8/2/2019 DAILY 05.01.12

1/6

By NATASHA WEASERDESK EDITOR

Even if the direction is right

you cannot reach the destinationovernight, said Fu Jun, professorof political economy and execu-tive dean of the school of govern-ment at Beijing University, in atalk Monday on economic growthin China.

Fu is currently president of theHarvard Alumni Association inBeijing, as well as a frequent com-mentator on CCTV News andspeaker at the World EconomicForum.

Fu presented his talk, titled

China in the World Economy:Past, Present and Future, at theHewlett Teaching Center to an au-dience of approximately 100 peo-

ple.The talk was sponsored by the

Center for Sustainable Develop-ment and Global Competitive-ness (CSDGC).

Underlying the hour and a halftalk was a strong emphasis onwhat Fu called institutional tech-nology. He stressed that this termfocuses on human capital, in par-ticular the power of corporationsand educational institutions.

On the topic of education, Fusaid he is optimistic about the in-

crease in Chinese students study-ing abroad. He cautioned, howev-er, that the country needs to fig-ure out and have confidence in

more investment in institutionaltechnology.

Chinas growth has been aphenomenon, but I would pro-pose that the past three decadeswe have learned about what I callhardware technology, and thenext stage for us is to learn aboutinstitutional technologies, Fusaid.

Growth is a function of popu-lation and technology. This is asimple formula applicable global-ly, Fu added.

Despite his comments on theuniversality of this formula, Fupointed out that China has aunique Chinese way of growing,

citing examples including specialeconomic zones and reforms inthe countryside that might notnecessarily be successful if insti-tuted elsewhere in the world.

Drawing from economic his-tory and theory throughout histalk, Fu said, If you look atChina 200 years ago, it had one-third of the total world popula-tion and was producing one-thirdof the total world GDP. We were

Index Opinions/4 Sports/5 Classifieds/6 Recycle Me

Undergrad Senate votes today on process for sexual assault casesBy JULIA ENTHOVEN

STAFF WRITER

The ASSU UndergraduateSenate will debate whether to ap-prove the Office of Judicial AffairsAlternative Review Process(ARP) for cases of sexual assault,relationship violence and stalkingat tonights meeting. The ARP, in-stituted in 2010, is facing its two-year review and requires approvalfrom the Undergraduate Senateand the Graduate Student Council(GSC) to continue.

The ARP includes two signifi-cant changes: shifting the standardof proof from beyond a reason-able doubt to preponderance ofevidence, meaning jury membersmust be 51 percent certain of guiltto convict, and shrinking review

panel juries from six members tofour. These changes have raisedconcerns that the current system ofconvicting based on a majority isnot sufficient, and both studentrepresentatives and alumni haverecommended moving to requir-ing unanimous agreement on re-view panels.

The Office of Judicial Affairs(OJA) initiated the ARP as a pilotprogram in 2010 with the objectiveof making the judicial processmore accessible and less intimidat-ing for victims of sexual assault. Itsdevelopment was partially in re-sponse to OJA data indicating thatin the 13 years preceding 2010,there were 104 reports of sexualassault at Stanford, yet only 16 ofthose cases were reported to theJudicial Office and only three wentto hearing. In comparison, statis-

tics from a two-year study from theNational Institute of Justice, cited

in the 2011 Dear Colleague Letterfrom the Office for Civil Rights,predicted that over 650 female and200 male students at Stanford havebeen sexually assaulted, a numberfar higher than report and trialrates.

There was concern that the Ju-dicial Process was a deterrent tovictims of sexual assault, sexual ha-rassment, dating violence andstalking, Jamie Pontius-Hogan,assistant dean of the Office of Judi-cial Affairs, said in an email to TheDaily.

It surprises me that Stanfordstudents would want to consent toa change in the rules that givesthem less rights in a University dis-ciplinary hearing, said David Bar-

ton, who has been a criminal lawattorney for 23 years and has de-fended Stanford students in judi-cial proceedings. People . . . haveconfidence that the University willuse that power wisely and thattheyll never be on the wrong sideof it. And thats a delusion.

Since the establishment of theARP, there have been 21 cases ofsexual assault reported on campus,13 transferred to ARP and 12tried. Of the 12 hearings in the pasttwo years, 10 plaintiffs were foundresponsible, though one verdictwas reversed in appeal. Pontius-Hogan said that the OJA has notfound a higher proportion of stu-dents responsible since the burdenof proof was lowered to a prepon-derance of evidence standard; sheattributed the increase to the suc-cess of the ARP. The burden of

proof was lowered midwaythrough the ARP trial period.

Of course they are going to getmore cases if they dont have tohave the same level of certainty,Barton said, but people do getfalsely accused. If there is a pre-ponderance of evidence test, peo-ple will be falsely convicted, falselysuspended, falsely expelled. Thatsthe cost of a system that appearsmore efficient.

The Dear Colleague LetterOn April 12, 2011, six days after

he received a letter from the Officeof Civil Rights, President Hen-nessy employed his authority tooverride the existing Judicial Af-fairs charter and ASSU Constitu-tion both of which protect therights of the accused to face their

accusers, be free from double jeop-ardy and remain innocent untilproven guilty beyond a reasonabledoubt to revise the ARP andaccord it with the federal guide-lines.

According to the Office of Judi-cial Affairs, Stanford was one ofonly two or three universities tostill use a burden of beyond a rea-sonable doubt in cases involvingsexual assault. Even so, concernsremain over the ARP guidelines.

Many of the Stanford sexualassault cases are cases that are veryambiguous and involve confusionand alcohol, and are cases that arevery hard to prove beyond a rea-sonable doubt standard, Bartonsaid. Most of the cases that arecharged with sexual assault on

SPORTS/5

SOLO SUCCESSSophomore Nicole Gibbs

wins Pac-12 singles title

FEATURES/3

KNOWING

THE KNOLL

Tomorrow

Mostly Sunny

66 47

Today

Mostly Sunny

65 49

A n I n d e p e n d e n t P u b l i c a t i o nwww.stanforddaily.comThe Stanford DailyTTUESDAY Volume 241May 1, 2012 Issue 50

Vote on Alternative Review Process nears

Disease affects one in 10

Asians and Pacific Islanders

Blue Shield reachesdeal with Stanford

Hospital and ClinicsBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Blue Shield of California final-ized a three-year contract withStanford Hospital and Clinics this

past week for health maintenanceorganization (HMO) and pre-ferred provider organization(PPO) rates. Negotiations conclud-ed Thursday to meet a deadline justafter midnight on Friday morning,according to the San Jose MercuryNews.

Had the two sides not reached adeal in time, Blue Shield memberswould have seen their insurancecoverage affected at Stanford Hos-pital and Clinics (SHC).

In a statement, Randy Liv-ingston, Stanford vice president forbusiness affairs and chief financialofficer, said, Were very pleasedthat [Stanford] and Blue Shieldwere able to complete a new agree-ment in the nick of time, avertingpotential confusion and disruptionfor Stanford employees and post-docs with Blue Shield coveragewho receive services from StanfordHospitals and Clinics.

Terms of the deal were not re-

HEALTH

Studentsraise hep Bawareness

ENVIRONMENT

Terman park opening approaches

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Beijing prof. addresses Chinas global economy

By MATT BETTONVILLEDESK EDITOR

After six months of demolition, the site of the

Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Centeris starting to look like the park it is set to become.According to University officials, the park willopen later this month.

The new open space will preserve the largefountain that previously faced the center of theTerman building. The fountain sits in a bowl-shaped recession that is almost fully landscaped

with sod and new trees for its opening.The University has not announced any specif-

ic plans, but the park area is considered only tem-porary. According to the Stanford Report, one

reason for leaving the recessed fountain was tostop the need for future excavation for the foun-dation of a building.

Almost none of the demolished Terman build-ing is headed to the landfill. According to projectmanager Matthew Griffis, 99.6 percent of the ma-

NEWS BRIEFS

Before 1997 Stanford used a beyond

a reasonable doubt standard for cases ofsexual assault and relationship abuse.

1997 Students and administratorsagreed to the most recent Judicial Char-ter; this included the beyond a reason-able doubt standard.

February 5, 2010 The Daily re-ported that there is a growing consensus. . . the process does not benefit the vic-tim, nor help the accused to clear hisname, nor does it protect the Stanfordcommunity from predators.

April 14, 2010 President Hen-nessy signed the Alternate MisconductReview Process, a plan developed by theBoard on Judicial Affairs, which elimi-nated the requirement that victims andsuspects attend the same hearings dur-ing a case.

April 3, 2011 The Office for CivilRights urged universities to lower the stan-dard of proof in sexual assault and rela-tionship abuse cases from beyond a rea-sonable doubt to preponderance of theevidence or risk loss of federal funding.

April 12, 2011 President Hen-

nessy released an executive order tolower Stanfords standard of proof from

beyond a reasonable doubt to prepon-

derance of the evidence.

June 30, 2011 The Universityhired Angela Exson as its first assistantdean for sexual assault and relationshipabuse shortly after forming the Office ofSexual Assault and Relationship AbuseEducation & Response (SARA).

March 19, 2012 34 ASSU alum-ni signed a letter to student representa-tives urging them to delay placing a re-vised ASSU Constitution, which would in-clude the lowered standard of evidence,on the April ballot. The representativesagreed.

April 19, 2012 The Board of Ju-dicial Affairs proposed to student repre-sentatives a reduction in the size of thepanels juries, from six to four, as wellthe continuation of requiring a simplemajority for convictions. Several stu-dent representatives advocated for aunanimous vote.

May 1, 2012 The UndergraduateSenate will meet to vote on the proposedJudicial Charter.

May 2, 2012 The Graduate Stu-

dent Council will meet to vote on the pro-posed Judicial Charter.

Timeline of Judicial Affairs changes:

ROGER CHEN/The Stanford Daily

The park that will replace the Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Center is beginning to take shapeafter months of demolition and clearing. The park is set to open on schedule later this month.

Please see BRIEFS, page 2

Please see CHINA, page 2

Please see TERMAN, page 2

By CATHERINE ZAWSTAFF WRITER

Jade balloons tied to bikes allover campus Monday morningwere the first of many indicators ofHepatitis B Awareness Week. Fea-turing speakers and events all overcampus, the awareness week was or-ganized by Team HBV, an outreacharm of the Jade Ribbon Campaignled by the Asian Liver Center at theStanford School of Medicine.

Hepatitis B affects one in 10Asians and Pacific Islanders, andone in four of those affected eventu-ally die of liver cancer, according to

Team HBV. The virus is also respon-sible for 80 percent of all liver cancercases. Team HBV is the primary stu-dent outreach group for hepatitis Band spans numerous colleges andhigh schools throughout the nation.

Currently all Team HBV colle-giate chapters are gathering supportfor an online petition urging Presi-dent Obama to sustain the Centerfor Disease Control and Preven-tions funding for viral hepatitistreatment and to include viral hepa-titis in the Global Health Initiative.

Since 2010, Team HBV has de-voted a week each year in May to in-crease campus awareness of hepati-tis B and liver cancer. Hepatitis BAwareness Week is a collection ofeducational outreach events that

feature distinguished speakers, freefood and jade-colored memorabil-ia.

On Monday, our kickoff eventinvolved placing jade balloons andimportant hep B facts on bikesthroughout campus, said Christo-pher Paiji 13, president of TeamHBV. The next event, which willtake place Tuesday at 6 p.m. in theAsian American Activities Center(A3C) ballroom, will be The Jade

Please see HEP, page 2

Please seeJUDICIAL, page 6

8/2/2019 DAILY 05.01.12

2/6

normalizing.Although the Chinese econo-

my has grown at a rapid pace in thelast 30 years since former premierDeng Xiaoping introduced mar-ket reforms in 1979, Fu said, Wehave one-fifth of the world popu-lation but we are producing rough-ly 10 percent of world GDP.

We are looking for another 10percent to normalize, he added.

Fu said that in the future,China needs to undertakechanges including more anti-trust laws and the production ofbetter quality products.Nonetheless, he remained posi-tive about Chinas economic fu-ture.

We have to give credit to the[Chinese] government and theChinese people for what they haveaccomplished, Fu said. But hav-ing said that, we should not get selfconceited.

After the talk, Fu fielded morethan a dozen questions on subjectsranging from Chinas GDP per

capita to the balance between hi-

erarchy and the market within thecountry.

For the economy to move for-ward, you need to have a balanceon the supply side and demandside, Fu said in reply to a questionon domestic consumption. Andright now I am concerned about

the growth potential on the de-mand side. With the slowdown ofthe world economy, internationalmarkets are not demanding asmuch.

Contact Natasha Weaser at nweas-er@stanford.edu.

CHINAContinued from front page

2N Tuesday, May 1, 2012 The Stanford Daily

By ARIELLA AXLERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The 1973 creation of Global Positioning System(GPS) technology, which uses satellites to determineprecise locations on Earth, changed industries rangingfrom aviation to robotics. Professor emeritus BradfordParkinson, the engineer and inventor known as the ar-chitect of GPS, delivered a Stanford EngineeringHero lecture Monday about his work.

GPS has many applications for worldwide bene-fit, Parkinson said. Some we anticipated, some aresurprising.

As a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Parkinson madestrides in his aeronautics and astronautics engineeringstudies as a doctoral student at Stanford. In 1973, hebecame manager of the NAVSTAR GPS develop-ment program, where he remained until 1978, when heretired from the Air Force. He then served as a profes-sor at Stanford until 1999.

Parkinson described the origins and applications ofGPS Monday and explored the trajectory of its future.He dedicated his lecture to the aerospace engineerswho work to advance technology in the field today.

The origins of GPS date back to 1964, when IvanGetting, who later worked with Parkinson, envisioneda worldwide navigation system and sponsored a study.The first GPS systems study was from 1964 to 1966.

Throughout Parkinsons involvement in GPS engi-neering, the technology has undergone several phasesof development and advanced to incorporate new gen-erations of technology.

Back in 74, we knew we could do aircraft GPS,Parkinson said. The surprise was in 1992, when we dis-covered that the implication of what we are doing is farbetter than a meter it is on the level of a few inchesin three dimensions.

Parkinson identified two defining events in the his-tory of GPS.

The first was in 1983, when the Soviets shot downan airliner on September 1. Within two weeks Reagandeclared to the world that GPS would be availablewithin two weeks, Parkinson said. The second was in2001, when Clinton ordered deliberate errors in thesystem turned off.

After recounting the history of GPS, Parkinsonidentified 10 major fields that have advanced becauseof the technology. He described the GPS applicationsinvolved in aviation, emergency services, timing, agri-culture, rescue, recreation, automotive tracking, sci-ence, military, robotics and machine control.

Everyday automobile drivers experience the use-fulness of GPS in locating their destinations. The appli-cations of GPS in navigation are manifold, and contin-ually expanding.

In 1974 we could do land navigation. In 1976, au-

tomatic steering to an inch, Parkinson said.In addition, the origin of coordinated international

time can be attributed to GPS.A man with one watch knows what time it is, a man

with two watches is not sure, Parkinson said. Coun-tries throughout the globe now operate on synchro-nized time.

The idea is that users on either side of the Atlanticlook at the same satellite to identify the time, Parkin-son continued.

GPS technology is also widely applied in communi-cation.

Almost all cell phone towers trace their originback to GPS, Parkinson said.

Parkinson also touched on the effects of the powerof GPS for humanity. Narrating an example of a mili-tary rescue from 1995, he outlined the role of GPS in

changing the face of rescue capability. The incident in-volved a soldier who was shot down and found six dayslater by military rescue teams.

[The soldier] attributed his success to faith in God,courage of the rescuers, and GPS, which he referred toas his guiding light, Parkinson said.

Despite the widespread applications of GPS, thereexist some tangible challenges in the technologys fu-ture.

The number one foreseeable problem I believe isspectrum interference, Parkinson said. He explainedhow devices may interfere with a satellite or other sig-nal.

Despite where GPS technology might go in the fu-ture, Parkinson expressed amazement at the applica-tions that have already been found.

Though we usually think of space in three dimen-sions, GPS is really four dimensional, Parkinson said.GPS is more than simply a satellite system, its theservices it renders.

Contact Ariella Axler at aaxler@stanford.edu.

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Parkinson, GPSpioneer, shares

journey of tech

ROGER CHEN/The Stanford Daily

Professor emeritus Bradford Parkinson gave a Stan-

ford Engineering Hero lecture Monday evening.Parkinson, known as the architect of the GPS, dis-cussed GPS technology and future applications.

ROGER CHEN/The Stanford Daily

Fu Jun, a professor at Beijing University, addressed a crowd aboutChinas role in a globalizing economy. Fu discussed normalizing Chinas

percent of global GDP against its percent of global population.

leased. Patients from other insur-ance providers are unaffected bythe negotiations.

Matt Bettonville

Preliminarydecision made to

build worlds largestdigital camera

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

SLAC National AcceleratorLaboratorys project to build theworlds largest digital camera ad-vanced last week as it gained Criti-cal Decision 1 approval by the De-partment of Energy. The project,called the Large Synoptic SurveyTelescope (LSST) camera, wouldcreate a 3.2-billion-pixel digital

camera to take data on the visiblesky.

With 189 sensors and overthree tons of components that

have to be packed into an extreme-ly tight space, you can imagine thisis a very complex instrument, Na-dine Kurita, project manager forthe LSST camera, said to theSLAC News Center. But giventhe enormous challenges requiredto provide such a comprehensiveview of the universe, its been an in-credible opportunity to designsomething so unique.

The camera will take data on

the entire sky in weekly cycles, gen-erating 6 petabytes, or 6 million gi-gabytes, of data every year. Thisdata could be critical for future re-search on both objects near Earth,such as asteroids, and larger ques-tions, like the nature of dark mat-ter.

Having passed the Critical De-cision 1 stage, the project will moveon to detailed designs, budgetingand timelines. However, somework has already begun on thecameras main mirror, which willmeasure 8.4 meters across. Prepa-rations are also underway at thefinal site for the camera, on top ofCerro Pachn, a mountain near theChilean city of Vicua.

If further approvals are met,

full-scale construction on the cam-era will begin in 2014.

Matt Bettonville

BRIEFSContinued from front page

Perspective on Health Advocacy,featuring Arcadi Kolchak, policyaide to Santa Clara County supervi-sor Liz Kniss.

Overall it was a great way to letTeam HBVs mission be heard,said Christina Wang 15, director ofcampus relations for Team HBV. Ihope everyone on campus at leastsaw one jade balloon today, a sym-bol of Team HBVs cause to letmore people know about the silentkiller that is hepatitis B.

The worst thing about thevirus is that its asymptomatic, sothere is very little economic or po-litical attention spent on thisvirus, Wang said. Its our hope tochange that, and a lot of that startswith being aware that the virus ispretty deadly.

Vaden Health Center offers free

hepatitis B screenings to all stu-dents with a standard appointment.Stanford Team HBV has severalmethods to direct students to thisfree screening.

When I attended a dinner inMarch that celebrated the kickoffof the Santa Clara Hep B Freecampaign, I learned that an esti-mated 50,000 people in the countyhave hep B, with two-thirds un-aware of their infected status, Paijisaid. Imagine the number of jeop-ardized that would have easilybeen prevented if these individualshad known to screen for Hep Bearlier. Stanford Team HBV hopesto turn this trend around by edu-cating the surrounding at-riskcommunities.

Later in the week, Team HBVplans to host health educationevents in White Plaza and in themajor dining halls, along with hand-ing out jade cookies and sunglasses.

Contact Catherine Zaw at czaw13@stanford.edu.

HEPContinued from front page

terial is headed for recycling andreuse.

Conscientious building dem-olition underscores Stanfordscommitment to sustainability anddemonstrates responsible man-agement through the end of abuildings life, reads SustainableStanfords website for the project.

Some pieces of the formerbuilding are being repurposedaround campus. According to areport published by SustainableStanford, roof tiles from Termanare being re-installed in the risingWest Campus Recreation Center.Additionally, seats from Termans

auditorium will be re-installed inan auditorium in the final build-ing of the new engineering quad,and pavement tiles will be used torenovate the nearby Petersen-Mitchell courtyard. Other items,such as exterior light fixtures andbike racks, will be returned to thesite and redistributed aroundcampus.

One piece of the Terman park,the small lot across Lomita Mallfrom the pond area, is temporari-

ly being left unlandscaped. Thelot, which formerly housed stu-dent publications including The

Daily, will eventually be madeinto a turf recreation area, but fornow is being reserved for theSolar Decathlon project, a sus-tainable housing competitionamong 20 universities.

Since new turf and treescould potentially be damaged ifinstalled prior to this use, we arein the process of determiningfinal needs of the Solar De-cathlon and will be phasing thecompletion of the . . . site land-scaping accordingly, Griffis saidin an email to The Daily.

Mulch from the Stanford Hos-pital renovation project will bebrought to the site so that theSolar Decathlon team can con-struct their project for the 2013

competition. Landscaping mightresume on the area when theteam moves its project to Irvine,Calif. in October 2013.

The exact date of the openingof the park has not been an-nounced, but despite signs at thesite indicating Summer 2012,Griffis said it is on track to openlater this month.

Contact Matt Bettonville at mbet-tonville@stanford.edu.

TERMANContinued from front page

Like most Americans, millions of young people

have been deeply affected by the terrorist attacks.

They are asking for a way to get personally involved

and make a difference.

By purchasing The Heart of America Pin, corporations

and organizations can support the relief efforts and also

help young people get involved in creating a better

world.

All prots from the sale of pins will support The

Heart of America Foundations community programs

and Family Relief Fund for the families of the victims

of terrorism. Show the world the power of love.

Corporations and organizations can visit

The Heart of America Foundations website at

www.heartofamerica.org for information about

how they can help. Retail orders may be placed

directly with the pin s manufacturer, Friends, Inc.

at 1-877-I-CARE PINS (422-7374).

8/2/2019 DAILY 05.01.12

3/6

By RAYMOND LUONG

I

t has been described byStanford students as every-thing from a Spanish man-sion to a Gothic fortress

and even a haunted castle,but these misconceptions strikefar from the truth.

Perched on top of a hill be-hind Florence Moore Hall, thismysterious Stanford landmark isnone other than the Knoll, cur-rently home to Stanfords Centerfor Computer Research in Musicand Acoustics (CCRMA, pro-nounced karma).

Designed by architect LouisChristian Mullgardt in the 1910s,the Knoll was originally intendedto be the residence of StanfordPresident Ray Lyman Wilbur. In1946, the Knoll became home tothe Stanford Department ofMusic and in 1986, CCRMAmoved to the location.

CCRMA was founded in 1975by John Chowning, a Stanfordprofessor, researcher, musicianand inventor. Originally locatedat the Stanford Artificial Intelli-gence Laboratory on East Cam-pus, CCRMA was founded as aresearch center for digital audioand computer-based technology.

In 1989, the Knoll was dam-aged in the Loma Prieta earth-quake, rendering the third floorunsafe. As a result, the Knoll un-derwent a major renovation be-tween 2004 and 2005.

Following the renovation, theKnoll now contains modernsound studios and open-planwork spaces. Among the updatedrooms are a 100-seat perform-

ance hall for contemporarymusic performances and a listen-ing room that allows for individu-als to conduct research in syn-thetic acoustical space.

CCRMA is composed of aca-demic directors, professors andengineers, but the majority ofCCRMA affiliates are students,both graduate and undergradu-ate.

CCRMA is strongly interdis-ciplinary, where physicists, elec-trical engineers, musicians andartists can come together in onespot to cross boundaries, saidChris Carlson M.A. 12. For ex-ample, musicians are learning to

code and engineers are learningcomposition.There is usually some

strange sound coming from partof the [building] and studentshacking away at code, but there isa happy exhaustion, Carlsonsaid, describing the Knoll envi-ronment on most evenings.

Although the Knolls atmos-phere is very much research-ori-ented, there is a strong sense ofcommunity that allows for collab-oration on a variety of projects.

Everyone takes a multidisci-plinary approach to their workand projects so everyone knowseverything about everything,said Jennifer Hsu M.A. 13. Thismultidisciplinary approach also

forces you to talk to other peopleto learn, so theres this great,warm community here.

The wide range of ongoing re-search at CCRMA centers on theidea of approaching the intersec-tion of music, technology and artfrom various angles. Researchersconduct work in sound synthesis,human computer interaction, en-vironmental sounds, music cogni-tion and sonification, just toname a few topics.

One current project seeks torecreate the audio experience ofthe Hagia Sophia, a mosque andmuseum in Istanbul with verydistinctive acoustics due to itsunique domed ceiling. Anotherproject focuses on using audio il-

lusions and computerized musicto learn more about the humansense of hearing. Other re-searchers are working with dualelectroencephalograms (EEGs)and monitoring the brain activityof two musicians as they perform,or two people as one performsand the other listens.

CCRMA always attracts aphenomenal mix of people withdiverse interest in arts and engi-neering, said Chris ChafeD.M.A. 83, CCRMA director.Its a playground with opportu-nity and new faces.

Chafe extends an open invita-tion to all interested in any of

CCRMAs courses, researchgroups or interdisciplinary proj-ects, as students have historicallyalways been highly involved andengaged with the organizationsresearch.

Over the past few years, therehave been significant researchtrends at CCRMA.

In the past, people camespecifically to study somethingspecific like audio signal process-ing, said Luke Dahl M.A. 07Ph.D. 13. There has been a shiftto more creative and interdisci-plinary projects.

In addition to the increasedinterest in interdisciplinary re-search, CCRMA has also in-creased in populari ty.

People have been askingmore and more about music andCCRMA in the past three to fouryears, especially in the under-graduate community, said SteveHenderson 08 M.A. 12, who hasbeen working at CCRMA sincehis time as an undergraduate.Im frequently asked, What do Ihave to do to get in there?

Aside from academic contri-butions, the center holds fre-quent events and activities, onsubjects from neurocognitionand perceptual audio to thephysics of music, digital signalprocessing, audio engineering,music production and computerscience.

The Knolls auditorium, with

equipment such as a state-of-the-art surround sound system, agrand piano and a multi-screenvideo projection system, is alsohome to many concerts, oftenfeaturing computer music com-posed by students and faculty.The outdoor space behind thebuilding also hosts musicalevents.

In addition, the center holdsits annual concert, Modulations,each April in San Francisco,showcasing leading electronic

musicians, dancers and sound in-stallations from both guest andCCRMA artists.

However, the core focus of thecenter remains its research proj-ects. In ten years, Chafe predicts agreater emphasis on mobile andbiological computing with aneven greater focus on interdisci-plinary projects.

Its going to be fun, he said.

Contact Raymond Luong at raylu-ong@stanford.edu.

The Stanford Daily Tuesday, May 1, 2012N 3

MANSION OF MUSIC

By KADEN FREEMAN

The drivers at 5-SURE dont mind ifyoure a regular. Infact, they are morethan happy to pick

you up, whether its your firsttime calling or a thrice-weeklyhabit.

Students United for RiskElimination (5-SURE) is an or-ganization that dispatches driv-ers to students in need of a rideon campus. The programemerged in the 1970s as Stu-dents United for Rape Elimina-tion (SURE). In its early days,SURE had no cars and func-tioned more as a buddy-systemservice, sending male volunteerson bikes to walk with studentson their way home.

This system ran into somecontroversy, with many criticsarguing that the service waschauvinistic and an improperway to address the problem of

female rape, so teams of femalevolunteers were added to thegroup to begin escorting stu-dents home.

Demand for SUREs escortsdwindled in the 1980s, and theorganization eventuallystopped running. However, in-creased interest in the groupsservices in the 1990s brought theorganization back from thedead this time with golf carts.The carts helped ridership surgeand rooted 5-SURE into cam-pus culture.

Today, 5-SURE is Universi-ty-funded and operates sevendays a week except during fi-nals and dead week from 9:00p.m. to 1:45 a.m. Along with a

golf cart, the organization nowhas a car and an enthusiasticteam of student drivers.

On one Saturday night,Amelia Herrera 12, Jodie Ha14 and Laura Potter 14 mannedthe front desk, with one of thethree occasionally stepping outto pick someone up, while fre-quent bouts of laughter carriedthrough the lobby of Old Union.

I work for 5-SURE becauseits a good program, Herrerasaid. In the light of several re-cent incidents on campus, its im-portant for students to have ameans of getting home safe, andIm more than happy to do mypart to make that a reality.

Being a driver is a really en-

tertaining job, you get to hearlots of stories about where peo-ple are coming from and wheretheyre going, Ha added.

When asked if she could re-count a specific memorable ex-perience she had while driving,Ha whispered to Herrera andthe two burst out laughing.

In the name of driver confi-dentiality, the two decided toparaphrase.

You meet some interestingpeople, Ha said with a chuckle.

Sometimes you get peoplewho can be a little rowdy, butIve never had an experience

where someone has been out ofcontrol or where I have felt un-safe as a driver, Herrera said.

According to Potter, Thereare definitely regulars, peoplewho we see almost every night,but for some people who live inOak Creek [Apartments] or EV[Escondido Village], they needus to be able to get home safelyeach night.

Its actually kind of funny,Ill sometimes see them in thedaytime and say hello, but theydont always recognize me, shecontinued.

Another round of laughter atthe table hinted that this phe-nomenon is familiar to all 5-SURE drivers.

With services running everyday until 1:45 a.m., 5-SUREdrivers are in for some latenights. However, this didnt ap-pear to faze any of the threedrivers.

5-SURE is a very student-friendly organization, even for

us as employees, Herrera said.If you have a midterm or apaper due, its not difficult tofind someone to cover yourshit.

Were not open during fi-nals because were students,too, Ha said. But if youre atwork and its a slow night withno calls coming in, its no prob-lem to do some of your workwhile youre at the desk.

The fact that 5-SURE driversare fellow students with limitedresources is something all threewomen agreed they would likestudents to keep in mind.

Were not a limo service,and we dont have a huge fleet ofcars, Herrera said. Were a

group of one dispatcher and twodrivers each night, and one ofour vehicles is a golf cart thatcant go over twenty miles perhour.

Sometimes, we get callerswho react impolitely when wetell them there will be a 15 or 20minute wait for a ride or whotreat us rudely as were drivingthem, Ha interjected.

Despite the occasional ill-mannered passenger, Herrera,Ha and Potter all agreed thatthey love their job.

Ive picked up people fromsituations in which they reallydid feel unsafe, Potter said.Even if theyre drunk . . . as adriver you get to experience a lot

of really heartwarming occa-sions that remind you thatyoure helping people.

At the end of the day, thereare plenty of other jobs on cam-pus that are a lot more conven-ient without the late hours, butanyone who is here at 5-SUREis here to help others, Herrerasaid.

With that, Herrera answeredthe phone and dispatched Potterto pick up someone from EV.All in a nights work.

Contact Kaden Freeman at kaden123@stanford.edu.

FEATURES

AFRIEND IN

5-SURE

MADELINE SIDES/The Stanford Daily

Stanfords Students United for Risk Elimination (5-SURE) provides

free rides for students across campus.

M.J. MA/The Stanford Daily

8/2/2019 DAILY 05.01.12

4/6

In less than three hours last Fri-day, two friends and I harvestedsnap peas, red leaf lettuce,

cilantro, kale, chives and dozens ofdwarfish carrots whose size beliedtheir sugar content. We pulled up allthe old plants and a few weeds, dou-ble dug the beds to aerate the soiland planted a smattering of newseeds. The garden beds wereprepped and ready for new growth.

Harvesting, weeding, diggingand sowing offered me a chance toreflect. Gardening provides aspace to consider what I am actual-ly learning while at Stanford, whatI value and where I seek to createvalue in the world. Working theland even a small patch of it offers a time for inward contem-plation.

But growing food does not needto be a solitary, meditative activity.Weekly pizza parties on the Stan-ford Community Farm are joyous,noisy, laughter-filled, lip-smackingaffairs. Its hard to shovel a truck-load of compost next to someonewithout sharing stories and form-ing a casual friendship. These workparties feature undergraduates

majoring in everything from earthsystems to religious studies, gradu-ate students in business as well associology, staff members, facultymembers, families with childrenand, of course, pizza. (Chickensusually make an appearance, too.)More than learning about soilstructure or the proper techniquefor turning a compost pile, thesework parties are a chance to buildcommunity.

Sadly, only a tiny fraction of theStanford population has had theopportunity to reflect, grow andbuild community in this cherishedspace. Plans are underway to ex-pand the campus education farm,

which is currently less than aneighth of an acre, but the develop-ment of a larger space for food sys-tems education has been stalled forseveral years.

Breaking ground on a new farmwill be a meaningful step forwardfor the growing community of indi-viduals interested in food. Currentfarming classes are routinely over-subscribed, and Farm Educator

Patrick Archie is in high demand.Undergraduate and graduate stu-dents interested in food would likea larger space for hands-on, experi-ential learning, and students andfaculty alike would love receivingresources enabling them to pursueprojects in the food sphere, fromnutrition to social justice to obesityto business ventures. When com-pared to Berkeley, UC-Davis andeven Yale, Stanford pales in its foodeducation.

I am beyond grateful that Stan-ford has even a small plot of landwhere I get to dirty my hands andmarvel at the wonders of plantgrowth and food production. But Iam routinely confronted by oppor-tunities for improvement.

Food unites communities andprovides a meaningful context forexamining and applying topics aswide-ranging as physics (crucial tosoil structure), economics (centralto for-profit and non-profit foodieventures) and ethics (important foreverything from farmworkersrights to meat consumption). Theacts of farming and cooking eachprovide a beautiful space for con-templation. Yet when $4.2 millionflows into the University for the es-tablishment of a contemplativecenter, the trustees have agreed tobuild a second art museum.

I am deeply grateful for thealumni donations that have made

my Stanford experience possible. Inlight of ongoing mental health andwellness struggles on campus, I amalso grateful that University offi-

cials recognize the need for spacesthat encourage reflection and bal-ance. And I am thrilled to seegreater support of the arts on an en-gineering campus known for itsGet Rich U entrepreneurialmindset. But I can think of manymore strategic uses of $4.2 millionthan a new art museum.

Through classes on philanthro-py and my own activism I havelearned an important message:New initiatives will not be truly suc-cessful unless the recipients arepartners in the planning process.Lest this be too difficult, it is impor-tant to at least listen to grant recipi-ents needs and wants. Without lis-tening, it is impossible to be a strate-gic philanthropist, because you can-

not simply intuit the needs of acommunity that is not your own.

Because I know my foodiedreams of a production farm in theSanta Cruz mountains are sharedby only a handful of my peers, Iasked around about how studentsmight spend $4.2 million. In speak-ing with my peers, Ive heard recur-ring themes. Stanford students wantthe University to focus more onwellness, with an emphasis on men-tal health. They want to build com-munity. That $4.2 million couldhave funded expanded mentalhealth services on campus, or en-

Theres a concept in everyform of storytelling knownas the unreliable narrator. It

basically means the person tellingthe story has been compromisedand cant fully be trusted. Oh, ex-amples you say? (Spoiler Alert:

Im about to reveal some bigtwists. So if you havent seenFight Club or read The Catch-er in the Rye yet, then, spoileralert, youve been living under arock for the last 13 years. Cmon!)

In Fight Club, you get aboutthree quarters of the way throughthe movie before you realize BradPitt is actually Edward Norton,

just with a cooler jacket and bet-ter abs. Or think back to when youread The Catcher in the Rye inhigh school and only in the lastchapter did you find out HoldenCaulfield was crazy the wholetime. Or when this girl tells youThe Notebook is really sad andyoure going to cry and then youwatch the whole thing and it turnsout nothing is sad because theyend up together . . . or somethinglike that. It shakes you up a bit.You have to go back and decipherwhat was really true in it all. SoEdward Norton blew his ownapartment up? And is that whypeople think Im cool if I name-drop The Catcher in the Rye?And are all girls unreliable narra-tors, or just that girl?

Another Spoiler Alert: Wereall unreliable narrators in our ownlives. Thats just the way life is. Itdoesnt mean were liars necessar-ily; it just means we cant be objec-tive and distanced from our ownemotions and desires. The way weperceive, understand and react to

the world around us is completely

dependent upon our emotions,our experiences (or lack thereof)and the fact that we can only getinside our own heads and not any-one elses. Were all unreliable,and some are more unreliablethan others.

For example, if you ask a friendwhy they broke up with their sig-nificant other and their answer is,Well, he/she is just a [insert en-thusiastic curse word], thentheyre probably a little unreliableon the subject. Or if you ask afriend in a fraternity or sororityhow they did in rush this year andthey answer, We totally de-stroyed everyone else. Best pledgeclass ever! theyre probably a bitunreliable too. Or if a friend usesthe phrase YOLO for whateverreason, even sarcastically, they are100 percent unreliable and youshould probably re-evaluate howyou choose your friends.

So if were all unreliable narra-tors, why does it even matter?That is a fantastic and convenient-ly timed question that I just in-cepted into your brain. There aresome major benefits when we re-member our viewpoint isnt theonly viewpoint, and probably isnteven the most accurate viewpoint.The only thing we can ever be sureof about our unreliability is that itwill always be unreliable to an ex-tent. So the best we can do to min-imize our own bias is to under-stand it as fully as possible.

When we acknowledge we areunreliable and our objectivity hasbeen compromised, we stop sup-posing the intentions of othersand start focusing on our own. If Iget one of those lovely passive-ag-

gressive Stanford emails that I

feel is attacking me, its reallyeasy, and even fair according tomy unreliability, to shoot a less-passive, more-aggressive email

back at the person who is trying tohurt me. But, if I acknowledgethat I am emotionally biased be-cause I feel threatened, then I canentertain the possibility that myemotions are reading negativityinto the email and it may not bethere at all. Knowing my gut reac-tion may be wrong, I can respondmore patiently and constructively.

This allows for more gracewhen dealing with others becauseour conception of fairness be-comes closer to the truth. BecauseI can only know my side of thestory and my intentions, Im reallyonly working with half a deck. Ican do my best to imagine or as-sume what the other person in-tended or experienced, but Ill

probably end up selling themshort. Either way, even if I can fab-ricate a complete understandingof the situation, itll always behalf-invented, and fairness basedon only half-truths isnt fair at all.This forces us to have real authen-tic conversations, discussions andeven confrontations with eachother. It allows us to focus on ourown shortcomings rather thanthat of others, and to treat eachother with humility and grace.And that is the truth.

If you want to find out just how un-reliable Chase is, or you are stillangry he spoiled Fight Club (or TheNotebook) for you, email him atninjaish@stanford.edu.

4N Tuesday, May 1, 2012 The Stanford Daily

On the Alternative ReviewProcess and role modeling

Do we want to educatestudents to assume guilt?

OP-ED

The ASSU Senate will votetoday on whether or not toformally approve the Judi-

cial Affairs Alternative ReviewProcess (ARP) for sexual assaultand relationship abuse, a pro-gram that has been piloted fortwo years and has seen a dramat-ic increase in the number of re-ported assaults on campus. Mostpeople have attributed this in-crease in reports to the fact thatthe ARP is seen as a safer, morepersonal and more welcomingsystem in which victims feelmore comfortable coming for-ward. I am concerned that theSenate discussion of the ARPprocess and articles covering theapproval seem to be gettingcaught up in a few small detailsand are losing sight of the largerpicture.

There seems to be a miscon-ception that the Alternative Re-view Process is this big bad scaryprocess created with the intentof wrongfully expelling all themen on campus. In fact, the ARPis in place to create an equal sys-tem of justice and support both

parties in a case of alleged sexu-al assault or relationship abuse.The language of the ARP in-cludes extensive lists of therights of the responding student(the alleged perpetrator) and ofthe impacted party (the allegedvictim). In fact, most of theserights are identical and includeservices such as a personal advi-sor to see each party through theprocess and the right of both par-ties to have their confidentialityupheld to the extent permittedby law and University policy.Both parties also have the rightto appeal the verdict (and thisright is not going anywhere be-cause, along with the burden ofproof, it was one of the Title IX

recommendations from the fed-eral government last year). Also,if expulsion is recommended forthe responding student by the re-viewers, the Provost will have theultimate say in the matter. Andeven if the student is expelled,the specific charges will not ap-pear on their transcript; it will

just read discontinued.The other question that critics

seem to be getting hung up on isthe validity of the ARP versus areal legal procedure outside ofStanford. Any arguments madeby comparing the ARP to otherlegal procedures are essentiallyirrelevant: In a real legal pro-cedure there might be more thanfour jurors deciding a case, butalso in a real legal procedure aguilty verdict would mean aboutfive years in jail and permanent-ly having ones name on the SexOffender Registry, not just leav-ing Stanford with no record ofsexual assault on ones tran-script.

So, if we can agree that Stan-ford is not identical to a com-plex, real-world legal systemwhose ultimate goal is to putrapists in jail and make surethey never live within a certaindistance from a school or othersetting with small children, thenwhat is Stanfords ultimate goalas an educational institution?Our Fundamental Standardstates, Students at Stanford are

expected to show both withinand without the University suchrespect for order, morality, per-sonal honor and the rights ofothers as is demanded of goodcitizens. Just as allowing a stu-dent to continue to cheat onexams compromises our aca-demic integrity as an institution,allowing students to assault orabuse other students compro-mises both our moral integrityas well as the sense of safety andcomfort that we work so hard tomaintain on this campus. (And

just as one might imagine howsomeone who gets away withcheating on a test might feelcomfortable cheating again, re-search shows that the average

perpetrator commits six sexualassaults.) Angela Exson, the As-sistant Dean of Sexual Assaultand Relationship Abuse atStanford, has spent over 12years working with various is-sues of sexual assault and rela-

Tonights discussion of, and

possible vote on, the Alter-native Review Process forsexual assault cases may be adefining moment for our campus.In deciding to keep our currentstandards of due process in suchcases the presumption of inno-cence, a reasonable doubt stan-dard, a jury of six, the right of con-frontation, and a prohibition ondouble jeopardy, among otherprotections or to abandonthem in favor of a system wherean accused student is not pre-sumed innocent, may be convict-ed on a bare preponderance stan-dard, and has no right to an openhearing, to call or cross examinewitnesses (including the accuser),or to be represented, we decide

what kind of citizens we want theuniversity to educate.Do we want to educate stu-

dents to assume guilt? Or do wewant to eucate them to take seri-ously the notions of due processcentral to the protection of ourrights outside the university set-ting? Many have argued that auniversitys judicial board is not acriminal trial, and is more akin tocivil proceedings in which a pre-ponderance standard prevails.That is not the case. In the adjudi-catory context, universities aremore like societies than privateentities. In a civil proceeding, pri-vate citizens sue other private cit-izens, and the remedy requires thewrongdoer to pay the plaintiff for

the wrong he has suffered. Noother penalty attaches. Here,however, the accused stands as amember of the universitys socie-ty, and it is the societythat is pros-ecuting him; and societal punish-ments attach to a conviction. Oneneed not elaborate on the conse-quences of long-term suspensionsor expulsions the student is de-prived of an education, has a per-manent record, will find it muchmore difficult to secure employ-ment, and the like. These kinds ofconsequences do not follow fromany civil proceeding of which I amaware. Even so, civil proceedingsin the United States also have sev-

eral of the protections the ARP

would deny our students, from theright to call and cross examinewitnesses in an open hearing, torepresentation, and to a unani-mous jury verdict of between sixand twelve peers.

It is true, as a legal matter, thatthe university can adopt whichev-er policy it wants. It can adopt theprotections afforded defendantsin criminal trials, civil trials, or noprotections at all. The question iswhich process it oughtto adopt. Itis important to point out, more-over, that it is nottrue as a legalmatter that Stanford Universitymustcomply with the Dear Col-league letter from the federalDepartment of Education, whichurged universities receiving fed-

eral funding to adopt a prepon-derance of the evidence standard.I raise this point because it seemsto have been of particular concernto some students on the GraduateStudent Council.

As the letter itself states, allthe law actually requires is thatall recipients . . . adopt and pub-lish grievance procedures provid-ing for the prompt and equitableresolution of sex discriminationcomplaints. The key is what con-stitutes a prompt and equitableresolution. The author of theDear Colleague letter stated thata school must use a preponder-ance of the evidence standard ifit is to be consistent with Title IX.This is simply not the case.

Schools must use this standard ifthey are to be consistent with theEducation Departments guid-ance, but guidance documents arenot enforceable as law. Theirrules must go through the notice-and-comment process spelled outin the Administrative ProceduresAct. Guidance documents havecome to dominate the regulatoryscene, but as the Court of Appealsfor the District of Columbia Cir-cuit has written, It is well-estab-lished that an agency may not es-cape the notice and comment re-quirements . . . by labeling a

OPINIONS

HALF-INVENTED

Managing Editors

The Stanford DailyE s t a b l i s h e d 1 8 9 2 A N I N D E P E N D E N T N E W S P A P E R I n c o r p o r a t e d 1 9 7 3

Brendan OByrneDeputy Editor

Kurt Chirbas & Billy GallagherManaging Editors of News

Jack BlanchatManaging Editor of Sports

Marwa FaragManaging Editor of Features

Sasha ArijantoManaging Editor of Intermission

Mehmet InonuManaging Editor of Photography

Amanda AchColumns Editor

Willa BrockHead Copy Editor

Serenity NguyenHead Graphics Editor

Alex AlifimoffWeb and Multimedia Editor

Nate AdamsMultimedia Director

Molly Vorwerck & Zach ZimmermanStaff Development

Board of Directors

Margaret RawsonPresident and Editor in Chief

Anna SchuesslerChief Operating Officer

Sam SvobodaVice President of Advertising

Theodore L. Glasser

Michael Londgren

Robert Michitarian

Nate Adams

Tenzin Seldon

Rich Jaroslovsky

Contacting The Daily: Section editors can be reached at (650) 721-5815 from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. The Advertising Department can bereached at (650) 721-5803, and the Classified Advertising Department can be reached at (650) 721-5801 during normal businesshours. Send letters to the editor to eic@stanforddaily.com, op-eds to editorial@stanforddaily.com and photos or videos to multi-media@stanforddaily.com. Op-eds are capped at 700 words and letters are capped at 500 words.

Tonights Desk Editors

Matt BettonvilleNews Editor

Molly VorwerckFeatures Editor

Zach ZimmermanSports Editor

Roger ChenPhoto Editor

Charlotte WayneCopy Editor

FROM FARM TO FORK

Contemplating students needs

Please seeGUILT, page 6

ChaseIshii

JennyRempel

Liar! (It takes one to know one)

Please seeREMPEL, page 6

Please seeARP, page 6

8/2/2019 DAILY 05.01.12

5/6

By DAVID PEREZSTAFF WRITER

It was a story of singles success for the Stan-ford womens tennis team, as sophomoreNicole Gibbs won the Pac-12 singles champi-onship in Ojai, Calif., this weekend, losing atotal of four games in her final four matches.

Two other Stanford players, juniors Mallo-ry Burdette and Stacey Tan, made it to thesemifinals of the singles draw, making this thesecond year in a row that Stanford accountedfor three out of the four semifinalists at thePac-12 championship. The team of Gibbs andBurdette also made it to the finals of the dou-bles draw, where they fell 6-4, 6-4 to Kaitlyn

Christian and Sabrina Santamaria of USC.It was awesome, Gibbs said. It was a

great opportunity for me and I took advan-tage. Gibbs, who was the top overall seed andis currently ranked third in the nation, lost inthe semifinals of this tournament last year. Thisis the first singles title of her collegiate career.

She had a rocky start, losing the first set ofher tournament 5-7 to UCLAs McCall Jonesafter two rain delays.

I didnt come into my first round with con-fidence, and I was not striking the ball the wayI wanted, Gibbs said. She certainly found thatconfidence though, as she went on to beatJones 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 before stringing off fourstraight victories in the next two days at 6-0, 6-0 in the round of 16, 6-2, 6-0 in the quarterfi-nals, 6-0, 6-0 in the semifinals and 6-0, 6-2 in the

finals.Needless to say, I was pretty much feeling

it after the first round, she said.Three out of Gibbs five victories came

against Cal players. The only match against anon-Golden Bear came in the semifinalagainst her teammate Stacey Tan. Tan alsomade a very nice run in the tournament, whichincluded an upset of Californias number oneplayer, No. 7 Jana Juricova.

The other side of the bracket saw Califor-nias Anett Shutting, ranked No. 96 nationally,come up with two major upsets. Shutting de-feated Stanfords Mallory Burdette, who isranked fifth and was the tournaments thirdseed, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the semifinals. Shuttingalso got past the second seed Robin Anderson,the only Pac-12 player to defeat Gibbs this sea-

The Stanford Daily Tuesday, May 1, 2012N 5

SPORTS

MENS TENNIS

Card falters in semis

By DASH DAVIDSON

STAFF WRITER

The Stanford mens tennisteam fell in the semifinals of theinaugural Pac-12 Champi-onships, defeating Utah in thequarterfinals before falling toNo. 1 USC in the semis.

No. 10 Stanford went into theweekend seeded third in thetournament behind UCLA,which upset USC in the finalmatch of the regular season lastweek, and the Trojans. Stanfordsdefeated the Utes 4-2, beforebeing shut out by USC 4-0.

Against Utah, the Cardinalstarted off strong, riding the mo-mentum accrued in last weeksdismantling of Pacific. In doubles

play, the reshuffled lineup againproved effective as Stanfordswept all three matches andclaimed the doubles point. Thenew tandems of senior BradleyKlahn with freshman John Mor-rissey and senior Ryan Thacherwith junior Dennis Lin were in-strumental in securing the piv-otal first point.

In singles play, Klahn again setthe tone with a decisive 6-2, 6-2victory at the No. 1 position andgave Stanford an intimidating 2-0lead. After a rare loss by Thacheron the No. 2 court, freshmanRobert Stineman and sopho-more Daniel Ho clinched thematch on courts five and six, re-spectively, propelling the Cardi-

nal into yet another semifinals re-match with their nemesis, USC.

The USC mens tennis team isa perennial powerhouse, but thisyears squad has been particular-ly difficult for Stanford to han-dle. The Trojans are the three-time defending national champi-ons and were undefeated on theseason before losing to UCLAlast week. Coming into the Pac-12s, the Trojans record was 25-1.

Stanford and USC had playedtwice before this season, and theTrojans had yet to surrender apoint. The same was true on Fri-day, as the Trojans shut out theCardinal in a match that was

closer than the final lopsidedscore indicated.

All three doubles matchesand the three completed singlesmatches came down to the wire,with the Trojans managing to win

the key points at the most impor-tant times to secure the victory.Perhaps the most intriguingshowdown was at No. 1 singles,where old foes Klahn and USCsSteve Johnson were doing battle.

Klahn and Johnson are thetwo most recent NCAA singleschampions and Klahn was thelast one to defeat No. 2 Johnson,doing so at the beginning of lastseason. In a closely contested,two-set match, Johnson edged

Klahn 6-4, 6-3.Stanford will now return

home and rest up for the season-ending NCAA tournament,which begins on May 11. Thedraw is yet to be released and the

venues for the first and secondround remain unknown. Stan-fords own Taube Family TennisCenter is in the running to hostfirst and second round matches,and the Cardinal is likely to startout the NCAA tournament athome. The final rounds of thetournament will be played at theUniversity of Georgia.

Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@stanford.edu.

GOLDEN GIBBSBaseballscriticalerror

Reppingthe StealSquad

By JACK MOSBACHERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Jack Mosbacher was a member ofthe Stanford baseball team from2008-2011. Each week, hell take alook at the Cardinals ups anddowns on its road to the CollegeWorld Series.

We cannot fully appreciatethe importance of last weekendsseries victory for No. 9 Stanfordover No. 10 UCLA without firsttaking a moment to consider thedepths from which this team hasreturned. After a brutal stretch inwhich Stanford dropped to sev-enth place in the Pac-12 a

league it was unanimouslypicked to win in preseason polls the Cardinal has crawled itsway back into contention with itssecond-straight series victoryover a difficult opponent.

The most surprising aspect ofthis well-timed turnaround,however, has been the cast ofcharacters most responsible forit.

Coming into the year, the en-tire college baseball world knewthat Stanfords starting lineupwould be as talented and experi-enced as any in the country. Whatno one outside of the programcould have guessed was just howdeep its bench would prove to beand, if given the chance, just howwell its less known players couldperform.

With recent injuries to severalregular starters, a trio of newfaces has led the offensive resur-gence that has propelled Stan-ford back into contention: sopho-mores Danny Diekroeger andBrett Michael Doran and fresh-man Alex Blandino, proud mem-bers of a brotherhood known asthe Steal Squad.

The self-proclaimed StealSquad derives its name from thegroups most common game-

Idiscovered a very late piece ofmail waiting for me at the Dailyoffices last week. Opening it intrepidation, fearing a torrent ofabuse from some disgruntled

sports enthusiast enraged by some-thing Id scribbled down in one of mycolumns, I was pleasantly surprised to

get a fan letter.Though followers of my work will

probably agree that Im no expertwhen it comes to American sports,maybe this means Ive actuallylearned something in my four years atStanford and Im not quite the noviceI once was. Two weeks ago, I evenhelped reassure an American friendwho seemed a little distraught overthe fact that months after the collegeseason finished, quarterback AndrewLuck still hadnt found a place on anNFL team. Now that the draft has fi-nally taken place, Im sure she is re-lieved to know hes managed to se-cure a job after graduation.

On second thought, maybe I havea ways to go.

As a couple of friends from backhome across the pond were visitingme last week, I felt I needed to givethem the full American college expe-rience and drag them along to a varsi-ty game. With football and basketballboth on hiatus, the natural choiceseemed to be baseball (Stanford ver-sus BYU on Tuesday, April 24 to beexact).

It didnt start well. Failing to ac-count for San Francisco traffic, myfriends showed up an hour late. Wemissed both the playing of the nation-al anthem, the most iconic image of anall American pastime, and a five-runsecond inning by the Card that threat-ened to be the most exciting period ofthe whole game. Once inside, settlinginto our seats, I realized my most seri-

ous mistake. My knowledgeablesports journalist facade melted awayas the horrible truth dawned on me: Iknow nothing about baseball.

Yes, of course I know what a runis and can string together some of thebasic rules, but the tactics, strategyand crucial nuances upon which agame may hinge are alien to me.Hoping to impart a little bit of whatmakes college sports so fascinatingto my friends, I was left insteadgrasping at straws. The blind leadingthe blind, we managed to extractsome of the details, but I cant helpbut feel that baseball could havetried a little harder, too.

On one particular play, a BYUoutfielder made a clear mistake,throwing the ball to no one in partic-

ular. That much I got, until unhelpful-ly the scoreboard informed me thatthis error had the code E-7. Surpris-ingly I wasnt carrying a baseballrulebook on me to translate this and,as far as I was aware, E-7 could equal-ly as well have been some kind oftechnical malfunction. Perhaps Ineeded to be carrying the score-board users manual.

I guess this number may havebeen useful to the handful of folkswho seemed to be filling out their ownscorecards during the game, which, onits own, is an equally confusing tradi-tion. I dont usually go to sportingevents to play bingo I generallyhope that the action will be excitingenough on its own. Does someonecollect these sheets at the end of the

game and grade them?Perhaps some of you may feel that

I should have done some homeworkbefore just showing up at a baseballgame, but this wasnt the classroom. Iwant to have fun as a fan, not feel theneed to study and take notes.

Cold, frustrated and a little bitbored, we eventually crumbled andcommitted the cardinal sin of leavingearly ironically, as I discoveredlater, just before BYUs excitingseven-run eighth inning that almostsquared the contest.

Now I hope my slightly tongue-in-cheek attack at baseball hasnt of-fended you because Id much ratherreceive more fan mail (however lateit may reach me) than hate mail, andbecause I do have a serious point,

too. Im not that stupid. If millionsand millions of people follow thesport, there must be a good reason,even though this has so far eludedme. My message to baseball is thatthere must be more like me, frustrat-ed and put off by your crypticness.

In spite of everything, includingmy devotion to soccer in particular, Ipromise Ill give you another chance.But please, just tell me what E-7means.

The Stanford Daily had to put TomTaylor in a straight jacket to preventanother soccer column. Let him outof his restraints at tom.taylor@stan-ford.edu.

MADELINE SIDES/The Stanford Daily

Sophomore Nicole Gibbs (above) dominated the competition in the Pac-12 singles championship, losing just four games in her final fourmatches en route to her first career conference title. The second-year player cruised in the championship match, winning 6-0, 6-2.

MICHAEL KHEIR/The Stanford Daily

The Stanford mens tennis team was shut out by No. 1 USC in the semi-finals of the Pac-12 Championships. The Cardinal did not earn a pointin three matchups with the Trojans in a season riddled by injuries.

Tom Taylor

Mosbacher Minute

Please see STEAL, page 6

NO. 1 USC TOO

MUCH TO HANDLE

Please see GIBBS, page 6

8/2/2019 DAILY 05.01.12

6/6

campus end up being rejected bythe police and the district attorney,but they are properly rejected . . .because you shouldnt be imposingeither a criminal sanction or an ex-clusion from the University unless

there is a reliable way of determin-ing what occurred.

ASSU Senator Dan Ashton 14also voiced opposition at the Sen-ates April 24 meeting to the ARPsprotections for the accused. Henoted that only six of the twelverights of the accused currentlyguaranteed in the ASSU Constitu-tion are protected by the ARP.

I feel that you have a right tocall witnesses and have your wit-nesses heard, Ashton said. I dontunderstand why they would sayyou are not obligated to meet withwitnesses they want to call. Thatdoesnt make sense for our legalsystem.

Proposed changes to the ARPRecent Senate meetings have

been dominated by extensive de-bate about the Alternative ReviewProcess (ARP) and its approval.Since the ARP has only been oper-ating as a pilot program, it must beapproved by both the Senate andGSC in order to continue.

The first proposed changevoiced by undergraduate senatorsconcerns increasing the number ofreviewers on a panel from fourback to six. While all other OJAproceedings have six sitting review-ers, the ARP has only four.

If youre going to decrease thepanelist number from six to four, Ithink . . . because of that reduction,there should be an increased levelof requirements, Senator BenLaufer 12 said in support of a larg-er panel. I dont know if havingtwo more people would really dis-suade people from taking action. Ithink there is, at least in my mind, abig difference between having 3-1and 4-0.

[We chose four] out of concernfor the comfort of both parties, andextreme concern for [their] privacyand confidentiality, Pontius-Hogan said. Also, most people onthe board felt strongly that it shouldbe student centered and havingfour we were able to have three stu-dents and one faculty or staff mem-ber, which felt like a good balance.

Disagreement exists within theBoard on Judicial Affairs as to the

proper size of the review panels.Because were all presumed to

be innocent, I dont think youshould force any responding stu-dent to have to overcome that bur-den on a 3-1 vote, to force him onthe first round to convince two outof four people, I dont think thatsfair, said Timothy Lau J.D. 12,member of the Board on JudicialAffairs.

The second proposed change,

which the OJA decided not to en-dorse after extensive discussion, isrequiring a unanimous rather thanmajority vote to find a student re-sponsible. According to the OJA,no other disciplinary process atStanford requires a more-than-ma-

jority vote, but, as The Daily previ-ously reported, more than twice asmany states require unanimousagreement for civil cases than re-quire three-quarters agreement.

Law Professor Michele Daubersaid that she thought the languageof those supporting unanimityseemed to run contrary to the in-tent of the Office of Civil Rights.

Its been said with a high de-gree of explicitness . . . that it lookslike Stanford is trying . . . to evadewhat the Department of Justice istrying to accomplish, she said at anApril 18 gathering of student legis-lators.

Dauber and members of the Of-fice of Judicial Affairs, who said thatthe ARP is data driven, also op-pose the change because they be-lieve that, coupled with the recentchanges to accord with the Dear

Colleague Letter, the effects of pol-icy change cannot be distinguishedif the variables are not changed in-crementally.

Its not like a typical civil suitwhere you are just paying damages,or just like refrained from seeingsomeone, Lau said. When you getsuspended for two/three yearsfrom Stanford . . . and you are la-beled . . . a perpetrator of sexual as-sault by Stanford, it is something

that goes with you for life. The pun-ishment itself, while not entirelycivil, has a criminal dimension to it.I think Stanford ought to be verycareful before putting somethinglike this on someone, that we do thisprocess fairly.

GSC representative Sjoerd deRidder emailed the GSC list earlyTuesday morning urging UGS andGSC members to take more time toweigh the ARP before approving it.

Agreeing with the ARP as isbasically states it is perfect, de Rid-der wrote.

Amending it, on the fly, whenapproving it, is nonconstructive, be-cause many bodies need to agreeon the ARP. Providing a set of opin-ions is the responsible thing to do,as it would give the BJA resourcesand incentives to carefully reviewthe document . . . There is time toraise issues, because the FacultySenate will not take this up till fall,and the pilot study has been ex-tended till then.

Contact Julia Enthoven at jjejje@stanford.edu.

JUDICIALContinued from front page

6N Tuesday, May 1, 2012 The Stanford Daily

DONORS WANTED

$$ SPERM DONORS WANTED $$Earn up to $1,200/month. Give thegift of family through California Cry-obanks donor program. Apply on-line: SPERMBANK.com

HIRING

$50K_funding for Internet Entre-preneurs/Hackers.hr@kingstarusa.com

CLASSIFIEDS

GET NOTICED BYTHOUSANDS.

(650) 721-5803

www.stanforddaily.com/classifieds

time activity: watching from thebench while the Cardinal is playingdefense and waiting to alert Stan-fords catcher of an attempted stealby an opposing base runner. For thebetter part of this season,Diekroeger, Doran and Blandinowere buried so deep on Stanfordsbench that a periodic scream wasoften the only way for the trio tomake a tangible impact on thegame.

When the Cardinal was on of-fense, Diekroeger and Doran hadthe responsibility of keeping writ-ten charts of the games events forthe coaching staff. Diekroegerschart would record every pitch se-quence thrown by the opposingpitcher, while Dorans chart wouldkeep a detailed record of Stanfordsoffensive performance. Meanwhile,Blandino was so buried that he did-nt even get a chart; instead, he kepta watch to time how long it took theopposing pitcher to throw to homeplate. Blandino wasnt just on the

bench; he was on thebenchs bench

.While they attempt to make light oftheir predicament, these playerswere quite literally in baseball pur-gatory.

I can speak so openly about theagony of being stuck in a similar po-sition because I know the experi-ence so personally youre read-ing the words of a three-year starteron the Steal Squad. What has beenso amazing about these three play-ers is how ready they were to seizean opportunity that, under most cir-cumstances, never comes.

Since the trio entered the lineupover the past two weeks, this Stan-ford team is simply better. After an-other team-wide slump in which theoffense mustered just eight runs in a

four-game stretch, the Cardinal hasaveraged almost nine runs a gamein a dominant sequence of sevengames since these three took over.In limited playing time, Blandinohas been simply electric at the plate

and is currently tied for the teamlead in home runs, with six. Mean-while, Diekroeger leads the team inhitting with a .368 clip and Doran who has filled in brilliantly as theteams leadoff hitter paces theteam with a .451 on-base percent-age.

Pretty soon, we might need tostart calling the Steal Squad theStud Squad.

Stanfords depth has also beendisplayed on the mound by the per-formance of junior Sahil Bloom. Inlimited action over three seasons,Bloom has compiled season ERAsof 2.72, 0.90 and 0.00, yet he hasstruggled to earn more than the oc-casional appearance out of thebullpen during his time on theFarm. One of the teams hardestworkers, Bloom has simply bulliedhis way into more playing time andhas thrown seven brilliant innings,giving up only three hits and oneearned run.

Unfortunately, for every BrettDoran and Danny Diekroegerthere is a Justin Ringo or a ChristianGriffiths: bertalented playerswhom the coaching staff simplycannot trust. For every Sahil Bloomthere is an AJ Talt, a senior who has

had nothing but success in his fewchances on the mound but whocant seem to buy another opportu-nity to get out there and pitch.

This teams depth is a positive at-tribute for every party involved ex-cept one: the players who actuallymake the team so deep. But it isthrough the struggle and frustrationexperienced by these players thatthe true character of the young menon this team is on full display. Dontbelieve me? Just watch the nexttime a member of the Steal Squadsucceeds on the field. I guarantee it:No one will be cheering louder thanhis proud Steal Squad brothers.

Deep down, these players alsoknow that if theyre the last teamstanding in Omaha at the end of the

season, everyone including theguys buried deep on the bench earns a national championship ring.

Contact Jack Mosbacher at jack-mos@stanford.edu.

STEALContinued from page 5

son, in the quarterfinals. Andersonwas forced to retire after the firstset because of a hamstring injury.

Although Burdette lost in thesemifinals, she remained optimistic

about her play, especially in thepostseason.Obviously I would have liked

to have won that semifinal match,but I feel like overall Im moving inthe right direction with my game,said Burdette. She had been on a21-match winning streak, which in-cluded dominant performances inthe teams recent Pac-12 matches.

Burdette and Gibbs alsoplayed very well in doubles, but fa-tigue may have been a factor intheir finals loss. The two hadplayed a combined 21 matches inthe past week between Pac-12 reg-ular season and tournament play.

At least on my side of thecourt, I did not feel as mentallysharp, if not physically, as I normal-

ly do playing doubles, Gibbs said.The two look to make a run in

the NCAA tournament, whereBurdette took home last years

doubles trophy alongside HilaryBarte, Stanfords former No. 1player.

Honestly, I think were in aneven better place than Hilary andI were at this time last year, saidBurdette, who noted that Bartedid not even participate in lastyears Pac-12 tournament.

Four other Stanford playersparticipated this weekend as well.

The doubles team of Stacey Tanand Ellen Tsay lost in their firstround match. Tsay also lost in thesecond round of the singles draw,although she had a tough matchupwith Anderson. In the invitationalbracket, Natalie Dillon andAmelia Herring both droppedtheir first-round matches.

The Cardinal feels good aboutits chances in the NCAA tourna-ment, especially because of wherethe tournament will be played.Opening rounds will be held atStanford in two weeks, while the fi-nals will be played in Athens, Ga.the week after.

Athens is like a second home tous, Burdette said. I dont evenknow how many times we have won

down there in Athens, but its a lot.

Contact David Perez at davidp3@stanford.edu.

GIBBSContinued from page 5

dowed more diverse faculty posi-tions, or improved and expandedupon existing community centers.Obviously my subset of friends isbiased toward the progressive ac-tivist community, and Im sure

there are individuals who would beequally happy if more funding wasspent on new athletic facilities or aseries of concerts like the upcoming

Frost Revival. But I highly doubt asecond art museum is at the top ofmany students lists of needs andwants particularly given the ex-isting under-appreciation of ourcurrent art museum.

For a fraction of that $4.2 million,we could easily provide a space forcontemplation on a new campusfarm. And donors would have thepleasure of knowing this is some-thing students really want and need.

What would you do with $4.2 mil-lion? Let Jenny know at jrempel@stanford.edu.

REMPELContinued from page 4

major substantive legal additionto a rule a mere interpretation.If a guidance document purportsto make law that is not estab-lished in a congressionally enact-ed statute, [t]his it cannot legallydo without complying with the

rulemaking procedures.1 TheDepartment of Education hasnot complied with the rulemak-ing processes here, and StanfordUniversity need not follow itslead and perhaps we oughtnot to.

ILAN WURMAN, J.D. 13

1Appalachian Power Co. v. E.P.A., 208F.3d 1015, 1024, 1028 (D.C. Cir.2000).

GUILTContinued from page 4

tionship abuse and describes theARP as one of the best existing

models of an equitable systemaround these issues. The ARP al-lows us to in addition to thefederal Title IX regulations

create a system that is specific toStanford and to the individualneeds and circumstances of allparties involved in each case.And, if we have the opportunityto become a role model of an eq-uitable student judicial process,why wouldnt we?

MONA THOMPSON13

Publicity Coordinator,

Womens Community Center

ARPContinued from page 4