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Stanford sophomore linebacker A.J. Tarpley recovers the fumble of USC running back Curtis McNeal in the third overtime to finish off a back-and-forth 56-48 win at the Los Angeles Coliseumon Saturday. Tarpley had a career day, as he also intercepted a pass in No. 4 Stanfords narrowest victory of the year.

STANFORD ESCAPES IN TRIPLE OVERTIMEBy JACK BLANCHAT

DESK EDITOR

Some scores will live forever inStanford football history.20-19 in 1982.24-23 in 2007.But 56-48 in 2011 mightoutrank them all.

FOOTBALL

STANFORD 56

USC 48

10/29, Los Angeles, Calif.

In the most dramatic game of the2011 college football season, the Stan-ford football team rallied from a 10-point deficit in the second half to forceextra football against the USC Trojans

before pulling off a 56-48 victory intriple overtime.

The No.4 Cardinal (8-0,6-0 Pac-12)was pushed to the limit over and overagain on a wild night in Los Angeles,butredshirt junior quarterback AndrewLuck turned in the greatest perform-ance of his career when it matteredmost right after what could havebeen the single worst moment in histime with Stanford.

With 3:45 left in the fourth quarterand the score tied at 27,the Cardinal gotthe ball on its own 16-yard line,leavingLuck in prime position to pull off thefifth fourth-quarter comeback victory

of his career.Facing a third down after a 7-yard

run by junior running back StepfanTaylor, Luck dropped back, lookedright and fired toward diving seniorwide receiver Chris Owusu, but Trojansafety Nickell Robey pounced on thepass and dashed into the end zone asthe sellout crowd of 93,607 let forth adeafening roar at the superstars sud-den misfortune.

I was very disappointed in myself,Luck said after the game.For a coupleseconds, I wanted to dig a hole and gobury myself in it.

Now down 34-27, Luck would getthe ball back with a chance to redeemhimself with 3:03 to go a moment

that inspired resiliency, not dejection,on the Stanford sideline.

We always have faith in our of-fense, said senior safety MichaelThomas. I never once doubted thatthey would come back and score.

We put the ball in our quarter-backs hands.We put it on his shoulders,and [the] kid comes through,said headcoach David Shaw. He was so upset,and he was upset about it for about 45seconds. Then he flushed it, and hemade the plays to help us come backand win the game. . . He was not goingto let that play lose the game for us.

With the clock rapidly fading,Luck

and company charged 76 yards in 10plays spurred by a vicious helmet-to-helmet hit on Owusu on a third-down incompletion before Taylorbarreled over the right side of the linefor a 2-yard touchdown with 38 secondsleft.

The Trojans then completed a trio ofpasses to get close to field-goal range,but wide receiver Robert Woods could-nt get out of bounds quickly enough onthe last play of regulation for USC to at-tempt a field goal, sending the gameinto overtime.This time,the Cardinalsfeeling of resiliency turned into confi-dence.

We looked at each other and said,Were going to do it.Were going to win

this game,said senior tackle JonathanMartin.Overtime, we knew we weregoing to win from the start.We knewthat we can fight through everything.

In overtime,Stanford took the ballfirst and kept to the ground, runningseven straight times before senior Jere-my Stewart dove over the goal line for ascore. USC responded with a perfecttouchdown pass from quarterbackMatt Barkley to Woods to send thegame to another overtime period.

In double overtime,Barkley flippeda pass to tight end Randall Telfer,whobroke through four Stanford defendersbefore stretching across the plane to

rock the momentum back to USC.Luck responded by returning to the air,where he found redshirt sophomoretight end Levine Toilolo for an 11-yardtouchdown to extend the game onemore time.

On the second play of triple over-time,Taylor took a handoff and scam-pered untouched for his second touch-down of the night, which Luck thencapped by finding redshirt senior tightend Coby Fleener wide open in the endzone for a two-point conversion thatmade it 56-48.

Barkley answered back with a 21-

yard pass to put USC on the doorstepagain, but Trojan running back CurtisMcNeal had the ball punched free fromhis arms by junior defensive tackle Ter-rence Stephens immediately after tak-ing the handoff.The football skippedoff McNeal into the end zone, whereCardinal linebacker A.J. Tarpleypounced on the ball.

This time, the Coliseum was silent except, of course, for the Stanfordfans, located all the way on the otherside of the stadium,hundreds of yards

MICHAEL LIU/The Stanford Daily

Redshirt juniors Chase Thomas (left) and Andrew Luck (right) celebrate No.4 Stanfords comeback, triple-overtime win over USC. Luck and the offense

scored touchdowns in all three overtimes to keep the Cardinal undefeated.

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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Moore warns of seductionby Wall Street

By CHRISTOPHER KREMER

Emmy Award-winning documentaryfilmmaker Michael Moore spoke Fridaynight about students as a force for publicgood,touching on the Occupy Wall Streetmovement, college debt, American for-eign policy and his endeavors prior to hisfilmmaking career.

The talk, organized by the StanfordSpeakers Bureau, took place in the newKnight Management Centers CEMEX

Auditorium.Moore began by addressing the Occu-

py Wall Street protests, which he praisedfor being an organic movement thatwould help reshape the countrys socialand economic landscape for the better.

Until we get control of Wall Street,well be saddled by problem after prob-lem,he said.

Event organizers also noted the rele-vance of the nationwide Occupy proteststo students at Stanford.

The nation generally and the schoolmore specifically have definitely beenthinking about the Occupy movementmore recently, said Co-Director of theSpeakers Bureau Rahul Sastry 12. AndI think there are few people who canspeak to the nations anger better thanMichael Moore on this topic.

Moore contrasted the current state oflabor rights and the economy in Americato those of yesteryear, saying that he was

hopeful about the current generation.You probably dont know that yourgeneration has almost ended bigotry andracism, Moore said.The previous gen-eration set up a bad system.

However, he also expressed concern

that students at Stanford and other eliteuniversities are often drawn to high-pow-ered jobs that hurt American society.Backstage, he said that it is understand-able that some Stanford students are mo-tivated by greed.

They see nothing but dollars pavingthe path in their futures, he said. Whywould anyone want to give that up? Theseduction has already started to takeplace just by being a student at Stanford.You begin to believe that youre the cho-sen ones.

This was the attitude that Moore saidhe hoped to address during his talk.

Its kind of like missionary work, hesaid.I realize Im talking to some of the

future people who are going to mess withpeoples lives just so they can make abuck.So if one or two tonight will go backand think a little bit, that made it worth

Talk reflects on Occupyprotests, student futures

ALISA ROYER/The Stanford Daily

Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker MichaelMoore spoke Friday evening on the seduction of WallStreet and Stanford students roles in creating public good. Please see MOORE,page 4

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Zumot sentenced to

33 years to life

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Former owner of downtown PaloAltos Da Hookah Spot PaulZumot,37, was sentenced Friday at 3p.m.to 33 years to life for murderinghis girlfriend Jennifer Schipsi andburning down their home.

Zumots sentence includes eightyears for the arson and 25 years tolife for the murder,to be served con-secutively.He is eligible for parole.Itcomes eight months after jurors con-victed him of first-degree murderand aggravated arson.

Schipsi, 29,was strangled on Oct.15, 2009. Her body was found

burned in the Addison Avenuehome she shared with Zumot.Dur-ing the sentencing, the victims fa-ther, Jim Schipsi, delivered the vic-tim impact statement.

During Zumots four-and-a-half-week trial, the prosecution reliedheavily on evidence of his physicaland mental abuse during their rela-tionship such as heated text mes-sage exchanges. Zumot explicitly

claimed during the sentencing that he

is innocent and was placed in a hold-ing cell after a 20-minute outburst.I believe its quite apparent

what kind of monster were dealingwith,Jim Schipsi said.

You are the monster, Zumotretorted.

He rejected Santa Clara SuperiorCourt Judge David Cenas invitationto re-enter the courtroom afterSchipsis aunt Dee Towner delivereda statement. Many of the trials at-tendees were Schipsis family andfriends.

I want you to spend the rest ofyour pitiful life in a jail far away fromhere,Towner said in her statement.

Zumot attempted to postponehis sentencing by telling Cena thathe fired his attorney Mark Geragoslast month for failing to prove his in-

nocence. He requested that thecourt appoint him a new attorney,but Cena stated that Zumot hadtime to hire a new attorney and re-

jected his reasons as insufficient todelay his sentencing.

This day has been a long timecoming,Jim Schipsi said in his state-ment.

Ellora Israni

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UNIVERSITY

Stanford Challenge setsconclusion for Dec.31

By KATIE MURPHY

The University recently con-firmed that the five-year StanfordChallenge fundraising campaignwill officially end on Dec.31, with afinal report and press release alongwith comments from PresidentJohn Hennessy to be released in

February 2012, according to Uni-versity spokeswoman Lisa Lapin.The purpose of the Challenge is

to address societal problemsthrough research initiatives fundedby the program.

The Stanford Challenge is a setof initiatives aimed at seeking solu-tions to difficult problems facingthe world and providing unparal-leled educational opportunities forthe next generation of global lead-ers, said Rebecca Smith Vogel,as-sistant vice president in the Officeof Development, in an email to The

Daily.The campaign set out with spe-

cific goals in human health, envi-ronment and sustainability, inter-national initiative, multidiscipli-nary research, improving K-12 ed-ucation, engaging the arts and cre-ativity, reinventing graduate edu-cation and extending the renais-

sance in undergraduate education.Because of the complexity ofthe problems in these areas,it is notenough to approach them from theperspective of just one discipline,Vogel said. So, the Stanford Chal-lenge has had at its core a reshap-ing of the way research and teach-ing happens, bringing in scholarsfrom various disciplines to worktogether toward a common solu-tion.

The grand total goal at the out-

NEWS BRIEF

STUDENT LIFE

CS senior identifies bugin Adobe Flash Player

By SARAH MOORE

Stanford computer scientistFeross Aboukhadijeh 11 recently

discovered a bug in the widely usedAdobe Flash Player that allowedmalicious websites access to aFlash users webcam and micro-phone.

According to Aboukhadijeh,two weeks after initial attempts tocontact Adobe and inform it of thebug, Aboukhadijeh had receivedno responses. Unaware that theAdobe employee he emailed wason a period of leave,Aboukhadijehposted about his discovery on hiswebsite feross.org on Tues.,Oct. 18.

Through Adobe Product Secu-rity Incident Response Team(PSIRT) monitoring activities,Adobe became aware of this postand the problem and fixed the glitchwithin two days of becoming awareof the bug,Aboukhadijeh said.

Before the bug was fixed, theseattacks on Flash were possible be-cause the software has access to ausers webcam and microphone.Asprivacy settings can be changed on-line,an attacker could trick a Flashuser into changing his or her set-tings.

In a technique known as click-jacking, the attacker could put thesettings in an invisible window andplace that window over a part ofthe site,for example a game, wherethe user would be making manyclicks and unknowingly changingsettings via the invisible window.

So you play this game whereyou click some buttons, and if youdo enough clicks,then you actuallychanged your settings and allowed

whatever website did this attack toaccess your webcam and do what-ever they want with it,Aboukhadijeh said.

There are many potential mali-cious uses for exploiting such bugs.

Lets say youre a dissident in acountry with a repressive govern-ment and youre trying to browsethe Internet to share informationabout whats going on in your coun-try, Aboukhadijeh said. If youland on some website and that web-sites been ordered by the govern-ment to install this attack code ontheir site,and you think youre look-ing at this new site,but really youreturning on this camera so then the

government can have pictures ofeveryone whos browsing a particu-lar site.And who knows what wouldhappen to those people.

Both Aboukhadijeh andAdobes Senior Director of ProductSecurity & Privacy Brad Arkin inde-pendently said that they did nothave any evidence to suggest thatthe bug had been exploited before itwas fixed. However, the potentialfor an attacker to gather video andaudio without conscious user con-sent prompted Adobe to addressthe issue once it came to the compa-nys attention.

The incident-response processwas immediately put into action,and the affected product team wasnotified,Arkin said in an email toThe Daily. Proper triaging of thevulnerability was performed, andthe issue was resolved with a changeto the Flash Player Settings Manag-er SWF file hosted on the Adobe

website.Users do not need to update

Flash or take any other action forthis increased protection, as theissue stemmed only from Adobeswebsite and not the software.

Adobe had seen this problemwith Flash in 2008,which is what ledAboukhadijeh to the discovery.While taking CS 155 Computer andNetwork Security last spring,Aboukhadijeh learned about theseclickjacking bugs. This quarter,while doing his own research, helearned about the Flash problemfrom two years previous and discov-ered that the glitch had indeed notbeen fixed.

Adobe Flash Player is not theonly software with the potential for

this type of bug.Essentially,any soft-ware one installs on his or her com-puter carries this capability as plug-ins can have virtually complete ac-cess to ones computer.

Any kind of software that youuse where you might want to shareor theres an ability to share stuffwith other people,then you have toworry about whether the privacysettings are what you want, saidprofessor of computer science AlexAiken. Theres an opportunity forpeople to come in and try to confuseyou and fool you.

Contact Sarah Moore at smoore6@stanford.edu.

ALEX BAYER/The Stanford Daily

WORLD & NATION

CISAC expertsreflect on Iraq

withdrawalBy TAYLOR GROSSMAN

Stanford military experts inter-viewed by The Daily were not sur-prised by the announcement Presi-dent Obama delivered on Fri., Oct.21 that the United States wouldwithdraw all troops from Iraq bythe end of the year.The announce-ment sets a final end date for almosta decade of U.S. occupation in thecountry.

Its not a surprise,said ColonelJoseph Felter, a senior research fel-low at Stanfords Center for Inter-national Security and Cooperation(CISAC). Weve planned to leave

for quite some time.Prior to joining CISAC, Felterserved in Iraq and Afghanistan andwas the leader of the InternationalSecurity and Assistance Force,Counterinsurgency Advisory andAssistance Team (CAAT) inAfghanistan.

Felter is optimistic about how farIraq has come in the past few years.

In many ways, [the announce-ment] is good news . . . I servedthere in the days when many peoplewould have been doubtful that wedcome this far, Felter said. I thinkits a tribute to a lot of hard workand sacrifice. The American coali-tion with the Iraqis has gotten thecountry back on its feet, and it canfend for itself.

Colonel Charlie Miller, a visiting

fellow at CISAC representing theU.S. Army, expressed similar views

on the Presidents proclamation.We are fulfilling the obligations

that were agreed upon betweenIraq and the Untied States duringthe Bush administration, Millersaid.We signed an agreement with[the Iraqis] called the securityagreement, and it stipulated that allU.S. forces would be out by the firstday of 2012.

Miller also served two tours inIraq and was Director for Iraq inthe White House before coming toStanford.

Miller and Felter both noted,however, that many predicted anextended U.S. presence in the coun-

try.There had been an expectationthat perhaps there would be a con-tinued role for the United States toprovide training,Miller said.The[Iraqis] have decided at this point intime that theyre not open to contin-uing the U.S.presence in that way.

There will be arms sales be-tween the two countries,he contin-ued. Theres going to be coopera-tion on a variety of other fields suchas economics,diplomacy and cultur-al exchanges.

Felter added that several hun-dred American personnel would re-main on the ground in Iraq for mili-tary training purposes as part of theOffice of Defensive Cooperation.

This limited continued militarypresence, Miller explained, is very

much the norm of U.S. interactionswith its allies in the region.

Like every other country in theMiddle East that we are partnerswith, we have military officers as-signed to the embassy, Miller said.They work with the ambassador,and they handle our foreign mili-tary sales cases . . . itll be just like anormal relationship with SaudiArabia and with Kuwait.

To both Felter and Miller,Obamas decision is a reflection of amore general trend of Americanforeign policy in the region.

I dont think we are interestedin maintaining large troop pres-ences anywhere,to include the Mid-dle East,Felter said.Thats pretty

consistent with our overall strategy.We dont like to occupy countriesbeyond where we think national in-terests are threatened.

The continued stability of Iraq,however, remains a very real ques-tion.

A lot of people worry aboutIrans influence in Iraq and mighttry to cast this as a victory for Iran,and I dont think thats a good wayto think about it,Miller said. Iraqis naturally going to have relationswith Iran because they are theirnext-door neighbor, just like we dowith Mexico and Canada. Therellbe trade, there are religious ties,theres tourism . . . but in terms of .. . [Iraq being] subservient to Iran,its simply not the case.

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

Corrections

In Applications to GSB dip8.13 percent (Oct. 27), The Dailyincorrectly reported a quote fromDerrick Bolton, which may havemisrepresented the fact that hedoes not believe applications to

business schools increase based onthe state of the economy. Boltonalso said the trend in businessschool application numbers is partof a natural ebb and flow,not as The Daily originally reported a national ebb and flow. Boltonsaid that law and medical schoolsdo not like to disclose applicationvolumes, not that business schools

do not like to compare their appli-cation volumes to law and medicalschools. The Daily incorrectly re-ported that last year the GSB expe-rienced an admit rate of 6.8 per-cent. The GSB actually had anadmit rate of 6.8 percent during the2010 application intake, and a 7.0percent admit rate during the 2011intake.

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Monster horror

PROFILE

Musical logicianBy STEPHANIE WANG

Artists across disciplines oftenclaim that the inspiration tocreate works simply struckthem,as suddenly and power-fully as a bolt of lightening.

Giancarlo Aquilanti D.M.A. 96 isone artist who begs to differ. In fact, heinsists that one must work hard at his orher craft to receive any measure of cre-ative success.

Aquilanti, a faculty member of 20years in Stanfords Department ofMusic, has the experience to commenton the nature of musical inspiration. Inaddition to being a fixture in the Stan-ford music scene as the conductor of theStanford Wind Ensemble, Aquilanti hasdecades of experience in performing and

conducting music across the globe.Aquilanti,who was born in Italy,becameinterested in music at a very early age.

Music is the only thing I can remem-ber, he said.It goes back to when I wasa child . . . thats the only thing I alwayswanted to do,and this is what Im doing.

Aquilanti entered the Conservatoryof Music in Pesaro, Italy at the age of 15and was classically trained in piano,trumpet and composition. After com-

pleting his studies there,he moved to theUnited States and received a mastersdegree in composition cum laude fromthe California State University East Bay.In 1996, Aquilanti received his Ph.D. incomposition from Stanford, where he isnow a senior lecturer in music theoryand composition.

According to Aquilanti, there is a sur-prisingly large amount of hard work andlogic behind creating music, despite thepopular belief that the arts are producedthrough emotion and creativity.

There is the misconception that thearts are up in the air, Aquilanti said.Creativity needs to have a foundation,a very logical one.If you dont have thatfoundation, creativity on its own doesnothing. Sure there are examples of thenave painter, but those are exceptions.

Most of us come from a very hard-trained system.Aquilantis own music, in a way, pro-

vides no exception to his belief in strongcompositional foundations. He adaptstraditional music to modern forms,mod-ifying it to fit his needs as a composer.His musical range is diverse; his compo-sitions include music for orchestra,string quartets, choirs and solo musi-cians.

As the director of the Stanford WindEnsemble,Aquilanti must use both logicand adaptability to best harness the tal-ents of his students.

He suggested that the challenge withconducting the Wind Ensemble is thatthe majority of its members are notmusic majors. He stressed that theremust be a level of commitment for theensemble to perform well, often at thesame level as professional musicalgroups.

There has to be some commitment .. . so that theres no shame to take themoutside the Stanford wall and around theworld, Aquilanti said.

[Aquilanti] treats us with a largeamount of equality and keeps classesfun, said Lauren Sweet 14, a studentparticipating in the Wind Ensemble this

quarter. Hes very into the music andvery expressive. It helps the ensembleplay better, because we mirror the [in-tensity] that he sets out on the podium.

Aquilanti asserts that this intensitystems from his commitment to his craftas well as the efforts from his studentsand colleagues at Stanford.

Contact Stephanie Wang at swang93@stan-ford.edu.Courtesy of Linda A . Cicero

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By ANDREW DUONG

A

s I stepped off the Marguerite bus onto thegravel road, I saw two strands of orange lightsbeckoning me toward the steps of the StanfordMausoleum.

As I made my way to the building, I spotted a gorillachasing a banana,black swans dancing and human-animalscrawling on the ground certainly not the sights oneoften associates with a graveyard.

After traversing a sea of faux animals, celebrities andmonsters, I reached the venue.Cobwebs spread across thefacade,and red and orange lights illuminated the sphinxesthat flanked the Mausoleum.In the coolnight air, students huddled anddanced to the sounds of DJNoam Ben-Avi 13.

Clad in everything from ducttape to cardboard, hun-

dreds of Stanford students donned their costumes last Fri-day to celebrate Halloween at this years MausoleumParty.Through the years, the event has grown to be a Stan-ford tradition our unique spin on Halloween wherestudents gather in a remote area on campus to partake in afestive night full of outrageous costumes, dancing andmusic.But how did the party become a campus tradition?

The mausoleum was constructed in 1889 as a burial

ground for Leland Stanford and his family.For many years,the mausoleum was solely a place of prayer and remem-brance.In the early to mid 70s,students began to hold par-ties near the mausoleum around Halloween, and by thelate 80s,the party became the campus-wide event that it istoday. Aside from a brief hiatus due to budget cuts from2002 to 2005, Mausoleum Party has remained a StanfordHalloween staple,organized by the junior class cabinet.

The junior class worked to en-sure that the event ran smoothly,

from lighting and music to decora-tions and refreshments.

One of the more notable at-tractions was a flipbook station,

a place where students could as-semble their own booklet of pictures

to capture snapshots from the night.The highlight for me was the flipbook station,said Sa-

guna Goel 15. Our dorm had a really good time takingpictures with each other,and the flipbook will help me re-member all of the fun I had at Mausoleum for years tocome.

In addition to those individuals who hammed it up infront of the camera,most students had an enjoyable time at

the mausoleum reveling at other peoples costumes.I had a lot of fun looking at other peoples costumes,

said Mary Chambers 15.Halloween weekend is one of my favorite weekends at

Stanford, said Beckie Yanovsky 13, a junior class presi-dent.Students ingenuity and creativity really come out intheir costume ideas.Ive personally seen some of the mostingenious costumes on campus my last two years.

Whether you were a witch or a wizard, a mouse or aTeletubby or even dressed as nothing special at all, the con-sensus was that Mausoleum 2011was a night to remember.

Contact Andrew Duong at at-duong@stanford.edu.

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By ILEANA NAJARRO

The ASSU has offered to subsi-dize residence-financed trips to Sat-urdays football game at the Univer-sity of Southern California (USC)last weekend.Students whose trips,which were individually organized,or not officially financed by resi-

dences, are not eligible for ASSUsponsorship.ASSU Senator Ben Laufer 12

wrote in an email to The Daily thatthe ASSUs final decision not to di-rectly sponsor the game came aboutafter much deliberation with NanciHowe,director of Student Activitiesand Leadership.

We were told in an email thatneither the University nor ASSUshould promote this trip as it impliesa level of endorsement that the Uni-versity is unwilling to make. Youshould not use ASSU or the Univer-sity email lists to promote this trip,Laufer told The Daily.

Laufer said that even when thepackage program FanTravel offeredto promote itself on behalf of theUniversity and ASSU without

any liability to the University orASSU the University turneddown the offer, leaving FanTravel topromote its packages on Facebook.

FanTravel offered students arange of packages including round-trip transportation, food,game tick-ets and accommodations.

Laufer said before the game thatthe lack of University-sponsored

travel packages like those offeredby FanTravel would negatively af-fect student attendance.

I think a mass FanTravel cara-van would have been spectacular,Laufer said.Certainly the Univer-sitys decision has had a negativeimpact on the total number of stu-dents going to the game because itmade it difficult for FanTravel to ad-vertise to the student body.

According to Laufer,the Under-

graduate Senate ultimately con-tributed $2,000 to sponsor tickets.ASSU Vice President Stewart Mac-gregor-Dennis 13 confirmed to TheDaily that ASSU President MichaelCruz 12 also gave $500 from hisstipend toward subsidizing dormsand other residences that individu-ally organized trips.The ASSU will

be offering a $10 rebate to the first250 students with proof of purchaseof a ticket to the game,Laufer said.

Elijah Frazier 12,a residence as-sistant (RA) for Suites,collaboratedwith staff from Mirrielees to subsi-dize transportation to and from thegame, the game ticket price andhotel accommodations for the tworesidences. Residents paid $30 andnon-residents paid $50.

Frazier, who also serves on theASSU Community Board, said thatleaving coordination to residenceshelped foster a greater sense ofdorm community. He added that itprovided residences the opportuni-ty to lower individual studentscosts.

M ar c us Ja m is on 1 2 , aCrothers RA,said that while Uni-

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EDITORIAL

The value of aliberal education

Students anticipation of theopening of winter quarter en-rollment this past weekend

undoubtedly prompted some stu-dents to express frustration overStanfords General Education Re-quirements (GERs). The non-Structured Liberal Education(SLE) students are required totake three IHUM courses, two

PWR classes and classes that coverfive Disciplinary Breadth areas(Humanities, Social Sciences,Mathematics, Natural Sciencesand Applied Sciences and Engi-neering) and two of four Educa-tion for Citizenship requirements.In practice,this amounts to aroundeight to 10 courses outside of onesmajor (the Foreign Language re-quirement, not technically a GER,requires up to three additionalclasses).

Although the GERs fall undercriticism, the theory underlyingtheir existence that values a lib-eral education,or an education in-volving study in all the major sub-fields is sound. Although a lib-

eral education might once havebeen valued for the purpose of ed-ucating the future elite in upper-class social norms, such as an un-derstanding of Greek, in the 21stCentury,a more practical justifica-tion is in order.There are at leasttwo such justifications.One is that,in exposing all students to a widerange of fields, requiring a liberaleducation can help students findnew intellectual passions. Giventhat many Stanford students ulti-mately major in something com-pletely different from what theyoriginally intended, this benefitcannot be ignored. However, wemust also justify the liberal educa-

tion for those students who arecompletely certain of their majorand future career. A commonquestion asked by critiques of aliberal education goes somethinglike this: why should an Englishmajor,dead set on writing for a liv-ing, need to take classes in math,science and engineering?

But the fact that college educa-tion is becoming increasingly spe-cialized further warrants liberal ed-ucation requirements. We are en-tering a workforce and societywhere having knowledge in justone field will not suffice. The Na-tional Academy of Engineering,forinstance,recognizes the importanceof a liberal education.In its 2004 re-

port on the Engineer of 2020,theNAE stated that learning discipli-nary technical subjects to the exclu-sion of a selection of humanities,economics, political science, lan-guage and/or interdisciplinary tech-nical subjects is not in the best inter-est of producing engineers able tocommunicate with the public, ableto engage in a global engineeringmarketplace, or trained to be life-long learners. And in an increas-ingly technology-dependent world,it is important that those majoringin the humanities and social sci-ences have college-level exposureto math, science and engineering iftheir major does not already re-

quire it.Yet despite the fantastic class of-

ferings across many disciplines atStanford, the Study on Under-graduate Education at Stanfordfound that students often fallunder the misguided impressionthat their major represents the en-tirety of their relevant college edu-cation.High unit counts in certainmajors are likely somewhat re-sponsible for this trend, although

also at play is the fact that somestudents may not take GERs seri-ously. In its extreme form, somestudents see little to no value inbeing required to take classes out-side their primary discipline.This isa particularly shortsighted belief;the concept of a liberal education,for instance, is widely endorsedamong Stanford faculty and in theprofessional world.

These students, however, arenot entirely to blame for negativeperspectives on the GER system;the current requirements havesome serious flaws.Though well in-tentioned,the IHUM requirementengrains many freshmen with a be-lief that future GERs are to be re-

sented, not welcomed. Further-more, for those who want an easyway out of the requirements,CourseRank makes it simple tofind the approximately 7 percentof Disciplinary Breadth classesthat reportedly have fewer thanfive hours of work per week. Al-though it is impossible to expect allstudents to challenge themselvesin fulfilling GERs, a Universitythat values its requirementsshould not aid students who wantto shirk them.Accordingly, classesthat fulfill GER requirementsshould have to pass a certain rigor.They should also have to be rele-vant to Stanfords mission in pro-

viding a practical liberal educa-tion.As it stands,the application ofwhich classes fulfill the breadth re-quirement and which do not is in-coherent. It is hard to understandwhy History 257C (LGBT Historyin the United States) cannot fulfillone of the five breadth GERswhile Music 21 (Elements ofMusic I) can fulfill the Humanitiesrequirement.And, if the Universi-ty wants it students to appreciatethe value of its requirements,pro-fessors in GER-fulfilling classesshould be required to explain whytheir class is relevant to non-ma-

jors.These are just some of the first

steps the University needs to take

if it wants every student to view theGERs as a fundamental piece ofhis or her Stanford education.However, some of the onus is onstudents as well. It is easy to com-plain about GERs given highworkloads,but that fact should notprevent us from embracing the no-tion of a liberal education.It is easyto complain about being forced totake classes outside a field of inter-est,but let us remember that some-times requirements are there forour own benefit.Yes, there are le-gitimate problems with the GERsystem. But let us not allow theUniversity to confuse these criti-cisms with those of students who

simply do not value a liberal edu-cation.

Engaging incontemporary art

Dear Editor,David Spencer Nelsons column

on why contemporary art turns himoff is a bracing and personal call toall of us in arts practice and arts ed-ucation (The Mixed Messages ofModernism: Empty museums: anexplanation, Oct. 28). Lets rise tothe challenges he articulates.

I hope that we can transform hismuseum-going experiences, andthere are good reasons to thinkthere are possibilities unfoldingright here on the Stanford campus.The Cantor Arts Center is the locusof a truly dynamic curatorial viewwhich seeks to enliven and enlargethe experience of the art in itsgallery spaces and grounds. If Nel-son gives art another chance, this iswhat he might find there these days:Acclaimed dancer Muriel Maffre isleading an investigation of Dance &the Visual Arts in the heart of the

Cantor Art Centers auditorium.In conjunction with the Cantors

Rodin in America exhibit, Maf-fre uses Rodins sculptural investi-gation of the moving body as both alink and a platform for exploringthe intersection of dance and con-temporary art, starting withRodins fascination with thehuman body, its plastic quality andhuman resonances. She brings in-ternationally known MasterChoreographer Alonzo King ofLINES Ballet to the Cantor to holdOpen Rehearsals with Stanforddancers,in full view of museumgo-ers.Nelson can circulate around theedges of the auditorium space,passthrough quickly, or stay a while towatch, draw and write as the re-hearsals unfold. If intrigued,he cancome often, on the remainingThursday nights, 6-8 p.m. Nov. 3,Nov. 10 and Dec. 1. The interdisci-plinary investigation that Maffre,King and student dancers are un-dertaking will culminate in an in-stallation/performance on Satur-

day Dec.3,2-4 p.m.in Roble Studio38, free and open to the public.

Big picture, my hope is that stu-dents like Nelson will be drawn intoart experiences by such interdisci-plinary work work generated bypeers as well as work by masters,work that resonates across forms,work that shows a through-line be-tween older traditions and newer in-vestigations. Art should refresh oursenses such that we may perceivethe world differently for having ex-perienced it. Engagement, not es-cape,is the goal.I would be happy tointroduce Nelson and any otherStanford student to these extraordi-nary professional and student artistspersonally if it will jump-start theirmuseum-going habit again. Justmeet me at the Cantor Arts Centerauditorium this Thursday at 6 p.m.Wear something red.I hope we havea date.

DIANE FRANK

Acting Director,Dance Division of the

Department of Drama

OPINIONS

coming here.After the talk, students, some

dressed in their Halloween cos-tumes, lined up at the two micro-phones in the aisles to ask Moorequestions. Many of those present,including ASSU Vice PresidentStewart Macgregor-Dennis 13,were concerned about gettingtheir peers more politically awareand active.Moore said in responsethat students cannot be forced to

be more engaged.Moore concluded his visit by

reading an excerpt from his newlyreleased book Here Comes Trou-ble and then hosting a book sign-ing.

The majority of the over-400-person audience, comprised of un-dergraduates, graduate studentsand community members, whospoke to The Daily responded pos-itively to Moores talk.

I think that Michael Mooreand the way that he speaks hismind so openly and withouthesitation is so inspiring.I want-ed to hear what he had to say, saidCasey Khademi 14, to whom

Moore pledged $500 for equip-ment for her documentary on theLGBT community.

Were likely going to be thosestudents who are going into thehigh-powered jobs, said CamilDiaz 13.But if we can be a groupof people who are very politicallyconscious morally responsible I think theres potential forgreat change there.

Funding for the Moores talk,aswell as other Stanford SpeakersBureau events, comes from ASSUspecial fees.

Contact Christopher Kremer at ckre-mer@stanford.edu.

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set of the campaign was $4 billionacross these many categories. Inaddition, the original campaigngoal for endowed scholarshipstripled to $300 million in responseto the economic crisis and the en-hanced undergraduate financialaid program.

The Stanford Challenge hasalso funded many new facilities as

one of its central goals in order tobring scholars together from vari-ous disciplines. The Knight Man-agement Center, the Li Ka ShingCenter for Learning and Knowl-edge, the Lorry I. Lokey Stem CellResearch Building,the Huang En-gineering Center, the Lorry I.Lokey Stanford Daily Building,which is a workspace for TheDailys staff,the Munger Graduate

Residence, the Neukom Buildingat the Stanford Law School, theYang and Yamazaki Environmentand Energy Building, the GunnSIEPR Building and the BingConcert Hall, set to open in Janu-ary 2013,were all built with partialfunding raised by the StanfordChallenge.

The program has also raised re-sources for the Universitys gener-al fund.

Giving like this provides a crit-ical source of flexible support thatcan be used where it is most need-ed, Vogel said. In recent years,

thats meant to help meet the needfor undergraduate financial aid.She also stated that there are

not currently any plans for a simi-lar campaign in the future.

Fundraising was just a meansto help accomplish this end, shesaid.

Contact Katie Murphy at kmur-phy3@stanford.edu.

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By CATHERINE ZAW

Stanfords biannual Splash!Program attracted more than 1,500middle and high schoolers to cam-pus this weekend to attend a rangeof about 300 Stanford student-taught classes, from The Philoso-phy of Star Warsto How to CurlYour Hair with a Straightener toeven Getting Free Money fromSafeway Using Coupons.

Although the majority of stu-dents come from the Bay Area,thistime around the program attractedsome from Southern Californiaand even Utah.

Instructors, meanwhile, are inhigh demand. Splash! actively re-cruits undergraduates and gradu-ate students to teach anything.New classes this autumn includedHow to Make Balloon Animalsand The Lab Manual of SherlockHolmes.

Splash! is a growing program,but the main limiting factor is thenumber of teachers that we have,said Benjamin Shank, a graduatestudent in physics and one ofSplash!s co-founders. Splash!senrollment is about the same as lastsprings. More students want totake classes with every comingSplash!, but the real pressure is inrecruiting more Stanford studentsto teach classes.We need the peo-ple to make it happen.

Stanford students who did teachwere enthusiastic about their posi-tions.

I love to teach and love thechallenge of trying to transmit anidea what Im seeing in my headinto someones mind,said GabrielErhlich 15, who taught The

Physics of Inception.Just because we have a bunch

of graduate students teaching does-nt mean its all educational, saidTeresa Nguyen 14, the currentpresident of Splash!, who is teach-ing a class on sketching faces.There are a lot of hobby classes,and they all express the passion inthe program.

Splash! is a general fees club, sofunding comes from the GraduateStudent Council and the Under-graduate Senate. Students general-ly pay $20 for a day of instruction,but financial aid and transportationare made available to some stu-dents.

Those attending the classescited Stanfords quality one ofSplash!s primary appeals.I wanted to take classes that areinteresting to me, said MoniqueRobinson, a senior from the Stan-ford New Schools East Palo AltoHigh School, who was attending aclass on stem cells and research de-

velopments.Splash! has a high teacher andstudent retention rate, with manyteachers coming back to teach thesame courses at the next Splash! orto try teaching a completely newsubject.

The main reason is becauseteachers love doing it so much,Shank said.

David Jiang, a student at JamesLogan High School, attendedSplash! for a second time.

Here, I can learn about some-thing that is outside of my main in-terests,so I can get a taste of them,he said.

Splash also reaches out to under-served schools and areas. The pro-gram hopes to help students gain aneven greater desire to learn, and

many local high school advisors pro-mote the Splash! program.

Event organizers recalled teach-ers receiving emails from studentsthat attended their classes weekslater, expressing the appreciation

and gratitude for inspiring themand making them want to learn

more. A few even mentioned thestudents re-consideration of goingto college.

Its a win-win situation,

Nguyen said. The students arelearning, and the teachers are re-

warded, because the students thatcome are here because they want tobe here.

Contact Catherine Zaw at czaw13@stanford.edu.

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Biannual Splash! program attracts 1,500

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Stanfords biannual Splash! program offers Stanford student-taught classes to middle and high schoolers. This ses-sions offerings ranged from How to Make Balloon Animals to Get Free Money from Safeway Using Coupons.

versity sponsorship would proba-bly have increased the number ofattendees, the decision to let resi-dences subsidize and coordinatecould also have had a positive ef-

fect on attendance.Crothers residents paid $80 for

transportation, ticket and hotel ac-commodations. Students who han-dled their own accommodations paid$70.

Crothers ultimately allocated$3,500 total for the trip, said Jamison.Frazier said he did not have the finalcost for Suites and Mirrielees avail-able at the time of publication.

David Bell 14,a resident of Kim-ball, is one of many students whodrove to USC with friends becausetheir dorms did not sponsor a trip.Bell expressed disappointment inthe lack of University sponsoredtrips in a Facebook message to TheDaily on Sunday.

Im probably not alone in say-ing that I was waiting on Stanfordto unveil some subsidized deal for

getting to the game and was disap-pointed when I didnt hear of any-thing,Bell said.Fortunately, I wasable to work it out through a friend,but otherwise I probably would nothave gone it would have beentoo expensive.

However, Grant Beard 14 saidthat while school-wide sponsorshipwould have been desirable andhelpful to dorms that lacked ade-

quate funds to support subsidies,hestill thought it was valuable that in-dividual dorms had planned thetrips themselves.

Beard added that if direct spon-sorship were not possible, studentswould have welcomed a school-wide viewing in Stanford Stadium.

Contact Ileana at inajarro@stanford.edu.

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CROSS COUNTRY

Men, womenedged by Buffsin Pac-12s

By MILES BENNETT-SMITHMANAGING EDITOR

When senior All-Americans Chris Derrickand Jake Riley crossed the finish line at the first-ever Pac-12 Cross Country Championships insecond and fourth place, respectively, it ap-peared as though the mens cross country teamwas in control of the first-ever Pac-12 title in anysport on Saturday (the womens soccer team hasclinched the conference title but not officially

won it).When redshirt senior Brendan Gregg andsophomore Erik Olson came through in 10thand 12th places both ahead of Coloradosfourth-place runner the course announcernoted that it looked like No. 4 Stanford had allbut sealed up its third-straight conference title.

But you need five scores to count,and as run-ner after runner came by, the Cardinal wasnowhere to be found. Freshman Joe Rosa finallycrossed the line in 25th place to complete Stan-fords scoring, but it was too little, too late. In a

By ANDERS MIKKELSEN

Riding an eight-match winningstreak, the No. 5 Stanford womensvolleyball team headed home thisweekend for rematches with two ofthe three teams that defeated theCardinal earlier this season. Stan-ford had mixed success, sweepingNo. 4 USC before being swept byNo.6 UCLA.

The last time Stanford (17-4, 11-4 Pac-12) faced USC (18-4, 13-2),the Cardinal was utterly outclassed,failing to win a set for the only time

this year. Fridays match, however,was another story. The Trojans leftMaples Pavilion with a straight-setloss, and the Cardinals winningstreak improved to nine.

WOMENS VOLLEYBALL

UCLA 3

STANFORD 0

10/29, Maples Pavilion

The first set was a true back-and-forth affair, but the Cardinal de-fense was able to keep the potentUSC offense in check. Stanfordrecorded six blocks in the first setalone and finished with 13 overall.On offense, junior outside hitterHayley Spelman led the way,recording a team-high four kills togo with two blocks.

The second set became theRachel Williams show,as the sopho-more superstar led the way with sixkills and seven digs as Stanfordcruised to a 25-14 victory.She wouldfinish with 14 kills and 13 digs forher 12th double-double of the sea-son.

Following the 10-minute break,however, Cardinal dominance didnot seem quite so secure. Led bysenior Alex Jupiter, who tallied sixkills in the set and a match-high 16overall, USC jumped to an earlylead.Down 17-12,Stanford prompt-ly killed the USC rally with a furi-ous comeback.Junior setter KarissaCook led the charge as usual, with15 assists and six digs in the last setalone she had 41 and 12, respec-tively, for the match as well asthe game-winning block as the Car-dinal completed the straight-set vic-tory, 25-23.

Ultimately, the story of thematch was the ferocity of the Cardi-nal defense and the efficiency of theoffense. The Trojans entered withthe highest hitting percentage in thePac-12 (.284),but they were held to

just a .161 clip for the game. Stan-

ford, however, hit .339 overall, ledby sophomore middle blockerCarly Wopats season-high .611with 11 kills on 18 attempts.

Unfortunately for Stanford,UCLA had just as much momen-tum coming into its Saturday show-down,as the Bruins had dismantledNo. 2 California the night before inBerkeley. UCLA (20-3, 13-2) hadwon its previous meeting with theCardinal and hoped to complete aseason sweep for the first time in 11years.

Right off the bat, Stanford ap-

peared to be in trouble,falling into a12-7 hole. The Cardinal regrouped,roaring back to hold a 24-21 advan-tage. However, despite holdingthree set points, Stanford was un-able to close out the Bruins, andUCLA rode three Cardinal errorsto a 26-24 first-set victory.

The second set was another closeaffair. Stanford managed to take a24-22 lead, but again wasted threeset points and fell 27-25. Williamsanchored the team with five kills inthe set. She would finish with 11kills and 12 digs for her 13th double-double.

The third set,on the other hand,was all UCLA. The Bruins heldStanford to just a .056 hitting per-centage while hitting .448 them-selves to take a 25-10 victory in the

set.With that, the Bruins were ableto complete their season sweep ofthe Cardinal and hand Stanford itsfirst home loss of the season.

The UCLA match was a starkcontrast to Stanfords hittingprowess just 24 hours before. TheCardinal committed 39 errors andrecorded its third-lowest hittingpercentage of the season, .140. Partof this can be attributed to thetremendous defense of the Bruins,who made a number of unbeliev-able saves and recorded 57 digs,compared with a well-below-aver-age 44 for the Cardinal.

Overall, it was a wild weekendfor Pac-12 womens volleyball.Withtwo wins,the Bruins moved up to atie for first place with USC. Cal losttwice to fall back to a tie for thirdwith Stanford, which managed tomove up a spot in the standings de-spite Saturdays loss.

Next week, Stanford looks tobounce back as it travels to facePac-12 newcomers Colorado andUtah.

Contact Anders Mikkelsen atamikk@stanford.edu.

SPORTS

REVENGE

SPLIT

NICK SALAZAR/The Stanford Daily

Blocking was a key factor in the No. 5 Stanford womens volleyball teamsearly success this weekend. The Cardinal notched six blocks in the first set ofa sweep of No. 4 USC, but Stanford then fell in straight sets to No. 6 UCLA.

FOOTBALL

STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .56

USC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4810/29, Los Angeles, Calif.

MENS WATER POLO

STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .4

USC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .810/28, Los Angeles, Calif.

FIELD HOCKEY

STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .3

MICHIGAN . . . . . . . . . .010/30, Ann Arbor, Mich.

SOFTBALL

SAN JOSE STATE . . . . . .1

STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .310/28, Smith Family Stadium

WOMENS SOCCER

STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .2

OREGON . . . . . . . . . . .010/30, Eugene, Ore.

WOMENS VOLLEYBALL

UCLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 (26-24, 27-25, 25-10)

STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .010/29, Maples Pavilion

STANFORD

SCOREBOARD

Jacob

Jaffe

Stat on the Back

USC gametranscends

statistics

Saturday marked the zerothanniversary of one of themost thrilling and memo-rable games in Stanfordfootball history.Stat on the

Back looks at how it all went down atthe Coliseum.

Number of the game: 0, as in thenumber of statistics that can accurate-ly describe the madness that was Stan-ford vs.USC.

Lets be clear: I love stats. I mean,really, I have an unhealthy obsessionwith everything from third-down con-version rate to punt-return defense.Every time I watch a game, I findevery random stat I can,and I have yetto meet a person that cares half asmuch about the stats I babble as I do.

That said,this game was less aboutstats than any game I have ever seen.This game was about intangibles andgrit,momentum and fight,hostile en-vironment and motivation and everyother term I usually ignore. In mostgames, a play-by-play and box scorecan tell you everything you need to

know, but in this one, you had to bethere.You had to be a part of that at-mosphere, and you had to see thedrama unfold to understand just whattook place.

Lets be clear on one thing:the factthat Stanford very narrowly beat aUSC team that has somehow flownunder the radar should not diminishanyones view of the Cardinal.

For one thing, USC is a high-cal-iber team with NFL talent overflow-ing on both sides of the ball. Therecould be three top-10 picks on the of-fense alone, as quarterback MattBarkley and left tackle Matt Kalil areprojected to enter the draft this year,and wide receiver Robert Woods willbe among the nations best prospectswhen he is eligible.

Just as importantly, USC had as

much intangible benefit as I couldimagine in this game.While I usuallydownplay the importance of thingslike motivation (doesnt everyonewant to win every game?),I changedmy tune after seeing the Trojans.Thelocal radio before the game was abuzzwith the most anticipation fans hadhad for any game in years. Peoplehave talked about USC having noth-ing to play for, because the Trojanscannot make the Pac-12 Champi-onship Game or a bowl game due toNCAA sanctions.

Immediately upon entering theColiseum parking lot, it became ap-parent that this game really wasUSCs Super Bowl.ESPNs CollegeGameDay brought an even greatermedia presence than usual to USCfootball, throngs of fans filled the Col-iseum and the players were as riled upas any team Ive seen for a regular-season matchup.

After taking a second-half lead,the Trojans did their best Georgia im-pression, acting as though each andevery player had just won the lotteryat the exact same time. With over 25

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finish that was even tighter on thecourse than it was on paper, theBuffaloes took the mens team titlewith 46 points, seven better thanStanfords total of 53.

The womens race,held just min-

utes later,was almost as close as themens, and once again,the Cardinalcame up just short.No.16 Coloradoput on its best showing of the yearand surprised a loaded field, slip-ping past No. 2 Washington by 23points while Stanford finished inthird place,25 points off the pace.

Junior Kathy Kroeger contin-ued to build on her success this sea-son with a second-place finish,cov-ering the 6-kilometer course in19:40 and knocking off heavy pre-race favorite Jordan Hasay of Ore-gon,who finished third.

And similar to the mens race,the Cardinal was right in the thickof things after the first few runners.Redshirt senior Stephanie Marcyplaced seventh in her final confer-ence meet, and sophomore JessicaTonn placed 11th with some sup-port from fans in her hometown ofPhoenix.

That put Stanford one point be-hind Colorados top three runners,and freshman Aisling Cuffe wasclosing hard for the fourth spot thatwould have put the pressure on theBuffs to respond.But Cuffe pulledup in the final straightaway andmight have lost seven or eight spots including four to Washingtonand Colorado runners strug-gling the final 30 yards to finish24th.

From there, however,the gap toStanfords fifth runner was toolarge, and although redshirt juniorClaire Durkin capped the scoringwith her 31st-place finish an im-

pressive Stanford debut for the2007 Gatorade Cross Country Ath-lete of the Year from Ohio whochose not to run in her first threeyears on the Farm and returned tothe Cardinal distance program thisfall the damage was done.

Head coach PattiSue Plumerwas pleased with the effort,despitethe end result.

It was a really good race,partic-ularly up front, she told GoStan-ford.com.We were so close to sec-ond, but I guess we just edgedWashington last year, so they re-turned the favor this year. It wasColorados day though; they rangreat today.

The Buffaloes record-settingday left a bad taste in the mouths ofStanfords runners, particularly onthe mens side.

Derrick, who went out with thelead pack at a blistering pace, near-ly chased down Arizonas freshmansensation Lawi Lalang over thefinal kilometer of the race, and histime of 22:45 is one of the top timesin the country this year.But the 10-time All-American was disappoint-ed that the team couldnt seal thedeal down the stretch.

It kind of sucks to not win as ateam, he said after the race. Itlooked like it was okay,it was goingto be close.[After the finish],I wentover to the Arizona State televi-sion, and when I came back over Isaw everyone with their headsdown, and I figured the worst hadhappened.

One thing that really hurt theCardinal was the loss of Ben John-son during the race.The senior hadconsistently been running as Stan-fords No. 3, but he failed to finishthe race in hot conditions at theWigwam Golf Course, and in hisabsence, none of the other teammembers could quite close the gap.

Redshirt senior JT Sullivan fin-ished 29th, junior Miles Unterrein-er was 32nd and Riley Sullivan was52nd,while Andrew Berberick alsodid not complete the course.

[The loss] has to be more moti-vating, Derrick said.I dont thinkit affects how badly we want to wina national title,but maybe it affectshow we approach things.

Both Stanford teams will get an-other shot at redemption at theNCAA West Regionals in two

weeks, where they could have ahome-course advantage with therace to be held at the Stanford GolfCourse on Saturday, Nov. 12. TheNCAA Championships are loom-ing, as they are scheduled for Nov.21 in Terre Haute,Ind.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith atmilesbs@stanford.edu.

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minutes to go in regulation, USCplayers were jumping on benches,huddling up and screaming alongwith their tens of thousands of fans.

Call it what you will,but there waslittle doubt that the Trojans were play-

ing at their peak effort level all gamelong. USC, with or without sanctions,usually has the best talent on the fieldno matter what team it plays, but theissue can sometimes be effort. Therewas no lack of energy from USC fromthe first snap to the last,and that makesUSC nearly impossible to beat,espe-cially with the home crowd providingsuch support.Add in huge momentumboosts for the Trojans chief amongthem being the pick-six by NickellRobey in the waning minutes and itwould take a miraculous effort by theCardinal to pull out the victory.

And thats just what happened.Now, dont get me wrong. Stanfordwas far from perfect very far.Penalties, bad play-calling, poorthrows, dropped passes, bad block-ing,missed tackles,bad special teamsplay . . . to say there was room forimprovement is an understatement.But as the saying goes,big-time play-ers make big-time plays, and thats

just what the Cardinal did.Looking forward, many people

question how Stanford can competewith an even better opponent (Ore-gon) when the Cardinal struggled somightily with USC. The notion of atransitive property for those ofyou far removed from math class,that is the idea that Oregon is waybetter than USC and USC almostbeat Stanford so Oregon shouldbeat Stanford does not hold truein the sports world.

Oregon is a very different teamwith very different matchup prob-lems from the ones offered by USC.

The game will be played in a muchdifferent atmosphere (Stanford Sta-dium) with different personnel(such as Delano Howell, hopefully)on a different week (12 days awayand counting).Previous results giveyou an idea of what a team will do,but they dont tell the whole story.Sometimes theres more to a gamethan the numbers.

Of course,numbers can still say awhole lot, and this is Stat on theBack, so lets take a look at thenum-bers that mattered:

6,4: Coming into the game,Stan-ford had not trailed a single time all

season and had not been tied at anypoint after the first score. In thisgame, there were six lead changesand four ties,half of which came inthe overtimes.To say Stanford wasfinally challenged is putting itlightly.

11, 91: Known as a disciplinedteam, the Cardinal was anythingbut against the Trojans and theircrowd. Stanford committed 11penalties for 91 yards after averag-

ing roughly half those totals (fivepenalties for 45 yards) the rest ofthe season. Some penalties, such asa pass interference call againstRobert Woods,were somewhat jus-tified. Others, like a pair of delay-of-game calls on Luck,a too-many-men-in-the huddle call and two off-sides penalties on nose tackle Ter-rence Stephens, were much sloppi-er. In a close game, these penaltiesalmost cost Stanford its undefeatedseason.

145,2: USC running back CurtisMcNeal looked like LaMichaelJames as he gashed Stanfords pre-viously stout rush defense for 145yards and two touchdowns,both ca-reer highs. McNeal came in as thesecond-best running back on apass-centered offense, but whenMarc Tyler went down to injury,McNeal stepped up in a big way (atleast until the final play of thegame).The Cardinal defense is stillranked sixth in the country in rush-ing yards allowed, but the past fewweeks have exposed some glaringweaknesses against the run.

2, 0: Many people thought thisgame would come down to lineplay, and Stanford had arguably thenations best lines on paper beforethe game.Despite allowing just twosacks all season,the Cardinal offen-sive line let USC double that totalwith a pair of sacks of Luck amongseveral QB hurries. Meanwhile, themuch-praised Stanford pass rushhardly got to Matt Barkley at all andfailed to record a sack. In fact, the

Cardinal registered just four tacklesfor loss,only half its season average.17: It was a good day for players

wearing No. 17. Linebacker A.J.Tarpley starting in place of the in-

jured Shayne Skov picked offBarkley in the first half and laterforced a fumble. His biggest contri-bution of all, though, was falling onMcNeals fumble in the end zone toend the game.

The leading receiver in the game,with 102 yards receiving, was. . .Griff Whalen? Yep, Lucks room-mate was his favorite target on bigthird-down plays, and Whalen re-

sponded with some great catches.Meanwhile,Woods,possibly the bestreceiver in the nation, finished with89 receiving yards on nine catchesand didnt even lead his own team inreceiving.The Stanford defense hadmany flaws, but it did hold Woodsdown.

99:Stepfan Taylor was just a yardaway from notching his fifth 100-yard rushing game in the past sixcontests.Taylor carried the load for

Stanford, setting a season high with23 carries, and his two touchdownswere in the most crucial situations.The first one tied the game with 38seconds to play in regulation, andthe second one proved to be thegame-winner in triple overtime. Justlike nearly every other game, therunning game eventually overpow-ered the USC defense after a slowstart.

39: Thanks to Jordan Williamsonbeing a late scratch due to an undis-closed injury,Stanford had to rely onits backup kicker, Eric Whitaker.Heresponded by making all six of hisextra points and both his field goalattempts, but kickoffs were anotherstory. Whitaker kicked off out ofbounds twice, and in all, half ofUSCs 12 drives started at the Trojan39 or better.That kind of field-posi-tion advantage is tough to over-come, and the Cardinal likely cantafford a repeat of that performance.

93,607: The listed attendance of93,607 means that the game was asellout, and I have no doubt thatthere were at least 90,000 people inattendance.Apart from the obviousimpact in terms of noise and mo-mentum, the sellout (the first at theColiseum since 2009) shows justhow important this game was toUSC.

3: The win was Stanfords thirdstraight in the Coliseum. The lasttime the Cardinal won three straightroad games with USC? The 1930s.This really was a historic win.

16: It might have been the nar-

rowest escape in years, but Stan-fords winning streak is intact.56-48: Just admire that score. Its

never going to get old.

Jacob Jaffe nearly fell off of his perchatop the roof of the Los AngelesColiseum when Tarpley fell on theloose ball in the end zone. Only di-vine intervention and Jaffes tremen-dous core strength allowed him toenjoy the Stanford victory in his ownbed and not a hospital. For moredetails, or pics of Jaffes abs, emailhim at jwjaffe@stanford.edu and fol-low him on Twitter @Jacob_Jaffe.

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The No. 4 Stanford football team surged out of the tunnel, but it was the Cardinals opponent, the host USC Trojans, that appeared the most fired up. Stanfords secondary was tested through-out the game by a potent USC passing game, but junior cornerback Terrence Brown (right) helped to limit Robert Woods and the passing game in the Cardinals 56-48 triple-overtime win.

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Junior running back Stepfan Taylor (No. 33) carried the ball a season-high 23times, totaling 99 yards on the ground. Taylors first touchdown tied the game with38 seconds left, and his second put Stanford up for good in the third overtime.

PASSING THE TEST

away from where the drama finallyended.

In a hoarse voice,Shaw praised histeam for standing tall when the Cardi-nal faced its toughest test of football inalmost an entire calendar year.

We talked about fighting adversi-ty I didnt know it would be thismuch adversity but the kids foughtthrough, and I love them to death forit,he said.

Shaw, who said on Tuesday that hewas running out of words to describehis quarterback,found a new,peculiarmetaphor to describe Lucks role asthe heart and soul of Cardinal football.

The thing you cant forget aboutAndrew is that he is the most compet-itive guy on our team, he said.Sowhen a bad play happens, he goescompletely down in the dumps. Hesso upset, furious, and then its likeflushing a toilet. Its like it never hap-

pened,and he moves on.Luck finished the day 29-of-40 for

330 yards with three touchdowns andthe lone interception through the air,and he added 36 yards and a touch-down on the ground. But the reasonfor the hyperbole that will stick firmlyto this performance was not becauseof the stats,but because Luck respond-ed when the nuclear clock for the Car-dinal was very close to striking mid-night several times.In fact,the Trojansstirring second half led to several sta-dium-wide announcements askingfans to stay off the field at the end ofthe game.

After a defensive struggle in thefirst half left Stanford with a 10-6 lead,the Trojans scored on their first twodrives of the second half with a pair oflong rushing touchdowns from Mc-Neal to give USC a 20-10 lead.

And although Stanford had nottrailed to a single opponent yet thisseason, the suddenly raucous atmos-phere failed to frazzle the Cardinal.

We always talk about adversity asan opportunity for greatness, said

junior defensive end Ben Gardner.

So this was really our first opportuni-ty to show up mentally and show whatwere made of.We got behind,but wenever lost faith.

Luck then led Stanford to touch-downs on its next two possessions inthe third quarter to take the lead backat 24-20,passing his first major test ofthe year and setting the table for hisfourth-quarter heroics.

And while the Cardinal can nolonger boast that it has beaten all com-ers by 25 or more points, Luck andcompany escaped the upset to remainundefeated and in the heart of thehunt for the BCS National Champi-onship Game with four games left onits schedule but that doesnt meanthat those presumptuous stadium-wide announcements didnt register.

I heard it, Thomas said. Butthats why you gotta keep playing.

Stanford will go on the road againthis weekend as it heads to Corvallis,Ore., to tangle with Oregon State onSaturday.

Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@stanford.edu.

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