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By KABIR SAWHNEY DESK EDITOR

In a Wednesday evening discussion atDinkelspiel Auditorium, New York Timescolumnist and Middle East expert Thomas

Friedman explored the causes and implica-tions of the popular uprisings in the Arabworld.The talk, titled Democracy and Ener-gy: the View from Tahrir Square, was spon-sored by Students for a Sustainable Stanford,the ASSU Speakers Bureau,Stanford in Gov-ernment and Hillel.

Friedman opened his talk by explaining thecontext of the Middle Easts recent history,es-pecially the fact that nearly all of the regionsgovernments are autocratic.

For the last 50 years,we in the West . . . ba-sically treated and looked upon the Arabworld as a collection of big gas stations, hesaid.Our basic message to them all was,Guys and they were only guys heres the deal.Keep your pumps open, your prices low, dontbother the Israelis too much and you can dowhatever you want out back.

He went on to describe how the al Qaeda

terrorism network and its now deceasedleader, Osama bin Laden, were a product of what was going on out back. He added thatthere were three large human deficitsin theArab world:freedom,womens empowermentand education.

[Arabs] know their own human potentialand it was not being in any way developed,Friedman said.If I got to wri te the bill of par-ticulars for all these Arab regimes,they wouldbe guilty of the worst crime I can think of: thesoft bigotry of low expectations about theirown people.

The revolution in Egypt carried particularsignificance, given its size and stature in theArab world.Friedman spoke about his experi-ences covering the downfall of its former pres-ident,Hosni Mubarak,and the challenges stillfacing the country. He characterized the cur-rent transition of moving from Middle Eastwholesale to Middle East retail.

Friedman placed special emphasis on theMuslim Brotherhood, a large Egyptian Is-lamist group and the main political oppositionduring Mubaraks rule.

Mubarak cleared out the entire political

space between his regime and the MuslimBrotherhood, he said. He refused to allowthe emergence of a single authentic, legiti-mate,centrist Arab nationalist party.

He described how Mubarak used thisarrangement to his advantage, by presenting

himself to the U.S.as the only alternative to theIslamic rule of the Brotherhood.The next topic of discussion was Israels

role in the region and the evolution of thestruggle for Palestinian statehood. Friedmanexplained how the countrys security situation,which depends on stability of the Egyptian andSyrian borders, was deteriorating. He addedthat Israel needed to find a credible Palestin-ian negotiation partner and that its enemies inIran, Hezbollah and Hamas were baiting it.

They are dedicated on one proposition Israel must never leave the West Bank,Fried-man said.That is the central principle of theirstrategy because if Israel stays in the WestBank, in a very short period of time, you willhave Israel ruling a minority of Jews over amajority of Arabs between the Mediterranean

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Distinguishedexperts ponderChinas future

Stanford hosts NYTs Friedman

Conference looks at the rising superpowers foreign policy

By ANTHONY VASQUEZCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Distinguished researchers of Chinesepolitics and international relations dis-cussed the worldwide ramifications of arising China yesterday as part of the Ok-senberg conference series.

The conference, titled Constraints onChinas Foreign Policy: Inside and Out,consisted of a keynote address deliveredby Thomas Christensen, professor of pol-itics at Princeton.The conference was fol-lowed by two panel discussions.

In his address, Christensen noted thatChina, as a rising power, will encounterinternational challenges and suggestedthat Chinas losses are not necessarilyAmericas gains.

This is not a zero-sum game,he said.Its not to the benefit of the UnitedStates when China has abrasive policiestowards its neighbors and has tensionswith our allies, and although many Amer-

RESEARCH

New findingspave way forhydrogen fuel Molybdenum sulfide shown tobe a cheap, effective catalyst

By AN LE NGUYENMANAGING EDITOR

Researchers at Stanford and the Techni-cal University of Denmark (DTU) arebringing the dream of a green-poweredworld one step closer to reality.

Up to this point,scientists have encoun-tered a practical hurdle in the production of clean hydrogen fuel: the lack of cheap andabundant catalysts that can expedite thegeneration of hydrogen and oxygen.Recentfindings by chemical engineering professor

Jens Norskov and his peers may effectivelyovercome this hurdle.The concept of imitating plant photosyn-

thesis in fuel production is not new. In fact,one feasible procedure today is to use aplatinum catalyst in conjunction with alight-absorbing electrode to produce hydro-gen fuel from sunlight and water.

But platinum is both expensive andscarce.According to Norskov and his team,a better option is molybdenum sulfide, anatural catalyst that is both cheap and abun-dant.

Molybdenum sulfide is a good alterna-tive, Norskov said.There are other cata-lysts that work but theyre based on plat-inum and similar materials,and they are toorare and too expensive for widespread use.

Norskov and his peers hope to furtherdevelop a procedure called photo-electro-chemical (PEC) water splitting. In thisprocess, sunlight hits PEC cells and this ab-sorbed energy is used to split water mole-cules into hydrogen and oxygen.

DTU researchers have created a devicethat harvests energy from sunlight ener-gy that is later used to power the conversionof single hydrogen ions into hydrogen gas.This latter process required a catalyst, whichis where Norskov and his team came in.

We have been studying catalysts andchemical processes for a long time but obvi-ously one of the big challenges in that fieldis to find catalysts for making fuels fromsunlight,said Norskov,who is the professorof photon science at the SLAC National Ac-celerator Laboratory.

The Stanford researchers developed atheoretical method to examine catalyst

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ALISA ROYER/The Stanford DailyThe second annual Healthy Taste of Stanford fair took place in the Rehnquist Courtyard at Munger yesterday afternoon. Attendees munched onfree samples of healthy, sustainable and organic foods served by Stanford-approved vendors while musicians played in the background.

DAN SCHWARTZ/The Stanford DailyNYT columnist Thomas Friedman presented a lecture entitled Democracy and Energy: the View from Tahrir Square in a packed Dinkelspiel

Auditorium yesterday. Friedman broached a hodgepodge of topics, including the Egyptian uprising and the struggle for Palestinian statehood.

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STAFF WRITER

Following this years elections,most campus publications receivedtheir special fees requests with theexception of the Stanford Chaparraland the Claw Magazine. These re-sults have forced the latter groups tore-evaluate their budgets and devel-op new strategies for funding in thenext year.

The Chaparral and the Clawfailed to pass undergraduate specialfees by a margin of less than 1 per-cent in their share of yesvotes.TheChaparral earned 48.48 percent intotal yes votes and 19.93 percentin yesvotes as a percentage of theundergraduate student body. TheClaw earned 49.56 percent and 18.1percent, respectively.

To receive special fees funding, agiven group must have the approvalof at least 50 percent of voters andthese voters must constitute at least15 percent of the undergraduate stu-dent body.

Both publications indicated dif-ferent strategies in their efforts toobtain special fees this past electionsseason. The Stanford Chaparral, ahumor magazine, printed four dif-ferent flyers and emailed various

lists, tactics that were not used lastyear.

Last year we got above 50 per-cent approval, but not the total 15percent yes votes,so we tried very

hard this year to get above 15 per-cent,Chaparral editors Josh Meisel12 and Billy Kemper 11 wrote in anemail to The Daily.We got 19 per-cent yes votes, but only 48.4 per-cent of our total votes were yesvotes.Next year we know we have tokeep both requirements in mind.

According to the two, the Chap-arral is currently in its 112th volume.The magazine publishes five 32-page issues a year,each with its owntheme.One of these issues is typical-ly a parody of a national publication.The Chaparral is also responsiblefor publishing the fake StanfordDaily each year.

We requested $22,150, Meiseland Kemper said.$20,600 was forprinting,$1,350 for mailing subscrip-tions and $200 for office supplies.The reason for the high price of printing is that we publish 6 issues.The Leland Quarterly and the Clawhave about half our printing costsbut also publish half as many issues.

Meisel and Kemper also empha-sized the Chaparrals long history atStanford, noting that it was created

eight years after Stanfords found-ing.Stanford Chaparral alumni havegone on to animate for Disney andwrite for popular television shows,including The Office,SNL,Fu-

turama and King of the Hill.Although the Chaparral has long-standing experience with special fees,the process of applying for specialthis type of funding was entirely newfor the Claw,a campus literary maga-zine. According to Claw editors inchief Alice Nam 11 and Max Mc-Clure 11, the decision to apply forspecial fees emerged within the firstfew weeks of spring quarter.

We were hesitant to add to themad clamor for special fees, Namand McClure wrote in an email toThe Daily.We opted instead for asoft campaign; we sent fliers an-nouncing the new issue and encour-aging students to join the magazine.

But we didnt make a singlespecial fees flier or ask anyone tovote.Who knows if wed do it again,but in the scramble of the firstweeks of spring quarter,thats whatwe decided.

The Claw, which publishes threetimes per year, requested $12,500 inspecial fees for 2,000 copies. Themoney from special fees was intend-ed for printing.

According to Nam and McClure,the goal of the Claws special feescampaign was not necessarily to re-ceive special fees, but rather to gainmore publicity for the magazine.

The editors hoped the special feescampaign would encourage newmembers to join the magazine,which seeks to publish investigativereports, essays, fiction and articleson fine art.

Between petitioning and talk-ing to supporters,we wanted to findout what we needed to do to makethe Claw a more prominent part of the Stanford community, Nam andMcClure said. We got that andwere very grateful.

Both publications are dependenton the ASSU Publications Board forfunding next year. In addition, theStanford Chaparral plans to fundthe magazine through the StanfordFund and alumni donations.

Of course, asking alumni tofund the magazine is not reasonableas a permanent solution, Meiseland Kemper said.But our dedicat-ed alumni are willing to help keepthe magazine alive given this rareoccasion.

Contact Marianne LeVine at levine2@stanford.edu.

and the Jordan River. We knowwhat thats called its calledapartheid.

In an age of Facebook, Twitterand incredibly open politics in theworld, it is the key to de-legitimiz-ing the Jewish state,he added.

Friedman finished his lecture bydiscussing climate change and its ef-fects on world food prices,increasesof which served as the immediateimpetus for the Arab revolution.

His final thoughts were onAmerican politics and the U.S. gov-ernments failure to either remedyits budget or produce a policy todeal with climate change.

We are actually tempting andtaunting the two most powerful andemotional forces on the planet atthe same time: the market andMother Nature,he said.

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

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behavior.We do calculations of the elec-

tronic structure of materials be-cause that in the end is what deter-mines whether the electronic struc-ture is what determines all theproperties of a material, Norskovsaid.

As the Stanford researchers de-veloped an understanding of whatis important a catalyst for hydro-gen, they were able to identifymolybdenum sulfide as an inexpen-sive but effective catalyst.

These findings pave the way forfuture collaboration betweenNorskovs research team and otherscientists on the Farm and beyond.Thomas Jaramillo, assistant profes-sor of chemical engineering, is oneof these fortunate scientists.He hasworked closely with Norskov overthe years.

In my research team,we are ul-timately experimental, Jaramillosaid. We can synthesize a lot of in-teresting materials and we have alot of control over the compositionof the material as well as the nanos-tructure of the material. We canwork collaboratively [withNorskov] in that when we find in-teresting things in the lab, we cancommunicate that to him and histeam.

Norskovs group, in turn, usesthese findings to perform theoreti-cal calculations and predictions.

Were in constant communica-tion with one another and our out-put serve them as inputs and theiroutputs can serve as our inputs, andvice versa,Jaramillo said.

Norskov, Jaramillo and theirpeers are adamant about continu-ing their research on energy effi-cient and clean fuels.

You lose a lot of the energyfrom the sunlight in transferringthat into a fuel, hydrogen for in-stance,Norskov said.

Hydrogen is an attractive sourceof fuel because it is energy denseand serves as a relatively clean fuel.But PEC water splitting is not asurefire answer to the worlds ener-gy needs yet, the researchers said.

We would like to find catalystsand materials to absorb sunlightthat are more efficient in doing i t sowe dont lose a lot of energy andthat is in the end that will make thiscompetitive,Norskov said.

Let me stress: were not surethat there is not a solution,he said.But were trying to get there.

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icans might think that and sayThat will help us bolster our al-liances, we can bolster our al-liances on our own.China is now more influentialin international organizations andin the global economy, Chris-tensen said.

He noted that last year Chinaopposed sanctions on NorthKorea after that country attackeda South Korea naval ship andshelled a South Korean Island. Inaddition, Chinas loud protest of U.S.-South Korean military exer-cises and its maritime tensionwith Japan have cast it in a nega-tive light with some neighboring

countries.Christensen observed that Chi-

nese leaders have recently en-countered difficulties in handlingcertain international problems.

I dont see China reaching outin a systematic way to solve vari-ous long- te rm prob lems , tochange its overall diplomaticstrategy, he said. Instead, I seeChina running up against the nor-mal problems of a great power asits power rises and then behavingextremely badly in response to thechallenges that are created bythose normal frictions of growthand interaction in new ways withneighbors and with faraway pow-ers.

He added that between 2006and 2008, China played a con-structive role in international af-fairs. For example, it put pressureon North Korea and Sudan and

sent the first non-African peace-keeping force to Darfur.

Following Christensens talk,Stanford professor of political sci-ence Jean Oi moderated the firstpanel.The discussion centered ontopics including rising income in-equality, popular dissatisfactionwith the government and the riseof nationalist sentiment.The pan-elists were Terry Sicular of Stan-fords economics department,USC professor of political scienceStan Rosen and George Washing-ton University professor BruceDickson.

Dickson argued that althoughthe Chinese are wealthier, this in-creased prosperity may not resultin a transition to a democratic sys-tem any time soon.

The second panel dealt withthe implications of Chinas grow-ing influence around the world. It

was moderated by Michael Arma-cost, a distinguished fellow at theShorenstein Asia-Pacific Re-search Center.The panelists wereScott Kastner from the Universityof Maryland,Ely Ratner from theRAND Corporation and Tai MingCheung from UC-San Diego.

Ratners analysis focused onforeign threats to China, such asterrorist groups carrying out at-tacks in China or on Chinese in-terests abroad. Ratner said thatgroups urged retaliation after theChinese government crackeddown on dissent in the mostlyMuslim region of Xinjiang in re-sponse to the 2009 riots. Chinamay continue to face the chal-lenges posed by international ter-rorism as its influence grows.

In addition to problems of perceived mistreatment of Mus-lims in China, Islamist groupscould also target Chinese inter-ests as punishment for supportingsecular or autocratic regimes par-ticularly in the Muslim world, hesaid.

Other topics raised includedthe role of the Chinese military.

Students came away moreknowledgeable about the issuesrelevant to Chinas rise. JimmyRuck 11, a history major, is work-ing on an honors thesis on the roleof the Chinese military in contem-porary China.He noted the signif-icance of outside threats to Chinaand how these threats may pre-vent China from importing re-sources to fuel its economicgrowth.

Its important to realize thatChina faces threats themselves,Ruck said. The idea that theresterrorism against them and thenthis constant push for resources, Ithought they were some prettyimportant points.

Xiaojun Li, a fourth-year doc-toral student in political science,said that the greatest insight hegained was on the importance of anations domestic and foreignpolicies.

Its important now to look atboth domestic and foreign policyas well as the implications forboth China and the U.S., Li said.

Sungmin Rho,a third-year doc-toral student in political sciencesaid she enjoyed hearing aboutthe diversity of views on Chinasrole in the world.

It was interesting in that wecould actually hear more opinionsof current events and current poli-cies and how American policy-makers perceive China and at thesame time how other countriesperceive China, Rho said.The Oksenberg lecture seriesbegan in memory of Michel Ok-senberg,who died in 2001.He wasa fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and theFreeman Spogli Institute for In-ternational Studies. Oksenbergserved on the National SecurityCouncil in the years that the Unit-ed States and China normalizeddiplomatic relations.

Contact Anthony Vasquez at vasquez 2@stanford.edu.

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JIN ZHU/The Stanford DailyUniversity of Maryland professor Scott Kastner (above) was one of several experts to speak at Wednesdays confer-ence, which addressed the Constraints on Chinas Foreign Policy and future challenges for the Asian giant.

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By ASHLEY MENZIESCONTRIBUTING WRITER

These students are part of the growingcountry-wide phenomenon of individualswho identify themselves as mixed race.The number of people who check boththe black and white boxes has increased

by 134 percent to 1.8 million since the 2000 census,the first time it allowed such an option. AmongAmerican children, the multiracial population hasincreased nearly 50 percent to 4.2 million since 2000.

The growth of this population is clearly a trendthat will surely increase every decade into the 21stcentury,wrote history professor Al Camarillo in anemail to The Daily.

At Stanford, this rise in the mixed-race popula-tion may finally create a multicultural communityin which mixed-race students feel they can belong.

Multiracial associations have in recent yearsbeen popping up on college campuses all aroundthe country. These organizations aim to promotemulticultural awareness and provide students witha safe environment to discuss multiracial issues.Many Stanford students were surprised that an or-ganization for mixed-race students does not existon campus.

Marcus Turner 12, who is half black and half Latino and grew up in a predominately African-American community, thinks that it would be ben-eficial to have a multiracial association on campus.Although Turner was always taught to embrace hisAfrican-American heritage and is proud of beinghalf black,he feels unable to identify with the blackcommunity at Stanford.His inability to speak Span-ish also makes him feel like an outsider to the Lati-no community. He believes that a multiracial asso-ciation would give us a place where we belong.

Ogiemwanye struggled with where she be-longed for much of her life. She did not identify

with either race because she looked different.For example, her skin seemed too fair and her hairtoo wavy for her Nigerian background, and toodark and too coarse for her Jewish background.She only began to identify as black during hersophomore year of college. At that time,Ogiemwanye did not consider herself black be-cause she had associated the term black with cer-tain cultural stereotypes.

Before coming to Stanford, Ogiemwanyethought of her experiences as distinct from those of other blacks she had interacted with. Her collegestudies,which focused on social justice issues,causedher to realize that race is a social construct.

Even though others usually see her as black,Ogiemwanye is proud of her black and Jewish iden-tity.

Ive taken pieces of both sides and let that bewho I am,she said.

To a similar tune, other mixed-race students Turner,Markham,Burns,Smith and Krumm alsoidentify as biracial.

Although Burns, who is often mistaken for beingIndian, is only one fourth-white and three-fourthsblack,she often tells others that she is half white andhalf black for convenience.

With his curly hair, olive-colored skin and al-mond-shaped eyes, Krumm who identifies as Ja-maican and white has been asked if he was anumber of races,including a mix of black,white,Chi-nese and Latino.

Gunther is often mistaken for being completelywhite, though hes part Filipino. Because societyperceives him as being of one race, he usually iden-tifies as white,unless he is with his family. In middleschool,he tried to befriend people in the Asian com-munity but did not feel accepted because of his ap-pearance. Even his Filipino family members joking-ly comment,Hes so white, according to Gunther.

Owusu had a similar experience growing up half Samoan and half black.He said he has always iden-

tified himself as black because he has darker skinand that is how others view him.Yet he still wishesto embrace his other background.

Whenever I see someone that is Polynesian,I dosay Im half Samoan, Owusu said. Im proud of that.

Many students agree that society has helpedshape the way they identify themselves,for better orfor worse.If their physical features are more charac-teristic of one race than the other,they tend to feel astronger tie with that aspect of their ethnic back-ground.

Camarillo believes that in the near future stu-dents will be able to identify themselves in a differ-ent manner.

A substantial portion of the multiracial popula-tion will reject one-race categories and will expressan identity that cant be contained in such limitedhistorical terminology (e.g. black, white, Asian,etc.), he said.

Assistant professor of English Vaughn Rasberry

also observed a change in norms concerning racialidentity. In Rasberrys opinion, the increase of indi-viduals in America identifying themselves as mixedrace is not just the result of a sociological trend,butalso registers some dissatisfaction with conven-tional racial or ethnic categories.

One day, Smith hopes, someone who is mixedrace does not have to choose a major ethnicity toidentify by,so that we really can be everything.

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A s a teaching assistant for thepilot section of Bio 44Y, Ispend Wednesday after-noons accompanying 10 students of field ecology to Jasper Ridge Biolog-ical Preserve. Only five miles fromthe main quad, weve battled rat-tlesnakes and squeezed past poisonoak but the nearest Ive come todisaster was almost letting a wasp flyinto our class van.

When were worried about beingstung (knock on wood, Ive so farevaded the experience), we tend tosee bees and wasps as the flyingenemy, rather than as pollinators,critical to the reproductive life of most of the worlds flowering plants.Of course, the value of pollinationisnt lost on farmers or beekeepers:the former pay the latter to haulhivefuls of bees from crop field to or-chard every spring.

The inhabitants of these hives areEuropean honeybees,first importedto the Americas in 1607. Today,about three million colonies are keptin wooden hives across the UnitedStates; half visit California every

April to pollinate $2-billion-worth of almonds before heading north andwest to Washington orchards orMontana honey farms. On the EastCoast,bees are trucked from Floridaorange groves to Maine blueberrypatches every year. The USDA esti-mates that this pollination adds $15billion in value to U.S. crops eachyear. And countless backyard gar-deners and small-scale farmers reapsimilar benefits from local, wildhives.

Up at Jasper Ridge or here onmain campus, bees operate withgreat focus and intensity. Its hard toimagine anything interfering withtheir nectar-gathering mission. Butbees get sick,too.Tracheal mites clogbee airways;fungal infections starvebee larvae.Every winter,beekeepersanticipate a loss of 15 percent of theirhealthy hives.

Suddenly, in 2006, mortalityspiked. Beekeepers whod movedtheir hives to Floridas sunnierclimes to overwinter returned to find30-90 percent of their hives aban-doned: a queen and her immaturebrood might remain,but all the adultworkers were gone. These workerswere nowhere to be found,and with-out them,the hives starved.

Over subsequent years,hive mor-tality has hovered near 33 percent double the normal rate and scien-tists have christened the mysteriousdisappearing act Colony CollapseDisorder,or CCD.

Five years after CCD was first re-ported, its causes remain mysterious.

Recent molecular analyses impli-cate the Varroa mite-borne Israeliacute paralysis virus,which is highlycorrelated with CCD. But other re-search highlights the combined at-tack of a fungus, Nosema ceranae ,and virus, Iridoviridae .Alternate hy-potheses include pesticide toxicity,combinations of all of the above and(totally unsupported by science) cellphone interference.

The jurys still out on the causesof CCD,but beekeepers have appar-ently been quick to respond. Al-though the number of kept hives hasbeen falling for decades,theres beenno change in the rate of decline at-tributable to CCD. Nor have theprices of apples, pears or almondsspiked at least no more than canbe explained by inflation and risingtransportation (i.e.fuel) costs.So far,bees are still doing their jobs, andbeekeepers are managing to replacehives lost to CCD by splitting exist-ing hives or purchasing new coloniesfrom queen breeders.

Despite the lack of acute eco-nomic consequences, scientists andbeekeepers are deeply alarmed.Such dramatic mortality, even if notimmediately devastating, highlightsthe vulnerability of our agriculturaland economic systems.For example,colonies trucked up and down thecountry each year experienceunique transportation stresses.And, just as businessmen on planes carrycontagious diseases across oceans,bee colonies moved thousands of miles between pollination customerscan quickly circulate new diseasesthroughout the beekeeper commu-nity.

Our globalized world comes witha huge suite of immediate benefits:production efficiency, exchange of ideas,expert specialization.But eachof these benefits is also a cost tothe stability and resilience of ourlifestyles. If Colony Collapse Disor-der were twice as devastating andpollinators-for-hire couldnt meetdemand, our native pollinatorscouldnt shoulder the load. If ourtransit system failed, New Yorkerswould go hungry and Californianswould go thirsty.

Our high-tech lifestyles necessi-tate highly specific training: I strug-gle to talk to my students about theirsociology courses and its even easyfor me to get out of my scientificdepth. This works fine if we can al-ways phone-a-friend with particularexpertise. But the less we know

about something, the less likely weare to know who to call and,eventu-ally, the less we respect the subjectmatter compared to our own special-ty. (For example, my stinger-cen-tered feelings about the wasp hover-ing by the van door, compared tonewfound respect after reading upon pollinator biology for this col-umn.)

Of course, its impossible to holdall the worlds knowledge in a singlemind. So the trick is learning how torespect things we dont understand,while still being able to recognizemisdirection. In other words, weneed to be specialized enough to do

our jobs, but broadly educatedenough to recognize the differencebetween being (as my Dad wouldsay) blinded by brilliance or baffledwith BS.

We must be the beekeeper whoknows how to compensate for hislosses, the biologist who knowswhich diseases to look for, the bio-chemist who knows how to screenfor them or, most importantly, themissing link that brings all thesepieces together.

Wish this column would buzz off? Or want to cross-pollinate with your ownideas? Contact Holly at hollyvm@

stanford.edu with your thoughts.

Wolfram Alpha tells me thatIm currently 3,457 milesfrom my home in Scranton,Pennsylvania and that Im 5,335miles from that glorious Farm thatyou all inhabit right now.Needless tosay,I should be living the Oxford life.And in a way,I definitely am. I thinkI had a pretty quintessential Englishweekend or at least I tried to.

It all started on Friday morning.Iwoke up to watch Kate Middletonslip out of my grasp forever. (Speak-ing of, remember last weeks dis-course on British accents? That defi-

nitely applies to Kate,who is a 9.5 bydefault. By my rules, that means herBritish accent makes her an 11!Thats goddess territory, honestly.)Its just really frustrating. PrinceWilliam is almost bald before hes30, and he still gets one of the mostbeautiful women on the planet.Theysay love is blind,but I dont thinkthat counts when theres an HRHtitle at stake. So while most of youwere probably sound asleep in bed, Iwas drowning my sorrows with ginand tonics like a 40-year-old man.Some people suggested drinkingevery time you saw a funny hat orElton John,but I dont think anyonecould have survived that game.

Then we can fast-forward to Sat-urday evening.Now,note that May 1is largely celebrated here in Oxford.At 6 a.m.on May Morning,the Mag-dalen College choir sings from thetop of Magdalen Tower as peopleflood High Street. Its all very cele-bratory and fun, but who wants towake up at 6 a.m.on a Sunday? Shortanswer: you dont. Oxford studentsgenerally just stay out partying,par-tying (yeah!) all night so thatswhat I did. From the college bar tothe club to a sunrise on High Street,it was all a fantastic evening/night/morning. It was pure Oxford tradi-tion in the best of ways.

And then we have Sunday. Well,Sunday was perhaps less exciting interms of Oxford tradition, but stillquite traditional nonetheless. I liter-ally spent the entire day writing mytutorial paper.You know the stereo-type about going abroad and doingno work? Yeah, that doesnt holdwhen you do the Stanford in Oxfordprogram.2,500 words a week andthats just for your tutorial. Thisquarter, Ill probably do quadruplethe writing Id do at Stanford. Howdisgusting is that? At least Ill comeback well versed in the ways of BS.

Ah, and so would complete myquintessential Oxford weekend,

right? Youre wrong.Because when Iwrapped up my tutorial paper atroughly 3:15 a.m. British StandardTime,I sat down on Twitter just for aquick moment to see what was goingon in the world when I was greetedwith a message from the New YorkTimes: President Obama to makeunplanned announcement at 10:30p.m.It was only 15 minutes to wait.How could I not?

And so, the news that we are sofamiliar with at this point ended upcoming across the wire. Osama binLaden was killed by U.S. NavySEALS. I managed to stay awakeuntil 5:45 a.m. while watching a livestream of CNN. Trust me, I wasthrilled. Sunday evening was a timewhen everyone in the United States even the most liberal human be-ings like myself could countthemselves as complete neoconserv-atives. I was so glad that I ended upworking late so I could be a witnessto history in real-time.

Yet I think Osamas death cer-tainly proves one thing for me:I can-not escape America. Im here inEngland. I had the perfect Oxfordweekend. Ive been absolutely lov-ing my time here and my adaptationto English culture (however similarit may be to our own),but that surgeof pure American pride I felt onhearing President Obamas speechon Sunday night showed me thatwhile you can take the boy out of America,you cannot take the Amer-ica out of the boy.Ive loved my fewweeks abroad thus far, but really,theres no place like home.

Shanes looking for fun drinking gamesto play at Oxford.Send him your sug-

gestions at savitsky@stanford.edu.

Dear Editor,Im writing in response to the op-

ed, A Thumb on the Scale of Jus-tice that appeared in The Daily onFriday,April 29.As Dean of StudentLife,I oversee the Office of JudicialAffairs and helped to develop theAlternate Review Process (ARP).The ARP is a pilot process in whichfaculty, staff and students reviewcomplaints of sexual violence. Thetraining to which Mike Armstrongand Daniel Barton refer preparesthese reviewers to hear cases in theARP. We regularly seek feedbackabout the content and presentationfrom the reviewers and incorporatetheir suggestions into subsequenttrainings. We also seek feedbackfrom the students who go throughthe process in an effort to continual-ly make improvements.

Based on the training materialsmentioned in the op-ed, I believethe authors may have old traininginformation. Having said that, wewill revisit our training. Ultimately,I want all students in the process,both student complainants and re-sponding students, to feel they havebeen treated fairly and respectfully.We are committed to doing theright thing and being transparentabout the process.To that end,I wel-come Mike Armstrong and DanielBarton to communicate with me di-rectly regarding any future con-cerns about the process or about theexperience of students they may berepresenting in the process.

CHRIS GRIFFITH Associate Vice Provost;

Dean of Student Life

Last Thursday, the Faculty Sen-ate passed a motion recom-mending that President Hen-nessy initiate discussions with theU.S. military about reinstatingROTC at Stanford.This was the mostdifficult issue to come before theSenate in many years.

The issues involved in the ROTCdebate were complex and varied, in-volving everything from the Univer-sitys obligation to educate our na-tions leaders, to the role of the mili-tary in society, to academic controland integrity, among others. But inthe end, the issue that garnered themost emotional attention andaroused the most passionate debatewas the militarys continuing dis-crimination against transgender indi-viduals.

The Faculty Senate is often calledupon to decide controversial issues.When it does, there are inevitably

members of the community who dis-agree, sometimes strongly, with theoutcome.Still,senators are often ableto craft compromises that lead tocomfortable consensus.

This was different. It was clearthat whichever way the decisionwent, it would be interpreted bysome members of the community asa sign of disrespect a sign that their interests,feelings and principles weresomehow less important, less valued ,than those of other members of thecommunity.

If the vote went against ROTC,those students whose goal is militaryservice would be told they could pur-sue this objective,but only if they didso at another institution.How couldthey see this as anything but a signthat the University viewed their goalas somehow unseemly somethingto be pursued out of sight of the restof the community?

But if the vote went in favor of ROTC, transgender students wouldsee this as a sign that the Universitycondones the militarys policies to-ward transgender individuals or atthe very least considers discrimina-tion against them to be less objection-able than discrimination against gaymen and lesbians.

There was not a senator in theroom who did not recognize and ag-onize over this aspect of the debate who did not wish the issue couldbe resolved without seeming to favorone part of our community over an-other.

In the end,the Senate made its de-cision based on the value that ROTCwould bring to the campus and thebelief that Stanford has an obligationto help educate military leaders.Al-though I could not vote as provost,thats a decision I support.Many sen-ators,deeply troubled by the discrim-

ination, were swayed by the hopethat as more military leaders aredrawn from communities like ours communities where tolerance andacceptance are the norm the morequickly any remaining discrimina-tion based on sexual orientation orgender identity will genuinely cease.

I hope that is true. And I knowthat every senator who voted to re-turn ROTC to campus hopes it is trueand deeply opposes any policies orpractices that discriminate againsttransgender individuals, as do thepresident and I.It took great courage for ourtransgender students to publicly ex-press their opposition to ROTC. Ithank them for doing so.I appreciatethe heartfelt and moving statementsmade by fellow students,particularlythe new and outgoing presidents of the ASSU.It continues to trouble methat any student would interpret the

ROTC decision as a sign that theUniversity does not honor and re-spect its transgender students,facultyand staff.

I wish the ROTC debate couldhave been resolved without divisive-ness.As provost, I hope some goodwill come of the issues raised and thediscussion that ensued. I hope thecampus will come together to recog-nize the continuing ignorance andhostility transgender people face, toaffirm our condemnation of that dis-crimination and to express howmuch we value their membership inthe University community.

Our community is far from per-fect, but it is remarkably accepting.Let us use this opportunity to reaf-firm our values and to strengthen ourcommunity.

JOHN ETCHEMENDYStanford Provost

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SPORTS BRIEFS

S PORTS

Sports awelcomereprieve

It was 1 a.m. a couple days agoand I was Gchatting with my

friend when I realized some-thing crazy. I hadnt watchedSportsCenter all day. I hadnt

watched a single minute of eitherNBA game, despite being just amatter of feet from a television.Heck, I hadnt even seen a singlehighlight of Francisco Lirianos no-hitter, despite having watched thelast two innings on GameCast (Imean, I was definitely paying atten-tion in that review session . . . )

While most of you can probablylast 24 hours without sports high-lights, Im not built the same way.You might as well ask me to go 24hours without oxygen or fruitsnacks (the two essentials of life asfar as I can tell).In the past year,Iveprobably had at least twice as manydays where I watched SportsCenterfive times as days where I wassports-free.And I like it that way.

As I looked back on my Sports-Center-less Tuesday, it struck mewhat a lousy day Id been having. Ihad spent a good part of the daydoing homework (Seriously?Homework? At Stanford?) and I just generally felt miserable.And ithit me. These are the times wheresports really come through for me.

I have written before on howdeep the pain of being a sports fancan get.(As Im writing this,my An-gels found a way not to score de-spite having the bases loaded andone out as if I really needed a re-minder.) But yet, there are still bil-lions of us out there, so sports mustbe doing something good.And oneof the biggest benefits sports canhave is distracting us from the restof our lives. When discussing this,many people do so in the context of September 11th or other globalconflicts, and these are certainlyvalid points. But for Average Joe,distractions are needed much moreoften and for much less importantreasons.

And really, whats a better dis-traction than getting a full dayssports highlights in an hour? Of course,some days you might need adistraction from the sports world it-self,but in most cases,a fight with afriend,relationship issues,job prob-lems, financial trouble and whatev-er else has made your day suck canbe temporarily relieved by divingcatches, alley-oops and ridiculous

home run calls.One of the great things aboutsports is that no matter what else ishappening in your life, the sportsworld keeps going. While yourewaiting to hear back from that po-tential employer,you can still watchan entire playoff series take place.When you get sick and cant do any-thing fun for days, youve gotdozens of sporting events to helpyou pass the time. When you wakeup in the morning and cant believeyou have to deal with what hap-pened the day before, at least thesports world will be new today.

And you dont even need to beunhappy to get fresh sports all thetime. When you have better thingsto do than watch sports (I hearthats a possibility,but Im still look-ing into the validity of these claims),you can still come back and seewhat happened. Thats the beautyof sports you can be out on a hotdate or alone in your room withthree problem sets,but Andre Ethi-er will still get a hit (when heshealthy,of course).The sports worldnever stops.

Of course, some things neverseem to change. Day 82 of the NFLlockout probably wont give us awhole lot more insight than Day 81,and who knows when the steroiddebate will ever finish.

But when the front pages of ESPN.com and Yahoo Sports haveno mention of Liriano less than 24hours after his no-hitter, you knowthe sports world can move onquickly.

No, sports cannot solve all of lifes problems. But as I sat down tocatch the last few highlights of the 1a.m. SportsCenter, for the first timeall day,I was at ease.

Jacob Jaffe is investigating his finan-cial options in fruit-snack futures.Lend him some candy capital at jw-

jaffe@stanford.edu.

BIG DEAL BENEFITS CARDBy WYNDAM MAKOWSKY

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Director of Athletics BobBowlsby shed light on the Pac-12s new media deal on Wednes-day, detailing the ways in whichboth Stanford and the conferencewould benefit from the confer-ences freshly-inked TV contract.

Its a very large opportunityfor us going forward both finan-cially and from an exposurestandpoint, he said.

The conference will earn $3billion over 12 years from its part-nership with Fox and ESPN.

Every football and mens basket-

ball game will be televised andavailable in all markets, either bythose networks or by a new Pac-12 channel, which will be createdby the newly formed Pac-12M ed ia E nt er pr is es. M os twomens basketball games willalso find their way to the air-waves, and a conference-specificstation means that smaller sportscan also be televised.

The exposure were going toget on Fox national and ESPNand ESPN2 is substantial for ourmens basketball program. Forfootball,were going to have a lotof exposure not just in frequencybut also in terms of time place-

ment,Bowlsby said.In announcing the deal, commis-sioner Larry Scott emphasizedthree priorities: increased rev-enues, improved national expo-sure and the creation of a Pac-12network.

With todays announcementwith Fox Sports and ESPN, I amthrilled to be here today to saythat we will be able to achieve allthree of these goals,Scott said.

According to Bowlsby, whowas in Phoenix for the announce-ment of the deal, the conferencesannual revenue will be splitequally among all 12 memberschools, and the first year of thedeal will see the conference earnabout $180 million, with revenueincreases in each of the successiveyears.

The difference in Stanfordsannual take-home between thiscontract and the last one is dra-matic.

After transactional costs andoverhead, itll be about triplewhat were getting now. The dif-ference will be about $5 millionand change versus $15-16 millionand change, Bowlsby said.

The money will not kick inuntil 2012-13, and Bowlsby saidthat the Athletics Departmenthas not yet begun to do seriousmodeling of the distribution of the new revenue.That said,he in-

dicated that Stanfords cut of thedeal was larger than he had ex-pected and that the new moneywould be able to provide for thedepartment in a number of ways,although Bowlsby was in favor of a conservative approach.

We have not had the ability to

Tennis sends seven to NCAAsingles and doubles brackets

Seven Stanford tennis playerswere chosen to represent the Cardi-nal in the singles and doubles brack-ets of the NCAA tournament onWednesday, with juniors BradleyKlahn and Ryan Thacher on behalf of the mens team and senior HilaryBarte, sophomores Mallory Bur-dette and Stacey Tan and freshmenNicole Gibbs and Kristie Ahn rep-resenting the womens team.

Klahn, last years mens singleschampion,begins his title defense asone of the nine-through-16 seedsafter finishing as the runner up inthe Pac-10 championships over theweekend. He is 9-1 in his last 10matches.

Thacher, the No.46 player in thenation, was given an at-large bidinto the tournament, and he willpair up with Klahn in doubles as thetwo try and improve on last yearssemifinals finish at nationals.

The stacked womens side is an-chored by Barte,who was awardedthe No.3 seed, but she has struggleddown the stretch,with a 6-4 recordin her last 10 matches.

Barte is closely followed by Ahn,the No.15 player in the country,whoearned one of the number nine-through-16 seeds.

Gibbs, Burdette and Tan all re-ceived at-large bids into the tourna-

ment field. Barte and Burdette willteam up on the doubles side as theNo. 4 overall seed, and Ahn andGibbs pair up as an at-large selec-tion.

The individual portion of theNCAA Mens and Womens TennisChampionship is scheduled for May25-30, with singles play starting on

JacobJaffeFields of Failure

A s tennis legend Dick Gould sits com-fortably in the Taube Tennis Centerlounge, he thinks back on the longand storied history that brought himthere.

Gould, currently the John L. Hinds Directorof Tennis,has been a fixture in the Stanford ten-nis community for over 50 years. He arrived oncampus in 1956 and,apart from a six-year hiatus,has never left.

In 1966, Gould was hired as the mens tenniscoach at Stanford a position he held for thenext four decades. Under his watch, the mensteam achieved an almost unprecedented level of success. In 39 seasons, his Cardinal won an as-tounding 17 NCAA team titles for one stretchof 35 years, every four-year player left with atleast one championship ring. In the 1980s and1990s,Gould was named the ITA-Wilson Coachof the Decade.

The mens tennis squad has been by far themost successful Stanford sports team over thattime span, rivaled only by the womens team,which,starting in 1982 when the womens NCAATennis Tournament was founded, began its ownrun of dominance. In the past 45 years, the twoStanford tennis teams have won 34 of the 100NCAA titles that Stanford has collected in its il-lustrious athletic history.

After stepping down as head coach in 2004and handing the mens team to his pupil cur-rent head coach John Whitlinger Gould hasoverseen an eclectic range of duties for Stanfordtennis, starting with fundraising and moving tomentoring young players,overseeing technologyupgrades in Taube and securing prestigiousevents for Stanford, like the 2011 NCAA Cham-pionships.

Gould starts his story with a brief history les-son, just scratching the surface of the well of memories that his career here at Stanford hasgiven him. When Gould first started here, theStanford athletic scene was a different beast the football team wasnt winning Orange Bowlsand the womens soccer team wasnt finishingconsecutive regular seasons undefeated.

In those days, says Gould, tennis was prime-time.

Back in the seventies, we had a couple of players who really drew big crowds Roscoe

Tanner and Sandy Mayer to start and then, of course, John McEnroe, he says.In those daystennis was one of the biggest draws on campus,aswe were one of the only teams that were doingreally well and there were more fans than couldwatch on our outdoor courts.[We even] decidedto move some big matches indoors, into Maples.

Gould cracks a smile remembering when ten-nis matches were the marquee events on campus.

Sports Illustrated was there, he continues.The band, the dollies, KZSU, everybody. Wedhave three matches in Maples,against big oppo-nents only, on Friday nights and, let me tell you,the atmosphere was electric.

Stanford Daily File PhotoStanford Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby (center) praised the Pac-12s newmedia deal with Fox and ESPN on Wednesday, as he expects the deal totriple the revenue for the Universitys athletic department.

BY DASH DAVIDSONSTAFF WRITER

Please see BRIEFS,page 8

Please see TENNIS ,page 8

Please see PAC-12 ,page 8

Stanford Daily File PhotoThe Stanford tennis teams have

maintained a high level of successover the last 40 years and will look to

add to their trophy case this springwhen they host NCAAs.

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Mens soccer bests Santa Clara inexhibition match

After a very narrow 1-0 loss atthe hands of Major League SoccersSan Jose Earthquakes two weeksago,the mens soccer team returnedto its winning ways with one of itsbest performances of a successfulspring season in a 4-2 victory overSanta Clara last night.

Freshmen Tyler Conklin andAustin Meyer both scored their firstcollegiate goals in a wild secondhalf that featured end-to-end actionand six goals.Conklins goal startedthe scoring spree and was quicklyfollowed by a strike from sopho-more forward Adam Jahn.

The Broncos answered backwith a goal of their own, but theCardinal responded with freshman

forward Adrian Bergs second goalof the spring.

A questionable call allowedSanta Clara to draw within onewhen a Bronco player appeared tobat the ball into the goal with hisarm, but Meyer was perfectly posi-

tioned to pounce on a rebound infront of the goal and calmly slot itaway for the final margin.

Stanford missed several otherchances to score in front of a crowdof about 150 spectators, but headcoach Bret Simon said he was

pleased with the teams effort as awhole.

The Cardinal returns to action inits final game of the spring on May13,when it hosts UC-Davis at 7 p.m.

Miles Bennett-Smith

BRIEFSContinued from page 6

With a streak of 16 consecutiveNACDA Directors Cups an an-nual award given to the college oruniversity with the most overall ath-letic success its no secret thatmany of Stanfords once-strugglingsports programs have made re-markable turnarounds. That phe-nomenon garners well-earned at-tention from fans on campus andaround the country, but may alsoobscure another incredible accom-plishment of Stanford athletics.

While other programs werecoming into form, Stanfords tennisteams have been consistently win-ning for decades. Even today, thewomen havent lost a match athome in over 12 years theyre thedefending NCAA champions andtheyre undefeated in 2011. Themen,meanwhile,are ranked No.6 in

the country, are riding a ten-matchwinning streak and boast the reign-ing NCAA singles champion in jun-ior Bradley Klahn.

Despite that consistency, atten-dance at Stanford tennis matcheshas declined steadily in the yearssince Goulds departure as headcoach.

While Gould will always be nos-talgic for the days that tennis ownedthe sporting spotlight, Gould stillbelieves that Whitlingers currentmens squad is a legitimate titlecontender.

Adding to Stanfords chancesthis year,of course, is its home courtadvantage. Both teams the top-seeded and women and the eighth-seeded men will have the oppor-tunity to make a run at national titlewithout ever leaving the Farm.

Home court advantage makesa gigantic difference,especially for ateam thats really good but not quitegreat, as this years mens team is,Gould says. For this team to takethe title, were going to need every-thing to go right.

While Gould will always treas-ure the time he spent coaching someof the games greatest athletes, hestill takes pride and pleasure in hisrole with the current team. He in-sists that this years batch of topplayers Klahn for the men andsenior Hilary Barte for the women are the most fun players towatch that I have ever seen.

Stanford hosts the NCAA Tour-nament beginning May 19 at theTaube Tennis Stadium, and whileGould is no longer coaching, hellcertainly be just as invested in theaction as hes been for over half acentury.

Nate Adams contributed to this story.

Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@stanford.edu.

TENNISContinued from page 6

put away reserves for facility needs.Weve had generous people donatemoney,he said.Were going to tryand save as much of it as we can.

Some of the facilities upgradesmay go right into helping Stanfordoptimize as much of its deal as pos-sible.Bowlsby said that the depart-ment would look into optimizing itsvenues to help with digital distribu-tion through media such as ESPN3and 3D television.

In other areas, Bowlsby did an-ticipate spending more money onchartering flights for the mens andwomens basketball teams so thatthe squads could avoid missing sig-nificant class time during the con-ference schedule. He also figuredthat money could be spent to rein-force the budgets of some of Stan-fords smaller teams, some of which, such as fencing, have facedfinancial issues in the past fewyears.

We try and fund our sports on alevel to be excellent at what theydo. And we do it for all 35-varsitysports.But there is no question thiswill give us a chance for stability,he said.

Bowlsby also entertained theidea of adding a 36th varsity sport.

Wed have to think about it tothink about what we might add. No

plans for expansion, but its not outof the question. Were more thanmeeting our gender equity require-ments.Wed be open-minded aboutit,he said.

One area where Bowlsby didnot anticipate spending money wason the hiring of new staff. The de-partment has had to lay off numer-ous staff members in the past twoyears including 21 in 2009 butBowlsby said he did not expect toadd a lot of people.

Bowlsby was noticeably opti-mistic but recognized that the in-flux of money would not be able tohelp the Athletics Departmentclear every hurdle it might face.

This isnt a silver bullet that isgoing to solve all of our problems,he said.But it will give us an infu-sion of revenue that will be veryhelpful.

Contact Wyndam Makowsky at makowsky@stanford.edu.

PAC-12Continued from page 6

MILES BENNETT-SMITH/The Stanford DailyThe Stanford mens soccer team got back to its winning ways on Wednesday with a 4-2 victory over Santa Clara.

The Cardinal lost a tough 1-0 decision to the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer last week.

BEING THE BALL

Stanford Daily File PhotoThe Stanford womens golf team heads to Notre Dame this weekendas the number eight seed in the NCAA Central Regional.

Its a very large

opportunity for us

going forward.Bob Bowlsby