By MILES UNTERREINERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

N+1 founders Mark Greif andKeith Gessen spoke Tuesday evening

on the pleasures and perils of startinga small literary magazine.In a presen-tation filled with humor and fleckedwith colorful anecdotes, Greif andGessen offered advice to aspiringwriters and entrepreneurs, sharingstories about the humble beginningsof what has in the last five years be-come a successful literary enterprise.

Greif, a current co-editor at n+1,opened the evening with a publicreading of what he called “The Truthabout n+1,” a piece he wrote for theWelsh journal Raconteur, aboutstarting one’s own magazine. Hiswork has also appeared in Harper’sand The New York Times.

Discussing his early doubts aboutfounding a literary and political jour-nal,he said,“it’s a foolish act to start amagazine.”

Nevertheless, he launched one.“I write things that nobody will

publish, and my friends do, too,”Greif said.

Greif also recounted the financialtroubles that plagued the magazine’searliest volumes.

“The real source of worry, as it isfor all small magazines, was money,”he said.

Greif told tales often as colorful,and as unpredictable, as n+1 itself.From conflicts with Gessen, whomGreif said he frequently wanted to“throttle” during the magazine’stough early days, to the unexpectedpleasures of unpaid literary achieve-ment, Greif offered an unconven-tional inside look into the world of lit-erary startups.

“All of my life, I had wanted tofind out what Bohemia was like,and Idid,” Greif said.

Though he suffered from sleeplessnights writing content to dreary after-noons looking for distributors, it wasall worth it in the end, concluded asmiling Greif.

“People at small magazines workfor free, because freedom is what’s atstake,” he said.

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The Stanford DailyTuition to

increase by3.5 percent

By AN LE NGUYENMANAGING EDITOR

The Board of Trustees approved a combined tuition,room and board increase of 3.5 percent for the 2011-2012 academic year. This rise will be applied across theUniversity, with the exception of Stanford Law School,which will see a 5.75-percent hike in its fees.

In a press briefing Monday, Board President LeslieHume said revenue from the tuition increase would ad-dress the University’s “need for unrestricted operatingfunds.”

Approximately 57 percent of Stanford’s generalfunds — the portion of the University budget that canbe used flexibly — comes from tuition revenue. Thismoney is typically used for faculty raises, programmaticpurposes and, occasionally, capital projects.

Hume noted that the trustees felt positively aboutthe newly approved tuition, room and board fees. Sheexplained that next year’s revenue could pay for facultysalary increases and the gradual reinstatement of posi-tions frozen during the recession.

“It is going to enable the University to achieve an im-provement of the faculty,” Hume said.

According to the trustees, this will be a balanced tu-ition increase since financial aid is expected to go up intandem. Financial aid totaled $66 million in 2007 and isprojected to reach $122 million in 2012.

Hume said the trustees “are very conscious about fi-nancial aid.”

“Any tuition increase will be met with additionalfunds for families whose financial circumstances are un-changed,” she added.

At the same time, Dean of Admission Richard Shawis spreading the word about Stanford’s need-blind fi-nancial aid policy.The University aims to make this pol-icy visible because it does not want prospective studentsto turn away from applying simply because of the tuitionhike. Currently, students whose families make under

By SAMANTHA MCGIRRSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Stanford kicked off RecycleMania on Sunday,marking its fifth year as a participant in the na-tionwide competition measuring recycling on col-lege campuses.

The contest runs until April 4 and requiresStanford to regularly report its recycling and trashtonnage, with RecycleMania compiling weeklyrankings of participating universities in eight cat-egories.

630 colleges are participating in this year’sevent, according to the tournament’s website.Thecontest is a project of the College and UniversityRecycling Council,an arm of the nonprofit organ-ization National Recycling Coalition.

At Stanford,the program represents a joint un-dertaking of Peninsula Sanitary Services, Inc.(PSSI), Buildings & Grounds Maintenance(BGM) and the Sustainability and Energy Man-

Trustees announce fee hike acrossschools to ‘improve faculty’

Three scientists named2010 fellows ofAmerican

Physics SocietyBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Three Stanford scientists — twoprofessors and one research scientist—> are slated to join the ranks ofthe American Physical Society(APS), according to an announce-ment released Tuesday. Associateprofessor of materials science andengineering Mark Brongersma, sen-ior research scientist IgorMoskalenko and mechanical engi-neering professor Juan Santiago willjoin more than 200 other 2010 fel-lows.

Brongersma, whose lab special-izes in building and studyingnanoscale electronic and photonicmaterials such as optical sensors,wasselected for his pioneering work inplasmonics and silicon nanophoton-ics.

Moskalenko works as a senior re-search scientist in the Hanson Ex-perimental Physics Laboratory(HEPL) and the Kavli Institute forParticle Astrophysics and Cosmolo-gy.He was nominated for his work ingamma-ray astronomy and for mak-ing computations of high-energycharged particle and gamma radia-tion from the galaxy available to theastrophysics community at large.

Santiago directs the Stanford Mi-crofluidics Laboratory. He was se-lected for his work in discoveringnew measurement methods and newways to characterize and explain

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyWriter Keith Gessen recounted theearly days of his magazine, n+1.According to co-founder MarkGrief, they faced many ‘sleeplessnights’ and ‘dreary afternoons.’

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WEDNESDAY Volume 239February 9, 2011 Issue 8

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GANG OF 14Undergrads balance ROTC

and Farm life

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

N+1 founders sharestartup experience

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Senate puts ROTCquestion on ballot

By MARGARET RAWSONSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The ASSU Senate passed three bills Tuesday evening: one to addan advisory question on ROTC to the April ASSU general electionsballot, a second involving significant special fees reform and a thirdto fund Green Events Consulting.

The Senate also discussed a bill to revise the rules of order for theConstitutional Council.

ROTCThe Senate passed a bill authored by ASSU President Angelina

Cardona ‘11 to include “advisory referenda” on the spring 2011 bal-lot.The bill would gauge student opinion on the potential return ofROTC to campus.

“Hopefully there’s enough time . . . for people to educate them-selves” on ROTC before the vote, Cardona said.

The advisory question will include three response choices. Stu-dents will be able to vote to support the return of ROTC to campus,oppose the return or abstain from the question.

The measure to include the advisory question on the ballot willrequire majority approval by the Graduate Student Council (GSC).

Special FeesThe GSC rejected a bill last week passed by the Senate to allow

student groups receiving special fees to grow their budgets by up to10 percent without having to petition for student signatures. ButTuesday saw the Senate passing a new, more comprehensive versionof the bill.

Last night’s bill includes the change to the 10 percent budgetgrowth and stipulates that the chair of the two legislative bodies mustmeet during the fall and winter to decide special fees policies. Thischange will be added as an appendix to their joint by-laws. The billalso clarifies the policy governing reserve funds of the student groupsand the release of the names of students who petition for special feesrefunds.

“It’s a big bill. I find it surprising that we’re not discussing this inany way,” said Will Seaton ‘13, expressing his disappointment as the

UNIVERSITY

RecycleManiacontest begins

Law and Order

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyVisiting professor of law Michael Asimow spoke about the portrayal of lawyerson televesion shows such as Law & Order and Boston Legal. The talk was spon-sored in part by the Stanford Entertainment and Sports Law Association.

Please see RECYCLE,page 2 Please see TRUSTEES,page 2

Please see BRIEFS,page 2 Please seeSENATE,page 2

Stanford to compete with universitiesin nationwide effort to reduce waste

“We would not

run out of beer

again as long as

our magazine

lives.”— Keith Gessen, n+1 founder Please see MAGS,page 2

agement Department (SEM).According to Fahmida Ahmed,

associate director of the Office ofSustainability, which is a branch ofSEM, the University plans toachieve a 10 percent increase inoverall recycling by focusing on ed-ucation and outreach.

“The most common problem wehear from students is not knowingwhat to recycle and what not to,”Ahmed said, adding that new labelshave been placed on recycling andcompost bins this year to addressthis issue.

Additionally, Stanford Recycle-Mania will feature a new individualrecognition component. To enter aweekly raffle, students, faculty andstaff must submit a pledge agreeingnot to throw any recyclable itemsinto the trash.Winners will receive asmall prize.

“It’s really important for conser-vation programs aiming for behav-ior change to include incentives,”Ahmed said.

Stanford has generated variedrankings during its four years of par-ticipation in RecycleMania. The

University has consistently placedamong the top five contenders inthe “Gorilla” category, which refersto total tons recycled. It won firstplace in the category in 2008.

However, in the category ofwaste minimization, which meas-ures the tons of waste generated perperson, Stanford has performedpoorly.The University placed 147 of148 schools in 2009 and 191 of 199schools in 2010.

Julie Muir,PSSI community rela-tions manager, said the mixed per-formance reflected the unique chal-lenges of recycling at a large univer-sity.

“The Gorilla prize gives credit tolarger universities, which have tohandle a lot more material,” Muirsaid.

The large volume of material,however, poses difficulties whensorting the waste.

“We recycle a lot,but we do a re-ally good job of wasting,” Muir said.“Through recycling audits, we canstudy what goes to the landfill. Wefound that about 25 percent of whatgoes to the landfill is actually recy-clable, and about 30 percent is com-postable.”

Angela Kwok ‘13, co-presidentof the student-run Green LivingCouncil (GLC), pointed out thatcomposting is not always a readilyavailable option for students.

“Composting is lacking in resi-dences,”Kwok said.“In dining halls,it’s convenient [to compost], butwhen people bring food back totheir room, a lot of them don’t takethe time to bring what can be com-posted back to the dining hall.”

Muir acknowledged that thecomposting program, which beganin 2003,has been an integral compo-nent of sustainability on campus.She nevertheless stressed the needfor strategic and cautious expan-sion.

“With composting, you have topay [sanitation services], and it’sonly slightly cheaper than a land-fill,” Muir said. “You also have toconsider factors like odor and pestcontrol. If you move too fast, youcould have problems that set youback.”

According to Muir, all the dininghalls and half the cafes on campuscurrently have compost options.

Ahmed hopes the RecycleManiacompetition will prompt individualsto reconsider not only their recy-cling and composting habits, butalso the entirety of their consumerbehaviors.

“One question we should ask is:‘how can we create less waste tobegin with,’” she said.

Contact Samantha McGirr at smc-girr@stanford.edu.

RECYCLEContinued from front page

Co-editor and co-founderGessen, who has written for TheNew Yorker, The Nation and theLondon Review of Books, tookcenter stage for the last half of theevent. Dryly observing that hischief inspiration for starting a mag-azine was really just to “get out ofthe house,” Gessen lit up the audi-ence with snippets of startup life,from post-publication parties tolate-night editing woes.

Lamenting the fact that n+1’sfirst two staff parties ran out of beer— a disaster he described as “verytraumatizing,” and which led thestaff to proclaim that “we would notrun out of beer as long as our mag-azine lives” — Gessen proceededto elicit appreciative laughter from

the audience as he lambasted hisalma mater, Harvard.

“The Lampoon was not funny[and] the Crimson was not inform-ative,” he said.

Citing the bad impression he gotfrom Harvard’s literary magazine,the Advocate, which he called “pre-tentious,” Gessen criticized aca-demic atmospheres that promote“a psychology of constantly tryingout for something, but never pro-ducing anything for the peoplearound you.”

In the ensuing question and an-swer session, Greif and Gessentook questions from the audience,which ranged from how best to dealwith stubborn writers to the advan-tages of moving into book format.Concluding the lecture, Greif said,“no one could pay us for what wedo.”

Contact Miles Unterreiner at mile-su1@stanford.edu.

MAGSContinued from front page

$60,000 receive full financial aid.Families making less than $100,000are only obligated to pay room andboard.

In Feb. 2010, the Board ofTrustees approved a similar 3.5-percent increase in undergraduate

tuition for the current academicyear.

The Law School will implementa more dramatic increase in tuition,room and board. Hume explainedthat the school was “under-pricing”itself relative to its competitors.

“There was a feeling that wewere delivering a quality productequal to or better than our competi-tors, and yet our tuition costs less,”she said.

In other news, the Board ofTrustees gave concept and site ap-proval for Phase 2 of the StanfordAuxiliary Library project.The Aux-iliary Library, which is located inLivermore, expects to double itsstorage capacity at a $35.5 millionprice tag.The West Campus Recre-ation Center, which was approvedin December, received design ap-proval.

In April, the Board of Trusteeswill take a more in-depth look atland use on the Farm.

Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@stanford.edu.

TRUSTEESContinued from front page

senators moved quickly toward avote at the end of the meeting with-out discussion.

Senate chair Michael Cruz ‘12then offered to outline the most im-portant components of the bill,which was later passed unanimously.

One of the GSC’s main com-plaints about the first version of thebill “was that it wasn’t a robust bill,”Cruz said after the meeting. “Com-ing back to the drawing board, wewanted to address all of the prob-lems in the special fees process.”

Last night’s bill will require ma-jority approval by the GSC.

Constitutional CouncilThe Senate discussed a bill co-

sponsored by the ConstitutionalCouncil to establish more codifiedrules of order for the council, whosemembers were present to discuss themeasure.

Previously,very little documenta-tion existed to determine the Coun-cil’s structure, “to the really seriousdetriment of the ASSU,”said councilmember Mateo Willmott ‘11.

The aim is to make the Constitu-tional Council’s work an “expedient,

efficient and really transparentprocess,”Willmott said.

“All of this is to the benefit of thestudent”over the council, said coun-cil member J’vona Ivory ‘11.

Other items of importanceThe Senate also passed a bill to fi-

nancially support Green EventsConsulting (GEC), a programfounded last year to encourage stu-dent groups to make their eventsmore sustainable. The Senate allo-cated $1,500 from its advocacy andprogramming budget to GEC, anamount that will be matched by theASSU Executive discretionaryfund,Cardona said.ASSU executivechair of sustainability Theo Gibbs‘11 heads Green Events Consulting.

On the agenda for next week is abill formalizing the transitionprocess from one Senate body to an-other, after the spring election. Car-dona also announced that she plansto announce her nomination forASSU vice president, who will re-place Kelsei Wharton ‘12, at nextTuesday’s Senate meeting.Whartonrecently stepped down from his po-sition due to an injury.

Cardona’s State of the Associa-tion speech will take place in theeighth week of the quarter.

Contact Margaret Rawson atmarawson@stanford.edu.

SENATEContinued from front page

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Teaching

electrically driven flow instabilities.

—Ivy Nguyen

CRONA decries newhospital contract

changesBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Committee for Recognition ofNursing Achievement (CRONA),which represents 2,700 nurses atStanford Hospital and Clinics andLucile Packard Children’s Hospi-tal, released a press release Tues-day condemning a decision by thehospitals to impose a new employ-ment contract on the nurses.

“Stanford and Lucile PackardHospitals have decided to put cor-porate needs and greed ahead of

the welfare of their nurses, doctorsand patients by imposing these newworking conditions,” Lorie John-son, president of CRONA, wrote inthe press release. “We believe theimposition of these provisions is adeclaration of war on nurses andcould put patient care at risk atboth hospitals.”

This development continues ayearlong contract dispute betweenCRONA and the hospitals, in whichboth sides were unable to agree ona new contract to replace the onethat expired last March.The debateextended through late summer,when the two sides reached a dead-lock that required the involvementof a federal mediator.

Though the nurses voted on atentative agreement in December,the majority of nurses rejected theagreement, prompting CRONA toinform the hospitals that it wouldrecommend a new tentative agree-ment if the proposal were changed.In response, the hospitals declaredan “impasse”and implemented thiscurrent contract.

CRONA will be meeting withits member nurses this week to out-

line its next steps, the press releasesaid.

— Ivy Nguyen

Stanford student’sdeath ruled suicideBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Denver County, Colo., med-ical examiner has ruled the recentdeath of a 22-year-old Stanford stu-dent a suicide caused by a drug over-dose.

Claire Roscow ’10 died Dec. 28,2010,in Denver.A former class pres-ident, Roscow studied biomechani-cal engineering. As an undergradu-ate fellow at the Center for Compas-sion and Altruism Research and Ed-ucation, she organized volunteersfor the Dalai Lama’s visit to Stan-ford in October.

A local memorial service is set forFeb. 22 at 4 p.m. in MemorialChurch.

— Elizabeth Titus

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FEATURES

Courtesy of Akhil Iyer The 14 Stanford undergraduates involved in ROTC programs (above)must commute to neighboring campuses to participate in the pro-gram. ROTC has been removed from the Farm since 1973.

By BILLY GALLAGHER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The clock reads 3:30 a.m. on a Monday.Most people across campus are fastasleep; others are finishing papers andproblem sets. For Aly Gleason ‘13 andKirk Morrow ‘11, the day has already

begun. They need to make it to San Jose by 5 a.m.for their early morning physical training for AirForce Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC).

As elite universities across the nation weigh thepros and cons of reinstating ROTC on their cam-puses,Stanford students and faculty have begun lin-ing up on both sides of the argument. Yet for asmuch debate and discussion that these four lettershave stirred all over campus this year, very fewwithin the Stanford community know much aboutthe fourteen students currently participating in theprogram.

Fourteen out of 6,887 students — the ROTCcommunity on campus is approximately the samesize as an IHUM section. Hailing from all over theUnited States,spanning all four classes,bringing dif-ferent backgrounds, they represent the diversity,talent and passion of Stanford students. But as thenational spotlight has shifted to their program,mostof the individual cadets don’t notice much of a dif-ference between those in ROTC and their peers.

“We’re just like anyone else who got into Stan-ford,” said Lillian McBee ‘14. “We got in throughthe same selection process.We’re not that differentfrom everyone else.”

Their schedule, however, is far from typical.Depending on the week, with service and their

ROTC-given jobs, cadets commute anywhere fromtwo to six times per week to their respective ser-vice’s location. Stanford’s ROTC program was offi-cially phased out from campus in 1973 and the Uni-versity declined to award academic units for stu-dents who remotely participated in the program.Asa result, Stanford’s current Naval and Marinecadets go to UC-Berkeley, the Air Force cadets goto San Jose State University and the Army candi-dates go to Santa Clara University.

The commutes to these schools, which rangefrom half an hour to an hour on a good day, impactthe course selection and extracurricular activities ofthe cadets.

“The commute is part of the time commitment,”said Morrow. “There’s definitely been a few timeswhere there’s been a class that I wanted to take butI couldn’t because I would need to be leaving to goto ROTC at the tail end . . . It was more of the com-mute that kept me from taking a class than it wasROTC events.”

“The fact that it’s not on campus has inhibitedmy ability to have academic freedom in terms ofchoosing classes,” added Jimmy Ruck ‘11.

The cadets are required to take ROTC classes,which differ from their Stanford course-load.

“The classes are not exactly the same as Stanfordclasses because they’ve been fine tuned to give usthe officer development that we need,”added Mor-row.“So they would be a great supplement to Stan-ford classes.”

“For both ROTC classes I’ve had to work waymore than I’ve ever had to work for IHUM,”McBee said.“And sophomores and upperclassmenhave even harder classes . . . the whole thing aboutclasses not being hard enough is definitely unfound-ed.”

The difficulty of ROTC classes has promptedsome to question why Stanford does not award ac-ademic credit for the courses.

“The main issue for me is that Stanford doesn’teven recognize this as credit. If you took yoga, youget one unit of non-academic credit,”said Ruck.“Atthe very least, Stanford can grant that to ROTC.There’s no doubt in my mind that it’s comparable, ifnot a lot more strenuous and time-intensive andphysically demanding, than some of these non-aca-demic units.”

Most ROTC students spend at least part of fourdays per week with their battalion performing awide range of activities including physical training,leadership activities, classes and meetings.

Every Wednesday morning, ROTC cadets fromall four branches meet together on campus forphysical training. All Stanford military-affiliatedpersons are invited,and it is the only time the cadetsare together as Stanford students, not at their sepa-rate schools.

The days can be long, especially on Thursdayswhen the cadets often leave around noon and donot return to campus until after 10 p.m. Gleason,who is also a Division I athlete, noted that the bal-ance can be difficult at times.

“Our coaches are pretty understanding thatROTC is where I want to go with my life. . . . I’m in15 units right now and I couldn’t take another classif I tried. I would actually fail it.”

However, it is clear to these students that Stan-ford academics come first.

“Our main priority is school and our second pri-ority is ROTC, and everything else comes afterthat,” McBee said. “While ROTC is a big part ofwhat we do, our academics come first, which is ex-plicitly stated in the program.”

Ruck believes the return of ROTC is importantfor the education of students and future officersalike.

“People will become more exposed to the per-sonal side of the military and learn more about whatthis aspect of our nation does on a daily basis,”Rucksaid.

“Whether we like it or not, the military is goingto be a fundamental part of foreign policy thatshapes our events and world events for decades tocome, so its something that I feel like any citizen ofany country should have at least a baseline knowl-edge of the American military.”

Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg2014@stanford.edu.

Aly Gleason ‘13

She is a human biology majorpursuing a medical degree witha focus on emergency medicinewhile competing as a goalkeep-er on the varsity women’s soc-cer team.

Jimmy Ruck ‘11

He is a deputy editor for theStanford US-Russia Forum, amember of the Committee forUndergraduate Admission andFinancial Aid, who studied Urduon a cultural immersion trip tonorthern India and is majoringin history with honors in Inter-national Security Studies.

Akhil Iyer ‘11

He is an international rela-tions major who spent thispast summer studying Arabicin Jordan, serves as the vicepresident of the Sigma Nu fra-ternity and is a research assis-tant to Martha Crenshaw fo-cusing on terrorism in India.

Oliver Ennis ‘11

He has studied abroad inSpain and Vietnam, is fluentin Spanish, is a research assis-tant to Hoover Fellow Dr.Thomas Henriksen andserves as social chair for theSigma Nu fraternity.

Isabel Lopez ‘14

She works with Stanford Din-ing Services and will travel tothe Philippines this summerto work with the Filipino mili-tary in a cultural immersionprogram.

Lillian McBee ‘14

She interned at a non-profitresearch institution in labsfocused on proteomics andchemical engineering, is herdorm captain for DanceMarathon and plays on thewomen’s rugby team.

Kirk Morrow ‘11

He is majoring in civil engi-neering while pursuing a co-terminal master’s degree insustainable design and con-struction and enjoys motorcy-cle riding and playing guitar.

Darien Bailey ‘13

He has taken time off thisyear from the track team tofocus on his studies andcore classes for his civil en-gineering major.

Ann Thompson ‘11

She participated in a culturalimmersion program in Slova-kia, has studied abroad at Ox-ford University and is pursu-ing research for an honors the-sis through the Center forDemocracy, Development andthe Rule of Law.

Pierre Allegaert ‘14

He speaks French and Ger-man, is majoring in Germanstudies and is interested in acareer that will require theuse of foreign languages

Ernest Haleck ‘13

He is a political sciencemajor from AmericanSamoa who hopes to bethe first in his family tograduate from college.

Graham Bazell ‘14, Chloe Taub ‘14 and KristaFryauff ‘14 are current ROTC members who couldnot be reached for comment.

A look at the handfulof Stanford studentsinvolved with ROTC

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Contacting The Daily: Section editors can be reached at (650) 721-5815 from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. The Advertising Department can bereached at (650) 721-5803, and the Classified Advertising Department can be reached at (650) 721-5801 during normal business hours.Send letters to the editor to eic@stanforddaily.com, op-eds to editorial@stanforddaily.com and photos or videos to multimedia@stanforddaily.com.Op-eds are capped at 700 words and letters are capped at 500 words.

Tonight’s Desk Editors

Ivy NguyenNews Editor

Daniel BohmSports Editor

Amy Julia HarrisFeatures Editor

Ian Garcia-DotyPhoto Editor

Matt BettonvilleCopy EditorSuppose you were at the ATM,

intending to withdraw cash togo grocery shopping. You

have a shopping list and a generalidea of how much each item willcost. You intend to withdrawenough money to ensure that youcan buy all the groceries on the list,and you’ll just deposit any excessfunds back in your account later.Now a particularly clever friendhappens to pass by and makes thefollowing suggestion: “withdrawmoney under the restriction thatyou cannot redeposit any unusedfunds; instead, you’ll lose any un-spent cash.This way,you’ll buy a lotof food!” How should you re-spond?

That wasn’t a trick question.Theanalogy above should illustrate theabsurdity of ResEd’s new policythat bars Row houses from refund-ing unspent social dues to residents.Rather, the excess money will befunneled into the Capital ReserveFund (CRF) that future residentscan only use to buy long-termequipment like furniture. The rea-soning behind the policy goessomething like: “there is no longeran incentive to spend less than thecollected social dues, so Row hous-es will fully spend their budgets andenhance social life on the Row.”

Analogously, we might expectthat you, the grocery shopper, willget to the grocery store and decideto buy less food so that you can re-turn more money to your bank ac-count.Perhaps this is true for thoseof you with poor short-term mem-ory, but most normal shoppersdon’t forget that they budgeted acertain quantity of groceries for areason. Similarly, Row house staffsprobably don’t experience changesof heart after planning four eventsand host only two in order to re-fund their residents; if they plan toonly have two events, they’ll revisethe budget downward and chargeless in social dues — this is obvi-ously more palatable to residents,since they pay less up front.

What about the case where ahouse puts on all planned eventsand still ends up with a surplus?ResEd may have intended its poli-cy to force the house to have anoth-er social event, since there is basi-

cally no reason to relinquish thosefunds to a CRF that will likely onlybenefit future residents.Therefore,the Row will host more socialevents in aggregate than had al-ready been planned. But why notsimply stipulate that the housesplan more events when initiallybudgeting? ResEd’s solutionseems like a clunky way to accom-plish a relatively simple goal.

The disadvantages of the policyare clear. There is now a disincen-tive to include a cushion in thebudget for unforeseen expendi-tures or uncertainty in prices.Therefore, houses are much morelikely to run out of money beforemaking it through their whole so-cial calendar.Conversely,an end ofquarter surplus would drive thestaff to spend freely and inefficient-ly, probably on really expensive al-cohol; would this really be a justi-fied expenditure of student funds,given most students’ recent belt-tightening? Finally, this policy isnormatively questionable becauseit amounts to a coercive moneytransfer from current residents tofuture residents.Had house staffersbeen involved in the policy-makingprocess, they could have voicedthese concerns; instead, ResEdmoved unilaterally and withoutconsultation. Even more inexcus-able has been the administration’sunwillingness to clarify the policyupon student request.

Every possible benefit thatResEd could hope to capture withthe anti-refund constraint can beaccomplished in simpler ways. Ifemergency CRF funds are neces-sary, make residents pay somenominal fee each quarter to theCRF, independent of social dues.To ensure that Row social life re-mains vibrant, help staffs plan andbudget for more events at the be-ginning of the quarter.There is oneinane argument that this policyequalizes the disparity between so-cial dues at large and small houses;but refunding everybody nothing iscertainly worse than refundingsome people something. In sum,ResEd has blindly implemented anunnecessarily counterintuitive pol-icy that’s attendant inefficiencyoutweighs its non-unique benefits.

Ihaven’t had a TV in my life forthe past few years. So, when I fi-nally caught video clips from

Cairo last week, I was astounded.Still images,no matter how provoca-tive, miss so many dimensions of theconflict: the shouts and chants, thesimmering resentment and doggedcommitment, the flying stones andsounds of gunfire that turned a rela-tively peaceful protest violent. I findmyself checking the news moreoften now, hoping that the Egyptianmilitary remains ambivalent,fearingthat the body counts will rise.

For many of us, the walls of theStanford bubble are thick andopaque; we can afford only a littletime to think deeply about the Mid-dle East’s state of unrest. But weshould take that time, because thecurrent state of affairs is more than alesson on the perils of a 30-year-oldautocracy. Indeed, many of the is-sues faced by Egypt — and by itsoil-rich neighbors — are fundamen-tally ecological, the consequences ofa human population decoupledfrom its environmental base. Couldthe simmering chain reaction in theMiddle East today foreshadow aglobal tomorrow?

On the surface, Egypt’s storyreads like a case study on the inter-section of economics and demogra-phy. On the economics side: a 30-percent jump in food prices coupledwith a 9.4 percent unemploymentrate and 30 million people living onless than $2 per day. On the demo-graphic side: the perils of the ex-panding population pyramid. Sixtypercent of Egyptians swell its youth-ful base; 30 percent are between theages of 15 and 29.

These young Egyptians — ourpeers — face an uncertain future.The unemployment rate in the 15-29age bracket is a staggering 25 per-cent. Job prospects outside thecountry are not good: most havecompleted many years of schooling,but the caliber of the educationalsystem places their diplomas low onthe international scale. Meanwhile,

because of their age, they are lesslikely to feel the stabilizing influ-ence of supporting a family.And so,with nothing to lose and everythingto gain, they turn against a presidentwho has been in power longer thanthey have been alive, hoping that achange in government will healEgypt’s ills.

Will it?Perhaps in part. But the unem-

ployment rates and skyrocketingfood prices are symptoms of a scari-er disease: an overpopulated region(on an overpopulated planet) pre-cariously propped up by subsidiesfrom nonrenewable resources. InEgypt, one of the trembling but-tresses is the Nile River, which sub-sidized the fertile delta that birthedAncient Egyptian civilization.

A free-flowing Nile was both ablessing and a curse. It provided aseemingly endless supply of waterand nutrient-rich silt, but its roaringfloods and devastating droughtsmade farming on the delta a per-ilous business. Today, dams harnessthe power of the world’s longestriver, providing electricity and asteady flow of water that has effec-tively doubled the growing season.

With an abundance of food andmodern medicine, infant mortalitydropped, and the population pyra-mid’s base swelled. But it was not tolast: without annual floods to flush itsback canals and lay down a new layerof sediment, the Nile Delta becomesmore polluted and sinks further to-ward the Mediterranean each year.Increased demand for water has cre-ated yet another thirst that cannot beslaked.Today, the fresh waters of theNile no longer reach the sea.

With natural resources stretchedto their maximum, Egypt must lookelsewhere to feed its people. TheArab world as a whole imports 50percent of its food, rendering popu-lations vulnerable to price fluctua-tions driven by flooding in Australiaor ethanol demand in the UnitedStates.

And oil, the greatest nonrenew-

able resource of all, compounds theproblem in producing states. The re-source curse has paralyzed theireconomies and stratified their soci-eties. Oil wealth, flowing through thehands of a powerful few, supportspopulations that far exceed thedesert region’s ability to provide.Most citizens are supported by heavysubsidies and a disproportionatelylarge public sector. Educational sys-tems leave the youth with little op-portunity in the outside world, creat-ing a population wholly dependenton an unsustainable edifice.

As I wrote last week,internation-al trade allows us to economize pro-duction by growing crops wherewater is abundant, manufacturinggoods where labor is cheap and de-signing software where education isgood. But when your economy issupported by a dwindling resourceand your population is not trainedfor a transition, you are vulnerableto collapse.

What does this say to the rest ofthe world? We all rely heavily on oil— to grow our crops, to run our ma-chines, to transport our exportsworldwide. If oil supplies were cutoff tomorrow, and we had to lookwithin ourselves and our own bor-ders for support, how many stoneswould fly across the National Mall?

Holly’s column normally runs onThursday. She welcomes reader feed-back — but not stones! — at hol-lyvm@stanford.edu.

That time of the quarter we alldread is in full swing again:midterm season. Instead of

being allowed to enjoy our privi-leged lives, professors are actuallyforcing us to do work. I don’t knowabout you, but I’m staring down aslew of papers and exams right now.(Can someone please tell Econ 1Bthat scheduling exams two weeksapart is just sadistic?) Luckily, I’mhere to offer you a variety of op-tions to help you to survive this lat-est round of midterms.

ProcrastinateIf you’re supposed to practice

what you preach, then I’m definite-ly coming through for you here. I re-ally need to stop procrastinating. I’lldo that later, though. Right now, I’lltell you how to avoid your midtermsentirely. Just get yourself a Netflixaccount. Somehow, in the past twoweeks, I’ve managed to fly throughthe first two seasons of “Parks andRecreation.” I’m so busy that I’mnot really sure how that happened,but it did.Netflix is actually scientif-ically guaranteed to sap you of thewill to work.Haven’t watched all sixseasons of “Lost” yet? There’s nobetter time than right now.

To top things off, in the midst ofthis hellish week of midterms, oneof my good friends who graduated

last year decided to visit. Needlessto say, a few nights this week turnedinto Taco Bell-catered Halo festsreaching well past 3 a.m. That’sprobably not the best idea whenyou have a political science paper(or this column) waiting to be writ-ten, but neither is going to EBF at 2a.m. on a Wednesday night.Party

Speaking of EBF,you can alwaysjust rage your face off if you don’twant to work. I guarantee that youprobably won’t be worrying aboutthat paper you have due if you’reblacked out. Personally, I’m prettyglad that Kairos’ Wine and Cheesenight is biweekly. If I had to contendwith that this week, I’m not surehow much work I could possibly getdone on Wednesday.

Seriously, if you’re that stressedabout midterms, then your only op-tion is to get to the Bromuda Trian-gle and let your worries flow out ofyou. If you go hard enough tonight,chances are that they won’t be theonly thing flowing out of you bymidnight.Enjoy the sunshine

Ah, the weather! Seriously, thisis why we came to Stanford in thefirst place. Look around and seeeveryone taking advantage of thebeautiful California clime. Spot the

bros playing hardcore games of ulti-mate on fields around campus.Check out the sorority girls sunningthemselves on Cowell Lawn. Laughas computer science majors franti-cally try to avoid the sun.This is thelife. Why should midterms bring usdown?

Really, you can’t ask for any-thing better than the weather atStanny U right now. Where’s thewinter quarter rain? How is it con-sistently above 60 degrees in earlyFebruary? Don’t question it. In-stead, alleviate your midterm bluesby cranking up some killer tunesand loving the sunshine. (Protip: try“Simple Graces” by Delorean. Ithink it was made for this weather.)Honestly, the Ivy League can suckit. Blair Waldorf is still prancingaround Columbia in her Chanelwinter coat, but flip flops are al-ready part of my everyday attire.Score one for Stanny.Actually get your work done early

I know,I know,what a cheap wayto end the column, right? I’m reallytrying to give you some sensible ad-vice. I know you expect better fromme. However, last week I somehowmanaged to finish my econ problemset (due Friday) by Wednesdayevening. It was magical! I had timefor things! I wasn’t rushing to doeverything in a three-hour span onThursday night.

Here’s the best part: if you man-age to finish everything on time,then you can work in my three

pieces of earlier advice with noqualms. By day, you could sunbathewhile watching “Arrested Develop-ment” on Netflix. By night, youcould engage in extreme debauch-ery. That’s what I call “living thedream,” Stanford.

You can always e-mail Shane at sav-itsky@stanford.edu. Make sure e-mails are properly formatted: 12 pt.Times New Roman, double-spacedand proper margins. MLA citationsare acceptable.

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The resource curse has

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Hoping forthe NFLlockout

W ith the NFL’s own-ers and Players As-sociation locked ina heated battle overa new collective

bargaining agreement, it’s becomingmore likely every day that the leagueis headed for a lockout. If a newagreement isn’t struck by March 3,the owners will lock out the players; ifa resolution isn’t reached by Septem-ber, the NFL could cancel the entireseason.

There’s only one position that I re-ally identify with,which is the players’refusal to acquiesce to an 18-gameseason. Such a long campaign wouldincrease injury risk tremendously anddilute the value of each regular-sea-son game.

Although I like the NFL,I have toconcede that I’m really rooting forneither side to prevail, but rather tosee the lockout happen. An NFLlockout would be an untold boon forcollege football, dramatically increas-ing TV viewership as disaffected fanswould flock from the pros to theNCAA.

Next season would be a great onefor the nation’s collective sportingconscious to focus firmly on collegefootball.The results of conference re-alignment — and all the juicy story-lines that fall from it — will be on fulldisplay, as the new Pac-12, Big Tenand Big 12 all commence play.As theOhio State Tattoo Five and the CamNewton sagas continue to unfold, wecould see even more pressure for thesport to reform itself and curb the un-savory practices that “football-facto-ry”programs regularly engage in.

More viewership would be highlybeneficial to Stanford as well. Fans ofboth NFL teams in the Bay Areawould turn to Stanford and Cal fortheir football, and we might actuallyget a full stadium pretty regularlywhen disaffected 49ers fans discoverthe (relatively) low ticket prices andhigh-quality football just down theroad. Stanford’s football team willlikely enter next season with a top-10ranking and its most hype in recentmemory, so the timing of the NFLlockout would be fortuitous indeed.

An NFL-less season could alsobring in more money for Stanfordand the Pac-12 in the long term. Theconference is due to renegotiate itsmedia deal soon and would be in amuch stronger bargaining position ifit had viewership numbers swelled byexiled NFL fans. Stanford is alreadyset to see its slice of revenue from theconference jump dramatically, but anadded dollop of cash never hurts.

College teams could also schedulegames for Sunday, giving us a fullweekend of college football as op-posed to just a single Saturday as wehave now. College programs aren’ttechnically prevented from schedul-ing games on Sunday — they only re-frain from doing so because theydon’t want to compete against theNFL for viewership.

By contrast, the NFL is barred byits antitrust exemption from stagingSaturday games during the collegeregular season. If college football isable to build a Sunday audience, bigprograms could compete regularlyand successfully against the NFL foryears to come.

However,the biggest benefit froma college football-focused fall would-n’t be monetary — it would be the in-creased pressure for a playoff.Almosteveryone is dissatisfied with the BCS,but part of the reason that it hasn’tbeen blown up yet is that, after thebowls are over, we can all sit back onour couches and prepare to watch afew weeks of NFL playoff action.Without the Super Bowl, the bowlgames would feel empty,and pressurewould intensify for college football tocrown its champion via an eight- or16-team playoff.

After all, one only has to look atthis season to see why a playoff is bet-ter than the BCS system. The SuperBowl champions, the Green BayPackers, got into the playoffs with asix seed; if we had a BCS-type systemin the NFL, there’s no way the Packgets voted into the Super Bowl!

— Kabir Sawhney is rooting for alockout. He clearly fell and hit hishead this weekend. Wish him aspeedy recovery at ksawhney@stan-ford.edu.

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The No. 8 Stanford men’s ten-nis team (5-0, 0-0 Pac-10) re-mained undefeated in dual-matchplay yesterday afternoon, domi-nating Utah at Taube Tennis Sta-dium by a score of 7-0. Even moreimpressive for the Cardinal team

is the fact that the victory camewithout two of the squad’s topplayers — juniors Bradley Klahnand Ryan Thacher.MEN’S TENNISUTAH 0 STANFORD 72/8, Taube Tennis Stadium

For their efforts, Thacher andKlahn received a wild-card entryinto the doubles draw of the 2011SAP Open at HP Pavilion in SanJose this week and are scheduledto play their first match Tuesday

evening. Klahn, the defendingNCAA singles champion, wasalso awarded a wild-card entryinto the singles draw, where hewill play the No. 12 player in theworld, France’s Gael Monfils, inthe first round on Wednesdaynight.

The inactivity of Klahn andThacher forced head coach JohnWhitlinger to reshuffle his lineup.Sophomore Walker Kehrer andfreshman Jamin Ball were the

FRANK NOTHAFT/The Stanford DailyWith Bradley Klahn and Ryan Thacher gone, Alex Clayton, above, stepped up and played No. 1 singles for the Cardinal yesterday. The senior had aneasy two-set victory as the Cardinal defeated the visiting Utah Utes 7-0. With the win, Stanford stayed undefeated and improved to 5-0 on the season.

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IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford DailyNo 1. Stanford went 4-0 in the Stanford Invitational last weekend. In the championshipgame the Cardinal defeated defending-champion USC in triple overtime for the title.

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This year’s invitational featured eight of the bestteams in the country, separated into two groups. Brack-et A consisted of No. 2 USC, No. 4 UCLA, No. 5 Hawaiiand No. 15 Indiana. Bracket B included No. 1 Stanford,No. 3 Cal, No. 8 Arizona State and No. 9 San Jose State.WOMEN’S WATER POLOUSC 9STANFORD 10 (3OT)2/6, Avery Aquatic Center

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beneficiaries, and both recordedtheir first collegiate dual-matchvictories in the win.

The tone was set early for theCardinal, who blitzed the Utes inthe doubles matches and the top-three singles matches, securing avictory in the contest early on. Se-nior Alex Clayton and sophomoreDenis Lin filled in admirably forthe absent Klahn and Thacher asthe Cardinal’s top two players anddispatched their opponents withease in their singles matches,outscoring them by a combinedtally of 24 games to six.

Ball, who was making his firstcollegiate appearance, won out ofthe No. 6 spot.

“Everyone played pretty solidand it went well,” Ball said. “Forme personally, it was great to getmy first win under my belt — Iwas pretty nervous at first butmanaged to pull it out in theend.”

Senior Greg Hirshman won atNo. 3 in singles play, and sopho-more Matt Kandath at No. 4.Kehrer was a straight-set winnerat No. 5.

Ball, a top recruit out of nearbyMenlo School, is one of threefreshmen on the team, each of

whom is looking to contributesomething to a Stanford team thathas been perfect this season.

This weekend looks to be animportant one for the Cardinal.The team will face No. 38 BYU onFriday, and on Saturday, Stanfordwill head over to Berkeley for amatch with the No. 19 GoldenBears.

Ball thinks that this type of lop-sided win will be good for the teamas it prepares for the weekend.

“It’s definitely good, it getseveryone match-tough and on topof their game,” he said.“Cal will bea great match, and there’s defi-nitely a lot on the table with thembeing our rivals.”

Ball added that he doesn’tthink the absence of Klahn andThacher will negatively affect theteam.

“If anything, it fires us up toknow that one of our guys will playsomeone ranked No. 12 in theworld on Wednesday night,” hesaid. “I think it’ll definitely getBrad ready for this weekend.”

The Stanford men’s tennisteam must believe it’s in a goodplace when it can coast to victorywithout its top two players. Theduo will return for this weekend’saction, which opens against theCougars at 1:30 p.m. on Friday atTaube Tennis Stadium.

Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@stanford.edu.

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trick against the Golden Bears.She was later named MountainPacific Sports Federation Playerof the Week for her excellent tour-nament.

Stanford concluded its bracketplay the following morning with adominant 16-4 victory over itsSouth Bay rival, San Jose State.Stanford had another balanced at-tack featuring goals from 10 dif-ferent players.

“A key to our strong start hasno doubt been our depth,” saidhead coach John Tanner.“We havegreat depth at every position.”

At 4:30 p.m. on Super BowlSunday, Stanford got in the poolfor a much-anticipated matchupwith No. 2 USC. A sizeable crowdwas present for the back-and-forth affair, with both teams gain-

ing momentum in separatestretches. The game was tied afterthe first quarter at 2-2, after thesecond quarter at 3-3 and at theend of regulation at 7-7.

After USC senior KristenDronberger notched her fourthgoal on a backhand shot that tiedthe score at seven apiece with 1:17to play, drama unfolded at Averyin the final minute of regulation.A Stanford turnover with 10 sec-onds to go followed by an exclu-sion seconds later gave USC onelast shot for a goal. However,USC’s last-second prayer sailedfar wide of the cage, and USChead coach Jovan Vavic was visi-bly upset about what he thoughtwas a clock malfunction thatforced the wild shot.

In overtime, Menon had abeautiful, arcing bar-in goal withthree seconds left in the first over-time period, which put Stanford infront, 9-8.

The Cardinal seemed to havethe game in check in the second

overtime period with a 9-8 lead,but a turnover and exclusion withunder 30 seconds left enabledUSC freshmen two-meter Made-line Rosenthal to tie the score witha goal inside with 13 seconds left.

In sudden death, the teamswere scoreless in the first frame,which included several huge savesby both goalies and a bar-out 5-meter penalty by Menon. Thenail-biter ended with a skip shotby Dodson with 16 seconds left inthe second sudden-death period.

“The emotional victory reallyshowed the team’s resilience,”Tanner said. “We missed opportu-nities to go by three goals multipletimes. However, whenever we hada setback, we rebounded quickly.Also, it didn’t help that the USCgoalie had a great game.”

USC’s freshman goalie FloraBolonyai had 10 saves, including abreakaway save mid-way throughthe second quarter and an athleticstop in the second overtime peri-od that kept USC within striking

distance. She was named MPSFNewcomer of the Week after herimpressive outing during theweekend.

Stanford sported another di-verse offensive outing with goalscoming from seven different play-ers. Dodson, Dries and junior two-meter Melissa Seidemann led theteam with a pair each.

Once the season heats up, Stan-ford plans to see Cal, UCLA andUSC again, whether in the sched-uled MPSF season or the playoffs.

“We need to be more methodi-cal. Against these teams, we needto find and finish opportunities,”Tanner said.“Overall, we were notdecisive enough this weekend,and we need to be crisper on of-fense.”

The Card is out of action fortwo weeks, but is scheduled totravel east to Stockton, Calif. toface Pacific on Feb. 20.

Contact Kevin Zhang at kev-inzhangle@gmail.com.

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