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By MILES BENNETT-SMITHSTAFF WRITER

After a series split at No. 11Hawaii last weekend, the mens

volleyball team is back on the roadto continue Mountain PacificSports Federation play against No.13 Cal State Northridge (2-5, 1-3MPSF) tonight.The No.2 Cardinal(5-1, 4-1) will go on to face No. 5

Long Beach State (4-3,3-1) tomor-row.

Both teams are ranked in thetop 15, so it wont be easy, saidStanford head coach John Kosty.Long Beach has a very experi-enced setter that runs a balancedand fast offense, and althoughCSUN lost a lot of players to grad-uation, they still have a strong at-

tack on the outside and good sizein the middle.The Matadors are coming off a

loss in their home opener to UC-Santa Barbara, but they have al-ready faced five teams ranked in

the national top five, including awin on the road against then-No.3Pepperdine.

Northridge junior setter MattStork passed the 3,400-assist markin his last match against UCLA,but he had his consecutive startstreak end at 70 matches after suf-fering an injury against the Bruins.Stork is questionable for the match

tonight, meaning backup setterJeff Baxter would run the offenseagainst the Cardinal.

However,the match likely rests

MENS BASKETBALL

Card falls to Ducks,losing streak at four

Card looking to bounce back on trip to top-15 foes

By ZACH ZIMMERMANDESK EDITOR

The Stanford mens basketballteam failed to break out of an offen-sive slump on Thursday night,losing

just its second home game of theyear,67-59, to Oregon.The loss wasthe Cardinals fourth in a row andmarked the seventh consecutivegame that the team failed to eclipsethe 60-point mark.MENS BASKETBALL

OREGON 67

STANFORD 591/27, Maples PavilionStanford (10-9, 3-5 Pac-10) was

overcome by the feisty full-courtpress of the Ducks defensive unit,turning the ball over 17 times on thegame.Coupled with 6-for-19 shoot-ing from three-point range and61.9-percent free-throw shooting,the Cardinal was unable to comeaway with a much-needed victory.

I dont think we played particu-larly well, Stanford head coachJohnny Dawkins said. We turnedthe ball over too many times.

For Oregon, the victory markedthe first time in 25 years that theDucks (10-10, 3-5) won in the con-fines of Maples Pavilion. Oregonhead coach Dana Altman was re-

lieved to put that streak into the his-tory books.We needed that, Altman said.

That was a big one for us.Its some-thing that we finally got out of theway.

Freshman forward Dwight Pow-ell led the way for Stanford with 14points on 6-for-8 shooting from thefield. He and classmate AnthonyBrown,who netted 11 points on thenight,were the lone bright spots fora seemingly dysfunctional offensivesquad.

Dwight gave us some energy,Dawkins said. I thought he re-bounded and scored the ball well.He was aggressive, he was attack-ing.

Junior guard Jeremy Green,whoentered the game as the Cardsleading scorer at 14.7 points pergame, continued to struggle fromthe floor,hitting just three of his 10attempts en route to a disappoint-ing 13-point performance.

I thought Jeremys shots for themost part were good, Dawkinssaid. When youre getting lookslike that, its also a function of,youre going to have periods andtimes of games where it doesnt gofor you how you want it to.

Noticeably underutilized in thegame was redshirt junior JoshOwens. The star forward had astring of strong performances lead-ing up to Thursdays matchup, butrecorded just 23 minutes on thenight. He finished with four pointson just three shot attempts.

Dawkins credited the Duck de-

fense with denying ball-entry to hisbest low-post presence.We couldnt get it inside,

Dawkins said.We want him to get

By JACK BLANCHATand NATE ADAMS

The No. 4 Stanford womensbasketball team had a good dayduck hunting on Thursday night,polishing off Oregon,91-56,and ex-tending its winning streak to 11games.

The Cardinal (17-2, 8-0 Pac-10)dominated all facets of the game,and the Ducks (12-7, 3-5) had atremendous amount of troublestopping the Ogwumike sisters.Freshman forward Chiney Ogwu-mike tied a career high with 18points and 12 rebounds, while jun-ior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumikehad 16 points and eight rebounds.

WOMENS BASKETBALL

STANFORD 91

OREGON 561/27, Eugene, Ore.

That said, the Ducks werentable to stop any of Stanfords stars.Senior guard Jeanette Pohlen had17 points and six assists, senior for-ward Kayla Pedersen added herfourth double-double of the seasonwith 11 points and 14 rebounds,and

junior forward Sarah Boothe con-tributed 16 more off the bench.

The Cardinals success waslargely driven by the Ducks inabil-ity to make shots,as Oregon misseda whopping 57 attempts.The Cardi-nal, in turn, pulled down a season-high 62 rebounds.

Stanford held Oregon to 56

points (its season low) thanks totough defense, forcing the ice-coldDucks to take a huge number of long-distance shots.When the finalstats were tallied, Oregon shot just25 percent, including a miserable 3-for-32 from three-point range.

Guard Nia Jackson paced theDucks with 21 points and forwardAmanda Johnson had 15, but thescoring dropped off significantlyafter that,with only one other play-er scoring more than four points.

Stanford started the scoring and

never trailed, rushing out to a 19-1lead halfway through the first half,buoyed by five early points fromPohlen.Jackson then did her best tobring the Ducks back from thebrink by herself, fearlessly cuttingto the basket over and over again,able to finish off her dribble andadd 13 points for Oregon over thelast 10 minutes of the first half.

Jackson helped the Ducks fightback to just 10 down with only two

STUDENT LIFE

Fratheads tohearing

Index News/2 Features/3 Opinions/4 Sports/6 Classifieds/7 Recycle Me

Kappa Sig facesnationals in Vegas

By ELLEN HUETMANAGING EDITOR

About 20 Kappa Sigma mem-bers are set to travel to Las Vegasthis weekend to meet with the fra-ternitys national Supreme Execu-tive Committee (SEC) to addressallegations of misconduct that ledto the chapter being put on suspen-sion by the University last October.

Mitchell Wilson, Kappa Sigma

executive national director, calledthis weekends planned meeting adisciplinary hearing in which thecommittee,comprised of five mem-bers of the board of directors, fivesupport staff and volunteer offi-cers,will review allegations that thechapter violated the Kappa Sigmacode of conduct.

Kappa Sigma members willhave the opportunity to come inand make their statements,Wilsonsaid. The board can ask themquestions and, if allegations aretrue, decide what will be doneabout it.

Wilson said it is more than like-ly that the committee will make adecision regarding the allegationsthat day.

Harris Brown 11,former KappaSigma president, said it was likelythe chapter would know the resultsof the SEC appearance shortlyafter the discussion, but said thepossible outcomes of the decisionspan a wide spectrum. He de-clined to say what consequencesthe group might face.

Wilson said the committeewould evaluate a presentation by

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CARDINAL TODAY

Please see MVBALL,page 8

Stanford Daily File PhotoNnemkadi Ogwumike, above, was her usual dominant self in Oregonlast night. The junior forward from Cypress, Texas, posted 16 points andeight rebounds in the Cardinals victory over the Ducks. With 16.8points per game, shes currently the teams leading scorer.

Please see KAPPA SIG , page 8

Stanford Daily File PhotoThough the season is young, Brad Lawson, left, has done plenty to distinguish himself. The junior outsidehitter leads the team with 81 kills, averaging 4.05 per set. That mark puts him at fourth in the MPSF.

SOCAL GAUNTLET

Please see MBBALL, page 6

Please see WBBALL,page 6


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ACADEMICS

Despite tenuous market,Stanford law grads find jobs

UNIVERSITY

FIRE paints freespeech red on Farm

By BRENDAN OBYRNECONTRIBUTING WRITER

In its annual report on campusfree-speech policies, the Founda-tion of Individual Rights in Educa-tion (FIRE) ranked Stanford as ared-lightschool on the grounds of serious and substantial restrictionon freedom of speech.

The report,which ranks 390 uni-versities according to their on-cam-pus freedoms, put 67 percent of alluniversities into the red-light cate-gory, with 27 percent receiving ayellow light and 3 percent receivinga green light. Another 3 percentwent unranked.

For the third year in a row,trends show that universities are be-coming more free and tolerant, ac-cording to the organization,which says its mission is todefend and sustainindividual rights atAmericas col-leges and univer-sities.

Stanford re-ceived a red-lightranking because,FIRE sa id, theUniversity re-quired visitorsenter a SUNet IDand password toview its speech pol-icy on the use of White Plaza.The rank-ing organization handed two otheruniversities red-light rankings forthe same reason. The New York-based nonprofit decries such ac-tions as deceptive, claiming theydeny prospective students and par-ents the ability to weigh this crucialinformation.

FIREs report included a screen-shot from Stanfords old StudentActivities and Leadership (SAL)website requiring login informa-

tion. In June 2010, the organizationfound the site password-protected,said Samantha Harris, director of speech-code research for FIRE.

But Vice Provost for Student Af-fairs Greg Boardman noted in an e-mail to The Daily that StanfordsWhite Plaza usage policy is, in fact,accessible to the public without anypassword-requirements. SnehalNaik, associate director of SAL,

added that though Stanford haschanged some of its websites de-signs since last year, the policy hasalways been public.

Its never been password pro-tected through WebAuth before,Naik said. The website may lookdifferent, but its always been opento the public.

Boardman said he agrees withFIRE that prospective students andparents should be able to read Stan-fords policies before decidingwhether or not to attend, and thathe would follow up this issue withFIRE to resolve their conflicting ac-counts.

Harris said now that the site isnot password-protected, she planson reviewing the ranking.

Last year, Stanford would have

received a yellow-light ranking if not for the password issue. ThoughHarris said she cant formally up-grade Stanfords ranking until shereviews all of the Universitys po-lices, she is hopeful that she willbe able to upgrade the Farms rank-ing at some point.

FIRE gave the green light toStanfords policies regarding sexual

harassment and network and web-site terms of use. It gave the yellowlight to policies regarding the Actsof Intolerance Protocol and theFundamental Standard.

The Acts of Intolerance rankingwas because of the Universitys pol-icy language regarding intolerantbehavior, which the group called

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Duke prof discusses roleof sports at universities

By MARGARET RAWSONDESK EDITOR

Duke professor Charles Clotfel-ter spoke Thursday at the School of Education about the role of big ath-letics at American universities.During the talk, presented by the

Center for Education Policy Analy-sis (CEPA), Clotfelter raised fun-damental questions about highereducation and the role of athleticsat institutions like Stanford.

What are the aims of the greatinstitutions we revere? askedClotfelter, an economics, publicpolicy and law professor.

Despite routinely being ignoredby scholars as a subject of inquiry,sports is a big deal, Clotfeltersaid. The universities are being

bashful about their big-timesports.

In his research, Clotfelter citedthat of 52 schools with top athleticsprograms and mission statements,only 10 percent mention athletics intheir statements.

The question,Clotfelter said, is

whether universities should add en-tertainment to their official goals of research,teaching and service.

These scholars are acting liketheyre in a parallel universe, hesaid of faculty who ignore the pro-found effects,negative and positive,of their schools athletic traditions.

Clotfelter listed four factorsoften touted in favor of intercolle-giate athletics: life lessons for stu-

2 N Friday, January 28,2011 The Stanford Daily

N EWS

By ROBERT TOEWSSTAFF WRITER

In spite of a still-slumping econo-my and amid indications that law isbecoming a riskier career choice fi-nancially, Stanford Law School stu-dents are continuing to have successlanding competitive jobs after gradu-ation, according to administrators.

As the number of law degreesgranted nationwide continues to rise up 11 percent from a decade ago tens of thousands of legal jobs

have vanished amid significant cut-backs at firms, according to a reportby The New York Times this monththat drew wide attention.

The result is an oversupply of lawyers, thousands of whom are un-able to find jobs in the legal profes-sion. Many of these people, saddled

with hundreds of thousands of dollarsof debt from student loans,find them-selves forced to work for low pay in

jobs for which they are overqualified babysitting and waitressing,for ex-ample.

It seems,though, that these trendshave been much less pronounced atStanford, whose status as a top-tierlaw school has allowed its graduatesto continue finding success in the jobmarket. Stanford currently ranksthird in the nation in the U.S.News &World Report law school rankings,

behind only Yale and Harvard.Every graduate of Stanford LawSchool has a good chance of landing a

job at a firm or in a practice area thathe or she wants, said Larry Kramer,Stanford Law School dean.

The statistics seem to support thispoint. In the class of 2009, virtually

every graduating student was em-ployed within nine months of gradua-tion.A majority of them 152 out of 172 were working either at lawfirms or in judicial clerkships, accord-ing to school spokeswoman JudithRomero.Those positions are general-ly considered to be the most sought-after positions for new J.D.graduates.The 2009 figures compare favorablyto years before the economy col-lapsed, suggesting that Stanford LawSchool graduates job prospects in-deed remain positive in spite of the

economic downturn.Current law students echoed thesesentiments.

I think it makes a difference whatlaw school you went to,said MarisaDiaz J.D.13.

Diaz, who is interested in public-interest law,hopes to make use of thelaw schools Loan Repayment Assis-tance Program (LRAP), a programoffering financial help to recentlygraduated law students pursuing pub-lic-interest careers. Furthermore, shehopes that in her chosen field,she willbe able to compete better because of the nameof Stanford Law.

In response to suggestions that thelegal profession may be becomingless lucrative, students and adminis-trators pointed to the cyclical natureof the economy.

I feel that the claim that lawschool is a financially risky choice is alittle short-sighted, said Nikola Mi-lanovic 11,who is currently applyingto law schools and plans to pursue acareer in law. The decline in legal

jobs is just reflective of current eco-nomic belt-tightening, and probablynot an indicator that the sector will beless hospitable in the long run.

Stanford ranks low in free-speech report

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyIn his Thursday afternoon presentation, Duke professor Charles Clotfel-ter claimed that many faculty and administrators ignore the large im-

pacts that athletics inevitably have on their respective institutions.

Please see SPORTS ,page 5

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyEvery graduate of Stanford Law School has a good chance of landing a jobat a firm or in a practice area that he or she wants, said Larry Kramer, Stan-ford Law School dean. Please see LAW ,page 5

ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily

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NEWS BRIEFS

Charity Fashion Show leaves Stanford for

San FranciscoBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Charity Fashion Show (CFS) an-nounced today that it will hold its an-nual fashion show at San FranciscosFort Mason Center, not Stanford, inApril.

CFS producer Thom Scher 11said CFS is intent on maintainingsome connections to Stanford, butsaid the organization is no longer anofficial student group and technical-ly is no longer associated with theUniversity. Stanford students willstill organize the event and hope tocall upon Stanford communitymembers as both attendees andmodels as it has in years past,he said.

Last spring, CFS faced a deficitafter its event and could not make adonation to its charitable recipient,Kiva.The group encouraged individ-ual donations instead. Scher hopesthat this year,given the new locationand new fundraising freedom thatcomes with no longer being a stu-dent group, CFS will raise morefunds for its yet unnamed charityand avoid last years situation.

Fundraising guidelines andevent planning at Stanford makehosting a large,sponsor-driven eventsuch as CFS sort of a challenge,Scher said,who was a Student Activ-ities and Leadership peer advisor asof fall 2010.

As a student group, we werebound by guidelines,he added,say-ing the situation made it hard to cap-italize on sponsorships and made theprocess financially difficult.

Ellen Huet

F EATURESG EARING UP TO TAKE FLIGHT

By ZAHRA TAJI

Room 001 of the William F.Durand Building in theEngineering Quad, theSpace and Systems De-velopment Laboratory

(SSDL), is clustered with a varietyof tools and machinery. At the en-trance, there is a shelf lined withrovers that once moved across theQuad in search of water on an extra-terrestrial planet. On one of theshelves, there is a black and whitephotograph of The Stanford Dailysphotography team in 1981.The wallsare covered with satellite images,

and flow charts and formulas aresprawled across whiteboards.Sitting behind his desk is Andrew

Kalman 85, professor of aeronau-tics and astronautics,typing away onhis computer.

I have been playing catch-upwith my schedule for, like, 10 yearsnow,he said.

In 1981,when Kalman was an un-dergraduate at Stanford studyingelectrical engineering, he was anavid biker, frequently visited theDish and photographed for TheDaily.While he was on the Farm, hediscovered the mechanical engi-neering shop and spent most of his

time working there, indulging in hispassion for design.

Breaking and MendingWhile he was working on his doc-

torate in electrical engineering atthe University of Florida, Kalmanstarted working as a junior engineerat Stanford Research Systems, acompany started by Stanford gradu-ate students.He later left to start an-other company, Euphonics, with afew friends.The company grew to bea dominant pro audio-mixing con-sole company in the United States.However, he also left Euphonics in1994, not entirely satisfied becausehe was not a musician at heart.

He went on to found Pumpkin in1995, which, initially meant to be adata acquisition company, soon be-came a real-time operating systemcompany.

In 1998, Kalman returned toStanford, where he learned aboutsmall satellite activities. He startedteaching and doing research at theUniversity, later becoming a con-sulting professor in aeronautics andastronautics. In line with Kalmansinterest in small satellites,Pumpkinlaunched the CubeSat kit, a smallsatellite that was built to go intoLow Earth Orbit (LEO) missions.

Around 2008, he became the di-

rector of SSDL, where he focusedon ensuring that students have thechance to gain real hands-on experi-ence.

I think its critical that studentsgo beyond writing up a proposal anddoing some analysis in MATLAB . .. to actually building the real thingand iterating upon that,he said.

Kalman said his best learning ex-periences are often not his successes.

I learn by doing and by making

mistakes, he said. Ive brokenmany machine tools.Ive screwed upparts when I was making them. . .but by doing so,its made me a betterengineer.

Over the course of his engineer-ing career,Kalman found that he be-came better at looking at ways hecould improve his own performance.

I think as a student you have tobe more than a little bit receptive tocriticism, he said. I think at this

stage in most young peoples lives,everyone thinks they know every-thing.

Kalman said two important waysof coping with failure are to keep try-ing and to seek help from teammateswho have more expertise.

Progress doesnt happenovernight, he said. Youve got towork on that and work on that andwork on that.

Looking to the future, Kalmansaid having a diversified skill setmight be a key factor in differentiat-ing engineers. Kalman himself is adigital and analog electronic engi-neer, an embedded coder and alsoworks on PCB board layout and me-

chanical design.I try to be as multidimensionalas I can, and Ive developed thoseskill sets over 25, 30 years at thispoint,he said.

Kalman noted that one of thebest parts of his job at Stanford is theopportunity to interact with stu-dents.

The students at Stanford noware way smarter than they werewhen I was here. I dont think Icould get in anymore, he said,laughing.

Contact Zahra Taji at [email protected].

I learn by doing and

by making

mistakes...but by

doing so,its made me

a better engineer.

ANDREW KALMAN

STUDENT LIFE

Stanford,youre hired!By ERIN INMAN

STAFF WRITER

Eight Stanford undergraduateswill soon face off in a Stanford-pro-duced version of the TV show TheApprentice,competing in businesssituations for a final prize.

The show is a collaboration be-tween the Stanford CardinalBroadcasting Network (SCBN)and the Stanford Pre-Business As-sociation (SPBA), the group of un-dergraduates who coined the idea.

Following roughly the same for-mat as the popular NBC show, eachweek the teams will be introduced toa challenge, develop and execute abusiness plan and be judged on theirsuccess, said assistant producer andSPBA member Matt Ikeler 14.

This is a business-relatedshow, said Michael Wheet 11,SCBN station manager.One of thegoals is to give students the businessexperience in a competitive envi-ronment, to see what the real busi-ness world is like.

Before each competition, thetwo teams of four will have access toa team of advisers consisting of M.B.A.students from the GraduateSchool of Business, local entrepre-neurs and venture capitalists.

Stanfords Apprentice has al-ready gained the support of SiliconValley by procuring sponsorshipsfrom Bling Nation and Mohr Davi-dow Ventures. Mohr Davidow Ven-

tures client base of angel investorswill help develop or participate inthe challenges, while Bling Nationwill help with transferring the fundsthat teams win in challenges.

With contestants selected justlast week,the producers are still de-veloping three to five weeklongchallenges, the first of which is set tooccur during EntrepreneurshipWeek from Feb. 23 to March 2,Ikeler said.

Applicants were required to sub-mit a one-minute video showcasingtheir talents.In reviewing the appli-cations, SPBA was looking for peo-ple who had camera appeal,said ex-ecutive producer and SPBA boardmember Chase Harmon 13.

My friends came at me with avideo camera and said, Youregoing to do it,said applicant KevinShutzberg 14, who was eventuallychosen as a contestant for thetechieteam.

Successful video applicants wereoffered interviews and evaluatedfor their ability to think outside thebox and be part of a team, Harmonsaid.

The producers chose to focus ona team format.Students can alignwith their self-designated side andsee how each side of the mindcomes to work and how differentapproaches come to be, Harmonsaid.

While details of the grand prizehave yet to be determined,Harmonsaid the current $30,000 in accruedprize money might go to companiesto sponsor summer internships forthe winning team. Contestantscould also win prizes for each chal-lenge,such as golf outings or lunch-es with big Silicon Valley thinkers.

Seven SPBA associates willbegin production in February.SCBN provided the necessaryequipment, crew and distributionand has given SPBA creative libertyin editing the footage, with no capon the number or length of episodes.

Both organizations are opti-mistic that the first episode will pre-miere early spring quarter onSCBNs Channel 5 and website.SPBA is working with MTVU to geta broadcasting deal.

The association is confidentabout reaching all members of Sil-icon Valley interested . . . by theamazing Stanford student potentialshowcased by the show, Harmonsaid.

Contact Erin Inman at einman@ stanford.edu.

Courtesy of Kevin HardekopfTwo teams of Stanford undergrads, techies v. fuzzies, will face off in the board room in Stanfords rendition ofthe popular NBC TV show The Apprentice, which is set to air locally this spring.

This is a

business-related show.

MICHAEL WHEET

NEWS

Apprentice spinoff comes to Stanford TV

vague.Though students may not beexpelled or officially punished forintolerant speech that doesnt qual-ify as a hate crime,they may be dis-ciplined through educationalmeans if they fail to respect order,morality, personal honor and the

rights of others, in the words of theUniversitys Fundamental Stan-dard.

The password-protected speechpolicy issue was the only red-lightranking Stanford received in the re-port, making an upgrade of statusseem likely. According to Harris,the review should be done by mid-day on Friday.

Contact Brendan OByrne at [email protected].

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O H ! S WEET N UTHIN

A t a Faculty Senate meetinglast November, the co-chairsof SUES (the Study of Un-dergraduate Education at Stanford)presented a draft document propos-ing three broad and overlappingaims of a Stanford education: first,the acquisition and creation of knowledge;second,developing intel-lectual and practical skills;and third,helping equip students to live cre-ative,responsible and reflective lives.

In the Q-and-A from Faculty Sen-ators, one professor posed an inter-

esting question:I dont see why youneed the third piece of this puzzle. If we have people acquiring knowledgeand intellectual and practical skills,why do we think theres some otherthing out there about living a creativelife which we havent provided themwith the knowledge and tools to ac-quire or act on?I cant help thinkingthe professor might have felt as if, toparaphrase Albie Sachs (who wasparaphrasing Shakespeare), somemen are born politically correct,some achieve political correctnessand he was having political correct-ness thrust upon him!

The professors question prompt-ed a couple dozen faculty membersto almost jump out of their chairswith protests,so it looks like the thirdgoal of fostering creative,responsibleand reflective lives is here to stay.Butthe professor, I think, had a pointworth exploring: Is an institution of higher education about formal,engi-neered learning alone (embodied inknowledge and skills) or does it alsohave a job to play in a less formulaicarena? Should questions about agood or meaningful life be regardedas central to a liberal education? Canthe University do anything to helpstudents ask or answer those ques-tions,and do they require more thanformal knowledge and skills?

A look into history seems to shedsome light on the question. InRoads to Modernity, GertrudeHimmelfarb draws an interestingcontrast between what she suggestswere distinct British and French En-lightenments. The French moralphilosophers aimed to rigorouslyapply high-scale philosophical think-ing to political communities andwere much more adamantly opposedto religion than their British andAmerican contemporaries. TheBritish Enlightenment figureslooked to social virtues more thanthe force of reason as the basis of ahealthy and humane society. The

question for both was: How can wecreate the good society? The Frenchanswer was by serious, sophisticatedreasoning (the head).The British an-swer was by fostering a certain spiri-tual temperament (the heart).

When it comes to fostering a bet-ter society, I see the two philosophiesas closely related. Knowledge andsystematic reasoning can have majoreffects on the degree to which an indi-vidual leads a creative, responsibleand reflective life.Take responsibility.Knowing more about the underlyingcauses of poverty and knowing howto engage with arguments about howbest to help the worlds poorest willhelp us lead more responsible lives.Inthis sense,we see that knowledge andmuscular thinking are strong toolswith which to better guide our deci-sions.

But knowledge and muscularthinking are not at the heart of living amore creative, reflective or responsi-ble life.They are merely tools that as-sume a prior foundation.For example,knowing more about poverty andknowing how to think critically aboutthe arguments involved only helps melive a more responsible life if I careabout poverty, and if I care in morethan an intellectual sense. This is aquestion about whether desolatehuman conditions make me feel

A lan Lightman wrote a book in1996 entitled EinsteinsDreams.Einstein was famousfor his facility with hypotheticals, andsolved some of physics hardest prob-lems by spinning yards and yards of thought experiments.He had enlargedparietal lobes,apparently.

Einsteins Dreamsis a fictional ex-ploration of what those experimentsmightve been, as Einstein toiled awayin a patent office,dreaming up relativity.It tastes like Calvino.In one world,timepasses more slowly farther from theearths center. In an attempt to livelonger, in this world all the rich buildtheir homes,shops and gymnasiums onstilts.The poor sow their seeds in the for-gotten soil and frolic in the abandonedbrooks and rivers. In another world,time passes more slowly for somethingthe faster it moves through space.Thischapter is buried in the middle and fullof preternaturally powered automo-biles.

Finally, in a third world, time ismerely stretched. Or mans experi-ence of it is compressed.It takes a liter-al lifetime for the earth to complete a

full rotation. People age as we doprocess the world and each other atthe same rate as us but we only seeone day,as opposed to 25,000.Born atsunrise, youre middle-aged at sunset,depending on the season.It is a terrify-ing environment.

In this world,each individual has towitness a grand transformation.Whether born in night or daytime,someday the world suddenly, defini-tively (though not without warning),becomes a completely foreign place.

This world can be interpreted asour own, as Im afraid they are allmeant to be. Because this happens.Over the course of a life the world mu-tates beyond recognition. You goabout your life minding your own

business and then wouldnt youknow it time is no longer absolute.Electricity is magnetism.The earth isround.

Please appreciate the delta causedby the discoveries.So much happens!Imagine living to see horse-drawn car-riages replaced by automobiles.It onlytook a few decades. If youre in your20s in the trenches,youre in your 50swhen they drop the bomb,and youvestill got Nam, psychedelia and theflower people ahead of you. Imaginegrowing up in a world of high neck-lines, where the phonograph was anovelty,as was jazz,and ending up in aworld of Elvis and broadcast televi-sion.No wonder they were so ornery.

The idea of the event horizon isborrowed from physics. It describesthe line of proximity to a black hole,beyond which events (and light) can-not affect an outside observer.

Einsteins Dreams is about thedifferent worlds beyond the differentpossible answers to the problem of rel-ativity. How ideas shape history. Ournarrator is pessimistic for the individu-als who get lost in the flow of time:

When the sunrise comes, he says,those born at sunset are over-whelmed by the sudden sight of treesand oceans and mountains, are blind-ed by daylight, return to their housesand cover their windows, spend therest of their lives in half light.

But weve already crossed oneevent horizon in our lifetimes.We wereyoung, sure, but still, we made it! Re-member before the Internet? Re-member before the household PC?The laptop? The cell phone? Thesmartphone? People our age werekeeping paper address books andusing landlines less than a decade ago.Somehow we went,in my own person-al memory, from nobody in the U.S.suburbs having a cell phone to every

Calcutta rickshaw walla carrying onein his dust-saturated shirt.

And just think of all the softwarethats changed our lives. Life (or re-search) before Google? Nobody readsthe whole book anymore! They justsample a few pages and slap it in theirthesis paper (for which, if its vettedenough, someone else will likely dothe same).And Facebook was merelybudding four years ago.

Im not saying each of these tech-nological and cultural advances consti-tuted an event horizon in and of it-self.But I am saying the world is a rad-ically different place than it was 10years ago, and while we were youngand supple then,adaptive now,therescertainly more to come.Computation-al genetics and artificial intelligenceare ticking time bombs of the future.There are a couple big paradigmaticproblems,and once weve moved pastthem, who knows? (People makingmachines making machines makingpeople.Maybe. Thatll be interesting.)

Its unclear whether we are

doomed to hiding in the dark. Someseem to think well be able to keep up.This may just be naivete,but Im some-what convinced when people say thecultural/technological rate of changeseems to be increasing. Lightmansdays are getting shorter before oureyes, to the point that were almostused to it.Hence the hope for a psychi-cally comfortable future. But I dontthink wed ever get off that easy. If weve adapted to constantly adapting,that can change,too:a shift abstractedup a level.Whether darkness or lightlies beyond the horizon,well just haveto wait and see.

Thanks for reading! Keep in touch at rcima.stanford.edu.

I had to go looking for Spain. Inpreparing for the trip, I hadworked so hard to cover all mybases to plan ahead for imminentcontingencies, to have all the scrapsand bits and bones of America in mysuitcase and at an arms reachthat I almost missed the country Ihad to come live in.

I am fortunate in that the currentgroup of students in the BOSPMadrid program is extremely close surely an anomaly among abroad

experiences.Accordingly,in our first

two weeks in Spain, we did all thethings we had predicted that wewould we listened to a lecture inthe Prado,eyes dutifully directed to-wards the works of Goya, el Grecoand Velasquez; botellon -ed in frigidtown squares at midnight beforeventuring off into thumping discote-cas that showed no signs of slowingdown at four, five and six in themorning; voraciously tore throughBig Macs when we werent sure of what else to eat;spoke English.

This was comfortable behavior.

Yet as I Skyped my way home everynight, started a 60-hour internship ata local bank, and awoke my first Fri-day, Saturday and Sunday with thesun in descent,I began to realize thatthis was not the Spain I had come for.Rather, it was Stanford,cleverly dis-guised in tastefully restrained Euro-pean clothing. I was neglecting tolive in the real Madrid,a city of seri-ous faces,gorgeous glimpses into his-tory and a language that bombarded

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When a federal judge in SanFrancisco ruled Proposi-tion 8 unconstitutionallast August, two of my Daily col-leagues jumped into action to cap-ture reactions in the Stanford com-munity. On deadline, they reportedan excellent story for our weeklysummer edition,bringing us candidscenes happening in the wake of the ruling.

They found one senior, AidanDunn, savoring what he called agreat day after his years of ac-tivism.For me personally,he said,it means that someday I might beable to marry the person that Ilove.

I turned to The Dailys archivesthat day, hoping to understand thecontext of the moment for Dunnand others.What I found was an as-tonishing trove of work from thenearly two years since Prop.8s bal-lot appearance. It spanned severalDaily volumes, bearing the namesof more than a dozen writers andphotographers, and probably in-volved as many editors. It chroni-cled the struggles of hundreds of Stanford students students onboth sides of the issue in thestreets, the classroom and thepolling station.

What stood out, particularly,was the persistence of The Dailyscoverage, even as the organizationsaw changes in leadership and staff over the years. Each story mat-tered. Each one aimed to advanceour understanding of the issue as itplayed out on campus.And, little bylittle,each one succeeded.The storyby Amy Julia Harris and Jane LeP-ham in August became the newest

in that body of work.It was invaluable that day, and

remains so.As Bill Keller,the exec-utive editor of The New YorkTimes, wrote this week, Ninety-nine percent of what we read orhear on the news does not pro-foundly change our understandingof how the world works. Newsmostly advances by inches and feet,not in great leaps.

For the Stanford community,The Dailys archives contain count-less stories that did just that. Theydraw people to the office to this day researchers, alumni, studentsand passer-by alike, all findingvalue in the persistence of this his-toric community newspaper overthe decades.

Advancing the news is what Ihope we have done in Volume238, a volume I have been hon-ored to lead for nearly sevenmonths. I thank our selfless andskilled deputy editor, Jacob Jaffe,and the rest of the terrific teamthat produced this volume. Imconfident that our work has, littleby little,added to the larger Stan-ford story, and I couldnt ask formuch more.

The next Daily staff will pick upthat responsibility, and with it,enjoy editorial independence and ahome in the heart of campus. I urgethem to take that seriously, to findtheir own ways to advance Stan-ford news and to enjoy the experi-ence.

Our readers are in great hands.

With thanks,ELIZABETH TITUS

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By ELLORA ISRANISTAFF WRITER

On Monday, doctors at StanfordHospital and Santa Clara Valley Med-ical Center became the third group cer-tified to participate in a nationwidetrial of embryonic stem cell therapy forpatients paralyzed by spinal cord in-

jury.Funded and run by Geron,a Menlo

Park-based biopharmaceutical com-pany, this is the first clinical trial in theworld of human embryonic stem celltherapy.Certified by the FDA for test-ing on 10 patients,the phase-one studyaims to test the safety of this treatment.

Stanfords involvement began in2007, when Geron contacted GarySteinberg,chair of the Department of Neurosurgery.

They contacted me because of myinterest and involvement in stem celltherapy for neurologic diseases,Stein-berg said.Ive been involved for a longtime, both in the laboratory and clini-cally.

At the microscopic level,what washappening to the spinal cords [in in-

jured patients] was the axons the ca-bles running past the injury werestill intact,but the lining,the insulationof the nerve cells,had died,said MarcoLee, professor of neurosurgery. Thethesis is, can we replace the cells thathad died which were responsible forremyelinating that is, relining the neurons?

The theory for the trials comes fromsuccessful experiments done at UC-Irvine that delivered a similar treat-ment to rodents with spinal cord in-

juries.

After Valley Medical Centeridentifies and pre-screens a pa-tient, Geron will deliver em-bryonic stem cells to Stanford,where they will be preparedand checked for viability andstability. The actual injection of the cells will take place at ValleyMedical Center and will be per-formed by Steinberg and Lee.

The procedure is to deliver anembryonic derived cell. Its not actu-ally the embryonic cell itself, andthats a confusing point sometimes,Steinberg said. These are humanembryonic stem cell-derived oligo-dendrocyte progenitors, which arethe cells that produce myelin, the in-sulation of nerves.

The other two approved sites in thecountry Northwestern and theShepherd Center in Atlanta havealready injected one patient with thestem cells and screened another.Geron has proposed a total of sevensites.Ultimately,the distribution of the10 patients around the country will de-pend on subject availability.

The patients will be enrolled bydifferent sites,Steinberg said.Theresnot a limit necessarily to any one siteenrolling more than one,but its a raredisease.Its a rare injury.So its unpre-dictable where the patients will be en-rolled depending on which sites are upand going.

Researchers are also facing thechallenge of retaining the subjects theycan find. Patients are physically dis-abled most have suffered injuriesfrom car accidents, falls or sports but mentally stable.

Like Christopher Reed,they haveall their mind there,Lee said.Whenyou run a trial like that,its actually animportant consideration. You needmotivated patients to stick with you.A

trial is not simply injecting stem cells.

Its everything that comes after that.The first goal of this trial is not effi-

cacy but rather safety that is,the de-termination of the treatments safety inhumans before it can be tested in a larg-er group.

Phase one in any trial . . . is alwaysabout safety, Lee said. But, havingsaid that,were obviously not going torun a trial and just look at safety,eventhough thats our primary aim.So wehave secondary aims. . . which [are] tosee whether patients have recovery.

Their recoveries will be measuredwith physical and psychological assess-ments in the year after the injection,aswell as continuing follow-up for 15years after treatment.

Ultimately, if the phase-one trialproves the safety of the treatment,phase-two and -three trials could testits efficacy,especially in a greater num-ber of patients with less severe spinalcord damage.

The greatest benefit would cometo people with mild weakness.It couldconvert them back to normal, Leesaid. Or they have severe weakness,but you could convert them back tomild weakness.

Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stanford.edu.

University joins worlds first trial study

Kramer recommended consider-ing the history of the legal professionover the last few decades, rather

than just the last few years, to keepthings in perspective.

The legal market grew by muchmore during the last 25 years beforethe slump than it declined during theslump, particularly among the eliteand prestigious firms,while the top-tier schools stayed roughly the samesize, Kramer said. Most of these

firms are now well on the path to re-covery growing more slowly thanbefore the slump,but stil l growing.

Samantha McGirr contributed to thisreport.

Contact Robert Toews at rhtoews@ stanford.edu.

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dent athletes, attention to universi-ties resulting in admissions and do-nations,revenue and increased senseof community.

Citing revenue as a reason foruniversities to maintain big athleticsprograms is a losing argument, hesaid,as most of those programs losemoney.

Many argue big-time college ath-letics are too commercial, causingschools to abandon academic priori-ties, compromising academic stan-dards and exploiting players.

Though NCAA athletes are un-paid, a draft-worthy football playermay be worth as much as $500,000per season,while a draft-worthy bas-ketball player may be worth morethan $1 million,Clotfelter said.Stan-fords annual athletics budget in2009 was $74.7 million, according toClotfelter.

Who gets more Google hits your football coach or your Univer-sity president?he asked.

Salaries for football coaches atAmerican universities increased bya factor 7.5 between 1986 and 2010,while professor compensation in-creased by 32 percent, said Clotfel-ter.

Why in the world are universi-ties spending all this money? heasked. Why would they be doingsomething stupid?

Contributions provide the topsource of funding for major pow-erswith successful teams,but lesser-ranked schools must rely on subsi-dies to support their programs.

Despite high costs,its the excep-tional university that gets out of thebusiness,Clotfelter said.

He pointed to influential boostercoalitions,such as the Buck/CardinalClub at Stanford, and Universitytrustees who want to have a com-petitive team.

Clotfelter did highlight two un-heralded benefitsof collegiate ath-letics. The consumer surplus associ-ated with college sports leads to hap-piness and pride within the commu-nity,he argued,calling it an impor-tant spillover effect.

He also discussed the positive ex-ample teams provide of interracialgroups succeeding, though he ac-

knowledged the example is an im-perfect one.

Clotfelter made his appeal to uni-versities:Be candid about what it isthat you do and what it is that youvalue.

Clotfelter urged Congress to re-examine the tax deductibility of do-nations to college athletics. Cur-rently 20 percent of donations aredeductible,but Clotfelter advocatedthat the number be diminished tozero.

Throughout the talk, Clotfelterused Stanfords football program asan example of big-time athletics at auniversity with a primarily academicmission.

The e-mail Provost JohnEtchemendy Ph.D. 82 sent encour-aging faculty to be flexible with stu-dents who missed classes for the Or-ange Bowl in January,he said,was anindication of the true importance of big-time sports.

On Clotfelters point that univer-sities are forced to make academicconcessions to have successful ath-letics, Earl Koberlein, senior associ-ate athletic director who attendedthe event, said, I beg to differ onthat. We havent lowered our aca-demic standards.

Koberlein reflected on Stanfordsvictory at the Orange Bowl, sayingthat he expects a bump in donationsbecause of how the Orange Bowlplayed out.

And about quarterback AndrewLucks decision to stay at Stanford tocomplete his degree in architecturaldesign, Koberlein said, You cantbuy that publicity.

Contact Margaret Rawson at [email protected].

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Google hits your

football coach or your

University president?

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CARD BESTS BRUINS,READY FOR SEASON

S PORTSOFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT

By BROOKE DAVISCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Stanford womens gymnastics teammade its home debut last Sunday, taking onNo. 1 UCLA in a preseason meet at Burn-ham Pavilion.The No.2 Cardinal left with a196.200-194.825 victory and high hopes forthe fast-approaching season.

Leading the way for Stanford were Shel-ley Alexander and Ashley Morgan,who leftthe meet with high rankings and a few com-mendations. Alexander, a senior fromSeguin, Texas, was named the Pac-10 gym-nast of the week while Morgan,a sophomorefrom Danville, Calif., was awarded the Pac-10 special performance of the week. Bothgymnasts hold national top-10 rankings fortheir events,with Alexander ranked sixth forall-around and fourth for the beam. Morganalso holds two rankings, first for the floor ex-ercise and sixth for the beam.

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UCLA 194.825STANFORD 196.200

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As the season continues, Stanford willneed leadership from its core of four cap-tains: Alexander, fifth-year senior AllyseIshino, junior Alyssa Brown and seniorDanielle Ikoma.This will be Ikomas secondseason as captain. Last season, Stanford fin-ished fourth at the NCAA Super Six Finals,and even with the loss of first-team All-Americans Blair Ryland and Carly Janiga,the Cardinal is working to surpass its fourth-place finish in last seasons finals.

This Friday, the Cardinal will face No. 4Utah in Salt Lake City.With Stanford at 7-0and the Utes at 3-0, the meet will determinewhich team moves on with an unblemishedrecord. Although Stanford is the highest-ranked team on Utahs schedule, the Cardi-nal has never defeated the Utes in theirhome arena.

The Utes faced UCLA on Jan.7, narrow-ly defeating the Bruins by four-tenths of apoint. More recently, Utah is coming off avictory over No. 3 Georgia on Jan. 15. Bothmeets were away from Salt Lake City, andStanford will be facing the Utes in theirhome opener.

For all their talent,the Utes will be miss-ing one of their best gymnasts. Kyndal Ro-

TomTaylor

Sexism in sports:How equalare we?

Two soccer commenta-tors in the UK were introuble this week aftermaking degrading off-air comments before

kickoff about a female soccer offi-cial last weekend.On the groundsof her gender,they questioned herunderstanding of the offside rule often considered the most con-fusing law of the game but,iron-ically,she then went on to make agreat call in a difficult offsides situ-ation early on in the match, cor-rectly allowing a goal. One of thegentlemen in question seemed tohave survived by making a swiftphone call to apologize to the offi-cial,but has now resigned,and theother was fired by Sky Sports afterthe network uncovered manymore sexist outbursts behind thescenes.

The fall from grace of two of theU.K.s biggest soccer pundits hasseemed as shocking as it was sud-den.These two men have been theface of Skys coverage since thechannel was launched over 18years ago.Almost no one, though,has stood up for them to claim thiswas simply harmless banter; fewwho have heard or read the fulltranscript could conclude anythingelse but that they were spoutingheartfelt prejudice.But are they re-ally as alone as they would seem? If two high-profile sports commenta-tors could last for so many yearswith their chauvinism both intactand unrevealed, then surely wemust suspect the problems of sex-ism to remain widespread withinthe industry.

Back on Americas side of theAtlantic,Title IX enshrines equali-ty in college for both male and fe-male athletes but even then,it isnot a true equality. Similar num-bers of both sexes are eligible forscholarships and the funding formens and womens teams areequal, but football remains exclu-sively male,the sexes remain segre-gated and female sports in generalfail to attract quite the same sup-port as male ones.

This is, of course, clearly due tomore than just legal inequality.There are undeniable physiologi-cal differences between the sexes men are on average bigger and

stronger and thus better suited topower sports like football butthis doesnt explain everything.The variation in the physical abili-ties of the human race is greatenough that there are likely to bemany women who could do a bet-ter job in a male team than some of the present incumbents.But I dontwant to get into that here; theremay, or may not, be valid reasons

for keeping athletes and sports di-vided along gender lines, and Iwant to avoid dipping my toe intothat controversy. What shouldntmatter, though, is the sex of thepeople on the sidelines.

Even the most hardened bigotshould feel insulted by the asser-tion that a woman wouldnt be ableto understand the rules of sports.For a start,this is not exactly brainsurgery or rocket science, but thatargument misses the point.As gen-der equality pushes back barriers,hard, incontrovertible statisticsshow that girls in many countriesare consistently outperformingboys at school:If we question any-ones intelligence, it shouldnt bethe womens.

And though men undoubtedly

still dominate the ranks of sportsenthusiasts, there are a huge num-ber of passionate and well-in-formed female fans. Many willhave actually played the sports thatthey follow and have just as com-plete an understanding of the rules.There is absolutely no reason thatmany of these women cannot stepup and get involved as referees oreven coaches.In fact, the process of turning any fan into a professionalwill fill in the knowledge gaps thatmight still remain.

This is not a question of affir-mative action,but simple numbers.Officials and coaches should beemployed and evaluated on thebasis of their abilities,and to get thevery best people in these roles, weshould be actively recruiting fromall areas,not ignoring 50 percent of the human race. Unfortunately,though,a quick bit of research out-lines that equality here is far frombeing a reality. There are just ahandful of women officiating orcoaching mens sports, especiallywhen compared to the number of men taking up these roles inwomens sports.

I dont have a good answer forhow we redress this balance, butwe can certainly start by taking astand and rejecting the purveyorsof outdated and downright nastyviews. These two ex-pundits cancertainly boast to have revolution-ized the way soccer is covered dur-ing their tenure, but U.K. sportswont miss them.In fact,the unitedfront shown against their sexismmakes it better for their leaving;the most important impact of theircareers might just be the way theyended.

He doesnt want to admit it, but Tom Taylor is just trying to hit onevery girl that reads this column.Hit him back at tom.taylor@stan-

ford.edu.

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MBBALL| No answer for Ducks defense

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OREGON 67STANFORD 591/27, Maples PavilionTOP PERFORMERS Points Shooting Pct. Assists RebJOEVAN CATRON, ORE 15 5-10 50% 1 6DWIGHT POWELL, STAN 14 6-8 75% 1 6 WOMENS BASKETBALL

STANFORD 91OREGON 561/27, Eugene, Ore.TOP PERFORMERS Points Shooting Pct. Assists RebC. OGWUMIKE, STAN 18 8-18 44.4% 2 2N. JACKSON, ORE 21 8-18 44.4% 1 4

WOMENS BASKETBALLSTANFORD 12 P.M.OREGON STATE1/29, Corvallis, Ore.MENS BASKETBALL

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the ball more.Its a function of us be-coming better and seeing whatsavailable.

Oregon played far from flawlessbasketball.The Ducks committed 18turnovers and had just 10 assists onthe evening.The difference,however,came at the free-throw line,where theDucks went 12-for-13.

The Ducks were fueled by redshirtsenior forward Joevan Catron. The245-pound big man muscled his waythrough the Cardinal frontcourt tothe tune of 15 points and six re-bounds. Altman took advantage of Catrons strength down low and ran ahigh-low game with senior guard Jay-R Strowbridge.The 5-foot-10 speed-ster fearlessly slashed his way into thepaint and revived a Duck offense thatstalled near the end of the first half.

Despite a strong effort on defense,Powell stressed the need for improve-ment on that end of the floor.

We just gotta do it on defensefirst, he said. We score best whenwere getting stops.

Stanford began its night by scoring just two points in the first five minutesof action.Timely long-range shooting

by Green and Brown prevented thegame from getting out of hand. Thetwo teams entered the break dead-locked at 29-29,thanks in large part tounforced turnovers by Oregon.

The Cardinal came out in the sec-ond half with better intensity andrhythm, and led 38-32 at the 15:57mark. That would be Stanfordslargest,and last, lead of the game.

The Ducks never looked back after

going on a 12-point run, stretching thescore to 44-38.Back-to-back buckets byPowell and junior guard Jarrett Mann,along with a free throw by Brown,closed the margin to three points, butOregon sophomore guard E.J. Singlermade a clutch three-point play to effec-tively ice the game at 63-57.

Stanford will look to erase itslongest losing streak of the year whenit hosts Oregon State on Saturday atMaples Pavilion. Tipoff is set for 7p.m.

Contact Zach Zimmerman at zachz@ stanford.edu.

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyOn a night when his team struggled to find the basket, Dwight Powell, above,led the Cardinal with 14 points on 6-for-8 shooting. The freshman forward isshooting 50.9 percent this season and averages 8.9 points per game.

Stanford Daily File PhotoThe Cardinal is looking in top form through seven preseaon rounds, re-

maining undefeated ahead of its meet with Utah. Following its victoryover No. 1 UCLA, Stanford has top-10 rankings in all major events.

minutes left in the first half,but a latelayup from Pohlen helped Stanfordhold onto a 41-25 lead at the break.

The Card once again had a strongstart to the second half its trade-mark this season opening up with a16-2 run in the first five minutes afterthe break to go up by 30 and snuff outall hope for the Ducks.

With another big win, the Cardinalis now undefeated since Dec.22,and ithas done it in convincing fashion.Theaverage margin of victory in its 11-game win streak is 35.9 points,with the

closest game being a 12-point win overUConn.

Unfortunately for Stanford, evenin another big win, there were still afew things left to be desired.The Car-dinal matched a season high with 18turnovers and struggled behind thethree-point line,going 6-for-23.

The team has a good chance to ad-dress those few blemishes tomorrownight, when it travels to Corvallis for agame against Oregon State. TheBeavers (7-12,0-8 Pac-10) are stuck inthe basement of the Pac-10,having losteight straight games since the confer-ence season started.

Oregon State most recently fell toCalifornia, losing 60-47 despiteoutscoring the Golden Bears 31-30 inthe second half. In the first frame, the

Beavers shot just 18.5 percent.In a season that the Beavers might

prefer to start over, a few players arehaving respectable performancesoverall. Sage Indendi leads the OSUstarters in accuracy, shooting 40 per-cent and scoring 10.4 points per game.Alyssa Martin leads the team in totalpoints with 279, averaging 14.7 percontest. El Sara Greer is deadly frombeyond the arc,shooting 59.5 percentat long range.

The contest in Corvallis is set for 7p.m.Saturday night.The Cardinal willreturn home next weekend to host theArizona schools.

Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@ stanford.edu and Nate Adams at [email protected].

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For all their talent, the Uteswill be missing one of their bestgymnasts. Kyndal Robarts, a sen-ior All-American ranked first onthe vault,is out with a knee injurysuffered on Jan. 22 while warmingup for a competition in Nebraska.

In all events, the Cardinalboasts national rankings in thetop 10. It is ranked second overall,ninth on the vault, third on thebars, first on the beam and secondon floor exercise. Stanford hastaken its team to the NCAA

Super Six Finals three out of thelast four years and hopes to takethis 2011 squad to yet anotherfinal.

Stanford will face Utah on Fri-day at 6 p.m. PST in Salt LakeCity,Utah.

Contact Brooke Davis at bedavis@ stanford.edu.

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Kappa Sigma members based onthe terms of the national organiza-tions code of conduct. He addedthat each case is different andthat there is not a real set form of discipline.

Asked about the possible out-comes of the hearing,Wilson said itwould be irresponsible of him tospeculate.

The hearing is set for KappaSigmas national convention,whichhappens twice a year.

Campus officials placed KappaSigma on provisional alcohol andparty suspension in October afterreports of an alleged unregisteredevent during New Student Orien-tation. A Greek organization canbe put on suspension if it violatesthe Universitys controlled sub-stances and alcohol policy, whichincludes hosting parties duringdryweekends.

Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stanford.edu.

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Stanford Daily File Photo About 20 Kappa Sigma members are set to travel to Las Vegas this week-end to meet with the fraternitys national Supreme Executive Committee(SEC) to address allegations of misconduct that l ed to the chapter beingput on suspension by the University last October.

By IVY NGUYENDESK EDITOR

This report covers a selection of incidents fromJan.21 to Jan.27 as recorded in the Stanford Depart-ment of Public Safety bulletin.

FRIDAY, JAN. 21I

At 1:10 a.m.,a man was stopped at Sand Hill Roadand Pasteur Drive and cited for driving unli-censed.

I A license plate was found at 5:49 a.m. in theMaples Pavilion parking lot.The plate is currentlystored at SUDPS.

I At 12:15 p.m., a man was cited and released nearcampus on El Camino Real for driving with a sus-pended license.The vehicle was towed.

I At 5:05 p.m., the right wheel of a golf cart wasdamaged when the driver hit a bollard. The bol-lards condition is unknown.

I At 11:50 p.m., a minor at Bob was cited and re-leased for possession of alcohol.

SATURDAY, JAN. 22I At 1:08 a.m., a man at Pi Beta Phi was transport-

ed to the San Jose main jail and booked for pub-lic intoxication.

I At 1:10 a.m.,a person at 110 McFarland Ct.report-ed receiving obscene phone calls from a blockednumber.

I At 8:45 a.m., three stolen golf carts were recov-ered at Arrillaga Sports Center.

I A U-locked bike was stolen from the racks of Sigma Nu between 8 and 9 p.m.

SUNDAY, JAN. 23I Between 2 and 2:50 p.m., a U-locked bike was

stolen from the bike racks outside of ArrillagaSports Center.

I In the same period of time, an unlocked bike wasstolen from the Lasuen Mall side of Old Union.

MONDAY, JANUARY 24I At 4:40 p.m., a golf cart was stolen from the front

of Burnham Pavilion.

I At 12:45 p.m., an unknown suspect approached aperson in Meyer Library with an open foldingknife in hand. The suspect did not speak to orthreaten the victim with the knife.

TUESDAY, JAN. 25I At 1:24 a.m., a car parked in the Rains parking lot

was towed after its alarm had gone off for 24hours.

I At 12 p.m., a fire alarm activated in Building 260after water flooded the basement. Facilities oper-ations, EH&S and restoration management werenotified.

I At 5 p.m., a pair of Oakley sunglasses were stolenafter they were left unattended on a bench in amens dressing room.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26I Between 12:30 and 1 p.m., an unlocked bike was

stolen from outside the post office.

Contact Ivy Nguyen at [email protected].

POLICEBLOTTER

on how well Stanfords defense andblocking can handle Northridgesyoung talent. Freshmen GregFaulkner, Brandon Lebrock andCory Wagner all feature heavily inthe Matadors offense Lebrockleads the team in kills and aces andis second in digs.

Stanford leads the all-time series33-25,but has dropped seven of thelast nine matches dating back to2008. The Cardinal has not won inthe Matadome since 2004.

Kosty is more concerned withhow his team is doing now than withhow it will match up against its op-ponents.

We really need to focus everyday on improving both individuallyand as a team, he said. This is avery long season and we are onlyfour MPSF matches in.

Freshman outside hitters BrianCook and Eric Mochalski are thirdand fourth on the team in kills with

46 and 27, respectively.Mochalski ishitting .438 and had the match-win-ning kill against Hawaii last Sunday Cook had his own match-winnerearlier in the season against BYU.

All seven of our freshmen have

done an absolutely incredible jobfor us thus far,Kosty said.Junior outside hitter Brad Law-

son leads the veterans with a team-high 81 kills, averaging 4.05 per set good for fourth-highest in theMPSF. First-year setter Evan Barryis averaging over 10 assists per set,tied for second-best in the MPSF.

But it was Spencer McLachlinwho carried the Cardinal in the sec-ond match against Hawaii.The sen-ior outside hitter and Hawaii nativehad a career-high 29 kills in tightwin against the Warriors.

This came after Stanford laid acollective egg in the first matchagainst Hawaii, when the Cardinalwas swept, 25-22, 25-21, 25-17, inHonolulu.

Hawaii came out on that firstnight and dictated the action fromthe first serve,Kosty said.We didnot do a good job countering theirgame plan.

Stanford struggled to connectpasses and hit a season-low .200 as ateam. Defensively, the team could-nt stop outside hitter Jonas Um-lauft,who hit .500 and had 22 kills.

The Cardinal will face a similar

challenge against Long BeachStates Jim Baughman.The junior isaveraging 3.96 kills per set for the49ers, often thanks to senior MikeKlipschs setting. Klipsch is averag-ing 10.5 assists per match and had46 assists with 10 digs in the teamswin against UCLA as a fresh-man, Klipsch led the nation in as-sists per match with 13.8.

If the Cardinal is to maintain itsNo. 2 national ranking, it will needto continue its recent successagainst the 49ers. Stanford trails inthe all-time series 40-25, but haswon the past five meetings.

The match against Northridge isscheduled for 7 p.m. tonight inNorthridge, Calif., with the clashagainst Long Beach State sched-uled for 1 p.m.on Saturday in LongBeach,Calif.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at [email protected].

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me at largely unintelligible speeds.During my first week of real

classes,I returned home from the In-ternational Institute and got to myfront door. I opened it and walkedinside,but,for some reason,the doorwould not close. It seemed that thelock was jammed, so I went andasked my roommate for help, butneither he nor my host sister wasable to do anything about it. Bewil-dered, I told my host mother, whowas busily preparing lunch, that thedoor wouldnt close.After a hasty in-spection and a slew of maldicciones ,she stormed off to call a locksmith,proclaiming the door inexorablybroken.My roommate and I ate ourfood in tense silence,listening to ourhost mothers shrill ranting throughthe walls. After a few minutes shewalked in: Alright, which one of you am I going to kill?

I tepidly raised my hand, at-tempting to utter an apology butfinding the Spanish words insuffi-cient and awkward. Ill pay for it,an-and wait for the locksmith so thatyou dont have to I, Im so sorry,I stammered.

No,you wont be able to pay be-cause youll be dead before he getshere. D-e-a-d, she spelled out. Herfuming needed no translation. Ithought you kids were supposed tobe smart how could you break adoor?

I swear, I just turned the . . . Before I could finish she stormedout again. I looked incredulously atmy roommate and began thinkingthat this wasnt the way I had envi-sioned my demise.

Then something miraculous hap-pened. Somehow over the course of the next 15 minutes, the three of uswere sitting together at the table,

talking like old friends.The infernoseemed to have dissipated, and Ithought I could see a smile hidingbehind that pair of wrinkled eyesthat I did not yet understand. Wespoke of idiosyncrasies, our familiesand the like,and I thought that I justmight be in the clear.

Thinking things assuaged, I ven-tured a joke:Well, its a good thingIve got this International StudentCard anyway, because with it, theU.S. will pay for the repatriation of my remains . . .

The easy string of voluble dialoguesnapped; our host mother looked mesquare in the eyes:When Im donewith you, there wont be anything tosend back to the United States.

And so began my first week of life in the real Madrid.

So too began my faltering at-tempts at using Spanish in stores andwith friends, my stories left utterlywithout crescendo and climax in theirforeign tongue. I have sampled faba-da ,a Spanish bean stew,and la tortillaespanola , which is nothing like thetortilla we Californians know but sig-nificantly better. I have spent wholeafternoons exploring the majesticparks of Madrid,getting lost in the fo-liage and farther from my iPhonewith every step.I have grown to real-ly like my host mother,and I eagerlyawait mealtimes, when I can eat herdelicious food and listen to her deci-sive views on just about everything.By no means am I any sort of experton the city of Madrid ask any of my friends how many times Ivetaken the wrong Metro line,or takenthe right one in the wrong direction.Rather,I am settling into the lifestylethat I came here for,one that is decid-edly not Stanford. I know I will beback on the Farm soon enough.Untilthen, I will continue exploring andpeering between the hazy lines of translation.

Start the dialogue. E-mail ClaytonHolz at [email protected].

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angry.It is a question about whether Ifeel entitled to what I have. It is aquestion about what kind of life Ithink will be meaningful,of whether Ihave even considered that question ina personal way.

These questions are not answeredthrough knowledge transmission orinculcating skills. That is not evenhow they truly get asked. These arematters of the heart, of igniting per-sonal queries in students,of respond-ing to hungers for a college experi-ence that involves growing in pro-

found and transformational ways.Such growth requires spheres involv-ing some mystery, spheres in whichstudents will be affected in differentways and to different degrees. Thepeople we connect with, the newplaces we venture into, the teachersand mentors that ignite fires withinus, the movies and music and booksand art that somehow manage to

transform us.These pathways towardpersonal transformation make usmore appreciative of the opportunityto learn,more deliberate in directingour education and more reflectiveabout our lives beyond Stanford.

Dorm life,student clubs,studyingabroad, public service, teachers andmentors,the arts,sports and hobbies,reflection a liberal educationmust include pathways with unpre-dictable outcomes,unspecified ends.As Rabindranath Tagore describesin his My Boyhood Days,we ven-ture down such pathways so thatsome angel from a strange and un-expected quarter may cross our path,speaking the language of our ownsoul,and enlarging the boundaries of the hearts possessions. A Stanford

education is, in part, about openingpathways for angels to enter.

This is Ayshas last column for TheDaily.She would like to say a big thanksto her great editors this volume,Wyn-dam and Ellie,and to everyone who hasread her columns.She has loved writingthem! Send her your comments at [email protected].

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