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TINKLE TIMEJunior has career-bestgame

NEWS BRIEFS

Stanford apps

outpace Ivy rivals

UNIVERSITY

Freshmen to reflect in pilot seminars

STUDENT LIFE

Police issuemore ticketsto cut crashes

By CATHERINE ZAW STAFF WRITER

Next week, Stanford leaders will pilot Reflec-tions Seminars, a new initiative offering freshmenthe opportunity to reflect on their lives, identities

and time at Stanford. The project, spearheaded bythe Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education(VPUE) and the Vice Provost for Student Affairs(VPSA), is a collaboration of faculty, administratorsand ASSU leaders.

The initiative has been something that the dif-ferent administrators in [Undergraduate Advisingand Research] and other departments around theUniversity have been thinking about for a numberof years, said Stewart Macgregor-Dennis 13,ASSU vice president.

Over the past 18 months, more than three dozenfaculty, staff and students from across the Universi-ty have been in dialogue about the need to create aStanford 101 in order to better help students takefull advantage of all that Stanford offers both aca-demically and in terms of support and resources.

These meetings have been led by Dean of Fresh-man and Undergraduate Advising Julie Lythcott-Haims 89 and Associate Vice Provost for StudentAffairs and Dean of Residential Education Debo-rah Golder, with Vice Provost for UndergraduateEducation Harry Elam and Vice Provost for Stu-dent Affairs Greg Boardman also jointly overseeingthe effort.

The committee concluded that a Stanford 101

Board of Trustees worried about bicycle crashes, injuries

Harvard, Yale applications drop,Farm experiences record numbers

MONEY

Lobbyistsdisclose 2011expenditures

By JOSEE SMITH

Stanford University spent $420,000 onlobbying in 2011, according to the quarterlylobbying reports filed by Larry Horton 62M.A. 66, director of government and com-munity relations at Stanford.

In comparison, the University of South-ern California reported spending $580,000last year lobbying the local, state and federalgovernment. According to the Center forResponsive Politics, the University of Cali-

fornia system spent $770,000 last year on lob-bying.Horton is one of two registered lobbyists

for Stanford, along with Ryan Adesnik. Ac-cording to Horton, he and Adesnik lobby thefederal government on behalf of Stanfordsinterests.

All the things we work on are all thethings that Stanford University as an institu-tion has an interest in and is qualified tospeak on, Horton said, adding that he andAdesnik do not lobby on individual projects.

Instead, Horton said, he and Adesniklobby on issues such as education, intellectu-al property and federally sponsored re-search. In the case of federally sponsored re-search, Stanford representatives lobby to en-sure that there is adequate funding for Uni-versity research.

According to the quarterly reports, Stan-ford also lobbied on issues such as student fi-nancial aid, immigration and stem cell re-search. These lobbying reports record boththe expenses related to lobbying and the lob-bying activity. Horton must report what waslobbied and how the money was spent. Re-porting incorrectly is a criminal offense, henoted.

When asked how the lobbying expensesfor 2011 compared with previous years, Hor-ton said that the expenses were about thesame.

By JORDAN SHAPIROCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Stanford set a University recordwhen it received 36,744 applica-tions before the Jan. 1 deadline thisyear, while Harvard, Yale andPrinceton all experienced a slightdip in applications compared to theprevious year.

Stanfords Class of 2016 admis-sions pool represents a seven per-cent increase from the 34,348 ap-plications for the Class of 2015.

You know, I expected this yearactually that [the number of appli-cants] might hit a ceiling, and it did-nt, Dean of Undergraduate Ad-mission and Financial Aid RichardShaw said. It kept moving up and .. . I think thats a compliment tothe university.

When asked why he thoughtStanford continued to see more ap-plications this year than ever, Shawpointed to the Universitys fiveRhodes Scholars of 32 total for 2012.

Thats not bad in one year, hesaid.

Additionally, Shaw attributed

some of Stanfords popularity tothe ease of the Common Applica-tion, national news articles andeven the success of Stanfords foot-ball and womens soccer teams.

Shaw noted he expects to even-tually see a plateau in the size of Stanfords applicant pool giventhe national high school demo-graphics.

But right now, the trend is up-

ward, Shaw said. Its been up-ward for the last five years or so.

While Stanford received 49fewer early action applications thisyear (5,880) as compared to lastyear (5,929), its early admissionrate was still marginally lower thanthat of Harvard, Yale or Princeton.Stanford admitted 12.8 percent of its early applicants whereas Yale,Harvard and Princeton accepted15.7, 18.2 and 21.0 percent, respec-tively. Both Harvard and Prince-ton reinstated their restrictiveearly action programs this pastyear after a four-year hiatus.

We expected theyd impact us,but they didnt. They may be shar-ing common candidates in theNortheast. They probably are shar-ing them with us, but we have otherpeople interested, so . . . we wentup more precipitously than theydid in terms of applications, Shawsaid.

In our case, Princeton and Har-vard joining Yale in our restrictiveearly action to me, that createseven a level of greater sanity, headded. Young people applyingearly to those programs should be

doing so because its their firstchoice or close to it, and they getout of the applicant pools of every-body else.

Indeed, Harvard saw a recordamount of applications for theClass of 2015 last year, reaching34,950 interested students, and re-ceived fewer applications this year,

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Happiness within reach

MADELINE SIDES/The Stanford Daily Vaden Health Center hosted a Feb. 4 conference featuring speakers who have published books andauthored studies on human emotion. The conference, entitled Happiness Within Reach, sold out.

By MARSHALL WATKINSDESK EDITOR

Bill Larson, spokesman for theStanford Department of PublicSafety (SUDPS), confirmed thatthe Stanford police department hasrecently increased its efforts re-garding bicycle safety and educa-tion in an effort to reduce the num-ber of collisions on campus.

Larson noted, however, thatbike enforcement is [an ongoing]part of our education of the Stan-ford community to obey trafficlaws, and that enforcement effortsperiodically increase throughoutthe year, especially during timessuch as New Student Orientation(NSO).

SUDPS Chief Laura Wilsonsaid an in email to The Daily thatthe increased patrols by Stanfordsheriffs are in response to concernsraised by, among others, membersof the Board of Trustees and theUniversity Cabinet. According toWilson, education-based bike safe-ty programs had previously failedto change the actual behavior of bikers around campus.

Enforcement has increased

around the intersections of CampusDrive and Escondido Road, Lomi-ta Drive and Santa Teresa Streetand Serra Street and Galvez Street.

Larson emphasized that the in-creased time spent on bicycle safetyhas not necessitated redeploymentof deputies from other tasks aparticularly salient point followingtwo assaults reported on campusthis past weekend.

Larson said that enforcement MADELINE SIDES/The Stanford DailyJerry Michalski, founder of the Relationship Economy eXpedition, spoke Saturday at Rio+2.0.The three-day conference attracted technology innovators and international policymakers.

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GSB, State Department hostRio+2.0 conferenceBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The State Department and the GraduateSchool of Business (GSB) jointly hosted theRio+2.0 conference last week to discuss the useof technology and social media in advancingsustainable development solutions, accordingto the Stanford Center for Social Innovation.

The conference, held Feb. 2 to Feb. 4, was inpreparation for the United Nations Confer-ence on Sustainable Development that will beheld in Rio de Janeiro June 20 to 22.

We will explore existing and proposedtechnologies and the opportunities as well as at-tributes of the innovation culture, and the roleof governments and civil society in fosteringbroader innovation, the U.N. web page on the

Stanford conference states. The event will beinteractive, combining talks and panels with au-dience participation through breakout sessionsand a final unconference session.

More than 400 global policymakers, devel-opment professionals and technology innova-tors attended the conference, according to theState Department website. Government rep-resentatives from the Department of Agricul-ture, the Department of State, the Environmen-tal Protection Agency, the White House and theGovernments of Kenya and Indonesia spoke atthe conference in the Knight ManagementCenter.

Executives from CMEA Capital, ePara-chute.com, ESRI, goBalto, Google, GuidewireGroup, Intel, Omidyar Network, OpenIDEO,OReilly Media, Mightybell, Noventi QuickEagle Networks, Yola, Inc. and Yonja Media

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We are a very small staff,Horton said. We have five profes-sional people to handle all of Stan-fords community, state and feder-al relations.

Stanford lobbyists do not havea Washington, D.C., office, some-thing that many other, biggerschools, such as the University of California, Berkeley and the Uni-versity of Michigan, do have.

According to the Political Ac-tivities section of the Administra-tive Guide Memo, approved byPresident Hennessy and applica-ble to all members of the Univer-sity community, all members arefree to express their politicalopinions and engage in politicalactivities to whatever extent theywish. However, they must avoideven the appearance that they arespeaking or acting for the Univer-sity in political matters.

The memo lists the officialswho can lobby on behalf of theUniversity without specific au-thorization: the President,Provost, Deans of the SevenSchools, Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Vice Provost for Grad-uate Education, Vice Presidentfor Business Affairs and Chief Fi-nancial Officer, Vice President of Human Resources, Director of the SLAC National AcceleratorLaboratory, Director of theHoover Institute, General Coun-sel and the Vice President for Pub-lic Affairs.

Any faculty member whowishes to lobby on behalf of theUniversity for specific purposesmust be granted permission fromthe Vice Provost and Dean of Re-search and Graduate Policy. TheVice President for Public Affairsmay grant permission to staff members to lobby on behalf of theUniversity, and all lobbying on be-half of the University must be co-ordinated with the Vice Presidentfor Public Affairs, according to theguide memo.

Most of the money recorded inthe quarterly reports is a percent-age of the salary of the personwho did the lobbying and any re-lated expenses, such as travel andhotel costs.

From time to time, Stanford

does hire resources from Wash-ington or from Sacramento tohelp us, Horton said. Theamounts we pay for them wouldbe included in our reports.

According to Horton, Stanfordmostly lobbies on federal govern-ment issues primarily issuesbefore Congress. Lobbying at thelocal or state level involves a dif-ferent type of reporting require-

ments. For instance, no one atStanford, not even Horton, is aregistered lobbyist in Sacramentobecause nobody meets the thresh-old required to be a lobbyist inSacramento politics.

When it comes to local gov-ernment, county government, citygovernment . . . there is a differ-ent set of rules, Horton said.

Occasionally Stanford does getinvolved in issues in Palo Alto if they have the potential for a sig-nificant effect on students and fac-ulty at Stanford. For instance,Stanford takes interest in trans-portation and school board issuesif they involve the interests of theschool.

There is only one restriction onthe kind of lobbying in whichStanford is allowed to participate:partisan politics.

We cannot support a candi-date or partisan activity, Hortonsaid. He added that Stanfordnever takes positions on popularinterests of the day, instead fo-cusing on issues that concern theschool. Stanford can permit indi-viduals to speak on campus, butcampaign speeches are off limits,according to Horton.

The Center for ResponsivePolitics reported that StanfordUniversity individuals con-tributed $595,716 to then-SenatorBarack Obamas campaign in2008. These contributions did notcome from the school directly; in-stead, they came from individualmembers who support a particularcandidate and contribute theirown money to campaigns. Thisnumber was the sum of moneycontributed by individual facultyand students, but not money do-nated on behalf of the school.

When we take positions, wetake positions on behalf of theUniversity, Horton said. We onlyinvolve ourselves on issues that af-fect education and research.

Contact Josee Smith at jsmith11 @ stanford.edu.

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curriculum should have two com-ponents to it, which Lythcott-Haims described as Reflectionand Navigation. Newly formedtask forces composed of faculty,staff and students are currently ex-ploring programming for thesetwo components.

Each task force will run aprocess of prototype and iterationwhich will last two to three quar-ters, Lythcott-Haims said. ByJan. 2013, we hope to have a clearsense of how to integrate theseconcepts of Reflection and Nav-igation into the undergraduateexperience for offering in the2013-14 school year.

Lythcott-Haims said that theReflection idea originated fromthe notion that students shouldhave the chance to pause and re-flect upon big questions: Who amI? What are my ideals anddreams? What is important tome? How am I going to spendmy time? What do I want to dowith my life?

Students will be encouraged tothink about how to integrate theiranswers to those questions withthe myriad of opportunities of-fered by a Stanford education.

Students will be encouraged tothink further about their Stanfordexperience, not just the four yearsthey have on campus, but also theyears afterward, Macgregor-Den-nis said. Its to reflect on their cur-rent involvement on campus, not toadd more on their plate.

The goal would be that stu-dents would end up having a clear-er sense of self as they make theirway through their undergraduateexperience and would more inten-tionally and more thoughtfullymake choices about course selec-tion, major declaration and thetypes of activities they pursue hereas a result, Lythcott-Haims said.

This winters Stanford Reflec-tions Seminar is only open to cur-rent freshmen. At the moment, 75

freshmen have signed up to beplaced into small groups, each of which will be led by two peoplefrom either the faculty or adminis-tration and one upperclassmanmentor. Each student group willconsist of approximately eight to12 students and will host three 90-minute sessions over the course of the quarter. The small group expe-rience was designed to foster trustand community and to benefit stu-dents mental health and wellness.

Involved faculty membershope to continue to test the pro-gram to see whether or not sopho-mores would benefit from the ex-perience as well.

Our counterparts at Harvardhave been running a program likethis for three to four years, and weare excited to compare notes withthem once our pilot gets under-way, Lythcott-Haims said.

The later Navigation piece of the project stems from one of themajor concerns that was broughtup over the committee meetings namely that students oftendont seem to know about or knowhow to utilize the numerous re-sources that already exist on ourcampus, she said.

According to Lythcott-Haims,Navigation will likely be a 10-week course attempting to demys-tify the Universitys structure andintroduce students to some of itskey resources, opportunities andsupport. The program will includeteaching students how to findgood places to study, manage timeeffectively, take advantage of fac-ulty office hours, gain awareness of mental health and wellness re-sources, get involved in research,write a resume and cover letter,get advice from upperclassmenand use Axess, CourseRank andExploreCourses.

Courses of this sort are current-ly offered to different degrees atthe University, such as throughUARs Expanded Advising Pro-gram, with partners in the commu-nity centers and in athletics, andthrough a student-initiated courseon Navigating the University,taught by Maya Amoils 12 andAlex Wittenberg 12 this fall. Acourse taught by former ArroyoResident Fellow Todd Davies tohis freshmen last spring also ad-dressed the topic.

The job of the Navigation TaskForce will be to design a 10-weekcurriculum drawing upon the bestthat is already offered, in order toscale current offerings up to hun-dreds of students, Lythcott-Haimssaid.

While it is too soon to drawconclusions, our hope is that boththe Reflections and Navigationpieces will prove to be excitingnew offerings on the Stanford un-dergraduate landscape. We envi-sion that they will be voluntary

and perhaps credit-bearing, Lyth-cott-Haims said.Ive been blown away by all

the faculty and how much care andeffort theyve put into the pro-gram, Macgregor-Dennis said.The work of the administratorsand faculty members who Iveseen working to put on the Stan-ford Reflection project makes meproud to be working with them.They have total commitment formaking this a breakthrough proj-ect and Im really excited to seetheir efforts come to realization.

Contact Catherine Zaw at czaw13@stanford.edu.

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By JUSTINE ZHANG

In Stanfords math corner, abuilding housing hundreds of years of mathematicalprogress, Professor KannanSoundararajan is in his ele-

ment. On any given day, his black-board quickly fills with expressionsand equations, detailing materialfrom the classes he teaches and hisresearch interests. His bookshelf

displays several groundbreakingpublications by famous mathemati-cians, all members of the great tra-dition of unearthing new mathe-matical insights.

Soundararajans track record in-dicates his own role in continuingthis tradition. He recently receivedthe 2011 Infosys Prize in Mathe-matical Sciences for his work inproving a significant result calledthe Quantum Unique ErgodicityConjecture.

Soundararajans mathematicalinclinations were evident even inhis childhood. In middle school, histeachers identified his talent for thesubject and put him in touch with aresearch institute in the city of Madras (now Chennai), India.

He employed his mathematicaltalent to represent India at the 1991International Math Olympiad, win-ning a silver medal.

Soundararajans teachers en-couraged him throughout highschool to pursue mathematics, andit was in this environment that hisspecific mathematic focusemerged: analytic number theory.

Analytic number theory is thestudy of integers using the tech-niques of calculus and analysis afield of mathematics pursued bymany of Soundararajans mentors.One of Soundararajans most influ-ential instructors, RamachandranBalasubramanian proved in 1992that every sufficiently large integercan be written as the sum of 19fourth powers.Soundararajans mentorship byleading mathematicians, combinedwith his own affinity for analysis,

steered him toward analytic num-ber theory. According toSoundararajan, the guiding prob-lem in modern number theory is thenotoriously unresolved Riemannhypothesis, and much of his mathe-matical effort is devoted toward de-veloping the tools needed to proveor disprove the hypothesis.

Filling much of Soundararajansblackboard, for instance, are L-func-tions, which are closely related to thekey players in the Riemann hypoth-esis. For distilling the characteristicsof these functions, and providing in-sight into how prime numbers aredistributed, Soundararajan receivedthe 2003 Salem Prize and the 2005SASTRA Ramanujan Prize.

For the most part, Soundarara- jan describes his mathematical ap-proach as relatively streamlined.

My own strengths lie in attack-ing the problem itself and develop-ing tools unique to solving the par-ticular problem, he said.

Nevertheless, he characterizedeureka moments as the almost

serendipitous instances when twodisparate conjectures connect toform a proof.

This idea of looking beyond theimmediate scope of a problem tomake incisive connections played akey role in Soundararajans mostrecent award-winning advance-ment.

To the seasoned academic, theQuantum Unique Ergodicity Con- jecture might sound like more of aphysics problem. In fact, quantumergodicity is a branch of physics thataims to apply quantum mechanicallaws to the macroscopic scale of classical mechanics, another fa-mous but unresolved problem.

This conjecture in particular ex-amines how the shape of their en-closures influences waves. In placeof waves, Soundararajan offeredthe example of pool balls enclosedon a frictionless pool table. If a pool

ball is hit in certain directions, it willbounce in one consistent, limitedpath around the pool table. Hittingit in other directions, however, willcause the ball to bounce in a moredisorderly manner, covering pathsthat span more of the pool table.

While Soundararajan is not aphysicist, he was exposed to thisproblem as a graduate student atPrinceton University. The experi-ence eventually caused him to real-ize that a major portion of this ideacould be equated to properties of

shapes derived from L-functions, asubject squarely in his area of math-ematical expertise. With RomanHolowinsky of the University of

Toronto, he was able to prove thatfor a large class of enclosure shapes,the pool ball never gets stuck inone track, and its path evenly spansthe area of the pool table.

In an email to The Daily,Soundararajan noted the surprisingnature of this melding of physicsand abstract mathematics.

The connection with quantumchaos is a feature that has made thisproblem attractive to many peo-ple, he said. Its a little unusual tofind such a connection which has

genuine interest for people work-ing in very different areas.The groundbreaking nature of

such results runs parallel to his con-

tinued enjoyment of the mathemat-ical process. Soundararajans cru-cial and counterintuitive realizationthat the Quantum Unique Ergodic-ity Conjecture could be reformulat-ed to a problem involving L-func-tions exemplifies his favorite aspectof mathematics.

In working on math problems,often one starts out in the dark,Soundararajan said. For me, themost fun is when there is a key pieceto be found, and once one finds therest, the proof falls easily into

place.Contact Justine Zhang at justinez@stanford. edu.

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Courtesy of the Infosys Science FoundationKannan Soundararajan won the 2011 Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his groundbreaking work.

PROFILEBy ETHAN KESSINGER

It started with just a cou-ple of guys in the 90s,and has grown intowhat it is today.

This statement could describemany legacies of the 90s, frombands such as The Wallflowers todot-com start-ups and the firstMP3 players. It also happens to behow Emily Song 13 describes thebeginning of the Stanford CardinalBroadcasting Network (SCBN).SCBN, Stanfords only televisionstation, has made big strides sincethose couple of guys back in theday.

On the surface, SCBN seemslike many other college televisionstations. Viewership is not high,

and the station focuses more onthe experience of making televi-sion programs than the commer-cial success of the finished prod-uct, but the similarities end there.

SCBN is an entirely student-run organization. While this cre-ates challenges in student com-mitment and campus-wide adver-tisement, it allows motivated stu-dents the opportunity to experi-ence all aspects of running a tele-vision station.

Song, the current station man-ager, knows firsthand how diffi-cult it is to get students committedto the group, whether they aregroup members or recruits.

There was one moment when Iwas tabling at White Plaza for fourhours yelling at people aboutSCBN by myself, she said. But I

got a lot of people to sign up andgot amazing interns from that day.Fortunately for Song, this year

SCBN has gained significantlymore student involvement. Thereare eight student executives whocater to administrative needs, inaddition to determining and edit-ing show content. This workwould be in vain without the hun-dreds of other students affiliatedwith the station, which includeshow producers, actors, hosts andcameramen.

The station broadcasts panelsfrom the Career and Develop-ment Center, student-led talkshows and, in the past, comedy sit-coms.

There are never really anystrict requirements or quotas,said Victoria Shantrell Asbury11. If you have some interestingcontent and want to put it on, youcould.

Asbury has hosted The Dia-logue for the past two years. Theprogram is a talk show that tries toinitiate conversations throughoutcampus on subjects ranging fromdating to homophobia. Asburymade it clear that to her, it mattersmore what her guests have to saythan who they are.

The Dialogue is about hav-ing regular, everyday people gettogether and have a conversa-tion, she said. It was never about

having just the popular or famouspeople on.

SCBN works with studentswho want experience in the enter-

tainment industry through themedia of television and opens itsdoors to nearly everyone on cam-pus. All Stanford students are wel-come to submit material to beplaced on SCBN, even if just anidea. Those more interested in be-hind-the-scenes work can alsofind their niches. For instance, stu-dents can intern with the execu-tive team, work as cameramen,stagehands, editors or producers.

SCBN also gives back to theStanford community by offeringequipment for rental to students.As long as they credit the station,anyone with a vision or an im-pending class project has accessto professional quality equipment.

Beyond students, SCBN teamsup with on-campus groups to pro-mote their activities.

This past fall the station fea-tured a video by the Stanford jug-gling troupe, Down with Gravity,titled, Juggling Revolution.

These features allow studentsto get a closer look at the varietyof activities that they may neverhave an opportunity to experi-ence firsthand, in addition to ful-filling one of SCBNs greatest re-sponsibilities: broadcasting theunique voices and talents of the Stanford community.

Contact Ethan Kessinger at ekess-ing@stanford.edu.

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OPINIONS

Y ou know that one elderlycouple sitting together onthe bench by the waterfrontin that one chick flick that youswear youre never going to see?

I would rather have gone tothe quad, I think, he said.

Yes, well have to do that nexttime, she responded. Oh, I gotthose cherry muffins we wanted,but theyre a bit dry . . .

I was sitting on the light brownbench at Lake Lag with that cou-ple yesterday. My friend beside mewas reading a book with a protag-onist named Hiro Protagonist.Two separate students I knewstrolled by, each holding the handof a significant other I had no ideathey had.

The elderly couple continuedon about someones kids, afterleaving once and returning to thebench. The woman turned to methen, with a very happy face:

Excuse me do you know

when the Superbowl is playingtoday?And the playlist of that one fra-

ternity house went from HakunaMatata to Dont Stop Believin.

All I could think was how whileI sometimes convince myself thatlife is excruciatingly dramatic, Iforget how it can be so timelesslysimple.

I got thirsty, so we ventured intothe ceramics building behind us fora water fountain. We ran into a mu-tual friend who was spending theafternoon sketching with twoother girls at a table on the porch.

Does it help? Drawing some-thing so simple? one of themasked, as her friend shaded in athree-dimensional shape.

Yeah, I dont have to drawcomplicated arms for once.

I thought it was funny that I washearing this dialogue in the midstof thinking about why this dayseemed so effortless, so I interrupt-ed no better word for it theirconversation to ask for permissionto reprint their words, as Ive done just now.

Then my friend and I headed

back to our original bench, passingthat elderly couple as they left thelake. The woman smiled broadly atme.

The interesting thing aboutwriting is its ability to condense lifeinto digestible stories. And weoften resent it. Did this pleasantstory seem real to you? Or did itseem removed and thus unreal?Because in some stories, couplesdo stay married until theyre old.Characters run into each other inunexpected, out-of-context situa-tions. Strangers meet strangersthat voice the thoughts they wereliterally just thinking. In themovies, these things happen, andoh, do we scoff. Life is complicated.Dont be nave.

But my mom is right, as she usu-ally is, though I dont know howmuch so until later: Those thingsdo happen in real life!!! (My momhas recently taken to great repeti-tion of this statement.) The fact,though, that the statement exists atall, often with incredulity and anexclamation point, says something:namely, we dont believe it. Indeed,history courses have taught methat a good dose of skepticism ishealthy. But more and more Imrealizing how easily I can over-dose.

Love is clich and I hateclichs were the catch phrases Iused to stamp all over my note-

books and binders in high school.And, until recently, I hate ro-mantic comedies. (But, seriously When Harry Met Sally?!How could I think I wouldnt likeWhen Harry Met Sally?!) Atleast in part, this self-brandingcampaign was an effort to prove Iwas more complex than any easymovie montage or oft-statedsong line. I thought I was suffi-ciently old and jaded enough toconquer simplicity, pish-tosh.Skepticism was sophisticated, so-phisticated was cool and, in thisworld, being cool is really im-portant even if the wordsexact definition is in constantflux. But, oh, the irony of think-ing I could hate a clich likelove , when I soon learned howmuch of a gift it actually is.

My default setting to generalskepticism caused and causes

problems. Its a tiresome positionthat has forced me to play devilsadvocate and say things simply be-cause another person didnt. Itsuseless controversy in casual con-versation, poison for so many of my family relationships. Skepti-cism is what keeps me from a par-ticular relationship, a future Imight reject, my trust in someone.And the fact is, for all of the wayswe say were not hopeless roman-tics, we are. Every time we ask anew acquaintance if they bychance know another friend of ours, or take a chance on someonewe keep thinking about that isus permitting, finally, belief insomething pure and simple, with-out letting reason or logic inter-

fere.In a skeptical world, slow after-noons are clich, the elderly coupleis picturesque, the soundtrack iscompletely coincidental in this col-umn. In a skeptical world, my daywas all of those things. But, if myday was going to stay my day, Iwould have to choose otherwise.So I would choose to believe insomething simpler.

This is the first column of the newvolume. Ninas hopeful for it, but wants to hear you first. Shes waiting

literally! for a thought or two,which you can send straight to ni-namc@ stanford.edu.

N ewt Gingrich has gotten alot of flak recently for ag-gressively promoting hisvision of a permanent U.S. base onthe moon, populated by a suffi-cient number of citizens to makeit Americas 51st state. Politiciansand pundits on both sides of theaisle seemed to find the idea moreloony than lunar.

Republicans lamented thehigh costs such a big government

program would inevitably entail,arguing that Leviathan had grownlarge enough on Earth withoutspreading its nefarious tentaclesinto outer space.

Mitt Romney, ever the cost-cutting businessman, snorted that,If I had a business executivecome to me and say, I wanted tospend a few hundred billion dol-lars to put a colony on the moon,Id say, Youre fired. A satelliteradio ad by the Santorum cam-paign called Gingrichs moonbase idea fiscal insanity andanother reason true conserva-tives are uniting behind Rick San-torum. In a separate op-ed, Mr.Santorum again appealed to theTea Party shibboleth of fiscal aus-

terity, declaring its hard to takethe Speaker seriously as a fiscalconservative when he puts theseextravagant expensive ideas overthe economic well-being of thenext generation.

Liberals, wary about the diver-sion of valuable federal fundsaway from the fraying threads of the social safety net, also tookpains to ensure that Mr. Gin-grichs scheme never leaves thelaunch pad. In the New YorkTimes, Charles Blow lambastedthe former Speakers plan tolaunch billions of dollars intospace at the expense of much-needed social programs here athome, calling Gingrich a virtualsupernova of megalomaniacalmadness. Mr. Blow spoke formany space-skeptical liberalswhen he opined that the lastthing that people who cant holdon to their jobs and houses hereon Earth want to hear about is acolony on the Moon . . . Earth toNewt: phone home.

But Im with Mr. Gingrich onthis one. A collective, nationalventure of grandiose ambition, inwhich we accomplish somethinggreat together, may be exactlywhat this country needs right now.

Everywhere one looks, espe-cially this campaign season, onesees an America riven by partisanbickering, squabbling viciouslyover entitlement cuts and tax re-form and furiously dividing andsubdividing itself into percentagepoints and classes. We fight over,in the parlance of political science,who gets what, when and how.

But lost in all this is any sense of collective purpose a sense thatthe country can accomplish greatthings through the sustained appli-cation of determined national will.

In some regard, this is simply aloss of faith conditioned by timeand wearying experience. For thelast half-century, nearly all of Americas great national projectshave concerned either guns andammo wars in Vietnam, Iraqand Afghanistan or exhaust-ing, enervating battles of anothersort in programs like LyndonJohnsons failed War on Poverty.

But it doesnt have to be thatway. National pride can be har-nessed for good, as it was with theinterstate highway system, the

Peace Corps and the planting of an American flag on the moon.As early as June 1978, when he

delivered his now-famous com-mencement speech at Harvard, So-viet dissident and writer AlexanderSolzhenitsyn diagnosed the funda-mental problems of the West ashyper-individualism, a paralyzingnarrowness of vision and the de-cline and fall of civil courage the willingness of individuals tosacrifice for the greater good. Bypersistent recourse to an unin-spired legalism, he declared, Amer-icans had precluded the opportuni-ty to urge self-restraint, sacrificeand selfless risk: it would soundsimply absurd. He concluded witha passage that sounds as if it couldhave easily come directly from adescription of the Gingrich spacecampaign:

A statesman who wants toachieve something important andhighly constructive for his countryhas to move cautiously and eventimidly; there are thousands of hasty and irresponsible criticsaround him, parliament and thepress keep rebuffing him . . . Ac-tually an outstanding and particu-larly gifted person who has unusu-al and unexpected initiatives inmind hardly gets a chance to as-sert himself; from the very begin-ning, dozens of traps will be setout for him. Thus mediocrity tri-umphs with the excuse of restric-tions imposed by democracy.

As mercurial, unstable, lecher-ous and wholly unfit for the presi-dency as Mr. Gingrich may be, Iadmire him for his unparalleledcourage to dream and dare, tothink big and to transcend theconfines of mediocrity . . . withthe excuse of restrictions imposedby democracy. America coulduse a symbolic victory to unite usbehind something constructive to be confident, as we once were,that this country can get some-thing done besides drop bombsand squabble.

I look forward to the day whenAmerica regains its civil courage the audacity to reach literallyfor the stars and to individually

sacrifice for the achievement of something we do together.

Dream big anytime by emailingMiles at milesu1@stanford.edu.

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even after reinstating its early ac-tion program. Of the 34,285 ap-plications submitted by the regu-lar decision deadline, only the772 students who were acceptedearly action have been guaran-teed their spot in the Class of 2016, potentially drawing themout of the applicant pool forother elite universities.

Princeton released statisticsconfirming the same trend asHarvard. Last year, Princeton re-ceived 27,189 applications for theClass of 2015, as compared to26,663 applications this year forthe Class of 2016. While this ap-plicant pool is still the secondlargest in the schools history, theincrease may be reflective of Princetons 2005 initiative toswell its student body from 4,700to 5,200. On Dec. 15, 2011, Prince-ton accepted the first 726 stu-dents into its Class of 2016.

When we were by ourselvesin the restrictive program, andPrinceton and Harvard were out,their candidates might have ap-plied to us, and then they wouldapply to them later and have towait until the spring. But wed losesome of those kids. Wed alsogained some [from early pro-grams] and [Princeton and Har-vard] knew that, Shaw said, re-flecting on the effect Ivy Leagueadmissions might have on Stan-fords yield. But I think [the early

program] distributes the studentsif these are the institutions theyreinterested in. If it takes them outof the pool, and theyre not col-lecting trophies of admissions,then thats a good thing.

The reinstitution of early pro-grams might mean that there ismore space for other applicantsafter several trophy-collectorsare taken out of the pool by anacceptance from their top choiceschool, Shaw said.

With application numbers in-creasing and additional studentsvying for a place in the Stanfordstudent body, Shaw encouragedhigh school seniors to take theirapplications seriously by makingsure that they can be competitiveamong the rest of the applicantpool.

Students should really beclear about and know that theyare competitive for a place in theclass, Shaw said. They shouldpay attention in all these institu-tions in terms of . . . the competi-tive characteristics of thoseplaces, the grade point averages,and pay attention to what theyread in their applications, the ap-plication instructions and soforth.

Despite his warning, Shawdoes not discourage interestedapplicants from applying to Stan-ford.

Were really excited aboutthe fact that theres a lot of inter-est, he said. Its very extraordi-nary. Weve been discovered.

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Alice Phillips

Two assaults reportedSunday morning

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Two campus-wide emails alert-ed Stanford students and faculty totwo violent crimes that occurredwithin 15 minutes of each otherearly Sunday morning.

A female victim reported beingassaulted at 1:45 a.m. Sundaymorning near Kennedy Grove, be-tween the Faculty Club and theHumanities Center. The victim waswalking back to her residence atthe time.

The suspect approached the vic-tim from behind and tackled the vic-tim to the ground, according to theStanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS). A male inthe vicinity saw the incident andyelled at the suspect. The suspectsubsequently fled the scene.

The victim described the sus-pect who is still at large accord-ing to an email sent via the Alert-SU mass notification system asa white male in his 20s, approxi-mately 6 feet tall and 180 pounds.He was wearing a dark shirt and

baseball cap and smelled stronglyof alcohol.

At 2 a.m. Sunday morning, aman entered an unlocked room at1018 Campus Drive and climbedinto a female students bed whilethe victim was asleep. He attempt-ed to remove her clothing, but thevictim woke up and was able to getout of bed and exit the room.

The victim described the man,whom she did not know, as a maleof Hispanic ethnicity, in his 20s, ap-proximately 5-foot-11 and of aver-age build, according to SUDPS.She said that he was wearing a but-toned-up red flannel shirt, blue

jeans and a grey baseball cap at thetime. She reported the suspectsmelled of cigarette smoke.

Alice Phillips

Researchersinvestigate how humor activates

kids brainsBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Researchers at the StanfordUniversity School of Medicinehave shown that parts of the brainnetwork that react to humor in anadult are already present in chil-dren ages six to 12. These neuralcircuits, while present in children,develop into more sophisticatednetworks as children mature, ac-cording to a statement on theSchool of Medicines website.

The research team studied the

functional magnetic resonance im-aging (fMRI) brain scans of six- to12-year-old children who watchedshort video clips. The children inthe study were of average intelli-gence or higher and did not haveany psychiatric or developmentalproblems. The researchers usedvideos in three categories to evalu-ate the brain activity: funny, posi-tive and neutral.

According to the School of Medicines statement, the funnyvideos were intended to be re-warding and positive to watchwhile the positive videos were onlyintended to be rewarding. The neu-tral videos were intended to be nei-ther funny nor rewarding.

The researchers found that thefunny videos activated two regionsin the childrens brains that are alsoactivated in adults brains whenthey view funny material. Howev-er, an area of the brain known asthe temporal-occipital-parietal

junction, which processes per-ceived incongruities, was activatedin both the left and right hemi-spheres of the childrens brains.This area is only activated on theleft side of the brain in adult sub-

jects reacting to similar material.Humor also activated the brainsmesolimbic regions, which processrewards.

The research team includedAllan Reiss, director of the Centerfor Interdisciplinary Brain Sci-ences Research at Stanford, andMichelle Neely 11, currently aCornell medical student. The studywas published in the Feb. 1 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.

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efforts have been predominantlysituated in response to observa-tions and complaints from the com-munity.

While cycling violations, themost common of which are stop-sign infringements, can be penalizedby fines ranging from $100 to $200,students are often offered a choicebetween paying a monetary fineand attending a bike diversionprogram intended to educate stu-dents about bike safety.

We have always enforced cy-cling laws on campus, said DeputyAllen James, the programs coordi-nator and developer. We hope that

by enforcing the laws and educat-ing the community, we can changethe whole bicycling environment.

The hour-long class, which is of-fered twice a month, is a collabora-tion between the SUDPS and Park-ing & Transportation and was cre-ated in 2011. The program is freeand open to all students, but repeatoffenders are barred from attend-ing the class again within 18months.

John Burke 14 was at the mostrecent class in the Parking andTransportation building, along with

about 50 other students.They talked a bunch about var-

ious rules involving lane changesand what to do at intersections,

said Burke, who received a ticketfor not having a bike light. The in-structor told a couple stories of bad accidents hed seen, and told usits not that uncommon to havebike accidents and get hurt inthem.

Burke noted that the class didntteach him anything new, however itdid serve to remind him that bikingis not as safe as students sometimesthink it is.

The bike diversion program of-fers an opportunity, James said, tochange a punitive endeavor into an

educational situation.James noted that a significant

majority of students cited on cam-pus choose to attend the class rather

than pay a fine. He added that, whilethere is no data to suggest conclu-sively that ticketing levels have fall-en, feedback for the program hasbeen almost entirely positive.

The programs been very suc-cessful for the University, Jamessaid. Its good for our community,and were very proud of it.

Brendan OByrne contributed to this report.

Contact Marshall Watkins at mtwa t kins @stanford.edu.

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By DANIEL E. LUPINSTAFF WRITER

Its not often you get a chance toknock off number one. Its even morerare to get a chance to knock off num-ber one twice in the same weekend. Butthat was no problem for the Stanfordmens volleyball team.The No. 7 Cardinal (7-2, 4-1 MPSF)rode a wave of brilliant performancesfrom several different players over theweekend to knock off top-ranked BYU(6-3, 4-2) in consecutive nights, 25-21,20-25, 25-20, 25-18 and 35-33, 25-23, 25-22, resulting in Stanfords first-everroad sweep of BYU.

We played well, and it was fun infront of 4,500 people, head coach JohnKosty replied when asked to sum up theweekend.

On Friday, a pair of career-bestnights from sophomores Steven Irvinand Brian Cook propelled the Cardinalto victory. The emergence of Stanfordssupremely talented sophomores hasbeen a theme this season, and againstthe Cougars, it was no different. Irvinfinished with a double-double of 14kills and 12 digs, hitting at an impressive.476 clip, while Cook went for a career-high 20 kills at a .390 hitting percentage,adding seven digs and two solo blocks.

The sophomores have to playwell, Kosty said. I thought StevenIrvin had an incredible Friday match.He played some of the best volleyballhe has played as a Stanford Cardinal.

Senior setter Evan Barry also set theCardinal up for success in his returnfrom injury, as he finished with 54 as-sists to go along with seven digs andthree kills. Stanford hit .358 as a team, areflection of Barrys outstanding per-

Maybe its because Imfinally starting to getthe hang of Ameri-can sports, or that Immellowing in my old

age, but it seems like a while since I re-ceived any good hate mail in re-sponse to my columns.

I used to get about one complaintevery week, mostly attacking me forbeing a foreigner and informing methat I have no place daring to have anopinion about U.S. sports. Admitted-ly, that opinion was often that footballgames take far too long (like theSuper Bowl) and that the catchersmitt in baseball is a comically-gianthand, but now five of my last sixcolumns have been firmly centeredon things this side of the Atlantic . . .and nothing.

In fact, the most insulting thinganyone said to me last week waswhen a friend asked very muchmistakenly I hasten to add why Iwasnt a big soccer fan because I ap-parently only talk about football andbasketball anymore.

So lets talk about soccer eventhough I might be upsetting people. Itcame out recently that the EnglishFootball Association may be consid-ering none other than Jos Mrio dosSantos Flix Mourinho as the re-placement for England managerFabio Capello after the EuropeanFootball Championship this summer.

In case you know nothing aboutMourinho, he is a controversial fig-ure. Though clearly a talented manag-er, he has done little to win the heartsand minds of opposing fans or the au-thorities, and is a walking definition of the words arrogant and outspo-ken. If I need any pointers in upset-ting people, I should turn to the self-declared special one, a man whoonce boasted he had no equals, saying

the worlds hierarchy was God, andafter God, me.As an England soccer fan, it has

been frustrating how the EnglishFootball Association has picked for-eigners over English managers in re-cent years, and worse because the ex-periment so far doesnt appear to beworking. We certainly dont look likea team worthy of winning anotherWorld Cup anytime soon. It is alsohard to believe that a non-Englishboss, even with all the credentials inthe world, will really care enough

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Mourinhoand England:Made to be

By DEAN McARDLESTAFF WRITER

After struggling to a win against a toughArizona State team on Thursday, the Stanfordwomens basketball team completed its sweepof the Arizona schools with a 91-51 blowoutover Arizona on Saturday.

The superstar of Saturdays game surpris-

ingly was not one of the Ogwumike sisters, butinstead junior Joslyn Tinkle, who led the Car-dinal with a career-high 22 points along with 11rebounds. Tinkle was one of five players indouble-digits for Stanford (20-1, 11-0 Pac-12),which picked up its 17th win in a row and 21ststraight victory over Arizona (13-10, 2-9).

Stanfords starting forwards made their in-side presence felt, accounting for 55 pointsand 27 rebounds enough to outscore Ari-zona on their own. Sophomore Chiney Og-wumike poured in 18 points, and her sister,senior Nnemkadi Ogwumike, added 15 forthe Cardinal.

The 40-point margin stands in stark con-trast to Stanfords pair of previous down-to-

the-wire contests. Cal pushed the Cardinal toovertime on Jan. 28, and Arizona State hadStanford knotted at 40 apiece in the secondhalf on Thursday before Stanford pulled away.

Weve kind of been playing people closerthan we wanted to, Stanford head coach TaraVanDerveer said of the squads previousgames.

On Saturday, though, Stanford was clicking

on all cylinders offensively, shooting just over50 percent from the field.The Cardinal also started to find its stroke

from behind the arc, hitting eight three-point-ers. The team had struggled recently fromthree-point land, shooting just 24 percent fromdeep in its last three contests.

When Stanford was off the mark it cleanedup its misses, accumulating 22 second-chancepoints, mostly due to the fact that the Cardinalout-rebounded the Wildcats by a margin of 48-33.

Arizona can look to its youth as a sign of better things to come. Freshman center AleyRohde scored nine points and grabbed 11 re-bounds, while sophomore guard Candice

Warthen came off the bench for 13 points topace the Wildcats.

Stanford came out swinging and leaped to a10-0 lead in the opening three minutes. Ari-zona responded with seven straight points be-fore the Cardinal went on an 18-2 run to makethe score 31-9 with 9:46 left in the first half.

From there, the outcome was never indoubt.

Stanford capitalized on Wildcat mistakeswith 12 points off turnovers in the first half, andthe Cardinals lead was 20 points at the break.

The second half would prove to be more of the same. Sophomore Toni Kokenis splashedin a three on an assist from freshman AmberOrrange on Stanfords first possession of thehalf and finished the game with 11 points,going 4-8 on field goals. Meanwhile, Orrangewas perfect from the floor, gathering 10 pointson 5-5 shooting.

Rohde sunk a free throw at the 15:45 markto cut the Stanford lead to 27. The Cardinal re-sponded by racking up 16 unanswered points

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Card upsetsNo. 1 BYUtwo times

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailyJunior Joslyn Tinkle had a career-high 22 points at Arizona Saturday and was one of two Cardinal players with double-doubles in the 91-51 routof the Wildcats. Stanford improved to 20-1 and a perfect 11-0 in the Pac-12 and will host the L.A. schools at Maples Pavilion this week.

MIKE KHEIR/The Stanford DailySenior forward Josh Owens was one of the lone bright spots for the Cardinalon both sides of the court against Arizona on Saturday, coming up with 10points, five offensive rebounds and three blocks on the afternoon.

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SHOOTINGBLANKS

By ANDERS MIKKELSENSTAFF WRITER

The Stanford mens basketball team entered its Satur-day matchup with the Arizona Wildcats knowing it neededa win to stay on the bubble for next months NCAA tour-nament. The Cardinal put up a great fight in front of an en-ergetic home crowd, but ultimately the Wildcats proved tobe too much, pulling away at the end for a 56-43 victory.

Stanford (16-7, 6-5 Pac-12) had its worst shooting per-

formance of the season, shooting just 25.4 percent from thefield and scoring its fewest points in a home game in over25 years. Despite the offensive woes, the Cardinal kept thegame close through tremendous defense. The Wildcats (16-8, 7-4) were held to just 38.3 percent shooting and only putup 56 points, their second-lowest total of the season.

At the start of the game, an Arizona blowout seemedlikely, as the Wildcats stormed to an early lead. However,down 20-12 with six minutes left in the half, Stanford red-shirt senior forward Josh Owens took over.

The captain recorded a massive block, then got an of-fensive rebound on the other end and converted the jumper. On the very next possession, Owens blocked an-other shot, which led to a three by freshman guard Chas-son Randle. With the Wildcats lead down to just three, themomentum had clearly shifted Stanfords way.

The Cardinal eventually tied the game at 23 and founditself down only 24-23 at the half. Stanfords attack contin-ued after the break, as sophomore guard Aaron Brightsincredible dart into the lane for a layup gave the Cardinal

its first lead of the game since the early first half.The two teams traded buckets until the nine-minutemark, when an Owens offensive board and putback gaveStanford a 37-35 lead although it would prove to be theCardinals final lead of the game. At this point, Stanfordbegan to struggle from the field. The Cardinal did not hitanother field goal until Brights layup at the 2:36 mark, adrought that lasted long enough for the Wildcats to grabthe lead for good.

With just two minutes left, the Cardinal was down eight,and Randle attempted to lead a dramatic comeback. Thefreshman had proven himself to be utterly fearlessthroughout the game, constantly slashing into the paintand using his superior speed and acrobatic moves to get tothe rim.

Randle cut to the hoop again, just missing what would

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By JACK BLANCHATMANAGING EDITOR

It may have been just its secondmatch of the year, but the Stanfordwomens tennis team was in midsea-son form against the Oregon Duckson Saturday.

The No. 2 Cardinal (2-0, 1-0 Pac-12) had little trouble dusting off theDucks (3-2, 0-1) in Eugene, cruising toa 6-1 victory in its first Pac-12 confer-ence matchup of the season. The Stan-ford victory was punctuated by espe-cially strong performances fromsophomore Nicole Gibbs, juniorStacey Tan and senior Veronica Li.

The Cardinal won all three dou-bles matches to take the early lead,and Gibbs, who paired with juniorMallory Burdette for the doubles

matchup, authored a particularlydominant 8-1 victory over the Duckduo of Sofia Hager and PatriciaSkowronski.

Stanfords dominant play carriedover into the singles matchups, as theCardinal had little trouble in any of itsfirst five matches. Tan was the first off the courts with a 6-0, 6-0 win overHager, followed closely by compatri-ot Li, who also recorded a 6-0, 6-0 winover Haley Driver.

Gibbs was next off the courts witha 6-1, 6-0 victory over Julia Metzger inthe number one spot, putting a bowon the Cardinal victory as early aspossible.

With the win already in tow, fresh-man Ellen Tsay cleaned up a victoryby taking down Trudie DuToit, 6-4, 6-1, followed by Burdette, who man-aged her second victory of the dayagainst Skowronski, 6-3, 6-3. The onlyblemish on the Cardinals score camefrom junior Natalie Dillon, who splitthe first two sets, 6-3, 3-6, before

falling 10-8 in a third set tiebreaker.After hitting the road to Eugene

for its first conference matchup, theCardinal now returns home for fiveconsecutive matches at the TaubeFamily Tennis Center. The biggestmatchup of the five is undoubtedly ashowdown with No. 1 Florida on Sun-day, Feb. 12.

Not only is the match a huge show-down between the top two teams inthe country, but the Cardinal will alsobe seeking revenge against the sameGator team that took home the na-tional championship last season bybeating the Cardinal on its homecourt with a 4-3 comeback victory.

But before Stanford gets its showat revenge on Sunday, the Cardinalmust go through Pepperdine, whichcomes to the Farm on Saturday. TheWaves and Cardinal face off on Satur-day at noon.

Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@ stanford.edu.

have been an unbelievable layup,getting his own rebound and con-verting the bucket to cut the leadto six. Despite his height disadvan-tage, Randle finished with six re-bounds to go along with 10 points.

The Cardinal controlled the of-fensive boards the entire game,with 15 offensive rebounds to theWildcats six. Owens had five of-fensive rebounds, while sopho-

more forward Josh Huestis addedthree. As was the story for much of the game, the Cardinal was simplyunable to convert the putbacksand take advantage of its numer-ous opportunities. In fact, Stanfordtook 16 more shots than the Wild-cats, yet made two fewer baskets.

With time winding down, theCardinal frantically pushed theball down the court, but commit-ted two straight turnovers as ittried to create a miracle. Randlefouled out with 48 seconds left inthe game, but at that point Stan-ford was down nine points and outof the contest.

Arizona capped the game withtwo thunderous dunks from fresh-

man guard Nick Johnson, who hadbeen harassed the entire gamewith chants of air ball after anembarrassing first half miss.

With the loss, Stanford fell to atie for sixth in the Pac-12, threegames behind leader Washingtonwith just seven regular seasongames left. The Cardinal will headback on the road this week to faceunderachieving preseason fa-vorite UCLA and Pac-12 bottom-dweller USC, needing wins badlyas the Cardinal struggles to stayrelevant in the conference andkeep in the hunt for a berth in theBig Dance this March.

Contact Anders Mikkelsen at amikk@stanford.edu.

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SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailySenior Veronica Li had a near-perfect trip to Oregon, winningher singles match 6-0, 6-0 after earning the Cardinals firstdoubles win alongside sophomore Kristie Ahn.

DUCKS DOMINATED

By DASH DAVIDSONSTAFF WRITER

The Stanford mens tennis teamsuffered its first losses of the youngdual-match season this past weekendas Stanford was clobbered by visitingNo. 1 USC and No. 9 UCLA. The twolosses 7-0 against USC on Fridayand 6-1 against UCLA on Saturday were Stanfords most lopsided de-feats over the past two years.

Luckily for the No. 6 Cardinal (4-2,0-0 Pac-12), however, these matcheswill not count towards Pac-12 stand-ings; the conference matches will takeplace in mid-April at the SouthernCalifornia homes of the two rivalschools.

The match against USC startedout badly and then went from badto worse. The Trojans, three-time de-fending national champions, lockedup the initial doubles point with ease,winning eight games to two on courtsone and three. The No. 1-ranked Tro- jans then summarily dismantled theirCardinal opponent, winning the foursingles matches in straight sets and

clinching the contest before the Car-dinal could even take a single set off them.

The single bright spot for Stanfordwas the final and most exciting match of the day: a firepower-filledshowdown between USCs SteveJohnson and Stanfords RyanThacher on the No. 1 court. Johnson,the No. 1 ranked player in the coun-try, is the defending NCAA singleschampion and a main rival of Stan-ford senior (and fellow NCAA sin-gles champion) Bradley Klahn, the

man Thacher was filling in for on theNo. 1 court. Thacher, a bona fide topplayer in his own right, battled toothand nail in a fierce and serve-domi-nated match against Johnson beforeultimately falling in a third-settiebreaker.

Saturday afternoons matchagainst UCLA proved just as disap-pointing as Fridays. Stanford actuallygot off to a fine start in this one, win-ning the doubles point behind strongplay from Thacher and freshman JohnMorrissey. But, just like the day before,the singles play was just not quite goodenough as the Cardinal was defeatedin all six matches.

The match was closer than the lop-sided score would suggest, as four of the six singles matches went the dis-

tance to three sets, but the Cardinalconsistently could not come up big onthe most crucial points.

The season is still very young and Stanford is playing without its bestplayer in Klahn but there is surelylittle doubt that these two losses hurtfor head coach John Whitlingerssquad. The Trojans and Bruins will betwo of the teams that Stanford willhave to get through in Aprils Pac-12Championships and then in MaysNCAA Championships if the Cardinalis to realize its annual goals of winning

the conference and national titles.Though the losses hurt, the Cardi-nal players refuse to let it get themdown.

Were not going to dwell on thelosses but try and move forward fromthem, said sophomore Jamin Ball. If anything, we were exposed to some of the best competition in the countryand realized where we need to get to inorder to compete at the highest level.

The Cardinal will have ample op-portunity to prove its resilience and re-solve immediately as the team has amatch on Tuesday against unrankedHawaii and another on Saturdayagainst No. 36 BYU.

Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@stan- ford. edu.

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailyEven in defeat, junior Matt Klandath put up one of Stan-fords best efforts on the weekend against UCLA, battlingClay Thompson to a three-set loss on Saturday.

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SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailySophomore Steve Irvins Friday night double-double got the Cardinals weekend off to a good start, asStanford went on to upend No. 1 BYU twice on the road, and moved to second place in the MPSF standings.

formance.To be honest, I didnt know

about the career high, Cooksaid. The matches flowed veryeasily for us because Evan Barryran such a balanced offense. Ourhitters all had confidence be-cause we knew the opposingblockers couldnt focus in on anyone of us.

Not to be forgotten in the ex-citement of the career-bestnights were the always-consis-tent seniors Brad Lawson andErik Shoji. Lawson finished witha solid 15 kills, five digs and anace while Shoji had 10 digs.

Saturday proved to be just asexciting for this improving Stan-ford squad, which outlasted theCougars in a marathon first setbefore holding them off in thefinal two. The Cardinal oncemore featured a balanced attackthat resulted in four players fin-ishing with double-digit kills:Lawson (14), Irvin (12), sopho-more Eric Mochalski (11) and

Cook (10). Stanford was oncemore extremely efficient on theattack, hitting .337 as a team be-hind 47 assists from Barry.

Despite missing sophomoreoutside hitter Taylor Sander the Cougars leading hitter thisseason with nearly five kills perset BYU d id n ot go downwithout a fight. The first set fea-tured an unusually high pointtotal (68) and saw the two teamsfight off a combined 10 setpoints, including seven by BYU.Stanford was finally able to fin-ish off the Cougars thanks to acombined block by Lawson andsenior Gus Ellis. The momentumof winning the first set carriedthe Cardinal through the secondand third sets.

Our bench had so much en-ergy, it was amazing, Mochalskisaid. You could hear them over4,000-plus fans. Unreal.

Was playing the No. 1 team inthe country extra motivation forStanford?

Of course, Mochalski said.Playing the No. 1 team is onething. Playing them on theirhome court in front of that manypeople is another. It is so easy toget motivated for a match like

that.Kosty was slightly more ana-

lytical in his assessment.We play in such a tough

league, and we understand thatNo. 1 could be there for any-where between a week and thewhole season, he said. BYU is avery good team, and we knew wehad to play at a really high levelto beat them, especially whenthey are at home.

While the results of these twomatches are obviously big for theCardinal, Kosty is hoping thatthe turnaround actually camelast weekend in the squads lossto Penn State.

The Penn State loss mayhave kicked us into gear, allow-ing us to win twice at BYU, espe-cially because not many peopleare going to be able to do thatthis year, Kosty said. These twowins are going to be huge for usdown the stretch.

The Cardinal continues itsgrueling 10-game road stretchthis weekend in Southern Cali-fornia against Long Beach Stateand Cal State Northridge.

Contact Daniel E. Lupin at delupin@stanford.edu.

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to make the score 79-36 and putthe game out of reach.

The Cardinal stepped up its de-fense in the second half as well. Aswarm of Stanford jerseys greetedArizona on every possession,holding the Wildcats to 21 percentshooting and just 20 points in thesecond half. The Ogwumike sisterswalled off the paint and combinedto block six Arizona shots on theday.

Fresh legs contributed to thestifling defense as well. The benchsaw significant time for Stanfordwith 10 players getting more than10 minutes in the game.

I like the fact we were able toget everybody in and everyonecontributed, VanDerveer said.

Freshman forwards Erica

Payne and Taylor Greenfield bothtallied six points for Stanford off the bench, and senior guard LindyLa Rocque dished out four assists.

Despite the margin of victory,Arizona coach Niya Butts sawprogress from her squad.

I didnt like the outcome, butthe team did a lot of things thisweekend that we really improvedon, Butts said.

Tinkle described the win as astatement game for the Cardinal.

We really knew coming intothis game what we had to do toprove to everyone to prove toourselves that we are more ca-pable, and we can reach to a high-er level, she said

The Cardinal returns home thisweek to face the L.A. schools atMaples Pavilion, tangling withUSC on Thursday night andUCLA Sunday.

Contact Dean McArdle at dmcardle@stanford.edu.

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when push comes to shove. Butmaybe, just maybe, Mourinho couldbe the elusive case that proves histo-ry wrong.

While in charge of Chelsea hemade enough enemies in the worldof English soccer to last a lifetime including my hometown, Reading,after alleging that the local medicalservices did not do all they could tocare for goalkeeper Petr Cech after aserious head injury.

Its no secret that everyone hatesthe English, particularly on the pitch.Soccer rivalries, history and attemptsto draw attention to the serious cor-

ruption at the heart of the soccerworld have created enemies every-where. From countries like Scotlandand Argentina to key figures likeFIFA President Sepp Blatter andUEFA President Michel Platini,everyone delights in our downfall. Sodeep does the dislike go that somehave even attempted to cast doubton the indisputable fact that soccerwas born in England.

Already, then, Mourinho hassomething in common with us: heknows what its like to be the bad guy.He wouldnt be a diplomatic figureon the world stage, and hes not goingto make us any friends, but Im notsure if I care about that anymore. Ap-parently, nothing England does is ap-preciated. When we play by the(flawed and corrupt) system we get

shunned; when we complain, we getostracized.

I dont think England is going tobe winning any trophies for a longtime due to a critical lack of invest-ment and development of young tal-ent, so the chance of getting our ownback on FIFA and UEFA on thefield is practically non-existent. Asgood as Mourinho or any of his Eng-lish counterparts may be, Im not ex-pecting any miracles. Ive been downthat route again and again, and hadmy heart crushed every time.

But, on the bright side, if we aregoing to go down in flames, at leastwith Mourinho well go down fight-ing. He would take no prisoners, andI think many England fans wouldenjoy seeing him tear into the oppo-sition, the authorities and even thepress. He would whine and moan andcomplain, but always for us. His en-thusiasm would spill over he oncestepped across the sideline to pass aball back to his team and hewould occasionally get banned. Hemight even flaunt that ban by hidingin a laundry cart so he could still givetalk to his team at the halftime (al-legedly).

If we cant beat them on the fieldand we wont join them in their shadyand corrupt deals, lets be the thorn intheir side and just do whatever wecan to annoy the hell out of worldsoccer.

Like all the greatest English kings,Tom Taylor welcomes your hatred

for his work. Threaten to do off withhis head at tom.taylor @stanford.edu.

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