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By JOSHUA FALK STAFF WRITER

In September 2005, Stanford purchased a35-acre portion of land at MidPoint Technolo-

gy Park in Redwood City, intending to use theMidPoint facilities for administrative officesthat did not need to be housed on the Palo Altocampus.

But five years later, the Redwood City cam-pus remains undeveloped.

Since the Stanford University General UsePermit limits building and development on themain University campus, the Redwood Citycampus was intended to provide the Universi-ty with additional space, thus reserving corecampus space for Stanfords highest academicpriorities and objectives, read the StanfordUniversity 2007-08 budget.

Phase 1 of the proposed development wasalso included in the 2008-09 Capital Plan, witha projected cost of $379 million, according toRandy Livingston, vice president for businessaffairs and CFO.

However, as the financial crisis unfoldedduring that year, this was one of the projectsthat was suspended, wrote Livingston in an e-mail to The Daily. This project remains on thesuspended list today.

No groundbreaking date is set, but the Uni-versity has submitted an application to the cityof Redwood City requesting approval to rede-velop the property, said Lucy Wicks, assistantdirector of community relations.

Were in the process now of putting to-gether a proposal into the city, Wicks said.Were looking to draft environmental impactreports that will come out later this fall.

However, the economic crisis has left theUniversity with decreased demand for admin-istrative office space, according to Livingston.

While we hope to build out the campus atsome point after the entitlements are complet-ed, the University faces less pressure to do sothan was the case a few years ago, Livingstonsaid. In the aftermath of the financial down-turn, many administrative positions were elim-inated, and future staff growth is anticipated tobe slower than in the years leading to thedownturn.

The 48-acre MidPoint park, formerly anAmpex research and manufacturing site, alsohouses the eight-acre Stanford Medicine Out-patient Center, part of Stanford Hospital &Clinics.

The Outpatient Center hosts all outpatientservices for orthopaedic surgery and sportsmedicine, dermatology, sleep medicine andpain management.

Currently, 65 percent of the property pur-chased by the University in September 2005 isbeing leased. Tenants include the social net-

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MONEY

Financial aid undergoes shiftsBy KABIR SAWHNEY SENIOR STAFF WRITERWith concerns abounding about the fiscal viabil-

ity of the Universitys significant financial aid com-mitments, Stanford announced new changes in its2010-11 budget designed to ensure that the pro-gram can continue to meet the demonstrated fi-nancial needs of all admitted undergraduates.

Projections for next year forecast a drop in theoverall amount spent on undergraduate financialaid to $124.3 million, the first decrease in well overa decade.

According to Karen Cooper, the director of fi-

nancial aid, the Office of Financial Aid is essential-ly using the same formula to calculate a familysexpected contribution to the cost of a students ed-ucation. However, the budget did outline severalchanges to the financial aid strategy. These includeincreases in expected student contributions and inthe contributions from families with annual in-comes above $200,000. According to the budget,these changes will save $2.5 million in scholarshipfunds next year.

As of next year, the expected contribution forboth new and returning students is set to rise by

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LOCAL

City Council concludesexpansion discussions

By BUYAN PANDAILY INTERN

Lengthy discussions of a key component of the Stanford hospital expansion have conclud-ed, marking a crucial milestone for the project.

The Palo Alto City Council held a meetingon Monday, July 26 for final discussion of theDraft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR)concerning the Universitys Medical Center Fa-cilities Renewal and Replacement Project. TheCity Councils Planning and TransportationCommission has been holding meetings to dis-cuss different chapters of the report over thepast two months, and Mondays meeting was thelast in the series, focused on a review of the re-ports Alternative Chapter and Mitigation Mea-sures.

The DEIR is a report written by PBSJ, an en-vironmental, architecture and program man-

agement company that Palo Alto had selectedto be its consultant for the Universitys MedicalCenter project. PBSJ had been producing thereport since August 2007.

California requires submission of these re-ports in order to oversee how major construc-tion projects would affect their environment.

The Medical Centers construction projectinvolves a $3.5-billion plan to be implementedover the next 20 years. It would expand the Lu-cile Packard Childrens Hospital and recon-struct the main Stanford Hospital at 300 PasteurDrive, the School of Medicine, as well as twobuildings of office space for community practi-tioners. Along with the buildings, the facilitieswill be renovated to meet seismic safety stan-dards.

Overall, 1.3 million square feet will be added

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Please see HOSPITAL , page 4

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STUDENT LIFE

Stanford bridge team earns fourthplace at collegiate championshipsBy AARON BRODER

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A Stanford bridge team advanced to the semifinals inlast weekends North American Collegiate Bridge Cham-pionship in New Orleans, beating out four other teams andfinishing the tournament in fourth place.

The team is an informal group of people who play everyTuesday during the school year at Old Union. The teamhas existed since 1995 and has qualified for nationals al-

most every year since, according to player Alex Lovgraduate student in biochemistry. It won the nachampionship in 1995, 2003 and 2009.

This year, four members represented the team championship: Lovejoy, C.J. Jameson 10, Zizhuo Wgraduate student in materials science and engineerinMiu Wong, who just graduated with a masters degmaterials science and engineering.

CRIME & SAFETY

DSA awaits new labor contract,DPS runs lean operation

By AN LE NGUYENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Stanford University and theDeputy Sheriffs Association (DSA)are putting the finishing touches on anew labor agreement that will be re-vealed and put to vote the first weekof August.

The DSA represents 26 of the 65employees working at the Depart-ment of Public Safety (DPS). The ex-isting Stanford-DSA contract which governs work conditions,wages and labor stipulations isvalid through July 31, 2010.

In an e-mail to The Daily, Chief of Police Laura Wilson said that theUniversity and DSA recentlyreached a tentative agreement on acontract.

Given the reductions, layoffs andfurlough days that many government

agencies are experiencing, I ampleased that the University was ableto reach an agreement with the DSAthat includes reasonable salary in-creases for DSA members withoutasking them for reductions, Wilsonsaid.

Still, the DSA membership mustratify the contract before it becomesofficial. At present, members haveonly seen the agreements highlights,presented in a joint memorandum byStanford University and the DSA.

Were going to expose it to ourmembership on [the] first week of August, DSA vice president KenBates said of the full agreement. Ithink we should have a vote to ratifi-cation soon after.

Bates, however, declined to com-ment on the intricacies of the newcontract. He noted that the DSA isnot really in a position to talk aboutthe differences between this tenta-tive agreement and the precedingone until its membership has fullawareness of whats going on andplaces a vote.

Its still a work in progress, hesaid.

Bates also did not say whether lastyears budget cuts influenced thedrafting process.

But these cuts clearly played arole elsewhere, as DPS took a sizablereduction to its budget last year. DPS

eliminated unfilled, non-sworn posi-tions, and reduced equipment andmaintenance expenditures to absorbthe effects of the budget cuts.

Wilson noted that her departmentwas able to meet this cutback with-out reducing the number of swornpersonnel who patrol the campus.

We run a lean operation, whichmeans employees have their sched-ules adjusted on a regular basis inorder to meet the demands placedupon the department, Wilson said.This includes schedule adjustmentsto work events, participate in train-ing and simply cover patrol.

DPS officers are also often asked

to change their schedules to defootball games, weekends antary visits.

Stanford can be a demcommunity to serve from thepoint that people expect exceservice and are not hesitant tbe known when they are displWilson said. Some might cthis to be a negative aspect oing here, but I think the high extions force us to be the best possibly be and not to becomplacent.

Contact An Le Nguyen at lengu stanford.edu.

JING RAN/The StaIn the coming weeks, the University and the Deputy Sheriffs Associaputting the finishing touches on a new labor contract that will govern wagwork conditions for 26 employees of Stanfords Department of Public Saf

$250 per year, to a total of $4,750, thatmust be contributed before studentscan be considered for scholarship eli-gibility. Students meet this require-ment through summer and academicyear earnings.

In addition, Cooper said that theOffice of Financial Aid has increasedthe campus minimum wage by twopercent, to about $12 per hour.

We think students will be able tohandle that $250 increase without anymajor impact, she added.

Families making above $200,000can also expect to see a bigger billfrom the University in the fall.

In some situations, at those upperincome levels, our formulas were per-haps more generous than would beequitable for families, Cooper said.

There are some cases at the highestincome levels of eligibility, wherethere is more than one family mem-ber in college, a new applicant mightsee a higher expectation.

While Cooper said that the formu-las were not changing, financial aidofficers, who have been generous inthe past when making allowances forfamily assets and obligations, wouldbe stricter in awarding aid to familiesat higher income levels.

Adjustments are not being madeto the financial aid program for inter-national students, which is distinctfrom the program for U.S. citizensand residents. While domestic admis-sions are need-blind, admission deci-sions for international students dofactor in financial needs, and the Uni-versity only admits a limited num-ber of international students whoqualify for financial aid.

These changes are certainly signif-icant to students currently receivingfinancial aid; however, the projectedsavings are not enough to cover thebudgetary shortfall from reduced en-dowment payouts. At its peak in the2008-09 academic year, as the globalrecession was beginning to take itstoll, the endowment contributed$80.4 million to financial aid, repre-senting 69 percent of the total aidbudget. Projections for the upcomingyear put the endowments contribu-tion at $66.3 million, making up 53

percent of the overall budget.To overcome this shortfall, the Uni-

versity is dipping into the GeneralFund, with $10 million pledged to fi-nancial aid next year. It will mark thefirst time these funds are being usedfor aid since the 2006-07 year. Stanfordis also making use of money from theStanford Fund and the Tier II Buffer,collectively known as Presidentsfunds, to contribute $32.7 million, wellabove pre-recessionary levels.

Were hoping to be able to [usethese funds] until the endowment re-bounds, Cooper said.

Stanfords Capital Campaign hasalso increased its expected contribu-tion to financial aid.

Lastly, the budget predicts a three-percent drop in the number of stu-dents requiring need-based financialaid, from 3,350 students to 3,250 in theupcoming academic year. The Uni-versity is therefore expecting that, asthe economy recovers, family fi-nances will rebound and students willneed less support in paying the fullcost of tuition, room and board.

The recession hit financial aid hardin two ways last year just as thevalue of the endowment plummeted,the number of students requiring fi-nancial aid increased as their familiesalso lost income due to the crisis.

However, Cooper said the Officeof Financial Aid is prepared in casethe planned decrease fails to material-ize.

The University will give the fi-nancial aid office more money,Cooper said. We monitor how muchwe need for the financial aid program,and if we need more, they find more.

Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawhney@ stanford.edu.

FINAIDContinued from page 2

We think studentswill be able to

handle that $250increase without

any major impact. Karen COOPER,director of financial aid

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STUDENT LIFE

Students anticipate fall midterm electionsBy ASHLEY MENZIES

Nearly two years ago, an outbreak of Obama-fever swept across Stanfords campus,permeating lecture halls, dorm rooms, dininghalls and even bathrooms. Many studentsfound out about the latest Obama rally orphone-banking event by reading the flyer onthe bathroom stall.

Barack the Vote T-shirts, blue signsboasting the word Change and Obama-Biden 08 pins often attached to backpacksflooded campus. Several rallies were held, withstudents chanting campaign slogans such asO-bama, O-eight. Stanford Students forBarack Obama and the Stanford Democratswere the cool kids that ran the school. And al-most every weekend, students squeezed intocramped vans and made the long trek to theswing state of Nevada to canvas in either Renoor Las Vegas.

Now that the 2010 midterm elections areright around the corner and Obama-fever hassubsided, students are trying to maintain a highlevel of political activity at Stanford this fall.

I think Stanford student activists and polit-

ical types are definitely still in action and willmake a strong effort in the fall, said SarahiConstantine 11, a student leader in the Obamacampaign in 2008.

Constantine described herself as personallyinvested in a number of electoral contests, in-cluding Californias races for attorney general,governor, and United States senator. She isalso, through her work with Stanford Democ-rats and other national projects, followingraces in other states for congressional seats.

There are definitely hardcore political ac-tivists on campus, myself included, who will beworking hard this fall, said Zev Karlin-Neu-mann 11, another active Obama supporter, anofficer for the Stanford Democrats and mem-ber of Organizing for America.

That said, in an off-year election, and with-out a candidate like President Obama on theticket, it does become harder to mobilize busyStanford students, he added.

Political science professor Gary Seguradoes not find the challenge to mobilize votersduring a midterm election surprising.

Without presidential candidates, the elec-tion lacks the focal points that people tend torally around, Segura said. I dont think thisyear is any different.

However, Greg Hirshman 11, vice presi-dent of the new Stanford Tea Party, predictsthat this year will be different because of strong activism among conservatives.

Now the liberals are a lot more disillu-sioned with Obama, and conservatives areready to take back power, Hirshman said.

He believes that the Stanford Tea Party willresonate with students because it focuses onfiscally conservative principles. Although moststudents hold liberal stances on social issues

such as gay marriage and abortion, Hirshmanbelieves many also hold fiscally conservativeviews. He hopes this appeal sets them apartfrom other conservative groups on campus,and will help them mobilize students in the up-coming election.

Hirshmans focus on fiscal issues as op-posed to social issues could be a winning strat-egy for promoting action if he can attract stu-dents like Jimmy Threatt 11.

Threatt, a registered Republican, said he isnot involved in any conservative student

groups on campus because although he largelysubscribes to a theory of small government,which is strongly tied to the Republican Party,Republicans do not adhere to a theory of smallgovernment when it comes to social issues.

The conservatives try to advocate smallgovernment concerning fiscal issues and thenturn around and try to legislate morality,Threatt said. I guess Im libertarian morethan anything else.

Threatt predicts that conservatives will bemore active in 2010 than in 2008 because, sim-

ilar to how the discontent with the Bministration fueled enthusiasm for thecampaign, Republicans are now diswith Obamas first two years in office

It is a referendum on Obama, saiman about the midterm elections.

Whether that is the case or not, eneels could see a marked contrast in thspring poll conducted by Harvards InsPolitics, a nonpartisan group, one of t

to the Medical Center, which is sur-rounded by Sand Hill Road, VineyardLane, Quarry Road and PasteurDrive, and which includes WelchRoad and Blake Wilbur Drive.

The chapters of the DEIR dis-cussed in the City Councils meetingidentified the impacts of the projectand proposed mitigation measuresthrough seven alternative plans.Among the issues addressed were

traffic, air quality, preservation of his-toric buildings and meeting the crite-ria of the California EnvironmentalQuality Act (CEQA) in renewing theMedical Center.

With regards to traffic, the DEIR as-serted that expanding the Medical Cen-ter would have more employees andclients as daily commuters, leading to anincrease in traffic in the area. Afterstudying various routes, street segmentsand intersections, PBSJ foresaw thatcongestions could also affect neighbor-ing cities such as Menlo Park. Emissionswould also increase, damaging the airquality, and noise levels would affectsurrounding neighborhoods.

In response, PBSJ proposed in theDEIR a Village Concept Alterna-tive, suggesting that housing be pro-vided in the vicinity for new employeesto reduce traffic.

Another possible alternative to theoriginal project was the preservationof a historic building, the Stone Build-ing Complex. The complex, construct-ed in 1959, was where NormanShumway performed the first hearttransplant in the United States. In theUniversitys plan, the complex wouldbe taken down for the expansion of the Medical Center. The alternativeplan in the DEIR, termed the His-toric Preservation Alternative,

hoped to keep the Stone BuildingComplex intact.

The main concern of the DEIR re-garding the environment was thepreservation of the aesthetically andbiologically significant protected treesat Kaplan Lawn, the FIM 1 Grove andalong Welch Road. The Universitywas in favor of the alternative thataimed to preserve the trees, as theplans were very similar to the originalones. This Tree Preservation Alter-native proposed relocating sometrees and avoiding the construction of hospital module on Kaplan Lawn.

In addition to discussing the Alter-natives Chapter and Mitigation Mea-

sure of the DEIR, the councildisclosed public comments opansion project and its altewith arguments typically centhe relative importance of spteria, such as traffic or preservation.

The period for the City Caccept public comments on thended on Tuesday, July 27. Acussing the DEIR, Palo Alto put together a final Environmepact Report that will be brouto the Council in late fall.

Contact Buyan Pan at buy stanford.edu.

HOSPITALContinued from page 2

Stanford DaTwo years ago, students celebrated the results of the presidential election across campus and abroad. While Obama-fever and enthusiasm hsubsided in recent months, student activists and the politically minded will still be in action for state and congressional races in this Novembers midterm ele

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NEWS BRIEFS

Kumar named deanof UChicagosBooth GSB

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Sunil Kumar, the senior associatedean for academic affairs at StanfordsGraduate School of Business (GSB),was named dean of the University of Chicagos Booth School of Business onWednesday. Kumar, a member of theStanford faculty since 1996, will beginhis five-year term at the start of 2011.

I look forward to helping strength-en and enhance Booths outstandingresearch environment and its rigorous,discipline-based approach to businesseducation, he said to the University of Chicagos News Office.

While at Stanford, the 1998 Finmec-canica Faculty Scholarship recipienttaught M.B.A. and Ph.D. classes in thepperations, information and technolo-gy area.

Kumar has served as an editor for

the journal Operations Research, andhas written dozens of research articles.Much of his research involves theanalysis of mathematical models toprovide a course of action for improv-ing business performance. Kumar alsohelped develop Littlefield Technolo-gies, a simulator for teaching opera-tions management that has been usedat over 50 business and engineeringschools.

Garth Saloner, dean of the GSB,emphasized the positive role thatKumar played during his time on theFarm.

Sunil has been a major contributorto our work on revising our curriculumover the past few years, Saloner wrotein an e-mail to the Daily. He was in-volved in the early work on it and wasable to see the final refinements made.

While we will miss him, we wishhim everything of the best in his newposition, he added.

Joseph Beyda

Kosslyn appointeddirector of CASBS


Stephen Kosslyn, currently Har-vards dean of social science, will takeover as director of the Center for Ad-vanced Study in Behavioral Sciences(CASBS) at Stanford on Jan. 1, 2011.Kosslyn succeeds Iris Litt, current di-rector of CASBS and professor emeri-tus of pediatrics.

Its an exciting opportunity, Koss-lyn wrote in an e-mail to The Daily.Not only can I help to strengthen oneof the worlds most distinguished andvenerable institutions in the behavioralsciences, but I also can help it grow innew ways.

Kosslyn, also a psychology profes-sor, has been a pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience and has exten-sively explored the nature of mentalimagery and visual perception andcommunication. He has publishedmore than 300 scientific papers, writtenor edited multiple books on the subjectof neuroscience and received numer-

ous honors as a result of his research.He received his B.A. degree in psychol-ogy from UCLA and Ph.D. in the samesubject from Stanford.

According to Kosslyn, his experi-ence stretches beyond psychology andcognitive neuroscience.

Ive had experience working withmany types of scholars and researchers,and have also had a fair amount of con-tact with the tech world, Kosslyn said.Ive also had experience with fi-nances, which will no doubt be impor-tant for ensuring that the Center con-tinues to flourish.

Kosslyn sees a bright future for thecenter.

I think CASBS is poised to makeeven greater contributions to society,particularly at the interface of behav-ioral science and technology, he said.

CASBS, founded in 1954, has a stat-ed aim of sharing knowledge of humanbehavior and providing a refuge for sci-entists and scholars to think and be ex-posed to a diverse array of ideas.

Nicola Park

Sewage researchmakes space forrocket science


Anyone who thinks that sewagetreatment isnt rocket science mayhave to think again.

University researchers have createda new method of treating wastewaterthat they say would have a positive en-vironmental impact and drasticallylower the cost of the expensive and in-efficient process. With the support of aWoods Institute Environmental Ven-ture Projects grant, researchers CraigCriddle and Brian Cantwell led theventure.

Criddle is a civil and environmentalengineering professor and an expert inwastewater management; Cantwell isan aeronautics and astronautics profes-sor with interests ranging from fluidmechanics to propulsion. While thesefields seem to hold little in common,the researchers brought new meaningto the word interdisciplinary by ap-plying rocket technology to sewagetreatment, aiming to make the processenergy-neutral and emissions-free.

If the energy savings we envisionwork out, then anyone designing a newwastewater plant will have to seriouslyconsider our approach, Criddle said.In this case, the impact could be enor-mous.

The method uses anaerobic bacte-ria to convert sewage into two green-house gases, nitrous oxide and

methane gas. Aerobic bacteria re-quire oxygen through a process calledaeration, in which air is pumpedinto wastewater sludge, enabling thebacteria to colonize and decomposethe waste. By using anaerobic, or oxy-gen-independent, bacteria, however,the amount of air that must bepumped decreases along with costs.

The resultant nitrous oxide andmethane complete the cyclic process,as methane powers the treatmentplant while the nitrous oxide fuels arocket thruster. Intact, the nitrousoxide is harmful, but after fueling thethruster, it is converted into harmless

nitrogen and oxygen gas.Ultimately, these gases are re

into the atmosphere, replenishinnitrogen supply that human activdepleted in processes such as thufacture of agricultural fertilizer

While the concept for this phas generated significant buzz, searchers havent yet determintechnology required for its execu

The application to nitrogwaste treatment could turn outthe most important result of osearch, Cantwell said. But tstill much to learn about the undephysics of the decomposition pr

I expect there will still be spplications we have not envisioneCriddle said.

Uttara

Basque presid visits the FarBy THE DAILY NEWS ST

Currently on a larger tour Bay Area and Silicon Valley, BPresident Patxi Lopez visited con Wednesday.

Lopez, who was elected theof Spains autonomous northernmunity in May 2009, toured National Accelerator Laboratormain campus and the Center fotomotive Research at Sta(CARS), and also met with StProvost John Etchemendy.

The visitors particularly eseeing the solar car project aautonomous vehicle at the CAcility, according to EtchemendBasque delegation was interesdiscussing relations betweenford and industry during the touthe group also spoke with Provost William Miller anMejia from the Office of TechnLicensing.

Etchemendys heritage andous statements on Basque padded nuance to his meetingLopez, who is the first presidopenly oppose Basque indepenin thirty years.

Etchemendy, of Basque hehas a history of promoting Bculture and awareness. He sponthe formation of an introduBasque studies course in 20also signed the March 2010 BDeclaration, which called for trorist and nationalist EuskaAskatasuna (ETA) group to ceaolence permanently and also foprocation on the side of the Sgovernment.

Lopezs party, the Spanish ist Party (PSOE) is against an

pendent Basque and has spokeagainst the Brussels DeclaratioThe declaration endorses t

tiation in the Basque countrypeaceful process patterned oused to solve the conflict in NoIreland, Etchemendy wrote inmail to The Daily. He said histure was a personal endorseme

The desired outcome is toto an end the use of violencmeans to promote independenthe Basque provinces from Spaadded.

Marisa La

By JANE LEPHAMNEWS EDITOR

This report covers a selectionof incidents from July 20 to July 27as recorded in the Stanford De-partment of Public Safety bul-letin.

A series of bike thefts andmedical emergencies occurredduring this period. Bike thefts oc-curred at the Avery Aquatic Cen-ter, Stern Hall, Jordan Hall, Flo-rence Moore Hall, the RainsComplex, the Lyman Commonsand the Arrillaga Center forSports and Recreation.

TUESDAY, JULY 20I Between 12:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.,

an unknown suspect entereddorm rooms on the first floor of Stern Hall and stole money.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21I At 1:40 p.m., an injury, bike-vs.-

pavement collision occurred atthe corner of Serra Mall andLasuen Mall.

FRIDAY, JULY 23I In an incident that occurred be-tween 6:30 p.m. and 6:35 p.m.on July 15, reported on July 23,an unknown suspect stole a vic-tims unattended purse fromthe Taube Tennis Family Stadi-um.

I At 10 a.m., a person was issueda stay-away letter at Y2E2. Theperson acknowledged andsigned the letter without inci-dent.

I At 10:05 p.m., the reportingparty located an abandonedbike on the sidewalk along thePalm Oval. The bike was takento the Dept. of Public Safety forsafekeeping and tagged with#249.

SATURDAY, JULY 24I In an incident that occurred be-

tween July 21 and July 23, re-ported on July 24, an unknownsuspect entered a victimslocked dorm room in the Ju-nipero wing of Wilbur Hall andstole money from the victimswallet.

I Between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30

p.m., another unknown suspectentered two victims unlockeddorm rooms in the Juniperowing of Wilbur Hall and stolemoney from each of their wal-lets.

I In an incident that occurred be-tween July 9 and July 16, re-ported on July 24, an unknownsuspect stole two digital cam-eras and a laptop belonging to avictim from Room 205 in HausMitteleuropa.

SUNDAY, JULY 25I In an incident that occurred be-

tween July 11 and July 19, re-ported on July 25, an unknownsuspect posted criminal threatson a victims Web page.

MONDAY, JULY 26I In an incident that occurred be-

tween 5:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.on June 1, but was reported onJuly 26, an unknown suspectstole a womans wallet and itscontents when she accidentallydropped it in the Main Quad.

I At 11:45 a.m. at 794 Tolman

Drive, the reporting party saidshe received a threatening callfrom an unknown person.

TUESDAY, JULY 27I Between 4:30 a.m. and 4:45 a.m.

at 10 Comstock Circle, a victimand suspect had a domestic dis-pute involving a verbal alterca-tion. The suspect made threadstoward the victim, causing herto fear bodily harm.

I Between 7:15 p.m. on July 23and 1:45 p.m. on July 27, an un-known suspect stole a flat-screen TV from the EatingClubs at 419 Arguello Way.

I At 3 p.m., a person was citedand released on an outstandingwarrant out of Santa ClaraCounty.

I In an incident that occurred be-tween 6:30 p.m. and 11:55 p.m.on July 23, reported on July 27,an unknown suspect stole a vic-tims unattended notebook lap-top from the Wilbur DiningHall.

Contact Jane LePham at jlepham@ stanford.edu.

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By DEVIN BANERJEESENIOR STAFF WRITER

From New Delhi

Navigating city streets with thewind in your hair may come in theform of a Mustang in LosAngeles, a Porsche in Berlin or aFerrari in Rome. But in India, the

convertible is replaced by a half-size, three-wheeled taxi that many say offers a fuller trav-el experience than any roof-down car: theauto-rickshaw.

The auto is open all around no win-dows, no doors, touted Gopal Singh, theowner of three auto-rickshaws that he man-ages at a taxi stand outside a New Delhi shop-ping center. See everything, hear everything.Better than a car.

Since its introduction in New Delhi in the1970s, the auto-rickshaws apple-green car-riage and lemon-yellow roof have becometrademarks of urban transportation in India.In the capital, the noisy, three-wheeled taxisbuzz like bees around every corner and atevery hour of the day. They are so abundantthat a spokesman for New Delhis transportdepartment said he didnt think anyone in hisoffice had ever really tallied the tens of thou-sands of rickshaw permits filed in the city.

Always find [an] auto, Singh said, leaningon one of his own. They are everywhere.

Theres good reason for their omnipres-ence in urban India. A new auto-rickshawcosts about $3,000, said Singh, an amount that

would seem high for a taxi operator were it notfor the vehicles low maintenance cost and

long life. And the auto-rickshaw dominatesamong urban taxis because of its small size,allowing it to adeptly navigate city traffic.

Its the way to go if you need to get some-where quick, said Arjun Hari, a New Delhibanker who often has to be at lunch meetingsout of his office. My work is just two kilome-ters away, but it takes forever if Im not in anauto. Plus, its cheaper.

Though fare meters are built into mostauto-rickshaws, drivers rarely turn them on,instead accepting whatever fare their passen-gers are willing to shell out. Locals say an easyformula to follow is halving a normal taxisfare for the same distance.

Really, you could give any fare, Harisaid. If you dont know a normal taxis fare tosplit in half, you could just ballpark it. Thatsthe beauty of it.

For others, the beauty of the auto-rickshawis its versatility.

I take it to work, I take it to lunch, I takeit to the market and then I take it home, saidSheena Shah, an office assistant. And when[my friends and I] go out, we all squeeze intoone. There are no seatbelts or anything.

Indeed, the layout of the auto-rickshawsinterior is as simple as they come. A bench-like seat for the driver, which can also fit a pas-senger, faces a pair of motorcycle handlebarsinstead of a steering wheel. Behind, a passen-ger row can seat about four.

And then we can sit on each others laps,Shah laughed. So really, it can probably fitlike eight people if you really wanted to packit in.

For tourists, who tend to visit the Indian

capital in fall and spring when the weather istemperate, the auto-rickshaw is the preferred

mode of sightseeing, admitted BhupinderSingh, a four-door taxi driver in south NewDelhi.

They like to see out, feel the wind, smellthe smells, Singh said.And hear the noises. In fact, a nickname

often given to the auto-rickshaw is tuk-tuk,for the noise emitted by its small motorcycleengine.

The sound is part of [the experience],said Ariel Tandler, an Australian tourist whohas mostly traveled by auto-rickshaw duringthe week shes spent in New Delhi. If onereally wants to absorb the culture and the

scenery, one must be exposed to it allThat includes being exposed to th

that in the morning and early eveni

ging down a vacant auto-rickshaw measy.I think theres actually a skill to

can position yourself ahead of the othe street, or some people actually stameters into the road so that they can juthe first one that drives up, HReally, its all just part of the auto cIndia.

Contact Devin Banerjee at devin11@stanfo

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DEVIN BANERJEE/The Stanford DailyThe interior of an auto-rickshaw features motorcycle handlebars for steering and not much else.

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THURSDAY , JULY 29, 2010 T HE STANFORD D AILY N SUMMER EDITI

By MARISA LANDICHOFEATURES EDITOR

Stanford Athletics has regained itsfinancial footing at last, projecting abalanced budget for the upcoming2010-11 year its first balanced bud-get since the economic crisis in 2008.To achieve this bottom line, however,the Athletics Department will keep inplace the operating cuts from the pasttwo years.

In order to balance the budget forFY11, we have primarily maintainedprevious budget saving measures andhave not undertaken many new, in-cremental cuts, wrote Stanford Ath-letics Chief Financial Officer BrianTalbott in an e-mail to The Daily.

When the endowment dropped 27percent in fiscal year 2009, the Ath-letics Department was faced with a $5million shortfall.

Stanford Athletics responded byeliminating 25 staff positions, freez-ing salaries and slashing travel and fa-cilities budgets, according to the

2010-11 budget. After cutting $1.6million in FY09 and an additional$3.5 million in FY10, the departmentstill operated at a loss of $1.51 millionin FY09 and a projected $156,000 lossfor FY10.

The cuts, however, were enoughto stave off eliminating any of Stan-fords 35 varsity sports, although thefencing program had to self-fundraiseits $250,000 operating cost in FY09 tokeep varsity status.

For now, all the Cardinal sportsprograms are safe.

Given our current forecast, webelieve we will be able to balance ourbudget and meet our financial obliga-tions without discontinuing any sportprograms, Talbott said.

At $85.7 million, the 2010-11budget for Athletics operations andfinancial aid makes up 9 percent of the Universitys billion-dollar ad-ministrative and auxiliary unit ex-penses. Stanford Athletics is an aux-iliary unit of the University, mean-ing it is a self-contained entity that

runs on the revenues it generates.According to Vice Provost for Bud-get and Auxiliaries ManagementTim Warner, all the revenues thatStanford Athletics collects gostraight toward paying its own ex-penses.

The basic idea is that [Athletics]covers its costs, particularly the Inter-collegiate Program, with the rev-enues it raises through ticket sales,TV revenue, fundraising, et cetera,Warner said.

Physical education and recreationprograms for the entire student body,on the other hand, are supported bythe Universitys general fund.

Hopes of bolstering the depart-ments budget now rest on the rene-gotiation of the broadcast deal oncethe Universitys television contractexpires.

The addition of Colorado andUtah to the Pac-10 is expected to helpStanford work out a better televisiondeal. Earlier this month, Director of Athletics Bob Bowlsy told The Daily

that the renegotiation of the mediacontract is projected to increase fund-ing two- or three-fold.

But this wont occur for at least an-other year, according to Talbott.

It is unclear what impact the addi-tion of Colorado and Utah to the Pac-10 will have on the conferencesbroadcast revenue, he said. Howev-er, we fully expect that when a newdeal goes into effect for FY13 that wewill see a significant increase in broad-cast revenue over the current deal.

In the meantime, the drop in the

Athletics endowment will bcritical for the athletic schbudget, which is typically through endowment payouts.

Athletic scholarships arthrough restricted endowmenother words people will give the endowment for a particulletic scholarship as opposed toeral need-based scholarship,er said.

These endowments actuall

S PORTSFinancial forecast improvingCardinal Athletics says all programs safe, looks to improve broadcast deal

CHUCK MYERS/MCT As a guard at Harvard, Jeremy Lin, no. 4 above, made waves as oneof the school's best-ever players. The Paly alumnus will stay close tohome as he moves into the pros with the Golden State Warriors.

By TOM TAYLOR

Its the last few seconds of the quarterfthe World Cup. Tied 1-1 after regulatioopposing teams have already played thmost of the 30 minutes of additional timthe game looks certain to go to penaltie

As the clock ticks to zero, your team has ocorner to defend and the opposition scrambscore the winner. The ball heads toward the neyou find yourself standing on the goal line, tline of defense. What do you do?

Would you take the high road, desperately fwith your head and body as you attempt to slegally? Or would you realize this would only you watching the ball hit the back of the net ana more drastic move, punching it clear withands? In short, would you cheat to keep youralive?

Luis Surez faced exactly that situation in

Africa, and his actions earned him a red cardclear breach of the rules, but also kept Uruguaytournament at the expense of Ghana. The plashown over and over again on TV, and manybasted him for this clear case of gamesmanshipoutside of his home country, accepted the notiohe really had no choice.

So what would you have done? Is it ever cheat?

As Stanford students we are bound to abboth the Honor Code and the Fundamental dard in our time on the Farm. The former cotrates solely on academic matters, and, I roparaphrase, it says that students should not ch

Cheating is part of sport

Please see TAYLOR, page 8

Local star returnsfor chance in NBA

By KEVIN ZHANGDAILY INTERN

Jeremy Lins basketball ca-reer began just a few miles awayfrom Stanford in a Palo AltoYMCA gym. Now Lins star isrising as a new signee to theGolden State Warriors but hehasnt made it yet, he says.

Lins story began as a standoutyoungster. He took his talents toPalo Alto High School, where, asa senior in 2006, Lin led the squadto a state championship overpowerhouse Mater Dei. Despiteaveraging 15 points, seven assists,six boards and five steals pergame, Lin did not earn a DivisionI basketball scholarship. He wasaccepted to Harvard on academ-ic merits and joined its squad.

The early years left an impres-sion on Palo Altans.

Ive known Jeremy for a longtime through church and he hasalways been a great leader of myyouth group, said longtimefriend Elaine Liu, who attendedthe Chinese Church in Christwith Lin in Mountain View. Hehas always been a great listenerand inspiration at church.

Lin also inspired other former

Paly students, such as PatrickLiu.

Its amazing to have seensuch an amazing player developin such a short period of time,Liu said. Hes like a little home-town hero.

At Harvard, Lin began to gainnational attention. Playing main-ly as a point guard in his seniorseason, Lin averaged 16.4 points,4.5 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 2.4steals and was unanimously se-lected for the All-Ivy LeagueFirst Team. After Lins 30-pointperformance against 12th-rankedConnecticut, coach Jim Calhounsaid, Ive seen a lot of teamscome through here, and he couldplay for any of them.

After four years at Harvard,including three as a starter, Lingraduated as the colleges all-time leader in games played (115)and fifth in points (1483).

Although Lin enjoyed a stellarsenior season at Harvard, he wasdisappointed on draft day whenhe wasnt selected in eitherround. Donnie Nelson, the presi-dent of basketball operations for

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knowingly allow others to cheat. Thelatter sets a broader code of conductfor students and stresses respect fororder, morality, personal honor andthe rights of others.

In the extreme, breaking either of these could lead to expulsion from theUniversity.

Most all Stanford students are

here for academics first, but for manythe athletic department is also a hugepart of their life. The demands of var-sity sports are no different than thoseof professional sports, and so is thepressure. Many student-athletesacross the country are quite literallyplaying for their futures, and a badperformance, or a string of them,could lead to them losing their schol-arship, losing their education and los-ing everything they have worked andtrained so hard for.

A rare few succumb to this pres-sure and cheat in extreme ways: takingsteroids and illegal drugs that could di-rectly threaten their health, cynicallylashing out at their opposition whenthe refs arent looking, even takingbribes to lose games. Most have beeninvolved in some form of gamesman-ship; all have turned a blind eye whenthe referee has surprisingly given awrong call in their favor.

The exam hall is, though, no lesscompetitive than the sports field. Likeit or not, you are competing with every-one else in that room, hoping to begraded ahead of the curve. Intimidat-ing other students, seeking to deceivethe examiners and gain an unfair ad-vantage or bringing in banned equip-ment would all be considered a breachof the Honor Code and dealt with assuch. Knowing that someone else hasdone any of these, but doing nothing,would be viewed in a similar light.

Regardless of the settialso break the spirit of the Futal Standard, even if that setfootball field, baseball diabasketball court. Staying silereferee makes a mistake migthing, knowing that one of ymates engineered that errordeception or intimidationkeeping quiet is altogether mous. And before you view thagainst athletes, I include allthe stands, too.

Every fan has berated ocriticized a referee for a bad

has hurt their team. Few hthe same when getting a lMaybe theyll admit later, wembarrassment, that the refewrong, but theyll more thareap the benefits from that m

While blatant acts likesave are comparatively form of subtle dishonesty is grained in all sports. The Hoand Fundamental Standarscream in protest, but the this is that the cheating isspread that the playing fieldsurprisingly level.

Its difficult to say it ischeat in sports, but trying to hers and fans to the same hdards we supposedly set away from the field seems impossible task. Perhaps code of conduct needs clause, something to distinsports arena not just from hall but from the real world,

At the very least, we smember not to feel too wronwe are caught for some infrand not to be so outraged opponents arent.

Cheating might not be its a fact of (sporting) life.

Tom Taylor plagiarized thicolumn. (Just kidding.) Droporiginal, properly cited [email protected].

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SPORTS BRIEFS

Grad student rockets to victory at theSan Francisco Marathon

Stanford astrophysics student Keith Bechtol won thisyears San Francisco Marathon on Sunday with a time of 2:23:28.

Bechtol has been running for 11 years, and after takinga three-year break from the sports competitive side as anundergraduate student at William and Mary, he hoped touse the marathon to see where he stood.

Bechtol would eventually stand at the finish line almosttwo minutes before the arrival of the next competitor,Michael Wardian from Arlington, Virg., even though the25-year-old had to balance his training with a NASA satel-lite project.

After preparing for only six weeks, Bechtol knew hecould run at a six-minute mile pace, enough to give him ashot at doing well.

I knew that 5:30 pace per mile would have been com-petitive in previous years of the San Francisco Marathon,he wrote in an e-mail to the Daily, So I wasnt afraid to goout with the leaders and use their experience to my advan-tage.

I went into the day without any particular goal time inmind, but instead with a sense for how my body should feelat different stages in the race, he added.

University expands Red Zonefor recent graduates

At the start of the 2010 football season, a special section

for young alumni will be added to the Red Zone to allowthem to experience the atmosphere of a student cheeringsection while still sitting with their friends and family.

The Red Zone Young Alumni Section, Section 101 in

Stanford Stadium, will be open to anyone who grfrom Stanford between 2001 and 2010. Tickets gAug. 2, and young alumni can request seating neauntil Aug. 9.

The season ticket package includes a T-shirt a$107, while the regular season ticket package iareas of the stadium costs $145. Guest tickets canadded for $20 per game, and $40 for the game agaion Oct. 9.

Mens volleyball honoredfor academic achievement

The national champion Cardinal mens volleybhas added another accolade to its historic season.

After winning the schools second national title6, Stanford made history again as the 13th team intory of the AVCA Team Academic Award to winnational championship and the academic award. Thad a GPA of 3.54 and is one of two NCAA Dteams (along with Harvard) to win the award, given to volleyball teams that maintain at least a mulative team grade-point average.

In addition to this team honor, individual Cardletes were also recognized. A total of nine players championship squad were named to the MountainSports Federation (MPSF) All-Academic team. Tincluded all four Cardinal All-Americans: Brad Evan Romero, Erik Shoji and national player of tKawika Shoji.

Moreover, starting middle block Garrett

earned the Elite 88 Award, which is for the player highest GPA in the NCAA Tournament.

Joseph Beyda and Kevi

By JOSEPH BEYDA

Baseball is a game of mis-

takes. Mistakes made bypitchers lead to mosthome runs in the majorleagues; mistakes made

by fielders (such as Bill Buckners in-famous gaffe in Game 6 of the 1986World Series) can give new life towhoevers at the plate.

But the worst of all are mistakesmade by umpires.

Sports are built around the idealof fair competition, but when an of-ficial calls a play incorrectly, thegame doesnt meet this standard.

Luckily, most sports now use in-stant replay to ensure that officialshave made the right call. Thesesports responsibly recognize thatreferees are only human, employinga backup plan to account for that inimportant situations.

The list of such sports goes onand on both the NFL and the USTennis Association use challengesystems; NBA refs can checkwhether shots got off in time, orwhether a shooters foot is on thethree-point line; the NHL even has awar-room set up in Toronto whereevery goal scored in the league is re-viewed.

But that list has one conspicuousabsence baseball.

Though the MLB allows for in-stant replay on home-run calls, clos-er plays in the infield are left entire-ly up to the umpires.

And they dont always get itright, either. Detroit Tigers pitcherArmando Galarraga lost his perfectgame with two outs in the ninth onJune 2 when umpire Jim Joyce madea bad call at first, while the San Fran-

cisco Giants lost on July 18 after um-pire Phil Cuzzi missed a call on aplay at the plate.

Does it make any sense to rewardthe team that should lose when thereare viable instant replay systems outthere, just waiting to be used?

The MLB did take a positive stepforward by instituting home run re-view in 2008. Instant replay was usedon home run calls six times in just thefirst month and a half under the rule.

Yet instant replay in baseball stilldoesnt extend far enough. Whilethe difference between a home runand a double (in the case of fan in-

terference) is significant, the differ-ence between scoring and beingthrown out at the plate is just as im-portant.

Opponents of instant replay in

baseball fear that it will make gameslonger and more drawn out thanthey already are. If weve learnedanything from home run reviews,however, its this: the painless, five-minute sacrifices for these relativelyrare occurrences are well worth it.

Although close plays in the in-field are much more common thancontroversial home runs, theyshouldnt take much time to review,either. These plays will be evenquicker to verify with instant replay,as camera angles near the outfieldfences are much poorer than thosein the infield.

In the end, instant replay couldeven save time in many cases, as itwould prevent managers fromthrowing a 10-minute tirade everytime a crucial call went the otherway. (With Lou Piniella retiring afterthis season, though, the time im-provement might not be noticeable.)

Despite the ease of a single infieldreview, the time that multiple stop-pages take could add up in a game.This means that the best way to con-duct reviews in baseball would be achallenge system similar to that usedfor football. In the NFL, each team isgiven two challenges, and a some-times a conditional third one if bothof the other challenges are won,while any controversial calls in thefinal two minutes of a half are auto-matically reviewed by the officials.

In baseball, this system would seta reasonable limit on managers, pre-venting games from going long whileensuring justice in the all-importantninth inning. Some adjustmentswould have to be made a manag-

er with an extra review could use itto delay while a new pitcher warmsup but a feasible framework forinstant replay is already in the handsof MLB Commissioner Bud Selig.

Whatever impact instant replaymay have on the length of games, atits core the issue is one of fairness.And if the MLB doesnt want tomake baseball fair, theres only oneother way the sport can be.

Foul.

Joseph Beyda is holding tryouts for new umpires. Send him your resumat [email protected].

MLBs integrity demandsexpanded use of replay

the Dallas Mavericks and the onlyperson from the NBA to contact Linbefore the draft, gave him the op-portunity to play in the summer.

Lin, 21, turned heads in the sum-mer league, especially in a televisedmatch-up against the number-oneoverall pick, John Wall. After hisperformance against the Wizardspoint guard, calls came his way.

Soon after, the Golden StateWarriors, the team Lin grew upwatching and had cheered for dur-

ing the We Believe stretch in2007, signed him.

The son of Taiwanese immi-grants, Lin is only the fourth AsianAmerican to be signed in the NBAsince 1947 and has garnered signifi-cant interest and loyalty around thenation. At a game last seasonagainst Santa Clara, many fanssported shirts that read, Welcometo the Jeremy Lin Show.

Just my whole story is sounique, Lin told SI.com. Not onlyAsian-American, Im from Harvard,from the Bay Area, I was virtuallyunknown coming into the draftscene. Not once never was I onanybodys draft board coming in.

He said he appreciates his fans,

but he plays for the love of thegame.

When I put that pressure of pleasing everybody else, the Asiancommunity and every other Asian,thats when I lose my joy for playingthe game, he said, and that iswhen its not fun for me anymorebecause I am playing for the wrongreasons.

And though he has inked a two-year deal with Golden State, Linsaid his work is unfinished.

I still need to prove I can p lay inthe NBA, and I have not provedthat yet, Lin said.

Contact Kevin Zhang at kevinzhangle@ gmail.com.

LINContinued from page 7

funded athletic scholarships in FY09and FY10.

In FY11, however, $2.5 millionmust be transferred from the operat-ing budget to the financial aid budgetto pay for the $19.6 million in schol-arships for varsity athletes. Athleticscholarships have increased from$18.9 million last year in accordance

with the tuition increase.In the next few years, Talbottsaid, the department will make afundraising push to bridge the finan-cial aid gap.

We have a plan to raise $25 mil-lion in new scholarship endow-ments which, combined with mod-est increases in endowment pay-outs, will allow us to again fullyfund athletic scholarships throughendowment payouts within a fewyears, he said.

Contact Marisa Landicho at landicho@ stanford.edu.

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THURSDAY , JULY 29, 2010 T HE STANFORD D AILY N SUMMER EDITIO

O f all the complaints old people level atnewfangled technology and its impend-ing destruction of society, one thatseems actually based in reality is the complaintthat the Internet, DVDs and iPods haveruined the communal aspect of entertainment,of the entire country sharing a cultural experi-ence. Precious then, is the movie that truly suc-ceeds at captivating the publics attention, likeInception has done in the past two weeks.Just search Inception in the Posts ByFriends tab on Facebook and youll see whatI mean. And though Im quite sure thatInception 2: The Undreaming is only a fewyears away, for now we can actually sit backand appreciate a movie-going experience thatdoesnt involve titles with colons nor the nameSpielberg or Cameron. Debates about themeaning of Inception have sprung up allover the Interwebs, even though most criticsseem dedicated to keeping it in summer block-buster territory. However, considering how lit-tle that we actually know about each other,endless analysis of summer Hollywood block-busters is a necessary intellectual exercisebecause at least we can all agree on havingseen the same movie. Warning: intertextualityapproaching.

Released right at the crystallization of theDigital Revolution, and also right at themoment to be a lot our generations first R-rated movie, The Matrix was the first filmmy friends and I would talk about for hours just for the sake of understanding. Ten years

later, it has come to define how my generationviews technology and its relation to reality.The popularity of a movie dedicated to thedanger of machines knowing too much aboutour personal lives undoubtedly feeds into ourcurrent paranoia about social media. Also, fora generation raised on D.A.R.E. andmetaphorical frying eggs, the framing of truediscovery through the taking of a pill provideda strong counterpoint to all those gratuitouslyfear-inducing anti-drug PSAs. The interpola-tion of existential questions between kick-assCGI action (or the other way around) has letthese ideas marinate into the chicken breastthat is our cultural subconscious to the pointthat if you ask anyone our age to peel off theskin of our superficial understandings of theworld and take a bite, the subtle tang of theWachowski brothers is unmistakable.

Chris Nolan stands on the verge of accom-plishing the same feat with Inception, leav-ing a whole bevy of nuggets for this culturalprognosticator to explore. I guess what followsnext is the obligatory spoiler alert, thoughsince Im not a film critic I wont be devotingthree paragraphs solely to plot summary. Evenso, be forewarned. Inception stands to do toneuroscience just what The Matrix did toelectronic connectivity. Dreams are perhapsthe last part of the human experience out of the reach of technology, but with biochemistryresearchers exploring the rabbit hole that isthe cognitive neuroscience of dreams(thanks Wikipedia) with increasing fervor, its

only a matter of time until the developmentpotential of dreams manifests itself in the pri-vate sector or the Department of Defense. Infact, Leos character learned all he knew boutdreams from Professor Michael Caine. TheArmy probably already has a Delta Force:Somno Division, and you can bet MarkZuckerberg is already looking into how we canupload our dreams to Facebook. Dreamsstand to get so much coverage in the nextdecade that Neil Gaiman may end up on theeditorial board of the New York Times.

And with this all in mind, Chris Nolan actu-ally finds a narrative function for the lineWhat if your world isnt real? as well as thelegitimate use of action movie slow-mo andSiberian fortress set pieces. It speaks to hiscraftsmanship that most of the debate aboutthis movie is happening only on the ideologicallevel, and this debate will continue in someform or another for the rest of the decade.

Thats because everyone likes having reali-ty questioned, trumped only by having realityquestioned and then answered as plot devicein an action movie. Movies like The Matrixand Inception provide fun little diversionsinto the world of uncertain perceptions butstill leave you with a happy ending (that topwas about to fall, dammit). They wont reallyalter your thinking for life, or make you recon-sider the world in any meaningful way. Most of the dialogue, if someone were to actually say itto you, sounds like a person tripping on mush-rooms, which, by the way, made people ques-

tion reality in much more profound wayssands of years before The Matrix camEven so, in the right context, Incecould leave a huge mark on the psyche nations adolescents. After all, it would bweird if we were dreaming this wholewouldnt it?

Is Inception really worth this muchProve Peters point at [email protected]

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A new website has gone viral. Its calledI write like, and you can find it athttp://iwl.me. Enter any text and it tellsyou which, of the works of 50 famous authors,the writing is most similar to. The software wasdeveloped by a Russian computer program-mer, living in Montenegro, who claims it usesa simple Bayesian algorithm (like a spam fil-ter!) to determine likeness. Among the fea-tures considered are: vocabulary, sentence-length and the frequency of commas or peri-ods. It is an excellent toy.

I discovered I write my column likeMargaret Atwood and was flattered. Good job! the HTML badge said. I thought so too.Then, I read that someone found that MelGibson drunkenly rants like MargaretAtwood. Who, in turn, is supposed to writelike Stephen King (she tweeted this result her-self). I discovered that Madonnas preteendaughter has been proven to blog likeVonnegut, which made me choke a little, andfinally, I discovered I write my emails likeDavid Foster Wallace and was flattered. Good job, Rosie. Good job.

With the exception of the Dan Brownresult, which has inspired the indignation of many a netizen, the website is vacuously vali-dating. The creator said he wanted to encour-age people to write more, and hes probably

succeeded in this. But he also seems to wantpeople to write better: your result comes witha link to On Writing, by Stephen King. Imsure many find this confusing. Ive just beenpatted on the back for writing like JamesJoyce, why would I bother with pointers froma pop novelist?

First I thought that the application could bemade much more valuable very easily, withoutaltering the algorithm. Similarity is subjective,and the software is certainly picking out some-thing . If we extended the database to include afew classes of writing other than The Best, themajority of text might gravitate to the moreordinary genres. If we included Lourdes fash-ion blog, for example, my best friends 9th-grade Xanga entries would likely be muchmore like it than the writing of J. D.Salinger. There could even be an option to addyour writing to the database whenever youanalyze it, filling out a short survey on thework when was it written, is it published,the age of the author, that kind of thing. Sureitd probably be less popular, but under theseconditions, if your writing turned up as DavidFoster Wallace and not 67 percent of emailsbetween friends aged 18-30, that might meansomething. And many people who consideredthemselves excellent writers, but were ana-lyzed to be ordinary, would rise to the chal-

lenge and work to beat the program.I thought for a while about how satisfying it

would be to have that badge, which you couldtack onto your C.V. along with your SAT andIQ scores. Take that, New Yorker, Id say.Reject the fiction I submitted in high schoolwill you? Well, I wrote that story like Proust,and some statistics, somewhere, say so! It has

similar words, punctuation and senlength. So. . .So style just isnt an indicator of real

ty. The best writers are also great thiAnd style is only valuable so far as it servauthors message. I write like has no wknowing whether my subplots, metaphmotifs constructively interact with my oconcept. Im not saying its impossible, bdefinitely looks like the wrong tree to Holden Caulfield was real, if he had wCatcher in the Rye as an account experience, it wouldnt be a great work erature. It would be the journal of a relaordinary, troubled youth. A different mesbut, to I write like, an identical style. ACatcher is a forceful exploration of auticity and identity. The first-person voicefronts the issue of perspective. It adopts versational, introspective tone, becausefeels authentic while consciously being afice. And the narrator is the way he is bethe people most actively reflective aboutissues are self-obsessed, obnoxious teen

If I, instead of Lourdes, had writteIm gonna bring my camera to East Land take pictures of cool looking peoplcome off as weird cuz Im gonna ask peolike stand still so I can take pics of themin an epistolary novel, it might come cqualifying as a work truly in the stSalinger. But I write like wouldnt kno

Write like Rosie? Let her know at rc stanford.edu.

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I write like has no way of knowing whether mysubplots, metaphors ormotifs constructively

interact with my overallconcept.

I guess what followsthe obligatory spoilethough since Im notcritic I wont be devthree paragraphs sol

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TELEVISION REVIEW

Its a Mad MadMad Mad WorldI f there had been VHS in 1964, Ican say with confidence that PeggyOlson from Mad Men would haveowned a copy of the 1963 film the titlealludes to. Alas, the Video HomeSystem didnt rock the worlds of secret-ly promiscuous homebodies until 1976,so the season premiere of the fourth

season of Mad Men presents us with a1964 Thanksgiving, sans VHS.Somehow it managed just fine.

I spent the week leading up toPublic Relations poring over thinlyveiled promotional journalism aboutMatt Weiners universe of 1960s adver-tising titans in Manhattan. Even thoughthat research led me to descriptions of the first words of the new season, Whois Don Draper?, those five syllables stillsent chills up and down my spine.

AMCs greatest triumph (who needs American movies anyway?) began withsurprisingly dramatic and farcical tonesthis past Sunday. Nearly a year haspassed in the world of the Draperdivorce and the new Sterling-Cooper-Draper-Pryce. As a result, we the loyalviewers of the show find ourselves ask-ing the same question as the reporter at

the outset of the episode, WhoDraper, simply because the punveiled many new aspects to thacter, navigated artfully by Jon

For Don, his home and wohave been reversed: the loner of SCooper has become the Alex Roof SCDP; the Draper patriar

become Don the bachelor. Thessals are clearly wearing on Donthe course of the episode cuncharacteristic missteps of fa

bed a Mount Holyoke gradu bombing a magazine interviewDon never fits comfortably into roles, the audience is never fulfortable with Dons lack of controwe see Don waiting late at nighcouch of his former family hBetty to return, the magnitude upheaval is glaringly apparenreturns to form, by which I meanfully assumes a form, by the enepisode, when he gives a seconview to a Wall Street Journal wriall the bravado of a man who cou

been Paris Hiltons great-g(refer to season three for said ref

To be honest, this episode putedge even more than the caper-stson three finale, simply becausetus quo had changed so muchWeiner is not afraid to drop us

res with not only plot but even cdevelopment. The Peggy Olsonson four has a new haircut anpower at the firm: the commaexerts over both the new art

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us in medias reswith not only p

but even characdevelopment

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Courtesy of AMC At the start of the fourth season of Mad Men, the AMC series about an advertising agency in the middle of the 20th century, Don Draper (JonHamm) experiences a number of challenges. How he rises to meet them relates the core themes of the show to this seasons very altered status quo.

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(yes, Sal is gone for good) andPete creates an illusion of control,until their promotional hunt forhams requires Don to bail herout. Even when Don familiarlycalls her into the office, Peggy isnot afraid to say what the othersare thinking, namely that Don isthe king and the others merely

jesters. Ill be interested to seewhere Peggy goes this season not only the beds she sleeps in

but the corporate ladders she is brave enough to climb.

And then theres BettyDraper, more repugnant thanever as January Jones presentsan uncanny portrait of bad par-enting in the role. Betty wasafforded some of the bestmoments of the episode in actionand symbol: her force-feeding

Sally Draper on Thanksgiving,the mother and daughter match-ing pink pajamas, and the moth-er and stepdaughter matchingred outfits at Thanksgiving din-ner. Betty, now married toHenry Francis, wants to haveher cake and eat it too, or, moreappropriately, have her divorceand milk it too. I cant wait to seefurther interactions between aneven more entitled Betty and aneven less tolerant Don.

Weiner withholds informa-tion about Joan, underlining thefact that the shows creatorknows what the audience wants

better than the audience does.In true Mad Men fashion,Public Relations raised morequestions than it answered, andIll be here to bemoan my igno-rance along the way.

liz STARK contact liz: estark12@

stanford.edu

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THEATER REVIEW

The hero with five facesOdyssey adapted at Stanford Summer Theater

The sheer scope of theOdyssey would seem topreclude theatrical adapta-

tion. The story leaps from islandto island with a multitude of char-acters. Its narrative tropes, too, areanything but performance-friend-ly. Third-person narration is ellip-tical and verbose, frequentlyemploying paragraph-long epicsimiles that are pretty muchexactly what they sound like.

To perform this tale in a waythat is not only comprehensible

but also entertaining seems next toimpossible, but Rush Rehm andStanford Summer Theater havemanaged to do both.

The production follows the first12 books of Homers TheOdyssey, abridged and adapted

for the stage. It begins, as the books do, with Odysseus trappedon an island, the consort of a god-dess but pining for home. He is setfree by the Olympians and washesashore at the court of the seafaringPhaeacians, where he recounts themany adventures that led to hisarrival.

The performance is intimate,featuring a cast of only 10, eachsharing portions of the narrationand assuming roles as needed.This technique is used to greatadvantage. Each actors perfor-mances emphasize particularmoods and draw parallels betweencharacters. For example,Courtney Walsh plays both thegoddess Calypso and the fearfulCyclops. Though physically andemotionally opposite, they bothdemonstrate misapplications of hospitality when they prevent

Odysseus from leaving theirislands.

Odysseus himself is played byfive different cast membersthroughout, changing actors in away that highlights the talents of each. When Odysseus is adventur-ing on the high seas, AlexUbokudom takes the reins with awry wink. Paul Baird demon-strates the heros skill with diplo-macy. And when the epic power of a storyteller must be invoked, the

booming presence of L. PeterCallendar steps into the charac-ters shoes. While at times thetransitions from actor to actor can

be jarring, the switches are justi-fied and well chosen. Odysseushimself is slippery and clever, atrickster hero in the vein of Anansi

or Brer Rabbit, and the techniqueeffectively emulates that.Whoever isnt playing a char-

acter serves as a dynamic Greekchorus, adding commentary andcolor as the plot moves forward.The choreography is deftly exe-cuted, and movement is livelyand varied. The actors climbthrough rafters and swing onropes, inventing and creating anew space on the stage. The min-imalist approach to props is par-ticularly innovative. Cloth, woodand rope are used in so many dif-ferent manners you wonder whyone would bother with anythingmore elaborate. The show asksaudience members to use theirimaginations. Ordinary objects,such as a blue scarf, are imbuedwith complex symbolism throughrepeated use.

The intimacy and sparseness of

the production give the show asense of interconnectedness andnaturalism. We are presented witha story told more than 2,700 yearsago, and it remains resonanttoday. The Wanderings of Odysseus is alternately exciting,funny, moving and majestic, whol-ly unique in a time when story-telling is dominated by exploita-tion and spectacle.

The Wanderings of Odysseusplays through Aug. 15. Tickets are$20, $10 for students. More infor-mation and show times are at sum-mertheater.stanford.edu.

sam JULIANcontact sam:

[email protected]

Courtesy of StefanMembers of the cast of The Wanderings of Odysseus perform the scene of the Lotus Eaters.The play adapts the12 books of The Odyssey, with five different actors playing Odysseus himself. Rush Rehm, drama professor, dir

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Some buildings are vacant, whileothers are being used by the Uni-versity for storage, according toWicks and Steven Elliott, managingdirector of real estate development.

Stanfords cash flow from theproperties is positive and operationcosts are paid by the tenants, theyadded.

The University purchased its 35-acre portion of MidPoint Technolo-gy Park for $78.5 million in Septem-ber 2005.

Contact Joshua Falk at jsfalk@ stanford.edu.

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recent to address the issue, shows 18to 29-year-old Republicans morepolitically energized than youngDemocrats and more inclined tovote in this falls elections. Forty-one percent of young Republicanssaid they plan to vote in November,compared with 35 percent of De-mocrats and 13 percent of Indepen-dents.

Although conservatives are en-ergized and ready to vote their can-didates into office, most studentsacknowledge that Stanfords politi-cal activity will simply not live up tothe excitement of the 2008 electionand its eventual victor.

He was one of the youngest andmost vibrant candidates since JFK,said Hirshman about PresidentObama.

Many students were attractedto the campaign because it was thecool thing to do, said Karlin-Neu-mann and hes hoping studentsstill think its cool to supportObamas party in the fall.

Contact Ashley Menzies at amenzies@ stanford.edu.

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The group qualified for the colle-giate national championship throughan online tournament in Februaryagainst 27 other teams, including oneother from Stanford. Once it hadqualified, the team spent the next fivemonths practicing and working outthe partnerships, both of which werenew.

We knew we werent as good aslast years team, Lovejoy said, butwe still expected to make it throughqualifying. I certainly wanted to makeat least the semifinals, and we didthat.

Bridge is a partnership game, sim-ilar to Spades, in which players workwith their partners to try to earntricks, or sets of cards. During eachhand, one pair is on the offense andtries to collect a number of tricks thatthe team agreed to earlier, while theother is on defense and attempts tokeep the opposing team from makingits goal. Each hand normally takesless than 10 minutes to complete.

Tournament bridge has an extratwist on the rules known as duplicatebridge, which is intended to level theplaying field and eliminate the luckcommon in card games. Once a handis completed between two opposingpairs, the cards are passed to the nexttable, where two other pairs fromeach team have to play with the cardstheir opponents were dealt earlier.

On Saturday, the team made itthrough round-robin eliminations inthird place, advancing to the semifi-nals. They were defeated on Sundayafternoon by Yale, which had placedfirst in the round robin. Stanford laterlost its third-place match to Harvard.

Its sort of a downer to lose twicein one day, Jameson said. But mak-ing it out of the round robin was pret-ty exciting. There was some pressureto repeat [last years victory], but theteams change every year so you neverknow whos favored.

There were a few things we couldhave done better in the Yale match,Lovejoy added, but the whole expe-rience was fun, as it always is.

Contact Aaron Broder at abroder@ stanford.edu.

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JING RAN/The Stanford Daily A drawing of Stephen Schneider, a professor of biological sciences at Stanfordwho died July 19 of a heart attack, still adorns the row of caricatures on the wallof the CoHo eatery. A green heart was added alongside as a memorial.

Stanford pays tribute

Documents

The Stanford Daily, July 29, 2010