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Talk compares Senate discusses publications

ASSU approves Publications Board bill, debates campaign spending caps
students to By KURT CHIRBAS
STAFF WRITER
future. She also said the publication board
typically receives $70,000 from discre-
tionary funding each year. Historically, it
uate Senate.
The discussion then turned to the “Bill
to Reform Elections to Create Equal Ac-

excellent sheep The Undergraduate Senate passed a bill

By JANELLE WOLAK
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Yesterday, writer and former Yale professor Bill
Deresiewicz declaimed to a packed audience in An-
nenberg Auditorium that Stanford students are real-
ly just excellent “hoop-jumping, teacher-pleasing
sheep.”The event was the first annual lecture hosted
by seniors in the Ethics in Society program.
Associate Pro-
fessor of Political Sci-
ence Rob Reich
opened the discussion
by quoting from Dere-
siewicz’s June 2008 ar-
ticle, “The Disadvan-
tages of an Elite Edu-
cation.” In that article,
Deresiewicz states that
he has taught very in-
telligent students at
Yale and Columbia
who were content to
stay within the con-
fines of their own edu-
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/
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cation.
Having spent 10
years at Yale as an Eng-
Author and former Yale lish professor, Dere-
professor Bill Deresiewicz siewicz is now a full-
speaks to Stanford students time writer. He works
in Annenberg Auditorium. as a contributing editor
at both The Nation and
Deresiewicz compared The New Republic. His
students at elite universities next book “A Jane
to ‘hoop-jumping’ sheep. Austen Education” is
coming out this year,
and he is currently focusing on his new book project
“Excellent Sheep:The Disadvantages of an Elite Ed-
ucation.”
Deresiewicz believes that elite university educa-
tion fails to prepare students for the larger world. He
pointed to the Wall Street collapse, the military fail-
ure in Iraq and Barack Obama as examples.
“Obama thought he was going to get an A on his
midterms from the American people just because he
had all the right answers,” Deresiewicz said.
According to Deresiewicz, elite university educa-
tion is deficient because admission criteria are more
than 100 years old; what admission offices look for in
an applicant today is the same as what they looked
for in 1905.
“I think that the multicultural meritocracy today
is no different from the monocultural aristocracy 100
years ago,” Deresiewicz said. “We’re becoming ossi-
fied and complacent and self-congratulatory. We
need to transcend ourselves.”
Deresiewicz said the need to have 12 different ex-
tracurricular activities has grown over the years to
such an extent that people have become pathologi-
cally busy — doing a million things because they
think they should.
Deresiewicz pointed to celebrity James Franco as
areductio ad absurdumof this phenomenon. Franco
is currently a doctoral student at Yale, but is also in-
volved in programs at UCLA, Columbia, NYU and
Brooklyn College.
In a Q&A session after the talk, students asked
Deresiewicz for his solution to the problem of high-
er education. He encouraged students to ask “the big
questions,” to be independent thinkers and to find
their passions.
Regarding admission offices, Deresiewicz said
they should not require a myriad of extracurricular
activities and should instead focus on finding stu-
dents with more depth than breadth. He even sug-
gested students consider taking time off before, dur-
Please see SHEEP, page 2
STUDENT LIFE
on Tuesday night that would refine the role
of the ASSU Publications Board and dis-
cussed a separate piece of legislation that
would put caps on campaign expenditures
in ASSU elections.
The “Bill to Improve Campus Publica-
tions,” co-authored by ASSU publications
directors Zachary Warma ‘11 and Alice
Nam ‘11, aims to raise the previous ASSU
funding cap of $6,000 for individual cam-
pus publications to $10,000.
“Traditionally, the reason for the publi-
cation board is to take up-and-coming pub-
lications, give them a couple of years of
funding and send them off on special fees,”
Warma said.“As we’ve seen in the last two
elections, publications — particularly,
those that are trying to improve — lose out
on the special fee ballots because they
weren’t able to mount an all-scale campus-
wide campaign.”
Nam said by increasing the amount of
funding that can be given, publications like
Stanford Scientific Quarterly could be
completely taken off of special fees in the
Mind, Body and Soul
First year grad student Fiona Gispen ‘09 practices yoga in White Plaza on Tuesday
afternoon during ‘De-Duck Yourself Week.’ Gispen, a certified yoga instructor, in-
structed advanced and beginner students alike in gentle stretching and relaxation.
only spends $40,000 of this amount.
“It would make sense to make sure the
money goes to funding student groups in-
stead of being floated into the reserves year
after year,” Nam said.
Senate Chair Madeline Hawes’13 ini-
tially said there had not been enough time
to review the bill when it was presented for
discussion during the meeting. She took a
straw poll to determine whether or not to
vote on the bill last night, but the majority
voted against taking action on the legisla-
tion.
However, when Nam clarified that the
bill had been sent prior to the Monday at
noon deadline, Hawes said it was a mistake
that the item had not been placed on the
agenda. The Senate took a five-minute re-
cess to read the bill.
In the end, the bill gained the two-thirds
majority necessary with two revisions: it no
longer states that the publication fund
would be pegged to one-tenth of the Un-
dergraduate Senate General Fund and that
the ASSU publications director would
serve as the grammarian of the Undergrad-
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cess to ASSU Elected Positions,”which was
co-authored by ASSU President Angelina
Cardona ‘11 and President-elect Michael
Cruz ‘12. This piece of legislation aims to
put caps on the amount candidates can
spend in ASSU general elections: up to
$100 in Senate races and $400 in class pres-
ident races.
Lauren Felice ‘14, who ran in the sopho-
more class president race under the slate
“Face to Face,” talked about the difficulty
of competing against candidates with high-
er spending budgets. She described how
this circumstance takes the focus away
from substantive issues in election races.
“I support the $400 limit,” Felice said.“I
think one of the hardest burdens was buy-
ing T-shirts in this election. A $400 limit
would eliminate that very high cost option,
which I don’t think is representative of
competence in that position.”
Many senators,however,expressed con-
cerns that putting a financial cap would
heighten the influence of endorsing organ-
Please see SENATE, page 2
ACADEMICS
Professors aim
to revamp class-
room education
By ELLORA ISRANI
STAFF WRITER
Stanford students tired of the lecture-section-
paper-problem set routine now have several op-
tions for reprieve,including classes using interac-
tive online lectures,avatars and new approaches
to problem-solving. These experiments in in-
struction come as the University reexamines its
approach to undergraduate education.
Computer science professor Daphne Koller’s
novel approach involves 75-minute lectures with
interactive questions delivered to her students
online twice a week,which they view and answer
at their own pace.
“In the context of a classroom, people don’t
really think about the questions because they’re
still busy taking notes, whereas here the video
stops until the student acknowledges that a ques-
tion has been asked,”she said.
“If they don’t know the answer, they can go
back and rewind and watch the last segment
again,” she added. “That’s very valuable to the
students and,in the surveys that we ran,was one
of the most popular features.”
Koller also had an optional classroom meet-
ing once a week, where she clarified misunder-
standings, held interactive exercises building on
the material and implemented case studies that
built on lecture material.
“What I think this tries to do is exploit the po-
tential functionality enhancements that this new
online medium affords us,while at the same time
catering better to the kinds of learning that this
new generation of students is more suited for and
comfortable with,”she said.
Assistant history professor Edith Sheffer had
students in her German history class adopt a vir-
tual avatar and contribute weekly diary entries to
a class discussion forum, exploring class topics
from the assigned avatar’s point of view.
“It’s difficult in the humanities to demon-
strate relevance and applicability,”she said.“One
of the broader goals of the project is to teach per-
spective shifting,which is something students can
carry forth in later life,as well as self-directed ex-
ploration: not just learning the course material

Stanford welcomes US,Russian scholars

By AN LE NGUYEN
MANAGING EDITOR
The Farm serves as a converging place
today for 20 Russian and 20 American stu-
dent delegates who are participating in the
second annual Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum
(SURF). According to SURF co-founder
Anda Gansca ‘11, SURF aims to build and
improve U.S.-Russian relations by providing
“a forum for open conversation between
Russian and American students.”
SURF was co-founded by Gansca and
Sam Stone ‘10, who built upon their experi-
ences studying in Moscow through the Bing
Overseas Studies Program. Stone is now in
charge of SURF’s operations in Moscow,
where is he living as a Fulbright Scholar.
The 2010-11 SURF program includes
three components: a five-day stint in
Moscow during in the autumn, a year-long
research project on a topic in US-Russia re-
lations and this week’s capstone conference
at Stanford.
The capstone conference, which takes
place April 13 to 16, features a series of
public talks, simulations and seminars.
Teams of Russian and American students
will also present their research projects —
the product of a yearlong, dual continent
collaboration.
“Right now, we have 10 research groups
working on all sorts of topics, ranging from
private security to venture capital,” Gansca
said.
Matt Grossman ‘13, SURF public rela-
tions director, noted that the program gener-
ally attracts candidates who are interested in
political science and international relations.
He hopes the conference will forge lasting
connections between Russian and American
students, and foster a better understanding of
Russia.
Please see SURF, page 3
but really desiring to go beyond it.”
She employs the same methods in a new class
this quarter, but in accordance with previous re-
quests for more freedom,has allowed students to
manufacture their identities from scratch instead
of assigning them herself.
Sheffer discussed a physics major who was
initially skeptical of the project.
“He compared the project to a problem set in
a math or science class where it’s not just enough
to listen to the lecture,but you need to apply the
learning to specific situations,”she said.
Associate mechanical engineering professor
Banny Banerjee,who teaches at Stanford’s Insti-
tute of Design, applies multidisciplinary “design
thinking” in the material he teaches. He de-
scribed it as an innovative approach to large
problems that employ the “neural nets and parts
Please see EDUCATION, page 2

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NEWS BRIEFS
Student group calls for divestment
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
In a press release issued today, Students Confronting
Apartheid by Israel (SCAI) renewed its call for Stanford
“to divest from companies that violate international law
and contribute to human rights abuses in Israel and the
Occupied Palestinian Territories.”
SCAI alleged that the Board of Trustees is required to
sever ties with companies that cause “substantial social
harm,” under the University’s Statement on Investment
Responsibility Concerning Endowment Securities.
The organization singled out eight companies, claim-
ing that they engaged in such harmful behaviors. These
companies are Ahava, Motorola, Caterpillar, Lockheed
Martin, Riwal, Roadstone Holdings, Mekorot Water
Company and Veolia Transport.
— An Le Nguyen
University announces Community
Partnership Award winners
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Project Safety Net, Peninsula Family Advocacy Pro-
gram (FAP) and Redwood Environmental Academy of
Leadership (REAL) have been named the recipients of
the 2011 Community Partnership Awards. David De-
marest, vice president for public affairs, will present the
awards on May 10.
Project Safety Net is a task force that includes par-
ents and professionals from nearly 30 partner organi-
zations. It is focused on education, prevention and in-
tervention with the objective of creating a safety net
and suicide prevention programs for youth and teens
in Palo Alto.
FAP is a partnership among the Legal Aid Society of
San Mateo County, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
and Ravenswood Family Health Center. The group,
which has been recognized nationally for its efforts, pro-
vides free legal assistance,education and referrals to low-
income families and pregnant women from San Mateo
and Santa Clara counties.
REAL is a Sequoia Union High School District acad-
emy program for environmental science education and
stewardship. It engages students in hands-on ecology-
based learning, creek restoration and research. REAL
grew out of a Stanford K-12 Initiative grant called “Ecol-
ogy: Learning by Doing and Making a Difference.”
The Community Partnership Awards, established in
2002, were created by the Office of Public Affairs.
— Billy Gallagher
Officials release
update about PG&E lines
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Stanford officials released a report yesterday to reas-
sure community members that the University has accu-
rate and up-to-date information about natural gas
pipelines in the area.
Larry Gibbs,associate vice provost for environmental
Please see BRIEFS, page 4
EDUCATION
Continued from front page
of our brain and cognitive systems that
we all have.”
“What we’ve been doing is looking
at large-scale problems and having
very problem-centered curricula
where you put the challenge in the cen-
ter,rather than the discipline,and then
bring in many different disciplines so
they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle,”
he said.
His students, who come from a
wide range of disciplines — among
them environmental sciences, busi-
ness, engineering and design — tack-
le a variety of issues, from creating
loans and savings programs for rural
women to helping the Chilean equiv-
alent of Home Depot and becoming
more environmentally friendly.
All three professors also believe
in the widespread applicability of
their approaches.
According to Banerjee, it is the
ability of “design thinking” to tackle
a range of problems that makes it so
popular.
“A lot of our current ways of
thinking have been formed within
boundary conditions where these
weren’t the kinds of challenges they
were trying to solve,” he said. “And
meanwhile a lot of the large chal-
lenges such as the sustainability issue
or the global inequity issue and so on
are highly integrated problems.
“The scale, the urgency and the
critical nature of these problems
make it such that we need to come
up with extremely creative solu-
tions.”
Koller argued for the cost-effec-
tiveness of her methods, which could
be especially practical for financially
strained institutions, but may also
work well for introductory biology,
chemistry and physics at Stanford.
“The reason that it resonates so
well is that in those classes students
come in with very different back-
grounds and levels of ability,” she
said. “The nice thing about having a
much more flexible framework is
that allows you to teach classes in a
way that’s not one-size-fits-all.”
Biology professor Susan Mc-
Connell, who co-chairs the Study on
Undergraduate Education at Stan-
ford (SUES), said publicizing the ef-
fectiveness of innovative methods is
a major goal of the SUES agenda.
“What we are doing is trying to
learn about what works and enable
the different resources at Stanford
and communicate with the faculty so
that they can . . . adopt technologies
that are appropriate to their teaching
styles,”she said.
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-
ford.edu.

SHEEP
sheep because of the university sys-
tem,it’s up to them to ask more pro-
found questions and think outside
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Contact Janelle Wolak at jwolak@

ing or after college. stanford.edu.
“Step outside of the system of
higher education,” Deresiewicz

said. “Do something that they can’t
put on their resume. There is enor-
mous power in letting yourself
breathe and see that there are other
worlds.”
Deresiewicz’s words resonated
strongly with students.
“We usually get speakers who
encourage us to follow the incen-
tive system,” said Aysha Bagchi ‘11.
“But he addressed issues that really
woke us up.”
“It sometimes surprises me how
quickly some speakers come up
with answers to students’ ques-
tions,” said Karen Shen ‘13.“But he
was so honest and obviously
thought about his answers.”
Lilian Rogers ‘13 said Dere-
siewicz spoke to some of the dis-
content she already felt, but ad-
mitted that despite the talk she
still feels “trapped in the sys-
tem.”
Deresiewicz noted that though
students may be hoop-jumping
SENATE
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izations in election process. Quinn
Slack ‘11, the former Elections
Commissioner, said the change
would give ASSU incumbents a
greater advantage, making it harder
for those outside the student gov-
ernment to get involved.
“This is like capping a leaking
hose,” Warma said. “You cap it at
one place and it’s going to blow up
at another place.”
Senator Will Seaton ‘13 suggest-
ed holding a town hall to discuss the
issue with the student body.
All spending bills — including
one to fund The Claw magazine —
were passed.
Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas@
stanford.edu.
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FEATURES
FROM CHALK TO CANVAS
PROFESSOR TRACES THE PATH TO BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
By JENNY THAI practical skills. student protesting for economic reform. This
STAFF WRITER “In high school, I did really well in math politically charged moment in history would
and science, and at the time, science, technol- leave an indelible mark on Xie. Courtesy of Xiaoze Xie
ogy and engineering were the thing to do,” “It was something that struck me pretty

I
n his aesthetically sparse office, Xiaoze
Xie sits, his eyes full of quiet intensity.
Art books fill the shelves, next to a no-
table stack of haphazardly stacked
newspapers. Xie’s restless hands twirl a
pen, brandishing it like a brush as he absent-
mindedly traces abstract swirls over and
over on a yellow legal pad of paper. Art, for
Xie, the Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor
of Art and Art History, has not only become
a successful career but also a lifelong pas-
sion.
Xie was born in a small town in Guang-
dong Province in China. The youngest of
three, Xie began pursuing his interest in art at
a very early age.
“It sort of just happened naturally,” he
said.“When I was young, I loved drawing. My
father used to work as a teacher, a high school
director. I was able to pick up chalk in his of-
fice and draw with it.”
Xie’s early drawing subjects were diverse,
ranging from cars to people such as Mao Ze-
dong to ordinary objects.
“I was always fascinated by vehicles like
trucks,” Xie said. “You didn’t see many cars
passing by too often.I also drew people.Once,
I remembered learning how to draw Mao.”
Xie took art classes through middle and
high school before continuing on to study
architecture at Tsinghua University in Bei-
jing, a decision based on a compromise be-
tween pursuing what he loved and gaining
Xie said.“I was interested in art,and I thought
architecture would be a nice combination of
art and science.”
Although Xie did well in architecture, he
found the field of study to be too restrictive.
“In architecture, you have to take into con-
sideration many factors,” Xie said.“It seemed
very compromising . . . I was longing for
something freer and more expressive.”
After graduating in 1988, Xie entered a
grad program in mural painting at the Central
Academy of Arts and Design in Beijing, a
move that disappointed his family.
“Architecture was considered to be practi-
cal — [architects] make a great living,” Xie
said. “When I switched to art, they believed
that I was not serving the proper profession.”
Despite his parents’ lack of approval, Xie
recalled, they did not resist his change in ca-
reer plans.
“No one tried to force me to change,” Xie
said.“My parents said to me,‘You know that’s
what you want to do, then do it.’”
In Beijing, Xie enjoyed the thrill of fast
paced city life.
“It was very exciting for me to see all of the
national monuments,” Xie said.“This sense of
excitement and ambition and . . . the future,
was the driving force [for me] as a young
man.”
During his graduate studies in Beijing, the
infamous Tiananmen massacre broke out
when Chinese troops broke up nonviolent
hard, but the change in my art from political
and social issues was not an immediate or di-
rect outcome of that event,” Xie said.“It’s not
that you have such an experience and then
suddenly decide to become a political painter.
It did have a profound influence on me in the
long run.”
In 1993, Xie came to the United States,
seeking to update his art knowledge by study-
ing Western art.
“I’d been interested in studying Western
art, contemporary art,” Xie said. “In the ‘80s,
we had this feeling that we were isolated [in
China]. The flow of information wasn’t as
easy as it is now.”
Xie went on to obtain a master of arts from
University of North Texas, where he, as a TA,
taught undergraduate courses, and more im-
portantly, had a small, personal studio.The ex-
posure to Western artists, such as Francisco de
Goya, Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol,
played an enormous role in shaping Xie’s art.
“My work changed,” Xie said. “In China, I
had training in realism, but I was more inter-
ested in abstract art. But after coming to the
States, I felt more interested in the potential
of figurative art, in realism, in more contem-
porary context.”
Xie experimented with different styles,
from photorealistic to more expressive. Even-
tually, Xie finally found a topic that would
stay with him for many years — the theme of
the library.
Professor Xiaoze Xie has been drawn to art
since he was a small child growing up in small-
town China. Throughout his studies in China
and the U.S., his style has transformed.
“My subjects include Western books,
stacks of newspapers, close-up views of news-
paper stacks that revealed fragments of pho-
tos and text, decaying books,” he said. “I am
interested in exploring time and documenta-
tion, the history of memory and how this
memory can be so fleeting.”
After receiving his master’s degree from
the University of North Texas, Xie went on to
teach at Washington State University. Not
long afterwards, he received a tenured posi-
tion at Bucknell University.
The campus’s proximity to New York
proved to be a stroke of well-timed fortuity
when Xie’s works in Charles Cowles Gallery
began to receive national recognition. His
work has been acknowledged across interna-
tional lines — in Canada, China and Korea.
In 2009, Xie joined Stanford’s art depart-
ment faculty. Beyond his teaching responsi-
bilities, Xie is busy with his two current solo
exhibitions — “Layers: Recent works by Xi-
aoze Xie” at Chambers Fine Art, in New
York, and “Amplified Moments,” a collection
of his works from 1993-2008 at the Knoxville
Museum of Art in Tennessee.
Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@stanford.edu.

SURF
Continued from front page
But SURF is not all about poli-
tics — it’s about business, too.
According to Grossman, Russia
has its sight on developing “a busi-
ness zone along the lines of Silicon
Valley.”
“That’s obviously something
Stanford has been very successful at
and we’re excited to work with a
whole new generation of students
in Russia who are trying to do the
same thing there,” he said.
All these objectives fall under
the umbrella of ameliorating U.S.-
Russia relations.
According to SURF Vice Presi-
dent Lindsay Funk ‘13, both gov-
ernments “have been working very
hard to improve relations between
the two countries.”
To that effect, the United States
and Russia have collaborated on
nuclear issues and business issues,
among other things, she said.
“There’s this famous moment
where Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton met with the Russian For-
eign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and
pressed the button to reset U.S.-
Russian relations,” Grossman said.
While this development was met
with optimism, it also signaled the
beginning of an era of unknowns.
“No one really knows where the
relationship is going,” Grossman
said.“And SURF sees that students
are really the ones who are going to
be shaping the outcome of the rela-
tionship in 10 years or 20 years.”
“We pick students who we think
are going to be future leaders,”
Funk said, noting that SURF tar-
gets individuals who are smart, per-
sonable and highly interested in
Russian-American affairs.
Gansca sees many opportunities
for SURF to improve and expand in
the future. She noted that “there
will be a lot of changes” in the com-
ing years. Several of these changes
are already in place, including a stu-
dent-initiated course called “Recre-
ating Silicon Valley.”
At Stanford, SURF is currently
under the supervision of the Center
for Russian, East European &
Eurasian Studies (CREEES) but is
in the process of transitioning to a
different branch of the University.
“I think in the next few years,
SURF will become a national NGO
in the U.S.,” Gansca said. “We are
currently negotiating with a few or-
ganizations and student body presi-
dents from MIT and other universi-
ties.”
“We’re not interested in being
stagnant,” Funk said. “We’re con-
stantly growing.”
Since its founding, SURF has re-
mained a student-run organization.
The program boasts ties to Moscow
State University, the Moscow State
for International Relations, the
Academy of National Economy in
Moscow and the Higher School of
Economics in Moscow.
SURF is funded by Stanford, a
Russian company called Renova
and the Fund for the Improvement
of Postsecondary Education
(FIPSE).

Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen

@stanford.edu.
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OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
To secure dorms,
give us all access
S
aturday’s forcible sexual as-
sault in Escondido Village has
refocused campus attention to
a growing pattern of criminal
events involving peepers, prowlers
and other intruders.While these in-
cidents highlight the need for stu-
dents to redouble their efforts to
secure doors and windows, this
Board also believes that improving
campus safety may also merit fur-
ther review of existing Residential
housing policies. Specifically, the
administration should consider a
policy under which any Stanford
undergraduate can access any
other undergraduate dorm as a
counterintuitive but effective
means of promoting residential
safety and solving several minor
nuisances.
Minor benefits to students are
readily apparent: no longer will
rollouts entail pre-dawn acrobatics
through bathroom windows, uni-
versal access would obviate pesky
DoorKing machines and the logis-
tics of group meetings would sim-
plify considerably. However, the
real impetus for this policy is
grounded in the need to exclude
outsiders more effectively.
Unfortunately, current policies de-
signed to protect students from in-
truders are unrealistic. Despite
ResEd’s pleas not to admit non-
residents into dormitories, resi-
dents routinely let in strangers,pre-
suming innocence, to avoid the
awkwardness of inconveniencing a
likely classmate.
On the other hand, if all under-
graduate ID cards opened all
dorms, far fewer students would
loiter outside dorm entrances. This
would increase the level of suspi-
cion for those who do have criminal
intentions.Such a policy would thus
allow RAs to change students’ be-
havior,asking them to take respon-
sibility for ensuring that non-stu-
dent visitors in fact have a legiti-
mate reason to enter a dorm.
Critics of this proposal may
point to the vastly increased access
that students now have to one an-
other’s dorms as a fault of the pol-
icy. They may contend that stu-
dents can harass others or commit
thefts more easily once locked
dorms pose no physical barrier to
any student. But this is a much
more tractable problem, that of
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LETTER TO THE
Dear Editor,
Instead of putting forth a reason-
able argument to change ASSU
funding policies (“Something that
Actually Needs Saving,” April 4,
2011), Zack Hoberg and Dave
Grundfest chose to mislead and
denigrate fellow Stanford students.
Zack and Dave blame “90 graduate
students” and the “ridiculous policy
that one population can dictate the
other’s funding decision” for the re-
jection of joint Special Fees for
FLiCKS. Let’s examine two facts,
one conveniently omitted, the other
completely glossed over.
Fact one: 655 graduate students,
58 percent of the grad students who
voted, said no to funding FLiCKS.
Zack and Dave arrive at their 90
students by asking how many grad
students (of the 1132 that voted)
would have to change their mind to
get 50 percent approval. Zack and
Dave never mention the 655 no
votes, or that these votes comprised
58 percent of the grad votes cast.
The repeated use of “90 graduate
students” throughout the editorial,
without any mention of the real
numbers, is disingenuous at best. It
becomes blatantly biased when
they describe the graduate students
as “miserly troglodytes,” especially
when the graduate student body
approved every other joint fee ap-
plications (there were five more)
by margins greater than or equal to
10 percent.
Fact two: Zack and Dave men-
tion in passing that FLiCKS,
Residents routinely
let in strangers,
presuming innocence,
to avoid the
awkwardness of
inconveniencing a
likely classmate
deterring and enforcing miscon-
duct among Stanford students.
Each of us is bound by certain
codes, like the Fundamental Stan-
dard, and so philosophically any
policy should presume our inno-
cence instead of actively seeking
to prevent malfeasance.
Moreover,students are far more
accountable than outsiders are —
judicial and administrative mecha-
nisms exist to prosecute and deter
wrongdoers, and Stanford students
frankly have much more to lose
than most criminals.The data bears
out the assumption that Stanford
students are less likely to commit
serious crimes on campus: most se-
rious thefts, and intruder incidents
like last year’s shower peeping and
last weekend’s sexual assault, have
usually involved suspects from out-
side of the Stanford community. A
policy to enhance public safety
should target exclusively these
non-students, as they pose the
greatest danger to students and are
least accountable to the University.
ResEd and the Department of
Public Safety should be commend-
ed for going to extraordinary
lengths to secure our campus. Ded-
icated residential safety patrols, an-
noying sirens to discourage door-
propping and flyers encouraging
residential security are all steps in
the right direction. By recognizing
that the real threats are campus
outsiders and giving all undergrads
universal card access to campus
dorms, Stanford can take one step
further toward a safer campus.
EDITOR
“[elected] to apply for special fees
from the entire student popula-
tion.”They then go on to claim that
the 50 percent required approval
of each population is “little-
known.” This is clear misdirection.
The required 50 percent approval
is clearly elucidated in the ASSU’s
“Information for Special Fee
Groups” under the “Voting Proce-
dure” section. Furthermore, the
ASSU also include a disclaimer de-
claring, “The group should make a
careful determination of its con-
stituents to determine the appro-
priate Special Fee to seek.” Asking
grad students to pay means making
the case that they should pay.
FLiCKS failed to do this, resulting
in 58 percent of grad voters saying
“nay.”
Zack and Dave’s final point be-
comes clear at the end of the article
— that ASSU policy should allow
groups like FLiCKS to receive spe-
cial fees funding from the group of
voters who approved it, even if the
joint application is denied. Since
nearly three out of four undergrads
approve of FLiCKS, FLiCKS ought
to receive undergrad special fees.
The FLiCKS result could have been
used to effectively argue for a
change in ASSU policy; instead,
Zack and Dave chose to make their
point by misleading their readers
and alienating fellow Stanford stu-
dents.
DAN SINNETT ‘11, ONE OF THE 477
GRADUATE “YES”VOTERS
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WANDERLUST
The Marvelous Rio de Janeiro
I
t’s fitting that I’m writing about
Rio this week — a cidade mar-
avilhosa — because I just found
out that I will be moving there next
year. I first flirted with Rio on an or- Johnny
chestra tour in high school, but soon
enough I was back, speaking Por-
Bartz
tuguese (no, contrary to popular be-
lief, I am actually not Brazilian) and
studying anything from the Ama- Look for one that actually has real
zon Rainforest to Brazilian litera- fruit in the display, and you can’t go
ture. I bought a wardrobe’s worth of wrong. The first thing that I usually
speedos to wear in Rio — a sun eat in Rio is pao de queijo — crispy
worshipper’s Mecca filled with balls of doughy cheesy goodness —
beautiful people. with acai — a sticky and sweet pur-
But you don’t need to have such ple drink filled with antioxidants.
an overwhelming commitment to Also, there is nothing like sipping
experience Rio. If you speak even a on a coconut at the beach and eat-
little Spanish, you can communicate ing biscoitos — crunchy puffy rings
with a Brazilian. Actually, you can of goodness. Don’t leave Brazil
communicate only with hand ges-
tures.The only thing you really need
without having a caipirinha — a
strong drink made from sugar, lime
to say in Portuguese is “Oi, tudo and sugarcane brandy. After two
bem?” — “Hey, how’s it going?” you’ll be speaking portugues and
Also, a thumbs-up for anything that dancing the samba.
pleases you is indispensible. You Cariocas (people from Rio)
only need to be in the mood for a identify strongly with the neighbor-
good time to be accepted in Rio. hood they are from, and these social
The leisurely dress code in Rio is distinctions are ever prevalent at
speedos, soccer jerseys, Havaianas the beach. The exclusive Leblon is
flip-flops and board shorts for men, for the rich and famous. You will
whispy dresses, sandals and colorful nearly always see a celebrity of
anything for women. Less is usually some kind — soccer players, soap
more, especially at the beach. Men opera stars — they all have to go to
wear speedos and women wear tri- the beach. Ipanema is classy, young
angles. Note that if you are going to and fun. Surfers hang out at Posto 7,
or coming from the beach, it is per- as it is where the waves are best.
fectly acceptable to wear a speedo Posto 8 is primarily for families. Be-
anywhere in the city.Also if you are tween Postos 8 and 9 is the LGBT
engaging in any form of physical ac- beach — you can’t miss the giant
tivity, you’ll usually wear a speedo. rainbow flags. Posto 9 is the young
This “dress code” applies actually and hip beach and Posto 10 is for the
for everyone, which can be a beauti- muscle boys — it’s near an open-air
ful godsend, other times just a sheer weightlifting/show off area. Co-
disaster. pacabana is the largest beach, bor-
At the beach or around town, dered by the famous Avenida At-
there is a smattering of small juice lantica. It’s more middle-class and
shops that also sell things to eat. mainstream, but very fun.
BRIEFS
Boulevard from Page Mill Road to
Sand Hill Road. The pipes are nor-
mally buried about four feet below
Continued from page 2 the surface and their location is
clearly marked by signs and stakes
along the roadway.
health and safety,and other Stanford PG&E officials informed Stan-
officials have met periodically with ford officials last fall that these gas
officials from Pacific Gas & Electric lines were evaluated for internal
(PG&E) about the safety of these corrosion in 2007 and no such corro-
lines since a gas line explosion oc- sion was found. However, officials
curred in San Bruno last September. also told Stanford they have not
There are two PG&E gas lines been able to find records for most of
that run parallel to Junipero Serra the lines along Junipero Serra.
The Stanford Daily
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Tonight’s Desk Editors
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News Editor
Daniel Bohm
Sports Editor
Helen Anderson
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Amanda Ach
Copy Editor
Besides the beach there are
plenty of touristy things to do in
Rio. You must see Cristo Redentor
— the Jesus statue. The Sambodro-
mo, dancing at an escola de samba
and seeing a soccer game at the
Maracana are highly recommend-
ed. Pao de Acucar — the big ‘sugar-
loaf mountain’ — is nice, but I think
the view from Jesus is better. Also,
day trips to Parati, Petropolis or a
romantic weekend in Buzios or Ilha
Grande are all easy to do. Sao Paulo
is just eight hours by bus.
Nightlife in Rio is second to
none. Praca Santos Durmont in
Gavea is nice on Thursday or Sun-
day. Lapa is always happenin’ on
the weekends with restaurants, bars,
clubs and general revelry in the
streets. Bigger clubs are in Copaca-
bana, but if something a little qui-
eter takes your fancy, try an upscale
bar/lounge in Leblon or Ipanema.
There is nothing wrong with sipping
on a drink with an ambience of
Bossa Nova.
As far as crime is concerned,
what you’ve heard is probably exag-
gerated. I feel safer in Rio than in
Oakland. Aside from petty theft,
and if you’re not traipsing through
the slums, you’ll be fine. Nonethe-
less, a true carioca will carry small
amounts of cash in both pockets in
case one gets ‘borrowed’ from.
So, like the hundreds of people
who I’ve invited to stay with me dur-
ing the World Cup in 2014, I basical-
ly offer an open invitation for any-
one to come down to visit me in Rio
next year. I’m telling you, you’re
going to fall in love with this city.
What is your most outrageous beach
outfit? Johnny has probably seen
worse in Rio — email him at jbartz
@stanford.edu.
PG&E has taken several short-
term risk mitigation steps, reducing
the maximum operating pressure in
these pipelines and performing ex-
ternal inspections of the lines. The
inspections did not identify any is-
sues.
Stanford officials pledged to con-
tinue to focus on this issue and meet
with PG&E representatives to en-
sure the reliability of the gas trans-
mission lines near Stanford property
and homeowners.
— Billy Gallagher
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SPORTS
CARD COMEBACK
No. 17 Stanford rallies to a 3-1
victory over Pacific
By JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR
The Stanford baseball team
overcame the Pacific Tigers on
Tuesday night with clutch hits and
excellent pitching to pull off a 3-1
comeback win at Sunken Dia-
mond.
Cardinal pitchers teamed up to
allow just three hits, but No. 17
Stanford (16-9) couldn’t get its of-
fense moving until late in the game,
stranding seven runners and
grounding into four double plays in
the first seven innings before scor-
ing three runs in the bottom of the
eighth to surpass the Tigers (10-
19).
BASEBALL
PACIFIC 1 showcase before next season attract-
STANFORD 3 then knotted up the game at 1-1 by
4/12, Sunken Diamond
Freshman righthander
A.J. Vanegas was first to go for the
Card, getting the call to start for
just the second time of his young
career. Vanegas had some trouble
with walks, allowing three runners
to reach on balls, but he flashed an
excellent curveball and gave up
only one Tiger hit in the first three
innings.
The bullpen continued the strong
pitching effort for Stanford, as jun-
ior righty Elliott Byers was perfect
in relief of Vanegas after taking the
hill in the top of the fourth. In just
his third appearance of the season,
Byers blew through three innings
without allowing a baserunner and
struck out three, dropping his ERA
from 13.50 to 6.35 in the process.
Things got interesting in the top of
the seventh inning, when Scott
Snodgress replaced Byers on the
mound. The junior lefty struggled
with his fastball command, as he
bookended a walk with a popout
and a strikeout, then gave up a sin-
Hawaii downed, Cal up next
By KEVIN ZHANG
DAILY SPORTS INTERN
After playing three consecutive
road games, the No. 1 Stanford
women’s water polo team returned
home and beat No. 5 Hawaii, 10-8.
Junior two-meter Melissa Seidemann scored two goals in Stanford’s 10-8
victory over Hawaii. Stanford has two games left in its regular season and
has yet to lose a game. The Card travels to No. 2 Cal this weekend.
Howell and Skov named to Lott
IMPACT award watch list
Safety Delano Howell and line-
backer Shayne Skov were two of
the 42 players placed on the Lott
IMPACT award watch list yester-
day.The award is voted on by more
than 200 former collegiate players
and is given annually to the na-
tion’s top defensive player.
As a junior last season, Howell
was a second team All-Pac-10 se-
lection. He had 60 tackles and led
the Cardinal defense with five in-
terceptions.The Newhall, Calif. na-
tive enters his senior season having
started 23 games in the Cardinal
secondary.
Skov, a sophomore last season,
led the Cardinal defense with 84
tackles and tied for the team lead
in sacks with 7.5. He was also
named an honorable mention All-
Pac-10 selection for the second
gle to send runners to first and sec-
ond with two out. Tiger second
baseman Tyger Peterson, a Palo
Alto native, then ripped a single
into left field, finally breaking the
tie to snag a 1-0 lead.
Snodgress then gave up another
walk to load the bases, but induced
a ground ball to end the inning,
leaving the Cardinal with just nine
outs to push runs across after it had
already stranded six men on the
basepaths in the first six innings.
Thankfully for Stanford, the top
of the lineup was up to the task in
the bottom of the eighth. Jake
Stewart crushed a deep line drive
into left-center field that just
missed the glove of left fielder
Daniel Johnson, leading to a lead-
off triple for the sophomore center
fielder. Senior catcher Zach Jones
blasting an RBI double off the
first-base bag for his 15th RBI of
the season.
“We had guys on base all night,
we just couldn’t get the big two-out
hit,” Jones said afterward. “I was
just trying to put it in play, I was
down 0-2 and he threw me a pitch I
could handle.”
After a walk to Diekroeger, Pis-
cotty then broke the tie by reaching
on a badly misplayed groundout to
second base, bringing home Jones
to give Stanford a 2-1 lead. Piscotty
went on to score the third run of
the game after he advanced from
first to third on a failed pickoff at-
tempt, and then crossed the plate
on a sacrifice fly from freshman
first baseman Brian Ragira.
The two-run lead was more than
enough for junior lefty Chris Reed,
as he blazed through the bottom of
the Tiger lineup to secure the win,
striking out three batters in the last
two innings to even his record at 1-
1 for the season and give the Cardi-
Please see BASEBALL, page 6
It was the second time that Stan-
ford (21-0, 5-0 MPSF) matched up
with Hawaii (13-7, 3-3) this season,
as the two teams met back in late
February during the UCI Invita-
tional in which the Card doubled up
the Rainbow Wahine, 10-5.
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
SPORTS BRIEFS
consecutive season.
IMPACT stands for integrity,
maturity, performance, academ-
ics, community and tenacity —
traits that Ronnie Lott, the man
for whom the award is named,
stands for.
— Daniel Bohm
No. 13 softball downs San Jose
State 3-1
Senior pitcher Ashley Chinn
took a shutout into the seventh and
freshman left fielder Corey
Hanewich hit a decisive base-clear-
ing double as the No. 13 Stanford
softball team downed visiting San
Jose State at Smith Family Stadium
yesterday.
Chinn and Spartan starter
Janessa Gutierrez traded zeros
through the first four innings. The
Cardinal, however, started the bot-
In only his third appearance of the season, junior Elliot Byers, above, threw
three perfect innings in relief. Byers was one of four Cardinal pitchers that
combined on a three-hitter, with junior Chris Reed getting the win.
WOMEN’S WATER POLO
HAWAII 8
STANFORD 10
4/9, Avery Aquatic Center
It was a back-and-forth affair
between the two teams. Stanford
found itself down 1-0 as junior at-
tacker Monika Eggens found the
back of the net midway through
the first. The Cardinal offense
started sluggishly as it missed two
five-meter penalty shots in the
opening quarter.
Moreover, Hawaii senior goalie
Serena Bredin had a stellar quarter
with five blocked shots. The Cana-
dian keeper finished the contest
with 10 total saves.
Stanford quickly responded in
the second frame with four goals,
however, including one by sopho-
more two-meter Annika Dries a
minute into the quarter. Eggens
scored two quick goals for Hawaii
just 36 seconds apart to keep the
game close.
In the third quarter, the teams
each scored two goals. Stanford got
contributions from junior two-
meter Melissa Seidemann and
freshmen driver Kaley Dodson.
It was 6-5 going into the fourth
quarter and the Rainbow Wahine
knotted up the score with a goal by
tom of the fifth with consecutive
singles by sophomore right fielder
Teagan Gerhart, senior pinch hit-
ter Melisa Koutz and junior center
fielder Sarah Hassman. That set
the table for Hanewich, who dou-
bled down the left field line, scor-
ing all three runners and chasing
Gutierrez.
The three runs were all Chinn
needed. The Spartans spoiled her
shutout bid with two outs in the
seventh, but with the tying run
standing at second, Chinn coaxed
second baseman Cheryl Freitas
into a game-ending groundout to
shortstop. Chinn finished the game
having allowed five hits while strik-
ing out seven and walking none.
Gerhart was the only Cardinal
player with multiple hits; she went
2-3.
In addition to her exploits at the
plate, Gerhart was named Pac-10
Pitcher of the Week for her per-
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 ! 5
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
UP NEXT
CAL
(21-3, 6-0 MPSF)
4/16 Berkeley, Calif.
7 P.M.
GAME NOTES: It will be No. 1 versus No. 2
when the Stanford women’s water polo
team travels to Cal on Saturday for the Big
Splash. The top-ranked Cardinal, who de-
feated the Golden Bears 10-5 earlier in
the season, will look to continue its unde-
feated season, while the Golden Bears are
hoping to grab the MPSF regular season
title, which will go to the winner.
sophomore attacker Monique Wil-
son.
As it has done time and time
again this season, Stanford pulled
away with a 4-1 run including an-
other clutch goal by Seidemann.
The Cardinal reached the 10
goal mark for the 18th time this
season. The strong offensive per-
formance was complimented by a
solid defensive outing as all three
goalies saw playing time. Sopho-
more Kate Baldoni tallied six saves
in the opening half and senior
Amber Oland stopped five shots.
Please see WPOLO, page 6
formance against UCLA this
weekend. She pitched in all three
games of the series for a total of
21.1 innings pitched and posted an
ERA of 1.97 while striking out 20
Bruin hitters, leading the Cardinal
to a series win against the sixth-
ranked Bruins. This is the second
time Gerhart has won the award
this season, and third time in her
career.
Gerhart’s teammate, junior
shortstop Ashley Hansen, was also
named Pac-10 Player of the Week.
On the weekend Hansen hit .615
(8-13) with two doubles, three RBI
and two runs scored. It was the sec-
ond time Hansen has won the
award in her career.
Stanford is scheduled to host
Oregon State this weekend in a
three-game series beginning Fri-
day at 7 p.m.
— Daniel Bohm
Kabir
Sawhney
Follow the Money
Football
belongs on
the Farm
L
ast weekend, in what has to
be the first time in recorded
history, the ASSU actually
ranked higher than Stanford
football in importance
among the student body.The Cardinal
and White spring game and the results
of the ASSU spring general election
both came on Saturday, yet somehow,
despite having a preseason top-10
team and the best quarterback in col-
lege football,the team’s biggest public
ed decidedly less student interest than
the election.
A big reason for the disinterest on
the Farm was because the spring game
wasn’t played in Stanford Stadium —
for the second consecutive year, the
game was held at Kezar Stadium at
Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
The athletic department did its part to
get students involved by sponsoring
free buses from campus to Kezar and
back (which, in full disclosure, I took
advantage of to head to the city and
cover the game for The Daily) and of-
fering one Red Zone point toward Big
Game tickets next year.
Overall, I have to say that having
the game at Kezar Stadium was actual-
ly quite a lot of fun.The game took on
a very festive atmosphere, with plenty
of tailgating and pickup games out in
the park. Kezar itself lent itself well to
hosting the spring game — with a re-
ported turnout of around 6,800, the
small stadium created a very intimate
atmosphere, which would have been
lost in 50,000-seat Stanford Stadium.
Lastly, it was pretty nice to take a day
trip up to the city and watch some foot-
ball without having to spend a dime.
Yet despite the great experience I
had in San Francisco, I still think the
game should be moved back to Stan-
ford Stadium next season and for the
foreseeable future. If the end goal of
having a spring game is to promote in-
terest in Stanford football and get fans
excited about the coming season, put-
ting the game on campus is a much bet-
ter way to achieve those goals.
To give a bit of background as to
why the game is in Kezar in the first
place, Stanford Stadium was under-
going renovations to its turf last
spring, so the athletic department
settled on Kezar as the best replace-
ment venue for the game.The former
head coach — who shall not be
named in this column — liked it im-
mensely, so this year’s game was
scheduled for Kezar as well. Playing
in San Francisco was said to have a
number of advantages,namely build-
ing a fan base in a city whose college
football scene has historically been
dominated by California.
To start with, that premise is just
dumb; there’s no other way to really
describe it. Cal fans, whose hate for
Stanford could probably power the
San Francisco power grid if we could
figure out how to harness it, are not
going to suddenly switch over because
we played a glorified scrimmage at tiny
Kezar, especially with the Golden
Bears playing their home games at
AT&T Park next season.Few fans that
know about our spring game and care
enough to attend are going to be per-
suaded by the game to buy season tick-
ets; by and large, those in attendance
were either already dedicated fans or
alumni who used the game as a good
place for a mini-reunion.
Kezar also made life fairly difficult
for the press corps. As you would ex-
pect in a high school stadium,the press
box was tiny and literally crammed
with ESPN equipment,and from what
I hear about the ESPN3.com video
feed, the coverage was pretty terrible.
Obviously Stanford Stadium, with its
spacious press box and optimization
for TV audiences,would help boost the
game’s media coverage.
Most importantly, keeping the
game at Stanford Stadium keeps inter-
est high among the main pillars of the
team’s fan base: alumni, others in the
surrounding area and the students.An
on-campus game ensures easy access
for everyone who wants to attend the
game, and Stanford could offer free
parking as a solid incentive to attend.
Perhaps most importantly, a spring
game at Kezar Stadium indicates that
Stanford is not quite yet ready to step
up and be a big-time program, since it
hosts its spring game in a dinky little
high school venue.Though we’ll never
attract 90,000 fans to our spring game
Please see SAWHNEY, page 6
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E—Richardson (1); Clowe (1). DP—Pacific 4. LOB—Pacific 8;
Stanford 7. 2B—Johnston (9); Jones (8) Clowe (7). 3B—Stewart (1).
HBP—Jones; Wilson. SF—Ragira (2). SB—Jones (2); Piscotty (2).
Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO
Pacific
Pointer, M. 3.0 2 0 0 2 1
Carvutto, M. 3.0 3 0 0 1 1
Wagner, J. L(0-3) 1.0 2 3 3 1 0
Richardson, R. 1.0 1 0 0 0 0
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Vanegas, A. 3.0 1 0 0 3 1
Byers, E. 3.0 0 0 0 0 3
Snodgress, S. 1.0 2 1 1 2 1
Reed, C. W(1-1) 2.0 0 0 0 0 3
WP— Wagner (4). HBp: by Pointer (Jones); by Wagner (Wilson).
Pitches/strikes: Pointer 47/24; Carvutto 39/27; Wagner 19/11;
Richardson 12/8; Vanegas 56/33; Byers 41/27; Snodgress 32/16;
Reed 19/13. Wagner Faced three batters in the 8th.
HP: Sid Aguilar 1B: Ted Kovach 3B:Kenn Durham
T—2:28. A—1,215
— Compiled by Daniel Bohm

WPOLO
Continued from page 5
Hawaii native and senior Kim Hall
entered the game in the final min-
utes.
Stanford had another diversi-
fied offensive outing with five dif-
ferent players scoring. Dries fin-
ished with a hat trick and Seide-
mann, Dodson and sophomore
driver Jillian Garton each had a
pair.
After last weekend, Dries is first
on the team with 47 goals and Sei-
demann is second with 35.The team
has combined to outscore oppo-
nents 257-93 on the year.
With another conference win,
things start to heat up as the season
winds down.The team will travel to
Berkeley this weekend for the Big
Splash against the No. 2 Cal (21-3,
6-0). That game will have big impli-
cations for the MPSF Tournament,
which takes place between April 29
and May 1 in San Jose.
The Cal-Cardinal matchup is
this Saturday at 7:00 p.m. in Berke-
ley. Stanford’s home finale follows
on Friday, April 22 at 6 p.m. against
San Jose State.
Contact Kevin Zhang at kevinzhangle
@gmail.com.
SAWHNEY
Continued from page 5
like Alabama does, Stanford can at
least broadcast the message that it is
ready to be taken seriously and move
its signature spring showcase to its
beautiful facility right here in Palo
Alto.
Kabir Sawhney wants the spring
game at Stanford Stadium so he can
enjoy the spacious press box. Untan-
gle his biases and tell him to sit with
the commoners at ksawhney@stan-
ford.edu.