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IRAQ VOTES B-RUINED

Iraqis go to the ballot box to vote Saturday in Men’s hoops drops 97-63 to UCLA,
pushing Stanford to 3-6 in conference play Sunshine Sunny
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February 2, 2009
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www.stanforddaily.com Volume 235
Issue 1

Red-alert ready
VPUE begins
program cuts
HPACs,PMs and NSO programs first to face the axe
By MARISA LANDICHO to reduce program costs before having to
and KAMIL DADA consider eliminating professional academic
staff and frontline positions,” Bravman
The first wave of budget cuts that will wrote.
have a direct and noticeable effect on the The vice provost explained that he was
undergraduate population was announced confident that with the new academic
by Vice Provost for Undergraduate directors in place in every residential com-
Education John Bravman ‘79 in a Jan. 30 plex with freshmen, and the staff of profes-
letter to the Stanford community. sional advisors located at the Office of
The University’s academic advising pro- Undergraduate Advising and Research
gram will be dramatically pared down — (UAR), the University has a sufficiently
the Head Peer Academic Coordinator strong pre-major advising program.
(HPAC) and Peer Mentor (PM) programs, The letter explained that the VPUE
some New Student Orientation (NSO) derives a majority of its annual operating
programming, some training for residential income from funds invested in Stanford’s
and writing tutors and honorarium to pre- endowment and a smaller percentage from
major advisors will all be cut from the the University’s general funds. Therefore,
budget. the sharp decline in the endowment
Bravman added that he was not pre- strongly affects organizations such as the
ALEX YU/The Stanford Daily senting an exhaustive list of reductions and VPUE.
more may follow. ASSU Executives Jonny Dorsey ‘09 and
The University’s biennial emergency preparedness exercise took place on Friday. Vaden doctors, Stanford Emergency Medical Fagan Harris ‘09 called a Sunday night
“These decisions were made after much
Technicians and volunteer “patients” went through a mock emergency triage process following a simulated 6.9-magnitude earthquake. deliberation and consultation with campus
partners, and they reflect our clear desire Please see BUDGET, page 3

HOUSING STUDENT GOV’T

DAILY POLL
Students react to housing changes Considering the changes in
housing, where would you most
like to live next year?
47 votes taken from stanforddaily.com at 10:43 p.m. 02/01/09
Execs hold
By THOMAS YEH ing spaces. But restructuring these overcrowded rooms
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University’s new Housing

Master Plan, which was revealed last
Friday, was met with mixed emo-
tions among Stanford students and
Resident Fellows (RFs) alike. Given
the complex and multifaceted
nature of the suggested changes,
some details of the proposal have
generated collective approval, while
other aspects have already begun to
stir up controversy.
“It’s a lot to take in, especially
all at once,” said Lovelee Brown
‘11. “There are so many different changes pro-
posed, and I don’t know how I feel about a few
of them.”
Most students, however, did agree on the
benefits of “unstuffing” overcrowded rooms,
voicing support for the steps being taken
toward solving the problem of cramped hous-
Alex Song ‘09, a res-
idential assistant (RA) in
West Lagunita, famous for
its mini-doubles, was
delighted when he first
heard about the proposed
unstuffing.
“I am glad that
West Lag will be a more
accommodating residence
in the future,” Song said.
“As it is now, the rooms are
SHELLY NI/ a bit too small to fit two
The Stanford Daily people in.”
Amanda Garvin ‘09
echoed the same sentiments about her past
experiences in Mirrielees.
“Mirrielees desperately needs to be
unstuffed,” Garvin said. “It’s nearly impossible
to function properly when you have to live
with two other people in the space that’s pro-
vided.”
will significantly affect the composition of
houses and dorms on campus, and many stu-
dents are strongly condemning the shifting
19%
Somewhere
else
32%
The
second
dorm dynamics that this new housing plan Row
entails. A portion of these grievances pertain
to converting the majority of Stern and Wilbur
Halls into all-frosh housing in the University’s
21%
Mierrielees Town Hall
efforts to bring freshmen together. 28%
“I am not happy about the move away from Branner
four-class dorms,” said Mindy Schrag ‘10.
Schrag, who has lived in Soto, a four-class
Students give feedback
dorm in Wilbur, for all three years of her
Stanford career, emphasized the advantages of Today’s Question: on future budget cuts
What do you think of the decision to end the
living with upperclassmen during her first year HPAC/PM program?
on campus.
“As a freshman, it was a great resource to a) This will be a huge loss to Stanford
be able to get to know upperclassmen and ask academic life By ZOE RICHARDS
b) I’m going to have a little more trouble
them about classes or just general advice picking my classes now
about life at Stanford,” Schrag said. “And now, c) This won’t really impact me academically At their second budget-related
as an upperclassman, I love having freshmen d) This was the best spot to start paring down Town Hall meeting in as many
the budget
vote today at stanforddaily.com!
weeks, ASSU President Jonny
Dorsey ‘09 and Vice President Fagan
Please see HOUSING, page 5 Harris ‘09 told students about their
meeting last week with Provost John

COURT
Etchemendy, which both executives
labeled a success.
“We thought it would go well, and
I think it went even better,” Dorsey
said.
The two met with Provost

HARMONY
Harmon lifts Card in win over UCLA
By WYNDAM MAKOWSKY
MANAGING EDITOR
With junior Jayne Appel and
sophomore Jeanette Pohlen strug-
gling, the Stanford women’s basket-
ball team turned to a gritty veteran
and a developing star to lead them
to victory.
Senior Jillian Harmon and soph-
omore Kayla Pedersen provided the
necessary spark in the second half to
give the No. 9 Cardinal a 68-51 win
over UCLA, Sunday at Maples
Pavilion.
After a miserable first 20 min-
utes, when Stanford (17-4, 8-1
Pacific-10 Conference) shot less
than 30 percent from the field and
led the Bruins (14-6, 5-4) by only two
points at the half, the Cardinal went
on a quick 8-2 run to create some
separation, and never looked back
— Stanford’s lead grew to as much
Please see WBBALL, page 6
Etchemendy and the Budget
Committee last Thursday. Friday’s
town hall was intended to maintain
the flow of communication between
students and their elected student
leaders.
Dorsey told students he hoped to
begin the process of clarifying more
concrete cuts the student body feels
would be possible to make as we
2/1 vs. UCLA W 68-51 move towards the budget decisions,
which are currently scheduled to be
made by mid-March.
UP NEXT “One of the areas that you guys
added the most to in this conversa-
WASHINGTON STATE tion was the part about frontline
staff,” Dorsey said. “A lot of the
(9-11, 2-7 Pac-10) other issues are things they would
2/5 Pullman, Wash. have guessed students care about.
7 P.M. It’s a little counterintuitive to the
administrators to say we’d rather
COVERAGE: have these little program funds go to
RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM staff members.”
(kzsu.stanford.edu) “We were pretty nervous going
into the meeting,” Harris said,
GAME NOTES: The Cardinal women are “because the University doesn’t
coming off a solid win over UCLA, have an obligation to listen to the
their fourth consecutive victory. On the student body or the ASSU, and so we
road, Stanford will look to shut down put a lot of thought into our strategy
freshman guard Jazmine Perkins, who moving forward — how can we max-
averages 14.4 ppg for the Cougars. imize our position and leverage to
Despite her youth, Perkins has quickly have constructive input?”
adapted to Pac-10 play, and regis- VIVIAN WONG/The Stanford Daily The two executives said they
tered her first double-double last time
out against Arizona. Sophomore Kayla Pederson (pictured) offered 13 points and nine rebounds to complement senior Jillian
Harmon’s 17 points and nine boards in Stanford’s decisive, 68-51 win over the Bruins this past weekend. Please see TOWN HALL, page 3

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WORLD & NATION

TROUBLE FOR LEADING SHIITE PARTY
Iraqi election
signals change
BRIAN MURPHY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The biggest Shiite party in Iraq once
appeared to hold all the political sway:
control of the heartland, the backing of
influential clerics and a foot in the gov-
ernment with ambitions to take full con-
trol.
But the days of wide-open horizons
could be soon ending for the Supreme
Islamic Iraqi Council, and replaced by
important shifts that could be welcomed
in Washington and scorned in Tehran.
The signs began to take shape Sunday
with hints of the voter mood from
provincial elections.
The broad message — built on Iraqi
media projections and postelection in-
terviews — was that the eventual results
would punish religious-leaning factions
such as the Supreme Council that are
blamed for stoking sectarian violence,
and reward secular parties seen capable
of holding Iraq’s relative calm.
The outcome of the provincial races
will not directly effect Iraq’s national
policies or its balance between Washing-
ton’s global power and Iran’s regional
muscle. But Shiite political trends are
critically important in Iraq, where ma-
jority Shiites now hold sway after the fall
of Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-dominated
regime.
“There is a backlash from Iraqis
against sectarian and religious politics,”
said Mustafa al-Ani, an Iraqi political
analyst based in Dubai, United Arab
Emirates.
Although official results from Satur-
day’s provincial elections are likely still
days away, the early outlines are hum-
bling for The Supreme Council. The
group had been considered a linchpin in
Iraqi politics as a junior partner in the
government that had near seamless po-
litical control in the Shiite south.
Some forecasts point to widespread
losses for the party across the main Shi-
ite provinces. The blows could include
embarrassing stumbles in the key city of
Basra and the spiritual center of Najaf
— hailed as the future capital in the
Supreme Council’s dreams for an au-
tonomous Shiite enclave.
In their place, the big election win-
ners appear to be allies of Prime Minis-
ter Nouri al-Maliki, according to projec-
tions and interviews with political fig-
ures who spoke on condition of
anonymity because official results are
not posted.
It’s a vivid lesson in Iraq’s fluid poli-
tics.
A year ago, al-Maliki looked to be
sinking. Shiite militiamen ruled cities
such as Basra and parts of Baghdad and
rockets were pouring into the protected
Green Zone, which includes the U.S.
Embassy and Iraq’s parliament.
Al-Maliki — with apparent little ad-
vance coordination with the U.S. mili-
tary — struck back. An offensive broke
the militia control in Basra and else-
where in the south. His reputation
turned around.
And many voters appeared happy to
reward his political backers in the elec-
tions for seats on provincial councils,
which carry significant clout with au-
thority over local business contracts,
jobs and local security forces.
“Al-Maliki ended the militiamen’s
reign of terror,” said Faisal Hamadi, 58,
after voting in Basra. “For this he de-
serves our vote.”
The Supreme Council, meanwhile,
appeared to stagger under the weight of
negative baggage.
It was accused of failing to deliver im-
provements to public services in the
south.Also, its deep ties to Iran began to
rub against Iraqis’ nationalist senti-
ments.
The Supreme Council’s leader,Abdul
Aziz al-Hakim, spent decades in Iran
during Saddam’s rule and was allowed
an office-villa in downtown Tehran.
After Saddam’s fall, the Supreme Coun-
cil was Iran’s main political conduit into
Iraq even though the group also devel-
oped ties with Washington.
A Supreme Council lawmaker,
who spoke on condition of anonymity
because of the sensitivity of the issue, ac-
knowledged the election mood was
against them.
“We controlled most provinces in the
An Iraqi girl holds up an ink-stained finger after her parents voted in the country’s
provincial elections in Karabala, Iraq on Saturday. Iraqis passed through heavy secu-
rity to vote in crucial provincial elections.
south, so we were blamed for whatever
went wrong there,” he said.
“The elections gave us an indication
of what will happen in the general elec-
tion late this year,” said the analyst al-
Ani. “Those who lost in this election
have nearly a year to learn their lesson
and change their strategy. They know
now where the Iraqis stand.”
Nationwide turnout in the election
was 51 percent, said Faraj al-Haidari,
Courtesy The Associated Press
chairman of the election commission.
The figure fell short of some optimistic
predictions, but was overshadowed by a
bigger achievement: no serious violence
during the voting.
Associated Press writers SINAN SALA-
HEDDIN and HAMZA HENDAWI in
Baghdad, and QASSIM ABDUL
ZAHRA in Basra contributed to this re-
port.
The World
This Week
Presented by Stanford In Government
Senator: Appointment wouldn’t affect Senate
makeup
President Barack Obama is expected to pick a Republican
senator,Judd Gregg of New Hampshire,as his commerce sec-
retary soon.But officials expect the state’s Democratic gover-
nor, John Lynch, to fill Gregg’s Senate seat with another Re-
publican.
“In other words, whoever is appointed to replace him
would caucus with Senate Republicans, so I think it would
have no impact on the balance of power in the Senate,” Mitch
McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate’s minority leader, told
“Face the Nation” on CBS.
If a Republican is appointed, the Democrats will be no
closer to their goal of holding 60 Senate seats, enough to cut
off Republican filibusters if all Democrats vote together.
They now have 56 votes.Two independents usually vote with
the Democrats, giving them 58 votes. The outcome in a still-
disputed Senate election in Minnesota could bring that to 59
votes.
The Republican expected to get the seat until a new elec-
tion is held in two years is Bonnie Newman, who served as
Gregg’s chief of staff when Gregg was in the House. She is a
veteran of the Reagan White House. Under the deal that has
been worked out, she will not run in the 2010 election.
North Korea warns of possible war with South
Korea
North Korea warned Sunday that South Korea’s con-
frontational policies may trigger a war on the divided penin-
sula, a message coming two days after the communist country
vowed to abandon all peace agreements with its southern
neighbor.
Relations between the two Koreas have been strained
since conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office
nearly a year ago in Seoul, pledging to take a harder line on
the North. Tension heightened Friday when the North said it
was ditching a nonaggression pact and all other peace accords
with South Korea.
Daschle earned $220,000 from healthcare
industry
Tom Daschle collected nearly a quarter of a million dollars
in fees in the last two years speaking to leaders of the industry
President Barack Obama wants him to reform as the admin-
istration’s health secretary.
That was just a portion of the more than $5.2 million the
former South Dakota senator earned as he advised insurers
and hospitals and worked in other industries — real estate,
energy and telecommunications among them, according to a
financial statement filed with the Office of Government
Ethics.
Daschle’s finances are drawing additional scrutiny be-
cause he failed to pay his taxes properly. Although he has
made amends with the government, senators said Sunday
they are awaiting guidance from the committee reviewing
Daschle’s nomination before deciding whether the tax prob-
lem could stall or even derail his confirmation.

GOP leader doubts stimulus will pass
Sen. Mitch McConnell says
stimulus bill could fail in Senate
DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said
Sunday the massive stimulus bill backed by President
Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could go
down to defeat if it’s not stripped of unnecessary
spending and focused more on housing issues and tax
cut.
The Senate version of the bill, which topped out at
nearly $900 billion, is headed to the floor for debate.
The House bill totaled about $819 billion and earned
no Republican votes, even though it easily passed the
Democratic-controlled House.At some point lawmak-
ers will need to compromise on the competing ver-
sions.
McConnell and other Republicans suggested that
the bill needed an overhaul because it doesn’t pump
enough into the private sector through tax cuts and al-
lows Democrats to go on a spending spree unlikely to
jolt the economy. The Republican leader also com-
plained that Democrats had not been as bipartisan in
writing the bill as Obama had said he wanted.
“I think it may be time ... for the president to kind
of get a hold of these Democrats in the Senate and the
House, who have rather significant majorities, and
shake them a little bit and say, ‘Look, let’s do this the
right way,’” McConnell said. “I can’t believe that the
president isn’t embarrassed about the products that
have been produced so far.”
For his part, Obama said he is confident Republi-
cans will come around to support the final version of
the legislation. He and Vice President Joe Biden will
meet with congressional leaders at the White House on
Monday afternoon.
“I am confident that by the time we have the final
package on the floor that we are going to see substan-
tial support, and people are going to see this is a serious
effort. It has no earmarks.We are going to be trimming
out things that are not relevant to putting people back
to work right now,” Obama said.
However, he declined to predict how many Senate
Republicans might switch parties. Biden, a former sen-
ior member of the Senate before his election, similarly
declined to offer predictions last week in an interview
despite his personal phone calls for former colleagues.
Associated Press writer PHILIP ELLIOTT contributed
to this report.
Israel strikes Gaza after militant rocket fire
Israel threatened “harsh and disproportionate”retaliation
after Gaza militants fired at least 10 rockets and mortar shells
across the border Sunday and warplanes later bombed the
area where Hamas smuggles in weapons from Egypt through
tunnels.
Since an unwritten truce ended Israel’s offensive in Gaza
two weeks ago, rocket and mortar fire from the Palestinian
territory ruled by Hamas has increased steadily. Israeli retal-
iation, including brief ground incursions and bombings of
rocket launchers and smuggling tunnels, is also intensifying.
“If there is shooting at residents of the south, there will
be an Israeli response that will be harsh and disproportion-
ate by its nature,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his
Cabinet.
Israel launched its three-week offensive with the aim of
ending years of Hamas rocket fire at southern Israel. It left
nearly 1,300 Palestinians dead, more than half of them civil-
ians, according to Gaza officials. Thirteen Israelis were
killed, including three civilians.
Source:The Associated Press

Steelers win their sixth Super Bowl

BARRY WILNER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The winning play of the Super Bowl
was right out of a schoolyard.
Scamble right, scramble left, find
someone open.
The perfect unscripted ending to a
game of improbable swings.
Their Steel Curtain shredded, Ben
Roethlisberger and Santonio Holmes
improvised the 6-yard touchdown with
35 seconds left that gave the Pittsburgh
Steelers a record-setting sixth Super
Bowl victory, 27-23 over the Arizona
Cardinals on Sunday night.
“Great players step up in big-time
games to make plays,” said Holmes, the
game’s MVP. He said he told Roethlis-
berger that he “wanted to be the guy to
make the plays for this team.”
And he was.
Holmes grabbed the ball with both
arms stretched fully above his head in
the back right corner of the end zone,
his toes barely dragging inbounds. He
fell, sat up and cradled the ball like the
prize it was.
This thriller certainly matched last
year’s upset of the New England Patri-
ots by the New York Giants that ended
with Plaxico Burress’ TD catch — with
35 seconds left, too.
But this one was even wilder. With
the last tension-packed seconds ticking
away, a kneeling Roethlisberger held
coach Mike Tomlin’s hand as Kurt
Warner led one last, but futile, drive.
The Steelers (15-4), winning their
second Super Bowl in four seasons, led
20-7 in the fourth quarter, only to see
Warner and the Cardinals stage a re-
markable rally to go in front 23-20 with
2:37 remaining.
Fitzgerald could only watch from
the sideline as Roethlisberger engi-
neered a 78-yard drive to win it in what
resembled Heinz Field South. With
waves of twirling Terrible Towels turn-
ing Raymond James Stadium into a
black-and-gold tableau — Steelers
fans supporting their beloved team, the
economy be damned — Pittsburgh’s
offense rescued the title.
“I knew it was a touchdown 100 per-
cent,” Holmes said, even though it had
to withstand a video review. “My feet
never left the ground. All I did was
stand up on my toes and extended my
hands.”
And hauled in the pass that punctu-
ated another Pittsburgh championship,
adding to those won in the 1974, ‘75,
‘78, ‘79 and ‘05 seasons.
The stunning swings overshadowed
Pittsburgh linebacker James Harri-
son’s record 100-yard interception re-
turn for a touchdown to end the first
half. That looked like the signature
play until the final quarter, when both
teams shook off apparent knockout
punches to throw haymakers of their
own.
Big Ben and Holmes struck the last
blow, and when Warner fumbled in the
final seconds, the Cardinals’ dream of
winning their first NFL crown since
1947 were gone.
“I’m disappointed for our team,”
said Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt,
the offensive coordinator in Pittsburgh
when the Steelers won the 2005 title.
“This is a group of men that I’m very
proud of. They played very hard in cir-
cumstances where nobody believed in
them.
Harrison, the defensive player of
the year, stepped in front of Boldin at
the goal line, picked off Warner’s throw
and began a journey down the right
sideline that ended as the longest play
in Super Bowl history.
Harrison ran past or through most
of the Cardinals, nearly stepped out of
bounds at one point, and was dragged
down by Fitzgerald as he fell to the goal
line. The play was reviewed as several
Cardinals knelt on one knee, exhausted
from the chase and disheartened by the
result. Courtesy The Associated Press
“Those last couple of yards were Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison is chanced down by Arizona Cardinals’ defense while return-
probably tougher than anything I’ve
done in my life, but probably more ing an interception for a 100-yard touchdown during the second quarter of the NFL Super Bowl XLIII football
gratifying than anything I’ve done in game, Sunday in Tampa, Fla. Harrison ran for the longest play in Super Bowl history. The previous record was
football,” Harrison said. Desmond Howard’s 99-yard kickoff return for Green Bay in 1997.
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ASSU Executives Jonny Dorsey ‘09 and Fagan Harris ‘09 held their second Town Hall meeting in Old Union on Friday. The pair met with students to dis-
cuss future budget cuts and determine which programs are of highest and lowest priorities.
TOWN HALL
Continued from front page
engaged in open discourse with the
Provost, asking whether the student
voice was truly accounted for in
finalizing budget cuts.
“We asked him point-blank: Will
you listen to us? Do you care what
we have to say? And to that he said,
resoundingly, ‘yes’” Harris said.
“[Etchemendy said] that the petition
and the letter to the administration
had already had a great deal of influ-
ence helping them decide where the
priorities of the student body lie.”
According to Dorsey and Harris,
there is much to be learned from the
GSC regarding an appropriate and
effective approach to budget cuts
and student priorities. Both noted
how the GSC formed a consensus on
programs that were of less impor-
tance, and by prioritizing according-
ly, they had a clear influence on
some of the budget decisions that
are already taking effect.
Mililani Trask-Batti ‘10 came to
the ASSU Town Hall for a second
time with a group of other students
sporting matching T-shirts. Trask-
Batti is a member of the Stanford
American Indian Organization
(SAIO) and expressed her concerns
about potential cuts to the Native
American Center.
“Our whole point with the Native
American Center is that it kind of
takes all of the other priorities and
puts it in there so we have issues of
health and wellness that our commu-
nity center offers to students and
frontline staff there that we care lots
about and academics,” she said.
After the first Town Hall meeting
last week, Dorsey and Harris organ-
ized and distributed an online peti-
tion gathering student signatures.
“We did receive quite a bit of crit-
icism regarding the kind of tone of
the letter for the petition, saying that
it was less adversarial [than it should
have been],” Harris said. “We opted
for a course of action that would
place a premium on a cooperative,
constructive relationship with the
Provost.”
“It’s important to note that this
process is happening along two
tracks — there’s the graduate body
and undergraduate body,” Harris
added, “[The budget committee] has
been working with the GSC on a
variety of issues and, to be honest,
they’re a lot further along for a vari-
ety of reasons, so they’re at the point
as of yesterday of presenting specific
programs that they would like to see
protected. And that’s kind of where
we need to get to as an undergradu-
ate body.”
According to the executives,
moving forward requires undergrad-
uates to take on the challenge of fur-
ther honing in on our highest and
lowest priorities.
Angelina Cardona ‘11, executive
cabinet chair of Mental Health
Initiatives, agreed.
“There are still some people that
need to be roped in,” she said.
It’s a zero-sum game because
smaller cuts in some areas mean big-
ger cuts in other programs.
CHRIS SEEWALD/The Stanford Daily
According to Dorsey, true power
comes through defining those areas
of most interest to students, as well
as areas that can afford cuts. He said
that it was important to recognize
that as these cuts are made, students
will equally be held accountable for
the suggestions they make.
In order to clarify student opin-
ions and unify the student voice,
Dorsey emphasized the importance
of students sharing their opinions
with undergraduate senators to set a
collaborative tone.
“Jonny and I are the official rep-
resentatives of the student body, but
again, it’s not up to us to decide
what these agenda items look like
— it’s up to you to decide; you have
elected representation to make that
happen,” Harris said. “This is where
the rubber hits the road; this is
where we kind of roll up our sleeves,
take a hard look at what we’ve got
going on and make some tough
decisions.”
Contact Zoe Richards at iamzoe@
stanford.edu.
Monday, February 2, 2009 N 3
OFF-CAMPUS
Free the Children
launches in the U.S.
Kielburger speaks at
first branch in Palo Alto
By AMY HARRIS
Children, not champagne, herald-
ed the official Palo Alto launch of
Free the Children Friday, a Toronto-
based charity that mobilizes youth
to stop child exploitation.
Craig Kielburger founded the
million-member strong group when
he was just 12 years old, and spoke
to hundreds of Bay Area children,
parents and educators at the cele-
bratory youth rally, which was held
at the Lucie Stern Community
Center.
“If you really want to leave a
legacy, shape how kids view the
world,” Kielburger said. “We are the
generation we’ve been waiting for,
and children are going to make the
difference.”
Free the Children, now in its 14th
year, empowers youth on a domestic
level to be agents of change for
international development.
“We’re trying to combat a gener-
ation of passive bystanders by really
engaging the youth,” Kielburger
said. “We can’t tell young people to
close their eyes to poverty —
instead, we show them how they can
make a difference.”
Free the Children uses funds
raised on a domestic level to finance
programs like Adopt a Village, a
four-pronged approach to funding
education, healthcare, alternative
income projects and water and sani-
tation facilities in more than 16 dif-
ferent countries.
Megha Malpani, a 7th grader
from the Girl’s Middle School in
Mountain View, decided to help a
Kenyan girl receive an education
through Free the Children.
“This girl my age said that the
one thing she wanted in the world
was an education,” Malpani remem-
bered.
Malpani resolved to grant the
Kenyan girl her wish, so she baked
cookies and sold them from her
driveway until she raised $5,000,
enough to build a well in Kenya.
Access to clean water reduces the
burden of chores placed on girls like
Malpani’s friend so that they can go
to school.
Thanks to Malpani and the thou-
sands of other engaged youth,
whose donations account for 65 per-
cent of Free the Children’s funding,
2007 marked the construction of
Free the Children’s 500th school,
giving educational access to more
than 50,000 children every day.
Eva Haller, now on the group’s
U.S. Board of Directors and official
“grandmother” of Free the
Children, has been with the organi-
zation since it began in the base-
ment of the Kielburger’s home. She
was teary-eyed as she explained that
the opening of a U.S. office was fur-
thering “the dream of a 12 year-old
that became truth.”
“When Craig came to me, he had
no money, no image, no brand,”
Haller recalled.
All Craig Kielburger had was a
mission: to stop child labor. When
Kielburger was 12 years old, he
came across an article in The
Toronto Star about Iqbal Masih, a
young Pakistani boy who had been
sold into slavery. Kielburger knew
he had to help, so he rushed to his
7th grade class, assembled his 11
friends, and Free the Children was
born.
Haller and others helped
Kielburger to expand Free the
Children from just 12 members to
the now more than a million partici-
pants. Friday’s move to Palo Alto
marks Free the Children’s commit-
ment to solidify its U.S. presence.
Erin Barton- Ch?ry, director of
development & North American
Please see KIELBURGER, page 5
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But last Thursday at 11 p.m., I made a big
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When Andrea Fuller, our then-editorial
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Love
This column originally ran on Oct. 9, 2008.
f John Lennon were around today, he
I would have a solution for the financial
crisis. “Abandon your bailout plan,” he
would plead to Treasury Secretary Paulson.
“Forget emergency interest rate cuts,” he
would beseech of Federal Reserve Chair-
man Bernanke. “All you need is love,” he
would proclaim. “Love, love, love.”
As complex and confounded as the Trea-
sury bailout plan appears to be, it pales in
comparison to love. Who really under-
stands love? Philosophers have propound-
ed theories. Poets have composed verse. Bi-
ologists have identified hormones and
pheromones. Yet they all remain far from
the answer.
The economist, on the other hand, has all
the answers.When faced with unanswerable
questions, it takes an economist’s incentive-
driven mind to come up with an acceptable
solution. So how would an economist ap-
proach the incomprehensible matter of
love?
Well, for starters, love can be put into
terms an economist can understand. The
American love market, that of dating, is
characterized by anxiety and horror stories,
but also by reservation prices and search
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T HE E CONOMICS OF...
on an individual’s preferences, their “stan-
dards” so to speak.
Those with so-called “high standards”
have high reservation prices and typically
have to search more than those with “low
standards.” That is why your friends with
“high standards” are often not dating any-
one while your friends with “low standards”
are dating three people at the same time.
Once the reservation price is estab-
lished, participants in the market for love
have to incur search costs. The idea is that
dating is the process by which you eventual-
ly find love and live happily ever after.
As you search for love, you incur the
costs associated with dating and, more im-
portantly, failed dates. There are the obvi-
ous monetary costs, like that all-too-fancy
dinner for a girl who wasn’t worth it, that
limo you rented when the subway would
have sufficed or that lavish gift you gave her
that you’re now not getting back — econo-
mists call that one a sunk cost.
Then there are non-monetary costs. Get-
ting over the heartache of a break up, the
memories you shared, the plans you made
together — how can you put a price on that?
Think of the hours of productivity that the
global economy has lost to men and women
lying in bed, claiming they will never love
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left to the reader’s hopefully vivid imagina-
tion (see your PHE if you are unsure).
The economic formula for love is quite
simple. People set their reservation price
and then enter the market, searching for
that special someone, incurring costs and
accruing benefits all the while. Depending
on the level of the reservation price, and the
respective costs and benefits, an equilibri-
um is established.
That equilibrium is reached at 27 years
of age and three partners, on average, ac-
cording to the Michigan Institute for Social
Research. Now, if you have a high reserva-
tion price because you are picky, high
search costs because you are demanding
and low benefits because you never have
time, then your equilibrium will be reached
at a later age and with fewer partners.Think
over-achieving Stanford students.
If John Lennon were around today, he
would not approve of this capitalistic por-
trayal of love. “Reservation prices, search
costs, equilibrium,” he would exclaim in a
panic. “Love is all you need,” he would de-

All sung out costs. Finding a partner bears a striking re-

semblance to shopping for a plane ticket.
First, an individual sets their reservation
price. This is the absolute minimum they
again. Forget interest rate cuts — we should
be handing out copies of “Blood on the
Tracks” to boost the economy.
The search for love is not just about
clare. And maybe a girl with kaleidoscope
eyes.

Kunal Khanna is currently searching for love.

would be willing to accept in their potential costs, though. There are many, many bene- If you’d like to aid in the search, please contact
This column originally ran on Jan. 21, 2009. partner. The reservation price is set based fits — far too many to discuss, so they are him at kunalk09@stanford.edu.
am not a fan of a cappella.For those of you

I who (somehow) don’t know, a cappella is

the tradition of taking perfectly good
songs and rearranging them so that people
sing all the parts that our forebears’ designed
instruments do much, much better. Stanford
(somehow) has nine of these groups.
Based on science, a cappella began in the
time of cavemen, when our primitive ances-
tors would harmonize their rudimentary
caveman utterances into a sound so vile that
it could take down a stegosaurus from 50
paces.How were cavemen and stegosauruses,
creatures separated by 150 million years,
around at the same time? Ask Testimony.
(For those of you who play drinking games
to my columns, “Testimony” should be the
top “buzzed-word” on your list for today.)
Now, some may say that my dislike of a
cappella stems from the fact that my own
singing voice sounds like a cross between Bob
Dylan’s and some sort of cat pinned down by
a tractor. However, my sense of jealousy ac-
counts for no more than 15 percent of my an-
tipathy. From two songs into the first Fleet
Street performance I saw at Admit Weekend,
I knew that I disliked a cappella,with its over-
dramatic soloists and its progressively less
ironic use of beatboxing.
But unfortunately, a cappella has bur-
rowed itself deep into the intestines of Stan-
ford like no other system of groups here have.
Take, for example,The O Show — a ceremo-
ny that essentially serves as a showcase for all
nine a cappella organizations and one or two
other performance groups. Not only is having
such a show unfair to the hundreds of other
groups we have on this campus,it’s also unfair
to the hundreds of innocent freshmen who sit
through it in an already very busy orientation
week.
Additionally, whenever dorms need
someone to perform for parents, dorm shows
or ProFros, a cappella groups are normally at
the top of their lists.Why not a dance troupe,
or, much cooler, a rock band? At least with a
rock band,you can stand up and dance;with a
cappella shows, you try to remember the
songs as you once loved them as you pray for
the whiskey you snuck in to hit soon.
More frightening, unless you stop them, a
cappella groups will multiply. For every
singer given a spot in a group, three others
are jilted (This is an estimate. No one wants
to fess up to being rejected by Mixed Co.).
Nursing their wounds, these members re-
group into an even worse a cappella troupe,
calling themselves something revolting like
“the Harmonics.”
Now, this is not an attack on members of a
cappella groups — I count many (or, at least,
once counted many, depending on how many
people read this column) as friends, and I’m
happy to see people really enjoying them-
selves in performances after spending count-
less hours charting and learning to sing diffi-
cult songs. But why do we need nine different
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Webb
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groups do more collaborative shows? The
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Or maybe I’d like to see other groups on
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in school events.We could have fewer rollouts
with Fleet Street singing in the lounge, and
more with Stanford Taiko pounding the hell
out of drums. That’s sure to put a kick in any
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or if you’re a member of a group,that’s fantas- Why write a column? To be funny. To share your wisdom. To give your perspective on campus life, national politics, or global issues. Or just
tic — I hope you’ll keep doing what you love to see yourself in print!
and won’t hate me for writing this. But if you
don’t fall into either of those categories,know What are we looking for? We like columnists who have a theme to their writing (politics, the environment, etc.) and ones that tackle a
that it’s OK not to like everything.
Even Testimony.
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importantly, we like columnists who talk about campus issues and student life, provoke people to think, and entertain Daily readers.
Send Kevin angry emails at ktwebb@stanford.edu,
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HOUSING
Continued from front page
in the dorm. They’re so much more
friendly and willing to meet people,
and there’s just a higher energy in
the dorm with them around.”
Even some advocates of the all-
freshman dorm experience have
been reluctant to accept the pro-
posed changes. Much of this con-
troversy stems from the potential
fate of Branner. News of convert-
ing the all-frosh dorm into housing
for upperclassmen has been met
with much criticism.
“It’s not only freshmen; it’s the
concept of 200 freshmen,” said cur-
rent Branner resident Christian
Smith ‘12. “It’s a very large concen-
tration of people who are going
through the same thing you are.
And it’s unfortunate that freshmen
in the future won’t be able to have
a really huge, really nice house like
Branner to experience that in.”
Branner alumna Sarah Lee ‘10
agreed.
“Branner’s infamous reputation
was one of the most memorable
parts of my freshman year,” Lee
said. “Getting rid of it is erasing a
big part of a Stanford tradition.
Putting upperclassmen in Branner
won’t make Branner what it is.”
Despite some initial misgivings,
Branner RFs Clyde Moneyhun and
Nancy Buffington have accepted
their roles in the conversion.
“When Nancy and I applied to
be RFs, we specified a freshman
house,” Moneyhun explained.
“When I first heard about
Branner’s shift to upperclassmen, I
took some time to adjust to the idea
. . . but Nancy and I are now dedi-
cated to making Branner the best
upper-class dorm on the campus.
We’re still feeling our way, but we
expect the residents and staff will
teach us what we need to know.”
Florence Moore RF Patrick
Young expressed similar emotions
about the prospective decrease in
freshmen living in West Flo.
“We’re losing about 110 frosh,
and as a designated ‘swing space,’
we will probably be left with about
50 frosh in a normal year,” Young
said. “I really love working with
frosh, and I’m really sad to see
them go, but by and large, I think
these changes are good for the
University.”
“Honestly, my life will probably
be a lot easier for obvious reasons,”
he added. “I’m committed to help-
ing with the transition and making
sure this goes smoothly. I’ve already
got different ideas on what we can
do with the dorm next year.”
Students are awaiting more con-
crete details as the administration
moves forward with plans. This also
includes updates on a proposed
reform of the Draw system that will
allegedly guarantee better housing
options for upperclassmen.
“I think the three-tiered draw
system is a good idea because it
makes things more fair,” Schrag said.
Song, on the other hand, is a bit
more skeptical.
“I would like to get more details
about the new system,” Song said.
“However, I think a plan taking
into account seniority may be an
interesting change.”
Moneyhun sees the bigger pic-
ture, though, and he understands
the motivation behind the new
plan.
“Change is hard, and some of the
changes in the new housing plan are
pretty sweeping,” he said. “Even so,
I think reaction has been fairly pos-
itive among people who understand
the goals behind the plan: unstuff
overcrowded houses, create
improved housing for upperclass-
men — which all students will be
eventually — and concentrate more
freshmen in all-frosh houses, which
the majority of both incoming frosh
and outgoing alumni consistently
say they prefer for the first year.”
Contact Thomas Yeh at thomasy@
stanford.edu.

KIELBURGER BUDGET
Continued from page 3
programming with Free the
Children, believes Palo Alto will be
an “incubator” for Free the
Children.
“Palo Alto is such a supportive
community, and we already have
FTC programs within the schools to
work with,” Barton-Chery said. “I
really see us expanding here.”
Indeed, the Palo Alto communi-
ty actively recruited Free the
Children to establish its U.S. base in
the Bay Area. Libby Heimark, a
Palo Alto resident and active Free
the Children member, attended a
trip to Kenya in 2007 with
Kielburger and decided that Free
the People needed Bay Area repre-
sentation.
“I thought, what an incredible
movement,” she said. “We have so
many interested donors on the West
coast. Free the People should come
here.”
With an office now in Palo Alto,
Barton-Ch?ry says Free the
Children will be exploring partner-
ships with Stanford University.
“It’s such a rewarding experi-
ence,” Haller said with misty eyes.
“The people we help give us more
than we can ever give to them. How
can you ever give enough?”
Contact Amy Harris at harrisaj@
stanford.edu.
Continued from front page
meeting with members of the
Undergraduate Senate to decide
the next steps in the budget advo-
cacy process. Senators Luukas Ilves
‘09, Yvorn “Doc” Aswad-Thomas
‘11 and Senate Chair Shelley Gao
‘11 attended the brief meeting.
ASSU President Jonny Dorsey
‘09 said the cuts were unfortunate,
but necessary.
“I think the reality is that no
matter what these cuts are, they are
going to be sad and hard for the
community,” he said. “The cuts are
going to suck, but I really appreci-
ate that they took our input into
account.”
Aswad-Thomas was more hesi-
tant to embrace the first wave of
budget cuts. He particularly dis-
agreed with the elimination of
HPACs.
“My HPAC and I were buddies,
but all that aside, I think they pro-
vide a valuable resource to the
community,” he said.
Siding with Bravman, Ilves said
the HPAC program never had a
defined purpose to begin with.
“A junior or senior majoring in
god knows what is not the best-
placed person to give specific
advice on your academic career,”
he said. Ilves supported the deci-
sion to instead rely upon academic
directors.
Although the Senate already
endorsed four main principles —
academics, wellness, community
centers and frontline staff —
Dorsey and Harris called for the
Senate to make more concrete rec-
ommendations.
“The GSC came with very spe-
cific concrete programs and cuts
for those programs,” said Harris.
“[The Provost] was very receptive
to that.”
Dorsey recognized that the
GSC had a smaller number of pro-
grams to consider, but he wanted
the Senate to make the effort to
specify in future advocacy efforts.
The question for discussion,
then, was how to best narrow down
the four broad principles into actu-
al program cuts.
Expressing the need for more
upperclassmen input, Ilves pro-
posed holding a closed meeting of
select juniors and seniors to hold a
policy discussion. Termed a
“Student Expert Consultant
Meeting” by Aswad-Thomas, the
session will be held next week and
mediated by a GSC member.
Students will also be asked to
give ongoing feedback through the
ASSU Web site.
The details of budget advocacy
will be discussed at Tuesday’s
Senate meeting, along with a fur-
ther discussion of executive and
legislative roles.
Contact Marisa Landicho at landi-
cho@stanford.edu and Kamil Dada
at kamild@stanford.edu.

CORNERSTONE RESEARCH
6 N Monday, February 2, 2009 The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
LACKLUSTER IN L.A. Denis
Griffin
Rants and Raves

Goods’ 15 points can’t save

the Card in crushing defeat No rush at
By DENIS GRIFFIN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
the
The Cardinal men came into this weekend of road play in
Southern California with the knowledge that time was running
out for them to find the kind of statement road win that could
help boost them into the NCAA Tournament. They left it with
Super Bowl
their backs absolutely against the wall.
here was no way it was really
Stanford (13-6, 3-6 Pacific-10 Conference) first suffered an-
other heartbreaking defeat by just one point on Thursday night
against USC, 70-69. Then, on Saturday afternoon, the Cardinal
was hammered by
T happening, was there? The
Pittsburgh Steelers and Ari-
zona Cardinals, battling in a way that
was more than a respectable follow-
a 17th-ranked Bru-
ins squad. UCLA
MEN’S BASKETBALL up to last year’s epic upset victory by
poured it on in the 1/31 vs. No. 17 UCLA L 97-63 the New York Giants over the 19-1
second half to de- AFC Champion New England Patri-
feat Stanford by a ots. It was a game that carried a magic
34-point margin, UP NEXT all its own, that much is undeniable to
any who watched it. But more than
97-63.
that, it was a game that carried its
The Bruins (17-
4, 6-2) particularly
WASHINGTON STATE own message.
dominated Stan- (19-9, 4-5 Pac-10) Last year, the story was a simple
ford early in the 2/5 one — no matter how high-flying an
Maples Pavilion offense may be, no matter how many
second half. Se- 7:30 P.M.
nior guard Antho- points it is capable of putting on the
ny Goods hit a COVERAGE: board, so long as your defensive line
three-pointer to TV is simply better than their offensive
start the half off line, as the Giants’ DL was to the Pa-
well for the Cardi- RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM triots’ front that day, you can win.
nal and bring the (kzsu.stanford.edu) Simply stated, Tom Brady can’t
score to 41-33 in throw touchdowns to Wes Welker,
favor of UCLA. GAME NOTES: Stanford has dropped to ninth in the Randy Moss, or anyone else if he’s on
But that would be Pac-10 with three consecutive losses. After a demor- his back.
all the excitement alizing loss to UCLA in Los Angeles, the This year, we were treated to the
Stanford would Cardinal looks to rebound on its home floor against corollary to that lesson: a great pass-
see for some time, Washington State. Stanford lost to the Cougars in ing attack may not be unbeatable, but
as roughly seven Pullman, 55-54, but hopes to overtake redshirt senior man is it nice.
and a half minutes Taylor Rochestie (12.6 ppg) and his teammates this The Cardinals may have lost Super
later, with 12:26 time around. Bowl XLIII (that’s 43 to the non-Ro-
remaining, the mans among us), but if it weren’t for
Bruins led 69-38, a deficit from which Stanford had no chance the aerial assault of Larry Fitzgerald
to recover. and Anquan Boldin, orchestrated by
“This was more disappointing than the close losses,” Goods the master of the three-ring aerial cir-
told The San Francisco Chronicle after the game. “We actually cus, Kurt Warner, it wouldn’t have
fought against USC.” even been close.And does anyone re-
It was a familiar foe that truly victimized the Cardinal once ally doubt that the Cardinals were ca-
again in Los Angeles, as UCLA point guard Darren Collison pable of scoring again, if only there
proved once again why he’s the best in the conference. Collison had been more time?
disrupted the Cardinal offense at every turn, applying consistent But in case you didn’t notice, the
pressure on the ball and scoring 15 on the afternoon. Steelers weren’t exactly a power rush-
“Darren Collison played terrific on-the-ball defense,” UCLA ing team in this one, either. Indeed, a
coach Ben Howland told The Chronicle after the game.“Our de- franchise known for its legacy of
fensive intensity starts with him, and so does our intensity on of- smash-mouth football gained just 58
fense.” yards on the ground, with a 2.2 yards
In part because of Collison’s pressure, Stanford senior point per carry average. The birds from the
guard Mitch Johnson, who was so sorely missed a week ago in the desert weren’t much better, rushing
Cardinal’s loss to Oregon State, committed six turnovers against for just 33 yards on a slightly better 2.8
the Bruins. yards per carry average.
Goods was the only player to reach double-digits offensively No, what this year signaled was
against UCLA, scoring 15 points in 28 minutes and going 3-for-6 something much different from last
from three-point range. Junior Landry Fields was the next most year’s reminder that a good pass rush
effective player for Stanford, even though he went 4-13 from the can beat a good rushing attack. It sig-
field and had nine points in the game. naled that you don’t need to be able to
Collison, meanwhile, was joined by four other Bruins in dou- run the ball to be a great team any-
ble digits, as guard Jrue Holiday and center Alfred Aboya tied more.
VIVIAN WONG/The Stanford Daily Really, we should have seen this
Senior Anthony Goods was the only Cardinal player to reach double figures (15 points) in a brutal 97-63 loss at UCLA. With coming.When is the last time a grind it
Please see MBBALL, page 8 the loss, which gives the Card a 3-6 Pac-10 record, Stanford’s hopes for an NCAA berth look grim. out, power running offense won the
Super Bowl? True, balanced attacks,
like those of the Patriots and Giants,

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as 20 as the game wound down.
“It wasn’t necessarily a thing of beauty,” said
Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer.
“We did what we needed to,” Harmon added.
For the first half, UCLA was able to largely
stymie Stanford’s attack, holding Appel scoreless
and keeping all of the Cardinal out of double dig-
its.While the Bruins didn’t fare much better offen-
sively, they were able to establish a semblance of
rhythm with guard Erica Turkiainen.The junior hit
all of her shots, including two from behind the arc,
to lead all scorers at the break.At 25-23, the game
was entirely up for grabs.
But the Cardinal came out strong in the second
half, and the defensive rotations that the Bruins
used effectively at the start of the game — which
were predicated on hounding Stanford’s shooters
and ball handlers — began to break down.
“We had a let-down in intensity,” said UCLA
coach Nikki Caldwell. “The defensive scheme
went out the window.”
At the same time, the Cardinal’s aggressiveness
picked up.
“No one panicked,” Harmon said. “We never
want to lose at home.”
In particular, Stanford ran the floor well, with
Harmon asserting herself on the wing. She led all
scorers with 17 points,many of which came in tran-
sition, but her biggest contribution may have been
on the glass — she had seven offensive rebounds,
which directly contributed to Stanford’s 20-6 sec-
ond-chance points advantage.
“I believe that was the difference in the game,”
Caldwell said in reference to the Cardinal’s offen-
sive rebounding prowess. “The second opportuni-
ties Stanford got shifted the momentum their
way.”
Harmon and Pedersen essentially played the
entire game, with Pedersen contributing 13 points
and nine rebounds of her own. Nine of her points
came on three-pointers,as the sophomore forward
continues to develop her game.While she was used
almost entirely as a power forward last season,
Pedersen has begun playing small forward in 2009,
VIVIAN WONG/The Stanford Daily allowing her to be more active on the floor.
“Kayla really helped us with her three-point
Senior Jillian Harmon offered seven offensive rebounds in the Cardinal’s fouth consecutive shooting,” VanDerveer said. “I like how Kayla’s
victory. Those O-boards helped Stanford outscore UCLA 20-6 on second chances. playing the three.”
“I’m getting used to getting out and running,”
Pedersen said.
With the 6-foot-4 Pedersen assuming her new
role, VanDerveer is able to go more often with a
bigger lineup, often inserting freshmen Sarah
Boothe and Nnemkadi Ogwumike to complement
Harmon, Pedersen and Appel.
Ogwumike was particularly effective on Sun-
day, recording a double-double with 11 points and
10 rebounds.
Her presence was especially necessary in light
of Appel’s and Pohlen’s struggles — they com-
bined to go 8-25 shooting and 0-7 from the free-
throw line.
But VanDerveer was able to find a silver lining
in their performances as other players stepped up
to fill the void.
“It wasn’t Jayne’s A-game,” she said.“But if she
didn’t have her A-game a year ago, we were up a
creek.”
Caldwell echoed her counterpart’s point.
“They do a good job of balancing their attack,”
she said. “They have Batman, Robin and Batgirl.
They have so many options on offense.”
While Pedersen and Ogwumike were valuable
contributors on Sunday, much of the credit went to
Harmon for her relentless play on both offense
and defense. The senior veteran’s constant motor
has endeared her to the Maples faithful for years,
and has earned her the praise of both her coach
and her opponent.
“We need our team to be scrappy and aggres-
sive,”VanDerveer said.“That’s Jill’s signature.”
“She is the glue to their team,” Campbell
added. “She stepped up offensively and was solid
on the boards.”
With wins over USC and UCLA this weekend,
Stanford is now 8-1 at the halfway point of its Pac-
10 schedule. The women will face the Washington
schools at home this weekend, and will have the
chance for revenge against No. 7 Cal, who stand
one game above Stanford in the conference stand-
ings after their Jan. 18 win over the Cardinal in
Berkeley. The two teams meet again on Valen-
tine’s Day at Maples.
Contact Wyndam Makowsky at makowsky@stan-
ford.edu.
have won recently. And pass-first
teams that can throw the ball, but
aren’t the most effective rushing of-
fenses, have both won and been in
contention for winning it plenty in re-
cent years. But ground-based attacks?
Well, the last one of those to triumph
was probably the Ravens in 2000, and
that win was really due more to the
strength of their defense than to the
legs of Jamal Lewis.
So, really, this is a trend we should
have picked up on before. But some-
thing was different this time around
— neither one of these teams even
made the pretense of relying on their
respective rushing attacks in this
game. No, this one was all about how
healthy Hines Ward was and whether
Ben Roethlisberger was over his con-
cussion. About how the Steelers sec-
ondary would deal with All-World
Arizona WR Larry Fitzgerald, and
how Warner’s line would protect him
from the Steelers rush that would
surely be coming for him. It was a
game about the passing attacks and
about what the opposing defenses
would do to stop it.
How many times did we hear Tim
Hightower’s name? Willie Parker’s or
Edgerrin James’? Contrast that with
the quarterbacks, the receivers, the
defensive stars and you’ve got to won-
der: where exactly did the run-first
philosophy go?
It’s a question that might have Car-
olina and Tennessee fans scratching
their heads right about now. Both had
dominant rushing attacks and defens-
es during the regular season. Neither
made its way to the game that really
mattered. It’s a question we might ask
Russ Grimm,Arizona’s assistant head
coach. Grimm himself is a former
member of one of the most famed of-
fensive lines of all time, the Hogs, who
paved the way for the Washington
Redskins ground game in the 1980s,
and now he coaches an offensive line
that’s all about keeping its quarter-
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Men’s Volleyball
Stanford finds a second life
A new lineup gives Card
win over Long Beach State
By JACOB JAFFE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
There really is no place like home
for the Stanford men’s volleyball
team.
After starting the season with
eight road matches, the No. 6 Cardi-
nal (7-3, 3-2 Mountain Pacific Sports
Federation) finally returned home
this weekend. On Friday night, in
front of a raucous crowd in Maples
Pavilion, the Cardinal engineered a
massive comeback to edge No. 7
Long Beach State in five sets — 26-
30, 24-30, 33-31, 31-29, 15-8. In the
third set, it appeared the Cardinal
could get swept for the third match in
a row, but the Stanford defense was
up to the task, and the Cardinal
fought off all three match points by
Long Beach State.
“Blocking has been a huge im-
provement this year for us,” said jun-
ior setter Kawika Shoji. “It was cru-
cial down the stretch in fighting off
match points on Friday. [Freshman
middle blocker] Gus Ellis had a great
blocking night.”
Ellis had a team- and season-high
11 blocks in the match, and Stanford
had 18.5 blocks overall, 7.5 more
than it had in its past two matches
combined (both losses).
The star performer for Stanford,
though, was clearly outside hitter
Brad Lawson. The freshman had 27
kills, more than doubling his career
high of 13 kills, and nine more than
any other Stanford player has had all
year. He also had an ace, 11 digs and
hit an astounding .438 for the match,
including two kills to save match
Women’s Swimming and Diving
A splash of confidence
By ZACH ZIMMERMAN
DESK EDITOR
The Stanford women’s swimming
and diving team headed into their
last home meet with a chance to put
any questions about Pacific-10 Con-
ference superiority to rest. Unfortu-
nately for UCLA and USC, that is
exactly what they did.
The No. 2 Cardinal (19-0, 6-0 Pac-
10) continued its dominance on Fri-
day by demolishing the No. 20
UCLA Bruins 166.5-125.5. The meet
at Avery Aquatic Center showcased
a multitude of Stanford’s talents.
However, no story was more capti-
vating than senior Caroline Bruce’s
return from injury.
Bruce, a 13-time All-American
and seven-time NCAA champion,
competed on Friday for the first time
since the 2008 NCAA Champi-
onships. Her time away from the
water did not appear to hamper her
ability, as she won the 100-meter
breaststroke for Stanford.
“Despite all the setbacks the past
couple of years [Bruce] has had to go
through, she pushed past all the ob-
stacles and never lost her heart and
passion for the sport,” freshman An-
gela Duckworth said. “I would love
to personally commend her for her
passion, commitment, and persever-
ance to the sport of swimming.”
Junior Caroline Liu also compet-
ed for the first time this season. She
recorded points for the Cardinal with
a second place performance in the
200-meter backstroke, and led off for
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points.
Shoji summed it up best: “Brad
Lawson was phenomenal.”
Head coach John Kosty mixed up
the lineup after two lackluster per-
formances against USC and Pepper-
dine, starting three players for the
first time this season: junior outside
hitter Jason Palacios, freshman setter
Evan Barry and senior libero Jarod
Keller. Lawson, Ellis, senior middle
blocker Brandon Williams and soph-
omore outside hitter Spencer
McLachlin joined the three newcom-
ers for the first two sets.
Kosty hoped to provide a spark by
sitting his All-American setter, jun-
ior Kawika Shoji, leading digger
freshman libero Erik Shoji and kill
leader junior outside hitter Evan
Romero for nearly all of the first two
sets. When the new starting lineup
could not get the job done in the first
two sets, Kosty inserted Romero and
both Shojis in the third set. With the
usual starters back in the lineup, the
Cardinal had more of an edge to its
play.
“I admit I was pretty fired up,”
Romero told reporters after the
game. “It was one of those situations
where you have no choice but to go
for it all.”
As the match progressed, the Car-
dinal defense tightened, and Long
Beach State’s hitting percentage
dropped in each set from a high of
.415 in the first set to a low of .111 in
the fifth and deciding set. The Cardi-
nal offense, on the other hand, used
the lineup change in the third set to
come back from poor hitting in the
first two sets and outhit Long Beach
State in each of the final three sets,
culminating in a .667 hitting percent-
age in the final set.
Coming off such a hard-fought
and emotional match, the Cardinal
had no time to rest. Saturday night, it
Stanford’s “A” team in the 4x100
freestyle relay.
Stanford looked very impressive
against the Bruins, recording first
place finishes in the first eight events
of the meet, and 10 of the first 11.
“This just shows
that the team bond
is always present.”
— ANGELA
DUCKWORTH,
freshman swimmer
Moreover, the freshmen swim-
mers for the Cardinal gained valu-
able experience in the win over the
Bruins. Freshmen Betsy Webb and
Sam Woodward, along with Duck-
worth, each won an individual event
for Stanford, and the upperclassmen
followed suit for the rest of the meet.
“Winning is such a great feeling
especially with the whole team be-
hind you,” Duckworth said. “We
have so much talent on the team,
starting with the seniors all the way
down to the freshmen.”
Stanford diving also failed to dis-
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faced off against unranked MPSF
foe UC-San Diego in Burnham
Pavilion in front of another wild
crowd.
The Cardinal dominated the first
two sets, winning 30-25 and 30-23, in-
cluding a .548 hitting percentage in
the first set. But just when it looked
like the Cardinal would easily sweep
the overmatched Tritons, Stanford
ran into some problems, particularly
in serving.
“We got a little complacent after
two [sets], especially in the serving
aspect of the match, and they took
the momentum,” Shoji said.
This complacency and poor hit-
ting opened the door for UC-San
Diego to take the third set, 30-28.The
Cardinal’s poor serving was bal-
anced out by even poorer serving by
the Tritons, who had 25 service errors
to Stanford’s 16. This helped Stan-
ford take the last set 30-28 — the
final point of the match was fittingly
a service error by UC-San Diego.
The Cardinal led the Tritons in
just about every category, outhitting
them .361-.294, outdigging them 38-
30 and outblocking them 12.5-6.
Stanford was led by Romero’s 18
kills and Kawika Shoji’s 52 assists.
The weekend was important for
the Cardinal after a poor start to the
MPSF season.
“This weekend was huge for us,”
Shoji said. “We needed to get two
wins and stop the slide.We have good
momentum heading into a tough
week.”
The Cardinal will head to South-
ern California to take on MPSF pow-
ers UCLA and UC-Irvine before re-
turning home for matches on Feb. 13
and Feb. 14 against Pepperdine and
USC, respectively.
Contact Jacob Jaffe at jwjaffe@stan-
ford.edu.
appoint. Following the lead of stand-
out junior Carmen Stellar, the Cardi-
nal swept the 1-meter and 3-meter
competitions. Sophomore Meg
Hostage followed close behind,
recording second place finishes in
both diving events.
Saturday’s meet was a slightly dif-
ferent story, as the Cardinal faced a
much tougher opponent in No. 12
USC. The Women of Troy were
ahead 116-110 after 12 events and
poised to upset Stanford at home.
However, the Cardinal refused to let
its most veteran swimmers lose on
Senior Day, and had just enough in
the tank for a final push. Stanford
pulled away late to win the meet 163-
137.
Stanford junior and Beijing
medal-winner Elaine Breeden ignit-
ed Stanford with a victory in the 13th
event, the 100-meter butterfly. Fel-
low juniors Kelley Hug and Nilasha
Ghosh came in second and fourth,
respectively, in the same race.
Most important for Stanford,
however, was the sweep of the 200-
meter individual medley, in which
Olympian and junior Julia Smit, out-
standing sophomore Liz Smith, and
Breeden finished first, second, and
third, respectively.
Stanford clinched the victory over
USC with a win by the “A” team in
the 400 freestyle relay.
The Cardinal victory would not
have been possible against USC
without another solid performance
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MBBALL
Continued from page 6
the point guard’s 15 points. Mean-
while, Josh Shipp added 11 and
Michael Roll added 12 from off the
UCLA bench.
Stanford now finds itself in a par-
ticularly dire situation — ninth in
Pac-10 standings, ahead of only
Oregon’s 0-9 conference record. A
truly disastrous losing streak, begin-
ning with the loss to the Beavers a
week ago Saturday, has put any
hopes of Stanford reaching the
NCAA Tournament on life support.
The Cardinal would need to go 6-3
over its remaining nine conference
games just to finish .500 in confer-
ence play.
On the bright side for the Cardi-
nal, the team now has just five road
contests remaining this year:
against California, Oregon State,
Oregon, Arizona State and Ari-
zona. But this late in the season,
that positive comes with the caveat
that the Stanford men could still
use that statement road win to have
a shot at convincing members of
the selection committee that they
deserve a spot in the tournament.
That, of course, assumes that Stan-
ford is able to play well enough
down the stretch to merit consider-
ation.
“We know what the problem is
— we’re not defending,” Goods
told The Chronicle. “We’re starting
from scratch.”
The Stanford men will need to do
just that in order to be ready for
Washington State and Washington
this week. The Cardinal faces the
Cougars Thursday night at 7:30 p.m.
in a rematch of Jan. 10’s 55-54 heart-
breaker in Pullman, which was a big
part of the Cardinal’s current down-
ward spiral.
The loss in Los Angeles was one
of the worst in Stanford history, and
is tied for the program’s worst mar-
gin of defeat in the last 16 years. It
was a loss that head coach Johnny
Dawkins told The Chronicle was
undoubtedly the worst of the year
so far.
“Usually, you can find some pos-
itive,” he said, “but I don’t think we
played well in any category.”
Contact Denis Griffin at djgriff@stan-
ford.edu.
GRIFFIN
Continued from page 6
back upright.The Cardinals didn’t re-
ally make much headway on the
ground this year — they were dead
last in rushing during the regular sea-
son.
Whoever you ask, remember, the
rushing game certainly isn’t dead.
You can tell because a good defense
still needs to be able to stop the run.
But from all appearances, it may just
be on life support.
Denis Griffin just cried after looking at
the wide receiver and quarterback
corps of his 49ers. Send him tissues at
djgriff@stanford.edu.
SWIM
Continued from page 7
by the divers. For the second day in
the row, Stellar and Hostage led the
way for the team. Hostage set a sea-
son-high score in the 1-m event, and
Stanford divers finished second
through fourth in the 3-meter.
The two wins this weekend
marked 18 consecutive Pac-10 dual
meet victories for the Cardinal. The
team has now won 40 of its last 41
head-to-head competitions and is a
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constant presence atop the national
standings.
“As long as I have known about
Stanford swimming and diving, the
team has been strong,” Duckworth
said. “This just shows that the team
bond is always present due to the
successful, optimistic, and passion-
ate women on the team.”
Stanford has a final Pac-10 dual
meet at Cal on February 14 before
heading off to the Pac-10 Champi-
onships in Washington on February
25-28.
Contact Zach Zimmerman at zachz@
stanford.edu.