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By ALEXIS GARDUNOCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Stanfords Global Climate andEnergy Project (GCEP) has award-ed $8.4 million to seven Stanford re-search teams for developing high-efficiency energy technologies de-signed to reduce greenhouse gasemissions.
These awards support funda-mental research on a broad range ofpotentially game-changing energytechnologies, said GCEP directorSally Benson, according to the Stan-ford News Service.
The GCEP, an industry partner-ship supported by five firms
ExxonMobil, GE, Schlumberger,Toyota and DuPont and based at
Stanford, has in total supported 93research programs with $113 mil-lion in grants since the projects2002 launch.
The GCEP portfolio includes re-search grants in fields ranging fromphotovoltaic energy to carbon cap-ture.
While GCEPs grants are wellknown in the scientific community,they are only accessible for Stan-ford faculty. GCEP grants are ex-plicitly targeted at funding researchin its earliest stages, to counter the
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Faculty panel talksopportunities,
challenges of 2020
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Warsh discussesDodd-Frank reform
By NATASHA WEASERDESK EDITOR
Some will say its a bad thing and others will say its agood thing but too few will say Dodd-Frank risks the fol-lowing bad things, but there is an alternative, said KevinWarsh 92, former member of the Federal Reserve Boardof Governors, Wednesday.
Throughout his talk, Warsh emphasized what hedeemed the three fundamental pillars of the economy regulators, market discipline and capital standards andhow they should be applied to government legislation.
Warsh, currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institu-tion and a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business(GSB), spoke to an audience of approximately 70 people atPaul Brest Hall Wednesday evening, in a talk titled RealRegulatory Reform: A Practitioners Perspective.
The regulation in question, the Dodd-Frank Wall StreetReform and Consumer Protection Act, is a federal statutesigned into law by President Obama in July 2010 and in-tended to provide more extensive regulation of financialinstitutions following the recession in the late 2000s. TheDodd-Frank Act has come under extensive criticism for itscomplexity and, for some, excessive regulation.
Although Warsh joked that his experience practicing
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Speaker encourages dialoguewithin Jewish community
UNIVERSITY
Senator scrutinizesclaims by Judicial
Affairs co-chairStatements at meeting were misleading,created confusion among ASSU reps
By BRENDAN OBYRNEDEPUTY EDITOR
Michele Dauber, Stanford law professorand co-chair of the Judicial Affairs Committee,made misleading statements to an assembly ofstudent representatives last Wednesday re-garding the new Alternative Review Process(ARP) for sexual assault cases on campus.ASSU Senator Ben Laufer 12 said at the Sen-ates Tuesday meeting, at which Dauber wasnot present, that he felt she misled to the pointwhere she even actually might have lied to us.
Laufer later apologized for saying Dauber mayhave lied.The misleading statement came when
Dauber was discussing how sexual assaultcases handled by Judicial Affairs are civil cases,which she incorrectly said never require unan-imous agreement among jurors.
There is no such thing as a unanimous re-quirement in any civil case anywhere, ever,Dauber told the assembly last week. We justdont have unanimous requirements in civilcases.
According to a Department of Justice Sta-tistics Special Report on civil justice in statecourts from 2004, 27 states require unanimousconvictions in civil cases. Only 11 require athree-fourths majority and all others, exceptfor Montana, require a higher percentage ofagreement (Montana only requires two-thirdsagreement).
Dauber responded in an email to The Dailythat the 2004 report is accurate, but warned ofintricacies in the legal process, as differentcourts have different rules across states. Nosuch nuance or qualification was included inher original statement at the meeting.
In addition, Dauber said that by we, shewas referring to the State of California, whichshe felt was clear given Stanfords location.Laufer, Senator Alon Elhanan 14 and Stan-ford Daily Senate reporter Julia Enthoven 15all stated that no such clarification was con-veyed during that part of the meeting. All threestated that they were under the impression
Website inefficiencies causebattery drainage
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Research on the battery-crippling effect offree apps, watching video or playing games on asmartphone is well known and highly publicizedbut, according to researchers at Stanford andDeutsche Telekom, even browsing popular web-
sites can cause rapid battery drainage.Researchers suggest that the inefficiency
caused by bloated and redundant code canbe reduced by almost 30 percent without induc-ing a diminished user experience, and noted thatincreased website energy efficiency will becomeincreasingly important as smartphone usagecontinues to increase.
Stanford computer scientist Narendran Thi-agarajan and her research team measured theenergy usage of an Android phone when down-loading and rendering 25 popular websites over
a 3G connection. The team discovered that load-ing the mobile version of Wikipedia consumedover 1 percent of the phones battery, as did theApple homepage, which offers no mobile ver-sion for smartphone users.
The team repeated the measurements withlocally saved versions of tested websites re-moving the energy requirement posed by down-loading the page and rewrote the websitecoding to reduce energy usage by nearly a third.
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By AARON SEKHRICONTRIBUTING WRITER
Visions of Tomorrow was the theme at Wednesdayevenings Stanford 2020 Symposium, which includedseven 15-minute presentations by notable Stanford facul-ty on a host of subjects ranging from global democracy toa food revolution.
The event, financially supported by the ASSU, theSpeakers Bureau and the Vice Provost for Undergradu-ate Education, and co-sponsored by 18 other campusgroups, united seven faculty members of diverse special-ties to discuss fundamental future trends and problemsgleaned from their own research, and the multidiscipli-
nary approaches to their solutions.The event was kicked off by David Kennedy, professorof history, who spoke about the potential for a water short-age in the American West in the near future, which he at-tributed to climate change, land subsidence and a flawedplumbing infrastructure.
The tremendous success story that is the develop-ment of the American West was made possible by massiveirrigation, Kennedy said.
He warned that ongoing trends mean the future supplyof water for humans is far less certain than a generationago. Kennedy concluded by discussing the global scope ofthe problem and sharing his hope for the audience to worktoward a solution.
Larry Diamond 73 M.A. 78 Ph.D. 80, director of theCenter on Democracy, Development, and the Rule ofLaw (CDDRL), presented on the topic of a more demo-cratic world, and shared his optimism for this trend to be-come the norm.
This hope was compounded by his observation that
there exist many now functioning democracies despiterelatively modest economic growth, in contrast with theprevailing narrative that freedoms are closely connectedto economic performance.
You dont have to be a part of the middle class, he as-serted, to believe in dignity, or in human rights.
The clock is ticking for authoritarian regimes, Dia-mond concluded, asserting that 2020 will be a much freerand more democratic time than today.
Stan Christensen, a lecturer in civil and environmentalengineering and a partner at Arbor Advisors, proceededwith the topic of negotiations, their importance, theirunder-appreciation and common misconceptions on thesubject.
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Kevin Warsh, a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and afellow at the Hoover Institution, discussed financial reform Wednesday evening.Warsh expressed concern that Dodd-Frank is inadequate in regulating finance.
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Ben-Amiadvocates two-state solution
By MARWA FARAGMANAGING EDITOR
Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder andpresident of advocacy group JStreet, advocated for a two-state
solution to the Israeli-Palestinianconflict and open discussion on Is-rael within the American Jewishcommunity in a talk Wednesday atthe Black Community ServicesCenter.
Ben-Ami discussed three areasof challenge facing Americans onsubjects related to Israel the fu-ture of the Israeli state, Israel inU.S. politics and how the Ameri-can Jewish community can holdconversation on both subjects. Hecriticized Israels current path assimply not sustainable.
I start by acknowledging allthat Israel has accomplished, butwe have to be honest and ac-knowledge all of the challengesand the threats, Ben-Ami said.
He went on to detail the exter-nal and internal threats facing Is-rael, including a terrible neigh-borhood and the extremefringes of Israeli society.
These challenges, Ben-Amiposited, complicate the questionof supporting Israel today.
Back when I was growing upin the 60s and 70s, supporting Is-rael was a really straightforwardproposition: You simply stood
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with Israel, he said. Israel wasDavid, a small country, facingdown Goliath . . . Today the storyis far less simple.
The question of what it means
to be pro-Israel is far more com-plex and the heart of the challengetoday is the need to find a resolu-tion to the longstanding conflictwith the Palestinian people, headded.
Being pro-Israel today, as Ben-Ami argued and J Street advo-cates, means embracing a two-state solution to the Israel-Pales-tinian conflict, whereby a territo-rial compromise is the only waythat Israel can remain both a truedemocracy and retain its Jewishcharacter.
For those who care deeplyabout the future and security of anational homeland for the Jewishpeople in the land of Israel . . . theissue of a Palestinian state and the
establishment of an accepted bor-der between Israel and that stateis an existential necessity, Ben-Ami said.
While acknowledging that Is-raels own citizens are ultimatelyresponsible to make the choice tochange the countrys course, he as-signed a role to American Jews, aswell.
We [friends of Israel] have tohelp our cousins in Israel to recog-nize the need to change course be-fore its too late, Ben-Ami said.
Moving to the subject of Israelwithin American politics, Ben-Ami held that the United Statesmust act as mediator between Is-rael and the Palestinians, compar-ing the relationship between the
latter two parties to a bad mar-riage and arguing against directnegotiations.
This conflict is like a bad mar-riage, in which a couple needs a di-vorce and they need to come toterms on how to separate, hesaid. In my experience, you dontlock an angry husband and angrywife into a room by themselvesand ask them to divide up their as-sets . . . You need a mediator.
Thats the role that the U.S.and the international community,perhaps through the Quartet orsome new entity need to play, hesaid, adding that the conflict is anAmerican national security in-terest.
Ben-Ami outlined the parame-
ters for a solution that will formthe framework for a deal if there
ever will be a deal. These includedthe establishment of two statesbased on pre-1967 lines with landswaps, a capital for both states inJerusalem with an international-ized Holy Basin, a demilitarizedPalestinian state with an interna-tional presence on the borders andcompensation rather than right ofreturn for Palestinian refugees.
Pro-Israel advocacy in this
country needs to support and pro-mote strong presidential actionsnow, to put these ideas forwardand to press both parties to reachan agreement before its too late,he said.
Ben-Ami then touched on therules that govern the conversa-tion about Israel within the Amer-ican Jewish community, particu-larly in regards to toeing the linebetween criticism of Israeli gov-ernment policies and the de-le-gitimization of the state of Israelitself.
I would argue that it isnt crit-icism of Israeli policy that threat-ens the health of the state of Is-rael, Ben-Ami said. It is the poli-cies of Israels present govern-ment that threaten its future.
To this end, he called for open
and respectful discussion withinthe American Jewish community.
To the extent that any of thedoors of the Jewish communityare barred . . . to those who ques-tion conventional wisdom on Is-rael, I think that those who aredoing the barring within theAmerican Jewish establishmentare putting the future of this com-munity at risk, he said.
Audience member SerenaEisenberg, Hillel executive direc-tor, inquired about the boundariesof the conversation J Street hopesto engender.
I dont like the phrase one statesolution . . . I refer to it as [a] onestate nightmare, Ben Ami said.
Other audience membersposed questions on the polariza-tion of the American Jewish com-munity and the right of Americansto comment on Israeli domesticpolitics.
The event kicked off the newStanford chapter of J Street U, anational student-driven networkof activists providing an alterna-tive approach to Israel advocacy.
Contact Marwa Farag at [email protected].
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Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder and president of advocacy group J Street,spoke Wednesday at the Black Community Services Center on the futureof Israel and United States policy toward the Middle Eastern state.
Dauber was speaking generallyabout the United States.
The ARP represents a changein the Judicial Affairs Commit-tees procedure regarding trials
of students who are accused ofsexual assault, sexual violence,relationship violence and stalk-ing.
Under the new ARP, three ofthe four reviewers would be re-quired to agree in order to decidea students case, which is consis-tent with current University poli-cy. The Senate and Graduate Stu-dent Council (GSC) are current-ly deliberating whether to ap-prove the pilot program ARP.
Dauber commented on TheDaily website, accusing the publi-cation of publishing false accusa-tions against faculty membersafter The Daily included Laufersquote in a Wednesday article(Senate debates use of leftover
funds, April 25). Dauber wrote inthe comments that the informa-tion she gave the Senate andGraduate Student Council wasentirely correct.
A 2004 report from the Amer-ican Bar Association states that,
In civil cases, jury decisionsshould be unanimous whereverfeasible. A less-than-unanimousdecision should be accepted onlyafter jurors have deliberated for areasonable period of time and ifconcurred in by at least five-sixthsof the jurors.
The report qualifies that a less-er number of jurors is acceptableif agreed upon by both parties.
Laufer, Elhanan and En-thoven all said that the overallmessage of Daubers commentswas that nowhere in the UnitedStates are civil cases required tobe decided by unanimous vote.
It is unclear whether the ARPseeks to conform to Federal orCalifornia guidelines or employsa hybrid of the two. The recom-mendation to lower the standardof proof to preponderance of evi-dence came from the U.S. Depart-ment of Education Office of CivilRights, yet federal guidelines forcivil jury cases require unanimousagreement.
In California a simple three-fourths majority is required,though juries on California civil
cases consist of 12 jurors, while Ju-dicial Affairs currently uses fourjurors. No state currently usesfour jurors for civil court cases.
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Erica Castello 12 from the Spoken Word Collective read her poem, Genius, which describes the ex-perience of a victim of sexual assault. One line of the poem reads, Rape is an active word turned pas-sive,describing the transition of the mental state of the victim, who initially feels rage against her attack-er and then begins to question the blame of the assault, wondering if she too is culpable.
Thats one of the big steps, is letting a victim define their own experience, said Mona Thompson 13,publicity coordinator for the Womens Community Center. Understanding that somebody did somethingto you that was wrong.
Castellos performance was part of Take Back the Night, a national and international vigil that takes placeannually in protest of sexual assault and in support of sexual assault victims. Stanfords vigil at theWomens Community Center on April 25 was organized by the Peer Health Educator (PHE) program.
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Palestinian activist Fadi Quran 10 seeks nonviolent path tofuture in Middle East
By STEPHEN COBBE
At its core, quantumphysics is a science ofprobabilities. Whendealing with particle un-certainties and ambigu-
ous dualities, a calculated likelihoodis the closest thing to certainty. FadiQuran 10 believes there is a lessonin this concept that can be applied tohis work in social activism.
The paths that particles take
have multiple histories, each ofwhich you must add together inorder to predict the probabilities ofwhere the particles may land,Quran said. In much the same way,as a social activist, every time I tryand plan a strategy in advance, I takeall the possible scenarios on thatpath and add them up to approxi-mate what needs to be done toachieve the most successful result.
Quran, 24, has bachelors de-grees in both physics and interna-tional relations from Stanford. Heis a leading figure in the burgeoningPalestinian youth movement com-mitted to achieving freedom, jus-tice and dignity for the Palestinianpeople. The movement, accordingto Quran, is not associated with any
political factions, and categoricallyrejects the use of violence to achieveits goals.
Growing up in Ramallah in theWest Bank, Quran witnessed first-hand the destructiveness brought onby violent protest during the SecondPalestinian Intifada, which began in2000.
Your whole worldviewchanges, Quran said, as he recalledbullets flying through his sistersbedroom.
The devastation of the uprisingimpressed upon him a feeling of re-sponsibility for changing the statusquo in the Occupied Territories.
In recent months, Quran and hismovement have risen greatly inprominence, receiving coveragefrom news organizations such as TheWashington Post, Time Magazineand Al Jazeera. The FreedomRides the group undertook last No-vember received especially strongmedia attention. Inspired by thefreedom riders of the 1960s civilrights movement who defiantly rodeon segregated buses through the JimCrow South, Quran and fellow ac-tivists boarded an Israeli commuterbus in the West Bank, hoping to endwhat they see as a discriminatorysystem.
Shortly after the bus departedfor Jerusalem however, it wasstopped and boarded by Israeli po-lice. All six of the activists were ar-rested for trying to enter Jerusalem
without the proper permits.Last February at a protest in He-
bron, Quran was again detained byIsraeli authorities. This time, it wason charges of obstructing a law en-forcement officer, assault and resist-ing arrest. During the incident,Quran was pepper-sprayed by po-lice. Though he was released fivedays later on bail for lack of defini-tive evidence, Quran remains underinvestigation and is due for ques-tioning again on May 3, as The Daily
reported.Being in prison had a profound
effect on Quran. He spent his firsttwo days in solitary confinement.
When they [Israeli securityforces] brought me in, I couldnt seeanything because of the pepperspray the only thing open was myminds eye, Quran recounted.
The pain and isolation forcedQuran to evaluate his priorities.
During that time, I thoughtabout the world I wanted to see, thelegacy I wanted to leave behind, hesaid. I was in pain and I was afraidfor the first hour or two, but it wasone of the most eye-opening experi-ences of my life.
Qurans resilience comes from anumber of sources. As a teenager, hewas moved by books about NelsonMandela and Martin Luther King,Jr., two activists who also spent time
in prison. The Palestinian communi-ty, too, inspired young Quran.
As a 10-year-old boy, he wit-nessed the selflessness of those whorisked their lives to bring food to theneedy and to assist the elderly whocouldnt leave their homes.
Usually when we think of men-torship, we think of individuals here in Palestine, the whole commu-nity acts organically to grow andmentor young men and women, hesaid.
But Qurans greatest source ofinspiration continues to be his moth-er and grandmothers.
One of the things that Ivelearned through my life experienceis that powerful women who workhard, who nurture and care for theirfamily, friends and community, arethe key to a successful society and togreat individuals, he said. They arethe greatest individuals.
Quran would also develop aclose connection with the faculty
and students at Stanford after hisarrival in 2006. While he was apply-ing to colleges, Quran hoped to pur-sue his interests in physics whilestudying a subject that could helphim change the situation in Pales-tine. After consulting with friendsand teachers, he discovered thatStanford was a place where hecould do both.
Life in California, however, wasvastly different from the one Quranhad in Palestine.
I remember days during themonth-long curfews when I had tohelp my family and neighbors getbread, Quran said. The dichotomyof those experiences and his life atStanford, a land of milk and honey,was an important motivational tool.
Seeing how challenging life ac-tually is for some people gives yousomething to prepare for, to work
toward, he said.Through classes and on-campus
activism, Quran quickly developedhis argumentative skills and ce-mented his place in the Stanfordcommunity.
One of the great things aboutStanford is that you can debate is-sues without the sense of fear thatmight be created at other places,Quran said.
As a freshman, Quran becamean active participant in the debate
over whether Stanford should di-vest from companies allegedly as-sociated with the Israeli militaryoccupation of the West Bank. Tak-ing a strong stance on this contro-versial issue ensured his position atthe center of numerous campus de-bates. According to faculty mem-bers and peers, he always conduct-ed himself with restraint, open-mindedness and tolerance.
Fadi [Quran] has an incrediblecapacity to empathize with the per-
spectives of others, said AllenWeiner, senior lecturer in law, whotaught a conflict resolution semi-nar in which Quran was a student.Weiner remembers moderating adebate in one of his classes whenQuran came under substantialpressure from students on the pro-Israel side of the argument.
What was really impressiveabout Fadi was how committed hewas to finding areas of commonground and mutual understanding,while still being very staunch in hisdefense of the interests of his com-munity, Weiner said.
Joe Gettinger 11, who be-friended Quran at Stanford, ad-mired Qurans insistence on un-derstanding the other perspectiveon the divestment issue, but saidhe believes the most telling aspectof Qurans character was his per-sonal efforts to bridge the gap be-tween communities.
I remember he would come toShabbat dinner to get to know peo-ple and to learn about their per-spective, Gettinger said. That re-ally said a lot because there wasvery little to gain politically fromsuch a move, it was really about get-ting to know the community. Thatswhat makes Fadi so special.
Being at Stanford also taughtQuran important lessons in inno-vation and entrepreneurship thathe would later apply to his start-upin alternative energy, Tayara Ener-
gy. Running the business, which islocated in the West Bank, requiresQuran to tap into his interdiscipli-nary education, making use of hisskills as both a community organiz-er and a scientist. Quran sees thestart-up as one step toward fulfill-ing the goal of Palestinian self-suf-ficiency.
Currently, Tayara Energysmajor projects include designing ahigh altitude wind generator toprovide electricity to rural com-munities, setting up programs totrain young people in proper recy-cling procedures to benefit refugeecamps and integrating affordablesolar panels into more constructionprojects in the Middle East.
When Quran is not participating
in protests or running his company,he studies constitutional law andrevolutions at Birzeit University inRamallah, where he is pursuing hismasters degree. Balancing ac-tivism, entrepreneurship and aca-demics can often present a heavyload.
The way Quran sees it, though,it is not so much a question of bal-ancing as it is a question of integra-tion.
A lot of the time at Stanfordyoure taught to make compart-ments . . . something Ive learned isthat actually in most cases, I can in-tegrate everything together
through an interdisciplinary ap-proach, Quran said.
But that doesnt mean life isntfull of stress for Quran. The day be-fore his interview with The Daily, afriend of Qurans was arrested inBahrain. Quran spent an anxiousnight worrying about the fate of hisfriend and writing a paper due thenext day.
His community, he says, has be-come accustomed to arrests.
There is always a sense of fearand anxiousness when a familymember or friend is arrested, hesaid. Sometimes there is a fleetingsense of despair, but it is not as rawas the first time was.
Regarding the future, Quran iscautiously optimistic, not only forthe Palestinians, but for the wholeregion. All around him, he said, hesees a new generation of MiddleEastern youth focused on socialand business entrepreneurship. Healso sees young Arab academics inunprecedented numbers pursuingscience and truth.
All this, he believes, points to-ward a tipping point in the near fu-ture in which acts of nonviolencegenerate more acts of nonviolenceuntil the Palestinian youth move-ment and others like it become full-fledged nonviolentuprisings.
Then, we will achieve peace, hesaid.
Contact Stephen Cobbe at [email protected].
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Taking back the night
Courtesy of Fadi QuranInspired by the freedom riders of the 1960s civil rights movement whorode on segregated buses throughout the Jim Crow South, Quran, hold-ing a sign stating We shall overcome boarded Israeli buses along withfellow activists in the West Bank last November. The group was arrested.
Courtesy of Fadi Quran
Growing up in Ramallah duringthe Second Intifada inspiredQuran to change the status quo.
After graduating from Stanford, he
returned home to lead a nonvio-lent youth resistance movement.
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Admit Weekend 2012 startstoday, and that means itsonly a matter of hours be-
fore eager ProFros descend upon
campus with their parents in tow.As much as we current studentslike to complain and moan aboutAdmit Weekend, we all remem-ber how excited we were when itwas our turn to come to campusfor the first time as an admittedstudent. Were glad its your turn,Class of 2016, so here are a fewtips to make sure you get the mostout of your Admit Weekend expe-rience:
1. Actively seek out the peopleand student groups you are inter-ested in.
Chances are you have spentmany years of your life honingsome great skill or talent. Some ofyou are fantastic musicians, others
dancers and still others passionatecommunity service project lead-ers. Others will want to leave theirhigh school pursuits behind andpursue new interests in college.Whatever it is, youre the only onewho knows what youre truly in-terested in, so use Admit Week-end to try to see what your op-tions would be for pursuing yourinterests here at Stanford. Hear-ing about the hundreds of clubsthat Stanford has is great, but thatstatistic doesnt mean anything ifyou dont know which clubs arerelevant to you. Use Fridays ac-tivities fair to actually put yourselfin touch with the people you needto know. After all, not only arethey the ones that can help get
you involved when you arrive onthe Farm in the fall, but theresalso a good chance that you can
make a friend or two since youreinterested in the same things. Andtrust me, speaking as the captainof a dance team here on campus, I
can tell you that were as (if notmore) excited as you when youwant to talk to us about joiningour student group, so theres noneed to hesitate before introduc-ing yourself.
2. Befriend your fellow ProFros.Im serious do it. That hav-
ing been said, be forewarned:Admit Weekend is awkward.Youre a bunch of high school sen-iors from across the world, stuckon a college campus together for aweekend. You all have somethingin common after all, you all didget into Stanford but you donthave enough time to really get toknow one other. Despite all of theawkwardness, you would be best
served finding a few ProFros thatyou really get along with and ex-changing numbers or adding eachother on Facebook. Heres why:At some point this summer,everyone in your life back homewill get really tired of hearing youtalk about Stanford. They dontknow what the difference be-tween Wilbur and Stern is, soknowing what dorm you got as-signed to doesnt meant much tothem. When this starts to happento you, youll be glad you awk-wardly exchanged numbers withthe girl who sat next to you at theDance Expo because youll havesomeone to text who will shareyour enthusiasm. And yes, thisdoes actually happen. Im still
friends with three of the people Imet at the Dance Expo duringAdmit Weekend 2010.
3. Get Stanford swag!Stanford is not one of those
campuses where people act liketheyre too cool to wear anything
that says their schools name on it;were the total opposite. I knowpeople who would plaster them-selves in Stanford bumper stickersif they could. If you know yourecoming here, then grab some Car-dinal and wear it with pride. Wereexcited to have you, so welcome tothe Stanford family!
4. Dont be afraid if Stanforddoesnt seem like the place for you.
Everyone is going to spend allweekend telling you that Stanfordis paradise, and its absolutelyokay to disagree with that state-ment. I (obviously) love Stanford,and coming to Admit Weekendshowed me that it was the placefor me. Still, theres a chance that
you may not feel that way afterheading home on Sunday. Dontfeel pressured to like Stanford justbecause its Stanford. Of course,wed be thrilled to have you (thatswhy you got in), but if you feel likeyou cant see yourself calling thisplace home for the next four years,its okay. Im sure you have tons ofother amazing options and oppor-tunities available to you, and Iwish you the best of luck whereverit is you do end up!
Now excuse me while I go joinin on setting up for this weekendsfestivities. Let Admit Weekend2012 begin!
Speaking of shameless recruiting,Ravali would love to meet any
ProFros interested in Bollywoodfusion dance! Feel free to email herat [email protected]
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Visions of Tomorrow:Academia still a boys club
OP-ED
Earlier this week, I received aFacebook invitation toStanford 2020: Visions of
Tomorrow. It looked awesome:
Come see 7 all-star professorstalk about their research, why itmatters, and what the world willlook like in 2020. I scanned thelist of faculty with enthusiasm,noting how many of the profes-sors I have admired or heardfriends rave about.
But as I reached the end of thelist, my enthusiasm quickly turnedto confusion, then disgust. Of theseven faculty members who pre-sented at Wednesday nights sym-posium, exactly zero of them werewomen.
This level of gender disparity isunacceptable. And its particular-ly problematic for an event thatexplicitly looks toward the future.At last years symposium, there
were two women; this year thereare none. Maybe its just me, but inthe future Id like to see more gen-der equality, not less.
The more I thought about it,the more outrageous the discrep-ancy seemed. On Wednesday, Iposted a sarcastic comment to theevent page: Visions of Tomor-row: Because in the future, therewill be no female faculty. AdamAdler 12, who is listed as an eventcreator on the Facebook page,commented in response: Be-cause in the present, female facul-ty do not respond to email re-quests. (He included a winkysmiley face, too.)
Its absurd and shameful thatthe nearly twenty groups that co-sponsored the event could notmuster up even a single female
faculty member to speak. I knowfrom experience that planning ac-ademic events is a tricky business.The timeline of reaching out tofaculty and hearing back abouttheir availability can be stressful,especially if you seek a balanceddiversity of departments, genders,races and backgrounds.
But that is not an adequate ex-planation for why there are nowomen on this panel. When peo-ple agree to organize an event likethis, they are implicitly agreeing tothe difficulties that such a tasknecessarily entails. Frankly, itdoesnt matter to me if the eventsorganizers had to email fifty fe-male faculty members to securethree or four for this event. The
planning process is invisible to theaudience. The only thing we see isthe end result, for which the or-ganizers took responsibility. Sim-ply put, I expect more and Imnot the only one. (It took the staffof the Womens Community Cen-ter, where I work, just a few hoursto come up with seventeen all-starfemale professors who wouldhave been a great fit for this event.We can help with brainstormingnext time.)
Its clear that event organizersgave significant consideration tosecuring faculty from diverse dis-ciplines, including political sci-ence, religious studies, mathemat-
ics, and medicine. Why isnt gen-der considered an important di-versity concern?
It should be. Our cultures con-sistent failure to position womenas intellectual leaders contributesto stereotype threat, which im-pedes womens leadership aspira-tions and reinforces stereotypicbeliefs that men are naturallymore fit for the academy thanwomen.
Women comprise nearly 50percent of Stanfords undergrad-uate population; nation-wide, thatfigure is close to 60 percent. But asone moves into the upper eche-lons of academia, that parity dis-
appears. At Stanford, women are37 percent of graduate students,and a truly bleak 26 percent offaculty members. (So if the eventorganizers had passively repre-sented the statistical reality ofgender balance at Stanford notdeliberately provided a moreequal vision, perish the thought they would have had one ortwo women present.)
I would protest the lack of fe-male faculty at an event like thisno matter which university hostedit, but the absence is even moreappalling because were not at
just any university. The Stanfordcommunity prides itself on being
a leading institution. We need tobe setting the standard for genderequity in academia, just as we dofor teaching and research. Our de-partments have their pick of thetop scholars in every field. Theresno excuse for the exclusion ofwomen from events like this one;female academics of exceptionalrenown are all around us.
My vision of tomorrow in-cludes equal numbers of womenin leadership positions and at de-cision-making tables. Theresnothing forward-thinking aboutan old-fashioned boys club.
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Every once in a while, I like togo for a run on the beach.One of my favorite spots
to hit the sand is San GregorioState Beach it lies just acrossthe Santa Cruz range, is invari-ably quiet early on weekdaymornings and offers a goodstretch of hard-packed sandalong a southern route towardPomponio State Beach.
At least, when the tide is out.When I first started frequent-
ing San Gregorio, I never worriedabout the position of the moon.Absent a storm surge, no matterwhether the tide was low or high,I could comfortably make my wayaround all the cliffs and head-lands. But after a few winterstorms, I found this was no longertrue: Fierce waves had reshapedthe coastline, piling up widebeaches at some points, but leav-ing bare rock in others. Now, if Idont time my runs right, Ill findmyself knee-deep in ocean back-wash.
Although cross-checking withtide charts cuts back on my impul-sive beach trips, Ive found I reallyenjoy the ever-changing coastline.Unlike every other distance routeIve carved out for myself here inCalifornia, the beach run holds
something new for me every time.Of course, most of us partic-ularly those who own propertyalong the coastline prefer a bitmore stability in our lives. Afterall, its one thing to have an extrasand mound to sprint up, and an-other thing to have your house fallinto the ocean.
Thats the worry of thousandsof homeowners along both theEast and West coasts of the Unit-ed States.
California in particular is theposter child for coastal erosiondrama. The sea cliffs that line theSan Francisco peninsula havegiven way before; its not hard tofind the remnants of foundationsalong coastal trails. The bluffs
overlooking the shoreline arethemselves marked by warningsto stay back from the disintegrat-ing edge.
Elsewhere in the state, home-owners prefer an active response.One third of Southern Califor-nias coastline has been backed bysome human barrier, be it a care-fully designed sea wall or a messypile of concrete and boulders in-tended to buttress the coastallandscape.
But planting solid structures infront of a dynamic sea comes withconsequences. The walls andboulders may hold their ground,but deflected water scours awaysand and gravel with an evenfiercer intensity than unobstruct-
ed waves. In the end, while the ab-solute line drawn by man mayhold, the sand on the seaward side
will disappear.Those of us who dont own
clifftop dwellings and occa-sionally enjoy the sandy beachesbelow them would probablyprefer to let nature take itscourse. Standing back would cer-tainly save us the hundreds ofmillions of taxpayer dollarsspent maintaining shorelines.And in a world arguably over-managed by human desires, itwould be nice to leave somethingto Mother Nature.
Unfortunately, its not just per-sonal property thats on the line.
San Francisco knows this alltoo well as it looks west at ashrinking Ocean Beach. A majortransportation artery and a majorsewage line run a few meters in-shore from the present-day meanhigh-tide line. The economic bal-ance sheet gets a lot more compli-cated when you weigh the cost ofrelocating infrastructure againstcoastal reinforcements.
Add in sea level rise and youhave an urban planners worstnightmare.
As humanity adds carbondioxide to the atmosphere, wewarm not only the air, but also thesea. Warmer water expands, andwarmer ice melts. Together, theseeffects lead to a rise in sea level.
Conservative models project ahalf-meter (roughly twenty inch-es, or the height difference be-tween Shaquille ONeal and Mug-gsy Bogues) average increase insea surface height by the end ofthe century. San Francisco is antic-ipating a 14-inch rise by 2050.
A couple of feet may not seemlike much until you consider howmany people are perched along
the worlds coastlines. Six hun-dred million people face directdisplacement by flooding; manymore will lose food supplies assaltwater intrudes into low-lyingsoil. Add changing weather pat-terns and amped up storms to themix, and whole cities could be in-undated by storm surges.
In San Francisco andaround the country we havethe luxury of combating globalchange. Collectively, we can af-ford to build, bulldoze and bludg-eon our shores into a semblanceof stability. But Im not so sure Idlike to live in that concretefortress. Following the sand inlandis much more my cup of tea.
Holly welcomes questions, com-ments, and running buddies at [email protected].
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law extends only to a 14-week in-ternship stint at a law firm, he as-serted, my legal training and myexposure to law made me a bet-ter regulator.
I would never claim to be anexpert, but I learned a lot fromobserving the system as a regula-tor and policymaker, he added.
Warsh criticized, however, thebias toward regulation as a reme-dy for the post-recession econo-my, stating that the other twopillars have not receivedenough attention and invest-ment. He called the notion thatwith more regulators, with morefunding and more power, badthings wont happen an over-simplistic and erroneous one.
These three pillars need tobe complementary, he said. Iam worried that market disci-pline and capital standards arebeing relegated instead of re-vived.
The risk of Dodd-Frank isthat we end up with several oli-gopolistic systems on top of thefinancial center that will make itincreasingly difficult for smaller
regional banks to function, headded.While Warsh expressed gen-
eral support for reform in thebanking system, he expressedconcern that at the core . . .[the] Dodd-Frank act will be noequal to the task.
He also emphasized thatlooking toward other countriesfor examples of successful re-forms of the banking sector isntan option, due to sustained andextensive differences in bankingsystems between nations.
Criticizing the concept of toobig to fail as static, Warsh advo-cated for a system in which anearly assessment of financialfirms and vibrant competitionamong them is the best way toavoid another financial crisi s.
The largest firms must tellregulators [that] their failureswill not endanger the economy,he said. If they cant pass this
simple test then they should bediminished.Prior to his 2006 to 2011 term
on the Federal Reserve Board ofGovernors, Warsh served from2002 to 2006 as special assistantto the president for economic pol-icy and executive secretary of theWhite House National EconomicCouncil. He previously worked atMorgan Stanley as vice presidentand executive director.
Contact Natasha Weaser at [email protected].
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lack of resources that can often de-feat the jump from theory to large-scale applications.
GCEP has gained internation-al recognition for supporting re-search in fundamental and appliedresearch related to energy and theenvironment, wrote JenniferDionne, professor of materials sci-ence and engineering and one ofthe grants lead investigators, in anemail to The Daily.
Dionnes team will investigatemethods of making a new kind ofelectrode that converts photons
from low-energy to high-energystates. Such advances would makephotovoltaic cells more efficientand maximize the potential for har-vesting solar energy.
Our proposal is fundamental,in that we are exploring new waysof utilizing spectral regimes of thesolar spectrum that are wasted withconventional photovoltaic andphoto catalytic technologies,Dionne wrote.
Another team of researcherswill also work to develop new ma-terials for energy conversion appli-cations, in this case by attempting toidentify new thermally and chemi-cally stable nano-materials that ef-ficiently convert heat into electrici-ty. Such materials could be used to
maximize energy efficiency inpower plants.
By doing that we think we candouble the efficiency of solar ther-mal power plants, and reduce thecost of the electricity produced, be-cause we believe that the addition-al energy converter we could puton top of the existing system would
not be very expensive, said Igor
Bargatin, an engineering postdoc-toral scholar.While these research projects
may be geared toward future in-dustrial application, researchersemphasized that technologies de-veloped may also find use in a resi-dential context.
We would like to have the abil-ity to do this in the home at a small-er scale, Bargatin said. You canhave a system that does not vibrate,does not produce noise, does notrequire maintenance if we canfabricate it efficiently [for] cheapthen its a cheap application.
The research team is currentlyworking on validating its theory,but plans on then modifying sam-ples in order to begin gathering
data for the project. Bargatin calledthree years a reasonable time-frame for developing useful appli-cations from the current conceptu-al stage.
While GCEP initially struggledto get corporate sponsors on board,Richard Sassoon, GCEPs manag-ing director, emphasized the symbi-otic nature of the current relation-ship.
Its a big, large corporationlooking in the long-term; it doesneed to see what is coming in thepipeline, and what are the newtrends that could be taking place,Sassoon said, referring to Exxon-Mobils initial sponsorship and sub-sequent attempts to bring otherfirms to GCEP.
GCEP provides a startingpoint for that type of research,Sassoon added. Its an involveddiscussion on both sides. In the end,were happy that GCEP is aroundand doing the work that its doing.
Contact Alexis Garduno at [email protected].
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Most of the people in thisroom will be doing jobs in 10 yearsthat do not exist today, he argued,asserting that negotiation will becritical to success in new areas.
Managing debates is negotiation,and the process can be more im-portant than the potential solu-tions put forward.
Christensen asserted that a suc-cessful negotiation entails aframework to negotiate, prepara-tion, a problem-solving rubricbased on fairness and a focus onthe long term.
Professor Emeritus of Reli-gious Studies and PhilosophyThomas Sheehan delivered histalk on modern scholarship ofJesus of Nazareth, as a figure inhistory as contrasted with a figureof faith. Sheehan said that Jesusprogression from prophet to di-vine figure took over sevendecades, creating a paradigm
shift in the study of Christianity.Christopher Gardner, directorof nutrition studies at the Preven-tion Research Center discussed afood revolution as the solutionto the enormous problem offeeding everyone on the planet,emphasizing Stanfords uniqueposition to attack the problem.
Gardner described his involve-ment in Stanfords first Food Sum-mit in 2010, where he drew expert-ise from each of the Universitysseven schools to arrive at the con-cept of a systems approach tofood, wherein large, individual
actors can be made more aware oftheir food decisions.
Next came Ravi Vakil, profes-sor of mathematics, who spoke ofStanfords pedagogic philosophyas a quality research and teachinginstitution, and the implication ofthis big bet for the challenges wewill face in the future.
The number of different ex-ceptional faculties we have here is
not accidental. It is intentional toour mission to provide an educa-tion which is both broad anddeep, Vakil said, arguing thatthose characteristics are not intension.
The University is for thosestudents who create for them-selves, and not who want to begiven, he added.
When confronted with thechoice of broad versus deep, re-search versus teaching, pure ver-sus applied, or basic research ver-sus solving large problems, weshould immediately, instinctively,and aggressively reply, all of theabove, no matter how challeng-ing, Vakil said.
Paul Wise, professor in child
health, concluded the symposiumwith a discussion of the unneces-sary dilemmas individuals facewhen they see the collision of theirtechnical learning against the real-ity of the undeveloped world.
This acute existential disori-entation, as I call it, is unfounded .. . and I hope that I am looking atindividuals who take this dualstruggle for efficacy and justice asalways inextricably linked, Wisesaid.
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Andrew LuckProjected Round 1st
Scouts take The skinny Is one of the safest, surefire QB selections in draft history with few discernible The Colts have already announced theyll take Luck with the first overall pick, solidifyingblemishes and has slam-dunk potential in a rhythm offense. what weve known for over two years now Luck is the best college quarterback prospect to(Pro Football Weekly) enter the draft since Peyton Manning, the man hell be replacing in Indy.
STANFORD FOOTBALL
The NFL draft begins today at 5 p.m. and will continue through Sunday.
The Daily breaks down the prospects for Stanfords top graduating players hoping to have their names called this weekend.
David DeCastroProjected Round 1st
Scouts take The skinny Big, physical, nasty, strong technician with distinction as the best pulling guard in Just about everybody sees DeCastro as the second-best offensive lineman in this years draftthis years draft class. Is a proven, perennial Pro Bowl-caliber plug-and-play starter class behind USCs Matt Kalil. Wont slip past the 20th pick, and is likely to be takenwith no glaring deficiencies in his game. by the Chiefs (11th pick), Cardinals (13th) or Cowboys (14th).(Pro Football Weekly)
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Jonathan MartinProjected Round 1st
Scouts take The skinny
Hes got the NFL size, length and overall athletic skill set. However, he's not a natural Martin didnt play exceptionally well this year and had a miserable pro day a few weeks ago,anchor player and doesnt strike me as a guy who is ever going to be real physical at the so his stock has fallen from the beginning of the year, when he was expected to be a top-10next level. Looks like a finesse tackle who will get over-drafted because of athletic talent. pick. However, hes still a late-first-round talent, and might end up with the Browns (22nd(National Football Post) pick), Texans (26th) or Giants (32nd).
Coby FleenerProjected Round 1st
Scouts take The skinny An impressive pass catcher who can win both down the field and underneath versus man Fleeners stock has gone through the roof lately, with a fantastic pro day and the perform-coverage. Has the frame and flexibility to develop into a solid blocker as well and looks ance of big tight ends like Rob Gronkowski and Vernon Davis boosting his value. Fleenerlike a future starting-caliber NFL tight end. likely wont slip past the 49ers (30th pick), but start looking for his name to pop up when(National Football Post) the Steelers, Broncos and Texans hit the board.
Delano Howell
Projected Round 7th or Free agentScouts take The skinny Reads and reacts quickly, gets early jumps on the football and puts himself around the Howell has had a few injury issues and isnt that big, thus hampering his value, but his big-the receiver, but always has to play man instead of ball because of lacking range. Isnt hit ability, secure tackling and decent coverage skills mean hell be a backup safety andafraid to throw his body around. However is too stiff to play in space at the next level special teams starter in the NFL.and make plays on the football. (National Football Post)
Michael ThomasProjected Round Undrafted free agent
Scouts take The skinny Thomas has been reliable the past two seasons at Stanford yet lacks the measurables Thomas doesnt really have a position at the next level (some have even theorized thatto be anything other than a backup in the NFL. He offers potential in a zone system at hell play cornerback, despite his struggles to cover anyone in man-to-man) but hescornerback or safety and comes with a special teams mentality. still been turning the eyes of people with his consistent play and minimal injury history. Has(Sports Illustrated) worked out for the 49ers, Patriots, Texans and Chiefs.
Matt MasifiloProjected Round 6th-7th
Scouts take The skinny Has a terrific makeup that translates to consistent on-field effort. Low-voltage athletic Masifilo wasnt much of a factor on many teams draft boards, but his solid pro dayability restricts his ceiling, however. Size, smarts and toughness might fit best with a showing, where he bench-pressed 225 pounds a colossal 38 times, showed he has theteam employing a hybrid scheme in which he could provide depth at multiple spots. strength to at least compete for a spot along the trenches in the NFL.(Pro Football Weekly)
Chris OwusuProjected Round 6th-7th
Scouts take The skinny Well-built, athletic, competitive, mentally tough secondary receiver and kickoff returner Owusus troubles with concussions are well-documented, and that unfortunately hamperswho flashes playmaking ability when healthy but has been physically battered. Long- his value; some teams have even taken him off their draft boards because of his health
term durability could affect draft standing and potentially cut short pro career. issues. His ability to play special teams will boost his status and ultimately be the differ-(Pro Football Weekly) ence-maker that induces one team to take him.
Johnson BademosiProjected Round 7th or Free agent
Scouts take The skinny Perhaps the most intriguing prospect at Stanfords Pro Day, clocked at a startling 4.35 Bademosi, who projects as a safety at the next level, had a startlingly good pro day that puton his first 40 attempt and also demonstrated incredible explosiveness in the vertical and him on several teams radars. He worked out for the 49ers recently, and apparently hasbroad jump. Graded by some clubs as a corner and others as a developmental free safety received some interest from the Patriots and Chiefs.prospect, Bademosi may have earned a draft selection at Pro Day. (NFLDraftScout.com)
Jeremy StewartProjected Round Undrafted free agent
Scouts take The skinny Slashing runner with one-cut style. Average speed. Above-average power. Effective in While Stewart is a short-yardage stud, he was so infrequently used at running back over theshort yardage. Also makes good special teams decisions. Good hands. Long injury last few years that its hard to see him sticking on an NFL roster as just a running back. Thathistory and not used often due to injuries in 2009 and 2010. means his best bet at the next level is to make the practice squad or play special teams.(Dynasty Draftnik)
Griff WhalenProjected round Undrafted free agent
Scouts take The skinny Shows terrific quickness in and out of his breaks. Consistent route-running was mentioned Whalen has put some nice things on film, but his measurables are all going to leave himby more than one scout attending his Pro Day workout as similar to the sharp cutting ability lacking when hes in a draft with guys like Justin Blackmon and Michael Floyd. But remember,that helped 2011 undrafted free agent Doug Baldwin emerge as the Seahawks' leading the player he compares most favorably to Wes Welker was undrafted, too.receiver as a rookie. (NFLdraftscout.com)
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By DANIEL E. LUPINSTAFF WRITER
The second-seeded Stanfordmens volleyball team is in Los An-geles tonight for the semifinals ofthe Mountain Pacific Sports Fed-eration (MPSF) tournament,needing two more wins to garneran automatic bid to the NCAAtournament. The Cardinal (21-6,17-5 MPSF) will take on the third-seeded BYU Cougars (24-6, 17-5)for the third time this season for achance at the finals in what prom-ises to be one of the more excitingmatches of the season.
The eventual champion of theMPSF tournament will haveearned it, considering that the re-maining teams in the tournamentcomprise the top four teams in the
country USC, UC-Irvine, Stan-ford and BYU are Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4,
respectively, in the latest nationalrankings. The good news for Cardi-nal fans, and fans of the MPSF ingeneral, is that the at-large bid tothe four-team NCAA tournamentwill almost definitely come fromthe MPSF.
The flipside of that, however, isnot so inviting: Stanford will haveto beat two of the four best teamsin the country to assure itself aplace in the NCAA tournament.The Cardinal sports an overallrecord of 3-3 against the rest of theremaining field, defeating BYUtwice during a season-changingweekend in Provo earlier this yearalong with a split against Irvine anda 0-2 mark against USC.
That being said, the story of the
match between Stanford and BYUpromises to be much different this
time around. When these twoteams last met on consecutivenights in early February, BYU wasat a significant disadvantage de-spite playing on its home floor the Cougars were without first-team All-MPSF outside hitter Tay-lor Sander, who leads the MPSFand is second in the nation with4.80 kills per set. Stanford was ableto exploit this weakness in theCougars attack, holding BYU to a.272 hitting percentage for theweekend.
Stanfords calling cards all sea-son long have been defense and su-perior passing. The return ofSander to the lineup significantlyincreases the challenge for theCardinal, which will be forced to
contend with a BYU team that al-ready features five other All-
MPSF performers middleblockers Futi Tavana and RussellLavaja, opposite Robb Stowell,setter Joe Kauliakamoa and out-side hitter Josue Rivera. BYUshitting percentage as a team for theseason is third-best in the countryat .326. Whether or not Stanfordcan consistently stymie the now-healthy BYU attack will be the keyto the match.
If we can serve tough and limitour errors, and consistently put upgood balls for Evan Barry to set,then I think we should have a lot ofsuccess, said sophomore outsidehitter Steven Irvin.
Despite all the matchup prob-lems Stanford will have to contendwith, BYUs task to stop its oppo-
nent will be no easier. In fact, Stan-ford is one of just three teams,along with BYU and USC, thatfeatures six all-conference selec-tions, led as always by first-teamperformers and Stanford recordholders Brad Lawson and ErikShoji. In addition to Lawson andShoji, senior setter Evan Barry andsophomores Brian Cook, EricMochalski and Irvin were All-MPSF selections.
[Todays match] is going tocome down to serving, passing andsmart attacking, Lawson said.BYU is a notoriously great block-ing team and they also have somepotent weapons from the serviceline. If we can control their servesand pass well, well be able to keep
their big block guessing, which willmake it a lot easier for us to sideout and score points.
From a statistical standpoint,Stanfords offense has been evenmore efficient than BYUs Stanford sits second in the countrywith a team hitting percentage of.343 for the season, with four of theCardinals top five hitters sportinghitting percentages above .320. Ifthe Cougars want to come awaywith better results than the lasttime they matched up with theCardinal, they will have to comeprepared to face an efficient anddiverse offense.
A win for the Cardinal in Thurs-days semifinal would probablyguarantee the Cardinal a bid to theNCAA tournament if top-rankedUSC defeats Irvine, because Stan-
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CRUCIAL CLASHSTANFORD TAKES ON BYU IN MPSF SEMIFINAL
Im sickof RG3
draft talk
Tonight, 32 players willwalk across the stage atRadio City Music Hall,
jam awful-looking hats ontheir heads and finally
begin their NFL careers in earnestafter months of waiting and prepar-ing. More importantly, it means thatthe preposterous cycle of mediacoverage that leads up to the NFLdraft will end, and Mel Kiper, Jr.,Todd McShay and their cronies canall retreat to the respective bridgesthey live under.
More importantly, the firstround of the draft will finally signalthe end of the months-long de-bate of whether the Colts shouldpick Andrew Luck or Robert Grif-fin III with the first overall pick. Icant fully express how excited I amabout the end of this debate, be-cause, quite frankly, I am sick of see-ing and hearing about Robert Grif-fin III. Its not because Im worriedthat the Colts will flip-flop and pickGriffin first or because Im jealousthat Griffin ended up with the Heis-man this year, but its because Ithink Griffins rise to become thenew poster child of the NFL repre-sents everything thats wrong withthe NFL draft.
First of all, lets get this out of theway: Griffin is nowhere near as goodas Luck, and yet, many draft expertsspin us the story that Griffin wouldbe a better pick. Why? Because
Griffin is a far more exciting playerto watch play football. Sever-al times a game, he makes one ofthose oh-shit-how-did-he-do-thatplays that ends up in the SportsCen-ter Top 10. Meanwhile, Lucks high-light tape is full of short, on-targetpasses flecked with the occasionallong run and a single one-handedcatch against UCLA. Lucks bril-liance is understated, and onlycomes through after repeated view-ing, while Griffins video-gamegood plays make you jump out ofyour seat. You dont need to see aPowerpoint presentation to see whyGriffin is a great college footballplayer.
And because Griffin is so excit-ing to watch, draft experts have con-
veniently obscured the fact that heran a (somewhat gimmicky) spreadoffense at Baylor, never had to takesnaps from under center (a neces-sary skill in the NFL) and got all hisplays from the sideline and neverwas required to make passes that re-quired complex reads of a defense.While Griffin was an accurate pass-er, a fast runner and an all-arounddelight to watch play football, thingsthat should be major questionmarks (or at least big developmen-tal steps in Griffins NFL career)have basically been overlooked.
Whats more, Griffin has only re-ally had one outstanding season,and went from a guy that was aboveaverage, but essentially unheard-ofoutside the Big 12 to a surefire
NFL star in just one year. For a lotof prospects, a one-year breakoutmakes scouts wonder where all thatperformance was beforehand, butapparently nobody has questionedthat about Griffins game.
Second, Griffin irks me becausehes inescapable. Hes a total mediadarling, or as Sports Illustratedwriter Peter King says, hes the ben-eficiary of the circle-jerking of a jil-
ROGER CHEN/The Stanford DailySeniors Gus Ellis (left) and Evan Barry (right) will look to close out their Stanford mens volleyball careers witha second trip to the NCAA tournament. To get there, the second-seeded Cardinal will need to beat third-seeded BYU in tonights MPSF semifinal in Los Angeles and then possibly knock off either USC or UC-Irvine.
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Having concluded the regular season withconvincing victories over Pacific and No. 14California, the No. 10 Stanford mens tennis
team seems to be peaking at just the right timeas it enters postseason play in the form of theinaugural Pac-12 Championships in Ojai,Calif.
The team is excited about the opportuni-ties ahead of us, said senior Ryan Thacher.The last week of practice was the best of theyear, illustrating the teams focus heading intothe postseason. I am confident in this teamsability to make some noise in the Pac-12s andin the NCAAs following that.
The No. 3-seed Cardinal (16-7, 5-2 Pac-12)will face No. 7-seed Utah today in the quarter-
finals. The Utes (12-11, 1-6) cruised to a con-vincing 4-0 victory over No. 6-seed Oregonyesterday to progress to the quarterfinals.
The winner of todays match will face No. 2-seed (and the No. 1 team in the nation) USC, inthe semifinals on Friday. The victor in the other
quarterfinal, between No. 4-seed Cal and No.5-seed Washington, will square off with No. 1-seed (and No. 5 nationally) UCLA earlier onFriday for a place in the final on Saturday.
While Utahs struggles in conference playmay bode well for Stanford, the competitionbetween the two teams in early April wastightly contested. In an indoor match at highelevation, and in front of a partisan crowd, theCardinal jumped out to a 3-0 lead but strug-gled to put the Utes away, eventually clinchinga 4-3 victory in the penultimate match.
For this match, however, both teams will be
much better-known entities. Utahs lineup willremain unchanged, while Stanford will likelymake only one change starting juniorDenis Lin ahead of freshman Robert Stine-man from the earlier contest. Nevertheless,Stanford will look to take advantage of mo-
mentum garnered through two emphatic vic-tories over Cal and Pacific, as well as greaterstability and depth in the lineup against a Utahteam that had dropped five straight beforewinning its last two matches.
The Cardinal should also be able to exer-cise a significant advantage over the Utes in in-dividual matches, with the presence of two top-50 players No. 27 Thacher and No. 36 seniorBradley Klahn going unmatched by Utah.
Looking ahead to the prospective semifinal
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By CHRISSY JONESSTAFF WRITER
With a 7-0 sweep over Wash-ington State in Ojai, Calif., yester-day, the Stanford womens tennisteam officially brought its regularseason to a close. The No. 31Cougars (18-6, 6-4 Pac-12) wereno match for No. 5 Stanford, whosurrendered only one set all day.The meeting, rescheduled after arainout on March 25, cementedthe Cardinal as co-champions ofthe Pac-12, alongside No. 4 USC(20-3, 9-1). Apart from 2009, Stan-ford (18-1, 9-1) has taken at least aportion of the conference champi-onship every year since 1987.
Stanford captured the doublespoint first and continued to rollwith six straight singles victories.Junior Stacey Tan was the first tofinish with a decisive 6-0, 6-0blow to her opponent, KseniaGooge, as junior Mallory Bur-
dette followed in suit with ashutout victory over WashingtonStates Elisabeth Fournier. Soph-omore Nicole Gibbs, freshmanEllen Tsay, senior Veronica Li and
junior Natalie Dillon all con-tributed wins as well.
Today we had to take care ofbusiness, said head coach LeleForood. And we did. We had a re-ally good performance.
Forood acknowledged that, de-spite finishing the regular seasonas Pac-12 co-champions, Stanfordhas suffered some uphill battles.
We are not healthy, Foroodsaid. [Sophomore Kristie Ahn] isstill not available, but were opti-mistic about getting her back forNCAAs and shes been working
incredibly hard. Even [sophomoreAmelia Herring] has been injuredand had to have a procedure onher wrist.
That leaves the Cardinal withsix healthy players, the number re-quired for each match.
Our backs have been againstthe wall, Forood said, but thisgroup is very resilient and hasdone a great job.
Luckily for Stanford, Herringwill return for the Pac-12 invita-tional draw this weekend. All ofher teammates, apart from Ahn,the defending champion of thePac-10 tournament, will partici-pate in singles, doubles or both atthe tournament.
The womens singles draw will
consist of 32 players, and the dou-bles draw will include 16 teams.
Gibbs, who has manned court
one for Stanford all season, willappear in the main draw, along
with teammates Burdette, Tan andTsay. When asked who her tough-est opponents will be, she pointedto none other than the ones shepractices against every day.
First and foremost, [Burdette]and my other teammates, shesaid. Its very uniquely difficult toplay someone on your team.Youre so used to it being a sup-port system, and there are certaininternal pressures associated withplaying the other girls. We have todo it all the time though, so what-ever happens, its not the end ofthe world to win or lose. I just wantto improve with each match andput myself in the best situation forNCAAs.
Forood added to Gibbs senti-
ment.Its not like they stop talking
to their teammates, Forood
laughed. Theyre kept in separatequarters, so they wouldnt meet
each other until the semifinalsanyway. It certainly happens,though, and everyone handles itvery well.
After this weekend, Stanfordwill have almost two weeks untilthe start of NCAAs. Although notconfirmed, Forood hinted that anexhibition match against theUSTAs top juniors is in the worksfor May 2.
It gives us our only competi-tion in the period between Pac-12and NCAAs, Forood said. Andquite frankly, it gives me thechance to see the top juniors.
Gibbs, who trained with theUSTA program for many years,thinks that such a match would bebeneficial in helping the players
remain sharp during the time off.These are players that I
trained with, so its fun to see who
will go pro, and who are viable op-tions to recruit at Stanford, she
said. I think that it would be a funexhibition match to tune us up.Stanford will also put to good
use its own depth in the time be-tween Pac-12s and NCAAs.
We made some changes to theway we practice after playing USCand UCLA two weekends ago,Gibbs said. Were trying to getmore focus and drive instilled dur-ing practice and everyones beendoing a good job. Tons of fitness,too. We need to start getting readyfor that Georgia weather.
In the meantime, the Cardinalplayers will take the courts of theOjai Valley Athletic Club today.The singles and doubles finals willbe held on Sunday starting at 10:30a.m. at Libbey Park.
Contact Chrissy Jones at [email protected].
Co-champs eye tourney
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Junior Stacey Tan (above) double-bageled her opponent in Stanfords makeup match against WashingtonState yesterday as the Cardinal swept the Cougars to earn a share of the conference title. Stanford will nowshift its attention to the Pac-12 tournament, where Stanford will compete for the singles and doubles crowns.
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Freshman John Morrissey (above) and the Stanford mens tennis team will compete in the first ever conferenceteam competition at the Pac-12 tournament when the Cardinal battles the Utes for the right to take on USC.
matchup against the Trojans, how-ever, Stanford will likely face a sig-nificantly stiffer challenge. TheCardinal has struggled to gain anytraction against USC in twomatchups this year, with Stanford
succumbing to 7-0 sweeps on bothoccasions.
However, with the Trojansconfidence likely dented as theycome off their first loss of the sea-son a narrow 4-3 defeat againstrival UCLA the opportunityfor the Cardinal to get revengeshould provide a tantalizing chal-lenge after overcoming todaystest.
We are taking it one match at
a time starting with Utah,Thacher said. The conference isdeep and we know that we canttake any team lightly. That said, Ithink that everyone is quietly andeagerly awaiting the rematch withUSC if we can get there.
The Cardinal and the Utes willsquare off today at 2 p.m. in Ojai.
Contact Marshall Watkins at [email protected].
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lion of us covering the draft for far,far too long. Griffins catchy nick-name, engaging personality and in-ability to say no to a photo shootor video interview means hes beenshowing up everywhere, all the
time. In contrast to Luck, who es-chews the spotlight at almost everyopportunity, RG3 is on the cover ofevery magazines NFL draft issuethis week, rocking his ridiculoussocks and absurd arm sleeve. Andbecause hes so beloved by themedia, it means hes the spotlight ofthe worst part of NFL draft cover-age: specious criticism. Every year,the media trumps up insane criti-cisms, like a scouts recent observa-tion that Griffin is selfish. Whydoes this bother me? Because afterI hear Kiper and McShay talkabout Griffin being selfish for 10straight hours on SportsCenter, I
feel like drinking a big bottle ofcyanide. Perhaps I just need to stopwatching ESPNs draft coverage,but unfortunately, their influence insetting the agenda in sports is sogreat that its unavoidable as well.
But all of thats coming to anend tonight, when Luck will strideacross the stage first, shake RogerGoodells hand, and awkwardlypose for thousands of pictures.And, for the first time in months,Luck can bask in that sublime mo-ment on his own, while Griffin, theguy on every magazine cover, has towait his turn.
Jack Blanchat prefers drinkingcyanide to drinking the RG3 Kool-Aid. Compare the relative tastes of
these two dangerous liquids [email protected] or followhim on Twitter @jmblanchat.
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ford would then, at worst, have fin-ished second in the conference andsecond in the conference tourna-ment. But to say Saturdays final isnot important would be a completemisjudgment. Stanford has not hadmuch success against the Trojans
this season, and an improved resultcould do wonders for the teamsconfidence heading into a possibleNCAA tournament showdown.
A win by Irvine on Thursday,however, would turn the landscapeupside down. The winner of thefinal would obviously advance tothe tournament, but a loss by Irvinein the final would complicate thingsseverely. Winning in the semifinalswould mean that the Anteaterswould hold a 2-1 series advantage
over the Trojans this season, some-thing the NCAA tournament com-mittee would certainly have to takeinto account.
In order to be in the mix, though,the Cardinal must first take care ofbusiness against BYU. Stanfordsroad to the tournament resumestoday at 5 p.m. at the Galen Centerin Los Angeles.
Contact Daniel E. Lupin at [email protected].
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I am sick
of seeing and
hearing
about Robert
Griffin III.
