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Controversial purchase debutsat ‘Flipside Fridays’

By MELODY WONG

The Flipside debuted its controversial Segway inWhite Plaza last Friday, bookending a campaignmarked by a series of debates last spring when thegroup petitioned for about $7,000 of ASSU specialfees to fund the purchase.

The group said it plans to bring the Segway toWhite Plaza each week to give students and readers achance to try it out, as part of a weekly event called“Flipside Fridays.”

The Flipside, a satirical weekly campus publica-tion, claims to have been partly serious but mainlyfacetious in its request for special fees to purchase aSegway.The group hoped to draw student voter atten-tion to the special fees budget proposals on the ballotlast spring, as well as flaws in the special fees processas a whole.

According to Jeremy Keeshin ’12, Flipside presi-dent,“The best message you can make as a joke is ac-tually doing the thing you’re making fun of.”

Each year,certain eligible student groups are allot-ted ASSU funding from general fees collected fromall students. Qualifying groups can petition for stu-dents to vote to grant them a special fee collected di-rectly from students each quarter.

Special fees petitions require the signatures of 10to 15 percent of the student body and,if placed on theballot, approval by a majority of voters, which mustconstitute at least 15 percent of eligible voters. TheDaily currently receives special fees.

Amid much controversy and debate,the Flipside’s

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Zuckerberg,Kutcher

share start-up wisdom

By ANTHONY DING

On Saturday, approximately 800students and entrepreneurs gath-ered in Dinkelspiel Auditorium forStartup School 2011, according toRuby Lee ’13, vice president of fi-nance for the Business Associationof Stanford Entrepreneurial Stu-dents (BASES), which sponsoredthe event along with the venturecapitalist firm Y Combinator.

Students from around the coun-try came to hear a panel of entrepre-neurial experts speak — from Face-book founder and CEO MarkZuckerberg to Ashton Kutcher toZynga founder Mark Pincus, ac-cording to the event website. WhenZuckerberg asked all those in theauditorium not from Silicon Valleyto raise their hands, nearly half of the audience had their hands raised.

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Ning and Netscape, James Linden-baum, co-founder of Heroku andStartup School alumnus, and JimGoetz, venture capitalist andfounder of VitalSigns, were the firstspeakers on the agenda.

After a short intermission,Kutcher took the stage and talkedabout his entrepreneurial pursuits,bringing up an anecdote about un-sung marketing genius Carl Fisher.

When asked by a member of theaudience whether the legacy of hisproducts motivates him, he an-swered, “I don’t give a shit aboutlegacy at all. I want to change peo-ple’s lives.”

An undergraduate from the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, DavidWang flew in the night before to at-tend the Startup School.

“I thought he was just an actor,”Wang said about Ashton Kutcher.“But when he talked about his busi-ness,he was really captivating.”

Kutcher was followed by MattMullenweg, founder of Automattic,

the company behind the WordPressblogging platform,and Mark Pincus,founder of Zynga, which producedFarmVille.

After lunch, Paul Graham,founder of Viaweb and co-founder

By JORDAN SHAPIRO

Stanford graduates ranked ninth for medianstarting salary and 16th for median mid-careersalary in national university rankings released byPayScale on Oct.24.

PayScale, an online resource for employers

and potential employees, compiles global re-search about compensation.The company seeksto enable workers to assess their potential salarieswith respect to their skills,education and experi-

ence.The company,created in 2002,claims to holdthe largest collection of online compensation datain the world.

“I thought Stanford did pretty well in the sur-vey,” said Stanford Career Development Center(CDC) Director Lance Choy in an email to TheDaily.

Choy said he is unsure what meaning to attrib-

ute to the ranking and asked,“[Does this reflect]something about the quality of the school? Aboutthe impact the alumni have on society? About thenumber of alumni who pursue public service op-

portunities?”Choy noted that this was the first attempt thathe had ever seen to compare the starting and mid-career salaries of alumni from different schools.He said that PayScale, like all rating systems, hasproblems specific to its methodology.

Average starting salary for graduates around $58,000

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PayScale ranks Stanford salaries ninth

Flipside

unveils feesSegway

PumpSkins

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PUMPSKIN, an exhibition, featuring work by students in Sculpture 1 and Drawing 1,opened at Cummings Art Building on Oct. 31 and will continue through Nov. 7.

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The Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Wind Ensemble played a Halloween concert Monday evening in Dinkel-spiel Auditorium. Jindong Cai conducted the symphony orchestra, and Giancarlo Aquilanti conducted the wind ensemble.

LOCAL

Wells Fargo holdsonto EPA housing

By JULIA ENTHOVEN

Amid community com-plaints and despite reports thatthe transaction would happenin mid to late October, WellsFargo has yet to sell its 1,800East Palo Alto apartments toEquity Residential.

The apartments, located inthe Woodland Park neighbor-hood, represent about 60 per-cent of the city’s affordablehousing.Wells Fargo took own-ership of the property in Au-gust 2009 when the previousowner,Page Mills,defaulted ona $50 million loan.

When reports of discussionsbetween Wells Fargo and Equi-ty Residential (EQR),a Chica-

go-based firm with over120,000 apartments in its port-folio, emerged in August, thetransaction immediately be-came a hotbed of controversyin East Palo Alto.

Still recovering from thePage Mills default and eager tokeep housing prices low,muchof the East Palo Alto commu-nity has been fervently op-posed to a single landlord con-trolling all 1,800 properties,particularly a large nationalcompany that may intend toraise prices.

Some residents fear a repeatof the properties’ history. PageMills, which bought the 1,800apartments in 101 buildings in2006, angered the communityby dramatically raising prices,evicting over 400 families, re-sisting the city’s rent-controlordinance and initiating abouta dozen lawsuits against thecity.

City leadership is concernedabout the loss of affordablehousing that may result fromEQR’s possession.Mayor Car-

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2NTuesday, November 1,2011 The Stanford Daily

By ALICE PHILLIPS

This report covers a selection of incidents from Oct.17 through Oct.24 as recorded in the Stanford De-partment of Public Safety (SDUPS)bulletin.

MONDAY, OCT. 17I

Papers were stolen from theglove box of an unlocked vehicleon Pearce Mitchell Place be-tween 6 p.m.on Oct.16 and 8 a.m.on Oct. 17. Two possible sets of prints were lifted at the scene.

IUnknown suspect(s) entered anunlocked vehicle parked in thePearce Mitchell Complex be-tween 9 p.m. on Oct. 16 and 11a.m. on Oct. 17 and stole coinsand a power cable.A partial printwas recovered at the scene.

IA U-locked bike was stolen froma bike rack near the Carnegie In-stitution between noon on July 1and noon on Oct.17.

IBetween 8 p.m. on Oct. 16 and 4

p.m. on Oct. 17 unknown sus-pect(s) entered an unlocked vehi-cle and stole money and an audioadapter. Two latent prints werelifted at the scene.

IAt 1 p.m. an arrestee was trans-ported to San Jose Main Jail andbooked for driving under the in-fluence near the intersection of Campus Drive and Jordan Way.The vehicle was towed.

IBetween 4:15 p.m. and 4:25 p.m.someone stole an unattendediPhone on the 4th floor of GreenLibrary (Bing).

IA cable-locked bike was stolenfrom the bike racks outside of Ter-man Engineering Lab (Bldg. 500)between 11 p.m.and midnight.

TUESDAY, OCT. 18IBetween 4 p.m. on Oct. 17 and 9

a.m. on Oct. 18 a cable-lockedbike was stolen from the racksoutside of Escondido IV.

I Someone stole a bike that was U-locked to itself near Castaño be-tween 8 p.m. on Oct. 17 and 11a.m.on Oct.18.

IA tennis umpire stand was stolenfrom Taube Tennis South courtsbetween 9:15 p.m. on Oct.17 and

11 a.m.on Oct.18.A second standwas found just outside of thecourts to the southeast.

IA U-locked bike was stolen fromracks outside the Cummings Artbuilding between 11 a.m. and12:15 p.m.

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Between 12:15 and 1:05 p.m. aniPhone was stolen from some-one’s unattended carrying bag in-side Arrillaga Family DiningCommons.

IA woman was cited and arrestedfor being in possession of a stolenplacard at the intersection of Galvez Mall and Crothers Way at4 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19IAt 4:45 p.m. an injury bike-vs.-

fixed-object collision occurred atthe intersection of Lasuen Malland Serra Mall.

THURSDAY, OCT. 20IA cable-locked bike was stolen

from a rack outside of Knight

Management Center between8:30 a.m.and 6 p.m.

IAn unattended purse was stolenfrom the McClelland building inthe Knight Management Centerbetween 6:15 p.m.and 10:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, OCT. 21IAn abandoned keg was stored in

the SUDPS annex in Stern be-tween 11:25 p.m. and midnight.The keg was found when SUDPSwas called out on a noise com-plaint.

SATURDAY, OCT. 22IA chain-locked bike was stolen

from a rack outside of Roble be-tween 10 p.m. on Oct.20 and 7:30a.m.on Oct.22.

IA cable-locked bike was stolenfrom a rack near Rogers Houseon Capistrano Way.

I Someone stole a chain-lockedbike from the racks outside of Es-condido IV between 10:30 p.m.on Oct. 21 and 1:30 p.m. on Oct.22.

IA vehicle was stolen from Park-ing Structure 6 between midnightthe previous night and 2:30 p.m.

NEWS BRIEF

Single car crash at

Campus Drive and

Escondido

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

A single-car crash occurred at the

intersection of Campus Drive and Es-condido Road late Monday night.The car, a four-door sedan,came to astop on its side near the undergradu-ate dorm Castaño. Initial reportsfrom residents suggested that thedriver may have been under the influ-ence at the time of the accident.TheStanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) responded tothe scene but was unavailable forcomment before publication. Referto www.stanforddaily.com for morecoverage.

— Margaret Rawson

Leading accounting

educator

Horngren dies


Charles T. Horngren, the Ed-mund W. Littlefield professor of ac-counting, emeritus in the StanfordGraduate School of Business(GSB) died Oct.23 in Palo Alto.

A pioneer of management ac-counting, Horngren was inductedinto the Accounting Hall of Fame in1990. He led the shift in accountingeducation in the 1960s from an em-phasis on accumulation and calcula-tion of product costs to managerialaccounting, wrote Thomas Burns,Ohio State University professorand chairman of the Accounting

Hall of Fame, at the time of Horn-gren’s induction.Horngren received his MBA

from Harvard Business School andwas valedictorian of his undergrad-uate class at Marquette University.He also served in the U.S.Army andtutored homebound, disabled vet-erans during his undergraduateyears.

Horngren completed his doctor-ate at the University of Chicago inonly three years,while teaching fulltime. He then taught at Marquette

POLICE BLOTTER

los Romero, U.S. Rep.Anna Eshoo,D-Palo Alto,and the East Palo AltoCity Council have all written lettersto Wells Fargo asking them to delaythe sale and ensure compliance withcity needs.

In a protest of over 100 peopleon Aug. 22, many voiced their frus-tration that the apartments werebeing aggregated rather than splitamong multiple buyers. Such vastownership, particularly by a groupwith deep pockets and national in-fluence, would give EQR leverageover other housing in East PaloAlto.

Others worry about EQR oppos-ing the city’s rent-control policy.Sam Zell,the company’s chair,has ahistory of challenging rent-controllaws; Zell was a key supporter of Proposition 98,a California bill thatwould have repealed rent control,and has filed several lawsuits to re-peal rent-control ordinances in Cal-ifornia cities. At the August rally,protesters chanted “Don’t Sell to

Zell!”“We ask that . . . the owner com-

mit in writing to complying with theRent Stabilization and Just Causefor Eviction Ordinance,” said CarolLamont, the program manager forEPA’s rent stabilization program.

The rent-control policy pro-hibits landlords from raising therent on an occupied apartmentmore than once annually and bymore than 80 percent of the rise inconsumer price index for rentalunits in the area.

Rent-control legislation is veryimportant for East Palo Alto,a townbounded by the richer communitiesof Silicon Valley.The town has re-af-firmed rent control six times, mostrecently in 2010 by 79.6 percent. Aloss or violation of rent control

could mean the displacement of thousands of families who havenowhere else to look.

“We’re looking at investment op-portunity — development opportu-nities relative to what acquisitionopportunities are in those individualmarkets,” David Neithercut, CEOand president of EQR, said duringEquity Residential’s 2011 EarningsCall on Oct. 27, recorded and tran-scribed publicly.

When asked whether or notEQR considered the portfolio pri-marily a development opportunityor a “more B-quality asset,”Neither-cut said EQR thinks about the port-folio as “workforce housing.”

Workforce housing is generallyunderstood to connote affordable,high-quality housing.

Neithercut said that EQR wants“to add assets on the Peninsula”and“if it can be done at the right price,[the EPA purchase] will represent agood opportunity to do so.”

The city has asked that WellsFargo wait until the new registrationprocess, a result of the revised rent-control ordinance, has been com-pleted so that it can ensure that fu-ture rent increases are consistentwith city laws.

Earlier reports, including a re-sponse from Wells Fargo, claimedthat the sale would be concluded inmid to late October, yet the apart-ments have not been sold.This mayindicate that Wells Fargo is heedingthe city’s request to wait until theregistration process is complete.

“We’re continuing to work on[buying the East Palo Alto proper-ties],” Neithercut said. “And we dohave an expectation that we couldclose on that this year,but nothing iscertain at the present time.”

Elise Wilkinson, a Wells Fargomedia spokesperson, said that“EQR is still conducting due dili-gence on the property.”

Contact Julia Enthoven at jjejje@stanford.edu.

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of Y Combinator,held quick discus-sions with members of potentialstartups on stage, listening to theirbusiness plans and giving them ad-vice.

Zuckerberg spoke followingGraham. In his on-stage interview,when asked about what he mighthave done differently, Zuckerbergsaid that in retrospect, he mighthave wanted to start Facebook inBoston as opposed to coming to Sil-icon Valley.

“There are aspects of the cultureout here where it still is a little bit of short-term focus in a way that both-ers me,” Zuckerberg said. “I thinkthere’s a culture out here where

people just don’t commit to doingthings.”

Stephen Cohen, a Stanford B.S.’05 and co-founder of Palantir,tookthe stage next and talked about hisexperience working on data man-agement for the government.Afteranother short break,Max Levchin,co-founder of Slide and PayPal,made a speech on the importanceand difficulties of finding a co-founder.

Ron Conway, an angel investorworking with Y Combinator, thentalked about the startups withwhich he has collaborated and gavetips to up-and-coming startups.

Dropbox founder Drew Hous-ton concluded the event.

The presentations were fol-

lowed by mingling between thespeakers and start-up hopefuls inOld Union.

The talks were live-streamed onJustin.tv and have received over 2million views.

Karthik Viswanathan ’15 said hethought the Startup School wasvery inspiring and is consideringgetting more involved in the future.

“I was able to connect a lot to al lthe founders that they had talking,”Viswanathan said.“And I think thebest part about it really was the factthat the founders tried to makeeverything they were talking aboutvery relatable to everyone in theauditorium.”

Rob Yates, a first-time attendeeof the Startup School and a gradu-ate student in computer science at

Stanford, echoed what many of thespeakers emphasized in theirspeeches.

“Lots of people don’t plan whatthey end up doing,”Yates said.“It’sthe same thing with Mark Zucker-berg. He didn’t really start outwanting to make a company.”

Contact Anthony at ading93@stanford.edu.

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When the CDC conducted a sim-ilar survey of 2010-2011 graduatesacross disciplines,with 303 recordedrespondents, its results were lowerthan those predicted by PayScale’sranges. The most dramatic discrep-ancy was between graduates holdinga bachelor’s degree in biology.PayScale’s upper limit was $124,519greater than that reported in theStanford survey.

Stanford reported an average

starting salary of $54,951 for stu-dents graduating with bachelor’s de-grees in the humanities and sciences,with $72,148 as the average startingsalary for students graduating withbachelor’s degrees in engineering.

PayScale’s results for 2011 cal-culated the average Stanford grad-uate’s starting salary at $58,200across all disciplines.The Universi-ty ranked 16th, behind the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology,the California Institute of Technol-ogy (Caltech) and Loma LindaUniversity, which placed in the topthree spots, respectively. The medi-an mid-career salary of Stanfordalumni is estimated at $112,000, inninth place behind Princeton Uni-versity, Caltech and Harvey MuddCollege.

“I suspect that Stanford has a lotof alumni who have started compa-nies, sold them and moved on toother things,”Choy said in referenceto those graduates who are not rep-resented in these studies.“Are entre-preneurs likely to participate in thissurvey? Does the survey measureaccumulated wealth, not just in-come?”

In examining the salaries of em-ployees, Payscale did not considerstock compensation, retirementbenefits and other non-cash bene-fits. PayScale defined starting em-ployees as those who have five years,or fewer than five years, of experi-ence and who hold no more than abachelor’s degree.A mid-career em-ployee is a full-time worker with atleast 10 years of experience in a sin-gle field,also holding no more than abachelor’s degree.Along with thesefactors, PayScale must take into ac-count the fact that its data is self-re-ported by those who chose to takethe PayScale employee survey.

“In general,the main trend we’veseen in our college salary data is thatpay is going down over time,” saidKatie Bardaro,lead research analystfor PayScale, in an email to TheDaily.“Pay for the top 20 schools fell2.8 percent from last year and over 5percent from 2008 (the first report).This same trend exists for Stanford,but to a lesser degree.”

Other sites, however, report sig-nificantly different statistics forStanford and its peers. Forbesranked schools based on alumni

salaries predicted by student aca-demic backgrounds in a 2010 study.Stanford ranked third behindWilliams College and DartmouthCollege, despite Forbes’s use of PayScale to determine averagesalaries.

“Our top three schools would topany ranking based on alumni earn-ings, even without controlling forbackground,” Forbes posted on its

website.A report from CNBC entitled

“Colleges That Bring the HighestPaycheck 2011” also ranked Stan-ford ninth, sporting the exact samefigures that PayScale collected.

While other rankings refer toPayScale’s data,Choy noted that thenumbers are just that — numbers.He asked,“Does this reflect happier,more satisfied alumni?”

Contact Jordan Shapiro at [email protected].

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FEATURESPROFILE

Hoover’s untoldtreasures

By ADRIENNE

VON SCHULTHESS

Istood there, mystified at whatlay before me. Stacks uponstacks, boxes upon boxes of archives lay underneath theground of the Hoover Institu-

tion Archives, just waiting to beread. Shelves packed with manilaboxes lined both sides of the long,windowless room. A whooshingsound came from pipes that ranoverhead.

Nicholas Siekierski, assistant

archivist for exhibits and outreachat Hoover, took a box from theseshelves and lifted the worn blue boxtop. Inside, I detected x-ray sheets.As my eyes ran across the sheets, Igasped as I saw the words,“Hitler’sX-rays.”

Next to that box was a framedsheet of paper.It was dated Aug. 9,1945 and labeled “Special.” Aftertaking a closer look, I understoodthat this was the order for the nu-clear strike of Nagasaki, Japan. Icould hardly believe it. Arguablytwo of the most important articlesfrom World War II sat before my

eyes.As Susan Wyle, a lecturer in the

Program in Writing and Rhetoric(PWR),said, there are “some reallycreepy things to handle” in theHoover Archives.

The archives are open to re-searchers, students and the generalpublic. They mainly contain pri-mary sources on the subject of war,revolution and peace in the 20thand 21st centuries.

Richard Sousa,assistant directorat Hoover and director of theHoover Library and Archives, saidthat the archives currently focus on

China since 1949, Russia and theformer Soviet Union and politicaland ideological movements in theUnited States.

“We like Hoover to be the go-toplace for one-stop shopping,”Sousasaid. “We try to get as much as wecan in areas where we are strong.”

As assistant director, Sousameets with the curators, who are incharge of soliciting new materials,and the director of the archives todiscuss the future and focus of theinstitution.

“We have curators whose job itis to get on the road and meet peo-ple and contact people to just kindof make contacts and build a web of information,” Sousa said.

During his 20 years at thearchives, Sousa has ensured the in-stitution’s focus on acquiring in-creasingly contemporary material.

He wants materials “that are rel-evant literally to yesterday,”he said.“We’ve become more relevant andwe really do think much more re-

search is being generated and morepeople are coming in.”Siekierski said that technology

has played a major role in this driveto have current materials. TheHoover Archives have seen an in-crease in demand, too, due to tech-nological improvements andthrough their use of technology.

The archives started a Facebookpage to highlight “quirky things,”not just the “traditional, blowing-dust-off materials,” Sousa said.

It is this exclusivity and richnessin material that gives the HooverArchives their value and prestige.

“You can’t find [a lot of what we

have] any place else,”Sousa said.Wyle understands this signifi-

cance. She organizes tours of thearchives for her PWR class andgives extra credit to students whoconduct research at the archives.

“My favorite thing is when I getstudents who don’t want to do a re-search paper and were dreading thewhole thing,” Wyle said.“They gethooked on actually seeing this won-derful material and seeing that theyare in fact holding history in theirhands, and it all gets very real tothem . . . [they] actually want toshare what [they] found.”

“The average undergraduatemight not find materials that arerelevant,”Siekierski said.“But peo-ple come in through classes, andthat sticks with them in graduateschool or further on.”

This excitement is not limited tostudents.Wyle, for example,contin-ues to do research there.While con-ducting her research, she found anunopened envelope and asked the

librarian if they could open it. In-side,she found beautiful silhouettesfrom a starving German man, whowanted Hoover to send money tohis family in return for his artwork.

“It had never even beenopened,” Wyle said. “So it was justparticularly touching what hap-pened to this man.And no one eversaw it and I was the first one to openthis envelope.”

Wyle’s treasure was only one of the many in the Hoover Archivesand Library.

Contact Adrienne von Schulthess at [email protected].

By ASIA CHIAO

With an identityshaped by sports-wear, RainbowSandals and T-shirts bearing

the logos of tech startups, fashionis rarely a hot topic on the Farm.

When Cordelia Sendax ’13first arrived at Stanford as a fresh-man, she recalled being vaguely

surprised by the University’s ap-parent lack of interest in lifestyle.“Back at home I was never re-

ally interested in fashion at all,”Sendax said.“It wasn’t until I ar-rived here that I realized howmuch I missed it.”

It wasn’t until the fall of hersophomore year that an opportu-nity arose for Sendax to explorethat interest. An online publica-tion known as Her Campus waslooking to start a branch at Stan-ford, and when an email was sentaround asking for students to leadthe initiative, Sendax and herclassmate Lauren Wilson ’13, whois also an editor at The Daily,

jumped at the opportunity.Her Campus was founded by a

group of undergraduate entrepre-

neurs from Harvard University.Divided into sections coveringstyle,health, love,life and careers,the website targets female collegestudents looking for lifestyle ad-vice and information that is rele-vant to them.

But unlike many other onlinelifestyle magazines, Her Campus

features individualized branchesthat specifically cater to 175 dif-ferent college campuses nation-wide.Students are able to petitionfor their own page and set up theirown Her Campus site, filled witharticles written by the studentsthemselves.

“We decide what we want towrite about,” Sendax said.“It stillfeels very entrepreneurial, verymuch our own thing. How we

brand our own branch is up to uscompletely.”A visit to Stanford’s Her Cam-

pus page yields Palo Alto restau-rant reviews, down-lows onBrazilian waxing and advicecolumns about surviving Stanfordclasses.

“We’re probably most likeGlamour or Marie Claire, just inthe sense that we’re more all-rounded than the average fashionmagazine,” said Allison Otis ’14,the campus correspondent forStanford.

Students can find informationthat is of interest and pertains tothem, including fashion tips, long-distance relationship advice andresume help.

“It’s very much tailored to be

relevant to the average teenager,”said Wilson, the founding contenteditor.

The Stanford branch only offi-cially launched this past February.With a total staff of about 20 stu-dents, Stanford’s branch of HerCampus is still very much in itsearly stages.

The team has faced severalchallenges promoting the publica-tion on campus.

“The idea of being girly is notvery popular at Stanford,”Wilsonsaid. “Whenever I wear a dress,people always look at me funnyand ask where I’m going.”

Otis agreed, describinglifestyle as “an untapped outlet oncampus.”

Her Campus also appeals to

students interested in entering thepublications industry.Working forthe online magazine not only pro-vides hands-on experience, but italso gives students networkingopportunities.

“Her Campus is so well-situat-ed with all these other partners,”Sendax said. “We get all theseemails about opportunities to in-tern at Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar,NBC,MTV . . . so many possibili-ties just open up.”

For some students at Stanford,women’s lifestyle magazines areseen as trivial entertainment.However, for a certain group of writers, working for Her Campusoffers a fun way to tap into inter-ests that otherwise go unnoticed.When asked about the role that

such publications play, Otislaughed.“A lot of people don’t see the

value in such publications. But inall honesty, writing for Her Cam-pus is just plain fun,”she said.

Contact Asia Chiao at asiac@stanford.edu.

We like Hoover to be the go-to

place for one-stop shopping.

— RICHARD SOUSA

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LE T T E R T O T H E EDITOR

In defense of

Stanford Cheer

Dear Editor,In response to Glenn Truitt’s

Op-ed piece (“Cheer leaving,”Oct.26), I say it is ludicrous to suggestStanford cheerleaders should notbe allowed on the field.

I feel insulted that I have todefend my team’s good name afteran accident occurs. I will be the firstto admit that what happened dur-ing the Washington game was anunfortunate mishap. However, inlight of Mr. Truitt’s hyperboliccriticism and serious misinterpreta-tions, I am impelled to respond tohis accusations.

Let me first clear the air. Theflier who fell on television did notinjure herself, and the girls belowher did everything to cradle hersafely.They have all been properlytrained to cradle stunts, and theyactually did prevent the athlete’shead from hitting the ground. I donot wish to trivialize the issue of safety in cheerleading, but the flierin the video was not at risk. Mr.Tru-itt’s inflammatory rhetoric isunnecessary in this regard.

I also take offense to Mr.Truitt’scomments about the physicalityand ability of my team. Contrary toMr. Truitt’s belief, since StanfordCheer became a staple of the side-

line entertainment six years ago,wehave consistently improved ourtechnique and ability.We are dedi-cated and legitimate.The stunt thatfell on Saturday was the only stuntthat fell during that game.And al-though that happened to be thestunt that was televised,it should inno way reflect the talent of theteam.All teams,even Oregon,Ari-zona and Washington State, have

dropped stunts at games, and thefact that we did so while ontelevision is unlucky,nothing more.

While it is true we go to anamazing school that prides itself inits students’ prowess both academ-ically and athletically, we also prideourselves on our unparalleled de-votion to individuality, diversityand acceptance. That is why onewould be hard pressed to find astudent who is upset over the factthat Stanford does not have a “tra-ditional” marching band. Instead,we have a band that is creative,goofy and unique.We love them forbeing unconventional. Mr. Truittwrote that Stanford students wantspirit groups that conform to thoseof all other Pac-12 schools, whichsimply is not Stanford’s style.

I admit that we are not the mosttalented of cheer teams in the Pac-12.There,I said it.However,we areindubitably the most multifariousand well-rounded. My teammatesare diverse in terms of their race andbody type,not to mention their reli-gion, sexual orientation, socioeco-nomic status and academic inter-ests. I firmly believe that our teamplays a role in ending the stigmaagainst cheerleaders that they areall skinny and perfectly spray-tanned. And, in a larger sense, I as-sert that we are combating normsabout beauty in general.Every oneof my teammates is gorgeous and

more importantly proud of the wayhe or she looks, and we should bepromoting that ideology and notsaying that anyone looks out of shape. By advocating tolerance anddiversity,I would say that my team isa perfect representation of Stanfordand deserves a place on the field.

SAM STOREY ’13Stanford Cheer

OPINIONS

I’ve always felt that my youthfulappearance belies my true age of 25. I’ve been 25 years old since I

was at least 18, feeling on the“growner” side of things for a while.Back when “House”was just a gamein which kids pretended to be in afaraway adult world,I always playedthe mom or cool older sister.I foundit to be an indication of my innatematurity despite being the youngestof my friends (or of the fact that Iwas bossy and enjoyed telling peo-ple what to do).Even in high school,some of the best Friday nights in-volved fancy dinners with friends

before going salsa dancing at a placewhere we were the youngest peoplein the building (young meaningunder 60).

Being underage anywhere is ahard life, but there’s somethingabout D.C. that makes it extrarough. Every night I dream aboutmy 21st birthday.Many of my peersimagine going on a 24-hour benderin Vegas, hitting up every neon-litclub in sight. That would beawesome, but it’s not my style.Hon-estly, my fantasies are of a classylounge where I can sit and sipleisurely in the company of like-minded intellectuals.

It’s not as though I don’t like tohave fun. I do. I love to function asmuch as any college kid — I’mnowhere near an unsocial introvert— I just have grown-person sensi-bilities.At times, I have to push my-self to do the “college” thing to liveup to the expectations set forth ingreat films like “Drumline” and“Animal House.”Yet if I’m given theoption of attending a pulsating,hot-box house party or a chill, unpreten-tious kickback, the kickback wins.

So what am I missing? If I’ve beenin my 20s for the last five years, whathappens when I actually turn 21?When I’m 25,will I have a midlife cri-sis like a 40-year-old? When I’m 30,does that mean I’ll be an old maidready to throw in the towel?

I realize that all of these concernsare irrelevant to anyone’s life (in-cluding my own) and prime exam-ples of #firstworldproblems. How-

ever, they do make me worry abouteveryone else.There are a ton of ar-ticles saying that today’s youth arestaying dependent longer,but on theflipside, you have kids maturingfaster than ever.Why is my six-year-old cousin’s schedule fuller thanmine? And it doesn’t help that hecan teach me how to properly usethe new iPhone.A generation ago,typical 25-year-olds would be mar-ried with kids, working at the samecompany they would one day retirefrom,but that’s not so true anymore.Now typical 25-year-olds are occu-pying somebody’s couch becausethey can’t find a job if they’re not inschool adding on higher-level de-grees with higher levels of debt, or

part of the handful of new (Stan-ford) graduates actually working.

It’s a role reversal, like a Ben- jamin Button-esque transformationon the inside.The older you get, theyounger you feel and vice-versa.People are always saying how theyfeel better in their 40s than they didin their 20s, and maybe it’s becauseat 20, they felt like they were 50.

There’s a difference betweenbeing grown, mature and old — allof which are simply states of mind.Old is all about experience, beingaround long enough to reminisceabout the way things used to be.Ma-ture means you’re established, ex-uding a sense of capability thatcomes with being responsible andreliable. Grown connotes the exis-tence of something that resemblespotential; it’s the promise of thatnext stage in life beyond rollingaround and being unsure of whathappens next (you may not knowthe answers, but you’re closer tofinding them.)

When they play their cards cor-rectly, grown folks do have the bestof both worlds. If they graduated in’0-anything or below, they can’t hitup a party thrown by someone in theclass of ’14. That’s not a good look.However, they can throw their ownsoiree in the house they own (hope-

fully in area without noise com-plaint worries) with age-appropri-ate peeps.Then, when they get tiredof jamming to old school Destiny’sChild, collegiate Kanye and classicMissy, they can slow things downwith no shame because they’vealready gone hard in the paint.

I realize there are some perils tobeing all growed up and I’m matureenough to admit that I’m not oldenough to handle them. So for nowI’ll just work on embracing myactual age until I’m actually 25.

Want to kick it ’90s style with Camira?She’s always down to watch someFresh Prince or Boy Meets World, soemail her at [email protected].

I’ M DO N E W I T H MY LIF E

THE YOUNG ADULT SECTION

All grown up

Iwon the same yearbook awardat the end of both middle schooland high school:The Most Like-

ly to Brighten Your Day Award. Idon’t even remember being partic-ularly surprised the second time.Through those years and onward, Ialso became accustomed to certainrelated qualities that kept poppingup when people described me andwhen I described myself. Thataward was only part of a set of expe-riences that gradually convinced meI had to be the one who wouldbrighten your day: the happy one,

the cute one, the constantly excitedone, the open one, the clever one. Ihad to be laughing and smiling allthe time.I had to be jumpy, unpre-dictable and entertaining, ever theimmaculate extrovert. And I knewthis was how people saw me.

Wait, I’ll be honest — I didn’t just know it, I was constantly aware. . . and burning myself out as Iplayed the identity game to a tee.Itwas a new kind of selfishness, onethat has nothing to do with moneyor material or sharing. But I can’tthink of any word but “selfish” todescribe the self-obsession I fed as Iconstantly strategized how best tofulfill who I was expected to be.

I don’t mean to be presumptu-ous, but I don’t think I’m the onlyone. Expectations surround us likeair — unseen, unspoken and unbe-lievably heavy. There is, for exam-ple,the collective freshman concep-tion that not attending a frat party isa social code violation. But not allfreshmen enjoy frat parties, andthat’s a fact. Unfortunately,it takesmany of us a relatively long time torealize that our entire social livesfor the next four years are actuallynot affected by non-attendance.Great news! Still, the expectationexists, ready to trap students andsteal their weekends. And secretlyunwilling students will continue togo, thinking that they need to be“social,”if that’s how they choose todefine it.

The outside expectations bywhich we judge ourselves are thus

often self-imposed. No doubt theystress us out. Yet we tend to placevalues on ourselves through oursuccess or failure in fulfilling them.We have to become a householdname after graduating becausethat’s what our family thinks is suc-cess.We have to be environmental-ly sustainable because that’s what agood global citizen is.We have to beconstantly conversational because

otherwise we’re being “antisocial”(which has apparently become aminor crime).Or we have to be thefunny/intellectual/organized/non-chalant/insightful one among ourfriends, even if we’ve outgrown thetitle and it’s starting to get tiresome.The truth is that none of thesethings are bad in and of themselves;it’s just that none of them are verygood, either. No matter how muchsecurity we feel inside these con-

venient little shoeboxes, fitting in-side them doesn’t make us anymore worthwhile as people orfriends or family members.I believethat they’re not inherently valuable.

Of course, though , i t feelsunimaginably risky to step outside

those bounds.At least, that’s how Ifelt. I used to be afraid that some-one would catch a glimpse of mewhen I wasn’t bright and bouncy be-cause I was afraid they’d realize Iwas boring.Then I would be lost tomyself, too. . . and that scared memore than anything. I suppose itwas just around two years ago that Imet someone who saw that side of me . . . and was still completelycrazy about me. Seriously, it wascompletely disorienting at first. Imean, how often do we not have tolive up to a single thing and still get

to be loved? But I learned that itwas more than okay, really, not tomeet others’ standards. And thatwas liberation,pure and simple.

I was recently talking about thatexact relationship with anotherfriend of mine, who said this about“knowing” me before I had choseninto it:“Don’t get me wrong,I totallythought you were super nice andbubbly and everything, but, like, Iwondered who you actually were.”And it was amazingly refreshing tofinally hear it out loud because Iknew it was true of so many peopleI’ve met. It’s ironic, the way we dis-tance other people the more we inchcloser to what they expect of us.

It’s too much strategy and toomuch effort.If we can just lose all of that, it’s easier to meet the one whostill finds us valuable — without usmaking a single move.

Curious? Cautious? Critical? Don’t think — just email Nina at [email protected].

The art of losing myself

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University, the University of Wis-consin-Milwaukee and the Univer-sity of Chicago before being re-cruited to Stanford in 1966.

Horngren served on the Ac-counting Principles Board from1968 to 1973. He also served as atrustee of the Financial AccountingFoundation from 1984 to 1989 andwas both president and director of research for the American Account-ing Association. His textbook,“CostAccounting: A Managerial Empha-sis,”is currently in its 14th edition.

Horngren died just days beforehis 85th birthday after a long illness.He is survived by four children: sonScott and his wife,Yone McNally,of Portland, Ore., daughter Mary andhusband Dennis Wilson, daughtersSusan and Catherine, all of the BayArea, and grandchildren ErikHorngren and Chelsea and MarissaFrost.

Horngren established the Joan E.

Horngren professorship of account-ing at the GSB, in addition to theHorngren Family Vitreoretinal Cen-ter at the Byers Eye Institute at Stan-ford University and the HorngrenFamily Alzheimer’s Research Fundin the Stanford School of Medicine.

— Margaret Rawson

Stanford places

fourth in 2011 Pac-12fitness challenge


The UCLA Bruins broke Stan-ford’s streak and came out on topin the 2011 Pac-12 Bank of theWest Fitness Challenge, which ranfrom Oct. 24 to Oct. 31.

The challenge is “a conference-wide initiative promoting regularphysical activity,” according to itswebsite. Students and staff areasked to log their fitness minutes,up to one hour in each category, to

promote physical activity andoverall wellness.

As the winning school, UCLAwill receive $5,000 for its recre-ation department.

This year marked the first timethe challenge used Facebook tokeep track of the competition. Par-ticipants were asked to “like” thechallenge page, earning one pointfor their schools right away, and to

then record their fitness level,thereby announcing the points theyscored on behalf of their schools totheir Facebook friends.

This year’s challenge boastedover 9,000 verified participants andover 1.7 million logged fitness min-utes over the course of the week,ac-cording to its Facebook page.

Stanford placed fourth in thechallenge, with 136,818 points to

UCLA’s 424,266. WashingtonState University and the Universi-ty of Southern California placedsecond and third, respectively.

Arizona State University wonthe challenge last year. Prior tothat, Stanford won the challengeeach of the four years since thecompetition’s inception.

— Margaret Rawson

BRIEFContinued from page 2


budget proposal passed last April with 69 percent of the vote,which roughly translated to 32 percent of theundergraduate population as a whole, thereby meet-ing the ASSU requirements.

The Flipside proceeded with its purchase of a Seg-way, which the group said it currently uses for distri-bution purposes in addition to Friday entertainment.

Whether or not the Flipside’s Segway campaignand the ensuing debate have inspired changes to thespecial fees process remains to be seen. ASSU SenateChair Rafael Vazquez ’12 did not respond for com-ment in time for publication.

“Any reform of the system has to go through theASSU governing body, the Undergraduate Senateand the Graduate Student Council,” said currentASSU Elections Commissioner and Flipsidemanaging editor Adam Adler ’12.

An ASSU Commission on the Govern-ing Documents is “basically trying to re-structure everything,”Adler added.

Not all students appreciated the humor-ous manner the Flipside employed to illus-trate its point. Some students voiced theirdispleasure at what they deemed the Flip-side’s wasteful spending. A few accused theFlipside of exploiting the loopholes of the verysystem it was trying to expose.

However, not everyone opposed the Flip-side’s choice of method to reveal the flaws of thecurrent special fees system.

“The Flipside has exposed some problems withthe special fees system in that even when you’re re-questing a Segway, you can still get approved by the stu-dent body.And it shows that the student body doesn’t

really read what’s in those proposals,”said Adam Klein’13. “The Flipside operates through comedy. Like ‘TheDaily Show with Jon Stewart,’ they use comedy to ex-pose issues in the real world. In this case,the Stanfordworld.”

Whether or not the Flipside’s statement was suc-cessful may be debatable. Despite the mixed re-sponses concerning the purchase, for the Flipsidestaff,purchasing a Segway accomplished its desiredeffect.

“A lot of people did start talking about it,”Keeshin said. “You can read articles, you can readopinions on both sides.But whether or not you agree,the fact that we have it, it’s pretty clear that we got peo-ple talking. And that’s one of our main messages.”

Contact Melody Wong at [email protected].

IAn unattended laptop was stolenat 2:30 p.m.from a coffee table inGreen Library (East).

IAt 2:45 p.m.a male was cited andreleased on warrants out of SanFrancisco near the intersection of Campus Drive and Galvez Mall.

I Someone stole an unattendedbackpack from Lot 2 between4:45 p.m.and 5 p.m.

I

Between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.three men were cited and re-leased at Stanford Stadium onwarrants out of San Francisco.

I Someone entered a dormitoryroom in Junipero through aground-floor window between 7p.m.and 7:20 p.m.and stole a lap-top and headphones.The suspectalso attempted to enter otherrooms in the Wilbur Hall dormi-tory.

SUNDAY, OCT. 23IA male was cited and released for

being a minor in possession of al-

cohol at 12:20 a.m.near Bob.

ITwo females were cited and re-leased for being minors in posses-sion of alcohol at 12:40 a.m.nearTheta Delta Chi.

I Suspect(s) entered Kappa Alphahouse through an unlocked glassdoor and stole a wallet contain-ing credit cards and cash between10 p.m. the previous night and6:05 a.m.

MONDAY, OCT. 24IA cable-locked bike was stolen

from a rack near Studio 1 in Es-condido Village between 11:15a.m. on Oct. 21 and 9:50 a.m. onOct.24.

IAn unknown suspect used afraudulent check to pay for mer-chandise at the bookstore at12:45 p.m.

IA female was cited and releasedfor driving without a license at theintersection of Stanford Avenueand Raimundo Way at 4:03 p.m.

I Somebody stole an unattendediPhone from the CoHo between7:15 p.m.and 7:20 p.m.

Contact Alice Phillips at alicep1@ stanford.edu.

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By SARAH MAISELCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Jetlag did not factor into the No.9 Stanford field hockey team’sbiggest test to date, as it hit the roadthis weekend to blank both Michi-gan State and No. 7 Michigan in apair of 3-0 shutouts.Erasing any lin-gering doubts about the legitimacyof Stanford’s impressive record in aweak conference, the wins increasethe likelihood of the team receivingan at-large bid should the team fall

in the upcoming NorPac Tourna-ment.

FIELD HOCKEY

STAN FORD 3

MICHIGAN 0

10/30, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Opening Friday afternoon inEast Lansing, the Cardinal (15-2,6-0 NorPac) soundly defeated aMichigan State team (7-11, 1-4 BigTen) whose offensive struggles willmost likely end its streak of fourconsecutive appearances in theNCAA Tournament. Five-timeNorPac Rookie of the Week attack-er Alex McCawley scored the firstgoal of the game off an assist fromsophomore attacker CourtneyHaldeman to close the first period.

After the break, sophomore attack-er Hope Burke scored her seventhgoal of the season after converting a

pass from senior attacker StephanieByrne. In the final five minutes of the game, freshman midfielderShannon Herold scored her first ca-reer goal to ensure Stanford’s 3-0win.

With uncharacteristically sloppyplay in the circle by the Card, theSpartans won the advantage in cor-ners, 10-6. None of those penaltieswere converted to the back of thegoal, though, and redshirt seniorgoalkeeper Ale Moss made sixsaves.Offensively, Stanford outshot

Michigan State 19-12.On Sunday the Cardinal offenseshowed up ready to earn its first-ever win against the Wolverines anddid so in impressive fashion. Al-though Michigan outshot Stanford19-5, the team could not find theback of the goal. Burke scored firstoff an assist from junior defenderBecky Dru as the final seconds of the first quarter wound down.Herold scored the second goal,withDru assisting again. The final goalcame from Dru, whose efforts al-lowed the Card to snap Michigan’sstreak of eight consecutive homewins and ruin yet another team’sSenior Day.

Dru surpassed her career best of 13 single-season goals and leads theteam with 14; it was the 40th of her

career. Moss had her best game of

By JOSEPH BEYDA DESK EDITOR

The seniors on the Cardinalwomen’s soccer team may be com-ing off two consecutive conferencechampionships, but as they demon-strated definitively last weekend,their motivation still hasn’t faltered.And in clinching its third conferencetitle in a row,Stanford (18-0-1,10-0-0Pac-12) needed its seniors more thanever to come through in the clutch to

secure wins at Oregon State andOregon.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

STANFORD 2

OREGON 0

10/30, Eugene, Ore.

For the second consecutiveweekend, the No. 1 Cardinal waspropelled to victory by a two-goalperformance by a senior — notonce, but twice — with forwardLindsay Taylor and midfielder Tere-sa Noyola each accounting for a pairof scoring strikes against theBeavers (12-5-1, 6-3-0) and Ducks(8-9-2, 3-6-1), respectively. Taylor’sthird consecutive two-goal game onFriday put her season tally at 16,double her total from just three

weeks ago,while Noyola is now ap-proaching her second consecutive10-goal season.

All this, just months after a pre-season injury to junior CourtneyVerloo seemed to shift the scoringburden to Stanford’s youth. But de-spite the impressive play of fresh-man forward Chioma Ubogagu andothers,the upperclassmen have beenthe ones picking up the slack as of late.

The pressure was on against No.19 Oregon State, the Cardinal’s finalobstacle to a conference title for thesecond season in a row. Last year, a

third-minute goal by senior forwardChristen Press — her first of twoon the night — set the tone for ahard-fought 2-0 Stanford victory toclinch the Pac-10.This time aroundit was the Beavers who got off to aquick start, however, and a fourth-minute goal by sophomore forwardJenna Richardson put the Cardinalbehind for just the second time thisseason.

It took until the second half forStanford to respond, when Taylornetted one of her characteristictop-shelf goals from the top of thepenalty area in the 55th minute.Just 11 minutes later,she added an-other from 16 yards out to put the

Cardinal ahead.Stanford’s work wasn’t done

yet, though, in a rough and rainymatch that allowed the Cardinal tosubstitute only four players — a farcry from the droves of alternateswho had seen playing time in lesstense victories. Sophomore goal-keeper Emily Oliver was forced tomake four saves,including one off anearly strike from senior midfielderAshley Seal that would have put theBeavers up 2-0.

Withstanding the pressure, Stan-ford was able to secure its thirdstraight Pac-12 (or Pac-10) title, be-coming just the second school in con-ference history to do so. (UCLAheld at least a share of the title for sixstraight years,from 2003-08,until theCardinal broke the streak.)

That realization might haveslowed Stanford down a little bit onSunday in Eugene, and while theCardinal got out of town with a com-fortable 2-0 victory,head coach PaulRatcliffe noted after the game thatthe energy level may have been lack-ing.He had strong basis for his opin-ion: Stanford’s total of eight shotswas the smallest output of the sea-son, with the previous low (12) com-ing against a stingy UCLA defense.

Half of the Cardinal’s shots camefrom Noyola, who benefited from along pass from junior defender AlinaGarciamendez — Noyola’s team-

mate on Mexico’s World Cup teamlast summer — to set up a wide-open shot in the 14th minute. Noy-ola’s second tally came early in thesecond half on a high feed from jun-ior midfielder Mariah Nogueira,andthe senior also took Stanford’s onlyother shot of the second frame in the64th minute.

The Cardinal can’t afford anoth-er lull if it wants to close the seasonon a high note, with the rivalrymatchup against California set forSaturday. The No.22 Bears (12-5-2,5-3-2) fell to Oregon State butplayed much more impressive soc-cer against the Ducks than Stanforddid, benefiting from a hat trick by

sophomore midfielder Kaitlyn Fitz-patrick.

The Cardinal and Bears willmeet at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium at7 p.m. on Saturday in the regularseason finale.

Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@ stanford.edu.

SPORTS

CONFERENCE CHAMPS AGAINSeniors step up toclinch Pac-12 title

VALIDATION IN

MICHIGAN

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Senior forward Lindsay Taylor (right) scored two goals for the third straight game as the No. 1 Stanford women’s soccer team beat Oregon State 2-1 to secure the Pac-12 title. Stanford has now won three straight conference championships.

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily

Junior defender Becky Dru set a new career high with her 14th goal of theseason in Stanford’s 3-0 win over Michigan. The No. 9 Cardinal finishedthe regular season with two road shutouts to surge into the NorPac Tourney.

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CARD CAN’T CATCH USCBy DAVID PEREZ

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The No. 3 Stanford men’s waterpolo team was doomed by anotherslow start this Saturday against No.2 USC in Los Angeles. The finalscore was 8-4, but after falling be-hind 3-0 in the first quarter and 5-1at halftime, Stanford (14-4, 3-2MPSF) was never really in thegame.

MEN’S WATER POLO

STANFORD 4

USC 8

10/29, Los Angeles

Falling behind early has becomea troubling trend for the Cardinal,which had taken two-goal deficitsinto halftime in each of its previousthree Mountain Pacific Sports Fed-eration (MPSF) games. In each of those games,Stanford tied the scorein the second half,and the Cardinaleventually went on to win two of them.

USC (15-2, 5-0 MPSF) provedtoo tough to come back on, though,as the Trojans pounced early and didnot let the Cardinal back into thegame.

“We had opportunities to con-vert early, but we didn’t, and we fellinto a hole,” said senior utility PeterSefton.

Part of Stanford’s inability to con-vert had to do with USC goalie JoelDennerly, who finished the day with14 saves. He leads a USC defensethat tops the MPSF in total goalsagainst and goals against per game.

Freshman utility Alex Bowenwas the only Stanford player withany real success against that de-fense. He finished the game withthree goals, while Sefton accountedfor the fourth.The four-goal outputwas the lowest of the season forStanford.

Stanford was even with USC inthe second half,as each team scoredthree goals,but that is little consola-tion for a team that wants to knockoff the defending champion Trojans.

Stanford now falls into fourthplace in the MPSF standings, whileUSC will remain in first place withan undefeated conference record.Also ahead of Stanford in the stand-ings are No. 1 UCLA and No. 4 Cal-ifornia, each of which has one con-ference loss and three losses overall.

While USC seems to be runningaway from the pack, there is notmuch space between the next threeteams. In order to make the four-team NCAA Tournament and havea chance at the national champi-onship, Stanford has to either winthe MPSF Tournament or receivethe one at-large bid.

“USC is clearly the favorite, but

if they win the MPSF Tournament,the at-large bid is up for grabs,”Sefton said.

Stanford has a chance to bolsterits resume when it plays Cal in itsregular season finale. The team canalso expect to face two of the topfour teams in the MPSF Tourna-ment.

None of the top four nationallyranked teams (UCLA, USC, Stan-ford and California) has lost to ateam ranked fifth or worse. Withthat in mind,Stanford knows it can-not lose any games against lower-ranked teams if it wants to have achance at the at-large bid.

“We just have to get re-focusedand ready for the last couple of weeks of the season,” Sefton said.“We will get another chance againstall these guys in the MPSF Tourna-ment.”

Stanford will be making anothertrip to Southern California thisweekend, this time to face off against Long Beach State and UC-Irvine. The Cardinal scrimmagedboth MPSF teams earlier in theyear, but these will be the first offi-cial games against either team—Stanford’s match against LongBeach is scheduled for noon on Sat-urday.

Contact David Perez at davidp3@ stanford.edu.

Football news and notes

Saturday was a busy day for Stan-ford football on the field,and Mondaywas a busy day off it.

The Cardinal, fresh off its triple-overtime victory at USC, was namedthe National Team of the Week by theFootball Writers Association of Amer-ica. It marks the third time Stanfordhas ever received the honor — eachtime on the weekend of a Cardinal vic-tory at USC. The 2007 game wastermed the “Biggest Upset Ever”when the 41-point underdog Cardinalshocked No.1 USC.In 2009, Stanfordset a Los Angeles Coliseum recordwith 55 points in a rout of the Trojans,known for the “What’s your deal?”

moment between then-head coachesJim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll. OnSaturday,the Cardinal broke that scor-ing record in a 56-48 thriller to keepthe team undefeated.

Additionally, redshirt sophomorekicker Eric Whitaker was named Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week.In his first career start,Whitaker madeboth of his field goal attempts and allsix of his extra point attempts in agame where every point mattered.Filling in for an injured JordanWilliamson, Whitaker struggled with

kickoffs,placing two out of bounds,buthe booted one deep in the final minuteof regulation to give USC a longerfield.

Stanford also released an injury up-date on redshirt sophomore tight endZach Ertz.The release announced thatErtz has a “lower leg” injury and willmiss at least two weeks.Ertz sustainedthe injury on the opening kickoff against USC and stood on the sidelineon crutches with a brace on his leg forthe rest of the game.

After this Saturday’s road gameagainst 2-6 Oregon State,the Cardinalwill return home for its most anticipat-ed game of the season,Nov.12 againstOregon.Stanford announced that theOregon contest,a rematch of the Car-

dinal’s lone loss in 2010,will take placeat 5 p.m.and be aired on ABC.Although Ertz is expected to miss

this game, the status of other injuredStanford players — such asWilliamson, senior safety DelanoHowell, senior wide receiver ChrisOwusu and redshirt freshman tackleCameron Fleming — remains un-known.

Stanford will take on Oregon Statein Corvallis,Ore., on Saturday at 12:30p.m.

— Jacob Jaffe

Enjoy the undefeated ride

It’s almost 1 a.m. on Sundaymorning in L.A., and I’m ex-hausted.I have no Internet con-nection to fact-check and no cof-fee to help make my words co-

herent. In theory this shouldn’t be theideal time to start writing my column,but what else can I do? Sleep?

I am sure by the time you are read-ing this that you already know what

just happened, that the Stanford foot-ball team defeated USC in the closestof all close games only a few shorthours ago,but that doesn’t do justice tothe scenes replaying in my head.I justwitnessed — first-hand and confront-ed by an overwhelming majority of op-posing fans — the greatest game of college football, and perhaps even of any sport, I have ever seen.As if youneed any proof, the friend I traveleddown here with, a far more knowl-edgeable football fan than I,could donothing more than sit in stunned si-lence for a long, long time after the

fumble that gave the win to Stanford.Supporting any team is a risk.Un-

less you pick that lucky year whenyour team goes undefeated all the wayto a national title,you are going to haveto deal with defeat. Traveling to anaway game steps it up a notch: if youlose you can’t just slink home inanonymity.You’ll have to deal with thetaunting of a few tens of thousands of happy enemy fans and face a long,de-pressing trip home.

As this was my first college footballaway game,I knew it was going to bespecial the minute I walked into the In-N-Out Burger halfway to L.A. to begreeted by a restaurant packed withCal fans.As the lone customer sportingStanford gear,the crowd immediatelyturned on me,chanting,“Take off thatred shirt.”I was the center of attention.It was awesome.Fast-forward one dayand I was sitting in one of the largeststadiums I’ve had the fortune to visit,aformer Olympic venue,a vast bowl duginto the Southern California dirt andpacked with USC fans.In the tiniest of tiny corners, the Red Zone was hud-dled together,outnumbered and out-gunned by the voices of so many Tro-

jans giving everything they had.This was a game Stanford was just

not destined to win.The Cardinal fellbehind for the first time all season inthe third quarter and many times afterthat. Coming back from a 10-pointdeficit looked tough,and squaring thegame after conceding an interception

for a touchdown with just three min-utes left looked impossible. WhenStanford tied the game and USC wast-ed its chance at a last-gasp field goal,letting the clock run down to zero,theCardinal faithful went crazy. Some-how there was still a chance of takingthe victory.

And win Stanford did. More thanany of those 25-point-or-more victo-ries,perhaps this game was the test andproof of a real national championshipcontender. The best teams not onlywin when life is going well;they some-how find a way to secure victory whenit’s not.

Everyone I know, many Cardinalfans among them, is looking for rea-sons to rule Stanford out of a possiblenational title run, and there areenough out there:a struggling defense,the game against Oregon,a so-far un-beaten Oklahoma State, and evenBoise State’s perennial demands to begiven that shot.In fact,I sometimes getthe feeling that because we are so surethat disappointment is going to comeat some point,fans would rather get adefeat over and done with instead of

stringing out their hopes.But hopes and dreams are what

sports are all about. We have to re-member where we are:this is Stanford.We shouldn’t even be in this position;everyone knows that. My aforemen-tioned friend even admitted beforethe game that he had previously con-sidered going to USC instead of theFarm because it would have been pret-ty cool to go to a football school.Evento still be in the conversation this latein the season is massive, and some-thing to be celebrated.But more thanthat, this is the chance. There hasn’tbeen a new national champion sinceColorado in 1990, and the last timeStanford had the top pick in the NFLDraft was with John Elway in 1983.Forschools like this one,these things don’tcome around again very often.

So maybe it’s time to throw cautionto the wind.You might never again getthe opportunity to believe Stanfordhas any shot at a national title, so in-dulge your fantasies while you can.When the defeat comes it will becrushing, but for a few short weeksyou’ll be living the dream.

Maybe,just maybe, this could real-ly happen.

Tom Taylor just started watching foot-ball, and he is already bracing for “when the defeat comes.” Show your true Stanford fandom by breakingdown why the Cardinal will beat Ore-

gon at [email protected].

Tom Taylor

SPORTS BRIEFS

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The No. 3 Stanford men’s water polo team fell into a 5-1 first-half hole and couldn’t get out of it, losing to No. 2USC, 8-4. The loss drops the Cardinal into fourth in the MPSF and two games behind the Trojans in the conference.

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the season with nine saves and heldthe shutout despite Michigan’s 10corners.

The road trip provided the Car-

dinal with even more momentum asthe postseason creeps closer. Afterfailing against ranked opponents onthe road early in the season, Stan-ford proved it is capable of winningbig games and did not look like thesame team that lost 4-2 at Connecti-cut and 6-3 at New Hampshire.Stanford’s offense and defenseboth executed perfectly to secure

the game and shut out the Wolver-ines for only the second time thisseason.The first came in the season-opener against No. 2 North Caroli-na in a 5-0 rout.

The Cardinal now needs onlythree more wins to break the recordof 17 set by the 2009 team. GivenStanford’s perfect NorPac recordand history in the tournament,it is a

milestone well within reach.“Of course, we want to win the

NorPac championship to gain anautomatic bid to the NCAA play-ingame and make our season last aslong as we can, but so do all of theother teams in our conference,”Burke said.“As of now, I think wehave put ourselves in a very goodposition to make it into the 16-team

NCAA championship bracket. It’snow up to us to execute and makethose goals come true.”

The No. 1-seeded Cardinal willopen tournament play on the FarmThursday afternoon against Ap-palachian State.

Contact Sarah Maisel at sgmaisel@ stanford.edu.

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