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By JESSICA WERTHEIMSTAFF WRITER

To err is human. To exitthe CoHo unawarethat you smell like acorned beef sandwichis a rookie mistake.

For many, freshman year wastheir best year on the Farm. Forothers, it was simply the startingblock for the rest of their Stan-ford education.

Whatever the case, advicefrom upperclassmen abounds.

Youll frat and youll lie, somesay. Youll come to understandthat the five-second rule has noplace on a college campus.And,says Ogi Zivojnovic 09,youll be-come best friends with the seem-ingly intuitive yet surprisingly un-forgiving maxim: Never ownmore things than you can packinto your car.

Well-being is a recurringtheme in upperclassman advice.Dont get completely lost inyour academics and forget to so-cialize or have fun, said David

Gobaud 10,former ASSU presi-dent. Furthermore, realize thatStanford is a phenomenal placebecause of countless extremelyhard-working and dedicated indi-viduals. Remember to thank ad-ministrators,faculty, workers andtrustees when you see them.

Angelina Cardona 11, Gob-auds successor, offered up simi-lar advice.

Make time to reflect, re-cen-ter and relax,Cardona said.It ismore important than any p-set,essay or midterm and will helpyou do well both personally andacademically. Savor each andevery moment, and focus on liv-ing in the present.

On balancing schoolwork withpersonal time, Cardona advisedto never lose your freshman so-cial audacity. Continue to meetand get to know others in ourcommunity and spend time withfriends. It is the people at Stan-ford that make our university thebest in the world.

That may be, but Stanford isnot the worlds best in some re-spects. Example? Biking.Worse?

Biking in the rain.The key to biking safely is to

not make eye contact, ProfessorTobias Wolff once said during alecture.

Biking in the rain meanswearing two pairs of pants, ex-plained Jennifer Yen 11. Get toclass,take off the outer layer andput them next to cute boy. Letthem dry. After class, put on thesemi-dry pants and bike yoursorry self to your next class.Thenlather,rinse and repeat.

Finding great teachers andfriends also brings a learningcurve, some say. Often, the bestteachers arent the ones standingat the front of a lecture hall.

Ms. Frizzle taught me at avery young age to take chances,make mistakes and get messy,said Cameron Poter 11,referenc-

ing the television childhood clas-sic The Magic School Bus.Thismentality, coupled with Stan-fords resources,will allow you tomake the most out of your timehere.

Dont be discouraged if youdont immediately find your bestfriend,your favorite activity,yourlifelong passion or even yourmajor when you get to campus inthe fall, said Ginny Scholtes 13.Stanford has a lot to offer . . .odds are that the right people andthe right things for you are outthere.It will just take some time,patience and effort to find them.

And from this reporter, a fewwords: dont drink all the beer.Bathe.Set the world on fire.

Contact Jessica Wertheim at [email protected].

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By ANNA SCHUESSLER

The Graduate Student Council and student groupmembers gathered Wednesday evening at the coun-cils first meeting of fall quarter to discuss community-building measures and budget-oriented considera-tions.

Andy Hernandez,assistant dean of the GraduateLife Office (GLO), started the evening off by remind-ing officers of the opportunities and resources avail-able to students and their families. In response to the300 families and some 400 children currently living inEscondido Village, the GLO is working to providefamily-friendly programming for young families, es-pecially international families coming to the UnitedStates for the first time.Weekend activities for kids aswell as a pumpkin carving slated for Oct. 23 wereamong the ideas the GLO has planned for the upcom-ing academic year, and Hernandez promised theseevents would have something for everyone.

For those of you who dont have kids, its a greatopportunity for you to see kids and see if you wantthem,Hernandez said.The council approved GLOsrequest for $2,000 in funding.

Opinions flared briefly when the question of whether or not to fund a measure presented by theBiomedical Association for the Interest of Minority

Students (BioAIMS) arose.The group was hoping tooffer a workshop focusing primarily on the logistics of applying for the Dare Fellowship,a prestigious schol-arship awarded to some 12 Ph.D.students every year.An annual event, the workshop raised eyebrowsamong the council members who felt the minority stu-dent groups role as host of the event presented a con-flict of interest.

It is an exclusive fellowship,said Justin Brown,council co-chair and graduate student in geophysics.The group explored the many angles of such fundingand its possible sources,and ultimately came to a con-sensus that funding for all the items requested byBioAIMS would be honored except for the workshop.

The council ended the meeting on a somber note asmembers discussed the issue of bike safety. Asidefrom encouraging those present to wear bike helmetsand use bike lights,the group also brainstormed ideasfor increasing awareness and respect for the road andits riders. One member even suggested that athletesshould be required to wear protective headgear whileriding their bikes to foster a sense of cultural conver-sation and a feeling of cool.

The council meets next Wednesday at 6 p.m. at theGraduate Community Center.

Contact Anna Schuessler at [email protected].

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ACADEMICS

Business and engineering graduatestudents named 11Siebel Scholars

By RYAN MAYFIELDSTAFF WRITER

Fifteen Stanford graduate stu-dents have been chosen as 2011Siebel Scholars in recognition of their academic achievement andcommunity leadership.

A faculty committee at the Grad-uate School of Business selectedfive second-year students Aman-da Luther, Sumi Kim, DanielleBuckley,Arvind Iyengar and ShaneLauf from a class of nearly 400students.

The students join a community of scholars from many of the top uni-versities in the world in the fields of business, bioengineering and com-puter science. Siebel Scholars con-vene at annual conferences, wherethey discuss pertinent social issuesand collaborate with other expertsin their field.The scholars also serveas advisers to the Siebel Founda-tion, helping direct the foundationsstrategies and programs.

The scholars each receive a cashaward of $35,000, which will fundthe business students final year of school.

There is obviously the mone-tary component to the award,which

is really nice in terms of makingschool more affordable, Luthersaid.

In a class of nearly 400 students,being part of a select group is alsosignificant to the recipients.Its def-initely a nice surprise and a hugehonor, Kim said.

Joining the business students are10 students enrolled in engineeringgraduate programs at Stanford.Mindy Chang, Murtaza Mogri,Sarah Moore,Hedi Razavi and An-gela Wu were selected from the bio-engineering program. Salman

Ahmad, David Keeler, Dan Pre-ston, Keith Schwarz and Tao Wangwere chosen from the computer sci-ence program.

Fifteen Stanford students,five inbusiness and ten in engineering, re-ceived the award in 2009.

Karen Davis, executive directorof the Siebel Scholars Foundation,said the award grants more thanrecognition.

The Siebel Scholars communityis an active, lifelong community of leaders, Davis wrote in an e-mail toThe Daily.They represent the bestand brightest from across the globe,forming a unique professional andpersonal network,bringing together

diverse insights and perspectivefrom three disciplines at the fore-front of solutions to world-changingsocial issues.

For the winners, the ultimate im-pact joining the Siebel communitywould have on them was not imme-diately clear.They were still abuzzwith the surprise of winning.

There is this entire communityof Siebel Scholars that I am just be-ginning to learn about,Luther said.

Having worked for Dallas Mav-ericks owner Mark Cuban, Luthersaid she may look to a career in

sports management after gradua-tion. Otherwise, she said, she mayreturn to consulting, a field in whichshe worked for two years beforecoming to Stanford.

Because the Siebel Scholars com-munity includes both business andengineering students, the long-termeffect may come from the diversityof interests among the scholars.

Im doing work that could havea very strong technology connec-tion, Kim said,so having that linkto those communities is a hugebonus to the award.

Contact Ryan Mayfield at [email protected].

STUDENT GOVT

GSC organizes orientations,activities to foster community

Courtesy of Celeste Noche Although all students in Rains receive their own bedroom, apartment-mates s hare a common kitchen andliving and dining area.

The introduction of undergraduatesin Rains may expose them to yet an-other bit of uncharted territory: in-teraction with graduate students.

I really hope that the graduate

community welcomes undergrads,Nguyen said. I havent had achance to see what the interactionbetween the two student bodies willbe.

Eaton is optimistic that the un-dergrads will have positive encoun-ters with the older students.

I hear the term sketchy grad

student thrown around [among un-

dergraduates], she said. But aftermeeting a group of grad students, Ireally think theyre like older fresh-men and need to be looked upon ina new light.Theyre nice,and we canlearn from them.

Contact Samantha McGirr at smcgirr @stanford.edu.

RAINSContinued from front page

continuously record these three sig-nals: heart rate, respiratory rate andoxygen saturations. By running thisdata through a computer program,researchers found they could identi-fy patterns unique to babies withhealth problems. They then devel-

oped a scoring system using a scaleof one to 10 to determine the likeli-hood an infant will face health com-plications.

According to Koller, short-termvariation in heart rate and respirato-ry rate proved to be the most effec-tive determinants in predictinghealth complications. She explainedthat an infants level of responsive-ness is a telling sign of future health,saying that poor responders have amuch flatter profile when present-ed with stimuli such as the touch of aparent.

Prior to PhysiScore, physiciansprimarily determined the likelihoodof developing illness by measuring

the babys weight and relying on hisor her gestational age. However,thismethod was based on large groups of infants and did not take into accountspecific circumstances.

We knew at that time that ma-chine learning was a powerfulmethod and that being able to makea better, more individualized assess-ment of a given premature babysrisk of being sick or well was needed,so we continued to develop PhysiS-core, Rajani said.

According to Koller,PhysiScore isthe first method that is able to detectcomplications not present during thefirst three hours of life. PhysiScore isable to detect fragility and suscepti-bility to disease that other methods,including the Apgar method, are un-able to determine. Computed fiveminutes after birth, the Apgar con-siders a combination of different fac-tors, including skin color, pulse rate,reflexes,muscle tone and breathing.All other methods of determiningpremature infant health use datafrom the first 12 hours of life and re-quire invasive testing.

One of the unique characteris-tics of PhysiScore is its use of nonin-

vasive measurements, she said.Rajani explained that since Ph-

ysiScore processes continuousstreams of data from electronic mon-itors over the first three hours of life. . . this gives [physicians] a fargreater level of detail as to how thebabys body is doing and thus gives[physicians] a much higher level of accuracy in making a determinationabout the babys future risk.

PhysiScore has many potentialuses in the health care field.An in-

fants PhysiScore could help deter-mine if he or she should be trans-ferred to a higher level of care. In ad-dition, the PhysiScore may help ad-ministrators determine nursing-to-patient ratio by predicting which in-fants need more care.

According to Rajani,the PhysiS-core can also help compare the qual-ity of neonatal intensive care unitsby normalizing their outcomesbased on some measure of patientacuity . . . given the accuracy of Ph-ysiScore, it would be particularlyuseful for this purpose.

Contact Marianne LeVine at mlevine [email protected].

INFANTSContinued from front page

samples and measuring immune re-sponses, the center expects to identi-fy strategies to improve immune re-sponses.

Because immune responses toviral infections or vaccinations differ

among healthy individuals, one re-search objective is to define [this]heterogeneity of an immune re-sponse and to identify signatures forgood and bad responses,said Jorg

Goronzy, a project leader and pro-fessor of immunology and rheuma-tology.In addition to Davis and Gor-gonzy, other project leaders includeAndrew Fire, Harry Greenberg,Daphne Koller and Paul Utz.

Although some factors contribut-

ing to immune heterogeneity,such asage, are known, we do not have agood understanding of heterogene-ity and how to measure it, Gor-gonzy said.

The federal grant anticipates thatstudying this heterogeneity byhuman immune profiling will likelyreveal new understanding of the re-lationship between the immune sys-tem and the rest of the body.

The American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act of 2009 will fundthe project for the first year, withsubsequent years to be funded by theNIAID.

Under a previous grant,Davis es-

tablished the Stanford Institute forImmunity, Transplantation and In-fection, which aims to develop im-munological tools for use in patientcare and preventative medicine.

Together, the Stanford HumanImmune Monitoring Research Cen-ter and the Stanford Institute for Im-munity, Transplantation and Infec-tion reflect the current need to un-derstand immune system hetero-geneity with the objective of pre-venting age-dependent diseasesoften contributed to by the immunesystem.

Contact Erin Inman at einman@stanford.edu.

IMMUNEContinued from front page

upper income country by the WorldBank.

Fontaine told the audience the gov-ernments top economists look to Cal-ifornia, and specifically Silicon Valley,for inspiration. He joked that sinceChile and California share geographicsimilarities for example, Chileanwine country resembles Napa Valley they ought to mirror each other inbusiness,too.

To promote entrepreneurship andinnovation,the government has estab-lished several financial incentives forforeign talent to go to Chile.New grantprograms on the order of $40,000 aredesigned to fund private business and

expansive scholarship programs forforeign students.In addition,new poli-cies will give Chileans tax breaks forstarting new businesses.

When a student asked if the econo-

my would experience another down-turn with the conclusion of these gov-ernmental initiatives,Fontaine re-em-phasized the administrations overar-ching goal to promote a new spirit of innovation and creativity.

Basically, we want Chile to be acenter of creativity and ideas,he said.We want Chile to benefit from tech-nological advances and to use technol-ogy in new ways.

The Entrepreneurial Thought andLeadership lecture series occurs everyWednesday with speakers from all cor-ners of the entrepreneurial industry.

Contact Melanie Scheible at [email protected].

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Not all housing iscreated equal

E ven before students enroll,one of theselling points that Visitor Informa-tion Services and any number of Uni-versity publications impress upon them isthe strength of the residential experience.The message: that having roughly 95 per-cent of undergraduate students living oncampus and in close proximity creates aunique atmosphere. The three years of guaranteed housing after freshman yearcarry a level of security that is not found inother college towns,where horror stories of draconian landlords become engrained incampus cultures.

There is a large degree of truth mixed inwith the cheerleading having the over-whelming majority of undergraduates se-questered in select, highly concentratedspaces helps makes Stanford what it is.Buttour-guide rhetoric does not approach

more grim truths about student housing atStanford.One truth is that not all Stanfordhousing is created equal.The other is thatgood housing, generally speaking, begetsgood housing.

While it is a noble ideal,trying to under-play the disparities in student living spacesis nothing more than a pleasant fiction.With such a massive weight put on the com-munities built within residences, be it Rinc,Columbae or SAE, housing should be anissue about which all members of the Stan-ford world should become knowledgeable.

Student Housing is stocked with hard-working professionals dedicated to improv-ing the student experience.They are taskedwith the unenviable job of making sure thatstudents fundamental human needs arenot only met,but met in a way that lives upto the prestige associated with this school.Trying to cater to 11,000 different sets of needs and habits in a personalized way is no

easy task.A testament to the diversity of campus is

the sheer range of housing options avail-able,from co-ops to houses to quasi-apart-ments, which different students will bedrawn to for unique reasons.A resident of Suites,perhaps,is looking for a different ex-perience than a student living in FrenchHouse, and no living space is the rightchoice.

But unfortunately, choices and prefer-ences about such options still remain out of the hands of some students.

Todays Daily story about the 39 under-graduates living in Rains graduate housesbrings to bear the fact that we still have away to go in providing optimal, equitableoptions to all students. With the Draw, theonly reason beyond class year that StudentA gets Mars and Student B winds up in

Lantana is a randomly assigned number.People make the most of wherever theylive,but to think for a second that the worldof Manz is comparable to the Lower Row isborderline insane. The Draw should not beabolished; it is a bit of a necessary evil.Butthe acceptance of certain realities is no ex-cuse for complacency.

While Stanford is still recovering from amassive endowment downturn, and everybuilding decision must jump through anarray of local and state codes,we must con-tinue to make undergraduate housing amajor issue.The price of going to Madrid inthe fall should not be banishment to Escon-dido Village, Oak Creek or Rains. Particu-larly as new staff homes pop up along Stan-ford Avenue and Munger stands still freshto the eye, the University needs to assesshow to help improve the living situation of more Stanford students.

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L ets talk about music! As the sayinggoes, talking about music is like danc-ing about architecture. Dont worry,Im not saying we should all mime The Claw. . .

Instead,Id like to spend this quarter dis-cussing all the ways music fits into the worldof a university. Stanfords got a decent giggoing,but there are some ways for the song toimprove.How can we shape it fully into whatwe want? College music is mostly studentmusic,so I say the more of us that jump in asplayers and listeners,the better.

This week,Ill scan the overall picture andget into details later. Lets start at the begin-ning: you arrive on campus, violin in tow,wondering how to work music into your newcollege life after years of lessons and per-formances. Or youve never touched a pianoand are just looking for a place to plug in thespeakers, hoping your roommate has similartaste.

Youve picked suburban Stanford,whereit takes initiative to visit any solid urbanmusic scene. Our beloved bubble has hun-dreds of talented students and teachers, andsome world-class musicians take time to visitevery once in a while. But the cup of songdoesnt quite overfloweth amid the satura-tion of engineering, computer science, busi-ness,medicine, etc.We live in Silicon Valley,not Nashville or New Orleans.

Academically, were not a conservatory BFAs pop out in June as often as theresgridlock in Petaluma. Except you werentlooking for that when you applied youwanted to take psychology or economics inaddition to the instrument you loved (propsto the handful of music majors). Meanwhile,non-musicians just look forward to knowingthat kid who practices Rachmaninoff pianoconcertos before biking off to an interview atsome consulting firm.

What about bands talking about amusic scene means were talking aboutrock and roll,right? Unfortunately, being anisolated student enclave in the burbs makesit difficult.The few intrepid rock bands haveto find college alternatives to their parentsgarage, and then the closest venues are . . .frats?

The flipside is that the diversitythe ad-mission office brags about shows up stronglyin our music. Filling a college with peoplefrom all around the world means many dif-ferent cultures get to mix. So you discover afair range of options beyond the standardwestern orchestra, choir and jazz band setup

that I knew in high school, with groups likeTaiko,Mariachi Cardenal, even Calypso.

At the beginning,it takes a little time tocheck out all the possible groups to join orconcerts to attend, but youre optimistic.Then,the reality of Stanford schedules set in.You manage to cram in a crazy computermusic class at the Knoll or an audition for ana cappella group.Soon,it seems like the clos-est thing to a concert youve been to was at aparty where your ears were blasted over andover by the same 40 mp3s pumped in fromNew York and L.A.

As time goes by,you begin to figure some-thing out. Here I am, beginning my senioryear, minoring in music and playing in agroup or two while wishing there were morebands, more available practice facilities andtuned pianos. Its been a decent musical ex-perience, but we can make it better.

Luckily, Im not the first to talk about themusic situation on campus.An arts initiativewas launched by the administration in thelast few years. Many look forward to the ArtAffair in the spring, when all kinds of musi-cians get to come out of the sandstone.

But ultimately, Stanford music is studentmusic. Sure, some professors perform, andoutside groups do stop by occasionally, butits pretty much all about you, maestros.

I have seen the bubble and the bubble isus.

Tell Lucas how the picture sounds to you at [email protected].

Music In the Bubble

M y name is Shane Savitsky,and I am awhite person.I thought I should getthat out of the way immediately,be-cause its going to be an overarching themeto this column as it progresses. After all,Mark Twain once said, Write what youknow.What I know is how to be unabashed-ly, undeniably and almost unattractivelywhite. Maybe youve seen me: Im that kidwho was biking to class the other day in aRalph Lauren oxford with a Jamba Juice inmy hand while jamming to some VampireWeekend.

While Im at it,I should probably get someother things out of the way. I get all of mynews through Twitter. I think Arrested De-velopmentis the funniest series to ever airon television. There are a couple pairs of skinny jeans hanging in my closet.The LifeAquatic is my favorite Wes Andersonmovie.I check Pitchfork multiple times a dayfor the latest in music updates. Of course Ivoted for Barack Obama.And no,I am mostdefinitely not a PC.

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

Obviously,Stanford is known for its diver-sity.We have people from all over the planetcoming to study at our fine institution nestledin its own little slice of paradise, and we doeverything we can to make those people feelcomfortable.Stanford is loaded with commu-nity centers and theme houses beckoning toevery corner of society something thatmakes our university such a great and wel-coming place. But sometimes, white peopleneed a little place where they can come toand hear someone rant about the latestepisode of Mad Men or Breaking Bad.

Maybe you just want to relax with a coffeeand sit down at your Macbook. This is thatplace.(Please ignore the fact that I just com-pletely described the CoHo or anydorm/house lounge on campus.) Every weekwhen you open up The Stanford Daily andsee my column on the page,know that this isa safe respite for those of you who have beenfeeling lost.

Fear not! That is not a message of ex clu-sion.While this column might be a jaded andsarcastic view of everything from culture toStanford-related issues to anything in be-tween, I hope to reach out to all members of the Stanford community. Youre a collegestudent, right? And you go to school in Cal-ifornia? From that, I can immediately as-sume that youre probably socially liberaland culturally conscious. Thus, Im sure wewould probably be friends if I said some-thing like, Im going to drive my Prius tocatch a show at the Fillmore this weekendand stop in The Mission on my way back t ocampus for some dive Mexican food. Oh,and I hope Prop.8 gets overturned! Maybeyoud like me even more if I told you that Ithought Arcade Fire put out the best albumof 2010 thus far.If you still have no idea whyanything I just said should be appealing or if

youve never heard of Arcade Fire (or thinkthat Im referring to a conflagration amidsome pinball machines), then we definitelyhave some work to do.Well accomplish thatover the next few weeks.

That takes me to an important point toleave you with: in my personal film pan-theon,Wes Anderson-directed movies holda very esteemed position among my fa-vorites. And in Andersons classic filmRushmore,t he main character is a teenag-er named Max Fischer.Max might be some-thing of a budding sociopath,but he is alsoinvolved in countless extracurricular activi-ties at his private high school, Rushmore.From the Yankee Racers to the fencingclub to the Rushmore Beekeepers, Maxdoes it all. Hes a little obsessive compulsive,slightly unstable, over-the-top and has waytoo many things on his plate to focus onschoolwork. And that, my friends, is some-thing all of us at Stanford can agree upon.Im talking to the person out there among uswho has climbed Mount Everest or whoseresearch might unlock the cure for cancersomeday. But mainly, Im talking to you the average Stanford student who is in athousand different student organizationswith countless meetings to go to and a cou-ple papers or problem sets due on top of that and just not enough time in the day. Itdoesnt matter if youre white or black orbrown or some odd shade of purple;all of ushere at Stanford have just a little bit of MaxFischer in us otherwise, we wouldnt behere.

Think youre more of a Steve Zissou? DropShane an e-mail at [email protected].

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DUELIN THEDESERT

By CAROLINE CASELLIDESK EDITOR

After almost a month of challenging preseason matches,a monumen-tal victory over the reigning national champion and an undefeatedrecord,the No.1 Stanford womens volleyball team looks to carry its non-conference success into the Pac-10 season, which will commence thisweekend.

Preseason showed usthat we are starting from avery solid foundation,but westill have a lot of potential forimprovement, said seniorAll-American setter and op-posite Cassidy Lichtman.We definitely are going tobe a great team,but we wantto stay focused so [that] weget better every week.

The Cardinal (9-0) willkick off its regular seasonaway from home,facing Ari-zona State (5-7) on Friday,followed by a match againstArizona (10-2) on Sunday.

The Sun Devils,who werepicked eighth in a Pac-10preseason coaches poll,have seen mixed results intheir early matches.They split their previous two matches,both of whichwent to five sets,with a win over Pacif ic and a loss to Utah.

Arizona State will look to three-t ime All-Pac-10 Honorable Mentionrecipient Sarah Reaves for leadership and dominant all-around play.Reaves, an outside hitter, currently leads the squad in kills with 195 andtrails only senior libero Sarah Johnson in digs with 116 (Johnson current-ly has 182 digs and an average of 4.55 digs per set,the second highest inthe Pac-10).

Other major contributors for the Sun Devils include junior setter CatHighmark, who has tallied 436 assists and a team-high 11 aces thus far,and sophomore outside hitter Ashley Kastl,who follows Reaves with 115kills.

Arizona, predicted by the coaches to finish fourth in the conference,finished the 2009 season with a 19-11 overall record,a handful of upsetvictories over ranked opponents and its first NCAA Tournament appear-ance in four years.With a core group of four returning starters returningfrom last years squad, the Wildcats were ranked 18th in the AmericanVolleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Preseason Poll,but have subse-quently fallen out of the top 25 with preseason losses to Cal Poly and Pa-cific.

Most recently, however, the Wildcats are riding a five-match hotstreak, including three straight sweeps to win the Arizona Invitational inTucson last Saturday.Senior outside hitter Tiffany Owens was named theTournament MVP, tallying 22 kills, a .700 hitting percentage and 12 digsin the championship match alone.

Seniors Whitney Dosty and Paige Weber are also leaders of the Wild-cat squad. Both players competed with the 2010 U.S.A2 National Teamthis past summer.Outside hitter Dosty leads the team offensively, hitting3.95 kills per set,currently the seventh-highest kills average in the confer-ence.Weber, a setter, is coming off of a strong match against New Mexi-co State in which she tallied 41 assists and two aces.Owens, Dosty andWeber received All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention honors for their play inthe 2009 season.

The Card has the historical edge over both opponents, with a 56-4record over Arizona State and 54-6 against Arizona.No member of thisyears Stanford roster has lost to either team the Cardinal last fell tothe Wildcats in 2005 and the Sun Devils in 2000.

Still, Stanford understands the territory that comes with being atopthe national rankings and expects a battle from both squads.

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GAME NOTES:Stanford is 56-4 historically against Arizona State. Sun Devils libero Sarah Johnson issecond in the conference with 4.55 digs per set.The Cardinal has not lost to Arizona State since2000.

Luck issolid fit forHeisman

A fter enduring two hoursof sweaty full-frontalmale nudity, I thoughtFull Moon on the Quadof my freshman year

would be the most violating experi-ence of my Stanford career.That was,until Toby Gerhart finished second inlast years Heisman Trophy voting.

Despite trumping winner MarkIngram (the second best running

back on his own team) in every rele-vant statistical category (except forwins), Gerhart was wrongly deprivedof college footballs most prestigioushonor by an undoubtedly SEC-bi-ased group of Heisman voters. Thetrophy would have done absolutewonders for Stanfords football pro-gram, and we were straight robbed.

I could sit and bitch about thistravesty all day trust me, its beendone but my hatred for Ingram,the Heisman voters, the SEC andeverything else that is wrong with col-lege football and its hilariously arbi-trary way of evaluating players andteams has been temporarily put onhold for one reason.

Andrew Luck is the truth.It is hard to believe that the Cards

offense could possibly be more po-tent after losing Gerharts 2,028 yardsof total offense and 28 touchdowns,but thats just what it is.And Luck,theredshirt sophomore quarterback, is

solely responsible for the continueddomination.Through three games, Luck has

amassed 674 yards through the airand 140 on the ground. Hes thrownfor 10 touchdowns without notchinga single interception and ranks thirdin the nation in passing efficiency.Oh,and hes managed to get No. 16 Stan-ford off to its first 3-0 start since 2001and is looking to take the Cardinal to4-0 for the first time in 24 years.

After vastly overrated Washingtonquarterback Jake Lockers inevitablyabysmal performance a week ago,Luck has,in the minds of most Pac-10football fans, established himself asthe conferences best signal caller (theonly other option being ArizonasNick Foles).In fact,hes now regardedso highly that he has taken the throneatop Mel Kiper,Jr.s Big Board,signi-fying him as the top NFL prospect.Asa result, he has vaulted himself intoHeisman contention.

Normally, I try to refrain from jinxing an athlete that happens to re-side on one of my favorite teams.After all,I may or may not have guar-anteed a Heisman for Toby, just as Imay or may not have guaranteed thatDwight Howard would shoot 65 per-cent from the free throw line last sea-son. Lets just say that Gerhart wascloser to fulfilling his prediction.

So, instead of sending Luck downthe same path, Ill just say that he should win the award. According toESPN, Luck currently ranks fifth inthe Heisman projections behind fourquarterbacks:Ryan Mallett of No.10Arkansas, Taylor Martinez of No. 6Nebraska, Terrelle Pryor of No. 2Ohio State and Denard Robinson of No.21 Michigan.Although its impos-sible to deny any of these playerstheir gaudy numbers,none is a betterquarterback than Luck, and none ismore valuable to his respective team.

Its definitely concerning to seethe hype train for Pryor and Robin-son gaining steam,but its especiallybothersome that Ryan Mallett, theonly other true pocket passer in thegroup, is receiving more attention.Arkansas ranking is generous, con-sidering its first two wins came overTennessee Tech and Louisiana-Mon-roe. Its third win, via a last-secondMallett touchdown toss,came over 1-2 Georgia, a team whose startingquarterback is a true freshman andwhose best player has yet to play adown.

Luck is, in my humblest of opin-ions, a better true passer. Combinethat with his ability to make playswhen outside the pocket (see his 52-yard touchdown run against WakeForest as an example),and its almostsilly to place him behind any player inthe country, let alone any quarter-back. Still,Mallett is in the SEC andwill continue to be ahead of Luck foras long as the Razorbacks succeed.

Nonetheless,Im going to contin-ue to be cautiously optimistic. After

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ZachZimmermanDishing the Rock

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailyThe No. 1 Stanford womens volleyball team opens up Pac-10 play this weekend as it hits the road to take on ArizonaState and the University of Arizona. The Cardinal has yet to lose a match this year, despite facing top-quality opponents.

By LIZZY COLLINS

One of the most well-rounded, intelligentand genuine guys tohave played in theNFL, John Lynch was

once a student-athlete here at Stan-ford.A two-sport star in baseball andfootball and a scholar in the class-room, Lynch overcame much adversi-ty on his journey to becoming a nine-time Pro Bowler and a Super Bowlchampion. Lynch has since set asidehis pads and the demanding scheduleof an NFL player, but his glory daysare not over just yet.

Stanford recently announced thaton Nov.5,it will formally induct Lynchinto the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame.

It is a tremendous honor,Lynchsaid in regard to his future induction.

Having spent several years awayfrom the Farm,he was somewhat sur-prised to receive a message from Stan-fords head football coach, Jim Har-baugh, who was the first to congratu-late him on the induction.

It is a call you dont expect to get,and it was really a great moment,Lynch said.

The four years (1989-1992) Lynch

played on the Stanford football teamwere by no means marked purely bysuccess and glory.The Stanford foot-ball team from 1989-92 experiencedextreme lows and some pretty spec-tacular highs. In 1989, the team went3-8, but in Lynchs senior year, underthe direction of Bill Walsh, the teamwent 10-3, winning the BlockbusterBowl.

I think its very easy at Stanford,that there is a built-in excuse wecant get all the kids into school, hesaid.The one thing that I am thankfulfor is that we had a group that wasntgoing to listen to that conventionalwisdom;we were going to try to breakit, and we did.We took a tremendousamount of pride in turning the pro-gram around.

John sees a bit of his own mentalityof unwavering motivation and dedica-tion in the 2010 football team.

I think the similarity is that theybelieve, he said. I think my senioryear,Miami was the number one teamin the country, but by the end of theyear, we felt like we could have giventhem everything they could handle. Isee that same type of feeling and be-lief with this team dont tell mewhy we cant,we are going to.The way

they are playing right now, they aremaking a believer out of me.

Lynch was recruited to Stanford asa quarterback, but after failing to se-cure the starting position, he transi-tioned to safety in the 1991 season.

I thought I had won it,and I wasreally crushed when I didnt get it, so Ialmost quit football,Lynch said.

With baseball still very much a partof his life, Lynch had to make a deci-sion:football or baseball.In his junioryear, he was drafted by the FloridaMarlins in baseballs amateur draft.

However, newly appointed headfootball coach Bill Walsh, who wonthree Super Bowls with the San Fran-cisco 49ers, saw something special inJohn Lynch a talent that could notgo unrecognized.Lynch played mere-ly 30 percent of the defensive snapshis junior year and was benched afterhis third game, so it came as a bit of ashock when Walsh called him into hisoffice one day.

He said, I know you have an op-portunity to play professional base-ball,but Ive watched your snaps,andI think you can be a Pro Bowl footballplayer in the National Football

A conversation with John Lynch

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KEVIN KRECK/Colorado Springs Gazette/KRTFormer Denver Broncos safety John Lynch celebrates his second-

quarter sack of San Diego Charger quarterback Drew Brees,which caused a fumble in the Broncos' 23-7 victory over the SanDiego Chargers at Qualcomm Stadium on Dec. 31, 2005.

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all, Stanford is back on the collegefootball map with at least six nation-ally televised games this season.Ger-hart paved the way for individual no-toriety on the Farm, and Lucks as-

cension to the quarterbacking elitecould not have come at a better time.Couple in potential big wins at NotreDame and Oregon, and the Cardcould be represented in New Yorkfor the second straight year.

Its never too early to get on theStanford football bandwagon.We al-ready know that the team is poised tomake a legitimate run at a confer-ence title.And as current students,we

are fortunate to be witnesses to one of the best teams and one of the bestquarterbacks in school history. ARose Bowl berth is one thing.But a tripto Pasadena and a Heisman Trophy?

We might just get Lucky.

Zach Zimmerman is the first person tomake a pun with Andrew Lucks last name.Give him his props at zachz@stan-

ford.edu.

ZIMMERMANContinued from page 6

League, Lynch remembered.Walsh went as far as to make a

tape of a former player, the greatRonnie Lott, to compare Lynchsskills with one of the best and hard-est hitting defensive backs in theNFL. Lynch was convinced, and,after playing in the minor leagues inthe spring of his junior year, he re-turned to Stanford for his senior yearto play football and to develop into aphenomenal football player.

I knew that I loved baseball,butI was passionate about the sport of football, and really, thats what Iwanted to do,Lynch said.I wantedto give it a shot,and I did,and the restis history.

In 1992, his senior year, Johnplayed the game of his life againstNotre Dame.Down 16-0 against oneof the nations top teams,Lynch wassidelined early in the game after a con-cussion, yet in true John Lynch fash-ion, he returned to the game to leadhis Cardinal to victory (and the onlyloss for the Fighting Irish that year).

I think that was the game thatpropelled me and caused the NFLscouts to really look at me, he said.At the time, Notre Dame was at thevery top, a perennial powerhouse,and we went back there,and it really

felt like we had arrived.Once we didthat,and the way we did that, it madeit really special.

In his senior year, Lynch quicklyblossomed into one of the most re-spected defensive backs in the coun-try,earning first team All-Pac-10 andsecond team All-America honors.

In 1993, the Tampa Bay Bucca-neers selected Lynch in the thirdround of the NFL Draft. He playedin Tampa for 11 years and won aSuper Bowl ring in Super BowlXXXVII. After his time with theBucs,Lynch went on to play for theDenver Broncos from 2004-07. ForLynch, earning the opportunity toplay in the NFL was something hehad dreamed about since he was ayoung boy.

It was really a dream come true,and I feel very blessed for having theopportunity to play for so long, hesaid.

It was not the money or the famethat drove Lynch to play at the pro-fessional level it was his incredi-ble passion for the game. When he

joined the Bucs in 1993, they wereconsidered one of the worst teams inthe NFL. Lynch played for the Bucswhen the stadium seats were emptyand when their record was wellunder .500, but John, believing inhimself, his teammates and the or-ganization, led the Buccaneers totheir best season and only SuperBowl title.

Though Lynch is generally mild-

mannered off the field, he had nohesitations on it.He is considered tobe one of the hardest-hitting playersever to play in the NFL.Whether youwere his brother-in-law,John Allredof the Chicago Bears,or his on-fieldenemy, he was going to punish youfor carrying the football.One hit thatstands out in Lynchs mind was a hitagainst the Detroit Lions BarrySanders he remembers being one

of the few to really get a good hit onSanders.

Barry, who never said anything,came up to me at the Pro Bowl thatyear and told me it was the hardesthed ever been hit, Lynch said,chuckling.

Lynch married his wife, Linda,prior to joining the NFL,and beforeevery game,Linda would slip a notein either his playbook or his luggage.

I would read that note, and itwould get me focused and ready togo play, Lynch said. That is reallythe one routine I carried with methroughout my career.

Lynch has four young kids,whosepictures he would also carry withhim. When his family was in thestands, he remembers looking themin the eye one time before headingout onto the field. Lynch, a familyman first and a football player sec-ond,played every game with his fam-ily close to his heart.

John Lynch is held in high esteemnot solely because he was a star play-er and a team captain,but because hewas more than just number 47 on theplaying field. Lynch embraced thecommunity, and the communityloved him back.Lynch looks forwardto returning to the Farm on Nov.5 tocelebrate his induction,and the Stan-ford community will welcome himback with open arms.

Contact Lizzy Collins at [email protected].

LYNCHContinued from page 6

Being number one gives us akind of confidence that I think comesmostly from the knowledge of what ittook to get there,Lichtman said.Itdoes put a target on our backs, andwe know that,but hopefully that willhelp us focus even more as we gothrough the season.Were preparedto do whatever we can to defend thatranking.

The match on Friday aga inst Ari-zona State will take place at 7 p.m.inTempe, and Sundays match versusArizona will be held in Tucson at 1p.m.

Contact Caroline Caselli at [email protected].

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