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Reported alcohol incidents outpace last yearFall quarter sees spike in rate of hospital transports

By ELLORA ISRANI

In the beginning weeks of fall quarter, 16 stu-dents were transported to the hospital for alcohol-

related incidents, said Ralph Castro, manager ofthe Substance Abuse Prevention Program atVaden Health Center. The number represents anincreased rate from the 61 total transports report-ed during the 2009-10 school year and is of growingconcern among administrators and dorm staff.

Castro said there is a common trend to the inci-dents.

This is the fifth year weve been collecting thisdata pretty systematically, Castro said.In everycase Ive reviewed. . . the number-one determi-

nant for people going to the emergency room is toomuch hard liquor too many shots, repeatedshots,in a short amount of time.

Seven freshmen were transported to the hospi-

tal in the last four weeks,compared to the total of27 freshman incidents last year.Prior to arrival oncampus,all freshmen are required to complete theAlcoholEdu program, which recently receivedfour more years of funding. But some are con-cerned that the mandatory program isnt servingits purpose.

Despite the fact that we have AlcoholEdu andstuff, a lot of people dont necessarily know theirlimits where social drinking stops and bingedrinking begins, said one resident assistant (RA)

in a freshman dorm. He wished to remain anony-mous to protect the identities of two freshmen whowere transported to the hospital from his dorm.

The Department of Public Safety has given four

citations between Sept.15 and Oct.14: two publicdrunkenness citations and two minor-in-posses-sion citations, said department spokesman BillLarson.

The department remains on message regardingthe drinking age.The law requires that you be atleast 21 years of age to purchase or consume alco-hol,Larson said in an e-mail to The Daily.

The statistics show that freshmen are not the only

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Tibetan Monks Visit CampusUNIVERSITY

Randomaudits

to beginBy LAURYN WILLIAMS

Stanford will implement random au-diting of prospective students applica-tions starting this application seasonwith early-action applicants, whose cre-dentials are due Nov. 1.

The Office of Undergraduate Ad-mission will use random audits to hold aportion of the estimated 30,000 studentsexpected to apply to Stanford this yearaccountable for what they declare to betrue in their applications.

Because the implementation of thispractice is still in the planning phase,theAdmission Office is not yet sure of howmany audits it will be able to carry out.Though the practice of verifying andconfirming each aspect of an applica-tion may be new to Stanford,it will notbe the first of its kind in the state of Cal-ifornia.

The University of California systemalready audits, Director of AdmissionRobert Patterson said.They use differ-ent techniques to conduct these audits,including e-mailing and calling stu-dents. Patterson was the deputy direc-tor of admission at UC-Berkeley fromspring 2009 until he became director atStanford this fall.

When using the Common Applica-tion to apply to Stanford,applicants areprompted to electronically sign agree-ments stating that their claims are truebefore the applications can be submit-ted, thus holding them to the Funda-mental Standard.

Current Stanford students are famil-iar with the Honor Code and the Funda-mental Standard, which calls for re-spect for order, morality, and personal

honoras necessary traits in a Stanfordstudent and applicant. But for a small

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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Event coversthe science

of altruism

By KAMIL DADASENIOR STAFF WRITER

It turns out that even after 60 years ofmeditating and practicing compassion, theDalai Lama still has much spiritual learningto do.

Even now,I cannot say my spiritual ex-perience is something very high, he said,laughing.It is a little above zero.So it takesa lot of years.

Tenzin Gyatso,the 14th Dalai Lama,ad-mitted as much to approximately 1,500eager listeners in Memorial Auditorium onFriday.He said he started meditating whenhe was about 15 years old. He gradually

began more serious practice and studywhen he was in his late 20s and 30s, andbegan reaching deeper levels in his 50sand 60s.

The head of state and the spiritual leaderof Tibet, now 75,engaged Stanford profes-sors at a Center for Compassion and Altru-ism Research and Education (CCARE)conference, which aimed to tease out theneurobiological underpinnings of compas-sion and altruism. Professors had 10 min-utes each to present their emerging findingsfrom experimental research in psychology,neurosciences and the emerging field ofneuro-economics.

Brian Knutson, associate professor ofpsychology and neuroscience,kicked off theday with a review of his work using fMRI toidentify brain pathways involved in the ex-ercise of compassion.

Were at the very beginning of this re-search, but theres good evidence that com-passion can be elicited in the laboratory,Knutson said. We need to further investi-gate.

What emerged from the daylong confer-ence was a general consensus on the bene-fits of compassion,but a lack of clear under-standing of how to objectively measure itusing the scientific method.All researchersprofessed going forward that much more re-search was needed in the field of compas-sion.

Weve got to have a standardized set ofmeasures to show the benefits of compas-sion training,said James Doty,professor ofneurosurgery and director of CCARE.

Psychiatrist and bioengineer Karl Deis-seroth,who helped pioneer the new field ofoptogenetics, explained his work studyingthe neural basis of social compassion in themammalian brain.

The goal is to slowly start to piece to-gether how mammals value social behaviorand this is ultimately, we think, linked tocompassion,Deisseroth said.

The goal of his research, he explained,

STUDENT LIFE

Saturday Startup School inspires budding entrepreneursBy ALAN GUOSTAFF WRITER

The annual Startup School, put on bythe Business Association of Stanford En-trepreneurial Students (BASES) and Y-Combinator, featured founders and in-vestors in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on Sat-urday. More than 800 prospective entre-preneurs attended.

The days list of speakers included SiliconValley heavyweights such as Mark Zucker-berg, founder and CEO of Facebook, ReidHoffman 89, founder of LinkedIn, andangel investor Ron Conway,who was one ofthe early investors in companies such asGoogle,PayPal, Facebook and Twitter.

The annual event is a collaboration be-tween BASES, a student organization fo-cused on entrepreneurship on campus, and

Y-Combinator, a startup incubator thatidentifies promising startups and helps themsucceed. In its sixth year, the event attractedyoung entrepreneurs, including approxi-mately 200 current Stanford students and re-cent alumni.

The day started with Andy Bechtolsheim,co-founder of Sun Microsystems, who dis-cussed venture financing to the too-young-to-know crowd of twenty-something hack-

ers and founders.The key to success [in the Internet

space] isnt to be the first, Bechtolsheimsaid, using Google as an example. It is whosolved the right problem.

Ron Conway spoke later,sharing his an-ecdotes of meeting the founders of Napster,Google, Facebook and Twitter for the first

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The monks from Deprung Loseling PhukhangMonastery spent several days on campus. Theyprepared dinner at Profs. Anne and Russell Fer-

nalds home (bottom left) and constructed a sandmandala in the Alumni Center, which will departwith the monks (top, lower right).

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama emphasized meditation at Fridays conference, Scientific Explorations of Compas-sion and Altruism, hosted by CCARE. Stanford scientists discussed the intersection between research and altruism.

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Former President Bill Clinton, left, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown, center, and lieutenant-governor hopeful Gavin Newsom, right, wave at a California Democrat rally at San Jose State University on Sunday. Clinton

has been campaigning with both Brown, the state attorney general, and Newsom, San Franciscos mayor, in recent days, as both hopefuls are locked in tight races with only weeks to go until Novembers general election. Brown, whohas served as Californias governor previously, is battling Republican nominee Meg Whitman, while Newsom is running against the incumbent Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, who was appointed to the office in April of this year.

UNIVERSITY

Knight Management Centerwins environmental award

By MATT BETTONVILLE

The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal recentlynamed the rising Knight Management Center,scheduled toopen this spring,its 2010 Green Project of the Year.The cen-ter,which will house Stanfords Graduate School of Business

(GSB), has earned Leadership in Environmental Energyand Design (LEED) Platinum certification by implement-ing new energy-conserving technologies.

[Our efforts] had a lot to do with being a leader anddemonstrating what it means to be green, said KnightManagement Center Program Director Kathleen Ka-vanaugh.

The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal presents aGreen Project of the Year award to both a public and a pri-vate construction project each year. Turner Construction,the company contracted to build the Knight ManagementCenter, nominated the project for the private award.Theproject came with an estimated $350 million price tag.

Kavanaugh pointed to community factors for the proj-ect, which employed around 400 people day-to-day andspent more than $12 million per month, helping to stimu-late the local economy, she said.The projects LEED Plat-inum certification,which is the highest level of certificationthe U.S.Green Building Council awards,was a major factorin the prize.

In addition to careful selection of resources in buildingthe Knight Management Center,the project has many fea-

tures to provide lasting energy conservation that Ka-vanaugh said will make the complex consume 46 percentless energy than an average building of its size.

Notable among the buildings green systems is a watercollection and conservation system that reduces the use ofpotable water by 80 percent. Gutters across the roof of the

complex collect rainwater and store it in a 75,000-gallonholding tank underground for use in plant irrigation andtoilet water.

The south-slanting roofs on the Knight ManagementCenter feature solar paneling that will compensate for 12.5percent of the complexs electric power. In all, the centerwill house 4,275 solar modules,more than tripling the num-ber of solar cells on campus.

California solar company Solar City owns and installedthe solar cells on the center,and will sell the power to Stan-ford.Kavanaugh said that although solar energy costs morethan conventional sources of electricity,the efficiency of thebuildings compensates to produce a predicted 75 percentnet decrease in energy costs over the existing GSB facility.The current GSB facility is comprised of a main buildingconstructed in 1966 and peripheral buildings constructed in1989 and 1999.

Weve done lots to try to be the most energy-efficientwe can,said Kavanaugh.

Other details of the project lean toward green.Fifty per-

was to determine whether compas-sion is an emotion that can be gener-alized and cultivated. He describedan experiment in which he activatedspecific brain cells of mice using puls-es of light to make them more social.

We turned on neutral reward cir-cuitry to promote nurturing and pro-social behavior in mice,he said.It isyet to be seen whether this is can bereplicated in other species.

While the researchers were un-clear on the quantifiable benefits ofcompassion and how to generate it,the Dalai Lama was clear: meditationmakes a person happier and calmer.

There is one thing I can state def-initely,with confidence: the mind canchange through training, through

awareness,he said.Thats for sure.Consequently, the Dalai Lama

was more interested in how to inhibitanger.

Anger is really of no use,he said.It creates all the problems.So herewe need investigation. Can you re-move anger through electricity in thebrain?

William Harbaugh,a neuroecono-mist at the University of Oregon,con-tinued the debate by describing thebrains reward mechanism when peo-ple donate money to char ity.

Research shows that people doget a neural reward form charitablegiving,he said.This activation tends

to be higher when people make thechoice voluntar ily.

The Dalai Lama was quick toagree and noted that being compas-sionate toward others was beneficialto the individual.

There is a misunderstanding thatshowing compassion and love for oth-

ers means sacrificing yourself, hesaid. This is not the case. By helpingothers,you are helping yourself.

Throughout the day, the DalaiLama was easily able to merge theconcepts of science and religion whilediscussing altruism. He championedthe importance of science to contem-porary life, but he also warned thatthe benefit of science was dependenton the human designer.

The development of science andtechnology of course has benefit, butit also brought unthinkable suffer-ing, he said, outlining the develop-ment of the atomic bomb and WorldWar II. Science and technology

alone is not a guarantee for happinesson this planet.Science is created andused by human beings. If the user isfull of hatred,then these technologiesbecome destructive.

Contact Kamil Dada at [email protected].

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number of past applicants,a contractbinding them to their work has notbeen enough to ensure honesty inthe application process.

Many institutions, includingStanford, have responded to thisprominent discussion on the nation-al level of college admissions, Pat-terson said.

Students who are chosen to havetheir application audited will be con-tacted directly to notify them of theirselection in the process. Both thegeneral Common Application andthe Stanford Supplement to theCommon Application will be includ-ed in the auditing procedure.

The issue reached a national au-dience this summer when alleged ac-ademic con artist Adam Wheeler ap-plied and was accepted to Stanfordafter he was expelled from Harvardand indicted in May on 20 counts ofidentity theft, larceny and othercharges.

Stanford officials in June said theUniversity revoked Wheelers ad-

mission offer.In July, Dean of Admission

Richard Shaw told The Dailythe office wasconsidering a

random auditsystem be-

cause of theissue ofdishonestyand forgery

on the nationallevel. He declined

to comment on theWheeler incident specifically.

Patterson said the decision to im-plement random audits was made in-dependently of the incident.

The decision to enforce randomaudits at Stanford does not have to

do with Adam Wheeler, Pattersonsaid. This is something the admis-sion office has considered doing for awhile.

According to Patterson, the Na-tional Association of College Admis-sions Counseling, which aims to en-sure that its member institutionscarry out ethical and fair admissionpractices, is calling for colleges tolook into verifying student accom-plishments.

We actively follow the principlesand practices of NACAC and theCollege Board, Patterson said.Both organizations have seen an in-crease in application falsity and wantcolleges to look into this.

To ensure that a scandal similar toWheelers never occurs again, theentire admission office, headed byPatterson,will oversee the process ofrandom auditing.

Though applying students mayview random auditing as an attempt

to catchstudents,Patterson assertsthat the Admission Office is hopingto ensure the opposite.

We do not hope to catch any stu-dents, he said. Our philosophy inthe Admission Office is to keep theprocess fair for all students, especial-ly honest students.We intend to keepprospective students informed of theprocess and to make it as transparentas possible.

Contact Lauryn Williams at [email protected].

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contributors to this sharp increase intransports. According to Castro, ofthe 16 that have occurred so far, sixwere sophomores and three were

juniors.Transports were evenly divid-ed between men and women.

There have been a number oftheories on why the increase has oc-curred,but Castro said it is difficultto gauge whats going on this early inthe quarter. He said Stanfords

grassroots safety measures mustimprove.

We need a better grassroots ef-fort of students looking out for eachother, and, first of all, for them-selves,Castro said.

In every alcohol-related trans-port this year,there were other stu-dents present who could havedone something before it hap-pened, he said.

If somebody had a bottle of

Advil and they were just puttingthem in their mouths one at a time,somebody would step in and go,What are you doing? Thats nothealthy;thats not OK,Castro said.People should look at alcohol as adrug, as an intoxicant . . . it leads tobeing poisoned.It leads to overdose.People need to understand and re-spect alcohol as such.

He said Vaden and Stanford have

some work to do themselves.

We probably need to do a betterjob of getting some information outthere to students about that, to letthem know that you cant take mul-tiple shots of alcohol in a shortamount of time and expect to func-tion later, Castro said.Thats notan appropriate use of alcohol.

Contact Ellora Israni at [email protected].

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From family dynamics to the global economy, the graying of the boomergeneration will impact every aspect of society. What is next for boomers and the

generations that follow in their wake?

As the planets population surges towards 9 billion in 2050, our sheer numbers will

exert tremendous pressure on resources, infrastructures and the ability of leaders

to address the issues of the massive shift in demographics.

Living longer and better may be the biggest challenge any individual boomer faces,

but the global implications of an aging world population are equally daunting. Few

issues are as universal and compelling in the world and in ones own life.

Join moderator Tom Brokaw and a distinguished panel of leaders for the fifth

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time. His behind-the-scene storiesillustrated the evolution of each ofthese companies, and pointed outthat even the founders themselveswere surprised by their own incred-ulous success.

In an amusing moment of theday, a girl asked if it is possible tobe too young to be an entrepre-neur. Conway said no and askedhow old is she. Twelve, she

replied amid cheers and applausefrom the audience.

The days most anticipated eventwas Mark Zuckerbergs on-stage in-terview with Jessica Livingston, co-founder of Y-Combinator.

When asked about the recentmovie The Social Network,Zuckerberg said, The people inHollywood just dont get the wholeculture of Silicon Valley. They justcant wrap their head around theidea that someone would buildsomething because they like build-ing things.

Though Zuckerberg said hedidnt foresee his success and ad-mitted that he had no grandplan for Facebook when he start-ed,his family is more perceptive ofhis capacity.

Before I started college, myyounger sister made a bet with methat she would finish college beforeme,he said. So I owe her $50.

According to Yin Yin Wu 11, theco-president of BASES, the eventattracted more than 2,000 applica-tions from around the world,but thevenue could only accommodate1,000 people.

We had people coming fromeven Japan,who flew in for this one-day event,Wu said.

After the speakers finished,members in the audience said they

were inspired.Steve Wu 11 meets entrepre-

neurs at other events,but just noth-ing on a scale like this, said thecomputer science major.

If you really focus on the busi-

ness, you will change the world forgood, whether you want it or not,he added.

Contact Alan Guo at [email protected].

STARTUPContinued from front page

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Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, speaks at the Startup School inDinkelspiel Auditorium on Saturday afternoon. More than 800 entrepreneurhopefuls attended the day-long event, sponsored by BASES and Y-Combinator.

Correction

In Leader meets off campuswith Stanford students (Oct. 15),The Daily incorrectly reported thatTenzin Seldon 12 was born andraised in Tibet. Her parents fledfrom Tibet to India, where Seldonwas born and raised.

cent of the 12-acre site, previously aparking lot, has been preserved foropen space,and the parking has beenmoved to an underground lot beneaththe section of the complex where thenew faculty office buildings stand. In

that green space are mostly drought-tolerant plants and more than 60 treespreserved or transplanted from theprevious parking site.

Four of the Knight ManagementCenters eight building are scheduledto open in January 2011.The entire fa-cility is set to open for use in March2011.

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Ask yourself, right now, what the wordwork means to you.What imagescome to your mind? Is it a carpenter

adding a last layer of polish to his newly de-signed table? Is it an overworked law stu-dent, with bags under her eyes and profani-ties under her breath? Is it a mathematician,shivering with awe at what he has proven?One image cannot seem to stand alone here:work is not always mental or physical labor,nor is it always the fulfillment gained by hav-ing done something well.If it were always theformer,there would be no such thing as jobsatisfaction. And if it were always the latter,then our sense of accomplishment would bedangerously low. For me, work has alwaysbeen a packaging of the labor that tests yourendurance and the feeling of pleasure thatcomes after. This definition of work is unro-mantic and saps energy from your day.Nonetheless, it is practical, and it makessense for most college students. We dont alllove the classes we take,but we do our best ineach of them,and the ones that we love hope-fully give us insights into our career and ourfuture lives.Fair,yes?

No.Not fair. Not fair at all.I learned just how wrong I was in my def-

inition of work a few months ago,when I meta college senior lets call her Sara whowas terminally ill, suffering from pancreaticcancer.Yet she was determined to graduatewith honors in mathematics,while waitress-ing on the side to pay for her tuition anddoing research in theoretical physics. In ourconversation, she smiled at me throughbloodshot eyes, buried in a mountain of pa-perwork in a cubicle-sized dorm room. Herskin was yellow and frail,but her eyes shonewith an intensity that I had rarely witnessed.As she went through the story of the discov-ery of her cancer, she told me of her denial,her anger and finally her acceptance of hercondition.As a dying woman,she defined her

college experience in a new way.There wasno time to waver when it came to her aca-demic choices: she could no longer justifytaking classes just because they might havelong-term value.She had deep conversationswith her professors from day one,read aca-demic papers with an unmatched intensityand discovered the intellectual and personalloves of her life.For her, there was no currentsacrifice of happiness for a larger, undefined,unexpected goal.She didnt waddle betweenalleys of thought and intern at places she did-nt understand or appreciate in the hope of a

letter of recommendation. She focused herattention on something she truly loved.Shestudied like an Olympic athlete practices hisor her sport.In short,she lived life in the faceof death.

I think many of us at Stanford are too se-cure about our own mortality.We bathe inpassing time as if it is never-ending. I havebeen guilty of the very same being a triv-ial student at times,asking petty questions ofprofessors and worrying about the exammore than the knowledge itself because thisclass isnt the most important thing in my life.I still find myself using cheap high schoolgimmicks that have no place at a universitylike Stanford.Yet the urgency of meaningfulwork can define someone just as deeply as alifelong love can.Sara has done this for me she has allowed me to move my definit ions ofwork from an outer to an inner reality. Saracouldnt allow her work to be anything shedidnt love.For her,work was not endurancefor a sense of satisfaction. No work washer satisfaction.

I think many of us hope we view our ac-tual jobsthis way.Yet we put off this expec-tation of work until after we graduate andenter the industry or the job market.But isntour job currently student? Are we livingour adult lives right now? In Saras case, itwas the urgency of her mortality that led herto this redefinition. But in our case, she canlead by example.

I found recently that Sara passed away thesame day that Benoit Mandelbrot did. Itseems fitting for the universe to regard thetwo in the same breath.If you can read news-papers in heaven,Sara,know this:your life and your death has touched more than

just those you know.

Know any Saras in your own life? Drop Aa-ditya Shidham a note at [email protected].

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STETHOSCOPES, COMPILERS AND HEMINGWAY

Ihad my first testosterone injection lastWednesday.During the weekend before, Ihad to pick up my prescription (its weird

how my manhood comes from a teeny littlebottle that I get from CVS), and then bring itto Vaden for the injection. It was a rather an-ticlimactic affair.Within half an hour,the doc-tor poked a needle into my arm and before Iknew it, it was done. I still felt like the sameawkward Filipino boy who likes comic books.The only change that would happen, I felt,was that Id talk with a bit of a deeper voicewhen I proclaimed my love for Batman.

But it hit me a little while afterward. I real-ized I will look normal I will pass as a regu-lar guy for the first time ever. Transgender

men are probably the luckiest queer people inthat once theyve gone through the physicaltransition, they can blend into the generalpopulation (which is why its so hard to keeptrack of how many FtMs there are. Its just sohard to tell the difference). In other words, Ican live a normal, safe life,relatively free of,you know, getting beaten up, shot at, laughedat,discriminated against,so on and so forth. Iwill finally be in a position in which everyoneI meet will assume right away Im a bio-guy,and treat me as such. It is a prospect that isstrange,exciting and frightening.

I realize that when the effects of testos-terone kick in, I will look less queer than be-fore. I will straddle both the queer andstraight world, and even have the choice ofleaving the queer community behind something that a portion of transmen do afterphysically transitioning. But the queer com-munity is something I do not want to aban-don.From my experience,the Stanford queercommunity has been wonderfully accepting.When Im hanging out at Terra for HappyHour,or at the LGBT Center, I dont have to

worry about presenting as man enough.Hell,I could love Lady Gaga and football andno one will judge me.Not to mention I havealso met so many awesome people I dont

think I would have been exposed to so muchdiversity if it were not for my involvement inthe Stanford LGBTQ community. Many ofmy close friends are queer.Theres just a con-nection between my queer friends and methat just isnt present with other friendships.Theres a mutual understanding,a freedom totalk about things, an unconditional accept-ance. I dont have to prove or explain any-thing to my queer friends. And last Wednes-days vigil for recent LGBTQ youth suicideswas one of the most powerful moments I haveexperienced during my undergrad career.The

queer community is part of me, and will al-ways be part of me,no matter how I look.As a pre-testosterone man,I always appre-

ciated my physical appearance because it ges-

tured toward the more complicated aspects ofmy identity. The phrase born in the wrongbodyis a bit problematic to me.Earlier in mytransition I did identify with this phrase, andfelt generally bitter about this whole cosmicprank of my body and mind not matching up,but as I grew, I realized that my life experi-ence has actually been a bit of a gift. By livingas a female,I understood the female perspec-tive, and through this life experience I real-ized how important it is to respect women,and how it is important to fight for womensrights (I swear,if all men were required to liveas women for at least some portion of theirlives, the world would be a whole lot better).Iam ardently feminist, and I owe my female ex-

perience to this identification.I like manly things, like ties, steak andGuinness beer. Ive had the biggest crush onEmma Watson since the sixth grade, and Ihave a Jessica Alba poster proudly displayedin my room.However,I also have some traitsthat you could deem as stereotypically gay I worship Lady Gaga and religiously watchGlee, and my door is literally draped in rain-bow paraphernalia. And for some unex-plained reason or another Ive recently devel-oped an obsession with Zac Efron,AndrewGarfield and any other men with fabuloushair. Im a feminine guy, and proud of it.Looking more normal, though convenientand more resonant to how I picture myself inmy mind, has made me realize that maybefitting in with everyone else is not some-thing I want to do.

The other day my throat was a bit sore Ithought with a twinge of excitement that the Twas kicking in, until I realized that I live in afreshman dorm,and during fall quarter fresh-man dorms are bastions of disease and sorethroats.False alarm.But Ill keep you posted,

Stanford.Thanks for keeping up with me.

Next week: Cristopher bitches about relation-ships.E-mail him at [email protected].

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Bottom line is the economics of thegame are certain for the first time in thedomestic game here. It will continue togrow. Maybe not as fast as people wouldlike, but it will be more and more preva-lent. To me the best barometer is thecountrys response to the World Cup. TD,Oct.15

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I like the idea of unmanned securitycameras.It wouldnt notify the authorities

at the time, but it would make it easy toidentify who committed the burglary afterthe fact. Once word got out that you willbe identified the burglaries would godown. john,Oct.15

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Concerns of first-generationstudents must remain a priority

This editorial originally ran on Oct.1, 2010.

Stanfords commitment to financial aidand diversity has attracted studentsfrom many backgrounds to apply for

admission.However,students can attest:thestory doesnt end at admission. After thelong, grueling application process,survivingrigorous Stanford academics is yet anotherbattle.Though all admits are claimed as thebest and brightest, certain students tend tofare better than others.

Background has proved to play an im-portant role in a students ability to do wellin college. In the past, students and facultyalike have argued that admits of differentbackgrounds would need different re-

sources. As a result, community centersemerged over several decades to supportthese students,ranging from the Black Com-munity Services Center (BCSC) and ElCentro Chicano to the Native AmericanCommunity Center (NACC) and the AsianAmerican Activities Center (A3C).

However, while there are ample re-sources for students of color, Stanford haslong overlooked the role that socioeconom-ic status or class play in a students develop-ment in a college setting.

The editorial board supports the Officeof the Vice Provost for Student Affairs ef-fort to include socioeconomic differences inthe diversity discussion.The office is search-ing for a new associate dean and director ofdiversity and first-generation programs, ahire that will help more students navigatetheir Stanford experiences.The position re-places a similar one cut in 2009 over budgetconcerns. An anonymous donor has comeforward to fund the new position for fiveyears.

Issues of socioeconomic status are oftenthrown into the same messy pile as issues ofrace.While both affect students college ex-periences, socioeconomic levels have a dif-ferent effect than race. Although ethniccommunity centers are sufficient for help-ing students bridge academic and socialgaps,people often overlook the fact that so-cioeconomic status transcends racialboundaries.

At first glance, African-Americans andAfricans appear to be covered by the

BCSC, the Latino community by El CentroChicano, the Native Americans by theNACC and Asians-Americans by the A3C.It is easy to conclude that the only minoritygroup that the new dean would be helpingare socioeconomically disadvantaged Cau-casians.

But issues of class and race do not inter-mingle so clearly.

The creation of the deans position marksStanfords acknowledgement that rifts be-yond race exist in the overall Stanford com-munity. First-generation and low-incomestudents need to overcome many issues thatdont necessarily have anything to do withrace.

A production by STAMP, the social

protest theatre company, in spring 2010brought to light such challenges. Solicitingmonologues from anonymous studentsfrom the first-generation and low-incomecommunities, the play Wealth of Wordshighlighted the challenges that these stu-dents face when trying to fit in with theirpeers. The script included horror storiesranging from discriminatory remarks madein IHUM discussions about the poor to thehesitation of taking unpaid internships be-cause of financial difficulties to the frustra-tion of lacking parental connections becauseof their first-generation status. These areonly some examples of unique obstaclesthat first-generation and low-income stu-dents deal with.

The population of low-income and first-generation students is also growing,possiblydue to recent financial aid initiatives. Ac-cording to Dean of Admission RichardShaw,15.2 percent of Stanford undergradu-

ates are first-generation. Additionally, 14percent of undergraduates in 2008-2009 re-ceived a federal Pell Grant, which is oftenused as a standard for assessing low-incomestatus.

Stanford is making important strides to-ward improving the undergraduate experi-ence with the creation of the associate deanand director of diversity and first-genera-tion job.He or she will be an invaluable re-source.If we wish to continue to uphold thefounding mission of the University,the con-cerns of first-generation students must re-main a priority.

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DAWGS INTHE DUSTBy KATHERINE KNOXCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Cardinal senior outside hitterAlix Klineman led her team to con-secutive victories over No. 7 Wash-ington (15-3, 4-3 Pac-10) and Wash-ington State (6-11, 0-7) this pastweekend . T he No. 2 S tanfordwomens volleyball team (16-1, 7-1)continues to share the lead of thePac-10 as it nears the midpoint ofconference play.

The Huskies Stanfords long-time rival and biggest competitor inrecent years brought in the Cardi-nals largest crowd of the season onFriday night.The teams split matcheslast season and nearly shared thePac-10 title before the Huskiesdropped their last match to giveStanford the crown.

Stanford took the rivalry match ina four-set thriller,24-26, 25-17,25-16,32-30.

Impeccable serve-receive passingand defense by Stanford seniorlibero Gabi Ailes and Washingtonlibero Jenna Orlandini allowed bothteams variety with their sets,yieldinglong rallies in the first set. Eventuallyback-to-back missed serves by theCardinal gave Washington the mo-mentum to successfully deliver to itsprimary hitters seniors KindraCarlson and Becky Perry whoseoffense brought the Huskies the set,26-24.

Washingtons strategy to attackthe right back defenders in the sec-ond set was futile. From the rightback position,Cardinal freshman de-fensive specialist Mary Ellen Luckput together a career-high 10 digs onthe night to patch up the weakness ofStanfords new 5-1 setting formation.

Nonetheless,senior setter CassidyLichtman spread the Stanford of-fense from pin to pin, effectively in-corporating oft-underused sopho-more opposite Hayley Spelman.

Spelmans 17 kills exposed holes inthe Husky block while balancing thecourt opposite Klineman, allowingthe Cardinal to gather an eight-pointlead that would determine the sec-ond set in Stanfords favor,25-17.

Husky setter Jenna Hagglund who, like Klineman, has been nomi-nated for the national Lowes SeniorCLASS Award kept her team incontention early on in the third withastute set distribution.

They spread out their offense

which made them very hard to de-fend,Spelman said.The fast tempo of play ruled the

rallies, yet 11 combined kills byKlineman,Spelman and redshirt jun-ior Stephanie Browne brought Stan-ford a decisive lead.Washingtons five-point deficit wasprecipitated by contributions fromCardinal freshmen Luck and outsidehitter Rachel Williams,who added anace and a kill, respectively. Stanfordcruised to a decisive 25-16 victory.

One would think that the eightkills posted by Washingtons Perrywould bring the Huskies the win inthe fourth, but the story revolvedaround Klineman, who led her teamto a 32-30 victory with 15 kills in thefourth set alone, earning Stanfordthe match.

[Perry] had a great match,Spel-man said, but we adjusted defen-sively, minimized our errors,and hitdeep on them from all positions,which worked really well.

We prepared more for Washing-ton [scouting-wise] than we have forany other team this season and it re-ally showed on the court, Klinemanadded.

Both players attributed the victo-ry largely to strategic preparation,both on and off the court, rather thanthe spirit of the match itself. Never-theless, the atmosphere in MaplesPavilion contributed to Stanfordssuccess.

The wonderful support fromover 4,000 fans in Maples added spir-it to the match and made it a great ex-perience overall,Spelman said.

Following the battle with theHuskies, the Cardinal took downWashington State on Saturday nightin an uneventful three-set sweep,25-13, 25-15, 25-10, to round out theweekend.

The match gave Stanford headcoach John Dunning the opportunityto allow non-starters to contribute to

the teams success. Redshirt sopho-more middle blocker Jessica Walkerjoined the starting lineup,deliveringsix kills on 11 swings to hit .455 forthe night. Freshman outside hitterSam Wopat earned a career-high fivekills,leading the Cardinal with a .625hitting percentage.

Ailes picked up 19 digs to helphold the Cougars to a .064 hittingpercentage on the match. After the

SPORTS

My Bowl Championship Series predictions

Can we all take a second togives thanks for OhioStates loss Saturday? Re-ally though, now we allwont be forced to watch

the perennially overrated Buckeyes

get rolled in the BCS National Cham-pionship Game, simply because theywere ranked highly in preseason polls.

Even with their own loss,Nebras-ka falling to Texas and Nevada drop-

ping one to Hawaii, there are still 10undefeated teams left in college foot-ball.I dont know how true this is,butthat sure seems like a lot of perfectteams for this late in the season. Thequestion now is who will be left stand-

ing to play for the title? What if thereare more than two undefeatedteams? Will we have to hear moreanger targeted at the much-malignedBowl Championship Series?

Well,everyone enjoys predictions,so Im going to go ahead and makesome.

1. Oregon will go undefeated andplay for the national title . . . againstBoise State. Im not saying this be-

cause it is what I think should happen I dont believe Boise State is one ofthe two best teams in America,but noone left on their schedule can beat theBroncos. Oregon has some chal-

lenges a trip to USC,a home datewith Arizona and of course the CivilWar in Corvallis.

2.That prediction is predicated onthe fact that the nations best confer-ence the SEC will not send a

team to the championship game. Es-sentially the teams will beat eachother up so no one goes undefeated.The conferences two unbeatenteams Auburn and LSU play

each other next week. There is noway LSU will go undefeated with the

Mad Hatter, Les Miles, running theshow. Eventually his luck will runout.Auburn,on the other hand,may

WOMENS SOCCER

Noyola and Presswreck UDub, Wazzu

By NATE ADAMSand BROOKE DAVIS

The Stanford womens soccer teams two gamesagainst Washington schools last weekend couldhardly have been more different, but they had oneimportant thing in common Stanford left both ofthem with a victory.After blowing out the Cougarsof Washington State, 5-0, under a scorching sun onFriday,the No.1 Cardinal (12-0-2,3-0-0 Pac-10) bat-tled against the Huskies in a rain-soaked affair yes-terday. The match would eventually go Stanfordsway,2-1, but not without over 80 minutes of chancesbeing turned away.

The Cardinal started the match against Washing-ton State (6-8,1-2) with a bang,scoring two goals inthe first 10 minutes of play.

Junior midfielder Teresa Noyola put the first goalon the scoreboard. Noyola, positioned about 30yards out,gathered the ball from the just-taken cor-ner and drove it into the top right corner of the netfor her seventh goal of the season.

Barely a minute had passed before Stanford gotits second goal of the half. Junior Camille Levinserved a ball across the box,and in an interesting in-stance of unspoken teamwork, Noyola ducked asthe ball soared over her head right into senior Chris-ten Presss instep. Press volleyed the ball into theback of the net,scoring her 17th goal of the season inthe ninth minute of play.

Twelve minutes later, sophomore defenderCourtney Verloo sent a cross into the box where

Press got enough of a foot on it to hit the ball towardback post. Senior midfielder Allison McCann wasparked at back post and took the header to score thethird goal of the game.

While the Cardinal offense continued to pres-sure the Cougar net, freshman goalkeeper EmilyOliver held down the fort with well-timed saves. Inthe 11th minute,Oliver pushed a powerful shot fromWashington States Eileen Maes over the crossbar,saving the Cardinal from any threat to its shutout.

Stanfords scoring picked back up as the 50thminute rolled around. Junior forward Lindsay Tay-lor collected a pass from defender Annie Case andslipped a left-footed shot past the keeper to give theCardinal a 4-0 lead.

The last goal came from freshman forward Na-talie Griffen,who aggressively followed a back-pass

to Washington State goalkeeper Ariana Byrd. Byrdattempted to clear the ball,but it deflected off Griff-

CROSS COUNTRY

Runningtowardfirst place

By ZACH ZIMMERMANDESK EDITOR

If theres one thing Cardinal fans havelearned from the No. 1 Stanford menscross country team,its that the stars loveto shine together.For the second straightrace, junior Chris Derrick, senior ElliottHeath and redshirt junior Jacob Rileycrossed the finish line shoulder-to-shoul-der.

The 1-2-3 finish for the Card cappedoff a day of dominance at NCAA Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, Ind. on Satur-

day.Stanford easily won the White Race,accumulating just 43 points compared torunner-up No.18 Ionas total of 127. Der-rick was officially declared the overallwinner, but the top three Cardinal run-ners recorded the same time of 23:16.9.

I wouldnt necessarily say it was easy,but I wasnt hugely surprised, Derricksaid of the finish.A couple of guys thatwe thought might be able to run with uswerent there and the strength of ourpack was able to overcome the other in-dividuals present.

While the strength of the Cardinalstop three has not been in question thisseason,the surprise performances of red-shirt sophomores Benjamin Johnson andMiles Unterreiner have distanced theteam from the competition.The two fin-ished in 18th and 19th,crossing the finishline in 24:02.8.

They are tremendously important,Derrick said of Johnson and Unterrein-er.Five score in cross country,and withhow competitive the NCAA is, if you

dont have a four and five,no matter howgood your [top three] are, youre not

Daniel

Bohm

On My Mind

WOMENS SOCCER10/17vs. WASHINGTONW2-1

UP NEXT

ARIZONA STATE(8-3-2, 2-1-0 Pac-10)10/22 Tempe, Ariz . 6 P.M.

GAME NOTES:After two home victories against the Washing-ton schools this past weekend, top-ranked Stanford womens

soccer will travel to take on Arizona State in Tempe on Oct.22. The Sun Devils fell 1-0 to Washington last week, with a

2-1 record in the Pac-10.

WOMENS VOLLEYBALL10/16 vs. Washington State

W 3-0

UP NEXT

CAL(17-1, 7-1 Pac-10)10/22 Maples Pavilion

7 P.M.

GAME NOTES: Stanford and Cal are currentlytied for first place atop the Pac-10, with iden-

tical 7-1 conference records. The Golden

Bears are ranked No. 6 in the latest national

polls, while Stanford holds down the No. 2spot. Senior outside hitter Alix Klineman,

who has already been Pac-10 player of the

week twice, will again lead the Cardinal.

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily

Senior outside hitter Alix Klineman, above, tied for the ninth-best day in Stanford history on Friday, registering 32 killsagainst Washington. Klineman is the Cardinals best offensive weapon, and has been Pac-10 player of the week twice.

Serving Up the Preseason


Sophomore Matt Kandath goes for a shot in last weekends ITA Northwest RegionalChampionships, part of a series of tournaments for the mens tennis team before themain season in the spring. Kandath took two victories, but fell in the round of 32.

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Please seeXCOUNTRY,page 6

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Please seeWSOCCER,page 8

Card beats Huskies in four-set thriller, also tops Wazzu

Stanford impresses atPre-Nationals in Indiana


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going to win.Up next for the men are the Pac-10 Cham-

pionships on Oct. 30, a meet that, thoughStanford will be favored to win, will chal-lenge the Cardinals stellar season record.

Looking ahead, there are a lot of teamsthat will be legitimate competition in our up-coming championship meets, Heath said.What they do is out of our control, so we are

just focused on taking care of our business asbest we can.

There are some very very talented teamsout there and its going to be a very close race,but I truly believe that if we show up and runlike were capable of that we can beat anyteam in the country, Riley said.

Meanwhile, the No. 17 women, who had

dropped from No.14 in the national rankingsprior to the Indiana meet,narrowly missed asecond-place finish in the White Race,finish-ing in third with 125 points. No. 5 George-town was victorious with 100 points, while

No.9 Colorado snuck just past Stanford,tak-ing silver with 123 points.Despite outclassing their national rank-

ing,the Cardinal women were not happy withtheir final position on Saturday.

We are definitely not satisfied with thethird-place finish,redshirt junior StephanieMarcy said. Our goal was to win and weknow that we were capable of winning sincewe were only two points away from secondand 25 from first.The results are just fuel forthe fire now, and we have five weeks to

progress and get to where we need to be.Sophomore Kathy Kroeger,the leader of

the womens team at the Stanford Invitation-al,once again paved the way for the Cardinal,finishing in third place overall with a time of

20:12.0. In an extremely tight race, she fin-ished just four seconds behind the winner,Lucy Van Dalen of Stony Brook.

Freshman Jessica Tonn ran her secondconsecutive impressive race,finishing in 19thwith a time of 20:53.7. Veteran runnersStephanie Marcy and Alex Gits,who finished23rd and 31st respectively, emphasized first-year Tonns value to the team.

Jess has been improving every week,Gits said.She has 100 percent of her heartcommitted to the team and that is exactly

what we need.Jess has been such an incredible asset to

the team this season,Marcy added.The womens team will also race next at the

Pac-10 Championships. Despite the teams

disappointment surrounding Pre-Nationals,the collective goal remains the same.We can win Pac-10s,theres no question

about it,Marcy said.If we perform the waywe do every day during practice, we willprove to be a formidable opponent in themost competitive conference.

The Pac-10 Championships take place inSeattle on Oct.30.

Contact Zach Zimmerman at [email protected].

CROSS COUNTRY

10/16 at NCAA PRE-NATIONALS

1ST and 3RD PLACE

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PAC-10

CHAMPIONSHIPS10/30 Seattle, Wash.

All day

GAME NOTES: The No. 1 ranked mens team looks to domi-

nate at the Pac-10 championships in Seattle on Oct. 30.Senior Elliot Heath, junior Chris Derrick and redshirt junior

Jacob Riley continue to lead. The womens team, ranked

No. 17, also looks to build on its season in Seattle after a

third-place finish at the NCAA Pre-Nationals.


Despite lower expectations than the mens team, the Stanfords womens cross country team had a strong showing at NCAA Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, Ind. The team placed third, far outplaying its No. 17 national ranking. Thewomen finished with 125 points, two points behind second-place Colorado (with 123 points) and 25 behind No. 5 Georgetown (100 points). Junior Stephanie Marcy and sophomore Kathy Kroeger led the Stanford team.

SWEEPS ONTHE FARM

By JACK BLANCHAT

The Stanford womens lacrosse teamtook down St. Marys, Fresno State andUC-Davis last Saturday in a round-robinplayday, a good start to the season beforethe team heads to Philadelphia this week-end.

Because the official lacrosse seasondoes not start until winter,the games wereinformal and no official scores were kept.Nevertheless, the Cardinal had no troubledusting off all three opponents,outplayingand outscoring all three.

Head coach Amy Bokker compliment-ed the three Mountain Pacific Sports Fed-eration (MPSF) foes for their solid play.

Fresno State now has a couple yearsunder their belt. They seem to have moreexperience, she said. UC-Davis has al-ways been right there in the MPSF theyheld their own. St. Marys looked prettycompetitive,too, but mainly it was just niceto get out and play against three confer-ence opponents.

Stanford started the day with a 9 a.m.match against St. Marys. The Cardinaldominated the time of possession and gotits fair share of turnovers, but had some

trouble scoring when close to the goal.I thought we had a lot of good looks and

great opportunities for us. We either keptmissing the cage or they were clanging off the

WOMENS LACROSSE

10/16 vs. FRESNO STATE

UP NEXT

MARYLAND

2010 NCAA CHAMPIONS

10/23 PhiladelphiaAll day

GAME NOTES:After three successful bouts against St.

Marys, UC-Davis and Fresno State last Saturday,

womens lacrosse looks to a tough upcoming week-end in Philadelphia. The Card will face off against de-

fending national champion Maryland, Penn and Vir-

ginia on Saturday and will see Drexel, St. Josephs

and Temple on Sunday.

ANDREW STILES/The Stanford Daily

Stanfords womens lacrosse team continued preseason action on the Varsity Turf against three California schools over the weekend, notchingwins over St. Marys, Fresno State and UC-Davis. The Card will face tough opposition next weekend, as it faces down three highly-ranked foes.

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enter the final weekend of the seasonwithout a blemish,but the Iron Bowlis at Alabama this year,and the Crim-son Tide would like nothing morethan to ruin Auburns shot at thechampionship.

3. Multiple undefeated teams willmiss out on the national title game.Oklahoma could end up perfect,which would mean the Sooners wouldhand Oklahoma State and Missouri

(who are currently undefeated) lossesalong the way.The same goes for TCU,whose only remaining challenge is adate with fellow unbeaten Utah.Thewinner of that game,which I believewill be the Horned Frogs, could belocked out of the BCS title gamealong with Oklahoma.Michigan State

could also finish perfect, but thatwould likely mean a trip to the RoseBowl for them.(That could be a datewith Stanford if the Oregon-BoiseState championship game holds up).

4. That brings me to this predic-tion: Stanford will play in the RoseBowl. This may be Stanfords onlyshot at a BCS bowl because it is un-likely to be selected as an at-largeBCS team because of its lacklusterfan support (see many of my previ-ous columns for further explanationof this phenomenon). In order forStanford to go to the Rose Bowl,notonly would it likely have to win out,but it also needs Oregon to go to the

championship game and play a teamfrom a non-automatic qualifyingconference (basically Boise State,TCU or Utah). If a non-AQ teamisnt in the title game, it will be head-ed to the Rose Bowl in lieu of a Pac-10 team.So oddly enough, go Boise.

I know.Im not really going out on

many limbs with these predictions. Ialso want to remind everyone that thisis not what I think should happen;it iswhat I think will happen. When itcomes to that national championshipgame, the Ducks will reign supreme.Revenge will be had for last seasonsdefeat in Boise.As for the rest of theBCS bowls,here you go:

Rose Bowl: Stanford vs. MichiganState.

Sugar Bowl:Oklahoma vs.TCU.Orange Bowl:Virginia Tech vs.Al-

abama.Fiesta Bowl: West Virginia vs.

Auburn.Editors Note:This column went to

press before the BCS standings werereleased on Sunday.

Daniel Bohm couldnt get through acolumn without taking a shot at Stan-

fords fan support. Help him find something else to rant about [email protected].

BOHMContinued from page 5

weekend, Stanford now leads thePac-10 in assists and kills per set,andcomes in second in digs per set.

Klineman was once again thematchs kill leader,and continues tolead the Pac-10 with 340 kills, aver-aging 5.76 per set.The standout sen-ior has already earned two Pac-10player of the week and one nationalplayer of the week recognitions.

Stanford closes out the first

round of conference play nextweekend against conference co-leader California. The teams willfight for the lead at 7 p.m.on Fridaynight in Maples Pavilion.

Contact Katherine Knox at [email protected].

WVBALLContinued from page 5

posts, Bokker said. We wanted tokeep momentum and its hard whenyou keep shooting and missing.

In the second game, Stanfordfaced off against UC-Davis, whomStanford only defeated by a score of17-14 when the Aggies last visitedthe Farm.The Cardinal had far lesstrouble with the Aggies on Satur-day,notching a 15-9 victory.

The Card ended the day againstFresno State,commanding both timeof possession and face-offs on theway to a 13-3 victory. Stanford start-ed off quickly,and used the fast breakto its advantage, whipping anymissed shot by a Bulldog down thefield,resulting in several quick scoresfor the Card.

We really wanted to utilize ourteam speed, which I think looksgreat, Bokker said. Our goal wasto finish on five fast break opportu-nities each game, and we did that inevery game except the first one,where we only had four.

The top players of the day werethe attackers for the Card, whofeasted on those fast break opportu-nities. Junior Emilie Boeri, sopho-more Jennifer Lang and freshmanRachel Ozer scored multiple goalsin all three games.

Another high point for the Car-dinal was the goalkeeping of fresh-man Lyndsey Munoz and seniorAnnie Read, who split time andmanaged to hold both the FresnoState and UC-Davis offenses to sin-gle-digit scoring.

Bokker said she was very happyoverall with the teams play, butsaid,I was a little disappointed be-cause our settled defense looked re-ally great against Cal last week, andthere were times when we looked alittle bit unorganized today. Thatcomes with a little bit more practiceand getting used to one another.

The Cardinals next test comesthis weekend, as the team heads toPhiladelphia to take on Maryland,Penn and Virginia on Saturday, allof whom finished in the top 10 lastseason. Maryland headlines theslate, as the Terrapins finished No.1after taking home the national titleover Northwestern with a 13-11 vic-tory in May.

The Cardinal will be looking to

avenge its 20-8 loss to the Terrapinslast season, where the Terps had afirst-half run of 10 straight goals anda second half run of seven straightgoals. Although Stanford cut thelead to only 13-7 at one point in thesecond half, Maryland was toostrong, outshooting the Card 43-16overall.

After Saturdays draw againsttop quality competition, the Cardwill then take on Drexel, St.Josephs and Temple on Sunday. St.Josephs struggled to a 2-14 recordlast year, while Temple finished 7-10and Drexel completed a 10-7 sea-son.

Stanford announced the 2011spring schedule last Thursday,which will feature four matchupsagainst top-15 teams from last year No.2 Northwestern,No.11 NotreDame, No. 9 Syracuse and No. 10Vanderbilt.

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en into the back of the net, giving Stan-ford its final score of 5-0.

While the Cardinal would have eas-ily won Fridays match without the fifthgoal, for Griffen it had a bit of addedsignificance. It was the first goal of thePleasanton,Calif.natives collegiate ca-reer,coming on just her third shot in atotal of five appearances.

It was kind of an effort play,I justran as hard as I could and it ended upcoming out in my favor, Griffen said.But it felt awesome. Its like now, letthe floodgates open.

Stanford head coach Paul Racliffewas equally pleased, both with Griff-ens breakthrough goal and the resultas a whole.

I think the team started fast.Wescored some good goals early,and it re-ally opened things up for us,he said.Overall,the team played very well.

Stanfords early lead allowed Rat-cliffe to make liberal substitutions,witha total of 22 players making appear-ances on the field.

I think the teams improvingthrough the season.Were starting to getmore convincing results now, and I canmake more changes,he said.Some ofthe younger players are really develop-ing and getting better and better.

Stanfords 12-game winning streakcontinued when it defeated Washing-ton (9-5-1, 2-2-0) in a rainy game onSunday afternoon. The Huskies en-tered the weekend tied with the Cardi-nal at 2-0 in the Pac-10 standings,butlost to Cal on Friday after taking a 2-0lead early in the game.While Washing-tons defense held tough in a game thatcould have allowed it to tie the Cardi-nal for first place, an early Stanford

goal and consistent pressure on offenseallowed the home team to prevail.Stanford opened things up early,

with Taylor finding the net in just thefourth minute. Noyola controlled theball outside the box and sent it in on theleft side to Press,who crossed it over toTaylor just outside the right post. Theforward controlled the ball and fin-ished it off, placing it inside the nearpost for her second goal of the week-end and sixth of the season.

Presss assist was the 39th of her ca-reer, putting her just one away fromtying the school record set by MarcieWard.

By the end of the first half,the Cardi-nal had 16 shots,while the Huskies wentoff the field with no shots to their name.

Stanfords starting 11 continued topressure heavily in the second, withHusky goalkeeper Jorde Lafontaine-Kussmann turning away chance afterchance. She ended the day with 10saves on Stanfords 35 shots.

While the Cardinal would eventual-ly find the net for an insurance goal,Ratcliffe was disappointed with histeams inability to capitalize onchances, and he praised the effort of

Lafontaine-Kussmann.It was a frustrating game because I

thought we had a strong performance,but I give credit to their goalkeepershe made some really great saves, hesaid. We just couldnt break the iceagain. We got the early goal and Ithought we created great chances,butwe couldnt put them away.

In the 88th minute, Stanfordsbreakthrough effort came from a fa-miliar source: the nations top scorer,Christen Press.

After collecting the ball in the mid-field,Press pushed the ball in front ofher and bolted down the field,beatingthe Husky defense and taking on thekeeper one-on-one. Her first attemptwas deflected by Lafontaine-Kussman,but Press one-timed her own reboundand put the ball away,marking her 18thgoal of the season. It also marked theninth consecutive match in which Pressscored a goal.

The Cardinal goal was answered inthe last minute of the game whenHusky midfielder Lindsay Elston senta cross to teammate Kelli Stewart,whogot her head on the ball and put it awayalong the near post.

The ending result was a 2-1 victoryfor Stanford,but not without numer-ous close chances,foiled by outstand-ing saves by Lafontaine-Kussman.Press had several close-range shots in-side the six, such as one in the 72ndminute of play,blocked by Lafontaine-Kussman,who would dive for any shot,using every inch of herself to block theopen net.

With the pair of victories,Stanfordimproved to a perfect 4-0 in the Pac-10this season.Oregon State is also unde-feated in the conference, but has onlyplayed three games.

The teams doing well and werehappy to be at the top of the Pac-10,Ratcliffe said.Thats our goal, to winthe Pac-10 title, so weve got to keepworking hard and prepare for the nexttwo games.

Stanford will head to the desertnext weekend for a pair of gamesagainst Arizona schools,taking on the

Sun Devils this Friday at 6 p.m.and theWildcats on Sunday at 11 a.m.

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While Stanford pulled out two victories this weekend, it did so in very different ways. The Cardinal steamrolled Wash-ington State, 5-0, but had a tough time against Washington and goalie Jorde Lafontaine-Kussman in a close 2-1 win.

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