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The Stanford DailySenate hears“Oppositionto ROTC”bill

STUDENT GOV’T

SOCC explains candidateendorsement process

By BILLY GALLAGHERSTAFF WRITER

During ASSU elections season,manycampus groups endorse candidates inorder to sway voters. In recent years,none of these endorsing groups havebeen as successful or active as the Stu-dents of Color Coalition (SOCC).

Last year, 10 out of 12 SOCC-en-dorsed candidates were elected to the12th Undergraduate Senate.The last twoyears that SOCC supported an executiveslate, Cardona/Wharton in 2010 andAvula/Jones in 2007, that slate was victo-rious.

Candidates, current and formerASSU Senators and Executives and theSOCC leadership sat down with TheDaily to shed light on the process behindthe SOCC endorsement.

The CoalitionSOCC is a coalition of six groups: the

Asian American Students’ Association(AASA), the Black Student Union(BSU),Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanode Aztlan (MEChA), the Muslim Stu-dent Awareness Network (MSAN), theNational Association for the Advance-

ment of Colored People (NAACP) andthe Stanford American Indian Organiza-tion (SAIO).

“The coalition of SOCC was createdto have a unifying political voice for all sixof these groups,” said Yvorn Aswad-Thomas ‘11,BSU co-president.

Aswad-Thomas said the six groupscollaborate informally throughout theyear and are almost exclusively formallyactive as SOCC during the ASSU elec-tions season.

Aswad-Thomas and SOCC LiaisonTiq Chapa ‘10 were both SOCC-en-dorsed candidates elected to the 10thUndergraduate Senate.Chapa explainedthat the subgroups send a total of 30 lead-ers to SOCC for the elections decisions.

With 15 endorsed candidates thisyear, SOCC could potentially sweep theSenate. SOCC has endorsed incumbentRafael Vazquez ‘12, Brianna Pang ‘13,Samar Alqatari ‘14, Dan Ashton ‘14, IanChan ‘14, Shawn Dye ‘14, Lily Fu ‘14,Nate Garcia ‘14, Alex Kindel ‘14, KarlKumodzi ‘14,JR Lesansee ‘14,Anna Nti-Asare ‘14, Janani Ramachandran ‘14,Byron Shorty ‘14 and Tara Trujillo ‘14.

With advisory question looming,Senate takes action on ROTC

Precourt Centergrants three

research awardsBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Precourt Energy EfficiencyCenter awarded three grants this yearto investigate the reduction of energyuse in buildings. The grants, worth$400,000 each, were awarded to aStanford economist and teams in theSchool of Engineering and the Grad-uate School of Business.

Mechanical engineering professorGianluca Iaccarino and civil engi-neering professor Martin Fischerwon the grant for their computermodel, which aims to predict energyuse in buildings.They plan to test theirmodel in the Yang and Yamazaki En-vironment and Energy (Y2E2) build-ing,which is designed to be one of thegreenest buildings on campus.

Civil engineering professor Ray-mond Levitt and Erica Plambeck, aprofessor at the Graduate School ofBusiness, are looking at ways to helpthe construction industry adopt ener-gy-efficient innovations. Despite therecent increase in energy-saving tech-nologies, few have been used in thebuilding industry.

Matthew Harding, an assistantprofessor of economics, intends tostudy how financial incentives canencourage individuals to conserveenergy.

— Ivy Nguyen

Steinman receiveslifetime achievement

awardBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Neurology professor LawrenceSteinman won the 2011 MultipleSclerosis International FederationCharcot Award,a biennial award thathonors lifetime achievement in multi-ple sclerosis research. Steinmanearned recognition for transferringknowledge from molecular analysisto licensed therapy.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an in-flammatory disease that damages themyelin sheath around the axons ofthe brain and spinal cord, making itdifficult for the axons to conduct sig-nals.While some treatments exist, theprognosis is difficult to predict andmuch remains unknown about thedisease.

Steinman’s research studies themechanisms of the disease’s relapseand remission by identifying andcharacterizing genes that regulate in-

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WEDNESDAY Volume 239April 6, 2011 Issue 35

STUDENT GOV’T

ASSU Executive slates sparat Tuesday’s CoHo debate

By KABIR SAWHNEYDESK EDITOR

With the ASSU general election a fewdays away,voters got a final chance to seeall three slates running for ASSU Execu-tive in a debate last night at the CoHo.Thedebate was co-sponsored by The StanfordDaily,The Stanford Review and Stanfordin Government and moderated by DailyDeputy Editor Kate Abbott ‘12 and Re-view Editor-in-Chief Autumn Carter ‘11.Questions came from the moderatorsthemselves and from voters who submit-ted queries in advance.

All three slates — Cruz/Macgregor-Dennis, Seldon/Vasquez andHertz/Coggeshall — repeated many ofthe points published in their platformsthroughout the campaign.

In their opening statement,Tenzin Sel-don ‘12 and Joe Vasquez ‘11 came out withtheir two main initiatives: “bridging thegap” between various communities oncampus and a fresh focus on mentalhealth among the student body. On theopposing side,Michael Cruz ‘12 and Stew-art Macgregor-Dennis ‘13 emphasizedthe theme of their campaign, “Stanford

2.0,” and discussed their desire to partnerwith student groups and bring an entre-preneurial mindset to the ASSU. AlexHertz ‘13 and Sam Coggeshall ‘12, run-ning as the Stanford Chaparral-backedslate, talked about the need for a morephysically healthy student body.

The debate then moved to questions,where substantive differences emergedbetween the Seldon/Vasquez andCruz/Macgregor-Dennis slates. Bothcampaigns, however, struck similar notesat the beginning of the debate when theyexplained what they believed was themost pressing issue facing Stanford stu-dents.

“If there was one issue we could tack-le, I think we would tackle this issue ofconnectiveness and community at Stan-ford,”Cruz said.“It seems like a lot of stu-dents have this ‘Stanford Duck Syn-drome’ that all of us have heard about,this idea that wellness isn’t here at Stan-ford.”

“Joe and I also believe that the mostimportant issue concerning our studentbody right now is mental health and well-

By KATE ABBOTTDEPUTY EDITOR

The Undergraduate Senate passed a resolution Tuesday op-posing the discriminatory policies of ROTC in an effort to edu-cate the student body.

After reaching the required number of eight senators to havequorum, the Undergraduate Senate started its meeting severalminutes late,with Senators Ben Jensen ‘12 and Carolyn Simmons‘13 joining the meeting from their study abroad locations viaSkype.

Before the ROTC discussion, all funding bills for the eveningwere passed,and Publications Board Director Alice Nam ‘11 andassistant director Zachary Warma ‘11 discussed plans to create apublications media center on the second floor of the Nitery foruse by all campus publications next year. Nam also put a bill onprevious notice to redefine the role of the Publications Board di-rector for next year, which will be debated for next week.

“We want to rethink how publications are funded on campussince a lot of them seeking out special fees,” Warma, a formerDaily staff member, said.“We would like for our publications tohave the best papers, the best layouts possible and we sit on a sig-nificant amount of money to do that.

“The Publications Board wants to expand its institutionalpresence,teach classes and be the driving force for a more vibrantpublications culture on campus,” he added.

Nam also addressed the pending petition to bring a case to theConstitutional Council against the appointment of Warma to thePublications Board, which has yet to be accepted.

“I don’t see how I’m able to do my job currently because I’msupposed to propose a funding bill that The Claw is a part of, so itneeds to be proposed by a different director,”Nam,who is the ed-itor in chief of literary magazine The Claw, said.“This bill wouldhelp fix that.”

The main discussion of the night centered on a bill proposedby Senator Robin Perani ‘13 and Senate Associate Alex Kindal‘14, titled “Resolution in Opposition to the Return of ROTC toStanford University.” Kindal was not present for the proceedingdiscussion about the bill.

The original bill, which was later replaced, cited an obligationto protect the interests of all students, including transgender stu-dents, but voiced support for current ROTC cadets who partici-pate in off-campus programs. It therefore opposed the return ofROTC in accordance with the University’s nondiscriminationpolicy.

Debate over the bill lasted for almost three hours as Senatorsdiscussed the language, the technicalities of the nondiscrimina-tion policy and the intent behind passing such a resolution.Mem-bers representing the LGBT community and Stanford Studentsfor Queer Liberation (SSQL) were present as part of the openforum.

Perani said that she felt it was the duty of the ASSU to protectminority groups’ rights, and therefore take a firm stance on theROTC issue.

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SCIENCE OF SLEEPWhat bear hibernation

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SOCC stages rally

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyThe Students of Color Coalition (SOCC) held a rally last night in the Old Unioncourtyard. Tiq Chapa ‘10, above, worked the crowd with Alryl Koroma ‘11 andformer ASSU Vice President Kelsei Wharton ‘12 in the background.

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyAll three ASSU Executive slates participated in a debate yesterday evening at the CoHo. Pictured aboveare candidates Michael Cruz ‘12, Alex Hertz ‘13, Stewart Macgregor-Dennis ‘13 and Joe Vasquez ‘11.

Please see SENATE,page 8Please see SOCC,page 2

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flammation in the brain, and devel-oping new therapies that modulatethe immune system.

The prize comes with a cashaward of $2,500 and will be presentedin Amsterdam at the annual Euro-pean Committee for Treatment andResearch in Multiple Sclerosis.

— Ivy Nguyen

Hillel appoints newexecutive directorBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Hillel announced Monday the ap-pointment of Rabbi Serena Eisen-berg as its executive director. Eisen-berg follows in the footsteps of AdinaDanzig Epelman, who left last yearafter a decade of service on the Farm.

From 2005 to 2007, Eisenbergserved as executive director of Hillelat Brown University, where she fur-ther developed the school’s culturalprograms and increased participa-tion in Birthright Israel. She also wasa fellow at the Mandel LeadershipInstitute from 2008 to 2009.

“We are thrilled to have SerenaEisenberg’s leadership to take Hillelat Stanford into the future,” wroteJim Heeger, president of the HillelBoard of Directors, in a press release.“Her Hillel experience at a majoruniversity, track record of success indeveloping programming and fund-ing and deep appreciation of engag-ing college students in meaningfulexploration of Jewish life and identi-ty will be a great asset.”

“Hillel at Stanford is known as anoutstanding organization, and I amhonored to be joining its diverse Jew-ish student body,skilled professionalsand impressive alumni and parentnetwork,”Eisenberg wrote in a pressrelease.

— An Le Nguyen

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Organization Total Request Cost Per Undergrad

ASSU Speakers Bureau $175,162.00 $11.51*

“Speakers Bureau brings Stanford a wide variety of well-known speakers. We do this in two important ways. First, we help pay to bring a number of “big speakers” to campus. Recent big names include Adam Savage, Matisyahu, Common, and James Franco, and events with the creators of College Humor, Perez Hilton, and Joseph Gordon-Leavitt are currently in the works. Second, we provide financial assistance and event planning guidance to other VSOs. All VSOs can apply for cosponsorship funding, up to $1500 per year.”

— Stephanie Nicholson, ‘13, Financial Officer

Club Sports $185,622.40 $12.20*

“Club Sports is one of Stanford’s largest student organizations, with over 1000 participating graduate and undergraduate students. Special Fees help our team cover basic operating costs such as equipment purchase, facilities rental, coach salaries and travel to tournaments. The funding we receive from Special Fees helps us keep our dues low, so that all students can continue to participate, and reduces the time and energy teams spend fundraising, allowing athletes to focus on their sport.”

— Kate Johnson, M.S. ‘11, President and Financial Officer

Stanford Concert Network $135,090.00 $19.24

“SCN representatives use Special Fees funding to bring the best of music and entertainment to the Stanford community as can be done within the given budget. The events we plan are therefore mainly for the students, and we do not usually charge the students to attend concerts. The Stanford Concert Network has allowed students to enjoy a rich variety of concerts throughout the decades that it has been in existence.”

— Albero Aroeste, ‘13, Financial Officer

ASSU Legal Counseling Office $111,038.00 $7.30*

“The ASSU Legal Counseling Office provides confidential legal advice and consultation to Stanford students, their spouses and domestic partners. The ASSU LCO is devoted to educating students so that they are informed of their rights and can cope with legal problems. Special fees fund these services.”

— Heather Kirton, Office Coordinator

Stanford Daily $89,500.00 $12.89

“For under a dime a day, the Stanford community has access to unparalleled news coverage reporting on Stanford specific issues. Given the challenging times print media faces, The Stanford Daily needs students to subsidize a fraction of our expensive daily printing costs (we cover the remaining 85% of total operating costs). We are relying on students more than ever to support The Daily because we are the only student group that provides a 5-day a week news service.”

— Mary Liz McCurdy, ‘09, C.O.O.

KZSU $81,338.00 $11.71

“KZSU provides 20+ hours per day of music, sports, and public affairs programming for the Stanford community. We need solid funding mainly to cover our equipment costs, a part-time Chief Engineer, and the travel expenses of our student broadcast teams as they cover the home and away games of up to eight different Stanford sports.”

— Alan Joyce, ‘12, General Manager

Alternative Spring Break $80,358.25 $11.58

“ASB runs between 15 to 17 spring break service-learning trips each year, catering to over 300 students, making it one of the largest community service organizations on campus. We are maintaining our current level of special fees funding to ensure that all qualified applicants, regardless of their income level, can participate in the ASB program in the coming year.”

— Shaan Chugh, ‘14, Financial Officer

Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band $77,300.00 $11.14

“The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band performs nearly 197 times each year - our request allows us to play at athletics, on-campus events, charity events, and to represent Stanford as a whole. A significant portion of our special fees budget may go to building a Segway for every band member - we like to show up to charity fundraisers in style. Whatever's left will go toward equipment repair, duct tape, and inflatable instruments for the hordes of freshmen we expect the football team to recruit for us.”

— Ben Lasley, B.A. ‘09, M.S. ’11, Manager

Top 8 Special Fees Requests

*Applied for joint fees. Compiled by Wyndam Makowsky, makowsky@stanford.edu

SOCC has given its support toMichael Cruz ‘12 and Stewart Mac-gregor-Dennis ‘13 for Executive.SOCC is also asking the members ofits communities to vote to abstain onMeasure A.

“We only pick students that will beeffective SOCC Senators,” Aswad-Thomas said.“There is no ideal magicnumber.Had it been the case this yearthat we only found five candidates tohave what it takes to represent the is-sues that our communities care about,then we would have only picked five.”

“That number really reflects whowe have faith in,”he said.

The SOCC Interview ProcessThis year, about 30 of 41 Under-

graduate Senate candidates appliedfor SOCC endorsement.Chapa said amajority of candidates apply forSOCC endorsement in a typical year.

Candidates who wish to be consid-ered for endorsement were asked tofill out an application by Feb. 26 atmidnight. The application asked forbasic information as well as questionsabout candidates’ past involvement incommunities of color. It also soughtinformation on how candidates in-tended to remain aware of issues af-fecting communities of color and

goals that the candidates would try toaccomplish to address these issues.

Candidates were interviewed theweek of March 1 by a mix of SOCCleadership at the community centers.

“They want to know what we wantto accomplish during the next yearand how we can work with communi-ty centers,”said Namir Shah ‘14,a cur-rent candidate for UndergraduateSenate. “And obviously they want tomake sure that our interests align withtheirs and that we will be effectiverepresentatives of them.”

This idea was demonstrated dur-ing SOCC interviews when potentialendorsees were asked how theywould vote on important issues.MilesSeiver ‘14, another candidate, said hewas asked whether he would vote yesfor a Muslim community center.

Some hot button issues on campus,such as Measure A, were not dis-cussed during the interviews.

Aswad-Thomas said all six groupsof SOCC have an equal say in choos-ing candidates to endorse;rather thanhaving a formal voting process SOCCleaders deliberate until they reach aconsensus.

Most candidates were notified onthe last day of spring break,March 27,if they did or did not receive the en-dorsement.

Rocking the VoteChapa stressed SOCC’s connec-

tion to a large community of people astheir most useful campaign tool.

“We think talking to people is themost effective way to campaign,” hesaid.

According to Chapa,“other coali-tions are able to buy Facebook adsand banners” whereas SOCC is not.However, he believes that this is notthe most effective strategy for candi-dates.

“A lot of candidates are stressedmoneywise so when we say invest-ment we mean time and energy andpeople,”he said.

SOCC holds events for its en-dorsed candidates to meet membersof their communities and helps candi-dates by putting up fliers.

Shelley Gao ‘11, who chaired the10th Undergraduate Senate afterbeing SOCC-endorsed and served onthe 11th Undergraduate Senate afternot receiving the SOCC endorse-ment for her reelection campaign,said the most important thing SOCCdoes is getting its community mem-bers to vote in vast numbers.Gao cur-rently serves on The Daily’s Board ofDirectors.

“They do a very targeted method,”Gao said.“They know who they rep-resent and they know that their con-stituency really believes in SOCC’sendorsements. They send out emailsto community lists like Diaspora andsay,‘Well these are our endorsed can-didates, they support our values andour agenda and you should just votedown the line for them.’ And it reallyworks.”

Gao pointed out that the combina-tion of SOCC galvanizing its commu-nity members to vote and many otherstudents not voting or take theprocess seriously contributes toSOCC’s success in elections.

Meetings after ElectionsGao said one or two days after

the elections results were an-nounced for the 10th Undergradu-ate Senate,the SOCC leadership rana meeting with the newly electedSOCC Senators discussing strate-gies to get them into leadership posi-tions like the Senate chair, Senatedeputy chair and Appropriationscommittee chair.

Will Seaton ‘13, a current Senator,noted that SOCC Senators capital-ized on their majority to capturemany of the leadership positions.Seaton is also a Daily staff writer.

Chapa stressed education toSOCC candidates and Senators as themost important objective, never forc-ing them to vote one way.

“We’ve never said, ‘There’s thisquestion.You have to vote this way,’”Chapa said.

Gao noted that she thinks it’s verynatural for any interest group to putits people in leadership positions.

A Solution?While Gao believes that SOCC is

a “legitimate group,”she sees the needfor other interest groups representingvarious student viewpoints.

“It becomes very unhealthy forour democratic process when youonly have one very large group domi-nating elections and channeling peo-ple into the Senate or executive whowill obviously be much more favor-able to their agenda,”Gao said.

Seaton acknowledged that SOCC“has been extremely effective inbringing out their constituents and ingetting their people elected.”

This, however, comes with its owncomplications.

“For the ASSU and student gov-ernment in general,it gets to the pointwhere at times it almost feels like theSOCC leadership — two or three orfour individuals — are kind of choos-ing the Senate for the next year,”Seaton said.

“Some time in the next few years Ithink it would be very beneficial toASSU and student government forthe endorsement process to be ana-lyzed,”he added.“Just in terms of con-sidering the viability of the organiza-tion and making sure particulargroups on campus don’t dominate thediscussion too much.”

ASSU Elections CommissionerStephen Trusheim ‘13 said there areno current policies in place to regulateendorsements.

Kate Abbott and Wyndam Makowskycontributed to this story.

Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg2014@stanford.edu.

SOCCContinued from front page

ness,” Seldon said. “It is still heavilystigmatized on this campus.”

Seldon detailed several initiativesshe planned to enact around mentalhealth if elected, including a push forchanges to resident assistant (RA)training,expanded utilization of exist-ing mental health resources and morecourses on the topic of “happiness.”

Two of the most contentious is-sues at the debate were each slate’sstance on the ROTC advisory ques-tion and their plans to effectivelycommunicate and engage with thegeneral student population.With re-spect to student engagement,Seldonand Vasquez both emphasized mak-ing personal connections with asmany students as possible via dormmeetings, office hours and regularmeetings with student group leaders.Macgregor-Dennis’ approach wasstarkly different; he detailed plans

for the Executive to connect to stu-dents using technology, including afully revamped ASSU website andan iPhone app.

The two slates clashed sharply onthe ROTC advisory question. Cruzand Macgregor-Dennis alignedthemselves with the “Campaign toAbstain,” a movement to influencestudents to vote abstain on the refer-endum.

“It really comes down to the factthat there’s a marginalized commu-nity and a discriminated-againstcommunity,” Macgregor-Dennissaid.“Really, if we’re voting on thesecivil-rights issues, then we’re votingon civil-rights issues for both themarginalized and the discriminatedagainst. We stand up for both thesecommunities and that’s why we’refully in support of the abstain cam-paign.”

Seldon and Vasquez declined totake a position on the issue, sayingthey believe the role of the Executiveis to allow space for all viewpoints tobe heard.

“We have to make sure that, as

student representatives, we listen toall sides of the issue,” Seldon said.

“There’s a large contingent of thestudent body population on bothsides of the issue,” Vasquez added.“By taking a very partisan approachand choosing one side of the issue,you’re potentially marginalizing andjust creating an even bigger divide.”

The debate concluded after eachslate was allowed to give a closingstatement. In their final words,Cruz/Macgregor-Dennis promotedthe bridging of the ASSU with entre-preneurship and public service,whileSeldon/Vasquez explained their pas-sion and commitment to achieve thegoals delineated in their platform.

After a final burst of campaign-ing, the polls for the ASSU electionwill open on Thursday at 12:01 a.m.and close on Friday at 11:59 p.m.Vot-ers can cast their ballots atballot.stanford.edu. Results for allraces will be announced on Saturdayat 5 p.m. at the CoHo.

Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawh-ney@stanford.edu.

DEBATEContinued from front page

By KELSEY GEISERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

What do hibernating bears andspace travel have in com-mon? The answer begins inthe frigid Arctic with two in-trepid Stanford biologists

with a penchant for bears.Sleeping bears, to beexact.

Biologists Dennis Grahn and Craig Heller,along with their co-workers, staked out in theArctic to observe the hibernation patterns ofbears.What they found could upend the way wethink about human sleep and its possibilities.

Hibernation — the ability of animals likebears to sleep through the winter while lower-ing their body temperature and metabolism toavoid the need for food intake — isn’t a novelidea for scientists, yet surprisingly few in-depth hibernation studies have been conduct-ed because of the lack of appropriate technol-ogy that can allow researchers to observe theirsubjects.

Grahn described the crude former ap-proach as one in which “somebody snuck upon a hibernating bear”and took a reading with

a thermometer.Not now.Grahn, along with biology professor Craig

Heller and Brian Barnes, Director of the Insti-tute of Arctic Biology in Alaska, set out to im-prove upon this old-school research techniqueby applying recent advancements in telemetrytechnology to further our knowledge on bearsand the details of their hibernation.They pub-lished their findings in “Hibernation in BlackBears: Independence of Metabolic Suppres-sion from Body Temperature.”

Grahn and Heller had previous experiencestudying smaller animals’ hibernation pat-terns. Building off of Barnes’ access to bearsthrough his work with the Institute of ArcticBiology and a shared interest in studying whatconstitutes hibernation in a bear,a group of sixintrigued researchers initiated a study in Fair-banks,Alaska, utilizing the latest technology.

“We certainly were the first people to use[new telemetry technology] on hibernation insmall animals, and, so out of that, questionsabout bears came up,” Grahn said.

Each experiment lasted six months andstudied two black bears at a time. The bearswere set up in large crates made to look andfeel as comfortable as their dens would be in

the wild to allow for a normal hibernation.The bears were embedded with transmit-

ters that sent radio signals through antennae inthe walls of the bears’ hibernation crates.Eachbear was equipped through surgery with anelectroencephalogram (EEG) to measurebrain waves, electrocardiograph (EKG) tomeasure heart rate and devices for measuringbody temperature.

Through their previous work, Barnes andGrahn knew that the body temperatures ofsmall hibernators drop to the temperature oftheir surrounding environment and back upagain in cycles while the animal is asleep.Whenbody temperatures cool, the animals experi-ence a reduction in metabolic rate. Howeverduring this fluctuation, the hibernators do notexperience REM sleep.

However, the results of these past experi-ments did not coincide with the researchers’ re-cent bear study.Bears,unlike other hibernators,do not lower their temperature as much aswould be expected given how drastically theirmetabolism decreases.

As it turns out,Bears actually shiver to keeptheir body temperatures from dropping toolow while they experience both REM and non-REM sleep.Analysis of bears’ brain activity re-

vealed that they remain aware of their sur-roundings throughout the hibernation period.

“The really interesting thing was the indica-tion that they have a biochemical suppressionof metabolism apart from the temperature ef-fect,” Heller said of the findings.“So their tem-perature only goes down a few degrees buttheir metabolism goes down by 75 percent,andyou can explain that just from the cooling off ofthe tissues.”

These discoveries about how bears hiber-nate could potentially be applied to advancehuman surgical practices, care for stroke orheart attack victims and even space travel, ac-cording to Heller.

“If you want to go to Mars,you might as wellsleep more,” he said.

Although many of the potential applica-tions are far from being realized and dataanalysis still stands to be completed on the hi-bernation studies, the researchers are deter-mined to continue gleaning new knowledgefrom their research.

However, for Heller, the critical aspect ofthe experiment was the fact that the subjects“weren’t golden bears.”

Contact Kelsey Geiser at ksgeiser@stanford.edu.

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FEATURES

Despite the ever-present Stanford bub-ble, we are lucky and privileged tohave the opportunity to encounter an

abundance of cultures, ethnicities and back-grounds.There is a diversity of beliefs and val-ues that each student has to offer, but toooften we have encountered the problem ofvoicing these passions.This is where “Stanford2.0” comes in. We believe that we all haveopinions and experiences to share and that theissues that face each community or student or-ganization cannot be adequately solved with-out an empowered student body and a re-sponsive student government. By creating anintersection of experience and engagement,we hope to build a more unified and awareStanford community.We are Michael Cruz ‘12and Stewart Macgregor-Dennis ‘13 and we areexcited to be running for ASSU Executive.

Right now, as we write this piece from oursecret headquarters, we are surrounded byother students who are as invested in commu-nity issues as we are. With our campaigntheme of “Stanford 2.0”, we hope to not onlyempower and engage all Stanford students invoicing their needs, but also foster a moreopen and forthcoming ASSU, one that meas-ures results and is consistently searching forbetter ways to fulfill student needs.We are cur-rently endorsed by PASU, SOCC, StanfordClub Sports, Stanford Dems and the QueerCoalition, endorsements that speak volumesabout our commitment to addressing and re-sponding to a diverse set of student issues.Here is a taste of our platform, which will giveyou a better sense of the projects we intend totackle. A more complete platform can befound at: stanford2.com:

EmpowermentCareer: Provide consistent student and ca-

reer development support from freshmanyear-onward, regardless of your major.

Health: Create a centralized websitespecifically for health and wellness, providinginformation and directing students to the ap-propriate health resources.

Queer issues:Empower the queer commu-nity through gender-and-queer-sensitive facil-ities and gender-neutral housing. We alsofirmly believe that it is unacceptable to ask thestudent body to vote on the civil rights of a mi-nority, and we support the campaign to vote“abstain” on ROTC.

Diversity:Advocate restoration of all com-munity center professional staff to full-timeemployment,and create a database system forstudent groups and community centers to en-hance communication between alumni, cur-rent students, and the greater Stanford com-munity.

Student LifeHousing:Create the position of a Diversity

Peer Educator as part of dorm staff, who willbe trained in diversity and queer issues, work-ing to foster a feeling of safe and open spacefor all Stanford students.

Dining: Make dining options more stu-dent-friendly through healthier late-nite op-tions and effective responses to student feed-back.

Technology:Take advantage of technologyin order to streamline Stanford event plan-ning, rework Stanford websites such as Zim-

We have had the opportunity to en-mesh ourselves within the fabricthat is Stanford — to learn the nu-

ances, values and uniqueness of the individu-als of our community.As such, it is our goal tomake the single the collective, to give everyindividual the opportunity to develop theirleadership potential while enhancing theirability to see beyond barriers and to gain asense of agency within the general Stanfordcommunity.

We are Tenzin Seldon ‘12 and Joe Vasquez‘11 and we are looking to be your next ASSUExecutives. We have been actively involvedin the Stanford community both inside theASSU and out and are looking to bring a newlevel of inclusion, relevance and excitementto student involvement. We are running tomake a difference in a real way, to bring di-verse and rich communities together and towork on issues facing every Stanford student.

Our vision centers around enacting con-crete change,working alongside the adminis-tration and students like you. Stanford is ourhome and we believe we must work togetherto make a real, tangible difference. As such,the four major themes of our platform are:

Promoting Mental Health and Well-being:We plan to engage students in dialogue

with resources such as Vaden, CAPS and TheBridge about how to improve wellness oncampus; leverage our visibility as ASSUExecs to create more classes on campus ad-dressing issues of mental health; incorporateworkshops in dorms and support for in-creased salary for Peer Health Educator(PHE); advocate for support, safet, and well-

ness in the Greek community.

Diversity and Tolerance:We deeply care and are committed to is-

sues and promotion of diversity, equality andtolerance on campus. We will provide thenecessary support and space for communitycenters to raise awareness on specific issuesby supporting the Diversity Advisory Board.We will initiate campaigns to raise awarenessof the Acts of Intolerance Protocol and willengage with administration and promotegreater dialogue with Stanford police and thelarger community.

Advising and Student Life:We will increase the opportunities for

mentorship and interaction between thegraduate and undergraduate student popula-tion by working closely with the GraduateStudent Council; strengthen advising byworking with UAR and administrators andmake the transition to Stanford accessibleand personal for everyone, including first-generation, low-income students; providemore career support and guidance throughworking with the Cardinal Careers and Ca-reer Development Center.

Transparency and Accessibility:We envision an ASSU that works along-

side the general Stanford community, onethat actively reaches out to those it aims toserve. We promise to initiate and launchagendas that are important to the largerStanford population and create avenues to

ROTC’s absence from thiscampus has removed a criti-cal mode of discourse be-

tween the military and the civilianpopulation it serves.As the daugh-ter of an Air Force officer, I grewup entirely behind the gates of U.S.military installations.The schools Iattended were filled almost exclu-sively with fellow military depend-ents. College marked my first ex-perience living off base and beingsurrounded primarily by civilians.I was struck that while I under-stood the nuances of civilian life,my civilian counterparts had virtu-ally no notion of what life in themilitary entails. Worse, theyseemed almost proud of their ig-norance.

The gap between the militaryand civilian populations has beengrowing further apart in recentdecades. Though we are currentlyprosecuting two wars, only 1 per-

cent of Americans is directly af-fected. The Chairmen of the JointChiefs, Admiral Michael Mullen,recently warned of the danger ofthis increasing gulf between themilitary and the civilians theyserve to protect. The implicationsof this gulf could prove to be detri-mental not only to civil-militaryrelations, but to the foreign policydecisions of the United States. Forcitizens and politicians to truly un-derstand the cost of war, they mustbe intimately aware of the sacri-fices we ask our military to make.By the same token, a militaryshould be intimately tied to the so-ciety it serves to remain keenlyaware of the values and freedomsthey are asked to make sacrificesfor. Our Founding Fathers fearedthe potential dangers of having alarge standing army as a threat toliberty; instead, they placed em-phasis on the formation of militias

for the very reason that they wereso closely knitted to their homecommunities.

Not only should the military beclosely tied to the community itserves, but it is strongest when it isa reflection of that community.Thucydides once contended that“the society that separates itsscholars from its warriors will haveits thinking done by cowards andits fighting done by fools.” His ob-servation is no less relevant in hisancient Greek republic than ourAmerican one.The military shouldbe a reflection of the society itserves, and this should apply to theacademic community no less thanany other part of the general pub-lic. Just as the concept of the citi-zen-soldier serves to sustain civicengagement and ensure politicalaccountability, the idea of the war-

Iam not a physiology or nutritionexpert, nor am I an “athlete.” Iwould like to begin with this dis-

claimer to dispel any notion that Iam attempting to market myself assuch. I am simply your averagetwenty-something female who de-veloped a passion for health and apenchant for clean eating. My ad-ventures in the fitness world havebeen hindered by obstacles rangingfrom my own ignorance to misinfor-mation, from prejudices to dininghall inflexibilities and from socialpressures to the strains of collegelife. I emerge from these road-blocks at a high level of personal

physical condition with the expecta-tion of continuing to improve myhealth and athleticism.As I becomeconscious of the extreme impor-tance of fitness in sustaining ahappy and (somewhat) sane collegelife I’m compelled to share a few in-sights that may be useful to my non-athlete peers seeking fitness infor-mation. This week’s tidbit is: Com-mon roadblocks to achieving fitnessgoals in the college setting.

1. ApathyExercise and diet did not feature

prominently in my thoughts duringthe high school/college transition.I’m sure there were some fitness afi-

cionados among the throngs offreshmen, but those of us not on aStanford sports roster likely had lit-tle concern with healthy dining op-tions and navigating athletic facili-ties. We were busy being bombard-ed with hundreds of new faces,classes, a cappella groups, partiesand profound late-night bondingsessions. Who in her right mindleaps out of bed for a jaunt aroundcampus loop before that 9 a.m.Spanish class after a Wednesdaynight spent chugging wine and gorg-ing on delicious cheeses?

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It must have been one of thoseI’m-about-as-pleased-as-a-wet-cat days when I threw my broken

umbrella on the ground, took off myawkwardly muddy pants andbooked a ticket to Sweden. Scandi-navia in the winter is cold, snowyand dark, however I couldn’t resistfree lodging and a chance to practicemy Swedish.

The whole week before I debat-ed whether or not I should even go.It was kind of like the time I foundan amazing quads-length orange,pink and magenta knit angora hip-ster sweater online — the epitomeof a bad-purchasing choice. Thesweater and my trip were both hugemistakes, financially and just in gen-eral, but I legitimized. I could workon the plane and wear my sweater inSweden!

I fell asleep as soon as I was un-derway, in blissful absence of myroommate’s loud nocturnal typing.Before I knew it I was at the Arlan-da airport, clacking my way acrossthe hardwood floors and utteringdumb phrases in Norwegian to thebeautiful Swedish immigration offi-cial.She smiled and said good morn-ing to me in English, which I count-ed as at least a partial win. Luckily,all Scandinavian languages are veryclosely related, so if you know one,you can kind of communicate in theother two. Not that it mattersthough, because everyone speaksEnglish.

I took the high-speed train intothe city and watched the fallingsnow against aspen trees. It was thecheapest choice, and I was quitepleased that I qualified for theunder-25-child fare. I cursed the de-veloped world because the WiFiwasn’t working and thought to my-self, I wonder how I will meet myfriend at the train station.

Back in my Boy Scouting days —no joke, Wilderness Survival meritbadge — we were taught to stay putin one place when lost in the woods.Surely this applied at the train sta-tion. I pawed once or twice at theodd Swedish telephone, but afterswiping my credit card in a fewplaces, I decided that I had none ofthe appropriate coins. I have a badrecord with foreign payphones.Luckily I arrived on time, unlikewhen I planned to meet up with afriend at Platform 9 3/4 on a jaunt toLondon earlier this year.EventuallyI was found.

I packed light, so my friend and Idid a bit of exploring of old Stock-holm. Seeing the bridges, statues, ar-chitecture was all well and good. Iwasn’t in the museum-ing type ofmood, so I instead posed in front ofparticularly precarious historicalfigures. I was quite impressed with aswan, duck and goose smorgasbord— as in they were being fed in thepark and I took pictures — quitecultural. The Grand Hotel, RoyalPalace and several churches are all

within walking distance. Skating inthe park was pleasant, and to top itall off there was a U.S. space exhibitin the mall.

At lunchtime, we ventured to anall-you-can-eat sushi place.As it wasalso the cheapest lunch option,I wasa bit worried. I was hungry and was-n’t about to offend my host, but let’sjust say that some of my sushi con-noisseur friends would have beendisappointed. As my host was quiteexcited about sharing this secretsushi place, it became my immediatefavorite food. I love this sushi! Onthe note of food though, one cannotleave Sweden without tryingSwedish meatballs.

A serious concern for those trav-eling to Scandinavia is that alcoholicbeverages are ridiculously expen-sive due to high taxes. It’s perfectlylegal to bring from home as long asit’s within the country-specific limits— for Sweden it’s 1 liter of spirits or2 liters of wine. I received a king’swelcome when I unwrapped a bottleof Svedka — ironically much cheap-er in the U.S. This was soon sup-planted with Red Bulls, chips andbiler, a Swedish candy akin toSwedish Fish, except shaped likecars. I’m fairly certain you can buythem at Ikea (but I’m not really al-lowed to go there since my Norwe-gian family wouldn’t approve). Itwas truly a feast fit for a coterm!

Nightlife in Stockholm is superb,however as with everything in thatcity, get ready to spend your money.To say I was partying with Swedish

A Weekend inStockholm

WANDERLUST

OP-EDS

Cruz/Macgregor-Dennis Tenzin/Vasquez

Closing the Citizen-Soldier Gulf

Miss Fit - The frustrations of sustaining ahealthy lifestyle on a college campus

Johnny Bartz

EXECUTIVE SLATE OP-EDS

The sweater and my

trip were both huge

mistakes,financially

and just in general,

but I legitimized.

Please see TENZIN,page 5Please see CRUZ,page 5

Please see FIT,page 5

Please see ROTC,page 5

Please see BARTZ,page 5

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OP-EDS

Vote Abstain:What It Meansand Why It Makes Sense

To vote abstain is to have a nu-anced opinion, to have an un-derstanding of the implica-

tions of the vote this Thursday andFriday and to know that this votehas the greatest effect on not one,but two marginalized communitieswho deserve greater voice than theyare being afforded. It is not a stanceon ROTC and in fact brings togeth-er both sides.

As ASSU Chief of Staff, I amleading the Vote Abstain campaignbecause I believe it is importantthat as a Stanford community, wecan do a better job, create a betterforum and allow for a better outletfor those most affected by the ensu-ing decision to be made by thoseadministrators charged with listen-ing to student input.Let us stand to-gether in voting abstain so that wedo not trivialize the small groups ofpeople, whether they be pro or antiROTC, into one singular vote butrather afford them an equally pow-erful voice within the appropriateforums.Let us as a student body notbe wrapped up in a statistic or re-duced to a number in a poll, butbring the diverse complex opinionswe have to the Faculty Senate andgive that legitimate voice.

The ROTC situation is compli-cated because there are two verysmall and equally marginalizedsubsets on campus that are a part ofthis vote. I will be the first person toadmit that the intricacies ofwhether it should be back on cam-pus are numerous and at times,both sides very convincing. I try toput myself in other people’s shoesas much as possible before makinga judgment, and in this, it is no dif-ferent.

I am from Philadelphia, Penn-sylvania and I wonder what I wouldthink if ROTC did not permit peo-ple from my city from participating.What if I as well as my Philly peerswere so explicitly affected by thisprogram and then we as a studentbody voted on whether it shouldcome back? I think it is safe to as-sume that I am going to lose thatvote and my voice is not going tohave the magnitude that it deserves

because I am so explicitly affectedby the measure.

My voice and my Philadelphianpeers are such a small minority oncampus, and yet we are very much apart [SV1]of the diversity thatmakes up Stanford. Ultimately, it ismy hope that people would under-stand that I deserve to be heard inthe forum of the Faculty Senate andnot referred to as part of a statistic.

By abstaining, I personally be-lieve it is about making sure thateach person has an equally power-ful voice with those making the de-cision. This poll is the measure ofthe climate of the student body.They will point to this poll, if givenlegitimacy, as the barometer ofwhat Stanford students think, trivi-alizing and ultimately, stripping usof the power to explain our opin-ions.

The minority voice should beable to sit on equal ground as themajority opinion, whether it isthose often marginalized in theROTC or those discriminatedagainst in the transgender commu-nity.That way,you can go to the fac-ulty senate and have a big voice asopposed to one vote where minori-ties who are most affected by thedecision have disproportionate im-pact.

Discriminating on either side ofthe issue is not fair to those commu-nities that are affected and margin-alized. I am abstaining because Iwant to see those specific individu-als not be reduced to a singular votewhen proportionally they are by farthe most effected subset of the pop-ulation. I am not voting on ROTC;I am voting abstain because I fullyunderstand what it means to use myvoice effectively and fully under-stand what this ballot measuremeans.

I implore that you, as a Stanfordvoter, protect the diversity of opin-ions we as a student body encapsu-late.Vote abstain this Thursday andFriday.

JOHN HASKELL ‘12ASSU Chief of Staff

[SV1]”part,” not “a part”

bra, and create an iASSU app to en-able greater student-ASSU commu-nication and participation.

Living: Create a Life Skills classthat addresses financial literacy, lap-top maintenance, cooking skills, andother essential areas.

AdvocacySexual Health:Lower the height-

ened Standard of Proof to allow for“clear and convincing” or “prepon-derance of evidence” instead of “be-yond a reasonable doubt.

Disabilities: Work with campusorganizations and the administra-tion to create a map of gender-neu-tral and accessible bathrooms/dorms in order to improve the Dis-ability Draw.

Grads: Increase flexibility ofhealth insurance options for gradu-ate students.

Women: Work with ResEd,WoCo and other administrators tocreate a “sexual violence monitor”training program for organizationsthat throw large party-type events.

Student EngagementGreen: Institutionalize Green

Events Consulting for studentevents and incentivize attendance atcertified “Green” events with anASSU Event Point system.

Service: Work to unify effortsamong public service sub-communi-ties,and collaborate with campus en-trepreneurship groups to emphasizesocial entrepreneurship and service.

Arts: Create a centralized forumfor the performing arts communityto list auditions, performances, andevents as well as facilitate communi-cation between different perform-ance groups.

Greek: Increase ASSU engage-ment with the IFC, ISC, MGC, andAAFSA, and work to find storagespace for non-housed fraternitiesand sororities.

This is merely a brief glimpse ofwhat we hope to accomplish in thecoming year with your help, andwhile these issues may seem sepa-rate and discrete, remember thatthey come together and define theStanford community as a whole.Wewant to hear what you think, so feelfree to contact us at cruzmacgregor-dennis@gmail.com. We look for-ward to working together and build-ing Stanford 2.0 with you.

CRUZContinued from page 4

hear public opinion during Execu-tive and Senate meetings.

These are just some of the high-er-level ideas that we are looking toenact. Don’t hesitate to shoot us anemail and invite us to coffee or din-ner. We would love to hear aboutwhat’s important to you or evenjust to chat. Our broad level of ex-perience and strong track recorddoes not even come close to under-scoring the level of commitmentand dedication we have for our po-sition and serving you. Feel free toreach out to us at josephv@stan-ford.edu or tseldon@stanford.edu.

TENZINContinued from page 4

pop stars may be a bit of an exag-geration,however I was told at leasttwice that I had just met so-and-so,a Eurovision hopeful from lastyear. Not to mention the fact thatthe pre-party was primarily myfriend’s colleagues from the localstrip club. And yes, we danced toAbba.

Upon my return, my plan forblonde hair got vetoed,but I at leastpicked up some sweet hair wax formy new do — the perfect match forthe ultimate hipster sweater.

Johnny wants to know what your fa-vorite Abba song is. Let him know atjbartz@stanford.edu.

BARTZContinued from page 4

2. Time (lack of time, that is)Nowadays, I begin every day

with a run and end each day with aweight-lifting session. Oftentimeswhen my workout program comesup in conversation, I receive the re-action: “I wish I had the time towork out like you do.” I hate toburst the bubble, but the time towork out doesn’t just “happen.” Iam no less busy with academics, ex-tracurricular shenanigans and so-cial engagements than your typicalStanford girl.You have to create thetime to exercise and find a way toshove it into your tight schedule.This is difficult—not impossible.

3. Negative StereotypesThese stereotypes come in many

flavors. Nobody wants to be knownas the “gym rat” who gazes admir-ingly at his biceps in the Arrillagamirrors. Everyone always has asnide laugh at “rollerblade woman”

who glides to class to get extra car-dio in. I have personally becomeknown in Stern dining as the weird“chicken-girl,” because I always re-quest that the chef grill plain, un-marinated chicken for me (I don’twant oil and sugar). There are de-tractors quick to label consistent ex-ercise as “compulsive” and con-scious eating as “restrictive.” Ofcourse disordered eating and dis-torted body image are serious issuesand quite prevalent at Stanford.However, being labeled as a “com-pulsive over-exerciser” merely be-cause I’m not a Stanford-sanctionedathlete is disturbing and ridiculous.

4. Ignorance (and inability to setgoals)

This was one of my most signifi-cant roadblocks after I overcamethe apathy factor and decided to getin shape. There is a vast world ofmisinformation and a burdensomequantity of good information too.Navigating the sea of fad diets,trendy workout programs, blogs,supplements, protein powders, per-sonal trainers and stylish, over-priced spandex can be daunting and

discouraging. It has taken years offloundering to locate what I consid-er reliable sources of informationabout exercise and nutrition. On arelated note, a common challengeto reaching health goals is definingthose goals in the first place.Do youwant to excel in a particular area?Become a better runner, cyclist,etc.? Do you want to gain muscle?Lose fat? Tone? Without setting re-alistic and well-defined goals, it willbe impossible to sort out the goodinformation from the bad.

5. Misconceptions and overgen-eralizations

This is an enormous category,and I mention it here for the pur-pose of dispelling some of the mostcommon health/fitness misconcep-tions. A) Fit does not mean skinny.Getting into shape does not neces-sarily mean losing weight. I havespent the past six months attempt-ing to gain five pounds of lean mus-cle, and it was much more physical-ly demanding than periods of mylife when I’ve attempted to loseweight. B) Crash diets do not work.Rather, they are not sustainable.

Maybe you can drop ten poundswith the latest fad on the market,but you’ll gain that and more whenyou stop. Making a healthy diet alifestyle choice is the only realisticway to achieve a strong, fit home-ostasis. C) Achieving fitness goalsrequires a plan and a strategy. It isunbelievably frustrating to watchthe people in the gym who wanderrandomly from machine to ma-chine, pumping out a few ineffectu-al reps and leave thinking they’veachieved something. Don’t beafraid to ask for information and in-struction! There are plenty of re-sources, especially at the Stanfordgyms. If you’re going to take thetime to go to the gym, make sureyou’re not wasting it.

ERICA MORGAN ‘11

Erica will be sharing these insights ina sequence of three columns. Lookfor the next column with suggestionsfor overcoming common roadblocksand tips for navigating the dininghalls and college gyms! Email her atemorgan1@stanford.edu.

FITContinued from page 4

rior-scholar serves to provide en-lightened military leadership andprotect the core values of the pop-ulation. ROTC enables future of-ficers to learn in a hybrid military-civilian environment, where theycan study military doctrine whileengaging in the civilian academicworld. ROTC has been a vitalcomponent of creating a more ed-ucated and more professional mil-itary, which ultimately benefitsthe society it serves.

A society should demand thatits military leaders be the best andthe brightest, but it must alsoallow them the opportunity to ob-tain such education. By denyingROTC’s right to exist at Stanford,opponents are turning a blind eyeto the reality of global politics;they ignore the fact that the mili-tary will not cease to be a definingsocial force so long as violent con-flict exists in the world. In actuali-ty, opponents are promulgating aviewpoint completely antitheticalto the values of a university edu-cation. Intolerance, xenophobiaand isolationism have no place inacademia, and yet these are thedefining characteristics of thosewho seek to keep ROTC out ofStanford.The pervasive ignoranceof this viewpoint does only harmto the state of civil-military rela-tions and the prevalence of thisviewpoint is detrimental for oursociety as a whole. Shouldn’t weensure that our future military of-ficers are as well educated as pos-sible so that we may all benefitfrom enlightened military leader-ship in the future? As a society, wecould ask for nothing more thanto have educated warrior-scholarsfighting to guarantee our rights.The wind of freedom does indeedblow here at Stanford, but let usnever forget who secured thisfreedom.

REBECCA YOUNG, M.A.‘11

ROTCContinued from page 4

By MICHAEL LAZARUSSTAFF WRITER

Two games after piling on 22 runsagainst Washington State, the No. 11Stanford baseball team proved itcan win with its arms too, holdingSan Jose State to two runs on fourhits Tuesday night en route to a 5-2victory.

On a beautiful night at SunkenDiamond — a pleasant change fromsnowy Washington — senior starterDanny Sandbrink paced the Cardi-nal (14-7, 2-1 Pac-10), tossing fourno-hit innings and striking out two.The Spartans (19-9) did not reach

base until a leadoff walk in the fourthand didn’t record their first hit untilthe sixth.BASEBALLSAN JOSE STATE 2STANFORD 54/5, Irvine, Calif.

With his patented “funk” pitch —a sinker with unpredictable move-ment — dancing all over the strikezone, Sandbrink never let San JoseState get comfortable at the plate.

“They handle the bats well, but Ijust kept the ball low and they gotthemselves out,” Sandbrink said.

“The funk was working well.”Stanford wasted little time get-

ting on the board offensively. Sopho-more center fielder Tyler Gaffneyled off the home half of the first witha walk and came around to score onback-to-back singles by sophomoreshortstop Kenny Diekroeger andfreshman first baseman Brian Ragi-ra.The single by Diekroeger extend-ed his hit streak to 15 games.

The Cardinal then extended itslead in the second. After anotherperfect inning by Sandbrink, theCardinal exploded for four runs,

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SPORTS BRIEFS

SPORTSKabirSawhneyFollow the Money

CorrectingCollege

Cups

T hough my colleague JacobJaffe has explored themany, many failings of theCapital One Cup in thepast, I feel like it’s a good

time to revisit the issue now that thewinter sports season is winding downand the big spring sports — led bybaseball and softball — are in fullswing.

With a few winter sports left to becounted,Stanford is holding its own inthe standings, at third in the women’scompetition and fourth in the men’s(and that doesn’t count the results ofthe recent women’s NCAA Tourna-ment).

So it appears that the Capital OneCup has completed at least one of itsstated missions:prevent Stanford fromwinning every year by splitting upmen’s and women’s sports and creat-ing a tier system to award more pointsto sports on the basis of “popularity”(i.e. ones arbitrarily chosen by theCup’s organizers).The other goal — toaward schools for being good at foot-ball and basketball — seems to beworking fairly well, as the two teamsatop the men’s standings are Auburnand Connecticut.

Having seen the results roll in so far,I can see flaws in the Capital One Cup— most obviously, is its egregious biasin favor of the big revenue sports.Asidefrom its top finish in football, theAuburn men only have one other top-10 finish (sixth place at the swimmingand diving championships), whileUConn has only its basketball title tospeak of. On the women’s side ofthings,Cal is in the lead,but its positionis fairly warranted: the Golden Bearswon the swimming title and finishedsecond in volleyball.

Yet the most important failing thatI see in the Capital One Cup is its divi-sion into men’s and women’s sports.Anaward that purports to reward overallathletic excellence should do just that,without any conditions.I see no reasonto separate out the men’s and women’sprograms, since the exploits of maleand female athletes should not meritseparate awards.It also hurts programslike Stanford’s,whose strength has tra-ditionally lain in its women’s teams.

With that said,I believe that the Di-rectors’ Cup — which Stanford haswon 16 consecutive years — has someflaws of its own which could use cor-recting.For those of you who are unfa-miliar, Stanford has won the awardevery year buts its first, but the Cardi-nal’s strength comes from more thanone source.Of course,Stanford has ex-emplary programs top to bottom,but alarge reason for our Directors’ Cupdominance is the sheer size of our ath-letic program.

Stanford fields 31 varsity athleticteams, easily one of the largest pro-grams in the country. Looking downthe final Directors’ Cup standings fromlast season, it is clear that Stanford’ssize gives it an unmistakable edge.Sec-ond-place Florida has 21 varsity pro-

TROJANS, ANTEATERS BESTED BY POLOBy KEVIN ZHANG

DAILY SPORTS INTERN

The top-ranked Stanfordwomen’s water polo team finishedits Southern California road tripunscathed, taking two tough con-tests over No. 13 UC-Irvine andNo. 3 USC. Stanford (20-0, 5-0MPSF) won 13-4 and 9-8, respec-tively.

After solid wins against No. 15UC-Davis and No. 4 UCLA lastweekend, the Cardinal had anoth-er match against USC (15-4, 3-2),which defeated Stanford in the2010 NCAA National Champi-onship game by one goal. Stanfordhas not lost since that game, enter-ing the rematch with 18 straightvictories, including two winsagainst the Trojans this season.WOMEN’S WATER POLOSTANFORD 13UC IRVINE 44/3, Irvine, Calif.

Stanford fell behind earlyin this matchup, down 4-1 after aquarter of play. Junior driverNadia Dan scored half of the USCgoals in the first quarter.

Even with the three-goal deficiton the road, Stanford came surg-ing back and went on a 4-0 run tocapture the lead. The two squadswent into final period of regula-tion in a 5-5 deadlock.

Stanford held a 7-5 advantagein the fourth quarter,but USC bat-tled back to force overtime. In thesecond overtime period, sopho-more driver Jillian Gartonlaunched skip-shot bar-in thatsealed the deal.

“We were in disarray on de-fense in the first quarter, and weplayed poorly at both ends the lastfew minutes of the game,” saidhead coach John Tanner. “But wewere organized on defense andhad quality possessions in the

overtime.”The nine Cardinal goals were

scored by a variety of players.Sophomore two-meter AnnikaDries and freshmen driver KimKrueger each tallied a pair. Juniortwo-meter Melissa Seidemann,junior drivers Pallavi Menon andCassie Churnside, and freshmendrivers Kelsey Suggs and Gartonnotched a goal apiece.

“We use more players thanother teams,” Tanner said. “Thisweekend we got impressive contri-butions from everyone on the ros-ter, often in areas outside their pri-

mary role.”The Cardinal’s diversified of-

fensive attack was complimentedby excellent goalie play, as seniorAmber Oland had nine stops.

Even after an emotional victo-ry, Stanford looked sharp the fol-lowing day against the Anteaters(14-8).The Cardinal jumped out toan 8-2 halftime lead with sopho-more Kate Baldoni in the cage.Baldoni finished the 13-4 rout witheleven saves.

“Amber and Kate have split

Lightweight rowing takes San DiegoCrew Classic crown

Stanford’s “A” lightweight crewteam took home the Vitamin WaterCup at the San Diego Crew Classiclast weekend with a time of 6:41.70.The Cardinal’s “B” boat finishedthird at 6:59.84.

The Stanford men’s crew teamfinished second in the Copley Cupand the Sharp Cabrillo Cup, also atthe San Diego Crew Classic. TheCardinal’s top Eight won its heat inthe Copley Cup then finished just2.75 seconds behind defending Na-tional Champion Cal in the final.Stanford’s second Eight won itsheat in the Sharp Cabrillo Cup andfinished with a time of 6:12.32, in thefinal, 7.62 seconds behind Cal yetagain.

The women’s crew team finishedsecond in two competitions over theweekend: the Jessop-Whittier Cupand the Jackie Ann Stitt HungnessCup, third in the Laurel V. KorholzCup and fourth in the Karen Plum-leigh Cortney Cup. Stanford’s topboat raced in the Jessop-WhittierCup and finished 2.63 seconds be-hind USC after winning its heat.

— Daniel Bohm

CARD CRUISES

UP NEXTUSC(10-18,2-4 Pac-10)4/8Los Angeles, Calif. 6 P.M.

GAME NOTES: Coming off of a se-ries win at Washington State tokick off conference play, the Stan-ford baseball team will look tocontinue its strong play when ittravels to USC to play a strugglingTrojan squad. USC has lost two ina row and eight of its last 10games.

UP NEXTHAWAII(13-6)4/9 Avery Aquatic Center

6 P.M.

GAME NOTES: With just three games remain-ing on its schedule, top-ranked Stanfordhas an undefeated season well in its sights.Hawaii is coming to town trying to spoilStanford’s perfection. The Warriors losttheir last match against Cal, 7-6.

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailySenior pitcher Danny Sandbrink (2-0), above, went four shutout innings to get the win versus San Jose State. Sandbrink used a pitch he calls the “funk,”which is a variation of a sinker, to keep Spartan hitters off balance. He did not allow a hit and only surrendered one walk in Stanford’s 5-2 victory.

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailyJunior driver Pallavi Menon, above right, scored one of Stanford’s goals in the Cardinal’s victory over defendingnational champion USC last weekend. Stanford’s 9-8 overtime victory was the Cardinal’s third win over thedefending champions this season. The Cardinal also breezed to a 13-4 win over UC-Irvine last weekend.

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once again ignited by a leadoffwalk. Following a single fromfreshman designated hitter BrianGuymon, senior catcher ZachJones brought home freshmanright fielder Austin Wilson for thesecond run of the game with a sac-rifice fly to left. Jones, who hadbeen in a season-long slump beforethe Washington State series, nowhas 11 RBI in his last four games.

Gaffney then kept the inningmoving with a double, setting upsenior left fielder Ben Clowe’s RBIgroundout to short. Gaffney camearound to score on an error by SanJose State, its first of three on the

night. Sophomore third basemanStephen Piscotty capped the inningwith a run-scoring double down theleft field line.

From there, it was all about theCardinal pitchers.

Sandbrink once again set downthe Spartan offense in order in thethird. After a walk to start thefourth, the only base runner Sand-brink allowed, the senior struck outDanny Stienstra, the Spartans’leading hitter, to end his night.

“Tonight we grabbed an earlylead and that makes it a lot easierto pitch versus a zero-zero game,”Sandbrink said. “You can be muchmore aggressive on the mound.”

Moving from a veteran to arookie,head coach Mark Marquesshanded the ball to A.J. Vanegas.The freshman quickly retired theside in the fifth,but ran into troublein the sixth.After issuing the fourthleadoff walk of the game, Vanegasallowed a single and then a deep flyball that set up a first and third sit-uation.

Vanegas got the grounder hewas hoping for, but the ball was hittoo slowly for Diekroeger andfreshman second baseman LonnieKauppila to turn the double play,allowing San Jose State to score itsfirst run of the night.

Junior Scott Snodgress kept theSpartans’ bats at bay in the seventhand eighth, surrendering only onehit. Piscotty saved a would-be dou-ble with a backhand dive down theline at third.

The Spartans managed toscratch across one more runagainst junior closer Chris Reed,but it was too little, too late. Reedstruck out pinch hitter Tyler Chris-tian for the final out of the ball-game.

The win improves Stanford’srecord to 6-0 in midweek gamesand extends its overall winningstreak to three games.

Next up for the Cardinal is aconference clash against USC inLos Angeles this weekend.

Contact Michael Lazarus at mlazarus@stanford.edu.

BASEBALLContinued from page 6

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grams, third-place Virginia has 25 andUCLA,coming in fourth,has 22 teams.Thus,the Cardinal has a bigger marginof error, since it can rely on a largenumber of programs (each of which isequally weighted) to inflate its place inthe standings.

Thus, the Directors’ Cup shouldimplement a weighting system of itsown,which ensures that programs arenot punished simply for a relative lackof size.Unlike the Capital One Cup’sarbitrary weighting system, sportsshould be weighted in the Directors’Cup by how many Division I pro-grams exist in that sport. Being thebest team out of almost 300 D-I men’sbasketball programs should countmore than winning in water polo,which is played almost exclusively onthe West Coast. Stanford gets a goodnumber of points from gymnastics,and though the Cardinal wins cham-pionships in the sport regularly, therearen’t as many men’s gymnasticsteams in the country as there areteams that make the NCAA women’s

basketball tournament.Stanford would, of course, still

have an excellent chance of winningthe Directors’ Cup for every yearfrom now until the apocalypse. How-ever, its victory will be even strongerwhen our competition knows it does-n’t come from sheer size.

Kabir Sawhney wants to tell you aboutthe sheer size of his “program.” Findout what that means at ksawhney@stanford.edu.

SAWHNEYContinued from page 6

time and played well the last fewweeks,” Tanner said. “All three ofour goalies are competitive withand supportive of one another.”

Stanford has only three regularseason matches left before theMPSF Tournament. The team isscheduled to return home to playNo. 5 Hawaii on Saturday.

Contact Kevin Zhang at kevinzahn-gle@gmail.com.

WPOLOContinued from page 6

“[Transgender students] can’tserve openly, so ROTC will still vi-olate the University nondiscrimi-nation policy,and while DADT hasbeen repealed, it has not been im-plemented yet,” she said.“The waywe have ROTC now, people can beinvolved, just off campus. We arerepresenting them by voicing oursupport for them off campus, butbecause the military discriminatesagainst sexual orientation and noton any rational basis, we can’tallow it.”

Both Warma and Senator Re-becca Sachs ‘13 expressed concernswith the bill as proposed.

“I think having Stanford stu-dents participating in ROTC andbeing able to have a dialogue oncampus adds a very positive value,”Warma said during open forum.“Ifthe ASSU is supposed to representall students, regardless of the size ofthe group, the ASSU has to hear allvoices and that cuts both ways. Idon’t think there’s a place, particu-larly with the election coming up,for you to be weighing in on this.There’s a chance for transgenderstudents and their allies, andROTC cadets and their allies toweigh in . . . but I don’t think this issomething this body should be in-jecting itself into.”

“The issue I see is that the stu-dent body is going to be voting this,if the student body has the oppor-tunity to voice their opinion andtheir opinion should be held overours . . . We should not speak forthem when they have the opportu-

nity to speak for themselves,”Sachssaid.

SSQL co-president and Dailystaffer Holly Fetter ‘13 said that shebelieved this was a way for the Sen-ate to show that the “nondiscrimi-nation policy has teeth.”

“I have to wonder what Stan-ford’s values are if it wants to bringback an institution that discrimi-nates blatantly against transgenderstudents, and people disabled men-tally and physically . . . that seemsreally flawed to me,” she said.“Thisis not about trans students versusmilitary students; this is a basicissue of upholding the nondiscrim-ination policy.”

Army ROTC cadet JimmyRuck ‘11 was also present to dis-cuss his experience in the ROTCprogram, and clarified that trans-gender students would be able toparticipate in ROTC courses of-fered at Stanford. He also men-tioned that discrimination withinROTC stems from federal policy.

“The military is under the subor-dination of the civilian leadershipof this country, it’s a federal issuemore so than a Stanford issue,”Ruck said.

After Senator Will Seaton ‘13voiced discomfort with the bill as itcurrently stood, Senator Pat Bruny‘13 suggested changing the lan-guage of the bill to specifically stateopposition to the discriminationperpetuated by the ROTC pro-gram, and not against the programitself.

During this debate, Fetter chid-ed the Senate for not taking astronger stance against ROTC.

“[The revision] is another sym-bolic gesture where you can pass abill that doesn’t say anything,” shesaid.“Be strong,be Senators,or else

this seems to be like a lot of politicalbullshit.”

After Senate Chair MadelineHawes ‘13 called for a recess, the re-maining Senators drafted a newresolution with consultation frommembers of the open forum titled,“Resolution to Acknowledge andOppose the Discriminatory Natureof ROTC’s Policies.” The new bill,which did not include the originalsupport for off-campus ROTC pro-grams, was passed unanimously bythe nine senators present.

“Students should know thatwhat we’ve passed now,which is op-posing the discriminatory policiesof ROTC, is very different fromwhat the students will be voting onThursday and Friday, which is tosupport or oppose the return ofROTC,” Senator Khaled Alshawi‘13 said.

“In terms of support or not sup-porting the return of ROTC, theSenate is not taking a stance,”Bruny said following the vote.“We’re just saying we oppose thepolicies of the program that violatethe nondiscrimination policy thatthe University has set forth.”

Contact Kate Abbott at kmabbott@stanford.edu.

SENATEContinued from front page

CorrectionThis correction relates to an Apr.

5 article entitled “University rejectsKappa Sigma appeal.” In a memo-randum, Vice Provost for StudentAffairs Greg Boardman incorrectlystated that the current Kappa Sigmahouse is located at 1025 CampusDrive.In fact,the house is situated at1035 Campus Drive.