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subdomainBy ELIZABETH TITUS

EDITOR IN CHIEF

In its effort to influence the cam-pus ROTC debate, Stanford SaysNo to War faced a minor setbacklast week when the University re-voked the groups use of the do-main http://rotc.stanford.edu.

Stanford granted the group thesubdomain earlier this month, andthe group had used it to redirect vis-

itors to its site describing its opposi-tion to ROTC. But allowing it wasan inadvertent mistake, said Uni-versity spokeswoman Lisa Lapin,because the groups use violatedStanfords computing policy.

The specific issue was that thesubdomain did not match the sitescontent and could mislead visitorsto believe it was the official site ofStanfords ROTC program, Lapinsaid. (No such program exists,though some Stanford students par-ticipate at other schools.)

Theyve already been given, ba-s ica l ly, real es ta te in thestanford.edu domain, said Lapin,referring to the groups existingwebsite, http://antiwar.stanford.edu.Theyre just being told it cantbe called ROTC . . . its not an accu-

rate representation.Sam Windley LL.M. 11, presi-

dent of Stanford Says No to War,said the group did not dispute thepolicy but criticized InformationTechnology Services (ITS) for re-voking their ROTC subdomain onJan. 11 before notifying the groupand for not immediately providing apolicy explanation.

Windley asked ITS to reinstatehis groups use of the ROTC ad-dress while his group and the Uni-versity discussed policy,but Univer-sity Communications declined.Meanwhile, the group has been al-lowed to keep its older address,where its anti-ROTC content is nowlocated. And it is awaiting a re-sponse from Stanford aboutwhether it may use a new address,http://norotc.stanford.edu.

Lapin, who heads the communi-cations office,said Stanford used toallocate subdomains on a first-come, first-serve basis. About ayear ago, facing increased andsometimes conflicting demands,the University drafted a new policythat attempts to define appropri-ateuses.

Now, the policy seeks to protectthe Universitys name,avoid confu-sion and reserve domain names sothat the appropriate program [or]organization . . . can have thatname, Lapin said. The policy al-lows Stanford to revoke any subdo-main it grants and allows owners toappeal to the University webmas-ter,Scott Stocker, within 14 days.

Windley appealed last week andStocker referred him to Lapin, whodiscussed the issue with the groupsleader. She said the group could

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Judicial Affairs cases increase

By ELLEN HUETMANAGING EDITOR

Judicial Affairs saw an increase in total caseslast year, registering 167 cases in the 2009-2010academic year compared to 123 cases in the2008-2009 academic year, according to recentlyreleased statistics.

The Office of Judicial Affairs introduced anearly resolution option (ERO) last academicyear that gives students charged with Honor

Code violations the chance to admit responsibil-ity and accept a sanction without having to go toa hearing,as long as the faculty complainant alsoagrees to the option.

The ERO has been welcomed by studentsand faculty,and our data from our assessmentshave been positive,said Judicial Affairs assistantdean Rick Yuen in an e-mail to The Daily.Of the102 Honor Code cases that went to hearing in2009-2010, 43 were resolved through the earlyoption.

The reporting parties for most Judicial Affairscases are academic departments, and most de-partments report fewer than five cases a year.In

By KABIR SAWHNEYMANAGING EDITOR

Juxtaposing intellectualism andpopular culture,actor Michael Emer-son discussed the philosophy behindthe hit TV show Loston Saturdayevening in Cubberley Auditorium.Philosophy professors Joshua Landyand R.Lanier Anderson interviewedEmerson on stage in a conversationthat spanned from the shows philo-sophical roots to the driving forcesbehind the shows characters and re-lationships.

The discussion was part of theFilm and Philosophy II lecture se-ries sponsored by the Division of Lit-eratures,Cultures and Languages.

Emersons character in Lost,Benjamin Linus, enters the series asan antagonist,but evolves into a heroby the shows end.

We tend to judge our perceivedenemies in a really flat way,he said.We make them two-dimensionalboogeymen. Its easy and some-how satisfying and comforting toperceive others that way. So it robsus of a little of our steam whentheyre humanized.

The discussion focused on someof the philosophical aspects ofLost, including the central themeof good and evil on the Island, theshows mystical main setting. Thepanelists explored the conflict be-tween the Christian ideal of goodtrumping evil and the Eastern philos-ophy of balance between the twoforces. Both have a strong presencein Lost.

I think sometimes those symbol-

ogies are local rather than general inthe telling of the story, Emersonsaid.

I think overall the writers are in-

NEWS

Burglaries,hot prowlconcern Housing,staffsBy KURT CHIRBAS

STAFF WRITER

Last weeks campus burglaries have prompted Stu-dent Housing to take new, preventative security meas-ures in Stanfords dorms and houses.

The Department of Public Safety (DPS) sent out e-mails and flyers to remind students to take extra safetyprecautions, and the Housing After-Hours ResponseTeam (HART) has heightened its nightly patrols of stu-dent housing and dining areas to check for unclosedperimeter doors.The patrols are now at a level normallyreserved for winter break when students are away, saidRodger Whitney,executive director of Student Housing.

The Row housing office is taking note of which hous-es are going on ski trip in the upcoming weekends andwill be increasing security around those houses at thattime.It will also be holding a security meeting with the

Row residence assistants (RAs).

Break-in at Theta

Over winter break, the residents of Kappa AlphaTheta received an e-mail from Student Housing: therehad been a break-in at the Theta house.

When the residents returned to campus after break,they assessed what had been stolen.Ryan Rogers 11,anRA, said they were surprised to find out that only twoitems were taken:a TV and an iHome.

It was kind of bizarre because there is evidence thatthe burglars did get into a quite a few of the other roomsby doors being pried open, Rogers said,but there wasnothing else taken.

The Theta house contains around 30 rooms. Morethan half of these rooms had crowbar marks on their

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Saturdays loss to Washington State provided a pair of firsts for Jack Trotter, above, and the Stanford mensbasketball team. It was the Cards first home loss and first Pac-10 conference loss of the season. The Cardi-nal squandered an early lead and fell to the visiting Cougars, 61-58. Please see page 6 for full story.

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Bob, the Mayfield Row house above, is one of three campus residences thatexperienced intruders last week. While most of the houses residents wereaway on ski trip, four unlocked rooms were burglarized.

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doors. Rogers said some of thesemarks are deep enough to suggestthat the burglars were able to enterthese rooms.

It was kind of unclear why theywould go through all that effort andput all those crowbar marks on the

doors if they werent really going tosteal anything,Rogers said.

In response to the break-in,a newlock has been installed on the outsidedoor to Theta, which had previouslybeen left opened.

Burglary at BobSam Svoboda 11, an RA at the

Mayfield Avenue residence Bob,wassleeping last Friday night when heheard his phone ring. On the otherline was a fellow resident who had

just come up from the lounge to hissecond-floor room and discoveredthat his laptop was missing,said Svo-boda,who is also a Daily writer.

Later, they discovered a total offour rooms in Bob,all unlocked, hadbeen broken into. The current list ofitems that were stolen includes threeMacBooks, an iPod,an iPod Touch,acamera and money from three of thefour rooms.

Most of the residents werentthere that night.Normally,Bob hous-es 58 students, but Svoboda saidabout 10 stayed back from the ski tripthat weekend.

If we had had a full house here,Ithink the chances wouldve dramati-cally increased that someonewouldve seen something,he said.

At first, Svoboda said theythought that someone had let theburglars in.

But Housing discovered that sidedoor was defective and stayed slight-ly ajar unless pulled closed.This en-trance wouldve allowed the suspectsto get into the house without a key

and without passing through thelounge, where most of the residentswere that night.The door was fixedthe day after the burglary, Svobodasaid.

Hot Prowl at Grove MayfieldBob Clark 11, an RA at Grove

Mayfield,was on the houses ski triplast weekend when he saw the textmessage from the SU Alert system.Itsaid a hot prowlhad occurred at hisresidence.

A lot of people didnt know whatthat mean,Clark said,so we actual-ly looked it up on Wikipedia.

A hot prowl is a burglary attemptwhen the suspect breaks into a resi-dence with the occupants still inside,which is what happened to a residentof Grove last Saturday night when

three unidentified men allegedly

opened her unlocked door.She wokeup and screamed as the suspects fledin an unidentified direction.No theftswere reported.

I think theres a tendency todownplay this because nothing badended up happening, Clark said,We are fortunate that nothing wastaken,but its pretty scary that threeunknown individuals walked in onone of our residents sleeping.

It was later discovered that theresidence had two defective doors

one in the kitchen and one in the din-ing area. Clark guessed that the sus-pects entered through the door in thekitchen and came up the stairs.

Both doors were fixed the nextday before the residents returnedfrom the ski trip.

Clark said he is unsure whetherthe suspects were students or non-students.

Theres been a lot of debate backand forth about it, Clark said. Onone hand, we initially thought thatthey might be students because itseemed like if they were the same in-dividuals who were at Bob,then theywere targeting houses that were onski trip, which would require knowl-edge of what houses were going.

But it may be more likely thatthey are from off campus some-where, Clark added. Perhaps theywere just looking for houses thatwere mostly dark.

Whats Next?According to Larson,the number

of burglaries has remained consistentover the years.

During the 2008-2009 school year,from the beginning of the 2008 au-tumn quarter to the end of the 2009summer quarter, 67 burglaries oc-curred. There were 59 during the2009-2010 school year and, so far,15this year.

Burglaries occur throughout theyear, Larson wrote in an e-mail toThe Daily.Burglary is often a crimeof opportunity such as when doorsare propped open or suspicious per-

sons are not immediately reported.Larson said that few arrests havebeen made for burglaries over thepast few years,but was unable to sayhow many.

Larson said DPS, Student Hous-ing and Residential Education willcontinue to work together to remindstudents to lock all doors and win-dows,and to report suspicious or un-familiar persons to Housing staff orPublic Safety.

We have a very safe campus ingeneral, Clark said, but someonecan take advantage of our comfortand our trust that it is a safe campus.Ithink this is a little bit of a wake-upcall and tell us that we need to beproactive.

Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas@

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apply for other domains and invitedWindley to provide feedback on theprocess.

Lapin said the draft policy re-mains neutral toward the websitesactual content.

It has nothing to do with what

that group is about or what con-tent they might put on the page,she said. They already have astanford.edu domain, so they arenot being censored in any way.This is not any kind of infringe-ment on their rights to freespeech.

Stanford has taken similar ac-tion before, Lapin said, citingblog and istanford as two ex-amples of subdomains the Univer-sity took from other owners whenit decided it had more appropriateuses for them.The first now servesas a directory of Stanford-relatedblogs; the latter features Stan-fords mobile applications but for-merly hosted a project by gradu-ate students in journalism, shesaid.

Stanford Says No to Warsmembers have been outspokenopponents of ROTCs possible re-turn to campus, which a FacultySenate ad hoc committee beganinvestigating in March. The pro-gram was ended on campus in theearly 1970s.

Contact Elizabeth Titus at [email protected].

Undergraduate

applications rise

7 percent

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFFAbout 34,200 students applied

for undergraduate admission toStanford this year, showing an in-crease of 7 percent from last years32,022 applications.

Bob Patterson, director of un-dergraduate admission, said theincrease in applications was notunexpected, noting the role thatsharing student and faculty storieswith prospective applicants hasplayed in generating interest inthe University.

We took an approach of sharing

student stories and faculty stories,Patterson said.I think those storiesresonated with a lot of prospectivestudents.

Stanford admitted 754 applicantsin December under the Universitysearly-action program. The pool of5,929 early applicants was also thelargest in the Universitys history.

Last year, Harvard received30,489 applications, Yale received25,869 and Princeton received26,247.

Students who applied under theregular-decision program will re-ceive their admission decisions bythe end of March.

Joshua Falk

Mountain lion

tracks spotted on

west campus

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

A University utilities employeespotted what are apparently moun-tain lion tracks over the weekendnear the Stanford Driving Range.

Fresh tracks were spotted on trailsleading to Lake Lagunita from thecampus side of Junipero Serra, ac-cording to University spokeswomanLisa Lapin.

The University urged membersof the campus community to be alertwhen using trails in the early morn-ing or early evening,as the foothillsnear campus are a known mountainlion habitat.

Signs have been posted in areaswhere fresh tracks have been report-ed, according to Lapin. No actualmountain-lion spottings have beenreported.

Any sightings should be reportedto the Department of Public Safety.

Joshua Falk

Former Stanford

track star dies in

L.A.car crash


Julie Allen 05 died along withtwo other people Saturday in a 10-car pileup on the Pacific Coast High-way in Newport Beach.

Allen, who was a three-time Pac-10 All-Academic selection for Stan-fords track & field and cross coun-try teams in the early 2000s,was driv-ing at a speed of close to 90 miles perhour when she lost control of her ve-hicle and veered into oncoming traf-fic, according to a preliminary acci-dent report.

Before coming to Stanford,Allenwas a state champion at Corona delMar High School.At Stanford,Allenstudied English and helped the Car-

dinal win the 2004 Pac-10 crosscountry team championship.

Also killed in the wreck wereChristopher De La Cruz, 49, of La-guna Niguel and his mother, LindaBurnett,69,of Santa Ana, accordingto a Los Angeles Times report.

Daniel Bohm

Mexican president

to speak at 2011

Commencement


Mexican President Felipe

Calderon will be the 2011 Com-mencement speaker,the senior classpresidents announced Friday.

This years Commencementweekend will also feature a ClassDay lecture delivered by Rob ReichM.A. Ph.D. 98, associate professorof political science, and a baccalau-reate address by Rev. Gail E. Bow-man, chaplain at Dillard Universityin New Orleans.

Calderon,who was elected to theMexican presidency in 2006, is amember of the National ActionParty (PAN). He previously servedas secretary of energy under Presi-dent Vicente Fox.

The senior class presidents nomi-nated Calderon as the Commence-ment speaker to highlight the im-

portance of leadership in interna-tional cooperation and social jus-tice, they said in their announce-ment.

President Calderon assumed of-fice at one of the most challengingtimes in the history of his nation,andis a respected foreign leader who hasbeen involved in public service andadvocacy for his entire life, saidUniversity President John Hennessyin a statement.

The 120th Commencementweekend is set for June 10-12.

Joshua Falk

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2009-2010, a notable exception wascomputer science,with 29 cases.Park-ing and Transportation Services(P&TS) also reported 32 cases.

P&TS, a new category in thisyears report, encompasses com-plaints of forging residential parkingpermits and stealing or altering park-ing permits from others, Yuen said.The complaints in this category mayhave been included in other cate-gories in previous years, such as theUniversity staffcategory.

Of this years 102 Honor Codecases, which mostly include plagia-rism,unpermitted aid and insufficientcitation, students were found respon-sible in 68 cases and not responsible infive cases;23 cases did not result in ahearing.Of the 63 Fundamental Stan-

dard cases, which include drivingunder the influence and computermisuse,students were found responsi-ble in 18 cases and not responsible inone case;44 cases did not result in ahearing.

Yuen said that changes in num-bers between years may not always beindicative of a trend.

In a particular year,we may expe-rience a spike or higher number ofcases in one department,and this maybe due to the type of case[,] possiblyinvolving larger numbers of studentsin a class or more students over sever-al classes that year in the depart-ment,he said.

Yuen added that the computer sci-ence chair and faculty have been put-ting forth efforts to promote theHonor Code in their classes, whichtraditionally see high rates of viola-tions.

Contact Ellen Huet at [email protected].

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terested in a pan-religious message,he continued.Theyre interested inintegration. I think theyre attractedto the idea that a lot of religious sys-

tems pose a cosmogony of opposites,and we see it played out time aftertime in the drama of the series.

Emerson often circled back to thewriters of Lost, giving a rareglimpse into the thought process ofthe shows creative minds.

The writers are mowing throughmaterial intellectually, he said.Theyll use whatever they can layhands on, and enjoy doing it andenjoy mixing it up for the audiencesdelectation.

Landy and Anderson focused onthe importance of the Lostcharac-ters backgrounds and the way inwhich events and relationships ineach characters past play a large rolein his or her actions and personalitiesthroughout the series. Emersontouched on the theme of the past andits impact on character Ben Linus.

Their history humanizes each ofthem for us, and draws us into thestory of their development or trans-formation,he said. I think that in-terests people everywhere thisidea that regardless of our past, weare perfectible or changeable.We areas good as the present test, andeveryone on Lost fares better and

better with the present testing.Some of that narrative,however,

does not apply to Linus. Whereassome characters pasts determinethe tests they have to endure tochange, Linus past has a more per-manent effect on his character.

Part of him was frozen at thetime of his life-saving baptism, hesaid. Your maturity is often frozen

at the age of your great success.The panelists dissected the series

final scenes at length. The finalepisode ends with Ben separatedfrom the rest of shows characters,sitting alone on a bench.

Ben doesnt have a partner, heexplained.My interpretation of theending was that people got to enterthe hereafter once they had beenmatched up with their mirror re-deemer or their soul counterpart,theone in whose eyes they could findforgiveness . . . I thought Ben stillneeds that.

Despite all his insights, Emersonsaid that the shows actors wereoften just as in the dark as its audi-ence about the meaning of Lost,particularly the meaning of some ofthe shows more obscure references.

When the interviewers toldEmerson that Dogen, one of thecharacters introduced late in the se-ries,was named for a type of Easternphilosophy, Emerson remarked,Thats great! We dont get footnoteswith the script.

Contact Kabir Sawhney at [email protected].

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By JENNY THAISTAFF WRITER

College enrollment in foreign languageclasses showed an aggregated gain of6.6 percent between 2006 and 2009,ac-cording to the Modern Language As-sociation (MLA) 2009 Enrollment

Survey.The trend is not surprising to some at Stan-

ford, where undergraduates are not just learningnew languages,but driving new trends.The recent MLA study shows that there has

been growth in all of the top 10 most studied lan-guages,said Russell Berman,professor of Germanstudies and comparative literature.I believe this isbecause students recognize the opportunities in theglobal economy.

Stanford had already placed tremendous valueon the importance of foreign-language learning,asexemplified in a mandatory, one-year foreign-lan-guage requirement for graduation, according toElizabeth Bernhardt, director of the LanguageCenter and professor of German studies.

A unique feature about Stanford is that the lan-guage program, which encompasses all the foreignlanguage departments, is the largest sector of theundergraduate program, despite our techie cul-ture,Bernhardt said.

While Stanford shares this rising enrollmenttrend with many other colleges, the popularity of

less traditional languages, such as Chinese and Ara-bic, makes Stanford distinct from its peers.

Our most enrolled language, of course,is Span-ish, Bernhardt said, then followed by Chinese,which doesnt happen at most universities.

French, Arabic, Japanese and Italian enroll-ments are tied behind Chinese a trend, Bern-hardt notes,that also separates Stanford from otheruniversities.

If you went east of the Mississippi, youd see adifferent pattern of enrollment, Bernhardt said.Youd see a growing enrollment in Chinese, butnot to the extent we have here.Youd also see larg-er enrollment in German and Russian.

The motivations of students enrolling in foreignlanguages are as varied as the languages them-selves. Although most students take at least oneyear of foreign language to complete the gradua-tion requirement, the reasons behind their drive tolearn a language are often multi-faceted.

I took a year of Arabic my freshman year,saidWill Monroe 13.I was also looking for a languageto fulfill the requirement. Arabic seemed useful asit was important in world affairs.I also wasnt inter-ested in testing out of the language requirement,which I could have done with Spanish.

Other students have found their first-year lan-guage experiences so satisfying that they choose tocontinue to take intermediate and advanced series,solely out of intellectual interest.

I find Russian interesting because its not a Ro-mance language, nor is it character-based likeJapanese or Chinese,said Rachel Fenichel 13,whois currently taking third-year Russian.Its also verychallenging grammatically.

Part of the enthusiasm students acquire whiletaking advanced courses comes from seeing lan-guage in its original context.

I like knowing theres so much literature outthere in Russian, Fenichel said. Ive read shortstories by great Russian authors.Its exciting to read

stuff that was not written specifically for class butfor the people to really read.Other students have found that their study-

abroad experiences escalated their interest in andappreciation for language.

To me, studying Italian isnt just learning thelanguage, said Michael Crayne 12,who studied inItaly.Its also about learning about the Italian cul-ture and history. Early on,and especially during mytime studying in Florence,I discovered how rich thehistory of Italy is and how fascinating of a culture itis,rooted deeply in the past yet also very modern.

While many students still choose to meet onlythe minimum language requirement, either by test-ing out or taking an introductory sequence, Bern-hardt is confident students will continue to find rea-sons to further their foreign-language study.

Stanford students understand and have a com-mitment to the Stanford tradition,Bernhardt said,which is to take the knowledge they have here andtake [it] out to use in the world,no matter what kindof knowledge or skills they may be.

Contact Jenny Thai at [email protected].

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By JAMES LANCASTER

Until recently, Internet usersconcerned with their privacycould do little to protect them-selves from third-party track-ing while surfing the Web. But

thanks to the work of two Stanford re-searchers, Jonathan Mayer and ArvindNarayanan, users can now opt out of track-ing that compiles information about their in-terests and preferences for online advertis-ers.

Behavioral advertising, which involvestracking online consumers browsing histo-ries,seeks to present ads that are targeted tothe interests of individual consumers.Mayer,a graduate student in law and computer sci-ence, says users are becoming increasinglyconcerned about the presence of behavioraladvertising.

These sites get information about usersby tracking the places they visit, he said.Users feel a real privacy concern.

Last August,Mayer and Narayanan,whois a post-doctoral researcher,set out to createsoftware that would allow users to indicatethey dont want to be tracked as they surf theWeb. Do Not Track, the product of theirwork, is already in use by thousands whohave installed Adblock Plus or NoScript,twofree, popular Firefox add-ons that use thesoftware.

The technology behind Do Not Track isfairly simple,Mayer says.The software worksby appending a custom header to HTTP re-quests sent by Web browsers.Each time theuser visits a site, this header indicates that theuser doesnt want to be tracked. Currently,however,compliance with header requests is

voluntary: websites are not required to re-spond to users requests.

For Mayer and Narayanan, this is thebiggest challenge for Do Not Track. Thoughthe software was noted in the Federal TradeCommissions report on Web privacy lastNovember,there is debate as to whether sitesshould be required to comply with the soft-wares requests.

Mayer says addressing these policy con-siderations is currently the duos main goal.

The technologys actually dead simple,he said.The challenges at this point are cer-tainly more on the policy side.

Online advertisers are the main oppo-nents of Do Not Track, he said, adding thatclaims of the softwares ability to destroy theonline advertising industry are unfounded,especially since behavioral advertising repre-sents a small portion of the online ad market.

Contextual, demographic and search-engine ads actually account for the vast ma-

jority of online ads, he said.The idea thatDo Not Track would wipe out the market isdifficult to believe.

Mayer added that advertisers could re-spect users privacy while still tailoring ads tothe specific interests and preferences of con-sumers. He said that interest-based advertis-ing without tracking could be achieved byhaving users initially indicate their intereststo their browser. The first time userslaunched Do Not Track, they could also se-lect their interests from a list provided by

their browser.We really think this is a great solution to

the problem,he said.Its definitely possibleto get analytics for advertising without third-party tracking.

Mayer maintained that Do Not Trackprovides a choice for both parties involved.Sites that dont wish to suspend third-partytracking,he said, could refuse the users re-quest,but only after informing the user.Con-sumers would thus be aware when sites weretracking them.

This is ultimately about choice and trans-parency,he said.It truly is a very practicaltechnology.

Mayer is optimistic about the outlook of

Do Not Track and plans to continue to ex-pose its feasibility.

Were really excited about what wevecreated,he said.Do Not Track has the abil-ity to make a meaningful impact in the pro-tection of online privacy.

Contact James Lancaster at [email protected].

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foreign language means more than

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This weekend, we took a holi-day to celebrate the life andtimes of Martin Luther King

Jr. As we all know, Dr. King gavemoving speeches and organizedmarches across the South,eventual-ly leading to civil rights victories thathave made America a better placefor all of us.Without a doubt,his lifeis one that warrants the reflection

and admiration that come with yourown holiday.

Though Arizona held out for thelongest, Dr. Kings birthday is nownationally recognized as a holiday.This raises the question of, even ifyou hated Martin Luther King,wouldnt you still want to give your-self the day off? Who doesnt wantto be able to spend more time withtheir racist families? In honor of Dr.King and the forthcoming Presi-dents Day, Labor Day and all theother days throughout the yearwhere our weeks are shortened,here are a few more days we couldall take off.

Senators DayTheres no doubt that the presi-

dent is the most important figure in

the American democracy. But still,why cant we get some time off tothink about the achievements ofStephen Douglas, Chris Dodd,Strom Thurmond and Henry TheGreat Compromiser Clay? Just be-cause nobodys heard of any ofthose people,and the ones they haveheard of are mostly famous fordoing terrible things?

Columbus DayThis ones a little trickier because

in some parts of America,ColumbusDay is still celebrated. However,much of the country has rescindedhis day on account of 1) he didnt re-ally discover America, even if werenot counting all the people whowere already living there and 2) hewas a big ol racist who was killingNative Americans left and right,which is not exactly the type of his-torical legacy we want to be cele-brating. On the other hand, he didsail the ocean blue.

Bring Your Daughter to Work DayDay

On Bring Your Daughter toWork Day Day, we spend our time

commemorating all of the meaning-ful activities and vocations learnedthat have taken place on variousBring Your Daughter to Work Days

So last Monday on the way backfrom class, I epically fell off mybike and hurt my right elbow.

A day after my accident, I went toVaden to get some x-rays done.Thedoctors thought that my elbowmight be fractured,but they wantedto refer me to an orthopedic doctorto make sure.I needed a referral toschedule an appointment. I calledthe doctor several times, asking toschedule an appointment. They

kept repeating, however, that theyhadnt received my referral yet.After some poking around andnudging on my part, the Vaden re-ferral people found my x-rayrecords under my birth name. I hadgiven the wrong name to them allalong. (I think I have two namerecords at Vaden, because this sortof thing happens all the time.Oy.)

After a lot of frustration,instead

of seeing the doctor when I neededto last week, I finally managed toget an appointment for this Thurs-day, unfortunately under my birth

name. At this point,I didnt care hell,they could call me Sally,as longas they did something about my stu-pid elbow. However, my parentsthought that Thursday was too lateand decided to take me to the emer-gency room instead. On the waythere, my dad mentioned what heshould call me, because under theinsurance policy, my name was stilllisted as my birth name.

I hadnt thought about that at all.Shit. Uh, just call me by my oldname, I said. Already I knew thatthis emergency room visit was goingto be interesting,to say the least.

What followed was a painfullyawkward ordeal.The nurse was call-ing me by female pronouns and mydad was calling me by male pro-nouns. I received a hospital braceletthat had on it my birth name and mybirth sex, which made me quite un-

comfortable and made me want torip it off the moment I had it stuckon my wrist.

What medications do youtake?the nurse asked me.

I hesitated telling him about myT injections. I found myself tellinghim anyway. Fifty milligrams oftestosterone every week, I said.

Ifocus significant energy on as-serting my status as an inde-pendent woman and living my

life in accordance to a DestinysChild song. But, every now andthen, conversations with a ladyfriend devolve into my complaintsabout what is becoming my perpet-ual state of single lady.I would con-sider myself relatively happy, butmaybe I am living my life in blissfulignorance, and my single statusmeans that my life is incomplete,and any happiness I might have at-tained at this point will pale in com-parison to finding my one true love.Well, Ive never liked waiting, so is

there anything I can do to expeditethis process? Am I somehow sabo-taging myself?

I went through a day to gatherevidence of this possible sabotage.

I wake up fairly inoffensively.Sure, my pajamas could be cuterthan mens sweatpants, and myroom could be neater, but Ill givethose a passing grade. My personalhygiene routine is standard,and as Ibrush my teeth,I mess with my hair,which I attempted to cut myself tosave $50.This,I decide,is the first of-fense. While I did passably inkindergarten cutting and pasting,my hair-cutting skills unfortunatelyleave something to be desired. Still,though,I would hope that the Stan-ford man could look behind some

slightly jagged bangs.My breakfast choice of cerealand not enough milk leave some-thing to be desired, but I was in arush,so Ill excuse it. I adorn myselfwith four or more knit items, all indifferent patterns,to prepare for mybike ride, which, upon further in-spection in the mirror,is my secondoffense. Shabby striped mittens, astained scarf and a hat with a pom-pom on top, as it turns out, are notparticularly becoming.

My morning passes in a haze ofGchat and clutching my coffee mug.Its not ideal, but Ill assume mydual addiction to chatting and caf-feine is fairly average. Noon rollsaround,and inspection of my walletreveals that a purchased lunch is outof my grasp.Luckily, the odds are in

my favor,and the Earth Systems of-fice offers a buffet of chips. Aftersampling all the flavors of Doritos, Irealize this is my third offense. Ishamefully wash the chip residueoff my hands.

I think I manage not to do any-thing horribly unbecoming duringafternoon class. Running into afriend on my way back, though, Istart shrieking about how excited Iam for Hackathon, primarily, wear-ing the same pair of sweatpants for24 hours. Oops in fact, not cute.

This is why Im single.I go home. Slightly weak with

hunger,I take stock of my refrigera-tor,wishing for the infinite time andinfinite ingredients of winter breakand my parents house. I improvisesome soup with the myriad of rootvegetables that remain. Its not very

good.I swirl in half a stick of butter.Better,but also, fifth offense.Before I manage to get any work

done, I read through possiblydozens of food blogs, my daily rou-tine. I casually scroll through nu-merous photos of broiled cheese,chuckling to myself, and Ive pow-ered through my sixth offense.Therest of my evening passes relativelyuneventfully. I make a token effortat doing my reading.I get distractedwith a truly inspiring frequency. Idecide to go to sleep (alone).

Lets make the admittedly shakyassumption that my speculation onthe male psyche is accurate. Im,upon reflection,not convinced thatIm ready to give up my sweatpants-wearing days of eating foods thatare only marginally socially accept-

able.If I revise the offensive parts ofmy day to be man-friendly, I worrythat Ill turn into a boring shadow ofmyself. Some girls are interestingbecause they have lovely talents orare witty, but alas, my personalitymay lie mostly in my penchant forcheese on carbohydrates andGchat.Oh well. I guess Id rather bemyself than be wed.

Know the Single Ladies dance?Jade would love to try and learn. E-mail her at [email protected].

ROTC as a civil rightsissue

Dear Editor,There is an unfortunate and em-

barrassing tendency in some cor-ners of American politics for theslogans of the civil rights movementto be employed in service of almostany political goal. This is usuallydone by those whostilldont reallyunderstand the legal and moralbasis of the movement,and their ra-tionale is that everyone thinksthose slogans stand for irrefutablemoral truths, so if we say that thoseslogans support our position, peo-ple will feel obliged to agree withus.

A truly surprising and disgustingexample of this sophistry was wit-nessed by all those who were pres-ent at the town hall meeting regard-ing ROTC last Tuesday. Incompre-hensibly, the terms separate butequal and busing were used aspart of an argument for ROTCs re-turn.It was also suggested that mili-tary-connected people are a mi-nority and that the Universityshould provide them with a safespace on campus. So as to avoidcasting aspersions on all studentswho argued in support of ROTC, Ishould point out that a number ofpro-ROTC students were shakingtheir heads in confusion and embar-rassment while these argumentswere being made.

The heart of the matter, if it even

needs clarification, is that joiningROTC is an occupational decision.Military connectednessis qualita-tively different to race, color, na-tional or ethnic origin, sex, age,dis-ability, religion, sexual orientation,[or] gender identity(quoting fromStanfords nondiscrimination poli-cy) in the same way that Googleconnectedness (i.e., being a for-mer, current, or future Google em-

ployee) is qualitatively different.The U.S. military is an employer.You may think it is the greatest em-ployer on the face of the earth oryou may think it is repugnant, butneither viewpoint is necessarily rel-evant to the question at hand:whether Stanford University, as aninstitution,should treat the U.S.mil-itary any differently from the way ittreats other employers.

In effect, what those supportingROTCs return are arguing for ispositive discrimination (in otherwords, affirmative action) on thebasis of undergraduate studentsoccupational decisions.When askedwhy all non-military employers lo-cated a similar distance from cam-pus should not also be providedwith on-campus facilities, the onlyway to defend ROTCs return is toargue that Stanford should differ-entiate between military serviceand other types of employment in away that defines military service asnecessarily superior.

The argument that Stanfordsundergraduate students currentlyhave convenient access to everypossible occupational opportunityother than the U.S.military, and thatROTC should be brought back tocampus in order to rectify this in-equality,has an obvious flaw:Stan-fords students do not have conven-ient access to anything close toevery occupational opportunity,and it would be impossible for theUniversity to make it so.As the ma-jority of the 1969 Ad Hoc Commit-

tee on ROTC recognized, Stanfordcannot be all things to all peopleand, as a result, the provision of fa-cilities in support of one group ofstudents occupational decisionswould constitute an institutionalpreference for that occupationabove all others.

SAM WINDLEY LL.M.11

President, Stanford Says No to War

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This Is Why Im Single

How to Get a Day Off

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JadeWang

I guess Id

rather be

myself than

be wed.

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Jordan

Carr

THE TRANSITIV E PROPERTY

I Dont Think Elbows Have a Gender . . .

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Columbus did sail

the ocean blue.

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A

s we pause to honor the lifeand dream of Dr. Martin

Luther King Jr., we need totake a hard look at the work that re-mains to be done to make Dr.Kings dream a reality. The tena-cious demons that Dr. King warnedus against and led many to worktirelessly to overcome povertyand racism still plague our na-tion and communities.And our chil-dren continue to suffer.

In 1968 when Dr. King died,there were 1.1 million poor childrenin America. Today that numberstands at over 15.5 million, almosthalf of whom (6.9 million) live in ex-treme poverty. Its a sad commen-tary that 40 years after the PoorPeoples Campaign that was carriedout after his untimely death,pover-ty still stacks the odds against mil-lion of children before birth. Even

sadder is the way that poverty inter-acts with race,and places millions ofblack and other minority childrenon a trajectory to all sorts of nega-tive outcomes.

In many ways, Dr. Kings PoorPeople Campaign has been re-placed with what the Childrens De-fense Fund calls The Cradle toPrison Pipeline. This pipeline de-scribes the phenomenon that sen-tences too many poor and minoritychildren to a trajectory of marginal-ized lives, imprisonment and, often,premature death. Jim Crow hasbeen replaced by incarceration, andthe doctrine of separate but equalstill can be used to describe our ed-

ucation system.When one in threeblack boys and one in six Latino

boys born in 2001 will be incarcerat-ed sometime in their lifetime, itstime to sound an alarm about thisthreat to American unity and com-munity. Our democratic ideals andour future as a world leader de-mand it.

The failure for all of us, thosewho in many respects are some ofthe most intellectually gifted andprivileged in this world, to act nowwill reverse the hard-earned racialand social progress for which Dr.King and so many others were mar-tyred.Like Dr.King, we all must de-velop the courage to look at injus-tice in the face,name it and use theconsiderable skills at our disposal torectify it. In this spirit, the Chil-drens Defense Fund has launchedThe Black Community Crusade

for Children, a campaign that de-mands the participation of all inorder to be successful.

In the first phase of the BlackCommunity Crusade for Children,launched in 1990,there exist count-less models for success. In NewYork, the Harlem Childrens Zonehas pioneered a new way to end thecycle of intergenerational povertyfor thousands of children and fami-lies in a 100-block radius.The Chil-drens Defense Funds FreedomSchools have served over 80,000children and trained 9,000 college-aged mentors. Healthcare benefitshave been extended to 95 percent ofall children. Countless other solu-

tions to these problems exist righton our beloved Farm.

Forty-three years after Dr.Kings death,we must reflect on hisday on the fierce urgency of now.While there are many problems fac-ing poor and minority children,andby extension our country as awhole, these problems dont lendthemselves to fatalistic diagnosis.Rather,they are challenges for us towork together to solve problemsthat provide great opportunities forentrepreneurship and innovativethought. I am confident that thesame campus that produced thosewho created Google and Sun Mi-crosystems and that attracts stu-dents who dedicate countless hoursto public service pursuits in theHAAS Center for Public Serviceand abroad, can partner with theChildrens Defense Fund and mil-

lions of other concerned Americansthrough the Black Community Cru-sade for Children.The solutions tothe inequalities in our country eat inThe Axe and Palm, kiss at FullMoon on the Quad and writeIHUM papers. Through pursuingresearch, asking tough questionsand bringing recognition of struc-tural inequalities to whatever ca-reer we decide to pursue, we can bethe generation that makes Kingsdream, and the dreams of the mil-lion of poor and minority childrenin our country,a reality.

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Why do you take that? heasked. I could hear the curiositypeak in his voice.

What? I asked. I heard whathe said the first time,but I was justbuying time to figure out how to an-swer.

He repeated his question.Hor-mone replacement therapy, I saidcurtly, in a way that told him that Iwouldnt divulge any other details

about it.As if things couldnt get anymore awkward, another nursecame up to me and had to verify myidentity. She asked for a form ofidentification. I had left my driverslicense on my desk at Stanford.Theonly ID I had on me was my Stan-ford ID, which had my new legalname on it. Without a choice, Ihanded it to her.

The nurse looked confused, al-ternating between looking at herpaperwork,then my ID and then atme. So which one should I use?she asked.

Use the female name, I mut-tered. Thats whats on the insur-ance records.

She looked doubtful. Okay,she said.Frustrated,I began to figu-

ratively kick myself in the ass.

At the end of the whole ordeal,the doctors couldnt figure out whatwas wrong with me. One doctorsaid it was fractured,another said itwas just bruised. Itd be one thing ifsomething productive was done,but Im at the same place I started.And its frustrating as hell.

So whats the point of this stupidstory?

I dont feel comfortable men-tioning my life story to strangers,es-pecially when that life story hasnothing to do with my current med-ical condition. I had an injuredelbow, and frankly, I was too crankyand in pain to tell them my whole

life story as a transgendered per-son. Getting medical help for any-thing as a trans person always turnsout to be a bit frustrating as well asa bit humiliating, especially whenbeing treated for conditions thathave nothing to do with being trans.No wonder a lot of trans peoplehate getting medical help, which iswhy their health tends to be lessideal than most people.Besides,myelbow has nothing to do with mebeing a transguy. Rather, it had todo with my total incapacity as a bi-cyclist.Trans people can fail at rid-ing bicycles too,you know.

So now Im just really confused.All I know is that my elbow hurts.Wah.

Cristopher needs a hug. E-mail him

at [email protected].

BAUTISTAContinued from page 4

around the world.

Jack Bauer DayAll of America needs work off

on Jack Bauer Day so that they canspend those 24 hours escaping froma Chinese prison, being shot andfully recovering within an hour orso,running point on critical anti-ter-rorism missions and killing between25 and 75 people all without evergoing to the bathroom.

Pluto Memorial DayIf Facebook groups are any indi-

cation, nothing has saddened col-lege students more than Plutos de-motion from planet to, lets say,space rock. So why not spend a daydressing up as astronauts and pre-tending like we actually care aboutscience as we pay tribute to our de-moted colleague.

Coretta Scott King DaySure,Martin Luther King having

a day is impressive.And yes,leaving

one day in his honor every year didend racism. But if we want to endsexism too, were going to need todo better than give an award in herhonor to authors and illustrators ofchildrens books.

Your BirthdayThis would be good as of now,

birthdays consist of going to classand/or work and maybe getting acake. Maybe. But wouldnt takingthe day off be a better present?

French and Indian War DayHey,i f celebrating a military vic-

tory over the French can give Mex-ico a fun holiday (i.e. Cinco deMayo), we may as well join in thefun as well.

Honorable mentions: Victory inVietnam Day, Chinese New Year,Yom Kippur, OJ Verdict Day, PiDay, Cinco de Mayo, Bill andHillary Clinton Wedding Anniver-sary Day, Halloween, OppositeDay, Earth Day, Day the MusicDied,Wellness Week.

Have any other ideas for avoidingwork? E-mail Jordan at jcarr1@stan-

ford.edu.

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6/8


By CAROLINE CASELLIDESK EDITOR

The Stanford mens basketball team cameup just short against Washington State (13-5,3-3Pac-10) on Saturday night, suffering its firsthome defeat of the season,61-58,after a JeremyGreen desperation three-pointer to force thegame into overtime bounced off the rim at thebuzzer.

The Card (10-6, 3-2) was unable to containCougar junior guards Klay Thompson andFaisal Aden, who combined for 41 points.

Thompson,who entered the game averaginga conference-best 23.1 points per game, washeld in check in the first half due to defensivepressure by Stanford and early foul troublehowever,he became more aggressive in the sec-

ond period and proved too difficult to handle.Aden carried the Cougars offense in the firsthalf,as the Stanford defense struggled to keepup with his quickness.

I thought they outplayed us, said Stanfordhead coach Johnny Dawkins.They gave a win-ning effort and won the game. I thought KlayThompson and Faisal Aden really stepped upand gave some good contributions to theirteam.

We all learn from our losses, and unfortu-nately,we took one tonight,he added.

The Card was the dominant team in the first

half, led by the play of redshirt junior forwardJosh Owens and freshman forward DwightPowell.Owens displayed strong post moves andcreated ample scoring opportunities for himselfoff the offensive glass, while Powell dominatedthe boards on both ends of the floor.

Both gave the Card momentum going intohalftime Owens with a thunderous dunkover the Cougars DeAngelo Casto,and Pow-ell by drawing contact on a tough shot in thelane for a three-point play in the periods finalseconds.

Stanfords first-half momentum was quicklyextinguished as the Cougars went on a 10-1 run including two threes from a rejuvenatedThompson to open the second stanza and tiethe game.

CurbingNFL headinjuries

Maybe you were moreproductive than me on

this beautiful, three-day, Bay Area week-end. However, Im

guessing I wasnt the only red-bloodedAmerican that spent Saturday and Sun-day migrating from couch to couchwatching NFL games.

It was during the Bears-Seahawksgame that I had an epiphany and no,it wasnt that it is completely ridiculoushow early games start on the WestCoast. Actually, it is far more seriousthan that.It is that head injuries are partof football.

I am definitely not the first, and Imost certainly wont be the last sportswriter to weigh in on this touchy topic.This year,the yelling about player safetyin football has been louder than ever,asthe NFL has begun upping fines for ille-gal hits.The trouble is,two Seattle Sea-

hawks players were carted off the fieldwith apparently serious head injuries onSunday and both came after entirelylegal hits.

Writers and pundits alike havecalled for all levels of punishment andchanges to help protect football players.My colleague Zach Zimmerman evenwent so far as to say that his kids wontbe playing football.

What was reinforced to me thisweekend is that the notion that trying tochange player behavior through fineswill somehow change the way the gameis played is entirely ludicrous.Instead ofspending time trying to make players,whose entire livelihood is dependent ona kill-or-be-killed mentality,think twicebefore making a hit,time and resourcesshould be pointed toward research anddevelopment of tools to make the gamethat exists as it does now safer.

As a former football player whothought playing football was one of themost special, important parts of my life,and who will definitely let his kids playfootball if they want Id make the ar-gument that players simply dont havethe time to think whether or not tomake a hit or try to tackle a player oneway or another because every play is dif-ferent in football. If you try to regulatehits that cause injuries, eventually theNFL will turn into two-hand touch.

The interesting thing about foot-ball is that although technology hasimproved in recent years helmetsare far safer today than they were justa decade ago the game is just asdangerous, if not more dangerous asplayers get bigger and stronger.That is

why helmets need to continue to getsafer and pads need to become morefortified.

Fox color commentator Daryl John-ston made a very good point after Sea-hawks cornerback Marcus Trufant wasknocked out cold by a knee to the headwhile trying to make a tackle.Johnstonreminded fans that players arent re-quired to wear leg pads and that pad-less legs (especially knees) can be dan-gerous weapons.There is no reason notto mandate that players wear the stan-dard knee,thigh,hip and tail pads.Sure,some speedy players will say it slowsthem down, but it will also lessen theirchances of getting leg injuries,and otherplayers chances of getting concussed bytheir flailing limbs,as was the case withTrufant.

This sort of change is tangible and

will actually make a difference. FiningJames Harrison $25,000 isnt going tochange how he,or anyone else,hits.Es-pecially when the fine comes after a hitthat is entirely within the rules.

Changes like the one Johnston sug-gested are what the NFL should bestriving for.It also should be focusing onbetter concussion recognition,diagnosisand treatment which it seems tohave,as reports of concussions have in-creased this season.

In a sport that is predicated on vio-lence, it is difficult not to be violent.AsHerman Edwards of ESPN suggestedon air,young football players need to betaught the correct way to tackle. Youdont lead with your head,you lead withyour shoulder.You dont roll your back,you arch it.

As Edwards suggested, nobody istaught to lead with his head, yet it stillhappens. Maybe every training camp,players should get a refresher course inthe ABCs of tackling.Or maybe that is aridiculous thing to ask of professionals Im not really sure.

What I am sure of is that trying tochange players on-field, instinctual be-

Men suffer first home loss against Washington State

SPORTS

FALLING SHORT

IN CONTROL

By JACK BLANCHATCONTRIBUTING WRITER

After knocking off Rutgers on Sunday in theseason opener,the No. 3 Stanford womens bas-ketball team heads away from the Farm thisweekend for two tough road games.The Cardinaltangles with Utah on Friday night, then heads

north to play Gonzaga on Sunday afternoon.For the 10th year in a row, the Cardinal

opened its season with a win, defeating Rutgers63-50 last Sunday. The Cards next test comesagainst two familiar opponents.

Stanford and Utah have played each other insix out of the last seven years, and the two teamswill both be members of the new Pac-12 nextyear.The Cardinal took home a 60-41 victory lastyear in Maples Pavilion, and is unbeaten in 11games all-time against the Utes.

Last year, Utah finished with a 23-12 overallrecord and was the runner-up in the MountainWest conference after falling to San Diego Statein a 70-60 overtime defeat. The Utes went on tothe Womens NIT tournament,where they lost toCal in the second round.

Gonzaga, on the other hand, was on the re-ceiving end of the Cardinals biggest scoring out-put last season. Led by senior Kayla Pedersens30 points and junior Nnemkadi Ogwumikes 29points, Stanford cruised to a 105-75 victory lastyear,the most points the Cardinal scored in a sin-gle game all season.

Minus the loss to Stanford, Gonzaga had adominant season last year.The Bulldogs lost onlyfive games all season, won their third West CoastConference title in the last four years and had a20-game winning streak snapped in the Sweet 16of the NCAA tournament by Xavier. Xavierswin over Gonzaga sent them to their matchup

with Stanford in the Elite Eight, where the Cardescaped 55-53 thanks to Jeannette Pohlenscoast-to-coast, buzzer-beating layup.

Even against two dangerous teams like theUtes and Zags, Stanford fans can expect to seeplenty of new looks on the floor this weekend,asHead Coach Tara VanDerveer expects to use allmany different rotations in order to find thestrongest starting lineup and the best rotationsoff the bench.

The Cardinal used six different lineups

MENS BASKETBALL

1/15 vs. Washington State L 61-58

UP NEXT

USC(11-8, 2-3 Pac-10)1/20 Los Angeles, CA

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GAME NOTES: Stanford will look to get back to its winningways after suffering its first Pac-10 loss to WashingtonState Saturday. The Cardinal will be playing its first con-

ference game away from home at USC. Stanford has

struggled on the road all season. USC is coming off of

a pair of losses at the Oregon schools.

WOMENS BASKETBALL1/16 at Washington StateW 94-50

UP NEXT

UCLA(15-1, 5-0 Pac-10)1/20 Maples Pavilion,

7 P.M.

GAME NOTES: In a battle for Pac-10 supremacy, Stanfordhosts fellow conference unbeaten UCLA Thursday. The

No. 9 Bruins are having one of their best seasons in mem-

ory, while the Cardinal looks to keep its perennial strangle-

hold on top spot in the conference.

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On My Mind

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Junior forward Josh Owens helped Stanford jump out to a first-half lead with a strong start. TheCougars got back into the game with an early second-half run and eventually took control.

Stanford Daily File Photo

Jeanette Pohlen, above, and the Stanford womens basketball team are off to another strong start.After cruising to two wins in Washington, things will get a bit tougher with UCLA visiting the Farm.

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We were going into halftime witha nine-point lead,so the first five min-utes of the half were key they hitus in the mouth,said freshman wingAnthony Brown. We were neverable to respond after that.

Stanfords offense was stagnant attimes,but a string of missed opportu-nities from both teams kept the gameclose. Green, who was quiet in thefirst half,stepped up to make severalmuch-needed shots from behind thearc. Brown was also impressive, hit-ting three three-pointers in the sec-ond period to prevent the Cougarsfrom pulling away.

Down four points with 1:27 re-maining, Green made a tough step-back jumper to make it a one-posses-sion game. Multiple missed shotsfrom the Cougars followed by a jumpball gave Stanford another opportu-

nity to tie the game prior to Greenslast-ditch heave.

With seven seconds left on theclock, Owens was fouled hard in thepaint and sent to the line for twoshots. A 55.8-percent free-throwshooter heading into the game,Owens hit the first,but missed his sec-ond attempt, leaving Stanford downby one at 59-58.

Stanford immediately fouledWashington States Abe Lodwick onthe rebound,and he calmly sank twofree throws his only points of thegame to give the Cougars thethree-point edge.

Junior guard Green had 13 pointsto lead Stanford, and Brown added12 points, all off three-pointers.Owens also contributed 12 points on5-of-7 shooting,and he and freshmanforward Dwight Powell were thenights leading rebounders, grabbing10 boards apiece.

Thompson had 21 points andAden had 20,though both were fairlyinefficient scorers, shooting 9-of-20and 8-of-19, respectively. The

Cougars outshot the Cardinal 41.1percent to 34.4 percent and had 16points off turnovers to Stanfordsfour.

Next weekend,the Card will trav-el south to Los Angeles to take onUSC and UCLA on Thursday andSaturday,respectively.

Contact Caroline Caselli at [email protected].

MBBALLContinued from front page 6

against Rutgers, which VanDerveersaid was not enough. After losingseniors Jayne Appel and RosalynGold-Onwude to graduation lastyear, the Cardinal seems to havefound a few answers to who will helptake over for the two fan favorites.

Sophomore forward Joslyn Tin-kle started only two games last yearin lieu of an injured Jayne Appel,butthe 6-foot-3 forward raised eye-brows and expectations whenshe dropped two three-pointers inthe first three minutes of Sundaysgame against Rutgers.

The Missoula,Mont.native had asolid 10 points and six rebounds inSundays matchup against Rutgers.Coach VanDerveer praised thepoise and calm of her new starter.

Tinkle says the teams anxietywas typical butterflies, but thesophomore is using her calm andconfidence to help take over theholes left from last years team.

Its not so hectic [as a sopho-

more],youre more comfortable andat ease, you have a more definiterole on the team, she said.I thinkknowing that,it s a big goal to be oneof those go-to players.Thats some-thing I keep working on every day tobe a big-time contributor to thisteam.

Tinkle says shes playing the roleof a small forward or shooting guardthis year instead of taking overAppels spot at center,and that herown versatility as well as herteammates gives the Cardinal ahuge advantage down the road.

Me and Nnemkadi [Owgumike]

and Kayla [Pedersen] all have theability to step out whenever we needto,she said. Its a compliment thatwe can mix it up depending on whoour opponent is.VanDerveer said that versatility is apositive thing,but it has some conse-quences for the players like Tinklewho are stepping into new roles thisseason.

Itll take some time [to set astarting lineup], and it might bebased on a couple things, she said.All three freshmen played exceed-ingly well, but they dont have themargin for error. Theyre gettingthrown into the deep end of thepool.

But even with an opening win,aNo.3 national ranking and a startingspot on the floor,Tinkle isnt afraidto say that there is room for im-provement.

We have a lot to work on, shesaid. Rutgers definitely hung inthere with us,and we need to exceedthe expectations that we have forourselves.

Tinkle says those expectationsare clear, and that setting the barhigh will help the Cardinal bothachieve their goals this year and fill

the holes from last year.Coming here, they expect thebest from you, they want to see allaspects of the game, Tinkle said.With the presence of Jayne andRosalyn being gone, all of us canshare that role,and everyone wantsto step up and equally contribute.

Stanford will take on Utahtonight at 6 p.m. PST in Salt LakeCity, before traveling to Spokane,Wash., on Sunday to play Gonzagaat 2 p.m.

Contact Jack Blanchat at [email protected].

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havior just with warnings,rule changesand fines is not going to work.The workneeds to be done elsewhere.

Daniel Bohm forgot to mention that heplayed his career in a two-hand touchleague. Relive his glory days [email protected].

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posed and didnt blink down thestretch as BYU put the pressure on,winning the first set,25-23.

During the second set, Stanfordreally took control.An early 3-1 leadquickly turned to 8-2, then 12-3,andfinally 17-6, putting the game out ofreach for BYU early on.The key wasan outstanding side-out game Stanford won 14 of 18 points onBYU serves, throttling any Cougarmomentum.

Having the momentum andthen just being on fire was absolute-ly huge for us, Barry said. Whenwe have the momentum, we are al-most unstoppable and to come out

with big start was really great.BYU finally got things going inthe third set,taking a lead at 6-5 andbuilding off junior outside hitterRobb Stowells hot hand. Stowellwas the target of Cardinal fanswrath several of them sportedcutouts of his face to taunt him.

Although Stanford ended uplosing the set 26-24 on an AlexDaPron ace, a four-point Cardinalrun to tie the score at 24 gave Stan-ford momentum heading into thefourth set.

With Lawson serving, Stanfordtook the first four points, and al-though hitting a bit below its matchaverage, didnt allow BYU muchcloser, winning the set 25-22 andmatch 3-1.

Friday night was a bit of a differ-

ent story,featuring 29 tie scores in athrilling five-set match at MaplesPavilion. Blocking was the story ofthe night, as BYUs big front linehad 21 blocks and a large BYUcheering section kept the matchtight.

With two freshmen on the floorand three new starters including set-ter Barry,the match was a test of theyoung Cardinals focus. And aftertrading the first four sets with theCougars, there was cause for con-cern when the Cougars took a 14-12lead in the final set. But Brad Law-son stepped up and pounded twoconsecutive Stanford kills as theCardinal pulled even at 14-14.

In all, Stanford fought off threematch points before prevailing on ablock by senior Spencer McLachlinand freshman Eric Mochalski thatsent the Cardinal and its crowd into

a tizzy on the same floor where itwon the NCAA championship eightmonths ago.

For Lawson, the match reallyshowed what this Cardinal team ismade of.

The turning point was in thetimeout after we switched sides inthe fifth set. I told the guys, this iswhere we show our characteragainst a very good team, this is gotime, he said. We really showedheart tonight.

Stanford hits the road for the firsttime all season as it heads to Hawaii,home to seven Cardinal players, toface No.13 Hawaii for a two-matchMPSF series beginning Friday.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at [email protected].

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The Stanford Daily, Jan. 18, 2011