrad-uate education.

The biggest thing Stanford didfor me is bring into my life a handful

of extraordinary teachers and men-tors over the past four years,Bagchi said.It is the simple truth:Ihave them to thank for the scholar-ship.

In addition to the five RhodesScholars, Stanford also claimed twoMitchell Scholars and two MarshallScholars.

Philippe de Koning 10 andTommy Tobin 10 both won theMitchell Scholarship, which isgranted to 12 students and fundsone year of graduate study at a uni-versity in the Republic of Ireland orNorthern Ireland. Koning plans topursue a masters degree in interna-tional security and conflict resolu-tion at Dublin City University,while Tobin plans to study law atUniversity College Cork.

Rayden Llano 10 and WillStoeckle 12 were named two of the36 Marshall Scholars this year. TheMarshall Scholarship, founded in1953 by a British Act of Parliamentand named after U.S. Secretary of

State George C. Marshall, coversthe expenses for typically two yearsof higher education at a universityin the United Kingdom.Llano plansto study international health policyat the London School of Economicsand Political Science while Stoecklewill pursue masters degrees in bothinternational political economy andinternational conflict studies atKings College London.

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

Designing a solution to high-risk drinking

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyStudent participants at Tuesday nights d.thinking alcohol town hall event discussed key issues, insights and pos-sible solutions to high-risk drinking at Stanford in response to this years level of alcohol-related ER transports.

didnt exist a generation ago. All ofthis adds complexity and can be con-fusing and at times overwhelming.This could increase the amount ofstress faced by college students oftoday,he said.

A sense of purpose, according toAlbucher, must not be heavily influ-enced by what others want for thestudent,but instead come from a stu-dents own discovery of their pas-sions and interests.

It must come from within, hesaid. That whole developmentalprocess is important for this agerange.

He cited societal focus onachievements and accomplishmentsover resiliency as playing a role in the

stress of college students.Accordingto Albucher, resiliency is key tomaintaining mental health.

That can start as early as pre-school,basically teaching people thatfailure is a part of growth,Albuchersaid.He added that this would allowstudents to cope with achieving lessthan expected.

Pertofsky also cited parentalstress particularly in goal-settingfor most students as a major fac-tor in students stress.She said, if any-thing,this has only increased with thegrowing use of technology to con-nect students to home.

The Stanford Duck Syndromein which students appear calm on thesurface, but are in reality extremelystressed seems to play a negativepart in stress on campus as well, but

not the largest part, according toVaden administrators.

I really encourage people to behonest and open and say, This is attimes a really stressful place, but youdont need to just sit with that stress,Albucher said.You can get help.

Access to mental health servicesis increasing at Stanford,but still hasseveral issues, according to Vadenadministrators. Albucher, who willbe meeting with a group from theASSU Undergraduate Senate to dis-cuss access to services, said that thatthe seven satellite clinics of Vadenwere created with this issue in mind,to open up access to mental healthservices.

Albucher cited lack of resourcesas one particular issue.He advocatesincreasing resources in order to in-crease the amount of help that Vadenand CAPS can provide to students.Akshay Gopalan, a counselor at theBridge Peer Counseling,encouragesstudents to use resources such as theBridge even if their issues seemminor.

Both Albucher and Gopalancited dorms, along with their corre-sponding RAs, as being a key envi-ronment where students can learnmore about mental health and theservices offered on campus.

The University should partnerup more with student groups,Gopalan said, particularly advocat-ing increased mental health trainingfor RAs that is focused on role-play-ing.

Charlotte Poplawski, the head TA

for the Pursuit of Happiness coursetaught by Pertofsky, said mentalhealth has gained steam amongstcollege students in recent years.

Its something thats gettingmore attention now,Poplawski said.People are not as afraid to talkabout it.

Contact Judith Shanika Pelpola atjspelpola@stanford.edu.

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ready received applications fromfor previous roles.

The abrupt change in the ASSUExecutive team follows a recentdebate in the ASSU over the per-missibility of going abroad whileserving as an ASSU representative.In spring of 2010, Ben Jensen 12,arecently-elected Senator for the

upcoming academic year, enrolledin the fall 2010 Bing Overseas Stud-ies Program in Berlin despitethe fact he had already signed adeclaration that said he intended tobe on campus all year.

When the issue came to light,Jensen eventually withdrew fromthe fall program and decided hewould apply for the Berlin programfor the following spring quarter,

which he did ultimately attend.The12th Undergraduate Senate rati-fied a bill that would prevent Sena-tors from spending time abroad oroff-campus for an extended periodof time, effective with the 13th Un-dergraduate Senate, which took of-fice last spring.

The decision is made more sig-nificant because members of theASSU Undergraduate Senate andthe Executive are paid stipends.

Although the Chief of Staff po-sition ordinarily receives a person-al stipend of $2,500, Ogiemwanye

said she wont be paid since Iwont be here and wont be work-ing.

Cruz and Vice President Stew-art Macgregor-Dennis 13 appoint-ed Ogiemwanye to the Executiveteam last spring.

Cruz said that, following a very,very intensive application processin which we received a lot of appli-cations, he and Macgregor-Dennis

appointed Emma because she wasthe most qualified and the best bal-ance for our ASSU Executive.

When asked if he knew, at thetime, that Ogiemwanye planned togo abroad,Cruz said, It was a dis-cussion we had entered into.

Cruz declined to say whether ornot Ogiemwanye will resume herposition once she returns to cam-pus in the spring.

Thats a bridge we will crosswhen we get to it, he said.

Although the responsibilities ofthe ASSU Chief of Staff shift year-

to-year as decided by the Presidentand Vice President, Cruz said thathe and Stewart see Ogiemwanye asa third partner in the ASSU Exec-utive.

The Chief of Staff acts as thechief administrative officer of theASSU executives,Cruz added.

Ogiemwanye described her po-sition as making sure that all thecabinet chairs are working on the

things that they committed to work-ing on . . . You make sure thateverybodys talking.

At the time of her appointment,Ogiemwanye was in WashingtonD.C. She said she participated inhours of Skype meetings to fulfillher initial responsibilities.

Ogiemwanye added that actingas a representative away from cam-pus was difficultand required herto fly back from Washington toconduct interviews for the cabinet.She said it was manageable, howev-er,because the ASSU was still in the

planning stages.At this point, my work cannotbe done well remotely, she said.

Emma is an amazing person,and we picked her because she wasthe best and most qualified, Cruzsaid.It will be difficult to fill thoseshoes, but well manage.

Contact Julia Enthoven atjjejje@stanford.edu.

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rather than for my passion,Scofieldsaid.

The audience, mainly composedof those interested in pursuing socialentrepreneurship, reacted positivelyto the talk.Several commented thatthey found Scofield inspiring andpersonally relatable. Others in theaudience referenced having readScofields recently published book,The Social Entrepreneurs Hand-book:How to Start,Build and Run aBusiness that Improves the World.

I wanted to know if money wasbetter invested in micro-financing,said Mira Gillet, an audience mem-ber who identified herself as an em-ployee of World Vision,an evangeli-cal relief and development organiza-tion that sponsors children in devel-oping countries through dollar-a-day donations.

I was impressed at his successesdespite all the corruption in thefield,she added.

Scofield addressed this as part ofhis closing remarks.

If all social enterprises were so-cial enterprises not just in name butalso in action, we could have theworld we wanted,he said.As an in-dividual, we may not have the re-sources to make an impact,but as anindustry, we do.

Contact Catherine Zaw at czaw13@stanford.edu.

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IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily

Rupert Scofield, CEO of the micro-financing institution FINCA Interna-tional, described his unique life pathto aspiring entrepreneurs, encour-aging them to follow their interests.

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If you find yourself suddenlysurrounded by a group of pil-low-fighting students in apublic place,dont be alarmed- it may just be Stanford

FlashMob.Nora Lindstrom 12 created the

group in 2009 as a way to coordinateimpulsive and outrageous stuntswith a large group of people.Thirtyto 40 students joined the first event,lured by the chance to do somethingspontaneous and completely bewil-dering to passersby.

The first event the group coordi-nated was a freeze, in whicheveryone stands still at a predeter-mined time and location.The effect

of dozens of stationary students inthe midst of tourists, other studentsand faculty was pretty cool,Lind-strom said.

Two years after its launch, thegroup is now on rockier footing.Lindstrom passed FlashMob to newleadership after the first year, hop-ing that it would continue to grow,but only one event was held alarge pillow fight organized by TheoGibbs B.A. 11 M.S. 12 and NoemiWalzebuck 13.Walzebuck hopes tomake the pillow fight an annual tra-

The Saxophone

Mans second callingPeter Lindener pushes a preferential

voting system

By BRENDAN OBYRNEDESK EDITOR

Peter Lindener is not like most people at Stanford.He is in his early 50s,has no formal college educa-tion, no faculty position and is perhaps bestknown around campus for playing his saxophonein White Plaza on sunny afternoons.

When asked about Lindener, faculty members TheDaily interviewed for this article gave brief answers or de-clined to comment. There is something more to Lindenerthan his saxophone suggests.

Beyond music,Lindener is passionate about revolution-izing democratic systems.Though hesitant to admit it heinsists the type of math behind his ideas is meant to opti-mize the choices for ice-cream flavors and pizza toppings atparties Lindener says that his research seeks to providea way to revolutionize the architecture of democracy.

While the ideas behind his claim havent gained muchtraction,they have been published.

Lindener and Joey Durham, a graduate student at UC-Santa Barbara who met Lindener when Durham was a sen-ior at Palo Alto High School,published a paper in the pro-preferential-voting-system journal Voting Matters. Itsviewable online, and Lindener always has a few copies onhand.

The paper, titled Moderated Differential Pairwise Tal-lying: A Voter Specified Hybrid of Ranking by PairwiseComparisons and Cardinal Utility Sums, seeks to addressCondorcets paradox which states that voters collectivepreferences can be cyclic even if individuals are not andsolve some fundamental problems associated with voting in

its current form.Their research could be relevant to situations like the2000 Presidential election, when votes for Ralph Nader inFlorida were,in practical terms,votes for President GeorgeW. Bush. The ultimate policy preferences of voters whochose Nader but would have preferred Al Gore to be elect-ed before Bush bore less weight in a system where voterscan only up-vote a single candidate. Alternatively, somevoters did not choose their preferred candidate (Nader) be-cause they felt that a vote for him would have been wast-ed.

Lindener and Durham sought to eliminate this idea of awastedvote and design a form of ranked-voting democ-racy.

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EDITORIAL

Do not occupy MeyerO

n Monday morning, anemail to be forwardedfreely and hugely made

its way across Stanford email lists.The message presents anothersummons to occupy Universityspace, again in the spirit of theworldwide Occupy movement.Theemail assures students that, whileyou may be busy,this gathering willengage you in a spirit of action andprotest. Perhaps to encourage stu-dents who may be otherwise occu-pied with their studies, the alleged-ly permanent, 24/7 gathering is tobe held in Meyer Library.

Stanford has two major librariesat its students service: Green andMeyer. While Green arguablyboasts more available space forstudying, it also requires studentsto swipe their SUID cards upon en-trance and prepare bags for inspec-tion upon exit.Meyer,free of theseconstraints, lends itself better tostudents coming and going,whether they are printing a last-minute paper or even cuttingthrough the building, which sitssquarely on top of a four-way inter-section. However, plenty of stu-dents also use Meyer as their go-tolibrary for long bouts of studying.And these students are not likely to

appreciate an Occupy gathering intheir study space.

It is unclear precisely what thisnew occupation will entail, andeven the italicized keywords in theemail remain vague. Is this aprotest? A sit-in? No, it is a pres-ence.Students are encouraged tostudy in solidarity, to make signs orto have a conversation about theevents of our changing world.

While a presence might be lessdisruptive than other potentialtypes of demonstration, distrac-tions of any kind in a library settingare generally frowned upon.

Why Meyer Library? Meyer is astudy space,and with that in mindthe timing of the Occupy gatheringis woefully inopportune. Stanfordstudents are fast approaching theend of the quarter and a week offinal exams.Many students will betaking their first ever series of finalexams at Stanford.At this time ofacademic stress, students increas-ingly rely upon libraries to beplaces of refuge from other distrac-tions, from constant study breaksand social contact, or as environ-ments in which a study-focused at-mosphere can facilitate concentra-tion upon their notes and text-books.

Perhaps the Occupy gatheringwas scheduled to take place inMeyer precisely because it is likelyto be a hub of student activity in thecoming two weeks. Perhaps Occu-py would like to increase its popu-larity on the Stanford campus,for itcertainly has not been able to do soas yet.It would be more than fair toacknowledge that Stanford stu-dents have not enthusiastically em-

braced participation in a large Oc-cupy Stanford movement. Theemail gives students the benefit ofthe doubt,suggesting,Youre busy.Youre at Stanford,even while in-sinuating that it is merely home-work, class and extracurricular ac-tivities that have kept studentsfrom Occupy Stanford activities.

JOBBERISH

Ihad a great Thanksgiving break.I spent most of my time bakingmacaroons, watching TV, play-

ing board games and doing jigsawpuzzles (Im really cool). For awhole week,I just did what I want-ed, when I wanted to do it and did-nt think about all the work andother stress in my life. I hadfun. AtStanford,we dont get a lot of time

to do that.Those who know me willtell you I make time for TV,but puz-zles and board games? They kind offall by the wayside. In college, ourversion of fun becomes beer pongand frat parties, but what I miss isthe fun we enjoyed as children,where we could play games anddress up in funny costumes basi-cally, we could lose ourselves in theimaginary.

At Stanford,we are so groundedin reality that sometimes we forgetabout good old-fashioned fun. Andwith this whole job-searching thing,I feel like theres less fun in my lifethan ever before.Now I dont knowabout you,but Im not ready to be atimecard-punching, tax-lamenting

adult. Much like my friend Peter

Pan, I wont grow up, so I startedlooking for jobs that would let mehave fun and keep in touch with myinner child.What I found is the jobof play consultant, and its thisweeks topic.

A play consultant isnt whereyou dress up in your dads worksuits and pretend to be a consultant you actually consult on playing.Essentially, companies will hire youto help them use games,play-actingand other fun activities to improvegroup dynamics and motivation.The fun activities you organize alsolift morale and make the workplaceless miserable.And as anyone who

Forever young

Although I love Thanksgivingand getting to see my family,one of my least favorite parts

is the relative questions.You knowthe ones, the repetitive small-talkquestions that everyone asks whenthey dont really know what to askabout your life.When youre 16, theonly thing anyone can think to askyou is if youve gotten your licenseyet. The year after that, everyonewants to give you advice on where togo to college.Now that Im about to

graduate,I constantly get asked whatIm planning on doing next. I gener-ally dont have a problem with thisquestion because its important, andknowing what I want to do with mytime tells you a lot about me.

What annoys me, however, iswhen people ask,So what are yougoing to do with a Sociology de-gree?Within the phrasing and into-nation of this question are often a

number of subtle assumptions and judgments. The first is the implica-tion that Ive chosen a useless degreebecause it doesnt give me a clearpath or job field to enter after col-lege. The second is the assumption

that my undergraduate degree de-termines my next steps;that becauseI am getting a B.A.in Sociology,I willpursue work in this field. The ulti-mate frustration I have with thisquestion, one that often comes outduring the course of the conversa-tion,is the need for the person askingme the question to fit my answer and

The old proverb, it takes avillage to raise a childcap-tures the reality that people

and families dont exist in isola-tion, but instead are socially con-nected member-citizens of largercommunities, society and, in-creasingly, the world. One of themost profound implications ofthis truth is an economic one:justas children exist in a larger socialcontext with varying levels of con-tributions from family, teachers,doctors and countless others whoinvest in their upbringing, so too

do all products in society, fromtest scores to share prices, resultfrom a series of interdependentgroup processes in which manypeople contribute.

Take my college degree, for ex-ample. While it took countlesshours of my own work, I didntearn it on my own and, in fact,if itwerent for the talent and effort ofa myriad of others who supportedme throughout the process, Idlikely still be cleaning floors in up-state New York. Contributionsand investments from friends,fam-ily and advisors made it possiblefor me to work full-time whilechipping away at a bachelors de-gree. Over-stretched co-workers,like Jackie, took on parts of myworkload so that I could have timeto study for tests and prepare classpresentations. Students offeredadvice on my admissions essays,lent me their expensive GRE prepmaterials and made sure that Iknew which internships and stu-dent positions were desirable.Ad-

ministrators figured out how tomake every credit that I took worktriple-time. The city bus driverpicked me up near my home everymorning so I didnt have to walk towork in the dark at 4 a.m.My fam-ily cooked meals for me because Ihad no time or energy to cook formyself. Academic advisors andmentors encouraged me, believedin me and kept me on course.Thelocal union reps fought to protectthe employee-benefit programthat allowed me to attend classeswhile working.

The list of people who con-tributed to my college degreegoes on and on, yet, I always getall the credit for the result.Whenwe think about upward mobilityand achieving economic success,we tend to think in terms of meri-tocratic ideals and individual suc-cess. Is a system that takes somuch input to get a single positiveoutput the best we can do? Moreimportantly, what does it sayabout our notions of successwhen some of the people whohelped me climb the social ladderremain trapped at the bottom?

As the nation grapples withthe nature of inequality, a com-monly asked question is whetherthe unprecedented levels of in-come and wealth inequality in theUnited States are the result of afair and open contest in which themost talented and productive se-cure the most rewards. Or havethe rules of the game becomecorrupt and unfair, calling intoquestion the legitimacy of in-

equality? The trouble with thisquestion is that it offer only twooptions:either the rules of societyare fair and inequality is justified,or the game is corrupt and in-equality is not justified. In otherwords, inequalities are a given,and even if we could root out cor-ruption, then whatever were leftwith no matter the level of in-equality or suffering it includes would be legitimate and fair.

Unfortunately,corruption andnepotism arent new, nor are theycontained to Wall Street.So while

this setup between fair or corruptinequality is alluring in its simplic-ity, we must resist the bait and en-tertain alternatives. Fairness isntsimply the absence of corruption,but rather an ongoing commit-ment to examine and evaluate theopportunities and outcomes thatour society jointly produces. Cor-ruption isnt only individual peo-ple taking advantage of their posi-tion, but also a system that allowspeople to contribute to the suc-cess of others with no improve-ment to their own material stan-dard of living. Why is it thatchances for upward mobility havebecome so thin,are so few and farbetween? What I hope for is ashift in the way that we thinkabout how value is created in oursociety and a realization that whatwe produce for better and forworse is a collaborative en-deavor.

SHARON JANK

Ph.D. Candidate,Sociology

In November 2004 I was 18years old, a college freshmanvoting in my first election.I was

excited because it was an impor-tant election and I was voting in aswing state,in a small college townin rural Ohio, where every newssource claimed the election wouldbe decided.When I arrived at myvoting precinct on Election Day, Ifound a line that snaked throughevery room in the building, dou-bling back on itself and endingoutside in the frigid rain. I waitedin line for six hours before reach-ing the front,where I saw that onlytwo voting booths had been allo-cated for around 1800 voters, com-pared to one booth per 100 votersin Republican-heavy districts. Imissed a class and dinner in orderto vote, and in the end, my candi-date conceded the election beforethe ballots that we had waited

hours in line to cast were fullycounted. I found out later that thesix- to 10-hour waits at my precincthad occurred all around Ohio,butalmost exclusively in college townsand in majority-black precincts.The under-allocation of votingbooths was part of a strategy usedby Secretary of State Ken Black-well, who was serving simultane-ously as co-chair of the Bush Cam-paign in Ohio, to systematicallysuppress votes from Democraticconstituencies. That night Ohiowent to Bush by a 2-percent mar-gin,giving him a second term, andI stopped believing that electionsin America were fair or truly dem-ocratic.

Four years later, I graduatedinto the worst recession since the

Depression. Like many otheryoung people, I came back hometo live with my mom, and after sixmonths of searching unsuccessful-ly for a job that would use my de-gree, I took an unpaid internshipand a part-time job at a coffeeshop.Three-and-a-half years afterthat, young people continue to

bear the brunt of the effects of therecession. Youth unemploymenthas increased far more than in anyother age group, and startingwages are depressed as entry-level

jobs have transformed into unpaidinternships, accessible only tothose whose parents can subsidizetheir living expenses. Tuition atpublic universities increases everyyear, even as subsidized educa-tional loans and grants shrink ordisappear entirely, leaving youngpeople saddled with enormousdebt. Many people I graduatedwith are still living at home,search-ing for a job that justifies,financial-ly and intellectually, the time, ef-fort and money they put into earn-ing a degree.They are the base ofthe Occupy movement.

If you dont see the connectionbetween what happened in 2004and 2008, let me explain. Though

we like to say that democraticallyelected officials are accountableto the people, it is more accurateto say they are accountable to thevoters. The deliberate disenfran-chisement of college students thatI experienced in 2004 is an exam-ple of how democratic accounta-bility is minimized by manipulat-ing which segments of the popula-tion are over- or under-represent-ed among voters. Laws or direc-tives that make it difficult formembers of certain groups tovote whether they be collegestudents, people who are poor,ethnic and language minorities orpeople who have been incarcerat-ed reduce the need for politi-cians (of either party) to advocatefor the groups needs in order to

retain their support in the nextelection. Why are the needs ofyoung people, the strugglingmasses and minorities depriori-tized in American public policy?Because they dont vote. Whydont they vote? Because our po-litical institutions are designedspecifically to discourage it.

Attempts to disenfranchise tra-ditionally Democratic constituen-cies have become increasinglycommon,justified by specious andunsubstantiated concerns aboutvoter fraud. Most states requirevoters to reregister every timethey change addresses, and thirty-one states currently or by 2012 willrequire voters to show ID beforecasting a ballot.Several states haveabolished early voting, which al-lowed people who arent able tomake it to the polls on ElectionDay to vote at a more convenienttime, and some states are now re-stricting which organizations canregister people to vote. Youngpeople, particularly college stu-dents, and ethnic minorities moveoften, are far more likely to lackforms of ID accepted under themost stringent voter ID laws andare major users of early voting op-

tions, when available. They alsotend to vote for Democrats, a factnot lost on the Republican-con-trolled state legislatures that havepassed nearly all of these restric-tive voting laws.

Political and economic inequal-ity in America are intimatelylinked. Political inequality main-tains the structures that supportthe growth of economic inequality,and economic inequality perpetu-ates the gap in political influencebetween the 1 percent and the 99percent. The Occupy movementhas finally brought this truth intopublic discourse. Now we mustfocus on developing concretegoals for challenging this system.Repealing all laws that place oner-ous burdens on citizens attempt-

ing to exercise their right to voteand holding public officials ac-countable for discriminatory prac-tices that result in unequal accessto the vote that would be agood place to start.

FRANCES ZLOTNICK

Ph.D.Candidate,Political Science

OPINIONS

Occupy the Future:Politics and inequality

Occupy the Future:It takes a village to do just about everything

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ANDERS MIKKELSENCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Despite a slight stumble down the stretch, theStanford womens volleyball team once again findsitself in the NCAA Womens Volleyball Champi-onship this weekend, the teams 31st consecutive

appearance in the tournament. Stanford is one ofjust two teams to qualify for all 31 NCAA Tourna-ments (the other being No. 9 Penn State) and islooking to add a seventh title to its mantle.

No.6 Stanford (21-7) is the No. 11 overall seed inthe tournament, as well as the No. 3 seed in theGainesville regional. The Cardinals road to theFinal Four will start Friday against Sacred Heart.However, the Pioneers are no easy foe as they went27-7 this season and won the Northeast Conference(NEC) for the second year in a row. They head toMaples Pavilion riding a nine-game winning streakand would love to pull off a major fir st-round upsetover the reeling Cardinal.

The Pioneers are led on offense by senior middleblocker Kimmee Roleder, who ranks third in theNEC in kills per set and points per set, with 3.94 and4.60 respectively. But Sacred Hearts other star issophomore outside hitter Dianis Mercado, who ledthe conference in aces per set and also ranked in the

top ten in kills.The dynamic duo is heavily featuredin the Pioneers offense,and together they account-ed for over 50 percent of the teams total hitting at-tempts for the season.Limiting them will be the keyto a Cardinal victory.

The winner of the Stanford-Sacred Heartmatchup will face the winner of the match between

Baylor (18-14) and Michigan (20-12).No. 22 Michi-gan finished its season ranked eighth in the Big Tenand had to rely on strong out-of-conference per-formances to earn its at-large bid to the tourna-ment. The Wolverines feature one of the strongestservice games in the nation, with three playersranking in the top 10 in the conference in aces perset.

The Bears did not perform well in their confer-ence either, finishing seventh out of the nine Big 12volleyball teams.They enter the tournament ridinga three-game losing streak and would like to turnthings around against the Wolverines. The Bearsare fronted by All-Big 12 First Team senior middleblocker Briana Tolbert, who led the team in kills,kills per set and hitting percentage.

Overall, the Cardinal will face a tough task onthe road in pursuit of another berth in the NCAA

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Gatewoodlatest Card

dual-threat

Whalen named finalistfor walk-on award

Stanford wide receiver Griff Whalen hasbeen named one of three finalists for theBurlsworth Trophy, an award given to the na-tions best player who began his career as awalk-on.

The senior from Sylvania,Ohio more than

doubled his career receptions this season,leading the Cardinal with 49 after entering hisfinal campaign with just 24.His 664 yards arealso a team-best despite recording no morethan 31 yards in the teams first four games.

Whalen came to Stanford as a defensiveback but was quickly converted to wide re-ceiver. He became an integral part of the re-ceiving rotation, where he provided relief inthe slot. At just 6-foot-1 and 185 pounds,

Whalen has relied on excellent route-runningto gain separation from defenders and hasflourished in underneath routes.

This season, he has emerged as Stanfordquarterback Andrew Lucks go-to receiver.Whalen has notched two 100-yard games andwas one of the squads few bright spots in theNov. 12 loss to Oregon,a contest in which heracked up 107 yards and two touchdowns onnine receptions.

Whalen joins Houston wide receiverPatrick Edwards and Southern Mississippiquarterback Austin Davis in the final selec-tion for the Burlsworth Trophy. The onlinefan-voting component of the award,which ac-counts for five percent, concludes on Dec. 7.

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Williams, Wopat lead Stanford athletesearning All-Pac-12 Honors

The sophomore duo of Rachel Williamsand Carly Wopat led a list of four Stanfordwomens volleyball players named to the 14-player All-Pac-12 Conference Team on Tues-

day.Williams was fifth in the Pac-12 in killsper set and points per set, as well as leadingthe conference with 19 double-doubles, in-cluding a remarkable 24-kill and 22-diggame against Duke in the Stanford Invita-tional.

Wopat made a big step up this season atthe middle blocker position,leading the con-ference in blocks per set with 1.59, goodenough to rank third in the country. She alsofinished third in Pac-12 with a .393 hittingpercentage and was the first player to garnerboth Pac-12 Offensive and Defensive Playerof the Week Awards this season.

Junior setter Karissa Cook was an All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention, her second all-conference honor after another solid seasonrunning the offense.She finished second be-hind Williams in double-doubles with 18 andaveraged 11.36 assists and 3.10 digs per set.

The trio of upperclassmen garnering con-ference honors was joined by redshirt fresh-man Lydia Bai, who was named to the All-Pac-12 Freshman Team after playing a bigrole in the attack as a reserve outside hitter.

The Cardinal also placed six players onPac-12 All-Academic teams, which were an-nounced last week, led by First Team hon-oree junior Stephanie Browne.

Miles Bennett-Smith

Neuheisel aclass act upto the end

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n the face of multiple sexualabuse scandals at big-time col-lege athletic programs, it seemsonly fitting that UCLA football

coach Rick Neuheisel is risingabove the fray and revealing himself tobe a class act just days after being toldhe would be fired following the Bru-ins upcoming appearance in the inau-gural Pac-12 Championship on Friday.

Its about as awkward a situationthat any head coach could be in, andthats saying something consideringthat soon after he was hired as thecoach at the University of Washingtonin 2003,Neuheisel found himself in vi-olation of NCAA recruiting rules be-fore even coaching a game.

Lets take a look back at how thisteeter-totter season has gone for theformer Bruins quarterback. . .

Sept. 3: Opening weekendNeuheisel leads the team onto thefield at Houston and rolled up 554yards of total offense on the Cougars,a

figure that usually doesnt fair toopoorly on Saturdays.But Houston hadsome guy named Case Keenum han-dling the snaps,and he was outstand-ing in handing UCLA yet anotheropening-day loss on the road.

Week Two:Beat up on the little guyNot much to say here, as the Bruinslooked bad but didnt have too muchtrouble dealing San Jose State its 24thloss in the past 27 games.Neuheiselsseat, which was warming heading intothe season,remained lukewarm.

Week Three:Get beat up by the bigguyAgain, not much to say here, ex-cept that instead of preying on a weakteam early in the season, the Bruinswere smacked around by No.23 Texasat home, and alumni and boosterswere quick to start grumbling after anembarrassing 49-20 loss.

Week Four: Righting the shipUCLA starts to settle into what will bea year-long pattern with a close winover Oregon State in its Pac-12 open-er. Neuheisel starts Richard Brehautat quarterback after Kevin Princeshorrific showing against the Long-horns,but he wont be starting for longafter . . .

Week Five: Take a whooping fromStanford Brehaut cant hang with thehigh-powered Cardinal offense,whichputs up 45 on the porous UCLA de-fense and sees Andrew Luck makeone of the top catches of the season.

Week Six:Squeak out another winover a mediocre teamLike Tim Tebow,Neuheisel comes alive when his back

By JACK BLANCHATDESK EDITOR

At any level of football,attritionis the story of every teams season.Players get hurt. Coaches agonizeover position battles.Fans speculateabout who will fill the voids left byothers.

Thats why the Stanford footballteam always says its motto about in-

juries is Next man up. If a playergoes down especially a playerlike Shayne Skov or Chris Owusu someone else has to step up.

But for the Cardinal, sometimesits not a problem of talent but aproblem of economics supplydoesnt meet demand and thatmeans a player has to change posi-tions in order to make a necessarydifference for a team thats in con-tention for a national champi-onship.

Thats been the story this seasonfor redshirt senior Corey Gate-wood,who has stepped in and madehis impact felt on the Cardinal de-fense late this season, includingsnagging an interception last Satur-day against Notre Dame a par-ticularly impressive feat consider-

ing the fact that he started the yearas a wide receiver.

After playing defensive back forthe past three seasons, Gatewoodtransitioned to the Cardinal offensein the off-season,hoping to fill in asone of Andrew Lucks primarypass-catchers after the Cardinal lostits best two wide receivers from2010 to the NFL.

But due to the emergence ofStanfords trio of tight ends and fel-low senior receiver Griff Whalen,the Massachusetts native foundhimself a little-used corollary in oneof the nations most prolific offens-es,as he only touched the ball twicein the early part of the season,mak-ing one catch for 22 yards and onerush for minus 2 yards. But whencornerback Barry Browning andsafety Delano Howell fell to in-

juries midway through the season,Stanford defensive coordinatorDerek Mason was forced to scram-ble to find some depth on his de-fense and he knew exactly whoto turn to.

When I first got here,the coach-ing team was concerned with whathe really wanted to do,Mason said.He wanted to try the offensive sideof the ball,and we wound up in a sit-uation that for him, he felt likethats where his best football wasgoing to be played.

This year, due to some injuriesand where we are,I talked to Coreyand I said,Hey Corey,what is your

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interest in playing on this side of theball,man, because I really think thatyou could help us. And he said,Coach,I just want to play. And itsbeen good,he continued.

After just two weeks practicing

with the defense, Gatewood hasdone anything but show up to fillspace, grabbing an interception inthe second quarter of last Satur-days game against Notre Dame, aswell as making five tackles andbreaking up two passes in the lastthree games.

Hes added some depth as wellas some competitive spirit to whatwe do, Mason said.Hes made usbetter and hes helped bolster ourunit outside.

Mason said that the coacheswere just fine with making switchesmidseason because theres no roomfor weakness when youre rankedin the top five in the country.

Our deal is,I wanted to get thebest football players on the field,and I want to make sure they knowand understand what we do,Mason said.

Interestingly, Masons defensivebackfield is mostly made up of re-placements guys who arent de-fensive backs originally includ-ing the Stanford secondarys twobest players, Delano Howell andMichael Thomas.

Howell, a senior from Newhall,Calif., began his Stanford career asa running back and kick returner,and accounted for 439 yards of of-fense his freshman year beforeswitching to safety as a sophomore.

Somewhat similarly, Thomas(who has played his entire career on

the Farm as a defensive back) wasan option-style quarterback in highschool who rushed for over 1500yards as a prep star in his hometownof Houston, Texas, and was ratedthe 43rd-best running back in thecountry coming out of high schoolby Scout.com.

Mason said that his defense wasmade up of players like Howell,Thomas and Gatewood because hesubscribes to the theory of New

England Patriots head coach BillBelichick if they can make a dif-ference,they will play.

Youre trying to take the bestathletes and then find out wheretheyre going to play. You neverknow what a young mans going tobe a year or two removed from highschool, you just hope that hes will-ing, hes got a high football IQ andhes got a skill set that allows him tobe successful, he said.Thats whatweve done, whether its Delano orMike or a guy like [freshman defen-sive back] Jordan Richards, whoplayed as a true freshman this year,or [sophomore defensive back]Devon Carrington, those guys allplayed offense coming out [of highschool].

Mason said the Cardinal coach-ing staff could usually get a good feelfor what position a player would endup being during the recruitingprocess,but that the success of Gate-wood and others on the defensiveside of the ball hasnt come as a sur-prise to him, especially becauseStanford has a historic precedent forsuccess with switching sides.

Sometimes those guys blossominto something where you neverthought that they would playedthere, but they do, he said. Justlike [nine-time NFL pro bowler]John Lynch played here on the of-fensive side of the ball as a quarter-back then ended up as a safety.

With all the position switchingthat occurs on the Stanford team and the track record of achieve-ment that comes with it it makesone wonder if any player is safe athis spot.

Mason said thats not the casewith him.

What I do as a coach, I try tomake sure that all of our guys knowthat they are replaceable. You ei-

ther can do it or you cant,he said.Head coach David Shaw even

suggested that quarterback An-drew Luck could switch spots afterhis one-handed circus catch againstUCLA earlier this year.

Theres about five positions theguy could play: receiver, tight end,outside linebacker,Shaw said afterthe Cardinals 45-19 victory overthe Bruins.

And while its likely that Masonwould like to see Luck suit up ondefense, Shaw added an importantqualifier to his statement.

We kind of like what he does atquarterback.

Perhaps, in just this one case,change isnt always for the best.

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Fifth-year senior Corey Gatewood started the season as a wide receiver before switching to defensive back. Herepresents a pipeline of dynamic players that see action on both sides of the ball during their Stanford careers.

title match which would be itsseventh in the last 11 years. If Stan-ford makes it past Sacred Heartand the Michigan-Baylor winner, itwill likely face the University ofNorthern Iowa in the round of 16.No. 11 UNI received the No. 6overall seed in the tournament, de-spite its low AVCA ranking. Inf ac t, t he N o. 1 se ed in th eGainesville regional, Illinois, is

ranked No. 7 in the nation, alsobelow the Cardinal.

But the inconsistencies in theNCAA seeding compared to theAVCA rankings appear to be inStanfords favor. Not one teamfrom the Pac-12,widely consideredthe strongest conference inwomens volleyball, is in its region-al, and the Cardinal finds itself asthe top-ranked team inGainesville.

If Stanford does manage tomake it to the Final Four, it willface a major test against the winnerof the Honolulu regional. In yetanother demonstration of the

strangeness of the tournamentseeding, the top three teams in thenation (Pac-12 champion USC,BigTen champion Nebraska and WACchampion Hawaii) were all placedin the same regional. No. 10 Cal,which finds itself unseeded despiteat one point being ranked No. 1 inthe nation, No. 13 Oregon and No.18 Pepperdine were also placed inthe Honolulu region, and noneshould go down easily. Whicheverteam survives Honolulu will be amajor obstacle in Stanfords pathto the championship game.

The other side of the bracketfigures to be competitive as well.

The Lexington regional featuresthe tournaments No. 1 overallseed, Big 12 champion, No.5 Texas;the defending national champions,No. 9 Penn State and No.4 UCLA,who finished second in the Pac-12.Whoever survives Lexington willface the winner of the Minneapolisregional, which appears to be theweakest of the four. No. 14 IowaState received the top seed and theonly top-10 team is No. 8 Purdue.

Stanford kicks off its NCAATournament at Maples Pavilion at7 p.m. Friday after the 4:30 Michi-gan-Baylor showdown.The winnerof the two matchups will face one

another in Maples at 7 p.m. on Sat-urday.

Contact Anders Mikkelsen at amikk@stanford.edu.

Corrections

The Dailys editorial StanfordsRhodes Scholars (Nov. 28) incor-rectly reported that Rhodes Schol-ars receive three years of fundingfor study at Oxford University. Infact,each scholar generally receivestwo years of funding and the possi-bility of funding for a third year.

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raised concerns about the level ofinvolvement of the members.

Ashton said that attending Sen-ate meetings was no longer manda-tory because of feedback he re-ceived in surveys from last yearsprogram, when LDP associates hadto attend meetings.

Ramachandran noted that as aSenate Associate, she benefitedfrom attending meetings, whichwere mandatory last year.

With all due respect, Id like tocounter that,Ashton said. I readthe surveys, and you were the onlyone who responded that going to

committee meetings was benefi-cial.Senators began to talk over each

other following this comment, withSenator Alon Elhanan 14 twicesaying, That was awesome, andSenator Dan Delong asking,Arent those supposed to be confi-dential?

Senate Chair Rafael Vazquez 12ended discussion on the matter and

told Senators to reach out to theirSenate Associates and encouragethem to be more involved.

Other billsSeveral other bills were passed

during the meeting. Ashton au-thored a bill that would authorize aletter to be disseminated encourag-ing the Stanford University Depart-ment of Public Safety (SUDPS) toavoid violence when dispersing anyprotests on Stanford University.

Nanci Howe,director of StudentActivities and Leadership (SAL),suggested the bill focus on how stu-dents feel the police should act withmutual respect,rather than focus-ing on what actions they want thepolice to avoid. The amendmentwas accepted by Ashton.

Another bi l l , authored by

Trusheim, focused on planning aspring show in Frost Amphitheater.The bill asked for supplementaryfunding from the ASSU specialbuffer fund,which is currently val-ued at $400,000.The bill requested$35,000 for the event, which is pro-jected to cost over $250,000.

Discussion over this bill will con-tinue at future Senate meetings.

The Senate also passed an addi-

tional bill by Adler, which madeslight clarifications to other sectionsof the bylaws and approved hisnominations to the Elections Com-mission.

Contact Brendan OByrne atbobyrne@stanford.edu.

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Play consulting is done exclu-

sively through freelancing, so youwill have to be flexible about yourlifestyle and travel schedule. Thisalso means compensation varieswidely, depending on who youreworking with and how much workyoure doing.This lifestyle isnt foreveryone Im far too neurotic tohandle that type of instability but for those of you who are moreadventurous and easy-going, youmight really enjoy it.

While there arent many educa-tional requirements for pursuing acareer in this field,it takes a specif-ic type of person to be a successfulplay consultant. Organizing thesegames requires a lot of energy andpeople skills;you will most likely beworking with unwilling partici-pants,and its your job to get them

interested.A lot of the activities will

involve improvisation,such as play-acting and well, improv, so a back-ground in this would be helpful.Lastly, you have to be good at hav-ing fun.I know that sounds silly, butone of the most important aspectsof your job will be boosting moraleand team spirit, and if you arenthaving fun, theres no way thosecorporate folks will.

Unfortunately, there is onemajor difficulty you will face shouldyou choose to become a play con-sultant. Because the field is madeup entirely of freelancers, its much

harder to get an internship or gowork for a company to learn aboutthe biz you will most likely haveto start your own company, andthats not an easy thing to do. Myrecommendation would be to startwith a job in a related field, such asteaching or being a camp coun-selor,to build up a skill set and rep-utation that will allow you to even-tually make it on your own.

Play consulting may not be themost serious job in the world, but it just might be the most fun. Andmore importantly, youll be doingwhat you love and making moneydoing it, and what could be betterthan that?

Do you like to have fun? Schedule a play date with Amanda at aach@

stanford.edu.

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future plans into a discrete careerlabel such as teacher, lawyer or lob-byist. In reality, none of these is true.My degree is not useless.Nor am I re-quired to pursue things related to so-ciology. In fact,my job will probably

not have any sort of neat label at all.I find these issues crop up whentalking to Stanford students as well,and I often feel looked down upon fornot having chosen a more pre-profes-sional path. Ive had numerous con-versations with techie students inwhich it is clear that they look downupon fuzzy majors. The cultureamong Stanford students lauds techiedegrees as practical, which ends upframing fuzzy majors as useless. Al-though it is true that a Stanford engi-neering degree offers higher salariesand a guaranteed job right out ofStanford, a liberal arts degree is not adeath knell.Liberal arts degrees havetremendous value even though theydont shepherd the student into anobvious career trajectory and throwmoney at them.

My degree opens up a world ofpossibilities to me. Although theskills Ive gained are less quantifi-able than those from techie majors,my time at Stanford has vastly im-proved my writing,my critical think-ing skills, my research skills and myability to put together a coherentand convincing argument. All ofthese are qualities that employerslook for and make me a valuablecommodity on the job market.Every company that employs thosehigh-paid CS majors also needs peo-ple to do marketing, HR, manage-ment and public relations. Any andall of these options are available to

me with my liberal arts degree fromStanford.

People forget that many Ameri-cans have jobs have little to nothingto do with their undergraduate de-partment, so its of little concern tome that my job be related to sociol-ogy. Some of my relatives get thisand some dont,but as our conversa-tions continue they struggle to find ajob label for the future me;do I wantto be a consultant? A social worker?

I should be a teacher! Its liketheyre grasping at straws for a namethat they know and understand,fail-ing to realize that jobs dont alwaysfall into these labels. Like mostadults,I will probably have a job thathas a title that youve never heard ofand that doesnt fall cleanly into anycategory.Whats important to me isthat I find a job that accomplishessomething that I believe is a valu-able use of my time; the end goal iswhats important,not the name.

I havent applied to jobs yet, sowell see if Im right or just overlyidealistic. But for now I refuse to be-lieve that my degree and course-work are less worthwhile thansomeone whose future trajectory isobvious. I plan on forging my ownpath ahead and finding jobs where I

like the environment and the workand that meet my long-term goals.So next time you feel despair be-cause you dont know exactly whereyoure going out of college andtheres no obvious plan laid out foryou dont.Im there with you.Wewill fashion careers that work for uswhile doing what we want to do,in-stead of trying to cram ourselvesinto a label that doesnt quite fit.Nomatter what our relatives tell us.

Do you have any career advice for Jamie? (But no neat little labels,please!) Then email her at jamiesol@stanford.edu.

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Few can argue against the possi-bilities of dialogue, open-minded-ness and learning.As an elite institu-tion, Stanford stands for the veryprinciples in which these activitiesare rooted. But there are times and

places for dialogue that are more ap-propriate than others, and this time,Occupy has shown its disrespect for

students study habits by choosing tohold its open forum in a commonspace utilized specifically for aca-demic purposes. Rather, we hopethat students will utilize the plethoraof other forums for dialogue thatcurrently take place on this campus,such as the ongoing series of Occu-py the Future lectures by facultymembers, sponsored by the HaasCenter for Public Service. Dialoguecan happen in the classroom, in the

lecture hall, in any number of meet-ings; please leave the library to thestudents in the next two weeks.

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dition,with as many people partici-pating as possible.

I think its possible for Flash-Mob to become popular on cam-pus,but the group will need lots ofmarketing and publicity to get a

large number of members, Lind-strom said.Despite the complications in

getting large groups of students to-gether and coordinated, she is opti-mistic about a revival next year.

I think flash mobs are awe-some,and it would be great if some-one started a new group,she said.

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small subfield of economics calledsocial choice theory, which was de-veloped largely by Kenneth Arrow,a Stanford professor emeritus ofeconomics and 1972 Nobel Prizelaureate.

In an email to The Daily,Arrowwrote that he had never heard ofLindener or his paper. He initiallyagreed to read and comment onLindener and Durhams paper, but

did not respond to subsequent re-quests for comment.Lindener has contacted other

professors at Stanford with thehope of getting his work reviewedand to see that a class is taught atStanford about social choice theory.

Mechanical engineering profes-sor David Beach was one of theseprofessors. After Beach confirmedthat he had met Lindener and re-ceived his paper, he added,I thinkthats already more than I shouldsay, Im going to decline to com-ment further.

Lindener also contacted ToddDavies, associate director of thesymbolic systems program. He tooconfirmed that he had spoken withLindener via email and received hispaper, but had not yet had a chance

to look over it thoroughly becauseof his research load.

No professor contacted for thisarticle nor, according to Lindener,any professor Lindener has given acopy of the paper to has refuted orchallenged his ideas. Lindener saidfaculty members who received hispaper would most often declined totake calls or respond to emails fromhim.Even though faculty members keeptheir distance, the University doesnot disenchant Lindener.

Theres no place like Stanfordin the world, he said. Lindeneradded that it can get tiresome to be

ignored,but on the flipside,they letme play my horn here.

Faculty members arent Linden-ers only target audience.I dont need to effect governmen-tal change, Lindener said. I needto let the leaders of tomorrow knowwhats possible.

On that front, Lindener appearsto have slightly more success.RafaelCosman 15 first met Lindener atStanford a few weeks ago.

I was walking through WhitePlaza and I see this weird guy with ahuge bushy white beard playing asaxophone, Cosman said.He tellsme who he is. I tell him who I am,

and pretty soon, he tells me abouthis interest in voting theory.Cosman was a bit overwhelmed

at first by the paper, which he saidwas a hefty read,but soon becameexcited.I dont think Peter [Lindener]would ever say that,but its a prettyawesome voting system, way betterthan anyone has ever implementedbefore,he said.

It is difficult to assess the signifi-cance of Lindeners work since sofew academics will discuss it.

But regardless, Lindener ishappy to be on the Farm.He spokepassionately about his work,but hisface lit up when he discussed theyoungsters: students who comeup and talk to him, and, he hopes,perhaps one day will take his re-

search one step further.Im thankful [Stanford] is intel-

lectual enough that this can go for-ward, and Im trying to hold myown, Lindener said.

In Lindeners words, his work isabout producing a more prosper-ous world.Whether or not anyoneagrees with his math,Lindener hasspent the past seven years of lifeworking to develop a system that hebelieves may politically empowerthe most people in the most effec-tive way.

Contact Brendan OByrne atbobyrne@stanford.edu.

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is up against the wall. With his seatquite hot now,Tricky Rick improvesto 2-1 in conference play with a laterally to beat Washington State.

Week Seven: Lay an egg on theroadApparently,Rick doesnt like to

get in any kind of rhythm,as he man-ages to rally his troops on national tel-evision to a huge win over Arizona ina key Pac-12 matchup.Or not.UCLAcomes out flat,falls flatter and makesthe most noise not with its offense,butvia massive brawl sparked by a streak-er on the field. Going down 42-7 athalftime isnt usually the way to sayyou want to keep your job.

Week Eight: Sneak up on a greatCalifornia team That was a lie. I justlied.Cal was neither great,nor did theBruins sneak up on them.But some-how UCLA rushed for 294 yards andbeat its bear brethren in Pasadena.

Week Nine: Shock the world forreal I know Arizona State isnt reallyvery good, and its always a bad signwhen you are a trendy dark horseBCS pick in the preseason, are in po-

sition to make some moves midsea-son and then tank like the Sun Devilsdid this year. UCLA wins by onepoint when Arizona State misses alast-second field goal and takes the in-side track to the Pac-12 South title,otherwise known as the crown ofshame.

Week Ten: Throw it all away TheBruins give it all back by losing to aUtah team that was winless in its firstfour conference games.It wasnt pret-ty (Prince threw two picks and theBruins mustered two field goals on of-fense), it wasnt close (31-6) andNeuheisel apparently told his playersto take a snow day and not show up.

Week Eleven: Crush the BuffsBeating Colorado should be a given,so lets just skip over UCLAs onegame this year that lived up to expec-tations.

Week Twelve: End of the roadLike I said earlier, its hard to have arollercoaster ride with more twistsand turns and ups and downs thanNeuheisels tenure in Westwood. Butafter clinching the Pac-12 South titlewhen Utah lost on Friday night,USChung half a hundred points on them,and it really looked like the Bruinswould have had trouble stopping agood high school team,let alone MattBarkley, Marqise Lee and RobertWoods.Add in that Rick said earlierin the week he felt UCLA had closedthe gap more with the Trojanswho would have won the Pac-12South except for NCAA sanctionsprohibiting them from postseasonplay and it was truly a no-win situ-

ation for the old ball coach.So lets summarize:Loss,win, loss,win, loss, win, loss,win, win, loss,win,loss. And still the Bruins have achance to make it to the Rose Bowl.Theyd have to beat Oregon whichwould be about as likely as undefeat-ed Houston getting to play for a na-tional championship but stillNeuheisel got the axe.

But back to my main point,whichis that right now youd be hardpressed to find a coach in a similar sit-uation saying and doing the samethings (and the right things) right now.I thought we had moved the needleas we had been asked to do,he toldthe L.A.Times this week.But I guessI was naive and I wasnt aware of allthe negativity on the outside.

Clearly not,because plenty of peo-

ple saw this coming from a mile away he did go 21-28 in four seasons atUCLA.No one should feel sorry forme,he says.I had my shot.

True. But I applaud him for step-ping up and taking the blame for aprogram that simply isnt attractingrecruits in the shadow of USC and isgoing to struggle for several years nomatter who is at the helm.

Despite his respect for Neuheisel,Miles will be quite bitter if the Bruinsend up in the Rose Bowl. Remindhim that this is basically impossible atmilesbs@stanford.edu and checkhim out on Twitter @smilesbsmith.

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