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MONDAY
April 4, 2011
Exec slates gear up for ASSU election
SLATE PROFILE: CRUZ/MACGREGOR-DENNIS
Michael Cruz ‘12 & Stewart Macgregor-Dennis ‘13
Current ASSU VP and
Senator stress experience
By WYNDAM MAKOWSKY
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Current ASSU Vice President Michael
Cruz’s campaign for ASSU Executive
with Senator Stewart Macgregor-Dennis
‘13 is focusing on central themes of expe-
rience and engagement.The extensive,16-
plank Cruz & Macgregor-Dennis for Ex-
ecutive platform states that the candi-
dates intend to continue the work of cur-
rent ASSU President Angelina Cardona
‘11, in addition to placing a priority on en-
Please see CRUZ, page 2
STUDENT LIFE
Transports for
alcohol keep
upward trend
Total to date exceeds all
of last academic year
By ARIEL ZHOU
Hospitalizations for alcohol
have been trending upward on
campus this year, with spikes at fra-
ternity houses, freshman dorms and
among the sophomore class. In fall
quarter alone, there were 33 cases
of Stanford students being trans-
ported to the emergency room for
alcohol-related incidents, accord-
ing to Ralph Castro, manager of the
Substance Abuse Prevention Pro-
gram at Vaden Health Center.
To date, a total of 48 students
have been transported to the hospi-
tal, an increase from the 42 trans-
ports in the previous academic year.
In winter quarter alone, there were
15 cases — six freshmen, three
sophomores, five juniors and one
senior.Transports were divided fair-
ly evenly between men and women.
Castro expects the numbers to
rise during spring quarter.
“It was a wet and rainy winter,
which I think . . . lowers people’s
social outlets,” Castro said. “As it
starts to get sunny in spring, people
are more active . . . so the numbers
will go up in the spring.”
He added that Vaden will active-
ly combat this trend throughout the
remainder of the academic year.
“We’ll definitely be reaching out
more to the resident staff, kind of
reiterating our message,” Castro
said. “We want all students, espe-
cially the staff, to prevent things
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Color war at Holi festival
The Sand Hill fields hosted a celebration of the Indian festival of Holi on Sunday afternoon. Participants,
who came both from campus and around the Bay Area, pelted each other with colored powder and dye.
Index Features/3 • Opinions/4 • Sports/6 • Classifieds/7
SPORTS/6
CHAOS IN PULLMAN
Stanford baseball battles snow,
Cougars to win series on the road
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SLATE PROFILE: SELDON/VASQUEZ
Tenzin Seldon ‘12 & Joe Vasquez ‘11
Candidates emphasize
mental health and diversity
By KABIR SAWHNEY
DESK EDITOR
Despite a lack of significant ASSU expe-
rience, the Executive slate of Tenzin Seldon
‘12 and Joe Vasquez ‘11 believe that their
extensive work with numerous communi-
ties around campus makes them ideally
suited to become ASSU Executives. In an
interview with The Daily, Seldon and
Vasquez emphasized “bridging the gap” be-
tween different groups as the key theme of
their campaign.
Courtesy of Michael Cruz
Michael Cruz and Stewart Macgregor-Dennis Please see SELDON, page 2
TEXAS A&M STANFORD
AGGIES CARDINAL
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END OF THE ROAD
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Stanford junior Nnemkadi Ogwumike (30) fights for a loose ball against Texas A&M’s Kelsey Assari-
an (40) and Sydney Carter (4) in the first half at Conseco Fieldhouse for the women's Final Four semi-
final game in Indianapolis. The Card failed to capitalize on a fourth straight Final Four appearance.
Run at NCAA title falls short A&M (32-5) in the semifinals last night in Indi-
anapolis. Junior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike’s
in national semifinals 31 points couldn’t offset poor late-game offense
and foul trouble for Stanford which surrendered
a 10-point lead to the Aggies and ultimately fell
By NATE ADAMS by a single point, 63-62.
MANAGING EDITOR
“We had them down, and we didn’t knock
them out,” said Stanford head coach Tara Van-
Another April, another heartbreak. Derveer. “This is really tough for our team.”
The Stanford women will have to keep Stanford,typically a slow-start team,challenged
dreaming, at least for another year. For the a tough Aggies defense early on and battled its way
fourth time in as many seasons, the Cardinal (33-
3) fell short in the Final Four, this time to Texas Please see WBBALL, page 8
NEWS BRIEFS
Stanford Hospital
reaches tentative
agreement with
nurses
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Stanford Hospital reached a tenta-
tive agreement on a new contract with
the Committee for Recognition of
Nursing Achievement (CRONA) on
Saturday.If the union’s members ratify
it, the agreement will resolve a stale-
mate that has dragged on for over a
year following the expiration of the
nurses’ previous contract in March
MEHMET INONU/The Stanford Daily
2010.
Please see NURSES, page 2
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Volume 239
Issue 33
Courtesy of Kris Cheng
Joe Vasquez and Tenzin Seldon
ACADEMICS
Downsizing
frustrates
students,profs
By JANELLE WOLAK
Class downsizing has been an in-
creasing problem at Stanford for a
number of years, with more and more
students finding themselves removed
from classes due to over-enrollment.
According to Lori Cottle, Student Ser-
vices Officer for Management Science
and Engineering, numerous students
faced this problem in her department
after at least six MS&E classes were
forced to limit enrollment this year.
MS&E professor Pamela Hinds
first began teaching “MS&E 180: Or-
ganizations:Theory and Management”
11 years ago.At that time, she was able
to accept all interested students into
her class, “even a couple of freshmen.”
This quarter, however, she had 105
students enroll for 65 available spots.
In her small seminar “MS&E 185:
Global Work,” she had 75 students bid
for 20 places. In choosing applicants,
priority went to MS&E majors, juniors
and seniors.No freshmen were allowed
and only a “handful” of sophomores
were admitted.
“It’s hard not to accept those stu-
dents who really want to be in the class
and who have compelling reasons for
not being able to take the class again,”
Hinds said.
MS&E 180 is now taught both au-
tumn and spring quarters, and the de-
partment is exploring the possibility of
offering the class in winter quarter as
well.
According to Cottle, however, of-
fering MS&E 180 year-round trans-
lates into one fewer class taught in an-
other division of the department. For
example, MS&E professor Kathleen
Eisenhardt now teaches MS&E 180 in
fall quarter instead of teaching an
upper-division course in her area of
specialization, strategy and organiza-
tion.
In high-demand courses like MS&E
180, professors usually allow all inter-
ested students to enroll on Axess, but
then cull the herd by having an in-class
application on the first day of the
course.
Cottle said she has not heard offi-
cial complaints from students about
this system. However, students like
Paul Princen ‘13 and Nicolas Hernan-
dez ‘13, who themselves underwent the
process in MS&E 180, vociferously ex-
press their frustration with the system.
“My experiences with the classes in
which applications are passed out on
the first of class is that they generally
result in mass confusion, with enroll-
ment decisions made arbitrarily,” Prin-
cen said. “A lot of unsatisfied students
feel like they’ve wasted their time at-
tending a class that they had no chance
of getting into in the first place.”
“I also think that the system as it is
doesn’t have enough checks on abuse,”
Hernandez added. “For example,
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CRUZ
Continued from front page
trepreneurship and integrating tech-
nology with the ASSU and the
greater student body — an initiative
they call “Stanford 2.0.”
“It’s bringing Silicon Valley into
Stanford,” said Macgregor-Dennis.
“There are things that we feel need
to get done,and then there are things
that we’re really passionate about.
The Daily spoke with both Cruz
and his peers to evaluate his prior ex-
perience and the feasibility of these
goals if elected. Certain traits be-
came themes:hard work,attention to
detail, a cover-to-cover understand-
ing of the body’s constitution. But
when pushed deeper, a division of
views occurred: those in the 11th
Senate saw the younger Cruz as ded-
icated, yet meek; those in the l2th
Senate encountered a mature and
dynamic leader.
“My first term was very much a
learning experience, the second term
was an implementation of what I had
learned,” Cruz said.
In the 11th Senate, which current
senators described as more fractured
than the current one, Cruz served as
the deputy chair of the Appropria-
tions Committee, which handles the
funding of student groups.The group
became known for its conservative
approach to money allocation, and
Cruz was often a dissenting voice.
“I understood that we were in a
budget crisis, but that it affected the
ASSU different than it affected
Stanford, and we had to respond in a
different way,” he said.“Our policies
were perhaps a mixed bag.”
Shelley Gao ‘11, who served with
him in the general body, described
Cruz as a quieter type who tended to
remain neutral on specific issues.
“I don’t think he did anything
striking or controversial that war-
ranted attention,” said Gao, who
serves on The Daily’s Board of Di-
rectors.
However, Cardona pointed to
significant growth between the two
years. Cruz was the only senator to
be reelected for the 12th session and
then assumed role of chair. The 11th
Senate had a late departure from of-
fice because of continued debate on
divestment. As a result, there was a
rushed transition for new senators
toward the end of the academic year,
but current senators said that Cruz
was instrumental in ensuring that it
was as smooth as possible.
“He took the lead in easing us
into our roles,” said Rebecca Sachs
‘13.
When the Senate reconvened in
the fall, Cruz and others said his
focus was mainly on internal reform.
“The ASSU can be unresponsive,
uncommunicative and inefficient,”
he said. “If we wanted to serve the
student body well, we had to know
what they wanted us to do, and have
the mechanisms in place to do it
well.”
Cardona and Senator Daniel
Khalessi ‘13 pointed to Cruz’s col-
laborative mentality as instrumental
to the 12th Senate’s success; Car-
dona pointed specifically to his work
in support of a special fees reform
bill that originally had little backing
and required coalition building to
pass. She said that those traits were
instrumental in her selection of Cruz
as her replacement vice president.
Cardona and Sachs both pointed
to a complimentary relationship be-
tween Cruz and Macgregor-Dennis.
Cardona described the former as de-
tail-oriented and the latter as more
focused on the big picture.
“I think it’s synergistic,” Macgre-
gor-Dennis said.“When we’re work-
ing together, we can delegate pretty
well.”
Members of both the 11th and
12th Senates were intrigued by what
shape a potential Cruz administra-
tion would take.
“This is his opportunity to be a
leader,” Brian Wanyoike ‘12, who
was on Appropriations in the 11th
Senate, said.
“He saw Jonny Dorsey run a
team, he saw David Gobaud, he saw
me, he saw a number of different
styles,”Cardona said.“He could fuse
them. He’ll be in a position to exe-
cute.”
Contact Wyndam Makowsky at
makowsky@stanford.edu.
DOWNSIZE
Continued from front page
someone could easily put their
major as whatever they want, and
this would prevent people who re-
ally are majoring in the subject
from taking [the class].”
Faculty members echo student
concerns.According to Hinds, since
all interested students are able to
enroll on Axess, they get their
hopes up; they all assume that they
will be admitted into the class
when, oftentimes, more than half of
the students will not.
From a faculty perspective, it is
also difficult to gauge the extent to
which students are actually serious
about the class.
“I’ve had students say that they
really need to take my class, but
then drop it a few days later,” Hinds
said.
As a result, she has “become a
little less sympathetic” about the
enrollment process.
Princen and Hernandez offer a
tentative solution. They would far
prefer an application process like
the one currently in place for intro-
ductory seminars, where students
fill out an online application sever-
al weeks before the first day of the
quarter.
“I think it’s the responsibility of
the professor to take account for
over-enrolled classes by conducting
applications prior to the first day of
the quarter,” Princen said. “These
applications force students to re-
flect on the reasons why they want
to take the class and take control
over their own education, rather
than just going through the motions
as a factory-model student.”
While Hinds concurs that an on-
line application introsem-style
would be ideal, it might not be en-
tirely practical in the Stanford envi-
ronment. Some students do not en-
roll on Axess prior to the start of
the quarter. Other students may en-
roll on Axess but do not show up on
the first day of class. The question
then becomes: to whom should pro-
fessors send the online application?
While it remains unclear how
the application process can be
changed to make it more amenable
to faculty and students alike, there
is one thing that is an easy fix.A few
classes, such as MS&E 175 and 178,
do not even warn students in their
course descriptions that enrollment
is capped. As Cottle points out, this
type of concern could be resolved
through a bit of clarification on the
University’s part.
“We could probably make it
more clear on Axess that enroll-
ment is limited in certain classes,”
Cottle said.
University registrar Thomas
Black did not respond to a request
for comment.
Contact Janelle Wolak at jwolak@
stanford.edu.

SELDON
Continued from front page
Speaking about their relative in-
experience, Vasquez believes it will
be a “tremendous benefit.”
The two candidates went on to
discuss their current campus affilia-
tions. Since entering Stanford as a
transfer student at the start of the
2009-10 academic year, Seldon has
been actively involved in Stanford’s
community centers and its ethnic
communities.Vasquez has extensive
experience in Stanford Student En-
terprises and with the Greek system
as a member of Kappa Sigma. Both
individuals are also heavily involved
with first generation and low-in-
come students, and have made out-
reach to them a central tenet of their
campaign.
“Our role is to go out into those
communities and be the utility for
these communities, to collaborate
with one another on these issues —
on issues of diversity, on issues of
mental health, on issues of trans-
parency,” Seldon said. “We are the
platform where every group can
come together and talk about issues
that are divisive and talk about is-
sues that are uniting.”
The second major plank of the
slate’s platform is a focus on mental
health and wellness. When asked
what they believed was the most
pressing issue facing students today,
both Seldon and Vasquez immedi-
ately highlighted a lack of dialogue
and resources around mental
health, and emphasized the focus on
mental health issues as a major
point distinguishing them from op-
posing slates.
“We believe that talking about
anxiety, depression and just funda-
mental things that human beings go he said. “I don’t see them as ever
through is not something that a lot taking the status quo as enough.
of students here talk about,” Seldon Whether it’s on issues of sexual vio-
said. “We want to change that cul- lence or transgender issues that are
ture — that’s on a community level, really a hot topic now, or whether
but that’s also a very individual it’s on issues that are unforeseen
level.” today, I don’t imagine them just say-
“What we mean by mental ing, ‘OK, that’s fine,’ or taking a
health is not just access to Vaden backseat.”
and the Bridge,” she said.“What we Keren Mikva ‘12, who worked
mean is a more institutionalized and extensively with Vasquez as part of
systematic culture that has been Stanford Habitat for Humanity, said
built, which is lack of courses she believed Vasquez’s abilities
around mental health,lack of events would translate well to the ASSU
that talk about issues of depression Executive position.
and anxiety — that’s what we’re “[Joe] is really focused on getting
trying to change.” people involved,” she said. “A lot of
Current ASSU President An- it is asking us for input and trying to
gelina Cardona ‘11 approved of the make sure that people can take own-
slate’s commitment to mental ership of what we’re working on.
health. Seldon worked in Cardona’s He’s also a really gracious leader.”
cabinet as the chair of diversity, tol-
erance and equality. Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawh- ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily
“I am happy to see that they have ney@stanford.edu.
this emphasis since it is one of the
main priorities our administration
has had this year and because, more
importantly, change on these issues
takes time so having the next exec
have similar values is crucial to real
progress,” Cardona wrote in an
email to The Daily.
Students who have worked with
Seldon and Vasquez in the past had
high praise for their abilities and
qualifications for the Executive po-
sition. Milton Achelpohl ‘13, who
worked with Seldon on the ASSU’s
diversity, tolerance and equality
team this year, agreed that her expe-
rience working with a large number
of different communities as part of
the ASSU’s diversity outreach ef-
forts would make her a strong ASSU
President.
“What I really see with Tenzin
and Joe is a very real commitment
and passion for these issues . . .
whether it be diversity or communi-
ty-building on Stanford’s campus,”

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Several big fights have marked
the conflict between Stanford and
CRONA, including a rejection of a
previous agreement by the nurses in
December. The union voted to au-
thorize a strike last February after
the hospital attempted to impose
new contract conditions.
Key provisions of the proposed
agreement include retroactive
wage increases of 4 percent dating
back to March 2010, as well as fu-
ture wage increases of 4 percent up
to April 2012 and increases of be-
tween 2 and 4 percent afterward.
The length of the new contract will
be three years.
“This has been a long and tumul-
tuous process,” wrote CRONA
President Lorie Johnson in a press
release on Saturday. “I am very
proud of how our membership
stood together and refused to let
the hospitals impose an unfair con-
tract on us.The CRONA Board and
Negotiating Committee will be rec-
ommending that nurses vote to ac-
cept this tentative agreement.”
CRONA’s membership will vote
on the contract on Thursday.
— Kabir Sawhney

ALCOHOL
Continued from front page
from getting out of control.
According to Castro, a common
theme among students who went to
the emergency room was the fact
that no one attempted to dissuade
them from engaging in high-risk
behavior. Had that check existed, it
would have prevented them from
drinking so severely, he said.
“People drink because of social
pressure,” Castro said.“We want to
change the norm.
“If someone can point out that
drinking to the point of vomiting is
not normative, and it is reckless,
people are more likely to listen,” he
said. “So what we’re going to do in
spring is really push the staff and
everybody to have that conversa-
tion.”
While the number of alcohol
transports is slightly higher this
year, the number of alcohol cita-
tions handed out to undergradu-
ates has actually gone down. The
Department of Public Safety
(DPS) has only given nine minor-
in-possession (MIP) citations so far
this year and 10 citations for drunk-
in-public (DIP) offenses. Com-
pared with last year’s 29 MIP and
19 DIP citations, the decrease is
significant.
“I assume that on any given
weekend, they probably could cite
100 [students] if they wanted to,
and maybe it’s just that they’re try-
ing to be more educational,” Cas-
tro said.“But it sets up a false sense
of security for students.
“Those that do get cited will be
like, wait a minute, why did I get
cited, when 50 others aren’t? So
there does need to be some consis-
tency with that.”
Statistics on the total number of
alcohol hospitalizations will be re-
ported at the end of the 2010-11 ac-
ademic year.
Bill Larson, a spokesperson for
DPS, declined to comment.
Contact Ariel Zhou at kousa@stan-
ford.edu.
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FEATURES
REINVENTING SPRING BREAK
By NARDOS GIRMA
S
pring Break: these words bring to
mind images of college students soak-
ing up the sun on beaches or resting at
home, recovering from a long and tir-
ing winter quarter. Yet for the almost
200 Stanford students who participated in Al-
ternative Spring Break (ASB) this year, the
week would be spent learning about and expe-
riencing public service.
ASB is a Stanford program affiliated with
the Haas Center for Public Service that allows
students to go to various parts of the country
on service and service-learning trips. This
year’s ASB program had a total of 17 trips with
topics ranging from veteran’s health care to ed-
ucation reform in New York to food issues in
the Bay Area to the California prison system,
all of which exposed students to a variety of so-
cial and cultural issues through education as
well as hands-on service.
The Stanford ASB program is part of a na-
tional alternative break organization called
Break Away. But what makes Stanford’s pro-
gram so unique is that it is designed to educate
and teach students about social issues rather
than just send them on service trips.
“Our trips have evolved into more of edu-
cation immersion experiences versus tradi-
tional hands-on service experiences,”said ASB
faculty advisor Jon McConnell.“There are still
some service components built into the course
of the week, but it’s more comprehensive and
looks at social issues from a multitude of per-
spectives.”
The education immersion portion of the
trip started before spring break even started.
Students started gearing up for ASB with a
one-unit informative course during winter
quarter, through which they gained an in-
depth understanding of their topics.
Having completed the more formal class-
room portion of the program, students then
headed to locations across the country where
they began their service-learning projects.
There, they met both with those impacted by
the social issues as well as those with the power
to help alleviate the problems.
Christian Smith ‘12 traveled to New York
City to explore the education system, where
his ASB group took a hands-on approach to
dealing with education reform by visiting sev-
Monday, April 4, 2011 ! 3
eral public schools and char- higher academic settings, Alexandra Rieger ‘14, who began the “So-
ter schools. The “Growing then we can get results from cial Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area”trip ex-
Creativity: Education Re- students that don’t learn as pecting to learn more about the various start-
form in New York City and well from traditional educa- ups in the Bay Area and possibly make a few
Beyond” ASB group part- tion methods.” contacts,was surprised by how much she bond-
nered with the Institute of ASB also exposed students ed with her peers.
Design at Stanford to the wealth of opportuni- “It was absolutely wonderful to begin the
(d.school) to explore bring- ties that exist in public serv- journey with really wonderful individuals and
ing design thinking and cre- ice, which for some, such as leave as close friends over such a short amount
ativity to the education sys- Namir Shah ‘14, helped re- of time,” Rieger said.
tem. shape their career goals. Another common factor in every group was
In addition to working Shah, who went on a trip the hard work and dedication of the trip lead-
with students, Smith and his that explored women’s ers. Each group had two trip leaders that were
fellow Stanford students vis- health and health policy, de- recruited during spring quarter of the previous
ited universities where they scribed how he was “sur- year.These leaders proposed their own topics,
talked about design thinking prised by how many ways participated in training during fall quarter and
in education reform and ex- there are to get involved in organized the entire trip.
plored a new way of thinking SERENITY NGUYEN/The Stanford Daily public policy and health poli- “What our program does well is that it
called constructivist educa- cy than just being an elected brings together student leaders from all over
tion, which focuses on creativity as a means of politician or a doctor.” campus with very diverse interests and back-
education reform. Despite the differences in subject matter grounds to design a very intensive experience
“This design thinking process fits in with and location, several themes remain common around their topic,” said Minh Dan Vuong ‘11,
the constructivist education model because throughout the ASB trips. First of all, it’s im- executive director of the program. “What uni-
you’re harnessing creativity that we believe is possible to speak to students about their ASB fies all 17 trips is this passion for engaging stu-
fundamentally in every student,” Smith said. experience without hearing about the friend- dents and promoting service and service-learn-
“If we can harness that creativity and use it in ships they formed. ing.”
Many students were motivated to become
leaders as a result of their own ASB trips or
personal experiences related to their topic.
Andy Nguyen ‘12, for example, was motivated
to lead a trip covering women’s health and
health policy this year because of his experi-
ence in a human biology class about women’s
health as well as an internship that exposed
him to state legislative advocacy.
He described the final reflection his group
had at the end of the program as one of his fa-
vorite moments of the trip.
“I liked finding out what everyone learned
on the trip because I’m really passionate about
women’s health and health policy, and it was
exciting to see how much people had learned
over the duration of the directed reading in
winter quarter and over the course of the trip,”
Nguyen said.
Next year, perhaps students inspired by
their recent ASB experiences will continue the
cycle, becoming the next set of ASB leaders
and encouraging other students to trade in
their week-long sunbath in Mexico for new
perspectives,a group of close friends and a pas-
Courtesy of Tara Gu
sion for public service.
The Social Entrepreneurship group, one of 17 groups participating in the Alternative Spring
Break program, visited businesses in the Bay Area dedicated to enacting positive social change. Contact Nardos Girma at ngirma@stanford.edu.
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Many would argue that turnout buzzwords. Flyering is an easy way
is relatively low because the ASSU to avoid actual one-on-one cam-
doesn’t have an impact on the day- paigning, so be sure to remember
to-day lives of students, but this no- candidates that take the time to N O F REE LUNCH
tion is incorrect. If you are a mem- have real conversations with you.

Not So Special Fees

ber of a student group, or even if
you attend an event hosted by one,
you are benefiting from the ASSU
funding process. The influence of
the ASSU is also evident in some-
thing as simple as reserving an Old
Union room — the current online
system exists because, two years
ago, an Executive administration
created it.
But the ASSU has an impact be-
yond funding groups and launching
its own initiatives — elected ASSU
members can act as your lobbyists
to the administration. For example,
maybe you have a strong opinion
on the new policy prohibiting the
use of Row social dues for alcohol
purchases, or perhaps you feel that
stronger action needs to be taken
to improve advising. Your ASSU
representatives are well placed to
translate your views into adminis-
trative policy change and they want
to hear from you.
Because these issues are not di-
rectly under the control of the
ASSU, we tend to think that the
ASSU plays no role in them at all.
In fact, the ASSU can and should
be a strong participant in the ad-
ministrative policymaking process.
No. 2: Talk to candidates about
their platform. Ask not only what
they will do, but follow up with two
important questions. First, how will
they accomplish their goals? For
example, if a Senate candidate
wants to address sustainability is-
sues, which tools does the Senate
provide that will help them suc-
ceed? Second, how will the candi-
date know that he or she has suc-
cessfully addressed the problem?
There are dozens of new ASSU ini-
tiatives every year, but they are
rarely evaluated to examine effec-
tiveness or adjusted to be as effi-
cient as possible.
No. 3: Keep experience in mind.
There is a learning curve within the
ASSU; students who have served
in the Senate, GSC or Executive
branch will tell you that it takes
time and energy to get up to speed.
Look for ASSU experience, or at
the very least, knowledge of the in-
stitution. For Senate candidates,
ask if they have attended Senate
meetings.Do they know the Senate
environment? For Executive slates,
the time commitment has grown
beyond that of a full-time job. Are
candidates aware of this and are
A
s we mentioned last week,ASSU election season
is already upon us. Good news is, one issue has
pretty much been decided: what groups will re-
ceive additional funding from the undergraduate or
graduate student populations — Special Fees.
For almost all of the organizations on the ballot, the
hard part is already over.They’ve waded through the pa-
perwork, gone before the ASSU Senate Appropriations
Committee and had their members forward a plea to
every mailing list on campus. If they’re lucky, they man-
aged to rally 10 percent of the student population if the
Appropriations Committee approved them or 15 per-
cent if they weren’t, and for the most part, the fight is
over. Simply put, they’re across the approval threshold
for fees.
The election is structured so that a specific organiza-
tion must be approved by a simple majority of those who
vote and at least 15 percent of the student body as a
whole. Last year, not a single organization had less than
half of the vote. In all, 89 percent (49 out of 55) of re-
quests were approved.The six that weren’t can blame the
low voter turnout that kept them from getting to the 15
percent absolute mark rather than any actual negative
voter sentiment — overall average approval was 68 per-
T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY
Becoming One of the “Guys”
Zack Hoberg
& Dave Grundfest
cent. In 2009, a single student organization failed in its
bid, and on a technicality at that. In 2008, only one organ-
ization dropped below the then more stringent 60 per-
cent approval of those voting. What does this tell us
about Stanford students as voters?
First,we don’t show up.If more than 30 percent of stu-
dents or 2,100 people had voted on every Special Fees
issue last year, all of them would have passed. Second, in-
ferring from the data and just talking to people, some
huge number of students simply votes yes on every sin-
gle petition. Perhaps most vote no on one or two organi-
zations which really bothered them that year, but how
many people do you think actually go line by line and ask
themselves if their Stanford experience is improved be-
cause Mock Trial (the organization with the lowest ap-
proval that still received funding) can fly some of its
Please see LUNCH, page 5

S Cristopher
o last Monday I had my first awesome.) I’ve always felt that I re-
The Executive, Senators and GSC they willing to make the sacrifices day of a class called “Feminism lated more to women than to men.
members collaborate regularly (academic and otherwise) neces- and American Literature.” But now, as I continue that transi- Bautista
with the administrators that make sary to represent the student body? Being both a fan of literature and tion,I feel like that dynamic is chang-
these types of decisions.They know No. 4: Find out what motivates feminism, I was pretty excited that ing.
these individuals well, understand them. This may be the most impor- day. However, as I sat there, I felt a The moment of conception for
bit off. I felt flustered, guarded, on this column occurred when one of that my walk has become a lot
how their departments operate and tant piece of advice we can offer: straighter — I’m not very sure how
are perfectly positioned to advo- try to learn why a candidate is real- edge, vulnerable. I had no idea why my best friends told me how he no-
I felt this way. It wasn’t until about ticed that I acted a lot straighter now to explain it. When I was just begin-
cate on behalf of students. Admin- ly in the race, beyond the goals on a ning to transition, I had a very non-
halfway through the class that I re- compared to the beginning of my
istrators recognize that ASSU platform. Ask what they hope to alized I was the only male-identi- transition.And although I do identi- normative sort of walk, the sort of
leaders are popularly elected and gain through ASSU service and fied person in the room.And for the fy as “queer” and consider myself walk that signaled to people that I
represent the opinions of the stu- how it will enhance their Stanford first time, I became acutely aware of part of the queer community, my was not a normal guy. I wasn’t very
dent body, and are almost always experience. In the end, candidates my maleness. other queer friends have seen me sure how to move in a masculine
happy to incorporate ASSU input. with a good answer to this question This class was the first time I ever more as a straight boy than a queer way. I experimented with different
felt out of place in a female space. It boy. And I admit that I’m beginning ways of walking, with different ways
As you prepare to cast your are almost always the most effec- of holding my body. I was fine with
votes on Thursday and Friday, the tive. was strange — before, I was so much to see myself less as queer and more
more comfortable in female spaces as someone who’s straight. I’m slow- and proud of having a more femi-
than male spaces. As someone who ly becoming more and more like a nine walk, of portraying my mas-
Unsigned editorials in the space above represent the views of the editorial board of The has studied both English and Femi- guy — like a normal guy. And what- culinity in a non-normative way.
Stanford Daily and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Daily staff.The editorial nist Studies, I was pretty used to ever the hell normal is, I’m not sure, Maybe it’s because of the testos-
board consists of six Stanford students led by a chairman and uninvolved in other sections
being the minority in female-domi- but I sure feel it. terone and how I’ve added on mus-
of the paper.Any signed columns in the editorial space represent the views of their authors cle — particularly my arms and
and do not necessarily represent the views of the entire editorial board.To contact the edi- nated academic spaces. During my I’ve taken a lot of traditionally
freshman year, I even lived on an all- male mannerisms. I go to the gym. I shoulders — but now I carry myself
torial board chair, e-mail editorial@stanforddaily.com.To submit an op-ed, limited to 700
words, e-mail opinions@stanforddaily.com.To submit a letter to the editor, limited to 500 girls’ floor. (Yes, I got to live the drink beer. I know how to joke
words, e-mail eic@stanforddaily.com.All are published at the discretion of the editor. dream of living with all girls. It was around with other guys. I’ve noticed Please see BAUTISTA, page 5

O P-E DS
Vote Abstain,Vote Equally tion we would face if an explicitly exclusionary
institution returns to campus.
the free food, I realized that I really enjoyed the
company of the girls I met, an enthusiastic fam-
ignore the wealth of inspiring acts that Asian
Greeks provide all over campus.
Often when I’m having this discussion with ily who made me feel welcome. After joining There is a lot of misunderstanding about the

O
n the General Election ballot, Measure
A asks students their opinion on
whether ROTC should return to cam-
pus, with three options: support, oppose or ab-
stain.I,as a transgender student,encourage you
to vote abstain.
Much of the debate about ROTC’s potential
return to campus has been framed as a conflict
between patriotism and anti-militarism. How-
ever, this discussion ignores the policy-based
implications of Stanford University supporting,
endorsing and funding a program that discrimi-
nates against our students.
Our university has an official non-discrimi-
nation clause that reads, “Stanford University
admits qualified students of any race, color, na-
tional or ethnic origin, sex, age, disability, reli-
gion, sexual orientation, and gender identity to
all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities
generally accorded or made available to stu-
dents at the University.”
ROTC is bound to uphold the policies of the
U.S. military and so excludes students that it de-
termines to be transgender, intersex or disabled
— and,at least until the military officially imple-
students,I am asked how many transgender stu-
dents there are at Stanford, to the effect of,“It’s
such a small community, does it really matter if
it’s excluded?”To this I respond:Is there a quan-
tifiable amount of discrimination that you find
acceptable? If it’s just me, is discrimination
morally palatable? If we have nine transgen-
dered people,is it okay for ROTC to return,but
if we have 10, should ROTC not return until it
changes its policies? Do we want to be the kind
of university that accepts discrimination if the
community being oppressed is small enough
that it isn’t seen or heard by the majority?
Stand with me for social equality. Stand with
me, and vote abstain on Measure A.
LEANNA KEYES ‘14
How I Found Identity and
Inspiration in the Asian
Greek Community
alpha Kappa Delta Phi (KDPhi), establishing
my cultural identity went from a struggle to an
exciting exploration. KDPhi does not define it-
self by any ethnicity but unites women of all
backgrounds, from Cambodian to Vietnamese
to Mexican and African American.Through my
sisters,I learned about Vietnamese immigration
struggles, Japanese-American internment, sex
trafficking in Southeast Asia and all over the
world, disability discrimination in the Philip-
pines and racism against Hmong communities
in the Midwest; I also tested my ability to eat
pho three times a week. Thanks to the Asian
Greek community, I am finally proud of my
mixed heritage and am deeply inspired by the
heritages of others.
While Asian Greeks are certainly active in
sociopolitical issues,we do not stamp our letters
on every act of leadership and achievement,
often executed through groups not under
AASA.My sisters have founded and led organ-
izations like the Stanford Student Journal of
Global Health which fosters service in develop-
ing Asian countries, the Asian American Well-
ness Program which promotes mental wellness
role of Asian-interest Greeks at Stanford. We
are not purely a social club, purely a service or-
ganization or purely about being Asian. We
came together seeking sisterhood both in our
commonalities and our differences. We cannot
be defined by any one label, because our soror-
ity allows us to combine all our passions rather
than limit ourselves to a narrow range of mis-
sions. Of course, there is always room for im-
proving the unity of the Asian community, and
breaking through apathy towards political caus-
es is a challenge facing all student groups. Still,
the members in the Asian Greek community
and their commitment to Asian-American is-
sues make me proud to rep my letters.
JESSICA UNO,‘11
Member of alpha Kappa Delta Phi
Janitors’Struggle
Continues
T
he viewpoints of janitors and students

ments the Congressional repeal of Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell, students who identify as lesbian, gay
or bisexual. This means that there are students
at Stanford who are unequivocally unable to
participate in the program. This has nothing to
do with patriotism or militarism;it has to do with
discrimination and civil rights.
Voting to abstain sends a message to the Fac-
ulty Senate who actually will decide the ques-
tion posed. Voting to abstain says that this is a
matter of policy, not opinion. There is no opin-
ion in the fact that Stanford has an official poli-
cy protecting its students from the discrimina-
W
hen I first came to Stanford from a pre-
dominantly Caucasian suburb, I was
terrified by the sheer number of Asian
Americans.This discomfort stemmed from hav-
ing not been comfortable with my own Asian-
American identity. I am half Japanese and half
Chinese, speak English at home and hold my
chopsticks incorrectly.I joined the Japanese and
Vietnamese cultural societies to find my inner
Asian but quickly dropped out, feeling out of
place. Consequently, I avoided the Asian com-
munity until I attended Asian-interest sorority
rush events for the Korean BBQ. As I gobbled
for Asian-Americans, Initiative Against Malar-
ia which raises funds for bednets in Southeast
Asia,Arbor and Pacific Free Clinic which serves
poor Asian immigrants,and the Asia Pacific En-
trepreneurship Society (ASES) which connects
students with Asian-Pacific entrepreneurs and
markets. My sisters fiercely support one anoth-
er in even these non-sorority projects.The Asian
Greek organizations provide valuable net-
works that support community leaders in both
individual and group endeavors to better condi-
tions for our fellow Asians.To say that we do not
know what it means to be Asian American is to
have been consistently missing from the
public discussion of the attempted Stan-
ford janitor firings in December 2010, and as a
member of the Stanford Labor Action Coali-
tion and a Stanford janitor, respectively, we are
writing to present our side of the story.
Federal law did not require the criminal
background checks or the particular identity
checks that caused the janitors’ job crisis. UGL-
UNICCO and Stanford required criminal back-
ground checks like the previous company,
Please see JANITORS, page 5
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JANITORS
Continued from page 4
ABM, did. The vast majority of jani-
tors passed the criminal background
check. With respect to identity
checks, federal law requires a valida-
tion of authorization to work in the
United States via the I-9 form. UGL-
UNICCO did not disclose the re-
quirements for its “identity check,”
and only after our campaign did the
company finally ask for I-9 docu-
ments from all the workers. All the
workers provided these documents
required for legal authorization to
work in the United States.Therefore,
whatever problems that may have
come up with the additional identity
checks that UGL-UNICCO per-
formed were not a valid reason to
end these workers’ jobs.
Many factors lead to discrepan-
cies in the identity checks. Databases
are usually rife with clerical errors,es-
pecially with Latino names. In fact,
Section 1324(b), paragraph 6 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act ex-
plicitly states that requesting more
documents, as UGL-UNICCO has
done “shall be treated as an unfair
immigration-related employment
practice if made for the purpose or
with the intent of discriminating
against an individual.” There is rea-
son to believe that UGL-UNICCO
has violated this act.
Originally, 55 of the 134 janitors
received letters saying UGL-UNIC-
CO could not verify their identity
and that UGL-UNICCO would not
offer them work after Dec.1.Hearing
about these firings from the janitors
prompted SLAC to send out a peti-
tion to gather support from the Stan-
ford community for the janitors.
After receiving an overwhelmingly
supportive response from the Stan-
ford community, Stanford and UGL-
UNICCO involved students and
workers in the discussion. They
began rehiring some workers,though
many janitors remained jobless. The
workers organized several marches
and one four-hour work stoppage.
The workers’ actions and union ne-
gotiations led to UGL-UNICCO’s
provisional offer to rehire the work-
ers once they presented their I-9
form, pending a grievance claim.
BAUTISTA
Continued from page 4
differently, walk differently. Physi-
cally, in many ways, I’m much more
traditionally masculine than I was
before.
But the most jarring aspect to my
transition is how I relate to women,
particularly women I am interested
in. I never participated in college
hookup culture because I just didn’t
get it.I never learned the signals that
girls give guys if they want to dance,
make out, have sex. The idea of
hookups was all very foreign to me,
even at the beginning of this school
year. But at this point of my transi-
tion, I’m slowly becoming more and
more familiar, more and more
aligned with the more conventional
ways that men and women interact
with each other sexually.
Of course, I’m not the type to
hook up with people, (as I men-
tioned in last week’s column), but
I’ve become more familiar with this
whole heterosexual courting para-
digm. I’m becoming a traditional
guy in terms of how I go about treat-
LUNCH
Continued from page 4
members to Atlanta for a tourna-
ment? We’d guess that there is a
small group of people who actually
think about who they don’t want to
give funding to, and then there is
probably another, smaller popula-
tion who just vote ‘no’ on every-
thing. All in all, it seems fair to say
that when it comes to Special Fees,
Stanford students aren’t a very dis-
cerning lot.
But maybe that’s because we
don’t have to be. Everyone has the
right to request a refund at the be-
ginning of the quarter from any
groups they don’t wish to personally
fund. This would be a great way to
vote with your feet, but with our
‘yesyesyes’ Special Fees system, no
one bears the burden of ‘no.’ If
someone refunds the portion of
their fee that goes to Flicks or the
Stanford Concert Network,they can
still go watch as many free movies or
concerts as they want. Flicks and
SCN have no recourse for free rid-
ers.This is probably the rationale for
why student groups aren’t docked
when someone or everyone request
a refund. Instead the ASSU general
fund is left to take up the slack. This
wasn’t much of a problem when no
one knew about the refund system,
but thanks to some flyering by the
Stanford Review, it seems that
everyone does now.
The Special Fees system was de-
signed to let the student body make
tradeoffs to decide how to distribute
a limited pool of money to a big
group or worthy student organiza-
In firing the janitors, UGL-
UNICCO violated the requirement
of the collective bargaining agree-
ment they have with the janitors’
union, SEIU Local 1877, that re-
quires new subcontractors rehire all
workers with full pay and benefits.
Most of the fired janitors, some of
whom have worked at Stanford for
over 15 years,had enough seniority to
make up to $13.09 per hour with full
benefits, including health insurance
for their families. Newly hired jani-
tors started at $9.15 per hour with no
benefits, including healthcare. New
hires would have received benefits
for themselves after one year and
benefits for their family after two
years. Since Stanford’s payment to
UGL-UNICCO is set at a monthly
sum, UGL-UNICCO stood to gain
hundreds of thousands of dollars
from firing janitors with seniority and
replacing them with a group of new
hires.
Stanford chose UGL-UNICCO
over other potential subcontractors
despite it not being the lowest-cost
choice, because Stanford believed
UGL-UNICCO would provide
quality service based on its perform-
ance at other schools. Complying
with contractual requirements partly
defines quality service. UGL-UNIC-
CO has violated its union contract on
top of having a history of worker mis-
treatment. According to a Harvard
Crimson article (2002),UGL-UNIC-
CO used anti-worker cost-cutting
strategies, such as employing part-
time janitors to avoid providing
healthcare both on Harvard campus
and in the Boston area.
The situation is far from over —
29 workers anxiously await the re-
sults of the grievance claim, which
will be decided on May 4.If the griev-
ance claim is not found in their favor,
these janitors will lose their jobs, and
the only other formal complaint
process available is an unfair labor
practice claim, which typically takes
five-to-seven years to decide. We
must remain vigilant of companies
both on and off campus that would
abuse good workers to make a quick
buck. Companies should reward
those who work hard at their jobs,
and people should not be subject to
the financial whims of corporations.
ERIC GRIFFIS ‘12 AND KARINA
REYES,JANITOR
ing someone I’m interested in — I
feel compelled to pick up the tab,
hold open doors, just those things
that men traditionally do. I have this
weird impulse to be a gentleman,
which I know is problematic, since
the idea of the gentleman does to a
degree stem from sexism and chau-
vinism, but all this comes with being
culturally indoctrinated as a straight
man.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m very
happy with my transition. I’m happy
with how my body is turning out.I’m
happy with my voice. I’m overall so
much happier than I was two years
ago,when I first was coming out.But
at the same time, I feel like I’m los-
ing something. I once prided myself
in being able to relate to women, in
claiming women’s spaces as my
spaces — but now, I feel that I am
separating myself from women, re-
lating to them as straight men relate
to them.I’m transforming into a reg-
ular guy, the guy you’d have a beer
with, the guy you’d give a slap on the
back. It’s so strange. And to tell you
the truth, I’m not very sure how I
feel about it yet.
Want to have a beer with Cristopher?
E-mail him at cmsb@stanford.edu.
tions. Instead it’s become a set of
hurdles, where everyone gets great
services, but anyone can opt out of
paying. Socialism and Libertarian-
ism don’t mix well — it’s simply bad
business.
So how do we fix it? First, we
could start by doing the obvious and
closing the refund loophole. No one
seems to be willing to allow the
ASSU to distribute a list of those
who requested refunds to the groups
they requested them from, so the re-
fund system should be junked en-
tirely. Second, we could tweak the
election process to do what it was in-
tended to do, let the students decide.
For starters, the barrier to getting
special fees should be significantly
higher than getting on the ballot —
by at least double — meaning that
30 percent of the student population
should have to approve of a group
getting funding,in an absolute sense.
An unintended upside to this is it
would get every group invested in
turnout, not just spamming for peti-
tions.
So until then, go vote in this elec-
tion. And spend the two minutes it
will take to actually go through and
think about whether each group that
is asking for your money is actually
serving the Stanford community and
actually improving our university.
And future ASSU senators and ex-
ecutive: this is something that actual-
ly needs fixing.We need a consistent
policy that allows special fees to sim-
ply and clearly do what it is intended
to: provide funding for organizations
that make this place great.
To refund the money you paid to
make the Special Fees system dysfunc-
tional, contact us at Daveg4@stan-
ford.edu and zhoberg@stanford.edu.
6 ! Monday, April 4, 2011
SPORTS
SUPER SENIORS
Pepperdine falls
on Senior Night
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
DESK EDITOR
Saturday night was Senior Night at
Maples Pavilion, but it was the under-
classmen that stepped up and helped
send the class of 2011 out in style with
a 3-1 victory over No. 13 Pepperdine in
the last regular season home game of
the year.
Freshman outside hitter/middle
backer Eric Mochalski had a career-
high of 11 kills and hit .611 with no er-
rors, and junior outside hitter Brad
Lawson notched his second straight
double-double with 19 kills and 10 digs
while hitting .341 for the match.
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
USC 3 USC
STANFORD 1 STANFORD
PEPPERDINE 1 4/1, Maples Pavilion
STANFORD 3 MEN’S TENNIS
4/1-4/2, Maples Pavilion
The No.3 Cardinal (17-7,13-6
MPSF) came out strong, hitting .478 in
the first set and jumped all over the
Waves to take game one, 25-15.
But things leveled out in the second
set as Stanford’s attack cooled off and
Pepperdine rebounded.The two teams
traded points for most of the game,
with neither side gaining much of an
advantage until Stanford used a Law-
son kill to move to set point at 24-23.
But the Card couldn’t convert and
failed to capitalize on two subsequent
set points with Pepperdine (5-13,5-13),
who eventually took the set on two
blocks by Matt Pollock and Maurice
Torres.
The setback seemed to jolt the Car-
dinal’s offense back into gear, and
Lawson and McLachlin stepped up
their games in the third set — Stanford
nearly doubled its hitting percentage
from game two to game three. With
McLachlin serving, Stanford won four
straight points and held a slight lead
midway through the set.
The lead grew to four points at 20-
16, but Pepperdine refused to quit de-
spite offensive woes — the Waves hit
just .216 for the match and hit below
.135 in games one and four.
It wasn’t until Lawson slammed
home one of junior setter Evan Barry’s
WRESTLING WITH WAZZU
Offense on and off
in crazy series win
By JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR
The Stanford baseball team
opened up its Pac-10 season the right
way this past weekend, grabbing the
Saturday and Sunday games to secure
a series victory over the Washington
State Cougars.
The series win was especially criti-
cal considering the way the Cardinal
(13-7, 2-1 Pac-10) started the week-
end, as it blew an eight-run lead and a
great pitching performance by sopho-
more Mark Appel on Friday night to
fall to the Cougars (11-12, 1-5).
Freshman Lonnie Kauppita, above, went 6-for-6 with a triple and five RBI as the
Cardinal piled on 22 against Washington State on Saturday for Stanford’s first
of two wins in the weekend series against the Cougars.
The underclassmen and seniors alike put on a show on Senior Night. Freshman
outside hitter Eric Mochalski, above, tallied 11 kills and no errors for a .611
hitting percentage as Stanford cruised to a 3-1 win over Pepperdine.
50 assists on set point number three
that the crowd of 1,268 could exhale.
Playing with a 2-1 lead, the Card ap-
peared to loosen up a bit, but couldn’t
shake Pepperdine and the balanced of-
fensive attack of Pollock, Torres and
Cory Riecks,each of whom had at least
10 kills, with Torres tying Lawson for
the match high at 19.
Stanford slipped into a 13-10 hole,
but slowly worked the sideout game to
retake the lead at 15-14. With the
BASEBALL
STANFORD 8
WASHINGTON ST. 10
STANFORD 22
WASHINGTON ST. 3 Freshman A.J. Vanegas gave up
STANFORD 4 three straight hits before junior Scott
WASHINGTON ST. 3 Snodgress relieved him and gave up
4/1-4/3, Pullman, Wash.
The Cardinal jumped out to a big
lead thanks to a blasted three-run
home run from catcher Zach Jones
and a solo shot from freshman first
baseman Brian Ragira. Appel gave
the Card another strong start, blowing
away seven batters with a devastating
fastball-slider combo.
Appel gave up two runs in the bot-
tom of the seventh to cut the Stanford
lead to 8-2 and then exploded on the
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crowd’s support, the lead swelled to
three, and then a late surge gave the
Cardinal the set and match, 25-20.
Fittingly, it was the senior McLach-
lin who put away the final point as his
father, assistant coach Chris McLach-
lin, looked on from the bench. In addi-
tion, the victory moved Stanford’s
graduating class of McLachlin, Ian
Connolly, Max Halvorson, Charley
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Cardinal bullpen when Appel’s night
was over after he looked to be in line
to get the win.Appel gave up only the
two runs over seven innings and
struck out a career-high of seven bat-
ters.
five runs before he was pulled for jun-
ior Chris Reed.
Cougar right fielder Derek Jones,
the first batter Reed faced, then con-
nected on a fastball and blasted a
three-run home run out to right field,
giving the Cougars a 10-8 lead.
The potentially devastating loss
didn’t affect the Cardinal for long
though, even when it was faced with
the added adversity of snowy weather
conditions.
A 2 p.m. start was delayed to 5:30
p.m. after rain and snow came down
on Bailey-Brayton field, but the Car-
dinal showed no signs of a hangover
when it got on the board early and
didn’t stop scoring the entire night.
Another three-run bomb from
Jones, his second of the weekend,
made the score 9-0 in the second in-
ning, and a colossal grand slam from
Ragira made the score 16-1 before a
33-minute snow delay put a break in
the action in the top of the fifth.
The snow and the Cougar bullpen
didn’t stop the scoring onslaught, as
every Cardinal starter recorded a hit.
Freshman right fielder Austin Wilson
added another three-run dinger over
the left-field wall to make the score
21-1, and freshman Lonnie Kauppila
went 6-for-6 with a triple and five
RBI.
When it was all said and done,
Stanford had a 22-3 win, the first time
Stanford had scored over 20 runs
since 2007.
Not to be overshadowed in the of-
fensive explosion was junior starter
Jordan Pries, who did his part to se-
cure the Stanford victory and push his
record to 4-1 by giving up only two
runs on five hits through seven in-
nings.
With the series on the line on Sun-
day, the Cardinal turned to sopho-
more righty Dean McArdle, who de-
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Can mid-majors
contend every year?
I
have a serious question.
Why are you watching
today’s men’s national
championship game? I’m
not implying that you
shouldn’t, but if you really think
about it,do you have a reason to?
If you’re reading this column,
it means you’re probably a sports
fan, so maybe that is reason is
enough to watch the national
title game. Or maybe you have
some connection to Connecticut
or Butler, in which case that is
definitely reason enough. But if
this was November, would you
watch a Butler-Connecticut
game? Maybe, but probably not
— and I seriously doubt many of
you have this matchup in your
bracket. But if you do, I tip my
proverbial cap to you.
Regardless of your reason,
most of you will watch the game
tonight.So will I;but still,I’m cer-
tain that tonight’s game will not
be watched by nearly as many
people as it would if it was, say,
North Carolina versus Kansas.
You’re probably asking your-
self, “Where is he going with
this?”What I’m trying to do here
is ask: is it good for college bas-
SPORTS BRIEFS
Men’s gymnastics takes MPSF
title in upset
The No. 2 Cardinal men’s
gymnastics team will head into
the NCAA Championships
later this month with high hopes
after its victory over rival No. 3
California and top-ranked Ok-
lahoma. Stanford has never won
an NCAA title without taking
the Mountain Pacific Sports
Federation title in the process.
The win was a team effort —
senior Ryan Lieberman led the
Card at third place in the all-
around. But consistency
throughout the lineup lifted the
team to victory by posting solid
scores in every event.
Senior Tim Gentry, largely
considered Stanford’s strongest
candidate at the NCAA meet,
posted an impressive 16.050 on
the still rings, with the next clos-
est score a 15.600 scored by
sophomore teammate James
Fosco. Senior Alex Buscaglia
put on a similarly impressive
show on the horizontal bar with
a 15.600, a half-point above red-
shirt sophomore teammate
Cameron Foreman’s 15.100, the
next best score at the meet.
The impressive show at the
MPSF Championship puts
Stanford in a confident position
for the national tournament.
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On My Mind
ketball to have to relatively unex-
pected teams play in the title
game? That question also gets to
the heart of one of college sports’
biggest conflicts — major con-
ferences versus mid-majors.
On the one hand, college
sports are a business, and the
major conferences consistently
bring in more revenue and more
television viewers. I don’t have
figures to express this, but I don’t
think many people would dis-
pute that notion.
With that in mind, there are
also the issues of building pro-
grams, building legacies and
building fan bases. Nobody
should have the power to deem
one school as inherently better
than another. The Kentuckys,
UCLAs and Dukes of the world
only became the programs that
they are today — with large,
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With its win over Oklahoma,
the Cardinal has now defeated
every team in the nation, and it
will try to repeat that feat from
April 14-16 at the NCAA cham-
pionship in Columbus, Ohio.
— Matt Bettonville
Top-ranked women’s tennis
downs Sun Devils
Staying unbeaten this sea-
son, the Cardinal women’s ten-
nis team (18-0, 5-0 Pac-10) took
six out of seven points from Ari-
zona State on Friday.
The Card found itself in a
rare 0-1 deficit to start the after-
noon after dropping two of
three doubles matches. The
team’s senior Hilary Barte and
sophomore Mallory Burdette
scored Stanford’s only doubles
victory of the day.
But the team returned to its
usual form for the rest of the
match, taking all six singles
matches to turn the initial strug-
gle into a decisive victory. The
Cardinal’s Nos. 1 through 4 —
Barte, Burdette, and freshmen
Nicole Gibbs and Kristie Ahn
— all won in straight sets.
The victory marks the 175th
consecutive win for the team at
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Continued from page 6
traveling fan bases — because of
long periods of sustained success.
Butler has now reached two con-
secutive title games. Maybe we are
witnessing the Bulldogs’ transition
from a team on the periphery of the
national scene to one that will be
able to continually recruit talent and
be a contender year in and year out.
The so-called mid-major schools
have had representatives that swoop
onto the scene for short periods of
time — UNLV in the late 80’s and
early 90’s and Utah in the 90’s and
early 2000’s come to mind — but
few that contend every season
(Gonzaga?).
Would it be a good thing if there
were more perennial mid-major con-
tenders? Probably. Some people
might argue that it takes away from
the Cinderella aspect of the NCAA
Tournament that people love so
much. If mid-majors are expected to
do well, then it wouldn’t be quite as
thrilling when a George Mason or a
VCU goes to the Final Four — at least
that’s what the argument would be.
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would be the case, because I don’t Gaffney in center field who was head coach Mark Marquess’
think that being a Cinderella team is forced into the unfamiliar spot in 1,400th career victory.
predicated on being a mid-major but the outfield after typical center- The series win was Stanford’s
rather on being a low seed. If San Continued from page 6 fielder Jake Stewart was scratched second weekend series victory in a
Diego State — a two-seed in this from the lineup. row after knocking off Long Beach
year’s bracket — were in the Final Gaffney’s two gaffes, coupled State last week, and the two wins
Four right now, I don’t think people livered another good pitching per- with two more errors from Kauppila leave Stanford in a good position as
would be thinking of the Aztecs as formance from a starting rotation and Snodgress, made things tight it primes for a long Pac-10 season
Cinderellas. Along the same lines, if that lowered its collective ERA to going down the stretch, but Reed that will feature matchups against
12-seeded Clemson,a member of the 1.74 this weekend. came in determined to redeem him- four top-25 teams.
ACC, was in the Final Four, that The Cougar bullpen was its own self and secure the win with the game The Cardinal returns home for a
would be a Carl Spackler-esque Cin- worst enemy on Sunday, giving up on the line in the eighth inning. Tuesday matchup against San Jose
derella Story. back-to-back bases-loaded walks to Reed pitched one and two- State at 5:30 p.m. before heading
The biggest hurdle that mid-ma- help the Cardinal out to a 4-0 lead thirds innings of flawless baseball to south on its fifth road trip of the
jors have to vault is the widely held through the top of the sixth. grab his fourth save of the early sea- season for another Pac-10 series
idea that they are simply not as good However, the Cougar offense son and give McArdle a 4-1 record against the USC Trojans.
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people question how a team like
VCU — coming out of the Colonial
Athletic Association with 11 losses
— can be in the tournament. I guess
the moral of the story is that every
team is just one team; it doesn’t mat-
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from or if it’s considered a mid-
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Henrikson and Jordan Inafuku (as
well as redshirt junior Garrett
Dobbs) within two victories of the
all-time mark for career victories in
school history, with 79.
But the celebratory atmosphere
Saturday at Maples Pavilion con-
trasted with the tense and volatile
tone of Friday night, when a show-
down with No. 1 USC had a rowdy
crowd of 1,645 on edge. USC (17-1,
16-1) pulled out a 3-1 victory in the
end, but after a dominating first set
by the Trojans, a late-arriving crowd
energized Stanford as they battled
back to take the second set 25-21
and seized the momentum.
USC’s combination of Tony Cia-
relli and Steven Shandrick led the
team. Ciarelli led all players with 21
kills and hit .500 with four aces and
eight digs, and Shandrick hit .474
with 10 kills and eight block assists.
The duo helped the Trojans over-
come what was otherwise a quiet of-
fensive night for the team. All-
American Murphy Troy hit just .059
for the match with eight kills, and
USC hit just .290 as a team (com-
pared to Stanford’s .305), but picked
its spots well.
With Stanford down 18-17 in the
critical third set, Ciarelli smashed
through the Stanford block to give
the Trojans a three-point cushion
that they would not relinquish. It
was Shandrick who blocked Lawson
for set point.
The Cardinal took a three-point
lead in the fourth set at 12-9, but
USC proved why it has lost just one
match all year as it chipped away
and eventually took its first lead
since the opening point at 22-21. A
few blocks later and the Trojans
were heading to the busses with
their 11th straight win,but the match
showed that Stanford can hold its
own against the best in the country.
The Cardinal is still in a tight race
with BYU for the No. 2 seed in the
MPSF and controls its own destiny
by virtue of its series sweep of the
Cougars. With just five matches re-
maining in conference play, Stan-
ford heads south to face UC-Santa
Barbara on Friday night.
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TENNIS NETS CLOSE WINS
By DASH DAVIDSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Stanford men’s tennis team
defeated the Tulsa Golden Hurri-
cane by the slimmest of margins, 4
to 3, on Friday evening at Taube
Tennis Stadium. No. 12 Stanford
improved to 10-5 (1-1 Pac-10) with
the victory while No. 31 Tulsa fell to
14-6. The Cardinal wrapped up the
weekend in Tucson, dealing the Ari-
zona Wildcats a 5-2 loss.
Two international underclass-
men led Tulsa — sophomore
Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador
and freshman Japie De Klerk of
South Africa — who both achieved
impressive statement victories.
Arevalo and De Klerk posted
Tulsa’s lone win in the three dou-
bles matches, defeating Dennis Lin
and Matt Kandath of the Cardinal,
8-5. In the singles, Arevalo was pit-
ted against junior Bradley Klahn,
Stanford’s No. 1 and the nations No.
11 player. Arevalo, ranked No. 46,
went in as the underdog yet man-
aged to upset Klahn (1-6, 6-3, 7-5)
and assert himself as a young player
on the rise.The freshman De Klerk,
ranked No. 99, had the task of tak-
ing on Stanford’s No. 2 player, No.
32 Ryan Thacher. Like his team-
mate Klahn, Thacher fell to a
younger and lower-seeded oppo-
nent in three sets, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.
MEN’S TENNIS
TULSA 3
STANFORD 4
4/1, Taube Tennis Stadium
STANFORD 5
ARIZONA 2
4/3, Tucson
Luckily for Stanford’s top two
singles players, the back of the Car-
dinal lineup came up big against the
Hurricane. Seniors Alex Clayton
and Greg Hirshmann, along with
sophomore Matt Kandath, all de-
feated their Tulsa foes to provide
Stanford with the critical four
points needed for a victory.
Kandath was the closer for the
Cardinal on Friday, finishing his
match by defeating his opponent 6-
4 in the third set and giving the team
its pivotal fourth point. Tulsa has
had a disparity of success between
its top four lineup slots and its lower
two. Over the course of the team’s
last six matches, the top four have
thrived and are a combined 20-4,
whereas the bottom two have strug-
gled to the tune of a 5-7 record.
After Friday’s victory, the Cardi-
nal headed south to Tucson to do
battle with the No. 56 Arizona Wild-
cats. The team followed up its close
victory over Tulsa in Friday’s match
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WBBALL|A&M ends run
to a 27-23 halftime lead. Nnemkadi
Ogwumike sank her first four bas-
kets, and senior point guard Jeanntte
Pohlen knocked in a go-ahead three-
pointer near the end of the half that
sent Stanford to the locker room with
a sense of control.
While the Cardinal was able to
pad its lead a bit in the second,
things turned around in a hurry.
Texas A&M began seeking sal-
vation at the three-point line as its
waning offense put it back 54-44,
following a free-throw from
Nnemkadi Ogwumike. After brick-
ing a couple poor shots from range,
A&M got a bit of help from Stan-
ford as each of the Ogwumike sis-
ters sent Aggie shooters to the line
on charging layups. Tyra White and
Danielle Adams each turned their
opportunities into three-point plays
as they powered the Aggies to an 8-
0 run that pulled them within 54-52.
That’s when it all began to fall
apart for Stanford.
With freshman forward Chiney
Ogwumike out on fouls, the Aggies
quickly became the better-looking
team. Sydney Carter nailed a three
from the left wing over a leaping
Pohlen to pull within a single point,
which forced a tense timeout from
VanDerveer with 85 seconds on the
clock. Reality must have been set-
tling in for the embattled Cardinal,
and things got tougher from there.
Losing Chiney was a tough blow,
even on a day she struggled a bit to
find the basket.
“It definitely hurt us,” said senior
forward Kayla Pedersen.“She gives
us that fire and that passion, the of-
fensive skill and defensive stops.”
Both teams were out of time-
outs, and like the last round of a title
fight, the final minute was a heart-
wrenching flurry of two-point
punches — all that mattered is who
threw the final blow. Sydney Colson
opened the frenzy for the Aggies,
turning a missed three-pointer from
sophomore forward Mikaela Ruef
into a couple of converted free
throws after drawing a foul in tran-
sition. Nnemkadi Ogwumike put
Stanford back up, 60-59, with two of
her own makes from the charity
stripe. That put the clock at 0:35.
White put in a layup after eating
a few seconds off the clock, which
left Nnemkadi Ogwumike with just
19 seconds to answer. She did,
charging in to the paint and hooking
a layup over Aggies guard Danielle
Adams with an outstretched right
hand. That proved to be the final
basket of Stanford’s season.
Colson charged down the court
as the clock hit five seconds, dishing
the ball away as she hit the paint.
White picked it up in the post, deal-
ing the Cardinal’s deathblow with a
nonchalant toss off the backboard.
Junior guard Lindy LaRocque
stumbled over Pohlen to get at the
ball,but neither of them could make
the block.
“We needed just a little more
extra effort just to stop the ball and
not allow them to get that point-
blank shot,”VanDerveer said about
the final basket.
Ruef tossed a hail mary with
three seconds left, but the game was
already lost. As the Aggie bench
stormed the court, the Stanford
women had a lot to take in — in the
long-term, they had just fallen short
in the Final Four for the fourth
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Sophomore Matt Kandath, above,
scored a win against Tulsa to get the
Card the four points it needed for its
close win over the Golden Hurri-
cane. The point proved key as Stan-
ford’s top two both lost in the match.
with a more decisive 5-2 win on
Sunday. The Wildcats were blitzed
early and often in this match, losing
the first five contests before eking
out the final two.
These two wins were crucial for
the Cardinal, both to hold its posi-
tion in the fickle national rankings
and to gain confidence as it heads
into a difficult week that will feature
three highly ranked opponents. First
up is No. 26 San Diego on Wednes-
day at home, and then Stanford will
head north to take on Washington
and Oregon over the weekend.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@
stanford.edu.
straight time. More immediately,
they were carrying an injured
Pohlen away from the court. The
Stanford captain came down hard
on her ankle on the final play, falling
to the floor and covering her face
under the basket.
Pohlen, who joined Pedersen last
week in setting the record for most
games played in a Stanford uni-
form, had a solid 11 points — nine
of them on threes — in her final col-
legiate game. As of press time, the
extent of her injury remains un-
clear.
For Stanford’s seniors, the loss
goes beyond frustrating — they’ve
made the journey to the Final Four
every season, only to come up short
each time. It will be tough for Van-
Derveer and their younger team-
mates to let go of that legacy.
“I can have another chance, but .
. . I feel bad for Kayla and
Jeanette,” VanDerveer said. “They
wanted this. They worked hard.”
“Losing the game is hard, but
losing the team is even harder,”
Nnemkadi Ogwumike said. “Not
just as teammates but as friends.We
spend every waking moment with
each other, and it’s definitely been a
really fun journey.”
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@
stanford.edu.
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Continued from page 6
home, as well as a continuation of
Stanford’s current overall streak,
now at 37 straight wins. It also puts
a dagger into the ASU (13-4, 3-1
Pac-10), an unexpected Pac-10 con-
tender this year suffering just its
first loss in the league this season.
Stanford’s match against No. 30
Arizona scheduled for Saturday
was cancelled and will not be
rescheduled, so the Cardinal will
wait until this Friday to return to
action, taking on Fresno State at
1:30 p.m. at Taube Tennis Stadium.
— Matt Bettonville
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Senior Hilary Barte, above, won in
straight sets against her ASU oppo-
nent on Friday, as did all of Stan-
ford’s top four singles players, pro-
pelling the team to a 6-1 victory
over the Sun Devils.