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By JACK BLANCHATand NATE ADAMS

In a duel for supremacy atop thePac-10,the No. 4 Stanford womensbasketball team (15-2, 6-0 Pac-10)thumped the No. 8 UCLA Bruins(15-2, 5-1 Pac-10), 64-38, on Thurs-day night at Maples Pavilion.

The Bruins,previously undefeat-ed in Pac-10 play, came in ridinghigh after dismantling the Oregonschools last weekend,but the Cardi-nal proved that the road to the Pac-10 title will go through Maples onceagain in 2011.

Head coach Tara VanDerveer,pleased with the tough victory,gavecredit to her leaders.

Im really pleased with how ourteam battled, she said.UCLA is avery aggressive team, and I thinkour leadership and our frontline re-ally battled.

Stanfords Big Three of seniorforward Kayla Pedersen, seniorguard Jeanette Pohlen and juniorforward Nnemkadi Ogwumikewere dominant,as all three finishedin double figures on the scoreboard.

Pedersen was the MVP of thethree droppingin18pointson 6-for-

adding 10 rebounds en route to herfourth double-double of the seasonand her second-highest point totalof the year.

The Bruins came out challengingthe Cardinal at every turn in the firsthalf including pressing the entire

nal possession.UCLA may have been making

Stanford earn its baskets, but theCardinal was also the only teamscoring early on. The Bruins firstbasket of the game came with 15:15

STUDENT LIFE

Feds

shorten

FAFSAGovt aims to get morelow-income applicants

By CASSANDRA FELICIANODESK EDITOR

In an effort to further simplifythe college application process, theU.S. Department of Education hasreleased a new version of the FreeApplication for Federal Student

Aid (FAFSA) to ease the financialaid application for students andtheir families.

The changes, which includeshorter questions and a color-cod-ing system to help applicants stayorganized, are an annual occur-rence, said director of financial aidMary Morrison.

The idea in the government isto make it so simple that low-in-come families wouldnt be afraid,she added.

Results from a study conductedby Stanfords School of Educationin 2009 in collaboration with Har-vard,the University of Toronto andthe National Bureau of EconomicResearch showed that making iteasier for parents to fill out theFAFSA form, even if just with thehelp of their children, boosted col-lege enrollment rates by 30 percent.

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Leading her team to its biggest victory of the conference season, KaylaPedersen, No. 14 above, posted a game-high 18 points against UCLAlast night. It was the senior forwards second-highest point total of the year.

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UNIVERSITY

Survey says students want more BOSP

RESEARCH

Biotechvideo gamegoes live

By ELLORA ISRANISTAFF WRITER

A Stanford professor of bioengineering has de-veloped the first video game that allows players toinfluence the actions of live microorganisms inreal time as they interact with a computer.

Bioengineering professor Ingmar Riedel

2N Friday, January 21,2011 The Stanford Daily

NEWS

By KURT CHIRBASSTAFF WRITER

At Thursdays Faculty Senate meeting,

ASSU Undergraduate Senate representativeDeepa Kannappan 13 gave a presentation con-cerning student opinions on academic advisingand the potential expansion of the Bing Over-seas Study Program (BOSP) to the MiddleEast.

In a survey taken by 332 undergrads, Kan-nappan found that the majority of Stanfordstudents ranked their undergraduate academ-ic advising experience as average, with morestudents ranking it as below average thanabove.

The survey also asked where students feltthey received the most helpful advising.

Friends, online resources and residential staffall topped formal sources of advising like aca-demic directors and pre-major and major ad-visers.

Considering the caliber of majors thatStanford offers the highly ranked, very in-terdisciplinary, very unique majors offeredhere this number should be much higher,Kannappan said.I wanted to look into why

students were not satisfied with their academicadvising experience.

Kannappan said she decided to repeat thesurvey when she realized that each individual

class had a different academic advising experi-ence, with Undergraduate Advising and Re-search (UAR) slightly shifting its policies eachyear.

The new survey,which asked for the partici-pants class years,was taken by 150 undergrad-uates,and showed that the number of studentswho found academic directors and pre-majoradvisers helpful doubled between those re-spondents from the Class of 2014 and other un-dergraduates.

The difference here was a change onUARs behalf, Kannappan said.

Starting with the Class of 2014,undergradu-

ates are now required to meet with their pre-major adviser before they can enroll in classeseach quarter.

Both Provost John Etchemendy Ph.D. 82and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Educa-tion Harry Elam Jr.said they were pleased withthe results of the second survey.

Weve seen the results of these kinds of sur-veys from other universities as well, and advis-

ing is just across the board ranked the thing stu-dents are least satisfied with at every universi-ty, Etchemendy said.But that doesnt meanthat we shouldnt try to improve it . . . and

[these numbers] are an improvement overwhat we saw two years ago when we were evenworse.

Kannappan then talked about student opin-ions regarding a potential expansion of BOSP.

In a survey taken by 300 students, 200 saidthey would be interested in a Middle Easternstudy-abroad program.The top four locationsstudents said they were interested in wereDubai,Israel,Egypt and Jordan.

Elam said the new director of overseas stud-ies, professor Robert Sinclair, has also ex-pressed interest in establishing study-abroadprograms at other non-European campuses,

specifically in the Middle East.How we would do that is a major ques-tion, Elam said, but its good to see theresstudent interest.

In addition to Kannappans presentation,ASSU President Angelina Cardona 11 spokeabout sexual misconduct on campus.

Last October, the Partnership to End Vio-lence Against Women sent out a survey regard-

ing this issue,and by December, it had collect-ed more than 4,000 unique responses fromaround campus.

The data is currently being complied before

aggregate results are released.But Cardona said that in professor Anne

Murrays class,Critical Issues in Internation-al Womens Health,last quarter, 50 percent ofstudents reported in a survey that they hadknown someone at Stanford who had experi-enced sexual misconduct or relationshipabuse.

She said ASSU has been having conversa-tions with administrators,specifically with ViceProvost of Student Affairs Greg Boardman,about the issue,and will be putting on campus-wide training workshops this quarter in part-nership with the Center for Relationship

Abuse Awareness.This is not unique to Stanford, Cardonasaid.This is happening all across the board atevery campus,but I think as Stanford is a leaderin everything else,we have an opportunity to bea leader in this issue,and in this movement, aswell.

Contact Kurt Chirbas at [email protected].

NEWS BRIEFS

5-SURE set toexpand service

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

5-SURE is expanding its serviceto run from 9 p.m.to 1:45 a.m.sevennights a week effective on Monday,the service announced yesterday.Previously, 5-SURE service startedat 10 p.m.every night.

5-SURE provides free rides toStanford students at night, helping

ensure they have safe and reliabletransportation back to their housingafter dark. The change comes in re-sponse to a spate of suspected crimi-nal activity on campus,including sev-eral recent assaults and a hotprowlthreat.

5-SURE also said it is undergoinga name change. Previously, theacronym stood for Students Unitedfor Rape Elimination. Now standsfor Students United for Risk Elimi-nation

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wrote a novel in Argentina and wasnominated for a Pulitzer Prize for hiscoverage of the birth of the Internet.

As a Knight fellow,Lewis workedon a project that studied how peoplewould pay for journalism in a neweconomic climate.He wanted to finda way to pay reporters in order tomaintain a flow of high-caliber jour-nalism. Although he did not find abest wayto pay, he was pleased tofind that there are many viable op-tions.

It may have helped that Lewis un-

that eyeglasses with holographic dis-plays of information might even becommonplace one day.

Although newspapers and maga-zines are shifting their resources andtime to remain relevant in the digitalworld and reach larger audiences,

Lewis said the fundamentals of newswriting will remain the same, acrossradio, television, podcasts,print andsocial networks alike.

Whether in print or in pixels,Lewis said journalism will continueto serve a critical role in society.

Open your eyes,he said. Lookaround.There are so many great sto-ries to tell and so many interestingpeople.

Contact Suzanne Stathatos [email protected].

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FEATURES

Stanford Glean picks campus fruit to fight povertyBy SOPHIA VO

No orange fromSafeway is goingto smell like theperfume of thisStanford orange

hanging out in nature, said JovelQueirolo 14.

Its all compostable,she said.Shesmiled as she tossed some peels intothe shrubbery.This is how life shouldbe.What else would you rather do ona Friday afternoon before partying?Be in nature!

Queirolo is part of Stanford Glean,a student organization that picks fruit

from trees on campus every week.The team currently works throughthe Haas Center for Public Service todonate fruit to the Free Farm, anurban farm in San Francisco.

What completes the entire expe-rience and makes it tangible is to [de-liver food] in the city, said HannahKohrman 11.How incredible it is tosee food pass from here to there andinto peoples hands.

Susannah Poland 12 started Stan-ford Glean during the spring of herfreshman year with Page Chamber-lain, a professor of environmentalearth system science.

I had been collecting fruit inde-pendently around campus, Polandsaid, describing how she and Cham-

berlain began surveying campus fruittrees as part of a larger movement forpoverty relief.

The gleaners gathered by Tresid-der before searching for persimmons,oranges, tangerines and avocados.The sun lingered low in the sky,cast-ing a warm glow on the afternoon.Gabriela Leslie 14 described howBay Area weather makes a huge dif-ference when it comes to picking fruitin January.

At no East Coast school wouldyou be able to walk around in flatspicking fruit, Leslie said.This is ab-solutely my stress reliever.

As main campus slowly emptied

itself of students, the hustle of theweekday disappeared to make roomfor the weekend.

For Leslie,the activity has person-al and philanthropic benefits.Whenyoure working on a farm or in a gar-den, your physical work producestangible results . . . rather than yourmental work producing esoteric re-sults,she said.After being so caughtup in the mental life at Stanford, itsrefreshing to do physical labor.

Stanfords grounds are home tohundreds of trees with 31 kinds offruit,according to Tim Huang 14,an-

other gleaner.One of Huangs favorite gleaning

experiences took place in the facultyneighborhood where the team had

posted flyers stating, If you want usto glean your tree,we can do that foryou and well leave whatever you

want,Huang recalled.An elderly man came outside of

his home to ask the team for helpwith picking fruit from his per-simmon tree, which Huang de-scribed as laden with beauti-ful orange orbs like pearls.

Huang was struck by thegenerosity of the man,who in-sisted on donating much of hisfruit to the team.

There was abundance, andthey were willing to share withthe less fortunate,Huang said.

Gleaner Kohrman describedhow much she and her team mem-bers appreciate being able to pro-vide their service.Before getting towork at the Free Farm, the teamstands together in a circle to holdhands and share something they aregrateful for.

Gleaners are often proud of thevariety and beauty of the trees theyspend so much time with.

The first time, I was so amazedthat we have all these crazy fruit treeshere,Leslie said. Theres avocados,figs,pomegranates.

For Leslie,being around the treesmade her much more appreciative offruit.Normally,I would walk around,spot a beautiful apple [and move on],

she said.After reaching the very topof a tree with the fruit picker, it wassatisfying to have the apple fall intomy hands.

Queirolo said she sees her workwith Stanford Glean as part of a long-term goal to improve the structure ofthe United States food economy.

The way agriculture works in ourcountry is that fruit is really expensivewhen it shouldnt be,she said.Tan-gerines and oranges and persimmons

are hard to get if youre poor.As Stan-ford students,its our responsibility tochange the way people think aboutfood and show the underserved that

they deserve healthy, sustainablefruit.

Queirolo said any Stanford stu-dent is welcome to become a gleaner.Something like food justice is perfectbecause anyone can do it and yourelearning at the same time, she said.All of us agree on the same thing,andwere doing it to help others.I love it.You could do this.Do you eat food?

Yes. You eat food and you likefood. . . . so you should care about this

group,she added.

Contact Sophia Vo at [email protected].

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Alawyer family friend used todescribe the best strategy hisclient could use in explaining

past misdeeds as the dead dogmethod.The cross-examining lawyerasks, Did you do such and such?Our friends client responds, Yes, Idid such and such. And I did morethan such and such. I did all thesehorrible,awful such and suches,and Ifeel so horrible and awful aboutthem.Let me tell you all the such andsuches I did,how horrible they were,and how horrible I feel!The cross-examining lawyer gets tired of this

lament and tries to move on to a newsubject but the witness will not lethim:No, wait, I have more to con-fess, more forgiveness to ask for. I

just feel so awful about it,and I cantget past it.And so on.

I think our family friend told thestory with a mixture of amusementand cynicism. But imagining a sin-cere situation, the strategy reflectsan earnest truth: Horrible misdeedsare overcome through deep appreci-ation and acknowledgement of theirhorribleness.

In American political discussions

on race today, whites often expressfrustration with what they see as theinability of African Americans tomove forward and focus on the fu-ture. Some individuals look uponslavery, sanctioned discriminationand the racial injustices that persistas a bleeding wound, but the main-stream looks upon most of the injus-tice as in the past and not something

justifiably bound up in how AfricanAmericans understand themselvestoday.

The nature of our personal rela-

tionships should teach us the impos-sibility of overcoming racial tensionswhen most Americans fail to recog-nize the legitimacy of feelings of so-cial alienation among African Amer-icans. When, in close relationships,one person wrongs another, themoral relation between the two peo-ple is changed. If their future livesare bound up together (as is the caseof fellow citizens), the wrongdoingwill eat away at the health of their re-lationship Only when the perpetra-

of the crimes is why emotional divi-sions run so strong.

This story should not be com-pletely unfamiliar in the Stanfordcontext. We see the misunderstand-ings here,too.Students believe in tol-erance,yet many still fail to grasp theimportance of community for cultur-al groups on campus, particularlythose who have suffered past injus-tices in this country.We say that com-munity centers divide when we

should aim to unite, that we are in-terested in bridging gaps while cul-tural communities exacerbate differ-ences.

We fool ourselves into thinkingcultural identity can be based exclu-sively on common philosophicalideals, as if human beings are notpartly contingent creatures, partlytied to our histories.We fail to graspwhy wounds will bleed for new gen-erations, and, in that context, whycommunities of people who shareexperiences are essential sources of

strength and affirmation in the midstof festering wounds.The real ideal at Stanford would

be to maintain these strong commu-nities while ensuring that cross-cul-tural interaction is common andmeaningful.Community centers anddorms should not be exclusive, norshould students when makingfriends.The truth is I see this more asa one-way problem. Students whobelong to cultural community cen-ters do a better job of living up to this

SENSE AND NONSENSE

AyshaBagchi

We see themisunderstandings

here,too.

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By IVY NGUYENDESK EDITOR

This report covers a selection ofincidents from Jan. 13 to Jan. 20 asrecorded in the Stanford Depart-ment of Public Safety bulletin.

THURSDAY, JAN. 13IAt 1:35 a.m.at the intersection of

McFarland Court and OlmstedRoad, a man was transported tothe San Jose main jail andbooked for public intoxication.

FRIDAY, JAN. 14IAt 2 a.m., a man at Sigma Chi

was cited and released for beinga public nuisance by urinating inpublic.

IAt 12:30 p.m. at the intersectionof Via Ortega and Serra Street,aman was transported to the SanJose main jail for being in posses-sion of an imitation firearm andfor violating conditions of his pa-role.

IBetween 11:15 a.m. and 2:30p.m., unknown suspects broke

into a car parked at LomitaDrive and Museum Way, steal-ing two backpacks containingclothing,a camera,a Kindle andother electrical equipment.

IBetween 3:30 and 9:30 p.m.,

someone entered an unlockeddorm room in Roble Hall and

stole a laptop.

IAt 8 p.m.,a man was transportedto the San Jose main jail forbeing drunk in public and prowl-ing between Trancos and Soto.

SATURDAY, JAN. 15IBetween 8 p.m. on Jan. 14 and 2

a.m. on Jan. 15, unknown sus-pects entered an apartment at 71Barnes Court, stealing a laptopand other miscellaneous items.

IAt 6:15 p.m.,a dog bit a visitor tothe Rodin Sculpture Garden.The injured visitor was trans-ported to the hospital for med-ical attention. The hungry dogreportedly mistook the visitorfor one of the six Burghers.

SUNDAY, JAN. 16IBetween 8 p.m. on Jan. 15 and

3:30 a.m.on Jan.16,an unknownsuspect entered an occupiedtownhouse at 94 Thoburnthrough an unlocked slidingglass door, stealing a laptop and

money.

IAt 8:45 p.m., an unlocked bikewas stolen from outside the Axeand Palm.

IBetween 9 and 9:05 p.m., water

leaked from a sink in room 376of the Keck Building, flooding

a hallway and adjacent rooms.Water dripped down from theceiling onto various lab equip-ment and computers.

MONDAY, JAN. 17IBetween 1:40 and 2 p.m., un-

known suspects broke into acar parked near the TrackHouse,stealing a backpack.

TUESDAY, JAN. 18IBetween 9 and 10 a.m., a

locked bike was stolen fromthe front of the Science andEngineering Quad teachingcenter.

IAt 3:30 p.m., a woman was ar-rested for petty theft at theStanford bookstore.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19IAt 12 a.m. a resident of Mars re-

ported receiving multiple un-wanted phone calls and text mes-sages containing obscene materi-al from an unknown suspect.

IAt 3:20 p.m.,a man was cited andreleased for vandalizing the Tan-ner Fountain by setting fire to acollage using torch fuel.

Contact Ivy Nguyen at [email protected].

POLICE BLOTTER

lating a mild electric field aroundthe organism,players can influenceits movement in a particular direc-tion.

While the computer base ispurely virtual, the organisms arereal.The game involving parameciahas five different versions for play-ers to choose from includingPAC-mecium,which was created inthe image of Pacman, and a bioticpinball game called POND PONG.

The other two categories in-volve molecules and yeast cells.

Riedel-Kruse says the idea forthe current design, which tookabout a year to develop, came in2009 when he was a researcher atCaltech.When he read on the Inter-net about the history of videogames and realized that their ad-vent was propelled by the risingcomputer industry, he thoughtabout doing the same with thebi t h i d t d l i t d

widespread participation with theenjoyable gaming environment.The strategy presents certain chal-

lenges, however.Since the games are [designedas] experiments, in order to enablesomeone to play,we have to give ac-cess to the experiments, Riedel-Kruse said.

Such difficulties stem from thefact that some of the games requirean expensive laboratory apparatusknown as a PCR machine.Howev-er, Riedel-Kruse hopes to over-come this challenge with a grantfrom the National Science Founda-tion that would allow the game tobe played online using remote ac-

cess.He also hopes to put the games

in the schools and museums withina year to give way to wider con-sumption.

Definitely we hope that wecould make it available to the pub-lic in the end, Riedel-Kruse said.The next step is basically collabo-ration with Daniel Schwartz of theSchool of Education to do userstudies with schoolchildren to as-

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However, outside help is not nec-essary to facilitate applying for finan-cial aid at all schools,Morrison said.Infact, the numbers of financial aid ap-plicants continue to increase for Stan-ford,where the FAFSA is required forentering students along with the CSSProfile and parents W2 tax forms.

At a place like Stanford, federalaid is wonderful,but it isnt what paysmost [of the costs], Morrison said.FAFSA really only deals with fed-

eral grants,which are not anywherenear enough to pay for coming toStanford. We have to supplementwith our own endowment and ourown scholarship funds.

Morrison explained that even forstate schools and community col-leges,a shorter FAFSA might not dothe trick. Plenty of students are stillunaware that when they apply thereare actually possibilities of getting aid.

Many schools use their ownf th d t h

Since it costs at least$25,000 to go to a state school,having someone pay $5,000

doesnt exactly solve the prob-lem, said Morrison. Weregoing to need more informa-tion to help people.

Contact CassandraFeliciano at [email protected].

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from the field while allowing the Trojansto shoot 55.6 percent. Freshman guardAnthony Brown was Stanfords leadingscorer,posting nine points for the Cardi-nal and earning a significant amount ofplaytime alongside several classmates,such as forward Dwight Powell.

Head coach Johnny Dawkins hashigh expectations for his freshman class,particularly Powell, whom he said isworking hard and getting better.

I think hes getting more comfort-able. Dawkins said of Powell. Hesyoung and trying to feel his way throughPac-10 play, but every game hes gettingmore active and rebounding for us moreconsistently.

Stanford will continue to rely onPowell, along with juniors Josh Owensand Jarrett Mann,as the team continues

through the conference season tomor-row against UCLA.The Bruins (12-6, 4-2) have been one of the Pac-10s mostconsistent teams of late,winning nine oftheir last 11 games and narrowly defeat-ing Cal last night,86-84.

Like Stanford, UCLA pulled off ahuge win over a top-20 team, defeatingthen-No.16 BYU in mid-December,86-79. Averaging a high 71.3 points pergame,the team has five different playerswho regularly produce double-digit fig-ures in scoring.

Reeves Nelson and Tyler Honeycuttaverage more than 13 points and nearlyeight rebounds per game apiece, andStanford will have to recover its domi-nant defense from earlier in the seasonin order to stop this high-scoring duo.

Despite its past two losses, defenseremains the strongest aspect of the Car-dinals game.It will have to pick up theslack on the offensive end, though, toearn a win against the Bruins,especiallysince five years have passed since Stan-ford won a road game over either of thesouthern California schools.

In fact, the Card has struggled inmost road games thus far,and the young

team hopes to turn this around tomor-row by recovering its early-season suc-cess,particularly by attacking the boardsand exploding on the offensive end.

Tipoff is at 11 a.m.at Pauley Pavilionin Los Angeles.

Contact Lauren Taylor at [email protected].


SPORTSTom Taylor

To thehaters:Why?

Ihate all sports asrabidly as a personwho likes sportshates commonsense.

That quote comes courtesy of thelate journalist Henry Louis Mencken,and hes not alone. There are clubs,

blogs and Facebook groups dedicatedto people who would avoid this entiresection of The Daily like the plague.Asa fan committed enough to volunteermy free time writing sports stories andcolumns,its hard not to feel a bit insult-ed by the simple blasphemy of thehaters, but there is something elsewrong here.Hating sports just doesntmake sense.

Its like hating music or reading.You might not have much interest in along and drawn-out opera,but howev-er much you might not want to admit it,therell be a tune somewhere that gets

you tapping your feet.You might notbe willing to work your way throughWar and Peace,but when a new e-maildrops into your inbox, Im sure youwont mind reading the message.

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day without doing

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just 12 service errors to run its cur-rent winning streak to nine matches.Lawson was named MPSF player

of the week after totaling 39 kills inthe two matches, including fourstraight in the fifth set last Friday.But he waved off the honor as a nicerecognition.

Its certainly an honor,especial-ly when you look at some of theother players stats from this weekwho werent recognized, he said.So it is a good honor for me and theteam, but I dont think it means toomuch. Individual honors are nice,but the ultimate team honor andour goal is to win another NCAAnational championship in May.

Hawaii is coming off a disap-pointing showing in last weeks Out-rigger Hotels Invitational, where itlost three straight matches to BallState, Penn State and UCLA. Thethree-game losing streak to open the

season is the first for Hawaii in 17years and dropped the Warriorsfrom No. 5 in the AVCA rankingsback down to No. 13.

But Hawaii is by no means apushover. The Warriors have a trio

of excellent players in outside hittersSteven Hunt and Joshua Walker andopposite Jonas Umlauft, who com-bined for 98 kills in the Outriggertournament. The Warriors own theedge in the all-time series againstStanford,34-31,although the Cardi-nal has won the last seven matchesand the last 19 consecutive sets,dat-ing back to February 2008.

Head coach John Kosty is wary ofwhat he thinks is a sleeper in the tal-ented MPSF.

Hawaii is a very offensive team,and they run a good offense withthree great pin hitters in Hunt,Joshua Walker and Umlauft, hesaid. They will give us all we canhandle.Umlauft just had 28 kills andhit .477 against Penn State, so wehave to come out and look to neu-tralize their outside attack.

Two freshmen appear to be amajor part of the game plan for

Stanford. Both Eric Mochalski andBrian Cook were heavily featured inthe first three matches of the year Cook is third on the team with 23kills and Mochalski is fourth with 15and a .448 hitting percentage.

Mochalski also came up with thewinning block in the first matchagainst BYU.

But tonight marks the first roadmatch of their young college careers,and Mochalski said he was humbledby the experience.

Im looking to just take every-thing one point at a time, he said.This is going to be an extremelyhostile environment, and eventhough its my first time ever inHawaii, Im just going to try andavoid distractions and stay focusedon each play.

The team left yesterday morningto acclimate to the two-hour timedifference,and the Cardinal will faceoff against Hawaii in the first matchtonight at 7 p.m.at the Stan SheriffCenter in Honolulu.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at [email protected].

MVBALLContinued from front page

left in the half.The game moved quickly and qui-

etly until a Pedersen three-pointerfollowed by a left-handed layup gavethe Cardinal a 15-4 lead with 11:02 togo in the half.

For UCLA, preseason NaismithAward candidate Jasmine Dixontook the Bruins into her own hands.Dixon, who finished with 12 points,then made three consecutive buckets

for the Bruins, cutting the Stanfordlead to nine points with 6:20 left inthe half.

Freshman forward Chiney Og-wumike made back-to-back buckets,then redshirt senior Melanie Mur-phy,playing for the first time this sea-son,poked away a steal and took it allthe way for a layup to give Stanfordthe 32-15 lead it held at the halfwaymark.

The Big Three then put thegame on ice,as they combined for 21points on a 23-6 run in the first 10minutes of the second half.Pedersen

ended the game with 18 points,Pohlen with 14 and Nnemkadi Og-wumike with 13.

Stanfords defense was onceagain solid, and UCLA struggled tofind the basket all night, shooting ameager 29.4 percent for the game.Bruin head coach Nikki Caldwell de-scribed the shooting as horrible,but also gave credit to a Stanfordteam that has the advantage in the

Pac-10 once again.I think they have all of the mak-

ings of a championship run.You look

at the size, the shooters, the leader-ship, the experience, Caldwell said.Theyve been there, they knowwhat its like when you get to thatfinal game and you dont walk awaywith that trophy.When youre in thatsituation, you come back even hun-grier.

Stanford has now beaten threetop-10 opponents by a total of 75points at Maples this season, but theCardinal still had a few troubles.Stanford outrebounded UCLA 44-27, but only had 13 offensive re-

bounds and turned the ball over 15times.Im not trying to be a killjoy,but

the bar is really high for this team,VanDerveer said.In order to reallygo where we want to go,we cant justsay Oh,everything was okay. Teamsare being physical, teams are beingsuper aggressive and we cant havethe ball taken out of our hands.

When asked if this was the bestthe team could play, Nnemkadi Og-wumike echoed her coach.

No. At the same time, I thinkweve improved. Obviously, were

playing well, but we want to wingame the way we really want to,shesaid. With every project that wehave,we kind of forget about anoth-er thing.

Stanford will have anotherchance to improve tomorrow after-noon,when the Cardinal hosts USC.The Trojans looked to be another topcontender for taking a share of thePac-10 lead, as they entered the

weekend with just one conferenceloss.The Trojans (12-5, 4-2) lost a bitof steam last night, however, falling

to Cal in Berkeley by a score of 82-71.

Regardless, VanDerveer givespraise for USCs strong play this sea-son.

Ive been really impressedwatching USC play, she said.Theyre a different team and someteams match up better with otherteams. They played a really goodgame against Xavier,and Xavier is agreat team with great players.Theyhave great speed,when I watch themtheyre not as athletic . . . but they

have some really talented offensiveplayers. Theyre getting to be thatsame team like UCLA, with moreexperience.

The Trojans ultimately lost thatearly December game againstXavier, 69-66. Regardless, the nar-row loss against the then-No. 4 Mus-keteers was enough to turn headsaround the Pac-10,if not the nation.

The Cardinal may see more ofMurphy tomorrow,too.

I think that [its good] having an-other option with [Murphys] experi-ence, VanDerveer said. And she

feels quicker. She feels like shesmoving really well. I think it wouldbe great to have another experi-enced,healthy body out there.

The Trojans will visit MaplesPavilion Saturday afternoon, tippingoff with the Cardinal at 2 p.m.

Contact Jack Blanchat atblanchat@stanford and Nate Adamsat [email protected].

WBBALLContinued from front page


8/16


By DASH DAVIDSONCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Junior Bradley Klahn has startedthe 2011 mens collegiate tennis sea-son much as he finished the 2010 one:with an emphatic victory at a majortournament. Last May, Klahn wonthe NCAA singles title as a sopho-more, becoming Stanfords firstNCAA champion since Alex Kim in2000.

Klahn didnt play like a personfeeling a lot of pressure as the reign-

ing NCAA champion this past week-end at the Sherwood Collegiate Cup,thoroughly dominating the competi-tion on his way to victory. He didntdrop a set throughout the five roundsof the tournament, compiling a stag-gering 60-22 advantage in games wonover the course of the weekend.

The tournament went very wellon my end. Winning the singles andthe doubles is a great accomplish-ment for me personally,Klahn said.I also think the tournament was agood early test for our team to kind ofsee where we match up with some of

the best teams in the country. . . . Itscertainly a good wake-up call for ourguys to know that we can play withthe top teams, but that theres somework to be done if we want to succeedthroughout the year and ultimately inthe NCAAs.

Ranked No.15 and seeded secondheading into the tournament, Klahndispatched the two top players fromrival Southern California in the semi-finals and finals No.3 seed DanielNguyen and No. 1 seed Steve John-son, respectively. The title is Klahns

second consecutive Sherwood Cupcrown, having defeated BaylorsDenes Lukacs in last years final.

The weekends tournament win isnothing new for Klahn,who has wonan impressive five tournaments in justover two years of collegiate experi-ence with Stanford.In addition to thetwo Sherwood Cup victories and the2010 NCAA singles crown, he hascollected the 2010 ITA NorthwestRegional Championship and the2009 Pac-10 singles title.

The Sherwood Cup was a goodshowing for Stanford mens tennis in

general, with junior Ryan Thacherjoining Klahn in the winners circlefor their triumph in the doubles por-tion of the bracket. This weekendmarked the fifth time Klahn and

Thacher have won doubles titles to-gether.

Overall, four players Klahn,Thacher, sophomore Denis Lin andsenior Greg Hirshman all ad-vanced to at least the round of 16 inthe singles draw. Freshman JaminBall accrued valuable experience andshowed some tenacity as he bouncedback from a tough first-round lossagainst USCs Johnson by resound-ingly winning his consolation match.

But Klahn, as has been the casesince the day he walked on campus as

a freshman from Poway High Schoolin southern California,was the centerof attention for the mens tennisteam.A player like Klahn is special,in the words of Stanford head coachJohn Whitlinger.

Hes just a really great kid,Whitlinger effused about his starplayer. Hes an incredibly hardworker, hes a fun guy to be aroundand hes just a real down-to-earth kidwho also does well academically.Its anice combination when youre a goodstudent and a heck of a tennis player.Im really excited for the potential he

has and what his future will hold.Klahn has already been to the

peak of collegiate tennis, and he saysthe experience has only improved hispreparations.

Winning the NCAAs was a hugeaccomplishment for me last year,andit was a nice reward for all the hardwork Id been putting in, he said.Ithink that it gave me a lot of confi-dence.

With the success hes had, theresno doubt Klahn has a bit of a target onhis back.His challenge is to maintain

focus amid his fame and lead Stan-ford back to the top of collegiatemens tennis. The Cardinal hasntreached the pinnacle of the sport as ateam since 2000,and it is in the midstof the longest championship droughtsince the 1970s.

The season will heat up next Tues-day as the Cardinal hosts SacramentoState.The following weekend bringsboth Santa Clara and Vanderbilt intotown,making it a pivotal stretch in theseasons early going as teams com-pete for a spot in the National TeamIndoor Championships, which start

on Feb.18 in Seattle.All three of nextweeks matches are at home.

Contact Dash Davidson at [email protected].

Stanford Daily File Photo

After winning the national singles title last season, Bradley Klahn continuesto impress in 2011. The junior earned a combined 60-22 advantage inmatches played during the Sherwood Collegiate Cup last weekend.

KLAHN, CARD CRUISINGa sports bar or, even better, to a realgame. Having someone to explainwhat is going on helps, but beingamong people really passionate aboutanything is seriously infectious;its im-possible not to get carried along withthe tide of human emotion.

Or maybe grab a ball and go have athrow-around the next time you needa break.The great thing about sport isthat its truly open to all and practical-ly free of the many barriers that seemto continually keep our species divid-ed.You dont need to know much orhave any special skills:all you need is acompetitive streak and an open mind.

And so,in response to the quote Istarted this column with,Im going toend by misappropriating one from thehistorical figure whose life was com-memorated last Monday, someonewho I hope would have liked the all-inclusiveness of sports.

I have decided to stick with love.Hate is too great a burden to bear.

That,of course,comes from MartinLuther King Jr.

Tom Taylor knows that with just a bit of

baseball and a touch of tennis, theworld will be happier place.Bring himback to Earth at tom.taylor@

stanford.edu.

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stanfords weekly guide to campus culture

VOLUME 238 . I S S U E 12

a publication of the stanford daily

01.21.11

January movies, page 4

The King, theWitch and theGreen Hornet


10/16

Political activism has always

been integral to Colin

Goddards life an inter-

national relations major and natu-

ral-born globetrotter, Goddard has

continually upheld a strong set of

political beliefs. Goddard, a recent

graduate of Virginia Tech, is one of

the 17 survivors of the 2007

Virginia Tech campus shooting.

After that experience, his beliefsand convictions have only grown

stronger.

In Living for 32, a documen-

tary film based on Goddards reac-

tion to the Virginia Tech massacre,

Goddard voices his concerns about

gun control and his hopes for

change. Living for 32draws in

the medias attention with its emo-

tional impact and call for action,

particularly resonant because ofthe recent Arizona shooting. The

film, directed by Kevin Breslin, has

been shortlisted for an Oscar and

will be screening at the Sundance

Film Festival next week.

Thursday evening, Colin

Goddard spoke with Stanford stu-

dents after a screening of Living

for 32 hosted by Stanford Film

Society in the Roble Theater. For

the Q&A session, he was accompa-

nied by another victim of gun vio-

lence, Mindy Finkelstein, who was

injured in the 1999 Jewish

Community Center shooting, and

by Linda Platt, representative for

the Brady Center to Prevent Gun

Violence.

Four years ago, on the morn-

ing of April 16, 17 people were

injured and 32 killed in Norris

Hall, Virginia Tech. The film opens

with Goddard visiting the graves of

his classmates on a quiet morning,and then builds into a sequence of

police reports, glimpses of Norris

Hall and the sounds of blaring

gunshots. Then we cut to Goddard

sitting in a half-lit classroom,

telling us his story with a steady,

determined voice.

At the onset of the attack,

Goddard called 911 the first call

to alert the police of the situation.

Goddard was shot four times andunderwent intense physical thera-

py for many months following. He

had the choice to either suppress

what had happened to him or to

internalize and transform it into

positive action, into ideas and

information that could help

strengthen gun-control laws.

I believe in this, and I dont

want to move on until Ive accom-

plished something, Goddard said.

In the film, through the use of

his own camerawork, Goddard

helps demonstrate the availability

of guns to potentially dangerous

individuals. He secretly videotapes

his interactions with dealers at gunshows, and in some instances, hes

able to purchase a gun by showing

only his drivers license to the deal-

er, and sometimes not even that.

Through this film, Goddard

hopes to raise awareness of his

story and perspective.

I believe in the work and in

the message, and this is an oppor-

tunity to spread it and for other

people to hear it, he said. He is

also directly involved with gun

control legislation on Jan. 18,

hell be on Capitol Hill with

Congresswoman Carolyn

McCarthy, introducing a piece of

legislation that would prohibit the

sale of high-capacity magazine

guns, which he believes has a

direct relation to the shooting at

Arizona and also the shooting atVirginia Tech. According to

Goddard, at the Arizona shooting,

the shooter only had time to shoot

one ammunition clip, and had it

only contained 15 rounds instead

of 33, not as many people would

have died that day.

By doubling the size of your

ammunition clips, you dont get

double the amount of deer on

your hunting excursions, you dont

kill double the amount of intrud-

ers that come into your home, but

you quite often have double the

amount of innocent people who

are killed, Goddard said.

Living for 32ends with a

dedication, listing the names of the

32 people who lost their lives at

Virginia Tech, a list that feels end-

less. The film is also dedicated tothe 32 people who are killed every

day in this country due to gun vio-

lence.

Thats a Virginia Tech that

happens every day that people just

dont know about, because it does-

nt make the front-page paper. Our

generation needs to know that,

Goddard said.

armine PIL IKIANcontact armine:

[email protected]

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Tamara Chalabis memoir delvesinto Middle Eastern culture

Cage the Elephant releases their follow-up

Intermission reviews The Kings Speech, TheGreen Hornet, Season of the Witch

Roxy Sass makes the most ofher ski trip

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Colin Goddard and Mindy Finkelstein answer questions following a screening of Living for 32. The filmfollows Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre, as he works to improve gun laws in the US.

Virginia Techsurvivor promotes

gun-control laws


11/16

An umbrella term for vari-

ous styles, hip-hop is theculmination of social and

popular dance forms from the sec-

ond half of the 20th century,

explained choreographer Rennie

Harris in an interview with

Intermission last week. There are

a lot of things people dont know

about hip-hop, Harris said

misconceptions he addresses in

choreography, performances,

workshops and lectures across thenation.

His company, Rennie Harris

Puremovement (RHPM), will per-

form an evening of his works from

the past two decades in Memorial

Auditorium on Saturday.

Something To Do With Love,

Volume 1, is Harris reflection on

the trials and tribulations of our

relationships and the ways they

teach us about who we are andwhy we are here.

Like most of Harris work, the

2006 piece addresses universal

themes through dance to highlight

commonalities and transcend

social, economic, religious and

racial boundaries. Also on the pro-

gram are works set to Parliament-

Funkadelic and Groove Collective,

along with an original composi-

tion by ex-soldier and friend of the

choreographer Dru Minyard.

The companys performances

are part of Harris Institute for

Diversity in the Arts (IDA)

extended residency this quarter. As

an IDA visiting artist, he also par-

ticipated in an Aurora Forum with

Vice Provost for Undergraduate

Education Harry Elam Thursday

evening, and is teaching The Day

Before Hip-Hop, a combination

lecture and technique course

offered by the Stanford Dance

Division.

The course covers the roots of

the hip-hop genre and its deep

connections to the history of

African-American and Latino

communities. Beginning in theclassroom with the question of

slavery, Harris traces paradigm

shifts in consciousness that

enabled the eventual growth of

hip-hop. He introduces the inno-

vators and pioneers of the mid-

1960s that ushered in the dawn of

hip-hop culture.

Later, in the studio, Harris

expounds on the ideas he has pro-

posed in the classroom, linkingtheory to aesthetics and musicality.

He cultivates an understanding of

the small things that make the

hip-hop, with particular attention

to bodies creating music and

rhythm. You become the compos-

er, and you should know what the

dance sounds like, he told his stu-

dents.

Stanford is the third institu-

tion in the U.S. to offer itsstudents the opportunity

to make such a unique

foray into hip-hop his-

tory and theory; Harris has

previously taught similar

courses at UCLA and the

University of

Colorado.

Born and

raised in North

Philadelphia,

Harris has

been danc-

ing since he

was a teenager,

picking up his

first notions

of rhythm and

movement in

church, in clubs and on the

streets. For him, as is the case

for hip-hop in general, dancing

is an inherently social activity,

meant to be a shared experience

and part of a larger community

ethos. He founded RHPM in 1992,

and has become internationallyrenowned as a choreographer and

nationally recognized for his lec-

tures and workshops on the ori-

gins of hip-hop.

Harris strives to engage audi-

ences with hip-hop dance on the

concert stage to amend the stereo-

types and negative images televi-

sion has created. The medias ten-

dency toward a narrow and super-

ficial portrayal of hip-hop has per-petuated a simplistic view of the

form, one that doesnt recognize its

myriad influences, inventive spirit

and potential to bring people

together.

Hip-hop,the only thing thats

new in this country, and the most

truly expressive voice of this gener-

ation, Harris says, will bring

younger audiences to the theater, if

presenters are willingto put hip-hop where

ballet and modern

are the standard

line. Lively Arts

has done just that, and

will present Rennie Harris

Puremovement on Saturday at

8 p.m., with an abbreviated

family matinee at 3 p.m.

stav ZIVcontact s tav:

sz [email protected]

3friday january 21 2011

danceA hip-hop history:Rennie Harris Puremovement

The Stanford Savoyardspresent Princess Ida

Courtesy Toni Gauther

Choreographer Rennie Harris leads a hip-hop class for the Institutefor Diversity in the Arts. Rennie Harris Puremovement will performin Memorial Auditorium on Saturday.

Courtesy Brian

Mengini

Dancer Brian Newby

Calling all Gilbert and

Sullivan fans! The

Stanford Savoyards is

ready to kick off the new quar-

ter with their production of the

comedic opera, Princess Ida,based on Lord Alfred Tennysons

acclaimed narrative poem The

Princess.

One of the lesser-known of

the celebrated partners collabo-

rative works, Princess Ida first

premiered in January 1884 at

the Savoy Theater in London. It

tells the story of a 21-year-old

girl who is determined to escape

her arranged marriage andinstead run a school for women.

As part of a political

maneuver, Ida (played by Alicia

Triana 13) was married to

Prince Hilarion, son of King

Hildebrand, at the young age of

one. On her 21st birthday, Idas

father, King Gama, was to bring

her to Hildebrands palace so

that the couple could live

together as husband and wife.However, given her devotion to

the education of women, and

her desire to assert the rights of

her sex, Ida is not present on the

day in question. Living in one of

Gamas homes somewhere in

the countryside, Ida has started

a womans university called

Castle Adamant.

Furious at the violation of

the contract between the twokingdoms, King Hildebrand

takes King Gama and his men

prisoner and threatens to kill

them should Ida be unwilling to

return from the school after

Prince Hilarion has arrived to

fetch her.

This lively musical is a

satire of feminism, womens

education and Darwinian evolu-

tion, and given its innocent, eas-ily understood plot, is sure to be

enjoyed by audiences of all ages.

Incorporating a number of

ridiculous characters from a

woman obsessed with the

mighty Must who dreams of

being able to expound on her

theories on the intricacies of the

English language to her students

daily to a trio of somewhat

dimwitted soldiers,PrincessIdawill keep its audiences

laughing throughout the show.

The Stanford Savoyards is a

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12/16

You know how some-

times you go to the

movies to see a comedy

and find that the only funny

parts in the movie had

already been shown in the pre-

view? Thats my biggest movie pet

peeve second only to the people

who clap at the end of a movie

and thats exactly what I imagined

the The Green Hornet cinematic

experience to be like. Oh how

wrong I was.

Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is a

goofy 20-something party boy who

is forced to man up when his

father, owner of Los Angeles The

Daily Sentinel, unexpectedly dies.

As heir to the monstrous fortune

and responsibility, Britt does what

any other incredibly wealthy and

powerful young individual would

do: he decides to employ his

resources, one of which is his

fathers Swiss Army knife-like

mechanic Kato (Jay Chou), and

fight crime under the name The

Green Hornet. Even though

Rogen plays the same character heseems to play in all of his movies,

his comedic manipulation of the

comic book hero makes

The Green Hornet

unconventional, funny and

simply entertaining.

Unlike most other sober,

melodramatic comic book hero

movies, The Green Hornet

rounds up all superhero clichs,

takes them for a spin in Britt and

Katos super sweet ride and then

shoots them with a fart gun.

Diversion from the norm sets this

movie apart. For example, instead

of a maniac demonic villain, we

get Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz

of Inglourious Basterds),

the insecure, self-con-

scious, wannabe bad

guy. Instead of a

crime-fighting team

that righteously fights

for justice, we get a

bromance that decides

to clean up the streets of

L.A. after realizing their

lives have been inconsequential

up until that moment.And instead

of guys in tights and capes, we get

dudes who kick butt in attire GQwould be proud of. Again, disre-

gard for the traditional seriousness

that plagues most

films makes The

Green Hornet an unex-

pected breath of fresh air

in the comic book hero

genre.

The cast surprised me as well,

given that many notable stars

signed on to play arguably

insignificant roles. I mentioned

earlier that Waltz played

Chudnofsky, the bad guy, and

sadly did not take the character as

far as he could have, given his per-

formance as ber-Nazi Col. Hans

Landa in Inglourious Basterds.

Cameron Diaz (TheresSomething About Mary) plays

Lenore Case, the love interest of

both Britt and Kato talk about

trouble in parbrodise and

Edward James Olmos (Stand and

Deliver) plays Axford, papa Reids

most trusted advisor at The Daily

Sentinel. Neither star delivers a

poor performance, though neither

star has enough material to make a

remarkable performance either

way.

The star-filled cast did not add

or subtract to the quality of the

film and thus was unnecessary,

with the exception of Rogen and

Chou, who were a great goof-

ball/straight-man pair. Viewing the

film in 3-D was also unnecessary,

because the third dimension was

mostly used to display depth of

field rather than to have bullets

and kicks flying in your face. My

advice to you would be to get

yourself some popcorn with the

extra money you save not viewing

3-D.

Nonetheless, the superfluous

star cast and 3-D antics are neither

here nor there; the moral of this

story is that The Green Hornet is

a great movie to watch if you just

want to sit back and laugh.

elsa PARRA

contact e l sa:

[email protected]

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the vital stats

student-run theater company

that has been organizing operas

since its inception in 1973. Each

year, the company produces two

Gilbert and Sullivan musicals

for the Stanford communityand the surrounding area. Not

limited to Stanford affiliates,

their shows attract a wide

assortment of members, from

students, faculty and staff to

Palo Alto residents to those

studying at other universities in

the region. As a part of the cast,

members have the opportunity

to explore the many aspects of

theater production, from help-

ing construct and decorate sets

to even working on some of the

costumes.

Theyre very self-reliant,

so it was very new for me to not

only be a part of the perform-

ance, but also part of the set

building, Triana said. It was

definitely cool to get in touch

with all the different parts of

the theater.

This winter production,

comprised of a talented group

of performers, musicians and

crew members, is to be followed

by Iolanthe in the spring of

this year.

We have people of all lev-

els of experience, so if you know

absolutely nothing about the-

ater, its a great way to learn,

said director Greg Anderson.

Audition and production staffinformation for Iolanthe will

be made available in the coming

weeks.

Princess Ida is playing in

Dinkelspiel Auditorium on

Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.,

with a matinee performance on

Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are

$16 general admission, $12 for

Stanford staff and seniors and

$8 for students.

jordan HART

contact jordan:

[email protected]

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13/16

Season of the

Witch, a thriller-

action movie featur-

ing Nicolas Cage(National

Treasure) and Ron

Perlman

(Hellboy), sadly

fails to meet the audi-

ences expectations with

a clichd storyline, extreme

predictability and distasteful

gruesomeness. Furthermore, the

movie is coarsely made, paying

no respect to careful editing.The movie opens with the

hanging of witches, a scene that

sets the dark tone of the movie.

Season of the Witch is a classic

story of crusaders saving human-

ity from the curse of some evil

force. At the outset, the two disil-

lusioned crusaders, Behmen

(Cage) and his pal Felson

(Perlman) are deserting the

Church after fighting countless

bloody wars and murdering

many innocent people in the

name of God. But whats waiting

for them back home is the terri-

ble Black Plague, believed to be a

curse cast by the black witch.

Recaptured by the Church,

Behman and Felson are forced on

a treacherous journey to escort a

young girl, the accused witch, to

a faraway monastery to destroy

her power and save the world.

Such is the storyline that

serves as the bible for almost all

action-hero movies. The only

problem with copying a template,

though, is the lack of creativity,

which is the main defect that

plagues this movie. Nothing is

new, and the movie is so pre-

dictable that the audience in the

cinema was constantly mutteringlines before the actors themselves

did. We couldnt help but admit

that this is an unsuccessfully

Quick camera shots of a

1930s microphone accom-

panied by clever and

melodic piano tunes open another

stunning British film in which Colin

Firth is the shining star.

The Kings Speech, directed

by Tom Hooper, tells the story of

Albert Frederick Arthur George,

Duke ofYork (Firth), whose promi-nent speech impediment promotes

an unexpected yet exceptionally

complementary relationship with

Lionel Logue,a speech therapist

played by the incomparable Geoffrey

Rush.

The film, taking place in

London just before England declares

war on Germany in 1939, engagingly

paints a portrait of Albert, nick-

named Bertie, the stammering sonof King George V. At the beginning

of the film,Albert reluctantly agrees

to accompany his loving wife

Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter)

to yet another speech therapy

appointment, in an attempt to cor-

rect his humiliating imperfection.

Here he meets Logue, a modest

Australian whose quirky manner-

isms, confident tone and unconven-

tional methods of speech correctioninitially shock and upset Albert.

Logue insists on calling the duke

Bertie, emphasizing equality

between the therapist and patient,

and their sessions include rolling on

the floor and rounds of heavy curs-

ing and singing. Logues direct and

witty comments bring humor to the

film as this commoner cleverly dis-

regards the norms of interacting

with royalty.

Alberts remarkably uncomfort-

able attempts to speak are well-

emphasized by the cinematography

of the film shots of Firths face

and mouth fill the screen so that

even the audience feels nervous

every time he talks and attempts to

make words in between stutters andclucking sounds.

Logues optimism and will to

succeed offset Alberts lack of self-

confidence and constant embarrass-

ment. Meanwhile,Logue is aided by

Alberts wife, Elizabeth, who shows

unfailing support for her husband.

Bonham Carters role is modest but

crucial, and she plays it flawlessly.

Not unexpectedly, Alberts trust

of Lionel grows throughout the film.The strength and courage in Albert

slowly emerge from their hiding

place, as does the truth of his sad

childhood.As in many other British

films, the drama and imperfections

of the royal family are revealed by

Alberts past as well as through the

actions of Alberts careless older

brother David,who becomes King

Edward VIII (Guy Pearce).Davids

relationship with the divorce WallisSimpson (Eve Best) leads to his

abdication of the crown in favor of

Albert.

The upcoming coronation adds

to the intensity and stress of the

plot, as Albert and his speech are put

to the test. He must prove himself to

his country and provide his people

with the moral leadership and

courage they will need for the trials

ahead. The pressure of his family,

the press and the nation is on.

Colin Firth has just nabbed the

Golden Globe for best male per-

formance in a motion picture

drama, and rumors of Academy

Award nominations for The Kings

Speechare no surprise. This film

sits at the top of the years movies.

And wears a crown.

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n Late for Tea at the Deer Palace, Tamara

Chalabi writes a colorful family history, a

story inextricably tied to the recent tumultin Iraq.She follows several generations of her

family through domestic milestones like mar-

riage,detailing the inevitable public life that

came with being one of the prominent families

of Baghdad in the turbulent period from the

end of World War II until Saddam Husseins

rise and fall.

Chalabi reveals a side of Iraq that is often

overlooked amid todays news reports about

strife and radicalism, one populated by real

people that easily capture the readers sympa-thies.Chief among these characters is Bibi,the

authors grandmother,who plays a prominent

role throughout the story. She is a self-assured,

vibrant woman who immediately hits it off

with her father-in-law,the politician Abdul

Hussein Chalabi,charming him with her unla-

dylike interest in current events and the outside

world. We see her eventually lay aside her abaya,

the long black veil by which conservative

Muslim women are often characterized, under

the influence of a progressive movement that

sweeps through Baghdad, and the Chalabi

household with it.

Bibi is an excellent portrayal of a three-

dimensional Iraqi woman, neither the terrified

and oppressed Muslim wife nor the recklessly

defiant runaway bride of conventional Western

media; her unexpected defiance gives the reader

rare insight into what is often seen as a mono-

lithic,alien culture. Indeed, one of the best and

most fascinating aspects of the book is its por-trayal of the interaction between Western and

Middle Eastern culture in Baghdad as the city,

already diverse and populous by Middle Eastern

standards, struggles to modernize.(This is per-

haps best captured by Chalabis sensitive por-

trayal of the Iraqi Jewish community.)

Bibi, as a woman of means, the wife of a

prominent family,is the perfect mouthpiece for

such a conflict. Through her eyes, we see Iraq as

it once was,a society with a rich cultural her-

itage,clinging to vestiges of its former grandeur.Hints of mosaic tiles and lush Persian carpets

and a city bristling with minarets all recall the

splendor of old Mesopotamia; throughout the

book, there is a palpable longing for the glory

days of yore.

The Chalabis were a wealthy and influen-

tial household; their estate was known as Deer

Palace for the distinctive statue of a deer that

graced its front lawn. There,they entertained a

number of luminaries of the day,including

King Faisal himself. Bibi saw much of her

extended family, including several of her chil-

dren,go into politics at a time of instability, fla-

grant abuse of power and cautious hope.While

Iraqi politics and the chronology of historical

events are, especially to a Western audience, less

engaging and often difficult to follow, Chalabi

handles them well, balancing the necessarily

drier parts with humor and personal anecdotes.

The readers confusion, especially with

regard to the morass of foreign names and his-tories, is to be expected in this sort of book.If

anything, Chalabi would be guilty of oversim-

plification;perhaps in an effort to render the

story more accessible (though one could go as

far as to call her somewhat black-and-white

politics self-indulgent her sympathies are

quite apparent), she writes the various factions

in a more heavy-handed, polarized manner

than is necessary.

It is apparent,regardless,that Chalabi, with

her doctorate in history, is more an academic bytrade than a storyteller. She writes with a mani-

fest passion for the subject matter but still man-

ages to deliver stretches of rather uninspiring

prose.She has an irksome tendency, particularly

at some of the critical, emotional moments in

the tale,to tell rather than show, as if she were

too cautious to tackle the subject matter head-

on.After Bibi recovers from an illness,Chalabi

says,rather tritely,When she recovered, they

appreciated just how precious she was to them,

just as she realized how important her family

and her homeland were to her.Equally awk-

ward are her attempts to splice her experiences

of Iraq in the modern day with the stories of

her grandparents in a pre-Saddam Baghdad;

her transitions are invariably jarring. This is fur-

ther exacerbated by the meandering,somewhat

inconsistent pacing of her story,an affliction

common to memoirs written by those unfamil-

iar with the form.

Tamara Chalabi is in the fortunate position

of having a compelling tale to tell, with the lin-

guistic competence and editorial acumen to tell

it adequately, if not beautifully. The strengths of

the book lie in the uniqueness and inherent

appeal of the story more so than the way she

presents it. It provides, nonetheless,a refreshing

perspective on the circumstances leading up to

todays conflicted Iraq.

sarah GUAN

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mundane exploration into the

theme of heroes, crusaders,knights, gods and witches.

Other than sporadic humor,

the whole movie portrays the jour-

ney as a dark, hard struggle

between the escorts and the witch

girl. The escorts are attacked, natu-

rally, and director Dominic Sena

surely intends to excite the crowd

with some graphic fighting scenes.

Yet again, action is just average in

this movie, and the suspense builtin the film is a yawn. In a word,

the movie is simply not that

thrilling.

Not even a sickening depiction

of the Black Plague spices up the

plot. The dying and the dead all

bear gross, monstrous appearancesthat outrageously exaggerate the

real symptoms of the bubonic

plague. The only thrill youll get

from the visual is the turning in

your stomach.

However, what is most unac-

ceptable about this movie is the

editing. In a scene with two people

on their rugged horses looking

into the distance, the epic atmos-

phere created by the limitless skyenveloping the vast land beneath

completely vanishes when a furry

microphone hangs down the top,

contrasting sharply with the back-

ground. The microphone shows up

three times in that scene, and we

have to wonder how that kind ofediting mistake could have possi-

bly been overlooked.

That being said, what else can

we expect of Cage after last years

equally predictable Knowing? It

seems Cage is past his prime. An

Academy Award proves Cages skill

as a thespian is certainly indis-

putable, but youd think hed have

the skill to pick better projects

than the disappointing Season ofthe Witch.

cindy NI

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15/16

The Golden Globes are notoriously

known as the Academy Awards lessimportant, boozier cousin.While they

may not have as much clout as their fellow

Oscars, the Globes certainly arent lacking in

the fashion department. Intermission presents

the good, the mehand the tragic from

Sundays award ceremony.

THEBEST

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Green was certainly the color of the night

see Angelina Jolie and Mila Kunis. However,none did it better than a regal Zeta-Jones in

her stunning Monique Lhuillier gown.

Olivia Wilde

The TRONstar made a splash with her

fabulous princess gown and balanced out the

drama of the Marchesa with a casual hairdo.

Dianna Agron

The Gleestars glamorous old-

Hollywood look was perfectly complemented

by her gorgeous retro waves.

Anne HathawayIts not easy to pull of the Dynasty-

esque shoulder pads of Hathaways Armani

Prive, especially when youre competing

against Angelina Jolie. After the equally sleek

Armani Prive Hathaway wore to the 2009

Academy Awards, we think were sensing a pat-

tern here and we certainly dont mind.

Eva Longoria

Why so sad Eva? The newly single

Longoria seemed to be channeling Morticia

Addams in her jet-black Zac Posen. But withthe gowns perfect, curve-hugging fit, mourn-

ing never looked so good.

ALMOST THERE

Emma Stone

Stone could have stunned in her orange

minimalist Calvin Klein but her borderline

Wayne Newton spray-tan made it uncomfort-

ably difficult to differentiate between fabric

and skin.

Nicole Kidman

Remember when Nicole Kidmans red

carpet dresses were something to be excited

about? There was the chartreuse Dior, the ice-

blue, feathered Chanel and the bright-red,big-bowed Balenciaga.She looks perfectly lovely in

this years one-shouldered, pale-yellow Prada

but the safe, bland choice makes us long for

the Nicole Kidman of red carpets past.

THE WORST

Helena Bonham Carter

Bonham Carter had several plum roles

last year as the Red Queen in Alice in

Wonderland, psychotic Bellatrix in Harry

Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part IandQueen Elizabeth in The Kings Speech.Too

bad she chose to channel the craziness of

Bellatrix and not the elegance of the Queen

with her crazy hair,confused dress and mis-

matched shoes.

Jennifer Lopez

J.Los known for her bold, fierce fashion

choices.So how does she explain this matronly

snore of a dress? The white Zuhair Murad

gown looks like a Davids Bridal cast-off

topped with some sort of weird, see-throughlampshade.

Halle Berry

You cant really blame Berry for flaunting

her rockinbod in this Nina Ricci bustier dress.

However, the deconstructed black dress with

its tulle mullet of a train comes off as more

tacky than classy.

Lea Michele

The usually reliable red-carpet darling

made a misstep with her unkempt hair and

disorganized,bubblegum-tinted Oscar de laRenta.After similarly monochromatic and

dramatic gowns at last years Emmys and

Golden Globes,it may also be time to shake

things up.

Natalie Portman

Portman was radiant with her newfound

maternal glow. Unfortunately, she tarnished it

with the cheap, craft-store rose awkwardly

glued to the front of her dress.

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CAGE THEELEPHANT

Rock

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Cage the Elephant are anti-establish-

ment and they want you to know it.

A grunge album for angsty

teenagers that want to affirm their individ-

uality but are too young to know of

Nevermind, Thank You, Happy

Birthday makes a great listen if youre

looking to buy into the fallacy of commer-

cial independence. And if youre one ofthose Indy Kidz, then stay away Cage

The Elephant are serious artists and want

nothing to do with your poser, sheep-herd

ways.

Although the album is good enough,

with a fair mix of head-bangers and

restrained ragers, the bands vocalist and

frontman Matt Schultz spends much too

much time protesting the system to be able

to deliver a sound record. Nevertheless,

with his slurred vocals and unbridled ener-gy, this latest release makes for a fun trib-

ute to the grunge generation of the early

90s.

One such testament to the Seattle

scene comes in the second track, wittily

titled Aberdeen after the childhood home

of Nirvana members Kurt Cobain and

Krist Novoselic. Coincidence or not, the

song features the distorted guitars, raging

vocals and distant background effects of

bands such as Nirvana and The Pixies.Instead of a Wall of Sound, the heavy gui-

tar riffs build up a Wall of Noise so thick

that even Schultzs characteristic husky

growl becomes difficult to discern.

Next on the track list,Indy Kidz

pokes fun at mindless indie music fans, but

at times its cynicism proves to be too

much, as does its raucous racket of guitars

and shameless drumming.Shake Me

Down, the obvious pick for first single,

provides a welcome rest from the dissonant

chords, and instead builds a more passive

version of grungy rock. One of the most

enjoyable songs on the album, its

restrained vocals and rhythmic guitar

plucking are reminiscent of another Cage

the Elephant single with staying power,

Back Against the Wall.

2024, an absurdly catchy, short num-

ber that revitalizes the album like a shot of

adrenaline, is followed by the heaviest track

on the album, Sell Yourself. An angry,

uninhibited rager, it voices mock lyrics

apparently inspired by their label. You are

ready for the masses . . . Sell yourself, dont

be a fool, a decidedly pissed Schultzscreeches into the mike. Coupled with

MGMTs The Handshake, these may be

the two strongest tracks to antagonize the

music industry. To counter the outrage,

Rubber Ball follows. Gentle strumming

on the guitar and breathy vocals make for a

beautifully muted acoustic session that lulls

and comforts the way 2024 energizes.

The best track on the album is by far

Right Before My Eyes, an indie pop keep-

er which refreshingly pays service to noone. Schultz drops his voice to a straight-

forward drone, while the restrained guitars,

drums and cymbals deliver the easiest lis-

ten on the album. The lyrics convey the

deepest introspection and the muted power

chords the best wrap-up on the album.

After a couple of other scruffy punk

numbers, Flow, the last track on the

album, rolls around. A twangy Americana

song, it develops slowly, unfolding swirling

vocals, hand drums and some shaken per-cussions to end on a subdued tribal mood.

After a good 15 seconds of silence, a

stripped down version of Right Before My

Eyesmakes an encore.

As a whole, the album presents a sur-

prisingly wide array of genres, but is still

deeply indebted to the rule-bending bands

of the early 90s. And while there are subtle

gems in the track list, it suffers too much

from its uneasy, redundant attacks on the

music scenes hypocritical standards to be

taken for a stellar release.

maria DEL CARMEN BARRIOS

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S

ki trip comes at a delicate

time in the school year. Lets

face it for most, Roxyincluded, the beginning of fall

quarter is a time filled with utter

and unfettered potential: from the

cute guy upstairs to that hot rower

down the hall to the programmer

in her class that Roxy wants to pep-

per with talk both nerdy and dirty.

But by the time January rolls

around, fall flings have awkwardly

faded, the regrettable dormcest

hookup still passes your door everytime youre headed to a meal and

rumor has it that the cutie down-

stairs dumped the significant other

over break. Its a whole different

ball game.

When it comes to ski trip,

Roxy knows that the combination

of mountain air, close quarters and

(Smirnoff) ice can catalyze some

awkward and some completely

delicious drama up in Tahoe. Formaximum enjoyment of your time

in the snow, Roxys foolproof tips

will guarantee a little extra soreness

no,not from snowboarding

as well as a chance to leave behind

a creative snow angel after a tryst in

the snowbank.

The first setting for the art of

ski trip flirtation is on the slopes.

Roxys feminist side usually argues

that girls can do anything guys can

do, but even shell admit that girls

have it easier in situations like

group sports. If youre an alpine

master, boys will be impressed; if

youre stuck on the green slopes, its

still easy to look cute even when

you fall. Roxys a pretty skilled skier

herself, but even she wouldnt be

above spending her day on the easy

slopes if it means getting some

helpfrom that cute ski instructor

or from a ruggedly handsome dor-mmate. Shoop, shoop, indeed.

Then, after the lifts close for

the day, the inevitable question

back at the cabin creeps up: hottub? Brief disclaimer: Roxys got a

high tolerance for the questionable,

but shell admit that sometimes hot

tubs are gross and drinking in a

hot tub can lead to increased dehy-

dration. But more often, drinking

in a hot tub can also lead to, for

lack of a better word, results. This,

Roxy thinks, could be the begin-

ning of a beautiful affair.

And finally, when all hascalmed down for the night and

people are passing out left and

right, Roxy advises readers to keep

their wits about them: a strategical-

ly chosen sleeping placement

amidst the general brouhaha could

be key to future endeavors. Even if

nothing goes down during ski trip,

waking up next to a dormmate

plants a seed in ones mind that can

later blossom into the planting ofseed elsewhere. Dont question

Roxys inception skills.

roxy SASS

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