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AT KNIGHT,GSB
SETTLES IN
Staff begins move to new site
By MATT BETTONVILLE
Four of the eight buildings in the rising
Knight Management Center, new home to
the Graduate School of Business (GSB),
opened this month and nearly 150 staff mem-
bers have moved in. The remainder of the fa-
cility is scheduled to open in March.
The four buildings now in use include
three buildings on Serra Street and one on
Arguello Way, all of which consist of ground-
floor classrooms and faculty offices in upper
floors.
Primarily administrative staff has transi-
tioned to Knight, including executive educa-
tion, admission, external-relations and
human-resources staff, said Kathleen Ka-
vanaugh, Knight Management Center pro-
gram director. Some classes have moved to
the new facility.
The Knight Management Center project
was a response to a new GSB curriculum that
launched in fall 2007 calling for more classes
held in smaller settings.Whereas the old GSB
facility consisted mostly of 70- to 80-student,
tiered-row classrooms, the Knight Center fea-
tures smaller and more intimate rooms to ac-
commodate this change in curriculum.
“The Knight Management Center has
many more of these different-sized class-
rooms where you can reconfigure the room
and do lots of different, more experiential
projects and more seminar-style classes,” Ka-
vanaugh said.
Faculty and students now using the facility
praise Knight’s modern equipment as well as
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its environment and decor. The overall setup
of the buildings has changed to allow for bet- Four buildings in the Knight Management Center, the new home of the Graduate School of
ter lighting. Business, opened this month. The facility is located at the intersection of Serra Street and
“There’s a natural light everywhere. It Campus Drive East.
strikes me as a much more welcoming envi-
ronment for learning,” said Derrick Bolton, (LEED) Platinum certification, the highest involved in the project later this year.
GSB assistant dean and director of M.B.A. level of environmental sustainability certifi- The construction budget for the center was
admission, in an e-mail to The Daily. “It re- cation that the U.S. Green Building Council $345 million, according to Kavanaugh.
flects, and even enhances, the GSB’s focus on (USGBC) awards, Kavanaugh added. The The cost “will come in under that,” said
collaboration and innovation.” USGBC has already approved the design of Kavanaugh. “The question now is just how
The complex is on track to receive Leader- the complex for LEED Platinum, and the
ship in Energy and Environmental Design GSB will submit a report on the construction Please see KNIGHT, page 2

OBITUARY SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Claire Roscow,
1988-2010
Claire Hollemans Roscow of
Lakewood, Colo., passed away un-
expectedly on Dec. 28, 2010 in Den-
ver, Colo. Beloved Claire was born
to Kurt Roscow and Debra Holle-
mans on Aug. 28, 1988.
Claire was the younger of two
daughters. She graduated from
D‘Evelyn High School as the vale-
dictorian of the Class of 2006 and
was active in many math and science
clubs and student organizations,
serving as senior class president and
participating in varsity sports, in-
cluding diving, track and cross coun-
try. Claire enjoyed the benefits of
being on sports and science and
math teams that were top-ranked in
the state, which included winning
the top Small High School Math
Team in Colorado her senior year.
In sports, Claire earned the coaches’
award for most enthusiasm and
team spirit.
Claire attended Stanford Uni-
versity, where tremendous opportu-
nities opened up for her. Claire was
a dedicated volunteer, securing a
position as a freshman volunteer co-
ordinator for the Class of 2010, lead-
ing efforts for campus-wide blood
drives and proudly crossing over the
gallon donation level herself. Claire
secured a fellowship at the Robin-
son Lab of the Stanford School of
Medicine her freshman summer and
continued with that program
Please see OBITS, page 2
Judith Jamison recounts a lifetime of dance
By CAROLINE CHEN
STAFF WRITER
Before she even opened her mouth
to speak, Judith Jamison received a
standing ovation from the audience at
Cubberley Auditorium on Monday
night,when the world-renowned artistic
director of the Alvin Ailey American
Dance Theater was interviewed by
Harry Elam, vice provost for under-
graduate education, and shared her life
story and love of dance.
Renowned both as a dancer and cho-
reographer,Jamison,67,is soon to retire
from her position with the dance com-
pany. Her numerous awards include
Kennedy Center Honors and the Na-
tional Medal of Arts, and she was listed
in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influen-
tial People in 2009.
Despite her numerous accolades,
Jamison was remarkably personable,in-
fusing her anecdotes with self-deprecat-
ing humor. Growing up in a musical
family where her father sang opera and
played classical piano, she began dance
classes when she was six.
“I knew nothing,” she laughed, “as
opposed to children nowadays who
know everything at six.”
By her first performance, Jamison
said she was “hooked” and, from then
on, continued to dance classical ballet,
jazz and tap through university. Origi-
nally, she intended to major in psychol-
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ogy, but eventually left Fisk University
Judith Jamison, right, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, spoke with Vice Provost to join the Philadelphia Dance Acade-
for Undergraduate Education Harry Elam Monday night in Cubberley Auditorium. Jamison, 67, is set to
retire from her position with the company. Please see JAMISON, page 2

ACADEMICS

iPads find role in medical education
ZACK HOBERG/The Stanford Daily
By JOSHUA FALK
DESK EDITOR
The School of Medicine in
August distributed iPads to its
91 incoming first-year stu-
dents as part of a trial to incor-
porate the device into the
school’s academic experience.
Seeking to facilitate student
learning, the program has also
tried to pique faculty interest
in the iPad and develop more
content for it, said Jenn
Stringer, director of education-
al technology at the School of
Medicine.
“We’re very interested in
studying the effects of the iPad
on the teaching and learning en-
vironment,” Stringer said.
Clarence Braddock, associ-
ate dean for medical education,
held an “iPad summit” last quar-
ter that convened students, fac-
ulty and educational technolo-
gists to discuss the role of the
iPad in the classroom and how it
is impacting teaching and learn-
ing.
The school supplied each
course with an iPad in order to
help familiarize faculty with the
technology their students will
be using. The school also
launched a website called
MedApp, which allows faculty
and students to find and review
iPad apps for use in courses, re-
search or clinical practice.
Even before the iPad trial,
students had access to content
in PDF form on Coursework, in-
cluding lecture slides and syl-
labi, Stringer said. The program
in its first quarter has focused on
annotation programs that can
streamline notetaking and or-
ganize content.
“Different courses found its
use was different depending on
the type of material presented
and how students study for that
particular discipline,” Stringer
said.
In surgery professor John
Gosling’s human anatomy
course, a requirement for all
first-year M.D. students, stu-
dents used iPads to annotate
anatomical drawings in lectures,
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JAMISON
Continued from front page
my.
In the early years of her career,
not only did Jamison have to over-
come prejudices against black
dancers,but she also stood out of the
crowd, literally, because of her un-
usual height. At 5’10”, she is taller
than most dancers.
“I was wondering why everyone
else was so short.” she said. “The
mantra was always longer, longer!
Go higher! Lift! And I was there al-
ready!”
However, she admitted that
being taller than the norm meant
she had to work extra hard.
“When you’re at extremes, you
just have to be extremely fantastic,”
she said.
Jamison also credited her roots in
the church as a great influence on
her dance and choreography.
“I was seeing color and emotion
and great faith,” she said of her
childhood church in Philadelphia.
For Jamison, dancing is an inher-
ently spiritual experience.
“With dance I don’t have to say
anything to you,” she explained.
“Our bodies are our truth. There’s
nothing else there.That is as close as
I can get to God on terra firma as I’m
going to get.”
OBITS
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through her sophomore year. The
Robinson Lab is focused on autoim-
mune diseases, including multiple
sclerosis.
Claire participated in two for-
eign study experiences, first travel-
ing to the Middle East for a semi-
nar/exchange with Qatar University
studying large engineering projects,
then heading to Oxford University.
Claire found the friendships and ex-
perience of the Middle East to be
very powerful as this program was
one of the first mixed-gender sets of
classes for Qatar.
Claire also worked at two early-
stage startup companies, Cooliris
and Chegg, and was exposed to the
venture capital world of Kleiner
Perkins.Claire was elected as part of
When Jamison joined Alvin
Ailey in 1965, the company had
only 10 dancers and little funding.
Jamison described the company
members’ packed schedule, per-
formances in trying conditions on
uncovered, non-spring floors and
the resulting bloody knees and
feet. Despite the difficulties of the
early years, Jamison spoke with
pride of the company’s conviction.
“We did it for the love of dance,
for the love of Alvin and for the love
of being excellent at what we do,”
she said.
This passion for dance is what
Jamison looks for today when she
watches dancers audition to join the
company.
“First thing is, do you know your
stuff?,” she asked. “Do you know
your alphabet, do you know your
scales? But then there’s the heart.
Do I feel that you can’t live another
day without dance?”
Jamison encouraged young
dancers to pursue their dreams with
persistence. When asked by a stu-
dent studying dance for advice, she
made no attempt to trivialize the
challenges of the profession.
“It’s a matter of putting that nose
down to the grindstone — you just
have to keep your eyes where you
want to go,”she said.“Just keep your
eyes on the prize.”
Contact Caroline Chen at cchen501@
stanford.edu.
a slate for class president for the
Class of 2010 and served a partial
term in 2009 before resigning the
position.
During her years at Stanford,
Claire began to shift her initial in-
terest from biomechanical engi-
neering to the study of brain science
and the biology of the brain. Claire
was working on an exciting fellow-
ship program for the Center for
Compassion and Altruism Re-
search and Education (CCARE),
affiliated with the medical school.
CCARE was a good fit for Claire, as
it was a multidisciplinary approach
to the study of compassion ranging
from philosophy to neural biology.
Claire headed up the student volun-
teer program that was integral to
the successful hosting of the His Ho-
liness the Dalai Lama’s recent visit
to Stanford.
Claire enjoyed travel, running,
yoga, time with friends and close
time with her Aunt Carla and Uncle
IPAD
Continued from front page
but did not utilize the technology
much in sections, where section
activities demanded students’ at-
tention, Gosling said.
Matthew Mansh, a first-year
medical student from Philadel-
phia, said he finds the device par-
ticularly useful for drawing on
anatomical structures.
“For doing visual note taking,
it’s almost better than paper,”
Mansh said.
But while many students have
incorporated their iPads into their
classroom and study routines,
“some people only use it at home
to watch Netflix,” Mansh said.
“I think the decision to give it
to us was a little last-minute,”
Mansh said. “They just wanted to
get them in our hands and see how
we used it as a study tool.”
While many students find the
iPad an effective notetaking and
study tool, it may not be for every-
one.
“In medical school there’s a lot
of information,” Mansh said. “It’s
hard to change your notetaking
style for a new device.”
According to a survey conduct-
ed by the Office of Medical Edu-
cation, a third of students prefer
Stuart. She will be deeply missed in
her hometown area in Colorado
and throughout her extended col-
lege community. Claire used her
many talents to help others reach
out for their dreams.
Claire was preceded in death by
her older sister LeAnne in 2004, and
that passing left a deep and endur-
ing impact on Claire. Claire is sur-
vived by her mother and father,
Debra Hollemans and Kurt Roscow
of Lakewood.
Memorial services will be held
on Jan. 13 at 2 p.m. at Mile Hi
Church (9079 W. Alameda Ave) in
Lakewood, Colo. Gifts can be made
to either the Mile Hi Church or on-
line at giving.stanford.edu. For a gift
to CCARE in Claire’s name, direct
your gift to Stanford Medical Cen-
ter, indicating your gift is to
CCARE-Claire Roscow Memorial.
— Courtesy of Debra Hollemans
and Kurt Roscow
The Stanford Daily
using old-fashioned printouts to
iPads, Gosling said.
But Gosling emphasized that
the learning experience in a class
such as human anatomy still re-
volves around visual images, re-
gardless of how they are actual-
ized.
“You go from drawing on the
chalkboard, decades ago, to draw-
ing on a computer image,” Gosling
said, “But the actual way of trans-
mitting the image hasn’t changed.”
Contact Joshua Falk at jsfalk@stan-
ford.edu.
KNIGHT
Continued from front page
much under we’re trying to be.”
The current goal is to have all
eight buildings of the Knight Man-
agement Center and its under-
ground parking garage open for
spring quarter. The completed
complex is designed around a
courtyard that features a new cylin-
drical, indoor-outdoor dining facil-
ity, and the whole center contains
more green space than the old
GSB.
Contact Matt Bettonville at mbet-
tonville@stanford.edu.
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FEATURES

THE FORGOTTEN Stanford’s own

‘Facebook’
SOCIAL NETWORK was once online.
By BILLY GALLAGHER steam tunnels on campus, the founders said in
a recent interview with The Daily.
“We were always thinking of ways to liven
Truong posted students’ photos on the site
by scanning the print Stanford Facebooks in
Meyer Library, where he was supposed to be
“In retrospect,it

S
ilicon Valley’s Sun Microsystems,
Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo,
Google and Facebook are some of
the largest technology companies in
the world. Stanford alumni founded
the first five. But if things had turned out a bit
differently in the fall of 1999, would we have
been able to attribute the creation of Face-
book to Stanford as well?
It was in 1999 that three Stanford seniors,
Tuyen Truong ‘00, Lawrence Gentilello ‘00
and Aaron Bell ‘00 founded their start-up
Steamtunnels.net, a social networking web-
site that paired information from the 1999
version of Stanford Who, called WhoIs, with
the photos in Stanford’s printed Facebook.
Steamtunnels is seen by some as a separate
but early form of the Facebook that exists
today.
In addition to the Facebook component,
Steamtunnels also featured a restaurant
guide, events calendar, bulletin board, online
radio stations, a textbook price comparison
feature and maps of Stanford’s physical
up the scene here,” Truong said of the then-
seniors’ desire to enhance the social life for
students.
Bell and Gentilello met during their fresh-
man year as residents in Branner, which was
an all-freshman dorm at the time, known af-
fectionately as a boisterous “freshman man-
sion.” All three later joined Theta Delta Chi.
Their last years of college coincided with
the dot-com explosion.
“There was some ridiculous number like
eight legitimate startups and $50 million
raised in venture capital in Theta Delt during
the three years that we were there,” Gentilel-
lo said.
The trio was inspired to put the printed
Facebook in an online format because stu-
dents and fraternities asked to borrow the
trio’s copies so frequently.
Bell, a computer science major who began
working at Microsoft when he was 15 years
old, did most of the programming for the site,
which he said was difficult without open-
source code.
working on his honors thesis in biology.
They never had a single, official launch, as
the trio first spread word of the site on an e-
mail list they sent to friends about bar nights
was a big mistake.
and social events. So the website already had
We had a killer app
users before freshmen arrived in the fall.
Gentilello recalled the trio’s early plans
for expansion.
“Our vision for Steamtunnels, when we
started it, was to expand it to colleges across
the country,” Gentilello said.
They configured the site to restrict access
to only those with an IP address on campus
and those are rare
and a Stanford e-mail address. They also had
a feature on the site where users could accept
or deny the posting of their photo.
“We thought,‘How awesome would it be if
and we should have
you met a John at a party and go on and type
in John and find every John, Jonathan, John-
ny, and their info, what dorm they’re in, what
classes they’re taking?’” Truong said.
stuck with it.”
As the site’s “About Us” page stated in
Please see SITE, page 5 — Lawrence Gentilello ‘00

SETTING UP BACK HOME

By ZOE LEAVITT daña’s path ever since he first came into chalk dust and the smudge of pencil
SENIOR STAFF WRITER contact with them as a high school stu- lead. Tutoring underprivileged students
dent. Julian Castro ‘96, mayor of San An- throughout the fall, and beginning a
tonio, and his brother, Joaquin Castro teaching job this winter has illustrated

M
ost people go to college
to escape their home-
town, but for Rey Sal-
daña ‘09 M.A. ‘10, five
years and three degrees
from Stanford — not to mention catch-
ing for Cardinal baseball — served as
mere interludes between his deep in-
volvement in improving his city of San
Antonio, Texas. Now his dreams have
begun to crescendo following his post-
graduation decision to return to San An-
tonio and run for city council.
“For me, the opportunity to run for
office was never something I was think-
ing about, but the opportunity kind of
presented itself,” said Saldaña, who has
begun his campaign for the city council
election in May.
While the specifics of his current as-
pirations may be new, the love for San
Antonio has remained with Saldaña
ever since his days in one of the city’s
public schools. Two Stanford alumni
have served as the guiding stars of Sal-
Courtesy of Rey Saldaña
‘96, a Democrat in the Texas House of
Representatives, introduced Saldaña to
the ideas of leaving home for school and
returning home to help.
“They introduced me to schools like
Stanford — without them, I wouldn’t
have applied,” Saldaña said. “I’ve been
following their career very literally, even
studying the same majors they did as
Stanford students.”
Saldaña held a summer internship
under Joaquin Castro in college, begin-
ning his political career.
“Those two guys are really great pub-
lic servants and elected officials, and
they helped me find a direction for my
own passion,” he said. “I think we have
parallel visions for this city.”
One of those visions, in fact, goes to-
ward helping more students form con-
nections like the one Saldaña felt with
the Castros. Running a campaign that
focuses on increasing opportunities for
San Antonio’s children, Saldaña’s been
backing up his words with the grit of
the ins and outs of the city’s struggling
education system, he says.
“Stories like myself are unfortunate-
ly not normal,” he said. “Mentors are
tougher to find, and I think that should-
n’t be the case.”
His role as a Stanford graduate has
already helped him make a difference in
San Antonio as a mentor. But his ability
to leverage his Stanford connections is
what may give Saldaña’s campaign the
most power in spreading his message.
Stanford computer science students
built his campaign website, and many of
his friends and classmates have already
contributed time and money to his
cause.
And of course his story wouldn’t be
complete without the tale of one Stan-
ford friendship embedded throughout.
Matt Platkin ‘09, who befriended Sal-
daña on the pair’s first day of their fresh-
man year, now serves as Saldaña’s head
Please see REY, page 5
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found myself in a class that required
that I had taken some math course
many moons ago. I had, but had
only dim memories of struggling to
stay awake in class. I assumed the
prerequisite was more of a formali-
ty and less of a reality. False. Faced
with problem sets peppered with
strange symbols I dubbed “curly
d’s” and “stretchy f’s,” I was forced
to shamelessly Google mathemati-
cal concepts at which my high-
school self would have scoffed.
(You know what works surprisingly
well, though? Looking up math tu-
torials on YouTube.)
I eventually muddled through
the course with a cobbled-together
understanding of math, but by no
means did I ever regain the mastery
I thought I had once achieved. A
confession: I absolutely loved high
school calculus but acted like I did-
n’t. My college-aged (and, in fact,
even graduate-student-aged) self,
however, could barely read a few in-
timidating Greek letters without as-
sistance.
My second grievance: I kind of
can’t read anymore. I haven’t fallen
illiterate, obviously, but my atten-
tion span for reading has withered.
Over winter break, my little sister,
worried about impending high
school, asked me how many books
she will be expected to read. In re-
sponse, I reminisced at her for
longer than she bargained for, but
also realized that I used to actually
read books. Given, I did not actual-
ly complete every book I was as-
signed, but I at least gave it an ef-
fort. Now, every PDF file I down-
load off Coursework makes me feel
handcuffed to my laptop for an
eternity, and pages that go beyond
the single digits make me feel like I
am being stretched too thin. It’s
worse when I’m not reading for
school. If the interesting articles
that grace my inbox are more than a
few paragraphs, it feels like fighting
magnets to keep my eyes reading,
and I don’t even want to talk about
the books I read for fun these days.
(Bottom line: Not acceptable, even
I’ve had a
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suspicion for
years now.
and our younger selves spent in
school, at least moderately mentally
engaged. Considering the multitude
of silent death glares that our pro-
fessors receive if they lecture to
minute 51, I’m amazed that I ever
managed to slog through a school
day that was more than seven hours
long. I try to remember what it was
like, but my memory comes up
short. I remember being bored, but
I don’t remember going into an un-
controllable rage, sobbing or just
storming out, which is what my
present-day self would do if faced
with that kind of day.
So, there you have it. I think I
might be getting dumber. Penning a
weekly column is probably pushing
my feeble mind to its utmost capac-
ity. I don’t know the proper course
of action. My parents scoff and tell
me to stop complaining. I’m not
sure that Vaden would grant me an
appointment. I don’t want to be-
come one of those people who goes
off about the glory days, spouting
off numerous stories about their
golden youths, beginning with,
“When I was smart . . . “
I hope I’m just being paranoid.
Maybe my youth was also a haze of
confusion and feeling mostly dull,
and I just don’t remember those
parts. Maybe this is normal, and
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ironically.) like I’ve somehow tricked everyone
In fact, I think my attention span else. Let’s hope so.
might be suffering in general. An-
other conversation with my little Want to reminisce about the smart

sister reminded me of the long
hours our younger siblings spend
L ETTERS TO THE
Campus safety should be
a priority
Dear Editor,
In light of a recent assault and a
“hot prowl,” I would like to express
my sincere concern about current
campus safety. As a sophomore fe-
male, I have not (until recently) felt
threatened to leave my dorm room
at night or to walk alone. Keeping
my room unlocked at night never
struck me as unsafe and I never
dreamt that anyone would crawl
into my window. I find it very unset-
tling that two troubling incidents
have occurred within the span of a
week without much outcry from the
campus. I admit that I am very satis-
fied with Stanford’s Emergency
Alert System, which immediately
informs us of assaults. However, a
new system of crime prevention
should be enacted to ensure that
these crimes are severely hindered
and punishable.
I am not the type to give up liber-
ties to ensure safety, but I would feel
more comfortable if there were
more security measures and cam-
pus-wide education about how to
report suspicious activity. Last year,
I had my first confrontation with a
potential assault crime. While
studying in Meyer Library, I heard a
scream from the girl’s bathroom.
Still to my chagrin today, no one but
one other guy and I ran to the aid of
the girl. When we arrived, a larger
man emerged next to a crying girl as
she tried to explain that he was
looking into her stall and had
pushed his way past her. To my
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knowledge, no other assault oc-
curred.
The man in the bathroom pro-
ceeded to knock down the guy next
to me and I immediately called 911,
following the man as he fled. I do
not think he was ever caught, which
is unsettling, considering the other
witnesses and I had offered a fairly
accurate description of him. I was
surprised at the lack of reaction
from the students in the library,
imagining what would have hap-
pened if no one at all had checked
out the source of the screams. I am
not saying the onus lies upon men,
but I was a bit more disappointed
that so many guys in the library had
cowered from even coming to the
hallway where the bathroom is.
Perhaps I am only tangentially
touching upon a much more com-
plex issue of crime in general. I am
not the police and I have little ex-
pertise in how to prevent assaults (if
at all), but I do feel like more needs
to be done, whether it is creating
better-lit areas (especially between
buildings), disseminating informa-
tive pamphlets, advertising 5-
SURE transportation or even com-
ing to the aid of a screaming girl.
(Nothing is more terrifying than
screaming and no one reacting.) I
hope Stanford will explore safer
measures to ensure that assault pre-
vention is a top priority on campus.
I will not let a few incidents change
my actions drastically, but they have
made me more aware that there is a
problem that needs to be re-ad-
dressed.
SHARIA MAYFIELD ‘13
T
here’s a fun game called Two
Truths and a Lie. It goes like
this: I say three things, two of
which are things that happened in
the last week or so, one of which is a
big ol’ lie. Ready? Ready.
1. Denials!
A. Lance Armstrong stated on The
Today Show that though he did
have testicular cancer, any and all
rumors claiming he had only one
testicle were false, adding “I don’t
know why I let this go on this long
— never got around to address-
ing it, I guess. Nobody ever asks.”
B. The Democrats’ 2004 vice presi-
dential nominee John Edwards
denied that he got engaged to his
erstwhile mistress and baby
mama Rielle Hunter weeks after
his cancer-stricken wife’s death.
C. R&B singer Omarion took to
Twitter to refute a fake press re-
lease calling him “a proud bisexu-
al man,” saying “I AINT GAY
OR BISEXUAL, I love women
PERIOD!!!!!!!”
2.WikiLeaks!
A. A YouTube video of twin toddlers
crying because they learned from
WikiLeaks that there is no Santa
Claus became a viral hit.
B. The U.S. Ambassador to Libya
was recalled because in a cable he
made reference to Muammar al-
Gaddafi’s “voluptuous blonde”
Ukrainian nurse.
C. An American journalist who had
his girlfriend stolen by Julian As-
sange during a visit to Sweden
told the “Daily Mail” that “As-
sange seemed to take pleasure in
humiliating me.”
3. Science Says!
A. Dutch doctors found that when
pregnant women were exposed
to mild radiation and then shown
quickly-flashed pictures of babies
in distress that their heart rate
slowed significantly,and they per-
formed better on cognitive tests.
B. A study showed that when sub-
jects were shown the location of
a picture of an erotic nature after
being asked to guess which cur-
tain it was behind, they were able
to guess where the picture was
53.1% of the time, and that sub-
jects, performed better on tests
when they studied the content of
the test after taking it.
C. An Israeli study showed that after
men had sniffed women’s tears
they had gathered, they rated
women’s faces as less sexually ap-
pealing than those who had not.
4.Animal Behavior!
A. There have been massive, unex-
plained animal deaths across the
globe, including masses of dead
birds and fish in Arkansas, Swe-
den, Italy, New Zealand and
other locations.
B. A study by the National Institute
on Drug Abuse found that more
high school seniors have smoked
marijuana in the past 30 days (21.4
percent) than have smoked ciga-
rettes (19.2 percent).
C. A Marshall University study found
that climate, more so than marital
status, number of children, income
or any other factors was the lead-
ing predictor of an adult’s happi-
ness.
5. Canceled!
A. “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” will not be
renewed for a second season due
in part to potential conflicts in the
event she runs for president,
B. Preliminary plans to film a sequel
to “Moulin Rouge”were canceled
when director Baz Luhrmann
brusquely asked star actress
Nicole Kidman, “Jesus, what hap-
pened to your face?”
C. The History Channel’s miniseries
“The Kennedys” starring Greg
Kinnear and Katie Holmes will
not be aired in America, possibly
because of concerns about accura-
cy — former Kennedy speech-
writer Ted Sorensen said of the
script, “Every single conversation
with the president in the Oval Of-
fice or elsewhere in which I, ac-
cording to the script, participated,
never happened.”
6. Busted!
A. Saudi Arabian authorities arrest-
Jordan
Carr
ed a vulture captured in a rural
area of the country on charges of
spying for Israel
B. Josh Holly, 21, who hacked into
Miley Cyrus’s MySpace page, was
arrested on unrelated charges.
C. The first violator of Switzerland’s
ban on minarets was arrested and
charged with public indecency.
7. Sexy High School Hijinks!
A. Alina Brito, a New York high
school Spanish teacher, was fired
when a janitor walked in on her
topless while Cindy Mauro, a
French teacher, was nude and
kneeling between Ms. Brito’s
legs. Ms. Brito claimed that her
blood sugar was low, and so she
was lying down, at which point
Ms. Mauro took off her sweat-
shirt for Ms. Brito to use as a pil-
low, propped Ms. Brito’s legs up
on a chair “to aid circulation” and
kneeled besides her to administer
an insulin shot, at which point the
janitor walked in.
B. “Maury” had to restrict its “High
School Pregnancy Test Spectacu-
lar” episode to certain markets
after parents’ groups were con-
cerned about a show where a
Cleveland-area high school’s en-
tire senior class would take a pa-
ternity test to see who had fa-
thered one of the classmate’s chil-
dren.
C. Investigators in Sacramento used
a handwriting match to catch a 17-
year-old criminal mastermind
known as the “Sexy Letter Ban-
dit” who was writing sexually ex-
plicit letters and leaving them for
women in his neighborhood.
Answer key: 1A, 2A, 3A, 4C, 5B, 6C,
7B
If you got them all right,e-mail Jordan
at jcarr1@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily
SITE
Continued from page 3
1999, “Let’s face it, the Facebook is
an integral part of Stanford’s social
structure: you poured over it fresh-
man year getting to know your
class, and now it remains a desktop
reference more cherished and
abused than your Webster’s Dictio-
nary . . . we put the Facebook on-
line.”
However, only a week after the
release of the beta version of the
site, the trio said the University
pushed for Steamtunnels to shut
down, citing potential Honor Code
violations and removing Gentilello
and Truong from academic advising
positions. They recalled a meeting
with administrators who confront-
ed them about shutting the site
down.
“We were like ‘Woah, woah,
these pictures are public. Every stu-
dent on campus has these,” Truong
said.
“They really scared us,” Gen-
tilello said, adding: “We weren’t
prepared to be kicked out of school
for this, so we folded.”
Nadira Hira ‘02, who wrote the
original articles about Steamtun-
nels for The Daily and now writes
for Fortune magazine, believes that
the success of Steamtunnels was
hindered by its timing.
“I think the fact that it was so
ahead of its time put the adminis-
tration on the defensive,” she said.
“I don’t think that was a function of
them trying to stifle innovation. I
think they just were not prepared
for something like this to happen
just yet.”
In an e-mail to The Daily, Marc
Wais, who was dean of students at
the time, defended the administra-
tion’s actions.
“In my meetings with students
that I can recall, everyone acted in
a polite, professional and respect-
ful fashion. At the end of the day,
though, I realize that the students
were not happy that we were ask-
ing them not to go forward as they
had planned,” he said. “We were
concerned primarily about student
privacy and safety. We were not
comfortable in having any stu-
dent’s Stanford ‘Facebook’ picture
on the Web without that student
providing prior consent or choos-
ing to opt in.”
REY
Continued from page 3
campaign manager.
“This race is going to come
down to who’s willing to work the
hardest, and I think we’re going to
come out on top,” Platkin said.“The
issue is who has the best interests of
the voters in mind, and I don’t think
anyone can dispute Rey’s inten-
tions.”
“I don’t think [less] quantity of
experience is going to be a barrier
when you have the types of experi-
ence Rey has,” he said of Saldaña’s
young age compared to his oppo-
nents.
Rey agreed that his internships
in San Antonio city council and for
the U.S. Department of the Trea-
sury, combined with his exposure to
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 ! 5
The trio kept a private, pass-
word-protected version of the web-
site open for the remainder of their
senior year (steamtunnels.net/
backdoor), and they believe the
University never discovered the
second site. The founders say that
they would have kept trying much
harder at the Facebook component
if they knew how huge a similar site
would become.
The website still made waves
across the country and caught the
attention of two entrepreneurs in
Boston. They flew Bell, Gentilello
and Truong out to Las Vegas and
put them up in a suite in the Venet-
ian, convincing them to join them in
making Steamtunnels Magazine,
the founders said.
“In retrospect, it was a big mis-
take,” Gentilello said. “We had a
killer app and those are rare and we
should have stuck with it. But we
got tempted by being whisked off to
Vegas and given fat salaries, so we
started pursuing this magazine.”
The magazine was a weekly in-
sert, like Parade magazine, and was
distributed to more than 230 col-
lege newspapers, but the company
folded after the dot-com bubble be-
cause of high overhead costs.
The founders do not appear to
harbor any ill will toward Wais or
the administration, but they believe
the University pressured The Daily
to remove Hira’s stories from the
newspaper’s website when Face-
book became popular. No stories
dated before 2001 appear on The
Daily’s site now, though the print
archives still exist at the newspa-
per’s office and in the Media Micro-
text Center in Green Library.
Several former editors in chief
who worked at The Daily between
2004 and 2006 responded to ques-
tions for this story; they and Hira
say they were not involved in any
discussions to remove the stories.
Several did mention technical dif-
ficulties with the website over the
years as possible explanations for
the stories’ alleged disappear-
ances.
At the end of his interview with
The Daily,Bell tried to convince the
rest of the trio to watch The Social
Network with him in Mountain
View. One can only surmise that if
fate had twisted slightly differently,
maybe the new film would have
been about them.
Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg2014
@stanford.edu.
Palo Alto and to Stanford ideals,
will prove valuable.
“There’s a spirit of taking risks
and being involved in something
more worthwhile than your own
success,” he said of Stanford.
In the meantime, Saldaña and
Platkin will run a full schedule of
campaigning, debating, and going
door to door through San Antonio
until the election in May. It’s a high-
profile risk for someone safe within
the Farm until last June, but Sal-
daña believes his dedication to his
residents will shine brightest.
“I’m always worried about some
acronym someone in the audience
is going to throw out that I missed,
but walking down 5,000 streets,
knocking on 5,000 doors, and talk-
ing to 5,000 people is what matters,”
he said.
Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stan-
ford.edu.
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SPORTS
FILLING THE
VACANCY
Who will replace
Jim Harbaugh?
By WYNDAM MAKOWSKY
MANAGING EDITOR
Editor’s note: this story first ap-
peared on stanforddaily.com on
Friday afternoon.
Welcome to Life After Har-
baugh. First task: finding his re-
placement. It is surely a moment
that athletic director Bob Bowls-
by has been preparing for, even
as Stanford came tantalizingly
close to retaining Captain
Comeback — indeed, by some
accounts, Bowlsby has been talk-
ing with potential candidates for
over a week now. Let’s examine
the current and upcoming
process and some names that
have been floated thus far.
New coach’s responsibilities
1) Retain the recruiting class
Whenever a coach leaves a
program — particularly a coach
with as strong a personality as
Harbaugh — there is bound to
be attrition from the current re-
cruiting class. Stanford, with 22
commits for the Class of 2011, is
ranked No. 6 nationally by
Scout.com.
With National Signing Day
coming up on Feb. 2, the new
coach must be on the phone and
on the road to ensure that as few
players as possible switch to
other schools. He must pay spe-
cific attention to players being
actively recruited by Notre
Dame and USC, the two pro-
grams Stanford has begun to
compete with most for players
— tremendously skilled ath-
letes, such as local product and
tenuous Cardinal commit Amir
Carlisle, hang in the balance.
2) Retain Vic Fangio
Simple numbers can be so il-
luminating: under Fangio, Stan-
ford’s scoring defense jumped
from No. 69 nationally to No. 11
in a single year. As important as
Andrew Luck and the Cardinal
offense was to the team’s suc-
cess, it was the defense’s massive
jump that catapulted Stanford
into the nation’s elite.
This is not to devalue other
coaches — Lance Anderson has
been a remarkable recruiting co-
ordinator, Brian Polian is one of
the nation’s best recruiters, and
there are few, if any holes
amongst the rest of the staff.That
being said, keeping Fangio on
board is paramount, and won’t
necessarily be easy. Harbaugh
SIMON WARBY, ZACK HOBERG/The Stanford Daily
could take him to San Francisco,
which runs a 3-4,or he could wind
up with another collegiate job —
he’s been linked to both the Texas
(no longer vacant) and UCLA
defensive coordinator gigs.
Fangio is also in serious dis-
cussions with the Dallas Cow-
boys about filling their vacant
defensive coordinator position
on head coach Jason Garrett’s
staff. Prior to joining Harbaugh
at Stanford, Fangio spent a num-
ber of years in the NFL, includ-
ing as defensive coordinator for
three different teams.
Stanford’s considerations
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
This extends both to the pro-
gram and individual players.
While Harbaugh was a unique
personality whose success will
not be easily replicated, there
are basic tenets that can and
should remain.
First: a pro-style offense that
places a heavy emphasis on of-
fensive line play and use of its
tight ends.
Second: a hands-off approach
with Andrew Luck. Harbaugh, a
quarterback himself, was notori-
ously reluctant to try and change
Luck too much, for fear of com-
plicating his already stellar me-
chanics and fundamentals. Luck
is a finished product; he doesn’t
need much modification.
Third: an emphasis on work
ethic and meritocracy. One of
Harbaugh’s great triumphs was
having a group of Stanford stu-
dents envision themselves as
blue-collar workers; the tactic
had dramatic success.
Beyond style, there are cer-
tain factors to consider when
choosing a coach. Luck’s return,
as well as the general status of
the program, might prompt
Stanford to try and create some
continuity between regimes —
this would lead the program to
favor an in-house candidate.
However, in the past, when an
assistant is elevated to head
coach, there is usually more at-
trition among the staff, as others
become reluctant to work un-
derneath someone they once
considered their equal.
Stanford is in a place where it
could likely land a big name, but
Bowlsby has shown a knack for
finding diamonds in the rough in
the past. Kirk Ferentz was a po-
sition coach with the Baltimore
Ravens before taking the reins
at Iowa; Harbaugh was the head
coach for an FCS program. In
other words: just because you
can land a big name, does it
Please see COACH, page 8
SPORTS BRIEFS
The Stanford women’s swimming team approached this season with
a chip on its shoulder after finishing second at the NCAA tournament
last season. The Cardinal started this season with four victories.
Stanford women’s swimming
opens season with rout of Pacific
The Stanford women’s swim-
ming and diving team opened up
its winter schedule on Saturday
with a convincing 143-105 victory
over Pacific (5-2) at Avery Aquat-
ic Center.The No.1 Cardinal (4-0)
won every event over the Tigers.
Stanford finished last season in
second place at the NCAA Tour-
nament, losing by a whisker to
Florida.
Prior to its meet against Pacific,
the Cardinal had an early meet
against San Jose State on Oct. 1,
easily outclassing the Spartans,
187-100. Stanford also hosted
Michigan and Florida for a three-
way meet on Nov. 5-6, defeating
the Wolverines, 286-124, and beat-
ing the Gators, 227-175.
After losing two of its stars,
Julia Smit and Elaine Breeden, to
graduation after last season, Stan-
ford was looking for swimmers to
replace them. Five swimmers
shined, winning two races each —
freshmen Andie Taylor and Felicia
Lee, sophomore Andi Murez and
seniors Kelsey Ditto and Liz
Smith.
The Cardinal’s relay teams also
got 2011 off to a strong start, con-
vincingly winning both the 200-
yard medley relay and the 200-
yard freestyle relay. Juniors Betsy
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Webb and Sam Woodward per-
formed prominently on both relay
teams.
With the Tigers out of the way,
Stanford will look ahead to Pac-10
competition.The team’s next meet
is on Jan.21 in Tucson,where it will
take on Arizona. It will then face
Arizona State in Tempe on Jan.22.
— Kabir Sawhney
Marecic wins Paul Hornung Award
Yesterday, Stanford senior
football player Owen Marecic
won the inaugural Paul Hornung
Award, given to the nation’s most
versatile college football player.
This season,Marecic saw signif-
icant playing time on both sides of
the ball for the Cardinal, playing in
all 13 of the team’s games as the
only two-way starter in major col-
lege football. On offense, Marecic
bulldozed through blockers as the
team’s starting fullback, and he an-
chored the defense as one of its two
starting middle linebackers. Of the
13 games in which Marecic played,
he started nine on both offense and
defense. Marecic logged an aver-
age of 110 plays per game, far
above the normal workload of a
Please see BRIEFS, page 8
The Stanford Daily
Zach
Zimmerman
Dishing the Rock
Basketball
grows up
quickly
T
he Pac-10 men’s basketball
season began exactly as we
expected — unexpectedly.
Projected bottom-feeders
have thumped perennial
powerhouses, only one conference
team (No.18 Washington) is national-
ly ranked,and 9-5 Stanford,a team lit-
tered with underclassmen,sits in third
place.
Sunday’s loss to Arizona came
under unique circumstances for the
Cardinal, but the inconsistent play
throughout the game paints an accu-
rate picture of the season that has
been. Stanford, down 15 after looking
like an above-average AAU team,
managed to keep the game within
striking distance with stingy perime-
ter defense and streaky displays of
athleticism. Although the Cardinal
lost by 10, Johnny Dawkins has to be
optimistic with the way his team
played.
That said, there is obvious cause
for concern. Dawkins regularly plays
four freshmen, including two starters,
in his nightly rotation. When the new
guys are meshing and playing with the
passion displayed during portions of
Sunday’s second half, Stanford is a
tough team to compete with. But the
problem with freshmen, as has been
made unfortunately clear,is that when
the going gets tough on the road,
chaos ensues.
Please see ZIMMERMAN, page 7
The Stanford Daily Tuesday, January 11, 2011 ! 7
ZIMMERMAN
Continued from front page 6
The Cardinal is a perfect 8-0 at
home, with all five losses coming
away from Maples Pavilion. In front
of supporting fans, Stanford has
soundly beaten the likes of Virginia
and Cal while eclipsing the 80-point
mark three times. The Card, espe-
cially the freshmen, looks exponen-
tially more comfortable with the
general flow of the game. Guys just
seem to enjoy playing with one an-
other, and the basket opens up like a
black hole when shots are launched
from behind the arc.
On the road? Stanford has sur-
passed 60 points only twice, averag-
ing just 53 in the other four games.
Defensive passion is there, but the
offense is a cramped mess of con-
fused red jerseys lacking cohesion
and spewing inconsistency.When it’s
good, it’s really good. But when
things turn sour, the team showcases
the lack of development that places
it 249th in points, 229th in rebounds
and 288th in assists per game in the
nation. Not exactly promising rank-
ings for a squad boasting a top-15 re-
cruiting class.
But the beauty of it all is that de-
spite room for improvement and oc-
casional play that would make the
2009-10 New Jersey Nets cringe,
things can’t get much worse. While
Stanford’s 44 percent shooting from
the field may not fluctuate, the 0.9 as-
sist-to-turnover ratio will undoubted-
ly improve as Dawkins’ guys get more
comfortable with each other’s ten-
dencies.The talent is there, and as the
season progresses, Stanford will be-
come more efficient on the offensive
end.
Combating a struggling offense is
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the surprisingly staunch defense of a
Cardinal squad that lacks frontcourt
size. Stanford ranks 22nd in the na-
tion and first in the conference in
scoring defense, holding opponents
to just 59.5 points per game.The team
also ranks in the top 100 in turnover
margin, which is a testament to its
ability to keep games within reach
with active hands along the perime-
ter. It’s a skill most teams lack and
every team needs.
This year’s Stanford squad is pas-
sionate on both ends of the floor, a
noticeable difference from last sea-
son’s team.If the young guys are able
to sustain this level of energy over the
course of the conference schedule,
and it is a big if, they could make a le-
gitimate run at a conference title. Its
floor is relatively low, but if offense
on the road improves in the coming
weeks, Stanford’s ceiling is sky-high.
Less-talented teams have made
more improbable runs, especially
considering the unpredictability of
this year’s Pac-10.
Confidence in hostile territory is
gained two ways: coaching and expe-
rience. The latter is inevitable, with
road trips to Washington, southern
California,Oregon and Cal left on the
schedule.The former is more valuable
and will give Dawkins his biggest test
in what is now his third year on the
Farm. This is his recruiting class, his
team and his year to make a signifi-
cant impact in one of the most illustri-
ous conferences in college basketball.
The team needs time to grow, but
Dawkins to accelerate it.
Coach knows that the road is long,
but it doesn’t have to be bumpy. It’s
Johnny’s time to smooth out the ride.
Zach Zimmerman realized that
there are other sports other than
football. Let him know what you
think of hoops at zachz@stanford.
edu.
Complete the grid
so each row,
column and
3-by-3 box
(in bold borders)
contains every
digit, 1 to 9.
For strategies on
how to solve Su-
doku, visit www.su-
doku.org.uk
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BRIEFS
Continued from page 6

Division I football player.

Marecic scored five offensive
touchdowns for Stanford, all in short-
yardage situations. On defense, he
was fifth on the team with 51 tackles
and had two interceptions over the
course of the season.
His signature moment came in
Stanford’s game against Notre Dame
on Sept. 25, when he scored on con-
secutive plays from scrimmage.Mare-
cic scored on a short touchdown run,
and after the ensuing kickoff, he
picked off a pass on the Fighting
Irish’s first play of the drive and ran it
back for a touchdown.
In Stanford’s victory in the Orange
Bowl over Virginia Tech on Jan. 3,
Marecic had six tackles and one sack.
He also added a one-yard touchdown
run in the third quarter.
The other finalists for the Hor-
nung Award were Randall Cobb of
Kentucky and Jeremy Kerley of TCU.
The award is named for Paul Hor-
nung, who won the Heisman Trophy
in 1956 with Notre Dame. Hornung
played quarterback,running back,de-
fensive back, kicker and punter dur-
ing his time with the Irish, and played
halfback and kicker in the NFL.

Men’s swimming starts season strong

The third-ranked Stanford men’s
swimming team (2-0) remained unde-
feated Saturday with a 159-92 win
over Pacific (1-3).Senior Austin Staab
led the Cardinal with three victories,
while junior Curtis Lovelace and
sophomore Matthew Swanston won
a pair of races each.
Staab was victorious in the 100-
yard and 200-yard freestyle races with
times of 45.42 and 1:40.67 respective-
ly, and the 100-yard fly with a time of
50.40. Sophomore Aaron Wayne fin-
ished second in the 200 freestyle be-
hind his teammate.
Lovelace won both breaststroke
races. He won the 100-yard race in
56.73 and the 200-yarder in 2:03.25.
Swanston did his part by sweeping the
backstroke races in times of 49.90 and
1:47.45 respectively. Junior Geoff
Cheah finished second in the 100-
yard race and sophomore Matt
Thompson was the runner-up in the
200-yard race.
Sophomore Mack Montgomery
also won the 200-yard fly for the Car-
dinal.
Stanford swims next at the Ari-
zona schools on Jan. 21 and 22.

— Daniel Bohm

COACH
Continued from page 6
mean you should? Conundrums for
the Cardinal to consider.
Coaching candidates
Chris Petersen, head coach, Boise
State
Editor’s note:Petersen announced
yesterday that he will remain at Boise
State.
This would be the “whale” of the
group: a highly accomplished coach
who could move from a national
powerhouse to one of 2010’s top
programs. Petersen, who has been at
Boise State since 2001 and has been
head coach since 2005, has had his
name mentioned for a myriad of
openings over the years, but has de-
murred each time.Stanford presents
an intriguing option for him.
Petersen went to UC-Davis and
is from just north of Sacramento.
He’s Western through and through
— outside of one year at Pitts-
burgh, he has spent his entire career
working and living no farther east
than Idaho. He also shies away
from the spotlight, and while Stan-
ford is a Pac-12 job, it does not
come with the glare of other major
programs. Petersen is an offensive
mind who runs a pro-style attack
similar to Stanford’s, and while he
returns Kellen Moore to Boise, he
just lost his offensive coordinator to
Texas.
Mike Bellotti, former head coach,
Oregon
Bellotti would be the other big
name in the search.A Ducks legend
— he was at the university in some
capacity for two decades — Bellotti,
at 60 years old, would not be as
youthful as candidates Bowlsby has
traditionally pursued, but he would
bring a vast array of experience,
knowledge and success.
Though Bellotti has retired and
is now an analyst for ESPN, he has
not ruled out a return to coaching.
While it would, on the surface, seem
unlikely that he would coach in the
same conference as Oregon, Phil
Knight, the John Arrillaga of Eu-
gene,has significant Stanford ties —
the new business school will carry
his name. Bellotti has already been
linked to the opening and has com-
mented on his status publicly, telling
The Oregonian that both sides
would have to determine if it was a
“good fit.”
David Shaw, offensive coordinator,
Stanford
Shaw is seen as one of the two in-
house candidates to replace Har-
baugh.A Stanford football alum and
favorite son, Shaw is beloved by
alumni. Since starting with Har-
baugh in 2007, he has been one of
the major architects of the Cardi-
nal’s impressive offense throughout
his tenure, although his responsibili-
ties have been slightly usurped in re-
cent years. He’s also favorite of the
current Cardinal athletes — Doug
Baldwin told the San Jose Mercury
News that “all the players want
David Shaw as the head coach.”
Greg Roman, associate head coach,
Stanford
Roman quickly became Har-
baugh’s right hand man after com-
ing to the Farm in 2009 — he was the
designated head coach if Harbaugh
was to become incapacitated in any
way. Roman was one of three final-
ists for the Vanderbilt job, and he in-
terviewed for the Pittsburgh open-
ing. He has quietly cut into Shaw’s
role as offensive coordinator, to the
point where he,Shaw and Harbaugh
were responsible for the offense to
varying degrees. His historic focus is
in an area where the Cardinal has
been the most successful: offensive
line and tight ends. Like Shaw, he’d
present continuity from the Har-
baugh era.
Todd Graham, Head Coach, Tulsa
Editor’s note: since Friday, Gra-
ham has accepted the head coaching
position at the University of Pitts-
burgh.
Graham is the lone defensive
coach of the bunch, and has had his
name tied to the Stanford opening
for a couple of weeks. Seen as an up-
and-comer in the ranks — he is cur-
rently interviewing at Pittsburgh,
too — Graham has finished first (or
in a tie for first) in three of his four
years with the Golden Hurricane,
and would provide stellar defensive
credentials should Fangio decide to
leave.
It is also entirely possible that
Bowlsby breaks conventions and
finds another unknown to take over
the program; or, he could go with a
retread. Either way, Bowlsby’s
record speaks for itself, and the
wheels have been set in motion
since before Harbaugh inked his
deal with San Francisco. But no
matter whom he chooses, this much
is clear: he’ll have his work cut out
for him.
Contact Wyndam Makowsky at
makowsky@stanford.edu.