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By KATE ABBOTTSENIOR STAFF WRITER

More than 50 people attended a town hallmeeting at Stanford on Tuesday night to de-bate the possible return of ROTC to campus,the largest such gathering since the FacultySenate opened the question last spring.

Members of the Senate’s ad hoc committeeinvestigating the matter, ROTC cadets andother student-group representatives attendedthe event, which ASSU helped organize.

Sam Windley,a law student and president of Stanford Says to No War,opened discussion bypresenting the group’s two main argumentsagainst the return of the military program toStanford:that ROTC defies the right to free ac-ademic exploration and that the program vio-lates Stanford’s anti-discrimination policy.

Some students and committee members

saw the recently repealed “don’t ask, don’ttell” policy as contrary to Stanford’s principlesand considered it a barrier to the program’s re-turn.Now,some students argue ROTC on cam-pus would still violate Stanford’s nondiscrimi-nation policy by prohibiting transgender stu-dents from participating.

“I think it is egregious for us to be sittinghere to be discussing the philosophy of ROTC

when it is antithetical to Stanford’s nondis-crimination clause,”said Alok Vaid-Menon ‘13,president of Stanford Students for Queer Lib-eration (SSQL).

Psychology professor Ewart Thomas, thecommittee chair,told The Daily after the eventthat discrimination against transgender peoplewas an issue on which he felt “vulnerable.”Hesaid the debate gave the committee more in-formation to consider.

Lindsay Funk ‘13 echoed concerns aboutcontinuing discrimination.

“The University has brought groups in lineon religious issues with the non-discriminationpolicy,” she added.“It seems to be making ex-ceptions for the military.”

Proponents for the return of ROTC to cam-pus cited a growing military-civilian divide.Some said an ROTC presence on campuswould encourage dialogue and education

about the military, steer more Stanford-edu-cated people toward military leadership andmaybe even effect change regarding the mili-tary’s transgender policy.

Samora Garling ‘12 said ROTC should beallowed to return to campus,regardless of neg-ative feelings toward the program.

“This is the same campus that allowed theWestboro Church to come here for a day,” he

said, referring to the radical group’s stop oncampus last February. “I don’t necessarilyagree with every group on this campus or whatthey stand for, but they definitely all have aplace here.”

The University removed ROTC programsfrom campus in the late 1960s and early 1970sfollowing concerns about their academic cred-ibility, a subject sporadically discussedthroughout the evening. Program supporterssaid if military-science courses required forROTC cadets were held on campus, theywould be open to all Stanford students.

Imani Franklin ‘13, a committee member,asked current ROTC cadets whether theywould feel uncomfortable on campus if theprogram returned while part of the communitycontinued to oppose it.

“One of the reasons I came to Stanford wasto try to expose myself as an undergraduate to

other majors,” said Jimmy Ruck ‘11, who is acadet in the Army ROTC program.“The military is missing out on getting influ-

ence from Stanford,” he added, “because itgoes both ways — not only am I exposed tostudents [unaware of the military],they’re alsoexposed to me. Some people are ignorant,and

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STUDENT LIFE

RA apps upfrom last

year’s count

RESEARCH

Profs weigh in oncontroversial paper

By MARIANNE LeVINESTAFF WRITER

Few scientific studies havedrawn the level of criticismfrom the blogosphere and in-ternational scientific communi-ty lately as a study by scientistsat the Stanford SynchrotronRadiation Lightsource (SSRL)— a division of the SLAC Na-tional Accelerator Laboratory(SLAC) — and astrobiologistsat NASA last month.

The paper,titled “Bacteriumthat can grow using arsenic in-stead of phosphorus,” claims tohave found a bacterium strainin California’s Mono Lake“which substitutes arsenic forphosphorus to sustain itsgrowth.”To many readers, it im-plied that the bacterium strain,GFAJ-1 of the bacteriumHalomonadacae, evolved in

such a way that it was able to re-place phosphorus in the bacte-ria’s cellular material.

News of the finding firstsplashed across headlines be-cause the discovery of such anorganism suggested to somethat the possibility that otherforms of life can exist in the ex-treme conditions of other plan-ets,where the molecules we hu-mans need to survive aren’tavailable.The newsprint hardlyhad time to dry, however, be-fore heavy criticism from blog-gers and renowned scientists,who said evidence for thepaper’s conclusion is insuffi-cient, started rolling in.

Several Stanford re-searchers expressed skepticismabout whether these bacteriahad used arsenic to build their

By IVY NGUYENDESK EDITOR

The number of resident assistant(RA) applications increased thisyear despite speculation that mov-ing the deadline to winter fromspring might adversely affect appli-cant numbers.

Applications jumped to 324 peo-

ple for 120 RA positions during thenext school year,up from 308 appli-cations for this year’s spots,accord-ing to Residential Education

LOCAL

Professor to join state ed

board today

By KURT CHIRBASCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Michael Kirst, professor emeritusof education and business administra-tion, begins his term as a member of the California State Board of Educa-tion today. Appointed by Gov. JerryBrown last Wednesday,Kirst returns to

a post he held once before, from 1975to 1982. Before taking the oath of of-fice,he spoke with The Daily by phoneto discuss his views on state educationpolicy.An edited excerpt is below.

Stanford Daily (SD): What madeyou decide to return to the Board of Education?

Michael Kirst (MK): I just felt,when I reflected on my wholecareer...that the thing I enjoyed themost was actually having a position ingovernment where you could be partof a group that made decisions that re-ally made a difference for children.

It’s one thing to be out there writingabout it,doing research and consulting.You are always trying to influence thepolicymakers. But I found I enjoyedbeing the policymaker more than justadvising them.

Students discuss discrimination,military-civilian divide at ROTC town hall

Speaks with Daily about policy career, funding outlook

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily

ROTC cadets, former service members and students opposing the program’s possible return to Stanford discuss the topic at a town hall on Tuesday. TheFaculty Senate committee considering ROTC’s return hosted the event, which more than 50 people attended. Faculty are set to discuss the issue Thursday.

Courtesy of Michael Kirst

Professor emeritus of educationMichael Kirst returns to the CaliforniaState Board of Education, where he lastserved three decades ago. Kirst’s earlywork specialized in K-12 education.

Please see KIRST,page 2

Stanford Daily File Photo

Rinconada resident assistants help move freshmen in during NSO 2010. This year,students applying to RA positions must complete the application process muchearlier than in past years. Hiring decisions will be announced mid-March. Please see APPS,page 2Please see RESEARCH,page 2

In spite of earlier deadline, 324 apply

Please see ROTC,page 2



By MARGARET RAWSONDESK EDITOR

At its second meeting of thequarter Tuesday, the ASSU Un-dergraduate Senate discussedreversing a special fees policyenacted by last year’s Senate.The Senate is set to vote on thespecial fees bill next week,alongConstitutional Council and judi-cial panel pool nominees.

As approved by the 11th Un-dergraduate Senate in a January2010 bill, if student groups thathave previously received specialfees wish to increase their budg-ets by more than the inflationrate — approximately 3 percent— they must undergo the formalprocess of petitioning the stu-dent body for their budget to bepresent on the special fees bal-lot.

Though the widely debatedbill passed last year with ninesenators in favor, four opposedand two abstaining, some sena-tors took objection to the natureof the vote, having misunder-stood the voting process. In thefollowing weeks, the bill contin-ued to raise protest with studentgroups.

The bill currently before theSenate would directly reverselast year’s ruling and allow stu-dent groups to grow their budg-ets by 10 percent without peti-tioning, returning the ASSU

joint bylaws to their old lan-guage.

The bill’s authors,Appropria-

tions Committee chair RafaelVasquez ‘12, Senate chairMichael Cruz ‘12 and SenatorBen Jensen ‘12, pointed to an in-crease in petitions during the lastelection cycle as a reason to de-crease the burden on studentgroups and individual studentsto sign petitions.

“People got really annoyedbeing bombarded with e-mails,”Jensen said.

Senators, including RebeccaSachs ‘13, expressed concernthat the bill might pass beforenew regulations are created toencourage responsible spendingby student groups. Sachs noted,however, that she supports thebill in theory, arguing that thecurrent cap “inhibits new ideas.”

Information sessions for stu-dent groups seeking special fees

will be held Jan. 31, Feb. 3 andFeb. 4, said elections commis-sioner Stephen Trusheim ‘13when he briefed the senatorsTuesday on the timetable of theupcoming spring elections.These approaching informationsessions, noted Vasquez and Sen-ator Will Seaton ‘13, might pres-sure the Senate to pass a bill be-fore regulations are in place,though Vasquez said he believesregulations will follow regard-less.

The election itself will takeplace April 7 and 8 and the Sen-ate is set to vote on the specialfees policy reversal next week.

During a brief discussionabout elections policies, Sachsasked Trusheim about flyer poli-cies — specifically whether re-strictions on flyers distributedper candidate could be reinstat-ed.

“The elections commissionhas no plans to wade into thosewaters. . . we do not currentlyhave plans to put that in place,”Trusheim responded.

Also on previous notice fornext week is the ASSU executivenomination of Brianna Pang ‘13to the Constitutional Council.(Pang has worked as a Dailywriter.) While originally slatedfor the position, she was re-placed amid controversy alongwith Oz Hasbun ‘13 and AlexKatz ‘12. If confirmed, Pangwould replace Evan Cox,a grad-

uating coterminal student incomputer science. The Senatewill also vote next Tuesday onfour nominees to the judicialpanel pool.

Other business Tuesday in-cluded discussion of Camp Any-town,an upcoming diversity andleadership retreat targeted atfreshmen and planned by theAdvocacy Committee. Chairedby Robin Perani ‘13 and KamilSaeid ‘13, the committee is alsoplanning to throw a Valentine’sDay party during the week lead-ing up to the holiday.

All funding bills for theevening were passed.

Contact Margaret Rawson at [email protected].

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SD:You last served on the StateBoard of Education from 1975 to1982. How has Board of Educationchanged since then?MK:The state board won a law-

suit against a separately electedstate superintendent [since the lasttime I served], so now, it has muchgreater power to influence how fed-

eral funds are spent.It has more au-thority, and it is quite different interms of its scope of influence thanwhen I was there before.The boardis sort of like a new entity in termsof what it can do.

Moreover, the governor abol-ished a position in the governor’soffice that had existed for yearscalled the secretary of educationand said he wanted to make educa-tion policy primarily through theState Board of Education. Theboard will have a much closer rela-tionship to the governor then it hashad in the past because there’s nolonger an intermediate group be-tween the governor and us.

SD: How about state policy on

education in general?MK:The biggest change is thatback in those days we didn’t haveoutcome-based assessment on stu-dents. Our focus was on ensuringthat students got services — for ex-ample,assisting students with hand-icaps or who didn’t speak English.But we had no way to assesswhether those pupils were actuallylearning anything from those serv-ices. All of a sudden, education isnow heavily about pupil outcome,

more so than just providing a serv-ice.That has led to a big change.

A second change is that we didnot understand as much about howto help teachers in the classroom.We settled for just doing policy thataffected school districts rather thanindividual schools and classrooms.The board now has a much greaterability to influence positively the in-struction in classroom.

A third would be charterschools. California has over a thou-sand of them.These are schools thatare public schools, and that arechartered by a local school districtor a county or a state, but are re-

lieved from regulations that mostother traditional public schoolshave.They have been an alternativeschool model, and the board hasquite a bit of authority in terms of setting regulations and closingdown ones that aren’t very effectivein terms of assessments.

Another change is that fundinghas dropped enormously in termsof per pupil expenditures. When Iwas on the state board, we wereabout 20th in the country in spend-

ing per pupil, and now, we areroughly about 46th. New York andNew Jersey spend nearly twice asmuch per pupil than we do, for ex-ample. It’s really a constrainedbudget period.

We have to figure out how tomake schools better in that setting,and it’s a bigger challenge than any-thing we faced from 1975 to 1982.

SD:How do you think the StateBoard of Education will continueits past goals of reducing theachievement gap and increasing thenumber of high school graduates,

especially in light of year after yearof budget cuts?MK: I think education really

takes place in classrooms — withteachers. What we are going to bedoing, or try to do, I should say, isprovide our teachers with bettercurriculum, improved instructionalmaterials and better assessmentsfor them to work with.

It’s really about improving class-room instruction, and one of thethings that has happened recently isthat 40 states have adopted com-mon core standards in English, lan-guage arts and mathematics.

All of a sudden we are going tobe getting a lot of help from nation-al movements — not the federalgovernment necessarily,but nation-

al movements where 40 states aregoing to have similar curriculumstandards and assessments.We canuse some of these national re-sources to help us in California.

In other words, education is be-coming a much more nationwidemovement, and you don’t have todo everything on your own andfund it the way we used to.

Contact Kurt Chirbas at [email protected].

KIRSTContinued from front page

STUDENT GOV’T

Senate may reverse2010 special fees bill

(ResEd) dean Jennifer Calvert in ane-mail to Row management.

The increase came in spite of thefact that the application deadlinewas moved forward to the begin-ning of winter quarter,a change thatsome criticized because they felt itlimited students’ options by askingthem to make their future housingdecisions too early in the schoolyear.

Though this increase is withinthe normal range of year-to-yearfluctuations, the fact that the num-bers remained this high came as apleasant surprise for Calvert.

“We are very enthusiastic aboutthe increase in RA applications thisyear,” Calvert said.“With the signifi-cant changes to the selection processand in asking students to apply earli-er, it would have been reasonable toexpect a slight decline.We are thrilledthat this many students are interestedin being an RA.”

Some students still expressedfrustration with the earlier deadline.

“It almost made me not applybecause it was so early, because Ithought I didn’t have time,”George

Tsiveriotis ‘13 said. “I started reallylate and I was also really anxiousabout getting all [my] recommenda-tion letters in.”

Thankfully, Tsiveriotis said,ResEd extended the deadline forsubmitting recommendation letters.“Otherwise, I didn’t know if Iwould’ve gotten them in on time,”he said.

College assistant (CA) RuthieArbeiter ‘12,who performs RA du-ties in Freshman-Sophomore Col-lege, said she was concerned aboutthe effect the new deadline wouldhave on prospective sophomore ap-plicants.

“Our main concern with movingthe deadline earlier [was that] soph-omores wouldn’t know if they wereready yet, because they’ve onlybeen at Stanford for a year and aquarter,”she said.

Arbeiter did not reapply for aposition because she will be goingabroad, but she said the new dead-line did not have a great effect onsome of her peers.

“They weren’t really worriedabout the new deadline because, ascurrent juniors, they were alreadyplanning to apply for their senioryear,” she said.

In addition to relying on residentfellows to distribute informationabout the application, Calvert said

this was the first year that ResEdcreated a “comprehensive, cohesivemarketing campaign.” Calvert alsocredits current house staffs in re-cruiting applicants.

“Most of our candidates applybecause someone they know andtrust in a leadership position in ahouse encouraged them to apply,”Calvert said.

These good relationships withcurrent and past house staffs arereasons many students cited for ap-plying.Tsiveriotis was one such stu-dent.

“I applied because I felt my RAsmade my freshman experience a lotbetter,” Tsiveriotis said. He alsocited his involvement in last year’sAdmit Weekend in helping himwarm up to the idea of becoming anRA.

“I like the idea of being the firstperson to welcome someone toStanford,” he said. The ap-plication process will continuethrough the quarter as applicants in-terview with their prospective hous-es and will culminate in a decision inmid-March. Applications for otherhouse staff positions will open Jan.14.

Contact Ivy Nguyen at [email protected].

APPSContinued from front page

“Education is

becoming a much

more nationwide

movement.”

— MICHAEL KIRST

DNA.“There seems to be no doubt

that these bugs grow on and incor-porate a high level of arsenic,”chemistry professor Steven Boxersaid. “The real question is whetherall phosphorus is replaced by ar-senic in these key molecules of life.”

Geology professor Norm Sleep,

who has performed research in thefield of astrobiology, was more crit-ical of the study’s findings.

“The conclusion that their cellwas making arsenic-based DNA isa highly outlandish, if not impossi-ble one,” Sleep said. “It’s such amajor conclusion . . . we need ex-tremely good evidence, and the evi-dence of the paper falls short of thiscriteria.”

Sleep believes the study did notmerit the type of press attention itreceived.

“The paper claimed that the mi-crobe from Mono Lake could liveby putting arsenic for phosphorusin its DNA . . . the press went waybeyond this,” he said.“The microbeis closely related to . . . ancestor mi-crobes that live in arsenic-poor en-

vironments;it is not a second inde-pendent form of life on Earth.”

According to Sleep,the researchmerely showed that the organismwas able to tolerate extremeamounts of arsenic and could sur-vive in a phosphorus-poor environ-ment.

There are 10 complicated stepsinvolved for the cell to make DNA,Sleep added.

“The chemistry has evolved tomake ordinary phosphorus DNA,not arsenic DNA,” he said. “The[arsenic-DNA] made in the labora-tory are unstable . . . so it is highlyunlikely that arsenic-DNA couldbe made in any quantity,” he wrotein an e-mail to The Daily.

Sleep added that since the stepsinvolved in the process of makingDNA are so intricate, it would be“very improbable” to change oneaspect of the cell without changingmany others.

The study’s researchers have re-sponded to criticism by putting to-gether a collection of frequentlyasked questions in order to clarifythe data and procedures that wereinvolved.

“We are actively engaged in re-sponding to formal questions sub-mitted to Science magazine,” saidSam Webb,an SSRL staff scientist,who led the research at the Depart-ment of Energy’s SLAC NationalAccelerator Laboratory, in an e-mail to The Daily.

“Our manuscript was thorough-ly reviewed and accepted for publi-cation by Science,” he said. “Wepresented our data and drew ourconclusions based on what weshowed.But we welcome lively de-bate since we recognize that schol-

arly discourse moves science for-ward.”

Contact Marianne LeVine at [email protected].

RESEARCHContinued from front page

I see myself educating them onwhat ROTC does.”

“I’m not dissatisfied withtonight,” Windley said after theevent.“There’s a really strong casefor the military as an occupationalchoice, and it’s good for Stanfordstudents to do. But how Stanford

University treats different occupa-tional choices is the issue.”

Thomas said that overall, thedebate was “beautiful.”

David Spiegel, psychiatry pro-fessor and chair of the Faculty Sen-ate, praised the level of discourse,saying that in his 35 years on thefaculty, “I’ve never been moreproud.”

A faculty and staff discussionwith the committee about ROTC isset for Thursday at 4 p.m.in Encina.

Contact Kate Abbott at kmabbott @stanford.edu.

ROTCContinued from front page

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Let’s talk

Dear Editor,You had a lot of good points,

Stewart Macgregor-Dennis ‘13,and you wrote them well in yourop-ed this past Monday, advisingStanford students how they can“become more effective.” But Iwish you’d stopped at the end of paragraph one, when you said,“Let’s talk.”

Because that’s the thing Stan-ford students do poorly, I think:talking. Not elevator-speech-mar-keting talking, or PWR-presenta-tion-talking; we’re pretty good atthose.No, I mean letting-someone-know-you’re-human talking.

Hey, Stanford students. You allare by now well-versed in how tobe successful.You’ve got an idea of how to work systems and playgames. But how good are you atbeing happy? How good are you atbeing not-lonely? You might havethe courage to lead a start-up or tomedicate Sudanese orphans, butdo you have the courage to letsomeone else know that like every-one else,you’re less than perfect?

At lunch today a friend and Iwere talking about a mutual friend,someone who I thought had confi-dence oozing out of her ears andlots of friends because she always

seems so cheerful and so accom-plished. Certainly “effective.”Turns out she’s suffering from mas-sive loneliness. She and I couldstart a club, along with the thou-sands of other Stanford studentswho feel like they don’t have acommunity, and who as long asthey don’t think they have thestrength to let others know howlonely they are, will never find a

community.You want to be successful? Vo-

cally be yourself — all of yourself,the perfect and the imperfect.

Example: last quarter, I spenthalf an hour writing a letter abouthow lonely, how frustrated I am atStanford. I e-mailed it to eight lists.Within 72 hours, I had over 50 re-sponses from staff, alumni and somany students saying, “ThankGod, I thought I was the only onefeeling that way. Thank you forbeing so brave.”

That word stuck out to me:brave. I was being called running

my mouth about my feelings, by allthe Stanford students tutoring in-mates in San Jose or running theirown companies.As a result of thatbit of emotional honesty, I’ve metwith so, so many amazing peopleand have been given so many lead-ership opportunities.

My conclusion: you want tomarket yourself to the world?Show the world that you trust itenough to let it see your whole self.

Oh, silly Stanford students.Youthink you can save the world whenyou can’t even save yourselves.You think you can save humanitywhen you can’t even be human.You want to be wholly accepted,but you won’t show your wholeself.

What they told you in kinder-garten is true: you’re great the wayyou are. Trust yourself enough tobelieve that you can be loved evenwith your imperfections. In thewords of Sami Hartley, one of theleaders of Stanford’s Bridge,“Words are cheap,but they’re whatwe can afford.So let’s talk.”

ROBIN THOMAS ‘12


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Because seriously, I feel em-barrassed after having waxedall poetic and shit last quarter

at how this campus is finally learn-ing how to rally around its sportsteams only to walk in last weekend

and find 7,000-seat Maples half-fulland dead, and after we BEATUCONN, too. One of the best bas-ketball teams in the country is rightin your backyard, but unless JerseyShore Auriemma is in town,none of you seem to care.

It’s real sad too, because everystudent I know that starts followingthe women’s basketball team (i.e.theBand) eventually falls in love withthem.They’ve been a great source of joy for me over the past four years,and I’ve definitely developed a crushon Kayla Pedersen by this point.Allthey do is lay waste to the Pac-10 andmake the Final Four year after year— glorious blood sport for the low,low price of Free Ninety-Five. Yet,the only takers are either too old toyell or too young to pay attention.

Just once, I’d like to see someonewho can actually dance win the TwistCam contest. Men’s basketball isrowdy because of the student sec-tion, while at times the atmosphereat the women’s games reminds me of elementary school.

“But women’s basketball is bor-ing, and I don’t have time.” That’susually the most enlightened re-sponse I get when I ask people whythey won’t go see this team.Even atuber-diverse Stanford, located inthe self-proclaimed most progres-sive area of the country, the men-tion of women’s basketball stillprompts misogynistic cavemanchest-beating, usually followed bypetulant whining about the lack of dunking.

I don’t get why dunking is so im-portant,unless you’re talking aboutDunk-a-roos.After all,it’s just a glo-

rified exclamation point, and itdoesn’t turn a basket into a surething either.I’ve seen plenty of hot-stuff male athletes who end up miss-ing an easy basket because they’retoo busy trying to make SportsCen-ter.

It’s such a hobbyhorse forwomen’s basketball haters, though,that at times I feel the need to donmy French feminist hat and makeclaims about how dunking is a vio-lent, penetrative act that reinforcesphallogocentrism, emphasizingman’s supremacy over the ball com-pared to the cooperation with theball that the layup requires,which ismore in tune with the feminine

ideal, and that the positioning of dunking as an essential part of thegame is a means of preserving theespecially strong patriarchy of sports by creating a space of exclu-sion in the sport of basketball. Idon’t actually have to make thosearguments, though, because theyimply that women can’t dunk be-cause they’re inferior athletes,which is not true. Both Ogwumikescan dunk, and I’m pretty sure Ped-ersen can as well; it’s just that TaraVanDerveer thinks it’s bad sports-manship. If you want dunking, thenshow up and get amped and de-mand it. That’s the only way you’llconvince Tara to take the reins off (and,I won’t lie,it’d be awesome).

The dunking issue aside, if youstill want to argue that women’s

basketball is more boring, then Ithink it’s time for a field trip to last

weekend’s box scores. Which teamwould you rather watch, the onethat shot over 50 percent in bothgames, going 80 percent and 36 per-cent from behind the arc with 21steals on the weekend, or the team

that shot 42 percent both times with20-percent and 16.7-percent three-point shooting and eight steals onthe weekend?

I shouldn’t have to resort topointing out the men’s shortcom-ings to prove women’s basketball’sworth, though;in fact, that’s still re-inforcing the problem. If you can’tenjoy just watching the Ogwumikesisters play their beautiful brand of basketball without having to qualifyit by comparing them to men, thenyou’re not really a fan of the game.Eastern Tennessee and the state of Connecticut seem to understandthis; their teams drew crowds threetimes the size of ours last weekend,and those places are still respectivebastions of Confederate pride andliberal privilege. Stanford’s sup-

posed to be all about forward think-ing, and it’d be nice if we couldapply that mindset to our approachtoward athletics instead of clingingto a worldview that’s more reminis-cent of our past as a boy’s club forrich white Californians that tried just a little bit harder than the U$Cstudent body. More importantlythough, the main attraction of col-lege basketball is the enthusiasm of the fans,and you just can’t get thatwhen your crowd consists of geri-atrics and easily distracted 10-year-old girls, so show up and yell, andpre-game it too if that’s your style,because as much as I want to takedown institutional oppression, I’mreally just asking you to watchsports,and we all like sports,right?

For real Kayla, holla atcha boy: [email protected].

Peter

McDonald

“Hey, darlin’ — are youh er e y et ? . . . O h,don’t tell me you’re at

Y2E2. I’m at the other one.”“[laughs] I never even thought

of that one — I’ve hardly gonethere.”

“Okay,let’s meet in the middle.”“Alumni Café?”“Oh, yeah! . . . But if you’re

going to come this way to AlumniCafé anyway, why not just comeover here?”

“Huh? That’s so much fartheraway!”

“What are you talking about?Green Library is totally between

you and Alumni Café.”“OH — I thought you were at

the Coupa on University Av-enue!!!”

[pause]And then we burst out laughing.

We had missed each other’s pointtoo many times in this one-minutephone conversation. And this waswith a fabulous girl I’m crazy luckyto know, whose outlook on life ispretty much parallel to mine; we just know each other.

But think of all of our encoun-ters with people who see the worldunder a different shade of light,whose step veers way off our own,whose language is technically thesame as ours but operates under to-tally different rules.We have to live

in such close proximity with individ-uals who are universes away,and nocommunication technology willever cut those distances short. I’veonly lived about 20 years, with norecollection of pagers or telegramsor horse-transported mail, but Idare say that one thing human his-tory has not seen develop is ourability to truly communicate witheach other.For example, this morn-ing I met my cousin in Hong Kongfor a Skype date, and I text my dadin Korea all the time,but I still havequibbles with my mom about whattime she said dinner was going tobe. Simple miscommunication isone of our lives’ most humbling re-alities,a thing of beauty in itself.Butit means that a lot of our relation-ships (the ones we care enough

about) require much more effortthan we typically give.It’s as if everyone is on an is-

land, connected to each other byfantastically designed, high-techbridges — totally sustainable andeverything. But, somehow, we for-get we have to walk the entirelength to reach the other person.Or we completely underestimate itand walk only halfway. That’s myvisual equivalent of the ways weabbreviate ourselves. For the sakeof speed and efficiency, we cut theheads and tails of our stories so thesummary can fit into high-speedvirtual packages. Recall the manytimes you had to retell somethingfrom the very beginning becausethe person across from you was

clueless as to your context. Ourlove affair with efficiency has led toits over-application, to the pointwhere acronym-version conversa-tions end too easily in misunder-standings later. And fixing misun-derstandings later is usually, ironi-cally,a huge, inefficient mess.

But the heart of the matter? We

don’t even always say what we real-ly want to say.We substitute simplestatements with hints and signs andcodes wrapped in fake politenessor pretend nonchalance.We get soingeniously strategic in our effortsto avoid a face.How do silent treat-ments on Facebook even work?And have you ever noticed howyou can read someone else’s textmessage aloud in 5000 ways — de-pending on if you like them or not?The indirect methods are often sopointless. We’re not just all borndifferent; we grow up accumulat-ing exponentially more levels of experiences that leave every singleone of us with a unique set of ruleson how to interpret people. I’mstating an obvious here. Neverthe-

less, we forget to take care of howwe send our “messages,” which canbe received in completely manipu-lated ways.“Don’t they get it?”weask. Maybe the question should be,“Did I actually tell them?”Becausewe can’t keep taking for grantedthat everyone can simply read ourminds. (Thankfully.)

There’s a huge difference be-tween subtlety and being frustrat-ingly uncommunicative. Subtletyunderstands the other personenough to know how he or she willreceive you. The other fears thetruth in its plainest form, sans thesuperfluous make-up and jewelry.This is why I always thanked theguy who was brave enough toadmit what he felt about me.This iswhy I quite easily cut the dating

game once it becomes an enigmat-ic mystery one.This is why I like toclearly address friendship ambigu-ities once I’ve figured out wherethey actually are. (Well, I reallytry.)

Straight-up confrontation istypically equated with rudeness —but doesn’t that depend on thecontent? Open, honest communi-cation is one of the most amazing,conventional, old-school ways torespect someone. I don’t think atruth like that can ever go out of style.

Have something to say? Thankfully,Nina still uses e-mail, at ninamc@

stanford.edu. Don’t worry, she’ll trynot to misinterpret you.

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By JACOB JAFFEDEPUTY EDITOR

Monday night’s BCS NationalChampionship Game marked theend of the 2010-11 college footballseason, which turned out to be veryeventful for the Pac-10.For one thing,it was during this season that the ex-pansion to the Pac-12 was finalizedfor next year, so it marked the finalseason of the Pac-10 as we know it.

On the field, several other story-lines unfolded throughout the sea-son, starting off with the NCAA’scrackdown on USC.The Trojans lostscholarships and could not partici-pate in a bowl game,so many collegefootball fans wrote off the Pac-10 as alegitimate national title contender.Preseason outlooks were so variedthat most pundits expected the Pac-

10 to be filled with parity in 2010-11,leading teams to beat up on eachother enough during the conferenceseason to take away any shot for thePac-10 to figure in the national scene.

By all accounts,preseason expec-tations were wrong.While the bottomhalf of the Pac-10 did cannibalize it-self, the top certainly had an impacton the national scene. Oregon wascoming off a Rose Bowl berth and ap-peared to be a frontrunner, but theloss of Jeremiah Masoli (a preseasonHeisman Trophy contender) in-creased doubts among media mem-bers and fans alike. Almost no onepredicted a dominant sweep of thePac-10 and an unbeaten regular sea-son, but that’s just what the Duckspulled off on their way to the BCSNational Championship Game.

Possibly more surprising was theascension of Stanford into the coun-try’s elite.The Cardinal did not evencrack either major preseason top 25poll, and question marks clutteredboth sides of the ball.The emergenceof Stanford’s running game withoutdeparted star Toby Gerhart and theremarkable improvement of Vic Fan-gio’s defense surprised the collegefootball world as the Cardinal fin-ished one half away from a perfectseason.

While Oregon and Stanford en-hanced the Pac-10’s reputation witharguably the best season in each pro-gram’s history, several other teamsfailed to live up to preseason expecta-tions.

Chief among them was OregonState, who began the year rankedthird in the Pac-10 preseason poll and24th in the AP Poll, but ended theyear with its worst record since 1997.Early losses against TCU and BoiseState (who finished a combined 25-1)did not raise too much alarm, butgoing 1-4 down the stretch,includinglosses to UCLA and WashingtonState (who combined for only threePac-10 victories — UCLA over Ore-gon State, Washington State overOregon State and UCLA over Wash-ington State),was the reason why theBeavers missed a bowl game for thefirst time since 2005. The loss of re-ceiver James Rodgers to a season-ending injury in early October cer-tainly did not help matters,but muchmore was expected of a team thatcame within one win of a Rose Bowl

berth in each of the previous twoyears.Oregon State was one of three

Pac-10 teams to miss out on a bowlgame by just one win.Arizona Statefinished 6-6 but had two wins overFCS foes and therefore did not quali-fy for a bowl.The Sun Devils came ohso close to bowl eligibility, losing fourgames by four points or fewer.Blocked extra points were the differ-

ence in one-point road losses to bothWisconsin and USC, but ArizonaState ended on a strong note byblocking two extra points themselvesin a thrilling double-overtime winover rival Arizona to cap the season.

California also sniffed bowl eligi-bility before eventually falling justshort.The Golden Bears were amongthe most inconsistent teams in thecountry all season.In their first eightgames, the Bears went 4-0 at homewith an average margin of victory of 38.75 points per game and 0-4 on theroad with an average margin of de-feat of 21 points per game.Cal finallybroke the trend with a win at Wash-ington State to get to 5-4 overall,butthe new trend could not be stoppedeither,as Cal lost its final three gamesat home.

USC was a bit of an enigma com-

ing into the season, filled with talentbut crippled by NCAA sanctions.TheTrojans continued to be an enigma,following up a 4-0 start with a disap-pointing effort at home against Wash-ington.USC rebounded with a near-win at Stanford and a blowout victoryover Cal.Following a respectable lossto Oregon, the Trojans swept the Ari-zona schools before laying a massiveegg against Oregon State. A head-scratching home loss to Notre Dameand a win over rival UCLA finishedoff an up-and-down 8-5 season.

Only two teams— UCLA andWashington State — did not ap-proach bowl eligibility,although eachhad its own highlights:the Bruins wonconvincingly at Texas and theCougars broke their Pac-10 losingstreak with a road win over Oregon

State.Heading into bowl season, the

Pac-10 only managed four bowlberths (not including USC,which hadenough wins but was ineligible).Ore-gon and Stanford secured spots inBCS bowl games due to rankings of No. 2 and No. 4, respectively, in thefinal BCS standings.Arizona clinchedbowl eligibility early with a 7-1 startbut stumbled down the stretch,losingits last four regular-season games.Washington secured the final spot inexactly the opposite way, limping outto a 3-6 start before winning its lastthree regular-season games to sneakinto a bowl.

The first Pac-10 team to partici-pate in its bowl was Arizona, whichtook on Oklahoma State in theAlamo Bowl.The Wildcats came in asunderdogs due to their season-end-ing four-game losing streak and Okla-homa State’s 10-2 record.Both teamsentered with explosive passinggames, and many predicted a back-and-forth duel between quarterbacksBrandon Weeden and Nick Foles.Neither quarterback responded witha strong performance.Weeden threwfor only 240 yards, his second-lowesttotal of the season, while Foles threwthree interceptions after throwing nomore than one in his last 16 games.The ground attacks were even morepitiful, as neither team reached 100yards rushing.With such poor offen-sive play,the game came down to de-fense,and the Cowboy defense madefar more plays. Oklahoma Stateforced four turnovers while Arizona

forced none,and this made the differ-ence in a 36-10 rout by the Cowboys.Next up was Washington, who

many expected to fare even worsethan Arizona, and for good reason.The Huskies were a two-touchdownunderdog to Nebraska in the HolidayBowl after getting blown out by theCornhuskers in Seattle earlier in the

NFL should reviseRooney Rule

The Jim Harbaugh hiring process told all of us alot of things last week.We learned that hype andstar power could translate into contract offersof between $7 and $8 million per year fora coach unproven at the NFL level.

We also discovered that Stanford’s administra-tors really, really like having a good footballteam — so much so that they were willing topony up $5 million per year before bonuses tokeep Harbaugh around.For those of you keep-ing score at home, that figure would have madeHarbaugh the second-highest-paid coach in all of college football, just $100,000 shy of Texas’ MackBrown.

For this writer, though, the main lesson to comeout of Harbaugh’s hiring is that the NFL needs totake a good,hard look at its Rooney Rule.The rule,which stipulates that any team with a head-coachingvacancy must interview at least one minority candi-date,ended the week with its reputation in tatters.

The San Francisco 49ers,the team that eventu-ally hired Harbaugh, made sure to conduct atoken interview with Raiders offensive coordi-nator Hue Jackson before they initiated discus-sions with the Stanford coach. At the time,everyone knew that Harbaugh was San Fran-cisco’s top target, so it was obvious that theJackson interview was designed solely to com-ply with the Rooney Rule.

Another controversy emerged surroundingthe Miami Dolphins’ courtship of Harbaugh,whichincluded their owner flying to the Bay Area to try topersuade the coach to take his talents to South Beach.The Fish were reportedly willing to make Harbaugh theNFL’s highest-paid coach,but per the Rooney Rule,theteam could not offer a contract to Harbaugh — prior to

flying to San Francisco,owner Stephen Ross had not in-terviewed a minority candidate. In this case again, theRooney Rule was clearly a sham; the Dolphins wantedHarbaugh and interviewing anyone else would have beena waste of both the team’s and the candidate’s time.

Indeed,had the Dolphins offered Harbaugh a contractlast week (regardless of whether or not he accepted),theywould have been severely penalized by the league for non-compliance with the rule.It was later determined that theteam did not make a contract offer, and thus did not runfoul of the NFL.

Current Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier offers anoth-er example of the Rooney Rule’s failings. Frazier, who isAfrican American,was promoted from interim to perma-nent head coach after Minnesota’s season ended,but priorto his promotion he interviewed for seven head coaching

vacancies — some of those interviews were blatantly con-ducted solely to satisfy Rooney Rule requirements. Per-haps most egregious among them was his interview lastseason with the Seattle Seahawks.The team clearly wantedto hire then-USC head coach Pete Carroll, but could notbring him in until it had interviewed a credible minoritycandidate.

So what’s the solution to the Rooney Rule dilemma? Itsproponents point to these token interviews as a necessaryevil, and that the league has seen a proliferation of minori-ty head and assistant coaches since its initial implementa-tion.It is true that the NFL coaching ranks have seen more

Looking back at the football season that was inthe final chapter of the Pac-10 conference

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Christen Press wins Hermann Trophy

Stanford senior forward Chris-ten Press wrapped up a season of accolades by winning the HermannTrophy on Friday.The trophy is an-nually awarded to the best player incollegiate women’s soccer, and iswidely recognized as the sport’smost prestigious honor.

Press captained the Stanfordwomen’s soccer team deep into thisseason’s NCAA Tournament.Aftergoing undefeated through the regu-lar season, the Cardinal made it allthe way to the final of the College

Cup,only to fall to Notre Dame,1-0.Press had a remarkable senior

season,breaking the career recordsfor Stanford’s program in goals(71), assists (41) and points (183).She led the nation in goals this sea-son with 26 and in points with 60,and tied Kelley O’Hara for Stan-ford’s single-season goals record.

O’Hara won the Hermann Tro-phy last season, making Stanfordonly the second school (along withNorth Carolina) to have differentindividuals win the trophy in con-


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minorities in recent years,but it’s im-possible to trace this increase solely tothe Rooney Rule’s influence.Howev-er, it’s not implausible to suggest thatit has had a net positive influence ingiving more access to minority coach-

es to break into NFL coaching circles.Because of those improvements, I

do not advocate scrapping theRooney Rule altogether. Rather, Ithink a simple modification couldpreserve the positive effects of therule while eliminating the embarrass-ing token interviews that teams andassistant coaches are required to gothrough: teams can go after a singlecandidate without having to inter-view a minority coach.

In Harbaugh’s case, he was theclear-cut top choice for the 49ers;theywanted him and him only,and there’sno reason to believe that they wouldhave interviewed anyone else in theirhiring process.This would also apply

to promoting interim coaches to full-time head coaches;this offseason pro-vided an interesting example, wherethe Vikings did not have to interviewanyone else before promoting Frazierto head coach, but the Dallas Cow-boys had to interview a minority can-didate even though they just wantedto promote interim coach Jason Gar-rett to the top job.

However, if a team interviews twoor more candidates,then one of them

must be a minority. With no clearfront-runner, a minority candidatewould have a credible chance at beinghired and a fair shake at making hiscase to the owner.There are plenty of talented minority coaches in the NFL,and this system would fulfill the origi-nal intent of the rule — to give thesecoaches equal opportunities and ac-cess to high-level positions — with-out forcing us to go through inter-views that everyone knows will notresult in a hire.

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year.The questions heading into thegame were whether anything hadchanged since Nebraska won 56-21 inSeptember and whether Nebraskawould be motivated for the rematch.Both these questions were answered

early on, as Washington took controlimmediately and never looked back.Quarterback Jake Locker hardly im-proved from his 4-for-20 perform-ance in September,completing onlyfive of his 16 passes for 56 yards.Thekeys for the Huskies were the run-ning game and defense, which bothperformed as well as they had all sea-son. Running back Chris Polk andLocker combined for 260 yards on 47carries, while Nebraska’s potentrushing attack was held to 91 yardson 41 carries. The Cornhuskerslooked flat all game,and the Huskiescapitalized with a 19-7 win.

Stanford took the field next in theOrange Bowl against Virginia Tech.The Hokies were making their thirdOrange Bowl appearance in four

years,while the Cardinal was makingits debut in the game. The matchupwas touted as one of the better gamesof the bowl season, as both teamscame into the game on a roll.VirginiaTech had lost its first two games of theseason to Boise State and JamesMadison, but responded with 11straight wins and an ACC title. Stan-ford had already set a school recordwith 11 wins and was looking to win abowl game for the first time since1996.The highly anticipated quarter-back battle between redshirt sopho-more Andrew Luck and Tyrod Taylorstarted in favor of Taylor,who madeall the highlight reels with a remark-ably athletic touchdown throw torunning back David Wilson to givethe Hokies their first lead at 9-7. Itproved to be their only lead of the

game, though, as Stanford came outinspired in the second half, puttingthe game away on both sides of theball. Luck was particularly impres-sive, completing nine of his 10 sec-ond-half passes for 201 yards andthree touchdowns, all to junior tightend Coby Fleener.The Cardinal de-fense was stifling, holding VirginiaTech scoreless in the half as Stanfordcruised to the 40-12 win.

The final bowl game featuring aPac-10 team was also the biggest oneof all — the BCS National Champi-onship Game between Oregon andAuburn.Both teams came in with un-defeated records,Heisman Trophy fi-nalists, explosive offenses and ques-tionable defenses. All the buzz fo-cused on an offensive thriller,but thetitle game proved to be anything but.

While neither team could pull aheadby more than one score, neither of-fense enjoyed anything close to thesuccess it had all season.Both quar-terbacks were sloppy, as DarronThomas and Heisman winner CamNewton committed two turnoversapiece.

Thomas bounced back from somequestionable decisions on zone readsto pass for a career-high 363 yards.The Ducks needed this passing at-tack, though,because their normallyelectric rushing game was shut downby Auburn’s defense,tallying only 75yards. Running back LaMichaelJames, who was a Heisman finalistand the nation’s leading rusher,man-aged only 49 rushing yards and waslimited due to injury.

Meanwhile,Auburn had bursts of

offense followed by long stretches of stagnation.The Tigers were very suc-cessful on the ground,racking up 254yards,while Newton passed for 265.Despite all this yardage, Auburn’slead was only 19-11 with a few min-utes to play.While trying to run outthe clock, Oregon linebacker CaseyMatthews knocked the ball out of Newton’s hand from behind,and cor-nerback Cliff Harris fell on the ball.The Duck offense, which had notscored for over 35 game minutes,re-sponded with a crucial touchdowndrive to bring the score to 19-17. Onthe two-point conversion attempt,Thomas rolled in the pocket andfound receiver Jeff Maehl open in theback of the end zone to tie the gamewith 2:33 to play.

The Tigers got the ball back ontheir own 25-yard line looking for afinal drive to win the game. After a15-yard pass brought Auburn nearmidfield, the Tigers benefited fromone of the craziest plays in title-gamehistory. Running back Michael Dyertook the handoff and ran for a rou-tine gain of about five yards beforehe was wrestled down by defensiveback Eddie Pleasant.As Dyer got upand walked toward the sideline, his

coaches screamed at him to keeprunning because his knee had nevertouched the ground.Both teams hadcompletely stopped,but the refs didnot blow the whistle,so Dyer contin-ued running all the way to Oregon’s23-yard line.The play was upheld byreplay, and the damage was done.Following another Dyer run thatnearly got in the end zone,Auburnset up for the game-winning chip-shot field goal, which kicker WesByrum knocked straight through togive the Tigers the 22-19 win andtheir first national championshipsince 1957.

In total,Pac-10 teams went 2-2 inbowl games,which is fairly success-ful considering three of the fourteams were underdogs. Arizonaplayed poorly, but this was expected

after a terrible end to the season.Washington surprised everyone bydominating Nebraska in arguablythe biggest shocker of the entirebowl season. Stanford took an ap-parent nail-biter and made it into arout that validated its season. Ore-gon lost a very tight national titlegame that could very well have goneto overtime if not for an absolutefluke of a play. In the end,the Pac-10

joins the SEC, MAC and WAC with.500 bowl records, but the 2010-11season will mostly be rememberedfor the Pac-10 having only fourteams go bowling, and for the per-formances of Stanford and Oregonin BCS games.

Contact Jacob Jaffe at jwjaffe@stanford.edu.

FOOTBALLContinued from page 6

secutive years.The Hermann Trophy is the last

in a string of Press’ postseason acco-lades. She was also named Pac-10player of the year and earned first-team All-America honors. A com-munications major,Press was also afirst-team academic All-Americanand earned the Pac-10’s scholar-ath-lete of the year award for women’ssoccer.

— Kabir Sawhney

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