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By ELLORA ISRANISTAFF WRITER

Years after American interest in the Mid-dle East began to experience a dramaticresurgence with the U.S. invasions of Iraqand Afghanistan, Stanford is still racing tocreate a Middle Eastern studies programcomparable to those of its peer institutions.

The University does not offer a degree-granting program in Middle Eastern studies.Harvard,Yale, Princeton, and UC-Berkeleyall do.

About two years ago we had an externalreview a team from Princeton, Indianaand Chicago come in and lay out a roadmap for developing our program in thisarea,said Richard Saller,dean of the Schoolof Humanities and Sciences.

Two major improvements were the cre-ation of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Stud-ies and the Program in Iranian Studies in2005 and 2007, respectively. The Universityalso recently launched a certificate programin Iranian studies and is in the process of hir-ing a second Middle East historian. Chal-lenges have precluded further expansion,however.

The truth is we have not added the fac-ulty as quickly as wed hoped because therecession really put a break on fundraising,and we need to raise additional funds inorder to fund additional faculty positions,

Saller said.In order to put a strong foundation

under a degree-granting Middle Easternstudies program, the University would re-quire an eight-figure gift,Saller added.

This race to catch up with the programsoffered by peer institutions raises the ques-tion:why did Stanford not develop its MiddleEastern studies program when others did so?

I think several decades ago, Stanforddecided to concentrate on the Soviet Unionand Eastern Europe and leave the MiddleEast to other major universities, saidAbbas Milani, director of the Program inIranian Studies. For a while, they seemedto have made the right choice. That waswhere it was happening. With the fall ofthe Soviet Union, the tectonic platesshifted, and Stanford decided to play

catch-up.Despite Stanfords lack of a cen-tralized, degree-granting program,it does offer courses,particularlyin contemporary Middle-East-ern politics,that are unique.

We have multiple peopleteaching classes on modern Iran . .. and also people who are willing toteach classes on the Arab-Israeliconflict, said political science pro-fessor Lisa Blaydes. Professors inMiddle Eastern politics at other in-stitutions are not willing to really

deal with those issues head-on, so in manyways we offer more breadth than some of ourpeer institutions.

Stanford may not ever get to the pointwhere we have as large a collection of peopleworking on the Middle East from a historicalperspective, Blaydes added, but we do

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SIG addsQatarfellowship

By MARWA FARAGCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Stanford in Government (SIG)

has announced the addition of an in-ternational fellowship with theBrookings Doha Center,a project ofthe Brookings Institution, in Doha,Qatar to its lineup of fellowships forthe upcoming summer.

The Doha fellowship, one of sixnew additions to the lineup, was cre-ated in response to high student de-mand for travel opportunities in theMiddle East.Security concerns havelong prevented Stanford organiza-tions from sponsoring travel to theMiddle East, but for many, Qatarpresents an exciting foothold for fur-ther opportunities in the region.

Qatar is one of the safest coun-tries in the region, said Abbas Mi-lani, director of Iranian Studies andfaculty mentor for the new fellow-ship.Its advantages include proximi-

ty and immersion in Islamic cultureand it is increasingly becoming acenter of cultural activity,he said.

Theres a significant lack of Mid-dle East experiences available forstudents, and this is one of the firststeps towards changing that, saidAndrew Linford 11, SIG director ofinternational fellowships.

Indeed, Middle East studies hasbeen an arena in which Stanford haslagged.

Some universities have had Mid-dle East study programs for almost800 years in Europe.Some Americanuniversities have had such programsfor 70 or 80 years, Milani said.Weare playing catch-up. But there isleadership at Stanford dedicated tomaking sure this gap is filled.

SIG partnered with the Center onDemocracy, Development and theRule of Law (CDDRL) to arrangethe fellowship. SIG,a student group,

By CAROLINE CHENSTAFF WRITER

I went to war kicking andscreaming, confessed novelist TimOBrien to the crowd at CubberleyAuditorium on Monday night.

The celebrated writer, best

known for his Vietnam War ac-counts in award-winning novelsGoing After Cacciato and TheThings They Carried, delved intohis personal experience with warand discussed the ethics of writingabout war with Stanford professorand novelist Tobias Wolff during hisStanford visit yesterday.

Despite his resistance to beingdrafted during the Vietnam War,OBrien said he believes he has anobligation to write about his experi-ences, and that literature has thepower to confront and examine hor-rific events such as war.

The discussion touched on theissue of aestheticizing human suf-fering by writing novels about war.

If to make aesthetic an ugly sit-uation is corrupt, then there would

probably be no literature, OBriensaid.Literature is the meditation ofbeing human, and human beings,unlike gophers or chipmunks, areaware of tragedy and horror.To diveinto that wreck as a writer and try tosalvage something beautiful canmake the horror float and allow acharacter to confront it.I dont thinkthats a bad thing.

OBrien encouraged writers notto recycle the cliches and conven-tions of war stories.

Press it beyond the killing anddying, he urged.Those stakes areobviously very high, but there arehigher stakes of morality.What is therole of conscience in a democraticsociety? What does it matter if we in-vade Toronto tomorrow, if the ma-

jority of people agree to it? Is therea point at which you say,No,Im notgoing to shoot that old guy. Im notgoing to go to war, or is it just,Yes,sir,were going to kill Canadians to-morrow? To test oneself that way as

a writer is important.OBrien admitted that some-

times readers interpret his books ina manner contrary to his original in-tention, citing the example of ayoung man who decided to join theArmy after reading his novels, de-spite OBriens intention to warnpeople about the pettiness and hor-rors of warin his works.

The consequences of what wewrite, were not in control of, hesaid. Were trying to write goodsentences with some beauty.Thats

what we can do. We cant controlthat that kid out in the hallway thatuses [the book] to march off and dobad stuff.

In the course of the conversation,OBrien and Wolff covered contro-versial issues such as terrorism andthe draft. OBrien was critical ofwhat he perceives as an indifferenceamong Americans today to U.S. in-volvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

What do you die for? What doyou kill for? OBrien said. Thosequestions have become less relevant

to our discourse now than they were[during the Vietnam War].Not a lotof people worry about there notbeing weapons of mass destructionsfound in Iraq. Forty years ago, thatwould have broken hearts.

One cause of this apparent indif-ference, Wolff proposed, might bethe lack of a draft, suggesting thatsince military service is now volun-tary, people who are unaffectedtake less interest in the motivations

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Tim OBrien, left, is an award-winning novelist best known for Going After Cacciato and The Things They Car-ried. He discussed the ethical dimensions of depicting war in literature with Professor Tobias Wolff, right, yesterday.

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seem to offer the types of coursesthat students would have the great-est affinity for: contemporary is-sues with high relevance.

Stanford also encourages thisinterest in contemporary Middle

Eastern issues with the multitudeof guests it draws to the campus.In terms of events, in terms of

the number of lectures and confer-ences and screenings, I think I cansay right now I know of no otherplace,no other university, that is asactive in these areas,Milani said.

Questions have also been raisedas to whether Stanford offers ade-quate programs in Middle Easternlanguages. The university recentlyadded a semi-permanent Turkishinstructor and offers programs inPersian and Arabic as well.

For many faculty, the primaryfrustration has to do with the lan-guage instruction, said historyprofessor Robert Crews. Histori-cally, Persian and Turkish havebeen taught on a kind of ad hoc

basis . . . language instruction atStanford is not on par with lan-guage instruction at other peer in-stitutions.

Any potential degree-grantingprogram in Middle Eastern studieswould probably be an interdepart-mental effort between history, an-thropology, religious studies andpolitical science, said religiousstudies professor Shahzad Bashir.The involvement of other depart-ments for example, art history,sociology or economics woulddepend on where the Universitychooses to hire additional faculty.

As Stanford continues to ex-pand its offerings in Middle East-ern studies, the strategy to build abetter program seems clear: hiremore faculty.

Its relatively straightforward,Bashir said. At the end of the day,courses are dependent on whoshired,and the more permanent po-sitions we have, there are morecourses, more synergies, more pos-sibilities of people doing projects ofdifferent types.

Contact Ellora Israni at [email protected].

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relies on feedback from past fellowsto help the organization figure outwhere it can plug holes in the op-portunities available on campus.

Initial communication with theinstitution is initiated through our

faculty advisors,said Valentin Bolot-nyy 11, chair of SIG. Using e-mailcommunication primarily, a fellow-ship is created after committee mem-bers research the institution and afaculty member vets the arrange-ments. SIG allocates a stipend to thefellow,adjusted based on the needs ofthe particular fellowship, with the in-tention of covering all expenses forthe nine-week duration.

The Doha fellowship requiresproficiency in Arabic,a requirementthat Milani believes will boost thequality of the students and make itmore possible for the fellowship tobe fruitful.

Bolotnyy and Linford agreed thata background in the Arabic languagewould enable the fellow to benefitthe most from the experience,

adding that given the applicants in-terest in Middle East affairs, the lan-

guage requirement should not pose aproblem to most of them.

The goal of the fellowship is toconduct significant research onall the issues happening in the Mid-dle East, and how U.S. politics andpolicies relate to these issues,Bolot-nyy said.

Elliot Stoller 13, a second-yearArabic student,described the fellow-ship in an e-mail to The Daily as anamazing and unique opportunity to

learn about the Middle East throughboth policy research and cultural im-mersion.

Our fellows will have to rely ontheir own efforts, there is very littlebeaten path they can walk on, Mi-lani said. Thats one of the chal-lenges and one of the advantages ofworking on the Middle East. . . al-most the whole arena can be a poten-tial subject for new, innovative re-search.

If you go to D.C.,theres so muchthats been written on how theAmerican government works, Mi-lani said.But if youre going to theMiddle East you have to be a little bitof an explorer.You have to have theadventurism, bravura, curiosity anddedication of an explorer.

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for war.If that wolf is not at the door and

your son or your daughter is notbeing dragged to war, it can bepushed aside, OBrien said, thoughhe added he was personally conflict-ed over whether the draft should re-turn or not.

Both Wolff and OBrien evaded aquestion from a veteran in the audi-ence who suggested that a selective

draft be instituted at Stanford andother elite institutions in order togive future leaders the experience ofcombat.

OBrien responded to a questionabout coping with post-traumaticstress disorder with what he ac-knowledged would be an unpopularresponse.

I worry that there is not enoughtrauma, he said. We as humans

tend to heal too well and quickly andthoroughly. I think you are nuts ifyou come back from what I wentthrough and dont have late-nightanxiety. If you dont have anger is-sues,I think youre crazy.Youre nothuman. I think that one of the waysto deal with trauma is to be trauma-tized . . . to acknowledge that ithurt.

OBrien concluded the eveningby reminding his audience that thepotential of literature should not beunderestimated.

Literature is not this docile lap-dog,he said.It can do things thatare real in human lives. It is power-

ful.OBrien will give a reading Tues-

day night at Cubberley Auditorium,completing the Raymond Fred WestMemorial Lecture Series.The seriesis organized by the Stanford Human-ities Center and the Center forEthics in Society.

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Students weigh in on restaurants,prices and entertainmentBy MARWA FARAG

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Its been named the most expensive col-lege town in the U.S., used as the setting

for James Francos collection of shortstories (aptly named Palo Alto) andspawned IT giants like Hewlett-

Packard. Stanfords answer to New Havenand Cambridge, Palo Alto is the first step out-side the bubble where people dont speak inacronyms (Wanna meet at TAP afterPWR?) and Cardinal Dollars do not equalmoney.

But pinning down the precise Stanford-Palo Alto relationship has always proven dif-ficult. Some indicator came this fall, whenColdwell Banker Real Estate put the Univer-sitys suburban neighbor at the top of itsmost expensive list. And today, studentsand locals alike have plenty of opinions toproffer.

Despite thecitys focus onits older popu-lation, student-filled Stanfordremains a cen-

tral element ofPalo Altosidentity. Stan-ford is the topemployer inthe city, and itsmembers, fromstudents to ad-ministration,constitute alarge portionof the con-sumer market.

Erin Browner,store manager at the Amer-ican Apparel store on University Avenue,ex-plained how vital Stanford students are to thebusiness.

At least onethird of theshoppers are stu-dents, she said.Stanford stu-dents are so

much fun. Weget students whoare frequentshoppers and welove helpingthem put togeth-er outfits for par-ties and events.

Alan Garcia,a manager atCelias,a Mex-ican restau-rant and bar

on El Camino Real,agreed.About 20 percent of our customers are

from Stanford, Garcia said.Once a month,usually, a large group of Stanford students

come in, and we have special hours for themlike staying open later than usual. We lovehaving Stanford students here.

But many students arent feeling the love.I dont feel like its a thriving college

town,said Rob Blount 12.Its more for rich

people, there are the Stanford graduates wholive there,but you dont have the kind of sup-port you get at a state school.

Palo Alto can certainly stretch the studentbudget.For some students,the high prices are adeal-breaker, but students like Jujjhaar Singh14,a Palo Alto native,know how to cope.

Its kind of cumbersome that its so ex-pensive, but thats not going to stop peoplefrom going out,he said.There are libraries,a bowling alley, an art museum,a theatre andan ice skating rink in Palo Alto,and its easy totake a train to San Francisco.

And some students have learned to searchfor deals.

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GIR L YOU KNO W IT S TRU E

Atypical Sunday afternoon: Isit at my computer andmentally run through my

week, desperately hoping that Idid or thought something interest-ing. Sometimes, if Im lucky, Illhave already written myself a notesomewhere about a promisingthought or topic that I want to turninto a column, but lets be honest its the end of the volume, Ivewritten a number of columns andsometimes the well of possibletopics runs dry. (Meta-column, ifyou were curious, is one I havewanted to write for a while buthave been saving until now.)

Sometimes,there are crises. I havestarted columns only to decidethat they are unfit for general con-sumption. I have stared at myblank Word document for ages andbegun to panic that I may, in fact,be an unbearably boring personwith nothing to say to the Stanfordcommunity. A few times, I havebrainstormed myself to sleep, onlyto wake from my slumber in themiddle of the night to groggilywrite an outline that never makesany sense in the morning.

Post-brainstorm, I write, withfrequent breaks, until I have a de-cent first draft and then promptlyfall asleep. Monday rolls around,and I slowly make edits,occasion-ally in the middle of lecture.I passmy final draft on, and its out ofmy hands for the rest of the day.Sometimes, in my nervousness, Ihastily read (or reread) all theother columns from the past week.

Tuesday rolls around, and ei-ther I completely forget that itspublication day, or I wanderaround looking awkward andsheepish. My friends always findsomething nice to say about thisweeks column, and I occasionallyregale them with overly detailedstories about the convolutedthought processes I had whilewriting it. The best part is receiv-ing e-mailed reader responsesfrom people I dont know. Itshard to describe the giddiness andanticipation before I open the e-mail. No matter what it says, Im

always overjoyed that Ive some-how managed to make a writer-to-reader connection while blather-ing on about my own life, and Iusually announce my glee about it

to whoever is in the same room asI am.

My roommates used to indulgeme and display copies of TheDaily on our coffee table, casuallyopened to my picture. My parentsused to send me adorable e-mailsabout how they didnt know that Iliked to write. Ill be honest; the

approval made me beam with de-light, but more than a few weeksof this would have made me un-comfortable. Now, were all prettyused to the routine. Sunday rollsaround, and I wrack my brain foranother topic that I think mighthold vague interest. My friends nolonger have any suggestions. OnTuesdays, Ive stopped furtivelylooking through my own columnwhen I see the printed copy to seewhich sentence has been chosenfor the highlight. Once, I forgotwhat I had written about thatweek and panicked a little when Ineeded to respond to a commentin person.

Its not a bleak situation,though.It feels familiar, and I thinkthat we are closer than we were inSeptember, dear reader. We havebeen through a lot together, youand I, by which I mean, you may ormay not have read a number ofshort pieces I have written aboutmy life for you. I now readily sharemy more embarrassing habits andthoughts and trust that you will findit quirky instead of horrifying. So,this is my thank-you to you.True tostyle, the bulk of it is my talkingabout myself doing something fair-ly normal as if it were actually pro-found, but this appears to haveworked for us so far. Im glad tohave had the chance to talk at you,and lets keep this true to the title,yeah? Our correspondence doesnthave to end here;it can be. . . contin-ued.

Groaning about that last line? Jade is,too.Send her complaints,clever alter-natives and continued correspon-dence at [email protected].

Today marks the release of O:A Presidential Novel ananonymously written novel

about the 2012 presidential election

(Obama loses spoiler alert!). Inmost ways, the book appears to bean echo of the 1996 novel PrimaryColors,which was an anonymouslywritten novelized version of BillClintons 1992 presidential cam-paign (these types of books arecalled romans a clef,for those keep-ing score at home).The anonymousauthor is a neat trick to get buzzaround a book,but is inevitably dis-appointing remember when youfound out who Deep Throat was?Of course not, nobody does. But itwas W. Mark Felt. W. Mark Felt. Sodont start counting down the daysuntil we learn that the author ofO was some journalist nobodysever heard of.

But that does not mean O iswithout value or part of a valuable

and long tradition of turning real

peoples existence into fictional nar-ratives that stretches from CitizenKanes depiction of William Ran-dolph Hearst as Charles Foster Kaneto The Simpsons depiction ofCliff Huxtable as Dr.Julius Hibbert.And so while O is not likely to bethe definitive account of the Obamapresidency or the 2012 election, itseems like an easy enough way tohave a bestselling book without hav-ing to actually be a good writer.Andwhile President Obama is a goodchoice for a book that arbitrarilyprojects off into the future on thebasis of very little evidence,there are

other options out there.

S: Alaskas Sweetheart

A tale of the 2012 presidentialelection, S tells the story of a

plucky young girl from Alaska whoseeks her partys nomination forpresident. Sarah, our protagonist,loses horribly because even widemajorities of her own party view heras unfit for office. Sample line:Though Sarah always claimed Godhad told her to run for president,hercampaign quickly fell apart whenshe was tape-recorded blaming himfor her Iowa loss, shouting to no-body in particular, I praise you24/7!!!!!! And is this how you dome!!!!! You expect me to learn fromthis??? How???!!! Ill never forgetthis!! Ever!!! Thanks though.

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Upon entering his early twen-ties, onetime teen idol (thats what

ROTC:Lift the ban,butdont hold your breath

Dear Editor,Despite the repeal of dont ask,

dont tell(DADT),support for Stan-fords ban on ROTC persists in pre-dictable quarters on campus.The ar-guments in favor of such a ban are no

better than those advanced some fourdecades ago.Military science courses, we are

told,lack academic rigor.This is newsto midshipmen at Naval ROTCBerkeley, who are required to studyship systems and engineering,coursesfar more challenging than, say,PWR.The claim that ROTC instructorsarent qualified is equally ludicrous.Professors without doctorates can befound across campus; accomplishedmilitary officers teaching coursesabout the military is little differentthan successful executives and prac-ticing lawyers lecturing at GSB andthe law school.

ROTC, we are warned, violatesacademic freedom by forcing stu-dents into certain careers with certainemployers and restricting their ma-

jors.But nobody is forced to join,therules and expectations are made clearfrom the start,and there is a dropoutprocedure.It never seems to occur toROTC critics that students might sin-cerely desire to be military officers.The mistake is to view the U.S. mili-tary as simply another employer,notworthy of any special recognition.

Finally, the latest line of attack isthe militarys ban of transgender indi-viduals.This gives little pause to thosewho felt the ROTC prohibition wasfoolish to begin with, but for otherswho insisted on a repeal of DADTprior to lifting the ban on ROTC,itsa thornier problem.Its also a canard.Even if the transgender ban were re-moved,ROTC opponents would stillfind an objection. They might insistthat ROTC stay banned until the firstfemale is appointed chairman of theJoint Chiefs,for example, or until nu-clear weapons are eliminated.

The ban on ROTC, then, shouldbe repealed because common senseand patriotic decency demand thatStanford permits its return to campus.But lifting the ban is only the begin-ning.Proponents of ROTC underes-timate how difficult it may be.

For starters,the enormous endow-ment means few students really needthe money anymore. It also providesall sorts of opportunities for under-graduates to take full advantage ofthe college experience, from fundedresearch projects to overseas travel.With programs like direct commis-sioning,Officer Candidate School forthe Army and Navy or Officer Train-

ing School for the Air Force,studentsinterested in the military have manypossible pathways into the servicesafter graduation, permitting thempersonal and academic flexibilityduring their time on the Farm.

The Berkeley Naval ROTC unitcan muster some 60 students fromfour different schools, including UC-Davis.Just a handful hail from Stan-ford. Whether the Defense Depart-ment will find a critical mass of inter-ested Cardinal remains to be seen.Elite academia, including the IvyLeague and Stanford,banned ROTCsome 40 years ago, setting them onpaths that diverged widely from themilitary.The question is whether thischasm has narrowed since then.I fearit has only widened.

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Anonymous Novels about FamousPeople

The haunting mixture of hopeand apprehension, excitementand uncertainty, that marks

the arrival of each new year hascome and gone. In a blur, the firstthree weeks of winter quarter havedisappeared. Yet imagine for a mo-ment that the new year is not 2011,but 2021.

To young students like us, thatyear seems impossibly far away. Butthose who are further along in lifesjourney know that 10 years can passin a blink of an eye,leaving only nos-talgia and regret in their wake.Thequestion remains only of what wewill do with that precious time.

So what world will greet us whenthe digits 2-0-2-1 stand embla-zoned in front of Times Squares

ball? As we begin our 30s, Sept. 11will be a distant two decades past.Our parents will be among the morethan 50 million Americans olderthan 65.And, if we do not press ourrepresentatives to make wise choic-es in the years ahead, the UnitedStates will likely be a mere shell of itsformer self.

Since the start of the financial cri-sis, the stewards of our nation havefailed utterly in their duty to makedecisions that act toward the better-ment of our country rather than theenrichment of its oligarchy. Theyhave acted selfishly and recklessly byallowing the national debt to reach apredicted $20 trillion by 2021,muchof which will be owed to hostile for-eign powers.They have replaced rea-

son with partisanship, ensuring thatendless,useless bickering silences ra-tionality and innovation on every oc-casion. And they have dug in theirheels at a time when only sweeping,unprecedented reform can save thiscountry from total collapse. TheUnited States of America, as re-silient and powerful as it is, simplycannot endure another decade ofthis sickening chicanery.

Should you think this descriptionof the present situation is somewhatoverblown, allow me to offer yousome additional figures.The Centeron Budget and Policy Priorities hasreported that 46 states are facingbudget shortfalls this fiscal year to-taling $112 billion, leaving Alaska,Arkansas, Montana and North

Dakota as the only states in theunion with their fiscal houses inorder.Unfunded state and local pub-lic pension liabilities, according to arecent New York Times article, totala mind-blowing $3.6 trillion.Newsweeks report last summer onthe best countries in the worldawarded Americas education sys-tem 26th place internationally, 12notches below Kazakhstan,based oninternational standardized testscores.And the American Society ofCivil Engineers annual ReportCard for Americas Infrastructuregave us a miserable Din that arenalast fall.

It is easy to glaze over these sta-

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he is, right?) Justin Bieber finds hisonce enthusiastic fan base oftwelve-year-old girls has aban-doned him for a younger, floppier-haired Canadian YouTube sensa-tion. Realizing that his only hopefor survival as a star is to go on a vi-sion quest, he travels deep into thewoods where he can speak with hisspiritual godfathers, New Kids onthe Blocks Joey McIntyre, RickyMartin and NSYNCs Joey Fatone.Unfortunately there really isntanything that mediocre, not-that-talented teen idols can do besidesdevelop lifelong drug problemsthat will someday allow them toappear on Celebrity Rehab.

T:A Cult of PersonalityA slightly over-the-hill movie

star finds solace in a bizarre reli-gion that many regard as thecultish fantasies of an insane sci-ence fiction writer. Somehow, au-diences dont seem to care, and

Tom continues to make generic ac-tion movies that nobody is ever ex-cited to see well into the distant fu-ture before retiring from actingupon receiving a promotion to thepost of Chairman of the Church of

Scientology, at which point it be-comes the most popular religion inthe world.

O: A Presidential NovelAfter seeing her handpicked

candidate and fellow ChicagoanBarack Obama rise to the presi-dency, Oprah Winfrey beams withpride and is pleased that her en-dorsement proved enough to sin-glehandedly convince enoughAmericans to go vote for him. Butwhen he fails to fulfill all of hiscampaign promises, she decidesthat she will take matters into herown hands and seek the office her-self.Running outside the tradition-al bounds of the two-party system,Oprah finds a groundswell of sup-port at her back when public opin-ion turns against sitting presidentBarack Obama and no enthusiasmcan be generated on behalf ofuber-boring Republican nomineeTim Pawlenty.

America begins to believe it hasmade a horrible mistake whenOprah threatens to invade Brazil ifit does not return the 2016Olympics to Chicago, but Oprahquickly assuages all such concerns

of her incompetence by giving aro-matic soaps out to all of America.

Thanks for reading these columns this was my last one ever. Send anycomments to [email protected].

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tistics without processing them, butthe problems they quantify can nolonger be ignored or wished away.These numbers are hard, unforgiv-ing, objective indicators of the fu-ture that we will inherit if we do notact now,swiftly and decisively.If it isour responsibility to improve thisworld for the benefit of our descen-dants and I believe it is thenwe can no longer afford to let short-

sightedness continue to rule theday.

A solution will begin to arise onlywhen all of us emerge from our apa-thy, rise together in a show of over-whelming force and say as one,Wedemand sanity.We demand the endof earmarks, lame duck legislation,recess appointments and other polit-ical sleight of hand that flagrantlydisrespects the constitution. We de-mand a sustainable health care sys-tem that provides for the needywithout annihilating our fiscal well-being.We demand an education sys-tem worthy of our childrens timeand our proud history. And we de-

mand that the voice of the entireAmerican people be heard and re-spected rather than dismissed as therabble of the hoi polloi.

Until you and I demand all this,together, nothing will change. Andanything short of a radical rethink-ing and restructuring of theleviathan that is the United Statesgovernment will lead only to a de-layed recurrence of the same prob-lems that plague us today.So rise up,break through the Stanford bubble,and make a difference while you stillcan.The world of 2021 depends on it.

JONATHAN GELBART 11

GELBARTContinued from page 4

Its very possible to go enjoy anevening in Palo Alto without spend-ing a lot of money, Kaden FreemanVillegas 14 said.Coffee at a cafe or achocolate at Moniques or a cupcakeat Sprinkles only cost a few dollars.

While price might not stop peo-

ple from venturing out for a night,itmay discourage students from mov-ing off campus.

I know a lot of grad studentswho live off campus who have to livein nearby cities like Menlo Park, be-

cause its too expensive to live inPalo Alto, Blount said.

Nevertheless, even stores thatdont rely heavily on the Stanfordcommunity for business try to tapinto the potential market.

We havent seen a huge Stan-ford crowd,but weve been trying toreach out to the Stanford communi-ty, said Katie Green, a server atHowies Artisan Pizza, an eatery inTown & Country Village.

For students part, culture and

character also play a role in the rela-tionship.

For example, Blount noted theseparation between city and cam-pus,which stood in contrast to hisexperiences visiting the Universi-

ty of Texas in Austin, where thewhole city supported the footballteam.

Last weeks weather is anotherattraction for some.It doesnt getreally hot or really cold, Singhsaid. Its the perfect weather tolive in.

And, of course, Palo Alto has aseat in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Theres a trade-off betweenbeing in a typical city and havingthe resources of Silicon Valley,Vil-

legas said.Being here gives us a lotof opportunities, and that makes upfor other things.

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The West Coast is clearlybetter than the East Coast.And it cant be better un-less its better for sportsfandom.

Of course,I should preface this ar-gument by saying that Ive lived mywhole life on the West Coast.Duh. Butreally, is that so bad for my argument?Ive lived in a wonderful place forwatching sports,and every time I leave,Im reminded of how great I have it.

When Im not living at the greatestcampus in the world watching Stan-ford win Directors Cup after Direc-tors Cup,I live in southern California,in an area that a few years ago came tobe known as The O.C.but which isknown to people more commonly assouth of Los Angelesor near Dis-neyland. Living in this area has al-lowed me to enjoy one of the most un-derrated qualities of sports fandom not having a local NFL team.

While there is no logical explana-tion for Jacksonville having a team inthe most popular sport in the countrybut the second-largest city in Americagetting shut out, the bright side to thisweirdness has manifested itself in tel-evision coverage.While Bay Area fansare shackled to 49ers-Cardinals andRaiders-Broncos and Florida resi-dents have to see Jaguars-Titans andDolphins-Bills, those of us in No

Mans Land get Pats-Colts and Steel-ers-Saints. So what that theres not alocal team? I get to see the best gamesevery weekend and I can choose myfavorite team (I chose the Colts abouta decade ago because I liked watchingthem play,and I havent wavered).

But anyway, this is about West

Mens and womens swimmingblaze through Arizona schools

In two joint meets over the week-end, the Stanford mens and womensswimming teams each notched victo-ries over both Arizona and ArizonaState. The No. 1 womens team (6-0)defeated the No. 7 Wildcats, 178-114,and the Sun Devils, 174-120, while the

No. 3 men (4-0) edged past Arizona,155-143, and beat Arizona Statesoundly, 168-122.

Senior Kate Dwelley shined for theStanford women in both meets,f inish-ing in the top three in all threefreestyle events against Arizona andwinning both butterfly events againstArizona State.Junior Betsy Webb alsowon two events against the Sun Dev-ils,while senior Liz Smith contributedvictories in both breaststroke eventsagainst the Wildcats. Senior MegHostage led the diving team, placingwell throughout the weekend.

The mens team got strong per-formances from several swimmers tohold off Arizona for a close victory.Three swimmers senior Alex Cov-ille, junior Chad La Tourette and sen-ior Austin Staab won two eventseach, while senior diver BrentEichenseer took both diving events.Coville won both the 50- and 100-yardfreestyle events, and La Tourette, adistance specialist, won both the 500-and 1,000-yard freestyle races.

Stanford got key contributionsfrom different swimmers to pull out avictory over Arizona State. JuniorsGeoff Cheah and Curtis Lovelacepowered the Cardinal past the SunDevils with two victories apiece.Cheah won both short-distancefreestyle events,while Lovelace sweptthe breaststroke races.

The mens team will return to thepool on Feb. 4 at home against CalState Bakersfield, while the womensnext meet is on Jan. 28 at Avery Aquat-ic Center against Pac-10 foe UCLA.

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The No.3 Stanford mens gym-nastics team beat No. 2 Californiaon Saturday, 364.4 to 358.8,in frontof a large Burnham Pavilioncrowd.The Cardinal bounced backfrom last weeks loss to the GoldenBears, improving its overall scoreby over 15 points and easily puttingup its highest team score so far thisseason.

With only two meets under itsbelt, the Cardinal is already mak-ing a statement to be the top teamon the podium at the NCAA

Championships.Its 364.4 finish wasthree points better than Stanfordshighest team score last season.

The Cardinal started off thecompetition with a strong showing

on the floor exercise to jump out toa 61.4 to 58.9 lead.Freshman CaleRobinson stuck nearly all his tum-bling pass landings to put up a solid15.4. Seniors Alex Buscaglia andJosh Dixon followed with theirusual dependable routines, scoringa 15.1 and 15.9, respectively.

Sophomore Eddie Penev start-ed the pommel horse event with afall, putting pressure on the rest ofthe lineup.However,redshirt soph-omore Jordan Nolff fought to stayon the apparatus and the rest of thelineup followed suit and hit thenext four routines. Chris Turnerproved to be the superstar fresh-

man on the pommel horse,hitting asolid routine and landing the dis-mount to earn a 15.0.

Senior Ryan Lieberman contin-ued the teams momentum and

produced a 14.2 while the redshirtsophomore duo of Gabe Jeffersonand John Martin closed the eventoff with a 14.9 and 15.3,respective-ly.The rotation set the pace for therest of the competition as the Car-dinal went to the rings ahead of Calby four and a half points.

I think that gaining an earlylead on Cal really took them out oftheir game, said senior co-captainTim Gentry. They still had a pret-ty good performance, but once wetook an early lead we never lookedback.

Rings was a clean event for theCardinal as Lieberman and Gentry

both scored career bests. Lieber-man put up a 15.1 and Gentry per-formed a tight routine with fewform breaks to produce a 15.8.Buscaglia (14.6) and sophomore

James Fosco (15.4) also made sig-nificant contributions.

The team experienced a minordip in momentum on vault as itmade a few uncharacteristic mis-takes. Stil l, Penev, last yearsNCAA champion on the event, de-buted with a strong 16.3 vault andGentry did a double front for a16.1.

Stanford improved significantlyfrom last meet on the parallel barswith a 59.9. Dixon had a career-best 15.4 and 2010 NCAA champi-on Lieberman also scored wellwith a 15.2. Redshirt senior NickNoone closed off the event with a

14.7.The men finished the meetstrong on the high bar with a 59.7.

Sports arebest viewed

in EST

West Coasters like tocomplain that thereis an East Coast bias

in sports. Want toknow why that is?

Its because the sports world ticks onEastern Standard Time.

The sports Gods (also known as thecommissioners of the major sportsleagues) maximize viewership by en-suring that games start at primetime onthe East Coast the West is merely anafterthought.

I have had the Eastern time versusWestern time conversation (argu-ment?) with enough Californians sincemoving here from New York to under-stand the merits of both sides and tobe honest, I think the ideal time zonefor sports viewing is the Central TimeZone and I have decided that Eastis definitely better than West.

Let me start by posing a question.What do you like to eat while watchingNFL games? Bar food I believe wouldbe a pretty standard answer to thatquestion chicken wings,burgers,na-chos,etc. However,that doesnt soundall that appetizing at 10 a.m.Football isnot made for waffles and pancakes.

Take it a step further.What do youwant to drink while watching football?There is a reason there are countlessbeer commercials during footballgames beer is the beverage ofchoice.Do you want a tasty cold one at10 a.m.? (Dont answer that question.)I dont see Tropicana advertising dur-ing football games.

On the East Coast,football gamesstart at 1 p.m.and 4 p.m.,which allowsyou to have a productive morning be-fore plopping on the couch all after-noon.And if youre the tailgating type,

you can have quite the epic day leading

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Redshirt sophomore Jordan Nolff, above, and the defending national champion Stanford mens gymnastics team posted the best team score in the nationso this season against Cal on Saturday. The Cardinal posted an impressive 364.4 total score while exacting revenge on the Bears for an earlier season loss.

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Like its female counterpart, the third-ranked Stanford mens swimming and diving team swept the Arizonaschools last weekend. Juniors Geoff Cheah and Curtis Lovelace each won a pair of events against ASU.

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The No. 1 Stanford womens swimming and diving team bested No. 7 Arizona and Arizona State last week-end. The Cardinal was led by senior swimmer Kate Dwelley, who won both butterfly events against ASU.

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Coast vs.East Coast,not just about me.The fact is,I can babble about whatev-er I want, because the West Coast is soclearly better for sports fandom. For-get getting to watch Western teams in-stead of Eastern teams.The overall ex-perience of being a sports fan on theWest Coast is much better than thesame experience on the East Coast.

Take football, which is the mostpopular and important sport inAmerica.Here on the West Coast,myentire weekend is built on football.When I wake up on Saturday,collegefootball has begun, and I can stay inmy pajamas all day long watching 9a.m.Big Ten games,12:30 and 3:30 na-tional games,7 p.m.Pac-10 games andthen have the late night to go have funwith other people and go to parties(which for me clearly means watchingseveral rounds of highlights of all thegames I just watched while neverchanging out of said pajamas,leavingthe room or socializing).

The next morning, I can start the

cycle all over again. The first NFLgames start at 10 a.m., meaning I cancertainly make myself get up forthem,but if Im not that interested,Ican sleep in and watch the secondhalf.Either way, I get to grab lunch inbetween games and then watch theafternoon games before SundayNight Football with dinner. Oncethats over,I have to come to the real-ization that the weekend is over,but Istill have plenty of time for the wholeweekends worth of homework.

But of course, the weekend isntcompletely over,because the next daybrings another great tradition din-

ner and Monday Night Football.Youcan watch with your family whenyoure at home, and you can watchsurrounded by friends at school. It re-ally is the reward for making itthrough a Monday.

So lets quickly look at how this allchanges if youre on the East Coast.You get to wake up, and then wait.While a few people (myself on a goodday included) can easily sleep until

noon or 1 p.m.,the majority of peoplewake up in the morning on a week-end.What kind of weekend starts withwaiting? Sure, watching pregameshows can be fun,but its certainly notthe same as nonstop football. So afteryouve waited for a few hours and got-ten bored with the weekend, you canstart your afternoon with football.Starting in the afternoon? Weird.

After youve watched the maingames through dinner and after, youdecide you want to do something elsewith your day,and you therefore missthe West Coast games.(This is the partwhere you dont give Pac-10 teamscredit and you call them soft withoutever seeing them play.) The next day,you get to start your day off with evenmore waiting, and then watch a cou-ple games before Sunday Night Foot-

ball.Then what? Watch until midnightand then actually have nothing else todo with the weekend? Sounds lessfun.But at least its not Monday,whenyou have to stay up past midnight tomake it through Monday Night Foot-ball. If youre talking general audi-ence,theres no way 12:30 a.m.makesmore sense for kids,working adults orthe elderly,just to name a few groups.

But the world is not just football.Lets look at other sports. Generally,most sports are played in so-calledprimetime. That means many big-time games start between 7 and 9 p.m.local time. So if youre on the West

Coast,you get games starting from 4to 7 or 8 p.m.,which gives you a wholeevening of basketball or baseball orwhatever you like.On the East Coast,everything gets shifted over, so youdont get any real games until afterdinner,and if you go to bed at any rea-sonable time,you miss the end of a lotof big games, and youre not evenaround for the start of many WestCoast games.

I feel like SportsCenter can sum-marize the entire superiority of sportsfandom on the West Coast. My wholelife has revolved around the timing ofSportsCenter, and it works perfectlyfor someone on the West Coast. Icould wake up to SportsCenter, findthe early updates and previews rightafter school,see the highlights of thefirst games after dinner and then getthe final wrap-up before bed.On theEast Coast,nothing has happened be-fore the morning SportsCenter, soyoure just watching to see highlightsof all the games you didnt watch theday before because you live on theEast Coast.Then,you cant see muchof anything until dinner times pre-views.Right before bed (unless youreroutinely up past 1 a.m., which plentyof college students arent,let alone the

rest of the country) you get the firstround of highlights, and the finalround of games is still far from over.

It all comes down to this: wouldyou rather have all day to watchsports and get to see every game live,or would you rather wait a few hoursuntil games start and wait until thenext morning to find out what hap-pens in the night games?

Jacob Jaffe doesnt even want to getinto the Orange Bowl, his only EastCoast sports watching experience.Relive the midnight finish with him at

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JAFFEContinued from page 6

Redshirt sophomore CameronForeman contributed on the eventwith a 14.9 while Buscaglia finishedoff the meet in the anchor positionwith a high 15.6.

Ultimately, the goal is to per-form better and better with eachmeet,and we did exactly that Satur-

day night, Lieberman said. Wewent out and competed closely tohow we have been practicing, andin return gained some new confi-dence that will carry over to thenext competition.

The Cardinal will next competeon Feb.3-5 at the Winter Cup Chal-lenge in Las Vegas, in which selectathletes will perform at the invita-tional meet.

Contact Jenny Peter at [email protected].

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up to a 4 p.m.local start. Out West,youare stuck on the couch through almostall of the daylight hours especially ifyou want to watch Sunday Night Foot-ball.If you want to tailgate youd betterbe an early riser.

Which brings me to my next point night games.The biggest argumentagainst East Coast sporting events ishow late you sometimes have to stayup to see the ends of games.At leastyou have the choice to stay up andwatch. On the West Coast, MondayNight Football, playoff games in theNBA,NHL and Major League Base-ball, as well as college football bowlgames and college basketball games,all start while much of the populationis still in its offices or en route homefrom work. People literally cantwatch the games without ditchingwork.

Imagine being a San Francisco Gi-ants fan who could not watch theWorld Series games that startedaround 5 p.m. local time because of

work. This was the case for plenty ofdiehard fans, I am sure. If given achoice to have the game start afterwork and being allowed to decidewhether to stay up for the end,Im surealmost all Giants fans would acceptthat option.

Meanwhile, fans of the TexasRangers,in Central Time, could enjoythe 7 p.m.start and decide whether ornot to stay up for the games finish. Iwould always rather have the choicethan to have my hand forced.

Since this is catered to a collegecrowd, lets think about sleep sched-ules for a second.Im betting more ofyou are likely to be awake at mid-night or 12:30 a.m., when the latest

games on the East Coast normal-ly Monday Night Football end,than 9 a.m. on Saturdays when thefirst college football games oftenbegin.

When it comes to the NFL,wakingup for 10 a.m.games is hard enough formany West Coasters,especially us col-lege-aged folks.1 p.m.is less of a strug-gle,Id say.

NCAA basketball tournamentgames may be the most difficult, ac-tually. Unlike many of the collegefootball games that start early in themorning, and the NFL games at 10a.m.which many West Coasters maynot be interested in, every game ofthe NCAA Tournament matters tomany fans (at least those that filledout a bracket). These games startearly in the day, and can often in-clude West Coast teams.When I wasa freshman (when dinosaurs roamedthe Earth) Stanford playedLouisville in the first round of theNCAA Tournament at 9:30 a.m.PST! It was terrible for us fans, andawful for the team, who lookedasleep while getting blown off thecourt by Louisville.

The early-morning effect on travel-ing West Coast teams is well-docu-

mented (just ask the 2009 Stanfordfootball team about its trip to WakeForest), so I wont dwell on that toolong. I will just say that whatevermakes players tired also makes fanstired.

Like I said before,there is a happymedium, which those Rangers fansenjoy.People knock the middle of thecountry, but when it comes to sportsviewing there is probably no betterplace.Still, push me to choose and it isEast over West any day.

Daniel Bohm used to ride a T-Rex toclass every day.Ask him how to train

your dinosaur at [email protected].

BOHMContinued from page 6

Besting the Defending Champs

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The second-ranked Stanford womens gymnastics team beat defending champion and eighth-ranked UCLA196.200 to 194.825 Sunday in front of 1,100 at Burnham Pavilion. The Cardinal is now 2-0 on the season.

national championship by domi-nating the Michigan Kickoff inAnn Arbor, Mich. The Cardinaldefeated Hartwick, Loyola Mary-mount, Indiana and Michigan by acombined score of 57-10 in thetwo-day tournament.

The matches were Stanfordsfirst of the year and should serveas a good tune-up for a schedule

that will soon get much more dif-

ficult.Junior driver Pallavi Menon led

the Cardinal with nine goals on theweekend. Junior two-meter Melis-sa Seidemann had seven goals, anddrivers sophomore Jillian Gartonand freshman driver Kaley Dod-son had six goals each.

Three Cardinal goalkeepers seniors Kim Hall and AmberOland and sophomore Kate Bal-doni split time in the net overthe weekend.

Daniel Bohm

WPOLOContinued from page 6

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