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THURSDAY October 27, 2011

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Volume 240 Issue 25

Stanford submits NYC proposal

University competes to build $2.5 billion NYC campus
By BILLY GALLAGHER
MANAGING EDITOR

Stanford University submitted its proposal on Wednesday to build a $2.5 billion, 1.9 million square-foot graduate school of applied sciences and engineering in New York City. If the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) selects Stanfords proposal, the city will grant the University land on Roosevelt Island and $100 million

to develop its campus over the next 30 years. Once completed, StanfordNYC is expected to be home to more than 200 faculty members and 2,000 graduate students studying engineering, applied sciences, technology and entrepreneurship. The University is committing an initial $200 million toward StanfordNYC to cover startup costs and an initial endowment for research. If the proposal is se-

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If Stanfords proposal is accepted, the City of New York will grant the University land on Roosevelt Island and $100 million to develop the campus over 30 years.

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HEALTH

WORLD & NATION

Glaseroff to head new clinic in 2012

Stanford clinic will specialize in treating chronic diseases
By ROBIN CHIN Stanford will soon be home to a brand new clinic aiming to revolutionize primary healthcare. Starting April 1, 2012, a comprehensive team of medical professionals will open a clinic specializing in the care of chronic diseases. Dr. Alan Glaseroff has relocated to Stanford to serve as the clinics medical director. His wife,Dr.Ann Lindsay will also work in the new clinic. The clinic aims to target chronic diseases that are often poorly managed by traditional methods of healthcare.These include illnesses like diabetes, heart failure, asthma and hypertension. Stanford hopes to improve disease
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Faculty weigh in on Colonel Qaddafis death

Scholars discuss implications for Libyas democratic future
By MARWA FARAG
DESK EDITOR

The new clinic will target chronic diseases that are often poorly managed by traditional forms of healthcare. These diseases include diabetes, heart failure, asthma and hypertension.
management by closely monitoring patients and offering unprecedented access to physicians. Our work force will emphasize that our relationship with the patient is a continuous one, Glaseroff said. He added that the clinic will use unusual methods to sustain relationships with patients and track progress. These include home visits by physicians, round-the-clock nurse availability and advocates who accompany patients on visits to outside specialists. Were advancing a much more coordinated model of care, Glaseroff said.

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Vigil for victims

STUDENT LIFE

SimpleEnroll modifies class enrollment

Students and administrators comment on new system
By ANTHONY DING The 2011-2012 academic year marked the beginning of a new enrollment system called SimpleEnroll. The system became active on Aug. 1 for pre-autumn quarter enrollment. The release of SimpleEnroll came as a response to student criticism of the old enrollment system, which could be accessed through Axess under the Student Center tab. Wed gotten a lot of input from students on things they didnt like, said Director of Student Information Systems Linda Regan,

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On Wednesday night, a vigil was held for LGBTQ victims of suicide and hate-related violence. The event took place in the Old Union Courtyard and included faculty and student speakers.

Libyas National Transitional Council (NTC) declared the liberation of Libya on Oct. 23 following the Oct. 20 capture and death of military dictator Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi. Qaddafis death marks the end of Libyas six-month civil war, which was preceded by mass protests that started this February. Hoover Institution professors and researchers recently weighed in on the impact of Qaddafis death and the challenging future of Libya. Qaddafis 42-year rule ended in August when rebel fighters captured the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Qaddafis violent last moments were captured in a cellphone video, in which he is seen injured and being beaten by rebel captors. He joins Egyptian and Tunisian former presidents Hosni Mubarak and Zein El Abidine Ben Ali in the ranks of leaders which popular protests of the Arab Spring have deposed. Qaddafis violent demise, notably different in nature from Ben Alis exile in Saudi Arabia and Mubaraks trial, marks an inauspicious beginning for the new state, according to Hoover senior fellow Larry Diamond. Theres a tremendous sense of relief and obvious exhilaration in most of Libya to the fact that [Qaddafi] is gone, definitively gone, and not coming back, Diamond said, likening the euphoria seen in Libya to Iraq at Saddam Husseins 2003 capture. People knew that a very thick line had been drawn between the past and the future, he added. At the same time it wouldve been much better if he couldve been tried with due process so he wouldve been made to account for the crimes of the past. His death also raised concerns that supporters would claim him as a martyr for a righteous cause. It has released Libyans from the understandable fear [Qaddafi] might find a way to get back into power, which will be terrifically liberating, wrote Hoover Institution research fellow Kori Schake in an email to The Daily.

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lected, Stanford will begin a $1.5 billion, 10-year fundraising campaign to finance the new campus and its endowment. StanfordNYC will bring Stanfords unparalleled track record in research, innovation and entrepreneurship to New York City, the worlds capital of finance, arts and culture, President John Hennessy wrote in the submission letter to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. StanfordNYC has the potential to help catapult New York City into a leadership position in technology, to enhance its entrepreneurial endeavors and outcomes, diversify its economic base, enhance its talent pool and help our nation maintain its global lead in science and technology. The school will have an emphasis on transferring discoveries to the marketplace, as it is expected to serve as a catalyst for new jobs in New York. If StanfordNYC can produce just 50 percent of the Stanford startups in Silicon Valley, over 100,000 new jobs could be created in the first 20 to 30 years on Roosevelt Island, University officials said in a press release Wednesday. They also claimed that Silicon Valley venture capitalists have indicated they would follow Stanford to New York. A faculty committee designed StanfordNYCs academic program, which will focus heavily on programs in engineering, computer science, entrepreneurship, graduate business and technology management. We can create a community of scholars in an entirely new environment, generating the next wave of ideas and breakthroughs, said Jim Plummer, dean of Stanfords School of Engineering, in the press announcement. Innovation happens when you are challenged by new problems and look at solutions from new perspectives. Our faculty is very excited about the possibilities of New York City. Hennessy noted that he sees the program expanding over the years to the undergraduate population. Over time, we can also develop programs for undergraduates in New York, Hennessy said in a late September joint interview with the Stanford Report, Stanford maga-

zine and The Daily.I can imagine a program potentially larger than our Washington, D.C. program or any of our overseas programs where students can spend a quarter or more in the city. The cultural richness of New York in the visual arts, drama, music offers benefits both to students and to the departments here on campus. This submission marks the beginning of the final stage of a yearlong process. Bloomberg and the NYCEDC launched Applied Sciences NYC last December with a request for proposals (RFP). Hennessy discussed the idea with the Faculty Senate and led Stanford in submitting a formal expression of interest in March; a New York campus was also the center of focus in Aprils Academic Council meeting. In July, Bloomberg requested specific plans from the 27 institutions and others that met certain criteria that responded to the RFP. Since then, Stanford has been working on its formal submission: a 600-page proposal that includes detailed academic, financial, design and legal documents. The Board of Trustees approved the proposal in a meeting early this month. Final proposals are due by Friday; after that point, NYC officials will begin the process of review. Stanford officials are expecting to travel to New York City after Thanksgiving to discuss the proposal.The city plans to make a decision by the end of the year. However, there has been speculation that Bloomberg may end up picking multiple winners. Columbia University and New York University have proposed increasing the size and scope of their existing programs in the city, while Carnegie Mellon University is proposing a school in Brooklyn. Since none of these proposals involve Roosevelt Island, there is the possibility that the city could award Roosevelt Island to one group and a second site to another group. I want a new player here, said NYU President John Sexton to Crains New York. Ive been encouraging Stanford since February to come into this.Im delighted Cornell is in this. We have different ideas that arent in competition with each other. They complement each other. One potential complication to awarding multiple schools the $100 million and land grant is Bloombergs term, which expires in 2013. Bloombergs administration has

StanfordNYC is expected to be home to over 200 faculty members and 2,000 graduate students. The new campus will offer graduate programs in engineering, applied sciences, technology and entrepreneurship.
moved very quickly to select a school in just one year to break ground while Bloomberg is still in office. Accomplishing this with two different groups could prove difficult. Many of the 27 institutions that expressed interest have dropped their bid for consideration; Purdue, a public university, decided to stop pursuing the applied sciences campus in late September, citing insufficient financial backing from New York. Cornell continues to be Stanfords main contender for the Roosevelt Island bid. The two universities are widely considered to be the favorites to be selected and have been making similar moves since the competition began. Cornell reportedly hired a lobbyist and a public relations firm for its pitch, and University President David Skorton made a pitch in a July 11 YouTube video. Stanford has hired public relations firm Edelman and political consulting firm Tusk and most recently had Google co-founders Larry Page M.S. 98 and Sergey Brin M.S. 95 expressing their support for Stanfords bid on Stanfords new Tumblr site. Most importantly, both schools have gained partners in their bids since the initial proposals. Earlier this month, Cornell declared that it would partner with The Technion Israel Institute of Technology. A week before Cornell announced the partnership, Stanford declared the creation of Stanford@CCNY, a collaboration with the City University of New York (CUNY) and City College of New York (CCNY). If Stanfords proposal is accepted, Stanford@CCNY will offer joint CCNY-Stanford B.A./M.S. and B.S./M.S. degree programs, giving City College students a unique opportunity to pursue an advanced degree at Stanford as undergraduates. One of the evaluation criteria is community engagement and community outreach, said Stanford spokesperson Lisa Lapin. Our partnership with CCNY is going to help us get a jumpstart on a campus there and give us an academic location while we build a new campus. Lapin noted that the collaboration with CCNY is not directly related to Stanfords proposal, noting that New Yorks criteria does not require a partnership with any in-city organization. Lapin said the collaboration would allow Stanford to have faculty and students in New York in 2013, before the permanent facilities would be completed on Roosevelt Island. Hennessy sees the proposed campus as a great opportunity for not only Stanford and New York, but also the entire nation. We are an American university, founded to do things for the people and this country, Hennessy said in his joint interview with Stanford new sources. Thats certainly embedded in the Founding Grant language. Im convinced that this countrys leadership position in science and technology will be jeopardized if we cannot grow more major institutions and produce more graduates in science and technology. Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg 2014@stanford.edu.

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SPEAKER & EVENTS

Mittal and Mousseau discuss land acquisition

By JUDITH PELPOLA Anuradha Mittal and Frederic Mousseau of the Oakland Institute spoke Wednesday evening about farmland investment in the southern hemisphere at an event hosted at the Black Community Services Center. Mittal and Mousseau are the executive director and policy director, respectively, at the Oakland Institute, a local policy thinktank. Particular emphasis was given to current land grab deals in Ethiopia and other African countries, which threaten to displace hundreds of thousands of people. Isabella Akker 13 began planning the talk this past summer and contacted the Oakland Institute for their expertise. The event was headed by the ASSU Food Cabinet and co-sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI). Its a matter of awareness, Akker said. Akker added that many students from the University go on into investment and hedge fund management and should thus be aware of what investment in agriculture can involve. Large scale land acquisition involves countries with large populations, such as China, South Korea and India, buying productive farm land in the southern hemisphere, namely South America and Africa, to farm their food. The event started with a video about the current situation of African farmland, showing interviews of local farmers who had been told to dismantle their homes and vacate the land. They were unaware of the land grab deals until an Oakland Institute report surfaced in June. The report found that the land was rented out at 25 cents per acre and that leases spanned up to 99 years. Comparable land prices in Europe and America were in the thousands of dollars per acre. Mittal described the land grab situation in Tanzania, where U.S. investors, including Tom Harkin, an Iowa senator, bought large amounts of land. Soil sampling and other tests were done by Iowa State University. After the Oakland Institute report in June, Iowa State began investigations into its role in facilitating the land deal. Residents of the bought land were refugees from Burundi who lived on the land for over 40 years. They were promised citizenship in return for vacating the land. Approximately 160,000 people were affected. Similar land deals have occurred in Sudan, Zambia and primarily Ethiopia, where 13 million people are now dependent on food aid. The government of Ethiopia plans on selling an additional seven million hectares of land. Food goes in and food goes out, Mittal said. Mousseau spoke about the myth of development. During the land acquisition process, investors held community meetings with the local farmers, promising education, food and water. No official contracts were produced from the meetings. Youve all seen Avatar, Mousseau said. Thats what these people are facing today. Mousseau claimed that there is greater potential in countries investing in their lands rather than selling them. Weve seen the farmers ability to improve productivity, he said. Mittal and Mousseau both brought up University investment in the land acquisitions of South American and Africa. According to Mittal and Mousseau, Harvard made a recent large investment in a land acquisition deal in Africa. Harvards finance club is meeting in November to discuss the issue. Other universities with investment in land acquisition include Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins. Mittal also encouraged attendees to write letters to companies like AgriSol that are involved with land acquisition. She stated thousands of letters have been sent to the prime minister of Tanzania and to U.S. senators regarding the Tanzania land grab deal, including one from the Sierra Club on behalf of its members. Both Mittal and Mousseau emphasized the importance of student involvement. Mittal particularly stressed increasing awareness of the deals and who exactly is involved. Keep shining the light, she said. Contact Judith Pelpola at jspelpola@stanford.edu.

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FEATURES
Truth in the margins
By LINDA YU

PROFILE

decade after graduating from Stanford, Daniel Orozco 79 was at a crossroads sticking with a job he was less than thrilled about or returning back to school to be writer. Orozco took a risk and chose the latter, acknowledging to himself that the decision, for better or for worse, would be life-changing. It was a last chance thing, Orozco said. Eleven years after graduating from Stanford, I was working in an office, and I didnt like my job or what I was doing. I was a fairly unhappy person. But for some reason, I found solace in creating this story I was writing. At age 32, Orozco began working toward a masters degree at San Francisco State University. He later received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Washington. Since then, Orozcos work has been published in multiple short story anthologies and magazines, including The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology and Harpers Magazine. His pieces were also compiled and published in a collection titled Orientation and Other Stories earlier this May. Orientation, the eponymous work in which Orozco characterizes an office setting through snapshots of the employees, is his first published story. Orozcos foray into writing, however late in his life, is off to a

promising start. On Oct. 25, Orozco along with nine other writers, travelled to New York City to receive the 2011 Whiting Writers Awards. The awards, valued at $50,000, are a prestigious distinction for emerging writers. Orozco started off writing short stories because they were short and has primarily remained loyal to the genre. At first, I didnt think I had enough story in me for a novel, he said. But I now know short stories are a hard, exacting, precise, demanding and exhilarating narrative form. They hold a moment of life and experience in a brief span, engaging that moment in half an hour to 40 minutes. Within his stories, Orozco is committed to highlighting topics traditionally deemed uninteresting or insignificant. A lot of the stories for me are about lives on the boundaries and margins - theyre about people who dont really seem to matter, he said.I want them to matter in these stories. While Orozco did not intend to present a common thread through his work, he has noticed that many of them concern the theme of loneliness. For me, its a narrative challenge to write about the simple struggle of being alone, he said. I dont do people in relationships, like families or marriages. Orozco also doesnt write autobiographically, but instead

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DE-BUGGING
TREES
According to Day, measures such as daily monitoring will be taken to keep the moth population in check. With vigilance and a little luck, Day hopes there will not be a fourth outbreak. According to human biology professor Carol Boggs, predicting whether an outbreak will happen can be very difficult, especially since there are so many factors at play. For moths and butterflies in general, weather conditions are very influential, Boggs said. You cant say we are going to have an explosion this year because its been five years since weve had an explosion. A decrease in the number of natural enemies could cause an outbreak in population size, Boggs said. In response to these outbreaks, the University uses an integrated pest management system a variety of methods that track and combat the pest populations in a way that is designed to do minimal harm to the environment. Stanford tracks the populations before outbreaks because timing is crucial in controlling the moth populations. When the California oak moth is a pupa,it has a hard shell that is not easy to penetrate. During the moth stage, the chemicals would have to be sprayed into the air. Therefore the abatement must be

TREND

Keeping the California oak moth under control

By ADRIENNE VON SCHULTHESS

ulie Day, a horticulturalist for Stanford University, was walking along a road on campus with her lunch in hand when she noticed that something was not quite right about the foliage. I was walking past a group of trees, and I went,Oh my god, Day said.I ran to the office, grabbed the camera, took photographs, sent emails and made phone calls. It was high alert. Days reaction was in response to the first outbreak of the California oak moth, an insect native to coastal California that feeds voraciously on the California oak and other deciduous trees. According to grounds supervisor Max Pinedo, the outbreak took place not only at Stanford, but also in many parts of California. So far this year, there have been two spikes in the moth population, one in April and May and then another in September. Each spike represents a new generation of moth. The previous generation mates and lays eggs, leading to a new batch of caterpillars that eventually turn into moths themselves and continue the cycle. [Currently] we are entering the third generation for the year, Day said. It is not as heavy as the first and the second were because weve already done some control.

done in the short window of time during the caterpillar stage. The University uses several different control methods.Over the last few years, staff have power-washed trees, introduced natural predators and used insecticides. Last summer,the University used an insecticide named Conserve, a turf and ornamental insect control, a low toxicity type of chemical derived from natural sources, wrote Pinedo in an email to The Daily. The insecticide is diluted to six ounces per 100 gallons of water before it is used, he added. Pinedo noted that all aspects of the abatement program are targeted around campus spots with high levels of walking traffic. The California oak moth does not normally kill the tree, but problems arise when the tree is placed in an urban environment. If the plants are stressed for other reasons, like they are surrounded by asphalt or people are biking over their roots, then defoliation can be more serious, Boggs said. Yet, the decision to control the population is not always solely based on the oak trees ability to survive. According to Day, decisions regarding abatement are made with the publics comfort in mind, particularly in high profile areas. [We want] to make sure that everyone is comfortable on campus, Day said. In addition, the abatement programs are used not only to protect the trees, but to protect the campuss overall aesthetic look, particularly for visitors and prospective students. Sometimes people will be concerned about aesthetics, Boggs said. Stanford doesnt necessarily want its oaks to look like something has been tearing it to shreds. They dont really want Tussock Moths a moth that experienced a similar rise in population in 2007 to be dropping out of trees on top of ProFros. Contact Adrienne von Schulthess at avon11@stanford.edu.

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A students look at StanfordNYC

financial aid in the nation. Yet its not just the financial aspects of StanfordNYC that bother me. The fact that it would be a campus focused on engineering, technology and entrepreneurship automatically precludes approximately two-thirds of all Stanford students, based on the Universitys 2010-2011 Common Data Set and Graduate Student Profile, from ever utilizing this new crown jewel fully. Even if were willing to accept this idea,then what about the faculty? Are we hiring new professors? Are we going to send some of our best professors there? We shouldnt cause a brain drain here on our home campus solely to seed StanfordNYC with reputable faculty. Most importantly, this whole idea seems likely to devalue the fundamentals of a Stanford education. StanfordNYC would be its own degree-granting institution. That means that students could never set foot on this campus and still get a Stanford diploma. Furthermore, during the proposal application process, Stanford established a partnership with the City College of New York (CCNY) called Stanford@CCNY, which, if Stanfords proposal is accepted, will allow highly qualified students to attain a masters degree from Stanford through joint CCNY-Stanford B.A./M.S. and B.S./M.S. degree programs. How can a university that values its brand so much willingly allow this to happen? Call me an overly sentimental senior, but the Stanford experience is here. It feels wrong to me to allow people to call themselves Stanford graduates without spending a significant period of time at this campus or without being accepted exclusively to Stanford in the first place. Maybe its the way of the future for example, NYU has a campus in Abu Dhabi now but I dont feel like this is a trend Stanford should embrace just yet. That brings me to my major problem with this StanfordNYC initiative: as students, we havent had a choice in the matter. It seems that because President Hennessy and the rest of the administration think that StanfordNYC is a good idea,its been pushed down our collective throats. Hennessy is more than willing to get glowing endorsements from Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jerry Yang, but the voice of the student body has been ignored. Have we ever been consulted? Have we had an opportunity to raise any concerns to the administration? That $2.5 billion for StanfordNYC ostensibly contains some amount of our tuition money or future donations to this school. President Hennessy, talk to us. Maybe there are some benefits to StanfordNYC that Im missing, but without a dialogue it simply doesnt matter. Until then, for the first time in my life,all I can say is:Go Cornell!
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ve always cheered for Stanford. Consider me to be part of the Red Zone of Stanford life in general.I love this institution,so Ive always trusted its decisions in the past whether academic, athletic or administrative. Yet it is precisely because I love Stanford that I find myself cheering against it for the first time in my academic career. Yesterday, Stanford submitted its proposal to the New York City Economic Development Corporation to build StanfordNYC, a $2.5 billion campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Let me say that again: $2.5 billion. That is more than double the initial estimate Stanford put forth a few weeks ago. Stanford wants to spend the equivalent of 15 percent of its endowment on a New York campus designed to become a hub of technological innovation and entrepreneurship in the United States. I dont know if President Hennessy has checked recently, but we seem to already have that goal firmly established in the 94305 ZIP code. Instead of spending billions of dollars developing President Hennessys dream New York real estate, Stanford should be focusing that enormous sum of money here on campus.Why not use it to curb everballooning tuition costs to make Stanford more affordable for everyone? You know, this place was free when Jane and Leland founded it back in 1891. That $2.5 billion could pay every undergraduates tuition . . . for over nine years.Why not attract the best and the brightest to the hub of technological innovation and entrepreneurship that we already have in Palo Alto by completely paying for their education? Im sure that would do the trick. But I understand; thats probably too radical of a concept. So Ill tone it down a bit: why dont we get on par with our competitors and become need-blind for international students? Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Dartmouth and Amherst all dont take financial need into consideration when admitting international students. Stanford must do the same. That would do far more to attract the worlds greatest minds than building a new campus in New York City. The administration cannot call a need-blind policy for internationals fiscally untenable when it apparently has a few billion dollars at its fingertips. And why stop there? You know that great financial aid program that we rolled out a few years ago in which families making under $100,000 would have their tuition covered by financial aid? Well always have an inferiority complex when it comes to the East Coast (an underlying motivation for StanfordNYC?), so why not bump that baseline to $165,000 to match Harvard? Better yet, make it $200,000. As far as I can tell, if we have billions of dollars to play around with, Stanford has no excuse not to offer the best

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nother Thursday, another set of hot tips. DO: Love America. DOO-DOO: Be America. A couple nights ago, my roommate and I got into a 2 a.m. philosophical discussion/debate/passiveaggressive argument about whether it was okay for America to be culturally isolated. We were talking about how Americans are less prone to discover and appreciate music from other cultures. (This entire article will be written in generalizations, so if you are American and are going to take offense, please do so generally.) People halfway across the world appreciate and emulate American songs, films and political leaders, but most Americans would fail a test of global culture. We were trying to determine if this global ignorance was a bad thing. I was presenting arguments about the social, economic, technological, political, geographical and pretty much every other -ical differences between the United States and other countries. I was making sure to acknowledge our influential power and cultural independence. (I think, sadly, I used the argument, Its like millions of people choosing to follow Brad Pitt on Twitter. You cant expect him to follow all of them back.) Ultimately we ran circles around the argument. He was presenting well-prepared and reasonable arguments. In return, I was Stephen Colbert-ing him to oblivion. Colberting is my usual form of argumentation, in which I make claims so preposterous that no one knows if Im intentionally being ridiculous for satirical purposes or if Im just a plain idiot. And when I say no one knows, I mean no one. Not even me. We eventually settled on the conclusion that most Americans dont find value in exploring and understanding other cultures because America has been culturally independent for the last 200-odd years. Weve either been a world juggernaut, or weve been left alone. Our music, film and sports in-

dustries havent needed a foreign outlet to be sustainable. European countries know the importance of appreciating other cultures because theyve seen and participated in the shifts in global power and have been forced to adapt and widen their understanding of art and cultural worth. America has yet to depend on another countrys culture. Weve grown into arrogant elitists of cultural convenience. Heres an analogy. Say theres a football team that has gone the last two seasons undefeated. Theyve dominated every team in the league in every game. Now, it makes sense that every other team is going to be studying their strategy, trying to pick up whatever is working. But is the dominant team going to spend its time trying to understand what all the losing teams are doing? Probably not. They will most likely settle on what is working for them. And is that a bad thing? Yes and no. No in that it is not illegal-bad or unethical-bad. The league is not going to fine them for not branching out. But yes, it is bad in that it is a shame for the team. While they are dominant having mastered their specific style of play, they would be unstoppable if they could master other styles as well. Its a shame that theyve grown so complacent that their pride doesnt allow them to be even better and more diverse. This team will never understand the need to diversify and learn other strategies until they lose. Until they are no longer dominant, independent and capable. Until they are humbled. Its the same thing with America. Once China takes over the world (because everyone keeps telling me it will I hope it hasnt already happened yet, because I still prefer regular checkers to Chinese checkers), you can bet more Americans will be learning Chinese for business, which will trickle into our political, educational and social lives. We will understand the value of a different culture out of necessity.

Chase Ishii

I think we could all stand to be humbled a bit,to find appreciation and value in the people and things that are not our own.
And its the same for Stanford students. For so many of us, we are the America of our own lives. Everything I know and value is because it is convenient for me. Im not willing to take the time to learn about someone elses culture or religion or background or personal history or whatever it is because Im doing just fine on my own. Now, is this a bad thing? Im not going to go to jail for not appreciating a certain culture. But it would be a shame to be that wrapped up in myself. I think we could all stand to be humbled a bit, to find appreciation and value in the people and things that are not our own. Chase would like to serve you a nice slice of humble pie. (You know, maybe after a nice dinner?) Email him at ninjaish@stanford.edu to set up a time.

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(A chronicle) of cookies and cauliflower

Is kale a(n): a) animal, b) vegetable or c) mineral?

f you answered b, youre correct. But until I arrived in Columbae last year, for all I knew, kale could have been a strange relative of the stork family or maybe a kind of sedimentary rock. Now, along with cauliflower and quinoa, its a staple of my diet. Ive come to love kale. My favorite preparation? Saute it with lots of garlic, then toss with soba noodles, lemon juice, walnuts, tons of parmesan cheese and now, this is key fresh lemon zest! In my mind, there are three things you can never have enough of: garlic (two cloves, really? Try more like 15), lemon zest (already established) and fresh herbs. Im obsessed with all three. In fact I dont think Ive ever cooked anything in my life without one of them. When Im home, I drive my mom crazy zesting lemon after lemon and hacking off whole branches of rosemary. Maybe its a little neurotic that I absolutely refuse to use pre-peeled garlic or frozen basil cubes, but to me, those little fresh additions provide a

straight-from-the-earth feel that just makes me feel happier. If youre wondering why I keep rambling about kale and lemon zest, I promise I have a point. But keep in mind that this is coming from the girl who literally stuck her nose into every sack of cumin she encountered in the markets of Istanbul, so indulge me for a minute. My point is less about the joys of kale per se than it is about the process through which I came to love it that is, by making it my own. I dont intend to make any sweeping nutritional statement about the health benefits of oregano or how imbibing ginger tea three times a day improves digestion. Im talking about something much more basic and vastly more important: the simple enjoyment of preparing food and then eating it. We eat six or seven times a day, but the very fact that food is such an ordinary, predictable part of our lives means that we seldom pay it much attention. As we scramble to meet deadline after deadline, more often than not, eating can become a chore, something we do on the run to fuel ourselves and move on with

Leslie Brian

If you want to eat well,master the art of listening to your body.

our day.We wind up skipping breakfast, rushing through lunch, bolting dinner and then overdoing it when we finally get a chance to breathe. Its an absolutely exhausted, vicious cycle that leaves both body and soul

undernourished. Granted,no one has the luxury of tuning into the salty, crunchy, sensory experience of every pretzel. That being said, why shouldnt we take a little extra time to savor the morsels we put in our mouths? American culture stamps moral labels on everything we eat, but honestly, the best piece of nutrition advice Ive ever received is to just enjoy what youre eating without the guilt. In fact, the Japanese food pyramid includes satisfaction and enjoyment as one of the pillars of good nutrition. But, wait! you may say. If I eat whatever I want and enjoy it,Ill spin out of control and eat junk food all day long! Oh, come now. Can you really imagine eating chocolate cake and ice cream every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Neither can I. Part of tuning in is also listening to how certain foods and certain combinations of food affect how your body functions. If you want dessert, go for it! Actually, savor it! When you do, I have a sneaking suspicion that gorging on an entire cheesecake wont make you feel too hot. And for that matter, when you real-

ly listen, you might find yourself craving broccoli or a salad, too! By tuning into ourselves and the actual experience of eating, were better able to give our bodies exactly what they need while enjoying the food along the way. After all, our bodies have literally evolved so that they know what they need to thrive. Our challenge is to listen to their cues and respect their inner wisdom; when we insist our head knows better and try to override our bodies cues, thats when we end up sabotaging ourselves. So heres my nutrition tip of the day: if you want to eat well, master the art of listening to your body. Personalize what you eat. Make it special to you and enjoy the experience. You dont have to take it an extreme, but whether its a particular brand of peanut butter (hint:Justins honey almond butter to-go packs = lifeblood) or adding a dash of nutmeg to your chai tea latte, that little extra touch can put a smile on your face! Think you know of a spice that Leslie doesnt? Try her. Email labrian@ stanford.edu.

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Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital partners with Blue Shield

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital recently announced the finalization of a new health insurance provider agreement with Blue Shield of California. The terms of the agreement were put into effect on Oct. 20. As a result of the new agreement, Blue Shield of California will list Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital as an in-network provider for its patients. The agreement ends negotiations that have been ongoing since the end of August. The agreement will also affect Blue Shield insured patients who received treatment at Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital between Aug. 31 and Oct. 19, when contract negotiations were taking place.These patients will only be charged for innetwork expenses, or expenses that are not included in the new agreement. Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital and Stanford Hospital & Clinics are also in the midst of discussion with Anthem Blue Cross with the hope of securing another health insurance provider agreement.
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lends his personality to his works by creating characters that engage the world in the ways he would. Writing is transformation, not transcription, he said. Its about manufacturing an experience and making it seem real. I have a sense of a character, and I put that character into a situation that I may have never been in. For example, in Only Connect, someone gets mugged, so I had to imagine how I would react to someone sticking a gun in my belly. Often, Orozcos creative process stems from personal observations or experiences, and he allows his ideas to simmer in his mind. One such example is the inspiration behind Orozcos Officers Weep, a story about a love affair told through police blotters. I was on a train ride from Redwood City to Stanford, and I was reading a newspaper when the police blotters caught my eye,he said. I took note of the fact that they tell you what happened while telling you nothing about what happened and decided that I could do something with that. Another time,Orozco went to Astoria,Wash., and his negative impressions of the town became the seed for a story within Only Connect. I had gone to a wedding there, and I had a terrible time I was in the motel room for two days, he said. Usually, a bad time is what gets a story going. I think theres a which was needed in the old system, said David Huynh 14. At the end of August, the faculty was contacted on the subject of the new enrollment process. We wanted them to be aware that a significant number had enrolled by the end of August. I believe that we had around 85 percent of undergraduates, said Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs and University Registrar Tom Black, who also worked on SimpleEnroll.We wanted them to be aware that people were already setting their schedules, and if they were to change times or affect the class in some way, they were affecting peoples schedules. The use of SimpleEnroll corresponded with quicker enrollment for the fall quarter. We did see a jump, but we dont really know whether something else is going on. At this point, it looks like a ca-

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Former Stegner Fellow Daniel Orozco 79 is one of 10 recipients of the 2011 Whiting Writers Awards. His winning book, Orientation and Other Stories, is a short story collection that tackles themes of loneliness in the workplace.
basic rule of dramatic writing that is always true only trouble is interesting, even if its the smallest thing, like a stuck photocopier at work. You cant write about someone having a great time because dramatically, nothing happened on that day. Orozcos ability to sculpt stories and convey characters personas has come from much time dedicated toward improving his writing, and he said there are times during the writing process he finds very difficult to work through. sual relationship. We think [enrollment jumped] because the interface is easier, but we dont know, Black said. In cases such as the record-setting enrollment in CS106A, Black believes that while SimpleEnroll may have shared some responsibility, enrollment for the class had already previously been trending upwards. Associate professor Mehran Sahami, who teaches the fall quarter CS106A course, had a similar response. Weve had tremendous enrollment growth in the CS department in the past few years, so our experience with enrollment has more to do with the rising numbers than with SimpleEnroll, Sahami said. In terms of whether SimpleEnroll has affected his enrollment and class planning, Sahami beIm a slow and fairly unhappy writer, he said.I dont like 80 percent of the writing process. It feels like a struggle, working against procrastination and my own inability to do the work. But, the 20 percent that I love makes that 80 percent worthwhile. When its clicking, theres nothing like it. In addition to his writing career, Orozco is also an assistant professor at the University of Idaho, where he teaches fiction writing. I want to be able to always understand how writing works, he lieves that it has not had as great of an effect on the professors. From the standpoint of a course instructor, I havent seen much of a change as a result of SimpleEnroll. This seems to be an application targeted more for students, Sahami said. SimpleEnroll was developed entirely within Stanford and was spearheaded by Black, Regan and Sameer Marella, the director of PeopleSoft & Middleware and Integration Services. Marella and a team of programmers developed the software. According to Marella, new features in the future seem unlikely. Students have some criticisms of and suggestions for SimpleEnroll. I only came to use SimpleEnroll when I knew what classes I wanted to enroll in, Kazi said, explaining that he uses ExploreCourses and CourseRank to select courses before enrollment. CourseRank is much more useful for planning your four years. If SimpleEnroll had the same features [as ExploreCourses and CourseRank], I would just use SimpleEnroll, Kazi said. said. Teaching keeps me in that mode. I like having to talk about it, articulate it and engage people in it. I think thats important. Orozco is also working on finishing a novel, a writing project he started years ago but never finished. I worked on a novel because conventional wisdom is that short stories dont sell, he said.My next obligation is to finish it. Contact Linda Yu at lindayu1@stanford.edu. The first thing I noticed when enrollment opened was that it was extremely slow and I ended up just enrolling in my Chemistry discussion section using the old enrollment process, said Jason Kung 15. It does not happen every quarter, but this quarter we did see a lot more activity than we did previous quarter. We are looking at taking some steps to improve it, Marella said. The problem always is you dont know how many users come in, and you cant size your infrastructure for 2,000 users all the time; so expanding and contracting the infrastructure is the biggest management challenge. Were looking at making some changes for the next quarter, Marella said. Black said he expected the rush to be slower for enrollment in the winter quarter, which opens Oct. 30, due to the fact that it is required for all freshmen and sophomores to see their pre-major advisors before enrolling in classes. Contact Anthony Ding at ading93 @stanford.edu. search on how to improve healthcare and promote reductions in spending. The center develops and tests healthcare system interventions. One of its projects includes the assessment of telemedicine, a method by which technology can allow doctors to reach patients from remote or distant locations. Dr.Arnold Milstein is the director of the CERC and was responsible for recruiting Glaseroff to direct the new clinic. Milsteins work on the concept of an ambulatory, or non-hospital based, intensive care unit model will form the basis for the clinic. This means that the staff will be a team with different specialties and will thus be able to treat multiple aspects of patient health. Glaseroff hopes to take this model and tailor it to the needs of chronically ill patients by using the methods he has successfully implemented in Humboldt. He emphasized the need to treat the whole patient, not just the disease. For instance, many patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes or high blood pressure also suffer from social isolation, depression or hopelessness. He said treating these issues of emotional wellness are just as if not more important than treating the disease. Were reducing isolation and hopelessness so people feel empowered to take control of their lives, Glaseroff said. The clinic will initially serve employees of Stanford Hospital & Clinics in a temporary location on Welch Road. Eventually the clinic will move to its permanent home in the newly remodeled Hoover Pavilion. As the clinic becomes more established, Glaseroff hopes to see expansion throughout Silicon Valley by working with preexisting healthcare providers, such as Palo Alto Medical Foundation or Kaiser. He stressed the need to cooperate with systems already in place. Patients needs are what drive our decisions, not what turf we stand on or what organization we work for, Glaseroff said. Were aiming for the perfect model that can work in the real world. Contact Robin Chin at chinre@stanford.edu.

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who worked on SimpleEnroll. They couldnt see their schedules. It was difficult to see when they had time conflicts and they had a lot of issues with the previous system, so we launched [SimpleEnroll] as an alternate. [Students] still have the capabilities to use the original; but this gives them some better features, Regan added. I was a bit apprehensive about using the new system, [but] SimpleEnroll is just a lot quicker and easier to use, said Rashaad Kazi 12. Its more intuitive. SimpleEnroll is easier because it solely requires the class title, as opposed to the course number,

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Glaseroff and Lindsay are renowned for their work on the primary care system in rural Humboldt County in Northern California. Since 1983, they have been responsible for managing their own clinic and coordinating county physicians under a single system. Glaseroff and Lindsay implemented a chronic-care model, developed in Seattle, aimed at improving the health of patients with serious, long-term illnesses. In Humboldt County alone, the number of deaths from diabetes has decreased by 29 percent since 2003. According to Glaseroff, the intervention aspect of his chroniccare model creates a win-win situation. Patients with chronic illnesses often need the most expensive treatments. By aggressively treating chronic disease, patient health is improved and healthcare costs go down. Its been said that 30 percent of money spent on chronic illnesses doesnt need to be spent if you do a good job, Glaseroff said. He hopes this model will empower the primary care system to meet patient needs while improving the state of healthcare in America. This is what the country desperately needs in terms of health reform. We are providing a blueprint to inform the national health discussion, he said. Dr. Philip Pizzo, dean of the Stanford School of Medicine, hopes the clinic can help manage costs and improve coordination among service care providers. Individuals with chronic diseases have multiple medical conditions leading them to see multiple care providers, Pizzo wrote in an email to The Daily. That can lead to fragmentation, redundancy and adverse effects. Pizzo stated that a more comprehensive effort on the primary care side prevents unnecessary use of specialty or emergency care. Glaseroff is not alone in his quest to reform primary care. Stanford School of Medicines Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) has been heading re-

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SPORTS
By DAVID PEREZ The Stanford mens water polo team will face USC this Saturday in a crucial Mountain Pacific Sports Federation matchup. The

Water polo seeks revenge in L.A.

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result will go a long way toward determining whether or not Stanford will eventually secure an atlarge bid to the NCAA Tournament. Saturdays game to be played at USCs McDonalds Swim Stadium will be the third meeting between the two teams this year. No. 3 Stanford (14-3, 3-1 MPSF) took its first loss of the season against USC at the NorCal Invitational by a score of 12-5. But the Cardinal returned the favor in the two teams next meeting, ending No. 2 USCs undefeated start with a 6-4 win at the SoCal Tournament. The results have given the Cardinal a sense of guarded confidence. We know we can beat them, we just have to play our game and play well. But we also remember the first game too, said junior driver Paul Rudolph. USC currently sits alone atop the MPSF standings with a perfect 4-0 conference record. Stanford is right on the Trojans heels, however, sitting in a three-way tie with California and UCLA for second at 3-1. A win this weekend would put Stanford in a four-way tie for first place. Even with first place in the conference at stake, this game holds much more importance in terms of its postseason implications.The winner of the MPSF Tournament receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, but an at-large bid is also given out to the team with the most impressive record. With Stanford and USC currently ranked in the top three, both teams are in contention for that bid. This is our most important game right now. This would be a huge win right now, and we need it, Rudolph said. In order to get that win, the Cardinal will need to repeat its defensive effort that held USC to only four goals in their last meeting. USC and Stanford boast the top two defenses and two of the best goalies in the MPSF. USC leads the conference this year with only 71 goals against, an average of 4.73

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Senior Jacob Smith (above) and the Stanford mens water polo team head to Los Angeles this weekend to take on the No. 2 USC Trojans. A win for the Cardinal could help it secure a tournament berth.

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WOMENS TENNIS Q&A

By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR

Gibbs reflects on first win, life off the court

Sophomore Nicole Gibbs won her first individual title as a collegian on Tuesday, knocking off junior teammate Mallory Burdette at Taube Family Tennis Stadium to win the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northwest Regional Championship. On Wednesday she sat down with The Daily to discuss her win, the womens tennis team and the balancing act that is college life. The Stanford Daily (TSD): What was it like for you to come out and win the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northwestern Regional Championships womens singles title on Tuesday against your teammate, Mallory Burdette? Nicole Gibbs (NG): It was actually a really big mental and tennis accomplishment for me,just because I havent won a tournament since 2007 by some series of unfortunate events. Ive played in eight or nine finals in tournaments and hadnt been able to convert on any of them. And while playing a teammate is never fun . . . it is not as fulfilling when you have a teammate lose in the finals on the same day as you win. It detracts a little bit and obviously thats tough, but it takes away a bit of the sense of celebration after the tourney because you dont want to see your teammate lose. But Im definitely happy with the way my tennis is going and happy to have broken through and won finally. TSD: Did you focus on anything in particular on Tuesday? Was there any kind of key to your win? NG: I played really great defense, I was staying in points where my opponents had control, but I was kind of just gritting it out running down balls and playing really solid defense. I had a lot to improve offensively,and Im ready to continue to develop before the spring season comes around. But my defense was definitely a strength and is what led me to the win. TSD: Last year the team came so close to winning a national championship against Florida. What was it like to be a part of that and how does it motivate you today? NG: There is always a very different feeling in the team events compared to individual matches.And honestly, I put a lot more store in the results that the team achieves; its just more indicative of the entire team effort, and its more important to us than the individual events. Last year we had a few unfortunate things happen late in the year losing All-American Kristie Ahn to an injury really hurt and with her out for the finals . . . given the circumstances we competed unbelievably well, came within a few points of winning the title. So retrospectively, everyone was really proud of our effort and seems to be motivated for next year.

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Cardinal looks for a little revenge

By MIKE SCHWARTZ History doesnt always have to repeat itself. This is the mantra that the Stanford womens volleyball team will take into this weekends matchups against the UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans, the teams that handed the Card two of its three losses on the season. Stanfords trip down to Los Angeles earlier in the season was, in a word, disastrous. The Cardinal dropped both of its matches, losing to UCLA in five sets (18-25, 18-25, 25-23, 29-27, 9-15) and USC in three (23-25,24-26,23-25).However,coming off eight straight wins and playing behind its home crowd at Maples Pavilion, the Card has every reason to believe that this weekend will be different. This weekend is an opportunity for the Cardinal (16-3, 10-3 Pac-12) to gain ground in the Pac-12, as it trails both first-place USC (17-3, 121) and third-place UCLA (21-2, 112) in the conference.There is a lot on the line for Stanford, as a pair of victories would drastically improve its chances of winning the division. The No. 4 USC Trojans roll into town on Friday night for what appears to be a compelling matchup. The Trojans handled Colorado and Utah this past weekend, winning both matchups in straight sets.Their only loss in conference play was to UCLA, and they have arguably been playing as well as anybody in the country. Leading the way for USC is senior outside hitter Alex Jupiter. Jupiter has been a force this year,anchoring the Trojan offense. She is currently second in the Pac-12 in points per set with 5.19, and her 4.31 kills per set leads the team. Jupiter also leads all Pac-12 players with 0.5 aces per set. Jupiters stellar play would not be possible without the help of teammate Kendall Bateman, though, as the senior setter has played phenomenally well for USC this year, averaging 11.77 assists per set. Bateman was named to the AllAmerican team last year and has not disappointed this season. The task of neutralizing the USC attack will rest mostly on the shoulders of sophomore middle blocker Carly Wopat.Wopat is coming off of her strongest performance of the season in which she posted a careerhigh 18 kills. However, the Card did not play its best volleyball last week and will certainly have to return to mid-season form in order to top the Trojans. Things dont get any easier for Stanford after USC, as the No. 6 UCLA Bruins pose a difficult challenge on Saturday night.

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Freshman libero Kyle Gilbert (above) and the Stanford womens volleyball team welcome two of the best teams in the country, USC and UCLA, into Maples Pavilion for two critical Pac-12 games this weekend.

an you hear them coming? Sometimes they bark like dogs, other times they squeal like swine.Can you smell them? High-priced perfume mixed with cigarettes, bourbon and Natural Light? Thats right, the SEC has caught wind of the No.4 Stanford Cardinal football team and the SEC fans are getting a little scared. In the last couple of weeks,the Cardinal has started to impress the national media with an ever-expanding streak of blowout wins.As you probably know by know, Stanford has beaten its last 10 opponents by 25 points or more the first streak of its kind since Franklin Roosevelt was president.Now the national media is paying attention, saying that the Cardinal can hang with the SECs best and may well match up better with LSU or Alabama than most teams. Of course,the notion that Stanford could challenge teams from the undisputed best conference in college football ever known to man means that the fans in the Southeast are going to do everything they can to debunk this notion.If you look at one question in this weeks Sports Illustrated college football mailbag,youll see that Todd from Tuscaloosa says, We cannot afford angry fans from Indianapolis or Miami descending upon our towns after Andrew Luck gets hurt in his first-ever game against a real defense. As much as I appreciate any jokes about how bad the Dolphins and Colts are, theres an interesting point to be made here Stanford and the SEC are essentially total strangers to one another. Stanford has only played five football games against SEC competition in its history, and it hasnt played a squad from the south since the 1978 Bluebonnet Bowl, when head coach Bill Walsh led the Cardinal to a 25-22 victory over the Georgia Bulldogs. So in these next few weeks,when all eyes will be turned to the LSU-Alabama showdown, its probably for the best that Stanford fans get familiar with just who these crazy SEC fans are and learn how to interact with them in the case that the Cardinal does face off with the Tigers or Tide down the road. As an Arkansas native, Ive gotten to know these fans pretty well, and I imagine that youre probably thinking to yourself, Who are these people? Why are they so obsessed with college football? Cant we all just get along? Do LSU fans really smell like corn dogs? So here are a few critical things that you should know about SEC fans: 1.They will argue about absolutely anything.A great way to make an SEC football fan upset is to say that the SEC is not the best conference in college football. Its not true, but back your argument up by talking about the 2009 Sugar Bowl, when Utah dominated Alabama, 31-17. Its amusing to watch fans bend over backwards to defend Bama getting trounced by saying that they didnt care about the game anyway.Another good one is to suggest that Boise State would be able to go undefeated playing an SEC schedule, but be prepared to get insulted if you pursue either argument. 2.They love conspiracy, controversy and coup dtats.Why do you think Cam Newtons pay-for-play scandal was such a big story? Even though everybody cheats, SEC fans will be damned before they see a cheater play for another school. Additionally, they love to set unreal expectations for their teams so that they can call for their coach to be fired every year. 3.They come from all walks of life. The tailgating scene around Stanford is pretty much homogenous outside of the students its all old people drinking red wine and chatting idly in lawn chairs. In the SEC, its people doing anything and everything imaginable. Sure, there are people wearing sleeveless shirts and jorts (or even no shirt at all), but theyll be shoulder-toshoulder with fraternity pledges wearing suits and middle-aged guys who scream way too loud and wear coaches polo shirts. 4. If provoked, they can be terrifying. LSU fans are the scariest people I have ever met in my life.They get scarily drunk, yell Tiger Bait at men, women and children who support the opposing team and make for the wildest gameday atmospheres ever. If you meet an LSU fan, try to befriend him or her. 5.They all hate Tim Tebow (except for Florida fans).See,even fans in Pac12 territory have something in common with your neighbors to the South!

A quick field guide to SEC fans

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The Stanford Daily

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Stanford programs score high in NCAAs annual Graduation Success Rate report
The NCAA released its annual Graduation Success Rate report on Tuesday, and only three Football Bowl Subdivision programs (formerly NCAA Div. I) scored higher than Stanfords .653 (17-26) rating and none of the Cardinals 26 teams had graduation rates lower than 80 percent. Not to be confused with the NCAAs Academic Progress Rate which comes out annually in May, the GSR was created in 2005 to better assess the academic success of student-athletes. It is calculated and reported individually for each NCAAsponsored sport. Nine mens programs received perfect scores, including baseball, fencing, golf, gymnastics, tennis, track, volleyball and water polo.And eight womens teams rowing,field hockey, golf, gymnastics, swimming and diving, softball, soccer and synchronized swimming also had perfect ratings. All in all, 22 Stanford programs recorded scores at or above 90, with the womens basketball program earning a 93 that was the third-highest score in the country.The football program received a GSR of 87, the top mark in the Pac-12 and the seventhbest score among FBS institutions. The Cardinal also led all FBS schools with 11 total perfect scores in the federal graduation rate analysis, which does not account for students who leave an institution while academically eligible or midyear enrollees. Only the Federal Graduation Rates are calculated for both the student population at large as well as the student-athlete population. Both the measurements are based upon classes from 2001-04 and show the percentage of student-athletes earning a degree within six years. Stanford student-athletes have a Federal Graduation four-class average of 95 percent.
Miles Bennett-Smith

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The declaration of liberation constitutes the first step of a long transition to come in the North African nation. Even if some people see the death of Qaddafi as the end of an era, which it is . . . the more crucial question is that it signals the beginning of an even more challenging period in Libyan history, said Lina Khatib, manager of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). The NTC, which has gained recognition as the official representative of the Libyan people by the United Nations and 100 countries, will govern with an interim constitution. According to its August Constitutional Declaration, the council will facilitate the countrys transition to a constitutional democracy with an elected government. The new regime however faces a plethora of challenges, foremost of which is the lack of infrastructure in Libya. Qaddafis rule silenced voices, leading to an absence of political parties and civil society, according to Khatib. This makes it difficult for the NTC to form a representative government. One way around [the problem] is to make use of the existing tribal

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The Bruins are coming off of a shaky four-set win against Colorado and a dominating sweep of Utah in which they posted their highest hitting percentage (.411) on the year. The Bruins have been resilient this year, demonstrating the impressive ability to play their best volleyball against the toughest opponents. UCLA has beaten each of its fellow top four teams, downing USC, Stanford and Cal. The Bruins balanced attack features junior Rachel Kidder and senior Lainey Gera. Kidder leads

UCLA in points with 5.01 per set, not far off Pac-12 leader Meagan Ganzers 5.40 pace. Lainey Gera places third in the Pac-12 in digs with 4.88 per set. The Bruins also boast one of the most experienced rosters in the Pac12, with five seniors on the team. The Card can expect UCLA to thrive under the pressure and play one of their best matches of the year. Stanford will certainly be looking to emerge from the weekend with two wins and a spot atop the conference standings. The weekend series kicks off at 7 p.m. on Friday night at Maples Pavilion. Contact Mike Schwartz at mikes23@ stanford.edu.

system in Libya by making sure that the tribes have representation somehow, Khatib said. But its going to be a period of trial and error. The infrastructural challenges, combined with demands to move to elections quickly, create a fragile situation. There are simultaneous pressures to hold elections and move to a democratic government that has . . . legitimacy via elections . . . and the [pressure of the] institutional vacuum where trying to go to elections, allowing parties to start to develop and campaign will take time, said James Fearon, senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI). NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil declared in a Sunday rally that Libya will adopt Islamic Sharia as the main source for its law, rendering all laws that conflict with Sharia legally ineffective. While Sharia law can be and is interpreted moderately in many Muslim countries, the step to change the law was taken in advance of any democratic process. In saying they [the Libyan people] wanted to be liberated from tyranny, they were also saying that they want democracy, Diamond said. But its got to be carefully crafted so that different groups can coexist with one another and share power and so that there is a viable competitive process. President Barack Obama claimed in an interview with Jay

Leno on Tuesday of this week that Qaddafis death sends a strong message around the world to dictators. But according to Diamond, this message is not necessarily complementary to the demands of protestors against Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen. The manner of Qaddafis death may create obstacles in talks for negotiated exits for other Arab tyrants. This just has to reinforce not only by the fact that Qaddafi was captured but by the gruesome, vengeful way that it happened the instinct of virtually every Arab autocrat to hang onto power until the death because now they know what could happen, Diamond said, mentioning the horrific display of Qaddafis corpse. Despite other Arab dictators taking cues from Libyas revolution, Libya may not find itself following the same path as neighbors such as Tunisia, where elections have recently taken place, and Egypt. Libya has a greater challenge disarming and reintegrating militia [and] a greater challenge unifying disparate cities and tribal structures, Schake said. They also have more money to splash around once they get the oil industry back on track, and the NTC looks to be making very smart and unifying political choices. Contact Marwa Farag at mfarag@ stanford.edu.

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But seriously, everybody hates Tim Tebow. So there you go, Stanford fans, a few things to think about as we come down to the exciting second half of the college football season, and a few

things to be prepared for if the Cardinal end up facing off against one of those SEC teams teams with the wildest,rowdiest,most unusual and interesting fan bases in America. As a native of SEC territory, Jack Blanchat knows a thing or two about how to have a proper tailgate. See if hell teach you the Little Rock Bounce at blanchat@stanford.edu or follow him on Twitter @jmblanchat.

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goals against per game. Stanford is right behind them, having allowed 91 goals this year (5.35 per game). Both of those defenses are anchored by experienced senior goalies. Stanfords Brian Pingree is the starter for the second year in a row, and USCs Joel Dennerley leads a team that returns every one of its starters from last years championship squad. Among those returning from USCs championship run is senior driver Peter Kurzeka, who leads the team with 26 goals on the season. Kurzeka has scored in 13 of USCs 15 games and has scored multiple goals in seven of those games.

Kurzeka and the rest of USCs team beat Stanford in overtime in last years MPSF final, claiming the automatic birth to the NCAA Tournament. Stanford did not receive the at-large bid and had to stay at home as USC went on to win the national title. One Cardinal player absent from the Farm for that loss was freshman utility Alex Bowen. Bowen, who will be relied on to try and crack the USC defense, currently leads Stanford with 39 goals. That mark makes him the fourthleading scorer in the MPSF and the only freshman in the top 15 overall. Stanford and USC face off in a top-tier showdown at 2:30 p.m. this Saturday in Los Angeles. Contact David Perez at davidp3@ stanford.edu.

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heels with the school, and when I visited I just knew this was the place I wanted to be. TSD: Okay,now I know this is all subjective, but what has been the toughest class youve taken thus far on the Farm? NG: Well Im in Math 42 right now, and Im really kind of struggling. But Ive taken a bunch of challenging classes there was an advanced political science class I took without having taken an introductory political science classes, so that was pretty tough. Id say just that the math classes are really getting to me, however, and Im not looking forward to Math 51 in the winter.Im just hoping to get through it without doing too much damage to my GPA.

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When you talk about Stanford tennis, its a program that literally sees the distinction between a good year and bad year as winning a championship or not. We arent content. And while we did the best we could with what we had last year, we want to really maximize our teams potential this year and put ourselves in a good position to win the title again. TSD: What has been the biggest adjustment to the college game? NG: With pretty much every other sport, the players at a collegiate level are used to competing in team format. In our sport, some players play high school tennis, but it isnt widely done. And the top players in the country tend not to play.With the college game, its a very unique feeling, competing for yourself but also for the team. The matches have a different dynamic. When youre standing on the sideline with this team, its unlike any other team. You see what they do day-in and day-out, and you know they have prepared themselves to the best of their ability for whatever day.When you do the best you can and know they are doing the best that they can, its not too nerve-wracking or hard to watch. When push comes to shove, theyll come through, and I definitely have that confidence in all my teammates and look forward to watching all of them play. TSD: What do you really love doing the most when you arent on the court? NG: Well, to be honest, I really like going out on the weekends and just trying to maintain that sense of balance. Even though college tennis and academics are really rigorous, I try to remind myself that this is supposed to be fun. Ive definitely made the most of the campus nightlife. Outside of that, I just love doing anything thats athletic.We played powder-puff football with my sorority last week, so I just love the active community here at Stanford. Its a really healthy and great place to be a student-athlete. And on top of that, I love watching NBA basketball. So I follow that closely, and I used to be a Cleveland Cavaliers fan, but that ship has kind of sailed.Now Im kind of a bandwagon Celtics fan since I hate the Heat and Lakers so much.And on campus,

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Sophomore Nicole Gibbs (above) won her first individual title as a member of the Stanford tennis team on Tuesday, capturing the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northwest Regional Championship.
I absolutely love going and supporting other teams.My three favorites so far this year have been womens volleyball, soccer and football. Its fun going to their games and getting to know the players. And I think its even more fun when my friends are out there competing, and thats very unique to college athletics. TSD: As for you personally, why Stanford? What brought you here? NG: Well first of all, [tennis coach] Lele [Forood] is great. She really cares about all of her players, and she runs a really good program. She is so knowledgeable about the game and just knows so much tennis, so she influences the players in a very good way. And what brought me here was kind of just the legacy. Only Stanford can claim such a great number of championships paired with how rigorous the academics are. I always tell people that I was a giant nerd,and when I was 10 I really wanted to go to Harvard. But then I got good at tennis, and I figured the Ivy League might not allow me to maximize my potential. So I asked my dad which school is best at athletics and academics in the country, and he told me that Stanford was probably my best bet. From age 12 until I committed to come here, I was just head-over-

TSD:With your family having played a lot of tennis, what was it like growing up? Was there pressure from your parents to keep playing? NG: Well, tennis was pretty much everything. My great-grandfather played and passed it off to my grandfather, who passed it on to my dad. And my dad has been gung-ho about the whole lifestyle since I was one year old. He had me hitting over two trash cans since then and was kind of obsessed.And actually I hated tennis with a burning passion I have some pretty horrifying memories of not wanting to go out to the courts and hit. But something clicked, and then it wasnt about my dad asking me to go play, it was something I loved. Thats really when I started to take off, and ever since Ive loved competing, and I think its showed in the results. TSD: Youre only a sophomore, but what are your personal aspirations in the game of tennis? NG: As far as this season is concerned,the central goal is just to win a team championship, and for me I want to do whatever I can to make that happen or help make it happen. Long term, Im pretty dead set on playing the pro tour.I want to see how I can do when its just about the tennis. When Im out of the collegiate lifestyle,and I have a sole focus on improving and becoming the best I can be,I want to give it a shot and see how far I can go.I have a certain amount of confidence that I can prepare myself and be ready for the pro tennis tour. Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu.