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STUDENT LIFE

Forum re-examines judicial processBy JANELLE WOLAK

Last night at El Centro Chicano, theOffice of Judicial Affairs and the ASSUco-hosted a forum to garner studentopinions and perspectives on the Uni-versity judicial process. The eventbrought together staff from the Office ofJudicial Affairs, ASSU Senators, mem-bers of the Executive Cabinet, studentswith a personal connection to the judi-cial process and other interested parties.

A review of Stanford’s Judicial Charterof 1997 has been “long overdue,” saidASSU President Angelina Cardona ‘11.Thirteen years after the creation of the Ju-dicial Charter, the Internal Review Panelis currently working on an extensive eval-uation of the procedures and functionsthat are put into action when a student is

accused of violating the FundamentalStandard, the Honor Code or any otherstudent conduct policy.The panel consistsof faculty,staff and four students includingCardona.

Student input plays a central role inthis overhaul of Judicial Affairs, said ChrisGriffith, associate vice provost for Stu-dent Affairs and Dean of Student Life.

“Your voice is critical to the process,”Griffith said, addressing the audience.

Last night’s forum featured presenta-tions from all four subcommittees of theInternal Review Panel: the Honor Code,the Standard of Proof, Best Practicesand the Fundamental Standard.The sec-ond half of the forum gave students theopportunity to express their own opin-ions in small groups led by members ofeach of the four subcommittees.

“One of the biggest concerns is just thespeed of the [judicial] process,”said ASSUSenator Stewart Macgregor Dennis ‘13.

According to Griffith, the process usu-ally takes around five months because ju-dicial panels are not held during the firstweek of the quarter, dead week or finalsweek. Cases initiated spring quarter areoften not resolved until fall quarter of thefollowing academic year.

Morris Graves, associate dean of Stu-dent Life, argued that, if the judicialprocess takes longer than three weeks,students do not learn from the judicialprocess and focus instead on their frustra-tion with bureaucratic red tape.A top pri-ority is to come up with new ways to short-en the process.

Speaker cites Libya ascase for int’l action

By ANTHONY VASQUEZ

Edward Luck, Assistant Secretary-General of theUnited Nations, gave a lecture on “the responsibility toprotect” at Stanford Law School yesterday.This politicalnorm adopted by the United Nations in 2005 gives theSecurity Council the right to take action against countriesthat violate certain rights of their people.

Luck’s lecture, “Stopping Atrocity Crimes: ‘The Re-sponsibility to Protect’ Five Years On,” touched on thebasic principles behind the concept, its wider acceptanceby national governments and its significance in prevent-ing future massacres.

The norm gives the Security Council the right to takeaction when it is clear that genocide,ethnic cleansing,warcrimes and crimes against humanity are committed in acountry.Luck touched on the significance of last Saturday’s Unit-ed Nations resolution against Libya.It included econom-ic sanctions and stressed that states could use the respon-sibility to protect as justification for military force.

“It’s pretty striking that despite — or maybe even be-cause — of the composition of the Council now, that itwas able to have unanimity,”Luck said of the resolution.

He added that including the incitement of thesecrimes would also be seen as cause for concern. In the1994 Rwandan genocide, Hutus characterized their rivalTutsis as cockroaches.According to Luck, there are par-allels to Rwanda in Libya’s current unrest.

“Unfortunately,one of the things that got us very wor-ried about Qadhafi is he called his political opponents theother day cockroaches,” he said of the Libyan leader.“Now maybe he doesn’t know the connection, but I’m alittle worried that he does know the connection, andmaybe some of his listeners may know the connection.”

There is now a greater acceptance of the responsibili-ty to protect in the international community.With India,South Africa and Brazil currently on the 15-member Se-curity Council, new powers are having a say. Luck saidthese countries want to be seen as playing a constructiverole. Now he argues that individual countries must stressthe issue to their own people.

“What the Security Council needs is a good politicalpush from their parliaments, from their journalists, fromtheir publics to say ‘these things matter and they matterin a way they didn’t matter before, and they actually re-

Research studies HIVprevention in Ukraine

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The most effective way to combat thespread of HIV spread by intravenous drug useis a combined program of drug substitutionand anti-retroviral therapy for those alreadyinfected, according to a study conducted byStanford University and the Veteran AffairsPalo Alto Health Care System.

The project, funded by the National Insti-tute on Drug Abuse, the Department of Veter-ans Affairs and a Gabilan Stanford GraduateFellowship, studied ways to combat the spreadof HIV in Ukraine.The findings were releasedin the March issue of PLoS-Medicine.

Ukraine has the highest prevalence of HIVin Eastern Europe.Approximately half of drugusers in the country are HIV-infected, and thedisease is spreading into the broader popula-tion.

Through computer modeling, the authorsof the study examined data such as the rate ofHIV transmission and the outcomes of treat-ment and prevention efforts in the country.Using this information, they made assump-tions about what would happen if current drugusers received methadone as a substitution totheir intravenous drugs.

Without these proposed interventions, theresearchers calculated that 67.2 percent ofdrug users would be infected with HIV in thenext 20 years.They predicted that if just 25 per-cent of drug users received methadone,the fig-ure for HIV infection could be lowered to 53.1percent.

Recently, the government of Ukraine en-

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WEDNESDAY Volume 239March 2, 2011 Issue 24

STUDENT GOV’T

Senate assesses elections,role of solicitors general

By MARGARET RAWSONSENIOR STAFF WRITER

After a postponed start due to theJudicial Affairs town hall Tuesday,the ASSU Undergraduate Senatepassed legislation defining the role ofthe ASSU solicitors general and dis-cussed elections progress.

The Senators also heard fromMikhail Mamonov,head of the Inter-national Relations Department forthe Federal Agency on Youth Affairsof the Russian Federation. ASSUExecutive Angelina Cardona ‘11 in-troduced Mamonov and referred toher experience traveling to Russia inNovember as part of a conference forinternational student leaders.

Mamonov presented on Seliger,an international youth camp,and dis-cussed potential areas of collabora-tion and interest for Stanford stu-dents.

Students attending Seliger canfocus in four areas:civil and social de-velopment, innovation and enter-prise, world politics and mass mediaand public relations.

Mamonov touched on mutualcriticisms Russian and American

politics, but stressed the program’spotential to bridge these differencesand form bonds between young lead-ers, especially in terms of innovationand new technology.

The Senate also passed legislationTuesday that outlined the role of theASSU solicitors general in advisingand representing students in consti-tutional cases. When the solicitorsgeneral previously presented the bill,the Constitutional Council ex-pressed disappointment that the billcommented on the role of the Consti-tutional Council.The Senate encour-aged collaboration between the twobodies, and both returned last nightwith pieces of legislation reflectingcompromise.

After presenting the legislation,Adam Adler ‘12 transitioned fromhis role as a solicitor general to a rep-resentative for the Flipside publica-tion,encouraging senators to sign thegroup’s controversial special fees pe-tition requesting funds for a segwayto increase campus presence.

When Daniel Khalessi ‘13 joking-ly said he would sign it under the con-dition that Adler run for Senate,Adler responded that he would findcontinued attendance at all of themeetings difficult.

Mamonov presented Seligeryouth camp to senators

Please see BRIEFS,page 2 Please see SENATE,page 2

If I Had a Hammer

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily Tree candidate Trevor Kalkus ‘14 takes the idea of making a smash quite literally as he lies on a bed of nails and a cinderblock is broken on his chest. This year’s crop of Tree candidates also includes Cliff Owl ‘13, Akiko Kozato ‘13 and Michael Samuels ‘11.

Monkey Business

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyAt last night’s lecture in Dinkelspiel, behavioral biologistFrans B.M. de Waal spoke about empathy among primates.De Waal is a professor of psychology at Emory.

Please see LUCK,page 2Please see FORUM,page 2

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Punch Drunk

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily Stanford’s Spiked Punchline stand-up comedy group hosted an openmic event last night at the CoHo. Drew Karimlou ‘11, above, was oneof several comics who strove to win laughs from the audience.

dorsed a new law promoting thissame substitution therapy and nee-dle exchanges for drug users.Though the study looked specifical-ly at Ukraine’s population, its con-clusion can also be applied through-out Eastern Europe and CentralAsia, regions that have the highestrates of HIV transmission in the en-tire world.

— Ivy Nguyen

Potential revival forOverseas Seminars

in 2012By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Bing Overseas Seminarsprogram is “highly likely”to start upagain in the summer of 2012,accord-ing to Irene Kennedy, executive di-rector of the Bing Overseas StudiesProgram (BOSP). BOSP is in theprocess of finding funding for theprogram and planned locationswhere the seminars could potential-ly held.

The program’s potential returnhinges on BOSP’s ability to find fi-nancial support for the seminars,Kennedy said. These seminars wereput on hold in the summer of 2010due to university-wide budgetcrunches during the economic crisis.The seminars were three-week long,intensive courses taught in the sum-mer months in an overseas location.Previous courses took place inGreece, Thailand and India, amongmany other countries.

BOSP cut these seminars be-cause it was the “easiest and most vi-able way” to meet budget, said for-mer BOSP director, NormanNaimark.

At its height,BOSP supported 10seminars with 150 students. It is notclear how large the program will beshould it return next summer.

— Ivy Nguyen

Wells to leave Farmfor University of Utah

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Linda Wells M.B.A. ‘93, execu-tive director of the GSB’s Center forEntrepreneurial Studies, will leaveStanford for the University of Utah.Wells, who has served her currentposition for more than 10 years, willassume the role of director of theMBA program and the Sorenson

Center for Discovery and Innova-tion on May 1, 2011.

At the Center for Entrepreneur-ial Studies, Wells helped build theprogram from its initiation, helpingcreate and implement courses andprograms and counseled aspiringentrepreneurs at the GSB. She com-muted from her home in Park City,Utah to Stanford during this period.

Before coming to the Farm,Wellswas the director of product manage-ment at Informed Access Systemsand a project engineer for Dupont.

The announcement of her moveto the University of Utah’s DavidEccles School of Business receivedpositive feedback.

“This is a tremendous win, notonly for the school and the studentswe serve,but also for Utah’s dynam-ic entrepreneurial community,”Tay-lor Randall, David Eccles Schooldean, said in a press release.

— Ivy Nguyen

Biology professornamed Leopold

Leadership FellowBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Liz Hadly, professor of biology,was named a Leopold LeadershipFellow this week. Hadly is one of 20environmental researchers honoredin 2011.

The Leopold Leadership Pro-gram, based at the Woods Institutefor the Environment, was foundedin 1998 to help scientists share theirknowledge with policymakers. Theprogram’s fellows receive intensivecommunications training to helpthem convey information to journal-ists, politicians, business leaders andcommunities about sustainabilityand the environment. Training in-volves practice media interviewsand meetings with policymakers inWashington, D.C.

Hadly’s research examines ani-mals’ responses to climactic changeusing genetic, morphological andgeochemical analyses. Other fellowsengaged in a wide variety of sub-jects, ranging from ecology to eco-nomics.

“These twenty outstanding re-searchers are change agents en-gaged in cutting-edge research,”Pam Sturner, executive director ofthe Leopold Leadership Program,wrote in a press release. “Throughour program, they will gain newskills and connections to help themtranslate their knowledge into ac-tion at the regional, national and in-ternational level.”

The Leopold Leadership Pro-gram is funded by the David and Lu-cile Packard Foundation.

— Ivy Nguyen

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“Sitting here listening to the re-quests, people can say some ridicu-lous things sometimes,”Adler said.

Cardona motioned to end the de-bate during open forum.

Constitutional Council memberMateo Wilmott ‘11 voiced his disap-pointment in the discussion.

“We’re sitting here spending timetalking about segways . . . [when] it’san honor to have someone here ask-ing questions about Americandemocracy,” he said, referring to Ma-monov.

Elections Commissioner StephenTrusheim ‘13 briefed the Senate onelections progress, reporting that thedeadline for candidates’ declarations

of intent to run for Graduate StudentCouncil (GSC) members will bepushed to the last day of the quarter,asGSC candidates do not have to peti-tion and only three have declared in-tent so far.

Trusheim also raised the issuethat currently no slate is running forjunior class president, the perceivedobstacle being the tradition of goingabroad during junior year.

Currently, the junior year slate ispermitted to be five people, with therequirement that four be active eachquarter.Trusheim will present legis-lation next week to change these re-quirements, most likely increasingthe number of people allowed on aslate.

During committee reports, theStudent Life, Education and Hous-ing Committee highlighted theirbike safety event tomorrow andThursday in Lagunita and Stern din-

ing, respectively. The event will in-clude free bike lights, discountedhelmets, bike safety tips and freebike servicing on the spot.

At the end of the meeting,RafaelVazquez raised his concern that onlytwo upperclassmen are running toserve on the Senate next year.

“I think there’s a really big prob-lem with that,”Vazquez said, hopingto encourage future dialogue abouthow to encourage older students toengage with the ASSU.

Next week’s Senate meeting, thelast of the quarter, will be replacedby the Joint Legislative Meeting at 6p.m. on Tuesday, March 8. The Sen-ate passed several motions by ASSUVice President Michael Cruz ‘12 yes-terday to amend the joint rules oforder for the meeting, most notablygranting undergraduate studentsfull speaking rights and permittingopen dialogue with members of theadministration.

Following the changes,the Senatewill be able to consider legislationnext week and will discuss bills toconfirm Nominations Commissionrepresentatives, to reform the Nomi-nations Commission by-laws and toamend the rules of order of the Con-stitutional Council.

The Senate passed all fundingbills of the evening.

Contact Margaret Rawson atmarawson@stanford.edu.

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late to our national interest,’” hesaid.

On China,Luck said the Chinesewant to be seen as following globalnorms. This circumstance, coupledwith the fact that Libya’s own Unit-ed Nations representative publiclyurged the world to act, factored intoChina’s decision to vote with the restof the Security Council on the vio-lence in Libya.Lonjezo Hamisi, a third-year doc-toral student in political science, isoptimistic that Rwandan-style geno-cide will be avoided thanks to theforce that can accompany this politi-cal norm.

“I think it’s a good thing for theworld,” he said. “It can only be agood thing for the world that nowthere’s this normative developmentof the rejection of crimes against hu-manity. In other words, the interna-tional community is making a state-ment against impunity.”

Luck’s talk was sponsored by theCrothers Global Citizenship Dorm,the Stanford International Law So-ciety and other groups.

Contact Anthony Vasquez at vasquez2@stanford.edu.

LUCKContinued from front page

ASSU Senator Juany Torres ‘13said “it’s up to the student to speakup” in instances of cheating andplagiarism. But she quickly addedthat “it’s often difficult for them todo that.”

In fact, faculty members tend toreport far more cases of cheating orplagiarism than do students. Thestudent-led Educational OutreachCommittee hopes to address thisissue by working to better educatethe student body about the HonorCode via t-shirt campaigns.

According to Theo Gibbs ‘11,another important issue is the un-willingness of victims of sexual ha-rassment and assault to come for-ward in the judicial process.Victimsare less likely to come forward be-cause University standards in thisarea are too stringent.

“There’s a very strong argumentfor lowering standard of prooffrom ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’to ‘clear and convincing’ or ‘pre-ponderance of evidence’ in termsof cases of sexual assault or harass-ment,” Gibbs said.

Stanford is only one of fourschools with this particular stan-dard; most schools use more re-laxed standards like “preponder-ance of evidence” and “clear andconvincing evidence.”

Last night’s event was well re-ceived by members of the audi-ence.

“I’m glad we did this,” said Stu-dent Life Assistant Dean JamieHogan, who is chairing the reviewprocess.“The conversations I heardwere all thought-provoking.”

Cardona pointed out that whilethe student input forum was an af-fective avenue for some students toexpress their opinions, there areother options available for thosewho wish to remain anonymous.

The Internal Review Panel wel-comes phone calls, e-mails and let-ters from concerned students.These will all play an importantpart in the panel’s final recommen-dations to President John Hen-nessy and Vice Provost GregBoardman at the end of the year.

Contact Janelle Wolak at jwolak@stan-ford.edu.

FORUMContinued from front page

By YIBAI SHU

You might call it serendipity in the law library.Maggie Filler, LAW ‘12, was studying inStanford’s Law Library and thinking aboutthe California prison system when she cameacross a student study area that was “over-

flowing with books about prisons.” Someone else wasstudying the same thing. The nametag on the pile ofbooks read Sara Mayeux, a joint JD-American HistoryPhD candidate.

“I thought, ‘Who is that Sara?’” Filler recalled withamusement.“We have to get together.”

Filler had coffee with Mayeux and found that they

both agreed about several controversial prison issues.Many conversations later,the idea for the Stanford PrisonForum was born.

The Stanford Prison Forum is an interdisciplinary stu-dent-run workshop supported by a Student Projects forIntellectual Community Enhancement grant. Filler andMayeux hoped the workshop would provide a place forstudents interested in issues of incarceration to study thetopic in more depth.

“We felt that although we had some classes at theLaw School, the regular coursework failed to capturethe systemic portion of prisons,” Filler said.“For exam-ple,how [they] operate,not just through legal pass-ways,but in terms of the various other systems . . . that createthis massive system in the United States today, in Cali-fornia especially.”

The forum has been running a seminar at San Quentinprison since the beginning of the quarter. Every Sundayfrom 2 to 5 p.m.,10 Stanford students make the trek to theSan Quentin prison to take a class together with 20 in-mates who have earned associate degrees under thePrison University Project, a program that provides freehigher education to inmates at San Quentin.

Eight graduate students and two undergraduatesare in the seminar as both teachers and learners. Theytake turns leading discussions and listening to theirpeers.Topics are mainly focused on getting a better feelof the prison system,but also include sessions on familylaws and parole policies to immigration and FranzKafka’s writing.

Students said the classroom in the prison is very sim-ilar to what they experienced at Stanford.However,op-erating within a prison system brings a unique set of dif-ficulties.

Students were required to go through a security clear-ance months before the class started. Recently, one classwas cut short because the inmates had to go back for ahead count.At another class,only one inmate showed upbecause of a prison fight.

That one-on-one interaction with inmates was an eye-opening one for the Stanford students. At one class ses-sion, four Stanford students sat down with one SanQuentin prisoner and listened to him share how his expe-rience with severe violence and racism at a very young agedirectly affected his life.

“It was really the only time in my life that I wouldhave that opportunity to sit down and really say‘tell me your story’,” Filler said.“I feel itwas one teacher and four students.Hegave us a huge lesson that day and itwas just invaluable.”

Filler felt the class provided herwith a knowledge base that shecould not get by reading casebooks.

A particularly meaningful course for her was one aboutparole policies, where she learned about what was hap-pening “in terms of what the parole boards should consid-er as opposed to [what] they do consider.”

Eugenia Maluf ‘11,one of the two undergraduates inthe forum, joined because of her interest in teaching.

“I wanted to be a teacher,” she said. “So somethingthat I can take away is that all the stories I heard frompeople in the class come down to their inability to accesseducation when they were younger,and that has active-ly contributed to where they are now.”

Filler said that she hoped that the San Quentin par-ticipants realized through the program that people out-side the system still care about them. She noted that in-mates were deeply concerned with the absence of theirvoice and she wanted them “to come away with thesense that there are people . . . . who take their thoughtsand ideas seriously.“

Mayeux emphasized the importance of inmate’sability to make their opinions about their circumstancesknown.

“I think especially with prisons it’s so importantbecause they are literally locked up in cages,” shesaid, adding that the outside world might not haveany conception of how the inmates are actuallybeing treated.

Both Filler and Mayeux plan to continue leading theforum,recruiting a new group of students who can offer adifferent perspective. They also plan to publish writingsabout life experiences from both Stanford and SanQuentin students as a way of expanding the classroom’sdialogue outside the prison.

Maluf commented that engaging in an “honest dia-logue” with the inmates enables one to relate to them ashuman beings.

“When you think about that,it really changes how you[deal] with the criminal system,”she said.

Contact Yibai Shu at yibai@stanford.edu.

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Courtesy of Stanford News Service Students in the Stanford Prison Forum, a student-led workshop, are getting an up-close and personal learning experience with inmates in San Quentin prison as part of a class they are taking this quarter.

Joint learning

“It was really the only time in my life

that I would have that opportunity

to sit down and really say ‘tell me

your story’”

— MAGGIE FILLER, LAW ‘12

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Two weeks before Christmas,Bill O’Reilly called Wik-ileaks “a threat to our way of

life.”And I thought,“So what?”Ourway of life is a threat to us. We’vegot record rates of obesity, two wars,an energy crisis, nationwide neuro-sis, blah blah blah. Mr. O’Reilly, Ithink a threat to “our way of life” isexactly what we need.

And maybe that’s exactly whatwe’re getting. I feel like there’ssomething big going on. Maybeyou’ve felt it too — something lead-erless and nameless, but really im-portant. The media’s all lit up, talk-ing about change in the MiddleEast, in education, in the environ-ment, in technology, in democracy,in mental health. We’re coming upon a new presidential campaign,which will be followed, according tothe Mayans, by the end of the wholefreaking world. It’s like we’re build-ing up to some breaking point,and abig shift in how we think about ourrelationships with ourselves andwith each other.

I think we’re seeing a movement.That sounds right: an awakening ofa large number of individuals to anew common consciousness.

It was 2008 when I first startednoticing. Remember how the buzz-words of the year were “hope” and“change”? The nation was so takenwith the idea of one man finally dar-ing to think differently. I rememberseeing the words “McCain con-cedes” on the TVs in the CoHo andhearing the roars and cheers of abunch of strangers packed in there

together, all hugging and high-fiv-ing. It was like some people reallythought we’d never have problemsagain: I’d never seen anyone actual-ly dancing in the streets until thatnight.And there were all those old-school Berkeleyans saying so heart-breakingly that it was the first time

they’d actually “felt proud to beAmericans.”

We had a movement — a nationof troubled people coming togetherall on their own to say they wantedthe world to change.

But I think where we wentwrong is we believed we could takethe easy path toward change bylooking for a hero. That’s my beefwith representative democracies:they require heroes, which I consid-er to be people who bear the suffer-ing of changing other peoples’ lives.

I don’t think a nation can changewithout each of the people in itsharing some of the suffering. Un-fortunately, we’ve got a big pain in-tolerance. We want lower taxes, butwe don’t want to give up what keepsthem high.We want bipartisan poli-tics, but it’s so much easier to justhope some elected schmuck will doall the reaching-across-party-boundaries for us, than to actuallygo talk to someone different our-selves. We want healthy children,but we keep them out of the sun andaway from the dirt, so they becomeanemic and asthmatic.

The first noble truth is “life is suf-fering,” which I used to think wasreally dumb:what,am I supposed tobe unhappy all the time? But no, itmakes sense. See, life is a series ofgrowth and learning, and growthand learning only happen throughsuffering.Muscles strengthen by ex-periencing trauma and growingscars in response. Learning is the

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processes drive the most suc-cessful enterprises, most Stan-

ford professors still test the knowl-edge,skills and abilities of their stu-dents by the same archaic methodsused for centuries. This editorialboard believes that the time hascome for a reinvention of the wayin which we assess student per-formance, starting with exams.

In January of 2010,Provost JohnEtchemendy and then-ViceProvost John Bravman appointedthe Study of Undergraduate Edu-cation at Stanford (SUES) toreevaluate the University’s ap-proach to undergraduate educa-tion. The last major study, in 1994,yielded fundamental reforms:freshman seminars, increased op-portunities for undergraduate re-search and revisions to undergrad-uate writing and IHUM programs.In their charge to the committeethis time around, Etchemendy andBravman wrote,“[the] growing so-cial, political, economic, and eco-logical interconnectedness of theworld certainly challenges us tolook more broadly at what it meansto be an educated citizen.”They askthe committee to investigate howsuch global changes, over the past15 years, have affected what stu-dents need from their undergradu-ate education and, accordingly,how Stanford should adjust theway it educates. Within SUES, theSubcommittee on Student Learn-ing is asked to address the questionof how to encourage explorationand sustained reflection amongStanford students. In order to bestanswer this question,SUES shouldscrutinize the closed-book exam asa means of testing student pre-paredness for an increasingly con-nected and collaborative world.

In today’s global economy, thelone worker is increasingly a relicof the past. Programmers rely onthe Internet to find example code,companies crowd-source ideas andpeers are always available for con-

sultation via phone or e-mail. In aninterview with Harvard BusinessReview, Cisco CEO John Cham-bers argued that a new emphasis oncollaboration and teamwork hasallowed his company to innovate atan unprecedented pace. SUES hasthe goal of preparing undergradu-ates for “local, national and globalcitizenship.” Given this charge, isthe same method of testing a stu-dent in isolation an accurate meas-ure of what is needed to compete inthe workforce?

Furthermore, it is easy to seethat low-value problem sets andhigh-value exams motivate stu-dents to relax throughout the quar-ter and place immense pressure onthemselves to cram during the lastdays of school. If Stanford’s goal isto promote gradual exploration ofmaterial, rather than the simpleability to commit knowledge toshort-term memory, then it shouldtask SUES to thoroughly investi-gate whether the current emphasisof most classes on exams is appro-priate.

Consider a typical student en-rolled in the Physics 20 series.If shespends 5-10 hours per week onproblem sets,then by the end of thequarter she will have spent 75hours per quarter on work that isworth 18 to 20 percent of her finalgrade. To spend a proportionalamount of time on a final examworth 40 percent, that same stu-dent would have to spend 10 hoursa day for more than two weeks —150 hours — studying for a singleexam. Since this is impossible,exams are worth a disproportion-ately large amount.

One obvious counter-argumentis that time spent on problem setscan be double-counted as timestudying for finals, and students’performance on the final examshould reflect the effort invested inproblem sets. Yet, even with thisgenerous assumption, professors

Ihave never tried to convert any-one in my life. I am one of themost open-minded people you

will ever meet. I rarely even tellpeople that I’m Catholic.

But I have felt isolated for beingCatholic and pro-life since the firstweek I came to Stanford. I vividlyremember my first few days here,how I had gone to MemChu a fewtimes because I was a little lost andlonely. The news of where I hadgone on my walk was met with oddglances and uncomfortable silences.Later that night in the Lag dininghall, some kid made the mistake ofrevealing that he had signed up onthe pro-life e-mail list. And at least10 people went at him for being soconservative, so close-minded.

I learned quickly that I was in theminority, to keep my mouth shutabout a lot of my views unless Iwanted to be verbally attacked. So Istayed silent.

It is at times like the Roe v.Wadememorial when I feel the deepestsense of isolation. I am not fieryenough to stand out there on theWhite Plaza grass on the pro-lifeside. I don’t like creating conflict orfocusing on doctrine when it comesto religion; that’s just not what itmeans to me. For me, religion wasalways more about love and bring-ing people together than it wasabout driving them apart.

Three weeks ago, I sat on a ce-ment block in front of the post of-

fice watching those Roe v. Wadeprotests for hours. I was angry for avariety of reasons. At myself forbeing too weak to put myself outthere. For the flak that the pro-lifepeople get every year campus-widefor what they believe in. At myselffor being so upset.

But anger is a second-degreeemotion, so as it cooled, I paid at-tention to the emotions that camenext.And what I found underneaththat anger was an intense hurt. I washurt that people felt like it was okayto attack a background I loved andam proud of when I never do that toanyone else. I was sick of feeling at-tacked and lonely, of feeling like noone understood where I came fromand thus can’t fully understand whoI am now.

Although this feeling isn’t new,it’s one I’ve only recently identified.One my good friends,Yvorn “Doc”Thomas unknowingly identified thecauses of it best when he spoke re-cently at a Black House program.He talked about living in Ujamaaand his need to be a part of the Stan-ford black community. He said thatin high school, there was no BSUbecause the entire school was theBSU. He never felt hyper-aware ofbeing black until he stepped ontothe Stanford campus.

I stayed silent in the back row,thinking that without realizing it, he

Dear Editor,Keith Sudheimer’s recent Op-

Ed regarding the potential return ofROTC to the Stanford campus(“Darth Vader Says ‘Yes’ To theROTC”) illustrates an ideologicallyextreme and unproductive under-standing of military service. Sud-heimer argues that since soldiers inthe field are obliged to follow or-ders regardless of their moral posi-tions, military service is antitheticalto the intellectual goals of the uni-versity. In so doing he misunder-stands the nature of the ROTC pro-gram and disregards the structureof government through which mili-

tary decisions are made.Though obvious, it bears empha-

sis that ROTC is not compulsorymilitary service. ROTC programsgive students the option to take partin coursework and training leadingto a commission as a military officerupon graduation. Official sanctionof ROTC in no way constitutes ap-proval of military actions or doc-trine. Further, the strictures of mili-tary service relate not to privatelyheld morals, but to behavior. Themilitary is not the Thought Police,eradicating heterodoxy among itsmembers. Rather, it expects actionsconsistent with the interests of the

United States.These interests may lead to or-

ders that run counter to the morali-ty of individual soldiers. Servicemembers are in these cases general-ly obliged to follow orders ratherthan the dictates of conscience(though they are educated — inROTC — to test their ordersagainst their duty to the Constitu-tion and to the law). Sudheimerseems to prefer a world in whicheach individual holds absolutemoral veto authority over mattersin which he is complicit. One in

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I’M, LIKE, TOTALLY PROFOUND

EDITORIAL

Wanted: messiah

In a collaborativeworld,are examsbecoming a relic?

OP-ED

Silently Catholic, Pro-Lifeand a Stanford Outcast

RobinThomas

I think where we

went wrong is we

believed we could

take the easy path

toward change by

looking for a hero

Please see LETTER,page 5

Please see THOMAS,page 5

Please see EDITORIAL,page 5

Please see OPED,page 5

The Stanford Daily Wednesday, March 2, 2011 ! 5

would be hard-pressed to explainwhy they trust the evaluative rigorof a single data point — one three-hour exam — more than twice asmuch as 10 weeks’ worth of grad-ual and sustained learning.

An argument in favor of thecurrent system is that it provides aneven playing field for evaluatingstudents. More simply, everyone isequal when faced with a blue book,but some students may use the In-ternet or friends to gain unfair ad-vantage on homework. However,exams do not level the playing fieldso much as they subject all studentsto the same absurd metric. Test-taking ability can be unrepresenta-tive of understanding and a poorpredictor of future success. Thosewho argue that closed exams are atrue test of an individual in isola-tion have already made the flawedassumption that individuals everwork in isolation in the real world.

On the SUES web site,Etchemendy and Bravman notedthat the 1994 review of undergrad-uate education led to reforms that

“increased the rigor, coherenceand clarity of [the] undergraduateprogram, while engaging facultyand undergraduates with one an-other more deeply than perhapsever before.” If the current studyhopes to be equally effective, itmust consider the changing de-mands of the 21st century on ourgraduates and adapt teachingmethods accordingly. In particular,SUES should question the validityof exams, which so disproportion-ately shape the Stanford experi-ence. The Faculty Senate and theCommittee on UndergraduateStandards and Policies would dowell to heed the results of such astudy.

Doing away with exams shouldnot be taken as a decline in thehard-nosed work ethic of yester-year or an assault on meritocracy.Instead, any revision to the way inwhich Stanford grades its studentsshould encourage more effectivelearning and prepare students forthe kinds of work encountered inthe workplace. In doing so, it maysave the next generation of Stan-ford students much anxiety, whileelevating Stanford as not only a cen-ter of innovative discovery, but aninstitution of innovative learning.

EDITORIALContinued from page 4

same: your perception of the worldgets broken down and rebuilt withnew knowledge.

Remember the rhetoric aroundObama’s election? It sounded likethe Second Coming.We were look-ing for a messiah, someone to cleanup our mess but do all the sufferingfor us — make all the hard deci-sions, suffer all the consequences.When we have a movement, we tryto find people who will steer it, inthe exact same way that when wehave a problem, we try to find peo-ple to whom we can delegateblame. Responsibility’s painful, sowe try to avoid it by giving it away.

“A threat to our way of life?”Our way of life threatens us. We’vebecome so good at avoiding hurt,with pills, potions, prescriptions forevery problem, be they physical,

political, economic or emotional.I think, though, we’re waking up

to that first noble truth. Arrange infront of you the headlines from allthe nation’s newspapers, and inthem you’ll see the same repeatedmessage: people want to moveaway from predictability and struc-ture — they want to move awayfrom easily measurable, test-basededucation, the clear boundaries ofpartisan politics, the ease of equat-ing happiness with money.

See, a human life isn’t pre-dictable and structured. It can’thappen without pain.We have movement, sure; we’removing, but we won’t move all theway to change until we each be-come heroes to ourselves.

. . . although for the 2012 election,Robin feels compelled to vote forCharlie Sheen’s political party of Vat-ican Assassin Warlocks. To likewisesupport the Gnarly Gnarlingtons, e-mail Robin at robthom@stanford.edu.

THOMASContinued from page 4

which the Iraq war would havebeen funded by the taxes of onlythose who deemed it just, and inwhich a pharmacist can refuse con-traception to an unmarried woman.Such a world has its appeals,but it isnot the world we live in.Rather,oursociety enacts laws via representa-tive legislatures, laws binding to allcitizens regardless of their moralstances. By participating in the so-cial contract, we are complicit in

acts we find morally suspect. If wewish to eliminate those acts we doso through political advocacy andnot, for instance, by rehearsingbaseless stereotypes about the mili-tary and ignoring its realities.

One can argue that there is aqualitative difference between myfunding an unjust war and a soldierfighting it. But to say that the spiritof the university must encouragethe former and discourage the lat-ter is contradictory. The solution toboth moral quandaries is engage-ment in government — electinglegislators and executives who willdeclare only just wars and conductthem ethically. It is not putting up

barriers to students who wish toserve their country. Ultimately,however, ideological concerns aresecondary. Until peace reigns, theUnited States will have a militarythat requires ambitious, talented of-ficers to lead it. In evaluating theROTC program, universities mustdecide to what extent preserving atrifling ideological purity out-weighs the good that future classesof freethinking, morally astute offi-cers could do for their country andthe world at large.

Regards,SAMUEL LEDERER,PH.D. CANDIDATE, PHYSICS

LETTERContinued from page 4

perfectly summed up my Stanfordstruggles. Back at home, there wasno Catholic community becauseeveryone was the Catholic commu-nity. Coming to Stanford, I was inthe minority. And I didn’t reallyknow how to handle it.

I ended up choosing to exist in

two worlds. In one world, I hadwonderful friends and sorority sis-ters who weren’t Catholic and did-n’t really understand how key it wasin my life, while in the other, I wentto church every Sunday by myself.In one world,I was an incredibly ac-tive Stanford student; in the other, Ifelt lonely and misunderstood.

It’s been an okay system forthree years. But then at times likethis, when I am sitting on a cold ce-ment block, wanting to cry and notentirely sure why, who do I have to

talk about it with? When I am in thehistory building and a professorcracks a joke about Catholic sexualfrustration,I don’t know what to do.I am scared of revealing my otherisolated world when I feel like noone will support me in doing so.

I write this not to complain, butto share my story in hopes that itmight reach someone feeling like Ido, even if a different reason is thecause. Be blessed.

COURTNEY CRISP ‘11

OPEDContinued from page 4

By JOSEPH BEYDADAILY SPORTS INTERN

Highly-touted freshman pitcherA.J. Vanegas made the most out ofhis first start in Cardinal, securingan 8-4 win for No. 9 Stanford overSanta Clara and allowing just onerun in four innings.

With solid hitting by sopho-mores Jake Stewart and KennyDiekroeger,the win moved the Car-dinal to 5-3 in its rigorous early-sea-son schedule.BASEBALLSANTA CLARA 4STANFORD 83/1, Sunken Diamond

After seven games against Rice,California and Vanderbilt — allranked teams — Stanford took ad-vantage of the less challengingweekday matchup to improve itsrecord before setting out on a three-game weekend series at No. 6 Texas.

Santa Clara got on the boardearly, capitalizing on first-inningmistakes by Vanegas, who had diffi-culty controlling his off-speedpitches. Bronco leadoff hitter ZachLooney was hit by a 2-2 pitch andadvanced to second on a poorly-thrown pickoff before scoring on aJake DeMerritt single.

“It was a great opportunity forme to get my first start,and hopeful-ly, I’ll get more in the future,”Vane-gas said. “I wanted to go out therewith a calm attitude, but I was reallyexcited to get the first start, and I’mexcited that it went well.”

Vanegas got out of the inning bystriking out Pat Stover, the first offour punch-outs for the right-han-der.

Stanford responded with a

three-run first, benefitting from twowild pitches by Santa Clara starterJoe Supple and making the most ofa double by Diekroeger.

Supple had a hard time settlingdown, allowing five hits in 2.1 in-nings before being pulled. Vanegas,on the other hand, got into stridequickly, retiring eight straight bat-ters in the middle of his outing.

“It’s awesome [to get the win],”he said.“It’s what you want to do —

win games and put your team in agood position to win.”

The freshman’s success will con-tinue to be crucial for the Cardinal,which lost junior starter BrettMooneyham to a hurt finger for therest of the season.

“We’ll get Vanegas in,” said headcoach, Mark Marquess. “I don’tknow if he’ll be starting, but he’llplay a critical role for us coming outof the bullpen or whatever we might

want him to do.”After two scoreless innings, the

Cardinal exploded with two straightleft-field doubles in the fourth byStewart and sophomore leftfielderTyler Gaffney.Diekroeger followedwith his third hit of the night, cap-ping a four-run frame. Stewart,Gaffney and Diekroeger combinedfor seven hits, five runs and six RBI.The sophomore trio seems to bebenefiting from experience during

their second year on the Farm.“Last year, you’re coming in as a

freshman, and you’re a little tense,”Stewart said. “I think this year justhaving a year of experience undermy belt helps me. I’m so much morerelaxed up there.”

Even with strong winds buildingout to right field, Stanford contin-ued to pound the ball into the left-field corner; senior Zach Jonestripled down the foul line in the sev-enth and came home on a sacrificefly by Stewart for Stanford’s eighthrun.

Santa Clara got one run off jun-ior reliever A.J. Talt in the fifth tomake the score 7-2, but the Broncosstranded runners in scoring positionin the fifth and sixth innings. Facingjunior lefthander Scott SnodgressSanta Clara stuck around with tworuns on tough infield plays in theseventh frame.

Things got scarier for Stanford inthe eighth, when Santa Claraloaded the bases and Lucas Herbstgot a hold of an 0-1 pitch, but theblast was well right of the first-basefoul line. Snodgress would strikeHerbst out and get DeMerritt to flyout to end the inning.

A 1-2-3 ninth frame sealed thedeal for the Card.

“We got some good pitching,”

StanfordsurvivesSeattle

By JACOB JAFFEDESK EDITOR

Despite one of its sloppiest per-formances of the season, the Stan-ford men’s basketball team endedits home season with a 77-66 winover Seattle University Tuesdaynight at Maples Pavilion.MEN’S BASKETBALLSEATTLE 66STANFORD 773/1, Maples Pavilion

The Cardinal (15-14, 7-10 Pac-10) struggled early in the rareMarch non-conference gamethanks to some of the worst pointguard play it has had all season. Ju-nior Jarrett Mann, freshman AaronBright and sophomore GabrielHarris were all used at the pointguard position in the first half, andthe trio combined for nine of Stan-ford’s 13 first-half turnovers whilegoing scoreless.

Those 13 turnovers were enoughto offset Stanford’s significant ad-vantage in shooting, as the Cardinalshot 50 percent from the field in the

By BROOKE DAVISCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The second-ranked Stanford women’sgymnastics team set a school record withits 15th consecutive victory Sunday, whenit defeated No. 33 Arizona State, 196.825-192.375.

Stanford (15-0) came into the meet hav-ing beaten Arizona State in 24 of their last25 matchups. Despite its 4-9 record, theSun Devils had some factors in their favorlast weekend: they had just won twostraight over Washington and Cal, andStanford’s leader in the all-around, seniorAllyse Ishino — also the nation’s third-ranked competitor on the bars — was outwith an ankle injury.

Ishino got hurt performing her floor ex-ercise in last week’s dual meet against Ari-zona. She was at Stanford’s final homemeet Sunday and was honored with twofellow seniors, Shelley Alexander andDanielle Ikoma, for their contributions tothe team.

Alexander is ranked No. 4 in the nationin all-around and is ranked 12th on thevault and 10th on the beam.

Ikoma placed first in the all-around onSunday with a career-best score of 39.275.The victory was Ikoma’s first ever all-around victory. She also had career highson the bars and the floor, where she scored9.850 and 9.825, respectively.

Sophomore Ashley Morgan also man-aged to improve her records when shematched two season highs and set a newcareer high. Morgan finished first in thevault with a career-best 9.925 — Stan-ford’s highest score on the event all season.

Morgan continued to dominate andtook first on the beam as well as the floor.On beam, she matched her career best of9.900, while on the floor she was on parwith her best performances at 9.925.

Another Cardinal sophomore, NicoleDayton, matched the 9.850 she scored onthe floor at the team’s meet against SanJose State. The 9.850 is both Dayton’s sea-son and career best for the floor exercise.Freshman Kristina Vaculik vaulted for thefirst time in her career and scored a 9.825.

Stanford emerged from the dual meet

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MIDWEEK WIN BASEBALL3/1 vs.SANTA CLARA

W 8-4

UP NEXTTEXAS (5-3)3/4 Austin, Tex.

1 P.M. PST

GAME NOTES: For the third consecutiveweekend, the Stanford baseball team trav-els east to take on a top-15 opponent. Thisweek’s foe is No. 6 Texas. Facing arguablythe hardest schedule in the nation, Stanfordhas gotten off to a strong 5-3 with includ-ing a series victory at Rice. Texas is comingoff of a series win against Hawaii.

SPORTS

CARDMOVESTO 15-0Women’s gymnasticsbeats Arizona State

MEN’S BASKETBALL3/1 SEATTLE W 77-66

UP NEXTCAL(16-13, 9-8 Pac-10)3/5 Berkeley, Calif. 4 P.M.COVERAGE:TV CSN CaliforniaRADIO KNEW 910 AM GAME NOTES: Stanford closes out the regu-lar season Saturday at Cal. The GoldenBears will be looking to avenge and earli-er-season loss to the Cardinal on the Farm.Both teams will travel to Los Angeles nextweek for the Pac-10 Tournament.

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailySophomore leftfielder Tyler Gaffney, above, had two hits, two RBI and two runs scored in Stanford’s win over SantaClara yesterday. The Cardinal now travels to Austin, Texas for a three-game series at No. 6 Texas.

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailySophomore Ashley Morgan, above, had a big day for the Cardinal. Morgan won three events againstArizona State: the vault, the beam and the floor exercise. Stanford needs one more win to complete aperfect regular season. Stanford closes with a four-way meet against Cal, Denver and Oregon State. Please see MBBALL,page 8Please see WGYM,page 8

Stanford beatsSanta Clara, 8-4

Please see BASEBALL,page 7

Men’s basketballwins last home game

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Marquess said. “Vanegas got somegood innings . . . and Snodress and[junior Chris] Reed were therewhen we needed them out of thepen, and they’ll be ready for theweekend.”

The Cardinal now heads toAustin to face Texas in a three-game series. First pitch on Friday isscheduled for 1 p.m., in yet anotherseries against a top-20 team —Stanford’s third of the year.

“I think it’s really good for ourteam,” Stewart said.“We come out,get contested early and get contest-ed often.

“We looked online, and all 10[Pac-10] teams are in the top-15 instrength of schedule. It’s great thatwe come out and play teams likeVanderbilt and Rice and Texasaway to get us ready for our Pac-10schedule,” he added.

Sophomore Mark Appel, wholost a close series opener againstVanderbilt last week, is slated tostart for Stanford on Friday.

Contact Joseph Beyda at josephbey-da@comcast.net.

BASEBALLContinued from page 6

SPORTS BRIEFS

Men’s golf finishes fourth at USCInvitational

The Stanford men’s golf teamfinished fourth at the USC Invita-tional at North Ranch Golf Clublast weekend, posting a 54-holescore of 863 (+11). San Diego Statewon the tournament with a score of850 (-2).

Stanford’s top performer wassophomore Andrew Yun, who tiedfor fifth individually with a score of211 (-2). Patrick Cantlay of UCLAwas the individual champion with athree-round total of 207 (-7).

Junior David Chung finished tiedfor 35th with a score of 220 (+7).Freshman Cameron Wilson enteredSunday in a fourth-place tie, but shota final round 82 to fall into a tie for44th at 222 (+9).Senior Steve Zieglerfinished at 225 (+12), and senior Sih-wan Kim scored a 230 (+17).

UCLA finished second in thetournament at even par, and Ore-gon placed third at +9.

Stanford’s next tournament isthe Linger Longer InvitationalMarch 27-29 in Greensboro, Ga.

— Daniel Bohm

By KEVIN ZHANGDAILY SPORTS INTERN

Last weekend’s UCI Invitationalculminated with another matchupbetween the two giants of women’scollegiate water polo, Stanford andUSC. For the second time this sea-son, No. 1 played No. 2 for a tourna-ment crown, and for the secondstraight time, Stanford came out ontop against the defending nationalchampions.

The top-ranked Cardinal (13-0)made it a bit less dramatic against theTrojans this time, winning 9-6 — parfor the course after a pair of 10-9heart-pounders between the confer-ence rivals during this year’s Stan-ford Invitational and 2010 NationalChampionship game.

The two-day,16-team UCI Invita-tional featured some of the bestwater polo teams in the country, in-cluding the top seven ranked squads.Stanford began the tournament onSaturday, Feb. 26 against CSU Bak-ersfield and No. 9 Arizona State.TheCardinal cruised to two victories,winning 19-3 and 15-7, respectively.

The Card got offensive contribu-tions from a variety of players.Juniordriver Alyssa Lo and junior two-meter Melissa Seidemann both net-ted five goals in the first two games.Freshman driver Kaley Dodson con-tinued her fantastic rookie campaignby tallying four goals,and senior driv-er Kim Krueger had a hat trickagainst the Sun Devils.

In addition to the diversified of-fensive attack,Stanford played excel-lent defense. All three goalies —sophomore Kate Baldoni and sen-iors Kim Hall and Amber Oland —saw playing time on the first day ofthe invitational.The three combinedfor 22 saves in the two matches.

“We have gotten good contribu-tions from players in each positionand class, which makes us a goodtournament team,” said head coachJohn Tanner.

Stanford’s depth proved crucialon the second day of action as theCard defeated No. 5 Hawaii, 10-5.The Cardinal had an uncharacteristicstart, falling behind, 0-2, after theopening frame. However, the teampulled away, outscoring the Warriors8-1 over the next two periods.

“Against Hawaii, we got goodbench play after we started slow,”Tanner said. “Everyone was com-posed and resourceful, and weturned a 2-0 deficit into an 8-2 lead.”

The Cardinal was led offensivelyby Krueger, who had four goals. Loand Seidemann also chipped in witha pair a piece in the semifinal match.The high-powered offense was com-plimented by phenomenal goalieplay,as Baldoni recorded eight saves.

The championship game was amuch-anticipated rematch betweenStanford and USC. The two teamsplayed a triple-overtime marathonlast time out in the championshipgame of the Stanford Invitational.This time, it was goalie AmberOland who stole the show, as thesenior amassed 14 saves against theTrojans.On the offensive end, juniortwo-meter Annika Dries, who hadyet to score in the first three gamesof the tournament, led all scorerswith four goals.

“Against USC,we moved the ballaround better, but we’re still stiff,mechanical in all parts of our of-fense,” Tanner said. “However, wescored on a couple six-on-five[plays], after getting nothing fromour power plays last time. Much ofthat six-and-five success came downto shooting better.”

With the solid weekend, Stanfordextended its current winning streakto 13 games and captured its secondUCI Invitational title in three years.The Cardinal will open up its Moun-tain Pacific Sports Federation sched-ule at No.7 San Diego State on Satur-day and then at No. 12 Long BeachState the following day. The nexthome game for the Card is scheduledfor March 26 versus UCLA.

Contact Kevin Zhang at kevinzhangle@gmail.com

WOMEN’S WATER POLO2/27 vs. USC W 9-6

UP NEXTSAN DIEGO STATE(9-6)3/5 Avery Aquatic Center

1 P.M.

GAME NOTES: Top-ranked Stanford will lookto continue its dominant season when ithosts No. 7 San Diego State. After a strongstart to the season, the Aztecs have lostthree consecutive matches.

Women top USC, win UCI Invite

Stanford Daily File PhotoIt was another thrilling weekend for the top-ranked women’s water poloteam. For the second time this year, the Cardinal defeated defending national champion USC in the title game of a tournament, this time at theUCI Invitational. The Cardinal now begins its MPSF conference schedule.

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with a team victory in every event.It’s overall score of 196.825 is tiedfor its second best performance ofthe year, bested only by a Feb. 5victory over San Jose State, whenthe team scored a 196.975.

Stanford heads to Berkeley onSunday for its last dual meet be-fore the Pac-10 ConferenceChampionships at UCLA. Sun-day’s competition is a four-waymeet against Cal, Denver andOregon State. If the Cardinal winsthe meet, it will end the seasonwith an unblemished record.

Contact Brooke Davis at bedavis@stanford.edu.

WGYMContinued from page 6

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS2/27 vs. ARIZONA STATE

W 196.825-192.375

UP NEXTCAL, OREGON STATE,DENVER3/6 Berkeley, Calif.

2 P.M.

GAME NOTES: Stanford will try to close out itsperfect regular season when it takes onCal, Oregon State and Denver this week-end. After this four-way meet the Cardinalwill travel to Los Angeles for the Pac-10Championships.

first half while the Redhawks (11-18) shot 28.9 percent. However,Stanford went into the break withonly a one-point lead. Seattle’squick perimeter pressure com-bined with poor decisions by Cardi-nal guards led to plenty of emptypossessions for Stanford, while theCardinal defense gave the Red-hawks open look after open look.

Stanford clung to a 28-27 half-time advantage thanks to hotshooting from junior guard JeremyGreen, junior forward Josh Owens,freshman guard Anthony Brownand freshman forward John Gage.Those four players combined for 26of the Cardinal’s 28 points on 11-14shooting.“I think that at halftime we had atalk about having pride and notoverlooking this team,” Brownsaid.“I think in the first half we kindof, you know, said, ‘Okay, well,they’re Seattle. We don’t have toplay hard, and we can beat them.’They came out and competed forthe first 20 minutes, and after ourlittle halftime speech, I think wejust played with more energy.”

The halftime speech appeared towork, because the Cardinal cameout on fire.Stanford opened the halfon a 21-6 run to open up a 49-33lead, its largest of the game. Duringthe stretch, the Cardinal made allnine of its shots, including four byBrown. Green was also superb onoffense. Green made the first sevenshots he took, including four three-pointers, to bring the small crowd atMaples Pavilion to life.Green’s firstmiss of the game came at the free-throw line, where Stanford madeonly eight of its first 17 attempts.

After Green’s final three-point-er, the Cardinal led 61-46 and ap-peared to be cruising to victory.Stanford went cold though, scoringonly six points in the next seven anda half minutes, and Seattle got rightback in the game thanks to strongdefense and rebounding. The Red-hawks grabbed 14 offensive re-bounds to the Cardinal’s three, andnarrowed Stanford’s lead to 67-61with just over two minutes to play.

I definitely think we treatedthem lightly,”Brown said.“We havethe Cal game coming up on Satur-day, you know, we might have justoverlooked them.This is like one oftheir last Pac-10 games. You know,they’re not in a conference, sothey’re trying to make a showingfor themselves.”

Stanford head coach JohnnyDawkins called a timeout to calmhis team down, and Seattle cameout of the break fouling, whichseemed to be a good strategy con-sidering the Cardinal’s shaky free-throw shooting. Stanford respond-ed though, sinking 10 of its final 12attempts from the charity stripe tosecure the victory.

For the game, both teams made25 field goals. The difference wasthat the Redhawks needed 28 moreattempts to reach 25 field goals,largely due to Stanford’s 21turnovers, and the Cardinal had asignificant advantage from both thefree-throw and three-point lines.Stanford shot 9-for-16 from beyondthe arc compared to Seattle’s 4-for-18 and was 18-for-29 on free throws(16-for-25 in the second half) com-pared to Seattle’s 12-for-17.

Green and Brown led the wayfor Stanford, combining for 43points on 14-for-20 shooting fromthe field and 7-for-11 shooting fromthree-point range. Brown alsograbbed a game-high 11 reboundsto notch his first career double-double.

“I thought Anthony did a greatjob,” Dawkins said. “He scored thebasketball getting the shots he hadand got some good looks. More im-portantly was the rebounds. Ithought he did a great job on theboards.We’ve been challenging himin that area, to be more active onthe boards for us. And he really re-sponded tonight.”

Owens also chipped in 13 points,six rebounds, five assists and twoblocks before fouling out in thefinal minutes. His blocks were twoof Stanford’s eight, while the Red-hawks did not have any.

Stanford concludes its regularseason on Saturday when it headsacross the Bay to take on rival Cal.Tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m.

Contact Jacob Jaffe at jwjaffe@stan-ford.edu.

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KYLE ANDERSON/The Stanford DailyFreshman guard Aaron Bright, above, and the Stanford basketball teamovercame a sloppy first half to beat Seattle 77-66. The Cardinal guardsstruggled against Seattle’s pressure defense, committing 21 turnovers.