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THURSDAY Volume 238A

st 12, 2010 Issue 7SUMMER EDITION

Opinions 5Cima on food as an artistic form; McDonald on generational judgments

Sports 6 Negotiations underway for future divisions, network deals in the Pac-12

Features 8The Stanford Summer Chorus fills Memorial Church to perform Verdi

Entertainment 10 Hard Summer calmly passes thtorch to the approaching Outsi


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NEWS

By ERIC MESSINGERSUMMER MANAGING EDITOR

The composite picture of socioeconomic diver-sity at Stanford is a patchwork, both in the dataavailable and the efforts made to achieve it.

The first class of students at Stanford, in 1891,famously required no tuition. Among the ranks of the Farms pioneer class was a young man bornin an Iowa village, the son of a blacksmith and aminister, who at the time of his admission was or-phaned and living in Oregon.

Herbert Hoovers enrollment at Stanford hasserved for more than a century as the Universitysarchetypal story of success and meritocratic inclu-sion. Ensuring a diversity of class and backgroundat Stanford, however, has only grown more compli-cated since the days of Leland Stanfords recruitingtrips across the American West.

Competition is extremely high to enter Stan-ford, with an admit rate of 7.2 percent. And thosewho make it in are, as a group, financially better off than the rest of the American population. Accord-ing to Director of Financial Aid Karen Cooper, themedian family income at Stanford is approximate-ly $125,000; by contrast, the median family incomein the United States in 2008, the last year for whichdata are available, is $61,521.

Beyond establishing a rough baseline, however,determining the actual economic diversity of Stan-fords students becomes a far more complex ques-tion.

Stanfords financial aid office only has reliableinformation for the half of the student population itprovides aid to, and the Office of UndergraduateAdmission does not assess financial details duringits need-blind admission process. No University of-fice looks at the total economic composition of theincoming freshman class, nor does any office actu-ally carry out demographic breakdowns by levels of income.

At the lowest levels of income, 14 percent of theundergraduate population received Pell Grants forthe 2008-09 academic year, typically rewarded tofamilies that make under $40,000 a year.

More broadly, 46 percent of Stanford studentsreceive need-based scholarships. While only ap-proximately 50 percent of the Stanford undergrad-uate population receives need-based financial aid,an additional group of slightly over 30 percent re-ceives some other form of assistance, such as out-side or athletic scholarships, while 20 percent at-tend Stanford without any aid at all.

Of those families receiving need-based aid, onlyabout 15 to 20 percent earn more than $150,000 ayear, according to Cooper, and roughly 60 percentmake less than $100,000.

What I have heard students say, both white andblack, is that, I didnt know I was low income untilI came to Stanford, said Sally Dickson, associatevice provost and dean of educational resource cen-ters.

While the Office of Undergraduate Admissionstrives to ensure the representation of minorityracial and ethnic groups in each class, Stanford doesnot obtain a complete picture of a students familyincome until the student applies for financial aid.As a result, the process of seeking economic diver-sity is not what Cooper would call an exact science.

You really cant make any assumptions onsomeones income based on race or ethnicity oreven where they come from, Cooper said.

Stanfords administration emphasizes the diver-sity of background and life experience in its studentbody, but specific data are not made public by theOffice of Undergraduate Admission beyond broadindicators, such as the percent of students admittedfrom California and the number of states and coun-tries represented.

Still, across the University, steps are being madetoward helping students feel more included oncampus. Dickson said the most pressing priority forher office is meeting the needs of first-generationcollege students, who make up an increasing num-ber of incoming students.

Dickson is seeking to fill a full-time staff posi-

tion dedicated to addressing that community, apost that was only quarter-time position during the2009-10 academic year. Her office also sends spe-cial invitations to students who are first generationor of low income from a household under$100,000 during New Student Orientation.

I think what is important is that our overall cli-mate here at Stanford is welcoming and greeting,and that all students feel they are a contributor tothe life of the campus, Dickson said.

I do think that for students who come fromunder-resourced high schools, or areas that are lowincome, their adjustment and transition may be dif-ferent, she added.

Then there are incoming freshmen from rural

UNIVERSITY

Diversity remains ongoing struggle Stanford students overall more financially well off than rest of U.S.

JING RAN/The Stanford DailyThe full economic picture of Stanfords undergraduate population is, given available data, impossible todetermine precisely. There are indicators that Stanfords student body is less diverse in geographic andsocioeconomic background than in other common measures of diversity, such as race and ethnicity.

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T HURSDAY , A UGUST 12, 2010 T HE STANFORD D AILY N SUMMER E DITIO

ACADEMICS

Students findnew ways tostudy abroad

By JESSICA LIEBERMANDAILY INTERN

Due to financial problems, the Universitnounced last year that it would be placing its three-wundergraduate overseas seminars on hold for 2010decision that has caused students to look to sources and programs in order to travel abroad.

Former Bing Overseas Study Program (BOSrector and history Prof. Norman Naimark said that looking at different options carefully, the decision tthe seminar program made the most sense.

The basic problem was financial, Naimark wran e-mail to The Daily. As part of BOSPs need tcosts, the suspension of the seminar program turneto be the easiest and most viable way to meet budg

BOSP, which at its height supported 10 semwith 150 students, has not helped students pursue own trips abroad during this period.

Generally, BOSP does not get involved in indual student opportunities, unless they are directly red to the students study at one of our centers, Naimsaid. In those cases, we do support individual reseinternships, and other student activities.

The cuts to this summers overseas seminarsforced students to search for other means to tabroad. Student in Government (SIG) offers overfellowships for students during the summerwhether the hold on the seminars will largely affecremains unseen, according to SIG chair Valentin Bnyy 11.

I can say with confidence that the high deweve seen specifically for our international fellowis a very good indicator of the popularity of internaal experiences in general among Stanford studBolotnyy said. Its hard to say whether or not SIGbeen affected or will be affected by cuts to overseas

inars. SIG fellowships and the overseas seminars aexactly perfect substitutes because the studentsapply to our fellowships look for a full summer woperience in public service rather than the shortermore academic experience that the overseas semused to offer, he added.

But even if students did look to SIG to support trip abroad, Bolotnyy said that, due to financial straints, SIG and other student groups would not beto support them all.

We would simply not have the resources to sothe excess demand for international fellowship oppnities that the overseas seminar cuts have left in wake, even if we wanted to, he said.

The lack of overseas seminars this summer haspelled students to find new means to study abroand some have found that the new opportuntheyve pursued fit their needs better than the ssummer trip.

While I would have immensely enjoyed attean overseas seminar, I have decided to pursue a ter-long program instead, said Jessica Pih 12. Ithat a quarter abroad is much more enriching thanply three weeks abroad for a seminar.

But a short overseas trip can be just as gratifyia more long-term study abroad program, and Stanford offerings allow some students this experi

I would imagine those three weeks would resea glorified, educational vacation rather than a cultly edifying experience, Pih said. I had the oppoty to do so though Bill Durhams Sophomore Coclass to the Galapagos, so I know that two-week nars can truly make a difference in ones intellectuvelopment.

Put on your dancing shoes

JING RAN/The Stanford DailyHigh school students Chris Reed, Michael Libby and Jordan Treistan flash mob the audience with a dance to Ke$has Tik Tok at theSummer College staff talent show in the FloMo Courtyard last Friday. Stanfords normal undergrad population returns in mid-Sept.

RESEARCH

PETE could improve solar techBy UTTARA SIVARAM

DAILY INTERN

Stanford engineers have found a new method for converting sun-light into electricity, which could significantly improve existing pho-tovoltaic and solar thermal technologies.

This new method, called photon enhanced thermionic emission(PETE), was discovered by a University research group headed bymaterials science and engineering Prof. Nick Melosh. Melosh wentpublic with the research on Aug. 1, publishing a paper on the subjectin Nature Materials.

Despite some of the outrageous claims on the Internet, Meloshsaid, this is not a panacea, but is a unique method that can captureboth heat and light, and may one day be a valuable part of the ener-gy solution.

Photovoltaic solar technology currently relies on semiconduc-

tors, which use photons from the sun to excite electrons, ultimatelygenerating an electrical current. This mechanism, however, becomesless efficient with high temperatures, precluding the possibility of using the waste heat to fuel a secondary generator. As a result, pho-tovoltaic and thermal energy conversion are mutually exclusiveprocesses, and current scientific efforts have focused on optimizingone of the two.

Meloshs new approach, if successful, would solve this dilemmaby making high temperatures favorable to semiconductor-mediatedenergy conversion. By using the semiconductor gallium nitrate,coated with cesium, the researchers constructed a parallel platethermionic emission device, in which higher temperatures will excitemore electrons from the semiconductor cathode and generate cur-rent.

When photons strike the cathode, they increase the population of electrons that can participate in the thermionic emission process,

which Melosh and his team dubbed photon enhancement.Since higher temperatures increase the efficiency of this process,

the researchers envision solar concentrators, which can multiply thesuns intensity by 500 times, focusing light on a PETE device and si-phoning unused heat to drive other thermal conversion systems.

While current monocrystalline solar panels boast an efficiency of around 26 percent, Melosh expects this new process to increase effi-ciency to 50-60 percent.

And since PETEs optimal temperature point is achieved wellafter 200 degrees Celsius, it can function in areas such as the MojaveDesert, whereas todays solar technology usually fails in tempera-tures above 100 degrees. However, this new technology is not limit-ed to such high-temperature climates, if large parabolic dishes areused to concentrate the direct sunlight.

It will actually work a little better in cold but sunny climes,Melosh said, but mostly as long as there is direct sun, it should be

able to work.This needs solar concentrations of at least a few hundred times,thus is most likely to be used for large scale utilities, though couldalso be used for remote areas as well, he added.

While the cost of these dishes, in addition to the semiconductormaterial and cesium, is not inexpensive, the output of this processhas the potential to rival that of fossil fuel combustion.

At the moment, tests have been run using gallium nitride, a com-mon material for household electronics. While the research teamhas demonstrated the PETE process, stability and cost-effectivenessremain obstacles for the technology.

We have currently only shown the proof of principle experimen-tally, and shown theoretically that it could be quite efficient,Melosh said.

Contact Uttara Sivaram at [email protected].

Hold on BOSPs overseas semin undergrads to explore different

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NEWS BRIEFS

Patterson to become new director ofAdmission

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Stanford has hired Bob Patterson, currently the deputy

director of undergraduate admission at UC-Berkeley, asthe Farms new director of Admission. Patterson beginshis new post on Sept. 13, according to Judith McCoy, aspokeswoman for the Office of Undergraduate Admis-sion.

As the director of Admission, Pat terson will have broadinfluence over the increasingly competitive Stanford ad-mission process. Stanfords admission rate dropped to arecord-low 7.2 percent for the 32,022 applicants to theClass of 2014. The rate for the Class of 2011, at the start of former director Shawn Abbotts tenure, was 10.28 percent.

Patterson will also directly affect the makeup of fresh-man and transfer classes and affect the Universitys longer-term admission strategy, including international and ath-letic admission. He will report to Dean of AdmissionRichard Shaw and oversee four assistant deans, who eachmanage a set of admission officers.

Patterson, 34, has worked in Berkeley admissions sinceSpring 2009, where he oversees a staff of 30. Berkeley had50,312 applicants for Fall 2010 and admitted 25.6 percent,according to its website.

From 2005 to 2009, Patterson was the associate directorof undergraduate admissions at the University of NorthCarolina-Chapel Hill, according to an office newsletter an-nouncing his arrival to Berkeley. Prior to that, he spentseven years as an admission and financial aid counselor atthe University of Pittsburgh, from which he earned hisbachelors degree. He also holds a masters degree in high-er education.

It is a honor and privilege to represent such world classuniversity, Patterson said in an e-mail to The Daily. I amanxiously awaiting my start at Stanford.

McCoy said the University opened its search for a newadmission director in May and finished last week. She saidShaw, who was on vacation Wednesday, involved senioradministrators and admission staff in the hiring decision one she called a very intensive and long process.

Patterson was one of four finalists invited to Stanford tointerview after a national search, McCoy said. He replacesAbbott, whom Stanford hired in 2006. Abbott left in Mayto become assistant vice president for undergraduate ad-missions at New York University.

Elizabeth Titus

University, Dept.of Energy sign new lease for SLAC


The University signed a new lease with the Departmentof Energy (DOE) on Aug. 4, extending a contract original-ly signed in 1962. The signatory parties agreed that theStanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Ac-celerator Laboratory will continue to function on Univer-sity land for another 33 years.

Leslie Hume, chair of Stanfords Board of Trustees,said that she believed the extended contract between theUniversity and the DOE would continue to foster the co-

operation that has brought on pioneering breakthroughs.Hume and Paul Golan, the DOE site manager at SLAC,signed the lease.

At a time when the results of the first user experimentsat the Linac Coherent Light Source, operated by the Uni-versity for the DOE, are being published, and proposalsare being made for multi-purpose experimental researchfacilities at SLAC, officials say that the lease was signed ata significant moment.

SLAC is a tremendous resource for Stanford, andover the next 33 years I anticipate that the research facili-tated by SLAC will have a transformative impact on oursociety, Hume said in an interview with the Stanford Re-port.

Representatives from both the University and the De-partment of Energy expressed favorable opinions towardthe extended contract.

Buyan Pan

Stanford prof.working to findstress vaccine


Some anxious Stanford students in future years may

have a new weapon in fighting stress about midterms, ca-reers and how to tell their parents theyve changed theirmajor.

After 30 years of research into cures for stress, neuro-science Prof. Robert Sapolsky has discovered a possiblevaccine-like treatment for chronic stress, devising a genet-ically engineered formula to influence the chemistry of thebrain to counteract hormones that cause stress in thehuman body.

Sapolsky had been conducting research on chronicstress treatment for 30 years. After graduating from Har-vard in 1978 with a degree in biological anthropology, hewent to Kenya to study the influence of baboons socialstandings on their health. Through studies such as deter-mining the level of cholesterol and stress hormones in ba-boons blood, Sapolsky saw chronic stress as a dangerouscondition linked to many serious health issues, includingAlzheimers, depressive disorder and heart attacks.

He also found that in humans, hormones called fluco-corticoids, released when undergoing stress, were pro-duced in more levels than necessary and lingered after a re-sponse to a momentary alert. He therefore applied genetherapy to tackling flucocorticoid levels, using the herpessimplex virus as a carrier of the stress-counteracting genes.The virus, already being used for other gene therapies,could pass through blood-brain barriers, capillaries thatprevented excess materials in the blood from entering thebrain.

By replacing the dangerous genes in the herpes viruswith neuroprotective ones that would neutralize stresshormones, Sapolsky thus created a vaccine-like injectionto counteract stress.

When given to rodents, an injection of the modifiedvirus triggered the release of neuroprotective proteins thatslowed cell death and limited damages to the brain. Whilethe vaccine-like treatment for stress is not yet available forclinical trials on humans, Sapolskys team has proved thatit is a possible means to tackle stress response.

Sapolsky was unavailable for comment at press time.

Buyan Pan

By AARON BRODERDAILY INTERN

This report covers a selection of incidents from July 28 to Aug. 10,as recorded in the Stanford De-partment of Public Safety bulletin.

A series of bike thefts and med-ical emergencies occurred during

this period. Bike thefts occurred atthe Avery Aquatic Center, EncinaHall, Lucas Center, HerbertHoover Memorial Building, Grad-uate School of Business, Studio 4and Sigma Chi.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28I A victim discovered that her

wallet had been snatched awayby an unknown suspect whenshe left her purse unattendedbetween 12:15 p.m. and 12:18p.m. by the Claw.

I A victim reported that she hadbeen receiving unwanted, flirta-tious calls from an unidentifiedmale caller since May 1.

THURSDAY, JULY 29I Between 5 p.m. on July 28 and

5:45 a.m. the morning of July 29,an unknown suspect broke intoan office in the basement of Encina Hall and stole over$3,000 worth of equipment.

I Between 5:30 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.,an unknown suspect entered atemporary construction com-pany office at Casa Italiana, andstole tools and computer equip-ment valued at about $2,700.

I At 8:00 a.m., an unknown sus-pect broke a window at Bldg.360.

FRIDAY, JULY 30I At 3:10 a.m., an unidentified

male suspect, most likely tryingto get his early morning brew,broke a coffee vending machinein Meyer Library.

I At 6:50 p.m., an accident oc-

curred between individuals on askateboard and in a vehicle onthe corner of Campus Driveand Medical Lane. There wereinjuries.

I On July 30, the victim reportedthat an unknown suspect usedhis credit card on Nov. 29, 2009to fraudulently purchase inter-national plane tickets.

SATURDAY, JULY 31I Between 12:10 p.m. and 1:10

p.m., an unknown suspect brokethe window of a vehicle parkedin the Stanford CommunityRecreation Association parkinglot and stole a purse.

SUNDAY, AUG. 1I Between July 27 and Aug. 1, an

unknown suspect entered threeunoccupied rooms in SternHall and stole about $900 from juvenile camp attendees.

MONDAY, AUG. 2I Between 9:15 a.m. and 12 p.m.,

an unknown suspect entered anunoccupied multi-bedroomdorm room at the Escondido-VHighrise, and stole three laptopcomputers and a digital camerabelonging to three victims. Thestolen property had a value of over $9,000.

I An unknown suspect spray-

painted graffiti on the estairwell of Pigott Hall. Thfiti, however, is not believegang-related or hate-motiv

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 4I It was reported that an unk

suspect entered the Taubeily Stadium between June

July 21, without forcing door, and stole three laptopputers from the Epatt Aca

THURSDAY, AUG. 5I At 10:40 a.m., an individ

arrested and transported San Jose main jail. Hbooked for parole violdriving without a licenpossessing burglary tools

I Between 5:30 p.m. on Au8:30 a.m. the morning of an unknown suspect kickan antique glass windownorth side of the Cantor Cfor Visual Arts.

I At 6 p.m., a man was bianother individuals dothough the bite was minboth parties were coopeSan Jose Animal Contrstill contacted.

I In an incident that occurrtween 11:50 a.m. on July12 p.m. July 21, but was ron Aug. 5, an unknown stole the victims unatbackpack and its contentRoom 200 in the Packardtrical Engineering buildin

FRIDAY, AUG. 6I Between 12:30 p.m. an

p.m., an unknown suspecslim pickings when he brothe victims locked car ining Structure 5, stealinloose change and a pair oearbuds.

I At 1:05 a.m., an individarrested, cited and releasbeing a minor in possessio

cohol.I Later that night at 1:50 a.other individual was cited leased for being drunk in

SUNDAY, AUG. 8I At 2 a.m., an arrestee wa

and released for being in psion of marijuana in a veh

I Also at 2 a.m., a suspectfire extinguisher in the hof Branner Hall. The sfled on foot and is outstan

I Between 3 a.m. and 3:25 aarrestee was transported San Jose main jail and bfor intoxication.

MONDAY, AUG. 9I It was reported that be

July 18 and July 24, an unsuspect stole an iPod frinventory at the Stanford store.

I At 12 a.m., a non-injury hrun, vehicle-vs.-vehicle coccurred in the Robleparking lot.

MONDAY, AUG. 10I At 10:40 a.m., an injury b

vehicle collision occurrcorner of Lomita DrivMayfield Avenue.

Contact Aaron Broder at abrod stanford.edu.

POLICEBLOTTER

It is a great opportunity to meetpeople who have similar academic in-terests and to truly get to know aStanford professor outside of the tra-ditional classroom environment oncampus, she added.

Some students, like AnnieKramer 12, however, have not beenas affected by the hold as others, opt-

ing to design their own study-abroadplans.

Since I am not participating inany Bing programs, the hold will notdirectly affect me, wrote Kramer,who is taking a leave of absence for2010-11 to travel, in an e-mail to TheDaily.

I wont be studying abroad in thetraditional sense, she added. In-stead, Im hoping to immerse myself inother environments by working andvolunteering so that I can have somereal world interaction with local pop-ulations and other travelers.

Yet while students are finding newways to travel abroad, they still hopeBOSP and Stanford will resume theseminars.

Without the overseas seminars,the University misses an opportunityto educate its pupils beyond its wallsand to bring them to the teacher thatis the larger world, said Kip Hustace11. I trust that, when the time isright, the University will reinstitutethe overseas seminars.

Contact Jessica Lieberman at jlieberm@ stanford.edu.

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By JACOB JAFFESENIOR STAFF WRITER

After the confusion of Junes conference ex-pansion bonanza, the Pac-10 will now officiallybecome the Pac-12 when Colorado and Utah join the league, which is expected to be in 2011.This much is known. What remains to be seen ishow this new conference will function, particu-larly with respect to the most popular and lucra-tive college sport football.

Among the 11 current FBS conferences, fiveof them the ACC, Big 12, Conference USA,MAC and SEC have at least 12 teams. PerNCAA guidelines, all five of these conferenceshave been split up into two divisions, allowingthese conferences to hold a conference champi-onship game. When the Pac-12 and Big Ten jointhis list (while the Big 12 leaves it), both will alsosplit into two divisions. Like nearly everythingsurrounding conference realignment, this moveis rooted in monetary interests, because a con-ference championship game is estimated tobring the conference around $10 million in rev-enue.

The issue is now how to split the conferenceinto its two divisions. Pac-10 athletic directorshave met in the past few days to discuss possiblesolutions, but a final decision is not expecteduntil October. For now, any proposed divisionsare merely speculation, although several ideashave been championed by different coachesand media members.

Four of the five aforementioned conferencesare split geographically into either North andSouth Divisions or East and West Divisions,with only the ACCs Atlantic and Coastal Divi-sions representing a non-geographical split. Aneast-west split would not work in the coastallydominated Pac-12, but a north-south split seemsat first glance seems feasible although it isnot without its issues.

One problem with a north-south split iswhere to draw the dividing line. The Washing-ton schools and the Oregon schools wouldclearly be in the North Division, while the Ari-zona schools and the Los Angeles schools

would be in the South Division. The Bay Areaschools could conceivably play in either divi-sion, leaving the two new members to fill in theremaining slots.

However, either choice of split would leavesix teams in a North Division, and by all indica-tions no team wants to be part of a North Divi-sion. The northern schools would not get to playUCLA or USC every year, so they would onlytravel to Los Angeles every few years, whileSouth Division teams would go there every sea-son. The Los Angeles area is the most impor-tant recruiting region for all the teams in thePac-12, so exposure there is crucial for buildinga successful program.

Numerous coaches have spoken out against

a divisional split that would isolate northernschools from the benefits of playing in southernCalifornia, so Pac-12 officials are looking atother options.

The most popular alternative being consid-ered is the zipper format, named because thesplit would bisect the pairs of schools like a zip-per. This would give both divisions equal expo-sure because each division would have one of the new schools and a team each from Wash-ington, Oregon, the Bay Area, Los Angeles andArizona.

While this strategy solves one problem, itcreates more. The most pressing is that long-time rivals would be split into different divi-sions. The schools would never agree to forgothe rivalry games, so they would be forced toadd the game as an annual non-divisional game.While being fairly simple for scheduling pur-poses, this could lead to a rivalry game being re-peated a week later in the conference champi-onship game which could lessen the champi-onship game, though Stanford Athletic Direc-tor Bob Bowlsby has downplayed the issue.Schools might instead move the rivalry game toearlier in the year, which in turn might down-play its significance.

Another potential issue with the zipper is fig-uring out how to split the teams. There are many

more possible combinations for making the twodivisions in a zipper format, and any choice iscompletely arbitrary. Therefore, the Pac-12would have to be very careful to make the divi-sions relatively equal talent-wise in order toavoid stacking one division at the expense of theother.

Both scenarios have flaws, and not everyonewill be content with the outcome. For instance,Stanford has played Cal, USC and UCLA everyyear since 1936 (other than during World WarII), but few scenarios would allow that traditionto continue. Problems like this have made hy-brid divisions (splitting up some rivals whilekeeping the rest geographical) a third idea, butthose create as many dilemmas as they solve.

Stanford will likely end up playing some, butnot all, of its current rivals in the new Pac-12,and while Big Game with Cal will undoubtedlycontinue, it could lose some of its flair when di-visional supremacy comes to the fore.

The Pac-12s final decision, howeveconference realignment that has madeations necessary, will in all probabidown to money.

A major component of the revenulege football comes from television and the Pac-12 will have to negotiate a tract before the 2012 season. This conbe vital for the conference because a contract means more exposure as welrevenue for its member programs.

The Pac-10 currently has contrESPN and Fox Sports Net totaling $44per year. This puts the conference at cant disadvantage compared to the othconferences. The Big Ten is due over lion per year through 2016, the SEC wover $200 million per year through ACC is signed for over $150 millionthrough 2022 and even the almost-colla12 is set to make at least $60 millionthrough 2015.

This deficit has spurred new Pacmissioner Larry Scott into furiouAlong with the additions of ColorUtah, Scott has worked to increase naexposure of the Pac-10. He sent Pac-1and players to New York for a highly ppress conference in Times Square andESPN before heading back to the RoScott even unveiled a new Pac-10 logosite.

All the press is aimed at making thepresence around the country, which Scwill lead to a better television contract. 10 hopes to at least match the ACC, whthan doubled its previous contract wi just last month.

A more profitable television contra

mean more money for all the schools inference, and athletic departments relyball to pay for many of their other sportmost conferences, however, the Pac-10split its television money equally. Insteams that play on television receive 5of the money, making televised gammore important for each school.

For Stanford, an improved televitract, more conference exposure and aprogram on the rise could coincide to bdinal football to the next level. Until television contract and the future of thremain unclear.

Contact Jacob Jaffe at [email protected]

S PORTS

D IVIDE ANDCONFERENCEThe future of the Pac-12

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Stanfords Andrew Luck waits for the snap at Big Game 2009, which Stanford lost 34-28 toCal. Among the potential complications of the zipper plan for dividing the Paseparating traditional rivals, whose matches are presently part of the annual conference sch

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T HURSDAY , A UGUST 12, 2010 T HE STANFORD D AILY N SUMMER E DITIO

By JOSEPH BEYDA

If youre a San Francisco sports fan having wait-ed since 2003 to see a professional team make itto the playoffs, you may be in for a Giant sur-prise this fall.

After a 20-8 month of July, the Giants are in themidst of close division and wild card races with a chanceof reaching the playoffs for the first time in seven years.

Though making the playoffs is far from certain San Francisco remains one game behind division leaderSan Diego and is tied for the wild card lead the Gi-ants have a better shot at playing in October than the49ers do in January. The Orange and Blacks depth,though often criticized, is not too shabby, despite arange of challenges: last years hitting core has for themost part been traded away, fan-favorite Pablo San-doval has experienced a 70-point drop in batting aver-age down to .264, and the starting rotation has become

much less dominant. Even with that, the streaky Giantsare still in the mix late in the season.San Franciscos success is thanks to the contribu-

tions of 3-4-5 hitters Aubrey Huff, Buster Posey andPat Burrell, additions this year that are all hitting betterthan .280. The teams spectacular July was sparked per-haps most of all by Posey, who went .417 in the monthand had hits in 21 consecutive games.

As Posey has cooled off somewhat since the end of his hitting streak, gracing us mere mortals with his pres-ence by hitting under .400, the question becomes: Canthe Giants hold on to their slim wild card lead, or havethey peaked too early?

Indications are that San Francisco has a good shot atmaking the playoffs. Despi te strong wild card competi-tion from Cincinnati, St. Louis and Philadelphia, theGiants have solid hitters lying dormant in Sandoval,Aaron Rowand, Freddy Sanchez, Juan Uribe andEdgar Renteria. If a couple of those players can get hot,San Franciscos lineup will be strong enough to carry itinto the postseason.

Easing first-half woes by filling some gaps in thebullpen, the Giants acquired relievers Javier Lopez andRamon Ramirez at the trade deadline, making theirplayoff stock much stronger. On Wednesday, infielderMike Fontenot joined San Francisco, building a deeplineup with room for injuries (such as Renterias cur-rent bicep strain).And with a strong coaching staff, ex-emplified when manager Bruce Bochy bought the teama game after noticing a tiny ninth-inning gaffe byDodgers hitting coach Don Mattingly on July 20, theGiants might have what it takes to make it further intothe playoffs than expected.

Regardless of how long a 2010 playoff run would last(if it happens at all), it would surely be a welcome ex-perience for fans, who have seen just one team make itpast the first series since 1989. That 2002 World Seriesappearance came to a disappointing end after the Gi-ants tossed away the championship with an eighth-in-ning error in Game Six, and San Franciscos playoff runthe following season was cut short in the first series.

Fans have been waiting seven years for the Giants toget that far again. The San Francisco faithful alreadyseem to appreciate the strides that the Giants havemade, as home attendance is up nearly 2,000 per gamethis year. Its harder to find tickets nowadays, but thats just the way it should be to watch the exciting team thatthe Giants have become.

Though success by the 49ers whose last playoff appearance also came in 2003 would also be wel-comed, opportunity in 2010 will be knocking on thegates of AT&T Park, not Candlestick.

And San Francisco needs the Giants to answer thatknock.

Even as the winter sports approach, Joseph Beyda and theGiants are keeping baseball on the brain. Debate potential September call-ups with him at [email protected].

Dear spurned SFsports fans: placehope on Giants

Cardinal cracks top 25in SI Preview

Stanford was ranked 24th in Sports Il-lustrateds college football preview, re-leased Wednesday.

The Cardinals offense will be poweredthis year by redshirt sophomore quarter-back Andrew Luck, who will take the placeof Minnesota Vikings draftee Toby Ger-

hart as the offenses focus. Luck threw for2,575 yards and 13 touchdowns with onlyfour interceptions during the 2009 season,helping the team to an 8-5 record.

Also returning are strong receivers inRyan Whalen and Chris Owusu, along witha rushing trifecta in Stepfan Taylor, JeremyStewart and Tyler Gaffney. A maturingsecondary will help prevent defensive gapsthat led to 3,024 pass yards against last sea-son, one of the worst in the Football Bowl

Subdivision.Stanford was not ranked in the top

the preseason Associated Press andToday Coaches Polls. It did, howevera strong showing in each; it receiv29th most votes in the country in tPoll, and the 32nd most votes fCoaches Poll. Stanford has not represeason votes in football since 200

Josep

Sports camps invade campusBy DANNY RUBIN

DAILY INTERN

Great! Really, really good. I likeeverything about it.

Such was the praise Stanfords All-Sports Camp won this week its eighthand final of the summer from a handfulof its 6- to 12-year-old campers.

I really like it, said a 9-year-old girlfrom San Jose who has come to camp forseveral years. We get to play games and dostuff like rock climbing and gymnastics.

If youve been around campus this sum-mer, odds are youve seen the camp in ac-tion. But what exactly have the kids beenup to?

The better question is where, said PamMahlow, camp director. The tiny athleteshave roamed from the climbing wall toManzanita Field, from Roble Field to the

west campus tennis courts, Mahlow said.Traditional sports are a big component

of the camp. Counselors teach a variety of sports, including baseball, basketball, vol-leyball, soccer, tennis, track and field,wrestling and gymnastics. On top of this,they also squeezes in rock climbing, slip-n-slide and, of course, Doctor and Spy, aunique variant of dodge ball that is thecamps most popular activity.

Counselors are the key to the the campssuccess, organizers say.

Pretty much, our main job is to playwith the kids, making sure they are havingfun and staying safe, said Emily Brown, asecond-year counselor and local highschool student. Its awesome to be able tohang out and play summer games as part of your job.

We do a little skill training, but mostly,we just let them have fun, said Alyssa

Brown 12, a counselor and Stanfordnast. If they want to learn more, theyto us.

Dan Hernandez, head counselorcounseling is a sought-after job. Habout half of this years 23 counselStanford athletes.

Its very difficult to become a couhere, said Emily. Its a summer joeveryone wants, and being a Stcamp, we have the opportunity to hibest of the best.

But it pays off, said Alyssa.Its a great way for us Stanford a

to give back during the summer. Agreat for the kids too, Alyssa said. been athletic my whole life, and its show them what I can do.

Contact Danny Rubin at drub stanford.edu.

AUDREY WU/The StStanfords All-Sports Camps provide local children with an opportunity for low-key, healthy fun and exposure to various activities. Isession earlier this week, a group of campers, above, play a game of Medic, a fusion of dodgeball and freezetag that rewards agility

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By NICOLA PARKDAILY INTERN

Hanging from the high ceiling, the chandelierscast a dim light onto the packed Memorial

Church Friday evening. As I climbed to theupper levels of the church, white program in myhand, my attention was drawn to the illuminat-

ed stage, where the black-clad Stanford Summer Chorus andJunge Kammerphilharmonie Freiburg, a semi-professionalorchestra from Freiburg, Germany, stood poised.

The air was expectant.But then with a flick of conductor Andreas Winnens

hand, a soft minor note rang through the church. Slowly itswelled and transitioned into an ethereal melody as the voic-es broke off from each other, creating a perfect harmony.

The Stanford Summer Chorus, directed by Amy StuartHunn B.A. 95 M.A. 00, and the JungeKammerphilharmonie Freiburg, collaborated this summer toproduce two performances: Giuseppe Verdis Messa da

Requiem on Friday, Aug. 6 and Beethovens masterpiece,Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, Choral on Saturday,Aug. 7.

I attended the ensembles rendering of VerdisRequiem, which was dedicated to loved ones lost in 2010,according to the performance program. Although Latin and I

met and parted in my sixth grade language class, Ive alwaysthought of the language as beautiful and noble. Hearing thewords from the chorus was soothing, as they floated gentlyaway from the singers vocal cords, each syllable carefullypronounced.

After the first song ended, I was scribbling on my notepadwhen the next song started with a BANG! and I nearly jumped in my seat. Throughout the next movement I couldfeel the drum vibrations reach my bench, even on the churchssecond level. The performance ebbed and flowed betweenloud, powerful and dynamic measures to gentle, fragile andgraceful ones, for a delightful variety. The seventh and lastmovement, Libera Me closed the performance solemnlyand gracefully.

I especially admired the quartet at the forefront: the

sonorous bass Adam Lau, the dynamic tenor J. RayMeyers, the sweet vibrato of alto Lisa Van der Ploeg anhigh-reaching yet graceful soprano Mary Linduska.

Their performance earned a deserved standing ovone that was nearly three minutes long.

First-time summer chorus member and high scho

dent Andjelija Janicijevic was impressed with the mance as well.It exceeded anything that I expected; it was powerf

I didnt expect [the church] to be so full, she said. incredible, I never experienced anything like it.

I take choir back home and I love choir and I singthe high school junior from Belgrade, Serbia. But she sSummer Chorus as a refreshing change from what shfamiliar with.

Our school choir songs are not very advanced, buwe sing some of the most amazing, the most beautiful, of all time, she said. The German orchestra was so amEven outside rehearsals I saw them everywhere. They

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FEATURES Meet the Stanford Summer Chorus

Summer shines in song

ANNA CAMPBELL/TheThe Stanford Summer Chorus, accompanied by German Junge Kammerphilharmonie Freiburg, entertained a packed Memorial Church on Friday evening with a performance of Verdis Messa da Requiem

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such a positive influence on cam-pus.

Many of the singers, like scientif-ic programmer at SLAC and altoJoanne Bogart, have been partici-pating in the choir for years.Bogarts first performance with thesummer chorus was about a decadeago, and she has participated in itfor the majority of the past decade,including this summer. She also hasbeen a member of the year-roundStanford Symphonic Chorus forover 20 years.

Singing choral music is quite awonderful experience, she said.Theres the sense of communityand building something beautifultogether which you cant possibly doindependently. Everybodys impor-tant.

The participants in the chorus areStanford faculty, staff and students,of varying ages and singing abilities.The chorus is non-auditioned andsponsored by Stanfords musicdepartment.

This non-auditioned aspect of the chorus appealed to CarolCharlton, a Stanford Hospital LifeScience research assistant.

I had never even heard theVerdi before, although Ive heardBeethoven, she said. It seems likea tremendous amount to learn ineight weeks. Were a lot of peopleand 50 percent of the people knewabout the pieces before. It was a lotof work, but at the end of the day,when I started to learn the songs, itbecame more fun.

The members praised Hunn andWinnen, the two directors.

Amy [Hunn] was sweet andamazing and she considered all agegroups, Janicijevic said. Therewere people who were younger andpeople who were decades older, soshe knew that some people are notas advanced as others.

[Winnen is] a very fine conduc-tor and was a joy to follow, Bogartadded.

The chorus met weekly through-out the summer, with rehearsals twoand a half hours long, turning todaily practices as the performancedates approached.

When we first started rehears-ing, it was a bit rocky. It was a lot of music to learn in a short time,Bogart said. By the time we got tothe dress rehearsals I knew thatthese were going to be very fine per-formances.

For Bogart, the rehearsals were arefreshing change from her day-to-day life.

Its the kind of experience dif-ferent than what I do in my workinglife, so it creates a nice balance, shesaid.

The choir became more than justa hobby for Charlton.

I didnt feel confident a weekbefore the performance, then I satdown and practiced for half a day,she recounted. It really startedcoming then by the time I diddecide to perform it, it just becamereally part of me. Im still singingthose songs.

And for the young Janicijevic,the Stanford Summer Chorus maybe more of a draw than theUniversitys famed academics.

I told [Hunn] that if I come backnext summer, itll only be because of the choir, Janicijevic said.

Contact Nicola Park at npark917@ yahoo.com.

CHORUSContinued from page 8

By DANIEL RUBINDAILY INTERN

Aseries of color swatchesare laid in front of you each swatch a differ-ent color. A researcherasks you which one is

red, and you pick the one youbelieve is red. You then repeat thename game for every color present.

This was the initial test adminis-tered by psychology Prof. MichaelRamscar and his staff to 34 subjectsin his study on how children learncolor words. Sounds easy, right? Notquite. While the test would havebeen easy for anyone with even abasic knowledge of color, the vastmajority of the kids failed.

Is my child colorblind? worried

the concerned parents.Not necessarily, said Ramscar.He attributed the high percentage of failures to the quirkiness of theEnglish language, not the subjectspersonal ability to distinguish colors.His hypothesis, published lastmonth in Scientific American, wasthat English-speaking children donot learn color words as well as chil-dren who speak other languagesbecause in English, color identifiersare said before the noun.

Ramscars hypothesis was basedupon a unique view on how lan-guage works.

Basically, youre predictingwhat Im going to say as Im speak-ing, he said. In the gap betweenwhat youre expecting and what Imactually saying, you are predicting

the probability of what Im going tosay based on signals I give you.

But why does this make learningcolors so difficult? According toresearch assistant Melody Dye 07,children still learning colors in anylanguage may have difficulty isolat-ing which hue is being indicated byspecific color words.

In most languages, this is not asprominent a problem because nounsare generally said first. For example,in Spanish, if you wanted to refer toa blue chair, you would say la sillaazul. When directly translating toEnglish, silla means chair, whileazul means blue. The color comesafter the noun, meaning that a childlearning colors will fix his attentionon the noun and will thus be able tosee how the color word describes thehue of the object.

Unfortunately for English speak-ers, English is relatively unique inthe fact that the noun is said after the adjective.

There is a 70-30 probability thatwe would say the red ball ratherthan something like the ball thatsred, Dye said. [The more com-mon phrasing] is really informativeif you know colors, but if you dontknow what red is, then you get nosignal from the word.

This phenomenon is also why it isdifficult for a child to learn quantityand size words, Ramscar said.However, Ramscar explained thatthose three types of adjectives color, quantity and size are theonly ones where this problemoccurs.

Kids have no problem learning

most adjectives, such as webroken, he said. If you lstatistics, we are more likelythe chair is broken or the wet. You wouldnt say the bchair until you have both lished that the chair is broken

Ramscar tested his theory bing all the children from the orcolor test a crash course intraining. For one group, the trawas done as conventional Edictates: the yellow house. Fother group, the noun went bthe adjective: the house thatlow. After this, the children aistered the swatch test againresults matched the hypothesfirst group barely improved, the second group improved scantly.

The findings point toward

tial alternatives to early laneducation.One reaction we often go

parents is How should we trakids? Should we put them in mers [cram school]? Rasaid.

But it isnt really about thadded. To train more effic just think about how you kids. You could say the redbut you will get much better if you say the ball thats red.

For many children, this vocabulary switch could medifference between passing aning a test crucial to diagnosingblindness.

Contact Daniel Rubin at drub stanford.edu.

Tracing the nuances of learning vocabulary

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MUSIC PREVIEW

OUTSIDE LANDPREVIEW 2010

A rmed with a concentrated line-up of modern rock heroes and70s throwbacks, Outside Lands

Music and Arts Festival is looking to survive

its gawky adolescent stage this weekend. AsGrateful Dead devotees and cardigan-wear-ing teenagers spill out of the BART, thescaled-down festival, entering its third year inSan Franciscos Golden Gate Park, will stillbe figuring out its niche in the otherwise well-established Bay Area music scene. Think of this Saturday and Sunday as the fests soul-searching period: all the bands and elements

of success are there, but whether theafter this weekend is another story.

How eco-friendly Outside Landsthe summer concert calendar is a progress. If Indios Coachella is a suattention hog and the maturing TIsland is a soggy but lovable eccenOutside Lands 2010, held in the urban wilderness, is the newly-mintsandwiched in between. Its the typeval that bills its headliners, wine mbike parking at the same height.

Surprisingly, up until 2007, musiFrancisco was still without a music f

F or a culture normally defined bybright lights, uninhibited danc-ing, infectious music and instant

personal connections, this past summer hasbeen relatively tumultuous and macabre forthe rave scene across the globe. OverMemorial Day weekend at ETD POP, therave held at the local Cow Palace, three con-certgoers died from apparent ecstasy over-doses, while a month later at the much larg-er Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles,an underage girl also died from too much of the popular rave drug. This caused city andstate officials to begin to rethink andrestructure everything from security to loca-tion at future electronic concerts. However,both tragic incidents are minimal in compar-ison to the disasterat Germanys LoveParade, where thedeath toll has risento 21 after poorplanning led to afatal stampede inthe festivals onlytunnel entrance.

While not billedas a rave andattracting anarguably differentcrowd, this pastweekends HardSummer festival indowntown LosAngeles was placedunder a lot of scruti-ny as the biggestL.A. dance festivalsince the widely publicized death at EDC.Effective security was of the utmost impor-tance, and it became increasingly hard toignore the fact that last years Hard Summerwas shut down after riots ensued. However,this years festival, featuring major danceand electro acts like Erol Alkan, MajorLazer and Crystal Castles, seemingly wentoff without a hitch, not only because of theminimal arrests and speedy, yet thorough,security line, but because of the consistentlyincredible musical performances and the

collective great time had by the 10,000 peo-ple attending.When Intermission arrived at the Los

Angeles State Historical Park in the after-noon, we immediately headed to the HardStage, while many opted for the other stage,appropriately named Harder those witha palette for dubstep and heavy electro gottheir fix at the smaller and more intenseoption. The first act that we caught wasTheophilus London, an urban pop artiststraight out of Brooklyn. Accompanied byfamed producer Skeet Skeet, Theophiluscharmed his way into our hearts with slick

dance moves, even slicker hip hop and acharisma perfect for warming up the crowd.The day really started to pick up when hecalled for all of the ladies out in the audi-ence and announced, Its time to make thisa rave! while Skeet Skeet mixed dancebeats into Whitney Houstons I WillAlways Love You.

From then on out, the crowd was dancinginto the night. Sets from Breakbot and TheTwelves heavily favored disco elements, andaside from a minor technical glitch at thebeginning of Breakbots set, all three DJsproved to be up-and-coming talents withinfectious sounds. Smoothly transitioningfrom the Twelves set of disco and hit poptunes was seasoned DJ Green Velvet.Dressed in a casual all-white suit, wearingperhaps the biggest grim of anybody attend-ing, Green Velvet dropped My House, theRhythm Controll classic that proclaims,

p r e a c h e r - s t y l e ,And in my house,there is only housemusic to wildcheers. He contin-ued to spin electron-ic and house musicthat kept the crowdnot just dancing, butsmiling.

As the sun beganto set on the amaz-

ing talent that isErol Alkan whotook the stage afterGreen Velvet Thomas Pentz, bet-ter known as Diplo,took the stage foran even largeraudience. Aftergaining consider-

able popularity by producing many of M.I.A.s best songs (not to mention datingher), as well as working with many othermajor artists, Diplo is enjoying the peak of his career and his set at Hard Summerdid not disappoint. After an hour of dancingto his electro house set, the audience eager-ly awaited his return as half of the wildlypopular Major Lazer. Once back on stagewith Switch and the rest of the gang forMajor Lazer, Intermission was glad to seethat this outrageous show lived up to thehigh bar previously set at this yearsCoachella.

Headliners Crystal Castles opened witheerie chords from Ethan Kath on the syn-thesizer, surrounded by swirls of fog andhazy lasers. Frontwoman Alice Glassappeared on the drum set, swaying andsinging in a seemingly drug-induced trance.With music sounding like a perfect mix of hypnotic tones, thumping drums, videogame synths and screeching vocals, the live

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Hard Summer madehaving a great time easy

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BRIAN PESIN/The Stanford DailyThe Hard Summer festival in downtown Los

Angeles came after a summer marked by tragicdeaths at three events: ETD Pop, the Electric DaisyCarnival, and Germanys Love Parade.

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call its own. Noise Pop and AnotherPlanet Entertainment whettedappetites with the creation of Treasure Island Music Festival inSeptember of 2007, but floating off the Bay Bridge, TIMF never man-aged to inspire any homegrown pride.As beloved as TIMF has become, ithasnt been the defining music eventfor the City by the Bay.

Cut to the other side of thePeninsula in August 2008. AnotherPlanet Entertainment struck again,dropping big-name acts such asRadiohead, Ben Harper and JackJohnson into the iconic park for thefirst Outside Lands, which drew inaround 100,000 music and naturelovers. Though the event garnered asmaller attendance in its sophomoreyear, its sturdy lineup of Pearl Jamand Dave Matthews Band assuredOutside Lands of its annual status.

For 2010, the festival has movedpast survival to self-reflection andimprovement. Unable to lock in ananchor act for Friday, organizersshaved off the third day early on, con-

densing the music and arts fest intoSaturday and Sunday. The ahoughthe identity of this years OutsideLands seems to be split between scen-ester indulgence and hippie-chic.

On Saturday, ennui-effusing indie-rock vets The Strokes are juxtaposedagainst Grateful Dead successorFurthur, featuring original Deadmembers Phil Lesh and Bob Weir.Itll be an interesting mix of jaded andfree spirits expect to see hippiesbare feet sharing turf with trendily-aged European leather shoes a fit-ting combination for a city famous forboth its Summer of Love roots and itsWhole Foods-consuming yuppies.

Nevertheless, the central attrac-

tion of the festival, the music, promis-es to deliver on the sonic end. Furthur

has the advantage of an excited, if abit aged, hometown audience. Andwith a will-they-wont-they fourthalbum in the works, the Strokes stillenjoy superstar status, even afterspawning multiple (and questionable)side projects in their three-year hia-tus. Louisville rock natives MyMorning Jacket, currently betweenalbums, and now-sober belter ChanMarshall of Cat Power round out therest of Saturdays lineup.

They are followed up by Kings of Leon on Sunday, who are looking tofinally escape all those pigeon refer-ences (unlikely, considered the arbo-real nature of the park). The rockoutfit may have broken into the main-

stream, but fans of both early Youthand Young Manhood and commer-

cial Only by the Night will roll outfor their headlining performance.Festival mainstays Phoenix, Social

Distortion and Edward Sharpe & theMagnetic Zeros ensure that thisyears sound system will go out with abang. A smattering of newcomerssuch as Freelance Whales, TheTemper Trap and the Soft Pack havealso been thrown in to satisfy theBays indie tastes.

Equally committed to the arts endof Outside Lands, organizers this yearhave placed almost as much market-ing weight on the wine and foodofferings as the festival soundtrack.Attendees will have their pick of 33restaurants and 26 vineyards to get a

sampling taste of the Bay AreaThe vision for Outside Land

may be the experience of slocal merlot out of a compwine glass on Speedway Mwith Phoenix strumming in theground. And theres nothing with that.

Tickets, which are affordathis age of jacked up ticket monoare still available. Proceeds goSan Francisco Recreation andDepartment, which will have theclearing out all those reusable and . . . once everyone clearsGolden Gate Park on Sunday nig

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show is every bit as confusing,haunting and captivating as theirrecorded work. With Ethanhunched over his equipment in theback of the stage, a hoodie thrownalmost completely over his head, wewere enraptured with Alice, throw-ing herself into the crowd fromevery side, moaning and screechingwith seemingly no direction as thesecurity guards made sure that shemade it out from the crowd surfingsomewhat safely. Their set seemedto go by in the blink of an eye, leav-ing the crowd with not just goose-bumps and awe, but also the senti-ment of what in the hell just hap-pened?

Closing out the night wasBelgian electro-rock band Soulwax.Dressed in their standard blueleisure suits, the four-person bandtook the stage with little to no fan-fare, playing many new tracks thatleft audience dancing with theirmouths wide open, in shock that arock group could be so intense andnon-stop at such a high energy.

When the clock struck midnight, theset was abruptly over, and the musicstopped for good. Concertgoerstrickled out of the park, disappoint-ed at the nights end, but thrilledwith memories of the events prior.Despite all of the danger, death andsadness of this summers rave scene,Hard managed to pull together notonly a safe and well-run event, butone with music that remindedeverybody why dance festivals areso amazing in the first place.

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areas or states, a relatively small yetsubstantial segment of the studentbody. While they dont have a dedi-cated community center and arentgreeted as a group during New Stu-dent Orientation, the challenges theycan face at Stanford are often similar.

Jon Christensen 81, the executivedirector of the Bill Lane Center forthe American West, said studentsfrom rural areas have to navigate in-grained attitudes or prejudices to-ward their background.

Theres a part of the whole mod-ern project and the Western intellec-tual tradition, that in some ways posi-tions itself toward urban life andaway from rural experience, Chris-tensen said.

There are students who comefrom rural America who feel thatthey still study under that burden,and that their experience is not asvalid and that it is not recognized, headded.

Bea Gordon 10, who majored inEnglish and environmental history

and grew up on a cattle ranch inWyoming, also said relating to herclassmates could be a challenge.

You cant really talk about dri-ving a truck when you were sevenwhen youre with a bunch of people,she said.

But both Gordon and Christensensaid the classroom could provide ameans for students to feel more com-fortable, and that through academicstudy rural students could connecttheir experience with higher educa-tion to their life before Stanford.

For me that was really nice, be-cause I got to learn more about myhome, Gordon said.

She emphasized that to view ruralstudents as one group would be to

oversimplify their experience aproblem that Christensen points to asan additional challenge in reachingout to students with diverse back-grounds.

Everyone has a different ruralbackground, Gordon said. Im notreally going to be sympathetic withsomeone who grew up on a corn farmin Nebraska.

Christensen, who attended Stan-ford in the late 1970s, was upbeat inhis assessment of the culture of inclu-sion on campus.

I think there is more room for en-couraging and understanding and re-specting rural experience, he said.There is still some of that bias, but Ithink there is more understandingnow, and that students feel morecomfortable and confident withbringing that experience here toStanford.

In assessing diversity at Stanford,one thing is clear: the picture ismurky, and in upcoming years itwont become any more easier forStanford to match its practices to itsstated commitments.

The world is becoming more di-verse, as we know, as well as the real-ization that there are students withmultiple identities, Dickson said.

But the role of diversity in provid-ing a crucial aspect of education atStanford seems to be an area of broadagreement so long as the Univer-sity can allow a shared place at thetable for what Christensen calls thericher conversation provided bysomeone with a distinct background.

Its about making space for thatkind of experience, Christensensaid.

Contact Eric Messinger at messinger@ stanford.edu.

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