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By WILLA BROCKCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Stanford Hospital will increaseits payment of community bene-fits to the city of Palo Alto in orderto offset the impact of its pro-posed expansion, it announcedlast Wednesday.

The new $173 million offer is$49 million more than the originalproposal, an increase that Stan-ford hopes will help its chances ata Jan.31 study session at the CityCouncil.

Our ability to put forward arevised community benefits offeris a result of hearing and respond-ing, said Shelley Hebert, execu-tive director of public affairs atStanford Hospital and Clinics,both to the issues raised in thedialogue with the community andthe information availablethrough the environmental im-pact report.

The proposed benefits now in-

clude $126 million in transporta-tion-related benefits, $12 millionto the city for use in projects andprograms addressing climatechange and $23.2 million to thecity to support affordable housingand sustainable neighborhoodand community development, ac-cording to a Stanford Hospitalnews release.

The community-benefits pay-ments aim to ease some of thecitys concerns about possible ef-fects of the Stanford UniversityMedical Center Renewal Project,including traffic, housing and en-vironmental impacts.

Council member and formermayor Pat Burt cites increasedtraffic from the project as themost significant challenge.

We have to figure out how wecan accommodate a major expan-sion without putting the streets ina gridlock, he said.

Stanford has agreed to pur-chase Caltrain Go-Passes for allits current and future hospital em-ployees in order to mitigate the

traffic impact. The recently in-creased price of these

passes is a

factor in the enhancement of thecommunity benefits.

Burt sees this result, whichcould possibly reduce the expect-ed traffic by 75 percent, as morethan just a financial success.Ivetried this past year to reframe thepublic discussion, he said. Itsnot about dollars. Its about cre-ative solutions.

The new proposal would alsoaccelerate the payment schedule.We think one of the positive fea-tures of this new proposal is thatnot only does it increase very sub-stantially in terms of its financialvalue, said Hebert,but it makesfunds available to the city soon-er.

Hebert was careful to empha-size that the money for these com-munity benefits will not come outof the Stanford endowment.

Many people mistakenly be-lieve that the hospitals have ac-cess to university endowmentfunds, she said. These fundscome directly from the hospitals.

The $3 billion renewal projectallows for the demolition and re-construction of the Stanford Hos-pital and Clinics complex and the

renovation and expansion ofthe Lucile Packard Chil-

drens Hospital for atotal addition of 1.3

million square feet.Hebert cites several reasons

for the importance of the expan-sion.

We need to comply with thestate seismic safety laws,she said.We need to ensure that we haveadequate capacity to take care ofour patients and the communityand we need to bring some of our1950s-era facilities up to modernstandards so that the advances inboth medical care and technologythat are going to be happening inthe 21st century are available toall our patients here at Stanford.

She is optimistic that the pro-posal will be well-received by thecity council, and Burt agrees.Praising Stanfords efforts to mit-igate the environmental impactsof the project by designing greenbuildings, he said they have alsohelped to reduce town-and-gowncontention.

Its not only good for thisproject, he said,but I think itssetting the foundation for a muchstronger and more positive rela-tionship between the Universityand the city.

Contact Willa Brock at [email protected].

Broken water main

floods classrooms

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

A water main broke Tuesdaymorning between Buildings 260 and300, causing some classroom dam-age and prompting several classes torelocate.

After the main broke between 10and 11 a.m.,water flooded the base-

ment of Building 260,known as thelanguage corner.About an inch anda half of standing water coveredclassroom floors in the basement,causing extensive damage to the car-pet, said Julie Hardin-Stauter, asso-ciate director of zone management.All basement classrooms in thebuilding are closed,and classes nor-mally held in those rooms will be re-located for two to three weeks whiledamages are repaired.

Meanwhile, technicians workedTuesday afternoon to repair themain between the buildings.The six-inch plastic line is about 10 years oldand surrounds Building 300, accord-ing to Bob Park, the Universitywater shops lead technician. He ex-pected repairs would be finished bythe end of the day, restoring water to

Buildings 40,50,260 and 300,Memo-rial Church and a nearby mens rest-room.

Elizabeth Titus and Ellen Huet

Assault investigation

continues

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The police investigation into an alleged as-sault on Jan.3 is ongoing,according to Bill Lar-son of the Stanford Department of PublicSafety (DPS).No suspect been identified, andDPS is contacting local law enforcement agen-cies for reports of similar incidents.

A female student

was allegedly assault-ed near ManzanitaField, where she waswalking alone. Ac-cording to an e-mailalert from DPS, a manapproached the stu-dent from behind andcovered her mouthwith his hand. He fledafter she tried to bitehim.

DPS has deter-mined that the case isnot related to an as-sault that occurrednear campus over Thanksgiving break.

The Department of Public Safety remindsthe community to always be aware of your sur-roundings, Larson said. Travel in pairs, uselighted paths,be familiar with the locations of

the blue 911 emergency towers and to call 9-1-1 immediately to report suspicious persons oractivities.

Ivy Nguyen

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The ASSU Undergraduate Senate headfrom representatives of the Faculty Sen-ates ad hoc committee on ROTC at itsweekly meeting Tuesday evening and dis-cussed the issue of ROTCs possible returnto campus.

Student representatives from StanfordSays No to War and Stanford Students forQueer Liberation (SSQL) attended and

contributed to the debate.Its your party,said psychology profes-

sor Ewart Thomas,chair of the ad hoc com-mittee on ROTC, welcoming questionsfrom the senators.

Thomas outlined some of the central is-sues surrounding ROTCs potential returnto campus, such as academic freedom andacademic quality for ROTC students.

Holding a copy of the San Jose MercuryNews,Thomas referenced a Jan.24 opinionpiece by Stephen Zunes,a politics professorat the University of San Francisco. Zunessaid he takes issue with a Dec. 8 ROTCmemo prohibiting student use of classifiedinformation from WikiLeaks for course as-signments,a policy he regards as sacrificingacademic freedom.

What this looks like is,censorship couldbe imposed on a class that Stanford has ahand in managing, Thomas said. This, Ithink,would be problematic.

Sam Windley L.L.M. 11, president ofStanford Says No to War, also commentedon the opinion, describing a slipperyslope when a university allows an outsideinstitution, such as the military, to deter-mine what is appropriate course material.

Academic freedom is something Stan-ford should,and does,place a lot of empha-sis on,Windley said.

This is an issue affecting us in a largercontext than just ROTC, said Hester Gel-ber, committee member and professor ofreligious studies,in reference to students in-terested in diplomacy careers being advisedto avoid looking at WikiLeaks documents.

Senator Ben Jensen 12 raised the issueof class disparity in military service and ref-erenced his own experience. He weighed acareer in the Air Force against coming to

Student groups presentviews to ad hoc committee

HOSPITALOFFERS$173MDEALPalo Alto City Council to discuss hospital expansion Jan.31

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Technicians work to repair a water main that broke Tuesday morning, flooding classrooms in thebasement of Building 260. Classes in the flooded rooms will be relocated until the damage is fixed.

NEWS BRIEFS

Courtesy of SUDPS

Police released asketch of the allegedassailant in the Jan. 3assault. The investiga-tion remains ongoing.

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By KELSEY GEISER

The intellectual inquiry occur-ring each day at Stanfordprompts the question of how

research can best be accessedand put to use for the benefit

of all.Enter the Public Knowledge Project.The project works on how to make

precious new information easily avail-able to anyone who wants it. Educationprofessor and project director JohnWillinsky has been working on the proj-ect since 1998.He began with the prem-ise that research should be made morewidely available. Since then,the projecthas taken a more technological direc-tion.

It revolves around free, download-able software that provides scholarswith the means to launch new or exist-ing journals and the option to makethose journals free and publicly avail-able. With this open-source option,the project aims to have many scholars

join it in its mission to improve the qual-ity of public research not only in theU.S., but also all over the world.

We can make knowledge availableonline more easily, more widely andmore cheaply,Willinsky said.

The project involves mainly soft-ware developers, researchers and li-brarians, who together created open

journals and conference systems andare currently working on an openmonograph press. The journals systemprovides a publishing platform that al-lows scholars not only to make theirhard-earned information widely avail-able,but also to easily manage the jour-nals, edit and peer-review submissionsand carry out the overall publishingprocess.

The scholars who use the software to

publish their journals do not have to gothrough commercial publishers. Thismeans the project does not publish the

journals itself. Rather, it facilitates thepublication process so scholars can doso easily and efficiently.

More than 7,500 titles in 35 lan-guages are using the software, half indeveloping countries. The journals ad-dress a wide range of topics, from artsand poetry to medicine,and can be pub-lished by anyone from a high school stu-dent to a university professor.

One of the journals is printed inKiswahili, making it the programs first

journal in an African language.

We are trying to help developingcountries use their own language tocontribute from their own perspectivebut still with scholarly standards,Will-insky said.

Juan Pablo Alperin,a researcher andsystems developer in the project, hasspent time researching and runningworkshops across Latin America to dis-cover how best to help editors in the re-gion publish research journals.

I see the open-access movement

and the work that we do as aimed athelping journals in these regions thatare not currently valued by the systemachieve visibility, recognition and pres-tige,Alperin said.

He and others working toward thisgoal around the world have found it dif-ficult to encourage people to changehow they publish their work. Alperinhas been working to reverse this aver-sion to open forums for research byusing technology to shift the landscapeof what is possible.

Jamie OKeeffe, a fellow researcherin the open-access movement, is mak-ing similar strides in the medical field.She is working on a journal researchingthe impact of open journal resources bylooking at health care providers.

OKeefes research is an explorato-ry study to investigate the current state

of access, she said in an e-mail to TheDaily. She found through interviewswith health care providers that criticaldecisions physicians needed to makedepended on their access to particularresearch articles.

The projects open conference sys-tems allow users to easily manage largemeetings. It helps them to create web-pages, to schedule, to review submis-sions, to create registries and to organ-ize the small but important details ofconference planning.

The program is also working on anopen monograph press,which will allowfor free access to monographs, editedvolumes and scholarly editions,many ofwhich are especially difficult for devel-oping countries to access.

The project plans on expanding its

mission, especially in the field of stu-dent journals and in further supportingthe active participation of developingcountries in the global network.

The project has taken technologicalleaps towards making journals easilyavailable.However,its long-term goal isto make all scholarly information open-ly accessible.

About 20 percent of research is nowfreely available,and we are not going tostop until it is 99.9 percent, Willinskysaid.

Contact Kelsey Geiser at [email protected].

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By KELSEY GEISER

Lucyann Murray 12 has loved andlived for snowboarding since child-hood. Now shes making biggerstrides for the sport:she is taking win-ter quarter off to train. Since high

school,Murray has struggled to balance toughclasses with her training regimen and travelschedule.Now she is focused on finding out justhow far she can push her competitive passion.

Murray is originally from Washington, D.C.She learned to snowboard at age 9 and startedcompeting in freestyle events at 14 with theWintergreen Snowboard Team in Virginia.When her family moved to Greenwich,Conn.,

after her freshman year of high school, Murraycontinued her devotion.

She joined the Stratton Mountain Snow-board Team in Vermont to compete regionally,despite the lengthy commute. Training withthat team opened my eyes to what I could bedoing, she said.

She faced setbacks, including tearing herACL in the spring of her senior year of highschool.But Murray was not discouraged.

I believe there are a lot of barriers, butwhen you set your heart to something that isworth it, those barriers only make things moreexciting,and Im ready to take on those barri-ers with all Ive got:sweat, tears,frustration andall, she wrote in a blog post documenting herquarter away.

Murray entered Stanford with a goal: Ineeded to focus on school and see if I got fullrecovery,she said.

She succeeded, recovering enough to com-pete in national events her freshman year.Now,her recovery has progressed to the point whereshe does not even need to wear a knee bracewhile practicing.

Her return demanded hard work, includingstrength and conditioning training with CarlPaoli, founder of Naka Athletics, six days aweek in San Francisco for the past year.

Paoli and Naka Athletics use a variety oftechniques to prepare extreme athletes for theunusual moves they are expected to performevery day.For physical performance,they focuson basic gymnastics skills, weightlifting, trackand field and trampoline training. They alsoapply nutrition knowledge to fuel the athletesfor intense physical activity.

This kind of training will enable Murray topractice for more extended periods withgreater ease. It creates an awareness of howthe body works that is really going to translateinto all the skill she does,Paoli said.

As to how strength training improved thecondition of her injured knee, Murray said,Idont think I would be where I am without it.

For her first two years on the Farm, Murrayhad to plan her academic schedule around astrenuous schedule of training and snowboard-ing competitions. She took no classes on Fri-days and spent every Friday,Saturday and Sun-day traveling to Lake Tahoe to participate onthe Squaw Valley ski team. She lived with theStanford ski team on the weekends.

Such restrictions limited her academicchoices, and often she was unable to take theclasses she either wanted or needed to take.She spent much of her time catching up withclasses that she missed due to competitions andtook many exams on the road.

It wasnt always easy, but it was definitely alearning experience, Murray said.

She found a flexible home in the human biol-ogy program. With her major in order,Murraycould complete all the necessary courses forwinter ahead of time, allowing her to take thisquarter to focus on her snowboarding and, asshe says,get a grasp on how far I can take it.

With the support of her family, friends andcoaches, Murray is currently practicing and liv-ing with her teammates on the Wasatch ProjectGrom Squad in Utah and training with coachesRyan Bever and Dustin Linker.She is compet-ing in freestyle snowboarding, which includes

jumps and rails.Her results in 2010 included third place at

the Burton AM Series Halfpipe, ninth place atthe Burton AM Series Slopestyle and thirdplace at the USSA Revolution Tour Slopestyle.Previously, she was named Red Bully SnowWarz Best Female Rider in 2009 and receivedfirst place at the Volcom Peanut Butter RailJam in 2008.

To keep her family, friends and supportersup to date on life away from Stanford,Murrayhas been keeping up her blog.

This season, she wrote there, is aboutpushing boundaries, defying odds and dancingwith dreams.

Contact Kelsey Geiser at [email protected].

Courtesy of Lucyann Murray

Junior Lucyann Murray skips winter quarter tosnowboard competitively


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SEN T FRO M MY IPHON E

This is my last column. Fourmonths ago,I was frantically e-mailing my editors my colum-

nist application.Two years ago, I wastelling people how I wanted to writea column,but was still scoping out theperfect topic. Now Im on the otherside of all that. Its incredible. (Well,at least for me,because there are fewthings in life I contemplate lightly.Read on youll see.)

Throughout this Daily volume,an interesting thought has beenflourishing in my noggin. Prior tomy first column, I was very con-cerned about how new topics wouldarise.It had occurred to me that life-

changing Earth-quaking events(great writing inspiration) dontstart and end neatly before 4 p.m.deadlines. And I still assume thatstrue. But, somehow, I have alwayshad something major to share eachweek, something really importantto me.Particularly as my junior yearhas progressed (or basically half-disappeared while I wasnt look-ing),Ive been realizing from wheremy biggest lessons truly come andhow Ive been able to write about anew aspect of my life here as eachWednesday approaches. I neverneeded exotic countries or dramat-ic catastrophes or prize-winning ac-complishments every seven days.What I needed was what Ive alwayshad, which is a world of peoplearound me that have unknowingly

revealed countless truths and reali-ties,to me and about me.Our wholelives are like this. Its dawning onme now.

Sometimes I think that we inad-vertently play our lives like a waitinggame.We start seeing our current ac-tions as investments,or intermediatesteps to a destination. Especially atStanford, were all quietly aware ofthe pressure to achieve an amazingfeat quite soon, so we prepare our-selves nonstop while were here. Ivebeen falling victim to that mentalityrecently via Stanfords trademark ob-session for the big summer internship.I was suffocating beneath the missionto find that one amazing internshipthat will best take me straight to thekiller post-grad career I havent cho-sen yet.For a brief,mindless period inmy head, my summer was only asworthwhile as how well it would serveme afterward.Isnt that the strangestchronology? Since when is value onlyfuture tense? Its about time I re-membered that my greatest experi-ences are happening right now, liter-ally,constantly. . .

The proof is this column. For thepast 13 weeks, Ive been writingabout realizations that have been ut-

terly valuable to me and questionsthat would make me feel selfish if Ididnt pose them to others. But no-body on the outside has seen metransform 13 times. Maybe theyveseen a student hanging out withfriends,chatting on the phone, meet-ing someone.Those are the real set-

tings of my biggest revelations. Itsmisleadingly nondescript. Whatsthat one clich, though? Big thingscome in small packages?Im tellingyou,its true.I discover so much moreabout this world to be in awe about

just by hanging a weekly whatsup? question over my head justin conversations about the day andour lives.Ive grown more suspect ofthe word ordinaryconsidering howmany of those ordinary situationshave left me thoughtfully,speechless-ly surprised. And then, you know, Iwrote about them to you.

It now seems ridiculous to wait forthat growth experience to happen later. That phrase is always at-tached to the future-thing-youve-got-to-apply-for or whatever.No, thisdoesnt mean that Im suddenly ig-

noring my GPA or the CDC websiteor my resume, because yes, I do be-lieve that our best-version futureusually requires big work before-hand.We have the privilege of goingto a school that unlocks a zillion op-portunities (and also the privilege tocomplain about them). But in all ofthese presentmoments that appearusual or useful-for-later, Ive foundmyself growing,realizing and under-standing in completely unexpectedways. Today Im going to overhearsomething interesting or meet some-one weirdor get really annoyed byan opinion and, at the end, have thechoice to sum it all up to just anotherforgettable day.

But I cant help it Ill probablychoose to see the extraordinary in allof it instead.And that right there isquite possibly one of the greatest,lit-tlest everyday habits Ive ever pickedup. It sounds extreme, but Im seri-ous.Dare I say it? I believe its chang-ing my life.

Nina wishes you a final columnfarewell, but this neednt be the end!You can find her at ninamc@stan-

ford.edu. She promises to get back toyou.

Iwas going to use what might bemy last chance to make all ofStanford listen to me with a very

pseudo-intellectual ruminationabout the cultural history of the hot

prowl and its ubiquity as Stanfordslatest party theme, but I just so hap-pened to open The Daily on Mon-day to discover that my entiretenure at this great Western univer-sity has existed in violation of theFundamental Standard, a publicservice announcement courtesy ofClifford Nass,Otero resident fellow(Op-ed: Time to stop the alcoholnonsense,Jan. 24).

Fuck that, and heres why: thisintelligent professor claimed thatthere is evidence that approxi-mately 50 percent of all people witha BAC of .40 or higher will dieandthat unnamed Stanford studentswithout integrity narrowly avoidedmurdering someone. I have foundfrom Internet sources that Im sureare as reliable as the ones he quotedin his op-ed that approximately 25out of 12 million college studentsdie from alcohol-related incidents(which may include more thanstraight alcohol poisoning) everyyear. I am quite willing to bet thatmore than 50 college students reacha BAC of > .40 every year.

The reason the report of this stu-dents BAC came from the hospitaland not the morgue is that those

same Stanford students who drinkin a self-serving manner called 911when they suspected that theirfriend had drunk too much precise-ly so he/she/ze would not die, de-

spite the administrations inevitableknowledge of it and all the falloutthat might result.That students sur-vival was most certainly not a coinflip.

Despite the fact that alcohol is adrug, and that no one blames thedealer whenever theres a cocaineoverdose, the exceptionally learnedDr.Nass still chastises students whoknowingly provide a dangerousamount of alcohol to the studentwho becomes intoxicated.With theexception of some pledge horrorstories, no one at Stanford givespeople drinks that will take some-one to .40. (For the record, thatseight shots in an hour for someonewhos 90 pounds.)

A more likely culprit was someunattended hard alcohol that thehospitalee, who had pre-gamed be-forehand, was still fiending forwhen he/she/ze showed up at theparty. I think I missed the part in theSAL Party Guide that requiresbreathalyzer tests upon entry andthat the hosts conduct regularsweeps for hard A,so where was theFundamental Standard violationagain?

But the provider should be irrel-evant, because in your worldview,all people with integrity would havecalled the RF after they saw thisperson drinking extremely largequantities of alcohol over a shortperiod of time (because Im sureyou really want to be called everytime that happens to one of yourresidents), and upon notification,

what exactly would this clearlymore knowledgeable professorhave done? Probably call 911, whichis what happened to the student inquestion in the first place. It is notthe job of every party attendant tobabysit everyone else. At the veryleast,dont hate on the kids who aredoing the right thing by walkingtheir friend home.

And if his affinity for the wordnonsense hadnt already done so,his plagiarism analogy fully betrayshis perspective as Angry, Out-of-Touch Old Man Yelling at Whipper-snappers. First off, no one plagia-rizes from a book anymore, unlessits been uploaded to the Internet.Second,the fluid and mobile natureof parties means that usually no oneis aware of the entire contents of

someones stomach on any givennight. According to his logic,

though, upon witnessing someonecopy and paste two sentences fromWikipedia, I should be able to claimwith authority that he/she/ze plagia-rized the entire paper.

Im sure Dr.Nass is a competentand fair RF. In a profile in 2008 headmirably said that his residentsneed to feel that theyre not goingto be yelled at.In Mondays op-ed,hes yelling at them and the entirestudent body and throwing aroundhis authority as a University-desig-nated parent who deserves to knowabout every drop of alcohol con-sumed by his residents.

As long as theres an environ-ment where the oh-so-nebulous

Fundamental Standard gets bran-dished as a blunt weapon and wherethe only people whose job it is towatch residents (i.e.the RAs) cantdo so in drinking environments,thats not going to happen. I knowits easy to sit in ones cottage andmake broad moral judgments aboutstudents at some of the more vul-nerable moments in their lives,but Iwish that the next time hes feelingcurmudgeonly, he just channels itinto more research about how kidsare dumber today because they liketo multitask. I really would ratherbe writing about hot prowls thisweek, but when all my classmatesand I are told that we lack integrity,I feel the need to defend them.

Shots, shots, shots shots shots, shots,

shots, shots shots shots shots, [email protected].

Its 9 a.m. on Saturday morning,and Im at the Cape Townminibus taxi rank. Its already

sunny out,and the wind is strong.Myfriend and I walk towards the Nyan-ga line, and as we approach we arebeckoned into the minibus at thefront of the line.

I move to the back and sit in thefourth and last row. My friend and I

are squished between two Xhosa-speaking high school girls.More pas-sengers pile into the bus. Fourteen,fifteen, sixteen, seventeen . . . therows magically accommodate morepeople. A man moves an orange,cloth-covered board into place in agap in the row in front of us to accom-modate yet another passenger.

All five rows of the bus are filled,including the front row that accom-

modates the driver on the far right.The heat inside the small bus is start-ing to intensify,and I can feel beads ofsweat on my forehead.The open win-dow nearest to me cant provide re-lief from the hot sun beating down onthe taxi rank.

We are pressed so tightly togetherthat I have to shift my body sidewaysso that I can force my hand deep

enough into my pocket to retrieve 20rand to pay the driver our fare.I notice a bright green parrot sit-

ting on top of the drivers seat,next tothe headrest, staring down the pas-sengers as they cram into theminibus.When we finally get moving,the parrot braces itself between theheadrest of the drivers seat and theside of the minibus its brightgreen body is held sideways through

each quick turn and its long tailbrushes the drivers face.

I point it out to the girl next to me,and she claims shes never seen oneon a minibus before.

We drive quickly out of the sta-tion,barely allowing a glimpse of thetall office buildings and clean streetsof the city bowl as we get on the free-way.Suddenly the suburbs fade away,

and in their place, on either side ofthe N2 freeway, metal shacks arelined up as far as the eye can see. Ona bright white cement wall, a blackserif font with perfectly formed let-ters reads, with you I am wellpleased.

Were getting close to Nyanganow.

Cape Towns minibuses form thedense transportation network that

connects the glittering city andbeaches with the abject poverty ofthe marginalized communities in theCape Flats.Its the only way to get toNyanga without hiring a car themetered taxis dont drive out here.

Sitting in the bus and looking outthe window, I am acutely aware thatmy skin color makes me a minorityand that my nationality makes me a

stranger.Its thrilling to be surround-ed by so many unfamiliar faces.When we finally arrive at the bus

station, were late for church its9:30 now.

The church elders greet us at thebus station and drive us quickly to theprimary school classroom that dou-bles as a worship space for the churchon Saturdays.The altar is a worktablecovered in purple velvet,and 50 plas-

tic chairs are assembled in three sec-tions with aisles in between.Forty ofthem are filled with members of thecongregation.

Two men deliver the sermon, al-ternating between Xhosa and Eng-lish, and tell the story of Nabal andAbigail,David and the Eagle Chick-en. The men go back and forth, andtheir intensity builds.We sing along in

English,our voices mingling with theXhosa hymns filling the room.As the church service enters its

third hour,my thoughts start to driftand I remember the bright green par-rot on the minibus. I really need tostart writing these things down.

Do you enjoy bus rides? Let EvanSpiegel know [email protected].

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The Last [Little] Note

Time to Stop the PaternalisticNonsense, Professor Nass

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Stanford.Stanford students are going to

be future leaders of the country andthe world, Jensen said. I hopetheres a careful eye in the way thatwe look at this.

Committee members said opendiscourse with the Stanford commu-nity will inform their final decision.

The issue of discrimination hasbeen front and center,said Eamonn

Callan,committee member and edu-cation professor.

The fact-finding phase is a phaseduring which we have a responsibili-ty to keep an open mind, Callanadded when asked more specificallyabout the committees findings thusfar. Its our responsibility to listen,and thats why were here tonight.

Senator Juany Torres 13 quotedPresident Obamas State of theUnion address on Tuesday evening,

when he said,Starting this year, noAmerican will be forbidden fromserving the country they love be-cause of who they love,and with thatchange,I call on all our college cam-

puses to open their doors to our mil-itary recruiters and ROTC. It is timeto leave behind the divisive battles ofthe past.It is time to move forward asone nation.

Gelber said the presidents re-marks reflect the university grap-pling with changing perspectives,along with the country as a whole.

Janani Balasubramanian 12 ofSSQL later questioned whetherObamas one nationincludes those

who are transgender.Student representatives fromSSQL raised the issue of military dis-crimination against transgender indi-viduals.

We feel that bringing backROTC, a program that specificallysays transgender people are not al-lowed,is a violation of [the Universi-tys] non-discrimination policy, Bal-asubramanian said.

We are appalled at how this de-bate is being moved away from anissue of discrimination,which it fun-damentally is, said Alok Vaid-Menon 13,president of SSQL.

Gelber urged the senators to re-

member that there will be somepain for some constituencies pas-sionate about ROTC regardless ofthe committees findings.

The committee is expected to re-

port is findings in May.The Senate passed two bills Tues-

day evening, one to expand the re-sponsibilities of the Communica-tions Committee to include technol-ogy and another altering the conflict-of-interests section in the Senaterules of order, no longer requiringsenators to report their officer titlesin student groups but acceptingmembership as a bar to assess con-flicts of interest.

All funding bills for the eveningwere passed.

Contact Margaret Rawson [email protected].

SENATEContinued from front page

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Roberto Goizueta, left, and Blake Crowe, right, walk a tightrope in the grass fields near Meyer Library. Though they consider tightrope walkingjust a hobby, the two practice it often. Whenever theres sun, well be out there, they said.


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ike any self-respecting col-lege football fan,I loathe theBowl Championship Series.I could probably spend an

eternity going off on the sys-tems many, many faults, including itsabominable Every Game Countsslogan I would love to see BCS ex-ecutive director Bill Hancock go toFort Worth,Texas and explain to TCUhow all of its 13 victories and zero loss-es counted when it got frozen out of achance to win a national title.

The flaw to which I would like tobring attention today concerns aca-demics specifically, how the BCScontributes to undermining the stu-dent part of student-athlete. Han-cock and the BCS even go one step fur-ther, claiming that the BCS actuallybenefits the academic lives of students,while a proposed eight- or 16-teamplayoff would do a great deal of harmby cutting into the academic calendar.Yet,despite all of this,I am fairly confi-dent that the BCS does just as muchharm to the academic missions of itsmember universities as any playoffwould.

Lets start with this years BCS Na-tional Championship Game, held onJan. 10 in Glendale,Ariz. One of theparticipants,Oregon,had classes start aweek before the game, meaning thatplayers had to miss an entire week ofclass while they practiced and pre-pared for the title game (which theylost to Auburn,22-19).Forcing playersto miss an entire week of classes at thestart of a semester doesnt really ap-pear to serve the academic mission ofthe University of Oregon in any dis-cernable way, especially when the rea-sons for the games late date are purelycommercial.

In fact, if given one question to askBill Hancock,I would ask him to pointout exactly how playing the game aweek after the start of the semesterhelps to preserve the integrity of the ac-ademic calendar. After all, the gamecould have been played on or aroundNew Years Day, which falls squarelyinside the winter break of virtuallyevery university in the FBS.Blatheringon about preserving traditions, asHancock is wont to do,wouldnt cut iteither,since the BCS title game is a fair-ly new creation with no history or tradi-tion to speak of. Of course, he couldpoint to the early January bowl games,but excuse me if I dont find it especial-ly necessary to uphold the grand tradi-tions of the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.

Indeed, playing the game that lateautomatically knocks out the BCSs

own argument against a playoff:that itwould disrupt athletes class schedules.In a playoff,most of the games wouldbe played over winter break,with per-haps one game intruding into the firstweek of January,precisely when everyBCS game is played.

The BCS also causes intrusions dur-ing the regular season, when smallerschools routinely play games on week-nights to get exposure on national tele-vision.In the BCSs system of selectingschools for games by their poll posi-tion,it helps if as many voters as possi-ble can see a team play.For schools thatarent name brands, the only way tomake this happen is to play on a week-night.

Earlier this year at the University ofWashington, a controversy eruptedover whether afternoon classes and as-signments would be dismissed to ac-commodate a Thursday game on cam-pus.The school chose to continue aca-demics as usual, but professors sawempty classrooms and lecture halls as alarge number of students chose to at-tend the game instead of class. Ofcourse,playing games during the weekhas a disproportionate effect on theathletes as well,since they have to cramin more practice time during the shortweek,miss class on game day and haveto go to class the very next morning.

If nothing else,academic concernsshould prompt university presidentsand chancellors to push the BCS tomake changes to the system.At a min-imum, the national title game and allother BCS bowls should be playedwhen every NCAA school is on winter

break. However, only a playoff cantruly eliminate all of the academicproblems the BCS brings on by dimin-ishing the influence of polls on the se-lection process and allowing teams toprove their merits on the field.

Kabir Sawhney wants you to believethat hes never prioritized football over

school. Call his bluff at [email protected].


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SPORTS

CARD STINGS HORNETSBy DASH DAVIDSON

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The No. 8 Stanford mens tennis teamopened its dual-match season at home onTuesday afternoon with a resounding victo-ry over Sacramento State at the Taube Fam-ily Tennis Center. The Cardinal swept allnine matches,resulting in a 7-0 victory overthe visiting Hornets.

Stanford did not drop a set on the day,with junior Bradley Klahn,senior Greg Hir-shman, sophomore Matt Kandath and sen-ior Alex Clayton only dropping three gameseach. Overall, the Cardinal outscored theHornets by 66 games,97-31.

Stanford head coach John Whitlingerspoke highly of his teams performance.

I was really pleased with our efforttoday, regardless of the scores of the match-es, Whitlinger said. I thought our guyscompeted well,played well and were reallyfocused on the job at hand.

There was little for Whitlinger to com-plain about,but the veteran coach saw roomfor improvement in the Cardinals debut.

We have things we could work on,Whitlinger said. I think there were somenerves at the beginning for a couple guys,but they settled down and looked good.Were just going to keep on working on im-proving everybodys game, mentally andphysically and technically. Im looking for-ward to our two matches this weekend.

Tuesdays victory was a great start for theCardinal in what promises to be an impor-tant week. Friday brings a visit from SantaClara, followed quickly by Saturdaysmatchup against either Nebraska or Van-derbilt.All of Friday and Saturdays match-es will be held at Taube Family Tennis Cen-ter.

Whitlinger stressed that winning Tues-

days match in dominant fashion was a nec-essary start to a challenging week.Were just trying to get our feet under-

neath us, to maybe get a little confidence,and then we just got to go out and perform,he said.We have some tough matches com-ing up.You better be ready for every matchyou play.Thats all I can ask of the guys.

Contact Dash Davidson at [email protected].

Kabir

SawhneyFollow the Money

BY CAROLINE CASELLIDESK EDITOR

Aaron Bright has three goalsfor his Stanford career: wina national championship,get his degree My momwould kill me if I didnt get

my degree! and be considered anAll-Pac-10 player by the time that hegraduates.

Though all three may seem like long-term aspirations for the freshman fromBellevue, Wash., Bright whose bas-ketball career began at the young age ofthree is already well on his way tocarving out a niche as a major contribu-tor on this years Stanford mens basket-ball team.

In his inaugural collegiate season,Bright has already tallied significantminutes on the court the point guardhas played in all 18 of the Cards gamesthus far, earning starts in seven, and isaveraging 20.1 minutes per game, sec-ond among all underclassmen. Heboasts a team-high 91.7-percent foul-shot percentage,has dished out 42 assistsand is the teams third-best from behindthe arc, with 18 three-pointers on theyear.

Aaron is a terrific player, andwere very excited about his up-

side, said head coach JohnnyDawkins. Hes a young manwho is very versatile. Eventhough hes a point guard,hes acapable shooter, hes really quick,hes capable of getting to the basket andmaking plays forhimself or hist e a m m a t e s .He brings theability tomake usbetter.

His sta-tistics anda c c o l a d e sfrom Dawkinsare all the moreimpressive consider-ing that Bright has had to adjust to acompletely different role on the court

from the leading scorer of his highschool team to a primary distributor incollege within a matter of months, atransition that he described as a little

bit tough.In high school,

my role was toscore the ball,Bright ex-plained.Thenwhen I camehere, my rolechanged dra-mat ica l ly .

Im not thefirst optionto scoreanymore.My main

job is tos e t

guys up,and Im

not really thefocus of attention

on offense.In addition to his sig-

nificant role change,Bright has also become

keenly aware of the in-creased physical and men-

tal demands of Division Iball in comparison to his prepcareer.

I think the hardestpart of transitioning from highschool to college is how every-

thing is so intense, Bright ex-plained. In high school you think

youre going hard,but then you go back toyour high school and you realize, I had itway easier than what I thought. Every-thing is faster and more intense and moretiring.

The sharp-shooting point guard standsout from his teammates on the court for anumber of reasons, from his quickness tohis bicep tattoo to his stature.Listed at 5-foot-11, Bright is physically smaller thanmany of his peers,a characteristic that hehas both struggled with and learned to useto his advantage.

On defense I just really try and pres-sure the ball and use my quickness, hesaid.Im already low to the ground, so I

kind of have an advantage in that aspect,and if guys try to like post me up or, youknow, get real close to the basket then I

just get low and they cant get the ball.

The future is

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The No. 8 Stanford mens tennis team began dual-match play with a convincing win over Sacramen-to State on Tuesday. No Cardinal player lost a set during the afternoon match, with the team winning97 of 128 games in singles play.

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Its been hard because I cant dothe stuff that I could do in high schoolin college,he added.In high school,I could just go by my man,lay the ballup and not have to worry about it.Now if I go by my man,Im going toget my shot blocked or something.SoI just have to find alternative ways toscore and make my team successful.

But blocked shots and competi-tive Pac-10 foes are just some of thenew challenges that the freshman

faces. Not only does Bright have toadjust to a new life on the Farm,hehas to do so while balancing the rig-orous task of being both a Stanfordstudent and athlete, with little freetime to relax in between.

I usually wake up,go to class andthen after class, Ill go shoot, he de-scribed.And then after I shoot,wellhave practice, and after practice, wego eat at Jimmy Vs by that timeits probably 8:00 or 8:30.Then home-work,and then its a wrap.

So just class, shoot, practice,thats my day,he laughed.

But in many ways,Bright whoinsists that he is no celebrity in hisFloMo dorm is not so differentfrom his non-athlete peers.He is stillundecided about what he plans tostudy (after a brief dabble in psy-

chology, he is now consideringmusic), he cant get enough of theblue skies and sunshine in Januaryand appreciates the opportunity totake a nap here and there in themiddle of the day. He enjoys shop-ping and weekend dinner outings toUniversity Avenue.

He is less fond, however, of thelengthy cross-campus bike rides thathe makes every day between MaplesPavilion and his residence.

Biking after practice is so tiring.You do not want to do it, he said.Its like a legit 10-minute bike ride.Its uphill and the campus is so big.And I dont like it.

Bike woes aside,Brights primaryfocus for this season is to improvehimself as a player.

I mainly just want to get better

and to secure a starting position, hesaid.I dont want to put a lot of pres-sure on myself because then Ill startplaying badly.I just want to get betterand see where that leads.

And to make the crowd like me,he added with a smile.

Contact Caroline Caselli at [email protected].

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