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MONDAY Volume 238January 24, 2011 Issue 62

A n I n d e p e n d e n t P u b l i c a t i o nwww.stanforddaily.comThe Stanford Daily

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RESEARCH

SLAC looksto upgradekey facilities

HEALTH

Blood Center reachesout to dorms, PHEs

By STEVEN SMALLBERG

Stanford Blood Center, coming off its mostsuccessful Rivals for Life blood drive in fouryears, is looking to keep the momentum goingin 2011 with more regular White Plaza blood-mobiles and dorm outreach. Some students,however, say they are still deterred from donat-ing because of time and inconvenience.

The center supplies more than 100,000 unitsof blood and blood components each year forpatients and research purposes.

The trends weve been seeing the past fewyears have been really encouraging, and werealways looking for new ways to boost our blooddraws, said Elisa Manzanares, Blood Center

account manager.Rivals for Life in November, an event

Manzanares created, was the centers most suc-cessful drive this year with 234 units collected bythe Blood Center.

Its a great kickoff drive for the year be-

cause its so large, Manzanares said. It givesstudents a great opportunity to get involvedearly.

The mobile blood drives in White Plaza alsohave become more fruitful since the centersbloodmobile has become a regular fixture eachmonth rather than a sporadic presence,as it hasbeen in the past.

Now, the center is organizing drives in stu-dent houses,beginning in February and extend-ing through the spring.

We attract a lot of donors [at house drives]because its so convenient for students, Man-zanares said.These drives are pretty compara-ble to White Plaza drives in terms of the amountwe can collect.

Though the blood drives have been general-ly successful overall, students still see room forimprovement.

My only complaint is that [donating] is a bitof a time commitment,said Connor Raikes 13,

a regular donor.There are a couple times thatIve had to wait an hour or more to make a do-nation.Ive always waited, but I could imagineother students who want to, but get turned off

Lack of stable fundingcould permanently

derail Caltrain

By AMY JULIA HARRISDESK EDITOR

If Caltrain doesnt find a stable fundingsource to offset its $30 million deficit, the

commuter transit system could go belly up,transportation and local officials said at Stan-ford on Friday.

More than 230 attendees convened at theStanford Institute for Economic Policy Re-search for a Save Caltrain summit to brain-storm solutions for the transit agencys fiscalproblems. Fridays summit was the first oftwo such meetings and was sponsored by theSilicon Valley Leadership Group, a networkof companies that addresses regional publicpolicy issues.

Can we imagine if we had no Caltrain?said Sean Elsbernd,San Francisco Supervisorand Caltrain Joint Powers board of directorschairman. What would it do to the environ-ment?

On Thursday, the day before the summit,Caltrain announced that it faced a potentialloss of $30 million from its $100 million annu-al budget if transit agencies cut back theircontributions. Caltrain, unlike other regionaltransit agencies, doesnt have a stable rev-enue stream and instead relies on about 34percent of its funding contributions from itsthree partner agencies San Mateo Coun-tys SamTrans, Santa Clara Countys VTAand San Franciscos transit (MTA),accordingto initial figures by the MTCs Transit Sus-tainability Project. SamTrans is expected tocut its annual contribution to Caltrain by $10million, and if the two other agencies followsuit, Caltrain faces even deeper cuts.

Given this fiscal outlook, Caltrain is con-sidering slashing its service to 48 weekdaytrains from 86, cutting weekday service out-side of peak hours,axing its weekend serviceand service south of San Joses Diridon Sta-tion and suspending service at up to sevenstations. If these cuts go through, the morethan 38,000 weekday commuters who rely on

Caltrain could be left in the lurch.Panelists at the event werent willing toentertain that option.

None of us want to face the prospect that12 million riders per year will return to ourhighways, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto,told attendees via a broadcast.

Instead, officials proposed money-makingsolutions like funneling revenue to Caltrainfrom a high occupancy/toll lane on Highway101 and introducing a voter-approved gas taxto prop up Caltrain.

In the last few years,Caltrain has tried dif-ferent quick-fix solutions to generate morerevenue and cut costs, but even these werenot enough to pull Caltrain out of its budgetwoes. Beginning Jan. 1, Caltrain raised faresby 25 cents per zone and cut service for twonorthbound trains and two southboundtrains from its midday schedule. Caltrain alsospearheaded a three-month pilot program of

weekend baby bullet express trains to rakein additional ridership revenue. About 44percent of Caltrains funding this year willcome from passenger fares.

State Assemblyman Jim Beall, D-SanJose,spoke for many when he suggested thatmerging some of Caltrains contributingtransportation agencies into one entity couldstreamline costs.

We should get rid of some of these organ-izations, Beall said. We need a regionalsource of funding for a regional agency.

The elimination of Caltrain would be dev-astating for both the environment and localcommunities, said Yoriko Kishimoto, whoheads the grassroots coalition Friends of Cal-train.

Caltrain is at the heart of where thepeninsula needs to go,she said. Our econo-my, our environment . . . everything is predi-cated on a healthy Caltrain.

Stanford relies heavily on Caltrain to re-duce traffic congestion on campus and meetits environmental sustainability goals. In

Junior dies after multi-year

battle with cancerBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Sarah Adicoff 12 died Thursday morningafter a long battle with cancer that began when

she was in high school.She was 21.Adicoff was diagnosed with rhabdomyosar-coma,a cancer of the bodys soft tissues,whenshe was 16. She relapsed multiple times, mostrecently in February 2009,after her first quarterat Stanford.

Adicoff lived in Branner her freshman year,Toyon sophomore year and Storey this fallquarter before taking a leave of absence in thewinter. She was a member of Alpha Delta PhiSociety,an unhoused co-ed fraternity on cam-pus.

When members of Alpha Delt receivedword of Adicoffs passing on Thursday after-noon, they organized an evening vigil at LakeLagunitas fire pit. Haley Knapp 11,a memberof Alpha Delt and family friend of Adicoffs,es-timated that 20 to 30 people from Alpha Delt

and Storey came to show their support andshare stories of Sarah.There were lots of silences because no one

really knows what to say when youve got a losslike that,Knapp said of the vigil.But it turnedout well.

Avinash Achaibar 12, a friend of Adicoffwho lived with her in Braner and in Storey thisyear,remembers Adicoff for her optimism andability to appreciate each moment.

Sarah was probably more full of life than alot of people I know, and she knew probablymore than anyone how to live in the moment,Achaibar said.She never let her sickness be acrutch or let it limit her.She would always talkabout going to Disneyland and the Galapagos.At Stanford, I think living in the moment issomething that we forget.

Storey will host a support services meetingfor those affected by Adicoffs passing on Mon-day at 7 p.m.in the side lounge,according to res-ident assistant Andy Hiller 11.

Amy Julia Harris

Norm Bobczynski tohead renovations

Seeks to keep up momentum afterNovembers Rivals for Life

By LAURYN WILLIAMS

SLAC National AcceleratorLaboratory will undergo millionsof dollars in renovations to its ma-chinery in the next few years, re-placing most of the facilitys infra-structure and aiming to extend itslife another five decades.

SLAC hired Norm Bobczynskiin August as the head of its opera-tions and maintenance unit to over-see the forthcoming facility up-grades.

In the past,maintenance strate-

gies have been mainly reactive, butaccording toBobczynski, SLAChas had to dealwith the issues thatare inherent to alab built 50 yearsago and infrastruc-ture that is near-ing the end of itsuseful life.

Undergroundutilities, including low-conductivitywater tanks and electrical systems,have fallen into disrepair over thepast few months and will be amongthe first problems to be tackledduring the upgrade.

The age of SLACs machineryhas led to a few rare emergencies.Within the last few months, waterlines deteriorated by corrosionhave failed as a result of changes intemperature and pressure. SLACsemergency response team has han-dled problems quickly in the past,but the increasing frequency ofthese problems promptedBobczynski and the maintenanceunit to focus on a proactive ap-proach in the facilitys overhaulplan to prevent such emergenciesfrom happening at all.

In total, replacements will costin the hundreds of millions of dol-lars over several years, and are ex-pected to extend the life of SLACfor at least another 50 years,Bobczynski said.

At this point in the upgrade,SLAC is taking a long-term strate-

gic approach to extend the life ofthe hardware in use while not dis-rupting ongoing scientific experi-ments.

Eventually all SLAC hardwareand infrastructure will need to bereplaced, but we will focus our at-tention on a prioritized list basedon condition and age, Bobczynskisaid. For example, the lab plans toprevent failures like breaks in un-derground piping by replacing thecurrent pipes with state-of-the artmaterials that will provide theequipment with more longevity.

All equipment has a differentuseful life expectancy, so failurefrequency always tends to increaseas time goes on,Bobczynski said.

Stanford hosts and operatesSLAC for the U.S. Department of

Energy. The refurbishment budgetwill be largely covered by fundsfrom the Department of Energy.

Lauryn Williams at [email protected].

NEWS BRIEFS

ANNE PIPATHSOUK/The Stanford Daily

John Dorman, above, was one of about 15 donors who gave blood at Vadens blood drive onFriday. Eleven units of blood were collected on Friday.

Bobczynski

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by the wait time.Convenience is another factor

that may impact student donations.A drive at Vaden Health Center

on Friday attracted about 11 units ofblood from about 15 donors, com-

pared to White Plaza drives, whichusually bring in 30 to 40 units.People dont want to be incon-

venienced, even on campus, Man-zanares said. The White Plazadrives are hard to miss,because stu-dents are always passing through.Vaden is a little out of the way, andout of mind for a lot of people.

Still, Manzanares sees potentialfor growth for drives at Vaden, witha new outreach strategy launchedby the center this year.Vaden is now

working closely with peer health ed-ucators (PHEs) in student houses toraise awareness about blood drives.

Some dorms do have the vam-pire position within the dorm gov-ernment to take care of that,and thePHE serves as a middleman, work-ing with vampires to raise aware-ness, said Junipero house PHEAnna Grummon 11.

The blood center encouragesstudent involvement at all levels,

and Manzanares hopes to see thecurrent trends continue.Its as simple as finding the

nearest blood drive and helping ussave a life,she said.You watch [re-cipients] get a unit of blood,and allof a sudden they have so much ener-gy. They become themselves. Itsamazing that people can providethat.

Steven Smallberg at [email protected].

BLOODContinued from front page

OBITUARY

Sarah Adicoff,1989-2011

Born in San Jose, Calif., on Sept.14,1989,Sarah died Jan.20, 2011, inher parents arms of complicationsfrom cancer treatment.

Sarah sang with gusto from theage of 15 months and carried hermusicality and ability to rememberany lyric to high school and localstage productions,such as The Boysfrom Syracuse, Pirates of Pen-zance and Hair. She enjoyedplaying soccer,skiing and swimmingcompetitively for many years, even-tually concentrating on swimmingyear-round with her wonderfulcoaches and peers on the 5B Swimteam.

School was one of Sarahs pas-sions, and she was lucky to attendMulberry School in San Jose,whereshe formed deep friendships withboth teachers and kids, learned towork out problems and mediate be-tween others, enjoy learning andparticipate in so many creative proj-ects. From about the second grade,

Sarah organized her own partiesand made her own Halloween cos-tumes. True to form, in 2004, Sarahorganized a well-attended reunionof her fifth grade class in Sun Valley,where the kids played hard, hungout and made good use of the infa-mous Adiconner costume box toproduce skits and other hilarity.After moving to Sun Valley, Idaho,in 2000,Sarah attended Wood RiverMiddle School, then graduatedfrom The Community School in De-cember 2007. She was selected forthe Laura S. Flood Foundationaward and received a NationalMerit Letter of Commendation.

Rhabdomyosarcoma interruptedSarahs life when she was 16,arrivingat a time of normal transition and sep-aration, making her once again very

dependent on parents and causingher to miss much of her schooling andregular young-adult life. Cancer tookmuch of her strength, her singingvoice and,she felt, some of her abilityto think and remember. Nonetheless,her treatment afforded her somelonger periods of relative health inwhich she was able to pursue herstudies or travel extensively with var-ious family members.Her caretakershave been amazed by her resiliencyand accomplishments throughout hertreatments. Her death is an illustra-tion of the appalling lack of improve-ment,over the last 35 years,in survival

rates among 15- to 40-year-olds withcancer.

We will miss Sarahs humor,grace, enthusiasm for engagementand keen observation and interest inthe animal world.

Sarah is survived by her lovingparents, Samuel Adicoff and SusanConner; her younger brothers,William and Jacob; grandparentsArnold and Ruth Adicoff andWilliam and Marilyn Conner; uncleCharles (Anne Simpson) Conner;aunts Cathy (Ted Furst) Conner,JillConner, Annie (Mark Schneider)Adicoff and Carrie Adicoff; andcousins Alison and Madeline Con-ner, Rebekkah and Ariel Adicoff

and Kyle and Kurt Schneider.A memorial is being planned for

the Sun Valley,Idaho, area in Febru-ary,and later this spring in the Stan-ford area. Details are pending andwill be published in The Daily.Dona-tions for research are suggested forSeattle Childrens Sarcoma Re-search, Fred Barrs lab at Universityof Pennsylvania,St. Baldricks Foun-dation or one of the wonderful or-ganizations from which she benefit-ed greatly: Camp Rainbow Gold,Idaho Make a Wish or Ronald Mc-Donald House.

Courtesy of Sue Conner and

Sam Adicoff

Courtesy of Sue Conner

Sarah Adicoff 12 in 2007.

2010, 19 percent of Stanford em-ployees used Caltrain as theirnumber-one transportationsource. In 2010, 52 percent ofUniversity employees regularlyused some form of alternativetransportation, such as transit, bi-cycling, walking, ride-sharing ortelecommuting, compared withan estimated 22 percent withinSanta Clara County, according to

Parking and Transportation Ser-vices.

Other ideas floating at the sum-mit included hikes in traffic-im-pact fees on new construction, a

sales tax increase and a parking-fee increase at Caltrain stations.They also suggested that Caltrainadd Wi-Fi service on trains to en-tice new riders.

Another public meeting on thisissue will be hosted by Friends ofCaltrain on Jan. 29 at the Sam-Trans offices in San Carlos.

Contact Amy Julia Harris at [email protected].

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Ifeel extremely anxious in male-dominated spaces. Going to all-boys floors scare me.Going to the

gym scares me. Even going to themens bathroom scares me. Maybeits this recurrent nightmare of minethat these guys will find out my bio-logical sex and then end up hurtingme (or worse) for it. So of course,ending up in a place like a fraternityhouse to talk about my experiencesas a trans person left me absolutelyterrified.

Im a panelist for Safe and OpenSpaces at Stanford (or SOSAS), aprogram run by the LGBT-CRC tohelp educate the Stanford communi-

ty on LGBT issues.The program op-erates mostly by panels, consisting ofabout four panelists and a modera-tor.My experience with SOSAS pan-els consisted of freshman dorms,where I mostly spoke to freshmenwho had never encountered anyoneLGBT before.This was the first panelof the school year at a fraternityhouse Kappa Sigma,to be exact.

Me? I felt mostly petrified. Ifound that I was particularly quietduring this panel,not necessarily be-cause I had nothing to contribute tothe conversation, but because Icouldnt really open my mouth to sayanything.It took me a while to realizewhy I felt so anxious and uncomfort-able in a place like a fraternity house.There was always this insecuritywhen it came to my masculinity.Maybe its this deep-rooted traumafrom my childhood, when I had al-ways wanted to be one of the guysbut I was never allowed this privilege,not for 20 years, not until now. AndIm still getting used to being a man,interacting with other men and inter-acting with women. These guysseemed to get it down perfect.Theywere fraternity men men in themost traditional, mainstream senseof the word.This fraternity house wasa foreign space to me, a space inwhich I did not feel welcome notnecessarily because of the occupants,

but because of what that house stoodfor and what it symbolized for a per-son like me, who had been deniedthis sense of manhood for years andyears.I felt that the houses brothershad a language all their own, a lan-guage that I could not take part insimply because I was never given theopportunity to speak on the same

terms as men.Near the end of the panel, a guy

raised his hand and directly ad-dressed me. He asked about my ex-perience at Stanford as a transguy,and asked how my transition wasgoing.I finally managed to say some-thing. It didnt even seem like metalking I just heard myself talk. Italked about how I was nervousabout being here,about my anxietiesabout not feeling quite masculineenough, about my excitement overmy transition, about my legal namechange, hormones. I dont really re-member much of what I said,actual-ly.I thought I had contributed noth-ing to this panel but my answer thatwas less of an answer and more of abumbling ramble.

But after the panel several of thefrat guys came up to me and told methey appreciated my story. Handshakes and back thumps were ex-changed.I felt validated.

When I was at the Lou SullivanSocietys meeting two weeks ago, Iwas accepted as a man as well, but itwas under another context aqueer context. I was accepted as aman,but under a different doctrine ofthe transman.They were my brothersin the fact that we were all trans.

But in this frat house, I was also

Students tend to scoff at the wordparticipation, especiallywhen its written on a syllabus

with a big percentage of their grade.But it is, in math, English, language,biology and chemistry, a profoundlygood thing.We have a tendency,wefreshmen, to disparage it, perhapsbecause we feel just a touch too self-assured, too comfortable in the be-lief that we already have the materi-al under control. Participation isoften written off as useless,an unnec-essary accessory.Why do we need totalk if we can simply learn this on ourown? We can all pass the tests,get the

grades and get degrees without pay-ing lip service to professors.The fundamental truth about col-

lege is that you will not use,or evenremember, much of what you learn.However, the intention of the pow-ers that be is that you develop somegeneral skills along with the knowl-edge you retain.Those skills are themost important draws from your col-lege experience, Id say,with properkeg-stand and beer pong techniqueclose behind.

When we lend our voices intoclass, to question or raise concerns,to poke holes in an argument orforce teachers to justify their stud-ies, we exercise a muscle that willserve us our entire lives long. Whatcritical participation does is honesystems for processing information

and, from it, creating belief. Insteadof just being a vessel for test- andessay-applicable knowledge, engag-ing with material critically allowsyou to not only individualize themessage you get from it, but ensureit is one that fits in your own world-

view. If it doesnt,and it often wont,it will help you improve and expandyour perspective.Its this sort of crit-ical participation that, in writtenform, is the Socratic dialogue thatscholarship exists in.

But that questioning,that criticaleye, needs to extend beyond theclassroom, especially here at Stan-ford. Leading universities adminis-trative decisions have echoes andimitators across the academicworld,and Stanford is no exception.The school, currently grapplingwith budget pressures forcing it tochoose what it considers important,

i.e. financial aid or research and thepossible reversal of the 1973 aban-donment of ROTC, often leadstrends in American universities.What this means for students is that Time to Stop the Alcohol Nonsense

This weekend, a Stanford un-dergraduate was brought tothe emergency room at Stan-

ford Hospital with a blood-alcohollevel (BAC) of .40. There is evi-dence that approximately 50 per-cent of all people with a BAC of .40or higher will die. Happily, be-cause the coin flip landed the rightway,the student survived.

While the Stanford communitydid not have to bury this student,

this coin flipdeath should lead tothe burial of three extremely de-structive beliefs about alcohol.

Destructive belief 1:The Stan-ford alcohol policy is working be-cause no one has died in X years.The recent coin-flip death ends thisclaim. We must move past this su-perior attitude that has made the

alcohol problem on campus moreand more severe and has endan-gered the physical and emotionalhealth of an enormous number ofstudents.

Destructive belief 2: Each stu-dent is responsible for her or hisown alcohol consumption. Whileeach individual must be responsi-ble for his or her own behavior,thatview is dangerously simplistic.Here is what has happened in virtu-

ally every single alcohol incident(more than 25) that I have encoun-tered on campus (including thecoin-flip death):

A student or students otherthan the person who lands in thehospitalknowingly provides a dan-gerous amount of alcohol to thestudent who becomes intoxicated.

Are those students who providedthe alcohol not responsible and notguilty of a Fundamental Standardviolation?

Multiple students watch thestudent drinking extremely largequantities of alcohol over a shortperiod of time and do not get a staffmember (who is always in the dormor minutes away on speed-dial),theRF or any other knowledgeableperson. Are those students who

watched and did nothing not re-sponsible and not guilty of a Fun-damental Standard violation?

Students carry the extreme-ly ill student back to his dorm anddo not tell a staff member, the RFor any other knowledgeable per-

Stop means stop

Dear Editor,Why dont smart Stanford stu-

dents wear bike helmets, have bikelights and reflectors at night, orobey the traffic laws?

I was almost hit several times inthe past few weeks since daylightstarted fading at 5:30 p.m.I decidedto do an informal count on Thurs-day night at 6:30 p.m. On my wayfrom Meyer Library, along GalvezMall and Galvez Street to the end ofthe C-lot near the stadium, I en-countered about 50 bikers. Only sixhad both headlights/reflectors andwere wearing a bike helmet (12 per-

cent), three wore a helmet but hadno lights (6 percent),four had lightsbut no helmet (8 percent) and therest had neither (74 percent).

Thats an accident waiting tohappen and can result in injury,per-manent disability or death.

Sharing the sidewalk with pedes-

trians is another problem. Theyspeed, weaving in and out amongpeople walking, not paying atten-tion because they are using commu-nications devices or are otherwisedistracted.

Obey the law.A stop sign meansstop,especially at a pedestrian cross

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

There is this belief that death ispart of life.This is what we sayin funerals and obituaries,over

tear-streaked faces in rooms withmahogany wallpaper.And we havesaid it for a long time now. Our an-cestors have made up all kinds of sto-ries where the bad guy is hard to killand somehow is blessed with eternallife. Some cultures have focused onthe positive by honoring the elderand somehow conflating the pres-ence of wrinkles with wisdom.

In the modern era, such a narra-tive continues with paperback andsilver screen science fictiondystopias that tell of the horrors of a

society that learned to live forever.Recent meetings of the presidentscommission on bioethics reveal ameasured stance against the notionof age retardation (the federalterm for such a phenomenon) for thesociety and the individual.

If this story is so engrained in us,then where did the notion of theFountain of Youth come from? Whyis it so persistent in a place thatseems to have so well accepted theinevitability of death?

Heres my theory:we havent real-ly surrendered to death.We cant be-lieve that this life is going to come toan end. It seemed that all of us onceassumed eternal life in childhood,then longed for it, then used religion

or ignorance orsomething to substi-tute for it. But that initial wellspringof hope remains in us somehow.

Such a quest for the Fountain ofYouth has actually materialized inrecent years all over the world:in theBay Area, in NYC,in the UK.Thereis a whole network of controversialprofessors,scientists and researchersthat believe that living forever is a vi-able possibility.They come from theSENS foundation,Halcyon Molecu-lar, from labs in the Albert EinsteinSchool of Medicine and the WakeForest Institute for RegenerativeMedicine, from nondescript build-ings mere miles from this campus.

There is so much controversy, somany philosophical implicationsemerging from this idea, so manyminds involved and yet they are

just barely piquing the interest of themedia. Why? Perhaps they haventdone enough havent had enoughimpact on American society.Yet thedays of the development of the nu-clear bomb were just as heady. De-spite that eras necessary culture ofsecrecy,everyone was immensely in-terested long before a single testbomb was deployed.

But boy, they are lucky that therest of the world doesnt care forwhatever reason. In this way, mindscan keep on working,getting closerto a solution before the govern-

ments of the world get suspiciousand nervous about its profound im-plications.

I admire these people for daringto dream beyond the horizon ofmainstream biology and engineer-ing. I dont know if this vast networkwill succeed.It may possibly fail.ButStanford needs to put itself onto thismap in either case. This universityhas a varied history in risk and inno-vation. It has nothing to lose and

everything to gain with such an in-vestment in human immortality.Why, you ask, is this so? Cant

Stanford lose a lot of respect forfunding such an intrinsically selfishthing for humanity? In the midst ofpoverty and human health and dis-ease, funding a cause like this seemsfrivolous,right? No.Funding effortsat human immortality are funda-mentally a good thing because itgives us the option to rewrite our bi-ological destiny. Not having such atherapy at hand chains us to our bio-logical degradation. The latter isclearly a better society than the for-mer because it consists of freer peo-

Get Rude

CARDINAL SIN S

Do notbe a

bystander.

THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTY

David SpencerNelson

CristopherBautista

The Aging Myth

STETHOSCOPES , COMPILERS AND HEMINGWAY

Aaditya

Shidham

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Please seeBAUTISTA, page 5

Please seeNELSON,page 5

Please seeSHIDHAM, page 5

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valuable

without learning a few things. Like how to recognize and celebrate

colleagues with exceptional qualities. And the importance of training

the eight Stanford students who will be joining us full-time this summer.

Congratulations to them on all their success.

jpmorgan.com/careers

James Darmody

Andrs Garca

Pia Hauch

Christine Kang

Salina Truong

David Vence

Thomas Westermann

Amanda Zhang

names as

as our own

ple: those in charge of their ownmortality.We have every obligationto give our future society that pow-erful and profound a liberty.

Why, you ask,i s a freer society abetter one? The answer lies in ourhistory: gains in liberty have a pos-itive precedent in the human story.Agriculture freed us from thechains of a hunter-gatherer socie-ty; the written and spoken wordfreed us from imprecise communi-cation; the advent of flight freed usfrom our location. Human empiri-

cism has resulted in tools like these tools that have allowed us to re-script all kinds of once-fated ends.

Let us hope upon this irony: thata university founded on death mayeventually destroy mortality.

Aging is Gods ultimate conspiracytheory. If you dont think so, let meknow at [email protected].

SHIDHAMContinued from page 4

accepted as man, but I was also ac-cepted in a space where a majority ofthe people there were not only men,but men who were biologically bornmales.They respected me, and theyrespected my masculinity.AlthoughI was different, they acknowledgedme as their brother too. And Illadmit, it was a surprise for me. Inever thought I would reach thispoint,where I would feel like a legit-imate young man acknowledgedand respected by other men outsideof the queer community. For so longI felt like I was merely masquerad-ing as a guy,that everyone was usingmale pronouns for me just because Iasked them to,not because they had

any inherent sense of me as a man.But that night gave me a new senseof courage and a new sense of mas-culinity that I never quite allowedmyself to be part of,simply because Ididnt feel entitled to it. But thatnight, the fraternity brothers atKappa Sig proved to me that I was anidiot for even thinking I wasnt goodenough to be a guy.

I wish I wasnt a senior. Rushingsounds pretty appealing right now.

Cristopher thinks you should rushKappa Sig.E-mail him at cmsb@stan-

ford.edu.

BAUTISTAContinued from page 4

our advocacy here at Stanford candrive change across college cam-puses.This in turn can influence na-tional politics and change the opin-ions of progressive people acrossthe nation.

There are, whether were awareof it or not, debates going on behindthe scenes about University proce-dures. ROTC, policies concerningathletic admissions and IHUM arenot only on the table for discussion,but are fundamentally changeable.The current review of IHUM is aperfect example; students spoke, re-views were initiated. We should feelfree to question University institu-tions, whether they are morally or

pragmatically good,or whether theycontribute to Stanford in a positiveway.

Jacob Bronowski, a famousmathematician, said,It is importantthat students bring a certain raga-

muffin,barefoot irreverence to theirstudies;They are not here to worshipwhat is known, but to question it.This attitude,that of the critical par-ticipant, is one that we should takebeyond the classroom. Do not be abystander, or worse,a sycophant toconvention.

Many of our parents were babyboomers, a generation whose ag-gressive questioning culminated insome incredible acts (for example,the 1968 burning down of Stan-fords ROTC building).The accusa-tion that we dont care about muchother than material goods andtransparent, selfish philanthropy isoften leveled at our generation.Weshould strive to be principled, andnot just when were talking abouthuman rights abroad or obvious in-

equities in far-flung countries.Dont instinctively move your criti-cal tendencies to obvious, unam-

biguous targets. Use them in every-day life.We need to bring our idealshome, and thats most important

when theyre controversial. Pursuethem with a little more care thanour forbearers did. (For legal rea-sons,Im going to make it clear thatIm not advocating arson or de-struction of University property inanythings name.)

Now that Ive made all you youngpeople iconoclasts, there should beno shame in challenging existingideas. Thats how political systemsimprove.Even when you agree withan idea or a party,dont be afraid toquestion it and make people explainthemselves. Dont let politeness getin the way of pursuing the right,andnever accept a policy or stance thatisnt justified.

But,whatever.Im mostly writingthis because section gets awkwardwhen no one talks . . .

Feeling motivated? E-mail Spencer [email protected].

NELSONContinued from page 4

son.Are those students who carrya student not responsible and notguilty of a Fundamental Standardviolation?

Sometimes, one or more

students trick or at least urge astudent to drink to a level thatcauses risk up to a 50 percentchance of death. Are those stu-dents who urge the drinker not re-sponsible and not guilty of a Fun-damental Standard violation?

Destructive belief 3:It is hardto tell if someone is dangerouslydrunk. There is truth here, butthat is beside the point.You donthave to wait for an outcome toknow it has occurred.For example,you see a student writing a paperby copying out of a book,changinga word here or there.The studentgives you the paper and says, Isthis plagiarism?It would be face-tious to say, Gee, Im not an ex-

pert on plagiarism and it would beimpossible for me to assess that.The correct answer is:Given thatyou copied out of the book,I dontneed to read the paper: you wereplagiarizing. Students do notdrink alone and then collapse inthe street, forcing observers to de-cide whether they are sleeping,epileptic or in alcohol danger.Every alcohol case I have encoun-tered has unfolded with other stu-dents around during the drinking.Under these circumstances,you donot need a medical degree to de-tect a students dangerous behav-ior with alcohol.

Stanford students views of al-

cohol, including students who donot drink,are self-serving,lack per-sonal or intellectual integrity andviolate the Fundamental Standard.Almost no Stanford student will besent to the hospital;almost all Stan-ford students will be knowinglywatching someone who is likely tobe sent to the hospital. It is time tostop the self-congratulatory non-sense about how successfully ourundergraduates deal withalcohol.

PROFESSOR CLIFFORD NASS

Otero resident fellow

OP-EDContinued from page 4

walk when someone is in the cross-walk!

Be safety-conscious.

ROSE RAJEFF

University Libraries

Nothing sophistabout

ROTC debate

Dear Editor,Sam Windley L.L.M.11 wrote in

this space about the Jan. 11 ROTCforum, claiming that ROTC sup-porters had offered little but dis-gustingsophistry (Letters to theeditor, Jan. 18). Mr. Windleys ac-count does a disservice to both theparticipants and to the Stanford

community, which deserves a fullerrecord of the proceedings.

As expressed at the event, theprimary anti-ROTC position is sim-ple: even after the repeal of dontask, dont tell, the military stilldoes not accept transgendered per-sons.That type of exclusion is dis-crimination. Discrimination vio-lates Stanford policy. Ordinary em-ployers who discriminate in thatway are barred from campus.

Therefore,both because we will notparticipate in discrimination andbecause we wish a change in thepolicy, we should not devote Uni-versity resources to ROTC or per-mit the program on campus.

Thats fair, as far as it goes,but itmakes two critical assumptionswith which many disagree.

First, the military is not an ordi-nary employer. Our ties to such em-ployers extend no further than totheir recruiting presences on ourcampus and, perhaps, to employ-ment statistics in our admissions

brochures. Thats not the case here.Our tax dollars train and equip ourwarriors, and our elected represen-tatives send them into battle. In theeyes of the world, PFC LynndieEngland was more than an individ-ual she was an American soldierand an agent of U.S. foreign policy.Like it or not, the actions of ourarmed men and women are,and willremain, ouractions, and a boycottwould neither sever our ties with

nor end our support for the Ameri-can military.

Further, its hard to believe thata boycott is the most effective pathto equality in the military.By keep-ing ROTC off-campus, we turndown opportunities to meet and de-bate military officers, to introducethe military to the transgendered(and vice versa), and to earn thecredibility that comes from havingserved ourselves. Does anyone be-lieve that a military with more Stan-ford graduates as flag officerswould be less likely to welcome

anyone of sound mind and bodywho wished to serve?

If we short-sightedly banishROTC,we take ourselves out of thefight.The Universitys founders be-lieved that [t]he public at large,and not alone the comparativelyfew students who can attend theUniversity, are the chief and ulti-mate beneficiaries of the [Universi-ty] foundation. Where would theyfall on the choice between making a

statement and making a difference?We are confronted with incom-

patible moral goals, necessitating adifficult choice. How great is the in-

justice done by the policy againsttransgendered recruits, and howgreat an injustice would we commitif, in service to country, to civic dis-course and, possibly, to equality,weallowed them on campus anyway?Reasonable people disagree on theright answer. But theres nothingsophistabout the debate.

JONATHAN MARGOLICK J.D.13

LETTERSContinued from page 4


6/8

By MILES BENNETT-SMITHSTAFF WRITER

Two nights after having its nine-matchwinning streak broken, the No. 2 Stan-ford mens volleyball team battled backagainst No.13 Hawaii (1-4,1-1 MPSF) fora grueling 3-2 win to earn a series split inHonolulu.

The Cardinal (4-1, 3-1) was in dangerof losing two consecutive matches for thefirst time since last January after gettingswept in front of a raucous Warrior crowdof 3,551 on Friday.

However, senior outside hitter andHawaii native Spencer McLachlin, oneof seven Hawaii natives on Stanfordsroster, put on an offensive show in thesecond match, and freshman EricMochalski had the two biggest kills of hisyoung career to avoid a sweep and keepStanford near the top of the MountainPacific Sports Federation (MPSF).McLachlin tallied a career-high 29 killsSunday while hitting .375 in the win,which was a close battle from start to fin-ish.

Stanford began Sundays matchupbetter than Fridays, winning the first set,25-21,but Hawaii rallied behind anotherbig home crowd and dominated the sec-ond set, 25-17, with another top-notchperformance from outside hitter JonasUmlauft. Last years MPSF newcomer ofthe year, the 6-foot-9 sophomore had 29kills on the night, including seven in thesecond set. It looked like Umlauft mightswing the momentum back to Hawaii.

But the third set belonged to the Car-dinal, who stood out early and held ondespite plenty of attack errors on both

sides. Stanford hit .257 while Hawaii hitjust .129,well below its average of .300 forthe match.

Up two games to one in the fourth set,Stanford came out strong and held a slimlead midway through the set.But Hawaiiagain rallied and took a 21-19 lead on akill by Steven Hunt.Stanford head coachJohn Kosty called a timeout and the Car-


By CAROLINE CASELLIDESK EDITOR

Struggles away from home continue to plague theyoung Stanford mens basketball team, whichdropped a 68-57 decision to UCLA (13-6,5-2 Pac-10)on Saturday to conclude a dismal Los Angeles roadtrip.After a promising start to the conference season,including an upset over then-No.17 Washington, theCard (10-8,3-4) has dropped three straight games tofall into the bottom half of the Pac-10 standings.

Looking to bounce back after a disheartening 23-point loss to USC on Thursday night, the Cardinalappeared to be a different squad at the outset of Sat-urday mornings matchup, jumping out to an early 8-0 lead over the Bruins. Stanfords offense continuedto dominate,with contributions from redshirt juniorJosh Owens and junior guards Jarrett Mann and Je-remy Green extending the Cardinals lead to 22-8with 10:28 remaining in the half.

But when all appeared to be in the Cards favor,the Bruins came alive on both ends of the court,andStanfords shooting took a turn for the worse.TheCardinal which made eight of its first 15 shot at-tempts would go 2-for-18 for the remainder of thehalf, with its five points coming off a layup fromMann and a three-pointer from freshman forwardAnthony Brown. UCLA sophomore forward TylerHoneycutt and junior guard Malcolm Lee wouldcombine for 20 first-period points to help the Bruinsclaw their way to a mere one-point deficit, with ascore of 27-26 heading into halftime.

I knew it was going to be a fight we knew thatthey would not let up, Owens said.They respond-ed well to our run.

UCLA took its first lead of the day just underthree minutes into the second half, and the Bruinswould not trail for the remainder of the game. TheBruins outscored the Card 42-30 in the half, led byLee and junior guard Lazeric Jones, who together inthe second half went 14-15 from the line and scored26 points. On the defensive end, UCLA forced five

Stanford turnovers in the second period,but commit-ted only one.

They played great defense,said Stanford head

coach Johnny Dawkins.Ive seen the improvementon their defense,from this year to last year.We couldnt keep the execution together like we

had in the first half,Owens added.In the secondhalf, we had some defensive let-ups, as Lee startedfinishing his shots and Honeycutt did as well. Theyreally played well,and to their strengths.

Stanfords shooting has been lackluster in its pastfew games the Card shot just 30.8 percent from

Predictionsfor a not-so-Super Bowl

Am I the only person whofeels entirely ho-humabout the upcoming

Super Bowl? Sure, thereare excited fans in Green

Bay and Pittsburgh,but something re-mains to be desired about this SuperBowl,at least for this sports fan.

It is probably an irrational feeling after all,the Packers and the Steel-ers are two of footballs most histori-cally rich teams.The Packers won thefirst two Super Bowls,and the Steelershave won the most Super Bowlsyet the two storied franchises havenever met for the title.

Still, after the team I grew up root-ing for, the Kansas City Chiefs, wasrightfully bounced from the playoffs inthe wild card round,an air of indiffer-ence fell over me.This weekend,I washoping for the Packers and the Jets towin, just so the Super Bowl championwould be one of the teams Brett Favrerecently spurned a last screw youto a legend that lost his luster some-where inside of his swollen ego. Thetrouble is Favre might have enjoyedthat Super Bowl, because his namewould stay in the news even though hewouldnt be playing (yes,I know I amperpetuating exactly what I am railingagainst).

This is all without mentioning twoweeks of Rex Ryan sound bites lead-ing up to the game. . . oh well.

I guess instead I will have to settle

for Packers-Steelers a matchup be-tween Aaron Rodgers, the quarter-back that made everybody in GreenBay forget about Favre, and BenRoethlisberger, the only quarterbackwho may be more of an (alleged)creep than Favre off the field. Good-guy points go to Rodgers in thatmatchup (despite the fact that he wentto Cal).

So now that I have gotten BrettFavre out of the way,onto the game.

In all seriousness, this is a show-down between two of the games bestquarterbacks. Rodgers may fly a bitunder the radar for whatever reason he wasnt originally selected to thisyears NFC Pro Bowl team, despitehaving a fantastic season but is justas talented as any quarterback in theleague. If you watched Rodgers pickapart the Falcons in Atlanta in theNFC divisional round,you may havebeen watching one of the best individ-ual performances by a quarterback inyears.

Roethlisberger,on the other hand,isnt your prototypical precision pock-et passer.Despite appearing unortho-dox, the man is a load to tackle andmakes plays outside the pocket withhis arm and his legs.This is his shot at athird Super Bowl title in just seven sea-sons,making him a proven winner (aterm I dislike and dont quite under-stand).

While Rodgers vs. Roethlisbergermay get all the headlines,the matchupof the two defenses is equally, if notmore, compelling. Pittsburgh, orshould I say Blitzburgh, is perennially

known for its defense, especially re-cently under coordinator DickLeBeau.The Packers,however,have avery impressive defensive unit of theirown, anchored by NFL sack leaderClay Matthews and 175-year-oldCharles Woodson in the secondary.

People will talk a lot about thequarterbacks,but I see this game being

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TROJANSStanford sits alone atop

Pac-10 standings

By NATE ADAMSDESK EDITOR

It might be a little early to give Stanford thenational trophy, but that didnt stop USC headcoach Michael Cooper from making a firm pre-diction following his teams 95-51 loss to No. 4Stanford womens basketball on Saturday after-noon.

I think what youre looking at here is thenext NCAA champion, Cooper said. Weplayed some of the best,and this is the best teamweve played this year.

The lopsided victory marks the 10th consecu-tive win for Stanford (16-2, 7-0 Pac-10), whichtook sole possession of the Pac-10 lead aftertrouncing No.8 UCLA 64-38 on Thursday night.

Senior guard Jeanette Pohlen led her teampast USC (12-6, 4-3) on Saturday with 21 pointsand 12 assists,helping Stanford shoot 52 percentoverall and reach its highest point total of theconference season.Senior forward Kayla Peder-sen added 16 points of her own, while sistersNnemkadi and Chiney Ogwumike each put up

14.After three straight Final Four appearances

and no title to show for them, Stanford headcoach Tara VanDerveer knows she cant takeanything for granted.

I really want to play a more open game. Thisyear with people,Keep shooting until I strangleyou is my motto, she quipped. We want toscore more and run more.

Those are high standards coming from acoach whose team put up 10 three-pointers, 54rebounds and 27 assists against a USC squadthat had just one conference loss entering theweekend.

But Stanford was less than stellar in the open-ing minutes. The Cardinal traded baskets withthe light-footed Trojan offense early on, missinga few three-point attempts while letting USCdrive into the paint and crash the glass. Almostfour minutes in, USC and Stanford each had

three rebounds and the Trojans were ahead inthe scoring column,8-7.After recognizing theyre getting a few

boards, we had to counteract that and be moreaggressive, and just make sure we take care ofthe ball, Chiney Ogwumike said.And to takecare of the ball, we had to have the ball.

As has often been the case for Stanford, theearly back-and-forth soon gave way to an offen-

sive blitz.A Pedersen layup sparked an offensiveexplosion for the Cardinal about four minutesin, as the co-captain combined with Pohlen andChiney Ogwumike to jolt Stanford into a 17-2run that put it up 24-10 at the games first mediatimeout.Just afterwards, Pedersen sunk an em-phatic nothing-but-net three from the wing that

gave her 11 total points less than 10 minutes intothe game.

Junior guard Lindy LaRocque, now a usualmember of Stanfords versatile starting lineup,added to the onslaught with her own pair ofcrowd-electrifying threes in the half, includingone from a full yard beyond the top of the key.

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Senior guard Jeanette Pohlen (23) posted 21 points and 12 assists against USC on Saturday,leading the Cardinal over the Trojans, 95-51, in Maples Pavilion.

Card falls to UCLA, endingdisappointing L.A. trip

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UCLAs Jerime Anderson, left, steals the ball fromStanford's Josh Owens (13) in the second half atPauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on Saturday. UCLAstifled Stanford, 68-57, handing the Card its third-straight loss.

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dinal regrouped to tie the score at23. After Stanford couldnt capital-ize on match point at 24-23, the setwent back and forth for severalpoints. Hawaii staved off four morematch points and had six set pointsof its own, but it wasnt until NejcZemljaks service ace that the War-riors forced a fifth and final set witha 36-34 win.

The Warriors carried most of themomentum in the fifth set,flying pastStanford to a 5-1 lead in the final setto 15. But another timeout by Kosty

settled the Cardinal. Stanfordsblocking slowed Hawaiis attack,anda key team block by McLachlin and

junior blocker Gus Ellis broughtHawaiis lead to 13-12.

A kill by Hawaiis Joshua Walk-er gave the Warriors match point at14-13, but a service error squaredeverything at 14.Hunt had anotherkill to give Hawaii yet anothermatch point at 15-14,but Stanford

junior outside hitter Brad Law-sons kill off junior setter EvanBarrys 62nd assist of the night tiedthe match at 15.

It was then that Mochalski tookover in the spotlight, earning a pointoff a Hawaii overpass to make it 16-15, and then spiking a pass by Ellisfor his seventh kill of the night a

match winner.Several of the teams Hawaii na-

tives had big matches, led byMcLachlin and junior libero ErikShoji, who had 16 digs. The matchlasted two hours and 54 minutes,theteams longest of the year by overhalf an hour.

It took Hawaii just an hour and45 minutes to dispatch a jet-laggedCardinal in the opener on Friday,when Stanford hit just .200 as a teamand held the lead only twice in the 3-0 loss.

Stanford will hit the road againto continue league play this Fridayagainst Cal State Northridge.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith [email protected].

MVBALLContinued from page 6

Stanford Daily File Photo

Senior outside hitter Spencer McLachlin (14) led Stanford to a win on Sunday in his home state, Hawaii, con-tributing a career-high 29 kills on .375 hitting in the 3-2 victory.


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Pohlen capped off the half with amid-range jumper, sending herteam to the locker room with a 46-27 lead.

The point guard stepped up thepressure in the next frame, playingher way to a team-high 30 minutesand scoring 11 second-half points.Her 12 assists marked a careerhigh.

Saturdays performance was thelatest in a great season for Pohlen,who averages 16.5 points and 4.9 as-sists per game, has 29 steals and isshooting 90 percent on free throwsand 43 percent from beyond the arc.After shooting only 2-for-11 againstUCLA on Thursday, her turn-around to Saturdays game wasquick.

I think some of the shots againstUCLA went in and out,and to methats just the little things to fix inyour shot, she said.Its not like Iwas way off.

Pohlens dominance helped

Stanford push the lead to 71-38 mid-way through the half, and that mar-gin was enough for VanDerveer tostart making substitutions fromacross her roster.

By the end of the contest, 12

Stanford players had seen at leastfour minutes of game time and ac-counted for 24 Stanford points.Thatincluded a 19-minute showing fromredshirt sophomore Sarah Boothe,who had the highest point total,11,of any non-starter. Redshirt seniorMelanie Murphy got seven valuableminutes at guard,playing in her sec-ond game since a knee surgery thathad kept her on the sidelines all sea-son. Murphy found the basket once,scoring on a fade-away jumper thatsent her stumbling into a smilingStanford bench.

The Trojans stuck with theirstarters deep into the game,thoughthey werent able to stem the tide.Briana Gilbreath went 6-for-12 with17 points,but no other USC playerbroke into double digits.

The inflow of bench playersmeans that Pedersen will have towait at least another game to be-come Stanfords record-holderfor career minutes played.She has4,141 minutes overall, just eightshy of breaking Virginia Sourlisrecord of 4,148,set in 1982-86.

Pedersen will have an opportu-nity to break the record when Stan-ford travels to the Pacific Northwest

next weekend, facing Oregon at 6p.m. on Thursday and Oregon Stateat noon on Saturday.

Contact Nate Adams at [email protected].

WBBALLContinued from page 6

the field against UCLA,its third con-secutive sub-35-percent perform-ance, and 34-for-128 (26.6 percent)on the weekend.Green,typically theCards primary scoring threat, strug-gled to get into his groove in both

Los Angeles games,scoring only fivepoints against USC and 12 points on4-for-15 shooting against the Bruins.

Jeremy Green is a great player hes very confident in who he is,Dawkins said of Greens recentshooting woes. I think his mainthing now is to find what shots he hasto take.

Owens led the Card with 14points and 12 rebounds,notching histhird double-double of the year.Brown had all 10 of Stanfords benchpoints,and classmate Dwight Powelladded nine points and seven re-bounds.

For the home team, Lee led allplayers with 23 points on 6-for-11shooting, tallying nine points fromthe line.Jones finished with 17 points 14 of which came in the secondhalf and Honeycutt added anoth-er 16 for the Bruins.Sophomore for-ward Reeves Nelson was held to justfour points, significantly below hisaverage of 14.5 points per game,though he maintained a strong pres-ence down low, leading UCLA with

10 rebounds.Despite the disappointing week-end, Dawkins commended histeams effort and willingness to com-pete.

Im really proud of our guys they are giving us great contribu-tions, he said. But its a work inprogress.

The Card will return to MaplesPavilion for four straight games,starting with a matchup against Ore-gon this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Contact Caroline Caselli at [email protected].

MBBALLContinued from page 6

low-scoring if one team scores 20points, it will probably win.

There is one aspect of the gamewhere Pittsburgh has a decided ad-vantage the running game. Sure,Green Bay has discovered a bit of arushing attack in the playoffs withJames Starks, but it is still a pass-first,pass-second, pass-third offense. TheSteelers, on the other hand, have avery capable running game led byRashard Mendenhall,who,as the Jetslearned today,is quite adept at bounc-ing would-be losses outside and gain-ing positive yardage.

So who is going to win? My heartfirst tells me to pick the Steelers, be-cause I tend to root for AFC teams.Itthen reminds me,however, that I amsick and tired of the Steelers winningSuper Bowls it is getting boring,somaybe some new blood would be agood thing.My head also first tells meto go with the Steelers.They are thebetter team on paper. But then I amreminded that the Super Bowl is notplayed on paper,and that Green Bayhas looked white-hot recently.

A prediction:Green Bay 20,Pitts-burgh 17.

Daniel Bohms head and heart say theSteelers will win the Super Bowl, buthis gut is going with the Packers.Tellhim your prediction at bohmd@stan-

ford.edu.

BOHMContinued from page 6

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UCLAs Reeves Nelson (22) blocks a shot by Stanford's Josh Owens (13) inthe second half at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on Saturday.

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