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By KABIR SAWHNEYMANAGING EDITOR

In its toughest test of the sea-son to date, the No. 16 Stanfordfootball team fell to No.3 Oregonon Saturday night,52-31, markingits first loss of the season.

The game was a tale of twohalves for both teams.While theCardinal (4-1, 1-1 Pac-10) held a31-24 lead heading into halftime,it did not score in the second halfwhile Oregon (5-0, 2-0) lit up the

scoreboard with four moretouchdowns.

Things didnt quite go ourway in the second half,said Stan-ford head coach Jim Harbaugh.We didnt handle some situationsthat could have put points on theboard for us.

Stanford came out strong anddominated the first quarter, forc-ing two Duck turnovers en routeto taking a 21-3 lead.The Cardinalwas quick to capitalize on its op-portunities, scoring 14 points off afumble recovery by Delano How-ell and an interception by redshirtsophomore linebacker ChaseThomas.

Index Opinions/2 Sports/4 Classifieds/5 Recycle Me

By AN LE NGUYENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Stanford Management Compa-ny (SMC) announced that itsmerged pool,the Universitys prin-cipal investment pool, secured a14.4 percent investment gain in theyear that ended June 30,2010. Themerged pool, which includes mostof the endowment, was valued at$15.9 billion.

The endowment itself had a re-ported $13.8 billion value as ofAug. 31, 2010, representing a 9.6percent increase over the previousfiscal year.

These figures show a solid re-bound from the 25.9 percent lossthe merged pool suffered last year,the largest single-year plummet inthe Universitys history. The en-dowment dropped sharply from$17.2 billion to $12.6 billion duringthis period.

According to John Powers,chiefexecutive of SMC,the recent gains

are well aligned with the manage-ment companys goals. SMC aimsto enable Stanford to meet its pay-outs,to build up the endowment toincrease the Universitys resourcesand to operate at an appropriatelevel of risk.

At 14.4 percent, were bothmeeting all of our obligations tothe University and significantlygrowing the value of the endow-ment . . . so we met our goals, ab-solutely,Powers said.

The Road to RecoveryStanfords investment gains this

past year had much to do with im-proved market conditions, as wellas deliberate actions by SMC.

It was a strong year for bothequity and credit in general, butwhat made it a good year for Stan-ford was a decision to overweightvalue credit significantly, Powerssaid.

ACADEMICS

Turner tolead STSprogram

By LISA WALLACECONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Stanford Produce Stand now acceptsCardinal Dollars. The student-run venue is infront of Tresidder on Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to3:00 p.m.

A new partnership with Union Square, theeatery inside Tresidder, allows the producestand to run transactions through UnionSquares sales system.

Residential and Dining Enterprises, which

oversees the Sustainable Food Program ofStanford Hospitality and Auxiliaries,sponsorsthe produce stand.

The Produce Stand is an important part ofthe educational awareness platform of the Sus-tainable Food Program, said Matt Rothe,di-rector of the Sustainable Food Program. Byaccepting Cardinal Dollars, our hope is thatwell be able to connect with a greater numberof students and to showcase the great workthats happening right here on campus.

Emily Bookstein 11 has worked at the pro-duce stand for the past two school years. Sherecognizes the benefit to students of increasedpayment options,but because the change is stillnew, she has yet to notice a change in cus-tomers.

Maybe the information isnt out there aswell as it could be because not that many peo-ple do it, she said.It is hard to tell what is in-fluencing people to come to the stand. At themoment,it is mostly faculty and staff.

While the student clientele may be small,for those who do support the stand, increasedpayment options are attractive.

I had Cardinal Dollars last year,and I hadno idea the produce stand takes Cardinal Dol-lars, said Tess Rothstein 11, a frequent cus-tomer. If I had them this year,I would total-ly use them to buy produce from the s tand.

Using Cardinal dollars provides a greatvalue to students who are looking to supportthe local and organic food movement by pur-chasing fruits and vegetables at the stand,Rothe said. We are hopeful that it draws agreater number students to the stand so we candemonstrate all of the work that we and ourstudent partners are doing to raise awareness

around sustainable food and agriculture.Stanford students on campus grow many

of the fruits and vegetables sold at the stand.The produce stand sources from two growers:Stanford Community Farm and Gardens, theon-campus agricultural project, and ALBAOrganics in Monterey County.Small-scale sup-ply means that the stands offerings vary fromweek to week. On Friday, the spread includedheirloom tomatoes, eggplants, basil, bell pep-pers,kale, arugula and bok choy.

Contact Lisa Wallace at [email protected].

By MARGARET RAWSONSTAFF WRITER

A bill that would require students to re-quest special fees in person at the Stanford

Student Enterprises (SSE) office ratherthan online, introduced in the ASSU Un-dergraduate Senate on Tuesday, was re-tracted over the weekend in a series of ef-forts to reform special fees funding for stu-dent groups.

The withdrawn bill,which had not beenvetted by SEE or the Graduate StudentCouncil (GSC), was part of an effort tocombat the recent trend of increased re-quests for refunds.

Refunds were skyrocketing,said Sen-ate Chair Michael Cruz 12, reflecting onchanges last year to the special feesprocess.

While statistics for this quarters refundsare not yet available, the numbers for re-funds per quarter for the past four quartershave been the following:spring 2010,959 re-quests, totaling $99,776 with 322 full re-funds; winter 2010, 1,132 requests, totaling$115,794 with 379 full refunds;fall 2009, 788

By ASHLEY MENZIES

Communication Prof. Fred Turneris set to replace longtime Science,Technology and Society (STS) Direc-tor Robert McGinn next fall afterMcGinns three-year appointmentends in August.

McGinn, a management scienceand engineering professor,co-direct-ed the program with history Prof.Paula Findlin from 1998 to 2003,when he became the sole director.Under his tenure, STS became thethird-largest interdisciplinary pro-gram at Stanford. An undergraduateprogram,it grants bachelors degreesof both arts and science.

Its the most fulfilling thing Iveever done, McGinn wrote in an e-mail to The Daily. I would do it allover again.

Turner shares McGinns enthusi-asm about STS and has served on theprogram board for several years.When Humanities and SciencesDean Richard Saller offered Turnerthe job,he accepted.

Fred Turner has a great back-ground to direct STS, Saller said.He is a passionate teacher and doesresearch on how technology haschanged the nature of communica-tion over the generation a perfectfit for STS.

Turners assumption of the STS di-rectorship has been met with muchenthusiasm.

Fred Turner has a passion for thescholarly issues surrounding scienceand technology and an inspiring vi-sion of the future of the STS pro-gram, said communication Prof. Je-remy Bailenson.

Turners vision for the program in-

cludes enhancing the intersection be-tween the worlds of engineering,thehumanities and the social sciences.One of the most exciting thingsabout Stanford is the sheer numberof faculty and students thinkingabout issues that cross these threeareas, Turner said. We would likeSTS to continue to be a central gath-ering point for those folks.

Four faculty members, two fromthe School of Engineering and twofrom the School of Humanities andSciences, founded the program in1971,McGinn said.

Involving faculty from bothschools has yielded research andteaching benefits that simply wouldnot have happened if the programhad been a one-school venture,McGinn said.

Im very much looking forwardto having Roberts input next year,Turner wrote in an e-mail to TheDaily. He has been at the core of

STS at Stanford for a number ofyears,and I very much hope he con-tinues to stay involved with the pro-gram.

McGinn oversaw the programssurge in popularity,exceeded amonginterdisciplinary majors only byhuman biology and international re-lations. In 1996, only 20 students ma-

jored in STS,but the number reached150 last spring. This year, about 50students will graduate with eitherbachelor of arts or bachelor of sci-ence degrees.

Many of these graduating seniorswill go on to work for tech companies.These companies respond positivelyto the backgrounds of STS majors,which combine humanities and so-cial-science perspectives with varyinglevels of technical course work,blur-ring the popular fuzzy-techie dis-

Powers talksinvestment

Chief executive says goals absolutely

met after years 14.4 percent gain

FOOTBALL

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GAME NOTES: Stanford, currently ranked No. 16in the AP Top 25 poll, will look to avenge its loss

at third-ranked Oregon in USC head coachLane Kiffins first visit to Stanford Stadium.

Oregon crushesStanford, 52-31

McGinn, 12-year director,will step down in August

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FOURTH-YEAR FRESHMANColumnist Cris Bautista 11

shows some Serra loveHome of Emily Bookstein

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Taylor Skaufel (40) and Thomas Keiser take down Oregon quarterback Darron Thomas. Thomas shreddedStanford, passing for 238 yards and three touchdowns and rushing for an additional 117 yards and a touchdown.

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The Stanford Produce Stand is open every Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. outside of TresidderUnion. The stand sells student-grown produce and is part of the Sustainable Food Program.

STUDENT LIFE

Produce Standnow acceptsCardinal Dollars

STUDENT GOVT

Refunds tostay online for now

Please see FOOTBALL,page 4

QUACK ATTACK

MONDAY Volume 238October 4, 2010 Issue 12

ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily

Senators withdraw pro-posed special fees change

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2NMonday, October 4, 2010 The Stanford Daily

One of the defining characteristics ofStanford in the eyes of The PrincetonReview is that the school operates so

smoothly it runs like butter. This compli-ment appealed to me when I was consideringcolleges as a senior in high school.I wonderedhow such a free, innovative place could alsorun like butter.

As a freshman,I continued to be amazed.It seemed that there were invisible geniesthat took down and put up decorations andsigns,coordinating thousands of events everyquarter seamlessly,all as I went to class andchatted with friends and did my homework.As the state of California went bankrupt andAmerica was in financial crisis, Stanford of-fered tens of thousands of dollars in grantmoney to undergraduate students.

I realize now that this smooth operationcomes at a price:it comes with a paradigm of

business as usual that students trust be-cause so much is handled so well at the Uni-versity level.

This trust and the huge workload ofthe Stanford administration has slowlyconverted Stanford into an academic-indus-trial complex.Now dont get me wrong.Its asunny, jolly complex, complete with smilingadministrators and as little red tape as possi-ble,which means still a lot.But at the end,weare paying, quarter after quarter, a schoolthat is shrewd with its money and ambitiouswith its space. Business as usual has putUniversity operations under the tyranny ofthe all-powerful dollar.

This is an unflattering characteristic thatour beloved school shares with almost everyother large university in America.An organi-zation that is media-hungry, jealously guardsits reputation and shields its clientele fromcompetitors could just as easily describe any21st-century American university as it coulddescribe your neighborly multinational cor-poration.

What are some problems? The more en-trenched the product,the less your commentessentially matters. There is almost a unani-mous consensus that Axess must die and Ihave a feeling that the administration knowsthis without the need for a single survey. Yetthe administration isnt responsive to thiscomment because Axess only grows with in-ertia over time,and the cost to replace it be-comes enormous.Again, the dollar lord re-

mains almighty.And then there are the legacy admits.A lit-

tle less than a year ago, this very newspaperpublished a startling statistic: almost one fifthof my class, the Class of 2013,had a legacy atStanford, according to Dean of AdmissionRichard Shaw.This percentage of legacies ishead-and-shoulders above some elite EastCoast schools. Furthermore,across the pond,the universities that usually embody class and

privilege, such as Oxford and Cambridge, allabandoned legacy admits decades ago.Again, from a corporate mindset, the

practice of legacy admission is a practicalone:it supposedly emboldens alumni loyaltyand entices donors to fill University coffers.If students are customers, then they will beloyal donors to the brand if their progeny canhave the privilege of being customers as well.

Yet at a philosophical level, such admis-sions are deeply problematic. New York

Times op-ed columnist Richard Kahlenbergrecently wrote in Elite Colleges,or Collegesfor the Elite?that legacy admissions are dis-tinctly an American privilege and, at thesame time, paradoxically un-American be-cause they undermine the notion of meritoc-racy that this nation was founded on.

There are so many cases where the notionof business as usual works well in the uni-versity context. But upon closer inspection,there are just as many cases where such a no-tion doesnt work at all.The practical and themoneymaking are often prided above themorally correct and the popular.

I dont know if Stanford can adjust ormore precisely,I dont know if it can afford toadjust its mindset. But it must. If it wantsto be a leader of a true liberal arts education,it needs to stop running a non-profit educa-tional institution as if it were a for-profit ed-

ucational commodity.Stanford,we are not here as customers ofan experience. Were here for much morethan that.We are here to shape our very soulsand minds.Please dont forget this.

What do you think about Stanfords corpo-ratism? Is it a necessary effect of the pressures of

21st-century American higher education?Could you care less? Let Aaditya know [email protected].

OPINIONS

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Our School,Not Your Army Base

Iremember well the debate leading up tothe war in Iraq.First,a fringe right-wing po-sition was drawn up by a motivated seg-

ment of the nations elite.Then the propagan-da onslaught began,blasting the public with a

smorgasbord of deceptive justifications forbloodshed, with both conservative andmainstream media outlets banging the wardrums.Conscientious citizens who opposed anillegal and immoral war were largely excludedfrom the debate,often with a deafening brayof,Support the troops!(as if the best way tosupporta person were to catapult him into awar zone to kill and be killed).

We face a similar, smaller-scale debateabout militarism today, but its not a foreigncountry that is going to be invaded its ouruniversity.

The Stanford Daily and The Stanford Re-view have both recently come out against keep-ing the various military ROTC programs offStanfords campus. Their editorials have beenmore verbose versions of that nauseating yel-low-ribbon, bumper-sticker splatter.The thingabout the refrain Support the troops,howev-er, is that it is a cleverly designed propagandaphrase designed to distract from the impliedmessage:Support our policies.It is the policyof transforming the campus into a four-yearmilitary staging area, and whether it benefitsthe campus as a whole, that we should be dis-cussing not vacuous and misleading slogans.

So, is there a compelling reason to bringROTC back on campus? If there is a good ar-gument,I havent heard it.One argument that

I can identify is from a 2007 Daily editorialmuch to the same effect as this years.It makesthe case that poor kids are disproportionatelykilled in war and postulates that rich kidsshould be killed as well,as if the real problemwere economic inequality of corpses instead ofhuman beings getting killed in the first place.

And there are plenty of reasons to excludeROTC.First,Im not aware of any other organ-ization that blackmails its members with finan-cial penalties if they discover years down theroad that the group isnt for them.Second, Ialso havent heard of any student group thatforces its members to pledge several years of

their lives to the organization after graduation.These requirements make Stanford less of aninstitution to nurture intellectual interests andmore of an assembly line for the Army.

Third and most important, we must decideif hosting an enduring presence of the U.S.mil-itary on campus is compatible with Stanfordsmission. By my count, the military currentlyruns afoul of the ideals the University purportsto stand for.Stanfords founding grant calls forthe University to [exercise] an influence onbehalf of humanity and civilization. Doestraining students to participate in the worldsmost effective and well-financed killing ma-chine facilitate this goal? Clearly not.

Campus militarization advocates oftenstate that attitudes have changed since theVietnam (and Cambodian and Lao) War.Thatis true, but not in the way that they think.American aggression in Indochina was not op-posed en masse until many years after the startof the war,while the most recent Iraq war wasprotested before it even began.All peoples areby nature pacifistic,but the civilizing influenceof the 60s and beyond in this country has mademany confront the gruesome reality of whatwar is and question why anyone should be as-sisting its execution.

Thus is it really any wonder why,in The Re-views words,all we hear is silence from the

students? Perhaps students are less than en-thusiastic about their university being turnedinto a military base.

The Reviews suggestion that studentswould be clamoring for ROTCs return if theywere better informed about the program ispatently absurd or is this just a not-so-subtleway of declaring all people who oppose mili-tarism ignorant? Either way,not too convincing.

In any event,dont ask, dont tellstill re-mains in the way before we can liberate out-of-the-closet gays to go halfway around the worldto shoot up Afghanistan. But once DADT isrepealed,and everyone recognizes its days are

numbered,ROTC should stay where it is:outof our school.

DANNY COLLIGAN M.S.11

Computer Science

Why theMilitary Matters

Last fall, we were approached independ-ently and asked to head up the Stanfordchapter of a new program called the Tru-

man Service Initiative (TSI).Its parent organ-ization, the Truman National Security Project,recruits,trains and positions a new generationof Progressives across America to lead on na-tional security.After meeting with the nation-al directors,we both decided to volunteer forthe job.

It took several weeks for each of us to f igureout the other was a political conservative.Imagine our surprise.

Rather than undermine TSIs goals,this dis-covery highlighted the importance of our workon campus.National security issues have be-come something you only care about if you

lean right politically. Stanford is not alone inthis.The three-year pilot program also was in-stituted at Yale, Princeton, University ofChicago and Columbia all places known fortheir active, involved and, dare we say, over-achieving, students.But even so, the programhad trouble finding students with the neces-sary interest and experience to act as campusdirectors.The fact is that progressives who careabout national security are a rarity on elitecampuses, as is non-politicized discussion ofthese issues.

We saw this as a gap in our collective educa-tion.This is about citizenship,not politics as

shown by the two conservatives who volun-teered their time to a progressive organization.As students,we constantly are reminded thatwe are tomorrows leaders in academia,busi-ness and government.Why, then, do so few ofus know the differences between the Armyand the Marine Corps? Or that there even aredifferences?

We see you out there,physics major,rollingyour eyes because you dont care and cantimagine why you should. But you vote,dontyou? You pay taxes? Your money funds ourdefense budget. Your security is entrusted toour military personnel. You cannot pursueyour research without the assumption of a safeenvironment.It is even truer for those of you who take ex-ception to the militarys past or current poli-cies.You cannot hope to reform an institutionthat you do not understand.You cannot speakconvincingly to its leaders if you do not sharetheir vocabulary, grasp their perspectives orunderstand their particular hardships.

After its beginning in October 2009, TSIhosted a number of events on campus to helpstart a dialogue about national security and itsrelevance to all Stanford students:Military 101seminars,a lecture on global terrorism,a panelwith Stanford ROTC cadets and a roundtableon military conscription.It was a busy,success-

ful, exciting year and that brings us to thepresent.

We realize were a little late with this op-ed.It is partly Jessies fault; she wrote a thesis,graduated and in the process ignored threemonths of e-mail.It is partly Williams fault;hetook a leave of absence from Stanford to reen-list in the Marines and currently is deployed toAfghanistan.As you can imagine,it has beenhard for us to coordinate.

But isnt that what this is all about? TheMarine in Afghanistan and the civilian in herliving room, the six-foot-something guy andthe five-foot-something girl,the student veter-

an and the student with no military connec-tion at all. We come from different back-grounds and face different challenges.In this,we represent the great diversity of the Stan-ford population.But we also represent its ulti-mate commonality:we are both students, andwe are both citizens.Our job is to learn and toserve in the positions and according to theskills we uniquely possess. We will vote. Wewill pay a lot of taxes.One of us will fight.It isimportant, therefore, that we both knowabout our military, its capabilities and mis-sions and the people who wear its uniforms regardless of our politics.

Stanford prides itself on intellectual en-gagement and frank debate,but these attitudeshave not been applied to discussions of nation-al defense.Our hope is that efforts like TSI,theHaas Centers Understanding Military Serviceas Public Service Initiative,expanded ROTCprograms and defense-focused Student Initiat-ed Courses will make Stanford an example ofhow an elite university can reconnect with themilitary community to the advantage of bothgreat institutions.

JESSICA KNIGHT 10History

WILLIAM TRESEDER 11

Science,Technology and Society

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THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTY

STETHOSCOPES, COMPILERS AND HEMINGWAY

As a freshman resident assistant (RA),I have the honor of taking part in peo-ples emotional development

watching them learn and grow, experiencingthe first triumphs and disappointments,cheering with them,mourning with them.Al-though its only the third week of the quarter,Im ready to admit that being an RA has per-haps been the most rewarding experience forme at Stanford so far.

But I do have a confession to make. I al-most turned down the job.

Dont get me wrong.I did want to becomea frosh RA. I had wanted this job since I wasa freshman,more than anything.I know howcompetitive the RA job application processis, and I am thankful that someone thoughtId do a good job. However, in the face oftransitioning, I wasnt sure if becoming anRA would be a good choice.

For a while, I debated whether or not Ishould turn down the RA gig if I decided topursue hormone replacement therapy andmy legal-name change.This would be my firstfull year at Stanford as Cristopher I had

not come out as trans until winter quartersophomore year,and spent most of my junioryear overseas so in a way, I am as much afreshman as those Id be looking after.

I figured it would be stressful enough togo through transitioning by myself.It would

be even more stressful to do it by myself infront of all these people. I wasnt sure if Iwas ready to commit, because if I failed and I would be failing in front of 85 fresh-men I honestly wouldnt know what todo.And having a failure for an RA probablywould not be the best message in their first

CristopherBautista

Notes From a Fourth-Year

Freshman

Students Are Not Customers

Aaditya

Shidham

Seeking support for militarystudents

Dear Editor:I am writing in response to Bring ROTC

back to campus(Sept. 29) in order to correctits assertions regarding a lack of support formilitary-connected students. I am Sebastain

Gould, a sophomore in the philosophy de-partment and a veteran of the war in Iraq. Ijoined the Marine Corps after my freshmanyear at Stanford and deployed to Iraq thatnext summer. When I returned to campus,Iexperienced some hostility.I partly expectedthis, but I didnt know just how distressing itwould be.

My hope is to help change this. I am theMilitary Service as Public Service student co-ordinator at the Haas Center. With its help,and support from the Presidents Office, weare trying to build a community more respon-sive to veteran and ROTC needs. The Presi-dents Office currently funds transportation toand from ROTC events for enrolled cadets.Italso funds luncheons with guest speakers and

dinner events, including the upcoming Veter-ans Day barbecue at Sigma Nu.Students,staffand faculty are all welcome to attend!

SEBASTAIN GOULD 12

Military Service as Public Service student coordinator,

Haas Center

Lance corporal,U.S.Marine Corps

OP-EDS

As you flip through the pages of thisedition of The Daily, you shouldcome across an article discussing an

item known as the refund rate.We ask youto not immediately move on.If you have thetime,read the piece,because you will gain agreater understanding of one of the least-understood, and most-important, aspects ofStanford student life.

Buried under bylaws and sub-paragraphsin the governing documents of the ASSU liesthe refund rate. Every year,students vote inthe spring ASSU election on whether or notto provide special-fees funds to voluntary stu-dent organizations (VSOs). A self-imposedtax on campus voters,special fees are chargedto each and every one of our tuition billsunder the heading activities fees.They payfor the workings and survival of 50 of the

largest student groups on campus.(The Dailyis one of them.) But this is not nearly the endof the story.

Not only are you able to vote on whetheror not a student group should receive stu-dent funding,but you have the option at thebeginning of each quarter,for a concise peri-od of t ime, to go online torefund.stanford.edu and refund your por-tion of those student groups budgets. In ef-fect, if you are to vote to fund a group,youcan negate, or refund, your vote later.But ifyou do so,those student groups are then en-titled to deny you the services they other-wise provide to the campus writ large.

If you do not fully understand the aboveparagraphs,do not worry too much.You arein good company. A great many studentgroup leaders and elected officials, the indi-viduals charged with engaging in thisprocess, havent the foggiest as to how the

system works.Even the editorial board,witha whole host of experiences across campus,could not explicate fully all the intricacies ofspecial fees and the refund rate. This is amajor problem.

What we currently have at Stanford is aconvoluted and problematic system that isunderstood by a select few individuals,which only compounds the fundamental in-stitutional issues.

The editorial board believes it is incum-bent upon student leaders in major VSOs,aswell as the halls of elected office, to betterexplain what exactly the special fees and re-fund process is and how it affects undergrad-uate life on this campus.While we acknowl-edge the financial town hall the Undergrad-uate Senate recently held, the Appropria-tions Committee still exists largely inde-

pendent of the average Stanford student.Al-most all of the information about elections,budgets and refund rates exists as public in-formation online, and as a campus commu-nity we must individually educate ourselvesabout the process,but we need elected andsupported leaders to help synthesize thesematters.

Furthermore, the editorial board urgesthe ASSU and Stanford Student Enterpris-es to take a deeper look at the special feesprocess itself.While the board was not unan-imous on the specific issue,it had a deep dis-cussion about exploring the possibility ofdoing away with the refund process.Nowhere in the real world will you find aplace where you can negate your vote later.By doing away with the refund rate, yourvote in the spring election would carry with

Understanding and improving

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The Stanford Daily Monday, October 4, 2010N 3

He said many market players including individuals, corporations,investment management firms andsovereign wealth funds attempt-ed to lower their levels of indebted-ness in late 2008 and early 2009.

That meant that people wereselling off credit exposure becausethey had to, not because that madegood economic sense, Powers said.During that period of time,we were

buying some of that exposure, andthat exposure has performed reallywell over the last year and a half.

He added that Stanford chose tounderweight real estate at a timewhen these assets experienced a rel-atively tough year,a decision that ul-timately helped bolster the Univer-sitys financial position.

All in all, the robust investmentreturns have relieved some of thepressure on the University pocket-book.From a risk management pointof view, gains in the merged poolhave helped improve Stanfords liq-uidity position,Powers said.

Moreover, with the budgeted

payout for fiscal year 2011 set at 5.5percent of the endowments begin-ning-of-year value, growth in thevalue of the endowment enables ahigher level of payout. The endow-ment payout for 2010-2011 is slatedto be approximately $758 million.

Stanfords investment gains arealso strong relative to returns at peerinstitutions. Stanford outperformedHarvard,Yale and the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology in the 12months that ended June 30,2010.

Harvard reported an 11 percentinvestment return, placing its en-dowment at $27.4 billion. Yales en-dowment grew to $16.7 billion and

took in an 8.9 percent investmentgain. MIT announced a 10.2 percentinvestment return and an endow-ment of $8.3 billion.

Columbia outpaced the pack; theNew York-based university saw itsinvestments increase by 17.3 percentand boosted a $6.5 billion endow-ment, according to the ColumbiaSpectator.

Despite Stanfords strong show-ing, its endowment remains $3.4 bil-lion shy of its $17.2 billion value twoyears ago.

Looking ForwardWhile the recent investment re-

turns are impressive, it is uncertainwhether they can be sustained in thelong term.

Were optimistic about a long-term ability to grow value, Powerssaid. But 14 percent is a great yearand we should appreciate it as such.

Its important to keep in mindthat what were trying to do is tocompound over five-,10-, 20-year pe-riods, he added.

In that vein, the merged pool hasincreased from $5.8 billion to $15.8billion in the past decade,earning anannualized return of 6.9 percent.

In the current fiscal year, theStanford Management Company

hopes to complete a top-to-bottomoverhaul of its approach towardasset allocation and risk manage-ment.

According to Powers, the SMChas made incremental improve-ments in its liquidity position andwill continue to shift towards a mixof assets that have lower correlationto global equity markets.

These strategies,coupled with theguidance of a strong investmentteam,will largely define SMCs agen-da in 2010-2011.

Contact An Le Nguyen at [email protected].

ENDOWMENTContinued from front page

requests, totaling $79,604 with 248full refunds; spring 2009, 886 re-quests,totaling $82,355 with 284 fullrefunds.

Students request special fees re-funds online, filling out a form thatgives them the option to request arefund from all or some studentgroups receiving special fees. (TheDaily is one of those groups.)Groups may deny their services to

students who refund money fromthem.

Friday marked the end of theweek-long period during which stu-dents could request refunds for fallquarter. The 11th UndergraduateSenate shortened this period last year.

In part due to this change,specialfees refunds declined slightly be-tween winter and spring 2010,though the refund rate remained thesecond-highest in three years, be-hind winter 2010, suggesting thebaseline for special fees refunds in-creased significantly over the pre-ceding years.

Last year,the special fees rate perquarter per student was $119. Thisyear, the student activities fee is$111. During the 2009-2010 academ-ic year, students were overchargedby $14, and subsequently refunded,due to an accounting mistake thatprovided groups who had not passedthe funding process with funds.

ASSU has taken a three-prongedapproach to the issue of special fees,Cruz said.

Last year, the focus rested on con-trolling the special fees rate.This year,

the ASSU has decided to continuethis reform by improving awarenessamong students about the refundprocess and attempting to decreasethe number of refund requests.

Requiring students to request re-

funds in person would help changewhat Appropriations CommitteeChair Rafael Vasquez 12 describedas a free-rider system, underwhich students could request re-

funds for non-financial or moral rea-sons but still benefit from studentgroup services.

Cruz, one of the bills authors,said the bill was withdrawn becausevarious members of the association

. . . decided the best way to affectthe refund problem is through thetechnological side rather thanthrough legislation.

Vasquez, expressing his disap-

pointment,suggested the withdraw-al might have been a result of discus-sions with SSE.

Senator Rebecca Sachs 13, oneof the most critical voices of the billat Tuesdays Senate meeting,was re-lieved to hear of the bills withdraw-al,which had not been publicized onSenate e-mail lists as of Sundayevening.

I cant imagine 800 people liningup in SSE to get their money back,said Sachs,commenting on her expe-rience as a financial officer for a stu-dent group.

We want to make the [refund]process difficult on some level, but

this infringed on their privacy bymaking students go into SSE,Sachssaid.

Contact Margaret Rawson [email protected].

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tinction.As media technologies in par-

ticular become ubiquitous, thelines between the social and thetechnological,and even sometimesbetween the mechanical and thebiological, have begun to blur,Turner said via e-mail. The STSprogram strikes me as a perfectplace in which to think about that

kind of blurring and to prepare stu-dents to live alongside it.

Contact Ashley Menzies at [email protected].

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year of college,would it?But after some deliberation, I de-

cided that I was going to take the job.I knew that it probably was going tobe difficult, but being an RA hadbeen important to me for years,andI wasnt going to let some stupid manissues get in the way.

That still didnt keep me from feel-ing terrified of failure,though.Whenmove-in day came,I was introduced

to 85 residents. Although they hadtheir own personalities, their likes,their dislikes, their aspirations, theyall were like me. No, not with thewhole hormone or legal-namechange stuff (at least,not so far).Butthey all,like me, had their own deep-seated, almost paralyzing fearsfears of failure, of letting loved onesdown,of not getting the most of theStanford experience.

Yet regardless of those fears, myresidents decided to come to Stan-ford anyway, to take everythinghead-on.It was surprising when I re-alized that I could learn somethingfrom my residents so early on in theterm.

I learned its ok to be scared.Its amatter of whether or not you runaway.

Im still finding myself,still figur-ing out which words apply to me,stillfiguring out how I will handle therest of my transition and how far I

plan to go.But despite the uncertain-ty,I take comfort in the fact that myresidents and I are on the same jour-ney.I am glad that out of all the peo-ple I would get stuck with for the

year, I could not have thought ofanyone better.

I know my freshmen will growinto good people, and it does notmatter how they identify, whatnouns or adjectives they use to de-scribe themselves. What matters isthat they care about the world, thatthey learn how to love and how to re-spect people. Im not sure if theyrelearning from me as much as I amlearning from them.

So this column is for you, Serra.Thanks for showing me the epitomeof Serra love by reading my column,listening to me and talking to me.Asmuch as I am ashamed to say it, the

Class of 2014 may actually becomethe next great class (following closelybehind 89 and 11, of course).Thanksfor making an old senior feel welcomeagain.

Share the freshman love.E-mail Cristo-pher Bautista at [email protected].

BAUTISTAContinued from page 2

it a greater level of weight.Respon-sible student groups should be ableto demonstrate their worth over thecourse of seven months, and stu-dents must pay greater attention towhat exactly their vote means.

There are no simple fixes to whatis a major factor in the world of stu-

dent life,and this is not a black andwhite issue.But to do nothing is notonly irresponsible. It further im-pinges on the betterment of the un-dergraduate experience.

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Redshirt sophomore quarterback AndrewLuck was methodical in slicing up the Oregondefense,marching his team down the field forthree touchdowns. He used numerous play-action passes with devastating effectiveness,notching numerous short- and medium-yardage gains on three-step drops to keep theoffense moving. He capped the games firstdrive with a beautiful pass to junior receiverGriff Whalen for a touchdown and ran the ballin from 10 yards out on Stanfords next drivefor its second touchdown.

The quarter also featured a 44-yard touch-down run on the first play after the ChaseThomas interception from sophomore run-ning back Stepfan Taylor,who has emerged asthe featured back for the Cardinal offense.

In the second quarter,Oregon began to re-cover some of the momentum it had surren-dered to the Cardinal.Duck quarterback Dar-ron Thomas began to assert himself over theStanford defense, hitting receiver Jeff Maehlwith a 29-yard touchdown pass early in thequarter. Maehl completely fooled the Stan-

ford defense, and Thomas hit him with no de-fenders within 10 yards.After the touchdown,Oregon head coach

Chip Kelly went for a dangerous gamble,electing to go for an onside kick.The Card wascaught completely off-guard, and Oregonkicker Rob Beard recovered the kick with lit-tle difficulty to give the Ducks an opportunityto draw closer to Stanford.They capitalized onthat opportunity in short order,going 54 yardsdown the field in less than two minutes toscore on a LaMichael James touchdown run.Oregon moved the ball extremely well againstthe Stanford defense,with Thomas using a se-ries of fakes and screens to pick up chunks ofyardage on every play.

With the momentum firmly back on theOregon sideline,the Cardinal returned to thefield desperate to regain its composure andexpand its suddenly slim four-point lead.Luckmanaged to drive Stanford down the field andhit redshirt junior Coby Fleener with a 36-yard touchdown pass,but the Ducks respond-ed with a touchdown of their own on the nextdrive.Stanford entered the locker room with a31-24 lead after notching a field goal as timeexpired in the half.

While Stanford was able to compete withOregon in the first half,the second half was allDucks.The Oregon defense shut out Luck and

the rest of Stanfords offense,while James andThomas rolled up points against a suddenlyweak Cardinal defense.

Over the final three quarters, the Ducksoutscored the Cardinal 49-10, including a 28-0run through the final two quarters.The Ore-gon offense finished with 626 total offensiveyards, including 257 rushing yards and threetouchdowns from James.

I think its really hard to keep up with usbecause we practice so fast,James said.Weput a lot into it in practice for the game. Sowhen it comes to the third or fourth quarter,and were down by a touchdown or whatever,you know,we really feel confident because ofour endurance and our tempo.

Sophomore linebacker Shayne Skov, a de-fensive leader who had nine tackles in thegame, did not mince words about Stanfordssecond-half performance.

Defensively, we just didnt play a goodgame, he said. And they had a great offen-sive game . . . we made a lot of mistakes, andthey played great offensively.

The overall performance of the Stanforddefense in the game renewed questions aboutwhether the unit is strong enough to allow theCardinal to be competitive in the Pac-10.OverStanfords first four games, the defenseseemed vastly improved, shutting out UCLA

and holding Notre Dame to 14 points how-ever, the Ducks offense was the first in a slewof strong Pac-10 offenses that new defensivecoordinator Vic Fangio will have to schemeagainst, and it will be interesting to seewhether the defense can respond with betterperformances against the remaining oppo-nents on its schedule.

The Cardinal secondary, after showingflashes of brilliance through Stanfords firstfour games,was highly ineffective.The defen-sive backs were methodically shredded byDarron Thomas,who finished with 20-29 pass-ing for 238 yards and three touchdowns,in ad-dition to running 15 times for 117 yards andanother score.

Stanfords physical front seven, led bySkov and senior linebacker Owen Marecic,was supposed to compensate for some of thedeficiencies in the defensive backfield, butthat unit was also gashed by the Ducks,whoran for 388 yards overall in the game.

On the offensive side of the ball,Stanfordsoffense seemed to live up to the hype sur-rounding it throughout the first half, but fal-tered under the pressure and the hostile at-mosphere in Autzen Stadium in the secondhalf. Unless the offense can handle the pres-sure of playing from behind better, prospectsfor its remaining Pac-10 contests look some-

what dim.A crucial play that came early in the fourthquarter illustrated some of the offenses strug-gles. Down 45-31,the Cardinal faced a third-and-goal at the Oregon one-yard line, butLuck fumbled the snap and fell on the ball fora four-yard loss.

That was my fault, Luck said.I pulledout too early and took the negative play.

On the next play,Luck threw a pass intend-ed for redshirt freshman tight end Zach Ertzin the end zone, but the pass was tipped andfell incomplete, turning the ball over to theDucks.

Though Lucks final stat line for the gamewas fairly strong he went 29-46 for 341yards and a touchdown his two intercep-tions were very costly,and his final intercep-tion, late in the fourth quarter,sealed the vic-tory for Oregon.

Stanford will try to regroup next weekend,as it finishes a slate of high-profile opponentswith a home game against USC (4-1,1-1). TheTrojans lost at home to Washington on Satur-day,32-31.

The game will be nationally televised onABC.

Contact Kabir Sawhney at [email protected].


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FOOTBALL

Daniel

Bohm

On My Mind

BLACK AND BLUE

By CAROLINE CASELLIDESK EDITOR

Playing in front of a home crowdfor the first time since early Septem-ber, the No.1 Stanford womens vol-leyball team did not disappoint,sweeping both Oregon State (8-10, 1-3 Pac-10) and No. 11 Oregon (14-2,2-2) this past weekend.

On Friday, Stanford (14-0, 4-0)took down the Beavers in dominantfashion, winning three straight sets,25-14,25-17,25-19.

The Card kicked off the matchwith a kill from senior outside hitterAlix Klineman,the first of her match-leading 16 kills.Despite several earlyservice and hitting errors,the Stanfordfrontline of junior middle blockerStephanie Browne and freshman out-side hitter Rachel Williams was fero-

cious,combining for eight early kills toextend Stanfords lead to 13-8. Con-tinued offensive power from Kline-man, Browne and Williams, spot-onsets from senior setter Cassidy Licht-man and Oregon State errors securedthe first set,25-14.

Sophomore defensive specialistHannah Benjamin began the secondset with an impressive string of serves,including one ace,to help the Card toa quick 7-0 start. Strong hitting fromBeaver senior Jill Sawatzky and fresh-man Mona Kressl brought the gamewithin four points at 17-13, but theCard could not be stopped. Sopho-more opposite Hayley Spelman putdown her fifth kill of the set to win theset,25-17.

After two hitting errors to openthe third set, Stanford regrouped.Solid defensive play from senior

libero Gabi Ailes, who tallied six digsin the set, combined with continuedrelentless attacks from Klineman andSpelman, secured the set and matchvictory over Oregon State,25-19.

Klineman, Spelman and Williamsall had kills in the double digits, with16, 12 and 10, respectively, and Licht-man led the match with 41 assists.De-fensively,Ailes had 16 digs,Benjaminhad eight and Klineman and Licht-man had seven apiece.

For the Beavers, Sawatzky andKressl each had eight kills,with Kresslboasting a .538 hitting percentage onthe night. Sophomore libero Alyssa

ONeil had 15 digs, and sophomoresetter Megan McBride tallied 23 as-sists.

The next day,Stanford faced No.11Oregon, which had just suffered itsfirst loss of the season at No.8 Califor-nia the night before. The Oregonsquad provided no contest for theCard, which swept the Ducks 25-10,25-16,25-21.

The momentum was in Stanfordshands from the get-go, with a match-opening block from freshman middleblocker Carly Wopat followed bythree straight aces from Ailes. Withtwo kills apiece from Klineman and

Browne and yet another Ailes ace,theCardinal jumped out to an early 9-0lead that Oregon could never over-come.Stanford easily won the first set,25-10.

The second set began more even-ly,but when Ailes returned to the serv-ice line, Stanford began to pull awayagain,aided by the offensive prowessof Klineman and Browne. Alreadyholding a five-point lead at 11-6,Stan-ford went on another six-point run ledby the serving of Benjamin and Spel-mans four kills to extend the lead to17-6.The Ducks mustered up severalkills from their outside hitters,senior

Heather Meyers and sophomoreKatherine Fischer, but consecutiveKlineman-Spelman kills ended theset,25-16.

The third set was the closest of thenight, with Browne, Spelman andKlineman exchanging kills with Ore-gons Fischer and Meyers. Oregonredshirt sophomore outside hitterAlaina Bergsma put down a kill tobring the Ducks within one point at13-12,but a Klineman kill followed bythree kills from Williams, extendedthe Cards lead to 17-13. With fourmore Klineman kills and yet anotherAiles ace, the four-point differencewas never made up,and Stanford wonthe set and match 25-21.

Klineman led the match with 17kills and a .455 hitting percentage,andSpelman and Williams contributedidentical lines of nine kills and .389 hit-

ting percentages. Ailes dug 18 ballsand served five aces, and Lichtmanput up a match-high 38 assists.

For the Ducks,Meyers boasted 12kills and a .458 hitting percentage,andFischer and Bergsma added sevenkills apiece. Freshman setter LaurenPlum contributed 25 assists and threedigs, and sophomore libero HaleyJacob had 11 digs.While the Card has rolled over its op-ponents all season,these wins lookeda bit different with a notable lineupchange Stanford ran a 5-1 systemwith senior setter and opposite Cas-sidy Lichtman functioning as the pri-mary setter on all rotations. Sopho-more setter Karissa Cook, who typi-cally shares the setting duties withLichtman,was sidelined by an injury

Volleyball stays unbeaten for season

By MILES BENNETT-SMITHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

After four games in which it never trailed, theStanford mens soccer team came back to earth onSaturday night, courtesy of a talented and speedyCalifornia squad.The No.16 Golden Bears (5-1-2,1-0 Pac-10) scored early and held off a rejuvenatedCardinal team after the break, before adding twomore goals in the final two minutes. The final scorefor both teams Pac-10 opener was 3-0 in favor of Cal.

The loss was painful for the Cardinal (4-5,0-1) onmultiple levels.

Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Jason Dodson suf-fered a dislocated left shoulder while making a div-ing save in the first few minutes. In addition, seniordefender Bobby Warshaw ran into redshirt seniorThiago Sa Freire while trying to head a cross out ofthe box.After the collision, Warshaw had to change

jerseys because his shirt was covered in blood from acut on his head, and Sa Freires eye nearly swelledshut within minutes.While each returned to the field,both players injuries required stitches on the side-lines.

Dodsons shoulder was relocated on the field,and

he was due to have an MRI to determine the extentof the injury on Sunday afternoon.Injuries are nothing new this year, however.Sev-

eral players are not fully healthy,including veteransenior Garrett Gunther and juniors Ben Grafentin,Alexander Binnie and Adoni Levine. SophomoreEric Anderson saw action for the first time since anearly September injury derailed his season.

Injuries are just a part of the game, said sopho-more Hunter Gorskie.[Goalkeeper Jason] Dodsonhas been at the top of his game recently,so its unfor-tunate,but now the next guy just has to step up.

That next guy was true freshman DrewHutchins from Morrisville,Pa. Hutchins came intothe game in the 11th minute and was immediatelytested just minutes later by the strong wing play ofthe Bears.An attack down the left side resulted in adriven cross that found sophomore forward JohnFitzpatrick,who knocked the header past Hutchins.

The Cal offense continued a relentless assault onStanfords flanks and maintained a 13-4 advantage in

shots at halftime.But the Cardinal stepped it up after a talk by head

coach Bret Simon and came out with renewed ag-gression. While the Bears still had several chances,Stanford controlled the ball and the run of play.

We needed to be fighting a little harder in the be-ginning,Gorskie said. Their passing was more ac-curate, and they had us on the defensive, so it wasonly a matter of time before they got a good look.

Overall,we needed to be much more aggressiveand dictate the style of play from the outset, headded. We did a much better job of that after thehalf.

Senior forward Dominique Yahyavi nearly foundan equalizer when he won a challenge with the Calgoalkeeper,but his chip shot from 30 yards away flewover the bar. Warshaw nearly found the back of thenet soon after in the 70th minute when a bending cor-ner kick found him streaking in,but he too sent hisshot above the frame.

With the offense shifting into gear, the Bearsseemed vulnerable.But the Cardinal became a littletoo anxious in its attempts,leaving too few men be-hind the ball.With just two minutes to play,Cal coun-tered and put two more goals away,the last coming

from a deflection that left Hutchins helpless.Drew is a terrific goalkeeper,but we put him inan awfully tough position as a freshman coming intoa rivalry game in the Pac-10, Simon said.It was nota get-your-feet-wet kind of game.It was a very toughgame,but he is a very athletic goalie, and he did rea-sonably well in a tough situation.

As the team continues Pac-10 play with a roadtrip to Oregon State and Washington next weekend,Simon hopes that the players take this loss and learnfrom it.

We changed out of our game plan,and we leftourselves very vulnerable, he said.The message Ihope the guys get is they have to be patient theygot impatient again at the end.

We have to stick with our game plan its agame plan that we believe can win.

The Cardinal heads to Seattle this Friday for amatchup with the No.23 Huskies at 7 p.m.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at [email protected].

It may sound clich, but its gutcheck time for the Stanford foot-ball team. After steamrolling itsfirst four opponents, the Cardinalis now facing its first bit of adversi-

ty,having fallen Saturday to Oregon andits video game-like offense.

Stanford seemed to be in control ofthe game in the first half AndrewLuck was leading the offense up anddown the field,and the Cardinal defense

was being disruptive enough to forcethree Oregon turnovers.And then Ore-gon scored, recovered an onside kickand never looked back.

Now,how will the Stanford team re-spond? After losing such a hyped game it may have been the biggest Stanfordgame in years after seemingly beingin control,lots of teams would fold.Lotsof teams would struggle to overcome thedisappointment and would carry thatemotion into their next game.With anangry USC team looming,Stanford cantafford that.

USC is going to be motivated when itinvades the Farm on Saturday.As mostof the country probably knows,Jim Har-baughs Cardinal didnt exactly let off thegas last year when it was pummeling theTrojans in the Coliseum. That win leftmany in southern California none toopleased.

That, the Stanford loss and the factthat USC fell on Saturday to Washing-ton,make next Saturday very dangerous.

It has all the ingredients of a letdown.But then again, the same could be

said for the Trojans.Nobody expected Stanford to go un-

defeated this season.Despite the loss toOregon,a Rose Bowl berth is not at allout of the question,so responding in a bigway against another talented team nextweek is vitally important.

I dont know what Chip Kelly servedhis Ducks at halftime on Saturday,but inthe second half,Oregon controlled everyaspect of the football game. For the firsttime in a year and a half,Stanford was get-ting dominated in the trenches.AndrewLuck didnt have time to pass, and theCardinal front three (or four) were get-ting pushed downfield on the defensiveside of the ball.

This was understandable. Oregonsoffense was moving at a million miles anhour,and Stanford was playing in a hos-tile environment. What cant happennow is a loss of confidence.Stanfords of-fensive line remains one of,if not the best

in the conference,and that crew needs toget back at it.Luckily for Stanford,that same rab-

ble-rouser that got under the skin of Tro- jan faithful last year Harbaugh isthe man tasked with ensuring that Stan-ford regroups from being outscored 49-10 after taking an early 18-point lead.Ifthere is a man up to that task, it is Har-baugh,who I am sure will do everythingin his power to ensure that the Cardinalroster is thinking only about this comingweek and not last week.

The rest of Stanfords schedule isquite manageable. From here on out,Stanford is likely to be favored in everygame,so if the team doesnt play its ownworst enemy,as was the case in Satur-days second half,things set up awfullywell.

SPORTS

Avoidinga footballletdown

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Junior defender Tommy Ryan, above, was a club teammate of Cal midfielder Michael Munoz.Injuries to three key players severely hampered Stanford in its 3-0 loss to Cal on Saturday.

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Senior outside hitter Alix Klineman (10) and junior middle blocker Stephanie Browne go up for a block in Saturdaysmatch. Both players were instrumental components of the Cardinal offense in sweeping Oregon and Oregon State. Please seeWVBALL,page 5 Please see BOHM,page 5


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Stanford Athletics releases 400 moreUSC tickets

The Athletics Department willmake 400 additional Red Zone ticketsavailable for next Saturdays footballgame against USC.

After nearly 6,000 students attendedlast months win over Wake Forest,4,500 student seats were allotted for thematchup against the Trojans. On Sept.28 at 8 a.m., students were e-mailed alink to reserve their spots.Within ninehours,all tickets had been taken,with a

significant number of students left out.As a result, the Ticket Office has

opened up sections 139 and 140 forextra slots.At 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct.5,students without a seat will be ableto claim one of the remaining 400slots.An e-mail will be sent out thendetailing the process;students are el-igible for one ticket each throughStanfords print@home system.

The Cardinal and the Trojans willface off at 5 p.m. on Saturday at Stan-ford Stadium,as the Cardinal looks torebound from this weekends 52-31loss to Oregon.

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One major concern is injuries,how-ever. Stanford may well be without itstop two receivers Ryan Whalen,who suited up for the Oregon game butdid not play with an elbow injury, andChris Owusu, who was injured in whatappeared,at least from the stands,to bea helmet-to-helmet hit in Saturdaysthird quarter.Also missing are runningbacks Jeremy Stewart and TylerGaffney,while linebacker Shayne Skovand defensive back Michael Thomasare both banged up.

Not only will next week be a test ofStanfords mental fortitude, but it mayalso be a test of the teams depth.At re-ceiver, some of the young playersJamal-Rashad Patterson and Jemari

Roberts may have to step up.Oregon

exploited Stanfords perceived lack ofdepth along the defensive front on Sat-urday by wearing out the same frontseven for almost the entire game.Youngdefensive lineman and linebackers mayneed to grow up fast in the comingweeks.

There are a few directions Stanfordsseason can go now hopefully the Car-dinal can rise to its first mental challengeof the season and beat USC this week.

Daniel Bohm originally thought Har-baugh was a rebel-rouser. Acquainthim with an appropriate digital diction-ary at [email protected].

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SPORTS BRIEFS

and did not play in either of this week-ends matches.

Next up for the Card are No. 4USC this Friday and No.12 UCLA onSaturday.Both matches will be on theroad.

Contact Caroline Caselli at [email protected].

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