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WORLD & NATION

Obama talkseducation andthe economy

By DEVIN BANERJEESENIOR STAFF WRITER

President Obama devoted the first half ofhis Monday to talking about his vision for thefuture of education in America, first onNBCs Today Show and later on a conferencecall from the Oval Office with a group of col-lege journalists.

In a wide-ranging conversation on educa-tion, health care,the economy and occasion-ally college football, Obama told The Dailyand other publications on the call that thecurrent generation of students in Americawill emerge from the economic downturnwith job opportunities and the chance tobuild for themselves a greatgeneration.

If you think about it, what we called thegreatest generation,my grandparents gener-ation, they had a situation where unemploy-ment reached 30 percent,the president said,and they ended up essentially building theentire American middle class to what it wasand making this the most powerful economyin the world.

But its not that easy. The United Statesranks 12th in college graduation rates,and the

economic downturn has only made it moredifficult for students to pay for higher educa-tion. Obama said his administration is takingsteps to make college more affordable.

The single most important step we cantake is to make sure that every young persongets the best education possible,he said,be-cause countries that out-educate us today aregoing to out-compete us tomorrow.

The president said more than $60 billion infederal loan subsidies is being redirected to

support community colleges and eight mil-lion students.Also,he said,the administrationis tripling the investment in college tax cred-its for middle-class families.

The president repeatedly touted his recenthealth care bill, the Affordable Care Act,which allows people to stay on their parentshealth plans until age 26.And that obviouslyprovides relief to a lot of young people who

By ANNA SCHUESSLER

Following a restructuring of the Universitysprinting system, students are no longer able tocancel print jobs, whether they seek to cancel abotched job or are just looking to print for free.

In the past, students looking to minimizeprinting costs could cancel print jobs on Univer-sity printers at the last second,skirting the $0.10

per page printing fee. But in response to the in-creasingly frequent use of the loophole first ac-knowledged by the University last spring, Stan-ford Academic Computing Services has now dis-allowed the canceling of any print jobs that havebegun printing in library or computer clusterprinters.

Designed to allow students to cancel print jobswith bad print feeds or streaky toner, the oldprinting system did not charge students for theirprint jobs if they canceled them before printingwas complete. But staff in Academic ComputingServices became suspicious that students wereabusing this feature of the print system after theynoticed a high number of canceled print jobs lastyear.

Unfortunately, some students began takingadvantage of this [feature] to cancel jobs afterthey had begun printing, merely to avoid beingcharged, even though there was nothing wrongwith the printouts, wrote head of AcademicComputing Technology Services Surajit Bose in

Stanford endowmentrecovers slightly to

$13.8 billionBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Stanfords endowment grew 9.6percent to $13.8 billion for the yearending Aug.31, 2010, the Universitysaid Monday. Its merged pool, whichincludes most of the endowment,took a nearly 25.6 percent hit the yearbefore,ending June 30, 2009.

Return on the pools investmentfor the year ending June 30,2010 was14.4 percent, according to StanfordManagement Company.On an annu-

alized basis,the pool has yielded a re-turn of 6.9 percent since 2000, outpac-ing the U.S. equity market, whichslipped an average of 1.6 percent peryear,as well as the U.S. bond market,which grew 6.5 percent per year.

Our investment managers tookadvantage of strong equity and creditmarkets through the first three quar-ters of the fiscal year, allowing us tomake up some of the ground lost infiscal 2009, said John Powers, Stan-ford Management Companys chiefexecutive, in a statement.

Still, Stanfords endowment re-mains $3.4 billion, or 20 percent,smaller than it was two years ago.TheUniversity responded to the impend-ing recession by cutting budgetsacross its schools and smoothing theendowments payout formula inorder to retain funds.

STUDENT LIFE

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WORLD & NATION

Aid througheducation inAfghanistan

By CAITY MONROEDESK EDITOR

For countries in turmoil, an aid greater than im-mediate help is the sustainable development oflegal institutions a mantra that a group of Stan-ford law students have taken to heart in expandinga foundation for rule of law in Afghanistan.

The Afghanistan Legal Education Project(ALEP) is working to provide legal education andan essential foundation for a stable and successfulrule of law in Afghanistan. It is also filling a voidleft by other international and domestic efforts torebuild Afghan society,work that was recently rec-ognized by a U.S.Sta te Department grant.

Right now,the world is pouring billions of dol-lars into Afghanistan to establish institutions for

the rule of law,said Stanford Law School dean andproject faculty advisor Larry Kramer. For all ofthose institutions to work, they require lawyers torun them.What we were looking at [before the startof ALEP] was a system in which there would be nolawyers in 10 years.

Founded in 2007 by Stanford Law studentsAlexander Benard J.D. 08 and Eli Sugarman J.D.09, the project researches, writes and publisheslegal textbooks to help students in Afghanistanlearn about their countrys developing legal sys-tem. The project has partnered with the Kabul-based American University in Afghanistan andalso has all of its materials free and available toanyone who wants them online.ALEP is set to pub-lish its fourth legal textbook this winter.

Theyre pretty much the only comprehensivetextbooks about Afghan law that have been writtenin the last 20 or so years, said team leader andthird-year law student Morgan Galland.

Not only do these textbooks provide the much-needed legal foundation for the future leaders ofAfghanistans justice system,but they do so with sta-bility and sustainability two important character-

NEWS BRIEFS

AlcoholEdu costs weighedCastro, county officials discuss the methods behind AlcoholEdus renewal,

assess costs of program and alcohol-related emergencies

By ELIZABETH ROSENSTAFF WRITER

Although the decision has alreadybeen made to renew funding for fourmore years of the online alcohol educa-tion program AlcoholEdu, Universityand county officials are still monitoringthe ramifications of the survey data thatin part bolstered the programs renewalbid.

Stanford this year heralded Alco-holEdu as a success when it renewed theprograms funding until 2013.That suc-

cess was part of an alcohol policy pack-age Stanford used to win an exemptionfrom Santa Clara Countys social hostordinance earlier this year.Under the or-dinance,the county fines landowners forunderage drinking that occurs on theirproperty.

Data from a survey of students aboutAlcoholEdu released this summer indi-cate improved alcohol-related safety oncampus, but the methodology and con-clusions of the survey specifically, thelack of a control group and debatablecausality preclude definitive interpre-

tations about the programs influence.

AlcoholEdu by the numbers andmethods

The survey was developed by RalphCastro of the Substance Abuse Preven-tion and Policy Office and vetted byMickey Trockel of the psychiatry and be-havioral sciences department. It wasgiven to freshmen for four years duringthe spring quarter after they participatedin AlcoholEdu. Of the 1,685 students

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SUN-SOAKED SWEEPWomens volleyball team starts Pac-10 season

with close wins over Arizona, Arizona State

The Law School project writeslegal textbooks for Afghanistan

Students can no longer cancelprint jobs to avoid paying

Piano In the Plaza

JIN ZHU/Staff Photographer

Christina Goeders, a biology co-term who has studied music at Stanford, plays a piano placed in White Plaza by Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCA).

Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

President Barack Obama participates in a conference call with college journalists in theOval Office, Sept. 27, 2010.

Please seeALCOHOL,page 5

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Obama discusses policieswith college-age journalists

Please see OBAMA,page 5 Please see PRINTING,page 3Please see REPORT,page 3

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2NTuesday, September 28, 2010 The Stanford Daily

The Daily e-mailed faculty a shortquestionnaire that strayed beyondits work at Stanford. Here is aglimpse into the personalities be-hind your professors.

Valerie Miner

Hometown: San Francisco;New York City

Undergrad: UC-Berkeley, Eng-lish Literature major

Grad school: UC-Berkeley,master of journalism

Fan of: the Harlem Globetrotters

Hobbies: hiking in the moun-tains

#1 on my playlist:Unchained Melody, Harry Be-lafonte version

Favorite book: A Fine Bal-ance by Rohinton Mistry

Favorite movie: Beaches ofAgnes by Agnes Varda

If you could only eat onefood group for the rest ofyour l i fe, would it begrains,meat,vegetables orfruit? potatoes

If you hadnt gone into aca-demia,youd be: an archeolo-gist

Department: Feminist Studies,English, Clayman Institute

Classes taught:Women and the Creative Imagi-nation, Writing Womens Lives,Imagining Women: In Print and inPerson, Honors Thesis advising:creative theses, etc.

Primary research inter-est/project: I am a novelist,story writer and essayist. I also re-view for The Boston Globe, TheLA Times, etc. Im particularly in-terested in fiction from South Asiaand Africa and in writing from any-where about Feminist and GLBTissues.

Chelsea Ma, Managing Editor

I believe socialentrepreneurship is bestsymbolized by the training

required to run a marathon. Travis Kiefer 11

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By JESSICA WERTHEIMSTAFF WRITER

Meet Travis Kiefer 11:He runs. A lot. In

fact,he is in the midstof running amarathon on every

continent, in an effort to fosterawareness for poverty alleviationthrough social entrepreneurship.

So far, Kiefers marathons havetaken him to:Cork, Ireland;Rosario,Argentina; San Francisco, Calif.,andmost recently,Victoria Falls,Zimbab-we.But he is far from finished.He hasplans to complete marathons inJapan and Australia and finish off onDec. 12 of this year by running theAntarctica Ice Marathon, which hewill train for by setting up a treadmillin a meat locker.

Kiefer is currently the executivedirector of Gumball Capital,a non-profit organization that challengesstudents to combat poverty throughentrepreneurship. The GumballChallenge (which will take place onStanfords campus on Nov. 15) is amicrofinance benefit competition,

beginning by giving students $27, 27gumballs and one week to createvalue.

According to Kiefer, the returnis at least twice as much as the ini tialloans. All of the student-raisedmoney from Gumball Capital goesdirectly to provide aid to the work-ing poor.

Social entrepreneurship is notsimply about making money,Kiefer said.Its about finding inno-vative ways to help people improvetheir quality of life despite a lack ofresources or constraints on what

they are able to do.Kiefer thought up the ambitious

project winter quarter of his junioryear. He went for a run one day,then the next and then the day afterthat all the while keeping Twitterupdated of his mileage.

On the third day of consecutiverunning,a friend of mine said on myTwitter profile he would give a five-dollar donation to the organizationof my choice for every day I ran,Kiefer said.

And so it began.At first, he wanted to log 500

miles in 50 days in order to raise 250dollars, but according to Kiefer,Five-hundred miles is cool, but Iwanted to up the stakes,so I decid-ed to run a marathon.I started outrunning four miles a day,adding twomiles a day each week until I was inmarathon shape.

Kiefer ran his first marathonwhile he was studying abroad in Ox-

ford spring quarter of his junioryear. Continent number one. Helater went to visit a friend in Ar-gentina. Continent number two.

For Kiefer, Run n in g amarathon symbolizes the globaliza-tion and interconnectedness of theworld no matter where I go thereare people who run,he said.Also,

I believe social entrepreneurship isbest symbolized by the training re-quired to run a marathon.Both takework, effort and a lot of self-sacri-fice and self-discipline. Similarly,you cant just get up one day and

run a marathon. Becoming anovernight success takes years andyears of hard work.

The marathon has also givenKiefer an opportunity to see much ofthe world on foot. His most recentmarathon took place in Zimbabwe.

It was absolutely beautiful!heexclaimed.I saw Victoria Falls atdawn and baboons alongside theroad.The scenery was an incrediblemotivator.

However, the people he metwhile traveling most affectedKiefer: other runners, those whocheered on the sidelines and thepeople native to Zimbabwe.

I was able to experience first-hand the poverty situation,he said.But I was most surprised by howsimilar peoples stories were.Every-one is working hard to put food onthe table; they are working for thehope of a better future.

Kiefer hopes to raise $125,000

for Gumball Capital within the nextyear and to inspire others to get in-volved in social entrepreneurship.

I want to make a difference,hesaid.And I see entrepreneurship asthe way to do that.

Contact Jessica Wertheim at [email protected].

Courtesy of Travis Kiefer

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By ERIN INMAN

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Feel strangely compelled to buy aPrius? Marketing strategies may notbe the only thing driving you to do so.It may be in your genes.

Consumer preferences may re-flect genetically heritable prudencedispositions,a new study in the Jour-nal of Consumer Research sug-gests. Led by business professorItamar Simonson and Aner Sela,an assistant professor of market-ing at University of Florida, thestudy gives weight to the role ofgenetics in consumer decision-making.

We try to identify underlyingpatterns by simultaneously test-ing a wide range of potentiallyrelated choices, judgments andpersonal characteristics, Si-monson wrote in an e-mail toThe Daily.

Researchers compared

study pools of fraternaland identical twins andfound greater similaritiesbetween the lattergroup.Because identi-cal twins share 100percent of theirgenes,while frater-nal twins do not,the researcherscould thereforedetermine that genet-ics influenced those trendsin consumer preferences.

According to a summary of thestudy provided by Simonson,largelyheritable effects included, for exam-ple,tendencies to either engage in orrefrain from compromising or gam-bling.Research also showed a herita-ble preference for specific products,such as mustard, hybrid cars, sciencefiction movies, chocolate and jazz,while tattooing and ketchup had noobserved genetic linkage.

Other tendencies with no signifi-cant heritable effects included pref-

erences between options that pro-duced large rewards later versussmaller rewards sooner, as well aspreferences in product variety.

This is not to say that people areborn with a Prius gene or a jazzgene. Instead, these tendencies re-flect a combination of genetic ex-pressions influenced by the interac-tion between nature and nurture,saythe researchers.

The study proposes as a tentativeh yp o th e-

s i s that the ob-

served heritability patterns reflect agenetic disposition for living on theedge or in the mainstream.

At the present time, we do notknow how genes might affect . . . thetendency to choose a compromiseversus an extreme option,a risky ver-sus safe option or batteries versusGodiva chocolate, Simonson said.

Images of Mexicos Past

JIN ZHU/Staff Photographer

The Green Library exhibit CelebratingMexico: the Grito de Dolores and the Mexican Revolution commemorates

the 200th anniversary of Mexico's independence from Spain and the 100th anniversary of Mexico's revolution.

an e-mail to The Daily.One student canceled 52 print

jobs and another six students can-celed more than 20 print jobs eachin March, Bose told The Daily inApril.

After some consultation withresidential computing consultants(RCCs),Academic Computing Ser-vices decided something had to bedone.Bose said Academic Comput-

ing Services chose to forego thecancel option when configuring thisyears system in light of the abuses.

This means, sadly,that studentswho do experience streaky toner,torn paper or other such problemswill have to contact their RCCs orlibrary staff to initiate a refund fordamaged jobs, Bose said. He re-ported that SULAIR has processedfewer than five refunds this aca-demic year.

Word about the tighter policyhas been getting around. After aquestion was raised during a discus-sion at RCC training this fall,RCCswere instructed to tell their resi-dents it would no longer be possibleto cancel print jobs.

One of the people leading thediscussion [during RCC training]said we should tell people that theycant do that, said Durand RCCChris Anderson 11.

Contact Anna Schuessler at [email protected].

PRINTINGContinued from front page

We made the difficult budgetadjustments that are enabling theuniversity to continue operatingsmoothly with less annual payoutfrom the endowment, said RandyLivingston,Stanfords chief financialofficer,in the statement.

In fiscal year 2010, Stanford re-duced individual endowment fundpayouts by 10 percent, then inFY2011 by another 15 percent.Thebudgeted payout for this fiscal yearis $758 million,or 5.5 percent of theendowments beginning-of-yearvalue.

Devin Banerjee

REPORTContinued from front page

RESEARCH

Consumer preferencesmay have genetic link

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Please see GENES,page 5

Research on twins showscertain heritable effects


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Difficult questions persistafter endowment report

Late Monday, Stanford ManagementCompany released the investment fig-ures from the 2010 fiscal year and the

endowment figures for 2011.From this devel-opment,there is much in which we can takeheart.The Universitys 14.4 percent return onthe Merged Pool (MP), the main pot of in-vestment funds for the school, means thatthose controlling the purse strings of the Farmare doing a damn good job.

In addition, the endowment stands at aheady $13.8 billion,more than securing Stan-ford as one of the worlds richest institutionsof higher education. Over the course of the2009 fiscal year, the endowment plummetedfrom $17.2 to $12.6 billion.The fact we haverecouped a significant portion of those lossesin only a year is a very good sign. ProvostEtchemendy,in his report to the Faculty Sen-ate last spring, spoke of a nearing end to

salary freezes.From this body of evidence,isnot unreasonable to say that Stanford weath-ered the storm and is on its way back up.

But before we break out the bubbly andpass out the Cubans, there are still somedeep, overriding issues that this Universityand its community must grapple with. Whilea 14.4 percent return on the Merged Pool ismore than double the average for the pastdecade,the aforementioned fund lost a wal-loping 25.9 percent in 2009,and we are stillnot close to our overfilling coffers of the mid-2000s. Our endowment currently is only 80percent as large as it was in 2008. It is lunacyto deny that Stanford is not absurdly well-off.But after a freeze on faculty salaries,one ofthe third rails of the academy, and a halt ordelay on a great many construction projects,the effects of the recession remain with us.

This increasingly rosy but still muddledfinancial situation invariably leads to a dis-cussion of prioritization. For myriad rea-

sons, the average Stanford student will nothave a chance to substantively impact thecourse of budget decisions made by admin-istrators. For those who were on campusduring the 2009 school year, it is not difficultto recollect the sheer amount of hours stu-dent government poured into lobbying,pleading and even slightly cajoling the ad-ministration to take into considerationsome of the issues central to the studentbody.And while some small successes wereachieved, they were by and large peripheralto bigger and more daunting issues.

Stanford,as a center of higher learning,istasked first and foremost with educating stu-dents.But at a university as complex as ours,we need to realize we are merely part of amuch larger equation.

That is no excuse to simply check out.Rather, this should motivate a greater con-templation of what,exactly,the Stanford ex-perience entails.The Farm likes to tote itselfas a research university, but then why hasntresearch funding (ignoring s timulus funding)substatively increased over the last halfdecade?

As this school year progresses, take timeto think and talk about what makes Stanford. . . well, Stanford.Is it your peers,many ofwhom are here because Stanfords financialaid is paying their bills? Is it the professorsand TAs, whose positions and fiscal securityhave been precarious for the past year? Is itthe physical residences in which you live,many of which are in states of disrepair? Orcould it be your student groups, which havebeen impacted by the reduced hours of Stu-dent Affairs? As a university, we must notshirk from frankly and openly discussingthese matters, because the choices madenow will affect the long term course of thisinstitution.

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EDITORIAL

Stephen Colbert testified before Con-gress on Friday on the matter of farmlabor and immigration. Very serious

people such as David Corn of Mother Jonesraised objections along the lines of Colbertis making a mockery of this hearing.ThoughCorn is probably most upset that Colbertclaimed corn-packer is a derogatory termfor a gay Iowan,others have taken up the ar-gument as well.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) a man whowas once the lone vote against acknowledg-ing the role of slave labor in building theCapitol took a few minutes to turn up theheat on Colbert and demand that he answerwhether he was packing or unpacking thecorn and described the whole affair as an in-sult to the time,an insult to the intelligence ofthe American people. Reporters from Na-tional Review,The Washington Post and Rep.Steve Cohen (D-TN) all labeled the affair amockery as well.

But lets drop some R. Kelly-style RealTalk here: nobody would ever, ever careabout this particular hearing if there werenta famous person there. Even with Colbertthere, at least one congresswoman Imlooking at you, Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) was seen texting during the hearing.

So,if it takes Lil Wayne to spice up a hear-ing on the reauthorization of the NationalFlood Insurance Program (Mr.Carter,whatexactly do you mean by make it rain?) byall means, go for it, attention-starved con-gressmen. Pulling some random celebrity totestify on an issue where they lack expertiseis nothing new. In fact, I have four examplesof even less dignified moments in legislativehistory.

Novelist Michael Crichton testifies beforethe Senate Committee on Environment andPublic Works on climate change, 2005

The late author of such works as The An-dromeda Strain, Congo and JurassicParkand onetime member of People Maga-zines list of the 50 Most Beautiful Peoplewas called to testify on the matter of climatechange in large part due to his 2004 novelState of Fear,which chair James Inhofe (R-OK) made required reading for the commit-tee. Considering the novel is the story of abunch of evil eco-terrorists operating underthe umbrella of organizations with suchbizarrely un-menacing acronyms as NERFand ELF getting ready to kill large numbersof people in a tsunami theyve created toraise money for environmental causes,it maycome as no surprise that Crichton was thereto talk about how fake global warming is.

The Brookings Institute described Stateof Fear as notable mainly for its nuttiness,which is surprising, since it is, you know,called State of Fear. Though he did havesome credentials, being a Harvard Med

School graduate and all, Michael Crichtonwas a climate expert in the same way that Dr.Phil is a podiatrist.

Rapper Hurricane Chris Performs HalleBerry (Shes Fine) on the Floor of theLouisiana Legislature, 2009

Remember that song,A Bay Bay? No?It was a thing in 2007, I swear.Anyway, theLouisiana House of Representatives saw fitto honor its creator,Shreveport-native Hur-ricane Chris,by giving him the floor for a fewminutes,during which he performed a class-ily self-edited version of his song HalleBerry (Shes Fine).

That said,this cannot be regarded as thatbig of a disgrace on the Louisiana legislaturebecause 1) Mr.Chris was wearing a suit, and2) as Rep. Billy Tauzin,who left to work as apharmaceutical lobbyist promptly after over-seeing the Medicare Prescription Drug Billof 2003, once noted, Half of Louisiana isunder water, and the other half is under in-dictment.And for what its worth,New Or-leans isnt exactly Vatican City, either.

Muppet Elmo testifies before the EducationAppropriations Subcommittee,2002

Say what you will about Stephen Colbert,

but hes not a puppet made out of red felt thatspeaks in the third person. And Elmo wasasked to testify by Randall DukeCunning-ham, whose corruption and bribery convic-tions stemmed in part from an illegally ob-tained yacht named the Duke Stir.If Con-victed Bribe Recipient Invites Puppet toGive Expert Testimonyis no longer an obvi-ous sign of bad governance, perhaps weregetting too jaded.

Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson testifiesbefore Senate Subcommittee on Environ-ment and Public Works,2002

Backstreets back to testify about thedamaging practice of coal mining in Ken-tucky? Alright! Not surprisingly,Sen.GeorgeVoinovich (R-OH) described calling on Mr.Richardsons expertise as a joke. Richard-son, who was always the socially consciousone,noted I am not a scientist,but I do knowwhat Ive seen in flights over the coal fields.

Want to say something without being sworn in?E-mail Jordan at [email protected].

JordanCarr

What Stephen Colbert HasIn Common with Elmo

Ispent much of last week entrenched inparty-planning mode, frantically prepar-ing for my slightly belated housewarming.

It was quite the success, and if I sound a littlesmug about it,its because I am.

The planning process involved the kind ofstubborn persistence that only my favoritethings,parties and making lists, can inspire. Ithrew myself into this task with a fervor thatsurprised even me, eventually resorting tousing spreadsheets to organize my RSVP-tracking system and tiered to-do lists.

The day of the party was devoted solely topreparation, which included a marathon af-ternoon of making hors doeuvres and anevening of artfully arranging the living roomand mopping.

As my fellow hostesses and I swept andsliced summer squash,I wondered if it is nor-mal to prepare for a housewarming with suchintensity.What drove me to the state of partyplanning where I actually made a flowchartof the ideal tempo and mood of my meticu-lously timed playlist? Is this normal? If not,isit at least acceptably close to normal?

While I cannot attribute all of the insanityto the Stanford effect, upon reflection, I cer-tainly think I drew heavily from the past fouryears. As an undergraduate who was luckyenough to spend three years on the Row, Irelished the sense of community and pridegenerated from my place of residence, per-haps to a degree that I am ashamed to say oc-casionally bordered on belligerence.

Even as a freshman, though I scoffed atthe incessant dorm chanting asked of me dur-ing the entire first month of school, I hadsomewhere to expend this energy. Now, withno repetitive chants and a lack of bi-weeklysocial gatherings through which to funnel myinstinctive and fierce pride, I apparently be-

come a manic version of myself when prepar-ing my home for company.The competitivestreak I try so hard to hide rears its less-than-pleasant face in the unnecessary perfection-ism that causes me to rethink and overana-lyze both the appearance and gastronomicalcues of garnishes on dips.

It seems, somewhat unexpectedly, thatthis part of my Stanford experience has fol-lowed me faithfully,and though I would hes-itate to say I am ready to create and startshrieking a chant about my apartment, I doinvest a great deal of my identity in mydomicile. This is an instinctive feeling forme, coming to the surface much more read-

ily than my supposed bachelor-level expert-ise on science.

I dont think that community and prideand ownership are exclusive to the Stanfordexperience,but I do think that I learned themon campus. (I never did seriously considerthe aesthetics of the bookshelves in my par-ents house while I was in high school, and Icertainly never mopped anything three timesin one day.) For many of us,Stan ford is wherewe do a lot of our growing up, a large part ofwhich,for me, is asserting my independenceand identity through engaging with myhome, one of the first things over which myparents had little to no control.

This might manifest itself in the question-able choices we all make in covering everyinch of white walls in our first dorm roomswith posters,photographs,ticket stubs, a loudannouncement to the world, This is what Ilike! This is who I am! I devoted my life torunning my houses kitchen one year,a laborof love born of my giddy independence.

This is not to say that my throwing of onesuccessful housewarming marks a smoothand clean-cut transition into adulthood. Infact, I would venture a thought that a realadult might merely smile indulgently uponwitnessing the obsessive process I took toget there, thinking about the next stage ofgrowing up that has yet to make its way intomy conscious mind.Ultimately,I am relievedthat the love of home that I found at Stan-ford is something that is so easily trans-ferrable and that I have managed to con-vince myself that throwing parties is just apart of growing up that I should indulge in asmuch as possible.

Want to be on the guest list for the next event?E-mail Jade at [email protected].

Is this normal? If

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are looking maybe at their first jobnot providing health insurance, hesaid.

At the same time, Obama urgeduniversities to disclose how studentstuitions are spent so that studentsmay have some good understand-ing of the use of their payments.There should be a pie chart at everyuniversity that says, out of every dol-lar you spend in tuition,heres whereyour money is going, Obama said.

Calling the Senates failure lastweek to pass the DREAM Act a set-back, the president emphasized hisadministrations backing of the bill,which would grant permanent resi-dency to undocumented immigrantswho came to the United States as chil-dren and wish to pursue higher edu-cation or service in the Americanarmed forces.

Their parents brought themhere,Oba ma said of young undoc-

umented immigrants. They maynot have been documented, butthey have, for all intents and pur-poses,gr own up as American young

people.Responding to questions about

health care costs and rising tuition,Obama continually referred back tothe strength of the economy as his ad-

ministrations number-one priority.One of the things that I can do to

help is to make sure that the economyis growing, he said.States then aretaking in more tax revenue . . . thenthey dont have to try to pass on in-creased costs to students becausethey can maintain levels of support toinstitutions of higher learning.

The president plans to hold a rallytoday at the University of Wisconsinin Madison to mobilize young votersbefore the November elections in abattleground state he won handily in

November 2008.I love Madison because when I

was just out of college. . . I used todrive up there and have fun times,Obama said,which I cant discuss indetail with you.

Contact Devin Banerjee at [email protected].

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The American University of Afghanistan, pictured above, uses legal textbooks researched, written, and pub-lished by the Law Schools Afghanistan Legal Education Project.

istics of initiatives in Afghanistan as guiding principles.

In Afghanistan, laws may notlast as they are, Galland said.Theway that we are teaching the law isgetting people to think about howto interpret law, think criticallyabout law and about how to changelaw.They are skills that will be im-portant even if the law changes. Soits kind of a long-term ambition

rather than kind of a short-term,Well teach you the laws as they arenow.

Law student and team memberStephenie Gosnell, who served as aMarine Corps officer for sevenyears, spoke to the importance oflegal education in stabilizing thecountry.

One of the more important les-sons I learned from serving inBaghdad is that stabilizing a coun-try like Iraq or Afghanistan is anextraordinarily complex task, shewrote in an e-ma il to The Daily.

Legal education is one of themany aspects that contributes tothe growth of civil society, sheadded.

The projects success in provid-ing Afghan society with viable solu-tions for the future of their infantlegal system has been recognizedby more than just the students andprofessors who use the textbooks.Most recently, the U.S. State De-

partment awarded ALEP with a$1.3 million grant this fall to contin-ue its work.

In addition to providing for thebasic resources necessary to re-search,write and publish these text-books,the gr ant will help fund con-sultation with legal experts, trips toAfghanistan to evaluate the cur-

riculum and the positioning of apostdoctoral fellow on the groundin Afghanistan, Kramer said.

ALEPs success has extendedbeyond the university classroom inAfghanistan. The textbooks haveshown to be useful in educatingother members of Afghan society including military personnel andcivilians working on the rule of law about new laws and developinglegal system. The project also isworking on efforts to translate thebooks into Dari and Pashto, whichwill further expand the use of thetextbooks throughout Afghanistan.ALEP has even inspired efforts

outside Afghanistans borders, withsimilar Stanford Law School proj-ects now being implemented inBhutan and East Timor.

I wouldnt be surprised if a lotmore of these projects pop up,Galland said, which would begreat. Its awesome to be able to in-spire others to do similar things.

The project, with its focuses onlong-term sustainability and edu-cating Afghans themselves, mayoffer a promising form of interna-tional peace-building.Galland,whopreviously spent two years in Laosdoing development work, said theparticular mission of ALEP wasone thing that attracted her to theproject in the first place.

I had a mixed bag of experi-ences and kind of came to realizethat I thought that education wasprobably one of the most importantways to contribute to a developingcountry,she said.It s also a way to

teach people how to think insteadof what to think, if you do it well.And I had kind of gotten sick ofpeople who come to different coun-tries and tell them what to do.

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who responded, 71 percent rated Al-coholEdu as somewhat to very effec-tive in educating them about collegealcohol issues,and 77 percent said theylearned something useful from theprogram.

In his recommendation that Stan-ford continue to fund AlcoholEdu,Castro cited a decision-making model

developed by doctoral student in deci-sion analysis Somik Raha that quanti-fied the programs effects and value tothe University. Raha weighed the$18,000 annual cost of AlcoholEduagainst the monetary values of staff re-sponse time, emergency room bills,missed classes,litigation and public re-lations costs, as well as core valuesmore intrinsic to the University, likeeducation and student welfare.

What we wanted to know is, canwe make decisions that honor our in-trinsic values?Raha said.

Castro noted that alcohol-relatedtrips to the emergency room havedropped at Stanford to an average ofabout 60 per year from 119 in 2004-05.According to Rahas statistical analy-ses,Stanford needs to drop to at most59 annual minor injuries any-thing less than permanent incapacita-tion or death for AlcoholEdu tomake financial sense.

Theres definitely a correlation

between AlcoholEdu and a decreasein emergency room trips, but therewas no randomized control trial,so wecant draw any conclusion aboutcausality,Castro said.

According to Castro,the lack of acontrol study is due to the surveysoriginal purpose,which was to obtainfeedback and assess how students feltabout AlcoholEdu and not to formal-ly evaluate the programs effective-ness.Castro noted the possible effectsof the New Student Orientation alco-hol policy, increased focus on hard-al-cohol consumption in alcohol educa-tion programs on campus and recentlyimplemented changes in residential

staff training regarding alcohol. Headded that although AlcoholEdu isonly one small piece of a larger pro-gram, its the most comprehensive be-cause every single student participatesin it.

Randomized control trials spon-sored by AlcoholEdu have takenplace on a national scale and haveshown quantifiable decreases in thenegative consequences of drinking ingroups that have gone through theprogram.AlcoholEdu is used by morethan 500 college and university cam-puses nationwide, according to itswebsite. The Stanford Alcohol Advi-sory Board spent three quartersstudying national studies in peer-re-viewed journals, Stanford data andanecdotal data before making a for-mal recommendation to continue theprogram.

We reviewed other programs,andthey paled in comparison to Alco-holEdus richness and depth,Castro

said.Its not just a PowerPoint,and itsmessages complement [Stanfords].He added that although he prefers

person-to-person education tech-niques,online education is a more ef-fective way to reach students on alarge scale.

The county perspectiveAnother financial motivation for

the University to invest in alcohol ed-ucation is its exemption from SantaClara Countys social host drinkingordinance,which allows the county toimpose a fine of up to $700 on anyoneresponsible for hosting underagedrinking gatherings.Stanfords contin-

ued exemption from the ordinance iscontingent on the University continu-ing to promote alcohol education andminimize alcohol-related incidents.

Santa Clara County District 5 Su-pervisor Liz Kniss said the terms ofStanfords exemption from the drink-ing ordinance were negotiated by theUniversity counsel office,the StanfordUniversity Police Department, Castroat Vaden and the Santa Clara CountySheriffs Department.

Kniss cited two major stipulationsdeveloped by the county Departmentof Alcohol & Drug Services (DADS)

for maintaining the exemption. First,all University alcohol policies and pro-grams are designed to meet the pur-pose of the ordinance and then re-viewed and approved annually byDADS. Second, Stanford bears allcosts for annual review and alcohol-re-lated emergencies,as well as responsi-bility for the outcomes.

They made a very strong argu-ment that they would monitor this[and] have education in place,and thatit would be reported in a regular andsustainable way, Kniss said. Sheadded that the county considers theexemption a big deal [and] does nottake this kind of ordinance lightly.

For the county, the success of alco-hol education at Stanford is defined inbig pictureterms:whether or not theUniversity is conforming to the bestpractices established at similar institu-tions, how closely University officialsadhere to their own policies,the degreeof genuine support for the programs

within the administration and studentresponses to the Universitys efforts.Although the county has not yet re-

ceived all the data on AlcoholEdu, ithas a summary indicating that infor-mation about alcohol might lead to anincrease in responsible behavior,which seems to be the case with self-reporting as well,Kniss said.

It seems to me that the result ofthis exemption is that Stanford hastaken underage drinking very serious-ly and has really focused on educa-tion,Kniss added.

Contact Elizabeth Rosen at [email protected].

ALCOHOLContinued from front page

This is a preliminary investigation,and given the difficulties of under-standing such heritable tendencies,itmay take decades until we have agood understanding.

The research suggests that envi-ronmental effects alone do not guideconsumer behavior, but that herita-

ble preferences play a key role aswell.Genetic research could reveal

promising target consumer seg-

ments for certain types of products.For example, if a preference for mo-tion sensitive devices is found to beheritable,the Nintendo Wii or AppleiPhone could benefit from under-standing these genetic predisposi-tions.

While there is still progress to bemade on pinpointing the underlyingbiological causes for these consumerpreferences, the researchers remainhopeful that the consumer marketcan benefit from further study of therole of genetics in judgment and

choice.

Contact Erin Inman at [email protected].

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By ZACH ZIMMERMANDESK EDITOR

It was dj vu at the Stanford Golf Course on Saturday,as the Stanford mens and womens cross country teamsswept the Stanford Invitational once again.

The No. 1 mens side looked to reclaim its dominancefrom one year ago, when it took the first four positions inthe mens 8,000-meter race.Although the individual titlewent to a non-Cardi-nal runner this year,Stanford placed fourrunners in the top 10.

Senior David Mc-Neill of Northern Ari-zona won the racewith a time of 23:18.

McNeill jumped outto a big lead after 800meters, at one pointbeating the field by al-most 30 seconds. Hewas chased by a quar-tet of Cardinal run-ners juniors ChrisDerrick and Ben-

jamin Johnson, red-shirt junior Jake Rileyand senior ElliottHeath.

Although Mc-Neills performancecaught many of thespectators off guard,Stanford knew whatto expect from last years NCAA Championships runner-up.

It wasnt necessarily surprising to see McNeill go outfast, but it was a little surprising to see him make such arapid move after hanging back for the first six to eighthundred meters,Heath said. He is a great runner, so wewere definitely expecting to see him at the front of the

race, but when he made his move early, we decided to let

By KATHERINE KNOX

In the opening weekend of Pac-10 Conference play,the No.1Stanford womens volleyball team (11-0, 2-0 Pac-10) won swiftvictories over both Arizona State (5-8,0-2) and Arizona (10-4,0-2).

The Card left Tempe with a slim 3-1 victory over ASU, 25-23,27-25,23-25,25-21.

Early service and at-tacking errors from bothsides kept the first set close.After getting over its con-

ference-opening jitters,Stanford strung together astreak of six first-strikeside-outs at 16-16,en routeto winning its first set ofPac-10 competition,25-23.

The second set likewisewent to Stanford, 27-25.Each team posted its low-est hitting percentage ofthe night with .216 and .259for ASU and Stanford, re-spectively. Effective de-fense by the two experi-enced liberos, Stanfordsenior Gabi Ailes and ASUsenior Sarah Johnson, wascritical in preventing eitherteam from gaining a signif-icant offensive edge. Ailesearned a match-high 24digs,while Johnson was runner-up with 21.

ASU demonstrated renewed spirit after the break, pullingout the third set,25-23. The Cardinal fell four points behind mid-set after three consecutive hitting errors,each from a different

player.The Sun Devils were led by the offense of senior outsidehitter Sarah Reaves and sophomore middle blocker Erica Wil-son,who hit .250 and .500 respectively on the match.

The Cardinal took the fourth set 25-21 under the leadershipof senior outside hitter Alix Klineman,who reeled in 11 kills inthe fourth set en route to earning a career-high 39 kills on thematch.ASUs Reaves totaled the next-highest 23 kills on 68 at-tempts,as both players took over twice the number of swings andmerited twice as many kills as any given teammate.

Arizona,though boasting a better record than ASU,droppedquickly to the Cardinal in straight sets,25-14, 25-19, 25-23.

The Wildcats were at a disadvantage before the first set evenbegan, as a submission of the wrong line-up forced them into anunconventional format. The ensuing confusion prevented Ari-zona from gaining momentum against the Card.

A well-executed side-out game from Stanford brought it thefirst set easily,25-14.

While a serving run by sophomore setter Karissa Cook gaveStanford a decisive six-point lead in the second set, it was the crit-ical timing of service errors by the Wildcats that ultimately costthem the set going into the break.

Arizona posted its best score of the night in the third set, ledby junior opposite Courtney Karst and senior outside hitterTiffany Owens,who brought Arizona back to tie the score at 20-20 after being down 17-12.Owens led her team with 39 attempts

on the match,as the weight of the Arizona offense rested large-ly on the pin hitters.The performances of these key players yield-ed crucially timed kills from Karst and Owens in particular that nearly cost the Card its sweep down the stretch.

Stanford rested Cook in the third,moving away from its tra-ditional two-setter offense.Senior setter Cassidy Lichtman tookcontrol of the set, setting up Klineman for the three kills thatclosed out the match.She contributed 21 kills on the night,mak-

ing her the uncontested kill leader for the seventh consecutivematch.

It felt really good to start off the Pac-10 2-0.Everyone knowshow hard it is to win on the road,especially in this conference,Klineman said.Arizona State definitely showed us that we stillhave some things to work on, but it always feels good to walk


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KILLER

KLINEMAN Stanford vs.Oregon:therundown

In 1997, 13 years ago yesterday,Stanford football outlasted Ore-gon 58-49 in the most excitinggame I had ever seen live.I wasonly seven at the time, tagging

along with my parents at their reunion,but Id had enough training in football-watching from my family to under-stand the game. (Dad, the brainwash-ing worked I still love Stanford andfootball.) Both teams traded touch-

downs,with Stanfords Chad Hutchin-son and Oregons Jason Maas and AkiliSmith combining for 10 touchdownsthrough the air. Young, nave me be-lieved that Id often see games with 107points in which my favorite team cameout on top.I miss that version of myself.

Fast forward to last year.I had expe-rienced 12 more years of football, yetnothing had quite matched the explo-siveness and emotional swings of that1997 game.That all changed when No.7 Oregon came to town.In a game thatwas more detrimental to my cardiovas-cular system than a year of the SuperSize Mediet, Stanford held on 51-42against one of the most potent offensesin the nation.

It was high-scoring (93 total pointsand more than 1,000 total yards).It wasclose (the nine-point margin of victorymasked the momentum swings andgeneral feelings of terror any Cardinalfan felt every two or three seconds).Itwas a major upset (Stanford was un-ranked and riding a seven-year bowlabsence,while Oregon was considereda national title contender).It featuredremarkable performances (Toby Ger-hart broke the Stanford record forrushing yards in a game with 223). Itwas the Cardinals coming-out party (itbrought Stanford national attention,made Stanford bowl-eligible for thefirst time since 2001 and put Stanfordinto the national rankings for the firsttime in years).Quite frankly,it was thebest game Ive ever seen.

Why do I bring up two excitingStanford-Oregon football games, youask? Well, if you actually need to askthat question, you must live some-where devoid of football (and there-fore happiness). This Saturday, Stan-ford and Oregon will face off yet again,but this matchup could be the Cardi-nals most important game since the2000 Rose Bowl. Oregon is the No.4

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GAME NOTES: Stanford, currently theunanimous No. 1 team in the nation, will

play its first conference home games thisweekend against Oregon State and No.

11 Oregon. The Beavers are 1-1 in the

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and beating Washington State last week-end, while the Ducks beat both the

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GAME NOTES: The Cardinal men put up astiff defense of their No. 1 national rank-

ing with a team win in the Stanford Invita-

tional last weekend, while the womens

team exceeded expectations by winningtheir team event as well. Stanfords next

event in Indiana will pit the Cardinal

against much tougher competition than it

faced last weekend on the Farm.

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Senior outside hitter Alix Klineman scored a career-high 39 kills against Arizona State on Friday before adding 21 more onSunday at Arizona. Klineman is the Cards top offensive threat and will be critical as both Oregon schools visit this weekend.

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily

Rather than relying on a single runner, Stanford utilized a team running strategy to triumph in last weekends Stanford Invitational, held at the Stanford Golf Course.The mens team defended its No. 1 national ranking and will continue its defense as t he team travels to Indiana in two weeks to face much stiffer competition.

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After a tough 2-1 loss to NorPacConference rival California last week-end, the No.18 Stanford field hockeyteam embarked on a two-game roadtrip to the East Coast. On Sunday inChapel Hill, N.C., the Cardinalsquared off against No.1 North Car-olina, losing a close match by a singlegoal.The match was followed by a winover No. 8 Wake Forest in Winston-Salem,N.C.,on Monday afternoon.

In its toughest contest all season,Stanford (6-3, 2-1 NorPac) hungtough with the defending NCAAchampion Tar Heels (9-0), but ulti-mately fell in a tight contest,2-1.

The Cardinal managed to keepthe match close through solid de-fense and a stellar performance from

junior goalkeeper Alessandra Moss.She faced 16 shots from the Tar

Heels, including nine in the secondperiod,ultimately allowing only twogoals while making eight saves. Shealso managed to hold off a spiritedNorth Carolina attack throughoutthe second period, keeping the TarHeels off the scoreboard from the23rd minute onward.

However, Moss performance wasnot enough to compensate for theCardinals overall lack of offense.Stanford mustered just two shots inthe game,both in the first period,andgot one goal from senior Xanthe Trav-los at the tail end of the first period.

Despite the tough loss, Stanfordhad no time to recover,jumping backin the next day for a game at WakeForest (6-4).

The Cardinal did not look promis-ing early on, as the Demon Deaconsnotched two quick goals in the firstnine minutes. The first goal, whichcame at just 1:52, was deflected intothe net off a defenders stick, while

the second goal saw Wake Forest slotthe ball through Stanfords defenseright to the front of the net, beforebeing powered home by TaylorRhea.

After that goal,however,the Car-dinal found its spark, notching fourunanswered goals to ultimately over-come the Deacons,4-2. Stanford put18 shots in throughout the game andgot goals from four different players senior Camille Gandhi, juniorStephanie Byrne, redshirt freshmanEmily Henriksson and sophomoreKatie Mitchell.

The win over Wake Forest shouldgive Stanford a bump in the rankingsand will also give it momentum as itcontinues its NorPac schedule. TheCardinal will play UC-Davis inDavis, Calif., this weekend, beforetaking on Harvard at home in twoweeks.

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him go a little bit a nd work togetheras a team for a while.

Toward the end of the race, thefront of the pack kicked hard.In an-other classic finish, Heath, Riley

and Derrick crossed the line side-by-side, just four seconds behindMcNeill with identical times of23:22. Johnson dropped just behind,but finished in 23:41, good foreighth overall. Redshirt sophomoreMiles Unterreiner capped off themens scoring with a 15th-place fin-ish in 24:05.

Heath felt the team, which beatsecond-place Arkansas by 12 points,executed its strategy well on Satur-day.

Coming away from the race, Ithink we generally ran the way wewanted to heading in, he said.There is always a lot of excitementthat goes along with the first meet ofthe year because it gives us some in-dication of how all the summertraining has set us up for the season.

We had a couple of guys that didnthave great races,but I think we ranfairly well as a team overall.

The first meet is always a toughthing to judge,because it is usuallyquite hot and so much tends tochange as the season moves along,Derrick added.I would say that themeet confirmed a lot of the thingswe have been seeing in training.

The No.14 Cardinal women also

came away victorious on Saturday,breezing through the competitionwith just 41 total points.They wereled by sophomore sensation KathyKroeger, who placed first overall inthe 6,000-meter race with a time of20:06.

Junior Georgia Griffin was closebehind, finishing in fifth overallwhile running a personal-best timeof 20:45.

Also finishing in the top 15 weresophomore Alex Dunne (10th),freshman Jessica Tonn (12th), sen-ior Alex Gits (14th) and juniorSteph Marcy (15th).

Aside from an overall team title,Kroeger says the women set out toaccomplish another achievementon Saturday.

Our goal for the race was to win

as a team and particularly to de-stroy Cal, she said.We definitelyaccomplished that and set the tonefor a strong season of improvementahead.

The women ran a slightly differ-ent race than the men, sendingKroeger out in front of the rest ofthe team. This strategy worked outto their advantage on Saturday, butthe Cardinal women see this differ-

ence as room for improvement.The mens team does a reallygood job of running as a pack,Kroeger said. On the womensside, we arent quite as good at thatyet. As we continue to consistentlytrain hard together and race moretogether, we should be able to worktogether better in races.

Up next for both teams is theNCAA Pre-National competition,which takes place on Oct. 16 inTerre Haute, Ind. There, the Cardi-nal will face a stronger field, andfans will be able to better gauge thepotential of both the mens andwomens teams.

Contact Zach Zimmerman [email protected].

XCOUNTRYContinued from page 6

team in the country and one of thefastest and scariest teams in all of col-lege football. Stanford has coastedthrough four easy victories, propellingthe Cardinal to No.9 in the country,itsbest mark since 1992.

The game is so important thatESPN moved the game from 8:15 p.m.to 5 p.m.and from its own channel toABC in order to draw more viewers,particularly on the East Coast.ESPN isalso filming College GameDay livefrom Eugene on Saturday, which isslightly surprising considering Alaba-ma-Florida and Texas-Oklahoma willtake place on the same day.So what canwe expect from this game?

Its the Pac-10 game of the year. . .for now. Most of the media are billingthis game as the most important Pac-10contest of the season.It sure looks like

it, as both teams are in the top 10 andboth have a legitimate shot at confer-ence and national titles if they win. Onthe other hand, last years Pac-10

game of the year was Oregon-USC,but that turned into a blowout and did-

nt end up having nearly as much of animpact on the conference as Oregon-Arizona or Oregon-Oregon State. Soget excited for this game,but remem-ber there are seven games on theschedule after this one.

Replacements will play a role.Eachteam in this game returns the majorityof its key playmakers from last year.The main exceptions are Toby Ger-hart, who left Stanford to make mil-lions in the NFL,and Jeremiah Masoli,who left Oregon to avoid NCAA back-lash and to lose to Jacksonville State.Gerhart was the best running back inthe nation last year (say what you willabout the Heisman,but he didwin theDoak Walker Award),and Masoli wasexpected to be one of the best quarter-backs in the country this year. Theirsuccessors will have big shoes to fill,and just how big their feet are (themetaphor can only go so far) will play abig part in determining Saturdays win-ner.

Oregon quarterback DarronThomas has been solid,if unspectacu-lar, while leading the high-poweredOregon offense. He has been at thehelm of an offense that leads the nationin scoring,so he is clearly doing well.But it remains to be seen how Thomaswill perform if or when he is asked towin the game himself,rather than rely-ing on his stellar skill position players,especially LaMichael James and Ken-

jon Barner.Stanfords running game has han-

dled the loss of Toby Gerhart well sofar by using the rarely successful back-field-by-committee. It seems to beworking for the Cardinal, though, asStanford is averaging 223 rushing yardsper game,which trails only Oregon inthe Pac-10. Still, the Oregon defensewill provide quite a test,so the ability ofStepfan Taylor and Co. to step up willbe a major factor in Stanfords success.

The old adages will apply. One ofthe most widely used clichs in football

is that winners run and stop the run.Inbig games,this does seem to hold true,and both of these teams embody thatmantra.The Oregon spread rushing at-tack could very well be the best in thecountry, racking up over 320 yards pergame despite its best back,James,miss-ing the first game of the season.Stan-ford has greatly improved at stoppingthe run, ranked 34th in run defense.This ranking vastly underestimates theperformance of the defense, though,because most of those yards cameagainst backups after the games weremore or less decided.The Cardinal de-fense came up big against the best run-ning team it has seen so far, the 15th-ranked Wake Forest rushing offense,but Oregon is a whole different animal.

On the other side of the ball,Stan-fords collection of running backs hasadequately kept Andrew Luck fromhaving to shoulder the offensive loadalone. Stepfan Taylor, Tyler Gaffney,Jeremy Stewart, Usua Amanam,An-thony Wilkerson, Owen Marecic andLuck have combined to keep defensesoff-balance, and Stanford could needany or all of them in order to crack Ore-gons underrated defense.The Cardi-

nal does have the luxury of one of thebest offensive lines in the nation,but itwill be up against the best defensivefront it has seen all year.

Whos overrated? The statistics ofboth teams have been Madden-likethrough the first third of the season,butneither team has faced a legitimate testyet. Stanfords only road games havebeen against the then-hapless (andpre-Longhorn-slaying) UCLA Bruinsand the perennially overrated FightingIrish of Notre Dame. Neither team orstadium can compare to Oregon and

Autzen Stadium,so Stanford could bein for a rude awakening under thelights on Saturday.

On the other hand, Oregon couldbe ill-prepared for its toughest game ofthe season.Oregon breezed through itsfirst three games before getting itsmoneys worth against Arizona Statelast weekend. The Ducks were out-played through most of the game andgave up 600 yards of total offensemore than they had given up all season to a decent Arizona State offense.The saving grace for Oregons defensewas the ball-handling of Arizona State,because the Sun Devils seventurnovers cost them the game. Stan-fords offense, which has only fiveturnovers total in four games,is unlike-ly to be so generous with the football,so Oregon might have its hands fullwith the No. 4 scoring offense in thecountry.

Most likely, neither of these teamswill disappoint, and the game could

end up being a classic. The pollsterspredict it will be a close game, with thespread favoring Oregon by a touch-down

Who will win? Well, for that youllhave to wait for our predictions in Fri-days paper and for the game on Satur-day night.

Jacob Jaffe isnt going to tell you any-thing about whos injured this week.Start drawing the Harbaugh compar-isons at [email protected].

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Physical Punishment

Courtesy of The ObserverAgainst Notre Dame last weekend, Stanford employed a physical, brute-force attack to overpower the Irish, embodied by players fighting through tacklesand making hard hits on defense. The Cardinal will bring this bruising style to Eugene, Ore., on Saturday as it attempts to impose its will on Oregon.

Its the Pac-10 gameof the year...for

now,anyway.

away with a win.The Card will continue Pac-10

competition this weekend at MaplesPavilion, facing Oregon State on Fri-

day and Oregon on Saturday. Bothmatches will start at 7 p.m.

Contact Katherine Knox at [email protected].

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The Stanford Daily, Sept. 28, 2010