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talk that parents foster more in-dependence in children ratherthan cultivate safe spaces forundirected achievement.

Some talks more closely re-sembled demonstrations, and thespeaker would call upon the au-dience to act out a series of in-structions. Louis Jackson 91,whose teachings fuse the tradi-tions of yoga with modern healthscience research, had the audi-ence performing breathing exer-cises to achieve peace of mind.

Klein called on audience

members to create the longestrun-on sentence possible withthose seated near them, while

Esther Gokhale, an anthropolo-gist and back pain expert, in-structed the audience how to re-learn proper pelvic posture andhow to sit.

Notable performances includ-ed 14-year-old cello prodigy IlaShon and Pamela Z, who pio-neered the live digital loopingtechnique for music recording.Pamela Z projected a video withdance elements that created amultimedia experience in the au-ditorium.

TEDxStanford comes on theheels of STAN (Science, Tech-nology, Art and Nature), whichwas produced last May as a pro-

totype for events involving shorttalks interspersed with perform-ances.

Contact Sasha Arijanto at sasha.ari-janto@stanford.edu.

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UNIVERSITY

Hennessy visits BOSP in FlorenceBy SONYA CHAUDHRY AND TAYLOR MCADAM

President John Hennessy visited the Bing Over-seas Studies Program center in Florence Friday, em-phasizing the importance of the abroad experiencefor all undergraduates in conversations with profes-sors and students.

Being abroad is not only about in-depth study,but also about taking advantage of everything thereis to see around you, he said.

Hennessy spent the morning with long-time Stan-ford in Florence professor Timothy Verdon. Theythen visited Palazzo Capponi, the 15th century palacethat will house the Breyer Center for Overseas Stud-ies in Florence starting next fall. Hennessy had lunchwith students and professors, sharing travel adviceand his thoughts on Italys current political situation.

Florence is the sixth BOSP campus that Hennessyhas visited during his presidency. This March, Hen-nessy took the first part of his sabbatical to attend thededication of the Stanford Center at Peking Univer-sity in Beijing.

Although Hennessy does not deal directly withBOSP operations, he does spend a considerableamount of time thinking about the abroad experi-ence. As a graduate of Stanford engineering, Hen-nessy shared concerns and hopes for involving moreengineering and pre-med students in the studyabroad programs.

Roughly half of the student body takes advantageof BOSP programs, through either quarter-long im-mersion or summer seminars, but BOSP and Hen-nessy would like to focus on the participation dispar-ity seen between the various majors and between

athletes and non-athletes. Athletes, engineers andscience majors on the pre-medical track often losethe opportunity to study abroad because of strictschedules and requirements, he said.

Its just as important to study abroad [as it is tolearn the content of your major], Hennessy said.There is definitely enough time, you just have toplan ahead.

The directors of BOSP have made some changesthat have increased participation from science andengineering majors in recent years, such as offering awider variety of courses at the abroad locations, mak-ing the language requirements more flexible for stu-dents with schedule restrictions and reintroducingthe overseas summer seminars.

In addition to traveling for Stanford related pur-poses, the sabbatical has given Hennessy the oppor-tunity to spend some leisure time in Italy.

[My wife and I] make an effort to come hereonce a year, he said. Florence is definitely our mostfrequented city in Italy.

Hennessy will spend this week in Italy before hereturns to campus for graduation.

Ive been doing lots of reading on the places Itravel to and on higher ed, he said. I read two largehistory books on Egypt and China, and it was nice tobe able to learn about the places before I visitedthem. I also read the biography of Steve Jobs. I was-nt sure if I should read a biography of someone Iknew personally, but everyone who read it said it wasa must read. So, I finally did.

Contact Sonya Chaudhry at sonyadc@stanford.eduand Taylor McAdam at tamcadam@stanford.edu.

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Symposium focuseson Oscar Wao author

By TAYLOR GROSSMANSTAFF WRITER

The Junot Daz: A Symposiumevent held Friday, May 18 andSaturday, May 19 in MargaretJacks Hall brought togetherscholars from around the countryand the Caribbean to speak aboutthe significance of the work ofDaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning au-thor of The Brief Wondrous Lifeof Oscar Wao and creative writ-ing instructor at MIT.

These two days are . . . aspace of conviviality, inter-cultur-ality, a forum for debate, a place toboast or simply just revel witheach other, said Jos David Sal-divar, undergraduate program di-rector of the Center for Compar-ative Studies in Race and Ethnic-ity. Saldivar was among the threeprinciple organizers, along withMonica Hanna, associate profes-sor of English at the UnitedStates Naval Academy, and Jen-nifer Harford Vargas, associateprofessor of English at BrynMawr College.

We were acutely cognizant ofthe fact that we would be organiz-ing the first major internationaldiscussion on this importantwriters body of work, Saldivarwrote in an email to The Daily.

The two-day symposium con-sisted of four roundtable discus-sions as well as the annual KieveDistinguished Speaker Lecture,

delivered by Daz. The Kieve Lec-ture, an annual event endowed byAnne and Loren Kieve 69, aimsto bring scholars and public fig-ures from around the world toStanford to address contempo-rary issues in race and ethnicity.

I recommended Junot Dazfor this honor because his workhas profoundly displayed the is-sues of race and ethnicity as partof the human imagination, Sal-divar said. In my previous expe-rience as a fellow keynote confer-ence speaker with Junot Daz, Ihad personal knowledge of hisability to articulate these issues ina creatively passionate way.

In his address, Daz first fo-cused on issues surrounding race

and ethnicity in his own fictionalworks Drown and The BriefWondrous Life of Oscar Wao.Stepping away from the podium,Daz then moved on to a discus-sion of The Lord of the Rings,where he illustrated how he seesthe novel as primarily centeredon race.

Junot Daz remained very ac-cessible in the last part of his talk,when he answered questions pri-marily from the undergraduatesin the audience about how racewas so central to his reading ofTolkiens work, Saldivar said.He concluded with remarkableattention and focus on his audi-ence, the undergraduates whohad come to see this amazing con-

temporary writer . . . By using abook known to almost all of theundergraduates in the standing-room only audience, he was ableto engage and discuss difficult is-sues with them, issues that arepresent in our society today: race,power, violence.

The symposium was intended

to be accessible to its audience,with the four roundtable discus-sions designed to create an opendialogue between panelists andaudience members, Saldivar said.After individual presentations byeach panelist, the conversationwas opened up to the entire room.

Symposium comes from theGreeks and means a space todrink, Saldivar explained at thestart of the event.

At the first roundtable, stand-ing behind the last row of chairsand leaning casually against theback wall of the Terrace Room,Daz watched and listened asscholars debated his work.

When the roundtable evolvedinto an animated discussion, how-

ever, Daz became an active par-ticipant. Daz lent his opinion ontopics ranging from the interpre-tation of his own work to politicalissues of contemporary scholar-ship. After one panelist, ArleneDvila from New York Universi-ty, commented on the defensive-ness exhibited by many scholarswhen writing about race and eth-nicity, Daz added his ownthoughts on the issue.

How many books publishedabout racism do not have theterm white supremacy in their in-dexes? Daz posed to the audi-ence. The real beast is still off thepage no one wants to touch it.

The conversation was at itsmost animated after Silvio Tor-

res-Saillant, a professor of Eng-lish and Latino-Latin Americanstudies at Syracuse University,posed a question to the panel. Heasked the audience whether aproblem existed in using litera-ture to study the social sciences orvice-versa.

The marketplace is voraciousfor paradigms that transcendeverything until you dont knowwhere to point your finger, Tor-res-Saillant said. White su-premacy disappears, everythingdisappears.

Dvila was not as wary of theproblem of intermixing these twotypes of studies.

As ethnic studies, we neverhave the purity of translation,

Dvila said. We are in a very ex-citing space.

Torres-Saillants largest con-cern, however, was the commonpractice of treating Latin Ameri-can texts solely as cultural relics,thereby neglecting traditionalcritical examination of the worksliterary elements.

What happens to a work ofart when it is treated strictly as ananthropological artifact? Torres-Saillant said. We need to admitthat literature is a difficult thingthat is not easily accessible, andthat to study it requires as muchtraining as an anthropologistdoes. We need to try to do them

justice.This problem was met with

much agreement among panelistsand audience members alike.While the first roundtable endedshortly after Torres-Saillantspiercing question, this interpretiveproblem was far from solved.

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

Courtesy of Alessio Escorri

President John Hennessy met with students while visiting the BOSP center in Florence while on his sabbatical.He discussed the need to make overseas study practical for more student-athletes, engineers and pre-meds.

showcase their art.Attendees were greeted at the

gate by a 15-foot high octopusmade entirely of bamboo thatprotruded from the ground. Asguests made their way around theouter perimeter of Frost, they en-countered forests of head-highmushrooms, tie-dye bannersfilled with poetry and a wall ofclocks called the Wishing Wall.

Every five minutes, one of theclocks on the Wishing Wall strikes11:11, and you are supposed tomake a wish, said Tina Miller 14,the student who spearheaded the

Wishing Wall project. The ideabehind the wishing wall startedwith Japanese Omamori prayerlines, but instead of praying to agod, the Frost wishing wall was

just a way to share your wish withthe community. Guests are meantto make a wish and take a wish.

As attendees exited, 18-foothigh neon Truffula Trees with me-chanically rotating feather palmheads stood along the pathway,accompanied by a sign that ex-plained they were a tribute to Dr.Seuss story The Lorax, whoseprotagonist speaks for trees af-fected by pollution at a nearbyfactory. At the base of the trees inFrost there was a basket of seedswith a sign instructing guests toplant the seed on their way out.

The student art projects were

funded through grants distrib-uted by Aroeste. Beginning threeweeks before spring break, SCNbegan distributing flyers aroundcampus for art project proposals.Soon after spring break, thegroup had narrowed their choic-es.

For a while, a lot of the artprojects seemed impossiblydaunting, but we were able to pullthem all together with a lot of helpfrom our volunteers, and they allturned out great, Aroeste said.

SCN is already planning thenext Frost Festival.

We are working to makeFrost even bigger and better fornext year, Chabolla said.

Contact Lucas Oswald at loookas@stanford.edu.

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To do so, Lythcott-Haims pro-posed letting the rising generationexplore and experience on theirown.

We need to back off, Lyth-cott-Haims said. It is our job asparents to put ourselves out of the

job.Acknowledging that parents

want to see their offspring suc-ceed, Lythcott-Haims neverthe-less concluded that the main bur-

den should be on the child.Sure, we want to see that our

offspring has emerged from thatchrysalis, but it is their job to doso, she finished. It is their job tofly.

In an interview with The Dailyafter the talk, Lythcott-Haims ex-plained why she chose this topic

for TEDxStanford.I am making my way out into

the world by the end of June towrite about the things that concernme, she said. Chief among themis the topic that I chose today. Itwas an opportunity for me to test-drive the ideas and see how themetaphors worked.

Lythcott-Haims is steppingdown in June to pursue a master offine arts in writing with an emphasisin poetry from the California Col-lege of the Arts in San Francisco.

According to Lythcott-Haims,Stanford tries to foster this idea ofindependence through severalmethods.

When parents seek to behavein ways that are overinvolved, weexplain that we would really like to

have this conversation with thestudent only, she said. Moreproactively with students, we workon this notion of reflections, smallgroup conversations with fresh-man students and advisors wherethe students can get to know them-selves better.

Lythcott-Haims said she sawthe TEDxStanford event as atremendous success.

I loved it, she said. When Iheard that TED was coming here,I was really excited for Stanford.The event was incredibly well-pro-duced, very professionally organ-ized and an immense pleasure to bepart of.

Contact Felix Boyeaux at fboyeaux@stanford.edu.

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well-trained personnel requiredby many surgeries is a barrier inconsidering surgery part of globalpublic health.

At present, a large disparity innumber of trained surgeons rela-tive to a countrys population is ev-ident between low and high-in-come countries, Wren said.

To counteract this disparity, sherecommended that developedcountries fund surgical training inlow-income countries. Wren is cur-rently working with Stanford on atraining program in Zimbabwe.

Reducing this disparity in sur-geons is vital, Wren said.

Flying me to Africa to do op-erations is not a solution to theproblem, she said. Basic healthincludes surgical care.

Contact Erin Inman at einman@stanford.edu.

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FEATURES

By ISSRA OMERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Vanessa Bastidas 14 opensher door quietly, sticks herhead out and glances suspi-

ciously down the hallway.The coast is clear. She gripsher water gun and sprints to the bath-room, where she is safe once again atleast temporarily.

For an intense and fearful few daysduring spring quarter, paranoia and de-ception are the norm in most dorms. Thegame is called Assassins and no one issafe. The rules are simple a player isassigned a victim to eliminate using awater gun. Once assassinated, the as-sassin will inherit the victims target. Thelast one standing is the victor.

It gets really intense, Bastidas said.People try to avoid common areas andcarry their guns wherever they go.

The Assassins experience for PeterWang 15 differed.

I didnt take the game too seriously,

but some people in my dorm definitelydid, Wang said. Some people came upwith all these strategies to avoid thedorm as much as possible.

Assassins is a long-standing Stanfordtradition played in many dorms acrosscampus. Although widely considered afreshman experience, many upper-classdorms and students choose to participateas well. Crothers, an upper-class dorm,takes the game very seriously.

This year, each hall in Crothers had itsown preliminary round of the game, Thelast two people alive in each hall wereallowed to go to the finals. This finalshowdown was held on the front lawn of

Crothers in front of the entire dorm.The winner this year was Ilya

Gaidarov 14, who believes his successwas due to a combination of luck and tal-ent.

Its all about brains over brawn,

Gaidarov said.However, as for most other players,

his experience was a stressful one.It was the worst, Gaidarov said jok-

ingly. I was so paranoid. At first, I wasnteven that invested in the game. I just did-nt want to get shot.

Gaidarovs initial plans to not take thegame seriously were almost immediatelychanged.

During the day, I tried to be in a placewhere people couldnt kill me, so I basi-cally sat in my room during the day, hesaid. Then at night I would go out to killmy target.

To achieve victory, Gaidarov formed apartnership with another resident on hishall, Youssef Hedroug 13, afterHedrougs roommate tried to assassinateGaidarov.

Because Youssef was honest, wewere in a partnership, Gaidarov said.There were others who I knew I could-nt trust.

It was a bit hectic. I felt like I was al-ways looking behind my back, Hedrougsaid.

I didnt leave my room, and I alwayshad a friend with me as a witness so noone could assassinate me, he said.

For Gaidarov, part of the drive to wincame from missing the experience duringhis freshman year.

I didnt get to play freshman year, soIm glad that we did Assassins, he said. Iwould have preferred doing it at the be-

ginning of the year because Ive gotten toknow people better since playing.

Bastidas recalled assassination at-tempts when playing the game last year.

I had killed my person and thought Iwas safe, she said. But then I got out of

the shower without my gun, and my as-sassin was waiting right outside the doorand shot me.

Last year I got really into it, sheadded. Even when I got out and wasntin the game, I was still so invested. Thisyear I knew I wanted to do better.

Every year, dorm staff put in a greatamount of effort to make the game aworthwhile and memorable event.Sometimes, they also participate as ter-minators who have the power to shootresidents who do not kill their targetwithin 24 hours.

I think the staff put in the time be-cause honestly, Assassins is a really fungame, Wang said. Its a good breakfrom regular activities.

The terminators this year were in-tense. They had huge water guns, and I

was actually scared, Bastidas said.They were bribing my roommate withdonuts [to co-operate with them].

In spite of the occasional drama, para-noia and scheming terminators, the ulti-mate purpose of Assassins is to bring res-idents together.

Assassins is great because it getseveryone involved, even for people whodont normally participate in a lot ofdorm events, Bastidas said. Its some-thing fun something you can laughabout later.

Contact Issra Omer at iomer@stanford.edu

Q&A:

Art After Dark

The second annual Art After Darkfestival, held in Old Union andWhite Plaza from May 17 to 19,featured over 250 pieces of artis-tic work from over 100 artists,

ranging from spoken word to paintings tosculptures. The event was a collaborativeeffort between the Student OrganizingCommittee for the Arts (SOCA) and Stu-dents for a Sustainable Stanford (SSS),seeking to showcase Stanfords artistic tal-ent while presenting an underlying themeof sustainability. The Daily discussed thefestival with SOCA director JenniferSchaffer 14.

How did the

event Art After Dark come to form?

Last year, it wascalled Vision eARTh. Before that, the artsand sustainability events were held sepa-rately but on the same weekend. The artevent was called An Art Affair, and thesustainability event was called FutureFest. Since then it has evolved because wedecided that the festivals could benefitfrom being joined together.

How so?

Both groups [SOCA and SSS] came tothe mutual understanding that sustainablemessages are best conveyed in creativeways and [through] innovative thinking thats why we find the partnership to bevery effective. Our goal was that the eventwould focus on art, but would have a sus-tainable thread running through every-thing even the infrastructure was sus-tainable.

Can you talk a little more about thearchitecture at the event?

We decided to do a transparent tent sopeople could see the artwork from outside,as well as pillars with glowing solar lights. Itwas both aesthetically pleasing and gave asense of unity throughout the exhibit. Wedefinitely brought a design eye to the festi-val.

How do you select what art to display?What were some of the highlights this year?

It was a really open and inclusive sub-mission process. It was more about trying tofigure out which part of the exhibit the artwould best fit in and soliciting pieces. It isboth a process of curating and having opensubmissions.

What made this years exhibition dif-ferent from last years exhibition?

There was definitely more electronicand interactive art. One of our goals was tostretch the way Stanford conceived of art inour community. I think that the quality anddiversity of the artwork this year was phe-nomenal. We had Stanford DJs and bands,a film from the Stanford Film Society andperformances from the Cardinal Ballet andthe Stanford Shakespeare Companyamong many other shows and displays. We

were trying to include every medium thisyear.

Was there any difference in theevents on the three different days?

Thursday had more of a street festivalvibe while Friday and Saturday had more ofa lawn party atmosphere during the day. Wesaw our biggest turnout on Saturday whenit turned from laid-back to energetic duringthe night.

What was the experience of planningthe event like?

It was incredible but also incrediblybusy. I got pneumonia right before the fes-tival, so I relied heavily on the core team ofSOCA and SSS members to put the event

together. As a team, we have been working[on the event] tirelessly since before schoolstarted this year. There were also a lot ofvolunteers from the art and sustainablecommunity and from all corners of campus.

What does the event mean to you?

Personally, as a freshman, I perceived alack of art on campus and wanted to be apart of something that would galvanize tal-ented artists all across campus. I think wesucceeded in doing that.

Natasha Weaser

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he could not communicate themto a doctor.

Im a realist, and so I neverwant there to be any heroic ef-forts to keep me alive if I am con-fined, am immobile or cannotcommunicate with the ones Ilove, he said.

Brokaw chided her father forhis lack of specificity to illustratethat directives for such conditionsmust be exceptionally precise.

When families and doctorstake some enormous decisions on

behalf of others, they need tomake sure they are acting in line

with the priority of their lovedones, she said.

Only 50 percent of terminallyill patients have some advanceddirectives prepared, she said.Moreover, of those 50 percent,only 12 percent had preparedthe directives through consulta-tion with a physician. The re-mainder wrote them with alawyer. This, she argued, repre-sents a crisis in healthcare asdecisions that few are equippedto deal with are falling into thewrong hands.

She praised the UnitedStates superb and technologi-cally advanced health care sys-

tem but critiqued its structure.Super-specialization means

we end up talking to a lot of -ol-ogists, she said.

She added that, as a result, im-portant discussions with physi-cians who have a holistic knowl-edge of their patients occur lessfrequently.

The conversation included aseries of anecdotes intended toillustrate different aspects of lifeand death and the medical carethat can sustain the former. Theduo also elaborated on the fi-nancial angle of the matter, ex-plaining the enormous burdenof full-time medical assistanceand saying that in some casespeople sell off assets to cover

$100,000 to $300,000 per year inhealthcare costs.

There is a lot of reengineer-ing of our health care system thatneeds to take place, JenniferBrokaw said. We have to askourselves: how do you add life toyour years instead of years toyour life?

Speaking to The Daily, she ex-plained that the idea for the talkcame from personal experience.

In my own family, my fatheris starting to deal with his rela-tives who are near the end of life,and it got him thinking about hisown stage of life, and what hewants for himself, she said.

The initial invitation to theconference was for an entirely

different type of conversation,but the two Brokaws said they

were happy to address end-of-lifecare, an issue they said should notbe the taboo subject that they be-lieve it is.

Tom Brokaw said he felt nohesitation discussing personal de-tails with a large audience despitethe subject matter.

In the family, we put every-thing on the table, he said. Andgiven how instructive speaking tomy daughter was when my moth-er was passing away, I felt thattalking about this issue was al-most journalistic for me.

Contact Aaron Sekhri at asekhri@stanford.edu.

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Iwant to suggest that both ar-dent proponents and harsh crit-ics of the Alternative Review

Process roughly speaking, al-though the partisan lines are notnearly this simple and clean-cut,liberals and conservatives take a moment to reexamine theiropinions about the ARP againstthe light of their own deeply heldmoral and ideological convictions.Because it seems to me that bothsides have abandoned importanttenets of their larger philosophiesin their pursuit of policy victory.

Lets start with the so-calledcivil libertarian or leftist position.This campus recently witnessed awidely supported drive to collectsignatures for a California ballotreferendum outlawing the deathpenalty in this state on the groundsthat (among other reasons) it isracially discriminatory, convictsand executes innocent people anddenies the accused due process oflaw. More broadly, law-and-orderliberals tend to worry a great deal

about the possibility of false con-victions in criminal cases, the rightof defendants to adequate counseland the overly harsh nature andlength of criminal sentences. Theyalso argue that severe punishmentof offenders doesnt necessarilybring closure or relief to victimsor victims families, dismissing thefamilys feelings rationale forimposing exacting retributionupon violent criminals.

So what happened to the leftssupposed dedication to protectingthe rights of the accused againstthe abuses of an overly harsh andinflexible system? It seems oddthat campus liberals are now argu-ing for (among other things) a sys-tem that denies the accused the

right to face his accuser, does notprovide him with an attorney orqualified attorney substitute, elim-inates the traditional right of the

accused to be considered innocentuntil proven guilty, removes hisright to call witnesses in his favorand to cross-examine the witnessesassembled against him and canplace the accused in situations ofdouble jeopardy.

It might be argued in responsethat broader social paradigms sim-ply dont apply on a communal col-lege campus, where everyoneknows everyone else, racism does-nt exist and the possibility for falseconvictions is low or nonexistent.First of all, that comparison isslightly illogical: areas of the coun-try with less racism or a smaller-town vibe dont have fewer legalprotections for accused criminals,and as Stanford sets up its ownquasi-judicial system, its not clearwhy we should either.

But for an illustration closer tohome, let me refer you to a now-fa-mous report from the Stanford Po-lice Department of April 9th, 2011,reporting a sexual assault on Stan-ford campus by an unidentified male,

Black, around 30 years of age who suddenly morphed into anAsian Indian man who smelled ofa scent similar to apples upon fur-ther reflection by the victim. Anychance for a false conviction there, orany sense that race might play a rolein influencing memory or justice,even on this campus?

But the standard conserva-tive position on the ARP is equal-ly bizarre and contradictory. Out ofa broader ideological ethos thattrumpets harsher punishments forall, fewer protections for allegedcriminals and a swift resolution tocases involving people who wereobviously guilty all along has magi-cally emerged a deep and nuancedconcern for the natural rights of un-

justly accused Stanford males, un-fairly trampled under the heel of anoppressive judicial system. Wheredid that come from?

As soon as the women of thiscampus are the victims, the conser-vative narrative seems to imply, thepossibility for false convictions sky-rockets; the Bureau of Judicial Af-fairs undergoes a nefarious trans-formation into a totalitarian regimebent on expelling innocent fratboys, rather than an institution ded-icated to the pursuit of justice; andthe lack of technical protections forthe accused becomes an immenseconcern every student on campusshould deplore, rather than a posi-tive development facilitating the

justified punishment of depravedfelons. A little consistency, please.

Ultimately, it seems that wherethe ARP is concerned, all sides arewilling to throw their intellectualbaggage out the window. Campusliberals become stern law-and-order enforcers, thumping theirfists on the table and demanding

justice for victims, while campusconservatives suddenly acquire apassion for the fine details of dueprocess and fair trials, quibblingover the legal technicalities theyusually detest when applied to so-ciety at large.

As the ARP becomes the thirdrail of campus politics, emotionalop-eds fly and the old Undergrad-uate Senate punts the question tothe new senate, fearing to actuallyaccomplish something important,lets all take a moment and thinkabout whether our opinions on thisimportant policy issue are in factconsistent with our deeper under-lying values. If we do, the final re-sult will be more honest, morethorough and, in the end, a great

deal more meaningful.

Let Miles know what you think atmilesu1@stanford.edu.

Not all schools are like Stan-ford, especially when itcomes to people. Outside

Stanford, fame comes from stand-out names, but on the inside, Stan-ford tries hard to get everyone onthe same page. On the first day ofNSO at Roble, for example, each

RA already knew the name ofeach student that passed in thehall. This is how it is at every dorm.

It isnt inherently good or bad.Some students freak out whenthey first arrive and are called outloudly before saying a single thing.Other students feel warmly wel-comed, exactly because they donthave to say a single thing beforebeing called out so loudly. Mostdorms even feature a world mapwith all of the residents faces on it;in one glance, everyone is held to-gether nicely in one frame. Stan-ford also places dining halls strate-gically close to l iving areas, so thatnot much transportation is re-quired between sleeping and eat-ing. So, for most Stanford fresh-

men, meals-with-friends equalsmeals-with-dormmates.

Thus, the freshman dorm is oftenthe central life headquarters, and op-portunities for bonding are pre-pared in advance. Compare this toCarnegie Mellon, where youre onyour own (as my little brother said).

The year after, though, theresthis thing called the sophomoreslump. This phenomenon isshared by enough college studentsthat it gets a title. Its probably acomplicated psychological phasethat involves academic disillusion-ment and identity reanalysis,among other things. But, also, stu-dents just have to move their resi-

dence. In sophomore year, famil-iar faces that used to head down to5:15 p.m. dinner together are dis-persed. This small fact can makethe second year at the same schoolfeel like a different world. Manyfriends just dont seem as closeanymore by location. They

might even be all the way acrosscampus. A lot of students seem tothink this is the main reason theystop meeting. Beginning sopho-more year, students even start say-ing its hard to meet new friends inclasses. Either that or a friendshipformed within 10 weeks ostensiblydisintegrates by the next quarter.

A friends sister at Harvard con-siders all of Stanfords communitycampaigning very contrived: stu-dents dropped conveniently intocommunity-looking structures andencouraged to make what look likefriends. She sees it as misleadinglyfree of individual action. That re-minds me of a girl at the HumeWriting Center (presumably agraduate student) I overheard, ar-

guing that Stanford holds its stu-dents hands for everything.

OH, I never see you anymore!we exclaim. It reflects a shift infriendship that apparently mystifiesus. Its not just from freshman tosophomore year that we feel ourfriendships take chilling turns. Ithappens every year we move resi-dences, if in doing so we are separat-ed from a particular hallmate. Ithappens every quarter when wechange classes, and a classmate weused to see at least twice a week(plus to study) seems to drop off theface of the earth. What happened?

But it isnt that campus geogra-phy or the quarter system tarnish-

es relationships. Rather, these arejust the things that slot us next tosomeone by default, fooling usinto thinking were engaged insomething real. We dont always

realize, though, that weve gottenclose with a situation and not aperson, or that we have only con-text in common. This is why, whensettings change, the ground fallsout from beneath so many sup-posed friendships.

Relationships are maintained byoutright effort. We prove our fond-ness for someone when we find our-selves pursuing them, especiallywhen we didnt have to before. Thistakes intention, re-prioritizing andproactivity. Most of the time, wedont even register were doing this.We simply register a thought, whichturns naturally into action, whichrepresents a legitimate decision which, ultimately, is the foundationfor something real.

Time tells, but so does place. Iwas thinking about this while my lit-tle brother was visiting me this pastweekend. I realized how much Ivealways loved our friendship, acrossall of the distances weve been apart.Ive also been thinking about this inthe context of graduation, as greaterdistances between friends becomethe standard situation. Past that cer-emony lies an immense space for usto decide which relationships are setin Stanford stone and which comewith us wherever we go.

For now, though, Ninas set at Stan-ford so email her at ninamc@stan-ford.edu.

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The ARP: Creating aculture of accountability

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In April 2011, the Departmentof Education Office for CivilRights issued a Dear Col-

league letter, specifying actionscolleges and universities musttake in order to promote an ac-countable culture with regardsto sexual assault. The much-de-bated Alternative ReviewProcess (ARP) is Stanfords im-

plementation of the letters pre-scriptions. The Editorial Boarddebated the merits of the ARPand was unable to reach a unan-imous conclusion. What followsis the opinion of four members.Editorial Board Chair AdamJohnson 13 recused himselffrom this editorial.

The Dear Colleague letter isstraightforward. It requires col-leges to have a coordinated re-view process to respond to sexualassault reports that gives equalbalance to both the impactedparty (alleged victim) and re-sponding party (alleged perpe-trator) throughout the process.

For instance, reviewers may notconduct pre-hearing interviewswith one student but not theother, and both parties must haveequal ability to call witnesses. Theletter also specifically mandates apreponderance of evidence stan-dard for sexual assault cases amore likely than not standard,unlike the clear and convincingstandard. Schools that do not im-plement the letters requirementsrisk jeopardizing their Title IXfunding.

In addition to being consistentwith Title IX, we believe that theARP is good policy, particularlythe controversial preponderanceof evidence standard. The stricterclear and convincing standard isinappropriate for an entity likeStanford that, unlike a criminaljustice system, does not have thepower to compel testimony. Stan-

fords review process inevitablywill have access to substantiallyless data than a true court of law,so the standard of evidenceshould reflect this discrepancy.

But most significantly, theARP is important because it pro-motes a culture of reporting andaccountability that is desperatelyneeded. Most of the ARPs

changes aim to make the processof reporting sexual assault friend-lier and less intimidating. For in-stance, if the ARP allowed thetwo students to confront andcross-examine each other theprocedure in place before ARPsadoption far more sexual as-saults would go unreported: Novictim of sexual assault wants tobe forced to interact with their as-sailant in a traumatic and intimi-dating manner.

Moreover, we are not terriblyconcerned that the system will beabused by false reports. The prob-lem we face now is chronic under-reportingof sexual assaults. The

statistics on sexual assault in col-lege are grim: a 2007 report foundthat about one in five women and6.1 percent of men are victims ofcompleted or attempted sexualassault while in college. Morefrighteningly, a 2005 report foundthat fewer than 5 percent of com-pleted or attempted rapes are re-ported. We therefore applaud theadoption of the ARP as a meansof encouraging more victims tocome forward, thereby establish-ing a healthier culture where sex-ual assault isnt implicitly tolerat-ed by an incredibly low percent-age of reported incidents.

Editors note: Editorial BoardChair Adam Johnson 13 recusedhimself from this editorial, insteadpenning a dissen ting op-ed(Against the preponderance ofevidence standard, May 21).

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Hypocrisy and the ARP debate

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hile sexual assault is anissue that needs to betaken seriously by cam-

pus administrators, subjecting stu-dents accused of sexual assault tothe preponderance of evidencestandard the lowest burden ofproof in our judicial system isnot the proper way to addresssuch transgressions.

While the guidelines in theDear Colleague letter with re-gard to the burden of proof maybe straightforward, the legal justi-fication is tenuous at best. TheObama administration justifiesusing the low standard in thesecases because it is what would beused, say, if Stanford were to besued for discriminating on thebasis of sex. As Hans Bader, a for-mer lawyer for the Office forCivil Rights, wrote, Studentscannot violate Title IX; onlyschools can be sued under TitleIX, not individuals . . . More-over, Students are not agents ofthe school, so their actions dontcount as the actions of theschool. The letter, by requiring a

universitys students to be subjectto the same burden of proof asthe university itself, makes a logi-cal leap that is far from self-evi-dent.

Indeed, in Davis v. MonroeCounty Board of Education(1999), the Supreme Court ruledthat Title IX violations occur onlywhen schools are deliberatelyindifferent to sexual harassment .. . [that] deprives the victims ofaccess to the educational oppor-tunities or benefits provided bythe school. It is not clear how ap-plying the clear and convincingstandard (about 75 percent cer-tainty) to sexual assault cases is

representative of a universitybeing deliberately indifferent.

In addition to the shaky legaljustification, the preponderanceof evidence standard goes againstone of the core tenets of our judi-cial system: the presumption of in-nocence. Although a preponder-ance of evidence standard is notpresuming guilt, it is hardly pre-

suming innocence; only three-fourths of the reviewing panelneeds to be 50.1 percent certainthat a sexual assault occurred.Some find this acceptable, notingthat the same standard is appliedto civil cases. But whereas thepenalty in a civil suit is monetary,the internal penalty for sexual as-sault is often suspension or expul-sion. If anything, the conse-quences of being found responsi-ble in such cases warrant thestronger clear and convincingstandard.

While I am in favor of other as-pects of the ARP for instance, Iagree that the accused should nothave a right to confront the accus-er the preponderance of evi-

dence standard opens the door forinnocent students to be found re-sponsible. In a criminal trial, ifthere is a generally low convictionrate for a given crime, we do notlower the burden of proof. Doingso violates the due process rightsof the accused. If the loss of feder-al funds were not at stake, Stan-ford would ideally adopt the clearand convincing standard whilepursuing other means to encour-age sexual assault reporting thatdo not jeopardize the rights of theaccused.

ADAM JOHNSON 13

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CAVALIERKRYPTONITE

WOMENS TENNIS

Card eliminated in quarterfinalsBy DAVID PEREZSTAFF WRITERIn each of the past two seasons, the No. 5

Stanford womens tennis team has reachedthe finals of the NCAA tournament, but theCardinal will not complete the trifecta, as itsseason came to an end after a 4-2 loss to USCin the quarterfinals in Athens, Ga.

Fourth-seeded Stanford (21-2, 9-1 Pac-12)entered Saturdays match as the only one-lossteam in the nation. The squad had beatenUSC (24-3) 4-2 at home earlier in the season,though the doubles point was not played thatday due to inclement weather. That was fifth-seeded USCs only conference loss, and theTrojans also finished 9-1 in the conference

and shared the Pac-12 title along with Stan-ford.

On Saturday, the Cardinal dropped thedoubles point for only the second time all sea-son an ominous sign, considering the firsttime was in its lone regular-season loss toUCLA.

Stanfords No. 2 doubles team of freshmanEllen Tsay and junior Stacey Tan finishedfirst, winning 8-5, but then sophomore NicoleGibbs and junior Mallory Burdette fell 8-6 onthe first court in a rematch of the Pac-12Championship doubles final. The pair fell be-hind USCs Kaitlyn Christian and SabrinaSantamaria 7-2 before winning four straightgames to make it 7-6. That was the closestthey would get, though, and Gibbs and Bur-

dette are now 0-2 this year against USCs toppair.

Senior Veronica Li and sophomore KristieAhn lost 8-6 in their first match since earlyMarch to clinch the doubles point for the Tro-

jans. Ahn, an All-American last year, wasmaking her first appearance for the teamsince a foot injury sidelined her more thantwo months ago. She also appeared in singles,where her match was abandoned in the thirdset after USC clinched the victory.

[Getting Ahn back] was really positivefor us going forward, said head coach LeleForood.

Stanfords chances in singles looked

By JOSEPH BEYDADESK EDITOR

The No. 12 Stanford baseballteam did its job this weekend inSalt Lake City. Now, its going toneed a little help in the final weekof Pac-12 play.

Only two games separate thetop five teams in the conference,

and the Cardinal (36-14, 17-10Pac-12) is right in the mix after acrucial road sweep of Utah (14-38, 7-23). Stanford, No. 11 UCLAand Arizona State are just twogames behind conference-lead-ing No. 10 Oregon (19-8), withNo. 17 Arizona only a game backat 18-9.

Stanfords starting pitcherswere instrumental in moving thesquad into that tie for third place,allowing 15 hits and striking out27 Utes in 23.2 combined innings.Redshirt junior lefthander BrettMooneyham regained his tradi-tional Saturday spot in style, post-ing double-digit strikeouts for thefirst time since March 3, while

junior Stephen Piscotty contin-ued his surprising success as astarter, giving up only one runover 6.1 innings on Sunday after-noon.

We knew Utah was a teamthat could beat us on any givenday, junior righty Mark Appel,who threw a complete-gameshutout of his own on Friday, toldGoStanford.com. Their recordisnt that great, but they competeand they battle out there.

Top-to-bottom contributionsat the plate backed up thosepitching efforts, with each of theeight hitters that started in allthree games knocking in at leastone run over the weekend. Stan-fords infielders were particularly

on top of things, with sophomore

first baseman Brian Ragira, soph-omore second baseman DannyDiekroeger and freshman thirdbaseman Alex Blandino allhomering and junior shortstopKenny Diekroeger adding twoRBIs of his own.

The Cardinal might not have

put up more than two runs inany inning this weekend which was only the case forStanford in one other series thisyear, when it lost two of threeOregon but the consistencywas enough to earn it three

comfortable victories.

As Stanford fans are accus-tomed to by now, Appel (9-1)stole the show on Friday nightwith his fourth complete game ofthe season, just hours after havingbeen named a Howser Trophysemifinalist, an award presentedannually to the best player in col-lege baseball. His 13 strikeoutsput him at 109 on the year, just shyof his career total of 112 from be-fore this season, and at one point,he retired 12 batters in a row dur-ing the Cardinal baseball teamsfirst-ever visit to the Utah cam-pus.

The slider was moving reallywell, Appel said. Especially for

the high altitudes, you wouldntexpect that.

Junior catcher Eric Smith wasthe only player with an RBI hit inthe game, as he opened the scor-ing with a two-run single in thetop of the fourth. Then, Stanfordssmall-ball gradually extended itslead, with two RBI groundoutsand two sac flies building a com-fortable six-run cushion forAppel to work with over the finalthree innings.

The potential No. 1 overalldraft pick got a flyout with tworunners in scoring position to endthe game and preserve hisshutout.

Mooneyhams effort on Satur-day was arguably just as impres-sive, especially considering theleftys up-and-down season thatsaw him lose four in a row beforehis recent resurgence. He retiredthe first six Ute batters he facedand struck out at least one in eachof the first five innings, but givenhis recent efforts to fix some me-chanical issues, Mooneyham (7-4) still wasnt satisfied.

[I was] a little bit inconsistentin the beginning of the start me-chanically, he said. I just talkedto [pitching coach Rusty] Filterafter the second, ironed it out andfelt like I had a lot better com-mand after that.

The Cardinal got on the board

SPORTSUNDEFEATED AT UTAH

Halls fallwell short

of purpose

While watching theChampions Leaguefinal between Chelseaand Bayern Munich

on Saturday, a friend wondered

aloud whether Didier Drogbawas a Hall of Famer or if thereseven a World Soccer Hall ofFame for him to enter.

As it turns out, the Interna-tional Football Hall of Fame (re-member, most of the world callsthe game played with your feetfootball) exists, but judging bythe fact that the link to its homepage doesnt work and it hardlyshows up on Google, its not real-ly at the same level as those forbaseball or football.

At first, this seemed odd tome. Soccer is the most popularsport in the world, so why would-nt it have something so basic asa hall of fame? Sure, there arenational halls of fame, but soccer

is such an international sportthat it would seem to require onehall to rule them all (and I al-ready gave it a tagline). Becauselets face it, there are a lotof hallsof fame. Wikipedia has a wholearticle just listing them.

But thinking about it more, Irealized that halls of fame arenot nearly as fundamental a con-cept as I had thought. After all,the first major hall of fame wasfor baseball, which isnt quite 80years old yet. The Baseball Hallof Fame was started because,one, there was a misconceptionthat baseball had been inventedin Cooperstown, and, two, itcould make money.

The motto for the BaseballHall of Fame is Preserving His-tory, Honoring Excellence, Con-necting Generations. These aregreat goals, and having a place tolearn about the best players ofthe past is a good thing. But hallsof fame are known much morefor the select groups of formerplayers (and coaches and othersinvolved in the game) that getthe honor of being inducted.

I dont have any problem withthis, but choosing who to includein the elite class of players is anunenviable task, no matter whatthe sport. Think about it: if some-one asked you to say who are thefive best players in the NBAright now, or in the NFL or NHL

or MLB or any other sport, youwould almost definitely dis-agree. And these guys all faceeach other year after year. Imag-ine comparing players acrossgenerations.

That is what hall of fame vot-ers have to deal with, and allthats hanging in the balance isthe entire validation of a playerscareer. No pressure.

Theres no way to decidewhom to induct without some ar-guments and flaws, but that stilldoesnt stop me from having abeef with the major halls offame.

Last year, Bert Blyleven wasinducted into the Baseball Hallof Fame. When he retired in

1992, he had 285 wins and 3,701strikeouts. In his first year of eli-gibility in 1998, he had 285 winsand 3,701 strikeouts, but he didnot get into the Hall. For each ofthe next 13 years, his statisticsdid not change, but his Hall ofFame vote percentage didchange every year, although itwasnt until last year that thevotes eclipsed the 75-percentthreshold necessary for en-shrinement. As of right now, hestill has 285 wins and 3,701strikeouts, but hes now in theelite club of baseball players.

What changed? Blylevenspitching didnt. And you canttell me that peoples perspectiveon him changed for 14 straight

years. But in the ridiculous sys-tem we have now, a player can beon the ballot 15 years in a row.And a lot of times, it takes sever-al years to get the necessarytotal.

My question is simple: whycant you make up your mindsthe first time? Why not just wait10 years or so after players finishplaying so you get some perspec-tive without many players dyingbefore they can be eligible? Givevoters one chance. A yes or a no,and thats it.

And while were at it, let vot-

Jacob

JaffeStat on the Back

STANFORD

SWEEPS BY

YET AGAIN

VIRGINIA CUTS CARD AGAIN

By MARSHALL WATKINSDESK EDITOR

The No. 11 Stanford mens

tennis team once again encoun-tered heartbreak in the quarter-finals of the NCAA team tour-nament this weekend, losing 4-0Sunday to No. 3 Virginia afterdefeating No. 6 Kentucky 4-1 inthe round of 16 on Friday.

The loss against Virginia (28-1, 11-0 ACC) was the secondtime in as many years the Cardi-nal (20-9, 5-2 Pac-12) has fallenagainst the Cavaliers in the finaleight, with a run to the quarterfi-nals last year being brought toan abrupt end in a 4-3 decisionagainst the eventual finalists.

The Cardinal entered thematch against Kentucky (28-6,11-0 SEC) as nominal under-dogs seemingly peaking at just

the right time, after emphaticvictories over Sacramento Stateand Santa Clara in earlierrounds of the tournament. TheCardinal was also looking toreplicate the upset at Kentucky,when the Card won 4-1 at theNational Team Indoor Champi-onships in February.

Beating [Kentucky] at in-doors certainly gave us plenty ofconfidence going into the matchthat, if we had a complete team

effort, we could get the jobdone, said senior BradleyKlahn.

The Cardinal, however, fell

behind quickly, losing the dou-bles point with the pairings ofsenior Ryan Thacher with juniorDenis Lin and junior Matt Kan-dath with sophomore Jamin Ballboth losing 8-2.

We got our tails whipped inthe doubles, Klahn said. Butwhen we came out after thebreak for singles, I could see it ineveryones eyes that we weregoing to turn the match around.

The Cardinal did just that,picking up the first set in all sixsingles matches.

There was never any doubtin our team that we could comeout with four points, Klahnsaid. Those first 30 minutes ofsingles really set the tone for the

match, reversing any momen-tum Kentucky generated fromthe doubles.

The Wildcats fought back,winning the second set in four ofthe matchups, but Klahn, play-ing at the No. 1 position, andThacher, playing No. 2, tri-umphed 6-1, 6-2 and 6-1, 7-5 re-spectively to put the Cardinalahead 2-1.

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily

Third baseman Alex Blandino had a two-run home run on Sunday tocomplement two more RBI on Saturday and continue his stellar fresh-man season. Blandino has now knocked in 34 runs in just 118 at-batsand is second on the team with seven homers behind Austin Wilson.

ALISA ROYER/The Stanford Daily

Senior Ryan Thacher remembers all too well what happened when Stan-ford and Virginia met in the NCAA Tournament last year, and the resultwas the same this time around, with the Cavaliers eliminating the Card.

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in the first when Piscotty reachedon a two-out error and Ragiradoubled him home. A KennyDiekroeger sac fly made it 2-0 aninning later and two more runscame around in the fourth, thanks

to a wild pitch and another sac fly,this one from junior centerfielderJake Stewart.

Ragira brought out somepower again with a two-runhomer in the fifth to force Utestarter Joe Pond from the game.Mooneyham allowed Utahs firstrun of the series on a seventh-in-ning single by Utah second base-man Cory Hunt, but the sopho-more was gunned out by Stewarttrying to stretch it into a double,ending the inning.

Two more insurance runs on asingle by Blandino in the ninthclinched a series win for Stanford,but the Cardinal knew that it real-ly needed a third win if it wantedto continue to improve its playoff

positioning.It was up to Piscotty to hold

down the fort in his second careerstart, and even without the flair for

strikeouts of Stanfords other twostarters, he threw 6.1 solid inningsfor the second weekend in a row.

Danny Diekroeger opened thescoring with a third-inning solohomer, marking the 29th time thatthe Cardinal has scored first thisseason. The squad had gone 24-4 inthose previous 28 contests, andBlandino made sure that trendwould continue with a two-runhome run, his seventh of the season,

in the top of the sixth to make it 3-0.After a Ragira fielders choice

extended the lead to four, twostraight Utah hits in the bottom ofthe seventh left runners at the cor-ners with one out, a potentially dan-gerous situation. Stanford headcoach Mark Marquess replacedPiscotty with sophomore A.J. Vane-gas and only one of those runswould score, as Vanegas struck outthree Utes over his 2.2 innings tosecure his fifth save of the seasonand Piscottys fourth win.

The Cardinal will head toSanta Clara to face the Broncos at6 p.m. on Tuesday and will thenclose out its season against cross-bay rival Cal at Sunken Diamondnext weekend with postseasonpositioning on the line.

Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@stanford.edu.

BASEBALLContinued from page 5

ers pick however many playersthey want. The Pro Football Hallof Fame mandates that betweenfour and seven players be in-ducted per year. It makes sensefor their ceremonies, but it

makes no sense if you want toget the best players every year,which is part of the reason whyguys like Cris Carter and TimBrown are still awaiting theircall to the Hall.

At some point, there are justso many issues that I have towonder if a hall of fame is reallynecessary. But, at least for majorAmerican sports, its too late.You cant really stop inductingpeople now, so lets at least fixthe process so it makes sense.The best players in history de-serve at least that.

Jacob Jaffe is still sore that theStanford Daily Sports ColumnistHall of Fame hasnt sent him his

official induction letter yet. In itsplace, send your condolences tojwjaffe@stanford.edu and followhim on Twitter @Jacob_Jaffe.

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