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City votes today on Measures D and E, binding arbitration and compost facility By JORDAN SHAPIRO

Palo Alto citizens will votetoday not on national, state orlocal officials,but on two commu-nity issues that have inspired sim-ilar amounts of political debate.Measures D and E will take cen-ter stage on the Palo Alto ballot,after a recent decision by thelocal legislature to move citycouncil elections to even num-bered years to save money.

Measure D would repeal theuse of a third-party arbitrator to

settle disputes between publicsafety workers and management.Measure E would un-dedicate 10

of Byxbee Park’s 127 acres, withthe hopes of building a compostfacility on the land to processsewage and food waste.

The debate surrounding Mea-sure D is centered on the city’sability to control matters such aspensions and benefits for work-ers. While an arbitrator has his-torically been used to ensure ap-propriate treatment of the city’spublic safety workers, particular-ly firemen, proponents of Mea-sure D argue that this value willstill be upheld without reaching

out to a third party.

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Breakthrough incancer research

Stanford,Palo Alto

pipeline includes

salvaged pipeBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Pacific Gas and Electric Co.(PG&E) documents have shown

that a gas transmission line runningthrough Stanford’s campus and PaloAlto contains at least 22 feet of sal-vaged pipe dating back to 1947.

The announcement touched anerve following the Sept. 2011 SanBruno incident that killed eight peo-ple when a 30-inch-diameter naturalgas pipeline on Line 132 owned byPG&E exploded out of the groundin flames.

California Public Utilities Com-mission (CPUC) lawyers accusedPG&E in an Oct.19 filing of know-ing about faulty seams dating back to1948 and practicing reckless use of salvaged,reused pipe.

In an Oct.20 response to CPUC’sfiling, PG&E confirmed that the 22feet of salvaged pipe does date backto 1947. The company said it would

be hydro-testing this section of pipethis year.The exact amount of reused and

salvaged pipe is difficult to deter-mine based on the series of docu-ments recording the company’s ren-ovations over the past half-century.

A Jan.1, 1957,construction draw-ing indicated that Line 132,the samepipeline as the San Bruno incident,was relocated along Page Mill Roadbetween Junipero Serra Boulevardand El Camino Real. Transmissionpipe was salvaged from the reloca-tion,but its next use remains unclear,along with whether salvaged pipewas reconditioned before use in sev-eral cases.

The documents suggest that mostsalvaged and reused pipe was usedon Lines 131 and 132, near Morgan

Hill and San Bruno.The Morgan Hillpipe,however,was taken out of com-mission in 1970,and its pipe was sal-

By SHELLEY XU

Stanford’s School of Medicine expanded itssocial networking this fall and launched theCommunity Academic Profiles Network (CAPNetwork), a private, internal social-networkingservice designed specifically for the medical

community at Stanford, including students, fac-ulty and staff members.

The recent launch of CAP Network has inte-grated the already running profile system,Com-munity Academic Profiles, with a social net-working platform.

According to Michael Halaas,chief technol-ogy officer at the Information Resources &Technology (IRT) Web and Systems Engineer-ing Department, CAP Network includes pro-files with everything from an individual’s photoand contact information to a listing of his or her

publications and work experience. On a moreinteractive level, CAP Network users can poststatuses and form groups.

“The reason why we’re in this experiment isbecause we look at the world around us and wesee how social network technologies are chang-ing,”said Henry Lowe,senior associate dean forIRT.“And we see huge potential in an academ-ic setting for enhancing collaboration and com-munication across the community.”

Professional networking site fosters research collaboration

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Med School unveils CAP Network

Palo Alto goes to

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San Mateo postpones AlpineTrail decision once again

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Journalist talks climate,politicsBy JULIA ENTHOVEN

In a presentation titled “Climate Changeand the 2012 Election:The New Wedge Issue?”Washington Post journalist Juliet Eilperin re-marked Monday that she used to believe that

the environment held little political weight.“I actually think this is a really interestingmoment,”she said,“It is a moment that is chal-lenging a position I’ve held for a long time,which is that the environment doesn’t play arole in elections.”

Eilperin spoke Monday to an audience of around 50 about the intersection of environ-mentalism and politics in a forum hosted by theWoods Institute for the Environment in theHartley Conference Center. She particularlytouched on climate change denial by current

Republican presidential candidates.As an author, journalist and academic,Eilperin has become an expert in environmen-tal policy. During her first year as a journalist

By ILEANA NAJARRO

San Mateo County supervisors voted 4-1last Tuesday to postpone the decision of whether to accept Stanford’s proposal to re-pair a portion of the Alpine Trail, opting in-stead to ask Stanford to consider three addi-tional alternatives and conduct an environ-mental review before the next board meetingon Dec. 13.

If the San Mateo County Board of Super-visors does not accept Stanford’s $10.4 mil-lion offer toward renovation of the trail byDec. 31, then the money will to go to SantaClara County for recreational facilities.

San Mateo Board Supervisor CaroleGroom said the topic will not be discussedfurther until Dec. 13 because Stanford mustprepare to assess the three alternatives pro-posed at last week’s meeting, which wouldbring the total number of alternatives stud-

ied by the University in its proposal to six.San Mateo County has declined Stan-

ford’s offer twice before, and the debateabout whether the offer should be acceptedand how the funds would be used dates backto 2006.

“It’s a really complex, long-standing,three-party issue,and it has been going on fora long time,”Groom said. “Supervisors havecome and gone in both San Mateo Countyand Santa Clara County, so there have beendifferent ideas and different perspectives.”

The three additional options that Stan-ford will prepare to look into are ending thetrail at Piers Lane,where there is already an

existing and damaged trail; having the trailcross over Alpine Road and hug the otherside, then cross back over at the end of Weekend Acres; and building a trail cross-

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Relative’s breast cancer gene may

not put women at higher riskBy MELODY WONG

According to a recent Stanford study, simplybeing a close relative of a woman with a genetic mu-tation of the BRCA gene does not place a woman ata higher risk for getting breast cancer.

This new research,published last Monday in theJournal of Clinical Oncology,contradicts the findingsof a 2007 study that claimed otherwise, suggestingwomen with a family history of the BRCA1 orBRCA2 mutation were more likely to develop breastcancer than the average woman,even if they testednegative for the mutation.

Breast cancer is the most common type of canceramong females in the United States, with roughly230,000 new diagnoses of invasive breast cancer eachyear, according to the American Cancer Society.Men,on the other hand,have a one in 1,000 risk of de-veloping breast cancer over the course of a lifetime.According to BreastCancer.org, while predicteddeaths caused by breast cancer have declined since1999 by 2 percent, this trend has only been seen in

RAVEN JIANG/The Stanford DailyPalo Alto voters will take to the polls today to decide on Measures D and E. Absentee ballot numbers, with 8,000submitted before the weekend, suggest strong voter turnout, according to former Palo Alto mayor Peter Drekmeier.

ALISA ROYER/The Stanford Daily

San Mateo County supervisors voted 4-1 last Tuesday to postpone their decision on Stanford’sproposal to repair a portion of the Alpine Trail, asking the University to study alternatives.

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One unique feature of CAP Net-work is what is called “similaritymatching,” in which the networkanalyzes the publications of onemember and produces the top 10people on CAP Network with simi-

lar publications in order to facilitatecollaboration on anything from re-search projects to presentations.Additionally,users can form privategroups to upload documents andshare images and websites.

The ultimate goal, according toadministrators,is for CAP Networkto foster more collaboration.

“This is a platform that allows forvery rapid,very transparent collabo-rating,” Halaas said. “The hope isthat it provides collaboration in newways . . . and through that we fur-ther our science and patient care.”

The initial response to CAP Net-work’s launch has been mostly pos-itive.According to Lowe, there arenow 10,000 profiles on the network.

Following this trend, the main

objective for the foreseeable futurewill be to raise awareness of the net-work,according to Halaas.

“We intentionally wanted to getsomething in a reasonably fastframework,get it out in the commu-nity and then hear what the com-munity wants and go from there,”Halaas said.

Lowe noted certain expectationsfor use of the network.

“We anticipate lots of things that

happen on email now will happen onthis platform,”he said.For now, CAP Network includes

only Stanford community members,with the recent addition of staff mem-bers. But expansion is a possibility,Lowe said.

“Our goal is to incrementally ex-pand the community that participatesin CAP,”Lowe said.He added that helikes to see more of the larger Univer-sity community collaborating.

The network has many possibili-ties for expanded use, including in-creased ties with Stanford Hospital &Clinics. Though the hospital has al-ready used the profile portion of CAP to help find doctors, the net-work may lead to increased use.

“We’re definitely looking at

adapting and integrating it,” saidChris Furmanski,director of market-ing technology and innovation at thehospital.

Creating CAP Network was aprocess that took many months, ac-cording to Halaas and Lowe. Theteam behind the network partneredwith salesforce.com for much of thetechnology and integrated tightlywith CAP itself for many of the social

networking features.Hammering out privacy agree-

ments also took time, according toHalaas.

“We’ve gone to extensive lengthsto ensure security and privacy,” Ha-laas said.“Every user has control overwhere their information goes. Wespent a great deal of time. We havevery rigorous agreements that it re-mains entirely in our control and that

it meets all the security standards thatare required.”

Regardless of what form the net-work takes in the future,it has alreadymade an impact. “I’ve been pilot-ing it in my department for about sixmonths,and now I couldn’t live with-out it,”Halaas said.

Contact Shelley Xu at sxu8@stanford.edu.

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ing over Alpine Road, whichwould go over the hill and thencross back, according to medicalschool professor Dr. P.J. Utz, whoattended the meeting. SupervisorDavid Pine proposed the three ad-ditional alternatives.

If the offer is accepted and theposition of the trail falls within un-incorporated San Mateo Countyland and other plots designated inthe original agreement betweenSanta Clara County and Stanford,the University will fund the re-views. If, however, the land chosenis different from the original agree-ment, San Mateo County will payfor the environmental review andoutside expert analysis, giving thecounty full control of the study.

Larry Horton, Stanford seniorassociate vice president and direc-tor of government and communityrelations, said that Stanford will bepreparing as well as it can until thenext board meeting, since the exactlocations of the new options havenot yet been identified.

“We would have to agree on al-

ternative wording that would besatisfactory to both parties,” Hor-ton said.

Utz said that if the county werelikely to get an extension on thefinal decision, these additionalthree propositions would have tochange.

Strongly voiced positions bycommunity residents on both sidesdirectly affected by the current trailhave contributed to drawing outthe debate.

“This is not one where you canmake a decision and make every-body happy,”Horton said.

The communities of Ledara andPortola Valley support the decisionto accept the offer, while residentsof Stanford Weekend Acres repre-sent the opposition.

Chris Rubin, a resident of Stan-ford Weekend Acres, said that notall of his community is actually inopposition.

“I think there’s a select fewmembers from Stanford WeekendAcres who are extremely vocal intheir opinions against the trail, andI think that the Board of Supervi-sors is trying to accommodate thosepeople,” Rubin said. “But unfortu-nately I’m not convinced that it’snecessarily representative of themajority of people it would bene-

fit.”Both sides use safety as a major

consideration in defending theirposition. For Stanford WeekendAcres residents like Sarah DiBoise,much of the concern is related toentry and exit into the community.

“I understand there are issuesabout safety on the ingress andegress from Weekend Acres ontoAlpine Road, and that is a busyroad and those are legitimate con-cerns,” DiBoise said.“I think that’spart of why the trail is so unsafetoday.”

Both Rubin and DiBoise saidthat even the overall current condi-tion of the trail needs attention.Ac-cording to DiBoise, the trail is bare-ly navigable on foot, forcing walk-ers to stick close to bushes and put-ting them at risk of on-coming traf-fic. For Rubin, who bikes to workevery day, the trail’s current stateposes a great risk,as the trail is evenless suitable for bikes.

“I think it would be a wonderfulresource for the whole communityif we could have a continuous trailthat went from Menlo Park all theway into Portola Valley — and itwas safe,” DiBoise said.

Contact Ileana Najarro at [email protected].

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vaged and reused in Milpitas.On Friday, PG&E announced

that it found a leak during hydro-testing of pipe near Palo Alto. Thecompany did not clarify whether theleak is located in the reused section

of the pipeline.

On Sunday, a pipeline in Wood-side, Calif., burst while PG&E wasconducting hydro-testing in the re-gion. The section of pipe that rup-tured was on Line 132. No injurieswere reported, while one vehiclewas damaged by the spray of dirtand rocks resulting from the rup-ture.

— Margaret Rawson

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women over the age of 50. On aver-age, 40,000 women die from breastcancer each year.

The average woman in the Unit-ed States has a 12 percent chance of developing invasive breast cancer inher lifetime, meaning one in everyeight women in the United Stateswill be affected by breast cancer, ac-cording to BreastCancer.org.Whileabout five to 10 percent of breastcancer cases are genetic, most of these are caused by abnormalities inthe BRCA genes.Women with thesemutations have up to an 80 percentincreased chance of developingbreast cancer,and as such,must takenecessary precautions. Several op-tions involve intensive annualscreenings at an earlier age, takingthe drug tamoxifen to preventbreast cancer or even undergoing adouble mastectomy to diminish therisk before cancer can develop.

However, most women discoverthe mutation after they have beendiagnosed with cancer.Close female relatives may chooseto test for the mutation if someonein their family has tested positive.

The 2007 study, published in theJournal of Medical Genetics, pro-posed that women who did not havethe mutation but whose mother or

sister did had up to a five-fold high-er risk of developing breast cancer.As expected, these findings causedsome anxiety among oncologistsand patients.

As a result, the recent discoverybrings great comfort to women from

high-risk families. “These findingsput a lot of concerns to rest,”said Dr.Allison Kurian, assistant professorof medicine in oncology and healthresearch and policy at StanfordMedical Center and author of thestudy.

Kurian studies breast cancerrisks and prevention at the StanfordMedical Center.

Shortly after the publication of the unsettling 2007 paper, Kurianand her team put together an exper-iment to challenge the claims.

They studied more than 3,000families with the BRCA1 orBRCA2 mutations from the UnitedStates, Canada and Australia andcompared breast cancer rates be-tween a control group of non-carri-ers of the BRCA mutation who hada first-degree relative with breastcancer and carriers of the mutatedgene with first-degree relatives withbreast cancer.

From this data, the study con-cluded that “if a woman tests nega-tive for a BRCA mutation in herfamily, she does not have a signifi-cantly elevated risk of developingbreast cancer.”

While both studies compared therisk of developing breast cancer infamilies with a history of the BCRAmutation, the study released in 2007analyzed 277 British families withthe BRCA mutation.

Kurian said she believed that thediscrepancy between the two studiescould be attributed to the fact that

women in the first study werescreened more often for breast can-cer, and as such, more cases werefound.

Contact Melody Wong at [email protected].

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“My opinion is that we absolute-ly need Measure D — that citycouncil needs to be able to controlthe costs,” said Councilman GregScharff. “Measure D is absolutely

vital to the community . . . It wouldcreate a more harmonious relation-ship between the fire departmentand the city.”

Scharff said he believes thatbinding arbitration in the city char-ter causes more harm than good,and that Palo Alto would benefitgreatly if Measure D passes. He es-timated the total funding tally of Measure D supporters at $20,000,compared to an estimated $70,000to $80,000 funded by opponents of the measure.

The “No on D”committee writeson its website that the city councilshould “reform binding arbitrationrather than repeal it.”

The issue of binding arbitrationhas the potential to influence Stan-ford’s funds as well, some of whichare allocated to payroll and equip-ment costs for firefighters.

The debate over Measure E hasbeen equally lively.

“Measure E provides a great op-portunity,” said former Palo Altomayor Peter Drekmeier.“It doesn’tcommit the city to building a facility.It doesn’t determine what technolo-gy would be used.But it allows us totake the next step, which is a thor-ough study of the different possibil-ities.”

Drekmeier explained that wetanaerobic digestion has the poten-tial to save billions of dollars,gener-

ate renewable energy and reducegreenhouse gases. The Palo AltoGreen Energy and Compost Initia-tive has spent the past few days dis-tributing a flyer to voters, clarifyingbenefits of Measure E. Proponentsof Measure E have raised just under$30,000, according to Drekmeier.

“It’s premature to take parklandwhen you don’t know what’s goingto go on it,”said former city council-

woman Emily Renzel. “You don’tgo and un-dedicate parkland for fu-ture studies . . . We don’t know theimpacts of it. We don’t know thecosts of it.We don’t know the feasi-bility of it.”

Every voter household in PaloAlto has received a flyer warning of the potential difficulties of MeasureE, according to Renzel.She report-ed that the Committee for No onMeasure E raised just over $17,000,none of which was donated by de-velopers.

With these two issues on theballot, even without city councilelections,Palo Alto might still seea large voter turnout. Out of the71 percent of voting citizens whoarrange for absentee ballots,8,000 were reported to haveturned in their ballots before theweekend, according to Drekmeierand Renzel.

“There are only two items on theballot, Measure D and Measure E,and if people feel interestedenough in one or both of those is-sues, they’ll vote. Otherwise, it willbe a lower voter turnout,” Drek-meier said. “But the absentee, thevote-by-mail turnout, has reallybeen quite high, so that suggeststhat there is interest.”

Contact Jordan Shapiro at [email protected].

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Harvesting the

FarmW

hen it comes tot re es, S ta nf or dtakes the cake. Itstree community isvast,from the icon-

ic palms along Palm Drive to the il-lustrious unofficial mascot. ButStanford also has dozens of ediblefruit trees tucked away in nearlyevery corner of the Farm.

According to retired chief groundskeeper Herb Fong,many of these fruit trees on campus were in-tended for human consumption.Fong spent 36 years planting, de-signing and maintaining the Stan-ford landscape. His long-term goalduring his time at Stanford includedplanting as many trees and plants aspossible, including fruit trees, tomaintain Stanford’s farm experi-ence. Fong chose trees that wereself-sustaining and wouldn’t re-quire extensive maintenance.

“There are a good deal of stu-dents who come from the EastCoast or other parts of the worldthat have never seen an orange treeor an avocado tree or some of themore exotic fruits and vegetablesthat we have on campus,”Fong said.“It’s kind of fun to provide an op-portunity for people to experiencethose things.”

Even before Fong arrived oncampus, several fruit trees were al-

ready here. Leland Stanford want-

ed to plant trees from all over theworld, and Jane Stanford desiredthe campus to host biblical plants.Born from their wishes were a vari-ety of trees across campus.

Pomegranate trees grow in Gov-ernor’s Corner and in the islands of the Inner Quad. Stanford’s Avoca-do Courtyard is by Building 120.These trees, tested by both time andsquirrels, have stood for over 100years, even after being threatenedby construction in 1979. CitrusCourtyard, located in the HistoryCorner,houses tangerine,kumquat,blood orange and lemon trees.Theexotic fare includes a Buddha’shand citrus tree, which has a yellowfruit with bumpy tendrils. A straw-berry tree, bearing yellow ball-shaped fruits that turn red whenripe, is at the Escondido Road cul-de-sac across from Meyer Library.A pineapple guava bush grows be-hind Stern near the Munger Gradu-ate Residences. That plant is usedfor hedging but provides ripe fruitin the fall.

Other exotic plants on the Farminclude Japanese fuyu and hachiyapersimmons near Rains Housesand behind the bookstore, respec-tively, pomelo in the entry court-yard of Toyon Hall and tangerinesby Florence Moore Hall.

FEATURES

By PEPITO ESCARCE

Between the Band’s syn-chronized instrumentalswing and the Dollies’dance routine at a foot-ball game, the Tree

stands out. It looks like a toyChristmas tree, but has two eyesand a toothy grin attached to itsleaves. Its trunk jumps and twirlsas Michael Samuels ’12, the maninside,rocks out to tunes.

The Band’s Tree,a relatively re-cent invention,is famous for its ap-pearance, irreverence and status asStanford’s unofficial mascot and asan icon of Stanford culture. How-ever,the source of this mascot goesback to the 18th century and a 110-foot redwood named El Palo Alto.

The redwood is located a littleover four blocks northwest of thePalo Alto Caltrain station in ElPalo Alto Park, which was built in1971. It is so tall that an observerstanding on the ground next to thetree cannot see its top.

Despite its size, the redwood isnot as prominent as one might ex-pect. Many trees surround thewalkway around El Palo AltoPark.However,a plaque on a boul-der next to the tree indicates itssignificance. The historical societyNative Sons of the Golden Westdesignated this plaque to com-memorate the founding of the Cityof Palo Alto. The plaque reads,“Under this Giant Redwood, thePalo Alto, November 6 to 11,1769,camped Portola and his band on

the expedition that discovered SanFrancisco Bay.”

Gaspar de Portola was the firstEuropean explorer to discover theSan Francisco Bay. El Palo Altoserved as a reference point to hisbase camp because it could be seenfrom miles away.

“To the Spaniards, it was a clearlandmark because all the othertrees in the area were much small-er oaks,”said Steve Staiger,a PaloAlto historian.

As the site of their base camp,they named the tree “El PaloAlto,” Spanish for

“the tall tree.”The region becameknown as Palo Alto, where theStanford family would eventuallysettle on a farm.

After Leland Stanford Jr. diedin 1884, his parents dedicated therest of the decade to planning andbuilding Stanford University ontheir farm.When the campus host-ed its first students in 1891,six fam-ilies lived in Palo Alto.That quick-ly changed. Palo Alto became acollege town for the University, at-tracting campus workers, profes-sors and investors from San Fran-cisco. The Stanfords embedded arendition of El Palo Alto in theStanford crest,making it a symbolfor the University.Stanford and ElPalo Alto Park, then,serve to com-memorate California’s oldest liv-

ing landmark, according to a 1999Palo Alto city manager’s report.Addressing traditions regard-

ing the tree,“It depends who youask,”Staiger said. “A lot of peopledon’t know the tree even exists.”

In the past, students “held ayearly class contest to see whocould place the class flag at the topof the tree,”the city manager’s re-port stated. However, in 1909, be-cause a student became stuck inthe tree, this annual traditionended and the tree lost a signifi-cant part of its role in Stanford cul-ture until the Band’s mascotemerged.

The Tree, inspired by El PaloAlto, debuted in a 1975 halftimeshow. The Tree gained popularityand made several appearances in

other field shows.Eventually, it be-came a regular, and the Bandadopted the Tree as its official mas-cot. It should not be confused,though,with Stanford University’sofficial mascot, Cardinal. But whyare they different?

In 1930,the Indians became theUniversity’s mas-

cot, a mascot ultimately deemedoffensive. In 1972, 55 NativeAmerican students and staff mem-bers petitioned to have it removed.The University complied, butneeded to find a new mascot. In1978, students voted for the Rob-ber Barons as the new mascot, butthe Department of Athletics re-

jected the idea.Finally, in 1981,theUniversity permanently estab-lished Cardinal as its mascot.

Although the Tree is an unoffi-cial mascot,it is inextricably tied tocampus and Band culture.

“We think the idea of a mascotis absurd,”said Band manager Ben“Ditto” Lasley ’11.“You can’t seethem, they can’t talk, you can’teven know who it is at a lot of schools.The Tree makes a mockery

of everyone who takes themselvesso seriously.It’s an extension of thespirit of the Band.”

The Band and the Tree pridethemselves on their spirit of irrev-erence, and media sources lavishattention on the Tree. Last year,“Page 2” on ESPN.com rated theTree the worst major college mas-cot.

Preforming at Band Run, Fos-ter Field, Maples Pavilion and onCollege GameDay, among otherthings, the Tree is perpetually busy.

“Athletic events are about half of what I do,”Samuels said.“Any-time I’m not doing something else,I’m doing something for Tree. It’sgoing by so quickly.It’s taken overmy life, in a good way.”

Samuels will remain the Stan-

ford Tree until the end of winterquarter.Then he will pass his lega-cy on to the next Tree,which will bechosen during Stanford’s annualTree Week.

The boisterous, iconic mascotfound on campus starkly contrastswith the stoic landmark that in-spired it.As the campus continuesto evolve,El Palo Alto will contin-ue to stand,marking the years thatpass ring by ring.

Contact Pepito Escarce at [email protected].

SERENITY NGUYEN/The Stanford Daily

Campus culturecounted in the rings of

El Palo AltoBy LANA HO

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OPINIONS

The saying goes,“Patience is avirtue,” and for the most part,I have considered myself an

exemplar of that.I’m not in a hurryto become an adult (though I feellike an old lady at times),I can standwaiting for the return of “TrueBlood”and I rarely feel the need torush anywhere (much to the chagrinof anyone I’m meeting).

Yet that theory has beenchecked, starting with my first dayat Howard when I moved into “TheTowers.” Every day it gets testedwhen I have to wait for my Internetto work again after it cuts out for the

thousandth time, or I’m sitting in aclassroom waiting the mandatory20 minutes for my professor to showup. Coming from Stanford, a placewhere students have panic attacks if it takes more than .03 seconds for awebpage to load, I couldn’t under-stand how anyone at Howard re-mained so calm when dealing withthese situations. While I was goingcrazy, they were just fine, unruffledby the slowness of the system.

Eventually, I realized that theissue didn’t just stem from my lackof patience. Yes, I wasn’t as patientas I liked to believe, but the realproblem was that I had been wait-ing the wrong way my entire life.

I found this out unintentionallywhen my friend announced that shewanted to perform at an open micnight. The place would be packedon a Friday night, so we wanted toget things done in advance. We at-tempted to buy tickets beforehand,but we discovered they wouldn’t besold until that night. So we got inline well before show started at 11p.m., waiting close to an hour tomake sure we received tickets.Once inside, we waited for the showto start.When the show started, wewaited for the show to get good.When the show was good, we wait-ed for my friend to perform. How-ever, they told her she would haveto wait until next month to performbecause the set list was full.

Although my impatient self feltthat night was a waste of time,something valuable actually hap-

pened.Back when we were stuck inthe liminal space between outsideand in, we met another pair of peo-ple in the same situation.My friendand I had arrived with a purpose,but this pair barely knew what theyhad gotten themselves into. Theyhad just left their play rehearsal and

joined the line hoping that whatev-er was on the other side of the waitwould be worth it.So as we commis-erated over our prolonged fate, wegot to know the people behind us,who were more entertaining thanmany of the performers showcased.

History has repeatedly shownthat waiting long enough is great

motivation to get something done(Civil Rights Movement, ArabSpring and more). I understoodwhy by the end of the night. Wewere all tired of waiting, so myfriend decided to have her own im-promptu open mic,new friends in-cluded.I stood in the cold listeningto her sing on the street like it wasa spotlighted stage in front of apacked theater. It was amazing.Our new friends then joined heron the street corner stage, beltingout a rendition of “Impossible”from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s“Cinderella” that would havemade a pre-crack Whitney Hous-ton proud.

The songs sounded so sweet notonly because the singers were tal-ented,but also because of the antic-ipation built up through the wait.Waiting can make highs higher andthe lows even worse. Think of thelast time you waited for something— an album release,an answer to adifficult question, a (worthwhile)Facebook notification — and whatit felt like to finally get it.Anticipat-ing the result can lead to unmet ex-pectations, which sucks. But that’swhat waiting is: the expectation thatthe end result is worth your time.

When waiting, most of us cursetime if it stands between us and

what we want. It’s ingrained in ourDNA to not like waiting, to wish wewere moving forward, not stagnat-ing in the same place.Waiting is notan option,but a requirement of life.We wait for things to come, to pass,to happen, anything that matters.I’m still perfecting the art of wait-ing, but I do know that if the wrongway to wait is focusing on whatyou’re not doing yet, then the rightmust be figuring out what can bedone in the meantime.

Camira is waiting for your email, somake sure to get one to her at [email protected].

I’ M DO N E W I T H MY LIF E

THE YOUNG ADULT SECTION

The art of waiting

Ithink people are afraid of peo-ple.It sounds weird only becausewe don’t typically diagnose it as

fear. But if we take some of ourgreatest ones — bad first impres-sions, feeling out of place, being

judged — it all comes down to thisstrange, unacknowledged fear of other people. Perhaps with all theunknowns in this universe and be-yond, the ones inside ourselves arethe scariest.

Starting in freshman year of highschool,as I stood with chatty team-mates in tennis skirts on the courts,I used to feel completely trapped inmy own head.You know the feeling.

It’s a unique combination of beinglost for words, conscious of correctlaughter cues, aware of how in-volved you are in the conversationand stressed that the others arecreeped out that you might not be.In this situation, you don’t want tosay anything wrong. So you thinkabout everything before you say it.And,as we all know, doing that canmake anything sound weird. Ulti-mately, I never felt effortless orcomfortable amid these girls andtheir conversation (or gossip andcomplaints, more accurately). Ispent about two years of practicesand matches in private fits, thinkingI was toeing a thin line between “in-sider” and “outsider.” I then quit,

joined broadcast journalism (whichrocked my remaining high schoolcareer) and realized I had legiti-mately very little in common withmost of my former teammates.I hadbeen so self-conscious, so afraid of my social status with those girls.Why?

For most people, that situationhas become so normal that it’staken for granted.Imagine sitting atlunch with a group of people. Andno matter how beautiful it is out-side, how great the food is, howfriendly the people are (and evenmore so if they’re not),we somehowbecome acutely sensitive to the mo-ment. Suddenly, everything wewould normally have said outrightdemands a second guess. Will theyget this joke? Does this commentfit? When should I say it? Now? Too

late? Do I laugh now? Maybe I’llagree to everything. Is it weird I’mwearing this jacket when it’s thisnice out . . . Oh my goodness.

For me, this kind of hesitancy inspeech is a major alarm that someunnaturalness is going on. Internalhead-games, my friend — they’reunbelievably exhausting. And evenin some of my closest friends, I canalmost literally see thoughts mari-nating or speeches being mentallyperfected for so long that theynever get said.Then,with emotionsbottled up,people either blow up atsomeone or resort to passive-ag-gressiveness — two reactions thatare frustratingly hard to engagewith.The biggest irony is that whenwe lose ourselves in over-analysis of our image,we also lose the opportu-

nity to talk for real . And at thatpoint, what they think of us will bean artificial idea anyway.

Of all the fears that sink to thepits of our stomachs and tie knotsthere, our fear of other peoplemight be the most powerful one. Itpervades the simplest, most every-

day moments — especially thefleeting ones that seem the least im-portant. There’s definitely an es-cape route, though, in making thisfear useful.After all,the fear tells usexactly who we’re defining as im-portant and how much we’re glori-fying them. If we decide that we’repaying our worry and time to some-one who deserves our precious en-ergy, fine. (For example, if we get abloody nose in a shark-infestedocean,fear for our lives with respectto a man-eating fish is logical.) Butif we realize we’re putting anotherperson and his or her random opin-ions on a pedestal,we might also re-alize how ridiculous it actually is.

At this school,so many of us pur-sue lofty standards and achieve

unimaginable accomplishments inresearch, government policies andpublic service . . . and it’s amazing.Yet when it comes down to our mostbasic relations with our peers, westill fall victim to this fear of seem-ing weird. Or wrong. Or offensive.Or whatever.

I choose to believe in a fewthings that truly deserve fear, re-spect and deference.However, howwe’re considered by another humanperson is seriously not one of them.The thought strikes so much morefear into people than it has the legit-imate authority to.People are peo-ple: imperfect, completely unique,keepers of stories that can’t be readon faces.So why are we so afraid of seeming otherwise?

It’s okay. Just do it. Just say it.

Especially when hesitation hits.

What will Nina think if you email her in response? It doesn’t matter. (For the record, she would really love tohear that you read the column at all.)Simply address it to ninamc@stan-

ford.edu.

People and fearNinaChung

CamiraPowell

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Waiting can make

highs higher and the

lows even worse.

People are people:

imperfect,completely

unique,keepers ofstories

that can’t be read on faces.

Although they’re supposed tobe low-maintenance trees, theystill need attention. So who takes

care of them? This is where Stan-ford Glean comes into play. Gleanis a service organization on cam-pus that harvests the fruit. CaitlinBrown ’12 and Susannah Poole’11, inspired after taking environ-mental earth system science pro-fessor Page Chamberlain’s intro-

ductory seminar “Food & Com-munity,” founded the group. Thepicked fruit is donated to differentfree food stands in the Bay Area.Glean also finds and cataloguesthe locations of the different fruittrees using a user-edited GoogleMap. The current co-presidents,Tim Huang ’14 and Jovel Queirolo

’14, continue the founders’ mis-sion.The group hosts two gleaning

trips every week, one on Thursdaymornings at 10 a.m.for seminar stu-dents,and one on Friday afternoonsat 4:15 p.m. open to everyone. Partof their philosophy is to share the

fruit with everyone through theirwork with free food stands and withtheir on-campus harvesting trips.

“When you take the time to pickyour own fruit, it tastes better. Ittastes richer,” Huang said.

From apple trees to pineappleguava bushes, the Stanfords andgroundskeepers provided this cam-

pus with a host of different edibletrees.Whether students are hungry,charitable or just want a new tasteof campus, the University’s manytrees are here to pick.

Contact Lana Ho at lanaho@stanford.edu.

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By DAVID PEREZ

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The No. 4 Stanford men’swater polo team maintained itsfourth-place spot in the MountainPacific Sports Federation (MPSF)standings with two conferencewins this weekend. The Cardinaldefeated Long Beach State 11-3on Saturday and UC-Irvine 14-7on Sunday.

MEN’S WATER POLO

STANFO RD 14

UC-IRVINE 7

11/6, Irvine, Calif.

Sunday’s game was a pre-dictably high-scoring affair,as No.6 UC-Irvine is third in the MPSFin goals scored but has allowed the

second-most goals of any confer-ence team.

Early on, Irvine (14-10, 2-5MPSF) looked like it would be atough test. The Anteaters scoredthe first two goals of the game be-fore a pair of goals by redshirtsophomore 2-meter ForrestWatkins tied the score at 2-2.A bigsecond period put Stanford (16-4,5-2) ahead, though, as it scoredfive goals in the frame to take a 7-4 halftime lead.

Stanford’s second-ranked de-

fense took over in the second half,

turning the game into the team’ssecond rout of the weekend.A 5-0run in the second half put the Car-dinal ahead 12-5, and the gamewas out of reach by then.Redshirtsenior goalie Brian Pingree ledthe defense with 11 saves againstthe shot-happy Irvine team.

“We did a pretty good job of shot-blocking on the outside,which made it easier for Pingree,”Watkins said.

Senior driver Jacob Smith ledthe team with three goals. Red-shirt senior driver Ryan Kent,

junior driver Paul Rudolph, red-shirt sophomore driver AustinTrinkle and Watkins followedwith two goals apiece. Freshmanutility Alex Bowen,redshirt soph-omore driver Ian Gamble and

redshirt junior driver Travis Nolladded one goal each.

On Saturday the Cardinal tookcare of No.7 Long Beach State in agame that was close for much of the first three quarters. Althoughthe final score was a gaping 11-3,Stanford led just 4-2 at halftime.Goals by Watkins, Noll and Smith

jump-started Stanford to a 3-0lead, but a couple of second-quar-ter goals and an early third-quar-ter goal brought the 49ers withinone at 4-3.

Yet again, though, a dominant

defensive effort helped Stanfordpull away significantly in the sec-ond half.The Cardinal went on a7-0 run to end the game, shuttingout Long Beach State for the last15:16 of the contest.

Pingree had to make only fivesaves because of the strong defen-sive play by the position players.Watkins attributed a lot of that toLong Beach State’s style of play.

“They were working the set alot harder, so we got more rejec-tions and steals,” Watkins said.The three goals by Long BeachState are the fewest Stanford hasallowed against any MPSF oppo-nent.

Bowen led the way with a hattrick, while Rudolph, senior utili-ty Peter Sefton and Watkins had

two goals apiece. Noll and Smitheach added a goal.

Stanford hosts two gamesagainst non-conference oppo-nents next weekend,No. 14 SantaClara on Saturday and No.12 UC-Davis on Sunday.A second week-end in a row with Saturday andSunday games should help theteam prepare for the MPSF Tour-nament.“Going back-to-back is good

By TORSTEIN HOSET

Sunday’s game againstUCLA saw a good number of people showing up on the crispautumn afternoon to watch theStanford men’s soccer team’slast home contest of the season.With Senior Day as a perfectbackdrop for what promised tobe a cracking game, the Cardi-nal seniors were eager to leadtheir team to its fifth consecu-

tive home win against UCLAin their final outing at Laird Q.Cagan Stadium. However, theCardinal was outmatched,falling 3-0 to the Bruins.

MEN’S SOCCER

UCLA 3

STANFORD 0

11/6, Laird Q. Cagan Stadium

Stanford was coming off avery convincing performanceagainst San Diego State on Fri-day and had all the confidenceand momentum in the worldgoing into the tough matchupagainst the Bruins. The fresh-men had their coming out partyon Friday; now it was time forthe seniors to shine.

From the very start, howev-er, a very impressive-lookingUCLA team took control of the game and never lookedback. The first half saw Stan-ford struggling to keep up withthe Bruins’ tempo on the ball.After an uneventful first 13minutes, the Bruins struck asStanford’s defense was caughtout of position.A through-ball

found an unmarked VictorChavez, who had the time andspace to place a cool finish pastsophomore goalie DrewHutchins.

Less than a minute later,dis-aster struck again as a low-driv-en cross from Bruin midfielderEder Arreola hit senior right-back Adoni Levine, who putthe ball into his own net andgave the visitors a two-goallead.At that point, head coachBret Simon knew it would bedifficult to get back into thegame.

“We dug ourselves too bigof a hole early in the game,”

Simon said.“Against an experi-enced opponent like UCLA,you just can’t do that.”

The Bruin powerhouse keptchurning out chance afterchance,showcasing their domi-nance and making clear toeveryone why they’re rankedNo.8 in the nation.

Stanford looked dangerouson a few occasions after thegoals,but the Cardinal failed topick up where it left off againstSan Diego State.

After the break, Stanfordlooked more aggressive, creat-ing a few opportunities in theopening minutes but failing toconvert pressure into goals.After 57 minutes,the game wasput beyond all doubt, as Bruindefender Shawn Singh scored asomewhat special goal from 30yards out,bending an intendedcross into the far upper corner.

Minutes later,Stanford sen-ior midfielder Taylor Ammangot a great scoring chance onthe right side after a good Car-dinal attack, but the shot andsubsequent rebound fizzled outand amounted to nothing. In

the end, UCLA could bag acomfortable three-point victo-ry — the team’s first at CaganStadium since 2005 — therebymanifesting its position as thebest team in the conference andextending its perfect confer-ence record to 9-0. After thegame,Simon was sad to see theseniors going out with such abad loss.

“I am disappointed forthem; we really wanted to sendthem off in a better manner,”hesaid. “It’s a team that we’vebeaten the last several yearshere at home,and their starting11 was virtually the same as a

year ago.Sadly, they happen tobe playing very well this time of year.”

Friday’s game against SanDiego State was quite a differ-ent story. The Aztecs came toStanford looking for a win togive them a chance to climbback into contention for theNCAA Tournament.They willsurely be disappointed aftersurprisingly being sent homewith nothing but a metaphori-cal kick in the groin from theCardinal,as Stanford won 4-1.

“We went up against a verygood team with many talentedplayers,” Simon said. “I’m veryhappy with our display today.”

An enthusiastic Stanfordteam took a good quarter of anhour to settle down and startchipping away at the Aztec de-fense, but once the Cardinaltrain started rolling, it seemedunstoppable.

Sophomore midfielder J.J.Koval kicked the Stanford ma-chine into gear after 16 min-utes with a beautifully curled

SPORTS

POOR FINISHCard loses 3-0on Senior Day

SOCAL ROUTS

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily

Freshman forward Jimmy Callinan was part of a potent freshman attack in Friday’s 4-1 winover San Diego State. The Cardinal couldn’t get anything going on Sunday in a 3-0 loss.

Please see MWPOLO,page 7

ZACK HOBERG/The Stanford Daily

Senior goalkeeper Brian Pingree held Long Beach State and UC-Irvine to just 10 goals total as the No. 4 Stan-ford men’s water polo team cruised to a pair of easy victories. The Card remains in fourth place in the MPSF.

Tom Taylor

If there is one thing that is guar-anteed when I devote my col-umn to football, it is that I willget email abuse for daring totarnish this hallowed game with

my foreign ideas.True to form, I re-ceived the short yet delightfully gram-matically flawed message “You’reani-diot” in response to last week’sthoughts on my experience of Stan-ford at USC.

Happily,I also got a few more sup-

portive comments,ranging from sim-ple appreciation to convincing argu-ments for why Stanford will beat Ore-gon on Saturday, but the consistentcomplaints raise a question.When canI cease being an outsider and call my-self a bona fide football fan?

Now before we get any further, Ishould stress — something which myhaters don’t seem to recognize — thatthis is an opinion column and not a

journalistically unbiased and well-re-searched article. That’s why I get towrite about anything, and it meanswhile you might disagree with me,that’s just your opinion. I don’t writethis as a journalist;I write it as a gener-al sports fan,and when it comes to col-lege football,yes,as one of you.

I cannot claim that I have, or everwill have,the sort of all-encompassing

football knowledge that comes fromgrowing up living and breathing thesport.As a consequence of my nation-ality,it can also never take first place inmy sports passions. The first entiregame I ever watched was in my mid-20s, and even that was done with ahealthy dose of suspicion about whatseemed to me to be just rugby withpads on.But fast-forward a few yearsand I spent last Saturday glued to theTV first watching Stanford againstOregon State, then flipping back andforth between the top-of-the-rank-ings clash between LSU and Alabamaand the crucial — for Stanford’s na-tional title aspirations — KansasState vs.Oklahoma State game.

My awareness of football historyand statistics is full of gaping holes,and hardly a game goes by withoutconfusion over at least one of the reg-ulations— though some much morequalified individuals might deservethat same accusation — but my inter-est has been caught enough that Idragged myself down to LA for theUSC game. The Stanford footballteam is no longer “it”to me; it is “we,”

Stanford softball sweeps pair of weekend doubleheaders to

complete fall season

The Stanford softball teamplayed a very rude host to the SanFrancisco State and Santa Clarasquads this weekend,sending bothteams home disappointed aftersweeping back-to-back double-headers on Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday saw the Cardinal’s of-fense explode against the Gatorsin a pair of routs, as Stanford wonby scores of 15-2 and 16-1. Theruns came from up and down thelineup, but the strong performanc-es by the Cardinal in the circlewere perhaps more important.

Junior Teagan Gerhart andfreshman Nyree White both werevery sharp in their appearances,each pitching a game on Saturday

and splitting duties in both gameson Sunday against Santa Clara.The Broncos put up a little

more resistance but were stillovermatched by a potent Stanfordteam that returns most of its start-ing lineup as well as its ace, Ger-hart. The Cardinal beat SantaClara 8-0 and 6-0 on Sunday, andWhite allowed just two hits as sen-ior infielder Jenna Becerra hit ahome run and senior catcher/out-fielder Maya Burns hit a three-rundouble as part of a six-run fourthinning.

With the fall schedule complete,the Cardinal will have to wait untilFeb. 10 to return to action as it kicksoff the 2012 season at the KajikawaClassic in Tempe,Ariz., against CalState-Northridge.

Top-ranked women’s soccer securesNo. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament, will

host Montana Friday night

As was widely expected, the No.1 Cardinal was awarded the topoverall seed for the NCAAWomen’s Soccer Tournament onMonday and will host Montana inthe first round on Friday.

The Grizzlies (6-11-4) surprisedWeber State in the Big Sky confer-ence finals to earn a berth in thetournament for the first time in 11years under first-year head coachMark Plakorus.

They will face a tough testagainst Stanford (19-0-1), which is

playing in its 14th consecutiveNCAA Tournament and has playedin three consecutive College Cups,losing two straight years in the na-tional championship game.

As the host of the Stanford Re-gional, the Cardinal would take onthe winner of Texas and South Car-

All you needis some

dedication

Please see TAYLOR, page 7

SPORTS BRIEFS

Please see BRIEFS,page 7

Please see MSOCCER,page 7

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