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RESEARCH

Study examines drug prescriptionsBy ELLORA ISRANISTAFF WRITER

A recent study by researchers at Stan-ford and the University of Chicago foundthat a significant proportion of prescrip-tions for atypical antipsychotics, currentlythe top-selling class of drugs in the UnitedStates, lack sufficient evidence for their ef-fectiveness.

Atypical antipsychotics are a newer gen-eration of antipsychotic medications intro-duced to the market in 1989. While theirtypical first-generation predecessors tar-get dopamine pathways in the brain thoughtto be the origins of psychotic symptoms,atypical drugs address a variety of otherneurotransmitters whose influences are less

obvious but equally significant.What we were interested was,first of all,the shift from the older generation to thenewer generation, said Randall Stafford,senior author of the study and associate pro-

fessor of medicine.And then also among allof the uses,to what extent were antipsychot-ic medications being used for conditionsthat were not part of their FDA approval forthe drug.

The study tracked prescriptions of bothtypical and atypical antipsychotics between1995 and 2008 using data from a physicianssurvey by private health-care informationcompany IMS Health.

Basically what we found was that therewas a substantial use actually more thanhalf of the uses for the newer-generation an-tipsychotics did not have strong evidencebehind them,Stafford said.Not only werethese uses not approved by the FDA, theydidnt even have the sort of evidence thatwe expect of drugs that are going to be wide-

ly used.Physicians frequently prescribe atypicalantipsychotics to address illnesses for whichtheir effectiveness has yet to be proved bythe FDA.These illnesses include other psy-

choses, autism, bipolar disorder, delirium,dementia,depression and personality disor-ders. Side effects range from weight gain todiabetes to heart disease.

When drugs are approved, its not ablanket approval. Its approval for a veryspecific use, he said. For instance, al-though antipsychotics could be used for awhole range of psychiatric conditions,manyof them were first approved for schizophre-nia and over time have gradually been usedfor many other psychiatric conditions.

The study determined that prescriptionsfor atypical antipsychotics nearly tripled to16.7 million in 2008 from 6.2 million in 1995,and Stafford estimates that in recent years,$15 billion per year has been spent on thedrugs.Of the $6 billion spent in 2008 for off-

label uses,$5.4 billion was for uses with un-certain evidence.At best, what we have here is practice

Grad talkshigh-tech

politics

By ERIN INMANSTAFF WRITER

The 21st century is all about surprises, andthe spread of technology is the wild card, saidJared Cohen 04 during a talk sponsored byStanford in Government on Wednesday nightabout how technology is shaping internationalrelations.

Cohen, formerly of the U.S. State Depart-

ments policy planning staff and now the direc-tor of Google Ideas,emphasizedthe role of connections in creat-ing a 21st-century statecraftcomprised of the state,individu-als and technology, or tools.

According to Cohen, publicpolicy is no longer limited to ne-gotiations but is now open toconnections. Society must lookat how connectivity is shapinginternational relations in a world where thereare fewer physical walls and more firewalls thatstate apparatuses can infiltrate, he said.

The connection technology we see today isprobably the most powerful tool to empowercommunities at the grassroots level for goodor for bad because it eliminates the interme-diary in the spread of information,Cohen said.

Cohen cited Afghanistan, where imprisonedAl Qaeda members have orchestrated suicide

bombings from cell phones, as one instancewhere connective tools were harnessed for hos-tility as opposed to empowerment.

A handset can be as powerful a weapon as atool or a gun, Cohen said,because hostiles in-novate like crazy.

Though hostiles may innovate to inflict dam-age in repressive societies, democratic societies,too, are subject to the dangerous tide of tech-nology, according to Cohen. In a world whereindividuals have the power and means to tagsomeone and inflict embarrassment, connectiv-ity is not always a positive.

Though technology isnt the silver bullet an-swer, it has met some success in the past fewyears,Cohen said.

Mediums such as Facebook and Twitterallow for self-training in civil society activism.In such cases, social indulgence has politicalprescriptions,Cohen said, describing a handfulof instances when technology led to broad polit-ical results,such as in 2009 after Irans presiden-tial election.

Stanford Store toopen on Parents

WeekendBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Stanford Store, a division ofStanford Student Enterprises (SSE) ison schedule to open at its new locationat the former site of the Stanford TicketOffice on Feb. 24. SSE proposed themove last May as a response to lacklus-ter sales at the stores current locationbehind Tresidder Union.

Construction is on track,said SSEchief executive Raj Bhandari M.S.10 inan e-mail to The Daily.

The store is planning a ValentinesDay sale at its current location to openup inventory space for new items for thenew store,said Bhandari.The installa-tion of a student-designed light pen-dantwill cap the project next week,headded.

Store manager Olivia Witter 13 saidstaff will be moving items into the newstore in the near future.The store is astudent-run venture whose revenue

goes to the ASSU.The Stanford Department of ProjectManagement is overseeing the move,estimated to cost around $297,000.

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NEWS BRIEFS

Sending Off Oliveira

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The Cantor Art Center held a Nathan Oliveira memorial reception on Wednesday, during which his painting Windhover was in-stalled. The painting will remain installed through Sunday, Jan. 23 at the center.

ANDREW STILES/The Stanford Daily

The Stanford Store is set to open on Feb. 24 at the former site of the Stanford Ticket Office. It will feature whitewashed walls and a minimalist aesthetic.

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Realizing that technology canbe used for good or for harm,Cohen explained technoprag-matism as the desire for a newpositive by maximizing influence,not control, over connectivetools.

We all need to think of howwe can maximize creativity on theright side,Cohen said.

In a world where technologycreates space for unlikely leadersthat arent trained civil-society ac-tivists and where technology ispart of every problem and everysolution, Cohen emphasized thenecessity to bridge the gap.

Google Ideas has a deep un-derstanding of technology whilealso being extremely global, butits international presence makesit impossible for its influence tostay private, he said.

Rather than a state thatforms value systems and buildspolicies around that, a companydoes their thing and must now de-

cide on values, Cohen said.Valentin Bolotnyy 11, chair ofStanford in Government, sawCohens background and expert-ise as a way to bridge the gap be-tween policy-making and tech-nology.

Cohen is the kind of speakerthat we saw taking the scienceand technology side of campuscloser to international relationsand political science side of cam-pus, he said. Stanford is big oninterdisciplinary, but SIG sees alack of collaboration betweentwo sides of campus.

Contact Erin Inman at [email protected].

CorrectionsIn an obituary on Jan. 11, Claire

Roscows birthdate was misstated.It was Aug.29,1988.

In At Knight, GSB settles in(Jan. 11), The Daily incorrectly re-ported that the buildings construc-tion cost was $345 million.That wasthe project cost.

STATECRAFTContinued from front page

getting ahead of the evidence, he

said. At worst, what we have ispractice being influenced by thesubstantial marketing that went onfor these drugs.

Stafford suggests that the majorsolution to preventing unfoundedprescriptions lies in curbing the ad-vertising done by pharmaceuticalcompanies in order to provide con-sumers both patients and physi-cians with objective informa-tion about the drugs. Althoughconsumers have won hundreds ofmillions of dollars from the compa-nies in what is the single largest classof litigation filed under the federalFalse Claims Act, this remains an in-significant financial blow to the in-dustry.

For physicians,part of the mes-sage here is that we need to be care-

ful about the medications wereusing, particularly if those medica-

tions have serious side effects,Stafford said. From the consumerpoint of view, I think its alwaysworth asking physicians,Whats theevidence that leads you to believethat this drug will be helpful forme?

However, Stafford remainshopeful about the future of atypicalantipsychotics and their ability toeffectively aid most patients.For ex-ample,the study found a decrease inprescriptions between 2006 and2008 after the FDA issued a blackbox warning against in the drugs in2005 because of their role in in-creasing the risk of death for pa-tients with dementia.

My hope is that they will besome recalibration of the use ofthese medications,and that their usewill be more appropriate in the fu-ture,Stafford said.Theres greaterattention on these drugs.And in alllikelihood that will result in betterpractices and more evidence-basedpractice.

Contact Ellora Israni at [email protected].

DRUGSContinued from front page

The Art of Persuasion

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Larry Rinder, director of the Berkeley Art Museum, and Dorian Katz, MFA candidate, discuss art censorship on Wednesday. The panel formed in re-sponse to the Smithsonian Institutes editing of its Hide/Seek exhibit dealing with queer issues.

Teach for America CEO Speaks

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Teach for America CEO Wendy Kopp, above, speaks on campusWednesday with political science professor Robert Reich.


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GROUP NAME

Viennese Ball Committee

CATEGORY:

Social Dance Promotion

FOUNDED:

1978, first hosted in Toyon Hall

FACTOIDS:

The 34th Annual Viennese Balltakes place this year on Friday,Feb.11 at the Hyatt Regency inBurlingame. Waltzing at the Vien-

nese Ball is on the UnofficialGuides list of 87 things to do be-fore you graduate.

PURPOSE:

The annual Viennese Ball is an el-egant, black-tie affair that fuses

Austrian culture with Stanford so-cial dance. The Viennese Ball isopen to everyone, from profes-sional dancers to social dancestudents to people who are danc-

ing for the first time. During Aus-tria Fortnight, the two weeks be-fore the ball, there will be oppor-tunities for newcomers to learn thebasic steps. The Viennese BallCommittee strives to create amagical evening for everyone todance the night away.

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FEATURES

CARDINALCLEAN

DOES THE DIRTYWORK

By KELSEY GEISER

College students are notoriousfor waiting to do laundry untilthey are down to their last pairof socks. To help remedy thispredicament, Bennett Siegal

13 and Alexandra Dorda 13 have takentheir own initiative to expand servicesavailable to Stanford students.

When Siegal arrived on campus lastfall,he was upset to find that,unlike manyother universities, there was no laundry ordry-cleaning service on campus. Over thispast summer, he started having discus-sions with Dorda, who also felt the cam-pus could use such a service. The twobegan brainstorming together and even-tually launched Cardinal Clean in themiddle of fall quarter.

Siegal and Dorda covered the start-upcosts of their company, which seeks toprovide Stanford students with an afford-able,door-to-door laundry and dry clean-ing service,Dorda said.

Customers can sign up online for laun-dry service or dry cleaning for the quarteror the entire academic year.The laundryservice is set at a fixed rate,while the drycleaning service is based on a deductiblepoints system.

The service provides a laundry bag,which is picked up from a collection binoutside of dorms before 1 p.m. on eitherTuesday or Friday and is returned to thatbin after 5 p.m.the next service day.Week-

ly laundry service, which includes wash-ing, drying and folding, costs $549 a yearor $199 per quarter.

Before Siegal and Dorda launchedCardinal Clean, they did research togauge how interested the campus wouldbe in their organization.

We needed to make sure everythingwas perfect so that when we started, wewould execute it well,Siegal said.

They sent an e-mail survey to severalgroups and dorms on campus and re-ceived a surprising amount of interest.Of250 people surveyed,60 percent reportedthey would want to use the dry cleaningservice, and 25 percent said they would

take part in the laundry service.Along with confirming customer inter-

est, they contacted more than a dozensimilar organizations at other universitiesto gain some insight into the ins and outsof starting a small business.

They contacted most of the laundryservices in the area and decided to use thesame commercial dry-cleaning organiza-tion that does the dry cleaning for manyarea hotels.

Although funding and generating in-terest in the idea was relatively easy,Dorda and Siegal soon discovered thatstarting their own small business washarder to do than it appeared on paper.The number of important details began topile up quickly.But despite the workload,they remained the only two partners inthe endeavor.

We wanted it to be our own, Dordasaid.

They proceeded to get the word out oncampus about their new service by e-mail-ing lists and posting flyers.However,whatthey found to be most successful in at-tracting new customers was word ofmouth.

Dorda said that there has been interestso far because everyone at some pointneeds dry cleaning done. It is just in-evitable.

Many students who have used the serv-ice have been pleased with the process.

Everything was done very profession-ally,and it was a very hands-off process for

me, said Casey Finch 13,who subscribedto Cardinal Clean during fall quarter thisyear.

Finch also enjoyed the online nature ofthe service,which she said made her inter-actions convenient and efficient.

Siegal said he feels optimistic aboutCardinal Cleans performance so far andthat room for growth is unlimited be-cause the campus is so large.

The duo said it hopes to continue to se-riously evaluate feedback from customersand improve the service. According toSiegal,he and Dorda are always trying toget feedback along the way to make surethat the product that we are providing istop.

Contact Kelsey Geiser at [email protected].

Sensing niche opportunity,two sophomores startcampus laundry service

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The recent repeal of DADT in the military hasROTC proponents thinking they have the ball in thered zone and the only thing left to do is run the ball infor an easy touchdown.Im baffled as to why.Why doesEwart Thomas, the chair of the Faculty Senates ad hoccommittee on ROTC, think that the repeal of ROTC

will alleviate the committees task? Stanford Universi-ty phased out its ROTC program in 1973. Congresspassed the Dont Ask,Dont Tellpolicy in 1993; there-fore, DADT played no part in Stanfords decision. Sowhy is DADT even a topic of discussion? And why areproponents,and possibly even the committee,thinkingthere are few roadblocks to ROTCs return? What isparticularly concerning to me is that proponents andthe committee have rarely addressed the real reasonsfor ROTC leaving the campus in 1973.All except one ofthe reasons remain an issue and would apply to

ROTCs presence on campus today.After reading theAd Hoc Senate Committee on ROTCs Majority Re-port of 1969,I am shocked that theres even a discussionabout bringing back ROTC. I will discuss a few of themany reasons, identified in that report, for Stanfordsdecision to discontinue its ROTC program.(All quota-tions are from the 1969 report unless otherwise stated.)

ROTC creates a conflict of interest. Military offi-cers are granted faculty positions to administer theROTC program.These officers primary allegiance andduty is to the branch of the military of which they are amember,the U.S.military as a whole and the U.S.gov-ernment.Their primary commitment cannot simultane-ously be to the university or to the academic enter-prise.


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Jim Harbaugh, the man whobrought us to the college footballpromised land,has left the green

pastures of the Farm for the evengreener pastures of the NationalFootball League. Its a sad time forthe football program,but an excitingone as well. There were some bignames being thrown around for ourhead-coaching vacancy BoiseStates Chris Petersen chief amongthem but recent indications arethat our next head coach is alreadyhere at Stanford. David Shaw? VicFangio? Im all for promoting some-one from within the existing Stan-ford coaching structure, but thatsthinking too small.There are plentyof other people on campus who havethe potential to be the next headcoach of the Stanford Cardinal.Hereare my impressions regarding just afew of them. Bob Bowlsby, are youreading this?

Andrew Luck: He obviouslyloves this place more than Har-baugh, anyway. After all, he turneddown roughly $60 million from theCarolina Panthers to come back tothe Farm. Plus, did you watch thecoverage of the Orange Bowl? An-nouncers havent managed a love-fest for a single player like that sinceTebow.(And Luck didnt even haveto save the souls of Filipino orphansusing Bibles he wrote in his own

blood!) Over the course of thegame, Ron Jaworski and Jon Gru-den basically convinced themselvesthat Luck is the second coming ofTouchdown Jesus. If thats the case

and hes coming back for anotheryear, why shouldnt he coach theteam, too?

Dean Julie: Initially, Dean Juliewould make a beast of a recruiter.Just imagine: she would hold a big,inspirational event in MemAudtelling the incoming recruiting class

that they would be the next greatStanford football recruiting class of2011. Morale would be sky high!However, the football programwould soon fall apart because no

one in the recruiting class wouldever see her again after that event.

The Leland Stanford JuniorUniversity Marching Band: Theirpatented scatter formations mightbe a distinct change from the pro-style offense installed under Har-baugh,but this is a choice with closeties to the football program. How-ever, it is unclear whether Luckwould be able to run the offense ef-fectively when hes forced to take ashot of tequila after every incom-p le te p as s. I n ad di ti on , t heLSJUMB probably has a very dif-ferent definition for shotgunthanwhat the football team is currentlyused to.

A Stanford sorority: Bowlsbyshowed that he could think outsidethe box when he hired Harbaugh, arelative unknown from the Univer-sity of San Diego.Thus,he might ap-preciate the unorthodox idea ofhaving an entire sorority chaptercoach our football team. Sorry, Bob,but this choice would be a terribledecision for the program. Theta?The football team embodies char-acter and cruelty, not complete andutter pretentiousness. Kappa? Didyou think the LSJUMB was a badidea? We need the team to be sober.Chi O? Lets be honest:no one real-ly knows they exist.Theres really nogood option here, no matter which

way you look at it.Condoleezza Rice: Condi lovesStanford sports. We all saw her on

Tucson and the tragicimplications of unfettered

gun regulations

Repeal of DADT doesnt alleviate committees task

Where do you listen tomusic? Probably not justat concerts its hard to

escape a set of speakers in a regularday, pumping out tunes in yourdorm room, in a store, on a set ofheadphones, in your car, etc. Weenjoy the work of musicians all thetime, so how exactly do we supportthem?

Its gratifying to artists whenpeople listen to their work, whichcould be considered one form ofsupport.Sure, musicians play musicbecause they like to, but rarely dothey perform like hermits. Music isa social language;we play for eachother. So ignoring financial con-cerns,it seems like society supportsmusic a lot, with our mp3 playersblasting songs all over the place.

Although,what classes or locali-ties of music does society supportthis way? The pop-music industryfarms out a small number of songsto the entire country. And not justKaty Perry, but over and overagain,people also supportthe es-tablished, famous, great musicians.From Beethoven to the Beatles,every generation gives them a lis-ten. Do we give lesser-known con-temporary musicians equal sup-port? Its trendy, bumper-stickeridentity politics to say somethinglike, support local music, whichisnt the focus of what Im suggest-ing. I take a more comprehensiveperspective, that we should pay at-

tention to the makeup of our musicportfolios. If you want to supportthe broader world of music but onlylisten to Top 40, thats a pretty lim-ited scope of support.And lucki-ly, we now have access to a muchwider local music scene online.You dont have to be in Seattle todiscover the bands there anymore,for example.

A complementary question

might be:how important is music toyou? Perhaps you use it merely aspart of the background environ-ment in your daily life,or as a signif-icant emotional experience, orsomething else entirely. Somewould argue that if you like and lis-ten to music a lot, you should bepredicted to support the musiciansmore.Do you?

This is where we get into the fi-nances. In the last decade, comput-ers have changed the music record-ing industry significantly a topicmuch discussed before.I dont wantto get into issues concerning whatsthe most fair or right system todistribute recordings to people.From Napster knockoffs to Inter-net radio to bands making theirmusic fully available, there aremany models to discuss.

What I want to ask is the finan-cial side of this columns title: doyou support musicians? How doyou participate in the system insuch a way that the musicians getpaid for what they do? Be itthrough advertising revenue onInternet radio stations, concert

tickets,purchases on iTunes, somedonation mechanism or some-thing innovative if societywants to assist this part of theworkforce, it needs to use sometype of channel to do so.Clearly alot of systems are in place andrevenue does flow to musicians.Im simply trying to remind the

Life in America is a delicatebalance between freedomand security. Americans un-

derstand that our cherished free-dom of speech does not guaranteeus the right to yell Fire! in a the-atre. Likewise, our right to beararms should not guarantee us the

right to own automatic and semi-automatic guns.

On Jan. 8, a lone gunman shotRep.Gabrielle Giffords,D-Ariz.,inthe head at a Congress on YourCorner event in Tucson and man-aged to shoot 22 others while firing31 rounds of ammunition.When hestopped to reload his weapon,shocked and furious bystanderswrestled him to the ground. Gif-fords is expected to live,but six oth-ers,including a 9-year-old girl,werenot as lucky. The alleged gunman,Jared Loughner, is believed to suf-fer from mental illness,and his mo-tives will likely remain a mystery.

In the wake of this madness, the

question we need to ask is a simpleone: why was the shooter able tofire 31 times before pausing to re-load? The answer is equally simple.Until 2004, ammunition clips forweapons had been limited to 10rounds as part of a general ban onassault weapons. When Congressfailed to renew the ban,ammo clipslike the one used by the shooter inTucson came onto the market andvastly increased the killing powerof gunmen.

If the shooter had been restrict-ed to 10 bullets,the incident wouldstill have been a bloody affair. Gif-fords would still be in intensivecare, several others would bewounded and one or two would

likely be dead.Many more,howev-er, would have remained un-harmed. Maybe Christina Green,

the 9-year-old victim who came tosee how democracy works,would be alive today.

Advocates of assault-weaponownership claim that they make ussafer, but events of last Saturdaysuggest otherwise. No heroic as-sault-rifle owners came to the res-

cue; everyone just ran franticallyuntil the shooters ammunition wasspent,whereupon he was swiftly dis-armed. The appropriate policy re-sponse to this situation is to limit thenumber of bullets that can be firedwithout reloading.This means a banon high-capacity magazines and as-sault weapons in general.This typeof ban would not interfere withhunting and it would not interferewith self-defense unless an unluckygun owner happened to be beset bydozens of armed assailants.

The right to gun ownership isunder no threat from any branch ofgovernment or either politicalparty.Even Gabrielle Giffords, the

congresswoman targeted in the at-tack, boasted a weapon similar tothe one wielded by her attacker.Atissue now is whether or not wewant to place an outer limit on thedestructive capacity of firearms.Wesupport legislation recently intro-duced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy,D-N.Y., to re-establish the ban onhigh-capacity magazines. This bill,and any broader measure to curtailthe sale of automatic weapons,seems unlikely to win support fromRepublicans in Congress.Hopeful-ly it will generate the kind of debateand soul-searching that will make ita priority in years to come. To dootherwise, the editorial board be-lieves,is to only increase the chance

that we will once again sufferthrough an event similar to thetragedy in Tucson.

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Training for a specific employ-er, by that employer. ROTC is anexternal, institutionalized organi-zation that specifically trains stu-dents to acquire the skills needed towork for that organization. Suchtraining is administered by the mil-itary, in the interests of the military,and fundamentally differs, there-fore, from the unrestricted cre-ation and dissemination of knowl-edge that one should receive byway of a college education. Thistype of training should not be a partof the academic structure of theuniversity.

ROTC is academically prescrip-tive. All three branches of the mili-tary legally require students to takecertain courses of study and theNavy even excludes other certaincourses of study from the program.An external organization on cam-pus should not be able to legallybind students to a prescribedcourse of study when that external

organization also has the power todictate the methodology and con-tent of that course of study. ROTCfor the three branches also requiresstudents to satisfy certain academ-ic standards. Students should notbe legally bound to satisfy academ-ic standards created by an externalorganization that also determineswhether or not those standards aremet.

ROTC programs demand thatstudents meet certain standards ofpersonal conduct. These con-

straints restrict students free par-ticipation in all facets of intellectu-al inquiry and legal political activi-ty. Academic prescriptions andstandards of personal conduct cre-ated by an external organization oncampus violate the fundamentalconcept of the Universitys rightsand obligations to establish, main-tain, and judge its own standards ofacademics, course of study, and stu-dent conduct.

Contracts for service inROTC financial agreements legallybind students to serve in the armedforces after graduation. If the stu-dent doesnt serve in the armedforces after graduation or decideshe/she doesnt want to continue theROTC program sometimethroughout his/her undergraduatecareer,he/she is (at least potential-ly) financially penalized. No otheracademic programs have such acondition.

DADT wasnt an issue then. Sowhy is it now? The arguments ex-plained above reflect only a few ofthe reasons that supported riddingStanford of ROTC in 1973. Noth-ing, except the use of punitiveclauses, has changed since.Why is

the idea of bringing back ROTCeven being explored if so few of thereasons for getting rid of it in thefirst place have changed? It is quiteconcerning that this fact isnt beingpublicly addressed by proponentsof ROTC or the committee. Thatsaid, I would like to thank the Uni-versity for reaching out to the stu-dent body and making the ROTCquestion a collective, communitydecision.

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reader to consider your role andcontribution.

Because unfortunately, whenrecorded music is so readily avail-able, its easy for us to be free rid-ers. You could download all sortsof music, making for hours, daysand weeks of entertainment, with-out a cent ever going to a musi-cian. That system assumes musi-cians must be (unhealthily) in itexclusively for the art. Havingaccess to so much music is great,but we need to make sure we giveback.And not just for fairness rea-sons but because musicians are,b y r ep ut at i on , f in an ci al l ystrapped.

I ask because I love music and Ilove that so many other peoplealso love music and spend theirlives creating it. I want them to beable to comfortably keep doing it.And to be honest, Ive been a freerider too, downloading my shareof songs. So Im happy to pay forconcerts,buy young bands albumson iTunes, and once I have extraincome I hope to donate to thearts, maybe through some coolmusician-microfinance scheme. Isit an optimal setup? Probably not.But Im confident that we willkeep figuring this thing out andcontinue to improve the situation.

Because in the end, argumentsabout stealing music are a turn-off to everyone. Engaging in posi-tive discussions and brainstormingabout how to support musicians is

much more constructive.

Any cool ideas? E-mail [email protected].

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TV at both the Stanford womensbasketball game against UConnand the Orange Bowl. She knowsher stuff, so thats good. Yet soonafter her introductory press con-ference, its not inconceivable thatshe would recommend that we de-clare preemptive war against Cal,

claiming that they stole the Axe.This would lead to a lengthy Stan-ford occupation of Berkeley, dur-ing which it is determined that sheand President Hennessy utilizedfaulty intelligence to initiate theconflict. Come to think of it, thisstoryline sounds kind of familiar,doesnt it?

Leland Stanford, Junior: Thischoice is contingent on Stanfordscientists coming up with technolo-gy to reanimate the dead within thenext week, but Im confidenttheyre up to the task. Even withthat in mind, this would be a sur-prising hire.Though hes technical-ly only 15 years old, Leland hasspent the last 127 years in the Stan-ford Mausoleum. Bowlsby tends tolook for younger talent, so this

might not be his ideal choice es-pecially when Leland (born in1868) would become the second-oldest coach in college footballafter Joe Paterno.

If Bob Bowlsby would like anyother advice, he can always e-mailShane at [email protected](and so can you!).

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from bowl

season

Bowl season is over,collegefootball is over, life as weknow it is over.What canfill the void in our liveswithout the What Would

You Do For a Klondike Bar AlaskaBowl? Clearly theres only one an-

swer:analyzing the last month of bowlgames.Obviously.

Many questions are probably run-ning through your head right now:Whywould I want to spend more timethinking about college football after Ihad to sit through 35 bowl games andfinish last in my bowl-picking pool?What is there to say about a bunch ofgames that already happened? Is thereseriously a bowl game in Alaska?

The first question has an easy an-swer: college football is the greatestsport in the world, and we all needsomething to last us through the nexteight months.Plus,the only way to jus-tify your poor finish in your competi-tion is to analyze the teams and findother people to blame for your inepti-tude. The third question can be an-swered just as easily: just look at theceiling right above you where some-one wrote gullible.Or, if you prefer,wait a few months until the announce-ment of next years bowls,and the an-swer might very well change.

In the meantime,though,Im goingto concentrate on that second ques-tion.

Well,for starters, yet another bowlseason brought us surprises that fewpeople saw coming. Washington, atwo-touchdown underdog, complete-ly outclassed Nebraska, a team thatclobbered the Huskies by five touch-downs just four months ago in Seattle.Tulsa, a double-digit underdog, de-stroyed Hawaii in Hawaii, scoring one

By JACK BLANCHATCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Stanford womens basketballteam looks to continue its torrid playthis weekend when it heads north totake on Washington and Washington

State in two Pac-10 matchups.The No.4 Cardinal (12-2,3-0 Pac-

10) has been unstoppable lately,butthe trip to Washington is the firsttime the Card has been out of theBay Area since Dec.19. Conferenceroad trips are never easy, but theHuskies and the Cougars have bothhad their struggles in the first half ofthe season.

The Huskies (6-7, 1-3) have had

an up-and-down season so far, asthey beat a tough Utah team in SaltLake City early in December, butfaltered with three straight losses toGeorgia Tech, UCLA and USC be-fore regaining their form last week.

Washington is coming off a split

with the Oregon schools, includingan improbable rally to beat OregonState. The Beavers built a 13-pointlead with less than six minutes left inthe game, and looked like theywould cruise to a victory until theHuskies reeled off a 16-0 run to stealthe game,55-52.

Despite 21 points from junior

Battling the big dogsBy LAUREN TAYLORSTAFF WRITER

Now in the heat of conferenceplay,the Stanford mens basketballteam faces its toughest test thus faras it prepares to take on No. 18Washington (12-3, 4-0 Pac-10)tonight at Maples Pavilion. Thematchup marks the Cardinals firstmeeting with a top-25 opponent inthe 2010-11 season.

Stanford (9-5,2-1) headed homefrom last weeks road trip with asplit,defeating Arizona State,55-41,but falling to Arizona in a 67-57 de-cision that is the Cards only loss inPac-10 play.

The Huskies, on the other hand,remain undefeated atop the confer-ence due to sweeps of the Oregonand southern California schools, aswell as a season-best six-game win-ning streak. Washingtons onlythree losses were delivered by Ken-tucky, Michigan State and TexasA&M, all of whom are ranked inthe top 25.

Stanford views tonightsmatchup as an opportunity to gotoe-to-toe with one of the nationselite.

They are a high scoring team,and theyre great on the backboard,so we have to be able to reboundwith them,said head coach Johnny

Dawkins.Theyre a terrific team,aterrific program, and we have toplay really well to have a chance tocompete.

If the Card can demonstrate theright combination of the strongestaspects of its game, it can certainlydo just that. Defensive dominance,for one, has been a huge factor inStanfords success so far and will bekey against Washington, whichboasts one of the most prolific of-fenses in the nation. The Huskieshave maintained a scoring marginof plus-20.8, and they average 88.9points per game with a 49.1 overallshooting percentage.

Washingtons offensive squad isled by junior Isaiah Thomas (16.0points per game, 36.4-percent

shooting), senior Matthew Bryan-Amaning (15.3 ppg, 7.5 reboundsper game, 57.5-percent shooting)and senior Justin Holiday (11.5 ppg,5.9 rpg, 52.4-percent shooting,42.0-percent three-point shooting, 26steals).

This trio poses the most signifi-cant threat for Stanfords solid de-fensive game,which is currently al-lowing only 60.0 points per game,

which leads the Pac-10 and repre-sents a major improvement from re-cent seasons. In fact, the 2010-11Card has already kept five oppo-nents under 50 points, which hadonly been achieved once during thefirst two seasons under Dawkins.

We have defended fairly well,and Im really excited about that,Dawkins said. We have a newgroup, and to see them come to-gether defensively is always excit-ing.

While Dawkins recognizes thatdefense is the teams strength, healso emphasizes the importance of

junior guard Jeremy Green and histeammates putting up big numbers.Green is particularly stellar on theoffensive end in Maples Pavilion,as

he approaches the 1,000-point markfor his career and remains Stan-fords primary offensive weaponwith 15.9 points per game.

Redshirt junior center JoshOwens has boosted the Cardinalfrontcourt, averaging 12.0 pointsand leading the team in reboundingat 6.4 per game. After sitting out lastyears season because of an undis-closed medical condition, Owenswill be relied upon to step up the

teams offensive efforts against theHuskies.

Scoring and rebounding aretwo areas we have to focus in on andmanage, Dawkins said. We haveto value the basketball, which willhelp our offense in itself.We alwaystry to make it difficult for the oppos-ing team to score, and that isntgoing to change against Washing-

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Junior forward Andrew Zimmermann, above, is one of few upperclassmenhoping to lead a young Stanford team to a victory over No. 18 Washing-ton tonight. The Cardinal has not lost in Maples Pavilion this season, butfaces its toughest test thus far against the potent Huskies offense.

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Junior forward and reigning Pac-10 Player of the Year Nneka Ogwumike,above, has propelled No. 4 Stanford to a perfect conference record byaveraging over 17 points and eight rebounds per game this season.

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point less than Boise State and Neva-da had against the Warriorscombined.

The biggest blowout came againstan 11-1 team (Michigan State), andTroy scored more points than Auburnand Oregon combined.The Big East

and the Sun Belt had winning recordsin bowl games,while the Big Ten andBig 12 had losing records. The twoteams that managed the fewest points(Utah and Georgia) still rank in thetop 30 nationally in points scored.TheBig Ten went 0-5 on New Years Daygames and 3-0 during the rest of thebowl season. The service academythat came in with the best record(Navy) was the only one of the threeto lose.

On the other hand, a whole lotwent according to plan. Of the 35games,23 were won by favorites.All 13bowl games from Jan. 1 on were wonby the favorites,and three of the fiveBCS games finished within two pointsof the point spread.The SEC,regard-ed by many as the nations best confer-ence, won five bowl games, all by

teams favored to win.Only six of thetop 25 in the BCS standings lost to ateam ranked below them.

Still, there is intrigue to be found inthese bowl games.And while no onecan legitimately claim that the SunBelt is a better conference than theSEC just because it had a better bowlrecord, some facts about conferencescan be quite illuminating.

The Pac-10 has a national reputa-tion for its high-scoring offenses. Acombination of Oregons spread of-fense and stars like Andrew Luck,LaMichael James,Nick Foles and JakeLocker (who deserves an award forworst quarterback to be deemed astar on a mediocre team) havehelped aid the Pac-10s reputation as afinesse,offense-heavy conference that

would struggle against more physicalopponents.Instead,the Pac-10 showed itself to

be anything but an offense-heavy con-ference.Again,its a small sample size,but only one Pac-10 team out of fourmanaged to score 20 points (youmight remember who),and only oneof the four starshad anywhere closeto a good game (another one youmight recall).On the other hand,only

one of the four teams gave up morethan 22 points (and that was to Okla-homa State,who got those points offfour costly Arizona turnovers).Pac-10teams gave up 19.3 points per game,fewer than the SEC (21.2), Big 12(28.6) or Big Ten (30.9), despite play-ing the No.3, No.7, No.21 and No.38scoring offenses in the country.

On the other hand,the much-ma-ligned Big East, which has preciselyzero of the top 50 scoring offenses in

the country, averaged 25.3 points pergame in the bowls.Half its bowl partic-ipants broke 30 points, even thoughthey rank No.63, No.85 and No.93 inscoring.Thats what makes bowl sea-son great;you can predict all you want,but youll still be wrong.

In the end,six teams defied expec-tations more than any other. Troy,Tulsa,Illinois,Washington,MississippiState and Stanford all beat their re-spective point spreads by at least 25points.A third of these come from thePac-10,and a third come from non-au-tomatic qualifying conferences. Halfof them are not even receiving votes inthe AP Poll, but that doesnt maketheir wins any less important.

Anyone who saw the looks onthese teams faces,or those of FloridaInternational (won its first ever bowl

game on a last-second field goal),TCU (two-point victory in the RoseBowl for its first ever BCS bowl win)and Army (two-point victory to se-cure programs first winning seasonsince 1996) can see the joy and passionthat college footballs bowl season canbring. Sure, the system has flaws, andwhether the BCS determines a truechampion is a debate for another time.

What we do know is that thesebowl games all 35 of them mat-ter.They matter to the coaches, theymatter to the players and they surematter to the fans.Anyone complain-ing about the number of bowl gamesthere are should pop in a tape of theKansas State-Syracuse game. Twothoroughly unremarkable 7-5 teamsput on a show for four quarters,some-

thing youd be hard-pressed to sayabout almost any BCS bowl.And real-ly,thats what bowl season is all about.

So go ahead, Klondike, give meArkansas State-Idaho in Anchoragenext year.I cant wait to watch.

Jacob Jaffe is entering an eight-monthperiod of hibernation. Leave a mes- sage for when he awakens at [email protected].

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guard Kristi Kingma, Washingtonwas unable to complete the week-end sweep and fell to Oregon,68-64.Kingma has been a force for theHuskies this year, averaging 17.0points per game. However, she willpose problems for the Cardinal onboth ends of the floor,as her defenseremains among the strongest in theconference.

Washington State (3-13,1-3) alsoappears to be rounding the curveafter dropping seven straight in De-cember. After starting the Pac-10season with losses to USC andUCLA, the Cougars had an offen-sive explosion of 10 three-pointersin a 77-72 loss to Oregon, and thenbattled hard down the stretch to pullout a 58-50 victory over OregonState.The win over the Beavers was

the first victory for the Cougarssince Dec. 5.

The Cougars have a trio of scor-ers who average over 10 points pergame in redshirt freshman IretiAmojo, freshman Sage Rombergand junior Jazmine Perkins.Perkins,a Berkeley native, scored a season-high 24 points in the loss to Oregon,and Romberg notched 21 againstOregon State.

On the other side of the ball, astrong road trip may be just what thedoctor ordered for the Cardinal, asthe team has struggled this seasonwhen it has strayed too far from theBay.

The Cardinal scraped out twosingle-digit victories on a trip toUtah and Gonzaga earlier this year,then had its only two losses of theseason in back-to-back defeats atDePaul and at Tennessee.After theovertime loss in Knoxville, Stanfordhas only played two road games at San Francisco and Cal.

The Cardinal has never lost toWashington State, taking a 50-0mark into this weekend, and theHuskies havent beaten the Card intheir last nine tries. Stanford haswon its last three games by a com-bined 113 points, including an 82-35thumping of Arizona State.

According to Stanford headcoach Tara VanDerveer, this stretchof play shows how the Card is thriv-ing.

I really feel like nothing suc-ceeds like success for our team,VanDerveer said. Were playing

very confidently.The Cardinals surge of late canbe attributed to several factors,andthe stellar play of junior forwardNneka Ogwumike has been criticalto the teams success.

Ogwumike has had three dou-ble-doubles this season againstranked teams, and if the tall Texanpulls off a repeat performance of lastweek, the Cardinal has little reason

to be concerned when it heads up toSeattle and Pullman.She had a near-ly perfect weekend, going 19-for-28from the floor, grabbing 16 re-bounds and pouring in 40 points intwo games.

The defending Pac-10 player ofthe year is averaging 17.2 points and8.4 rebounds per game, and was re-cently named to the midseasonWooden Award watch list, alongwith teammate Kayla Pedersen.Pedersen, a senior forward, also av-erages more than eight rebounds agame,in addition to 11.5 points.

The Wooden Award,given yearlyto the nations best player,selects 20student athletes to the midseasonwatch list. Stanford and North Car-olina were the only two schools tohave multiple players selected to thelist.

Stanford takes on Washingtontomorrow at 7 p.m. in Seattle, andwill tip off against Washington State

on Sunday at 1 p.m.in Pullman.

Contact Jack Blanchat at [email protected].

WBBALLContinued from page 6

WOMENS BASKETBALL

1/8 vs. ARIZONA STATE

W 82-35

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WASHINGTON(6-7, 1-3 Pac-10)1/14 Seattle 7 P.M.

GAME NOTES: Stanford has won its last threegames by a combined 113 points. Wash-

ington is led by junior guard Kristi Kingma,

who averages 17 points per game. Cardi-

nal standouts Nneka Ogwumike and Kayla

Pedersen were recently named to the mid-

season Wooden Award watch list.

ton.We have to go out there and

play with the same energy thatweve been playing with all season,he added.

Some of this energy should de-rive from home-court advantage.The Card is 47-11 in its last 58 homegames, dating back to the 2007-08

campaign. Snagging the 48th wintoday will be a challenge, but bymatching the Huskies offense witha strong game on the boards and inthe backcourt, Stanford could pulloff the upset.

Tipoff is set for tonight at 7 p.m.in Maples Pavilion.

Contact Lauren Taylor at [email protected].

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