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UNIVERSITY

Profs reformMed Schoollecture style

By ERIN INMANSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The traditional lecture-based for-mat of medical education has be-come obsolete, according to twoStanford faculty researchers whohave instead put forward a proposal

for medical education in the 21st cen-tury.

The model devised by ChipHeath 91, a professor in the Gradu-ate School of Business (GSB) andCharles Prober, a professor at theSchool of Medicine focuses onshifting large lecture-based classes to10 to 15 minute videos online andusing the resulting class time to workin small groups on application prob-lems of the material a flippedclassroom model that makes mate-rial more sticky.

The average attention span tolisten to a message is between 10 and15 minutes before the mind wan-ders, Prober said. We want to takeadvantage of this limited attentionspan and large class size and move itonto a smaller stage.

An online platform for lecturesalso offers students greater flexibili-ty, according to Prober. Students maywatch videos as many times as theywant, and may do so whenever andwherever it is most convenient for

GSC extendsNomCom terms

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Graduate Student Council(GSC) voted Wednesday evening infavor of extending current Nomina-tions Commission (NomCom) ap-pointees terms until June 17 or thecompletion of the current nomina-tions cycle. The meeting was theGSCs first since the transition fromlast years representatives on Sunday.

Under the GSC bill, new ap-pointees to NomCom will be jointlyselected by the ASSU Executive, theGSC co-chairs and the Undergradu-ate Senate chair.

The interim measure whichgarnered eight votes in favor and oneabstention from GSC representatives was necessary to ensure student

representatives for more than 40 Uni-versity committees are nominated.The 13th Senate told this years

NomCom that the committees re-sponsibilities would be dissolved atthe end of the year, likely in anticipa-tion of an ultimately unsuccessful at-tempt at formulating an updatedASSU Constitution. As such, the Sen-ate didnt recruit new NomCommembers after the commissions termended, expecting a revised format

Despite PayPal co-founders controversial views on higher ed, class highly reviewed

Faculty, students laud Thiel class

WORLD & NATION

Faculty examineObama supportfor gay marriage

By JOSEE SMITHSTAFF WRITER

President Barack Obamas recent announce-ment of his support for gay marriage was a natu-ral step for his presidential campaign, according

to Stanford community observers. SeveralHoover fellows and students weighed in on theannouncement, its timing and its implications forthe upcoming election.

The timing of the announcement, shortly afterVice President Joe Biden endorsed gay marriageand North Carolina voters passed a constitution-al amendment rejecting same-sex marriage, wasmore unexpected.

North Carolina sort of forced his hand, saidTammy Frisby, a research fellow at the HooverInstitution. Advocates for gay rights were un-happy [by the amendment] and turned to theirpresident.

Bill Whalen, also a research fellow at theHoover Institution, downplayed the ground-breaking nature of the announcement, notingthat Obama had dropped numerous hints of hisshifting perspective on the issue.

When he ran for president, he said he wasopposed, Whalen said. Hes been evolving.

Frisby noted that the announcement wouldlikely resonate disproportionately among col-lege-age students, who have historically beenmore socially liberal.

College students are excited, Frisby said,because this is an issue on which the majority ofyouth fall on the pro-gay rights side.

Lindsay Lamont 13, president of the StanfordDemocrats, said that Democrats on campus weredelighted by the announcement.

Im surprised that he came out and wasforthright about it, but Im also really proud,Lamont said.

Lamont acknowledged that the move mightharm Obamas electoral standing in states likeNorth Carolina which voted Democratic in2008 but expressed support for the announce-ments motivation.

I think he wanted to be clear about h is inten-tions and this shows how far the country hascome, but its still risky, Lamont said.

Frisby added that the announcement mightalso diminish Obamas backing among Hispanicand African American voters, who tend to bemore socially conservative but who turned outoverwhelmingly in favor of Obama in 2008.

Kyle Huwa 13, president of the StanfordConservative Society, said that the conservativecommunity on campus intends to focus on eco-nomic and domestic policy issues rather than so-cial matters, and framed the announcement aspolitically calculated.

They sent out Biden first to test the watersand once he was received highly, Obama wasable to come out, Huwa said.

Frisby framed the announcement as a meansof providing an alternate focus on social i ssues inan election frequently touted especially by

Republicans as one offering competing eco-nomic philosophies.The election will be constrained by the econ-

omy, Frisby said. In the past, if the economy isdoing well, voters vote for the incumbent. If itsnot doing well, they kick him out.

With the presidential election still six monthsaway, the announcement could have uncertainramifications in size and direction.

We just dont know which way it will sway,Frisby said.

Its advantageous for Obama to put some of

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Spotify co-founder talks musicBy FELIX BOYEAUX

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

I never really thought of myself as anentrepreneur, said Daniel Ek, cofounder

and CEO of the music streaming serviceSpotify, to a packed NVIDIA AuditoriumWednesday afternoon. I simply see a bunchof problems to solve and needs to satisfy, is-sues that no one else wanted to do anythingabout. Eventually, I decided to do it myself.

Invited as part of the DFJ Entrepreneur-ial Thoughts Leader Seminar, Ek spoke onhis entrepreneurial career as well as the fu-

ture of the entertainment industry.An entrepreneur is someone who has

an itch for a problem and is annoyed enoughto solve it, Ek said.

After starting his first company design-

ing and coding websites at age 14, Ek movedon to found the advertising company Ad-vertigo. He has since worked as chief tech-nology officer of the online communityStardoll and as chief executive officer ofuTorrent, a BitTorrent client. He started hispresentation, however, by explaining his ra-

Education in Ecuador

MEHMET INONU/The Stanford Daily

Gloria Vidal, Minister of Education in Ecuador, discussed Ecuadorian education policyand the impact of a new science curriculum on the Galapagos Islands on Wednesday.

SERENITY NGUYEN/The Stanford Daily

By TAYLOR GROSSMAN

STAFF WRITER

While Peter Thiel has frequently courtedcontroversy with his disparaging outlook onthe merits of higher education, the famedventure capitalists decision to teach a Stan-ford class CS 183: Startup this springhas been met with approval from administra-tors and students alike.

Peter was the one who was interested inteaching the course from the onset, saidMehran Sahami, associate chair for educa-tion in the computer science department.

Despite his celebrated accomplishments,

including co-founding PayPal and being anearly investor in Facebook, Thiel underwentthe same process in proposing and designingthe course as all other non-Stanford affili-ates.

We thought there were certainly studentdemands to find out more about entrepre-neurship and start-ups, Sahami said. This isa class thats being offered through the CSdepartment because its about technology,but in some sense its geared towards thebusiness of technology rather than the tech-nology itself.

The class, capped at a capacity of 250 stu-

dents, filled up rapidly and was still oversub-scribed at the start of the quarter.

My ideal would be 10 people talking toPeter Thiel a small little seminar butobviously, given the level of interest, I thinkhe manages [the large class] really well, saidViraj Bindra 15.

He is open to questions during class, buthe otherwise keeps the lectures a good mix ofdefining the culture and defining the process,along with a lot of personal anecdotes that

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily

Daniel Ek, co-founder of Spotify, discussed his entrepeneurial career and the future ofthe entertainment industry on Wednesday afternoon, addressing issues such as piracy.

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them. Videos are also broken upinto segments chosen to matchthe average attention span.

Quizzes can also be embeddedinto videos to further enhance in-

struction, Prober added, notingthat the computer science depart-ment already does so.

Student responses can betracked to indicate to the learneror teacher that acquisition of ma-terial has occurred, Prober said.

Online classes are not a novelidea, he added, referring to thepopular Khan Academy tutorials.The School of Medicine has alsobeen videotaping classes for 28years.

[Those] videos are not de-signed to be watched in digestibleparts, Prober conceded. Manystudents prefer watching lecturesonline so optimizing the structureof videos then makes sense. We

might as well make the deliverymechanism better.

After watching the videos andgrasping the key concepts, stu-dents would then come to classfor smaller group interaction.

In one such interaction for amedical class, you might be givena patient who has a disorder,Prober said. Your understandingof that pathway [learned online]

becomes more relevant to you.Medical education specificallycan capitalize on this model,Prober said.

Theres nothing more pro-found than the narrative of a pa-tient story, he argued, referenc-ing medically based televisionprograms such as GreysAnatomy or House popu-lar with the general population.

In medicine, medical studentsget hungry real quickly for under-standing of where the first twoyears are taking them, Probersaid. It can be hard to appreciatewhere that will connect to whatyoull be doing as a doctor. Themore you can create that appreci-

ation in this interactive way, themore the students will appreciatewhy they are learning. In doing so,the material will become moresticky.

The School of Medicine adopt-ed Prober and Heaths flippedclassroom approach for a bio-chemistry class last year. Com-pared to the year before whichused a traditional class lecture

model students gave morepositive feedback and attendedclass in elevated numbers.

Prober argued that themodels principles could be ap-plied in the future to other aca-demic disciplines across the Uni-versity and in other institutions.

There is and is going to be en-thusiasm for making a change, butthe flavor of change will varyacross universities, Prober said.The notion of a new educationmodel is not going to be a difficultsell, maybe just a difficult imple-mentation.

Contact Erin Inman at einman@stanford.edu.

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tionale for founding Spotify.After the immense success of

services like Napster and Kazaaaround the millennium shift, it wasclear to me that people wanted to

consume music this way, on-de-mand and readily available, Ek ex-plained.

The fast Internet infrastructurein Sweden led Ek to found Spotify together with Martin Lorentzon there in 2004.

Our goal was to create serversthat were faster than the pirateservers, he said. We thought thatif we managed to do this, we couldget a big chunk of the 500 millionpeople who consumed music ille-gally.

Ek said he thought that theproblem was not that people didnot want to pay for music, butrather that an efficient and conven-ient platform for doing so was un-available at the time.

Because I was young andnaive, I just thought Hey, this cantbe too hard, but realized soonenough all the problems that arisefrom creating a service like Spoti-fy, Ek joked. I did not even knowthat you needed licenses from themajor [record labels]!

Getting permission from recordlabels has been Spotifys singlelargest problem to date. The negoti-ations with Universal took over ayear, and Spotify has yet to acquirethe rights from bands such as theBeatles or Led Zeppelin.

We were convinced that ourmodel would work, and that majorswould make profits from letting ususe their content, Ek said. But try

for yourself to go and tell a 67-year-old man who barely agreed to sellthe music on iTunes for 99 centsapiece to now give it away for free.

The numbers have proved Ekright. While the average Americanspends $13 a year on music, thepremium Spotify user pays $120.

This allows us to compensatethe right-holders the way theyshould be for the great job they are

doing, Ek said.Responding to a question fromthe audience on whether Spotifymight save the music industry, Eksaid that the move away from phys-ically purchasing music has createda need for innovation in the sector.

Sweden, the first countrywhere Spotify was implemented, isnow one of the few countries thathave a growing music industry, hepointed out.

Ek also discussed the future ofpiracy, which he acknowledged asSpotifys biggest competitor.

Most people want conven-ience and easy access [to music],Ek said. With Spotify, people canfeel that they have all the worldsmusic in their music library.

He argued, however, that un-less the television and movie in-dustries work actively to solve thesame problems the music industryis facing, illegal downloading willpersist.

I cannot accept that it takes ayear for a great TV show likeGame of Thrones to be seen inEurope, Ek said. I want contentto be readily available, and if I amwilling to pay for it, why not?

Ek concluded his talk by en-couraging audience members to fixthe issue, and pursue non-piracy so-lutions to the problem.

Contact Felix Boyeaux at fboyeaux@stanford.edu.

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enhance our learning, Bindraadded.

Thiel did not respond to multi-ple requests for comment by TheDaily.

Thiels critical view of highereducation is well known hebilled CS: 183 through aspokesman as potentially thelast class youll ever have to takeand recently opened the ThielFoundation, which offers$100,000 to budding entrepre-neurs to drop out and pursuestart-ups full time. However, hisincendiary comments have thusfar been confined to the mediarather than the lecture hall.

During class, he will nevermake those views the focus,Bindra said. His focus is verymuch more on educating peoplefor whenever they feel ready . . .which might be enough to makesome people feel ready enough todrop out and start their own busi-ness, but I dont think that thats afocus.

He has been only laudatoryof Stanford, describing it as per-haps the pinnacle of higher edu-cation today, said Aaron Sekhri

15, a Daily writer. He has indeedvery seldom discussed his reser-vations against higher educationin the class.

Bindra argued that Thiels ex-perience as a start-up founderand investor offers the most valu-able insight to enrolled students.

That kind of perspective def-initely comes through even in ahuge lecture, Bindra said. The

takeaway has been exactly whatIve expected, which is kind of acrash course in how the Valleyworks . . . kind of comprehen-sively addressing how to make acompany here and how to make itsuccessful.

Sahami stated that, while fac-ulty had been well aware ofThiels thoughts on higher educa-tion prior to approving thecourse, they saw no conflict be-tween Thiels opinions and thecourses prospects.

Even though Peter may havesome outspoken views about thevalue of higher education, insome sense we think it providesmore information for students tomake their own choices, Sahamisaid. Thats what education issupposed to be about.

Contact Taylor Grossman at taylor-mg@stanford.edu.

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under the new Constitution.The GSC bill echoed the at-

tempts of the 14th UndergraduateSenate to address the issue Tues-day evening. The Senate passed the

same bill reinstating membersof the outgoing NomCom as aninterim measure.

Other options, such as nominat-ing ASSU President Robbie Zim-broff 12 as unilateral chair of an in-terim commission, were rejectedby Senators on the grounds thatthey would defy ASSU bylaws.

Marshall Watkins

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Never holding anything back

CadyHine

Remembering

Courtesy of Arthur Alvarez

By KRISTIAN DAVIS BAILEY& JENNY THAI

Stanford undergraduate CadyJeanne Hine died of an undis-closed accident at her home inPalo Alto on April 1 at the ageof 24. A junior English major,

Hine battled severe bipolar disorder, drugaddiction and grief over her mothers sui-cide, which led her to take multiple leavesof absence. An op-ed by University stafflast month (Another loss, April 17)noted Hines contributions to improvingmental health on campus through thefounding of Stanford Peace of Mind(SPOM). Hines close friends and class-mates reflected on her impact on theirlives, painting a picture of a wild, selective-ly honest, fiercely loyal and trustingfriend.

She always did weird very wellEdwin Smolski 07 described his first

encounter with Hine at Stanford Hospitaland commented on Hines tendency todisregard social propriety in favor of say-ing what was on her mind.

I remember that she would say thingsthat youd think were inappropriate,Smolski said. But people would alwayscrack up when she would say them, but[her words] were a little bit more thanthat.

She was the kind of friend . . . [who]had a huge presence, said Helena Bonde12. Shed come into your life and shed

just grab hold of it. She was never one forholding anything back.

Bonde met Hine in 2008, when the lat-ter returned to Stanford to finish her lastquarter of Structured Liberal Education(SLE) after taking multiple leaves of ab-sence. The two bonded over shared expe-riences of familial loss and grief.

Normally Im afraid that even talkingabout the troubles Ive had in the past or inthe present is just going to alienate otherpeople, Bonde said. But with Cady it wasthe opposite it brought us closer to-gether.

Smolski recalled that following thedeath of her mother, Hine displayed anurn with her mothers ashes wherever shewas living, allowing guests to open it andview the ashes.

She made me see a different kind ofreverence that wouldnt necessarily followthe lines of what people would normallysee . . . I feel that really made me thinkabout the preconceived notions I had interms of loss and grief and feeling difficultthings, whats appropriate and whats not,Smolski said.

Hine was also known for her sharp witand adventurous spirit.

There was always some adventure she

would lead us on, said Jack Cackler 09, aSLE classmate. She just had a zest for lifeand an enthusiasm that was kind of fun tobe around.

Hines free-spiritedness made her an ir-replaceable friend.

If Cady couldnt hang out with you,there was no one else who would fit thatrole, said Leah Calvo 09, who befriendedHine during their freshman year. It waslike, Oh crap, no Cady. Who else do I call?I dont know anyone who would enjoy thatshow or enjoy that movie.

She always did weird very well [andwas] very comfortable with people whodidnt fit [into] other peoples categories,Calvo added.

Protecting her ownWhile Hines friends remembered her

bluntness about voicing her thoughts, theyrecalled fondly that not everything shesaid was true. Prone to exaggerations andhalf-truths, Hines provocative proclama-tions often served as a means of protectionfor herself and more often, for others.

Cady wasnt truthy, Calvo said. She

didnt shy away from something that hadto be said but there were times when shehad the gall to say things that were outra-geous and openly nonfactual, but shewould do it to protect her own.

During Hines residency in EnchantedBroccoli Forest (EBF), she was known forkeeping pet chinchillas in her roomagainst housing regulations.

There was a fire alarm one day, sheran outside of the house and had themclutched to her chest to save them . . . Shewould have felt terrible if they died, butthere was no fire. Stanford Housing sentout their person to see if there was really afire. Cady had more gall than anyone Iever knew the housing guy came upand was like Are those animals? at pointblank range, and she just looked into hiseyes and said, Stuffed animals, Calvo re-

called.She never got reported, Calvo said. Idont think she had to get rid of them.

Calvo then recounted the tale of Hinesyear in Escondido Villages (EV) coupleswith children housing, during her brief en-gagement to a student she met at FoothillCollege.

They came up with a story to get fam-ily housing that she was pregnant,said Arthur Alvarez, a Stanford under-graduate whom Hine listed as her Stan-ford emergency contact after befriendinghim during her freshman year. Her realbaby was three or four chinchillas andtwo rabbits.

Calvo said that by June, when Housingdiscovered Hines ruse, Hine had endedher engagement and was renting out herEV apartment to a UC student. Stanford

Housing then terminated her contract.

Anything to surviveHines friends described her dark sense

of humor, but also said that her willingnessto help anyone in need and her struggleswith personal tragedy were challenges forHine.

According to Bonde, Hine was severe-ly bipolar and struggled with heroin addic-tion.

I know that there were drugs at timesand I know that some of that very well may

have been self-medicating for some of thepain and trauma shed been through,

Calvo said, noting that she and her moth-er, a doctor, once helped Hine researchand check into a rehabilitation facility.

Bonde said Hine had been clean foralmost two years by the time of her death.

Alvarez said Hine was adamant aboutcoming back to Stanford the fall follow-ing her mothers death instead of takingtime off.

I thought that was very brave of her,he said, commenting on Hines copingstrategies. Her way of coping was throughhumor, which was fine but awkward for

some.Calvo shared an example of this black

humor when Hine revealed to her thatshe had attempted suicide on campus.

The way she said it was Yeah, I triedto hang myself, but my roommate walkedin, Calvo recalled. She made that sofunny. It was basically like Duh, I tried tokill myself and it failed. She always mademe laugh about the darkest things.

Bonde said that even during times ofsuicidal thoughts, Hine reached out forhelp.

Even when she attempted suicide, shedid everything else first, Bonde said. Shewent and got help, she knew about the re-sources on campus and she took advan-tage of them.

Philip Vuong, a former Stanford stu-dent and a close friend of Hine, said thatHine would do whatever it takes to sur-vive, including a series of odd jobs to sup-port her attendance at Stanford.

She was a stripper she whippedmen for a living she worked as a domi-natrix, Vuong said.

Alvarez recounted going with his part-ner, Smolski, and Hine to strip clubs in thearea for auditions, laughing nostalgicallyat the memory.

Her big thing was always How do Ifund myself? Alvarez said. I do notknow how she got away with a lot of things

she did.Alvarez and Calvo noted with humor

more of Hines odd jobs.She also worked as a fairy princess for

childrens parties, Calvo said. She was sobeautiful the girls always loved her.

Calvo said that Hine often tried to takecare of others, even at the expense of herown well-being. Calvo, Bonde, Alvarezand Vuong all noted that people frequent-ly took advantage of Hines trust.

She would run in and was alwaysready to make a difference and alwaysready to help people who had beenthrough bad things, Calvo added. Some-times she overstretched her capacity inhelping people or she would help themso much that she would be off balance,she added.

Absurdly lucky to have known herNone of Hines close friends who

spoke with The Daily were seriously in-volved with SPOM. Most commentedthat her legacy with the student group islikely the same as in their circle of friend-ship.

Especially at the funeral, I just hearda lot of people say things like Cady mademe feel like it was okay for me to talkabout this or that, Bonde said.

She lived life in the moment andmade her decisions as she went along, Al-varez said. She didnt apologize verymuch.

Vuong held that Hine was not a mar-tyr for mental health.

I dont want her to be remembered asa mental health case, Vuong said, re-counting a conversation he and Hine hadon his last birthday. I asked her the mean-ing of her life. Have fun, enjoy the ride.Sleep around, do drugs. It was a funny an-swer.

[She was] a little wild, erratic. She did-nt have the most stable life, but she defi-nitely had one of the more interestinglives I knew, Calvo said. I feel so lucky tohave known her absurdly lucky. I dontthink Ill ever meet someone like thatagain someone who is so free, yet sohaunted at the same time.

Contact Kristian Davis Bailey at kbailey@stanford.edu and Jenny Thai at jthai1@stanford.edu.

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someone who is so free, yet so haunted at the

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The residents and visitors ofStanford, Calif. enjoy arange of dining options

within the grounds of the worldssecond-largest contiguous univer-sity campus. It is therefore with

the utmost humility that I attemptto contribute to your understand-ing of this culinary landscape, as Italk about the burgers at Stan-ford.

There are far more hamburg-ers to be found at Stanford thanmeet the eye. Every dining hall of-fers a variant of the Stanford Din-ing Burger. The Alumni Caf hasa burger on Thursdays. Numerousconcession stands sell hamburg-ers during athletic contests.Schwab Executive Services andother catering companies pro-duce burgers for private, unpubli-cized events, presenting chal-lenges to data collection. In addi-tion, football weekends bring inlegions of tailgaters who grill their

own meats in an uncontrolled en-vironment. That said, I havereached a few conclusions aboutStanford burgers.

As I remember last years of-ferings from Manzanita andWilbur, they reflect the range ofburgers found at undergrad din-ing halls. The ingredients weremediocre but satisfying, and forthe most part students werehappy to have what they consid-ered a truly acceptable burger inthe convenience of their dininghalls. Typically nondescript, theseburgers were sometimes en-hanced at Wilbur when they ap-peared as grill specials, with theaddition of chipotle aioli, bacon,mushrooms or grilled onions. In

particular, the bison burger atWilbur was legendary. Manzanitacooked its patties beforehand andsimply reheated, as was readilyapparent from the tray of moist,grayish cooling patties behind theserving counter; if Wilbur did thesame, it was less transparentabout the practice. The differenceshowed, though not as much as

one might expect. I assume mostdining hall burgers today are sim-ilarly unremarkable, falling some-where within the Manzanita-Wilbur spectrum.

The Axe and Palm presents an

interesting case study in the com-mercialization of school spirit. Inan effort to capitalize on the re-cent success of the football team,a football-themed redesign hasbeen in place for a couple yearsnow. A panoramic photo of thegridiron taken from field levelcovers an entire wall, giving abizarre impression of being on thesidelines of a game frozen in time.Stylized images of Toby Gerhartand Andrew Luck in action or sur-rounded by band members blan-ket all remaining surfaces, exceptfor a few framed Daily articleschronicling great moments inStanford Axe history and an enor-mous scoreboard emblazonedwith a Big Game Countdown

that could have been displayed ina quarter of the space. Burgershave names like The Axe, TheTouchdown, The Big Game andThe Heisman, and they are nottoo good. The meat has a slimy ex-terior and little taste, and is ac-companied by a soggy wilted let-tuce leaf. If you dont specify oth-erwise, they might pawn off a coldwhole wheat bun on you.

Despite all of this, some Stan-ford students appear to thinkhighly of The Axe and Palm. Sev-eral of the people I asked namedTAP as the best burger joint oncampus. They were usually notoverly enthusiastic about it, sug-gesting that they may not haveknown the extent of other options,

but they named TAP nevertheless.Enlightened palates might ques-tion their loyalties, but TAPsplace in undergraduate culturallife may well be affecting studentsperceptions of its quality.

Like TAP, the Treehouse has aclaim to being a campus institu-tion, which it leverages throughburger names such as The Cardi-

nal and The Axe. Their burgers arebetter than The Axe and Palms they have to be, since the Tree-house cannot rely on meal plandollars to stay in business. Whilecertainly enjoyable, the burgersare hardly life-changing.

I also encourage you to ex-plore some of the lesser-known,out-of-the-way burger options atStanford. One has to admit thatRusso Caf at Munger, while avaguely elitist caf, serves a solidburger special. Even better, thereis Tootsies, an Italian lunch spoton the corner of Stanford Shop-ping Mall next to the MedicalSchool. They serve a fancy burger

made of veal, pork and beef withgood shoestring fries.

There are still many Stanfordburgers Ive never had, so go outand try them all. Make sure to letme know what Ive missed.

Questions, comments, suggestions,anonymous tip-offs? Contact Jeffat jeff2013@stanford.edu.

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A look at Stanford burgers

End-of-year academic stressgetting you down? Heres aspirit-lifting tip: Open your

browser and Google Heartlandbillboard.

Youll quickly find The Heart-land Institutes latest propagandapiece: a mug shot of Ted Kaczynskinext to the words, I still believe inGlobal Warming. Do you? Heart-lands not-so-subtle subtext: If youthink the climate is changing,youre no better the Unabomber.

The billboard, which appearedalongside a Chicago highway, wasthe first in a series that would haveincluded other standout characterslike Osama bin Laden and CharlesManson.

But the message was so outra-geous (almost humorously so see Grist.org for some tellingspoofs) that the backlash whichincluded public withdrawals of fun-der support convinced Heart-land to cancel the ad within hours.

The incident is the latest in a se-ries of ethical quandaries that havecropped up since the think tankswitched on its climate change de-nial machinery. The Heartland In-stitute bills itself as a pro-businessnon-profit with a $6 million annualbudget for education, lobbying, ad-vertising and regular installmentsof its International Conference

on Climate Change, which fea-tures climate change skeptics fromaround the world. Recently leakedinternal documents describe(mis)education plans and publicopinion campaigns designed toperpetuate the embarrassinglyprevalent American disbelief inhuman-driven climate change, de-spite overwhelming scientific con-sensus to the contrary.

Heartland is just one part of thepervasive climate change denialmachine, which spans think tanks,interest groups and political par-ties. Its financers represent an evenbroader spectrum, from privatedonors to corporations built onfossil fuel usage. But its gettingharder and harder to figure out

whos paying for which messagesbecause, as evidence for climatechange mounts, Americans aregetting more suspicious. For exam-ple, in 2005, Heartland stoppednaming its funding sources, pullinganother shroud between its mes-sages to the American public, andthose who fund them.

Given Heartlands position onclimate change, its not surprisingto note that, since 1998, the thinktank has received more than half abillion dollars from ExxonMobil a multinational energy compa-ny that would do particularly wellby convincing us not to worryabout our carbon footprints.

Though ExxonMobil reported-ly cut ties with Heartland in 2006

after being embroiled in a publicrelations fiasco surrounding itssupport of climate change denial, itremains a key member of theAmerican Petroleum Institute.The API is the political voice of theoil and natural gas industry in theUnited States. Backed by 400member corporations includ-ing ConocoPhillips, BP and Shell

it spends $3 million lobbying inWashington each year, and moreon ad campaigns convincingAmericans of the critical impor-tance of fossil fuels.

The bottom line is simple: If yousell oil, coal or gas, acknowledgingclimate change is bad for business.

But what all these companiesalso understand, very clearly, isthat climate change is happening,and that it can, in itself, be bad forbusiness. For example, melting per-mafrost threatens the stability ofthe Alaskan oil pipeline. And in-tensified hurricanes increase dam-age to Gulf of Mexico drilling rigs.

And then theres the elephantin the room: fossil fuel supplies arefinite, and were already on thedownhill side of production. Majoroil and gas companies are addingalternative energies to their port-folios, hoping to ensure their sur-vival in the post-fossil fuel world.

Perhaps thats why in 2002, longbefore it froze out Heartland,ExxonMobil committed $100 mil-

lion in research funds to Stanfordsown Global Climate and EnergyProject. The company also investsin energy conservation research atMIT, Carnegie Mellon and otherresearch universities.

Exxon is not alone. ConsiderBP, now self-styled Beyond Pe-troleum. Or flip through theAPIs seven-page list of the waysits member corporations are ad-dressing climate change. Many ofthese efforts have been in the re-search pipeline for a decade ormore, occurring behind the scenesat companies whose public rela-tions machinery busy denying cli-mate change.

This year, investors at Exxon-Mobil, Chevron and Cono-

coPhillips have filed multipleshareholder resolutions asking formanagement transparency. Theywant to know what plans are beingmade for climate change, whethergreenhouse gas emissions will bereduced and if hydraulic fracturingis really still on the table. Theywant to know how their stock port-folios will sustain growth in an un-sustainable market space.

These focused demands, andthe gradual change in opinion ofthe American public, have forcedmany energy corporations togreen their image, highlighting re-newables research and hiding tiesto the Heartlands of the world.

Its our job as consumers ofoil and of advertising to see

those ties anyway. Because as longas environmental concerns threat-en the profits of these big corpora-tions, a very powerful Mr. Hyde willbe working in Dr. Jekylls shadows.

Share comments, critiques and yourbeliefs on funding transparency withHolly via email at hollyvm@stan-ford.edu.

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these social issues on the table toredirect the national conversa-tion away from the economy toother issues he can speakabout, Huwa said.

Talking about the issue [ofsame-sex marriage] isnt goingto get him the election, Whalennoted. Its going to be the econ-omy.

Both Whalen and Huwa high-lighted the fundraising and ac-tivist interest generated byObamas announcement, inwhat Whalen suggested might bean attempt to recreate thetransformational sentimentlinked with Obama in the 2008election.

Whalen also noted that, whileObama expressed his support

for the concept of same-sex mar-riage, he made no legislativepromises for his second term andhas continued to depict the de-bate as a state-level issue.

This is no indication thathes willing to take up the fightand push for a constitutionalamendment, Whalen said.You can parallel this withBranch Rickey [a MajorLeague Baseball executive]saying he favors integration inbaseball but not putting JackieRobinson on second base.

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MENS GOLF

Home cooking at NCAA RegionalsBy AUSTIN BLOCK

STAFF WRITER

After a disappointing fifth-place finish at thePac-12 Championships, the Stanford mens golfteam has the chance to redeem itself at the

NCAA Regionals, which start today at theStanford Golf Course.

The Cardinal is seeded second behind Cal inthe 13-team tournament. Stanford will be led byPac-12 Freshman of the Year Patrick Rodgersand in-form junior Andrew Yun, who won thePac-12 Championships two weeks ago and fin-ished fourth at the Western Intercollegiate twoweeks prior.

Golfweek lists Yun as the nations 12th-ranked collegiate golfer, and Rodgers is rankedthird. Rodgers was recently named one of threefinalists for the Ben Hogan Award, which isperennially awarded to the nations best collegegolfer. No sophomores and only one freshman,current PGA Tour star Rickie Fowler, haveever won the award.

If Stanford finishes in the top five of the re-

gional tournament, the team will then travel toLos Angeles for the NCAA Championships atRiviera Country Club, which begins May 29.Following three rounds of stroke play in the 30-team tournament, the top eight teams will faceoff in match play to determine the NCAA

champion.For now, the Cardinals focus is on regionals.

Fortunately for Stanford, this weeks field is notas strong as some of the other fields the teamhas faced this season. After No. 7 Cal, the high-est-ranked teams the Cardinal will competeagainst are No. 14 San Diego State, No. 22 Cen-tral Florida and No. 23 LSU. Stanford is current-ly ranked eighth nationally.

Rounding out the lineup for regionals issophomore Cameron Wilson, who startedstrong at Pac-12s before being disqualified for ascorekeeping mishap, freshman Patrick Grimesand senior captain David Chung. Players com-peted in four rounds of qualifying last week todetermine which five would play this weekend.

It was a difficult test for everybody and putthe guys under a lot of pressure, Rodgers said.

I think we have a great team and I really likeour chances.

But Yun said the weaker field and home-course advantage would not lull the team into afalse sense of security.

I dont think were going to have that prob-

lem because weve only won one tournament,Yun said. I think everybody on our team un-derstands that winning is a habit, like our coachalways says, and I feel like if you want to getthings rolling and go into nationals on a high Ithink we have to get that win under our belt . . .I think everyone wants to get that win and Ithink theyre really motivated to play well.

Yun and Rodgers both agreed that playingat home puts no extra pressure on the team.

Since we do have so much support, its veryeasy to have momentum on your side, Yun said.When youre not playing that well, people arethere cheering for you and encouraging you todo better, and when you are playing well, every-body is on your side.

By CHRISSY JONESSTAFF WRITER

The Stanford womens tennis team breezedthrough the first and second rounds of theNCAA Championships on its home courts lastweekend with wins over Stony Brook andYale. Now the Cardinal faces its true test inAthens, Ga. Fourth-seeded Stanford (20-1, 9-1Pac-12) traveled cross-country on Mondaymorning in preparation for its match against13th-seeded Northwestern today.

This will be the Cardinals 27th straight ap-pearance in the NCAA round of 16, andNorthwesterns ninth straight. Ironically, Stan-ford will be playing Northwestern in the thirdround for the second consecutive year. In amatch that went until early in the morning lastMay, the Wildcats (20-8, 10-1 Big Ten) cameclose to crushing then-No. 1 Stanfords hopesat a national title earlier than expected. Seniorcaptain Veronica Li, however, looks back onlast years battle as something that benefitedher team in the long run.

Its great to have a tough match in the be-ginning because, if you can secure a victory, itgets you ready for the rest of the tournament,Li said. Last year, that match helped remind usto stay tough out there and fight for each point.

Northwestern went up 2-1 early in thematch with a victory on court four after North-westerns Kate Turvys had a straight-set de-

feat of Stanfords Stacey Tan. This year, Turvywill likely face sophomore Nicole Gibbs oncourt one, the court both players have mannedfor their respective teams throughout the sea-son. Stanford also dropped the doubles pointin last years matchup, something the playersintend to change this year.

We want to play with a lot of confidence andscare some people out there, Li said. Wevedefinitely put in a lot of work in doubles, espe-cially in the last month or two. Everyone seemsto be really in sync and working as a team.

Li, who has been playing No. 3 doubles withjunior Natalie Dillon, commented on her part-ners play.

Shes really competitive and its such ahuge advantage to have someone you can trustto fight and pull out the big points, Li said.

This year will mark Dillons first appear-ance in the NCAA tournament both as a dou-bles and singles player. Sophomore KristieAhn, a critical member of the squad who has

battled injuries since last years NCAA tour-nament, hopes to make a comeback this year.At this point, though, her return still seems upin the air.

I think were taking it one day at a time,but its a conversation between her andcoaches and trainers, Li said. As teammates,we are doing our best to support her, but weknow that shell be a huge part in our successand do her best to contribute in whatever roleshe plays.

Li also made clear that supporting the teamis whats most important at this stage in the sea-son. The NCAA rules for the tournament man-date that each match is the best of seven points,so if a team goes up 4-0, then the remainingmatches go unfinished. Some players find thisformat to be disruptive and frustrating.

You know, people are finishers and peoplelove to be able to go out and give a win, Lisaid. For the players that do, its great. For theones that dont get to finish, its definitely

tough to stop short because a lot of girls getbetter as they go. Youve got to be ready foranything, though. Youve got to focus on yourcourt and play each point the same. If yourteam wins, its all for the better.

As captain and the sole senior on the team,Li is the most experienced player on the squad.Her advice to freshman Ellen Tsay and theother players participating in their first NCAAis to enjoy the moment.

Its such a special experience to play for ateam and to have gotten this far, Li said. Youhave to enjoy it. Winning isnt necessarily thething I remember the most. Its more about thelittle things like playing music in the parkinglot or hanging out at night in a room andwatching a funny movie. My memories aremostly of spending time with the team.

That being said, theres no doubt the Cardi-nal is ready to take on the nations elite teams,

SPORTSDOWN TO GEORGIA

DissectingCards woesat receiver

Since the NFL draft, Ivebeen spending a lot oftime sifting through theInternet in order to learnabout the situations that

the former Stanford football play-ers are now in. After all, footballseason never really ends. For some,

like Andrew Luck, it means highexpectations abound.Like my colleague Tom Taylor, I

cant resist occasionally looking atthe inane banter that populates thecomments section of these articlesabout Luck. Down in the Stygiandepths of these pages, I frequentlyfound a refrain that goes some-thing like this: If he had any goodwide receivers at Stanford, hewould have been incredible.While this is usually used as a de-fense of Lucks college career (as ifhe needed one) or an explanationof why hell be good in the pros(again, as if he needed one), this setme to thinking: where exactly haveall of Stanfords wide receiversbeen hiding over these past few

years?While there have been some

success stories at wideout thesepast few seasons Ryan Whalenand Griff Whalen became two ofLucks favorite targets even thoughboth started their Stanford careersas walk-ons, and Ty Montgomerywas a smashing success in his fresh-man campaign many of Stan-fords recruited wide receivershave never quite seen their careersget off the ground.

This is partially due to the factthat tight ends Coby Fleener, ZachErtz and Levine Toilolo have beenso prolific, but there still is a gap oftalent out wide that begs to be ex-plained. So, through the magic ofthe Internet, I set out to examine

just what has happened to the elitereceivers on the Farm.

Perhaps the profound gap atwide receiver is due to the strangesemi-disappearance of two playersthat were perceived to be corner-stones of Stanfords passing gamefor years to come.

In 2009, the Cardinal brought inone of its strongest recruiting class-es in years on the heels of the classthat included future first-roundersLuck and David DeCastro. That in-cluded two four-star wide receiverrecruits, Jemari Roberts and Jamal-Rashad Patterson.

Roberts, from Long Beach,Calif., was ranked the 18th-best re-ceiver in the country, and Patterson,from McDonough, Ga., was seen asthe 28th-best pass-catcher in thecountry. Roberts, at 6-foot-3 and205 pounds, looked like he wouldpair with Patterson, who is 6-foot-2and 194 pounds, as a pair of deepthreats that would help push theCardinal back to its winning ways.

But three years later, the twofour-stars have little to show excepttales of unrealized potential. WhilePatterson did reach the end zone toscore his first (and only) careertouchdown against San Jose Statein 2009, perhaps his most well-known career highlight is when hewas ejected from the Cardinals2009 48-14 blowout win over Calfor throwing a punch at a Bearplayer before the opening kickoff.

Sadly, Roberts is best known for . .. nothing. The former four-star hasyet to catch a single pass in his Stan-ford career.

However, their time on theFarm and their time to make amark isnt up yet, as Pattersonwill be a senior in the fall andRoberts will return for his redshirt

junior season.While they still have a year to

realize their potential, Stanford hasalso driven away a pair of promis-ing wide receivers over these lastfew seasons.

The next recruiting season, theCardinal brought in three-starquarterback Darren Daniel, an Al-abama native, and, with Luck enter-ing his senior season, new head

coach David Shaw and his staff con-verted him to play wide receiver thenext spring. Additionally, the Cardi-nal secured an early commitmentfrom Tai-ler Jones, a four-star re-cruit from Georgia, but Jones even-tually changed his mind and signedwith (yuck) Notre Dame instead.

Daniel was generally pretty im-pressive in spring practice, showingoff a lot of athleticism as both apass-catcher and a wildcat quarter-back, but he ultimately decidedthat the switch wasnt for him, andelected to transfer, where he endedup at Itawamba Community Col-

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Captain Veronica Li (above) is the only senior on the Stanford womens tennis team, and she willlook to use her experience as the Cardinal heads to Athens, Ga. for the third round of NCAAs.

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Senior David Chung (above) hopes to finish his college career off with a berth in the NCAA Championships. The Stanford mens golf team canqualify for NCAAs by placing in the top five of this weekends 13-team NCAA Regionals. The action starts today at the Stanford Golf Course.

NCAAs continue

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Mens swimming coach

Skip Kenney retires after

historic career

Stanford mens swimminghead coach Skip Kenney is callingit a career after 33 years on theFarm. The 69-year-old coach wasone of the legends of the swim-

ming world, winning 31 consecu-tive conference titles from 1982through 2012, a streak that morethan doubles the previous Pac-10record for any sport (John Wood-ens 14-year streak in mens bas-ketball at UCLA).

During this same 31-year peri-od, Kenney led Stanford to a top-four national finish every year, the

longest streak in history. Kenneywon seven NCAA titles in his 33-year run after the Cardinal had

just one title and four top-threefinishes in the 45 years beforeKenney arrived.

Under Kenneys leadership,Stanford produced 72 individualNCAA champions, 134 All-Americans and 1,086 total All-American awards in 33 years. Inaddition, 20 athletes went on tothe Olympics, winning a total of 18medals. Kenney coached many ofthem as Olympic head coach ofmens swimming in the 1996Games.

Perhaps most importantly forthe six-time National Coach ofthe Year and 20-time Pac-10Coach of the Year, Kenney had a100 percent graduation rate dur-ing his tenure at Stanford, includ-ing 10 Academic All-Americans.

The Long Beach State gradu-ate never swam competitively, buthe has made an enormous impacton the swimming world as acoach. Kenney will coach Stan-ford swimmers through the U.S.Olympic Trials on July 2 beforecalling it quits.

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Stanford mens swimming headcoach Skip Kenney (above) is retiringafter the U.S. Olympic Trials. Kenneyled the Cardinal to seven NCAAchampionships and 31 straightconference titles in his 33 years.

I dont see really any extrapressure playing at home, I justview it as we know the golf coursebetter than most, Rodgers said.We still have to go out there,though, and hit the shots and get

the job done, but I really like ourchances.

The course will play more diffi-cult than usual, as the greens will befirm and fast and the rough hasgrown long. In light of these factors,team captain Wilson Bowen saidplayers need to make sure theykeep the ball in-play off the tee andthat they leave themselves with up-hill putts.

This tournament will mark theCardinals first playoff appearancesince last years NCAA CentralRegionals, where the team stum-bled to a sixth-place finish and nar-rowly missed out on the nationaltournament. Yun said last yearsdisappointment is not on his mind.

I feel like our team is a lot clos-er this year, our team is playing a lotbetter this year, and even the sameguys that we had last year werentplaying as well as they are thisyear, Yun said. Its a totally differ-ent story, and I think were going tohave a lot better result this region-al.

The three-day tournament be-gins at the Stanford Golf Coursetoday.

Contact Austin Block at aeblock@stanford.edu.

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lege in Mississippi. This February,while the Cardinal was bringing inits best recruiting class in schoolhistory, Daniel signed his letter ofintent to play for Alabama State,continuing his football career justan hour and a half away from hishometown of Phenix City, Ala.

Jones, on the other hand, has al-ready made his mark felt at NotreDame, where hes renamed him-self TJ Jones and accumulated672 yards and six touchdowns inhis two years as a Golden Domer.

Altogether, the lack of depth onthe outside hasnt slowed the Car-dinal down of course, having

the best quarterback in collegefootball has been the primary fac-tor in that but it still is interest-

ing to consider just how unluckythe Cardinal has been with its widereceivers as of late.

Hopefully, that wont be thecase for any of the four wideoutscoming to Stanford this fall as partof the fantastic 2012 recruitingclass. That way, Brett Nottinghamor Josh Nunes can have the onething that Andrew Luck just mighthave been missing in his time on theFarm.

Jack Blanchat was also recruited toplay wide receiver, but the coachingstaff thought he was better served asa sports writer. Find out if his 40 timewasnt up to par at blanchat@stan-ford.edu or follow him on Twitter@jmblanchat.

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but the players are taking it onestep at a time.

We are a team that doesnt pre-pare differently for certain match-es, she said. We try to do the bestwe can day-to-day, and I dont thinkwere thinking about the wholetournament, but instead the nextmatch we are going to play.

For right now, that focus is ongetting past Northwestern. Thematch will take place at the DanMagill Tennis Complex at 9 a.m.Pacific Standard Time.

Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj@stanford.edu.

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