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By KURT CHIRBASSENIOR STAFF WRITER
The Undergraduate Senate settledinto office yesterday. At its first full-length meeting Tuesday night, it con-firmed the membership of Senate com-mittees, passed funding bills and dis-cussed two separate pieces of legislation one that would create paid consultantpositions on the ASSU PublicationsBoard (Pub Board) and another thatwould establish the office of ASSU Par-liamentarian.
The Senate also had its first disagree-ment over the purchase of balloons.
At the beginning of the meeting, theSenate passed a bill that confirmed theassignment of senators to its five differ-ent committees. The structure of these
committees differs slightly from previ-ous years.The Senate has eliminated theCommunications Committee and splitthe Student Life, Housing and Educa-tion Committee in two. The latters re-sponsibilities will now be divided be-tween the newly formed Academic Af-fairs Committee and Health, Wellness,Housing and Dining Committee.
Senate Chair Rafael Vasquez 12asked ASSU President Michael Cruz 12to create these new committees.
We would like to see how these com-mittees work this year instead of chang-ing the bylaws,Vasquez said.
The Senate also confirmed the Nomi-nation Committees appointments toUniversity committees. Prior to thevotes,Senator Alon Elhanan 14 asked if there were any conflicts of interest sinceone of the nominees,Deepa Kannappan13, also serves on the ConstitutionalCouncil.
Cruz said it was not against the ASSU
governing documents for members toserve concurrently on University com-mittees. The Senate unanimously ap-proved the nominees afterward.
The conversation then turned towardfunding bills, with five different studentorganizations presenting requests for fi-nancial support. Since the Appropria-tions Committee has not had any officialmeetings yet, the Senators decided to gothrough each request line-by-line.
A request from the Stanford IsraelAlliance,which included $500 to buy twoballoon arches for an event to celebrateIsrael Independence Day,sparked a dis-cussion among the Senators.
I think two arches of balloons wouldbe awesome,but Im not sure if thats thebest way of spending student money,said Senator Ben Laufer 12. I thinkeverything else is really awesome, butIm not sure if thats going to add to the
Stanford joins effortto remedy high-risk
drinkingBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Stanford University and 13 otherinstitutions of higher education an-nounced their partnership in theLearning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking, a national effort totackle binge drinking on Americancampuses.This development comesat a time in which nearly 2,000American college students die annu-ally from alcohol-related injuries.
The Learning Collaborative,which developed from DartmouthsNational College Health Improve-ment Project, will utilize evaluationand measurement techniques to findthe best solutions to curb high-riskdrinking. Starting this June, teamsfrom each institution will meet for a
number of face-to-face meetingsevery six months and share data onthe effectiveness of their respectiveprograms.
By JANELLE WOLAK STAFF WRITER
Tuesday nights panel on the current budgetbattle in Washington brought together political journalists and Stanford faculty at CubberleyAuditorium to discuss the merits of the Ryanand Obama budget plans, as well as the chal-lenges in coming to a bipartisan solution to thegrowing deficit.
The event featured speakers David Leon-hardt, economics correspondent for The NewYork Times and 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner; JohnHarris, editor in chief of Politico; Susan Davis,congressional correspondent for the NationalJournal and David Brady, professor of PoliticalScience and senior Hoover fellow. JamesFishkin,chair of the Department of Communi-cations, moderated the discussion.
Leonhardt opened the panel by praising theRyan budget plan. The plan proposes greatercuts to Medicare, Medicaid and discretionarydomestic spending as well as a lower top tax ratethan does the Obama plan.
The Ryan budget is a reason for optimism,he said. It is more arithmetically honest thananything the Republican Party has done in thelast years.
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By BILLY GALLAGHERDESK EDITOR
John Micklethwait, the editor in chief of the Econo-mist, spoke Tuesday afternoon at the Bechtel ConferenceCenter to a packed crowd of Stanford scholars, studentsand community members.The Freeman Spogli Institutefor International Studies and the Europe Center spon-sored the talk, which was a part of the Payne Distin-guished Lectureship series.
Micklethwait began with a quote from economistHerbert Stein, stating,I f something cannot go on forev-er, it will stop.
He framed his speech by applying this idea to fivemajor topics: the world economy, China, the euro, risinginequality and the size of governments.
The lecture was very timely, as Micklethwait men-tioned Osama bin Ladens death several times, and saidthe recent political turmoil in the Middle East was a re-freshing reminder of how quickly the world can change.
Micklethwait described himself as a paranoid opti-mist. A mix of this paranoia, optimism and at times humor characterized his talk. The longtime editordrew laughter early from the crowd when he said, Jour-nalists are the prostitutes of the political world.
Micklethwait spoke at length about India and China,the latter of which he called fragile.
Asia is a cockpit of competing rivalr ies,he said.Moving on to the European Union,Micklethwait dis-
cussed his pessimism about the strength of the euro.While he doubted that the euro zone would fall apart,heobserved that the current rescue plan for those curren-cies in trouble is unstable.
He blamed the leadership of the European Union,which he referred to as a dysfunctional quartet andsaid he believes Germany is the only country that couldleave the union without enduring severe economic costs.
Its a currency union that is almost self-starting to-wards disaster, Micklethwait said. Some kind of re-structuring has to happen. Plan A has failed.
He then discussed income inequality, specifically inAmerica.
America used to be a place with infinite tolerance forinequality and capitalism, Micklethwait said. Now, Imnot so sure.
He also predicted an imminent battle between thegovernment and public sector unions, starting with pen-sions. He further remarked that governments have be-come too large and cumbersome and need modernizing.
He said the two places that really matter in this glob-al debate are California and Britain.Speaking about Cal-ifornia, Micklethwait said in no place in the world isthere such a gap between the sophistication in the privatesector and the dysfunction in the public sector than inthis state.
Micklethwait closed his talk, to laughter once again,
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event in a way thats worth $500 tothe students.
Senator Daniel DeLong 13agreed, saying that balloons werenot environmentally sustainable.But Vasquez said the previous Sen-ate had approved the use of fundsfor balloons in the past.
I think there are noble inten-tions, but nobody has taken an in-depth look at the policy yet, saidSenate Deputy Chair Dan Ashton14.So until then, we should deferto the previous group.
Instead, Senator Karl Kumodzi14 suggested a compromise andthe Senate approved the fundingbill with one revision:it would onlygive the group funds for one bal-loon arch. All other funding billswere passed.
ASSU Publications Board Di-rector Zachary Warma 11 thengave an update on plans to establisha publication center on the secondfloor of the Nitery.He presented abill that sought to provide all cam-pus publications with access to pagelayout and web design consultants.The Senate will vote on the bill nextweek.
During this conversation,Warma decided to take the sena-
tors to the rooms in the Niterywhere the Pub Board hopes to cre-ate the publication center.
This is the student union, sowhy are the doors locked?Warmasaid,as he pulled the handles of thedoors.University staff members arecurrently using the space, he said.
Nanci Howe, associate dean of the Office of Student Activities,said the issue was slightly morecomplicated.
One challenge with the space isthat the University has made acommitment to having spaces asopen to all students as broadly aspossible, Howe said.Do we wantto have space dedicated towardspublications? Does that fit with theinitial mission of this space?
For me, Im very supportive of student publication, she added.But Im much more interested increating a space that can be used[by] all students,rather than one la-beled for publications.
At the end of the meeting, Cruzpresented a bill that would estab-lish the position of ASSU Parlia-mentarian. The Parliamentarianwould be in charge of keepingASSU governing documents up-to-date and making sure that all mem-bers complied with them.
The Senate will vote on this billat next weeks meeting.
Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas@ stanford.edu.
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by telling the crowd, DonaldTrump.He cannot go on forever.
Micklethwait was named Edi-tors Editor of the Year 2010.Afterstudying history at Magdalen Col-
lege, Oxford, he worked as abanker at Chase Manhattan from1985 to 1987 before joining theEconomist as a finance correspon-dent in 1987. Since then, his rolesat the Economist have includedsetting up the publications LosAngeles bureau, serving as itsmedia correspondent, editing thebusiness section, running the NewYork bureau and editing the Unit-ed States section.
Micklethwait has visited Stan-ford so many times he has lostcount.
I like coming to Stanford fortwo reasons: one is because its afront-ranking university full of ideas, Micklethwait said in an in-terview with The Daily. On top of that youve got that particular rela-
tionship between Stanford and Sil-icon Valley, so youre always in-trigued.
Reaction from students who at-tended the talk was overwhelm-ingly positive.
I liked the way he structuredthe talk in terms of things thatcant go on, said Justin Costa-Roberts 11.
Im an Economist subscriber
and think highly of the publica-tion,said Bill Rowan 11.Being areader, youre obviously interest-ed in the things he talked abouttoday.
After the event officiallyended, Micklethwait stayed tospeak with audience membersone-on-one.
I think, if you want the honesttruth,out of all the people in Amer-ica who need my help and advice Iexpect Stanford graduates are theleast, he said. But I think, keeptrying to do what you want to do.
An Le Nguyen contributed to thisreport.
Contact Billy Gallagher at [email protected].
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Davis echoed Leonhardt, com-mending the Republicans for therefreshing amount of candor intheir budget proposal.
Even so,Democrats and Repub-licans have not yet managed toreach a compromise to cut the fed-eral debt,which is fast approachingthe $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.
The problem,Leonhardt contin-ued, is not the gap between the two
parties but that the voters do notwant the deficits solved.Is the American public dumb?
Brady said. You cant have every-thing. And yet, two-thirds of thetime, Americans want a balancedbudget,increased expenditures andlower taxes.
Well, we cant have that, hesaid.
In addition to this,Davis said theRyan budget plan is incredibly po-litically risky.Medicare is one of themost beloved entitlement pro-grams in the country. CuttingMedicare will target senior citizens,who, according to Davis, are someof the most politically aware votersin the country.
Harris noted that Democratshave little incentive to bargain. Itmight become irresistible forPresident Barack Obama to takeadvantage of the opening present-ed by the Ryan plan; Obama couldpresent himself as a defender of tra-ditional social programs and as acandidate of not only young votersbut old voters,too.
According to Davis most recentpolling data, the public is almostevenly divided between Obamasand Ryans deficit reduction plans.
Davis offered advice to thoseaudience members who might beundecided about these two plans.
I think that the key is to con-sume as much news as you can,shesaid. Theres nothing you should-nt read.In a world where the mediais simply more polarized, we needto be a little more discerning andread things that dont necessarily fitin our ideological world.
Brady took a step back to offer aglobal perspective on the $14.3 tril-lion debt.
This is not an American prob-lem, he said. Every democracyhas this problem and no democracyhas dealt successfully with thisproblem.
Leonhardt and Davis made sureto end the discussion on a morehopeful note.
We certainly can solve the[deficit] problem,Leonhardt said.
There is a lot of room for posi-tivity,Davis added.
Contact Janelle Wolak at jwolak@ stanford.edu.
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Vaden Health Center DirectorIra Friedman will be at the helm of the effort on the Farm.He will be as-sisted by Ralph Castro,Vaden asso-ciate director; Laura Wilson, Stan-fords chief of police; DeborahGolder,dean of Residential Educa-tion and Jenny Bergeron, managerof assessment and program evalua-tion.
The 13 other participatingschools are Dartmouth, BostonUniversity, Cornell, Duke, Frost-burg State University, Northwest-ern University, Ohio University,Princeton,Purdue,University of theSouth (Sewanee), Stony BrookUniversity, University of Wyomingand Wesleyan Universi ty.
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By ALIZA ROSEN andMARWA FARAG
The archers line up andshoot their arrows intothe air.Some land on thestretch of grass surround-ing the targets, others on
the white, black,blue,red or yellowcircles.After a few more attempts,the members of the Stanfordarchery team walk over to collecttheir arrows.
One archer, Matt Cooper 14,follows a rope tied between hisstand emblazoned with Com-petitive Archery sees no limits and the target. He collects his ar-rows,stows them in his belt and fol-lows the rope back to his stand,where he positions his feet betweentwo markers on the grass, a modifi-cation made to suit archery equip-ment to the needs of the visually im-paired.
Cooper is the first blind memberof Stanfords archery team. Withtraining and equipment fromCourtney and Janice Walth, a cou-ple from Lodi, Calif.who specializein visually impaired archery, he hasbeen practicing the sport since earlythis school year.
Hes very self-driven, saidStanford archery coach Francis Par-chaso.He approached me wantingto join the team.
Cooper uses the same equip-ment as sighted archers,with the ex-ception of the foot markers to ori-ent him in the correct direction.There are also differences in the dis-tance of the targets for visually im-paired archers.The technique,how-
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MARWA FARAG/The Stanford DailyOVERARCHING STRATEGY: Matt Cooper 14, a member of theStanford archery team, hasnt allowed his sight problems to hold him back.
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I t was a corker of a flight to theland down under, except for theperson in front of me whoopened their lunch and the babywho spit the dummy (thank God forearplugs!). I rocked up in Brisbanetwo days later, on a quest to checkout a Ph.D.programme and experi-ence the Australian lifestyle.
Most of the blokes and sheilas atthe hostel were from Germany orEngland, there on year-long holi-day.Turns out its pretty easy to geta holiday work visa, so my mates
just wandered city to city,job to job.I wish I could take holiday that long.I was at the pool with my mates
in the afternoon when the sheilafrom the hostel came in asking if anyone needed labor. Freddie wasabout out of bread,so he said Bonz-er and raced up the apples andpears as fast as his plates of meatcould carry him so he could dog onthe bone with his potential employ-er. Funny how those blokes are al-
ways trying to make a crust drives all us job searchers marblesand conkers that wages are so highand one can literally sit in the poolto get work.
Driving around town orshould I say riding in vans aroundtown was a bit unnerving as itseemed we would ram a bus atevery right turn.Navigation on footin the city was especially difficult,considering the Brisbane River me-anders through. I of course had nomap.Luckily I could grab the City-
Cat ferry service or just ride aroundon the bus.I was sure not to spit onthe bus, as prominent signs informthat drivers have DNA kits to aidthe prosecution of spitters. (Is spit-ting on the bus a thing these days?)
I lobbed-in at the Uni, happy asLarry to meet with a sheila from myprospective programme. After agreat yabber, I explored the lay of the land.The main quad was oddlyfamiliar,and science land was evenoff in the Never Never of the cam-pus.At one point I was a bit lost,andwhile walking along the ponds I al-most tripped over a goanna.Galahsand cockies laughed at me in thetrees, but nonetheless the Aus-tralian wildlife had me away withthe pixies. Queensland has it all koalas, roos with joeys, not to men-tion the crocks and the Great Barri-er Reef at the top end.
I went around town with mychamps to get free WiFi and air-conat the public library, followed by awalk along the river. Freddie wassure to wear his sunblock so he did-nt epitomize an English stereotype.We got hungry, but tucker and drogare expensive through the roof. Soinstead of scabbin off a friend, wefound a cheap kebab place and gro-cery store,ensuring we didnt starveto death or break the bank.
When I was ready to splurge, Igrabbed a feed at the PancakeManor in downtown Brizzie. The24-hour restaurant features giantplates of pancakes, among othertasty things. Buttermilk, chocolate,
blueberries, cherries, strawberries,banana, caramel name yourfavourite, and you can have it on apancake. But real Aussies havesweet potato fries dipped in mayon-naise and paprika.
I was a bit dismayed that Brisve-gas didnt have a real beach, so Iwent down to the Gold Coast with acouple of sheilas.At the Gold Coast
Aquatic Center we tanned, andswam with the national swimmersand triathlon teams. Good thing Ididnt forget my bathers!
That night I wasnt about todrink with the flies, so Christophand I split a box of white plonk andsat outside.Fair Dinkum, mate are those flying foxes?The bloodyhuge bats with a wingspan of morethan one meter circled over ourheads as we sat under the stars.Soon enough we were off, after an-other tinny or two, trompin alongto the Valley with roadies to find thebangin beats. I didnt give myself away as a Yank by asking for apitcher of beer only jugs of amber fluid for me!
Rummaging about was all goodfun, but I couldnt partake on thefinal rite of passage of renting a vee-dub and driving through the Out-back. My mates carried all thewater,petrol and provisions neededfor the journey, which primarily
consisted of carrots bought at onedollar per kilogram. I bade hoorooto my comrades and to Oz. Butshell be apples, its London to abrick that Ill be back.
Johnny reckons theres a pot load of Strine phrases he missed,and hed be
stoked to hear your favourite. Email him at [email protected].
E very year,current row staffsgo through the process of se-lecting the people to taketheir places and lead the row com-munity for the following year. Un-doubtedly, many of these new staff members are familiar to the housesin which they will work by servingas previous staff members, resi-dents or at least friends.
Living in a row house is knownto be an advantage when goingthrough the process of applying tostaff. Because of this, some peoplechoose to draw tier one junior year,with the hope and expectation thatit will help them be able to staff in arow house senior year.Those whoare able to staff junior year are al-most guaranteed a position the fol-lowing year, and seniors who staff also have a good chance of beingselected RA if they choose to re-turn as a co-term.
The experience gained by beingon staff is obviously valuable whenreapplying,but even having been aresident has its benefits. Peoplewho have lived in a house knowabout the houses traditions andevents,as well as the issues that canarise in a particular house. In addi-tion, someone valuing the commu-nity of a house enough to want tobe on staff is only a good sign for hisor her future dedication to the role.
Another advantage in the appli-cation process is simple friendshipwith current staff members. It isusually a good thing for the staff members to personally know appli-cants in order to have more confi-dence in applicants abilities than just a good application and inter-view could provide. This can also
work to an applicants disadvan-tage if the staff members are awarethat the person has a history of irre-sponsible behavior,despite a goodinterview.
Although familiarity with thehouse and with staff members canbe valuable in the row staff applica-tion process, in too many casesfriendships and history take prece-dence over ability and competence,leading to ineffective staffs. Rowstaffs play an incredibly importantrole at Stanford; they are responsi-ble for the building communitiesand maintaining the health andsafety of their residents. If they arenot up to par, it can significantly tar-nish the experiences of the studentsfor whom they are responsible.
This year, Residential Educa-
tion took a step towards lesseningthe power of nepotism by institut-ing a first round interview for Res-ident Assistant applications withan employee of ResEd and, insome interviews, a current RA.These interviews only providedrecommendations to the staffs andwere in no way binding; a staff isfree to choose a candidate who re-ceived low marks from the initialinterview.While the movement to-ward some sort of screening of ap-plicants is good, row staffs knowmore about who can fill their rolesand handle the specific issues thatarise in their houses.
We recommend having a firstround interview held by staff pooled from various houses for allrow applicants. Applicants would
have to be approved through thisprocess before being consideredby individual houses. This wouldprevent people from obtainingstaff positions through pure nepo-tism,while leaving the evaluationsof applicants in the hands of cur-rent staffs. However, it is impor-tant that each house staff have thefinal say on the selections for theirhouses new staffs, as each househas its own unique issues, follow-ing from its history,location,archi-tecture, etc.
The row is an important andunique part of our university andcommunity and it is essential thatits leaders are responsible, compe-tent and dedicated to maintaining afun,exciting and healthy culture forall their residents.
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EDITORIAL
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Nepotism onthe Row
JohnnyBartz
Although familiarity with
the house and staff
members can be valuable
in the row staff application process,in too
many cases friendships
and history take
precedence over ability
and competence.
I was a bit dismayed
that Brisvegas didnthave a real beach,so Iwent down to the GoldCoast with a couple of
sheilas.
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ever,is very much the same.Its about repetitive motion,
learning how to do the same thingover and over again, Parchasosaid. In a sense what he does ismore forgiving because hes lesslikely to . . . second-guess himself.
Second-guessing himself doesntseem to be a problem for the enter-prising freshman. He has alreadydeclared his major Science,Technology and Society (STS) ,impressed his dorm mates with hisskills at table tennis and pool andhas a personal recording studio inhis room in Freshman-SophomoreCollege (FroSoCo).
A self-described music lover,Cooper enjoys mixing new songs ona program called Cakewalk Sonarand then playing his music on mas-sive speakers in his room. Thoughhe usually relies on the electronicsounds pre-recorded on the soft-ware, he recently recorded a songwith friends, in which each person
created different sounds that hemixed together.Just as he has found ways to
adapt archery and music recordingto his advantage, he has created aseamless modus operandi for hiscoursework, according to RobertMcGinn, professor of STS andManagement Science and Engi-neering (MS&E).
All of Coopers textbooks aretranslated into Braille for him andhe has a printer in his room thatconverts texts to Braille. His com-puter reads text back to him and heuses a device called a Braille Notewith a Braille keyboard that he usesto take notes and write papers. Pro-fessors send his exams to the Officeof Accessible Education (OAE),where they are converted intoBraille.According to the OAE, ap-proximately 19 of the 938 under-graduates registered with the OAEare visually impaired.
Matt is a case in point for theinfluence of technology and scienceon society, but its not as if its only
the technology, McGinn said.Itsthe technology working in conjunc-tion with the personality and driveof the individual.
Cooper has a guide dog namedLoti who responds to commands onlyin French, by nature of the fact thatshe was trained in Quebec. Cooperwas 11 when he got Loti. However,most guide dog schools only providethe animals to people over 18.
Coopers independence standsout to his professors, coaches andteammates.
Its really impressive what hesdoing, said Eric Feldman 12, a
member of the archery team. Its just an inspiration to shoot aroundhim.
McGinn echoed Feldmanspraise.
One has to admire an individ-ual like Matt who is doing so well inhis academic coursework and hasan incredible will and determina-tion,as well as intellect, he said.But Cooper is quick to share thecredit for his success, describing hiscontribution to blazing a new trailin archery as one where were allpaving the way together.
Its a group effort,he added.
Coopers humility doesnt sur-prise Emily Palmer, one of his highschool classmates.
Matt has an incredible sense of empathy,she said.He doesnt puthimself above other people. In highschool, we were all blown away byhis accomplishments . . . but hewasnt self-centered.
Hed point out other peoplesstrengths,she added.Cooper is preparing to compete
in three archery tournaments thissummer in Sacramento in a divisionfor the visually impaired.CourtneyWalsh has high hopes for his per-
formance.If Matt keeps it up,he could go
to Worlds [World Archery Cham-pionship] in the next three to fouryears,Walsh projected.
For his own part,Cooper shrugsat the praise hes received.
Everybody else says,Its amaz-ing; its great. And I say,You knowwhat? Its life, he said.What elseam I going to do? Its blaze a trail orsit in my dorm room all day.
Contact Aliza Rosen at alizar@stan- ford.edu and Marwa Farag at [email protected].
COOPERContinued from Page 3
Courtesy of Stanford ArcheryMatt Cooper (second row, far right) is the first blind member of Stanfords archery team. Thanks to funds from Courtney and Janice Walth, a couple whospecialize in visually impaired archery, Cooper has enthusiastically taken up the sport this year.
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By KABIR SAWHNEY DESK EDITOR
The Pac-12 is getting a whole lot richer.The conference inked a new 12-year,
$3 billion television deal for football andmens basketball on Tuesday morningwith the Fox and ESPN networks, accord-ing to Richard Sandomir of The New YorkTimes. The deal will kick in during the2012-13 academic year, after the current
rights deal expiresand new confer-ence membersColorado andUtah are fullyintegrated intothe structure of the Pac-12 (theconference is stillthe Pac-10, but willbegin being called thePac-12 in July).
As part of Pac-12Commissioner Larry Scotts desire tohave every Pac-12 football and mens bas-ketball game televised, the conferencewill also launch its own television net-work, and will be the sole owner of thatnetwork. The Pac-12 cable network willbroadcast games not selected by ESPN orFox and will go on air for the first time in2012. It will have its own online content-streaming channel, similar to ESPNsESPN3.
The deal with Fox and ESPN will payout approximately $250 million per year.Unlike the Pac-10s current appearance-based method of disbursing revenue, thefunds from this rights deal will be evenlysplit among the conferences 12 members.
Each school in the Pac-12 Arizona,Arizona State,California,Colorado,Ore-gon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA,USC, Utah, Washington and WashingtonState will receive about $21 millionannually, a large increase from previousyears. The current TV deal pays out $60million annually,averaging out to $6 mil-lion per school for each year, and thatnumber varies based on the number of times a given team appears on TV (anagreement that has historically favoredthe Southern California schools).
The contract also includes the Pac-12championship game in football, whichwill be held this December for the firsttime.The game will pit the champions of each of the conferences divisions againsteach other,and will be played at the homesite of the team with the better record.The television rights for the game will al-ternate between Fox and ABC (which,along with ESPN, is a member of the Dis-ney family of networks.)
Scott will formally announce the dealWednesday morning at the Pac-12s
By JACK BLANCHATDESK EDITOR
Its been the story of the Stanford baseball season sofar win one or two over the weekend, then take themidweek game.With a 3-1 victory over the San Jose StateSpartans on Tuesday night, the Cardinal stuck to the scriptit has followed all year.
Sophomore righthander Dean McArdle (6-2) kept theSpartans (30-17) bats quiet,giving up only three hits andone unearned run over 5.1 innings,while Stanford battersscattered six hits and capitalized on some mistakes fromthe Spartans to grab the victory.
The Cardinal (21-16,6-9 Pac-10) got on the board first,scoring in the fourth inning when senior catcher ZachJones came around on a sacrifice fly from freshman firstbaseman Brian Ragira after Jones doubled to left.
Stanford also managed to squander a scoring opportu-nity later in the inning, falling short when sophomoreshortstop Kenny Diekroeger and freshman right fielder
CARD SEASONCOMES TO AN ENDBy MILES BENNETT-SMITH
DESK EDITOR
With a top-10 national ranking, a 19-8regular season record that tied for the pro-grams most wins since 1998 and a sweep of the No.3 team in the country,the mens vol-leyball team could have seen this season asa huge success. But it was hard not to feel alittle disappointed when the Cardinalwalked off the Maples Pavilion floor after abitter fifth-set loss to No. 5 Long Beach twoweekends ago in the first round of theMPSF Tournament.
The loss ostensibly ended Stanfordspostseason hopes because only one at-largebid is available for the four-team NCAATournament, and it was unlikely that theCardinal (19-9, 15-7 MPSF) was going tosnag it after being upset on its home court inthe first round of the MPSF Tournament.(No. 1 USC ended up losing to No. 3 UC-Santa Barbara in the MPSF Final, and wasawarded the at-large bid.)
Although there was certainly no shamein losing to a plucky Long Beach Statesquad (15-14, 12-10) that seemingly hadStanfords number all season long the49ers swept all three meetings in 2011 there were certainly bitter feelings consid-ering how close the Cardinal came to find-ing that elusive spark.
Head coach John Kosty said all season
that any team looking to win a nationalchampionship required a solid end to theregular season, and then needed to get hotin the playoffs.He attributed last years na-tional championship to a magical run at theperfect time. This season, Stanford was itshottest just before spring break, when itwon five straight matches, possibly peakingtoo soon.
Last year when the Cardinal actuallymanaged to complete the daunting holy
grail of MPSF play by winning the regularseason title,MPSF Tournament title and thenational title Stanford had a couple of three-game win streaks towards the end of conference play that demonstrated howwell the team was playing. This year, afterthe five-match win streak, the team neverfound a groove and alternated wins andlosses in seven straight matches before asmall two-match streak entering the MPSFTournament.
Its impossible to point to any of the play-ers individually, because the statistics speakfor themselves. Junior outside hitter BradLawson and junior libero Erik Shoji repeat-ed as AVCA First Team All-Americans,withboth racking up some impressive statistics:Lawson posted 455 kills to go with a .331 hit-ting percentage,and Shoji had 2.62 digs perset.
Junior setter Evan Barry had giganticshoes to fill with the graduation of AVCAPlayer of the Year and First Team All-American setter Kawika Shoji, Eriks olderbrother.But Barry did exactly as Kosty pre-dicted when he handed him the keys to theCardinal offense, setting a very efficientgame to the tune of 1272 assists and thethird-highest assist-to-set ratio in the con-ference.
The vaunted freshman class that Kostybrought in also contributed immediately outside hitter Brian Cook was third on the
team in kills with 179 and Steven Irvinplayed in almost every match and was sixthin kills.That doesnt even include freshmanmiddle blocker Eric Mochalski, who fin-ished as one of just five Cardinal players toappear in all 28 matches,starting 27 of them.Mochalski was fourth on the team in killsand had a .451 hitting percentage whileleading the team in total blocks.
MIDWEEKMASTERY
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyFreshman first baseman Brian Ragira, above, had an RBI and a run in Stanfords 3-1 victory at San JoseState yesterday. The Cardinal will try to climb the Pac-10 standings this weekend versus Washington.
Womens tennis gets top seed forNCAAs, men grab No. 8
If everything falls into place, theStanford tennis teams wont have toleave campus in order to win nationaltitles this season. With the Taube Fam-ily Tennis Center already set to host thelast four rounds of the 2011 NCAAChampionships, both the mens andwomens tennis teams found out yes-terday that they will host first and sec-ond rounds matches here at Stanford.
The womens tennis team (23-0, 8-0Pac-10) received the No. 1 overall seedin the tournament and will play Illi-nois-Chicago (18-4, 8-0 HorizonLeague) in the first round on Saturday,May 14. The winner of that match willtake on the winner of Pepperdine andLong Beach State in the second round.
Staying on the Farm bodes well forthe Stanford women,who havent losta home match since 1999.The Cardinalladies have won 179 consecutivematches at home, including 32 in theNCAA tournament,and are trying fortheir 17th team title and second in arow. Stanford took last years teamNCAA Championship in a dramatic 4-3 victory over Florida in Athens,Ga.
The Stanford men will also be athome for the first two rounds afterearning the No. 8 national seed. TheCardinal (18-5, 5-1 Pac-10) opensagainst Army (13-11, 6-0 PatriotLeague) on Friday,May 13.The winnerof the Stanford-Army match will takeon the winner of Cal Poly versus Wash-ington the following day.
The Stanford men have won 15team national titles, but none since2000.Virginia is the mens No.1 overallseed.
Daniel Bohm
Womens soccer announces 2011recruiting class
After its second consecutive unde-feated regular season,Stanford shouldbe well-equipped to make another runat a womens soccer title next year, asthe team announced yesterday an im-pressive class of freshmen that will be joining the squad in the fall.The 2011recruiting class brings six new playersto the Cardinal, including five playerswith youth national team experience,two state players of the year and two
Bay Area natives.The class consists of forward AlexDoll (Bethesda, Md.),midfielder Han-nah Farr (Hillsborough, Calif.), mid-fielder Loeau LaBonta (Rancho Cu-camonga, Calif.), midfielder HaleyRosen (Rolling Hills,Calif.),defenderLauren Schmidt (San Martin, Calif.)and forward Chioma Ubogagu (Cop-pell,Texas).
The class of 2015 will bolster a Stan-ford roster that, despite losing Her-mann Trophy winner Christen Press tograduation, returns nine starters, in-cluding four All-Americans and eight
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailyFreshman Eric Mochalski, above center, had a strong first season for Stanford. Mochalski andother youngsters will be looked upon to play larger roles in the 2011-2012 season.
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spring meetings in Phoenix.The Pac-12s new television con-
tracts outstrip those of the otherBCS automatic-qualifying confer-ences by a hefty margin. The At-lantic Coast Conference signed a
$155 million-per-year deal and theBig-12 Conference will receive $130million annually under its most re-cent agreement (though the Big 12only has 10 programs). The Pac-12even outdistanced the two largestconferences, the Big Ten and South-eastern Conferences,which current-ly receive $220 million and $205 mil-lion respectively on an annual basis.
Stanford also announced that itwill switch radio responsibilities forfootball and mens basketball.Start-ing next fall, Stanford games will bebroadcast on San FranciscosKNBR-1050 AM, a move awayfrom the Cardinals currentprovider, XTRA Sports 860 AM.Cardinal Sports LLC, the multime-
dia and marketing partner for Stan-ford Athletics, did not disclose de-tails of the agreement. It was alsonot disclosed whether Stanfordsstudent-run radio station, KZSU,
would retain rights to broadcastfootball and mens basketball.
Contact Kabir Sawhney at [email protected].
PAC-12Continued from page 6
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IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyStanford Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby, left, has to be thrilled about the Pac-12 Conferences new television contract with ESPN and Fox. Stanford willrecieve approximately $21 million annually in TV revenue from the deal.
All-Pac-10 honorees.Doll was named the Girls High
School Scholar-Athlete of the Yearlast season, when she posted 12goals and 19 assists as she ledBethesda-Chevy Chase HighSchool to its third consecutive statetitle.As a forward the same posi-tion played by the departing Press Doll should bring strong passingability and versatility on offense.
The sole two-sport athlete of theclass, Farr will also be playinglacrosse on the Farm. She played akey role bringing St. Ignatius Prepof San Francisco to the 2011 Cen-tral Coast Section Division II finalwith an 11-goal, three-assist season.A midfielder,Farr has been praisedby Stanford head coach Paul Rat-cliffe for her superb mentality onthe field.
The other two midfielders in therecruiting class, LaBonta andRosen, are also California natives.LaBonta was named CIF SouthernSections best offensive player afternotching 17 goals and 11 assists lastseason, while Rosen scored a re-markable 22 goals and 17 assists inher senior season at Palos VerdesHigh.
Schmidt, the only defender inStanfords recruiting class, was theteam captain for Trinidad & Tobagoduring the FIFA U-17 World Cuplast fall. She also helped a local clubteam, the Mountain View-LosAltos Avalanche, to the 2011 Cal-North State Cup Championship.
Rounding out the class is Ubo-gagu, ranked as the No. 3 recruit inthe nation by Top Drawer Soccer.Amember of the U.S. U-20 nationalteam, Ubogagu holds a weightedGPA of 4.975 and is the reigningGatorade Texas Player of the Year.Known for her quick accelerationand explosive offense, she is a four-
time Dallas Morning News first-team All-American.
Stanfords recent crop of re-cruits first chance for collegiate ac-tion will be when the Cardinal
opens its 2011 season versus PennState on Aug. 19 at Laird Q. CaganStadium.
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BRIEFSContinued from page 6
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailyStanfords womens soccer coach Paul Ratcliffe, above, brought in one ofthe nations top recruiting classes. The six-player class features two forwards,three midfielders and one defender. Coming off of an undefeated regular season, these incoming freshmen will have big shoes to fill on the Farm.
He was also selected to theMPSF All-Freshman Team, joiningsenior outside hitter SpencerMcLachlin,Erik Shoji and Lawsonin earning all-conference honors.Inhis last season on the Farm, the tri-captain McLachlin put up some bignumbers, finishing 17th in the coun-try in kills per set (3.79) and 27th inhitting percentage (.309). He alsomanaged to stay healthy all season.
McLachlin will also leave hismark as one of the six members of the winningest class in Stanford his-tory. With 81 victories over fouryears, the class of 2011 that includesIan Connolly, Garrett Dobbs,Charley Henrikson, Jordan Ina-
fuku, Max Halvorson and McLach-lin broke the record previously heldby the classes of 1995 and 1997.
Two of the biggest of those vic-tories came early in the season,when then-No. 2 BYU came totown looking to knock off the then-No. 4 Cardinal on its home floor.The Cougars were sent back toProvo, Utah with their tails be-tween their legs after Stanfordrode through two nights of rowdycrowds in Burnham Pavilion to anupset sweep,generating some earlymomentum for the year.
But from there the road gotrougher, as Stanford didnt adjustwell to the time change and cameout very flat in the road opener atHawaii (which resulted in a 3-0loss),and then lost a tough match at
Long Beach at the end of Januaryas it got further into a wild roadswing that saw the Cardinal playseven matches in seven cities andcover 9,227 miles over a three-week period.
It didnt help that most of thosematches were against MPSF oppo-nents, and Stanford plays in thecountrys most grueling conference at one point, all 12 MPSF teams
were ranked in the top-15 national-ly, and the year ended with theMPSF holding down the top sevenspots and 11 of the top-15.
The MPSF Tournament was agreat example of just how compet-itive and unpredictable the confer-ence was. No. 1 USC lost on itshome court in the tournament finalto seventh-seeded UC-Santa Bar-bara, which also upset No. 2 BYUon the road as well as sixth-seededLong Beach of all the matchesin the tournament,only three timesdid the higher-seeded team win.
At the beginning of the season,members of the team decided thatthis years rallying cry would be
first to first, playing off of lastseasons worst to first motto thatsignified Stanfords rise from a last-place team to the NCAA champi-onship in just four years.
With another top-ranked re-cruiting class that includes All-American 6-foot-7 middle blockerSean Kemper and just one startergraduating,Kosty has plenty of rea-son to be optimistic that the Cardi-nal could return to the NCAATournament next year. Sixth tofirst doesnt have the same ring asa slogan, but itll have to do.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at [email protected].
MVBALLContinued from page 6
Austin Wilson both walked to loadthe bases with two outs before seniordesignated hitter Ben Clowe struckout swinging.
Ragira contributed to the scoringagain in the sixth inning, singling toleft, stealing second base, advancingon a fielders choice then scoring on awild pitch to make the score 2-0 inStanfords favor.
The Spartans wouldnt go downwithout a fight, though, as theyshowed signs of life in the bottom of the sixth.McArdle was bounced fromthe game after he gave up his only runof the day,which came unearned afterSpartan runners reached base on a
single and an error to start the sixth.The 5.1 innings marked McArdlesbest outing on the mound in over amonth, as he retired 11 straight bat-ters from the second to the fifth in-ning.
Freshman righty A.J. Vanegascame in to relieve McArdle and al-lowed just one run on an RBI singlefrom Spartan right fielder Jason Mar-tin, which cut the lead to 2-1 throughsix.
The Spartans couldnt muster anymore rallies off the Cardinal pitchingstaff, though, as Vanegas respondedwith a shutdown inning in the bottomhalf of the seventh after Stanford hadtacked on another run in the top of the inning on an RBI single fromsophomore center fielder TylerGaffney.
Vanegas then passed the ball toCardinal closer Chris Reed, and theleft-handed junior once again threwdown a dominant performance in thelast two innings, striking out four of the seven batters he faced to snag hisfifth save of the year.
Other than extending the Cardi-nals record to 10-1 in midweekgames this year (a factor that contin-ues to provide a huge boost to theCards postseason chances), the low-scoring win was important for Stan-ford because two players who had
struggled recently McArdle andWilson both had their best days atthe ballpark in quite some time.
McArdle got his first win sinceApril 3 and Wilson went 2-for-3 with awalk. McArdle lost his spot as Stan-fords Sunday starter and had givenup 11 runs over just 11.1 innings of work in his last four appearances onthe mound.Wilson has been in andout of the lineup while fighting hispropensity to whiff at the plate: Wil-sons strikeout total had ballooned tolead the team and the Pac-10 before he was given a few days off.
The Cardinal returns home to faceanother Pac-10 test this weekend,hosting a three-game set against theWashington Huskies at Sunken Dia-mond starting Friday night at 6 p.m.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@ stanford.edu.
BASEBALLContinued from page 6
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Hertler, C. lf 4 1 3 0 Kauppila, L. 2b 4 0 0 0Rodriguez, A. cf 2 0 0 0 Gaffney, T. cf 4 0 1 1Stienstra, D. 1b 4 0 0 0 Piscotty, S. 3b 4 0 0 0Jones, Z. dh 4 0 0 0 Jones, Z. c 4 1 1 0Martin, J. rf 3 0 1 1 Ragira, B. 1b 3 1 1 1Borg, N. ss 3 0 0 0 Guymon, B. lf 3 0 1 0Schulz, N. ph 1 0 1 0 Giuliani, D. ph/lf 1 0 0 0
Christian, T. 3b 3 0 0 0 Diekroeger, K. ss 3 0 0 0DiRocco, M. c 3 0 1 0 Wilson, A. rf 3 0 2 0Carroll, M. ph 1 0 0 0 Sandbrink, D. dh 0 0 0 0
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PitchersStanford IP H R ER BB SOMcArdle, D. W(6-2) 5.1 3 1 0 1 4Vanegas, A. 1.2 3 0 0 0 1Reed, C. S(5) 2.0 1 0 0 0 4San Jose State IP H R ER BB SOPadilla, R. L(8-4) 5.0 3 1 1 3 3LeBaron, E. 1.1 2 2 2 2 0Slaton, D. 2.2 1 0 0 0 1
WP Padilla (9); LeBaron (3); Slaton (3). HBP by McArdle (Martin)by Vanegas (Christian). BK McArdle (1). Pitches/strikes McArdle70/44; Vanegas 35/23; Reed 22/17; Padilla 71/40; LeBaron 33/17;Slaton 29/19.
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STANFORD SMASHES SCU 12-0
JOHN SCHOECH/The Stanford DailyStanford junior center fielder Sarah Hassman drills one of her four hits in yesterdays 12-0 win over SantaClara. The Cardinal downed the Broncos in just five innings and Hassman went 4-for-4 with four runs scored.
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