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THURSDAY Volume 240A
July 14, 2011 Issue 3
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Opinions 6
The tradeoffs of our digital contact with
nature; What Singlish really means
Sports 7
Enter Kevin Anderson: a local
football star steps up to Stanford
Features 10
Founded by athletes, Stanford United
offers to be a more-open Christian group
Entertainment 12
Growing up and looking back: a
reflection on 14 years of Harry Potter
The Stanford Daily
2 NTHE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011
NEWS
LOCAL
Google brings
high-speed fiber
network to campus
By HAELIN CHO
INTERN
The 850 homes in Stanfords res-
idential subdivision will soon be the
first location in the country to have
access to the ultra high-speed
broadband Google Fiber network,
which will operate at speeds of up to
one gigabit per second more
than 100 times what most Internet
users across the country have access
to.
Installation of the network com-
menced this past spring. According
to Stanford Campus Residential
Leaseholders (SCRL) Board of Di-
rectors President James Sweeney,
also a management science and en-
gineering professor, the Google
Fiber project is an opportunity for
the residents on campus to partici-
pate in a project that will provide
more sophisticated Internet ser-
vice, with perks ranging from video
linkages to faster downloads.
What we got out of it was an op-
portunity to get us a very cutting
edge of the technology with a pric-
ing plan that is attractive, Sweeney
said.
According to its website, the
SCRL is a group of staff members
that represents the interests of and
acts on behalf of Stanford campus
homeowners.
Campus residents will get free
use of Google Fiber for one year
after paying for installation. After
this period, Google will set a sub-
scription price that residents can
choose to pay for further use of the
network, according to Sweeney. He
also said that some campus resi-
dents already have access to Google
Fiber.
Several other cities competed
earlier this year for city-wide instal-
lation of the network. According to
a post on the official Google Blog in
March, Kansas City was chosen as a
location where the project could
build efficiently, make an impact
on the community and develop re-
lationships with local government
and community organizations.
Google Communications Asso-
ciate Jenna Wandres said imple-
mentation of the project, which was
announced in October 2010, began
earlier this year. Google hopes to
finish installation soon.
Stanford is Google Fibers first
testbed with real customers, Wan-
dres wrote in an email to The Daily.
We hope this trial deployment will
facilitate the testing of new tech-
nologies and techniques, enabling
us to scale more effectively and effi-
ciently to much larger communi-
ties.
Sweeney explained that Stan-
ford applied for a different Google
wireless project several years ago
but was not chosen in that endeav-
or. Instead, Google offered SCRL
the chance to be a part of Google
Fibers test run.
He described the partnership be-
tween the University and Google as
a very positive relationship and
disruption from the installation
process as minimal.
Theres things that have come
up which they havent anticipated,
Sweeney said, explaining that
Google broadened its Fiber ser-
vices free of cost to Olmsted Ter-
race Staff Housing, which was not
originally included in the projects
By HIROKO SUNAMURA
INTERN
The U.S. Supreme Court decisively ended a
decade-long patent dispute over an HIV-screening
method developed by School of Medicine professor
Mark Holodniy with its June 6 ruling on Stanford v.
Roche that awarded patent rights to the pharmaceuti-
cal firm.
In the courts 7-2 decision, the majority opinion,
written by Chief Justice John Roberts dismissed
Stanfords claim to the tests patent under the 1980
Bayh-Dole Act, which established protocol for assign-
ing the patent rights of inventions made by institutions
receiving federal funds. It cited Roche and Stanford as
co-owners of the test, meaning no patent infringement
occurred.
The dispute stems from two contracts Holodniy
signed giving both Stanford and Cetus Corporation
a company later acquired by Roche rights to his
work: a 1998 copyright and patent agreement with
Stanford and a Visitor Confidentiality Agreement
ENTERTAINMENT
I REVIEW: HARRY POTTER
AND THE DEATHLY
HALLOWS - PART 2
|By Calvin Fernandez / Read it
this Friday
NEWS
I FOUNDER OF PEDIATRIC
NEPHROLOGY DEPT. DIES
|By Ellora Israni
I JAMAICAN GEOLOGIST
AND STANFORD GRAD
DEAD AT 71|By Ellora Israni
ONLINE
EXCLUSIVES
WWW.STANFORDDAILY.COM
Stanford residential division first
test site in country for new service
UNIVERSITY
U.S. Supreme Court rules against University
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WORLD & NATION
Alum sworn in as Peace
Corps director for Botswana
By HARINI JAGANATHAN
INTERN
Tim Hartman 86 was sworn in as Peace Corps country director
in Botswana on June 29.
Hartman served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon from
1986 to 1989, immediately after graduating from Stanford. The
Peace Corps program in Botswana focuses on improving health
and promoting HIV/AIDS prevention. Hartman has worked on
HIV/AIDS treatment programs in Africa and on international de-
velopment projects in multiple areas. He graduated from Stanford
with a bachelors degree in philosophy and received his MBA from
the Yale School of Management.
The Stanford Daily spoke with Hartman, who is currently in
Courtesy of U.S. Peace Corps
Stanford alumnus Tim Hartman 86 was sworn in as the Peace
Corps country director in Botswana on June 29. Hartman has a
bachelors in philosophy from Stanford and an MBA from Yale.
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
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RESEARCH
Study links sleep extension to athletic performance
By ELAINA KOROS
INTERN
A School of Medicine study
on the mens basketball team
published in this months issue of
Sleep concluded that sleep ex-
tension an increase in the
time spent sleeping over baseline
amounts leads to improved
athletic performance.
The research team measured
sleep patterns during a two-week
baseline evaluation, then asked
11 members of the team to sleep
at least 10 hours a night over a
five-to-seven-week period. Re-
searchers then tested the ath-
letes shooting accuracy and
sprint times.
[The traditional athletic-
training regimen] has a lot of em-
phasis on the physical training:
the conditioning, the workouts,
said Cheri Mah 06 M.S. 06, first
author and researcher at the
Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic
and Research Laboratory.
When you get to Stanford,
theres a little bit more of the nu-
trition, obviously coaching plays
a big factor, but in all of these em-
phases, there hasnt been one on
sleep and recovery.
ACADEMICS
Lecture-streaming
software released
as open source code
By KRISTIAN BAILEY
Researchers from the Department of
Electrical Engineering recently released
open-source code to their ClassX program,
which allows real-time online streaming of
lectures and public access to recordings that
would otherwise require expensive class-
room equipment to produce.
ClassX, used in nine Stanford classrooms
this past spring, allows live streaming in high
resolution and lets students zoom in, tilt and
pan to any specific area of the room. It also
provides video synchronization with lecture
slides and allows students to review the
videos as long as the professor chooses to
keep them online without the large stor-
age requirements typically associated with
high-resolution video.
The project is the result of a year and a
half of development by electrical engineer-
ing professor Bernd Girod, second-year
electrical engineering graduate students
Sherif Halawa and Derek Pang, and Ngai-
Man Cheung, who was an electrical engi-
neering post-doctoral scholar during the
project.
Our goal is to work on developing an
open contribution from other researchers,
developers and educators in building an
open, cost-effective and state-of-the-art edu-
cation-viewing system for the general pub-
lic, Pang said.
The groundwork for the program, devel-
oped by Girod and researchers in their
Image, Video and Multimedia Systems
group (IVMS) began in fall 2009, when
ClassX was tested in two Stanford courses. It
was offered in nine classes total during the
2009-10 academic year and grew to cover 22
courses in 2010-11. The program has been
used in 25 Stanford courses to date.
Computer science professor Stephen
Cooper, who used ClassX in his CS106B
class, says his students enjoyed the program.
Coopers winter CS106A class requested the
program too late in the quarter to use it, but
his spring quarter CS106B course did run
with ClassX.
Other professors who used the program
expressed some reservations.
It s a very good first step, but it needs
considerable improvement, said chemical
engineering professor Chaitan Khosla, who
utilized the program in his E20 course. If
the University is motivated about making
this a success, they should be putting much
more resources into this.
IVMSs decision to release the ClassX
code to the public could address both of
Khoslas concerns.
CHLOE COLBERG/The Stanford Daily
UNIVERSITY
Board approves six new
construction projects
By MICHAEL TUSCHMAN
INTERN
The Board of Trustees ap-
proved six new construction
projects at its June 9 meeting,
including the Stanford Re-
search Computing Facility,
Satellite Research Animal Fa-
cility, Stanford Auxiliary Li-
brary III, Bioengineering and
Chemical Engineering Build-
ing, West Campus Recreation
Center and Olmsted Staff
Rental Housing.
The expected completion
dates span from late 2012 for
the Stanford Auxiliary Library
III to late 2014 for the Bioengi-
neering and Chemical Engi-
neering Building. The project-
ed costs range from $14.8 mil-
lion for the Stanford Auxiliary
Library III to $194.3 million for
the Bioengineering and Chemi-
cal Engineering Building.
Director of Campus Plan-
ning David Lenox said all the
projects were approved in ac-
cordance with the future goals
of the University.
These are all critical pro-
jects to support Stanfords aca-
demic mission and campus life,
Please see SLEEP, page 5
Please see CLASSX, page 16 Please see BOARD, page 16
Gabarone, Botswana, about his new
position.
The Stanford Daily (TSD): Why did
you choose to accept this position?
Tim Hartman (TH): Its an incredible
job and an incredible opportunity to
be able to return to the Peace Corps
and serve the volunteers of the Peace
Corps and the people of Botswana in
addressing important challenges and
goals. Peace Corps gets in your blood,
and its difficult to get out.
TSD: Could you talk about your ex-
periences with the companies you
previously worked for? Did they in-
fluence your decision to take this po-
sition?
TH: The country director position is a
very broad one. It requires experi-
ences and skills in many arenas: lead-
ership, management and administra-
tive skills, human resources, interna-
tional development, cross-cultural
skills . . . It takes a while to gain com-
petency in all of those different areas,
and I think all of my prior positions
contributed to my ability to serve as
Peace Corps country director.
TSD: What are the challenges the ini-
tiative for HIV/AIDS prevention in
Botswana is currently facing?
TH: Those challenges, to some de-
gree, are the same world over. Pre-
vention requires behavior change . . .
and thats hard for people the world
over. Knowledge is different than ef-
fective behavior change, so I think the
challenges really are global. The
other [challenge] is that theres a very
high prevalence rate here, unfortu-
nately, of people already with HIV.
Obviously, its all that much easier for
the disease to spread, so that makes
the prevention challenges even
greater.
TSD:What ways do you go about pro-
moting human behavior changes to
prevent HIV/AIDS?
TH: First you have to raise awareness.
People have to get tested and know
their status. They have to know that
there are things that they can do if
they are HIV positive . . . We work in
Botswana with youth, helping them
with life skills and learning to make
good decisions, and hopefully a num-
ber of those decisions are around sex-
ual partners and how they can lead
safer lives.
TSD: How did your Stanford experi-
ence including your degree in phi-
losophy prepare you for this expe-
rience?
TH: I think the education at Stanford
that I received helped me in critical
thinking and making good decisions .
. . Philosophy in general is all-around
critical thinking, problem solving,
looking from many angles, thinking
through challenging issues, good writ-
ing and logical thinking. Those skills
are just so useful in life.
TSD: How has your experience in
Botswana been so far?
TH: It is phenomenal. Ive only been
on the job three days now, and just on
the first day of work I had a most en-
joyable lively exchange with the
Peace Corps staff . . . I was invited to
a dinner with one of the former presi-
dents of Botswana, Festus Mogae, by
a previous country director, and I
mean, what an honor . . . Its just a
wonderful country. I couldnt be
more thrilled to be here.
Contact Harini Jaganthan at harini-
jagan07@gmail.com.
HARTMAN
Continued from page 2
scope. They really bent over back-
ward to be very cooperative and
have successfully done so.
Another post on the Google
Blog indicates that the company in-
tends to offer service at a compet-
itive price to at least 50,000 and po-
tentially up to 500,000 people.
Wandres added that Google
also hopes that the Google Fiber
project will bring new and unpre-
dictable innovations.
Our goal is to experiment with
new ways to make the Internet bet-
ter and faster, she said.
Although Google is facilitating
implementation of Fiber, it will
need to collaborate with other com-
panies, including Pacific Gas and
Electric (PG&E).
Google needs to work with
PG&E to make sure that they avoid
the gas lines, said University
spokeswoman Lisa Lapin. Thats
common with any project.
Lapin said that this would be
PG&Es only involvement in the
endeavor.
After the three-year contract
between Stanford and Google ex-
pires, the organizations plan to
reevaluate the networks opera-
tions.
Contant Haelin Cho at haelin.cho
@gmail.com.
GOOGLE
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Former art professor dies
Former Stanford art professor Richard Randell, a
nationally known artist, died of lung cancer at his
Sonoma County home on May 25 at age 81. Randell
was known for his large-scale contemporary sculp-
tures and his instructional videos on African lan-
guages among them Kiswahili, Hausa,
Shona and Bambara.
After working as an acting assistant professor of art
from 1968 to 1969, Randell joined the Stanford faculty
in 1970. Randells media included bronze, wood, plastic
and metal, and his work is displayed in museums and
galleries across the country.
He had a great sense of irony and the absurd, said
art history professor emerita Wanda Corn to the Stan-
ford Report. Students loved him for his talk and wis-
dom as well as his teaching of metal and woodworking.
In 1992, he founded World of Languages, a
nonprofit organization to help his work with lin-
guists from Stanford, Yale University and
UCLA in creating a video archive of songs and
performance arts from Kenya and Tanzania.
After Randell retired in the late 1990s, he creat-
ed award-winning stop-motion animations and
was granted two artist residence grants at the
Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice.
Randell is survived by four children and his wife,
Susan Harby. A memorial service is planned for the fall.
Harini Jaganathan
Environment more important
than genetics in autism risk
According to a recent study by researchers at the
UC-San Francisco and Stanford on autism in twins,
environmental factors are more predictive of autism
risk than genetic factors. The study found that envi-
ronmental factors make up 62 percent of the risk of
autism while genetics, originaly thought to have been
90 percent, make up 38 percent.
The study was published in the Archives of Gener-
al Psychiatry and was called the largest, and the most
diverse [study] to look at twins by The San Francisco
Chronicle. The study included 192 twins, both frater-
nal and identical. The rate of identical twins with dual
autism was shown to be lower than predicted, and the
rate of fraternal twins with dual autism was higher.
Another study examining 298 autistic children in
the Kaiser Permanente Northern California system
and published in the same issue showed that the risk
for autism doubles with the use of antidepressants in
pregnant women. With autism rates estimated at one
percent of the children in the United States, scientists
are hoping these findings will help expand research of
the disorder.
Haelin Cho
A main goal of the study was to
eliminate accumulated sleep debt,
which researchers assumed the ath-
letes carried with them upon starting
the study, to naturally improve ath-
letic performance. At the studys
conclusion, free-throw shooting ac-
curacy increased by an average of
nine percent, three-point field goal
accuracy increased by an average of
9.5 percent and average sprint times
decreased by about five percent.
Despite the basketball teams
rigorous travel schedule, the ath-
letes pursued the study, though it
was difficult to get them to agree ini-
tially. The athletes received com-
pensation.
It was tricky, but generally Ive
had a very good relationship with
many of the coaching staff and ath-
letes and teams on Stanfords cam-
pus, and it was the individual ath-
letes decision to participate in the
study, Mah said.
The researchers initiated the
study with several teams in order to
have a sample size large enough to
ensure accurate results, but ulti-
mately decided it was not possible to
compare statistics between sports.
They chose to focus on the mens
basketball team, looking at physical
performance measures specific to
the sport over the regular winter sea-
son.
During the study, researchers
also asked athletes to refrain from
drinking coffee and alcohol. When
sleeping at least 10 hours a night was
not an option, the athletes were
asked to take naps to make up for
missed nocturnal sleep hours.
Every single person on this
planet, with the rare exception, is
going to benefit from getting a good
nights sleep, said sports perfor-
mance coach Juan Pablo Reggiardo,
who works specifically with the
mens basketball team. Its not just
for physical performance, its that
mental alertness and focus.
Along with physical perfor-
mance testing, researchers tested re-
action time with the Psychomotor
Vigilance Task, levels of daytime
sleepiness using the Epworth Sleepi-
ness Scale and mood through the
Profile of Mood States. As a result of
added sleep, daytime sleepiness and
mood both improved.
These improvements following
sleep extension suggest that peak
performance can only occur when
an athletes overall sleep and sleep
habits are optimal, the study said.
Although the study does not
prove that sleep extension can help
recreational athletes or non-ath-
letes, research has shown that sleep
awareness can benefit the average
person.
William Dement, professor of
psychiatry, teaches Sleep and
Dreams, a class that focuses on un-
derstanding sleep and sleep debt.
Stanford students likely know
more about sleep than any other
university, although there
are a few other universities who ad-
dress the issue, said Dement in a
statement Mah provided to The
Daily. Sleep and Dreams certainly
made Stanford students more aware
about sleep, whether they took the
course or gained knowledge about
sleep through word of mouth from
Sleep and Dreams students.
Mah hopes to continue sleep re-
search, bringing similar studies to
different sports teams and groups of
people.
The bigger picture in all of this is
that were hoping to continue to
build on this, not just in terms of re-
search, but in trying to continue to
develop resources and education
and understanding of sleep as an im-
portant part of athletic performance
and training for a lot of the Stanford
teams and athletes and coaches,
she said.
Contact Elaina Koros at ekoros@stan-
ford.edu.
SLEEP
NEWS BRIEFS
BLOTTER
By JOSH HOYT
This report covers a selection of
incidents from July 6 to July 10 as
recorded in the Stanford University
Department of Public Safety bul-
letin. During this period, there were
several bike thefts on campus.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6
IA woman reported being assault-
ed with a pillow sometime be-
tween 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
THURSDAY, JULY 7
IAt 1:55 p.m., the San Francisco
Police Department contacted the
Stanford Police to report a suici-
dal student. The student lived the
past three years in a Stanford
dorm but now resides in Oak-
land. Oakland emergency ser-
vices were contacted.
FRIDAY, JULY 8
IAt 8:35 p.m., Yost House was
flooded by the fire prevention
sprinkler system.
SUNDAY, JULY 10
IA tree along the parking strip ad-
jacent to Arguello Way fell on
three parked golf carts.
Contact Josh Hoyt at jwghoyt@stan-
ford.edu.
with Cetus the following year.
The HIV test under dispute is
used worldwide. Stanford sued
Roche for its rights in 2005; the
Supreme Court decision addresses
an appeal filed, again by the Uni-
versity, in 2009.
Stanford released a statement
soon after the decision stating that
it respectfully disagrees. In the
same statement, Stanford General
Counsel Debra Zumwalt J.D 79
said the University is disappoint-
ed by the decision and again cited
the Bayh-Dole Act.
I do not think the Supreme
Court opinion adequately consid-
ered the history and language of
the Bayh-Dole Act and the policy
behind the Act, she wrote in an
email to The Daily. Prior to the
Bayh-Dole Act, when the federal
government funded research at
universities, the government kept
the patents to the inventions creat-
ed through that research. The gov-
ernment did not have a good track
record in commercializing the in-
ventions resulting from the feder-
ally funded research.
Its co-sponsor, former U.S. Sen.
Birch Bayh, filed an amicus brief
on behalf of the University.
[The Bayh-Dole Act] auto-
matically vests ownership rights in
the inventions arising from feder-
ally funded research in the univer-
sities, small businesses and non-
profit organizations responsible
for their creation, he wrote in the
brief.
Congress thought that univer-
sities could do a better job of li-
censing patents resulting from the
research and seeing that these in-
ventions were developed and put
out in the marketplace so that peo-
ple could benefit from them,
Zumwalt said. The government
kept certain rights, gave the rest of
the patent rights to the university
and required that universities
share any royalties from successful
patents with the faculty, employee
and student inventors.
The American Association of
Universities and U.S. Solicitor
General Neal Katyal also filed
briefs on Stanfords behalf.
The Court also dismissed
Holodniys personal claim to the
test.
[It] has long been the rule that
inventors have title to their patents
initially, even if they make those
inventions while working for
somebody else, Roberts wrote in
the majority opinion. The United
States as amicus curiae argues that
this provision operates to displace
the basic principle, codified in the
Patent Act, that an inventor owns
the rights to his invention.
In order to protect the interests
of its faculty and prevent future
conflicts, Stanford is currently su-
pervising a small but critical
change to the language used in its
agreements. Rather than having
the employee say he or she will
assign patent rights, the employ-
ee will instead sign, I hereby
agree.
This decision will also create
problems for the governments re-
served rights, Zumwalt said.
Ellora Israni contributed to this re-
port.
Contact Hiroko Sunamura at suna-
mura@stanford.edu.
ROCHE
H
i, Id like a coffee, please.
Si mi?
Coffee.
Kopi mah?
What?
Kopi-O can?
What is kopi-O?
Kopi-O! Ger, wai so gabra lah? Kopi-O
kopi no milk!
Oh! Yes, thats fine.
So kopi-kosong den.
What?
In a country where English is one of four of-
ficial languages, spoken by 80 percent of the
population, I find I still need a dictionary in Sin-
gapore. The conversation above is one I recent-
ly had while trying to buy a coffee from a local
kopitiam (coffee shop). After a few more ex-
changes like this, I finally understood what the
sweet, old Chinese lady behind the counter was
asking me. Si mi was actually a simple
what? Kopi means coffee. Kopi-O is cof-
fee with no milk, and kopi-kosong is plain cof-
fee. It took me a while to figure out Ger, wai so
gabra lah? and when I did, I couldnt help but
laugh at the irony. The lady was asking me girl,
why are you so confused? To be honest, Im
still confused. Because I was speaking English.
And so was she. So why couldnt we understand
each other?
In Singapore, there are actually two different
types of English: proper English, and whats
called Singlish (Singapore + English =
Singlish). Although the government highly dis-
courages Singlish, it is still widely spoken be-
cause, in general, even for a modern, effective
and efficient government like Singapores, its
pretty difficult to effectively discourage a prima-
ry method of communication. In that kopitiam,
I spoke proper English. The lady was speak-
ing Singlish.
Singlish is not held in high regard in Singa-
pore. Its often taken as a sign of low social
standing and low prestige. But at the same time,
its something that Singaporeans cant help but
hold dear to their hearts. Locals will excitedly
ask me if I can speak Singlish and be disappoint-
ed when I admit I cannot. Singlish is often the
central comic theme of local TV shows, and Sin-
gaporeans themselves will make fun of the lan-
guage. But at the same time, the two versions of
English dont only act as a language barrier, but
also as a social one. Someone who can speak
Standard English is higher up on the social and
business ladder than someone who
speaks Singlish, which is viewed as a patchy lan-
guage used by those who cant communicate in
the high-class language, English. This made
me think why in the world in the year 2011 is
one language in a highly advanced country con-
sidered better than another? And then the an-
swer hit me like a running jibra. Its simply be-
cause the language of a land reflects its culture.
Singapore was under British rule for 146
years (between 1819 and 1965). According to
Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist and revolutionary
20th-century writer, the relationship between
the colonizers of a nation and those being colo-
nized is one of veneration, hate and envy. Fanon
argues that the colonizers portray themselves as
higher class, so at the same time, the colonized
hate and envy the colonizers. The colonized
hate that they have been pushed down to sec-
ond-class citizens in their own land but, at the
same time, strive to climb up in society in the
quickest way possible. Fanon theorized that the
way to climb the societal ladder would be to
adopt the habits and practices of the higher
class. In the case of Singapore, that meant imi-
tating the colonizers, including learning prop-
er English. Even today this mentality contin-
ues, both consciously and subconsciously.
Other Asian languages also reflect their re-
spective cultures. In Vietnam, where bike thiev-
ery is rampant, there is no Vietnamese word for
stolen. Instead, if you wish to report a stolen
bike to the authorities, you are obliged to
humbly explain (to save your own face and the
face of your fellow citizen who happened to
steal your bike) that my bike is missing. On
the other hand, in Urdu (a language spoken in
Pakistan and India), there is no word for a neu-
tral missing. If something is actually missing,
its either your own fault for losing it or someone
else has stolen it. Combine this with the Asian
idea of saving face, and it just so happens that
everyone is stealing everything from everyone
else. Or so it would seem.
Singapore, a mish-mash of different cultures,
has its own unique language that reflects that cul-
tural diversity - a mish-mash language of so much
more than just Hokkien, Malay, Bhasa, Can-
tonese and Tamil roots. To pick one Asian lan-
guage and stick with it would be a slur on the Sin-
gaporean prestige: an island nation in the middle
of the South China Sea completely unlike its
neighbors speaking primarily the language of an-
other nation would indicate association with that
I
ve got to be honest. Graduate student life
comes with awesome perks: flexible
schedules, fun-loving coworkers and
amazing travel opportunities. But the green-
eyed monster occasionally peers over my
shoulder.
It visited last week, while I flipped envi-
ously through photos that my cousin, Jason
Moeller, had posted on his blog for the Na-
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
trations (NOAA) Teacher at Sea program.
Id been following his three-week adventure
aboard a pollock research vessel in the Gulf
of Alaska whenever I wasnt reading about a
friends fieldwork in Greenland, getting up-
dates on anothers research in New Zealand
or Skyping with a classmate studying am-
phibians in Costa Rica.
When I finally got back to work on my
own research, one thought lingered (along-
side the envy): todays technological ad-
vances let us live vicariously through the lives
of others more than ever. Those of us well
connected in the field can blog and email
every day. Even the most remote colleagues
send off updates, photos and videos with the
weekly supply helicopter.
Many scientific organizations have taken
advantage of this opportunity to merge sci-
ence and education in modernized outreach
programs. Of course, no matter how upbeat
and entertaining a writer my cousin is (espe-
cially impressive as he battled seasickness),
neither he nor any other similar writer will
have as many followers as, say, Lady Gagas
Twitter account. But each effort reaches
someone or some dozens who knew
nothing about Alaskas pollock fishery, melt-
ing on the Greenland ice sheet or other such
work.
Its on this principle that the Chester Zoo
in the United Kingdom founded its Act for
Wildlife site, highlighting global conserva-
tion efforts linked to the hometown zoo. At a
time when youngsters seem more interested
in the Internet than the outdoors and adults
believe in conservation but rarely back their
feelings with finances, the zoo hopes that
bringing a personalized touch onto the living-
room computer will inspire the next genera-
tion of environmental philanthropists.
After reading about Chester Zoos pro-
ject, I asked my cousin (who coordinates ed-
ucation efforts at the Knoxville Zoo when
hes not off gallivanting shipboard) what he
thought. Jason reminded me that a likely
goal of any zoo is to first to reach people in
person, actually getting them through the
doors to experience the animals firsthand.
But if the zoo can enhance that experience,
or expand its audience, using social media
and a well-designed web presence, so much
the better.
Each year, major zoos around the world
receive about 620 million in-person visits.
Some of the visitors like some of my col-
leagues find their calling in the experi-
ence, pursuing careers in conservation or bi-
ology as a result. Others, myself included,
need something more.
For me, more was a childhood hiking
through New Jerseys parks and preserves, a
college romance with a budding ornitholo-
gist who proved you could make a living
doing what you loved and a field summer in
southeast Alaska.
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had
these and other experiences. The
world is getting smaller as humanity gets big-
ger, and perhaps no part is shrinking faster
than the wilderness. While most people in
the United States will have zoo access at
some point, few will visit Alaska or hike the
High Sierras, and only a handful will conduct
research on the open Pacific or in the African
savannah.
In the age of viral YouTube lion-croco-
dile tug-of-war clips and BBCs Planet Earth,
can good luck and elegant cinematography
transmit some of the magic these experiences
bring to those who have seen them in per-
son?
Ive seen many still and moving pictures
of things I will never witness in person. Some
motivated travel plans; others elicited a
wow and were filed away in memory. Im
glad to have seen them all. Ive also read
blogs and books on science, wildlife and
wilderness. Some passages have given me the
same chills I get when I stand before the
ocean or beneath a 1,000-year-old redwood.
Yet these chills stem from memory, from a
commonality of experience.
The irony perhaps a fortuitous one
is that as wilderness shrinks, and as, report-
edly, our schoolchildren spend less time out-
doors in nature, were better than ever at
transmitting awe-inspiring experiences that
most of those children would never have
seen otherwise.
But will my cousins new lesson plans in-
corporating his NOAA field days replace
LETTERS FROM THE DRAGONLANDS SEEING GREEN
Singlish Damn
Good Walao!
Aysha
Kureishi
Holly
Moeller
OPINIONS
The Devil in
the Digital?
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SPORTS
By KEVIN ZHANG
INTERN
For many student-athletes heading off to
school, moving across the country is a neces-
sary process. But for incoming defensive line-
man Kevin Anderson, thats not the case
Anderson is an alumnus of nearby Palo Alto
High School and the only Bay Area recruit in
Stanfords 2015 football class.
I get the best of both worlds, Anderson
said. I am able to get a great college experi-
ence as a Stanford student-athlete but also can
go home for things like Sunday-night dinners.
The 6-foot-4 Anderson didnt seem entirely
destined to become a Cardinal player, as both
of his parents received degrees from Cal and
his brother currently plays football at Yale. On
top of that, Anderson was not always an athlet-
ic standout. He never played organized tackle
football until he entered high school and was
on the junior varsity team until a postseason
call-up promoted him in his sophomore sea-
son.
I mostly played baseball in middle school,
Anderson said. However, I was always big
and knew my size would be good for football.
In his junior season, Anderson changed the
course of his career.
The summer between my sophomore and
junior season, I found the weight room and
gained about 20 pounds, he said. The varsity
coaches fit me very well and helped me
tremendously.
Anderson finished his first full season on
varsity as the Santa Clara Valley Athletic
Leagues (SCVAL) Defensive Lineman of the
Year after recording 68 tackles (18 for a loss)
and 6.5 sacks. After the season, he sent his
RECRUIT ANDERSON A PALO ALTO NATIVE
LOCAL JOINS D-LINE
Joseph Beyda
FINES THE
BEST WAY
TO GO
I
ts all too easy to criticize
NCAA sanctions. Theyre al-
ways branded as either ineffec-
tive or over the top. The unfor-
tunate truth is that, without
time travel, theres no real way to undo
the damage done when a school com-
mits a major rules violation.
A week ago, I mentioned some of
the institutional flaws namely, an
unfair emphasis on major sports and a
lack of concern for education that
result when college players lose their
amateur status. But beyond these is-
sues, how can the NCAA right the ship
on the playing field when major viola-
tions are uncovered at a college?
This weeks wrong answer: ask Ohio
State.
When Buckeye football coach Jim
Tressel covered up improper benefits
given to five of his players, the program
took matters into its own hands in ad-
vance of its Aug. 12 date with the
NCAA Infractions Committee. After
asking Tressel to resign in May, Ohio
State vacated all 12 of its wins from last
season, including a Big Ten champi-
onship and a Sugar Bowl victory.
It looks admirable, at first: finally, a
school owning up to its mistakes and
showing willingness to pay the price for
its actions.
Unfortunately, that price isnt right.
The Buckeyes will have officially post-
ed a 0-1 record in 2010, but a victory is
more than a W in the record books. If
someone told you that Stanford didnt
win last years Big Game, you wouldnt
believe them. You were there, you
watched the Bears get trounced 48-14,
you saw the frowns on Cal fans faces
on the train ride home. Unless you
watch college football to keep track of
your schools all-time record, then all
that matters is what happens on the
gridiron, not what some bigwigs decide
later on.
W
e didnt grow up idoliz-
ing Susan Richard
Nelson. We didnt
check the newspaper
to see what DeMau-
rice Smith was up to every day. We did-
nt have posters of Billy Hunter on our
bedroom walls. And we didnt see Roger
Goodell or David Stern in a single seg-
ment of Top-10 Plays.
Instead, you probably followed play-
ers. If youre like me, you grew up think-
ing sports was about the games on the
field, court, ice, pavement, pool, course
or whatever other venues let athletes
show their talents. You probably didnt
think of your favorite star players bat-
tling in the courtroom.
Unfortunately, this summer is a
growing-up process for all of us. Were
learning that money really does drive
sports. Were finding out that the names
listed above could matter a whole lot
Jacob Jaffe
LOCKOUTS
A LOSS
FOR FANS
Please see JAFFE, page 8
By THE DAILY SPORTS STAFF
Marecic, Flynn win
conference awards
Fullback Owen Marecic
and lacrosse player Sarah
Flynn were the two Stanford
athletes given the Tom
Hansen Conference Medal
this year. Two graduating se-
niors one male and one fe-
male from each Pac-12
school are given the award an-
nually.
A year after blocking for
Heisman Trophy runner-up
Toby Gerhart, Marecic made
a name for himself as the only
two-way player in college
football, starting at both full-
back and linebacker for the
Cardinal. Averaging 110 plays
per game, he scored 7 touch-
downs, including two in 13
seconds against Notre Dame.
After intercepting an Irish
pass and taking it 20 yards for
a touchdown, he scored again
on a short run on the next play
from scrimmage.
Flynn led the Cardinal
with 49 goals last season in-
cluding seven in one game
putting her career total at 145,
a school record. She was given
Stanfords nomination for
NCAA Woman of the Year
after helping the Cardinal
earn a second straight NCAA
tournament berth.
Last years Stanford medal
winners were Gerhart and
gymnast Carly Janiga.
Joseph Beyda
Cardinal athletes top
watch lists
Four Stanford football
players have made preseason
watch lists since last Thurs-
day, making up 10 spots as fa-
vorites for several prestigious
defensive awards.
All four athletes made mul-
tiple lists, with junior line-
backer Shayne Skov and senior
strong safety Delano Howell
each earning three nomina-
tions. Skov and Howell were
on the watch lists for the Bed-
narik Award and Nagurski
Trophy, which each honor the
best defensive player in college
football. Howell was Stan-
fords lone nominee for the
Thorpe Award, given each
year to the nations best defen-
sive back, while Skov was one
of three Cardinal athletes ex-
pected to contend for the Lom-
bardi Award, recognizing the
best offensive lineman.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Simon Warby/The Stanford Daily
Owen Marecics rare two-way
performance this year earned
him a Tom Hansen Confer-
ence Medal. He averaged
110 plays a game, scoring 7
touchdowns and providing
key blocking on offense.
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Please see BEYDA, page 9
Please see RECRUIT, page 11
I
discovered a new sport last
week: cycling. Im not going
to lie and say Id never heard
of the Tour de France before,
but its never been a focus of
mine until now. On top of facing a bit
of a gap in my schedule with the new
soccer season in Europe still a month
away and U.S. college sports mostly
winding down for the summer, Id
been disheartened by the continual
failure of British teams or athletes in
general (compare, for example, the
success of Spanish tennis players to
their homegrown counterparts at
Wimbledon). Still, cycling managed
to catch my attention, at least for a few
days.
As I write this, it seems things have
changed a little. But at the start of the
Tour, Britain had more riders than
anyone else in the top 10, and one of
these was on exactly the same time as
the leader. Outside of track cycling, in
which we won a host of medals in Bei-
jing, I dont really remember much
substantial success in this sport, so it
was pretty exciting to see this brief
flash of promise in the Super Bowl of
cycling.
Such unexpected successes can do
a lot to publicize otherwise ignored
Tom Taylor
NEW
SPORTS
RISING
Joining him on the list were se-
niors Jonathan Martin and David
DeCastro. The pair was also nomi-
nated for the Outland Trophy,
given to the best interior lineman in
the country.
Skov will likely make headlines
again this week, with the Butkus
Award for top linebacker releasing
its list today.
Joseph Beyda
Womens water polo trio headed to
World University Games
The national champion Stan-
ford womens water polo team will
have three representatives at next
months World University Games,
USA Water Polo announced last
week. Senior drivers Alyssa Lo and
Pallavi Menon will join goalkeeper
Amber Oland 11 on the American
roster for the tournament, which is
set for Aug. 11-23 in Shenzhen,
China.
The U.S. will start the games in
Group B with Australia, France,
Russia and Mexico, taking on the
Aussies in its first match on Aug. 12.
Oland played 20 games in her
final season with Stanford, posting
a 4.96 goals-against average and
making her way onto the All-MPSF
second team.
Lo and Menon were both mas-
sive contributors throughout Stan-
fords championship season. Los
42 goals were third best on the team
and earned her an All-MPSF hon-
orable mention, while Menons 34
were fifth on the Cardinal.
Nate Adams
Stanford to host international
rugby match
The final leg of the three-game
California Summer Tour, between
the Mens Collegiate All-Ameri-
cans and the New Zealand Univer-
sities, will take place at Steuber
Rugby Stadium at 1 p.m. on Friday.
Admission is free.
After the All-Americans routed
the New Zealanders 60-17 in San
Diego on July 9, the squads squared
off again yesterday in Santa Bar-
bara.
Joseph Beyda
BRIEFS
Brown competes with USA
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Rising sophomore Anthony Brown competed with the USA Basketball
U19 World Championship Team in recent weeks, playing in five
games with a shooting percentage of 38.9. Hes expected to be a
large part of the Cardinal squad, which lost star guard Jeremy Green.
Stanford Daily File Photo
Pallavi Menon was one of three
Stanford water polo players chosen
to compete for the U.S. at the World
University Games in China next
month. Joining her will be Alyssa Lo
and Amber Oland.
Please see TAYLOR, page 9
more for our sports fandom than
Kobe, LeBron, Manning, Vick, A-
Rod or Pujols. And unlike when peo-
ple usually talk about sports being a
business, were not just giving excus-
es for the latest big-name signing with
Scott Boras.
No, this is much worse than just a
greedy athlete or two. Weve now got
greedy leagues. Greedy owners,
greedy lawyers and, of course, many
greedy players.
Its midsummer, a time when the
sports world is usually in a lull any-
way. College sports are taking their
summer breaks, and baseball is the
only major pro sport still going. And
even for hardcore baseball fans, there
is a little feeling of the dog days once
their teams fate seems obvious but
70 games still remain on the schedule.
With such a lull, the current lock-
outs of the NFL and NBA have even
less to compete with for media atten-
tion. And as much as I love the latest
things that have happened since the
lockout started graphic and the in-
credulous looks on my parents faces
when they see the phrase ESPN
legal analyst on the television, I still
cannot stand lockout conversations.
Yes, I want these things to get settled
as much as anyone. I want players
playing, and I want seasons to go off
as planned. But updates on the war
between millionaires and billionaires
over a pile of money dont interest
me.
Maybe Im just holding onto that
childhood naivety (the same one that
makes me love plain hot dogs, fruit
punch and board games), but I still
love sports for the actual sports them-
selves. You can have all the steroid
rumors, contract negotiations, own-
ership lawsuits and DUIs you like. Ill
stick with touchdowns, RBIs, buzzer-
beaters and goals.
The thing is, there are still some
actual sports out there to care about.
The aforementioned lull in baseball
hasnt really happened. This weeks
Home Run Derby was one of the best
in years, with Robinson Cano edging
out Adrian Gonzalez 12-11 in the
most exciting final ever. The guy that
won the All-Star Game, Tyler Clip-
pard, gave up a single to the only bat-
ter he faced. Even in exhibitions, you
see things youve never seen before.
At the All-Star Break, all six divi-
sions are close no team leads its di-
vision by more than 3.5 games, some-
thing that has never happened be-
fore. Even with guys like Joe Mauer
and Albert Pujols struggling out of
the gate, other formerly good players
are ascending the ladder to greatness.
Gonzalez, Matt Kemp, Jose Reyes,
Jose Bautista, Jair Jurrjens and Jered
Weaver all have put up crazy num-
bers in the first half after years of talk
about their potential. The second half
should be quite a show.
This past weekend, the American
public discovered the Womens
World Cup, and it turns out that
womens soccer can be pretty dang
exciting. The win over Brazil was one
of the most heart-pounding, emo-
tional games youll see in any sport,
and even Americans can embrace
soccer when the U.S. is actually good
at it. The Gold Cup gave us a blown
lead and one of the best goals
youll ever see but the WWC can
give America wins, and there isnt
much America loves more than win-
ning.
Still, with lockouts marring two of
the nations biggest sports, there isnt
much winning to go around. Whoev-
er makes sacrifices, whoever gets a
bigger share of the pot, whoever
wins the negotiations, just settles
these lockouts. Until then, every
sports fan loses.
And I hate losing.
Jacob Jaffe would gladly go to court
over a change to the formula in
Welchs fruit snacks. Share your love
for caranuba wax, palmitate and red
40 at jwjaffe@stanford.edu.
JAFFE
Vacating wins is a futile attempt
to rewrite the past. Most NCAA
sanctions, on the other hand, are an
all-too-powerful attempt to rewrite
the future. USC can attest to the fact
that postseason bans and scholar-
ship reductions are quite effective in
downgrading an elite football pro-
gram for years to come. Yet these
methods are overkill, punishing
hundreds of players current and
future for the mistakes of just a
handful of athletes and coaches. So
whats the proper balance between
potency and common sense when
penalizing a university with compli-
ance issues?
This weeks right answer: ask
Ohio State.
Before Tressel had even left, the
school imposed a $250,000 fine
against him. It was a significant hit,
even for a coach who used to make
$3.5 million a year. It was a focused
punishment, limited to the man
branded by university officials as
the sole guilty party in the investiga-
tion. It was the best of both worlds.
That is, until Ohio State changed
its mind.
In light of the vacated wins, the
Buckeyes have decided to continue
paying the perpetrator instead, giv-
ing Tressel over $50,000 more under
his contract and allowing him to re-
tire instead of resign.
But college football fans should-
nt be mad that Ohio State has tried
to save face for the man that
coached the school to an impressive
106-22 record (pre-vacation) over
the past 10 years. We should be
thankful that the Buckeyes have
pointed the NCAA in the right di-
rection. If, as many analysts expect,
the league decides to not accept the
self-imposed sanctions, then it will
work creatively to find a way to
punish Tressel despite the fact that
hes no longer a part of the Ohio
State program. Its an excellent op-
portunity for the NCAA to set new
precedents and send one clear mes-
sage: even if you leave, you arent
off the hook.
The same warning should apply
to players as well. Star Buckeye
quarterback Terrelle Pryor, one of
the five athletes receiving improper
benefits, left school early when the
scandal worsened. As it stands, hell
go unpunished and be given a mul-
timillion-dollar salary by an NFL
team. He should be forced to give
some of that money whether its
his scholarship cost or the value of
the benefits he received back to
the NCAA, which can reinvest it in
a young athletic program with a
cleaner track record or a develop-
ing sport looking to make a name
for itself.
Thats another issue entirely, es-
pecially for less-wealthy offenders
or those who dont move on to the
next level. But with the high fre-
quency of major infractions, there
should be more than enough incen-
tive to find penalties that actually
harm the violator.
What a concept.
Joseph Beyda hopes he doesnt get
sanctions for selling self-auto-
graphed t-shirts from his java com-
puter programming club. Get in on
the scheme at jbeyda@stanford.edu.
BEYDA
disciplines. Winning a rare gold
medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics
suddenly made British fans aware of
the sport of curling a forgotten
sporting relic that originated in Scot-
land. In 1999, the U.S. womens soc-
cer team succeeded where the men
failed, not just by winning the World
Cup, but by securing a place in the
hearts of American fans. Fernando
Alonso even turned Spain, a country
hooked on soccer and motorbikes,
into Formula 1 fans. Win or lose, the
TV exposure alone can have a sub-
conscious effect. In the U.K., amateur
runners and tennis players always ap-
pear (apparently out of nowhere) in
the days following the London
Marathon or Wimbledon. But the
athletes disappear just as quickly, and
that is often the problem for these
sports: they can hit the headlines, but
most cant stay there for long.
We might be facing a unique op-
portunity to do just that, at least in the
U.S., in the next few months. The
prospect of a simultaneous NBA and
NFL lockout would leave a huge hole
in the world of American sports.
Journalists might be able to partly fill
this by talking about the political
twists and turns of the situation, but
surely that wouldnt satisfy the fans
whod otherwise tune in for Monday
Night Football.
I dont wish to overly criticize the
stance of these deserving athletes,
though I cant quite agree with their
motives. While many of their fans are
losing their homes and jobs in the
world financial crisis, players are
causing tumult in search of an extra
zero in their already substantial pay-
checks. Not that Im supporting the
team bosses either, but Id rather see
this money filter down to the little
people, the fans, by making tickets
and replica gear cheaper. And both
parties might find they are biting the
hands that feed them. Something will
need to fill the dead air, and if there
were ever a chance for fringe sports or
even the already-popular college
sports to gain a greater slice of the pie,
this could be it. It wont be easy to go
against the power of and tradition-
al loyalty to the NBA and NFL,
but with a little bit of ingenuity and a
hefty slice of luck, who knows?
The MLS and WNBA seasons will
be peaking at about the same time
that the NFL and NBA seasons are
due to start, providing the former
sports a great opportunity to steal
some of the spotlight. For both, it
could be a tempting proposition to
consider moving game times to fill the
vacant primetime slots or even to find
a way to extend their respective sea-
sons by a few extra weeks. Ironically,
any attempt to cash in on increased
coverage might work against them
provided that the warring parties in
the NBA and NFL make peace
but either way, it would be a win-win
situation for fans. At least theyd be
guaranteed some basketball and
football.
But even given this opportunity, it
will require something extra special
for these two to break the over-
whelming monopoly of their bigger
cousins: an extraordinary end to the
season, full of twists and turns, to etch
themselves into the memories of
watching fans and stay there through
the off season. Because if anything is
certain, its that eventually, NBA
players will return to the court and
football stars will walk back out onto
the field, and when they do, they will
be seriously tough opposition.
Tom Taylor would like to comman-
deer a minor sports league before the
NBA and NFL lockouts end. Sell
him yours at tom.taylor@
stanford.edu.
TAYLOR
By CAITLIN KROPP
INTERN
I
in them and you in me
so that they may be
brought to complete
unity. Then the world
will know that you sent
me and have loved them even as you
have loved me.
Taken from John 17:23, that
verse is the motto of one of the
newest faith-based organizations on
campus, Stanford United. De-
scribed as a student-initiated,
Christian-athlete fellowship group
on its Facebook page, Stanford
United is the brainchild of Taylor
Skaufel 11, who started the group
in spring quarter this last year.
Already a member of a Bible
study group with the football team,
Skaufel observed that there was a
lot of demand for a similar organi-
zation among his fellow athletes,
and he decided to act on that en-
thusiasm.
I wanted to create something
that you could come to if you had
never been to Bible study before, if
you just wanted to learn about
Jesus, he said.
Despite the relative abundance
of faith-based organizations on
campus, Skaufel said newcomers
often find it difficult to approach the
already tight-knit groups. Thats
where he stepped in.
Stanford United really got
started because, for a lot of the
Christian groups here, people felt
uncomfortable going if they werent
already a part of the group, he said.
To start the group, Skaufel invit-
ed one member from every Stan-
ford athletic team to a meeting.
After gauging their interest levels,
he had those team representatives
invite members to attend Stanford
Uniteds first meeting with the hope
that it would make joining the group
easier for many students.
Having someone personally in-
vite you goes a long way, Skaufel
said.
Ben Johnson 12 has been a
member since the groups founding.
A runner for the cross-country and
track teams, Johnson met Skaufel in
a similar Christian athletes organi-
zation. The two became friends, and
when Skaufel decided to found his
own group, Johnson was quickly
asked to join.
Taylor told me he was founding
this group, Stanford United, and
that I should join, Johnson said. I
did, I helped out where I could and
here we are today.
Stanford United, unlike many
similar organizations, is not based
around specific sermons or other
explorative lessons. Instead, meet-
ings are scheduled around personal
testimonies of faith that are shared
by the members.
Its a lot of sharing of what God
does in your life, personally,
Skaufel said. For people whove
grown up in the Church or not
grown up in the Church, I feel like
you hear a lot of sermons on things,
but what you dont really get is what
He is doing in peoples lives.
Jen Yen 11 also joined the group
in its inaugural days. During the sec-
ond meeting, she stood up and
shared her own story about life at
Stanford, from struggling to accept
her role on the tennis team to trying
to learn how to be real with herself
and God in an intense college cli-
mate. The best surprise, she said,
was when her teammates from ten-
nis showed up to hear her speak,
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Members of Stanford United, a student-initiated Christian-athlete fellowship group, meet for a weekly Bible study. The group was formed by Stanford football player Taylor Skaufel (left) last spring.
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even the girls who werent Christian.
They really got to see a whole
new side of me, she said. Jesus is
just such a big part of my life, and it
was cool that I got to share that with
them.
The group aims to help clarify
Christianity for its members in addi-
tion to acting as a general support
system for everyday life.
Really, one of the main goals of
the group is to clarify what Christ-
ian is, what we believe and why we
believe it, and to really care for oth-
ers, Johnson said. We try to figure
out who Jesus is and how he helps
us, and we help each other and ex-
press our faith.
Group members have reported
positive experiences across the
board.
Ive been really blessed by
whats come of it, Skaufel said. By
all the people sharing their stories
and just everything you get out of
that.
We have a lot going on with
sports, with school, and if were hav-
ing a bad day, we can meet and
everyone is just there to support
one another, Johnson added.
Thats what I really love about
Stanford United, the level of caring
people have for each other.
Additionally, the wide pull of the
group ensures that a diverse com-
munity is formed, one that the
members normally might not get to
experience.
One of the best parts is to see
people, to come together in Christ
and just to put aside our differ-
ences, Yen said. Honestly, if it
werent for the group, I dont think
that all of us would be hanging out
together, so it brings people from all
over.
Although Stanford United de-
scribes itself as a Christian athletes
group, Skaufel emphasized that the
organization is not solely for ath-
letes.
We started it with athletes, be-
cause thats where I saw a big need,
he said. But there are definitely
people who are not athletes.
During the spring, the group met
about once a month, a schedule that
will continue into next year. Cur-
rently, however, Stanford United is
hosting weekly Bible study sessions
for interested undergrad and gradu-
ate students. The group is focusing
on the question Who is Jesus? for
study this summer.
Theres this saying that Jesus
was a man in the world but not of
the world, Skaufel said. Were
looking into what that means.
Skaufel will officially be finished
with school at the end of the upcom-
ing fall quarter, after which Stan-
ford Uniteds management will fall
into new hands. However, he is con-
fident that the group will live on.
Theres a lot of people I know
who want to keep it going, he said.
Itll be in good hands.
Contact Caitlin Kropp at ckropp
@stanford.edu.
FAITH
highlight reel to about 20 schools
and gained considerable interest.
The first university to give him
an offer was right across the street
from where he went to school.
Everyone says, Theres always
a special place in your heart for the
first school that gives you an offer,
Anderson said.
Although he received Stanfords
offer in February of his junior year,
Anderson had several objectives in
his high school career that he had
yet to complete. One was to im-
prove upon Palo Altos early post-
season exit.
Before the start of the 2010 sea-
son, the Vikings found themselves
underdogs, completely out of the
picture for the state, section and
even league titles. However, the
team went on an incredible run and
went 14-0 for the first time in school
history, defeating heavily favored
Centennial (Corona) in the state
championship game 15-13. Palo
Alto ended the season ranked No. 2
in the state and No. 13 in the coun-
try.
Anderson was the SCVAL Line-
man of the Year and Metro Area
Defensive Player of the Year while
earning first-team all-state honors
for his 113 tackles, 11.5 sacks and 2
blocked punts.
It gives me chills thinking about
the season, Anderson said. From
being ranked so low in the state to
second, matching up with a guy on
Centennial who weighed 100
pounds more than me, it was amaz-
ing.
With Palo Alto in his past and his
future, Anderson looks forward to
living out more of his dreams with
the Cardinal.
Contact Kevin Zhang at kevin
zhangle@gmail.com.
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H
ordes of Stanford students will queue
up at midnight tonight for Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part
II, the final act in the franchises 14-year grip
on the pop cultural consciousness. While
countless fanatics of all ages will also be lining
up across the nation, its this specific college
demographic late teens to early 20s who
will likely be blubbering the worst when the
screen fades to black.
The series debuted stateside in October
1998 to mild fanfare. It took nearly a year
before Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
built enough momentum to top The New
York Times bestselling fiction list, but it wasnt
long before the ticking Potter-mania time
bomb exploded.
Potters safe, classic themes a chosen
hero risking everything to save the world
contributed to the seriess broad appeal.
Flipping back through Harry Potter and the
Sorcerers Stone, its always a little surprising
how simple and chapter-book like this first
installment was (not to mention how short).
We were fortunate enough to be at the right
age (elementary school) to fully appreciate it.
Thats the beauty of Rowlings writing. It
matured alongside us, adding increasingly
adult and complex themes as we learned to
understand them, all without losing the com-
pulsive readability established in the first novel.
The Sorcerers Stone film adaptation
was released three years later, introducing
the famous faces who would become indeli-
bly linked with their characters. It added
another extension of the Harry Potter uni-
verse; on top of Rowlings characters, we
could now track the growth of the actors
who portrayed them onscreen. It led to odd
juxtapositions between cinematic magic and
reality from pleasant in-character revelations
Emma Watsons going to Brown! to
more startling ones like Daniel Radcliffes
recent revelation about overcoming an alco-
hol problem.
While the films may not be perfect (the
first two come off as particularly clunky in
comparison to their sleeker successors), its
rare that a movie adaptation complements the
original novels as well as the Potter films do.
Thats thanks in no small part to the cast,
which maintained as much consistency as
humanly possible down to even the most
minor characters. The adult supporting cast
slowly turned into a veritable cavalcade of
Britains finest actors. Dumbledore was the
only real shake up; Michael Gambon never
quite captured the headmasters twinkle as
wholly as the late Richard Harris.
Harry Potters generational resonance is
what allows it to tower over other popular fan-
tasy series like Chronicles of Narnia, His
Dark Materials and, arguably (these may be
fighting words), The Lord of the Rings.
ENTERTAINMENT
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Harry and us:
A generations
growth to
adulthood
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MUSIC REVIEW
Caillats All of You a
bright, mature album
TV REVIEW
Fumbled details betray Torchwood high concept
T
his years Torchwood is going to
be an interesting beast. The show
has had a shaky history since its
inception: when it first spun off from
Doctor Who, it was envisioned as
Doctor Who for adults, but its
attempts to be adult for its own sake
made the show more immature than the
source material (the second episode, for
example, featured an alien that possessed
a woman and absorbed energy from hav-
ing sex with random men). Though it
improved slowly throughout the run, it
wasnt until two years ago, with the five-
episode mini-series Children of Earth
that it finally found its footing with a story
that was not only mature but also com-
pelling. Now, for the fourth season, subti-
tled Miracle Day, American network
Starz is footing the bill and providing
some Yankee sensibility.
Like Children of Earth before
it, Miracle Day abandons the monster-
of-the-week format the first two seasons
used in favor of an overarching high con-
cept: what if everyone on Earth stopped
dying? Its an interesting idea, with some
terrifying ramifications, most of which
would be even more terrifying if the show
werent so direct about them. For some
reason, the new (and so far uninteresting)
characters introduced for American audi-
ences Rex Matheson and Esther
Drummond, two CIA agents need
almost every plot point spelled out for
them, aided by a cast of characters that
seems perfectly willing to state the obvi-
ous for their benefit.
But even if he could be more
subtle about it, its gratifying to see
showrunner Russell T. Davies take the
concept so seriously, tackling it from all
the angles. Amid concerns about the
resulting explosive population growth and
whether or not a prisoner on death row
who survived execution can be freed,
theres a great moment when Gwen
Cooper, one of the three characters to
survive the entire run of the show, is
talked out of investigating the miracle by
her husband when he says their newborn
daughter could live forever (although nat-
urally, it doesnt last very long).
Despite claims from Davies that
every effort has been made to make the
show accessible to a new audience, I
couldnt help but try to envision what I
S
ince her debut in 2007, Colbie Caillat has come to epito-
mize the carefree style often associated with Southern
California artists. Her simple guitar, soft voice and
unabashedly romantic lyrics make her a favorite among teenage
girls, and over the last several years, Caillat (pronounced cah-
LAY) has learned how to play to her audience and polish her
style while still retaining the charm that has made her a
Grammy Award-winning artist. With her third album, All of
You, Caillat takes yet another leap forward, refining her sound
to compose the quintessential summertime album.
All of You is more produced than Caillats former
albums, featuring a more upbeat sound and more musical
complexity than the simple, lazy strum of a guitar. In most
pieces, this works to her advantage. For instance, the title track,
All Of You, epitomizes the simple, signature style of Caillats
first album: guitar-driven and romantic. However, the addition
of a gentle piano tinkle and a quicker pace than that of her first
single, Bubbly, turn a good song into a great one. Caillats
growth is also evident in her more mature lyrics both here
and throughout the albumas she candidly speaks about
both the triumphs and the fears of a normal relationship.
However, in a couple spots, Caillats sleekness weighs her
down. For instance, the second single from the album,
Brighter Than The Sun, features Caillat attempting to make
her style a little more 2011-radio-friendly but losing in the
process the perfectly controlled vocals she is so well known for.
Her replacement sound, a somewhat robotic-sounding voice,
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These characters conjured all the spells
and went on all the adventures you ever
dreamed of. Yet, despite Potters
magical escapism, you can relate to it
on every level. Its our generations
Star Wars with the vulnerability of
John Hughes seminal teen films all
wrapped up into one. Except none of
those other decades ever had a wildly
adored franchise that sustained its pop-
ularity across more than three or four
films, let alone seven books and eight
movies.
And its not just blind adulation
but more a respectful awe. At the mid-
night premiere for Deathly Hallows:
Part I, the crowd waited in line for
hours before taking their seats, buzzing
loudly with excitement the whole time.
But as soon as the silvery WB logo
appeared onscreen, the entire theater fell
into a reverential silence, so quiet you
could hear a wand drop.
The length of the series has granted
fans a weird sense of nostalgia. We
underwent the same life experiences as
the characters adolescent angst,
wanting independence, romance (albeit
in a duller Muggle world) but the 10
years it took for all seven novels to be
released allowed us to grow up with the
characters while also keeping the earlier
books nearby as instant windows to the
past. By the time the Deathly Hallows
book was published, we were already
nostalgic about the first time Harry and
company boarded the Hogwarts Express
and so were the characters in the
story.
Now with the final film hitting the-
aters tonight, some may bemoan the
death of their childhood, but its not like
the movies or books are disappearing
forever. Were lucky to have had some-
thing as all encompassing as Harry
Potter define our childhood, but after
14 enjoyable years, it feels like the end
advertised in all the posters is a natural
one. It All Ends tonight, and its been
a great run, indeed.
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S
unday was the final night of a weeklong
funk extravaganza at Yoshis Jazz Club
celebrating the 70th birthday of the
mayor of Chocolate City, master of the Bop
Gun, Dr. Funkenstein himself, George
Clinton. For those not in the know, Clinton is
the most important figure in the postmodern
evolution of pseudo-ironic black identity
encapsulated in the form of funk music.
Other than James Brown, no artist has been
more instrumental (pun intended) to author-
ing the defining characteristics of the genre.
Influential and musically prolific, Clinton and
his Parliament-Funkadelic crew have been the
defining architects of funks hyperbolic,
unabashedly absurd aesthetics. If Brown is the
father of funk, Clinton is its epicenter.
The dance floor at Yoshis was surpris-
ingly empty for a P-Funk show, but fittingly
vacant for the weirdly early 7 p.m. start time.
There were at least 10 performers in the band
it is not irregular for those on stage to be
without an instrument, such as Carlos Sir
Nose McMurray, a designated dancer clad in
a white-feathered robe and matching wide-
brimmed hat admirably holding down
Bop Gun while Clinton remained offstage.
But it was not long before the man of the
hour appeared, wearing a camo suit, a gener-
als hat and a fittingly glazed expression.
Clinton no longer possesses anywhere near
the vocal range that made him one of funks
most beloved prophets. In fact, he sounded
worse than the Pogues Shane Magowan on
St. Patricks day last year, which is to say real-
ly, really growly. Thankfully, he surrounded
himself with a multitude of talented musi-
cians who more than made up for the decline
in Clintons vocal purity. Now a self-pro-
claimed referee, he was a great anchor for
the plethora of musicians on stage.
As the first of two shows came to a close,
Clinton and crew tore through killer rendi-
tions of Mothership Connection,
Flashlight and Maggot Brain, bringing
most of the crowd to the dance floor. There
was a predictable collection of hipsters; the
occasional white-collar, blazer-wearing
banker type; and the more typical P-Funk
fans, but no one danced harder than two pre-
pubescent children, whose inspired efforts
drew the praise of Clinton himself. Taking
advantage of the numerous guitarists, the
songs achieved a climax not heard on the
records. However, the first show closed on an
unconventional note with a cover of Aretha
Franklins Dr. Feelgood featuring a gor-
geous guest vocalist.
A half hour later, Clinton opened the
second show with Cosmic Slop. It was clear
that Clinton and the Children of
Productions made the most of their 30-
minute break between shows. With a
renewed energy and slightly modified, but no
less extravagant costumes, they launched into
a mostly new set which featured appearances
from several members of Clintons family. His
blood relatives proved to be musically adept
CONCERT REVIEW
Clintons star shines at Yoshis
even as his aging voice fades
Courtesy MCT
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would be thinking if I hadnt seen the
past three seasons. Gwens extreme
paranoia makes her seem more like a
former prisoner than an employee of
Torchwood Institute until its finally
pointed out that she is the latter, and
its entirely inconsistent with how she
appeared in the epilogue of Children
of Earth. Captain Jack Harkness
immortality is never directly pointed
out, even when he and Gwen are
actively discussing it, so the fact that
his injuries arent healing doesnt
mean anything to someone new to
the show. These are the things that the
writers should have been spelling out
for new viewers, not the plot points
that were right in front of their faces.
By trying to please old fans while eas-
ing in the new, the writers made con-
cessions that end up hurting both
groups. Hopefully these are just grow-
ing pains that will go away after the
first couple episodes.
After I watched this pre-
miere, I went back and watched the
beginning of Children of Earth to
see how it compared. Its clear this
season is an entirely different show
than it was before, and not just
because now its American. With
twice as many episodes, the writers
have much more room to breathe,
but this could be as much its downfall
as its salvation. The premiere lacks the
tight writing and the punch that
helped save the show from the brink
of cancellation two years ago. While
the high concept could easily outdo
that of Children of Earth, it will take
some careful maneuvering to make
sure the rest of the season remains
compelling to both new viewers and
old.
Watch Torchwood Fridays at 10 p.m.
on Starz.
aaron BRODER
contact aaron:
abroder@stanford. edu
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makes Brighter Than The Sun
one of those songs that gets irritat-
ing after about five listens, with
only a chorus to salvage the track.
In contrast, but with no better a
result, Favorite Song has Caillat
almost yelling during the grating
chorus and, along with an unbe-
lievably underwhelming contribu-
tion from rapper Common, seems
out of place in the album.
Where Caillat slips up, though,
her lyrical brilliance saves her: she
proves to be immensely adept with
her metaphors. Her style is remi-
niscent of Taylor Swift, yet her tar-
get audience and her style are
much more mature possibly
because Caillat, at 26, is at a differ-
ent place in her life than Swift.
Whereas Swift prefers singing of
the fresh perfection of a new rela-
tionship, Caillat follows an old one,
from the uncertainty and instability
of the bad times (All of You) to a
perspective far into the future (I
Do, the albums first single), mak-
ing her relate to a broader group of
listeners.
In the end, Caillats strengths
win out as she delivers an album
worth several listens. All of You
expresses her lightheartedness in a
shiny, new package, capturing the
beauty of bright California sun-
shine in 12 breezy songs.
andrea HI NTON
contact andrea:
anhi nton@stanf ord. edu
nation. So, to get around this issue,
Singapore chose to have four official
languages: Standard English,
Chinese, Malay and Tamil.
Consequently, Singapore hasnt
identified with one single country or
culture. But, through language, it
identifies with many.
Language doesnt only allow us
to communicate it also express-
es culture. But then what about the
issue when multiple cultures speak
the same language? The Spanish
word agarrar means to hold in
Spain, but if you agarrar-ed
someone last night in Mexico, it
means something much more inti-
mate. In Spain, you can coger
(catch/take) a bus, but you for sure
dont want to coger a bus in
Mexico or Latin America, because
that actually means to f- a bus. In
the U.S., Americans think loo is
a girls name, and the British are
confused why its called a bath-
room if theres no bath in it! The
British know that a line is an object
in two-dimensional space, and the
Americans know that a queue is
the 17th letter of the alphabet. We
call it English, but in reality,
there are so many different types
of English American, British,
Australian, Canadian and all the
different incomprehensible semi-
dialects of the U.K.
In todays day and age, its
extremely important to be able to
communicate in more than one dis-
tinct language. Languages dont
only determine geographical bor-
ders but also social borders. Being
multi-lingual is one of the strongest
forces breaking down these borders
and walls and one of the most
important steps to understanding
different cultures. Languages are
the most powerful tools we have to
build civilizations, the most influen-
tial means to bring cultures and
empires together. To know a lan-
guage is to know the history of a
people and to better understand the
human psyche.
The Stanford second-language
requirement isnt so bad after all.
Aysha is always looking to learn new
languages. Teach her another one at
ayshak@stanford.edu.
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and charismatic additions to the
show, while his sons argyle sweater-
clad friend who couldnt mask his
undeniable whiteness performed a
bizarre and ultimately flat rendition
of Pull On My Dingle, or some
variant thereof. But this could not
detract from the truly awesome, gui-
tar-driven renditions of such classics
as Give Up the Funk, with most of
the audience joining in for the leg-
endary chorus.
While it lacked the aggressive
(and perhaps desperate) stimulation of
two dudes on a laptop with a projected
visualizer seemingly all the rage
with this generationClinton and P-
Funk practiced the time-honored, glo-
rious tradition of musicians playing
together simply to have fun. They were
all talented and ridiculous, some were
wasted and one was extremely fat, but
they united as one nation under a
groove. Consider this an entreaty from
your humble correspondents to free
your mind and see George Clinton
before you cant anymore.
ben CORTES & derek
KNOWLES
contact ben & derek:
bcortes@stanford.edu,
dknowles@stanford.edu
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Old Times
Courtesy of Stephanie Okuda
Stanford Summer Theater dress rehearses for the dark comedy Old
Times, which they are performing in Pigott Theater through July 24.
KUREISHI
long afternoons with fishing lines at
the local lake? Will an IMAX video
of a wildebeest stampede stand in
for robins tending a backyard nest
each spring?
I dont think well lose our sense
of awe in some ways, well prob-
ably be more impressed than
ever. But I worry that well con-
tinue to separate ourselves from
nature, a divide thats neither
natural nor healthy. I worry
that one day, Planet Earth
footage will evoke the same
sepia-tinged nostalgia that
Woodstock clips do. Because
well no longer remember it for
ourselves.
On Sunday, I thought these
sad thoughts while kayaking
through Elkhorn Slough, some 45
miles from Stanford. But it was
impossible to stay melancholy for
long amid flocks of seabirds and
rafts of sea otters. Thats what
experiencing nature does for me.
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FRI AND SAT 7/15 7/16
THE TREE OF LIFE
1:15, 4:15, 7:15,
10:15
BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE:
THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE
CALLED QUES
2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45
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1:15
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2:00, 4:45, 7:20
THURS 7/21
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CLINTON PAGE 14
We thought if we provided it to
the open-source community, it
would make the software easier to
use by other institutions and also at-
tract the attention of other develop-
ers, Halawa said. These groups
would then join the efforts of our
team and actually contribute to
something advantageous to the stu-
dents.
Neither Cooper nor Khosla
identified significant in-class atten-
dance changes once ClassX became
available.
Students have legitimate rea-
sons for not being at lecture, and
they have not so good reasons,
Cooper said. My hope is that the
ratio of good to bad is higher. Lets
try anything thats good for stu-
dents.
ClassX also gained interest from
outside institutions before the code
was released. ASSIA Inc., a Red-
wood City-based management sys-
tems designer for DSL providers,
uses ClassX to make training videos
and presentations similar to
TEDTalks available to employees
in the U.S. and at international sites.
The program is also receiving edu-
cational and international attention.
Georgia Tech sent us an email
asking about the system and how we
could make the system open
source, Cheung said.
We decided to let them import
our system to their site so that they
could continue developing and
working on it, Halawa explained.
The potential scope of the project
was understood beyond the United
States, with international groups
contacting the group, including In-
dian companies and German uni-
versities.
This interest coincides with Che-
ungs ultimate vision for the project.
We hope that by this project we
can improve all education quality
and make it more affordable and ac-
cessible for many developing coun-
tries, he said.
Contact Kristian Bailey at kbailey@
stanford.edu.
CLASSX
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An engraved wooden totem pole in the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, at the corner of Santa Teresa Street
and Lomita Driva and adjacent to Roble Hall, stands in the sunlight of a summer day at Camp Stanford.
Lenox said. [The] key to the deci-
sion-making process is making sure
that each of these buildings is sited
appropriately in accordance with
the long-range planning vision for
the campus.
The approved projects will
serve a variety of purposes. The
Bioengineering and Chemical En-
gineering Building will allow for
the expansion of the Department
of Bioengineering and a relocation
of the Department of Chemical
Engineering and will provide both
wet and dry laboratory spaces.
The Bioengineering and Chem-
ical Engineering Building is the
fourth building in the Science and
Engineering Quad, completes the
definition of the quad and is consis-
tent with the original Board of
Trustees concept and site approval
for the entire quad, Lenox said.
Additionally, the Stanford Re-
search Computing Facility, a
22,100-square-foot building to be
located on SLACs campus, will be
built with energy efficiency in
mind.
This facility is designed to opti-
mize the energy consumption these
machines require. By collocating all
these research computing rooms
into one facility, youll get a more
energy-efficient result, said Board
of Trustees member Rick Sapp 78.
Some of the projects have not
yet received finalized sources of
funding.
When the budgets are pro-
posed and at this preliminary stage,
it is often not known specifically
the mix of funding, said Universi-
ty spokeswoman Lisa Lapin.
Approved projects are not ex-
clusively academic. The West
Campus Recreation Center, a pro-
posed sports and recreation center,
received project and construction
approval. The 75,000-square-foot
building, estimated to cost $35.5
million, will include basketball
courts, recreation spaces, a pool
and shower facilities.
Both the Auxiliary Library III
and Stanford Research Computing
Facility were approved as off-cam-
pus projects. Lenox said their prima-
ry purpose will be to support expan-
sion.
[The projects] are located off
of the central campus to allow for
flexibility for the future growth of
other academic programs, Lenox
said.
Also approved were the Satel-
lite Research Animal Facility and
an increase in funding to the Olm-
sted Staff Rental Housing.
Contact Michael Tuschman at
mvt2412@stanford.edu.
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