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Carter visits local bookstore

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Former President Jimmy Carter came to Kepler’sBooks in Menlo Park Tuesday to promote his latestbook,“White House Diary.”

Hundreds who had bought tickets to the event wereadmitted, according to the event coordinator Paul Pe-

tersen.More onlookers without tickets peered throughthe windows to catch a glimpse of the former president.

Though Carter left office with a 34 percent approvalrating in 1980, those who attended the event weredrawn by their admiration of Carter.

“I thought he was a great president,” local residentDenise Gerber said.“This is the first time I’ve ever met

a president and I’m honored.”“In my eyes,especially after he left office,he’s done

such wonderful things with his life for other people,”local resident Vicki Brooks said.“He should be a rolemodel for everybody.”

In addition to signing approximately 1,500 books intwo hours,Carter also fielded questions from the press.

Carter said he was rooting for the Giants,and spokebriefly about how income disparity will become an in-creasingly large problem in the 21st century.

When asked about whom he was supporting in theCalifornia gubernatorial race, Carter cast his supportfor Democratic candidate Jerry Brown.

“I liked Brown then,and I like Brown now,”Cartersaid.

— Melanie Scheible

STUDENT GOV’T

Senaterethinks

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NEWS BRIEFS

Researcher talksculture,eating

By JULIA BROWNELLSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Claus Meyer, the founder and co-owner of Restaurant magazine’snumber one-rated restaurant in theworld, and Arne Astrup, a leadingobesity researcher from the Universi-ty of Copenhagen, sat down with agroup in Tresidder on Tuesday to talkabout the New Nordic Diet as a wayto promote healthy eating.

The talk, entitled “Eat RightNow,” was part of a two-day confer-ence, “Future of Health Innovation,”on health innovation in Denmark andthe United States.

Meyer and Astrup spoke on howthey are attempting to address theproblem of obesity in Europe throughtheir new approach to food, whichthey call the New Nordic Diet. Thediet involves using local food inhome-cooked meals that bring peo-ple together to enjoy healthful eating.In Denmark, that meant embracingtraditional Arctic cuisine.

The diet is the cornerstone of Meyer’s restaurant, Noma, run byhead chef Rene Redzepi. In its 2010contest, Restaurant magazine votedNoma the best restaurant in theworld. The menu features localNordic food and brings out tradition-al flavors as part of a healthful cuisine.

“We wrote in our first menu thatwe wanted to create a brand newNordic cuisine that embraced theArctic world,”said Meyer.“Rene hadtrained with the best chefs in theworld, and I had an idea of how tobegin the New Nordic s tyle.”

Meyer’s culinary work intersectedwith Astrup’s scholarship on prob-lems of obesity. Astrup is formerchairman of the International Associ-ation for the Study of Obesity and oneof the most cited obesity scholars inthe world.However,in many of his in-

tervention studies,people who left thestructured study environment wouldtend to regain the weight.

Drop-out patients “tend to regainand relapse,”Astrup said. He blamedthat on the fact that losing weight wasan act of deprivation and hardship for

patients who would forgo deliciousfood.

Hence, Astrup began to collabo-rate with Meyer, using his NewNordic cuisine as a way to promotesustained healthy eating in his ran-domized trials. He wanted to testwhether the New Nordic food wouldactually work, and so in one smallstudy he randomized one group to aNew Nordic cooking class and anoth-er to a control no-class measure. Hisobservation of classes and final resultsmade him a believer.

The subjects in the cooking class“were having a lot of fun,” he said.“For me at that time having a lot of fun was incompatible with decreasingyour food intake. The drop-out ratewas only 4 percent in the cookinggroup, but 25 percent in the controlgroup . . . maybe this could preventthem [from] going to their old eatinghabits.”

Astrup is now conducting a multi-site school intervention to help com-bat childhood obesity in Denmarkand around Europe.

Denmark “actually had a diet that

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By MARGARET RAWSONDESK EDITOR

The 12th ASSU UndergraduateSenate decided Tuesday evening onthe spring 2011 ASSU general elec-tion date, received the resignationof the Appropriations CommitteeDeputy Chair and began animateddiscussion on a bill to cap campaignspending for ASSU executive candi-dates.

The spring 2011 general electionwill take place April 7 and 8, twoweeks after the beginning of springquarter.

Senator Ben Jensen ‘12 submit-

ted his resignation Tuesday asdeputy chair of the AppropriationsCommittee, citing a heavy courseload and difficulty in attendingmeetings.

“The needs of the committee andmy personal needs are not beingmet,so in the interest of the commit-tee I feel I should resign,” Jensensaid.

Senate Chair Michael Cruz ‘12told his fellow senators they mayapply for Jensen’s position, andJensen may choose to join anothercommittee in place of Appropria-tions. Jensen’s replacement will re-quire two-thirds approval by theSenate.

Executive Campaign FinanceASSU President Angelina Car-

dona ‘11 and Vice President KelseiWharton ‘12 presented a bill on pre-vious notice containing campaignspending caps for executive elec-

tions, as well as other stipulationsfor executive candidates. Most no-tably,the “Bill to Reform Electionsto Create Equal Access to the Exec-utive Office” would cap expendi-

By ANH NGUYENDANG

Ongoing flu clinics organized by the VadenHealth Center are administering flu shots free of charge to Stanford students and their spouses ordomestic partners, faculty, staff and retirees. Theseven clinics so far this year have also offered flushots to spouses or domestic partners of staff andfaculty members for $25.

With the flu season fast approaching, Vadengives out the shots as an attempt to reduce the in-cidence of respiratory diseases for the individualstudents and the Stanford community.This year’svaccine includes the immunization for H3N2,H1N1 and Influenza B.The shots are administeredin temporary clinics set up by Vaden in WilburDining Hall, Lakeside Dining Hall and GraduateCommunity Center, as well as at Vaden.

The collaboration among Vaden,Stanford Uni-versity Occupational Health Center, School of Medicine physician faculty and medical schoolstudent volunteers made the clinics possible byhosting the clinics and administering the shots.Stanford Benefits, BeWell @ Stanford and the

Health Improvement Program (HIP) contributedin publicizing the free shots to students.

This year, on average, about 300 shots havebeen administered at each of the clinics,comparedto last year’s total of 2,100 shots,when the limitedsupply of flu vaccines meant that only high-risk in-dividuals could receive the shot.

However, according to Clinic Manager NancyMasunaga, who spoke on behalf of Vaden HealthCenter director Ira Friedman,more vaccines are

available this year compared to last year.Masuna-ga said Vaden’s goal is to double the number of shots given last year.

“We should see a larger number of people im-munized,”Masunaga said.

These clinics are funded by two differentsources. The Provost’s Office covered the cost of the shots administered to students and their

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SCIENCE AND ART

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A collection of student artwork emphasizing the “fusion” between geologi-cal features and human development on the Yellowstone Hotspot sits ondisplay in the lobby of the Cummings Art Building.

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Medical student James Xie gives first-year medical student Jamie Brett ’10 a flu shot. Flu shots are avail-able this year free of charge at Vaden Health Center’s clinics scheduled now through December.

HEALTH

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Arne Astrup, an obesity researcher atthe Univeristy of Copenhagen, dis-cusses his new obesity preventioncampaign at Tuesday’s Future ofHealth Innovation conference.

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ALL TRADITION?Full moon, back in full force

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Fields ‘10 to start in NBA debut

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WEDNESDAY Volume 238October 27, 2010 Issue 29

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By CHRISTINA BROW

For lawyers, “legacy” is a gift of personal property by will. Musicaficionados might recognize it asan album by The Temptations orMotown.But at Stanford,being a

“legacy” means you have family history

here — in addition to some pressuresother students are less familiar with.Some students had alumni parents who

encouraged them to attend Stanford. For-est Nelson ‘12 felt that pressure from hismother.From a young age,he was encour-aged to study and pursue academics sothat he could attend the school that hisparents and three aunts did.

Patrick Kelly ‘12 experienced a similarinfluence from his family. When he wasonly two days old,his grandfather placed aStanford visor on his head.Even with thestrong bond between his family and theCardinal, Kelly said going to Stanford“was still my decision.”

“I feel like I have to prove myself oncepeople hear I’m a legacy,”Kelly said.“ButI’m here for other reasons.”

In contrast to Nelson and Kelly’s fami-ly members,Megan O’Neil’s mom made aconscious effort not to influence herdaughter’s college decision.In fact,O’Neil‘13 had planned not to visit anywhere ex-cept Stanford,but her mother encouraged

her to consider other schools as well.Many students whose parents attended

Stanford feel strong ties to the school.O’Neil said that since her sisters attendedStanford,she feels an “automatic connec-tion” to the Farm. Following in the foot-steps of her alumni parents, two sisters,aunt, uncle and grandfather, O’Neil feels

like she’s adding to a family tradition.“It’s cool to be a third-generation stu-dent,but it’s also cool that first-generationstudents are paving the way for legacies tocome,” O’Neil said.

Family lore exposed O’Neil to a num-ber of Stanford traditions before arrivingon campus. Instead of just rememberinglast year’s Full Moon on Quad,O’Neil canremember her sisters’ stories as well.Sim-ilarly, when she bikes through the Quad,she remembers one of her father’s oldtales.

“One time, my dad drove his red Fiatinto the Quad, where he had a date,”O’Neil said.

For some, family influence just meantstaying away from a rival school.The onlypressure Ginny Scholtes ‘13 felt was toavoid USC,she said.

Scholtes forged a strong bond withStanford during her yearly visits to north-ern California. Since she was a year old,she has spent time with the Stanford Sier-ra Club, a program for alumni and their

families on the shores of Fallen Leaf Lake, just south of Lake Tahoe.Each family is as-signed a cabin,and during the stay, mem-bers sail,row,hike and play sports.

“I want to graduate so that I can get acabin,” Scholtes said. “My sisters havekids, and I would like to bring them up tothe lake.”

Dean of Undergraduate Admissionand Financial Aid Richard Shaw said lega-cy status has always been just one factor of many under consideration in the admis-sion process. He said it’s a “myth”that be-cause one is accepted as a legacy student,he or she is less qualified for Stanford. Hecalled legacy students “exceedingly com-petitive.”

And the Faculty Senate this month af-firmed the charge of the University Com-mittee on Undergraduate Admission andFinancial Aid, which says Stanford maygive special consideration to “those appli-cants whose parents graduated from Stan-ford,” who are the children of faculty orstaff,who are exceptionally talented,whobelong to an ethnic minority or who lend“desirable diversity”to the class.

Admission decisions “are reflective of the kind of classes we want here,” Shawsaid. “We’re not out of bounds.”

Contact Christina Brow at [email protected].

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2NWednesday, October 27, 2010 The Stanford Daily

The Stanford ‘legacy’

By JARON MOORE

Legend has it that back in the day, when thefirst full moon came, two lines of studentswould form in front of Memorial Church.Seniors donning coy smiles held roses in oneline. In the other, freshmen waited to be

kissed and complete their matriculation.The lines and lips met at midnight, and with the

passing of a rose,the senior class welcomed freshmento Stanford under a full moon.

That was more than a century ago. Nowadays,FullMoon on the Quad has evolved into an event thatbucks all tradition.After a full day of reflection on theevent,students are telling their stories, sometimes in-credulously. As Citlalli Sandoval ‘14 asked, “Whatwould my grandma say?”

They recall Monday night: to start off, a crowd

forms in front of Old Union. Seniors, some donningonly body paint, hold freshman-dorm bingo cards.Freshmen wait to hear Super Mash Bros and forget

their midterms.Steadily the crowd grows as students pile into the

courtyard of Old Union. Super Mash Bros mount thestage and project a modified Lakers logo onto thebuilding.

“Stanford,how you feeling?” the performers ask,receiving a unanimous, barbaric “yawp” in reply,andthe party begins with a video of a space-shuttlelaunch.

Frenetic music bounces off the architecture thathouses the dancing undergrads.The concert providesstudents their first chance to pair off, and betweensongs some begin the night’s infamous activity a bitprematurely.

After an hour, the temperature in Old Union isnoticeably nearer to 98.6 degrees. Super Mash Brosexit the stage.

“Have fun at your makeout session,”they say tothe incandescent crowd,and the Leland Stanford Ju-

nior University Marching Band takes over wherethey leave off.Pouring out of Old Union and into White Plaza,

students listen to the Band’s loud cacophony. Somesport costumes, others dress casually, and still otherswear nothing at all.

Soon,they’re all headed for the Main Quad.Whileprocuring “consent is sexy” stickers, students wel-come Full Moon on the Quad back to Stanford undera waning gibbous moon.

Hundreds of participants shuffle in past the lime-green-shirted “sober monitors” tasked with keepingout crowd members who lack SUIDs.Peer health ed-ucators hand out Hershey’s kisses at tables covered incondoms and mouthwash.Cops roam the perimeter.

The dancing tree sways in the center of the amor-phous group of students from all four classes.

There’s no countdown to midnight or any indica-tion of when to begin kissing, but the kissing starts

just the same.Bingo cards composed of dorm namesprovide a challenge for certain participants lookingto make out with a freshman from each.

By the end of the night,the ground is covered withfake roses and the crowd has dwindled.In the morn-ing, the Quad will return to its main function as the

academic nucleus of the University, but for a fewmore moments, all tradition is dead.

Or maybe not all tradition. Did this iconoclasticFull Moon on the Quad event provide freshmen anadequate welcome to Stanford? A few weigh in.

“The event was hyped up and failed to meet myexpectations,” said Daniela Parra ‘14. “Not manypeople actually wanted to kiss, and they were juststanding around.”

“It wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be,” saidAmanda McFarlane ‘14. “I was expecting this hugeorgy.”

Victoria Virasingh ‘14 wondered,“What’s up withall the naked people?”

“The naked people make it,” countered DuncanLindsey ‘14.“There’s an awesome Stanfordian ridicu-lousness that is necessary to not take ourselves andeveryone else seriously for one night.”

And “other than the herpes,” said Dan Thompson

‘13,“it was great.”

Contact Jaron Moore at [email protected].

What family connections to the Farm mean, for better or for worse

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By GRACE PARK

Those expecting to see a traditional library would besurprised to step into the Frederick Emmons TermanEngineering Library within the Jen-Hsun Huang Engi-neering Center.With its opening this summer, the newTerman Engineering Library, which used to be locatedin the Terman Engineering Center,is bringing to realitythe new concept of a library — one that’s “bookless.”

In this move,the library has cut down the number of books to about 20,000 from 80,000 and increased thenumber of e-books to around 40,000.

After two months of operation,the library is generat-ing positive responses from its student patrons.

“I study here often and I think the library is great,”said first-year Management Science and Engineering(MS&E) master’s student Luyin Zhao.“Finding the re-served books and self-checkout systems are very conven-ient.I can find all the accommodations I want.”

Overall, the four circulating e-readers are usuallychecked out; conference rooms around the library areoften full with groups of students and professors. “Any-one can walk in and study only if there’s a space,”Zhaosaid.

Though the new library’s bustling popularity can be-come a problem for some,patrons of this library seem toenjoy the atmosphere, according to Helen Josephine,head librarian.

“In a sense,now you see people busy reading,but theyare in the lobby of a hotel with all these activities aroundthem,” Josephine said.“Some people really like that feel-ing, maybe because they can concentrate but they don’tfeel alone.”

“I study here almost every day,” said first-year

MS&E master’s student Kalbana Kumar. “The bestthing about the library is that it’s quiet, small and al-ways has spaces.”

The library has also made many efforts to reach out tostudents and faculty.Four librarians,each assigned to dif-ferent departments, are working to ensure that every-thing is running smoothly. They update faculty on newdatabases, SearchWorks and other interfaces for findinginformation.

“We have much more interactive sessions with theschool to make sure that the students are aware wherethe library is, what staff and resources are available,”Josephine said.After each term, the library will have sta-tistics on library usage and check what needs to be doneto improve the library.

Meanwhile, although the library is equipped with thelatest technology, not many students are taking full ad-vantages of the resources.

“I think it’s great,but I’ve used only a little part of theresources in the library,”Zhao said.

Other students such as doctoral student Jin Changhave not adjusted to the e-book system. “I love the at-mosphere in Terman Library,” Chang said, “though I’mnot fully comfortable with e-books and e-readers. But if that’s what the trend is, I would like to follow up withthat.”

Though the library generally received positive feed-back, Josephine said she continues to seek out patrons’opinions and concerns about the new library in order todetermine how best to improve its operations.

“We definitely want to keep those communicationsopen,” said Josephine.

Contact Grace Park at [email protected].

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ACADEMICS

MS&E program celebrates 10-yearanniversary, reflects on progress

By PATRICIA HO

Stanford’s Management Scienceand Engineering (MS&E) depart-ment will continue expanding andadapting its undergraduate andgraduate programs after celebrating

its 10-year anniversary on Oct.15.The department was created in aneffort to combine three smaller areasof study— operations research, en-gineering-economic systems and in-dustrial engineering and engineeringmanagement— into a comprehen-sive major, according to MS&E de-partment Chair Elisabeth Pate-Cor-nell.

“The goal of the merger betweenthe three departments was to ex-plore the synergy among these de-partments and to make it much moresubstantial, interdisciplinary and vi-brant,”Pate-Cornell said.“I think wehave done just that.”

According to department studentservices officer Lori Cottle,the num-ber of applicants to the program hasbeen stable overall, as the depart-ment generally receives about 800applicants to its master’s programand 250 applicants to its doctoralprogram each year.

This year,the department admit-ted 37 percent of applicants to itsmaster’s program and 15 percent of applicants to doctoral program, re-spectively. In total, 130 undergradu-ate students, 356 masters studentsand 121 doctoral students are cur-rently enrolled.

The department also receives alarge number of coterminal degreeapplications from Stanford under-

graduates, which Cottle attributes tothe department’s technical focus.

“We’re a good next step for a stu-dent who has done something verytechnical and is sure that’s wherethey want their career to go,”Cottlesaid.

While reflecting on the depart-ment’s progress since its inception,Pate-Cornell said that althoughquantitative factors such as the num-ber of applicants, standardized testscores and the acceptance rates fromeach year are important,the depart-ment primarily measures its successby the merits of its applicants.

“There is not one single [quantita-tive] measure that would give an in-dication of success,” Pate-Cornellsaid.Instead, “we look at the qualityof the students that we attract.”

Moving forward, the departmentwill adapt its courses and other pro-grams as needed to ensure that itcontinues to provide students withfundamental technical skills to han-dle a variety of fields.

“Now we are trying to adapt theareas that we have to the big prob-lems and changes in the world,whether in energy, health environ-ment, communication, information

systems or national security,” Pate-Cornell said.Many graduates from the MS&E

department have gone on to becomeanalysts in a variety of businessfields, including consulting, banking,finance, product management andmarketing. Several graduates havepursued careers in engineering andtechnology as well,according to theCareer Development Center’s re-

port on destination employmentfrom 2006 to 2009.

Ioana Ioanovici ‘12,who declaredher MS&E major earlier this year,said the department provides a com-prehensive foundation for her plansto work in operations management

after graduation.“I wanted to have a broader rangeof career opportunities after I gradu-ate,” Ioanovici said. “MS&E allowsyou to be well-rounded as an individ-ual, and it gives you more freedom,because I know I’m not confined toanything.”

Ioanovici also appreciates themajor for its efforts to provide stu-dents with more applied than theo-retical knowledge and skills.

“I felt that MS&E was a specialopportunity because it prepares youfor the real world,” Ioanovici said.“The classes teach you very impor-tant skills and are very applicable.When you finish a class, you learnhow to do something new — for ex-ample,how to optimize costs,or howa supply chain works.”

Pate-Cornell said she is proud of MS&E’s innovation and creativity,which lends the department its stay-ing power.

“Ten years later, the departmenthas blossomed, which is not to saythat there are never any problems,”Pate-Cornell said.“But we have cer-tainly managed to create programsthat involve the spectrum of topicsand disciplines from social sciencesto operations research.”

Contact Patricia Ho at pho14@stanford.edu.

ACADEMICS

Terman library adapts to e-readers,new ‘bookless’system

LUIS AGUILAR/The Stanford Daily

Students study in a study area of the newly built Terman Engineering Library. The library, which moved from its for-mer location in the Terman Engineering Center, features four Kindles and a large collection of e-books.

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tures for slates receiving public fi-nancing at $750 and would requireslates to submit itemized budgets of campaign expenses. The ASSU ex-ecutives would allocate $3,000 fromtheir budget to the Elections Com-mission for public financing for can-didates.

The bill would require slates togather 300 signatures in order to re-ceive public financing,with 100 eachfrom undergraduates and graduatestudents — an increase of 100 sig-natures from current policy, aimedto make it difficult for less-seriousslates to receive funding.

“You don’t necessarily need tospend, spend, spend to run a goodcampaign,”Wharton said, introduc-ing the bill. Without spending caps,he argued,potential candidates maybe deterred from running.

Cardona spoke of creating a“culture where people of all back-grounds feel like they have the op-portunity to decide to run.”

Zachary Warma ‘11, a senatorlast year, attended the meetingspecifically to voice numerous con-cerns about the details and philoso-phy of the bill. (Warma is chair of the Daily editorial board.) The 10thand 11th Undergraduate Senatesrebuked similar campaign financebills,Warma said.

Warma argued that the billwould unnecessarily politicize therole of ASSU financial manager and

elections commissioner and ques-tioned the bill’s necessity.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,”Warma said, noting that executivecampaign expenditures have de-creased since hitting spending highsin 2008.

Senator Robin Perani ‘13 arguedin favor of spending caps, citing herown difficulty in deciding whetheror not to run for Senate despitemonetary concerns that almostcaused her to drop out of the race.

“It’s unfair and discriminating

against someone’s socioeconomicstatus,”Perani said.Warma responded, saying, “If

there are people with different cir-cumstances who want to run, theywill find a way.”

Discussion of the bill was sus-pended until next week.

Internal Development ChairAlso discussed on previous no-

tice was a bill proposing the ap-pointment of a Senate internal de-velopment chair to plan socialevents for the Senate.The bill, au-thored by Perani, would select PatBruny ‘13 as this year’s inauguralchair.

Both Perani and Bruny ex-pressed a demonstrated need forSenators to interact outside of theirofficial duties.

“Us understanding each other aspeople is essential to the way wework together,” Perani said, addingshe hopes the bill,if passed, will af-fect future years.

When Minh Dan Vuong ‘11 re-minded the Senate to set an appro-priate balance between work and

play,Senator Will Seaton ‘13 said so-cial events will be considered addi-tional to normal working hours.

Green Events ConsultingASSU executive chair of sus-

tainability Theo Gibbs ‘11 and co-president of Students for a Sustain-able Stanford (SSS) Molly Oshun‘11 presented to the Senate Tues-day on Green Events Consulting, anew ASSU and SSS initiative de-signed to help student groups“green” their events. A pilot pro-

gram debuting this winter quarterwill grant seven to 10 volunteer stu-dent organizations the opportunityto meet one-on-one with greenevents consultants in an effort tofollow the Green Events Checklist,a list of guiding criteria for eventsustainability.

The Senate passed all of theevening’s funding bills and budgetmodifications.

Contact Margaret Rawson at [email protected].

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was dominated by a very high fatdiet,”Astrup said.“The prevalence of obesity among Danes went up dra-matically.”

In the study, healthy meals mod-eled after the New Nordic Diet prin-ciples will be given to more than 3,000Danish students daily for threemonths.The hope is that such changeswill help reduce childhood obesity inDenmark, which affects many youngDanes,including Meyer.

As a child, Meyer said, he wasoverweight, but then became so con-cerned with losing weight that he de-veloped a “borderline eating disor-der” until he moved to France as ayoung adult. There, he discovered anew way to look at eating.

“The way the food was sharedamong friends and family reallytouched me,” he said. “Returning to

Denmark I had a calling — I wantedto change Danish food culture.”

The two hope that lessons fromthe New Nordic Diet can be usedaround the world to combat obesity.They also pointed out that healthyrecipes can be simple — their bookof recipes has no main dish that takesmore than 30 minutes to prepare.

Meyer even had some advice tograduating Stanford students thatwill soon have to find food outsidethe convenience of dining halls.

“I would ask one person,‘What doyou like to eat?’ and he might say,‘Roasted potatoes,’ and I would say,‘Great, then maybe you should try tolearn to roast your own potatoes,”Meyer said.“Then for the rest of yourlife you can make for yourself andyour friends the thing you like most.’”

“I mean, what a pleasure,” headded.“So much food is so simple. . .. Start in one corner and then con-quer one recipe at a time.”

Contact Julia Brownell at juliabr@ stanford.edu.

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OPINIONSSEN T FRO M MY IPHONE

LOOKING UP

All I’ve ever wanted to be in life isHunter S. Thompson. This is my at-tempt at Gonzo journalism for Wan-

ing Gibbous on the Quad,as you astronomybuffs so rightly pointed out.

As I am running to push a shopping cartcarrying a sousaphone, as my chemically in-duced feelings of wonder and beauty havefully engaged themselves, after three longyears,I actually have to hand it to the ASSU.For an organization that embodies apathyand deadweight loss,it finally came up with agood idea. Super Mash Bros. appears to beworking the crowd into an optimal frenzy,and the Band as pied piper should successful-ly minimize any awkward transition period.

Awkward transition period, that’s a suit-

able name for the events that followed.Thesophomore class said they wanted to class itup. I see nothing of the kind. I heard therewere supposed to be roses. I can’t find them,which is fine.After all,in the immortal wordsof Andre 3000,“Lean a little bit closer, see,roses really smell like boo boo boo.” Maybeit’s just a function of Stanford (a.k.a.the firstplace I met anyone under 40 who enjoyedgolf), but I have noticed that my generationhas a confounding obsession with classiness,though only in a superficial sense.“Classy”isa great theme for parties. Drinking Two BuckChuck instead of Coors Light really meansyou’re going places in the world,but the pre-ponderance of middle-class liberal guilt hastaken all the bite out of telling someonethey’re like school in July. If anything, it’susually viewed as a compliment.

Besides,sophomore class,did you miss thebirth of a man called Michael Cera? Awk-wardness is how we define ourselves. Somekids enter Full Moon looking for their firstkiss.Half the people there can’t stop thinkingabout their midterms the next day.The other

half will view it as a referendum on their at-tractiveness, even though it’s completelydark outside.I t’s a strange, awkward,annoy-ing,horrible, beautiful,awesome event.Whyyou wanna mess all that up by tryin’ ta injecta silly thing like “class,” with all of its socioe-conomic implications,up in here?

Back to the scene.I wish I had been ableto find my extra “Kiss Me,I Donated Blood”sticker. That might have smoothed thingsover. No matter,this is awesome. I’m havingthe greatest time.Should probably try to findsome freshmen,but I’m also,like, not feelingthe need to put on my creeper hat. I’m justgonna try and find people I know.I’d be real-ly happy if someone came up to me and saidthey really like my column. That stuff nevergets old. It’s really the main buttress of myego at this point. Oh, hello lady. Why yes, Iwould like to kiss you.I don’t think this getsdiscussed enough, but kissing tastes weird. Itlooks like a lot of people are standing on theoutside.They must be sad. I am wonderingwhen everyone’s gonna wake up and turnFull Moon into the love-fueled rave it’s sup-

posed to be. It’d cut through a whole lot of that awkwardness.We need an Owsley Stan-ley up in this, but for MDMA instead. Justsayin’.

Earlier this week, whoever the openingact was got a hold of my e-mail and called

Full Moon a sketchfest. That seems like amischaracterization. For something that’s onthe mind of everyone here,there are very few

events explicitly dedicated to the satisfactionof bodily desires. People need a place to gowhere they can affirm for themselves that“yes, I am a sexual being who is looking tosatisfy my desires tonight if the right personcomes along.” Sketchy is too loaded a word.True, some idiots are going to cross someboundaries because they think they’re enti-tled to.Assholes. But letting them take overthe event really does a disservice to everyoneelse who is using Full Moon as a chance to

just possibly figure out what the hell they areever doing about anything ever.

It’s currently 1:30.I didn’t keep tally,butI’m satisfied. Did not find any of the girls Imight have been looking for. My scooter iscurrently lost in that shopping cart. Whentexting a friend about how her evening went,I for some reason mentioned AxeComm.This girl I do not know wants me to text lastyear’s Tree because she “really wants toknow where he is.” This is dumb, but I’mbored so I play along. He texts back “IDON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON.”This takes 40 minutes.(Thank God for time-

stamps on texts.) All right,enough of this.It’sa long walk back to the Shak. Well done,Stanford.

Got another assignment? E-mail Peter at [email protected].

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It’s starting to become clear . . . that ambi-guity makes me really anxious,as do all ex-ternal variables in my life that I don’t and

won’t know. And this abstract stress-inducercomes in many domestic forms.For instance,itstill freaks me out that I misplaced a complete-ly finished diary somewhere in the world fouryears ago. Rainy days persistently remind meof my gorgeous,enormous umbrella that dis-appeared last winter at the Stanford Book-store/Wilbur Dining.And don’t get me startedon the locational mystery of well-loved pens Ilent out in high school, because I’m still won-dering.

Then short-term becomes long-term. Lastyear, for example, I collapsed at a table inBuilding 160 while reading a rejection e-mailfrom the only summer opportunity I had ap-plied for— after an extremely haughty sixmonths of openly banking on that job, I felttotal insecurity.Then there was the imminentdisaster when the International Relations de-partment asked me what my “post-Stanfordplans”were, a question that was strategically

shelved for a week, and still not answered inreal life.

And recently, sometime last week, I real-ized much too late that I was playing out thatone shamelessly cliché scene found in most of the movies I despise:I was (oh, this is embar-rassing) literally waiting by the phone. Ugh,yeah. For a call that wasn’t coming. InevitablyI was filled with questions,I was anxious and Iwas downright grossed out with myself beingin that situation.I wanted answers — now.

This is the typical, ambiguous experiencethat epitomizes (a) the existence of unanswer-able questions and (b) how it leads to anxiety.

We fumble around asking annoying questionslike: What do they think of me? When didthings change? When will I find out? Did thelost-and-found people not look hard enough?But it’s an equation with too many variables,an event characteristic of a world of imperfectinformation.There’s no objective, omniscient,third-person narrator (which is unfortunate,because hearing a calm Morgan Freemanevery day would probably do us all a lot of good). Ultimately, I don’t know your total sit-uation, and you surely don’t know mine.Andstill our lives collide into each other or tem-porarily run parallel,but the fact is, we confuseeach other like crazy because we’ll neverknow all the causative details.

So there I was, navigating a frustratingroundabout of whys and hows and whens,feeling pretty much left in the dark, with un-ringing cell phone in hand.But I realized—epiphany! — that there was one thing I knewfor sure:I was here,being me,and everything

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spouses or domestic partners, whileStanford University Human Re-sources paid for the flu shots given tostaff and faculty.

Though Masunaga did not givethe exact cost to run the clinics, shesaid the amount varies each year de-pending on the number of staff pres-

ent at each clinic.Volunteer medicalstudents donating their time also mit-igate the costs,Masunaga said.

The frequency of the flu clinicsmakes it easy for many students,suchas Zenas Lee ‘11, to drop by for a vac-cination.

Lee called the process “quick andeasy.”

“I just happened to be at Vaden foranother reason and saw that theywere giving out free flu shots,so I justgot mine right away,” Lee said. “Ittook maybe about one minute to fillout the form and then one minute toget the shot.”

Lee also got vaccinated in order tolessen the chance of an epidemic. “Iknow that there’s a critical vaccina-tion threshold to prevent the season-al flu from being an epidemic,” Leesaid. “I try to do it every year . . . Itwas great that it was free this year.”

Aside from getting the flu shots,Nancy Masunaga recommended thatstudents cover their coughs and washtheir hands often to prevent thespread of germs and viruses thatcause respiratory diseases. “If youhave flu symptoms, call the Medical

Advice Nurse as soon as possible tosee if there are medications thatcould be helpful to you,” Masunagasaid.

Sixteen more flu vaccine clinicswill occur between Wednesday andDec. 13 at various locations andtimes, according to the University’sflu information website, flu.stan-ford.edu.

Contact Anh NguyenDang at [email protected].

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Correction

In “Stanford explores ideas of ethics and war in new series” (Oct.26), The Daily incorrectly listed To-bias Wolff as the director of Stan-ford’s creative writing program.Eavan Boland is the program direc-tor.Wolff is an English professor.

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SPORTS

A fter a summer of shocking revelations concerning pay-ments by professional agents to prospects still in col-lege, a recent article in Sports Illustrated rocked thecollege football world yet again. Josh Luchs, a formerNFL agent, detailed the inner workings of the system

and admitted to paying dozens of college players during his career inorder to persuade them to sign with his representation firm whenthey entered the NFL Draft. Luchs’ story, combined with the scan-dals at numerous programs, has led to new calls for the NCAA andthe NFL to crack down on agent payments to players.

The Luchs story alsoadded fresh fuel to an age-old debate in collegesports: whether universi-ties should pay student-athletes.

In his interviews withSI,Luchs said the vast ma-

jority of payments aren’thuge gifts.Agents’ commissions are limited to 3 percent,so only thetop 10 or so draft picks will sign large enough contracts to justify bigpayouts.

Many of these players took the money not because they weregreedy, but because they needed it — to buy food or make car pay-ments,for example.Many college football players don’t come fromadvantaged backgrounds, and because of their commitments tofootball,they can’t take part-time jobs to pay for everyday expenses.Thus,when an agent comes around offering money,players are oftenhappy to take it.

The answer championed by some commentators is for everyfootball program to give its players a small stipend so they won’thave to take money from agents.This seems like a logical solution tothe issue at hand.Players will not have as strong an incentive to takemoney from agents since their basic needs will be taken care of.

However,I still disagree with the idea of paying college footballplayers.

For starters,some football players are already paid quite a lot of money in the form of full scholarships.I pay upward of $50,000 a yearto attend Stanford. Athletes on full scholarships pay nothing whilereceiving the same education I do. Of course,these players deservethe full scholarships; I am merely pointing out that there is a pretty

significant value associated with them.Athletes are also basically receiving free training to improve theiron-field performance, which pays significant dividends when theyleave for the pros.Under a single scholarship,football players are re-ceiving both a standard education,which they can utilize if they enterthe regular workforce,and a “football education,”which is necessaryto make those millions of dollars in the NFL.

In summary, many athletes are already receiving quite a lot forfree.While the value of this education might not compare to thesalaries available in the pros,no one is advocating for college footballplayers to be paid at the same level as their NFL counterparts.

But it still doesn’t solve the problem close to the heart of the agentissue:the lack of means to pay for basics that drives many athletes totake the cash.

To me, this problem seems to break down into two distinct cate-gories:what I’ll call “basic living needs,”like food,housing and books,and “other expenses,”like car payments.

Universities should definitely cover expenses in the first catego-ry for football players.A full scholarship should cover tuition, roomand board,so these athletes should have their meals,rent and schoolexpenses paid for. If scholarships aren’t covering these types of things,then they should be expanded to include them.

This brings us to the other category of expenses.A recent articleon ESPNLosAngeles.com helped to shed some light on this issue aswell. In it, former USC head coach John Robinson talked about

some of the problems his players faced.“That was one of the toughest things for me as a head coach,wasthe kid who was stressed for whatever reason,” Robinson told thewebsite.“His girlfriend was pregnant,his parents were this or that,hehad a car and couldn’t make the payment.”

Call me coldhearted,but I really don’t have all that much sympa-thy for someone who gets himself into trouble by making poor choic-es.If you don’t have the income to make car payments but go aheadand buy a car anyway,asking your university for a stipend to pay forit is something I just can’t endorse.Likewise,if you don’t have anymoney,getting your girlfriend pregnant is a stupid move.

Maybe college football players should be required to take a classin personal finance. It might help them manage their money betterand avoid the pressures of agent cash.

It might even be a good idea to allow football players to take outloans against their future NFL earnings. Similar to a student loan,they could take out money now and pay it off later.It legally achievesthe same basic idea as the agent payoff— cashing in on your futurepotential while you’re still in college.

So there you have it: my case against giving football playersstipends.They’re already receiving a pretty valuable education,bothon and off the field. Their scholarships should cover basic livingneeds,and if they don’t,universities need to expand them so they do.And it’s not their schools’ responsibility to bail them out when theyget themselves in financial hot water.

Even if this solution doesn’t staunch the flow of agent cash to ath-letes, we can atleast shift theblame away

from “the sys-tem”and place it

squarely ongreed, both fromthe agents andplayers,with a sprin-

kling of poor deci-sion-making in there for good

measure.

Kabir Sawhney will teach that fi-nance class if it means that football

players will finally pay attention tohim. Request enrollment at ksawh-

[email protected].

Why student-

athletes shouldnot be paid

Former Stanford basketball starLandry Fields ‘10, who was selected inthe second round of this year’s NBADraft, was named the starting shootingguard for the New York Knicks by headcoach Mike D’Antoni earlier today.

The 6-foot-7 Fields averaged just lessthan nine points and three rebounds pergame for the Knicks this preseason. Asurprise draft pick at No. 39, Fieldsquickly became a favorite among Knicksfans,who initially booed his selection inJune’s draft. He will supplant formerstarter Wilson Chandler in New York’slineup. D’Antoni cited Fields’ lack of mistakes in the preseason and his high-energy style as reasons for making his

decision.Fields played for four seasons at Stan-

ford.He saw his statistics jump when hewas named a starter in his junior season,but did not receive national recognitionuntil his senior year. In the 2009-10 sea-son, Fields was among college basket-ball’s scoring elite, averaging 22 pointsper game. Stanford’s lack of depth thatseason required Fields to play severalpositions, which scouts say helped im-prove his all-around game.

The Knicks open their season tonightwhen they visit the Toronto Raptors.Tip-off is scheduled for 4 p.m.

— Zach Zimmerman

PAC-10 POWER RANKINGS

Every week, Jacob Jaffe will give his Pac-10 football power rankings. These represent ameasure of current success, not a prediction of future standings or a measure of talent.

1. Oregon (7-0, 4-0 Pac-10) UP NEXT: at USCThe Ducks are the top team in nearly every poll, the only undefeated team in a deepPac-10 and probably the most impressive offense in the country. They put on one ofthe biggest shows of the year in a 60-13 thumping of UCLA on national television

last week, and they’ll have a chance to do the same this week against a fired-up Trojan team.Oregon appears to be one of the top few teams in the nation, but it will still be tested againstUSC.

2. Arizona (6-1, 3-1 Pac-10) UP NEXT: at UCLASo much for missing its starting quarterback. With Nick Foles on the sideline, Arizonadidn’t skip a beat, pounding Washington 44-14. Replacement Matt Scott, whobegan 2009 as the starter, did not throw an interception and had a higher passer

rating than Foles has had in a game in his career. Foles could come back against the Bruinsthis weekend, but either quarterback will p rovide a big edge over UCLA’s woeful passing attack,which ranks last among non-triple option offenses in yards per game.

3. Stanford (6-1, 3-1 Pac-10) UP NEXT: at WashingtonStanford drops a spot after one of the most lackluster wins in recent memory. StepfanTaylor had a career day running the ball, but it is hard to take a whole lot of positivesout of a 10-point win over Washington State, the closest Pac-10 game the Cougarshave had since their last conference victory two years ago. The Cardinal will need to

be much sharper this week against the Huskies because Seattle is always an intimidating placefor opponents.

4. USC (5-2, 2-2 Pac-10) UP NEXT: vs. OregonThe Trojans stay put after their bye week, but will likely make a move one way or theother after their showdown with Oregon. The Ducks embarrassed USC last year inEugene, and the Trojans would love to repay the favor at the Coliseum on Saturday.With no bowl game in sight, this is the game of the year for USC. It will need to find

a defense over the bye, though, because Oregon’s offense doesn’t make things easy on anyopposing unit.

5. California (4-3, 2-2 Pac-10) UP NEXT: at Oregon StateLocation, location, location. Yet again, the Golden Bears prove that home-fieldadvantage can make a big difference. In Cal’s case, it seems to mean everything,because the Bears have won all four of their home games, outscoring their oppo-

nents 189-34. Away from Memorial Stadium, Cal is 0-3, scoring only 16 points per game.The blowout win over Arizona State last weekend will not mean as much if the trend continuesthis weekend in Corvallis.

6. Oregon State (3-3, 2-1 Pac-10) UP NEXT: vs. California After a grueling first half of the season, which included the end of wide receiver James Rodgers’ season, the Beavers got a much-needed bye last week. Now,Oregon State gets the luxury of playing Cal at home, where it has not lost this sea-son. A win would make a bowl game very likely, while a loss could leave the

Beavers’ holiday schedule wide open.

7. Washington (3-4, 2-2 Pac-10) UP NEXT: vs. StanfordWashington, Arizona State and UCLA are very hard to separate: all are inconsis-tent 3-4 teams coming off blowout road losses. The Huskies get the nod here sim-ply because they have won two Pac-10 games, although each came by just one

point. Washington has a chance to jump above the crowd and give itself a good shot at a bowlgame with a home upset of the Cardinal. To do so, though, it will need a strong night fromquarterback Jake Locker, who has been slowed by injuries but is expected to start.

8. Arizona State (3-4, 1-3 Pac-10) UP NEXT: vs. Washington StateThree straight close losses early in the season could derail the Sun Devils’ bowl hopes,which are now slim at best. Arizona State will need to upset a couple of teams in order to get the seven wins it needs to go bowling. The Sun Devils will welcome WashingtonState to Tempe this weekend, which would usually be the cure for any ailments. Now,

though, ASU might be more worried about an upset than any Cougar foe in years.

9. UCLA (3-4, 1-3 Pac-10) UP NEXT: vs. ArizonaEvery week that goes by brings the Bruins farther from their upset of then-No. 7Texas, and it is showing in their on-field product. UCLA has looked outclassed inPac-10 play, and injuries and suspensions aren’t helping. Now without their start-

ing quarterback Kevin Prince for the rest of the season, the Bruins will have to rely even moreon their running game. The schedule doesn’t get a whole lot easier after last Thursday’s steam-rolling by Oregon, as UCLA must now host Arizona.

10. Washington State (1-7, 0-5 Pac-10) UP NEXT: at Arizona StateThe Cougars got closer to escaping the bottom of the conference than they havein years this past weekend. A 21-point fourth quarter at Stanford is certainlyimpressive, but Wazzu needs to get a real victory to go with its recent moral ones.This Saturday brings a definite opportunity for the Cougars, because Arizona State

appears very vulnerable. Washington State has a chance to end its 14-game Pac-10 losingstreak, but it will need another strong effort from quarterback Jeff Tuel.

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In his first NBA game, former Stanford basketball standout Landry Fields will start atshooting guard for the New York Knicks. He was the 39th pick in the 2010 NBA Draft.

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Stephanie Byrne (10) and the Stanford field hockey squad posted a dominant 6-0 win over Pacific on Sunday. With the victory, the Card kept alive its hopes of sharing theNorPac regular season title with cross-Bay rival California. The two teams will meet this Friday night for the regular-season finale in Berkeley.



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on the other side of the phone linewas simply . . . not in my jurisdic-tion. Knowing answers about some-one else’s circumstances wasn’tgoing to change this situation. Butletting go of the unknowable, dis-tracting questions was.So I stoppedthe self-caused ambiguity anxiety,and it was the most refreshingbreath of air for my former mentalmess.

In accordance with my thematicnovel of a life, a close friend of mine,Kevin Morton ‘12, told me anuncannily related story that hasbeen running in my head since. Weran into each other the secondweek of school,and he told me how

he had lost his camera somewherearound a castle while participatingin an archaeological dig in northernEngland this past summer. It wasonly the first week of a huge, newexperience, but Kevin said the cam-era was surely invisible in tall grass,there was no way to retrieve it, andhe actually felt freed from the dutyof taking pictures instead of livingthem out first-hand. Within mo-ments, my friend Kevin,having oneof the brightest attitudes I’ve everencountered, just let that veterancamera go.

Three months later, movingback into Stanford, Kevin receivedan e-mail from a woman from thesouth of England. Her family hadbeen playing Hide-and-Seek at acastle up north when her treasure-seeking son picked up a relic of acamera. They then spent the sum-mer navigating the Internet to find

its owner via records of marathonIDs, e-mail addresses of soccercoaches, high school sports teamsites, Stanford athlete bios andKevin’s dad’s work website. In abeautiful twist of plot, this familyspent so much more time on thatcamera out of compassion thanKevin ever did in anxi ety.

Conversely, I’ll admit that Ispent a lot of precious time lastweek speculating the unknown.ButI seriously loosened up on the use-less questioning;I let go.And real-ly, it makes all the sense in theworld that I ended up losing noth-ing and gaining a lot more.

Amid all the things we won’t ever know,there is one thing you shouldknow by now: Nina’s e-mail addressis [email protected] keep e-mailing. She’s loving her reader re-

sponses.

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