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Stanford football coach Jim Harbaughscontract extension has been placed on holdfor the foreseeable future because of the cur-rent economic downturn. Harbaugh hadagreed in principle to a three-year extensionin late December.

After rumors started circulating in earlyJanuary that Harbaugh was in talks with a va-riety of NFL teams,the athletic department is-sued a statement in which Harbaugh said thathe is 100 percent committedto Stanford.

But now, Harbaugh and athletic directorBob Bowlsby feel that it isnt the r ight time to

finalize such an extension.Recently,it was an-nounced that the athletic department wasprojecting a loss of $5 million over the nextthree years,and that there would be staff cutsand,potentially,the elimination of some varsi-ty athletics teams as a result.

Im totally committed to Stanford, Har-baugh told the Bay Area News Group.I justdont think its appropriate with whats goingon with the economy, the pressure thats onour athletic department.

By Wyndam Makowsky

By HALEY MURPHYDESK EDITOR

Bob Dylan seemed tohave had it right when hesang,The road is long,andthe Stanford mens basket-ball team can surely attest tothis. The road has indeedbeen a rough journey for theCardinal, who has droppedits last three games and itslast four road games to be-come 3-6 in Pacific-10 Con-ference play.

But with the second halfof the Pac-10 season stillahead, Stanford (13-6) looksto the upcoming homestandfor a little kick-start toDylans long, hard climbback to at least the .500 markin the conference.

Coach Johnny Dawkinsthinks this goal is more thanattainable, searching for thesilver lining in an otherwise

bleak string of one-pointroad losses that was cappedwith a whopping by No. 17UCLA.

We try to talk about thefact that if youre in thosegames, it shows that youredoing something right,Dawkins said.It shows thatwere doing more things bet-ter than [were doing] worse .. . To that point, after theUSC game, we were stilldoing a lot of things better, and it wasnt reflected always by ourrecord. But we knew as a group we were there.

Senior forward Lawrence Hill agreed that the team feels compet-itive in the Pac-10.

Were confident that we can compete in this conference, Hill

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Cardinalchallenges

the CougarsFinal tune-up before ITA IndoorsBy DANNY BELCH

STAFF WRITER

After qualifying for the ITA Indoor Championshipslast weekend,the Stan-ford mens tennis teamwill return to the courtsthis Friday for a non-conference dual matchagainst BYU.

Stanford (3-0) looksto remain undefeatedon the year and, moreimportantly, fine-tuneits game for the IndoorChampionships in aweek.

It was a great eventfor us, coach JohnWhitlinger said of lastweekends victories.Itwas a really good effortby our guys.I am reallyproud of them . . . theyfound a way to win.

Stanford has ex-celled in singles play sofar this season. In itsthree dual matches,theCardinal has won 16out of 18 singles match-es. Sophomore AlexClayton has not lostsince the finals of theSherwood Cup back in January, and senior Matt Bruch,

junior Richard Wire and senior Blake Muller are all onthree-match win streaks. Sophomore Greg Hirshmanwon both of his singles matches last weekend at the No.6 spot.

In Stanfords last match against Auburn,t hree singlesplayers were down at one point in their respective

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since the end of the 2006-2007 season.

Washington State has dropped three of itslast four games.

MENS TENNIS

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LOSING SLEEPProf. William Dement advocates for

Sleep and Dreams natural science GER

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Coach Jim Harbaugh, shown here at the Cardinals National Signing Day press conference, leda staff that inked a 2009 class that sits near the top of the Pac-10 Conference and the country.

Cardinal class ranks among the top15 in the nation after signing day

Coachs contract extension postponed

By WYNDAM MAKOWSKYMANAGING EDITOR

The continued revitalization ofStanford football took another turnfor the better on Wednesday, as theCardinal announced the signing of22 recruits for the class of 2009. Itwas the third year in a row where allcommitted players penned theirletters of intent.

The group is highly rated asof publication, Scout ranks it 14thin the nation and diverse,both interms of talent and geography;thesignees hail from schools in 12states and nearly every offensiveand defensive position is represent-ed.

Coach Jim Harbaugh was en-thusiastic about the significance ofthis class.

The foundation for champi-onship football at Stanford hasbeen laid, he said.

Harbaughs pitch to the recruitswas along the same lines.

We promised them that theyllwin, he said. This group will bepart of a championship footballteam in the Pac-10 before theyleave.

His tactics appear to haveworked of the 22 prospects whomade their commitment official onWednesday,10 carry a rating of fourstars or higher.

But only one attained the ever-

elusive five star grade: linebackerShayne Skov,who is widely viewedas the jewel of the class. Skov wasStanfords first commit back in Sep-tember 2007 he pledged his alle-giance to the Farm on the first pos-sible day, and Harbaugh indicatedthat he may be the earliest signedrecruit in modern Stanford footballhistory.

Skov earned his fifth star afteran impressive performance in theprestigious U.S. Army All-Ameri-can game,where he had three tack-les for a loss, including two on thegoal line on consecutive plays.BothScout and Rivals, the premier re-cruiting services, rank him as theNo. 3 middle linebacker in thecountry.

But beyond his footballprowess, Skov also became a pseu-do-recruiter, in that after his com-mitment, he began openly cam-paigning to bring other players tothe Farm.

Shayne led a lot of recruitingefforts grassroots, word ofmouth, Harbaugh said.

Harbaugh also highlighted simi-lar undertakings by tight ends ZachErtz and Levine Toilolo and defen-sive tackle Terrence Stephens.

The word went out, he said.Great football players chooseStanford.

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Sophomore Alex Clayton, who has not lost since the Sher-wood Cup in January, leads an undefeated Stanford teamthat has won 16 of 18 singles matches on the season.

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NEWS

By AN LE NGUYENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Professor William Dement initiated a large-scaleemail campaign on Tuesday, urging students to show theUniversity that they would not be likely to enroll in hisperennially popular Sleep and Dreams (PSYC 135)course if it no longer fulfilled the natural science generaleducation requirement (GER).

Dement told students to vote in an online poll hostedby The Daily to make their opinions known.He also toldstudents in an email that if at least 1000 people respond-ed to the poll, every student in the class would get bonuspoints. When the poll closed at 2:12 am, 805 people hadvoted and 679 had followed Dements recommendation,indicating that not having the GER status might be a

deal-breaker.Dement told The Daily that he was very happy with

the online poll but also acknowledged the fact that itintroduced some complexity to the issue. He hopes topresent the poll results as part of the GER application forSleep and Dreams when he meets with the SenateSubcommittee on GERs in late spring.

I understand the GER process, but I dont under-stand why it is so important not to make an exception,Dement said. These are administrative rules . . . theyguide how the University functions, but that doesntmean they should be absolute.

Jessie Van Rheenen 09, head teaching assistant forPSYC 135, said the course is a legitimate natural scienceGER and hopes the online poll will expose student inter-est in the issue.

Although it is counterintuitive to state that peoplewouldnt take the course, [we wanted] to show massivestudent support for maintaining the GER, Van Rheenensaid. For Dement,however, the natural science GERhas a greater implication than merely fulfilling universityrequirements. In the larger scope of things, he hopes theGER status will ensure the long-term survival of the classitself.

Although Dement has no intention of retiring in the

near future,he recognizes there will come a day when hewill no longer teach the course.

Im not a young professor, he said. It isnt clearwhat will happen to Sleep and Dreams when I stopteaching.

He worries that the class will not be offered should hedecide to retire, but is, in the meantime, adamant aboutcontinuing to teach the class provided that enough stu-dents decide to enroll.

I should go on doing it as long as I can, but Im notgoing to do it if its like for 50 students,he said.

Dement also indicated his willingness to change someof the course content in order for PSYC 135 to meet thenatural science GER.

Im not absolutely rigid, he noted, but it wouldseem to me, if I were willing to make some changes, thatthe policy-makers would try to understand my mission,which I dont think they do.

Dement said Sleep and Dreams provides life-savingknowledge that is not taught elsewhere.

I think that its really essential information, and its

something that is hard to find in other places, VanRheenen agreed.Sleep, sleep health and sleep safety fallin the realm of natural science in some way or other.

Any student who has taken that course,I dont thinkwill ever be one of the 40,000 who fall asleep at the wheelevery year, Dement added. To me, that has to havesome importance.

Students said that the course is indeed valuable.Learning about the structure of the brain relates to

natural science, Psychology major Turner Pigott 11 said.I think all college students are accumulating a lot ofsleep debt and its important to learn about sleep becauseit affects everyone.

At the same time, Pigott said that the appeal of Sleepand Dreams is not limited to the fact that it satisfies thenatural science requirement.

I would take it even without the GER, Pigott said.Sleep and Dreams, its kind of an iconic class atStanford.

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Todays Question:How much of an impact do you think thisyears football recruiting class will have onStanford's program?

a) Huge. Championship, here we come!b) Moderate. No better, no worse than

previous classes.c) None. Next falls freshmen cant make up

for the loss of this years seniors.d) Football is a waste of time.

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STUDENT GOVT

GSC discusses

wirelessproblems

By DANIEL BUI

During their weekly meeting last night, theGraduate Student Council (GSC) received a visitfrom Executive Director of InformationTechnology Services Bill Clebsch.

Clebsch presented the IT strategic plan for 2009and wanted to make sure that the services wereadequately meeting students needs. He addresseda number of issues regarding compatibility

between residential and campus-wide access towireless Internet, as students have reported diffi-culty in obtaining wireless Internet at certainpoints around campus.

Clebsch noted that the economic environmenthas been the root of many issues from InformationTechnology Services.

Weve been gradually taking money out ofother programs and putting it into wireless, hesaid. We did manage to nail down a contract witha distributed antenna provider whos actuallygoing to give us some money to manage all of thecell providers on campus.

Clebsch also mentioned plans for the creationof a local infrastructure on campus that wouldimprove the quality of resources for researchers atStanford.

What were really looking at doing is building

New scientific research computerfacilities to increase efficiency

Weak economic environment results

in decreased funding for research

SCIENCE & TECH

Calif.stemcell fundingon hold

By CHRISTINE MCFADDENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The poor state of Californias economy has put ahold on a $58 million stem cell research grant to begiven to Bay Area schools,including Stanford.

Clearly this news is disappointing, said Schoolof Medicine Dean Philip Pizzo in a Feb.2 newsletter,but we need to also acknowledge what we haveaccomplished to date in stem cell research, particu-larly through CIRM [California Institute ofRegenerative Medicine].

To date, Stanford has received over $100 millionin grants from CIRM, a state agency based in SanFrancisco that gives grants and loans for stem cellresearch.

The current momentum [of stem cell research]has been terrific,Pizzo noted,and Stanford facultyhas played a key role, receiving more peer-reviewed,competitive funding than any institution inCalifornia and creating a community of excellencethat now extends across the University campus as

well as to collaborators across the state, nation andworld.

But due to Californias $40 billion budget deficitand the state of the national economy, the stem cellgrant is now delayed.

Currently, CIRM has $158 million from past bondsales, and previously committed grants along withother expenditures will reduce that number to $39.2million by June.Funding is suffering due primarily tothe trouble selling state bonds, including onesapproved for CIRM.

CIRMs future funding was discussed at a meet-ing last week of the Independent Citizens OversightCommittee (ICOC), which oversees the actions ofCIRM. Pizzo sits on the ICOC board.

The ICOC spent considerable time and debatein considering options, Pizzo said in his newsletter.While the first priority must be to honor past, cur-rent and future approved commitments, an impor-tant question was whether to simply stop approvingfuture awards and to not solicit new proposals.

Pizzo said the ICOC kept in mind CIRMs vari-ous constituents who depend on the funding forstem cell research. This includes the students,trainees, faculty, scientists and research universities

who work in the field of stem cell research,as well as

NEWS BRIEFS

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Former Wal-Mart CEO invitedto teach at Stanford GSB

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Graduate School of Business (GSB) hasinvited retiring Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ChiefExecutive Officer (CEO) H.Lee Scott to teach nextyear as the Denning Distinguished Fellow in globalbusiness and the economy,according to Bloomberg.

Scott,age 59, retired on Jan.31, receiving a stand-ing ovation from employees following his final pub-lic speech as CEO, during which he urged the organ-ization to improve its environmental protectionefforts.

Scott was the third chief executive of Wal-Mart,beginning his tenure in January 2000. Under Scottsleadership,Wal-Mart retained the position of largestretailer in the world by total revenue, although itwas often criticized for its effect on the environ-ment, as well as its labor practices.

Scott graduated from Pittsburg State Universityin 1971 with a bachelors degree in business. He

joked to news sources that he would need to get athesaurus in order to teach at Stanford.

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Last Lecture Stanford professor and 1996 Physics Nobel Prize Winner Douglas Osheroff spoke to stu-dents about life lessons and turning dreams into realities. Contrary to its title, this was not Osheroffs last lecture.The lectures inspiration came from Randy Pauschs famous Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007,given less than a year before his death from pancreatic cancer.

Dement pushes for GER

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This column originally ran on Oct.14, 2008.

You would think it was the Spanish In-quisition from the tone and contentof the rhetoric coming from those in

the college admissions industry.The Nation-

al Association for College Admission Coun-seling (NACAC) recently put out a presti-gious report,chaired by the Harvard admis-sions chief, criticizing the SAT and arguingfor its lessened importance in admissions de-cisions. It seems that the SAT is beingblamed for all that is wrong in college admis-sions. Our own Editorial Board has joinedthe pitchfork-wielding masses,arguing for aholistic admissions process. Everyone is

jumping on the bandwagon.The main criticism of the SAT,predictably,

comes along class and racial lines.Its tellingthat the dominant talk in college admissionshas been about access and empower-mentrather than normative discussions overwhat kind of students top colleges shouldadmit. Talk about the SAT comes at the ex-pense of more important questions about theentire direction of college admissions and theincreasing pressure it has on high school stu-dents. Critics argue that test prep companieslike Kaplan and Princeton Review, whichoffer expensive preparation courses, causesuccess on the SAT to be heavily slanted tothose who can afford those courses. This isironic, as the SAT was once,long ago,an en-gine of social mobility. Students from un-known or lower income schools could ride atop-notch score all the way to Harvard. Now,critics seem to argue,its preserving the exist-ing social hierarchy.

The SAT,for what its worth, remains oneof the more meritocratic components of thecollege admissions process,despite the recentcriticism.College admissions expertslove totalk up the importance of grades,but its un-clear how worthwhile that is in Stanfords case- pretty much everyone applying has excellentgrades.The SAT offers students their only op-portunity to escape a bad school or a mediocreacademic record and prove their real worth.Its telling that test prep companies neverguarantee a score increase,as its unclear howmuch classroom time helps versus just buyinga $20 book and going through it.

The test, ironically, is one of the leaststressful parts of a college application.Theresbeen a rising tide of critics,such as the Stan-ford School of Educations Denise ClarkPope, who argue that high-school students

are over-worked and unhealthily stressed.Students may stress about the SAT for threemonths, but it does not match the activity-and extracurricular-heavy admissions model

Stanford and other schools now espouse,which requires students to busy themselvesfor four straight years. Its unclear how thecritics of the SAT somehow want students tostress less by loading up on activities through-out their high school years.

Blaming the SAT is the easy way out of areal discussion of college admissions.The testprep industry for the SAT only exists becausethe SAT is important. If AP tests or SAT IItests were more important, then Kaplanwould move over to them.And attacking thetest prep industry does not even begin to ad-dress an increasing phenomenon: there arenow admissions consultants,usually formeradmissions officers,who charge high rates foressay writing assistance and admissions ad-vice. The college admissions process will al-ways have inequalities and opportunities forstudents with the ingenuity and the income togame the system.

The SAT has become a symbol for largerdebates about college admissions that every-one is avoiding.Were on an inexorable paththat devalues pure academic achievementand excellence toward the holisticmodel ofsoftfactors such as activities,essays and ex-periences. This method is contentious be-cause,to many,its associated with affirmativeaction. Public universities in California areforbidden by law to practice affirmative ac-tion, but a UCLA professor recently allegedthat the implementation of a new holisticprocess in the schools admissions policies re-sulted in stealth affirmative action.

I dont think everyone is comfortable withthe way in which top schools are increasinglyadmitting their students. I certainly am not.There needs to be a serious discussion aboutwhether the decreasing value of academicachievement in the college admissionsprocess benefits students entering university.Many scholars have written about the declin-ing writing standards at college and how seri-ous intellectual engagement seems nonexist-ent at many schools,including Stanford. Get-ting rid of the SAT wont solve those prob-lems,or even begin to. In many cases, it willhurt.

Contact Stuart at [email protected].

This column originally ran on Oct.22, 2008.

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t all began when I bought the blender. Idont remember what exactly motivatedme to do so, but Im pretty sure it had

something to do with a desire to make pre-meds wonder what happened to their orgohomework.That may have been what mademe buy the flamethrower,though - I cant sayfor sure.

In any case,I bought a blender.Its a niceblender, I think: elegant, sturdy and vicious.Its the No. 1 result for blender on Ama-zon.com,for whatever thats worth.

Amazon, as it turns out, is my favoriteplace to buy things. Its got everythingimaginable, after all:blenders, v-neck tees,office chairs, vibrators, replica 17th-centu-ry triple-barrel flintlock pistols - you nameit. And whatever it is that you end up pur-chasing, it arrives at your doorstep in twoto three days.

But all that is unimportant in comparisonto one simple but profound - intergenera-tional observation regarding Amazon, onethat truly makes the service of the utmostvalue to every single college student:

Your parents think it only sells books.This means, quite delightfully, that after

telling them textbooks are cheaper online

than in the bookstore, you can go ahead andorder an $18,000 grand piano with their cred-it card.

Sorry, mum. Orgo books are outrageousthese days.You do want me to be a doctor,right?

Voila. Blender purchased.And so it was.Freshly armed with a brand-new blender,

I found myself faced with the question ofwhat exactly I should blend. Those of youwho have seen Blendtecs Will It Blend?viral marketing campaign know that justabout anything can be blended, from golfballs to light bulbs to credit cards to iPhones.The possibilities are endless.

Endless possibility can make decisionstough, though,s o its lucky that I happen tobe a narrow-minded reactionary who prefersblending fruit.While this may seem boring toyou,its tastier than blended Barbie.

So, decision made, I set off in search offruit.

Initially, my friend convinced me that thetastiest and most socially conscious thing todo would be to purchase fresh fruit from theEast Palo Alto Farmers Market. I whole-heartedly agreed with him and attempted todo so,but I have yet to succeed in getting upbefore 5 p.m. on any Saturday this year. Ithink the Farmers Market closes a bit earlierthan that.

My next strategy was to patronize theStanford Produce Stand.This fantastic littleracket sets up in front of Tresidder every Fri-day afternoon, providing delicious locallygrown produce to the Stanford masses. For

the last few weeks, Ive been buying freshstrawberries and raspberries to complimentthe goodies I pilfer from the dining hall.Myonly real complaint about the Produce Standis that they dont accept meal plan points,which they theoretically could do, being aStanford Dining service.

Still, they provide good fruit. Unfortu-nately, they only provide in-season fruit. Ifyou want, say, blueberries - there is a directcorrelation between blueberry consumptionand the ability to fly - youll have to look else-where.

Where? Well, how about Amazon? Ivepurchased everything else there.

After poking around a bit,I ordered a six-

pack of a Kleins dried blueberries.Two dayslater, they arrived at my door. I hastily torethrough the environmentally unfriendlypackaging and tried a few.

Not bad for Internet fruit.

But then I noticed the nutrition facts. Inaddition to blueberries,there was an extra in-gredient:sulfur dioxide,the chemical preser-vative used in most dried fruits.

My journalistic instincts at full alert, IGoogled sulfur dioxide fatal and found,shockingly, that sulfur dioxide can be fatal inhigh doses. What happens if I want 20,000blueberries in my morning smoothie? Howcan I increase my ability to fly if Im dead?

Even worse, dried fruit works best in asmoothie if youve soaked it a little first.Which is a pain.

Could it be? Had the Internet finallyfailed to provide a solution better than reallife? Never!

I decided that this was the perfect oppor-tunity to try out another Web site peoplehave been talking about recently, somethingcalled Craigslist. My friends tell me that ifyou need something on Craigslist, you justmake a post asking for it, and the friendlypeople there will do their best to provide youwith whatever you need.

After making an account,I had to find the

right section to make my request. I didntwant my fruit purchase to be some terriblyformal affair, so I decided to post in the ca-sual encounters section. After answering afew questions about my gender and location,I wrote, need some fruit, and then re-mained at my computer,eagerly awaiting re-sponses.

I dont want to talk about what happenednext, but lets just say that there are somethings ones better off doing without the aidof the Internet.These days,I bike to Safeway,buy some frozen blueberries and bike backas fast as I possibly can.

Contact Alex at [email protected].

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This editorial originally ran on Nov. 14,2008.

In 2006, Stanford discontinued its depend-ent health insurance plan. Since thattime, graduate students have faced nu-

merous problems while trying to insure theirfamilies. The editorial board believes thatthe University must work harder to reinstatea sustainable plan for insuring graduate stu-dent families.

Under the previous plan,the dependentsof graduate students made up a separate in-surance pool,apart from the student body asa whole.Because this was a relatively smallgroup,the costs to the University,as well asmonthly premiums paid by the students,were very high.As costs rose,fewer studentfamilies enrolled in the plan,driving up costseven more.Finally,Stanford decided that thecosts had become prohibitive and discontin-

ued the plan.Although the editorial board recognizesthat costs under the previous plan were high,the consequences of discontinuing the planhave also been costly. Several students toldThe Daily in February that private insurerswere reluctant to cover their young families,and that private insurance was so expensivetheir spouses would not be able to take timeoff to care for very young children.The prob-lem was even worse for international stu-dents,whose dependents are required to haveinsurance but whose spouses are not allowedto work.

The Daily is not the only news organiza-tion to have reported on the plight of Stan-fords student families. In October,The SanJose Mercury News reported that graduatestudents at Stanford are increasingly turningto subsidized public health insurance plans tocover their dependents.Stanford encouragesthe use of such plans by students who qualify,but the editorial board believes that this de-velopment is especially troubling.

Although many graduate students might

technically qualify for programs such asMedi-Cal and Healthy Families, those pro-grams were not designed for students at eliteeducational institutions. Many certainlynot all students at Stanford come fromprivileged backgrounds and will enter lucra-

tive jobs once their studies are complete.Forcing taxpayers to bear the burden of in-suring their families while they study par-ticularly when Stanford has a $17 billion en-dowment undermines the moral argu-ment for government-subsidized health in-surance designed for low-income families.

Furthermore, enrollment in public healthinsurance programs can compromise the ed-ucational opportunities of Stanfords gradu-ate students. The Mercury News reportedthat because programs such as Medi-Cal onlycover care within the state, professional stu-dents cannot pursue summer opportunities inother parts of the country.Students with fam-ilies should not be disadvantaged in their ca-reer options.Other professional students findthemselves in a different dilemma: they earntoo much money over the summer to qualifyfor subsidized coverage, but not enough to

buy private insurance.According to news coverage by the Mer-cury News,Stanford is the only top-20 univer-sity that doesnt offer a health insurance planto its student families. This could ultimatelymake Stanford less competitive for the topgraduate students. Many students are decid-ing to attend graduate school later in life andare more likely to have families.At StanfordLaw School,a third of the student body is ad-mitted after being out of college for three ormore years. Students at the Graduate Schoolof Business have an average of almost fouryears of work experience before enteringgraduate school. It would be a shame forStanford to lose the best students because itcould not afford to insure their families.

The editorial board recognizes that healthinsurance is expensive and that coverage allaround the country has declined.We, too, re-alize that Stanford finances have been affect-ed by the downturn. We believe, however,that healthcare should be a priority for Stan-ford in an economic crisis just as it is for thecountry. With all of the resources at Stan-

fords disposal including both financesand human capital we find it difficult tobelieve that the University cannot find a sus-tainable way to provide insurance to its stu-dent families.We call on the administration tocontinue searching for a solution.

Stanford should reinstatedependent healthcare

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The assistance from the recruits helped the Cardinal to con-tinue to expand its national reach,from local players like Ertzto East Coast phenoms such as wide receiver Jamal-RashadPatterson from Georgia.

Of course,while the committed recruits helped throughoutthe process,the vast majority of the work fell on the shouldersof Harbaugh and his staff most notably, recruiting coordi-nator Lance Anderson,who also doubles as the teams defen-sive line coach.The 2009 class is the result of over two years ofwork that includes whittling down a list of nearly 4,000 re-cruits, extending offers to nearly 150 players,and then furthercutting that number down based on academic and athletic per-formance.

Today signifies the culmination of a lot of hard work,Harbaugh said.At the same time,its a beginning. A new pathhas been laid for these young men.

To that end, Harbaugh expects his recruits to contributefrom their first days on the Farm.

A lot of these guys will be instrumental and early, hesaid.

In particular, he highlighted linebacker Geoff Meinken,

who will challenge for time at middle linebacker, and hasplayed literally every defensive position in high school, and ina good number of offensive spots as well;safety Jarek Lancast-er, whom Harbaugh compared to current senior linebackerClinton Snyder; and wide receiver Drew Terrell, whom thecoach described as really special with the ball. Terrell will

compete for playing time at punt returner, and all runningbacks and wide receivers will fight for reps.

In particular, Harbaugh was enthused about his runningbacks class,which includes Usua Amanam, Stepfan Taylor andTyler Gaffney.Amanam is a potential three-way player,whileGaffney is a two-sport athlete who chose Stanford over USCin part because of the potential to play baseball on the Farm.Running backs coach Willie Taggert compared Gaffneys run-ning style to junior Toby Gerhart another two-sport starand Harbaugh said that Gaffneys 337-yard, four-touchdownperformance in the California state title game was among thebest individual efforts he had ever seen.Gaffney was namedCalifornias Mr. Football after his senior season, when hescored 56 touchdowns in 14 games.

The only players that Harbaugh will likely aim to redshirtfrom the start will be the two offensive linemen in the class,guard Khalil Wilkes and tackle Kevin Danser, so that they canadd the requisite muscle to play the line in the Pac-10. Addi-tionally,quarterback Taysom Hill will take a two-year mission,so he will enroll at Stanford in 2011.

While the Cardinal has now filled its allotted scholarshipsfor 2009, that doesnt mean that the years recruiting is over.Now, the staff will focus on attracting walk-ons to the team,and Harbaugh indicated there were still more players to add.

Were still looking for guys to come in and compete, hesaid.

Regardless of whether additional players are added to theclass, Harbaugh was clear about the symbolism of this yearsrecruiting efforts that the Cardinal is once again an activeforce on this front, and that theyll compete for all qualifiedplayers.

Stanford football doesnt wait to see who it gets anymore;we do it early, he said. We went toe-to-toe with the majorpowers,and we won a lot of those battles.

In the end, the coach,who is entering his third year on theFarm,extolled nothing but excitement about the class,and the

caliber of players and people it included.We set the highest standard for getting into a Division-1A

school, Harbaugh said.Mighty men thats what we lookfor at Stanford University.

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SPORTS BRIEFS

Womens tennis match postponed due to rain

The No. 5 Stanford womens tennis teamwill get a full weeks rest after playing threematches in four days to start off its dual matchseason. Due to a weather forecast of steadyrain, todays match against Cal Poly will berescheduled to Feb. 10 at 2:30 p.m.

Stanford is currently defending a regularseason 109-match win streak on the Farm. Itslast loss at home came almost a decade ago tothe hands of its archrival,California.The Car-dinal women are coming off a dominatingthree-match performance,clinching their 15thappearance at the ITA National Team Indoor

Championships.After hosting the Mustangs in a finaltune-up match, the Cardinal will head off toMadison,Wisc.,where it will face the top col-

legiate programs in the nation. With a domi-nant doubles squad that has yet to drop a setand a well-rounded singles lineup, Stanfordappears ready to reclaim the Indoor titleonce again.

Stanford assistant coach to compete inlacrosse World Cup

Stanford womens lacrosse assistant coachBrooke McKenzie was named to the Canadi-an national team that will participate in thisyears Womens World Cup. The event takesplace in Prague,Czech Republic in June.

This will be McKenzies second appear-

ance in the event, after she helped lead Cana-da to a fourth place finish,its best ever,in 2005.Im really excited about the opportunity,

McKenzie told GoStanford.com. Im very

honored.McKenzie played collegiate lacrosse at

James Madison University, where she wonthree Colonial Athletic Association champi-onships.

To prepare for the World Cup, McKenziewill train under a workout regimen createdby Bokker and Stanford strength and condi-tioning coach Dena Floyd. She will join theCanadian team two weeks before the tourna-ment.

UCLA cancels due to illness, but womensgymnastics meet still scheduled

This Sundays scheduled womens gymnas-tics meet between No. 2 UCLA and No. 6Stanford at Burnham Pavilion has been can-celed due to an undisclosed illness that has af-

fected much of the UCLA team. However,Stanford is still planning a meet at the samevenue at the same time (2 p.m.).

The new opponent has not yet been an-nounced, but will be decided in the comingdays.

The decision to cancel was made by thePac-10 after consulting with the UCLA med-ical staff. It was concluded that there werehealth and safety concerns for the gymnastsand those with whom they may come into con-tact. UCLA cancelled practices from Mondaythrough Wednesday.

Sundays meet marks the annual BreastCancer Awareness Day for the womens gym-nastics team.

By Anthony Nguyen andZach Zimmerman

SPORTS

DANCE WITH THE DEVILSBy ZOE LEAVITT

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Coming off two blazing victories last week,Stanford wrestling will host Arizona State Uni-versity this Friday night and then take to theroad to face No.11 Boise State on Sunday.

Arizona State (5-5) placed fourth in the Pac-10 conference last year, but lost several of itshigh-ranked players for this season. However,they still boast two nationally ranked, 2008NCAA qualifiers in their lineup. Redshirtsophomore Cameron Teitelman will face atough match against No. 6 Chris Drouin at 141pounds, and at 125 pounds, freshman MattScencebaugh takes on No.11 Anthony Robles.Robles may be seeking revenge against theCardinal as Stanfords Tanner Gardener 08beat him for the Pac-10 championship duringlast years tournament. Scencebaugh returnsfrom two strong wins last week.

Matts confidence has been building, butthis kid [Robles] is good, said coach Jason

Borrelli. But Matts probably made the mostprogress this season of any kid on our team.Him and Victor Haug, the two true freshmen the progress theyve made is incredible.

Boise State (13-3) will be one of the toughermatchups this season for the Cardinal. Boast-ing a solid lineup that places a nationallyranked player in nearly every weight class,theBroncos are the only Pac-10 team that isranked nationally.All 10 Boise State wrestlersplaced in last seasons Pac-10 championships,with two winning titles and nine qualifying forthe NCAA Championships. A transfer fromArizona State also boosts their ranks 184-pound Brent Chriswell, last years leaguechampion in his weight class.In the face of thispowerhouse lineup,Stanford is looking for thesilver lining.

They are probably the best team in the con-ference at this point, Borrelli said. Buttheres still some great opportunities individu-ally for our guys.There are a lot of matches Imexcited to watch.

One of those exciting matches will be thatof sophomore Porfirio Madrigal, who facedhis Boise opponent Andrew Hochstrasser inNovember and lost 7-2. Hochstrasser, a jun-ior, returns to wrestling this season after atwo-year church mission hiatus and lastyears redshirting.

At 197 pounds,senior Luke Feist will battleNo.5 Brent Chrowell and attempt to add to hisimpressive tally of wins throughout his career.Two more victories against Princeton and Port-

land State last week brought his career total to76,only three short of ninth place on Stanfordsall-time wins chart.

Sophomore Nick Amuchastegui will alsofight a familiar wrestler this weekend: No. 17Tyler Sherfy, whom he already defeated onceearlier this season. Hoping to continue his siz-zling 11-win streak this weekend,Amuchastegui now stands tied for fifth placewith Zach Zimmerer 00 on Stanfords fresh-man win chart.

Unfortunately, Cardinal wrestling suffereda blow last weekend when redshirt freshman

Matt Winterbourne, the teams sole heavy-weight wrestler,fell and tore his MCL.Comingoff a back injury that forced him to miss thefirst half of the season,Winterbourne may notwrestle again until next season.This means theCardinal now returns to the position it strug-gled in a month ago, facing a shortened lineupand forced to forfeit the heavyweight class.

You hate to see that happen to a kid thatsworked so hard, Borrelli said. The wholethings been pretty stressful. Its a bummer.

However,the team is excited to see improve-ment in their second-to-last dual match of the

season. One of the goals set to the team forthese matches, said assistant coach Matt Gen-try,is closing a match when you have a lead.

You cant think defense and shut down[once you have the lead] Gentry said. Youstill got to think wrestling. Everybody in thecountry at this point gets ready to pack it in, soif you go in there still ambitious, enthusiastic,you can take them.

Furthermore,the Arizona and Boise Stateoutcomes will help determine individual

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The Stanford wrestling team looks to feed off of its momentum heading into this weeks match against Arizona State. The Cardinal hopes to re-ceive an extra boost from its young talent after losing its only heavyweight wrestler, Matt Winterbourne, to a torn MCL injury that ended his season.

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Adams

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Needed:Strongstarts

After superstar CandiceWiggins left for theWNBA and junior JJHones injured her knee

(again) at the start of the season, itwould have been easy to assume thatthe womens basketball team wouldhave a down year.To be honest,Ididnt see how they could avoid tak-

ing a small step backwards.Of course, everyone assumed

that even a down year for this teamwould find them in the NCAA tour-nament, still as a single-digit seed.But it looked unlikely that Stanfordwould enjoy another top seed or atrip to the Final Four.

Yet now, as the second half ofconference play opens this weekend,this team has made it possible to al-most forget that Candice no longerroams the floor of Maples.

They are 17-4,and 8-1 in the con-ference.At Maples they are perfect,and have scored at least 100 pointsthree times in their last six homegames. And, after this weekend inWashington, they dont have toleave California again until theNCAA tournament.

Jayne Appel is capable of scoring20 points and grabbing 10 reboundsevery night. Jeanette Pohlen canmake plays out of nothing and is

able to hit threes at will when she ison. Jillian Harmon shoots nearly 50percent from the floor, and KaylaPedersen can score from anywhere.

This team has all the pieces to re-peat last years run to the title game,and inside the locker room they cer-tainly expect to do so.Even withouttwo of the most important contribu-tors from last years squad,they canclearly still beat any team in the na-tion.

But that doesnt mean they will.Winning a championship takes

near-perfect basketball. Make just ahandful of mistakes or run into acold streak against a top-level team,and you will inevitably lose.

Stanford is susceptible to slowstarts and shaky first-halves. So far,the team has been able to enduremost of them,but that doesnt meanthey can get away with sloppy play inthe postseason.

In the season opener against

Minnesota, the Card managed just27 points in an ugly opening half.Fortunately, the Gophers shot under20 percent from the floor in thatsame span only scoring 17 andStanford was able to ride out the winby matching the Gophers the rest ofthe way.

Sure, that was the first game ofthe season and some rust is likely,but the slow starts keep occurringhere and there.

At Arizona State last month,Stanford managed just 24 first-halfpoints and had to rally in the finalminutes to escape with a win. AtOregon State a few weeks later, theCard again found itself trailing at thebreak before exploding and outscor-ing the Beavers 42-26 in the secondhalf. And against USC and UCLAlast weekend, Stanford waited untilthe second half to create a comfort-able cushion for itself.

Yes, you could argue that Stan-

ford managed to win every gamementioned above. You could arguethat the proven ability to clampdown late in the game and secure thevictory bodes well for its postseasonchances. You could also point outthat, with the exception of the earlyloss to Baylor,each defeat has comein overtime or been by four points orless.

All of these points are a credit toStanfords grit and determination towin. But that claim is missing thepoint.

In the postseason, against teamslike Duke,Tennessee or whoever ar-rives in the Final Four,you cant relyon a strong finish to win games.There is no guarantee of an opportu-nity to rally against the best. Theseteams can keep piling on points andbury an opponent that falls behindearly.

To have a realistic chance of doingdamage in the tournament, Stanfordwill have to arrive at the opening tipwith its groove already established.

This group will be a part of a

championship football team in

the Pac-10 before they leave. JIM HARBAUGH, head coach

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appears in the papersaid. Weve got to get back to whatwe were doing earlier in the season.

Stanfords first chance to redeemitself comes tonight, when Washing-ton State (12-9,4-5 Pac-10) arrives atMaples Pavilion. The Cougars wereone of the three squads to barely out-last the Card, winning 55-54, whenfreshman DeAngelo Casto stuffedStanford senior guard AnthonyGoods final layup attempt.

Since then,Washington State hasgone 3-3, with wins coming largelyfrom its defensive efforts. TheCougars boast the best scoring de-fense in the Pac-10, and rank secondin blocked shots.This tough defense,according to Dawkins,makes them achallenging opponent.

Theyre in lanes, preventing a lotof their penetration, Dawkinsnoted. They do a good job, andtheyre very consistent in their de-fense . . . They do a really good job ofhaving a sense of urgency and con-trolling and stopping penetration.They force you to do everythingaround the perimeter,outside of thethree-point line. And theyve beenvery effective at that.

This, Dawkins added, allows theCougars to control the tempo of thegame.And, it is this defensive inten-sity that Stanford hopes to replicate.

We have to build our foundationback defensively, he said. That is

what this program under our staff isgoing to be built on.And we have togo back in our fundamentals and em-brace them, work on them and comeout and execute them when we play .. . Its about us;its not about our op-ponents.

However, if it comes down tobeing all about the Cardinal, it willneed strong contributions from Hilland Goods, but also from its roleplayers, like Mitch Johnson.The sen-ior point guard, who was out for aweek before the USC and UCLAgames, struggled against the Bruins,scoring only three points and com-mitting six of the teams 19 turnovers.

Dawkins knows that if these mis-takes persist, they will prove costlyagainst Washington State and oppo-nents throughout the season.

If we can start to eliminate someof those [mistakes] whether its an

ill-advised turnover, whether its abad shot,whether it was a bad defen-sive possession where we didnt dosomething correctly all of a sud-den youre in better control and in abetter flow late in the game,he said.Its a game of mistakes.It usually fa-vors the team that makes the leastamount of them.

With this in mind, Stanford willtarget Washington States leaders,freshman guard Klay Thompson,senior guard Taylor Rochestie andsenior center Aron Baynes, all ofwhom average roughly 12 points pergame. Most important among themmight be Baynes, who was held toseven points in the teams first meet-ing. The Cardinal is consistentlyoutscored in the paint Stanfordwill look primarily to sophomoresWill Paul and Josh Owens to im-prove their efforts down low.Howev-er, the two combined for only 12points and three boards againstUCLA.

Dawkins said that it is necessarythat the team receives contributionsfrom everyone if Stanford hopes tobe successful before March.

Its a cumulative effect in the 40minutes [to] put us in position to ei-ther win or lose games, Dawkinssaid.

Hill agreed, optimistic that theteam would hit a groove on its homefloor.

Losing is a habit just as much aswinning is,Hill said. We need to goback to where we were [earlier in theseason], where we should be,back inthe habit of winning.

Contact Haley Murphy at [email protected].

BASKETBALLContinued from front page

matches,but all fought back to win.Doubles play has also been strong,

but not quite at the same level as sin-gles. After winning the SherwoodCup a few weeks ago,the No. 1 teamof Muller and Wire has dropped twoof three,including both of its matcheslast weekend. The Cardinal lost thedoubles point against Auburn, whichcame in with two of the top-20 dou-bles teams in the country.

I want to be a little more aggres-sive in doubles, make [the] otherguys worry about where were goingand what were doing, Whitlingersaid. We have some very capabledoubles players.I have faith in these

doubles combinations and doublesplayers right now.Not to be overlooked is BYU,

who is 4-2 on the season. TheCougars, however, were swept 7-0by UCLA, arguably the only topteam they have played.

BYUs lineup features no rankedplayers. The team is led by EvanUrbina, who is 12-5 on the year andhas a record of 5-1 in dual matchplay. Gregory Batrakov is 11-6 onthe year and 4-2 in dual matches.Urbina and teammate A.J. Youngare 10-6 as a doubles team, includ-ing 4-2 in dual matches.

We have to be ready to playBYU,Whitlinger said. Its a matchwe cant overlook.We have a lot ofrespect for BYU. They are alwaysanxious and eager to play us.We areexpecting a tough match, as allmatches are.

So, while the Cardinal cannotcompletely overlook the Cougars,its eyes are partly set on next week-end, when they will be playing inperhaps one of the most prestigioustournaments in college tennis.

The weather might be a factor onFriday, perhaps moving the matchindoors in San Francisco or post-poning it altogether. Whitlingerpointed out that playing BYU in-doors would be beneficial for theteam, as they will be playing indoorsfor the ITAs.Regardless,it would bebeneficial for the Cardinal to get an-other match in this weekend forsome added preparation.

The match is scheduled for 1:30p.m. tomorrow at the Taube FamilyTennis Center.

Contact Danny Belch at [email protected].

TENNISContinued from front page

wrestlers placements in the Pac-10tournament. After these two match-es,Stanford faces Cal Poly,also a Pac-10 opponent, on Feb. 14 in the sea-sons last dual match. These threematches are vital for wrestlers hop-ing to improve their Pac-10 standingsbefore the conference tournamenton March 1 and March 2.

Contact Zoe Leavitt at [email protected].

WRESTLINGContinued from page 4

They cant take the first 10 minutesto establish their offense.

Of course,we know they are ca-pable of this. Against Washingtonand Washington State a few weeksago, the Card never let its foot offthe pedal.That is the kind of game itneeds to play the rest of the way.

Stanford has the talent,the expe-rience and the determination to goa long way.But if they dont show itfor the full 40 minutes,dont expectthem to make it.

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the patients waiting for stem cellresearch developments.

Even given the realities of thefiscal crisis in California in particu-lar as well as the events transpir-ing around the world we stillelected to do our best to find cre-ative ways to move forward, thedean said.

The ICOC and CIRM will work

to develop funding through privateplacement, which Pizzo noted wasgoing to be challenging.

Don Gibbons, chief communica-tions officer of CIRM, explained inan email to The Daily how privateplacement would work.

Normally CIRM bonds wouldbe lumped together with other statebonds and sold through a large NewYork investment firm, he said. Inthis case, we will be responsible formarketing them directly to interest-ed buyers. We would expect suchbuyers to be motivated by thepotential benefit to humankindinherent in stem cell science.

Wishing to keep the current pos-itive momentum of stem cellresearch going, the ICOC also

approved the Bridges to Stem CellResearch Proposals and theTraining Grant II proposal at themeeting.The Training Grant II pro-posal for Stanford scored the high-est in its category.

Although approved,both propos-als are currently not being recom-mended for funding. This decisionwill be addressed at future ICOCmeetings, when Pizzo hopes thebudget situation will be made clearer.

We expect to be able to fund thegrants that were awarded lastweek, Gibbons said. This uncer-tainty is mostly around how longany delay in the normal fundingcycle may be. At its meeting March12, our board will reevaluatewhether it is reasonable to assumesufficient funds will be availablesoon, or whether further delay iswarranted.

Gibbons also noted that thereare other ways in which CIRM isworking to battle the deficits creat-ed by Californias struggling stateeconomy.

Since CIRMs current bonds arecapitalized in a manner thatrequires no payments from the statebefore January 2010, our currentinvestment in research and researchfacilities is providing a direct eco-nomic stimulus to the state whilehaving no negative impact on theperilous state general fund,Gibbons said.

The basic mantra of the ICOCis that we have faced adversitybefore and that we have found waysto overcome major external chal-lenges, Pizzo added in the newslet-ter. We are committed to doingthat again.

Contact Christine McFadden [email protected].

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a state-of-the-art scientificresearch computer facility, hesaid.

The new facilities would resultin higher efficiencies in powerusage, resulting in savings of about$1.6 to $1.8 million per year forevery module constructed, accord-ing to Clebsch.

Members of the GSC also dis-cussed the local renovations takingplace in graduate housing. Somegraduate students have beenforced to temporarily move out ofthe Blackwelder apartments due torenovations, and council membershoped to find some form of com-pensation for the students.

A little bit of a discount onrent of those two weeks should notbe out of the question, said Ryan

Peacock, a third-year chemicalengineering student.

Maybe we should have somesort of guaranteed housing, orsome other form of compensationfor the students,adde d Fen Zhao,a fifth-year graduate student inapplied physics.

The meeting ended with a dis-cussion of the upcoming campuselections. Plans were suggested tomake the graduate student bodymore aware of the GSC, so thatthey can make informed decisionsat the polls later this spring. Itemslike party beads and labeled cupswere mentioned as possibilities toincrease awareness.

Events including the GradStudent Brunch, Executive Debatebetween candidates and Rock theVote event, featuring a number ofpopular student groups, were dis-cussed as ways to maintain lastyears high graduate studentturnout.

In the 2008 spring elections,

graduate student turnout increased19 percent from the prior year, to

2,675. Graduate students DavidGobaud and Greg Goldgof werealmost elected ASSU Presidentand Vice President, respectively,falling just 270 votes shy in the fifthround of instant runoff voting.

Members of the undergraduatestudent body and the GSC talkedabout campaign financing.Possibilities including a cap onspending, public financing for stu-dents who have difficulty affordingtheir campaign and the use of thefundamental standard as a meansof maintaining integrity in cam-paign spending were discussed.

Its going to be hard, ASSUVice President Fagan Harris 09said. Enforcement is difficult.Weneed to figure something out tokeep [candidates] from abusing thesystem.

Contact Daniel Bui at [email protected].

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