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By MARSHALL WATKINSDESK EDITOR

One of the more controversial recommen-dations of the recent Study on Undergradu-ate Education at Stanford (SUES) report isthat the University require IntroductorySeminars, a highly praised aspect of the fresh-man and sophomore experience, for eachfreshman starting in fall 2013.

The SUES report described the IntroSemprogram as one of the jewels of Stanford,noting that participation in seminars intro-duces students to a broad range of university-level thinking, in addition to granting themthe opportunity to develop a relationshipwith a faculty member that often is sustainedin future advising, research and honors work.

Historically, approximately 65 percent offreshmen enroll in at least one IntroSem, with

that percentage rising to 75 percent of sopho-mores, according to the SUES report. TheUniversity currently offers more than 200 In-troSems, with 120 dedicated to freshmen.

We currently have the capacity to enrollall freshmen in a seminar, said Susan Mc-Connell, co-chair of the SUES committee.The real thing that we want to ensure . . . isto enable students to enroll in a seminar thatis highly attractive to them.

McConnell noted that several peer institu-tions, such as Northwestern University, haveimplemented a seminar requirement forfreshmen with great success. She added thatIntroSems at Stanford have received consis-tently positive feedback from students andfaculty, an aspect of the program the SUEScommittee has sought to preserve.

A student representative on the Commit-tee on Undergraduate Standards and Policies

(C-USP), Stephen Trusheim 13 expressed

concern about the speed with which theSUES recommendations will be enacted.

I dont believe that theres a way that wecan do this [in only one year] without ruiningthe core values that makes the IntroSem pro-gram great, Trusheim said.

Acknowledging some committee mem-bers concerns that requiring enrollment inIntroSems might diminish student enthusi-asm for the program and may force studentsinto courses they do not wish to take, theSUES report recommends an early andthorough program review of the new re-quirement.

We dont want to kill a great program,McConnell said. If it turns out this didntwork, we should change our minds.

McConnell added that the program mayhave to be adapted to incorporate currentlyunderrepresented groups such as student-

athletes faced with scheduling conflicts, andstudents in unit-heavy science majors furtherconstrained by a lack of seminar options without unnecessary disruption. She addedthat the Office of the Vice Provost of Under-graduate Education is currently developingan algorithm to ensure that students are ableto attain their top IntroSem choices, whilealso allowing faculty to retain some of theircurrent vetting power over seminar applica-tions.

McConnell emphasized, however, that athird underrepresented group so-calledat-risk students, those entering Stanford ill-prepared to deal with university-level courses will distinctly benefit from inclusion in theIntroSem program and its emphasis on facul-ty interaction and enhanced academic devel-opment.

Trusheim argued, however, that for at-risk

students, the benefits dont outweigh the un-

intended consequences. There are other ways

to ensure that those students take IntroSems,such as stronger advising, but to require it willhave particularly poor outcomes.

Faculty currently teaching IntroSems ex-pressed cautious enthusiasm about the SUEScommittees proposal.

Research indicates that those college stu-dents who get to know a faculty member intheir first year have a better and more produc-tive college experience, said James Fearon,professor of political science.

There are a lot of things distinctive aboutfreshmen seminars, Fearon added. The rela-tively small group setting provides a particu-larly effective teaching context, and the levelof engagement by everyone concerned tendsto be higher. You get to know students in theseminar and they get to know you.

Fearon noted, however, that requiring In-troSems could potentially create efficiency is-

sues for the University as a whole, with greater

numbers of faculty teaching seminars at the

expense of lecture classes with a higher num-ber of student participants.Professor Josiah Ober, chair of the Political

Science Department, said that, while his de-partment receives some replacement teach-ing funds for faculty involvement with In-troSems, the funds are generally inadequateto replace the duty time lost. Departmentchairs will discuss the issue of departmentcompensation for faculty IntroSem involve-ment in a meeting with Provost JohnEtchemendy Ph.D. 82 next month.

The Committee on Undergraduate Stan-dards and Policies will make recommenda-tions in response to the SUES report at a Feb.23 Faculty Senate meeting. The Senate willvote on the final recommendations in a meet-ing on March 8.

Contact Marshall Watkins at mtwatkins@stan-

ford.edu.

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Tubbs beginsStockton CityCouncil run

By MARY ANN TOMAN-MILLER

DESK EDITOR

Stanford Law School (SLS) announced last weekthe completion of a five-year comprehensive reformto its second- and third-year law curriculum. Thenew multidimensional Juris Doctorate program in-corporates a more interdisciplinary approach whileemphasizing team-oriented problem-solving tech-niques and expanded hands-on clinical training.

The new curriculum will allow students to tailortheir own joint degree programs in almost any disci-pline while expanding the international dimensionof the program to integrate international business,national security and trade and tax law into the tra-ditional curriculum. The school has added a new pro-gram, International Economic Law, to accommo-date the needs of international students and thosewho plan to practice abroad. International studentsnow make up 15 percent of the upper-level (secondand third year) Law School student body, according

to a Law School press release.Michael Gisser J.D. 82, a partner at Skadden,Arps, Meagher and Flom LLP and an internationalmergers and acquisition specialist, reacted positive-ly to the changes.

Todays global practice typically involves multi-ple national jurisdictions often five or more ina single transaction, Gisser said. Its exciting to seea U.S. law school respond to the global challenges incontemporary law practice.

From the perspective of international practice,this is a game-changing set of innovations, Gisseradded. The cross-border emphasis runs throughcoursework, interdepartmental cooperation and

clinical programs. One cannot overstate the impor-

tance of these changes: This means that StanfordLaw School is uniquely set up in a ground-up way toenable students to become the leaders on a world-wide platform.

SLS also expanded its clinical education pro-gram, adding an in-house clinic operating as a singlelaw firm: the Mills Legal Clinic. A clinical rotation-based system was introduced based on medicalschool models allowing second- and third-yearstudents to learn without exams or courses. Sixty-five percent of second- and third-year studentschose to enroll in a clinic in 2010, according to theLaw School press release.

Gabe Ledeen J.D. 12, who served as a MarineCorps officer for four years before matriculating toStanford Law School, provided feedback on thelegal clinic curriculum.

Being in Iraq and seeing what a country was likein a society without the rule of law gave me a deepappreciation for and hunger to understand our own

system of laws and how they affect society, Ledeensaid.He referenced his experience working at the

Stanford Criminal Prosecution Clinic, run by Profes-sor George Fisher J.D. 67 at the Santa Clara Coun-ty District Attorneys office in San Jose, as a positiveexample of the schools emphasis on real-worldtraining.

We are each assigned a primary supervisor whoassigns us cases, Ledeen said. We write briefs, andargue cases, though not in front of juries.

There are only six students in the clinic and its a

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Sarah Mummah 10 has beennamed a 2012 Gates CambridgeScholar. The scholarship enablesoutstanding students from out-

side the United Kingdom to pur-sue a graduate degree at theUniversity of Cambridge.

Mummah, who graduatedfrom Stanford with a bachelorsdegree with honors in HumanBiology, was one of 40 Ameri-cans selected as 2012 GatesCambridge Scholars. She in-tends to conduct research exam-ining approaches to new healthbehavior changes through Cam-bridges new Behavior andHealth Research Unit, whilepursuing a masters degree inpublic health.

In her application to theGates Scholar program,Mummah stated her desire tochampion a new approach to

obesity prevention . . . designedto usher in a paradigm shift inthe way we tackle our obesitycrisis, both domestically andabroad.

Mummah currently serves asexecutive director of Dream-Catchers, a nonprofit she found-ed in 2008 that seeks to developafter-school programming to im-prove low-income middle schoolstudent health and education.She previously conducted publichealth research in Oaxaca, Mex-ico, under a Fulbright Grant dur-ing the 2010-11 academic year.

DreamCatchers, which pro-vides students with tutoring andmentoring as well as healthysnacks and nutrition education,

has received several awards forits work, including a U.S. Con-gressional Certificate of Recog-nition.

The Gates Cambridge Schol-arship program, established in2000, was funded by a $210 mil-lion donation by the Bill andMelinda Gates Foundation.More than 1,000 Gates Scholars,from nearly 100 countries, havebeen selected since 2001.

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By ILEANA NAJARROSTAFF WRITER

Michael Tubbs 12 officially announcedhis candidacy for the 6th District of Stock-ton City Council to an audience of morethan 200 Monday at the Van Buskirk Com-munity Center in Stockton, Calif.

Tubbs speech focused on the longroad to victory we have in battling . . .poverty, crime, hopelessness and the politi-cal power system, he said in an email toThe Daily.

A South Stockton native, Tubbs citedmultiple reasons behind his run for office,emphasizing that he feels ready to face theissues he grew up with and still observes inhis hometown.

Im running for office because I knowIm prepared and qualified; Ive been per-sonally affected by the issues and I have astrong love for my city, Tubbs said. I wantto bring my resources and my experiencesto a city that really needs them.

Tubbs said that he made his decision torun over this past winter break, when may-oral plans to fight crime in Stockton which were initially announced in May were still unreleased by December.

Asserting that his campaign objective isto re-invent Stockton, Tubbs added that hisvision for Stockton is re-weaving the fab-ric of community with the foreclosure cri-sis, with crime, with the current education-al system.

While Tubbs acknowledged that hisyoung age of 21 may pose obstacles, he saidthat coupled with his experience and vi-sion he sees it as more of an asset for hispursuit of long-term goals and for the ac-cess it grants him to technological tools en-couraging government transparency.

My vision for Stockton is to have re-sponsible, knowledgeable policy-makers

real leaders of the people who arentafraid to talk to the people, who put thepeoples interests first and are also knowl-edgeable and able to make tough decisionsand inspire and galvanize people to ac-tion, Tubbs said. My vision for Stocktonis to have a community where young peo-ple can maximize and realize their full po-tential.

Tubbs attributed much of his qualifica-tions for elected office to his experienceworking in the White House Office of Inter-

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Past and present members of Harmonics gathered at Cubberley Auditorium on Sunday, Feb.19, tocommemorate the a cappella groups 20th anniversary. The group celebrated with a free performance.

Courtesy of Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service

Citing advantages for students including closer relationships with faculty and access to abroad range of university-level courses, the recently released SUES report suggested that allfreshman be required to take at least one Introductory Seminar, beginning fall of 2013.

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My friend Brett is an avidDerek Fisher fan. Andwhen I say avid, I mean

the only thing keeping him fromstealing a lock of Fishers hair andperforming a creepy, voodoo ritu-

al in his closet shrine is the factthat Derek Fisher is bald and hasno hair. So after Jeremy Lintorched the Los Angeles Lakerswith 38 points in his third careerstart, I texted him, Looks likeyour D-Fish couldnt handleguarding my Asian tonight.

To which he cleverly respond-ed, Oh, so you decided youreAsian now?

For most of my life, Ive consid-ered myself a product of a white,Southern Californian culture,stressing the American muchmore than Asian-American. Hehad very appropriately called meout for suddenly leaping onto theLinsanity bandwagon.

Also, I wish they would have

instead called it Linception, andthen played the ominous boomfrom the Inception soundtrackevery time he scored.

Jeremy Lin has been called asymbol, but a symbol of what? Ifyou dont follow basketball ordont have any Asian friends onyour Facebook news feed, JeremyLin has exploded into the leagueout of obscurity and is making his-tory in the NBA. For me, it isnt re-ally an encouraging story ofAsian-American empowerment.Even though this theme is incred-ibly important to those with astrong Asian identity, the fact of

the matter is: he is 6-foot-3 and Iam 5-foot-3. For me, its not theempowering If He, Why NotMe? Jackie-Robinson-of-bas-ketball story.

The Christian sports hero

line doesnt resonate with me ei-ther. Jesus often empowered thepoor, obscure and rejected, but Istill havent found the verse thatsays, Blessed are the rock starsand sports heroes. Im not sayingthat his success is wrong orshouldnt be celebrated by Chris-tians as a brother in Christ (espe-cially in the case of Lins incredi-ble humility), but it seems likeidolatry to place him on a bill-board for Christianity, as if his suc-cess makes the faith and messagecooler or more compelling.

This is scientifically known asThe Tebow Effect. However, Idont think the label of an out-spoken Christian is fair either.After all, he isnt half-court prose-

lytizing. People are asking person-al questions about his life andsticking a mic in his face, and he isresponding honestly; this is whatChristians should be announcingover his statistics.

David Brooks of The NewYork Times recently wrote a mis-informed and unconvincing arti-cle, titled, The Jeremy Lin Prob-lem, about how the moral ethosof sports is in tension with themoral ethos of faith. Brooksclaims todays sports hero is an as-sertive, self-touting, center-of-at-tention-seeking athlete who putshimself on display. Itd be difficultto argue against the worldwidecoverage (and violent mob ofNew York Knicks fans) that Lin is

not a sports hero. But, does he fitBrooks definition?

In last weeks win over theSacramento Kings, Lin scoredonly 10 points on 4-6 shooting(but with 13 assists) and thencommented he felt he was takingtoo many shots. Imagine KobeBryant (averaging 23.9 attempts)saying that.

When asked to comment onhis recent success, Lin stated hewas uncomfortable with the lime-light and wished people wouldpay more attention to his team-mates accomplishments. And inthe Knicks only loss in eightgames with Lin at the helm, hepublicly took full responsibilityfor the loss. Imagine LeBron

James saying either of thosethings.

In response to questions abouttaunts, insults and racial slurs, Linanswered, As I grew older, I real-ized that I shouldnt allow thatstuff to affect me, and at the sametime I shouldnt retaliate . . . Its just something Im used to now,and its a good opportunity to re-flect the grace of God when youdont say anything back, or whenyoure really respectful in return.

Just like in that Sprite commer-cial when Kobe says his thirst is toprove them wrong, right?

Perhaps Brooks is right inclaiming that the self-soliciting su-perstar we know is not compatiblewith the morality of faith. And

perhaps the flashy, adventurous,take-charge superstar we know inour Western world is not compat-ible with a more Eastern under-standing of masculinity.

But, perhaps Lin has no inten-tion of being the superstar weknow, or a superstar at all for thatmatter. Rather than downplayingor dropping his Christian andAsian values to meet the currentarchetype of a superstar, Lin hasfully embraced his fundamentalidentity. Hes shattered the mold.All he does is Lin.

If youre thinking, Forget JeremyLin. That 5-foot-3 Asian guysounds like a real score! then emailChase at ninjaish@stanford.edu.

Ispent Friday on AmtraksCoast Starlight, headed fromSan Jose to Santa Barbara.

Though I didnt venture into thetrains dining car, I still learned abit about Californias food sys-tems during the eight-hour ride.

Train windows expose riders toa much different version of realitythan the one usually visible from acar window. Lacking a drivers li-cense, Ive always been a bit of apassive road-trip nose-to-windowoffender. Thanks to a childhoodspent driving back and forth be-tween my grandparents home in

Iowa and my home in California,Id like to think Ive familiarizedmyself with the cattle pastures andsubsidized monocultures of cornand soy that dominate much ofour countrys roadside landscapes.

Apart from these commonagricultural scenes, cars also fun-nel passengers into a very struc-tured food experience. Billboardstout the flavors of nearby restau-rants, and road signs count downthe mileage to the nearest fastfood drive-through window.

This highly structured experi-ence matches the carefully con-structed charade through whichmany customers interact with andexperience their food. For in-stance, grocery stores are laid out

to channel customers into the mid-dle aisles, where brand-name,processed foods are located. Bulkgoods are hidden in the rear of thestore, and produce can usually befound on the outer aisles. Evenshelf placement is key. The topracks tend to be reserved forsmaller brand names, the best sell-ers are found in the middle and thebottom shelf can even be targetedspecifically toward childrens eyes.

This strategic layout decisionalso encourages shoppers to buymore, and for the most part, thisstealthy campaign has been suc-cessful. One study by the Point ofPurchase Advertising Instituteshowed that up to two-thirds ofbuyers purchases are unintended

and occur in-store.Buying food at grocery stores

and being served meals at restau-rants can also divorce consumersfrom the history of their food.Without exposure to farms oreven basic food preparation, manyAmericans are disconnected fromtheir food sources. In her bookKitchen Literacy: How We LostKnowledge of Where FoodComes from and Why We Need toGet It Back, Ann Vileisis arguesthat this disconnect is what drivesthe health and environmentalcrises of our industrialized foodsociety. While there are certainly

other factors contributing toAmericas obesity epidemic andthe growing dead zone in the Gulfof Mexico, Vileisis has, I think,identified one of the large and im-mediate opportunities for changein our food systems.

Sure, there are ways to beat thestructured system at the grocery

store by buying a colorful array ofproduce items and seeking outreal foods on the perimeter ofthe grocery store, but this is notenough to address our societal dis-connect with food.

Already, this disconnect hasbeen greatly reduced for subsetsof America, following the MichaelPollan era of sustainable foods.Heightened awareness about theenvironmental and social implica-tions of our eating behaviors hasencouraged many individuals torevisit their agricultural roots andexplore the sources of their food.

While watching the countrysSalad Bowl (Salinas), Garlic Capi-tal (Gilroy) and Artichoke Capital(Castroville) pass by my train win-

dow this weekend, I was struck by just how accessible farming sys-tems are in California. Stanfordstudents complain of isolation inthe bubble, as campus is some-times called. But you dont need totake a train to visit a farm. Just out-side of Campus Drive Loop lies awell-kept Stanford secret: Wehave a community farm!

Almost every Sunday after-noon from around 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.,Patrick Archie, farm educator, andhis team host a workday and pizzaparty using the wood-fired oven.Everyone is welcome to join, andno prior knowledge is required.

These work parties are an op-portunity for Stanford students tobridge the gap between food con-

sumption and production. Theyprovide a wonderfully experien-tial way to actively engage in ourcampus food system.

As exciting as it was to watchCalifornias agricultural abun-dance flow past my window on atrain, actually setting foot on afarm or in a garden is ultimately amuch better way to learn aboutagriculture and reconnect withyour foods origins.

Want to make Jennys favorite jalapeno and butternut-squash pizza on the farm? Email her atjrempel@stanford.edu.

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Training for basic food literacy

Jeremy Lin has

been called a

symbol, but a

symbol of what?

JennyRempel

ChaseIshii

On such a well-manicuredcampus, Chi Theta Chi canseem a misplaced relic, a re-

minder of some bygone time in theschools past. Yet the continuingstory of XOX, and that of itsbowtie-sporting cousin Sigma Chi,symbolizes both the past and fu-ture of Stanford University.

In 1960, housing for Stanfordstudents was far different than thesystem we know today. Many stu-dents lived off campus. With soror-ities banished in 1944, on-campusfemales lived either in dorms orall-female homes. For men, cam-pus housing consisted largely ofprivately owned fraternity homes(24 in total) that were run by alum-ni boards, or house corporations.Two of those fraternities wereSigma Chi and Theta Chi.

The 1960s, however, reshapedStanfords student culture, andthus student housing preferences.The fraternity system was nearlyhalved by 1970, with low recruit-ment and debt forcing some chap-ters to close, with others disaffiliat-ing to protest the backwards racialpolicies of the national organiza-tions (chief among these was

Sigma Chi, whose fight against thenational fraternity sparked signifi-cant controversy).

The void left by the Greek sys-tems decline was quickly filledwith a diverse array of alternativehousing. Beginning in the late1960s, co-ops and themed housesbegan to pop up. Sigma Nu, afterdisaffiliating to protest the nation-als barring of Asian and black stu-dents, became a co-ed fraternity ti-tled Beta Chi. Androgyny, the spir-itual fore-runner of the co-opTerra, existed at 620 Mayfield Ave,now home to Haus Mitteleuropa.Ultimately, Theta Chi would trans-form into the self-owned co-op we

now know as Chi Theta Chi.Since the reshuffling of the

1960s, building styles, administra-tive preferences and bureaucraticturf wars have collided with theFarms eccentric history to give usthe schools somewhat incongru-ous, but entirely diverse residentialculture.

With 95 percent of undergradu-ates living on campus, a large dif-ference between Stanford and herpeer institutions is a housing sys-tem that offers students the choiceof Greeks, apartments or co-opsnamed the Enchanted BroccoliForest.

Indeed, look no farther than theexhaustive and comprehensiveStudy on Undergraduate Educa-tion at Stanford (SUES) for val-idation of this claim. The final re-port confirmed our belief in theabsolute centrality of residentialexperience to a Stanford educa-tion . . . living in residences pro-motes integrative learning, offer-ing students a wealth of opportuni-ties to test and refine the knowl-edge, skills, and values they are ac-quiring in their classes.

The controversy surrounding

Chi Theta Chi should concern co-ops, Greek partisans and anystaunch supporter (student, alumor family member) of a rich stu-dent culture. While liability andrisk management issues must beaddressed, bureaucratic wranglingshould not trump support for whatis truly one of the schools great as-sets.

Standing seemingly at polar op-posites, Chi Theta Chi and SigmaChi, the last two privately ownedhouses, embody the richness andvariance of what the Farm has tooffer. Though aggrieved middlemanagers in Residential & DiningEnterprises might disagree, Stan-

ford needs the rogue bastion of pi-rate libertarianism that is XOX,just as it needs a proud, self-ownedSigma Chi, and the full range ofstrange and wonderful housing op-tions in between. To steal a linefrom a good friend, be deeplyfunky Keep XOX self-owned,and defend the quirkiness thatmakes Stanford great.

ZACHARY WARMA, B.A. HISTORY 11

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By CARA REICHARD

Most Stanford students are fa-miliar with the Hume Writ-ing Center (HWC). As ahotspot for freshmen strug-gling with Introduction to the

Humanities (IHUM) assignments as well asgraduate students plugging away at their dis-sertations, the Center seems to be goingstrong as it celebrates the tenth anniversaryof its opening.

However, many students would be sur-prised to discover that the Center is only 10years old. Andrea Lunsford, former HWCdirector, joined the Stanford faculty in 2000

with instruction to think about undergradu-ate writing. She was surprised, but pleased,when she discovered that Stanford did not al-ready have a writing center.

If there wasnt one already in existence,we could make it exactly how we wanted,Lunsford said.

According to Lunsford, upon the HWCsfounding in 2001, the Hume Writing Center originally the Stanford Writing Center was the most cutting-edge writing center ofits kind.

It was designed to address any issue ofwriting from the very first thinking aboutwriting to the last dotted i for everybody oncampus, Lunsford said. What made itunique at that time was its focus on celebrat-ing writing.

This outlook on writing meant that theCenter was tasked with being more than just

an academic resource it also works to pro-mote writing outside of academia.

The Center hosts events during Parentsand Admit Weekends to highlight studentwriting, co-sponsors art of writing workshopswith the Creative Writing Program and hostsregular performances by spoken wordartists.

Were committed to celebrating writingin all its forms, from traditional writing tonew media writing and doing all we can tohelp Stanfords culture of writing thrive,said Sohui Lee, associate director of the Cen-ter.

The HWC includes consultants of manydifferent kinds. Undergraduate students,graduate students and Program in Writingand Rhetoric (PWR) lecturers are all avail-able for consultations to help students withtheir work.

We are unique in that we offer studentsopportunities to work with several kinds oftutors with writing expertise and training,Lee said.

Patricia Ho 14 has had experience withvarious types of tutors.

I used to do drop-in appointments and Iworked with mostly peer tutors, Ho said.Now I sign up for appointments, so it tendsto be more graduate students and PWR in-structors. Its nice to get the different per-spectives.

People can come in and sign in and Illwork with anyone who shows up to go overessays or applications or anything theyvewritten, said Elena Ayala-Hurtado 14, a

drop-in peer tutor.The Center is not just an undergraduate

resource. It is available to anyone at Stanfordlooking for help or consultation relating tohis or her writing. Ayala-Hurtado said sheworks mostly with undergraduates, includingfreshmen in IHUM and PWR, while DonnaHunter, an HWC writing consultant, ex-plained that the Center sees a lot of graduatestudents as a result of outreach efforts.

Weve done a lot of summer stuff work-ing with graduate students, Hunter said.Its called Dissertation Boot Camp . . .weve gotten a lot more graduate studentsfor that reason.

Regardless of who uses it, the Center is a

resource provided for free to all students. Ac-cording to its website, the Center offersaround 6,000 consultations each year.

Its a completely free service available toeveryone on campus at almost any time,Lunsford said. Students have support forwriting right at their fingertips.

Hunter explained that she likes to thinkof it as talk therapy. The consultants are notjust there to fix a students essay, but to helpthem talk through their own ideas.

Oftentimes by articulating what yourethinking about, you get a lot clearer, Huntersaid.

Ho echoed this idea, based on her experi-ence working with tutors.

Its helpful just to talk out loud and thinkabout what Im trying to make into an argu-ment, Ho said.

According to Lee, the Centers popularity

rises each year as the number of tutoring ses-sions increases. Many students return to theCenter regularly.

We believe that our writing programsare important to the University and to stu-dents because they increase studentschances for academic success in their ma-jors, Lee said. Good writing is good think-ing.

Contact Cara Reichard at carar1@stanford.edu.

Courtesy of the Hume Writing Center

Students visit the Hume Writing Center tostudy, read and write. Established in 2001,the Hume Writing Center offers regular tu-toring sessions through both drop-in tutorsand satellite appointments across campus.

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By STEPHANIE WANG

As professors experiment with on-line courses, students who arentphysically on campus can nowwork toward their undergraduatedegrees in front of a computer. In

fact, some of these courses are free of chargeand open to the public.

Last quarter, professors offered three ofStanfords most popular computer science(CS) courses Machine Learning, Introduc-tion to Artificial Intelligence and Introductionto Databases to the public at no cost. An-drew Ng, Sebastian Thrun and DaphneKoller Ph.D. 94, all computer science profes-sors, taught the three courses, respectively.More than 100,000 students participated inthe machinery and intelligence courses.

I was excited to have the opportunity toreach a far larger number of students, Ngsaid. At Stanford, I teach a machinery classof about 400 students. One way to put that isthat in order to reach out to 100,000 students,I would have to teach at Stanford for 250years.

The idea of online CS courses first startedin January 2010, when Koller decided totransfer her lectures online to use class timefor interactive activities. Students reactedpositively to the change in electronic courseevaluations.

The lecture component has been shiftedover to this online medium with these interac-tive, automated systems, and in class we do ac-

tivities that make better use of the fact that Iam there with these students in the sameroom at the same time, Koller said.

The transition to online courses has thepotential to benefit students who are interest-ed in studying abroad or participating in proj-ects that take them off campus.

Paul Kim, assistant dean of informationtechnology at the School of Education,stressed that online courses allow students toparticipate in extracurricular activities offcampus while taking courses with Stanfordfaculty.

You could be working for a refugee campin northern Uganda while communicatingwith the faculty at all times, Kim said.

In addition, Kim said that the online

courses enable the University to make moreof an impact in terms of the sheer quantity ofpeople it can educate. According to Kim,open course content from other elite univer-sities is already educating millions of peopletoday.

Kim predicted that any online universityaffiliated with the University in the future willcontinue to educate only a small percentageof all Stanford students, and the Universitysphysical campus will maintain its importance.

When you bring in people who can brain-storm with our finest faculty members, theircollective knowledge augmentation and gen-eration process can lead to much more time-ly and meaningful global impact, Kim said.

Thats why a physical campus is still impor-tant.

In terms of implementing an online uni-versity, there are virtually no technical chal-lenges. According to Kim, the main problemis that people are unwilling to change existingperceptions of what a classroom should looklike.

There is a resistance to adopt and en-hance the new mode of learning in tradition-al education settings, Kim said. Many tradi-tional educators do not consider learning on-line valuable and do not invest time to learnnew methodologies. If it does not look, feel orsound like a classroom, it may not be consid-ered a classroom for them.

Learning Management System, CourseManagement System, video capturing andstreaming tools such as ClassX and OpenClassroom are some of technological toolsavailable for professors teaching onlinecourses. However, these tools do not excludethe possibility that students will cheat. En-forcement of the honor code still remains achallenge.

Quiz questions were randomized so thatevery time you took the quiz you got a differ-ent set of questions, Ng said of his course thispast fall. Randomization makes it more dif-ficult to cheat.

In the future, it might be possible for stu-dents to fulfill pre-med requirements whileconducting research in the Amazon or attendlecture while on a flight to a football game.With the ability to take classes through the In-ternet, it will be easier for students to engagein educational and recreational experiencesoutside the campus limits.

The momentum behind increased onlinelearning is evident in a number of recent de-velopments, including the recent revamp of

Stanford on iTunes U and the recent findingsof the Study on Under-

graduate Education at Stanford (SUES).We must be entrepreneurial in our ap-

proach to teaching and technology, just as weare in regard to research and technology, the

SUES report stated, recommending the cre-ation of clear protocol on teaching materialand a Learning Technologies Lab to assist fac-ulty and students, in addition to dialogue onthe best practices of online course deliveryand course management and the integrationof third-party services.

Technology will certainly enhance thelearning experience and also expand newpossibilities for a variety of different typesof new learning, Kim said. Technologiesof all types and shapes will be used to opti-mize and maximize learning for students ofall regions and ages anytime, anywherearound the world.

Contact Stephanie Wang at swang93@stan-ford.edu.

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governmental Affairs during hissophomore year as part of the BingStanford in Washington program.During his time in Washington,Tubbs says that he obtained first-hand experience in policy-makingwith mayors and councilmembersfrom around the nation.

Tubbs, who expects to release acomplete policy platform duringthe next few months, said that while many of his concerns relate

to Stockton specifically hiscampaign is still inclusive to theStanford community and will seekdirect student involvement.

This campaign is incredibly in-clusive even though Stanford stu-dents are not a part of Stockton,Tubbs said. They have a stake inthis race too, because a lot of theproblems in Stockton are prob-lems facing the nation as a whole.

At Stanford, Tubbs supportgroup includes, among others,Dean of Freshmen and Under-graduate Advising Julie Lythcott-Haims 89.

Since I first met Michael as afreshman Ive been impressed

with his leadership, passion for so-cial justice, personal narrative andstyle of oratory, Lythcott-Haimssaid. I felt it was only a matter oftime before Michael would seekto serve the Stockton communityin an official capacity, and Im en-joying watching him take this boldfirst step.

Tubbs spoke at Stanfords Oc-cupy the Future rally on Dec.9and discussed his origins and hesi-tations about attending Stanfordat the Universitys 2011 OpeningConvocation Ceremony.

I [felt that] I was not Stanfordbecause I was born to a teenagedmother and an incarcerated father

. . . I was not Stanford because Iwent to a large, failing urban highschool, I was not Stanford becauseI came from a community thatmost would consider the hood,he said when addressing incomingstudents at Convocation.

The primary for the StocktonCity Councils 6th District will takeplace on June 5, with the electionagainst Republican incumbentDale Fritchen scheduled for Nov.6. If elected as one of the citys sixcouncilmembers, Tubbs will serve aterm of four years.

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very unique opportunity, headded. I dont know of any schoolsthat do this.

Ledeen said the key benefit ofthe clinic for him was exposure tolegal practice.

Without this clinic there is noway I could have gotten this kind ofexperience . . . to actually see andexperience what prosecutors do,he said.

The problem of law schools is

getting students exposed to thepractice of law and helping them todetermine what areas they are in-terested in pursuing as a career,Ledeen added. This clinic gives usthe opportunity to see what prose-cution work is like, what skills are in-volved and what the lifestyle is, andthat has been invaluable.

Ledeen added that a second keybenefit of his clinical experiencewas exposure to substantive areasof the law, which helps law studentsdevelop a much deeper under-standing of our criminal justice sys-tem than [one] could possibly get byjust sitting in a classroom.

Noting the course prerequisites

in evidence and criminal proce-dures that law students must takebefore enrolling in the clinic,Ledeen commented, We actuallyhave taken classes that are relevantand prepared us for the substantivelegal material that we have to workwith in the clinic. All of us are wellprepared.

Ledeen reflected on the oppor-tunities Stanford offers its range oflaw students as a draw for him in theapplication process.

One of the big draws of Stan-ford was the possibilities that it af-forded, Ledeen said. Whats greatabout the changes and this curricu-lum is that it recognizes that all law

students arent created equal . . .We have different interests, differ-ent skills, [and] different back-grounds. This curriculum and theoptions that it provides give us flex-ibility to identify what were inter-ested in and to pursue them even ifthey arent traditional.

Ledeen noted that the new cur-riculum is based in Silicon Valleyand the entrepreneurial culture here.The law school is very much tied in tothat. Thats a big part of why that cur-riculum works so well here.

Other changes implemented aspart of the curricular reforms in-clude enlarged and modified stu-dent and faculty research opportu-

nities through the launch of a dozennew research centers and programsin areas such as constitutional andcriminal law, energy and corporategovernance. For example, law stu-dents have recently worked on im-plementing Californias PublicSafely Realignment Act.

Additionally, law students nowhave the opportunity to gain directexperience studying and working inglobal settings. Stanford studentshave worked in Afghanistan,Bhutan, Timor Leste, Iraq and otherlocations pursuing externships,summer jobs and student exchangeprograms in topics such as law anddevelopment.

To assist students in choosingcurricular and career paths, the LawSchool created online proprietarytools and a website to facilitate so-cial and professional networkingand mentoring.

The Law Schools five-year ini-tiative coincided with a University-wide five-year fundraising cam-paign, the Stanford Challenge,which has enabled the Law Schoolto finance curricular and infrastruc-ture changes. Stanford Law SchoolDean Larry Kramer spearheadedthe implementation of the reforms.

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Zero to hero may not be so crazy

By DEAN MCARDLECONTRIBUTING WRITER

The conference changed names,but the champion stayed the same,as the Stanford womens basketballteam clinched the inaugural Pac-12championship with an 81-46 rout ofOregon on Saturday.

WOMENS BASKETBALL

STA NF OR D 81

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The No. 2 Cardinal (24-1, 15-0

Pac-12) has now won 12 straightconference championships datingback to 2001.

Junior forward Joslyn Tinkledominated in the post, leading Stan-ford with 19 points. The Ogwumikesisters joined her in double figures,as sophomore forward Chiney andsenior forward Nnemkadi posted 14and 12 points, respectively. Saturdaymarked just the fifth time this seasonthat someone not named Ogwu-mike lead the Cardinal in scoring Tinkle has been that someone fourof five times.

Its special for all of us to share

this, Tinkle said. Especially beingthe first Pac-12 season . . . We havehad great success in the Pac-10 thepast few years, but we just dont letup. Thats the goal for us each timewe come out here, regardless ofwho were playing.

The conference title is headcoach Tara VanDerveers 21st inher 27 seasons on the Farm. The winwas also Stanfords 21st in a row,and the Cardinal remains undefeat-ed in conference play.

Nia Jackson led Oregon (14-13,6-9) with nine points. AmandaJohnson, who is averaging 19.4

points per game for the Ducks, washeld to just eight on Saturday.The Cardinal took advantage of

Oregon mistakes in the contest,scoring 19 points off of turnovers.Stanford capitalized on their tripsto the free throw line as well, sink-ing 19 of 20 attempts.

Stanford came ready to play andjumped ahead soon after tipoff. Alayup by Nneka Ogwumike, fol-lowed by consecutive three-point-ers from sophomore guard ToniKokenis and Tinkle put Stanford up8-0 just 72 seconds into the game.

Meanwhile, the Ducks struggled

from the field, missing their firstseven attempts and shooting just 25percent (16 for 64) on the night.

Later in the half, Stanford fresh-man guard Amber Orrange swipedthe ball from Oregons Lexi Peter-son and converted the fast-breakbasket, sparking a 12-2 Stanfordrun. The Cardinal continued tobuild on its lead throughout the firsthalf and went into the locker roomup 42-20.

In the second half the Ducksconsistently fouled Stanford shoot-ers, and the Cardinal made thempay from the free throw line. The

squad was a perfect 14 for 14 in thesecond half and controlled the paceof the game.

Midway through the secondhalf, Chiney ignited a 17-4 run witha strong move down low that led toa layup. She then capped the runwith another layup to push Stan-fords advantage to 28 points.

VanDerveer used her bench ex-tensively and effectively in Satur-days game. Freshmen TaylorGreenfield and Bonnie Samuelsonboth rained in two shots from be-hind the arc, and Samuelson totaledeight points on the night.

The Cardinal has been clickingon all cylinders of late, winning itspast six contests by an average of al-most 27 points. Over that stretch,

Stanford has been stout defensivelyas well, holding all of their oppo-nents under 60 points.

I think were coming togetherand jelling at the right time, Van-Derveer said. Were playing welldefensively, and were ironing outsome bugs offensively and gettingsome different people to step up.

Stanford returns home thisweek to take on Pac-12 foes Col-orado and Utah. The Cardinal takeson the Buffaloes on Thursday at 7p.m., then grapples with the Utes onSaturday at 2 p.m.

Contact Dean McArdle at dmcar-dle@stanford.edu.

SPORTS

By ANDERS MIKKELSENSTAFF WRITER

The Stanford mens basket-ball team controlled the first 35minutes of its matchup againstOregon, but in the last five theCardinal couldnt stop forwardE.J. Singler, as the junior scored10 straight points to help theDucks squeak out a 68-64 win.

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Stanford (18-9, 8-7 Pac-12) en-tered the game knowing it neededa win to have any chance of earn-ing a first-round bye in the Pac-12conference tournament. Fromthe start, this scenario seemed

likely as the Cardinal scored thefirst points of the game, taking alead it would not relinquish forthe next 38 minutes. The Ducks(19-8, 10-5) stuck with the Cardi-nal throughout, however, and fi-nally seized their opportunitywhen Singler went off.

The Cardinal were struck byan early blow when senior for-ward Andrew Zimmermann,playing his second-to-last game inMaples Pavilion, went down withan injury six minutes into the firsthalf. The senior scored four ofStanfords first six points andbrought a level of toughness thatwas sorely missed in his absence.

After Zimmermann wentdown, Stanford stayed on top ofthe Ducks due to the play of an-

other senior, forward JoshOwens. The captain was unstop-pable in the paint, scoring 20points. The Cardinals other bigmen also played well, as 6-foot-9sophomore forwards DwightPowell and John Gage scored 11and eight, respectively.

Although they were efficienton offense, the Cardinal forwardshad issues on the defensive end, asfor just the fourth time this seasonthey were out-rebounded.

They had 16 second-chancepoints, which means that they gotsome offensive rebounds that weshould have had as defensive re-bounds, Owens said.

Stanford still held the lead atthe five-minute mark when a

layup by Singler cut the Cardinallead to two. Singler, the youngerbrother of former Duke All-American Kyle Singler, wouldprove to be unstoppable. He hit athree-pointer, scored a layup,then drained yet another three togive Oregon its first lead of thegame with just 2:47 left to go.

Stanford still had a chance towin the game, as no one scored forthe next two minutes. The Cardi-nal held the ball with 22 secondson the clock, down 66-64 and hop-ing for a last-second miracle. Theball was inbounded to freshman

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Stanford senior Josh Owens (above) was dominant on Sunday, scor-ing 20 points on 8-of-13 shooting in Stanfords heartbreaking 68-64 loss to Oregon. The Card now sits in seventh in the Pac-12

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Joslyn Tinkle (No. 44) scored 19 points against Oregon on Saturday, asthe Stanford womens basketball team clinched its 12th consecutive con-ference title. The No. 2 Cardinal is undefeated in Pac-12 play this season.

By JOSEPH BEYDADESK EDITOR

This weekend the Stanford baseball teamshowed exactly why it was ranked No. 2 in thenation coming into the season, sweeping No.10 Vanderbilt at Sunken Diamond in a three-game series to begin its 2012 campaign.

The Cardinal (3-0) jumped out to big leadsagainst the Commodores (0-3) all weekendlong, looking like the Pac-12 favorite and na-tional title contender Stanford is expected tobe. The Cardinal has seven position players re-turning and two stellar starters on the mound.

We know we have a very talented group,were just trying to stay very levelheadedabout it and just do what we can do, said Sat-urday starter and redshirt junior BrettMooneyham. If we play to our potential,Omaha is not a goal thats unattainable, forsure.

Mooneyham and junior ace Mark Appelcombined for 13 strikeouts and just fourearned runs to give the Cardinal the series winby Saturday. A year after Vanderbilt squeakedout a pair of wins on the second weekend ofthe season to take the three-game set betweenthese two teams in Nashville, Stanford domi-nated this time around with an 8-3 victory onFriday and a 9-5 win the next afternoon, andlater capped the weekend with an 18-5 bludg-eoning on Sunday.

Sophomore first baseman Brian Ragira tal-lied seven hits on the weekend to lead the Car-dinal, and junior third baseman Stephen Pis-cotty came up with eight RBIs. Uncharacteris-

tic defensive mistakes by the visiting Com-modores, who committed 11 errors on theweekend, were just more nails in Vanderbiltscoffin.

Meanwhile, catcher Eric Smith was a pleas-ant surprise for Stanford behind the dish,opening his junior season with a pair of two-RBI performances. However, Smith said hismost exciting moments of the weekend camebehind the plate, as the converted infielderstarted all three games after winning an ex-

tended battle for the position this fall andspring.

It was truly an honor to be able to catchopening day and catch a guy like Mark Appel,Smith said after catching a game for the firsttime in three years. I didnt know what to ex-pect.

At least from Appel (1-0) there were nosurprises, as the projected top MLB draft pickshut down Vanderbilt through seven inningson Friday night. Only five runners reachedbase off the righthander, one of them on anerror by junior shortstop Kenny Diekroeger,and the Commodores only run came off afifth-inning sacrifice fly.

In the batters box, the Cardinal lived up toits reputation as one of the strongest lineups inthe country. Piscotty smashed a solo shot overthe left-field fence to open the scoring in thefirst inning with a homerun, and junior desig-nated hitter Christian Griffiths added anotherin the bottom of the second. Stanford tackedon three more in the third to extend its lead.

With the score 5-1 in the fifth, Smith hit aline drive into right field that sneaked by bothoutfielders and rolled slowly to the wall. Whenthe Commodores misplayed the relay, third-base coach Dean Stotz waved him home.

[Head coach Mark] Marquess has the phi-losophy that once you make contact youre100 percent out of the box, Smith said. Yousee that ball in the gap, youre thinking triple,double. And I saw Coach Stotz holding me up,and then all of a sudden waving me home.

Smith barely beat the throw to the plate forthe Cardinals third home run of the night and

the programs first inside-the-park shot innearly four years.Vanderbilt did mount a rally in the ninth in-

ning to close it to 8-3, but the effort was too lit-tle, too late.

The Stanford offense got ahead quicklyagain on Saturday, but this time the Com-modores were doomed by their own fieldingmistakes. A Vanderbilt error allowed the Car-dinal to get on the board in the first inning,and after the Commodores knotted it up in

the third inning, two more errors in the bot-tom of the third helped keep the Cardinal onthe base paths for four more runs.

Junior left fielder Tyler Gaffney added tothe lead in the fourth with a double, extending

his hit streak from last year to 24 games andmaking the score 6-1. The Cardinal tacked onthree more in the bottom of the fifth thanks totwo walks, a Smith RBI double and a sac flyfrom junior centerfielder Jake Stewart.

On the mound, Mooneyham (1-0) strug-gled with his fastball and walked four batters,but struck out eight more, showing signs ofthe dominance that gave him the team lead instrike outs in 2010.

It feels good just to be out there in a game

that isnt against yourself, he said, after sit-ting out all of last season with an injury.There were a couple of mistakes Id like totake back, but overall, it was very good.

One of those mistakes was a two-run

homer in the sixth by center fielder ConnorHarrell that drew the Commodores within six.Another two-run shot by Harrell in the top ofthe eighth off senior righthander Brian Busickdrew the game even closer, and Marquessbrought in highly touted freshman hurlerDavid Schmidt for the final six outs. Therighthander shined in his first collegiate outing,getting out of the eighth with three quick

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Sophomore first baseman Brian Ragira recorded seven hits over the weekend. Stanfordsoffense lit up visiting No. 10 Vanderbilt to the tune of 35 runs, sweeping the Commodoresin the teams opening series of the season. The Cardinal next faces Pacific on Tuesday.

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12 STRAIGHT FOR CARD

Even a loss last Fridaycouldnt halt the Linsani-

ty. Against the New Or-leans Hornets, pointguard sensation Jeremy

Lin recorded 26 points, and his team,the New York Knicks, bounced backon Sunday to defeat the Dallas Mav-ericks and keep the revival going.This Cinderella story seems to havehad such an impact on the sportsworld that the news has evenreached across the Atlantic, and evenI feel I should join the party and writeabout it.

Last week, my esteemed fellowsportswriter and, as ex-managingeditor of sports here at The Daily,technically my former boss MilesBennett-Smith beat me to it, com-

posing a ballad in sorrow at Stan-fords failure to recruit and nurture atalented player who grew up on itsdoorstep.

This seems to be a recurrenttheme. Throughout Lins strugglingcareer, he was repeatedly passedover by the good and the great ofbasketball. Even Bill Holden, theformer assistant Harvard basketballcoach who recruited Lin, didnt im-mediately go for him. New York did-nt consider him as much more thana backup buried deep on the benchuntil head coach Mike DAntoni,frustrated at how badly his team wasplaying, took a chance.

From knowing and caring rela-tively little about him just a fewweeks ago, the basketball world isnow struggling to understand bothhow good Lin may be and how heseems to have slipped through therecruitment net. His statistics in thenine games since being given that op-portunity on Feb. 2 seem pretty phe-nomenal: an average of 25.0 pointsand 9.2 assists though with 5.9turnovers per game.

Glancing at the NBAs careerscoring and assists leaders givessome idea of how impressive thisstart is. In his career, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar set a record with 38,387 totalpoints, averaging 24.6 points per

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By DASH DAVIDSONSTAFF WRITER

The No. 9 Stanford mens tennisteam had a successful weekend atthe National Team Indoor Cham-pionships in Charlottesville, Va., asthe Cardinal went 2-1 against someof the toughest competition in thecountry. Helping the Cardinalscause was the highly anticipatedreturn of senior All-AmericanBradley Klahn, who played singlesfor the first time in the dual-matchseason.

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KENTUCKY 1

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Stanfords first-round match inthe 16-team tournament wasagainst No. 7 Baylor. The Bearshave long been a thorn in the side ofhead coach John Whitlingers Stan-ford teams, having defeated theCardinal in 12 straight matches be-fore Fridays contest. Early on, itlooked like this one might havegone the same way, as the Bearseked out a close victory in the dou-bles matches and took a 1-0 lead.

Playing out of the three spot ashe continued his progression backto full health, Klahn quickly evenedthe match at one by dispatching hisopponent in straight sets. Anotherpoint for the Bears put Stanford onthe brink of defeat, but the teamstwo freshmen, John Morrissey andRobert Stineman, bailed out theirmore experienced teammates and

soon put Stanford in the lead at 3-2and in position to clinch the match.Senior Ryan Thatcher, playing outof the No. 1 position, was soon ableto deliver, sending Stanford on tothe quarterfinals against the hometeam, second-seeded UVA.

Virginia is the team that elimi-nated Stanford from last yearsNCAA tournament, a loss made all

the more bitter because the tourna-ment was held at Stanfords TaubeFamily Tennis Center. Stanford ulti-mately lost a competitive matchup4-1, but each and every match wastight, and the Cardinal, playing in anextremely hostile environment,more than proved itself.

It was a great atmosphere outthere for the Virginia match,Whitlinger said. Im really glad theguys got to experience that becausewere going to be going on the roadfor the NCAAs and this weekendprovided some great experiencethat we will be able to use to our ad-vantage in May.

Sundays consolation match pit-ted Stanford against No. 6 Ken-tucky, another challenging foe forWhitlingers squad. After winningthe doubles point to start the match,Stanford relied, once again, on the

power of its freshmen duo. The pairwon their matches by identical 6-4,6-4 scores and provided the clinch-ing point for the 4-1 victory thatsent the Cardinal back home toCalifornia on a high note.

I cant say enough about whattheyve done already this year,Whitlinger said of his prized re-cruits. Theyre both incrediblefighters. Neither of them will evergive up an inch without a fight. Theyboth always keep us in matches andthat is huge for us. Theyve been in-credible.

This weekends performance,coupled with the return of Klahn,should help the Stanford mens ten-nis team turn the page from early-season losses and refocus the squad

on what is sure to be an excitingcouple months of tennis.Stanford will look to continue

building positive momentum thisFriday afternoon at home againstCal, as the rivals get together fortheir biannual meeting.

Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@stanford.edu.

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Matt Kandath (left) and John Morrissey (right) were part of a successfulteam trip to Charlottesville, Va., where the mens tennis team won two ofthree matches at the National Indoor Team Championships.

plan for Stanford, which jumped out to a 7-2 lead earlyand never looked back, cruising to a 25-17 victory be-hind six kills from Lawson.

UCSD played substantially better in the second set,using good defense to force eight Stanford errors. TheTritons used consecutive combined blocks by junior

Carl Eberts and sophomore Fred Stahl to steal a setfrom the Cardinal, 26-24. Sophomore Vaun Lennonhad five kills to lead the Tritons in the set, while Irvinled Stanford with six.

The Cardinal rebounded and was able to take firmcontrol of the match, holding UCSD to a .019 hittingpercentage for the final two sets. UCSD finished with a.139 hitting percentage for the match, in comparison toStanfords stellar mark .455.

Much of this can be attributed to the play of seniorsetter Evan Barry, who continued his strong seasonwith a combined 92 assists over the weekend. Barryleads the nation with 12.26 assists per set.

I have confidence in all of my hitters, Barry said.The passing is so good that I always have all of my op-tions available. It makes my job a lot easier.

Barry and the Cardinal will finally return home thisweekend to the friendly confines of Maples Pavilion,where they will take on Pepperdine and USC as thenewly minted No. 1 team in the nation.

Its awesome. The experience doesnt really comearound that often, Barry said of becoming No. 1. We

always like to have the mentality of being underdogs,so we are going to have to work harder to convince our-selves of that moving forward.

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

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Senior setter Evan Barry leads the nation with 12.26assists per set. His 92 assists over the weekend pro-pelled the Card to victory against UC-Irvine and UC-San Diego and to the top of the national rankings.

game (PPG). Karl Malone, secondon the career scoring list, recorded

25.0 PPG, and Michael Jordan andWilt Chamberlain both averaged30.1 on a nightly basis. With regardsto assists, John Stockton dished outa career total of 15,806, with an av-erage of 10.5 per game, followed byJason Kidds 9.1 and Mark Jack-sons 8.0.

Extrapolating from nine gamesto careers measured in the thou-sands is, of course, a little bit of aleap. But even still, there arentmany players who have ever beenable to boast a streak of this nature.It seems hard to imagine that Linwill ever be considered a backup,fringe player again.

But how did this happen? Howwas the existence of a potentialNBA legend completely missed by

almost all of the hundreds of D-Ibasketball programs, the 32 profes-sional teams and the hoards ofscouts and sports journalists?

Maybe it wasnt.Im not stupid enough to try and

claim that Lin doesnt have a cleartalent for the game, but Im not sosure that there isnt somethingunique about his current situationthat has triggered the exact natureof his explosion onto the scene. Atleast in the first few games, Lin wasan unknown quantity to opposingplayers, and the hype that now sur-rounds him probably hasnt helpeddispel the mystique. Perhaps foeshavent quite managed to under-

stand how to counter his playingstyle.

Having come so close to the ob-scurity of a career that faltered evenbefore it got started, Lin also muststep out onto court with a unique at-titude. It is hard to imagine that any-one in professional basketball is

having quite as much fun right now;a seemingly failed ambition has be-come a dream come true. In thatvery first real chance, too, he musthave known that this was it, his verylast chance to make it.

Perhaps this gives Lin an edgethat the more traditional journey ofa fledgling star doesnt yield. Maybehe wasnt such a complete playerback then, but that the tough expe-rience he went through filled in anyholes; maybe if he had been pickedup by Stanford or even a traditionalbasketball school he wouldnt beenthe sensation he now is. It might bethat the scouts were, back then, rightto pass over him, or that the recruit-ing and coaching systems we havein place fail to both pick up and de-

velop unique talents like Lins.Whatever, hindsight is both a

wonderful and a futile thing. TheGolden State Warriors and Hous-ton Rockets might be ruing the de-cision not to keep hold of him, butwe need to forget the might-have-beens. More than anything, this is aninspiring and enthralling story. Timeto just sit back and enjoy the ride.

Tom Taylor and fellow columnistMiles Bennett-Smith are holed upin a Tahoe cabin, discussing thewonders of Jeremy Lin and singingTim Tebow lullabies. You can reachThe Dailys favorite Englishman attom.taylor@stanford.edu.

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