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By BRENDAN OBYRNE

The National Iranian American Council(NIAC) has called for a Stanford professor to bedisciplined for making what the organization callsracially discriminatory and inflammatory re-marks about Iranians.

The council targeted computer science profes-sor emeritus Jeffery D.Ullman in a recent letter toUniversity President John Hennessy.

The Jan.4 letter refers to an incident when,ac-cording to the organization, a graduate student

from Sharif University in Iran e-mailed Ullmanasking about admission into the graduate comput-er science program at Stanford.In an e-mail, Ull-man responded by directing the student to a pageon his University-hosted website,which explainedthat the selection process for graduate school wasin the hands of a committee of graduate studentsand faculty members, and that he could not andwould not influence them.

Ullman went on to say that even if he were in aposition to help,he would not do so until Iran rec-ognizes Israels right to exist,adding that if Irani-ans want the benefits of Stanford and other insti-tutions in the U.S., they have to respect the valueswe hold in the U.S., including freedom of religionand respect for human rights.

The NIAC letter claims these remarks unfairlydiscriminate against Iranian students and says thatUllman is holding the aspirations of young Irani-ans hostage to the policies of their government.

The organization urged Hennessy to condemn theremarks,take disciplinary action against Ullman,and clarify Stanfords position on the issue of Iran-ian-American students.

But Stanford affirms that Ullman is not in-volved in admission and is free to express contro-versial opinions.

This faculty member was expressing his ownpersonal views and not the views of the Universi-ty,said University spokeswoman Lisa Lapin.Hehas no involvement in admission, and Stanforddoesnt discriminate in their admission process.She said there is no plan to discipline Ullman forhis statements, adding that Stanford has manyprofessors who hold controversial opinions.

Ullman expressed surprise at the Universitysreaction to the event.Four days after receiving theletter, no person from the presidents office hadcontacted Ullman regarding the incident,he said.

Id really appreciate more support from theUniversity on this,he said.Not that theyve said

anything negative, but Im surprised they haventlined up and recognized this as an attempt to cen-sor a faculty member.

Ullman defended the wording of his e-mail,saying,If someone contacts me personally with arequest, I dont mind giving them some of myopinion.When I say, I will not help you, I dontmean if you are admitted to Stanford I wont ad-vise you. It simply means I would not give themspecial attention in preference to someone else.

Asked why he chose to elaborate on the stu-dents country of origin in his e-mail,Ullman saidhe was trying to teach this student a version of his-tory he may not have heard.

Theres a war going on in this world betweenIran and Israel and other countries, he said. Idont believe an Iranian student, however brightthey may be, is going to get a true picture of theissue.I was just trying to show him the Israeli sideof the story.

Contact Brendan OByrne at [email protected].

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Laptop thefts,hot

prowlreported over

weekend

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Burglars this weekend allegedlystole laptops and iPods from Bob,theMayfield Avenue residence, while inan unrelated incident three unidenti-fied men allegedly entered a room inGrove Mayfield while its resident wassleeping.

On Friday night between 10 p.m.and midnight, unidentified peopleentered Bob and stole four laptops,two or three iPods,a camera and cashfrom two or three rooms, said BobResident Assistant (RA) Sam Svobo-da 11,who is a Daily writer.He addedthat the extent of the theft is still ten-tative because the residents returnedonly this afternoon from their ski trip.

Svoboda said that Bob had about10 people in the house over the week-end.No one in the residence saw theburglars, he added, but he guessedthat the thieves entered and exitedfrom Bobs side doors.

On Saturday at 12:45 a.m., threeunidentified men allegedly enteredGrove Mayfield, proceeded to thesecond floor and checked doors tosee if they were occupied. They en-tered a female students room on thesecond floor and fled in an unknowndirection when she screamed. Nothefts were reported.

Stanford police alerted the com-munity to the incident via text mes-sage and e-mail, terming it a hotprowl,which is a burglary attempt inwhich the offender breaks into a resi-dence while someone is inside. Hot

prowl burglaries are considered dan-gerous by law enforcement becauseof the potential for a violent interac-tion between the resident and the of-

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Entrepreneurs find support at summit

MONEY

Hennessy togain fromAtheros sale

By DEVIN BANERJEESENIOR STAFF WRITER

President John Hennessy further expanded hisreputation and his wallet last week when Qual-comm, the worlds largest maker of mobile-phonechips, agreed to buy Atheros Communications,which Hennessy co-founded, for $3.1 billion in cash.

In a statement,Qualcomm said Atheros investors

will receive $45 a share and the transaction will closein the first half of 2011.Hennessy holds 32,899 sharesof Atheros, according to a company filing, position-ing him to earn $1.48 million from the acquisition.

The deal is the most recent manifestation of Hen-nessys reach in Silicon Valley. In 1984 he co-foundedMIPS Computer Systems, a microprocessor devel-oper that went public in 1989, was acquired by Sili-con Graphics in 1992 and then spun off in 1998. Afterhelping found Atheros in 1998, he joined Ciscosboard of directors in 2002 and then Googles boardin 2004.The positions pay him well Forbes report-ed that Hennessy earned $331,000 from Cisco lastyear,$497,156 from Google in 2009 and $86,000 fromAtheros in 2009.

Stanford paid him $702,771 last year,according toa report by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

In an interview,Hennessy, who came to the presi-dency in 2000,said the multiple roles he plays in Sili-con Valley have given him valuable insight into pre-siding over Stanford.

The relationships he has built with leaders in thevalley, he said, provide him a network of people tocall when he faces a challenge or problem that oneof them has faced.His experience in starting compa-nies taught him general management principlesthat,for example, guided him through the process oflaying off University employees during the height ofthe recession in 2009.

By AMY JULIA HARRISDESK EDITOR

Mountain View hosted a meeting of tech-nological minds on Friday when about a thou-sand small business owners in Silicon Valleyconvened for a White House summit on entre-preneurship and small business growth. TheWhite House Initiative on Asian Americansand Pacific Islanders (AAPI) put on the five-and-a-half-hour event held on Microsofts Sil-icon Valley campus. It was free of charge.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, co-chair of the White House Initiative on AsianAmericans and Pacific Islanders,kicked off thesummit with a keynote speech that underscoredthe role of Asian Americans in the small busi-ness sector and the Obama administrations ef-forts to jumpstart entrepreneurship.

Theres a great legacy of Asian Ameri-can/Pacific Islander entrepreneurs, innova-

tors and small business owners in America all we want to do is smooth the way for thatlong line of accomplishment to continue,Locke told the audience Friday morning.Despite continued hardship amongAsian/Pacific Islanders, the community over-all is thriving. Asian American/Pacific Is-

White House summit targets

Asian Americans in business

RESEARCH

Study finds legacy is big boon in admissionsBy AN LE NGUYEN

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Legacy applicants have better odds of admis-sion at elite colleges than previously estimated,shows a recent study by Michael Hurwitz,a doctor-al candidate at the Harvard Graduate School ofEducation.

In his analysis of 30 selective colleges, Hurwitzcontrolled for a broad array of variables and foundthat legacy applicants enjoyed a 23.3-point in-crease in their probability of admission.

Among legacy applicants,those who fell in theprimary legacycategory enjoyed an even higher45.1-point increase in their odds of acceptance.Pri-mary legacies are students with at least one parent

who attended the college or university as an under-graduate, as opposed to those with looser familyties.

The statistical results of the study provide an ag-gregate picture of the sampled schools but obscurevariation among the institutions stances towardlegacies.

Many universities Stanford included areusually tight-lipped about their legacy admissionsstatistics, though the Universitys Committee onUndergraduate Admission and Financial Aid ac-knowledged this fall that Stanford may give prefer-ence to applicants whose parents graduated fromhere.

According to a 2003 report titled A New Ap-proach to Alumni Legacy Policies in Admissions,

Thomas Loverro found that Stanfords legacy ad-mittance rate was around 14 to 15 percent of thetotal applicant pool.Legacy admit rates were abouttwo to two and a half times the general admit ratefrom 1984 to 2003,according to the report.Dean of Undergraduate Admission Richard Shawemphasizes that legacy status does not guaranteeadmission.

The reality of this is that the majority of stu-dents that are legacies do not get in,Shaw said.Butlegacies are very strong candidates,he said.

In looking at our quantitative measures, ourlegacy enrollees or admits tend to be stronger thanthe median of the admitted class, Shaw said.It

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University President John Hennessy, above, stands to gain from last weeksacquisition of Atheros Communications, which he co-founded, by Qualcomm.Since 1984, Hennessy has had a close relationship with Silicon Valley.

Courtesy of Benson G. Chen

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke high-lights the role of Asian Americans and Pacific Is-landers in the entrepreneurial world at a busi-ness summit in Mountain View.

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shatters another perception that un-qualified or less qualified students aregetting into Stanford because they aresons or daughters of parents whohave come before them.

Hurwitzs findings stand apartfrom previous studies that underesti-mated the legacy advantage.Hurwitzutilized a quantitative method calledconditional logistical regressionanalysis to eliminate certain biases inhis analysis.He used a data set of stu-dents who applied to multiple highlyselective institutions and controlled

for varying selectivity among the sam-ple of colleges and universities.

The outcomes show that the lega-cy admission advantage is consistent

across the student ability range andacross institutions of varying selectiv-ity. This advantage is magnifiedthrough early-admission programs.

According to Shaw, Stanford clas-sifies students as legacies only if oneof their parents obtained a degreehere.

Stanford has a proud and longtradition of access and opportunity toall sorts of populations from its found-ing, Shaw said.One of the popula-tions that we certainly celebrate is thesons and daughters of those who havecome before.

Interestingly, as time goes on,asthe world becomes more diverse,thenext generations of parents whomight have children applying will bemuch more diverse than heretofore,he continued. And, in fact, the chil-dren of the first generation studentshere now may very well look forwardto the opportunity to give their kids achance to apply and be competitivefor a position in the class.

Stanford legacies who were ac-cepted tend to say their parents expe-riences reinforced their decision toapply and enroll.

Jessica Kung 14 has ties to theFarm that go back to her father,whoearned his bachelors and mastersdegrees at Stanford.

My dad always talked about howhe enjoyed Stanford,and we visited afew times,Kung said.

This legacy perspective is one rea-son why Stanford has always been herfirst-choice university, she said: Itwas embedded in me so long ago.

Hurwitzs study did not focus onthe causes of the legacy admissionsadvantage, but a frequently cited ex-planation argues that there is a linkbetween colleges desire to increasealumni donations and legacy admis-sions. In 2009, Stanford raised $640million more than any other col-lege or university.

I dont know whether the legacyadmissions advantage is related tocharitable giving,Hurwitz said in ane-mail to The Daily.This seems like aplausible hypothesis, and the conclu-sion of any study that endeavors to in-vestigate this research questionwould probably be sensitive to thecolleges included.

Contact An Le Nguyen at [email protected].

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Id had to go through a similarsituation with the first company Istarted, said Hennessy, 57. Forlarge organizations,change is a veryhard thing. So you can learn in asmaller company how to deal withthat kind of change.

As a director at Cisco andGoogle, Hennessy said he haslearned how to build and balancelarge budgets Stanfords is near-ly $4 billion and how to recruittalent to Stanford and retain itsroughly 11,000 employees.

They are important back-ground experiences because aspresident you face similar kinds ofchallenges,he said.

Gerhard Casper, Stanfordsninth president, isnt surprised hissuccessor is so closely affiliated withmultiple global corporations.

The president of Stanford is,al-most by definition, an internationalfigure, Casper said in an interviewin his office on campus, where heleads Stanfords arts initiative andsometimes teaches.

As president,Casper took sever-al opportunities to address, in talksaround the world, the issue he callsclosest to his heart: higher educa-tion.Today Casper is a trustee of theCentral European University inBudapest, an emeritus fellow of theYale Corporation and an emeritustrustee of the American Academyin Berlin.He is also an elected mem-ber of the American Law Institute(he carries a copy of the U.S.Consti-tution with him at all times).

When I stepped down [as presi-

dent of Stanford], I was obviouslyfree to do things I could not do pre-viously simply because of time re-strictions or conflicts of interest,Casper said.

Though Casper has always beenwary of compensated board posi-tions he serves his roles in a probono capacity, he said he calledHennessys affiliations different be-cause they dont impose time pres-sure on his duties as president.Hen-nessy said he has turned down lots

of boards that would require travelbecause he couldnt afford the time.

On a board, a university presi-dent is no different from any otherdirector, says James Finkelstein, aprofessor at the George MasonSchool of Public Policy who, for 15years,has studied the role of univer-sity presidents serving on corporateboards.Weve never found a presi-dent to have attended less than 75percent of the meetings of a corpo-rate board, Finkelstein said.

He has studied 132 top researchand academic universities andfound that 35 percent of the presi-dents serve on one or more boardsof publicly traded companies.

Though the insights Hennessyhas gained from Silicon Valley havehelped him manage and direct Stan-ford, he misses two things in whichhe hopes to engage more after hesteps down: interacting with stu-dents and being involved in a smallstart-up company.

Id like to be back on the facul-ty teaching,he said.Thats my firstgoal.

As to whether he has given anythought to when he will step down,Hennessy replied,Not yet.

Contact Devin Banerjee [email protected].

HENNESSYContinued from front page

fender.Ivan Herrera 11, a second-floor

resident of Grove,was in his room onFriday night and heard someone rat-tling the handle of his door. He im-mediately thought it was burglarsand asked who it was.A few minuteslater, he heard his next-door neigh-bor scream and he called 911.Threepolice came to Grove Mayfield anddusted for fingerprints.

Grove RA Bob Clark 11 was onthe houses ski trip during the inci-dent and guessed that the unidenti-fied men who entered Grove werethe same offenders that stole laptopsfrom Bob.

Clark said that he has been ex-changing e-mails with the Rows res-idence dean to set up a security meet-ing and has been working with Hous-ing to address unsafe entries inGrove.

Amy Julia Harris

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Wikileaks is, frankly, a rela-tively dumb website.Theirmission, to do away with

confidentiality in all its forms, is to-tally impractical and entirely fool-ish. Moreover, the leaked cableshave unveiled nothing significantunless youre trying to protectColonel Gaddafis vanity.The Unit-ed States, in fact, has emerged look-ing like an intelligent and reason-able power struggling with idiocy inthe form of Vlad, Silvio and Hamed.Unless your main goal is disman-tling the reputation of these already-disreputable politicians,Wikileaks islittle more than a nuisance.Thoughit did publish certain materials of in-terest a year or two ago, its most re-

cent revelations have been widelypublicized and only marginally con-sequential. The cables have notmade the U.S. look like the evil em-pire that Julian Assange often al-leges it to be.

Julian Assange, and his source,Bradley Manning,are not to be ven-erated, and much less so protectedby hyperactive Internet freedomgroups. For the U.S. and similarcountries to operate, nobly and ig-nobly, some information has to bewithheld. Frank military and diplo-matic assessments cant always bemade public, due to the sensitivitiesof allies and the pragmatic necessi-ties of a harsh world. This confiden-tiality can facilitate poor behavior,but nonetheless is necessary for anorganization to function.Even Wik-ileaks itself is a closed and mysteri-ous operation, whose financials andother documents have been leaked(the granddaddy of all ironies). As-sanges efforts havent been clarify-ing or useful in the slightest. Theircentral effect has been to distractgovernment and give cause for smalldiplomatic spats. Theyre a poormans investigative journalism.

Wikileaks does, if nothing else,confirm the power and justify the es-tablished position of print journal-ism.Wikileaks has done good work,publishing some videos and reportsthat pointed out human rights abus-es and governmental misconduct,but the websites absurd dedicationto total transparency causes prob-lems. Journalism is about choosing

what is important. Its about decid-ing what is relevant and whats not,and knowing what needs to be saidand what is meaningless clutter.

A disgruntled, querulous man,Assange has made only sparingredactions, and even then, asdemonstrated by yesterdays frontpage article in The Times,has endan-gered good people. His actions aremore those of a petulant child than a

progressive intellectual. Thoughmany are instinctually compelled toside with the iconoclastic defenderof freedoms, revealer of abuses,upon further reflection, its prettyobvious that hes more of an emo-tionally damaged pariah acting outthan a principled man.

Even though Assanges effect onthe political arena has been limited,he does pose one major risk to a

large segment of the worlds popula-tion, and an active community atStanford: the Web-lover. Internetgroups, such as Anonymous, havebeen executing server attacks onvarious websites that have deniedWikileaks services.Some have beenattacked in retaliation, but the realpushback has yet to come.The strug-gle to maintain Internet freedomshas been a long one, and stupiditylike Anonymous, attacking Master-Card and Visa after they stoppedprocessing Wikileaks donations,makes it an uphill battle.These are,again, childish actions that amountto nothing but an inconvenience tothe worlds major firms,rather like achild throwing broccoli at its moth-er. Their central effect has been toattract the ire of the worlds govern-ments and reduce popular support,not strengthen their cause.

In this day and age, where theelectorate is increasingly easy to ma-nipulate by the press and more im-pulsive than ever, where govern-ments dont shy away from extend-ing their reach to every realm of life,actions like Anonymous do incred-ible harm and attract the rage of thepublic.Theres little left in this worldthats not subject to the control ofhigher powers, and the Internet,with its free flow of information,data and interpersonal and interna-tional connections, is the last fron-tier. It is the most profoundly openmarket of ideas in the history of theworld, yet, when it is abused andused to cause dysfunction,it loses its

power and becomes a disruptiveforce.If the Internet becomes more of

an accessory to espionage and an in-strument of infantile acts of sabo-tage than a means of spreadingknowledge, theres no doubt in mymind that the governments of Eu-rope,interventionist as they are,and


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Just three days ago,The New YorkTimes published an article enti-tled Journal Showcases Dying

Art of the Research Paper, wherecorrespondent Sam Dillon talksabout the Concord Review and itscantankerouspublisher,William H.Fitzhugh.This Review showcases highschool history papers of extraordinary

merit papers of the length andquality that would be expected of apostgraduate or advanced undergrad-uate of the field.

The very existence of such a Review(and the fact that it has been silentlysputtering along for over two decades)tells us a lot about the state and thephilosophies of education today. I my-self have never written a paper of suchlength or merit in my high school career and I imagine many of my readershave not either. Instead, I was slowlyhoned in my high school career to writeshort x-paragraph essays that clearlydefined a topic, added a bit of insightculled with 15 minutes of thought,andpersuaded the layman effectively.

It was practical writing, above all,not with the insight of a historian perse, but with the insight of a common

man locked in a room with historicaldocuments, struggling to say some-thing unique about them. No matter

what it was called,no matter how longthe list of citations was,it was not a re-search project. It was instead thePowerpoint lecture of papers, withall of its alacrity and all of its banality.

I realized that in my personal aca-demic maturation, exposure to thistype of writing, done by people whowere my age, could have defined my

early relationship with history as a sub-ject. It could have moved it from thepractical What does the Civil Rights

Act of 1964 mean for modern society? to the philosophical How doesthe notion of Muslim fraternity definethe Arab world?

The latter is of the rare breed ofquestions that have nonethelessplagued presidents and history schol-ars and have really come to define thenature of historical scholarship andmodern events.And I tell you,I wouldhave thought about these questionsseriously because people my age havethought and written whole 22 page pa-pers on them.They can think rigorous-ly,and so can I!

This should be the thought processwhen any student is exposed to a fieldof intellectual inquiry.Many of us are

college undergraduates now in thelast phase of our lives when we will beexposed to introductory classes.Such

survey courses have come to definethe nature of the American liberal artscurriculum.Yet especially at placeslike Stanford a survey course aims

to give the wide-eyed newcomer thelay of the land.Such an act is a well-intentioned but naive way to intro-duce students to a field.It only makesthe less confident cower in fear and themore confident make flash cards.

What is needed in its stead is a focuson the values of a field coupled withit a penetrating focus on two or threespecific answers or applications thathave defined some contour of thefield. This reframing of introductoryeducation does two large things:it de-fines the thought process of a field toits newest observers,and,more impor-tantly,it gives people something to as-pire to in a field.It replaces their senseof foreign-ness in this new area withthe tools to contribute and communi-cate,even in the smallest of ways.Moreclasses should take a page from CS

106A in this regard and force them,

Were all Stanford studentswho want our lives to havean impact. If youre like

me,you spend a lot of time thinkingand reading about how to becomemore effective. Ive had awesomeconversations with people aboutachieving goals and resolutions andread a lot of books, yet this is the

first time Ive written any of thisdown. If you have any thoughts,dont let this remain a monologue;lets talk.

Start small;its all about momen-tum, so build from the bottom up.Make things as simple and conciseas possible. Let the words express-ing the resolution have more mean-ing to you than to others.Word res-olutions as if youve alreadyachieved them. Phrase them interms of what you do rather thanwhat you dont do.Use the SMARTcriteria for your resolutions spe-cific, measurable, attainable, rele-vant and time-bound. Check thatyour resolutions dont conflict; gobeyond this:align them.Write downyour goals on a piece of paper.

Achieve your resolution on the

shoulders of giants by modelingtheir behavior.Make a plan for howto deal with the temptation to breakthe resolutions. Take care of thedownside, and the upside will takecare of itself. Tell yourself that youmust do it, rather than that you will.This will transform hundreds of de-cisions into one.

Setting the goal is only the begin-ning. A few factors have a dispro-portionate impact. 20 percent ofyour efforts account for 80 percentof the results. Think about what todo first.

Develop self-knowledge andpay attention to yourself. Cultivateyour positive emotions. Negativeemotions tell you something, sodont ignore them. Your resolutionsare probably what you want to wantto do; make yourself want to dothem. Behavior is driven towardspleasure and away from pain.Asso-ciate achieving your goal withsomething you like and not achiev-ing it with something you dont.Program your subconscious; give itstuff to think about. Examine your

beliefs about yourself. If they are

limiting, address them. When youchange what you believe, youchange what you do.

Become the kind of person wholives by the resolutions you haveset. Internalize every lesson intoyour behavior. Its not enough toknow the good.Take responsibil-ity; make it a part of you, a part of

your active thinking. Knowledge isnot powerful if you dont use orapply it.

Focus your mind and energy onwhat youre trying to achieve.Thinking is usually a process of ask-ing and answering questions; askthe right questions.Carefully decidehow to spend your time and then to-tally focus on one goal per block oftime.Positively visualize how youllachieve the resolution; thinkthrough the required steps. Makethe journey enjoyable rather than

just the result. The achievement ofthe result happens in an instant; the

journey is immeasurably longer.Do something small to start to-

wards the goal.Research shows that

Yesterday I was part of an FTM(female-to-male) panel spon-sored by the Lou Sullivan So-

ciety, an FTM organization in SanFrancisco.The Lou Sullivan Societywas a support group for transmen inthe area I had heard about the so-ciety,but I had never been to any ofthe meetings.I had written a piece onbeing transgender that was includedin an anthology, Letters to MyBrothers, and I had been asked toread my piece from that anthology. Iactually left my ski trip early so Icould attend I left from Tahoearound seven in the morning, gotback at 11, took a quick shower,and

scrambled onto the 11:31 Caltrain.One and a half hours later I foundmyself in the Castro.

I was nervous as hell.I had trans-male friends back at Stanford, butthey were my age, and we were allmore or less in the same stage oftransition. Not to mention therewere only about three of them,and ifI were to count the entire open trans-gender community (transmen,transwomen, and those in between),they could easily fit in my room fortea. Here, there were going to be forcertain more than three transmen.And this possibility blew my mind.

But even so, the transmale com-munity is pretty small.It could be be-cause of a number of reasons,like thepossibility that many transmen pre-

fer to live in stealth and dont feel theneed to congregate with other trans-guys or it might be simply becausethere arent really a lot of us. Thereare at most two degrees of separationbetween one transguy and another.Ifyoure a transguy and you meet an-other transguy,chances are he knowssomebody you know. Its so bizarre.We all know each other. Its likebeing part of some cool, fun-sizedclub.

When I arrived,I immediately felt

at ease.No,I didnt know any of thesepeople,but I felt that I could just bemyself, that I didnt have to worryabout impressing anyone. We could

just be ourselves. There were menhere in different stages of transition.Iwas, in terms of age, the youngestthere. But there were numerous

transmen covering a whole range ofages and transition stages therewere several transmen who hadmothered children, some who hadnot started hormones yet, some whohad been on hormones for at least 20years,some from around the Bay,oth-ers from the East Coast, and evensome from other countries.There wasa man with a rather menacing mo-hawk and an even more menacingpierced face crocheting a baby bluescarf in the corner of the room.

But despite our different experi-ences, there is a mutual understand-ing among us, a mutual respect foreach others unique sense of mas-culinity.We dont take our manhoodfor granted. That is what makes usdifferent from other men. And be-sides, its not every day that you seemore than 15 transmen in a room.Itfelt pretty cool actually being themajority for once.That pretty muchmade my week.

As if the world were not awe-some enough, Jamison Green wasalso a fellow panelist.Hes one of myheroes he wrote one of my fa-vorite books, Becoming A VisibleMan, which I used to help get me

Perhaps we need toreimagine community

Dear Editor,I think it more than coincidence

that the column Diversity andFriendship and the article on socialnetworking sites underemphasizingloneliness appeared on the sameday (Sense and Nonsense:Diversi-ty and Friendship and Studyshows social networking sites canlead to negative self-image, Jan. 7).

Columnist Aysha Bagchi wrote

that I found myself envying peoplewho were materially less fortunate.Friends who have volunteered in re-mote places in other parts of theworld . . . have told me similar sto-ries of communities with feweriPods but, in my friends eyes,moremeaning. While the thrust of thecolumn was promoting diversity offriendship, this statement hit me thehardest. In a generation that com-

municates through technologyubiquitously (save the dinner tableor discussion section), we havegiven up the treasure of bindingourselves to a real, living,breathingcommunity. We often look at thosewho are economically and sociallyless fortunate through the lens thatthey lack the resources and capabil-ities technology affords the privi-leged. This view, however, ignoreswhat the less fortunate have thestrength of community and real re-lationships.

The research done on social net-

working found (unsurprisingly)that people underestimated theloneliness of others, in turn hurtingtheir own well-being. But in a cul-ture where communication is virtu-al, feelings cannot be mutuallyshared or understood.With the wallof technology, time and to-do listsperennially in front of us, we notonly block ourselves from meaning-ful relationships, but we dont allow

ourselves to reap the benefit ofcommunity. Our sense of othersarises from a distorted imaginationdictated by the media and the flurryof Facebook posts and statuses.

Aysha and her friends are notthe only ones to observe that thetechnology-poor are the communi-ty-rich. Interdependence (on morethan a problem set) brings forthsomething that a wall-to-wall orpassing relationship cannot provide.The challenge, however, is not tosimply take the principle of need-ing deeper relationships away from

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CARDINAL SINS

David SpencerNelson

Practical Education

NoticeThe January meeting of the

members of The Stanford Dailyis set for Thursday, Jan.13 at 9

a.m.at the Lorry I.LokeyStanford Daily Building.

Strength in Numbers

Wikignorant

Achieving New Years Resolutions

THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTY

CristopherBautista

STETHOSCOPES , COMPILERS AND HEMINGWAY

Aaditya

Shidham

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landers are now more likely to hireand retain employment and spureconomic growth than other busi-ness owners.

The White House Initiative,housed in the Department of Edu-cation, was spearheaded by theClinton administration to addressissues in health disparity, but hassince broadened its charter to in-crease Asian American and PacificIslander access to and participationin federal programs where they areunderserved. The summit featuredtalks by politicians and policywonks that shared tips for smallbusiness financing, how best to uti-lize tax credits and loans and whatthe emerging opportunities are inthe realm of big data in clean ener-gy and healthcare informationtechnology. Also included wereworkshops on financing a start-up,

government contracting,exporting,clean energy technology andhealthcare IT.

There are currently more thantwo million Asian Americans andPacific Islanders involved in smallbusiness and more than one millionAAPI-owned firms in the UnitedStates.They represent 10 percent ofthe United States entrepreneursand cumulatively bring in over $300billion dollars in sales.

If you were to take out aBlackberry, break it apart and seehow many Asian-Americans wereinvolved in producing it, youd beamazed, said Rep. Mike Honda(CA-15), a speaker at the after-noon portion of the event. All ofus have contributed to all the tech-nology of thi s . . . The Whi teHouse Initiative recognizes thatthe Asian American Diaspora is aresource that that governmentneeds to tap into.

Silicon Valley, where AsianAmericans head about a third ofstart-ups, was the first stop on theWhite House Initiatives national

tour to discuss what the federal gov-ernment is doing across differentpriority areas to promote opportu-nities for Asian Americans and Pa-cific Islanders.

For small business owners likeVan Leong, who owns an Internetmarketing firm out of his home inMilpitas, the summit was a reassur-ing reminder that the governmentwas working to address the prob-lems, like loan contracts, that faceAAPI in the business sector.

As an Asian American, Imglad to see that were a focus in theWhite House, said Leong, whohas a 20-year background in hightech. For me, what this reallyshowed was how different the eco-nomic situation now is from 10years ago.Theres a different envi-ronment for getting money today,which the summit addressed, andthe small business mentality is dif-ferent. I think getting the word outis positive.

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even with their admittedly patheticcorpus of knowledge, to make some-thing awesome from that corpus.

When I hear my fellow studentscomplain about a class, it often is thecase that the class fails to give themthe larger picture, the context thatmakes all their facts useful as non-practitioners.Two decades from now,we may not remember the practicalfacts about a subject. But we will re-member the single concept that de-fined the class and the enormouspillars that were laid before us in 10weeks time.

This is why I ask Stanford andjust about every other elite universityin America to introduce us to fieldswell.You are atop an ivory tower.Youare not a school that prepares studentsfor an industry, nor for a vocation.Dont stoop to that practical lens ofeducation when you give students anintroduction to a field.We can look upthe lay of the land ourselves withWikipedia. We dont need awesomeprofessors for that.We need awesomeprofessors to give us depth thekind that cant easily be found online.In this age of forgettable facts, weneed something unforgettable: wis-dom.

Want to give Aaditya a little bit of prac-tical education? You can always insulthim with it at [email protected].

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people are more likely to achieve agoal that theyve made 20 percentof progress on than one that is only80 percent as long. Focus on thedistinction between activity andproductivity. Be efficient.Take ac-tion.Only expend energy on thingsover which have control or influ-ence. See every step back as achance to learn. Make automatictriggers for your behavior. Make ita ritual in your day or week. Takecontrol of the time between whensomething happens and your re-sponse. Choose how to interpretany situation relating to the reso-lution; mentally redefine it.

Keep going. Repetition formshabits. Keep track of progress; re-view your goals on a regular basis.Help others achieve their goals andhave others help you. If your goalincludes other people, includethem as early as possible. If youcan, tell them what youre going todo and by when. Declare some ofyour goals publicly. When you tellothers, still take total responsibili-ty. Surround yourself with peoplewho already do your resolution.You inevitably pick up traits fromthose around whom you hang out.If you want to become a leader,hang out with leaders.

Thats pretty much it; remem-ber,its all about momentum. Buildit and youll rock these resolutions.

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both pieces. I see the challenge toquestion not only our dependenceon the material to sustain our rela-tionships, but also the need to ques-tion our lack of dependence oncommunity.Its difficult to see valuein sharing time and joy, living pur-posefully in a community and in-vesting oneself in others in our isociety filled with iPods, iPads,iPhones, iBooks, and the simple Ithat individualism heralds assupreme.

Perhaps its not simply ourfriendships we need to re-imagine maybe its our concept of com-munity. I thank both authors fortheir pieces, but hope that a largerdiscourse on what real communitylooks like can emerge from thesepages.

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I applaud Lucks decision

Dear Editor:Stanford quarterback Andrew

Luck has decided not to declare forthe 2011 NFL Draft but instead re-turn to college for his senior season,which may see both a nationalchampionship and a Heisman Tro-phy added to his already-impressiveresume (Our lucky day, Jan.7).

Im a college student and I lovewhen student-athletes decide to putoff their dreams for a year or twoand return back to school to receivetheir respective degrees and enjoythe college experience while they

are able to. In Mr. Lucks case, thecircumstances are a bit different.If he had entered in the draft for

this upcoming season, he would nothave the burden of a potential re-striction on rookie contracts,but bywaiting another year he faces thepossibility of having to deal with arestriction on rookie contracts. Formany people, especially youngerstudent-athletes, knowing $50 to$60 million is just one yes awaywould have them jumping for joyand they would be on the phone asquick as they could reach one.

By staying in college, Mr. Luckonly delayed the inevitable a yearlonger.Either this year or next,heswithin the top five picks and thebest all-around quarterback in thedraft. Im from the state of Ten-

nessee, where 14 years ago PeytonManning returned to college for hissenior season and it turned outgreat for himself and the Indianapo-lis Colts.

I applaud Mr. Lucks decisionand look forward to seeing him onSundays.I just have to wait an extrayear. I wish Mr. Luck the best ofluck in whats left of his college ca-reer and in his future NFL career.May God bless him.

BILLY PARRISH

Clarksville,Tenn.

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through hard times when I was firstcoming out to myself and when Iwas going through some tough tran-sition issues last quarter. And notonly did I meet him, he was also apanelist with me a panelist whosat right next to me. (Talk about ahigh-pressure situation.) I, being acomplete nerd, brought along mycopy of his book and asked him tosign it.The gracious man he was, heagreed, and he wrote,Cris, thanksfor contributing to the literature ofour community.

And it was in this moment, read-ing that little note, that I realized this column does not exist in isola-tion. This column is part of a move-

ment within the queer community, areaction to the tiny amount of trans-centered literature present today.This column exists in order to em-power those who are transgenderedand to educate those who arent.Thiscolumn exists in the same space asother transgendered people willingto write about their own experiences,their own aspirations about their fu-tures,about their own fears about in-timacy. As I said before, there are

many states of being transgendered,one just as valid as the other. Andwhen Im long gone,what I write herewill help somebody.And thats morevaluable than any amount of money Icould ever get.

Be proud that Cristophers creativewriting degree isnt going to waste! E-mail him at [email protected].

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the rest of the Western world willtake action to control the other-wise uncharted expanse of theWeb. Of course, I dont mean tosuggest that the users of the Inter-net should engage in self-censor-ship, but I want to suggest the pos-

sibility of higher control on the In-ternet is only increased by trying to

exercise it in a way that is both irra-tional and irresponsible. Wieldingthe incredible power and freedomof the Internet in a way that bringsto mind the word juvenile will onlymove censorship closer to our com-puters.

This column was leaked by Julian As- sange. Discuss at [email protected]

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thanks for

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A uniqueperspectiveon football

Afew weeks ago one ofmy friends, a fellow for-eigner, accused me ofbeing close-mindedwhen it comes to Amer-

ican sports.In a desperate attempt toprove him wrong,and because the be-ginning of a new year is the perfecttime to make a change, Im going todevote the entirety of this column to

football, promising not to mention asingle overseas sport.Unfortunately for my fledgling in-

terest and understanding,I wasnt onthe Farm this past fall quarter duringthe most successful regular season inStanford football history, and wassimilarly stuck back home in the UKlast week,when the Card won its firstever BCS bowl. Faced with having totune in from across the pond, in themiddle of a cold and damp Englishnight,and unable to summon the sortof all-encompassing football knowl-edge of my fellow Daily columnists,Ihope youre not expecting anythingtoo incisive.

Football still makes my brain hurt:just when I think I know what is goingon, one of the many referees willthrow down a flag and declare a mys-

teriously unexplained infringement.Thankfully, though, I have ESPN tokeep me company. I mostly watchsports on various channels under theumbrella of Sky Sports,and they gen-erally do a great job.When it comes tothe NFL, though,it feels weird.I stillstruggle to have much of an interest inthe world of professional football,but

Tom Taylor

SPORTS

By NATE ADAMSDESK EDITOR

It was no secret that Stanford womens bas-ketball had been playing well heading into Satur-days matchup with Arizona State.The No.4 Car-dinal (12-2, 3-0 Pac-10) turned heads across thenation with its 12-point upset of national-champi-on Connecticut,and then kicked off the confer-ence season with convincing victories over Cali-

fornia and Arizona. But no one was expectingStanford to blow away the Sun Devils quite theway it did.

Stanford left Arizona State (10-4,2-2) lookingfor answers following an 82-35 rout on Saturdayafternoon,posting its sixth win in a row while put-ting ASU into a two-game skid,the teams firstlosing streak of the season.Senior guard JeanettePohlen led the explosive Cardinal offense with 7-for-10 shooting and 18 points, while junior for-ward Nnemkadi Ogwumike added 16 of herown,along with eight rebounds.

Arizona State is an excellent team.Our teamknew that.I thought we just had to come out and

jump right on them, and we did, said Stanfordhead coach Tara VanDerveer.

Stanford certainly wasted no time getting outin front.The Cardinal worked a tough player-to-player defense from the outset,holding the SunDevils to low-percentage shots while working ag-gressively to the hoop on the other end.Nnemka-di Ogwumike drove hard to the basket like shedid in her 24-point effort against Arizona twodays earlier,putting up a pair of layups in the firsttwo minutes.Pohlen added an uncontested three-pointer from the wing to put the Card up 9-0,forcing an early timeout from ASU head coachCharli Turner Thorne.

Stanford didnt let up from there.Barely eightminutes into the game, the Sun Devils found

themselves facing an 18-3 deficit.Thorne responded by subbing out all five

players a few minutes later,and the rapid changein individual matchups helped boost the SunDevils to a short 7-2 run to pull within 20-10.

But with Pohlen driving harder to the hoopand Nnemkadi Ogwumike making a few trips tothe free-throw line, the Cardinal was able tomaintain distance.Stanford went on a 13-0 run ofits own to bring the score to 33-10 before headingto the locker room with a 42-14 lead.

At the half, the Cardinal had been shooting18-for-28 while holding ASU to just 5-for-25.Nnemkadi Ogwumike was already 7-for-11 all onher own,highlighted by a look-easy steal just out-side the ASU key and a smooth run in for a layup.Pohlen helped send Stanford to the half with abang as well, notching a nothing-but-net three-pointer from a full step beyond the arc in the finalseconds.

We just were focusing on what [ASU] wasgiving us, Ogwumike said about her teams of-fense on Saturday.Just making smart plays.AndI think people were just ready to go from thestart.We werent going to have any letdowns.

Pohlen and Nnemkadi Ogwumike may haveprovided plenty of firepower, but as Stanfordcontinued to snuff out the brief offensive sparksfrom ASU in the second half,it became clear thatthe Cardinal was also locked in on defense.

Perhaps most impressive was junior guardLindy La Rocque,who all but shut down ASUsDymond Simon.The Sun Devil guard had aver-aged over 14 points per game on the season, butLa Rocque held her to a single three-pointer inall the time she was defending her. Simon fin-ished the game with seven points.

Lindy did a great job,VanDerveer said.Ilove how people like [recent graduate RosalynGold-Onwude] stepped up like that on defense,and got in the game because of her defense. Ithink Chiney [Ogwumike] and Lindy and otherpeople are really understanding thats whattheyre going to do,too.

The Cardinal bench played a bigger role as thegame wore on,but the general trend was still thesame. Stanford may have hit a stumbling blockwhen it lost to DePaul and Tennessee last month,

SMOOTHSAILING

TOUGH LOSS INTUCSON

By CAROLINE CASELLIDESK EDITOR

Just days after a promising road vic-tory at Arizona State, the Stanfordmens basketball team fell to Arizona,67-57, despite a last-ditch comebackattempt.The Cardinal (9-5,2-1 Pac-10)suffered its first conference loss of theseason while Arizona (14-3, 3-1) re-mains undefeated on its home courtand improves to second in the confer-ence standings.

Sundays game,which was original-ly scheduled for Saturday afternoon,was postponed after the shooting ofRep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., andothers during a public appearance inTucson on Saturday.Following a state-ment from University of Arizona pres-ident Robert Shelton,players,coachesand fans observed a moment of silencefor the shooting victims who are

being treated at nearby UniversityMedical Center before the gamecommenced.

We wanted to make sure we re-spected a tragic situation and a loss oflife and injuries it was an easy deci-sion, said head coach JohnnyDawkins on the games rescheduling.We could have postponed to the nextday or whenever they wanted toreschedule it.You have to respect the

process of what happened and thepeople involved.

Sporting sleek black uniforms,Stanford opened with an impressive12-6 start aided by crisp passes from

junior guard Jarrett Mann and redshirtjunior forward Josh Owens low-postpresence. Freshman forward DwightPowell,who made his second consecu-tive start,contributed five early pointsbut quickly picked up two fouls andexited the game for the remainder ofthe half.

With Powell on the bench, theWildcats opened a gap midwaythrough the first half, when efficientball movement along the perimeterwas met by slow defensive rotations byStanford. Numerous traveling viola-tions by the Wildcats allowed the Car-dinal to stay in the game,but an 8-0 runlate in the first period gave Arizona a29-22 lead. A resounding tip-slam at

the buzzer from Arizona senior for-ward Jamelle Horne ended the half 39-28 in the home teams favor.

[Horne] played like a seniortonight,Dawkins said. He was realactive and made plays and knockeddown his open looks.

The Card held the Wildcats score-less for the first three and a half min-

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Junior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumikes (30) strong play led the Cardinal in a blowout victoryagainst Arizona State Saturday, contributing 16 points, all in the first half, and eight rebounds.

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Harbaughs future in theNFL: success not guaranteed

Last week I got an e-mail froma friend who graduated fromStanford a few years ago sug-gesting that Jim Harbaughshould have a one-hour TV

special with Jim Gray to announce hisdecisionon where he will coach nextseason.

This was obviously an allusion toLeBron James The Decision, andwhile the national courtship of Har-baugh may not have reached epicJames proportions, it sure came close.From the ways in which he was pur-sued, one would think that Harbaughwas a messiah sure to turn a decrepitSan Francisco franchise into the peren-nial contender that it used to be.

Im going to suggest something that49ers fans and even most Stanfordfans (even the bitter ones who feltdumped Friday afternoon) proba-bly dont want to hear:Jim Harbaugh,in all likelihood,will not be the saviorfor the Niners that he was for Stanford.In fact,he very well might be a huge dis-

appointment.Blasphemy,I know.History isnt exactly on Harbaughsside. In recent years, successful,highlycoveted college coaches that haveturned to the pro ranks have widelyfailed.

Example one: Steve Spurrier.Spurrier left his post at the Universityof Florida to become the coach of theWashington Redskins in 2002.Seen asa cant-miss coach, he was given themost lucrative contract in NFL histo-ry at the time (five-year, $25 million exactly what Harbaugh receivedfrom San Francisco). Two years, 12wins and 20 losses later,Spurrier wasdone in the NFL. He now coaches atSouth Carolina.

Example two: Butch Davis. ButchDavis was probably as equipped as anycollege coach headed to the pros his

Miami Hurricane teams were chockfull of future NFL stars.Still, he man-aged just a 24-35 record in three and ahalf seasons as the Cleveland Brownshead coach from 2001-2004. LikeSpurrier, Davis is back in the collegegame,coaching North Carolina.

Example three: Nick Saban. LikeSpurrier,Saban was a previous nation-al championship-winning coach whenhe took an NFL job.Saban left LSU tolead the Miami Dolphins in 2005. Hecoached two seasons, neither of whichnetted a playoff appearance, and wasseen as a disappointment.With a 15-17record overall,he was out as Dolphinscoach.Saban,too,is back in the collegegame,and he won his second nationalchampionship last season at Alabama.

Example four:Bobby Petrino.After

leading Louisville to an unexpected Or-ange Bowl victory (sound familiar,Stanford fans?) Petrino became headcoach for the Atlanta Falcons.His firstand only season with the Falcons can bedescribed as nothing short of a disaster.

He resigned midway through the year,after going 3-10,to take his current jobwith the University of Arkansas.

It isnt just in recent years thatcoaches have flopped in the NFL.LouHoltz famously failed as New York Jetscoach in 1976.Some of you may pointto Pete Carroll leading the Seattle Sea-hawks to the playoffs this year (with a 7-9 record,no less) as a sign of success fora college-turned-pro coach.I would saythat the jury is still out.After all,Carrollstruggled in previous stints as an NFLcoach with both the Jets and the NewEngland Patriots.

So what is the lesson here? Successin the college ranks does not necessari-ly translate to the NFL.All four of the

above examples have succeeded intheir second stints in the NCAA butcouldnt cut it in the NFL.

What is the difference, you mightask? There are many.

First,and foremost,recruiting is lostin the NFL.Half the battle in college isgetting good players to come to yourschool,a big reason Harbaugh turnedthe Stanford program around.He wasable to get blue-chip recruits like An-drew Luck and Shayne Skov to come tothe Farm. In the NFL there is lesscourtship,as money is king (insert CamNewton joke here).

Second,NFL players are paid pro-fessionals who see their coaches moreas peers and less as superiors. Thatmeans strict discipline is not respondedto as well in the NFL,and players areless likely to react well to the collegiate

rah-rah attitude of many college coach-es,such as Harbaugh.

Lastly, there are the obvious ruledifferences between the NFL and col-lege games.Many of the imaginative,unbalanced sets that Harbaugh usedat Stanford arent allowed in the NFL.Overall, the NFL limits the creativityof coaches.This isnt to say that Har-baugh cant maximize his creativitywithin these boundaries. He probablycan and will, but a significant differ-ence remains.

So will Harbaugh succeed in SanFrancisco? Maybe, but I wouldnt beton it.Its not like the 49ers have a loadedroster (or a quarterback), and historyisnt exactly on his side.If Harbaugh isback coaching at the college level in afew years,this writer wont be particu-

larly surprised.Daniel Bohm wishes Harbaugh thebest,but is keeping history in mind.Tellhim youre not bitter either [email protected].

utes of the second half,but Stanfordstepid long-range shooting and inabili-ty to rebound proved detrimental,with Horne and sophomore forwardsDerrick Williams and Solomon Hillleading the Wildcats to a 15-pointlead,their largest of the night.

They just outfought us out there,said junior guard Jeremy Green.[Playing zone] we really dont haveto box out the opponent and we justhave to fight for the rebounds. Ari-zona crashed really hard and we gaveup a lot of second chance points be-cause of that.

The Card refused to roll over with four minutes remaining in thegame, Stanford rallied to bring thescore within five.However,turnoversand missed opportunities in the finalstretch on one possession, Mannstepped out of bounds on an attempt-ed pass to Green, only to be an-swered by a three-pointer fromHorne enabled Arizona to holdon for the win. A layup by Arizonasophomore guard Lamont Jones,who hit a game-winner for the Wild-cats in Maples Pavilion last season,sealed the game,67-57.

Owens 18 points on 9-for-17shooting and three rebounds led theway for the Card. Green was 5-for-14from the floor and 1-for-5 from be-hind the arc, though eight of his 15

points came in the games final nineminutes.

Horne posted season-high num-bers with 16 points (6-for-7 from thefield, 4-for-4 from three-point range)and 12 rebounds, while Williamsadded 14 points and nine rebounds.The Wildcats outrebounded the Car-dinal by a 41-26 margin and shot 58.8percent from behind the arc to Stan-fords 16.7 percent.Were always going to work andcompete to the very end,Green sad.

Today,we just werent able to pull itout.

Next up for the Card is Washing-ton, which stands alone atop the con-ference as the only undefeated teamin Pac-10 play. Tipoff is at 7 p.m. onThursday at Maples Pavilion.

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Daniel

Bohm

On My Mind

but Saturday was all Cardinal.

Stanford will hit the road nextweekend, facing Washington at 7p.m.on Friday in Seattle and Wash-ington State at 1 p.m. on Sunday inPullman.

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SO LONG,HARBAUGH

By KABIR SAWHNEYMANAGING EDITOR

Stanford head coach Jim Har-baugh has decided to leave Cardinalfootball to become head coach ofthe NFLs San Francisco 49ers, it wasannounced Friday. Harbaugh wasintroduced as the 49ers head coachat a press conference on Friday af-ternoon.

Its with humility and a heavyheart that I leave Stanford and itsfootball team, but the opportunity

to compete at this level over-whelmed me, Harbaugh said.ESPN reported that the five-year

deal will pay Harbaugh $5 millionannually.

Harbaugh first met with officialsfrom the 49ers on Wednesday,where the team reportedly made itsoffer to the coach. On Thursday,Harbaugh met with the Miami Dol-phins and with top Stanford offi-cials, including University PresidentJohn Hennessy. Stanford offeredHarbaugh a new contract in thosemeetings that reportedly came closeto the 49ers offer in financial terms.

Hennessy and Bob Bowlsby,Stanfords athletic director,both re-leased statements in the wake ofHarbaughs departure.

We are grateful to Jim Har-

baugh for re-energizing the Stan-ford football program over the pastfour years, Hennessy said. Hehelped build momentum that we areconfident will continue into the fu-ture.We made Jim the best offer wecould commensurate with our roleas a university.

Jim Harbaugh has done an out-standing job of advancing the foot-ball program at Stanford Universityand I am grateful for all of histremendous work, Bowlsby said.Coach Harbaugh has led the pro-gram with integrity, vision, enthusi-asm and energy and his teams haveplayed with precision and excep-tional passion.

With star quarterback Andrew

Luck turning down the NFL Draftto return for his senior year, Stan-ford was believed to have the insidetrack on keeping its head coach, atleast for next season. San Francis-cos offer falls short of what Har-baugh was thought to be seekinga contract paying him over $6.5 mil-lion annually, using the contractsigned last season by former USChead coach Pete Carroll with theSeattle Seahawks as a benchmark.

Bowlsby will begin his search fora new head coach in earnest, as the

Cardinal would like to have a coachin place as soon as possible to pre-vent losing recruits to rival pro-grams.The team will need to have ahead coach in place by Feb. 2, thefirst day that recruits can officiallysign with programs.

Bowlsbys initial short list is be-lieved to include current Boise Statehead coach Chris Petersen and for-mer Oregon head coach Mike Bel-lotti.He is also considering three in-ternal candidates: assistant headcoach Greg Roman, offensive coor-dinator David Shaw and defensivecoordinator Vic Fangio. Bowlsbyhas met with all three internal candi-dates and Stanford has reached outto Petersen, but it is unclear howmuch contact the two sides havehad.

Harbaughs departure has al-ready had an impact on the recruit-ing class linebacker JamesVaughters from Tucker High Schoolin Georgia,Stanfords top defensiveprospect, said earlier that he wouldreopen his recruitment if Harbaughleft Stanford. Vaughters verballycommitted to the Cardinal in June.Stanford did pick up another com-mitment from a coveted recruitafter Harbaughs departure ESPN.com reported that safetyWayne Lyons, from Dillard in Ft.Lauderdale, Fla., plans to attendStanford in the fall.

Contact Kabir Sawhney at [email protected].

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After a historic season, Cardinal head coach Jim Harbaugh signed a $25million contract with the San Francisco 49ers. Harbaugh was introduced asthe 49ers head coach in a press conference Friday afternoon.

the biggest impediment to my growthis having to listen to British peopletalk about it.

Coverage of American sportsshould be big,brash and come with athick American accent. I dont trustBritish voices because I cant really besure they know anything about thesport. Their very presence just seemsunpatriotic why arent they com-mentating on our own English sports?So my thanks go out to ESPN for sim-ply relaying the same feed that surelywent out in the U.S. It was everything

I could have dreamed of:loud, flashy,full of references I didnt understandand complete with made-up wordslike winningest(which is not in theOxford English Dictionary).

Fueled by coffee and chocolate,the first half of the Orange Bowl leftme wishing Virginia Techs quarter-back had lined up in Cardinal colors.Stanford seemed to stutter its waythrough and just held onto a one-point lead,while it seemed that TyrodTaylor was almost single-handedlyturning the tide.To be honest,though,the main reason behind this wish ofmine was that it would be pretty coolto get a Cardinal jersey with T.Tayloremblazoned across the back.

I began to regret my musings inthe second half as Stanford quarter-back Andrew Luck made it clear why

he was the favorite to be the first pickin the NFL Draft and the Cardinaldefense turned up the heat on Taylor,sacking him for some heavy losses.Fortunately, we have a Taylor of ourown, running back Stepfan Taylor,who made a couple of impressivelong rushes in the second half,puttingthe Cardinal in position to scoretouchdowns and keeping alive my

dreams of getting a shirt with myname on it.

My fear is that by the time Imback and better educated for nextfootball season,the outlook for Stan-ford football may be very different.As I admit to not being a die-hardfan, my interest in what happens inStanford Stadium is strongly linkedto success: if the team racks up lossafter loss it might not take much tofind another weekend distraction.With Luck now committed to return,it is up to Jim Harbaughs replace-ment to decide how much time Illdevote to the Red Zone.To the cha-grin of the die-hard fans, the sameholds true for many other students.

It would be hard to argue that thisyears team wouldnt have been even

stronger if Toby Gerhart had stayedfor his final year of eligibility.Whether that would have made a dif-ference in the game against Oregon issomething we can never know. Per-haps Stanford might not have wonthe Orange Bowl last week,but couldinstead be warming up for an im-probable national championshipgame.Maybe this thought was as bigan influence on Luck as his desire tocomplete his degree. Luck seems as-sured of a star-studded career. Stay-ing one more year is a big risk for him,but brings the possibility of achievingsomething really special on the Farm.This years success was impressive,but could a multi-year winning streakdo more than just bring admirers?Could Stanford become a real foot-ball school?

Another friend of mine,a partisanLonghorns fan, recently pointed out:Its weird seeing actual footballplayers on campus.

I hope theyre here to stay.

Tom Taylor may be a fair-weather fanwhen it comes to football, but heseager to learn.Teach him a thing ortwo at [email protected].

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The Stanford Daily, Jan. 10, 2011