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By KELSEY KING

Several houses on the Row have re-ported burglaries in the past week, re-sulting in the loss of thousands of dol-lars worth of student belongings, in-cluding laptops and iPods.

The first reported break-in occurredaround 3 a.m. on Saturday, when fourunidentified men entered a first-floorroom of Storey House,according to res-ident Chris Jenkins 13.

According to Storey resident assis-

tant Andy Hiller 11,the four men wereable to enter the room through an opendoor,which accesses the Tresidder park-ing lot, after it had been propped opento keep the students room cooler.

Jenkins was asleep when the men en-tered his room. His two roommateswere in the kitchen.

I had been asleep for a few hourswhen four men came into the room,Jenkins said.I heard them and got outof bed and grabbed hold of one of them,but they got away.

The intruders stole an XBox andJenkins laptop,as well as his two room-mates laptops.

On Saturday evening, residents at680 Lomita also experienced a burglary.Community manager Alexei Dunaway11 said two first-floor rooms were bro-ken into.

Among the items stolen were bottlesof scotch, an iPod and Engineering 60textbook.Dunaway said these were par-ticularly interesting items to steal, giventhat there were five computers between

the two rooms. He said the choice ofstolen items could suggest the identityof the perpetrator.

I mean, who steals an E-60 book?Dunaway said. That makes me thinkits Stanford people.

The most recent alleged burglary oc-curred on or before Monday afternoonat Kairos, when someone entered theroom of kitchen manager MichelleMederos 11 and stole her netbook and

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RESEARCH

Recent study suggests lovemay be a natural painkiller

STUDENT GOVT

GSC talks Constitutional Council picksBy ANNA SCHUESSLERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

On Wednesday, the Graduate StudentCouncil (GSC) prepared for upcoming holi-days, discussed recent nominations to theASSU Constitutional Council and clarifiedpolicies about religious and political events.

The Councils Thanksgiving coordinator,doctoral student in earth sciences Mary Van

der Hoven,announced plans to revamp themenu for the annual dinner given for gradu-

ate students in honor of Turkey Day.Van derHoven was pleased with last years increasedattendance but was determined to improvethe programming for graduate students andtheir families spending the upcomingThanksgiving break on campus.Accordingto Van der Hoven,last years event attractedhundreds of students,but she invited willing

participants to add some creativity to theevent.

What I would really like is for someoneto take it and run with it, get creative, Vander Hoven.

The GSC turned from celebrations tospeculation as Ryan Peacock,a graduate stu-dent in chemical engineering and ASSU ex-

By BRANDON POWELL

Your blossoming relationship may beproviding more than just an ear to listen and

a shoulder to cry on. It may actually be re-lieving your pain. A recent study at theSchool of Medicine suggests that love mayalleviate pain in the same way narcoticpainkillers do.

Sean Mackey, associate professor ofanesthesia, Jarred Younger, a professor ofanesthesia, and Arthur Aron, a professor ofpsychology at SUNY Stony Brook,collabo-rated on a study investigating the pain-re-lieving capabilities of love that was pub-lished Wednesday online in PLoS ONE.

Subjects in the early stages of a romance nine months or fewer into a relationship were shown pictures one at a time of theirsignificant other or of a platonic friend whilereceiving pain in the form of either intenseblasts of heat to the hand. As comparison,the study also measured pain relief that sub-

jects felt when they were given a word-dis-traction test while experiencing pain.

The subjects were then asked to ratetheir pain levels, at which point the experi-menters could compare those results to the

neurological changes they observed.The centers that were being activated

that were responsible for the pain reliefwere definitely general reward centers,

Younger said. These regions are also theones activated by drugs of abuse,sex, eatingreally good food anything that yourbody wants you to keep doing.

Younger said the reward sensation feedsinto pain-suppressing centers that can blockpain signals from reaching the brain, aprocess known as analgesia.Since love is anexperience of reward, it could in fact haveanalgesic effects.

[Art] and his wife study passionate loveand I study pain,Mackey said in describinghow the study got started. We got to talk-ing about the brain systems of love and thebrain systems of pain and realized there wastremendous overlap.

Mackey then offered Younger, a post-doctoral student at the time,the opportuni-ty to join the study and assist the love-painexperiment.

I think we picked love because its oneof the strongest naturally occurring rewardexperiences that we can actually emulate inthe scanner,Younger said.

Furthermore, Younger expressed hopethat harnessing the activity of these brainregions could lead to the discovery of non-addictive methods of controlling pain.

One of the possibilities is that now thatwe see some of the regions associated withlove that reduce pain significantly, we maybe able to teach that person how to controltheir activity in that region, Younger said.

Younger conceded, however, that it may

be difficult to determine how specifically toinduce love and thus reduce pain.

We cant ask them to have an affair oranything, Younger said, but it could bethat anything rewarding could reducepain.

Still, Younger maintained that love isamong the strongest of the reward sensa-

STUDENT LIFE

Consultingfirms reach

out to seniorsBy SAMANTHA MCGIRR

DESK EDITOR

While many students on campus sport T-shirts and flip-flops,a select group of seniors are donning suits and slacksas they stroll through White Plaza.

These students are participating in the intensive recruit-ment process for consulting companies. The companies,with specialties ranging from finances to biotechnology,areeagerly courting seniors who have begun exploring theirpostgraduate options.

Bain & Company, a top global management consultingfirm that currently employs more than 150 Stanford alum-ni,is recruiting students for its associate consultant,or AC,position.Suzanne Tollerud 07 M.A.08,now a senior asso-ciate consultant, says the role of an AC is to work with clientsin the process of solving complex business problems.

These interactions range from simple data requests toin-depth discussions with clients to brainstorm and debateideas,Tollerud wrote in an e-mail to The Daily.As insightsand potential solutions begin to emerge,team members willoften return to the employees they have worked with toshare these ideas and iterate on strategy development.

ACs at Bain and other consulting firms work on smallteams, managing a caseload that changes daily.Sherry Ho11,an international relations major,spent the past summeras a Bain AC intern at the firms San Francisco office. Shesaid she enjoyed being exposed to a variety of business sec-tors.

One thing I really like is that no two days are the same,said Ho,who will work for the firm full-time upon gradua-tion.It varies a lot, and Bain is a very dynamic place towork.

The excitement of the consulting field also drew inPatrick MacKenzie 11, a management science and engi-neering major who interned for Accenture this summer.

Its a fast-moving environment where youre constant-ly switching from case to case, MacKenzie said.Yourelearning about new industries and constantly being chal-lenged.

MacKenzie,who plans to attend business school eventu-ally,said he views consulting as a learning experience rather

than as a long-term career prospect.The first step in that ex-perience, for most hopefuls, is the notoriously intense re-cruitment process. Many companies begin courting Stan-ford students before their senior year and continue with in-formational sessions and informal meet-and-greets in theearly fall.

Storey, 680 Lomita and Kairos residents report stolen laptops, iPods

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Residents say intruders entered Storey on Friday evening through this back door, which was propped open, and stole three laptops and an XBox from the residentsof one room. Residents in 680 Lomita and Kairos also have also reported thefts during the past week.

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Happy couple Tim Gurshin 14 and Laura Figueroa 14 embrace. A recent School of Medicinestudy suggests love may affect neurological pathways responsible for the experience of pain.

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Dalai Lama kicks off visit

to Stanford,EPA; talkswill be webcast

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Dalai Lama is set to headline a va-riety of events on compassion, altruismand a meaningful life Thursday and Fridayat Stanford.

The exiled Tibetan Buddhist leaderslast visit to campus was in 2005, when hediscussed the biological meanings of com-passion with scientists and Buddhist lead-ers and explored spiritual and scientificaspects of suffering,craving and choice.

On this visit, His Holiness the 14thDalai Lama is set to host a public talkfrom 9:30 a.m.to 11:00 a.m. on Thursday inMaples Pavilion about compassion and al-truism and their central roles in human so-ciety.Following the public talk,the Officeof Religious Life will host the Dalai Lamaas the 2010 Rathbun Visiting Fellow, andas such,he is scheduled to give the annualmemorial Harrys Last Lecture on a

Meaningful Life from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30p.m.in Memorial Church.

On Friday, he is set to serve as a pan-elist in the all-day conference ScientificExplorations of Compassion and Altru-ism in Memorial Auditorium. His fellowspeakers and panelists include educationprofessor Linda Darling-Hammond, psy-chology professor emeritus Philip Zim-bardo, neurosurgeon James Doty, associ-ate bioengineering professor Karl Deis-seroth and economics professor Bill Har-baugh, among others. The Dalai Lama isset to serve as a panelist in all four confer-ence sessions, which cover both societaland biological interactions with compas-sion.

Tickets for both Thursday talks and theFriday conference are sold out, but theUniversity is broadcasting both daysevents via live webcast.A recording of theevent will be available on iTunes U and

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By OLIVIA SIMONE JEW

Its new. Its nonprofit. It provides pa-tient education.Its Anjna:A New JointNonprofit Approach to Patient Educa-tion.

Founded in May 2010 by Stanford under-graduates, Anjna is a student-run organiza-tion that develops and disseminates high-quality health education materials to freeclinics around the Palo Alto area,as well as toother institutions across the country,includ-ing Cornell, Harvard and HEC Paris. Themain focus is to establish health education in-frastructure programs in free clinics wherepatients have one-on-one interactions withhealth educators.

Among its many programs and services,Anjna targets socioeconomically disadvan-taged patients by providing health educationmaterials, such as easy-to-read pamphlets indifferent languages,to areas where these ma-terials are lacking. It strives to improve thetreatment and prevention of diseases,includ-ing obesity, diabetes, hypertension, depres-sion and other chronic illnesses.

Anjna began with a team of 15 membersled by its founder and executive director Vi-neet Singal 12 and Donovan Barfield 12,themanaging director. Singal first came up withthe idea for the organization after taking aquarter off from Stanford to volunteer full-time at St.Vincents Free Clinic in Galveston,Texas.

Galvestons community was sufferingfrom a weak economy ever since HurricaneIke, which forced many people in under-served populations to lose their health insur-ance and thus made them dependent on freeclinics for treatment.

I noticed how many people were suffer-ing from diseases like diabetes and obesityand high blood pressure, Singal said of hiswork in Galveston. The worst part is thatthese diseases are preventable; theres noreason why people should have to havethem.

In response to the lack of quality patient

and health education infrastructure, Singalstarted a health education program at theclinic in Galveston by partnering with med-ical students who were working there. The

program eventually became integrated intothe clinics regular operation.

To date,Anjna works with 40 partner clin-ics around the country and has already re-ceived awards for its work from foundationssuch as DoSomething and Institute for theFuture.In contrast to other patient educationnonprofits,Anjna is the only nonprofit thatdevelops, translates and provides consultingservices specifically to free clinics.

Of the 40 clinics Anjna works with,mostare located in Santa Clara County. Anjnas

next priority is to scale up so that it has a na-tional presence.

The future is to provide this service tofree clinics nationwide, Singal said. Hehopes that Anjna will eventually reach un-derserved patients worldwide.

Barfield,Anjnas managing director, saidthat building the organization took a summerof establishing the various disease teamswithin the organization and applying forgrants.

Weve expanded in the span of about

four months, he said. We have about 100people within the organization,weve raised$3,000 to implement our project in local clin-ics, and so were really excited in seeingwhere we can go.

Barfield has personal motivations forworking with Anjna.

I myself was raised in an underprivilegedfamily, he said, so its really rewarding be-cause growing up, I was involved and I havestories from my mom about going to freeclinics . . . Its like Im giving back directly to

a situation that I was once immersed in my-self.

Another key player in building and sup-porting Anjna is Dr.Tien-Wen Wiedmann,Anjnas faculty advisor and a former pro-fessor in nuclear medicine at the School ofMedicine. With experience as founder andpresident of H.E.L.P. for Kids, anothernonprofit dedicated to youth educationand development through partnership withpublic schools, Wiedmann has assisted theteam with recruitment and has helpedAnjna define exactly what it wants to ac-complish.

We want to make people rethink . . . theexperience that a patient has when they go toa free clinic,Barfield said.Its not just theycome in,they get medicine, they leave.Theycome in,they get to see a doctor,and they getto sit down with somebody and talk abouttheir problems.

Wiedmann notes that one of the biggestproblems in health education efforts is pa-tients noncompliance with their doctors ad-vice.

If you dont understand your own condi-tion,you dont do what the doctor says,most-ly because you dont understand what thedoctor says. . . I personally think that educa-tion is very important, because if you reallyunderstand the material [and] whats goingon, you will actually be a participant in yourtreatment.

Wiedmann doesnt know whether patienteducation makes a difference in the long run,but in an analysis study on the efficacy of pa-tient education in chronic diseases and obesi-ty published in June 2010, researchers foundthat 50-80 percent of patients who receivedtherapeutic patient education showed gener-al improvement in health.

Still, one of the biggest obstacles forAnjna has been convincing larger health ed-ucation nonprofits and fiscal sponsors thatundergraduate students can accomplish thisproject.A great source of assistance has beenthe student body.

The students have been awesome,Sin-gal said.Weve been blown away by the tal-ent of the student body and how dedicated toa cause they have been.

Contact Olivia Simone Jew at [email protected].

By ALIZA ROSEN

Iwent to Egypt for personal rea-sons, as a means of escape. Ineeded a break.But little did Iknow that my experience therewould completely alter my ac-

ademic plans for the future,and my already-set pre-med major would change into a life-long passion for Arabic and the MiddleEast.

Born into a time in which Middle East-ern issues are at the forefront of Americanpolitics, Michelle Lee 14 has recently real-ized the strategic necessity of studying Ara-bic in todays politically complex world.Thousands of others are following suit.

Ever since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in2001, there has been a nationwide surge incollege-student enrollment in Arabic andstudy abroad in the Middle East. Accordingto a study by the Institute of International

Education, the number of American stu-dents spending their junior year in Arabic-speaking countries has increased six-fold,from 562 in 2002 to 3,399 in 2007.

Khalil Barhoum,the coordinator of Mid-dle Eastern and African Languages and Lit-eratures at Stanford,notes that according toa recent survey conducted by the ModernLanguage Association, Arabic enrollmentat the university level has more than dou-bled nationally between 2004 and 2008, andso has the number of institutions offeringprograms over the same period,with 23,974students currently enrolled in 466 programsaround the country.

This upward trend of interest in Arabicand the Middle East exists at Stanford aswell, though the University has no formalMiddle Eastern studies department.

We have seen our numbers often tripleand quadruple each fall quarter over the lastfew years,Barhoum said.It is not unusualfor us these days to have over 120 studentsenrolled in Arabic classes each fall quartersince Sept.11, 2001.

Arabic instructor Khalid Obeid agrees,noting that students are attracted to Arabicfor a variety of reasons.

Weve seen in many articles and studiesthat the number of students interested inArabic increased after 9/11, Obeid said.But Ive seen a genuine interest in studentslearning Arabic for the culture and languageaway from the conflict. Many of them aretaking it for themselves. They just want tolearn a foreign language and enhance theirlanguage skills.

Lee concurs,insisting that learning Ara-bic and understanding culture go hand inhand.

Learning a language is more than justlearning the words and definitions,she said.Its more about understanding the culturalparadigm and ideology. In the little sub-tleties in which Arabs communicate,we geta glimpse of their culture.

The students in Obeids Level I Arabicclass come from a variety of backgrounds.Some focus their studies in history,interna-tional relations and political science, but agrowing number of them hope to major inengineering, law,anthropology and archae-ology.

What all of my students have in com-mon is interest in the Middle Eastern regionand culture, Obeid said.I have archaeolo-gy students who are interested in studyingsites in the Middle East and engineering stu-dents who believe that having a strong foun-dation in Arabic will help them in finding fu-ture employment. The motivation is not al-ways politics.

History professor Joel Beinin noted thatthere is a clear difference at Stanford be-tween students taking classes in Arabic andstudents taking classes in Middle Easternpolitics.

While the number of students signing upfor Arabic has grown in the years following9/11,the number of students expressing in-terest in taking his Middle Eastern politicsclasses has dropped.

I teach a course on the Arab-Israeliconflict in winter quarter, Beinin said.Inthe past, my course has been very difficultto get into. I would have to turn studentsaway.But this year,I dont even know whatenrollments going to be like.Im sure thata freshman could even get in this year.

Political science Prof. Lisa Blaydes be-lieves that there is room for develop-ment and expansion in the realm ofMiddle Eastern politics. Blaydes justreturned from two years at the Har-vard Academy for International and

Area StudiesI think when it comes to the

Middle East, there is enoughstudent demand,and its suf-ficiently important that theUniversity does need to pro-vide coursework and advisingfor students who are interestedin the area,she said. Were nottalking about a small university.Ithink Stanford is large enough to

handle that kind of diversity of scope.Meredith Wheeler 14 came to Stanford

with a strong background in Arabic andMiddle Eastern politics. In the summer be-fore her senior year of high school and againduring her gap year,Wheeler participated inthe National Security Language Initiative,aproject within the State Departments Criti-cal Language Scholarship Program that en-courages college-age students to study Ara-bic. She believes that the upward trend ofstudents studying Arabic is to an extent tar-geted toward the State Department initia-tives, because the government benefits ifthere are more Arabic speakers in theworld.

After living in Jordan and Egypt,Wheel-er gained interest not only in the Arabic lan-guage, but also in Middle Eastern cultureand politics, so she was somewhat disap-pointed that Stanford lacks formal pro-gramming in this area.

I hope that the University will start toinvest more in Middle Eastern studies ingeneral,Wheeler said.The Middle East iscurrently one of the most politically volatileand socially complex regions in the world,and while there is sufficient courseworkdealing with the MiddleEast,Stanford lacks a syn-thesized pro-

gram and major to unite these classes forstudents like me.

It is unclear if the inverse relationship be-tween students taking Arabic and those in-terested in Middle Eastern culture and poli-tics will remain.

As a third-year Arabic student andsomeone who is passionate about MiddleEastern politics, I hope that this growingtrend is just the beginning for Stanfordand that we will be able to push for newinfrastructure in academic program-ming before we graduate,Wheelersaid.If every class could be like myintro seminar, Everyday PoliticalLife in the Authoritarian MiddleEast, my life would be com-plete.

Contact Aliza Rosen at [email protected].

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OPINIONS

LE T T E R S T O T H E EDITOR

Dear Editor,I am one of those who wrote in to criti-

cize The Stanford Dailys editorial, whichlabeled Dr. Victor Davis Hanson a racist,and expressed my disappointment that sucha poorly argued editorial,whose author hadentirely misread Hansons remarks and in-tentions,was published at all. Like others, Ibelieve The Stanford Daily owes Dr. Han-son a public apology.

However, the writers of several letters tothe editor responding to the Hanson edito-rial have engaged in similar ad hominem at-

tacks and generalized negatively about theintellect, abilities and political leanings ofStanford students and their teachers, evenquestioning the national standing of theUniversity itself.

Despite the well-deserved criticism ofthat single editorial, I do not waver in mybelief that it was an absolute pri vilege to bea Stanford student and it still is. Stanford isan incredible place to get an education, aplace of rigorous debate, talented studentsand outstanding faculty, and may well bethe best University in the world.

As an alumna, I am about to spend$3,000 for my husband and me t o attend thefour-day Homecoming Reunion of theStanford Class of 65 this month (registra-tion fees,airfare, hotel,rental car,etc.).Weare willing to pay that just for the privilegeof sitting in on a few Classes WithoutQuizzes led by distinguished Stanford pro-fessors and researchers, panel discussionson current issues, tours of the gorgeouscampus and the singular opportunity toenjoy a Dinner on the Quad.A nd we plan

to do it again five years from now for my50th reunion.

On scholarship, loans, grants and a

work-study program even to be able to af-ford to go to Stanford, I was an Englishmajor who took classes across the curricu-lum with professors I could only dream ofmeeting.Admittedly,I wrote some papersthat Id like to reach back through time andretract (not unlike some Daily editorialwriters), but I learned the proverbial les-sons of a lifetime at Stanford.I met peopleof all races, religions and creeds and spentlong nights at Roble,FloMo and Hurlburtand in Beutelsbach listening and openlydiscussing every philosophical, religious

and political viewpoint imaginable. Likestudents everywhere, sometimes I was anass and sometimes I actually made a fewworthwhile contributions.

But I was never pressured to conformmy thinking to any particular direction atStanford, whether liberal or conservative,other than being guided to be clear, to uselogic and to be able to back up my asser-tions with facts, authority and solid exam-ples. Perhaps some of the writers of thoseletters to the editor criticizing Stanford aspromoting leftist, liberal propagandawould be amazed to know I actually gradu-ated as a conservative independent in mypolitical leanings.

Yes, at every university, as Dr. Hansonwrites, some policies should be re-exam-ined and changed.Stanford has warts,but itcontinues to be a truly great university.And I have no doubt that open discussionand rigorous examination of diverse ideaswill always be part of what makes Stanforda place where the wind of freedom stillblows.

SHARON (FOGLEMAN) HOCKENSMITH 65

McKinney,Texas

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THIS COLUMN IS IRONIC

Over the last couple weeks,dorms havehad the pleasure of enjoying the 7a.m.wake-up thunder of roll-outs.Its

auditioning season for student groups! Whatisnt heard is the disappointment of thosewho tried out but werent forced to get out ofbed and run around campus sycophanticallybefore breakfast. You got accepted to Stan-ford,but that doesnt guarantee you a spot inthat dance company or that instrument en-semble.They just dont have all the space andresources to accommodate everyone.

Universities are primarily educational in-stitutions does it matter how we parcelout the extracurricular resources? We do livehere for four-plus years, so non-academicsmake up a significant part of our lives.And,arguably, those activities are as much abouteducation as our classes.They give us hands-on practice rounds of activism,business,per-formance arts and so forth. Many of us willattempt to earn a living with those skills,andthose who dont will still benefit from thebreadth of experiences. So why cant every-one do all the activities they want and reapthe full educational benefits?

Well, we have some elements of a meri-tocracy here and there,for good reasons.Imsure you would learn a lot playing footballunder the coaching of Jim Harbaugh, butthats just not in the cards for most of us.Andwhen it comes to music, performance groupshave just as good a reason for auditions.A tthis age, people expect a level of musician-ship when going to shows were no longerin elementary school orchestras with audi-ences of proud parents listening to us squeakaway.

But what about when theres a clear de-mand for people to learn something, and aclear desire to teach them? Im in CardinalCalypso and we saw over 50 people audition.All would have clearly loved to learn aboutthe steel pan, yet we could only take three.Our mission includes teaching, so we show

new members how to play.The rest we teachabout the sound and versatility of the instru-ment via gigs and shows,which is great, butnot the same.

We simply dont have enough instrumentsfor a 60-person band.We dont have enoughtime in our schedules to try to put together aB band using the instruments we alreadyown. We dont have a full-time instructorwho could run several ensembles.And evenif we did,we dont have a practice space withthe flexibility for us to use more than the fewhours per week we already occupy.I n theory,the music department would have that kindof jurisdiction and could provide some ofthose opportunities,but part of the point of aVSO is that its student-run.

Calypso has a music ensembles version ofthe timeless problem of resources. Othergroups get to wrestle with the same issue indifferent ways. But the solution is alwaysmoney.

Im not going to get into an argumentabout special fees.That is but one potentialsource of financial help that can provide op-

portunity to more students.Other options in-clude ASSU discretionary funding,all shapes

and sizes of grants, The Stanford Fund, in-come from performances and our own wal-lets.Each has its own process,its own limita-tions (of time or amount or purpose), andyou can get into arguments about the justiceor appropriateness of using any of them. Suf-fice it to say,there is a variety of places groupscan go to ask for resources.

So even though not everyone gets to ben-efit from all the opportunities they see atStanford,the farm doth have fertile ground ifyou want to get some money to plant some-thing. And given that musicians are usually

pretty strapped for cash,at least while yourein college you can apply for funding to recordan album or start a steel pan group.

Besides, is it even a huge deal that somedoors are closed to students? With all theclasses and activities to choose from, a fewunavailable options might make it a bit easi-er to pick among the thousand other thingson your to-do list.

Lets be clear, though: This issue of un-available opportunities due to short re-sources is not unique to Stanford studentgroups.Its a part of life. My point is merelythat, as I advocate for a stronger music pres-ence on campus,I lament the times when sit-uational factors prevent more people from

joining in.Taking the long view, groups canbuild themselves up over the years, enablingthem to share music with more people later.Right now, they might not have room, butthings can change.And when you dont makeit the first time around, Stanfords got someresources if youre enterprising enough.Whoknows,it might teach you something.

Got any pedagogical or opportunistic com-ments? Email [email protected].

This column originally ran on Sept.23, 2010.

My name is Shane Savitsky, and I am awhite person.

I thought I should get that out of the wayimmediately,because its going to be an over-arching theme to this column as it progresses.After all, Mark Twain once said,Write whatyou know. What I know is how to be un-abashedly, undeniably and almost unattrac-tively white.Maybe youve seen me:Im thatkid who was biking to class the other day in aRalph Lauren oxford with a Jamba Juice inmy hand while jamming to some VampireWeekend.

While Im at it, I should probably getsome other things out of the way. I get all ofmy news through Twitter. I think ArrestedDevelopment is the funniest series to everair on television.There are a couple pairs of

skinny jeans hanging in my closet.The LifeAquatic is my favorite Wes Andersonmovie.I check Pitchfork multiple times a dayfor the latest in music updates. Of course Ivoted for Barack Obama.And no, I am mostdefinitely not a PC.

I guess some people might call me a hip-ster.We can go with that if you want.

Obviously,Stanford is known for its diver-sity.We have people from all over the planetcoming to study at our fine institution nestledin its own little slice of paradise,and we doeverything we can to make those people feelcomfortable. Stanford is loaded with com-munity centers and theme houses beckoningto every corner of society something thatmakes our university such a great and wel-coming place. But sometimes, white peopleneed a little place where they can come toand hear someone rant about the latestepisode of Mad Men or Breaking Bad.Maybe you just want to relax with a coffeeand sit down at your Macbook. This is thatplace.(Please ignore the fact that I just com-pletely described the CoHo or any

dorm/house lounge on campus.) Every weekwhen you open up The Stanford Daily and

see my column on the page,know that this isa safe respite for those of you who have beenfeeling lost.

Fear not! That is not a message of exclu-sion.While this column might be a jaded andsarcastic view of everything from culture toStanford-related issues to anything in be-tween,I hope to reach out to all members ofthe Stanford community. Youre a collegestudent,right? And you go to school in Cali-fornia? From that,I can immediately assume

that youre probably socially liberal and cul-turally conscious. Thus, Im sure we would

probably be friends if I said something like,Im going to drive my Prius to catch a showat the Fillmore this weekend and stop in TheMission on my way back to campus for somedive Mexican food. Oh, and I hope Prop 8gets overturned!Maybe youd like me evenmore if I told you that I thought Arcade Fireput out the best album of 2010 thus far.If youstill have no idea why anything I just saidshould be appealing or if youve never heardof Arcade Fire (or think that Im referring toa conflagration amidst some pinball ma-chines), then we definitely have some workto do.Well accomplish that over the next fewweeks.

That takes me to an important point toleave you with: in my personal film pan-theon,Wes Anderson-directed movies hold avery esteemed position among my favorites.And in A ndersons classic film Rushmore,the main character is a teenager named Max

Fischer. Max might be something of a bud-ding sociopath, but he is also involved incountless extracurricular activities at his pri-vate high school,Rushmore. From the Yan-kee Racers to the fencing club to the Rush-more Beekeepers, Max does it all.Hes a lit-tle obsessive compulsive, slightly unstable,over-the-top and has way too many things onhis plate to focus on schoolwork.And that,my friends,is something all of us at Stanfordcan agree upon.Im talking to the person outthere among us who has climbed MountEverest or whose research might unlock thecure for cancer someday. But mainly, Imtalking to you the average Stanford stu-dent who is in a thousand different studentorganizations with countless meetings to goto and a couple papers or problem sets dueon top of that and just not enough time in theday.It doesnt matter if youre white or blackor brown or some odd shade of purple;all ofus here at Stanford have just a little bit ofMax Fischer in us otherwise,we wouldntbe here.

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Correction

In Whitman,Brown spar in finaldebate (Oct. 13), Brokaws quote,You said businesses and households

ought to be held accountable for em-ploying undocumented workers . . .if you couldnt find out someone inyour home was undocumented or il-legal, how do you expect businessesto be able to?,was incorrectly attrib-uted to Brown.

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Andres Gutierrez 14 reads an essay on Wednesday about his struggles growingup with homophobic peers. Im really glad to be at a place like Stanford where Ican be myself, but the fact of the matter is that not everywhere is Stanford, he said.

tions, and thus among the most ef-fective pain relievers.The specifictype of love most valuable as apainkiller would be a matter of fur-ther study.

I would like to look at mater-nal love, long-term romantic love,and test different types of love tosee if theyre also pain-relieving ornot,Younger said.

Mackey expressed an interest in

pursuing the matter of quantifica-tion of pain relief with respect todegree of love.

Does more love equal morepain rel ief, more analgesia?Mackey questioned.

Both Mackey and Younger ex-pressed hope that further explo-ration of the interactions betweenlove and pain relief could lead tomore innocuous methods of painrelief.

Contact Brandon Powell at [email protected]

LOVEContinued from front page

ecutive cabinet member, brought anOct. 12 Stanford Review blog post tothe councils attention.In the post,blog-ger Otis Reid 12 questioned the recentselection of three new nominees for theASSU Constitutional Council, postu-lating that GSC politics may haveplayed a role in the developments.

Otis was able to get a little infor-mation from an anonymous source,Peacock said.I think it was unfortu-nate that that message was sent be-cause it was not true.

Reid wrote that Brianna Pang 13,former GSC beat writer for The Daily,was a first-round Constitutional Coun-cil nominee but was not re-nominatedin the second round, raising concernabout the impartiality of GSC mem-bers . . . towards her nomination.(Pang remains a Daily staff member.)Peacock addressed this issue as well.

As a GSC member from the previ-ous year, we thought Brianna was

great, Peacock said. She turned thelevel of reporting on the GSC around.

Samir Siddhandti 12, representingone of the second-round nominees tothe Constitutional Council,attended themeeting and fielded questions posed byGSC members about his new position.

The meeting concluded with an in-vitation to discuss the GSCs bylaws re-garding funding for religious and polit-ical events. Krystal St.Julien,a gradu-ate student in biochemistry, reportedrecommendations given in a recentmeeting with representatives fromStudent Activities and Leadership

The recommendation was that weshould be open to funding religiousevents,St.Julien said.Everyone mustfeel welcome attending. On the politi-cal side,keep the bylaw stating that wedont fund political events unless theyare educational.

Contact Anna Schuessler at [email protected].

COUNCILContinued from front page

Its not uncommon for us to be incontact with a recruit for a year or morebefore we invite them to interview fora full-time position,Tollerud said.

MacKenzie, who has attended sev-eral sessions, says that the number ofstudents in attendance makes it diffi-cult to gain face time with companyrepresentatives.He recently attended aMcKinsey & Company session in a

completely full Tresidder Oak Room.It was really hard to speak with

McKinsey people because there wereso many students wanting to meetthem and network, MacKenzie said.Theres definitely pressure to standout to someone at a company and havea good conversation so they rememberyou.

Applicants submit a resume andtranscript to the firms they are interest-ed in, and most firms send out inter-view requests within a week of receiv-ing applications. Bains interviewprocess, like that of many other con-sulting companies, consists of two

rounds of case interviews.Our case interviews are based on

real business problems, very similar tothe ones our clients hire us to help themsolve, Tollerud said. The case inter-view process is the best way for us to ac-cess a candidates ability to be success-ful in the associate consultant role.

Firms typically present offers tocandidates within a week of interviews.According to a 2008 article in Business-Week, Best Places to Launch a Ca-reer, entry-level consultants at topfirms can expect a starting salary of$55,000,plus signing bonuses.

Though consulting firms work with

the Career Development Center(CDC) to plan on-campus recruitingevents,CDC Director Lance Choy of-fers words of caution to students con-sidering the field.

For some students consulting is agreat field,Choy wrote in an e-mail toThe Daily.Unfortunately,I see far toomany students who pursue consultingwithout exploring other options. Formany students,they pursue consultingbecause of their friends.These studentsthink that it must be a good field be-cause so many others are pursuing thisfield.

For students like Ho,however,con-

sulting offers an opportunity to be anintegral and valued member of ateam. In few other professions, shepoints out, are recent college gradu-ates given such a high level of respon-sibility right away.

They [fellow consultants] dontdiscredit you for your age,Ho said.Ifyoure on a four-person team, they ex-pect you to work just as hard as every-one else.You have the chance to makean impact immediately, and thatshard to come by.

Contact Samantha McGirr at [email protected].

CONSULTINGContinued from front page

STUDENT LIFE

Stanford hosts annual

FACE AIDS conference

By MARIANNE LEVINECONTRIBUTING WRITER

This weekend, 100 students fromFACE AIDS chapters around theUnited States and Canada will attendthe annual FACE AIDS conferenceat Stanford.This years conference isentitled Beyond the Pin.The con-ference is primarily funded by FACEAIDS, an international nonprofitfounded by Stanford students dedi-cated to fighting HIV/AIDS. Theconference was planned and organ-ized by the FACE AIDS DirectorCorps,a group of eight Stanford stu-dents passionate about global health.

According to Romy Saloner 07,aFACE AIDS executive and manag-ing director,the conference gives stu-dents the unique opportunity tolearn from global health experts andeach other about critical issues in thefield and how to be effective advo-cates and leaders in the fight againstHIV/AIDS.

The FACE AIDS conference will

host a variety of speakers,from doc-tors to lawyers to activists. Thekeynote speakers are Joia Mukher-

jee, medical director of Partners InHealth, Joe Amon, director of theHealth and Human Rights Divisionat Human Rights Watch, and Don

Francis, executive director of GlobalSolutions for Infectious Disease andco-discoverer of HIV/AIDS.Mukherjee is scheduled to speak atBishop Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. onSaturday;Amon is scheduled for Sat-urday and Francis on Sunday, both at

the Clark Center.In addition to hosting a widerange of speakers, the FACE AIDSconference will include other activi-ties. According to Sidhtara Tep 11,the national events director forFACE AIDS, these activities includea speed-dating session where stu-dents can meet with professionalsand activists in the field and a careerpanel in global health.

The University of Oregon, VassarCollege and University of Texas-Austin are among many schools withlarge FACE AIDS chapters. In orderto attend the conference, studentssimply had to register online.

For the Stanford organizers, theconference involved a significantamount of planning.We had to findspeakers, create programming, designt-shirts and finalize logistics for foodand airport pick-up, Tep said.Thereis so much more that went into the con-ference and we literally have a million

Google documents floating around.The FACE AIDS conference willbegin Friday at 5 p.m. and end Sun-day at 2 p.m.

Contact Marianne LeVine at [email protected].

YouTube for several days after the

event.Many of the panelists, includingDoty,are affiliated with the School ofMedicines Center for Compassionand Altruism Research and Educa-tion (CCARE), a center whose re-search focuses on joining psychology

and neuroscience with examinationsof human compassion and empathy.CCARE and the School of Medicineare hosting Fridays conference.

The Dalai Lama also visited EastPalo Altos Costano School onWednesday, speaking to an audi-

ence of about 400 eighth-grade stu-dents. He also visited critically illchildren at the Stanford Hospitalwhose parents are staying at theRonald McDonald House.

Ellen Huet

DALAI LAMAContinued from front page

I think it was unfortunate

that that message was sent

because it was not true.

RYAN PEACOCK

More than 100 students

to attend weekend event


6/8

By MILES BENNETT-SMITHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

After dropping its first two Pac-10 con-tests to California and Washington, themens soccer team avoided an even biggerhole thanks to senior forward DominiqueYahyavis golden goal to beat Oregon State

in double overtime.This weekend,the Cardinal ret urns hometo face a stiff te st from two tough opponents:No. 13 UCLA and previously-ranked SanDiego State.

The Bruins (8-2-1, 3-0 Pac-10) are tiedwith Cal for the Pac-10 lead and are lookingto extend their dominance over the Cardi-nal, already holding a 36-5-7 advantage inthe all-time series. UCLA head coach JorgeSalcedos club is rounding into top form aswell opponents have scored just one goalin Pac-10 play. The Bruins have won fourstraight matches and have only one loss intheir past nine games.

After losing several key players from lastyears 12-4-4 squad that lost to Wake Forestin the NCAA quarterfinals, UCLA is ridingthe wave of a very highly ranked freshmanclass this year. Five Bruins were drafted inthe 2010 MLS SuperDraft in January,but thecurrent freshman class includes five moreplayers from Top Drawer Soccers Top 25.

Underclassmen have scored all but one ofUCLAs 18 goals this season, and only five

upperclassmen have received a start thisyear.Freshman midfielder Kelyn Rowe is on a

tear of late, with a goal or an assist in his pastfour games and totaling four goals and fiveassists on the season. Incidentally, UCLA is7-0 when Rowe has at least one point, and 1-2-1 when he is scoreless.

But for all the statistics,rankings and talkof how well various opponents are playing,Stanfords focus remains intensely inwards.

Sophomore defender Hunter Gorskieemphasized not allowing opponents to dic-tate the teams style of play.

We have to focus on playing our gameand let them adapt to us.We have to keep theball, be confident on the ball and maintainpossession,he said. To win,we also need tobe clinical in the final third [of the field] andmake sure the last pass is also the right pass.

In the 2-0 loss to Washington on Fridaynight, the offense never really found itsgroove, according to redshirt senior mid-fielder Thiago Sa Freire.

It was just one of those nights whenthings werent going our way,Sa Freire said.You have to give them credit, because theyplayed a really good game, but we just didntreally get into our game and our offensenever got going.

Sunday saw a more energetic and aggres-sive Cardinal team against Oregon State, asit dominated possession throughout thematch.

Gorskie said that the team found itself in

a difficult position and reacted accordingly.We were all pretty disappointed starting

off Pac-10 play 0-2, especially when we knowwe need to do well in order to get into the[NCAA] Tournament, he said.Sunday, wesaw that we had nothing to lose and neededto do everything together.

Right from the beginning we played ag-gressively and were energetic and had lots ofpossession, he added.It was a good gamefor us.

The Cardinal will need more of that ener-

By NICK SU

After a dominant 6-0 romp overHarvard last Friday at the VarsityTurf, the Stanford womens fieldhockey team will be taking its gameon the road,playing a trio of match-es on the East Coast this weekend.The No. 20 Cardinal (8-3, 3-1 Nor-Pac) begins play this Friday, as theteam takes on No.8 Syracuse (8-4).This match will be followed by twomore away games against Rutgers(5-9) on Sunday and Northeastern(6-7) on Monday.

Recovering from a nail-biting 2-1 loss to No.1 North Carolina (14-0) in late September, the Cardinalhas gone on to win its last threegames.But despite the strong offen-sive performance against Harvardlast week, Stanford fell three spotsin the coaches poll as Drexel,Al-bany and Old Dominion jumpedover it in the national rankings.Now,after 16 consecutive weeks of

being in the coaches poll,a loss onthe road this weekend may dropthe Card out of the national rank-ings for the first time since Septem-ber of 2009.

Stanford has done a great job onthe road, with a 6-1 record awayfrom home. Its only loss came atthe hands of undefeated NorthCarolina,which is also the defend-ing NCAA champion. In fact, theCard has done significantly betteron the road than it has at home,witha record of only 2-2 playing on theVarsity Turf.

All three of the Cardinals losseshave come by one-point margins,with its two losses at home to No.7Michigan State and California bothdecided by goals scored in the lastfive minutes of the match.Syracuse,on the other hand,has defeated sev-eral ranked teams in highly contest-ed matches,coming off an overtimevictory against No. 18 Albany lastSunday. At the same time, the Or-

ange has not been defeated on itshome turf,posting a 3-0 record.

The Stanford squad has done asolid job throughout the season,scoring an average of 3.18 goals pergame while holding a shooting per-centage of .201. Defensively, theCard has kept its opponents to only1.27 goals per game.The team pos-sesses great depth as well,with 15 of18 players on the squad havingscored at least one goal.Senior de-fender Katherine Donner was


MENS SOCCER

10/10 vs. Oregon State W 1-0

UP NEXT

UCLA(8-2-1, 3-0 Pac-10)10/15 Cagan Stadium

7:30 P.M.

GAME NOTES: Stanford is coming off a thrilling double-overtime victory against Oregon State. Historically, UCLA

holds a 36-5-7 record against the Cardinal. Stanfordwill likely be without injured starting goalkeeper Jason

Dodson for the rest of the season.

FIELD HOCKEY

10/8 vs. HarvardW 6-0

UP NEXT

SYRACUSE(8-4)

Albany, NY5:00 P.M.

GAME NOTES: The No. 20 Cardinal is cur-rently riding a three-game winning streak.Despite an impressive victory over Harvard,

Stanford dropped three spots in the coaches

poll. No. 8 Syracuse is undefeated at home.

BRUIN

BONANZA

Defending the crown

Card women face

East Coast test

By JACK BLANCHAT

The Stanford womens lacrosseteam begins its fall season this Satur-day, welcoming Fresno State, St.Marys and UC-Davis to town

three teams that Stanford will meetagain in MPSF conference play in thespring.

The championship season forwomens lacrosse wont begin untilFebruary, but the Cardinals fallschedule will prove to be a champi-onship-level test. After this week-ends round-robin event at home,theCard will travel to Philadelphia,where it will take on three perenniallacrosse powerhouses in Penn, Vir-ginia and Maryland,all of whom fin-

ished in the top 10 of last years finalrankings.

But before the Cardinal can set itssights on its third NCAA appearancein the spring, it faces a test againstthree Mountain Pacific Sports Fed-eration (MPSF) foes this Saturday.

The UC-Davis Aggies are theheadliner for the visitors, as the Ag-gies went 11-6 overall last seasonwith a 3-3 record in conference,goodenough for fourth in the MPSF.TheAggies pushed the Cardinal the full60 minutes in their only meeting lastseason before eventually fadingback,falling 17-14.

St.Marys finished the 2010 springseason with a 4-12 record and will belooking to rebound after a difficultperformance in its last trip to theFarm. The Gaels had a tough timeagainst the Cardinal, which was inthe middle of a stretch that wouldend up being a seven-game winningstreak.When all was said and done,the Card completed an impressive21-5 victory,its largest margin of vic-tory of the season.

Fresno State enters after a winlessseason and without its head coach ofthe past two years, as former leaderSue Behme moved on to Rochesterearlier this month. Fresno Statesprogram will be looking for its firstwin ever, as the brand-new program

began just two years ago.In their matchups last year, the

Cardinal dominated Fresno State,taking the Bulldogs down 19-4 in agame at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium,and later polished them off 16-1 inthe first round of the MPSF Tourna-ment in Denver.

The Cardinal will look to extendits winning ways from last season, asStanford head coach Amy Bokkerled the Cardinal to one of its best sea-

SPORTS

The highs

and lows of

Card football

Its Stanford footballs bye week,so this is a perfect time to focuson other sports. There are somany other things going on in theworld of sports the MLB

playoffs,the beginning of the NHL,thethick of the NFL season, the NBA pre-season and the realization that collegefootball players break the rules, just toname a few.

But lets be honest, this is collegefootball season. So with apologies tothe Rangers first series victory, a newclass in the NASCAR Hall of Fame andBrett Favres latest way of staying in theheadlines, here is a review of the firsthalf of Stanfords football season.

Lets start with the good:Record: The most important stats

for any team are wins and losses,andthe Cardinal sits at 5-1 through sixgames.A 5-1 record has to be consid-ered a success for almost any team,andlets not forget that Stanford just brokea string of seven straight seasons with-out racking up more than five wins.Looking at the schedule before theyear,just about any Cardinal fan wouldbe happy with five wins at this point inthe season.

Replacing Toby Gerhart:Pundits allaround the country doubted Stanfordsability to replace its star from 2009,Toby Gerhart.While there is no doubtamong the Cardinal faithful that Ger-

hart was a big part of the teams successlast season,the team has clearly movedon. The backfield-by-committee ap-proach has turned into the Stepfan Tay-lor Show in the past few weeks.This ispartly due to injuries, but it is mostly

MPSF champions tokick off new season

Cardinal looks to build offdouble-overtime victory

Jacob

Jaffe

Fields of Failure

Stanford Daily File Photo

After defeating conference rival Oregon State in a double-overtime thriller, the Stanford menssoccer team hopes to extend its winning streak as it takes on powerhouse UCLA. The Cardinal ismost likely without injured starting goalkeeper Jason Dodson for the rest of the regular season.

Stanford Daily File Photo

The No. 20 Stanford field hockey team travels across the country this weekend to face a trio of East Coastschools. The Cardinal encounters one if its toughest challenges of the season in No. 8 Syracuse on Friday night.

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailyFresh off one of the most successful seasons in school history, the Stanfordlacrosse team begins a new campaign on Saturday as it takes on FresnoState. The Cardinal smashed the Bulldogs 16-1 in their last meeting.

Please see LACROSSE,page 8

Please see FHOCKEY,page 8

LACROSSE UP NEXT

FRESNO STATE10/16 Stanford

GAME NOTES: Stanford won its last matchagainst Fresno State 16-1 in the first round

of the MPSF Tournament. The Bulldogs have

yet to record a victory in the programs brief

two-year existence. The Cardinal will look toimprove upon last seasons finish, a first-

round exit in the NCAA Tournament.

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due to Taylors success. He has rushedfor over 100 yards each of the pastthree games, and Stanford as a teamranks in the top 25 in the nation in rush-ing at over 200 yards per game. Tobywho?

Andrew Luck: In case you haventheard, Stanford has a quarterbacknamed Andrew Luck, and hes prettygood. As in top-10-in-the-nation-in-passing-efficiency and tied-for-fourth-

in-passing-touchdowns good.Oh, anddont forget that hes second on theteam in rushing at over 40 yards pergame, including a ridiculous 52-yardtouchdown against Wake Forest. Thecraziest part about Lucks seasonmight be the fact that exactly zero peo-ple are surprised by his success.Manyexperts project him to be the top over-all pick in next years NFL Draft, andhes only a sophomore.And while noone with an ounce of sense could com-plain about Lucks first half,its fair tosay that he hasnt come close to his bestfootball, and thats certainly good forStanford football.

Defense . . . at first: The biggestquestion mark for Stanford cominginto the season was the ability of thedefense to keep the Cardinal in biggames. During Stanfords first fourgames, every defensive question wasanswered and more. The Cardinalthrew its first road shutout in 36 yearsagainst conference foe UCLA, which

later rolled Texas in Austin. The sec-ondary, which had been the source ofcountless near-heart attacks, lookeddominant during the first three weeks,ranking first in the nation in pass de-fense.Stanford allowed only 11 pointsper game in the first four weeks, and

the normally potent rushing attacks ofUCLA and Wake Forest were stymied.Everything looked rosy.

Which brings us to the bad:Defense against good teams: The

biggest negative for Stanford this sea-son, and the biggest change betweenthe first four weeks and the last two,hasbeen the defense.After pounding fourmediocre-at-best teams not one hasa winning record the Cardinal raninto the buzz saw that is the Oregonspread option. The loss was not theissue Oregon might very well winevery game it plays this year by doubledigits but the inability of the Stan-ford defense to get a stop did not bode

well. Giving up 626 yards,including astaggering 388 on the ground,said evenworse things about the Cardinal de-fense.

While these numbers are grue-some for a defense, Oregons videogame-style offense stopped many fansfrom worrying. That should changeafter the abysmal effort of Stanfordsdefense last Saturday against USC.The matchup was supposed to be an-other chance for the Cardinal to assertitself over the rival Trojans. Stanfordwas favored by 10,and USC was reel-ing from a last-second loss to Wash-ington. Then the Cardinal secondarydecided not to cover Trojan wideoutRobert Woods,and the USC offensemade it pay.As in 12 catches for 224yards and three touchdowns, makinghim the only player in the country toput up those numbers in a game thisyear. Woods numbers in five gamescoming in? 13 catches for 175 yardsand one touchdown.

Stanford cannot take the next stepto becoming a powerhouse unless itfigures out a way to hold teams likeUSC below 35 points.The run defensewas better against the Trojans, but atop-10 team would not give up 390yards to Matt Barkley,even if hes hav-

ing a better year.Turnovers: One of the best attrib-

utes of Luck during his first season onthe Farm was his ball security (he onlyhad four interceptions all year). Ger-hart didnt cough up the ball too easily,so Stanford was one of the best teamslast year at avoiding turnovers. Thistrend was expected to continue into2010,but the last few games have hard-ly reinforced this notion.

In the past three weeks, Stanfordhas committed nine total turnovers,three in each game.This total is unac-ceptable for a top-tier program,and itwill cost the Cardinal dearly. Taylorsfumble late in the fourth quarter

against USC might have been the dif-ference if not for the final drive andfield goal by Nate Whitaker.

Are turnovers really that impor-tant, you might ask? Well, somethingthat separates top teams like OhioState, Oklahoma, Alabama, BoiseState and TCU is their ball security.None of these four teams has commit-ted more than seven turnovers all year,and thats no coincidence. Among topteams, only Oregon has racked upmore turnovers than Stanford,but theDucks can get away with it becausethey lead the nation with 22 takeaways.The Cardinal,on the other hand,has anegative turnover margin over the pastfew weeks,and this will be a big prob-lem if it continues during the meat ofPac-10 play.

Despite its 5-1 record,Stanford hasplenty to work on during this bye week,from covering receivers to makingextra points. So far,though, the Cardi-nal has lived up to high expectations

for the season,and theres a lot to lookforward to in Palo Alto.

The Oregon Ducks would have lost ifthey played football like Jacob Jaffe

plays video games. Challenge him toan Xbox duel at [email protected].

JAFFEContinued from page 6

iPod,Mederos said.She echoed Dun-aways observation that the burglarsselected an unusual assortment of be-longings to steal.

I had a lot of other valuable thingslaying out, Mederos said. I had adesktop monitor,a nice 35mm cameraand jewelry,but none of that was taken.Its really sort of obscure.It makes mebelieve that its some student some-where who just wants to sneak in andsneak out and knows campus wellenough to do that.

Despite the recent string of Rowbreak-ins,Police Lt.Rich Cinfio of theDepartment of Public Safety (DPS)said the incidents are not yet indicativeof a larger trend and are all under in-vestigation.

Theres not a concentrated patternof crime on campus,he said.

According to DPS, there have

been 79 burglaries on campus thus farin 2010. DPS considers each victim oftheft to constitute a separate burglary,for a total of 49 incidents since Janu-ary.

Nonetheless, the recent burglarieshave led some students to call forgreater security measures and the in-stallation of more security cameras.

We understand that there are a lotof ways to get into a building, but wedont understand why theres no secu-rity camera in Tresidder parking lot,Jenkins said.Theres nothing stoppingsomeone from breaking a window.

Cinfio said security cameras can bea good tool to assist in crime preven-tion, but he said the addition of cam-eras to that area would be problematic.

The problem is, who is going tomonitor these security cameras?Cinfio said.Theyre not practical interms of responding to a crime inprogress,and also, for parking lots wewould need video cameras sensitive tolow-light situations,which are very ex-pensive.

Instead,campus police and Student

Housing urge students and Row staffto take preventative measures to helpkeep possible intruders out.

Its important to be aware of yoursurroundings,and challenge someonewho looks suspicious by asking themwhat theyre doing there,Cinfio said.Its also important to lock your doorsand windows and secure your valu-ables.

Rodger Whitney, executive direc-tor of Student Housing, agreed thatstudents must play an active role inkeeping the residences safe through-out the year.

Incidences of unauthorized en-trance are always a good time to re-mind residents of the key part they playin security,Whitney wrote in an e-mailto The Daily.

According to Whitney,this includesbeing continuously aware of who is intheir residence,and reporting malfunc-tioning doors and latches to the emer-gency maintenance hotline.

Contact Kelsey King at [email protected].

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named NorPac Player of the Weeklast week after scoring two goals inthe match against Harvard. Donnerbecame the fifth Cardinal teammember to receive the player of theweek honor this season.

Though the Syracuse team has putup lower numbers than the Card, theOrange is not to be underestimated.Playing a tough schedule filled withEast Coast schools,Syracuse has not

lost any of its four matches playedagainst opponents in the top 20ranked lower than itself.

Its going to be a challengingweekend, said head coach TaraDanielson, who acknowledged thedifficulty of playing three games infour days while traveling across the

country.Coach Danielson stressed that

quick ball movement would be a keyto victory against the very physicalplay of the New England teams, but

seemed quite confident about theCardinals upcoming matches.

The expectation for this week-end is to execute well and to startshowing some signs of postseasonplay, she added.

After this weekend,the Card willplay its last two games of the regular

season conference matchesagainst Pacific and Cal. With a 3-1conference record, Stanford is cur-rently second in the West Division ofthe NorPac, behind Cal. However,

two wins in its remaining NorPacmatches would give Stanford a bet-ter seed and more momentum goinginto its postseason, which beginswith the NorPac Championships inearly November.

Contact Nick Su at [email protected].

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gy if it hopes to slow down UCLA,particularly since it will again bewithout the services of redshirtfreshman Jason Dodson in goal.Dodson suffered a dislocatedshoulder against Cal and will likelymiss the remainder of the regularseason.

In his absence, fellow redshirtfreshman Galen Perkins hasstepped up and by all accounts

delivered.If there was one very positive

thing from this weekend, it wasGalen, Sa Freire said.He playedvery well and has really stepped upin his role this weekend.

Perkins made his first two ca-reer starts and finished with ninesaves and two goals allowed in 197minutes, an impressive debut in adifficult situation on the road.

He will have his hands full Fri-day night against UCLA, and itwont get much easier against SanDiego State on Sunday.

The Aztecs (7-3-2, 1-2) havebeen flirting with the rankingsthroughout the year, falling fromtheir No.2 5 perch this week after atough 1-0 loss at UCLA.They did,however, manage to hold off Wash-ington, 4-3, in overtime with only10 men and will be looking to re-bound off the loss to the Bruins.

With a little under half the Pac-

10 season complete,the pressure ismounting for the Cardinal to makea move and play its way into thepostseason.

We are really excited to play athome,a nd we love playing at homebecause we usually play well hereand play our game, Gorskie said.But theres no mistaking that weneed to do very well in the secondhalf of the Pac-10 season to moveon. I think we are all ambitious totake on the challe nge.

Kickoff against UCLA will be at7:30 p.m. Friday, with the gameagainst the Aztecs slated for Sun-day at 2:30 p.m. Both games will beat Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at [email protected].

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sons ever. The girls from the Farmreached as high as No. 8 in the na-tional rankings and won the MPSFTournament title, defeating Denver11-10 in double overtime.The victo-ry avenged a 17-12 home loss toDenver earlier in the season, andmarked the sixth consecutive MPSFtitle for the Cardinal.

This year, the Cardinal returnsseven seniors from last years 15-6

squad, including last years two lead-ing point-scorers, Sarah Flynn andLauren Schmidt, who captured hersecond consecutive MPSF player ofthe year award last year.Senior goal-keeper Annie Read also returns to theFarm Read was nothing short ofoutstanding for the Cardinal last sea-

son. Her 0.496 save percentage wasgood enough for 13th in the nation.

A few other notable names towatch this weekend will be from theyoung guns on the team,as the Cardi-nal looks to have many young playersin important roles this year,with fourof its top nine point-scorers from lastyear lost to graduation. Perhaps themost notable departure is ClaireHubbard, who notched 41 assistsfrom her attack position last year,thesixth-best total in the country.

Fans can also be on the lookoutfor the new freshman class this sea-son, which boasts two Under Ar-mour All-Americans, including at-

tacker Annie Anton, who wasnamed the best player in Coloradoby the Denver Post,and goalkeeperLyndsey Munoz,who was a selectionto the ESPN All-Rise team.

Contact Jack Blanchat at [email protected].

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Its going to be a

challenging weekend.

TARA DANIELSON, head coach

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