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University tightens

photo policiesBy DANA EDWARDS

STAFF WRITER

The University recently steppedup enforcement of its photographypolicy, leaving photographers un-certain about whether they aretechnically allowed to photographStanford landmarks. Securityguards patrolling the Main Quadand other campus landmarks havebeen instructed to question the in-tent of individuals with professionalcamera equipment.

Jeff Keller, a local photography

enthusiast, was tweaking the set-tings of his professional-grade cam-era atop a tripod in the Main Quadon Feb.9 when he was approachedby two security personnel and askedto leave. Keller runs The DigitalCamera Resource Page(DCRP),aphotography review website. Hetook photos in the quad to test theimage quality of his new camera andlater posted the test results online.

I take the same picture in thehallway of the Main Quad with dif-ferent cameras, at the same time,with the same conditions, and Ivebeen doing it for at least 10 years,

Keller said. By taking photosfrom the exact same spots and con-trolling for external factors, Kellerallows his website visitors to accu-rately compare the resolutions ofdifferent digital cameras.The MainQuad shots and those taken fromfour other locations around campushave been DCRPs hallmarkmethod of comparison for over adecade.

The security guards who stoppedKeller instructed him to contact as-sociate director of University Com-munications Kate Chesley for ques-

tions regarding the policy.The poli-cy states commercial [photogra-phy] requests are not compatiblewith the teaching and research mis-sions of the university and with itsnon-profit status.

In a letter to Chesley, Keller re-quested permission to continue tak-ing photos on Stanfords campus,ar-guing these photos are neverresold and are not of commercialvalue.Chesley rejected his request.

Although you are not sellingthe photographs, your site is of acommercial nature, Chesley wrotein an e-mail to Heller. Chesley em-

phasized that the photo policy is notnew, but that enforcement had in-creased recently.

The amount of commercialphotography we have been experi-encing recently simply has becomeunsustainable, especially givenStanfords strict privacy policies,she said.

Lisa Lapin, associate vice presi-dent of communications, said Stan-ford has a simple,compelling legalreason to prevent commercialphotography and that photogra-phers have become a nuisance.

As a private trademark, Stan-ford wants to protect its brand,image and identity from unautho-rized use,Lapin said.

Stanford has become unbeliev-ably popular, she added.Now wehave all sorts of entities trying to af-filiate themselves with Stanford.Wedont want anyone to profit from aperceived affiliation with us.

Similarly, the University doesnot want to be negatively impactedby appearing to endorse institutions

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

GSC approves 3 of 4 special fees reforms

Authorities increase restrictions on commercial photos

By MARGARET RAWSONSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Graduate Student Council(GSC) unanimously confirmed for-mer Senate Chair Michael Cruz 12as the new ASSU Vice PresidentWednesday and passed most com-ponents of a special fees reform billauthored by Cruz.

When introducing her bill tonominate Cruz as vice president,ASSU President Angelina Cardona11 described him as the best

choice and said he had been in-volved with the ASSU his entireStanford career.

Cruz resigned as senate chair atWednesdays GSC meeting, and willreplace former vice president KelseiWharton,who is currently taking thequarter off. At Tuesdays Senatemeeting, former Senate DeputyChair Madeline Hawes 13 was se-lected to become Senate chair. In anine to five vote,the Senate selectedPat Bruny 13 to serve as deputychair.

The GSC also passed three offour main components to specialfees reform legislation. The firstcomponent,which stipulated a time-line for the creation of special feespolicies, passed unanimously. It alsochanged the reserve policy for stu-dent groups,allowing them to hold inreserves an amount equivalent to100 percent of their expenditures inthe previous year.

The second component allowedstudent groups to increase theirbudgets by up to 10 percent plus in-

flation without petitioning the stu-dent body. It passed 11-2,with GSCco-Chair Justin Brown and AddySatija, one of the GSCs program-ming coordinators,voting against it.

I find your position on this in-credibly disrespectful of their time,said GSC Secretary Erik Lehnert,arguing that student group leadersbusy schedules make petitioning dif-ficult.

The third component of the bill

THURSDAY Volume 239February 17, 2011 Issue 16

UNIVERSITY

Tuition hikewill not hurtfinancial aid

RESEARCH

Biomarkerlinked toknee pain

By ERIN INMANSTAFF WRITER

Researchers at the School ofMedicine identified a biomarker forpain associated with cartilage injuryin the knee. The biomarker can fa-cilitate the diagnostic process andreduce costs for patients.

According to Gaetano Scuderi,professor of orthopaedic surgeryand leader of the research team,theknee joint has two crescent shapedmenisci comprised of cartilage.Menisci are often torn by physicalactivity or natural degradation, butthese tears are not always painful ornoticed.

While surgeons can use MRIs totry to discern the root of a patientsknee pain, MRIs often cannot dif-ferentiate between inflammations

By ELLORA ISRANISTAFF WRITER

The increase in tuition,room andboard costs for the 2011-12 academ-ic year, approved by the Board ofTrustees at a meeting early thismonth, may not have significantramifications for financial aid.

The 3.5 percent price hike willapply to both undergraduate andgraduate students, with the excep-tion of law students, who will see a5.75 percent jump. This puts nextyears undergraduate tuition at$40,050 and room and board at$12,291, compared with this years$38,700 and $11,876, respectively.The increase is reminiscent of lastyears 3.5 percent rise in costs.

Campus Health Services Fee forfall 2011 will be bumped up to $173per quarter, reflecting a similar 3.5percent increase.

Aid resources unaffected by

boards 3.5-percent increaseMed schooltruth serum

helps to explain discomfort

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Bass-baritone singer Nicholas Isherwood, known around the world for his impressive vocal range, displayshis musical talents for students at a Lively Arts-sponsored event held last night at Campbell Recital Hall.

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Security guards will now be required to patrol campus landmarks and questionvisitors with professional camera equipment about their motives. In an effort toincrease enforcement of photo policies, commercial requests will be denied. Please see PHOTO,page 2

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that reflect poorly on it. The photopolicy also seeks to protect the pri-vacy of the students and faculty,some of whom might be exploitedby photographers.

The Main Quad is not a publicpark, Lapin said.

Controversy surrounding thepolicy does not chiefly revolvearound the ban on commercial pho-tography per se,but how commer-cialityis defined.

Keller acknowledged that Stan-ford, as a private institution, re-serves the right to prohibit any kindof photography.But he rejected thenotion that his photos present a

threat to Stanfords image or its ac-ademic mission.Enforcement is uneven,Keller

said.Stanford needs a clear, morerealistic way of determining whatcommercial photography is.If I did-nt have a tripod, I wouldnt havebeen noticed.

Keller also questioned howStanford security guards couldidentify whether a person wasshooting for commercial reasons.On the one hand, someone with atripod and a high-end camera couldsimply be shooting photos for hisown use.Someone with a point-and-shoot camera could post his photoson a blog that generates moneyfrom advertisements, Keller said.

The bottom line is there is noshooting in the Quad or Memorial

Court without permission, no mat-ter what the purposes or who thesponsor or who you are, saidMegan Miller, communicationsmanager at the Stanford Institutefor Creativity and the Arts (SICA).It just isnt allowed.

In an e-mail sent to the Stanfordphotography mailing list, Millerwarned students against violatingthe photo policy. List members re-sponded with concerns about thepolicys legitimacy, one joking thathe would file a request to take a pic-ture with his iPhone.

After a debriefing with some

communications staff,I felt respon-sible to let everyone know about thepolicy, so they wouldnt get in trou-

ble,Miller said.So who really can photograph in

the Main Quad?Technically, every person needs

permission, but security personneldo not prevent tourists and studentswith small personal cameras fromtaking snapshots. Everyone elseincluding news agencies,commercialphotographers,students shooting foracademic purposes and people withprofessional-grade equipment must file requests.

Requests are sometimes granted.But commercial requests will

nearly always be denied,with sever-al notable exceptions. If a Stanfordalumnus,faculty member or studentwants to get married, professionalphotographers may document the

wedding; weddings with non-Stan-ford affiliated individuals are barred.That way, it makes it more

meaningful for the brides andgrooms that do have an affiliation,Lapin said.

Contact Dana Edwards atdana727@stanford.edu.

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Researches discover

how to make

radios listen

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Stanford students can now speedon the information highway thanks toresearchers in computer science andelectrical engineering who have de-veloped the first wireless radios thatcan simultaneously send and receivesignals,making these devices twice asfast as already existing ones.

Textbooks say you cant do it,said Philip Levis,assistant professor ofcomputer science and electrical engi-neering, in a press release Monday.The new system completely reworksour assumptions about how wirelessnetworks can be designed.

Although radios know exactly

what they transmit, these messagesare often much louder than ones fromsurrounding devices.As a result, eachhas to take turns in talkingin orderto be heard by the other.But the newdevices work in very much the sameway as the brain, filtering out its ownsounds in order to better hear theother radios.

These machines, built by three

electrical engineering graduate stu-dents Jung Il Choi, Mayank Jainand Kannan Srinivasan took sev-eral months to construct.

The team, which also includesSachin Katti, assistant professor ofcomputer science and electrical engi-neering, is currently working to com-mercialize their product by increasingboth the strength of the transmissionsand the distance they are able to travel.

Such improvements will make thetechnology more useful for Wi-Fi net-works.

Cassandra Feliciano

Students on financial aid will notbe impacted by these changes aslong as their financial situation hasnot changed,said director of finan-cial aid Karen Cooper.

Every year students reapply forfinancial aid and we assess their eli-gibility,she said.As long as circum-stances havent changed in theirfamily,then I estimate they will havethe same estimated family contribu-tion as last year, and therefore willhave more eligibility for aid.

In fact, the financial aid budgetwill expand to $122 million to offsetthe jump in tuition and room andboard fees. According to Cooper,this will take place despite a slightdecreasein applications for finan-cial aid this year. This expansion infinancial assistance only representsa one percent increase from the cur-rent $118 million.

Our financial aid budget is al-

ways created with the caveat thatwe are need-blind in our admissionprocess and need-based in our fi-nancial aid process, Cooper said.We have a commitment to meetthe demonstrated need of all thestudents that enroll. Even thoughwe have a $122 million budget,if weneed more,we will spend more.

Financial aid will remain unaf-fected partly because it is funded bythe University endowment, not thetuition.Tuition covers 57 percent ofthe Universitys general fundsbudget, said Board of TrusteesChair Leslie Hume.

This is a balanced tuition in-crease,it is going to enable the Uni-versity to achieve the recruitmentof faculty and salary increases that

we would like to do,as well as grad-ual reinstatement of positions thatwhen the recession hit werefrozen, Hume said in a previouspress briefing.

Only international students,whose financial aid is not need-based, and students with financialresponsibility will be affected bythe rise in costs.

For all students, both continu-ing and current students, weve in-creased the amount of student re-sponsibility by $250, Cooper said.By that, I mean the students ex-pectation to work during the sum-mer or during the academic yearhas been increased by a total of$250.

Many students expressed apathytoward the tuition increase.

It sucks, but Im assuming theBoard isnt just gratuitously raisingtuition, said Sharad Bharadwaj14. Its to pay for professors, stu-dents and good programs.

Im not that worried about it,because the increase in financial aidwill take care of the students whoits going to affect the most, said

Greg Greiner 14.Regardless of their approval ordisapproval, students acknowledgethat their opinion will not changewhat has happened.

Honestly, theres nothing I cando about it said Eva Hellman 14.

Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-ford.edu.

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Based on the Boards announcement earlier this month, undergraduate families will be responsible for $40,050 intuition costs, compared to last years $38,700. Financial aid, funded by the endowment, will not be affected.

failed, with eight votes against andfive abstaining.It would have permit-ted the release of information aboutstudents who request specials fees

refunds to student group leaders.The fourth component of the bill

passed with 12 in favor and one ab-stention.

Stephen Trusheim 13, ASSUelections commissioner,said he doesworry about the implementationof the bill because it affects the up-coming elections. Cruz respondedthat the Appropriations Committeeof the Senate is open to holding morebudget meetings to help studentgroups adapt to the changes.

Contact Margaret Rawson atmarawson@stanford.edu.

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from natural degeneration and afull-fledged tear.

Traumatic and degenerative in- juries look the same on MRI,Scuderi said. In a 50-year-old, wecant tell the difference.

However,correctly identifying acartilage tear is only one obstacle.Sometimes, patients sustain painafter corrective surgery becausethe tear is not actually the root ofpain.

Sometimes you would thinkyou did a great job but the patientstill had pain, Scuderi said. Whydid this person not get better whenanother person did?

According to Scuderi, MRIscans of people with no previouslyknown knee problems sometimesreveal incidental meniscus tears.Since an imaging study cannot

identify pain due menisci tears,there must be another responsiblemechanism,he said.

Tapping the joint for biomark-ers is more likely to tell us of actualprocesses inside the joint ratherthan an imaging study which tells usanatomy,Scuderi said.

This new biomarker assay acts asa truth serum to identify thesource of the patients pain. Thestudy took a sample of synovialfluid in the knees of 30 patients withpain, mechanical symptoms andMRI findings consistent withmenisci tears. Synovial fluid wasalso aspirated from 10 asympto-matic patients those with noknee pain, despite imaging evi-dence of menisci tears.

The study found comparativelyhigh levels of fibronectin-aggrecancomplex in those patients with painin contrast to asymptomatic pa-tients. As a result, fibronectin-ag-grecan complex was deemed a bio-marker for knee pain related tomenisci tears.

According to the study, proteinbiomarkers can be utilized as diag-nostic tools, prognostic indicatorsand candidates for future drug ther-apies.

In a clinical setting, this bio-marker could effectively differenti-ate knees with pain-inducingmenisci tears that are responsive tosurgery from knees with only natu-ral cartilage degradation.

This is especially beneficial toolder patient populations. For thisgroup, MRIs are a waste of timebecause they always show degener-ation, Scuderi said. A biomarkertest offers a cheaper and more spe-cific identification of pathology.

The research team includes re-searchers at New York University,the University of Pittsburgh,Jupiter Medical Center in Floridaand Cytonics, Inc.It hopes to imagethe molecule noninvasively as op-posed to aspirating it for assay.

Contact Erin Inman at einman@stanford.edu.

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Perhaps it was last weekendsmemorable Casa party, or justnostalgia of my freshman year,

but this week Im sharing my firstforay into spontaneous internationaltravel. My upperclass partner-in-crime had gone abroad to Florence,and one day while in my sad and de-ranged state mourning her loss, Iserendipitously came across a verycheap flight to Florence. My room-mate certainly thought I was crazy,but his approving go for it, Johnnywas all I needed. Logically,I bookedthe flight right in the middle of thequarter Valentines Day week-end. Soon enough my phone waslost, I came down with a reallybad cold and I winged my wayacross the Atlantic for some wine,gnocchi and gelato.

Ill never forget that memorableflight to Munich on a LufthansaA346. I had pulled an all-nighterright before in order to finish upsome assignments, or maybe I wasgetting on Europe time, of coursewarranting an extra bout of social-izing.If you show up exhausted to along-haul flight, youll be more like-ly to sleep,right? Just be sure to stayawake for the meal service!

I was a bit taken aback when Iwas greeted in German upon em-barking the aircraft. Was my Ger-man heritage fooling this flight

crew? Or perhaps it was the flair ofmy European style. Regardless, Inodded, pretending to know exactlywhat the flight attendants were say-

ing, and played along with theirgame. Later, I flawlessly orderedeinbier. Knowing fully well the need torehydrate in the dry cabin air condi-tions, I ordered wasser. There is achoice of waters? Remember Ger-man conversation class, Johnny!Ahh of course mineralwasserbitte! Huge mistake.Sparkling water

not the most rehydrating.Not los-ing face, I pretended as if sparklingwater were exactly what I had want-ed, all the while growing ever thirsti-er.Lets just say that after 11 hours ofthis behavior the descent and re-

pressurization was less than pleas-ant. Stupid freshman Johnny.Upon arrival in Florence it was

night, I overcame my fear of taxi

drivers, attempted phoning myfriend to no avail,and yet, soon withcrisp Euros in hand and a less crispGoogle printout map, I met myfriend for a glass of Chianti on theDuomo steps. What I was thinkingnot bringing a jacket to Europe inFebruary, I may never know, butafter a few days and the acquisitionof a quintessentially Italian puffjacket with fur collar, I walked andtalked like a local.*

*(Just my perception,not actuallytrue).

Florence is small,so in a couple ofdays you can hit up all the must sees sweeping views from the top theDuomo, Ponte Vecchio, the Medicipalace, Galileos house, kiss yoursweetheart in the Boboli Garden.Leave a bit of staring time at the Uf-fizis Botticellis, not to mention therequired appreciation of the mascu-line beauty of Michelangelos Davidat the Galleria dellAccademia.Notethat the Academia, as well as manyother museums, is closed on Mon-days.A free and always open galleryof Renaissance sculptures is the Log-gia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Sig-noria. Be sure to check out my fa-

vorite work Rape of the SabineWoman from a variety of angles.

Text from a good friend ofmine on Monday afternoon:So did you wet yourself

when Arcade Fire won last night?My response:The Grammys are

so mainstream, dude.As you may know,Arcade Fires

The Suburbs won the GrammyAward for Album of the Year onSunday night. The win was a mas-sive coup for the independent musicscene, especially since the nomina-tion alone was considered some-thing of a surprise.You could tell itwas a big deal when my Twitter feedabsolutely exploded in the space ofabout four and a half minutes.EvenKanye got in on the action, saying,Arcade fire!!!!!!!!!! There ishope!!! I feel like we all won whensomething like this happens!

It goes without saying that Ivebeen a huge Arcade Fire fan for thepast half-decade. Their three al-bums stand among my all-time fa-vorites. I finally saw them live in BigSur in October at a 300 capacityshow. It changed my life. Theyrethat good, so the shocked reactionfrom the general public kind of tookme by surprise. Were they thatmuch of a long shot? Furthermore,did anyone even look at their com-petition for Album of the Year? Torefresh your memory: Lady Gaga,Eminem, Lady Antebellum, andKaty Perry.Just for reference,heresa bit of the chorus from Katy PerrysPeacock: Come on, baby, let mesee what youre hiding underneath /I wanna see your peacock, cock,cock / Your peacock, cock.Im re-ally not making that up.Accordingto the Grammy Awards, that songwas part of one of the five best al-bums of the year. When you throw

in the fact that a documentaryabout Justin Bieber grossed over$30 million at the box office thisweekend, my only response is:America, you scare me some-times.

I know that my feelings aboutmusic dont really correlate withthose of the general public.(My ob-session with Ke$ha remains a no-table exception.) As a fan of indie

music, I tend to listen to artists whoare lesser known by definition. Yetthis Arcade Fire thing continues toconfound me. They sold out twoconsecutive nights at MadisonSquare Garden last summer oneof which was simulcast on Youtube!Theyre kind of a big deal, but be-cause their music isnt played onTop 40 radio stations, they remainunknown to a huge portion of thegeneral public.

Arcade Fire isnt the only indieartist making big news these dayseither. Another of my favoritebands, LCD Soundsystem, an-nounced that they would play their

farewell show at Madison SquareGarden in early April.ConsideringIll be home for a long pre-Oxfordspring break at that point, I figuredI would try to get tickets. No dice.Somehow they managed to sell outthe Garden in the space of roughly10 seconds. Once again, my Twitterfeed was blown up. Theoriesabound that ticket brokers some-how rigged the Ticketmaster sale.Whatever the case may be, I didntget any tickets.Truly heartbreaking,I know.

I dont mean any of this as somesort of snobbish hipster critique onmainstream recognition for my fa-vorite bands. Im not going to stoplistening to Arcade Fire becausethey won a Grammy.(I dont think Ican really talk, considering the Ar-cade Fire poster on my dorm wall ishanging next to a Taylor Swift one.)Instead, what Im trying to say isthat the rise of the Internet hasstarted to blur the line betweenhip and mainstream and itsall for the better. Hopefully the ini-tial confusion and backlash by the

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Few people embody scientificglamour more than my friendJeff, who dropped in two weeks

ago on his way home from a two-month research mission in Antarcti-ca. Aboard Swedish and Americanships,Jeff towed an underwater cam-era recording footage of the SouthernOcean sea floor. So,in addition to derigueur snapshots of Adelie penguinsand towering icebergs,Jeff has a col-lection of king crab portraits.

The problem is that the crabsarent supposed to be there.The hefty claws of the king crab

are more familiar to your dinner platethan they are to animals on theAntarctic sea floor, which haveevolved thinner shells and exposedjuicy body parts over 40 million yearsin the absence of crabs.Now,warmingocean temperatures (increased bynearly two degrees Fahrenheit in re-cent years) have allowed crab popu-lations to creep pole-ward into watersonce too cold for their metabolisms,nearing shelf waters where they candecimate the local community.

Most of us are more familiar withinvasive species introduced directlyby humans, like cane toads, zebramussels or, here in California, themighty eucalyptus. Indeed, the most

worrisome predictor of the SouthernOceans future comes from Norway,where scientists introduced the redking crab (hoping to produce a fish-ery rivaling Alaskas deadliestcatch).Today,the crabs expand theirrange by 50 km per year the dis-tance between Stanford and SanFrancisco clear-cutting the seabedas they advance.

But today, climate change whether you ascribe to its anthro-pogenic drivers or not (hint: youshould) is boosting temperaturesand shifting rainfall patterns,produc-ing dramatic changes in naturalcommunities as plants and animalsadjust ranges and behaviors to com-pensate.

Biological responses come in sev-eral forms. First, as Jeff and theAntarctic crab team observed,warm-ing temperatures can drive species in-

vasion. Second, climate change canshrink habitat.Thats the hypothesisbehind worries over polar bears,

which hunt on dwindling ice pack,and emperor penguins, whose mor-tality spikes during low-ice years.Third,climate change can alter an or-ganisms phenology the timing ofits life history events, like mating orflowering by shifting environmen-tal cues relative to the calendar year.

Such changes decouple delicateecological balances fine-tuned overmillennia. Spring arrives earlier andautumn later. Birds, whose migra-tions are often timed to capture a richspring insect boom, are among thehardest hit:a recent study of 100 Eu-ropean migrant birds found that birdsthat werent heading north soonerhad declining populations. But somespecies,able to jump-start their clockswith the shifting season, were doingbetter than ever.

Closer to home in North America,vast tracts of dying trees herald theclimatic release of native insect pests.The spruce beetle can now completeits life cycle in one year instead of two,so its population boom is decimatingAlaskan forestry stands. The moun-tain pine beetle,which has devastated25 million hectares of trees in Canadaand the U.S. Rocky Mountains in thelast decade,is also enjoying warmer,drier conditions which weaken thedefenses of the trees it drills.

Of course, the relationships be-tween these shifts and climate changeare not always clean.Yes,in the lab wecan show that many organisms growfaster under higher temperatures.And the changes were witnessing aregenerally consistent with the predic-tions wed make based on climate fac-

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Its all fun and games . . .until you call it a Fiesta

Shane

Savitsky

JohnnyBartz

Iopened my email Tuesday andread Fiesta at Mens Basket-ball. My gut instinct told me to

ignore the email, or delete it, but I

gave it the benefit of the doubt, andopened it anyway.Was I surprised bywhat I saw? Not really,but I was def-initely disappointed. Of course theSixth Man Club would be hosting ataco bar,and they would be handingout free sombreros before the bas-ketball game what else could fi-estamean?

It may seem inconsequential.After all, it is just a themed celebra-

tion like any other.But its really not.Hosting parties and events centeredaround ethnic and racial traditionscan easily turn into disrespectful

gatherings. What happens whensomeone shows up to the event in aponcho? A fake Pancho Villa mous-tache? Singing la cucaracha? Flash-ing a green card? Or doing that stu-pid sound people make when theytry to imitate Speedy Gonzalez?

The line between offensive and just-for-fun is blurry and I expectmore thoughtfulness from the Stan-ford Athletics Department and the

Sixth Man Club.Events like this leadto problems like last years Comp-ton Cookout in UCSD where stu-dents dressed up in chains and ate

chicken and watermelon to cele-brate Black History Month.Similar-ly, a lesser-known incident occurredat a Taco and Tequila Party at theUniversity of Illinois,where studentsarrived at the party dressed up aspregnant girls and illegal aliens.Thistype of event is an open invitationfor students to celebrate negative

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tors.But, as any scientist will tell you,in the real world biology is messy.

As with Europes birds, differentspecies can adapt and shift ranges at different rates.Some will bene-fit from the new conditions at

least for now. Others will be left be-hind, or not be affected at all.All, ofcourse,still face a multitude of otherthreats:habitat loss,overfishing, pol-lution, ocean acidification, and soforth.

How do these issues compare toclimate change? In combination,they are certainly wreaking havoc onthe world as we know it.In my mind,the more pressing worry is this:Howfast can humanity adapt, and whatcritical parts of our earthly life sup-

port system will we succeed in sav-ing?

On Jeffs last day in California,wedrive north to Muir Woods, trailingcarbon dioxide emissions behind us,to the place where the redwoodsstand hundreds of feet tall and hun-dreds of years old.Here,in this cathe-dral of light and shadow, the worldstands still for just a moment.I try toforget that fog feeds these forestsduring the dry months (providing 40

percent of the trees annual watersupply) and that fog frequency isdown 30 percent in the last half-cen-tury (most likely due to climatechange). Because these forests arepart ofmy life support system, and Icannot imagine a world withoutthem.

Holly welcomes reader feedbackespecially from fellow redwood com-muners via email at hollyvm@stan-

ford.edu.

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general public regarding ArcadeFires win can translate into a largerappreciation for their music. Somepeople can start to realize thatthere is a world of incredible musicbeyond the Top 40. When it comesdown to it, LCD Soundsystemshould sell out Madison SquareGarden whenever they please, just

as Arcade Fire deserves the topprize at the Grammy Awards. Justbecause an artist gains mass recog-nition doesnt diminish the qualityof their craft.

Of course, if Arcade Fire decidesto name their next album Pea-cock, then I might have to recon-sider.

Are you an upset Lady Gaga or An-tebellum fan? Are you mad ArcadeFire showed up Eminem or Katy ourlady (yeah!)? Tell Shane so at savit-

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You can easily and cheaply subsiston gelato and panini.

Head up to Venice, just a fewhours by train, and lose yourself inthe fairytale land amongst candycane striped poles, bridges, andcanals.Water taxis are great,but besure you know exactly which oneyoure supposed to get on! TheModern Art museum is awesome.Browse Venetian glass shops,but re-member its tacky to take too manypictures. If you go during carnevale,be prepared to don a mask, ballgown or cape,and revel in the carni-valesque celebration. Remember:no white socks, tennis shoes orshorts. The dress code is alwaystrendy chic.Scarves in the winter area must.If it s sunny,you should prob-ably invest in a pair of brightly col-ored sunglasses, but try not to pay

more than 5. Also, as Ive learned,dont jump into other peoples pea-cock displays.Yes,I was wearing mylime green one-piece ski suit with aBrazilian flag cape. No, the sparklypurple-feathered person did notparticularly appreciate my jumpingin front, diverting the tourist atten-tion unto myself.I can only imaginethe look of disgust below that whiteporcelain mask.

Power trips may be short,but theyare exciting,if you are up to the chal-lenge. Im still happy with my deci-sion to go to Italy as a birthday pres-ent instead of throwing an insanebirthday party for myself.Yes,consid-ering my navet,my trip should havebeen a disaster,but working againstthe odds, I learned some travel les-sons that hopefully you wont haveto.In the end I ended up dancing in aclub alongside Coolio, which I con-sider an epic win.

Johnny wants to know your favoritegelato flavor. Email him at jbartz@stanford.edu.

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stereotypes and showcase their ig-norance about other peoples tradi-tions and cultures.

I dont know what the Sixth ManClub was thinking when they decid-ed that hosting a fiestawould be agood marketing strategy to bringout basketball fans.Even more trou-bling is the fact that someone fromStanford Universitys Athletic De-partment had to approve of theparty in order for it to be sent out intheir official student newsletter. Idont know if the Sixth Man Club

also got an approval from the Stu-dent Activities and Leadership(SAL) office for this event, but asthey are a registered student group,

I expect that they did.How can thesame office that finds a party namedHot Prowl offensive not think thesame about a taco and sombreropregame called a Fiesta? Next time,I suggest sticking to less controver-sial themes.

I know tacos are delicious andeasy to serve to large crowds, butusing my culture to celebrate some-thing completely outside of its tradi-tions is insensitive. Why cant youserve tacos and call it a pregame? Isit necessary to include sombreros, atraditional garb of my people, andcall the event a Fiesta? The theme iscompletely unnecessary and cheap-ens the culture of many Spanish-speaking countries.

And dont even get me started on

Cinco de Mayo. . .

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myself back into work mode. Nonetoo soon,either, because Yellow Pea-coat is back with a cup of what appearsto be Coke from the nearby eatingclub in hand.

My attempts at feigning produc-tivity dont last too long this timearound, though, and my worn out

eyes are fading fast.After she leavesfor good this time circa 3 a.m.,I real-ize that I am simply clicking aroundmy bazillion (okay,26) open tabs andgetting absolutely nothing done. Istart thinking about how isolated andcreepy the Suites computer cluster is(I mean,anyone could just wander infrom Alpine Road, and who wouldeven hear me screaming when theyattacked?) and I take this realization,combined with Google docs serversuddenly becoming available, as asign to return to my suite.

Back at my suite at 3:29 a.m., thepile of Valentines Day chocolate pre-viously in the common room hasbeen completely pillaged and one ofmy suitemates, also pulling an all-nighter,says that she is going to takea nap(read:never wake up).Feeling

extra tired and unpleasant myself, Iset my iPhone alarm for 4:12 a.m.

just in case I should nod off andcontinue plowing through my workat a snails pace.Ive done what I canwith this problem set and can proba-bly wing the presentation,but Im yetto even think about the paper (whichalso requires some degree of re-search).

Come 4:16, my only friend stillavailable on Gchat is a high schoolclassmate who goes to Cambridge. Ibriefly wonder what time it is there,but instantly abandon this effort atmental mathematics. I close my eyesfor 30 seconds,wanting to accept de-feat, but consciously begin engagingmyself in an inner dialogue.

If I go to sleep now, its over, Itell the sleep-deprived me. Must.Fight.Through.

After a slow 40 minutes of writing,intermixed with a few Internet pit

stops (Facebook, NYTimes.com,Cosmopolitan.com, some moreFacebook),Im feeling pretty useless,but then I remember the bottle of 5-Hour Energy sitting on my desk.Ivenever tried the stuff, but my suitem-ates swear by it, and its only fourcalories.

At 5:11,Im still feeling tired afterdowning half of it, though,so I swal-low the rest,awaiting the instant pick-me-up.Nothing comes.I desperatelyswallow a highlighter yellow caffeinepill,but decide to bring my work withme into my bed, just for comfortssake.Plus,theres no physically possi-ble way that I can fall asleep withthese stimulant levels in my body. . .

Next thing I know, I groggily rubmy eyes,with my still open and now-dead laptop and assorted papersspread out around me. Seeing thegray sky of morning through my win-dow,I frantically look at the clock onmy wall,wondering how long I dozedoff for.

Its 10:36 a.m. Good morning,sunshine.

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I have a dream ...that all

fans are created equal

Why do you like oneteam more thanany other?

Its a simple question for anylevel of sports fan,yet the number ofreasonable responses is staggering.Everyone has a favorite team, andmost sports fans have several fa-vorites across multiple sports.Clear-ly its something we all do.

So,why?The most common response is

something like I grew up there.Obviously,this makes a lot of sense:if you grow up in Boston,youre a lotmore likely to root for the Red Soxthan the Royals. Advertisementsare all around you, the stadium isnearby, the games are televised.Why not root for them?

I can certainly relate to this phe-nomenon, having spent the first 18

years of my life in Southern Califor-nia.The first baseball games I everwent to were Angels games,and Iverooted for them for as long as I canremember since the days ofChuck Finley, Gary DiSarcina, JimEdmonds,blue uniforms and every-one recognizing that Anaheim is notLos Angeles. I have never waveredon this, and I cannot imagine everswitching allegiances, no matterhow many Bay Area fans stop talk-ing to me when I mention 2002.

By CHRISSY JONES

With a still-perfect record andgood momentum coming off a 7-0victory over Southern MethodistUniversity, the Stanford womenstennis team heads to Charlottesville,Va. this weekend to compete in the

2011 ITA National Womens TeamIndoor Championships.The Cardinal (5-0, 0-0 Pac-10)

looks to capture victories over othertop-ranked programs that it typicallydoes not face during the regular sea-son.

Currently ranked at No. 1, theCardinal will play as the top seed inthis weekends indoor champi-onship, where it will be joined by aslew of nationally ranked foes, with14 of the top 25 teams coming to Vir-ginia.

Senior Hilary Barte was excitedabout the strong competition.

The fact that the schools we play,such as Florida, UNC and Duke, allhave extremely high caliber teams isvery exciting, and at the same timechallenging,Barte said.Its basical-

ly going to be similar to the NCAAtournament. I think it will improveour team to get this practice earlier inthe season.

The tournament will begin with16 top-tier teams and will be con-ducted in a typical dual match for-mat, with a group of three doublesmatches counting for one point, andsix singles matches counting for onepoint each.

But there is one major factor dif-ferentiating this tournament fromthe Cardinals usual matches.

We have been practicing indoorsthe last couple of days,both becauseof the dreary weather and becausethe tournament is, of course, in-doors,McVeigh said.The ball trav-els faster without wind and outside

conditions, so weve been hitting in-side to get most closely acquaintedwith the different conditions.

We have been focusing on bothdoubles as well as real point situa-tions in preparation, Barte added.As always, we are looking to im-prove individually and as a teamweek-in and week-out.

However, the fast-paced condi-tions might help the Cardinal, which

McVeigh describes as a typically ag-gressive team dependent on deep,powerfully hit balls.

McVeigh describes her personalstyle as more of a counterpunchstrategy anyway.

I tend to play relatively far be-hind the baseline and counterpunch

more, with higher elevation on my

By JOSEPH BEYDADAILY SPORTS INTERN

With a full starting rotation returning andan elite recruiting class coming to the Farmfor a second straight year,Stanford baseballwill begin its season with high hopes in athree-game series at Rice this Fridaythrough Sunday.

After finishing fourth in a strong Pac-10Conference in 2010,the squad will try to im-

prove on last seasons 31-25 record.Though Stanford finished out of the finalrankings after dropping its first two games inlast years NCAA Regionals at Cal StateFullerton, the Cardinal begins the seasonranked No. 16 nationally in the USA TodayCoaches Poll.

The team is not quick to buy into the highpreseason marks, however.

I think that this early in the season, its

hard to tell which teams are going to begood,said senior catcher Zach Jones.Theworst season that weve had since Ive beenhere, we were ranked in the top 10 [beforethe season], and ended up not even makingthe playoffs.

This years optimistic ranking is in partdue to Stanfords incoming freshman class,which Baseball America considers best inthe country. Among the highly touted new-comers are outfielder Austin Wilson, utility

man Brian Ragira, pitcher A.J.Vanegas andinfielder Danny Diekroeger, whose olderbrother, sophomore Kenny Diekroeger, ledthe Cardinal in batting average (.336) andRBIs (41) last year.

At Bay Area Media Day on Feb. 3, headcoach Mark Marquess indicated that Ragiraand Wilson will have opportunities to play instarting roles early on.

Despite the new group of impact players

joining the team,Jones doesnt expect chem-istry to be an issue.

We mesh really well together, he said.The nice thing about Stanford is that every-one lives on campus,so we see a lot of eachother on the field and off the field. Wevegotten pretty close over these past five or sixmonths that weve been together.

The incoming freshmen will help fill astrong lineup that consists almost entirely ofreturning sophomores, a group BaseballAmerica ranked as the second-best recruit-ing class before last season.

Because of the Cardinals skilledyounger players, Jones will likely be Stan-fords only upperclassman position playeron the field.

Ive had to take more of a leadershiprole this year and lead by example, Jonessaid. A lot of the guys coming in didntknow the system,and how we play,and what

the coaches expect of us.The Cardinal pitching staff is also fairlyyoung.Alex Pratcher,who led Stanford withsix wins in 25 relief appearances in 2010,

joins reliever Danny Sandbrink as one ofonly two seniors.Stanfords starting rotationdoes boast two juniors, Brett Mooneyhamand Jordan Pries, who pitched exclusively asstarters last season.

Marquess expects experience to be key,as pitching is bound to be a large factor in thetightly packed Pac-10.

Theres one strong favorite, and thatsUCLA,and thats basically because of theirFriday and Saturday pitchers, Marquesssaid at Media Day. [Juniors] Gerrit Coleand Trevor Bauer are as good as they get.Nobodys going to match them on Fridayand Saturday. Theyre the two best collegepitchers in the country and theyre on the

same team.In the preseason coaches poll, Stanford

was picked second behind UCLA in thePac-10,which featured eight different teamsin the postseason last year.

We were all deserving we were allranked number-one or number-two seedsfor the most part,Marquess told the media.

We had two teams in the College World Se-ries: UCLA and Arizona State. It was asstrong as the league has ever been,and to behonest with you,its probably as strong,if notstronger, this year.

Stanford wont start playing Pac-10games regularly until the beginning ofApril, but the Cardinal will face arch-rivalCal in the home opener next Tuesday at5:30 p.m.

The Cardinal went 3-1 against Cal lastseason, sweeping the Golden Bears in athree-game series at Sunken Diamond inApril.But this years Cal team likely in itsfinal season after budgetary issues haveforced the athletic department to cut base-ball as a varsity sport is determined tomake the most of its opportunities in 2011.

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GAME NOTES: Stanford will attempt toavenge a 68-57 loss to the Bruins in

January on Thursday night at Maples

Pavilion. The Bruins have won nine of

their last ten games and are in second

place in the Pac-10, just one game

behind Arizona.

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ON THE ROAD AGAINStanford heads to Houston to start 2011 race for Omaha

TOUGH DRAWTOP TEAMS LEFT IN FIELD

No. 2 Florida

No. 3 Baylor

No. 4 North Carolina

No. 5 California

No. 6 Duke

No. 7 UCLA

No. 9 Miami

No. 11 Tennessee

No. 12 Clemson

No. 13 Georgia Tech

No. 18 Washington

No. 20 NorthwesternNo. 23 Virginia

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Senior Carolyn McVeigh (above) will lead the No.1 Cardinal into sweet 16of ITA National Womens Team Indoor Championships against the

Arkansas Razorbacks on Friday night. Should Stanford advance, they willface a field that boasts 14 of the top 25 teams in the country.

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Stanfords 2011 schedule features eight ofBaseball Americas top 25 teams, includingfour top 25 teams in the Pac-10. The Cardiopen at home against Cal on Tuesday.

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Sophomore Eric Smith (above) warms up on the infield. The Cardinal are stocked withtalented underclassmen, including the nations top recruiting class for 2011.

UP NEXT RICE (0-0)2/18 Houston, Tex. 2:30 P.M. PST

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GAME NOTES: Stanford opens up the baseball seasonagainst the No. 18 Rice Owls, who will bring out An-

thony Rendon - the reigning NCAA player of the year

- to face the Cardinals deep pitching staff and stellar

recruiting class.

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MENS BASKETBALL

Card look tocool off Bruins

By NIC REINER-PARRA

The Stanford mens basketballteam returns home to face UCLAThursday night, fresh off last weekstrip to the Pacific Northwest, wherethe Cardinal earned a victory overWashington State but suffered a lossto Washington.

The Cardinal (13-11, 6-7 Pac-10)will attempt to avenge last months68-57 loss to the Bruins (18-7, 9-3

Pac-10) and begins the Pac-10 homestretch looking for its fifth homeconference victory.

The Cardinal squares off againsta hot UCLA team tonight that haswon five straight and nine of its last10.

The Bruins have powered to sec-ond place in the Pac-10 thanks to a

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league-leading defense that has al-lowed just 0.97 points per posses-sion.In conference play,UCLA hasheld opponents to 44 percentshooting overall and 32 percentfrom the three-point range, both

good enough for second place inthe Pac-10.In the first matchup on Jan. 22,

the Cardinal stormed to a 22-8 leadwith a little over 10 minutes remain-ing in the first half. However, theywere unable to maintain that mar-gin,going 2-for-18 from the field forthe rest of the half as UCLA cameback to trail by one at halftime.

UCLA then went 25-for-33 fromthe free-throw line in the secondhalf and the Cardinal wasoutscored,42-30,in the second peri-od.

UCLAs well-balanced offensehas five players who average 10 ormore points per game. In lastmonths matchup, Malcolm Leescored 23, Tyler Honeycutt had 16and Lazeric Jones went for 17.

The Cardinal will look to the im-proved play of junior guard JeremyGreen to help them knock off theBruins this weekend.

After a January in which he av-

eraged 11.6 points per game andshot just 32 percent from the field,Green has bounced back in Febru-ary, shooting 53 percent from field-goal range and scoring more than20 points in four straight games.

Stanford Coach JohnnyDawkins attributes Greens resur-gence primarily to better prepara-tion.

I credit it to his work ethic, tohis dedication to the game.He did alot of studying the game and learn-ing more about himself as a player,Dawkins said.Sometimes you findmore about yourself through adver-sity than at any other time.Hes be-coming a better all-around playerbecause of what he experienced.

Dawkins noted how hes had toface unique on-court challenges inthis Pac-10 season.

Hes now being guarded byother teams best defenders

who, last year, always guardedLandry Fields, Dawkins contin-ued. Hes learned to free himselfbetter and create better offense forhimself.

Another indication of a strongfinish by the Cardinal has been thematurity and leadership of juniorguard Jarrett Mann.

Dawkins noted several signs ofManns progression over the courseof the season.

Mann has gotten better all sea-son, he said. Hes probably themost selfless player on the teamfrom a standpoint of what hescalled upon to do. He started off[last year] as a wing player and con-verted to a point guard, and thenthis year played off the ball andnow hes back on the ball. Yet, theyoung man has never wavered. Heasks what can I do to help theteam?

The Cardinal also looks to winthe turnover battle, as UCLAcoughs the ball up on a conference-worst 23.2 percent of possessions inPac-10 play. Conversely, the Bruinsstruggle to force turnovers, onlydoing so 16.8 percent of the time,the conferences second-worst per-centage.

Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m. tonightat Maples Pavilion.

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Theyre going to have a lot ofmotivation to play this year, forgood reasons, said sophomorepitcher Dean McArdle,who is slatedto start on Sundays for the Cardinal.I think we all feel here that its ter-rible what happened to their pro-

gram. But we have a lot of motiva-tion to succeed as well.This weekends opening series

at No. 17 Rice is also going to be achallenge. The defending Confer-ence USA champions are led by

junior Anthony Rendon, who wonlast years Howser Trophy theHeisman of college baseball andwas first in the conference inhomers (26), runs (83) and RBIs(85).

Even though the Stanford pitch-

ers havent specifically discussedRendon, McArdle explains that thekey will be facing him with the sameattitude as with other hitters.

I think if you really change yourmindset, thats when youre going toget hurt,he said. Youve got to at-tack him like any other hitter,and becareful but not overly careful.

Though Rendon is coming off anankle injury in the offseason and theOwls lost eight-win starter JaredRogers to the draft, Rice brings in

Baseball Americas ninth-rankedrecruiting class.In last years season opener,

Stanford swept the then-No.5 Owlsat Sunken Diamond, winning allthree games by a combined score of27-15.

After the rivalry matchup againstCal, Stanford will travel to Vander-bilt for a three-game series, faceSanta Clara once at Sunken Dia-mond, and then play another week-end trio of games at Texas.

The Cardinal wont have a multi-game set at home until it facesMichigan on Mar.18 and 19.

I dont know who does thescheduling, Marquess joked atMedia Day. I like to blame it on[Assistant Coach Dean] Stotz, but Idid it. . . [We have] nine of the first

11 on the road,so if it doesnt kill us,well be better.Stanford will face its first pitch of

the season against Rice tomorrowafternoon at 2:30 p.m.

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Junior Jeremy Green has been an offensive juggernaut for the Cardinal inFebruary after a poor month of January. The Texas native has scored 20 ormore points in four consecutive conference games.

balls, she said.In these upcomingmatches,I will try to stay on the base-line more often and hit the ball earli-er to take advantage of the speed ofthe court.

Stanfords first match will beplayed on Feb.18 at the Boars Head

Sports Club. If the team can acquirea victory over the Arkansas Razor-backs, it will move onto the quarter-finals on Saturday against the winnerof No.8 Michigan and Georgia Tech.

The Cardinal departs onWednesday in order to arrive inCharlottesville with enough prepa-ration time before the tournament.A cross-country trip prior to numer-ous important matches could provedaunting for the team, but McVeighsays that the Card has already takenprecautions for the long trip.

Though it is definitely difficultto fly across the country and then becompletely ready to play, we do getin Wednesday night, McVeigh said.Our first match isnt until Fridaynight,which gives us enough time toget over jet lag. It shouldnt be too

big of a problem.Stanford will be facing unseededArkansas at 4:30 p.m.PST on Friday,Feb.18 in the first round of the tour-nament.

Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj@stanford.edu.

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The location-based reasoning hasseveral corollaries like,I live in Pitts-burgh,but my dads always been a bigGiants fan,Im from Seattle,but myfamily is all from Dallas, so I like theCowboys and I go to Stanford,duh!Again,whos to say that rootingwith your family is wrong? Most (butcertainly not all) sports fans receivetheir first exposure to sports from

their families,so its natural to contin-ue their rooting interests. And ofcourse,almost any sports fan roots forhis or her college team.

For me,this reasoning had a majorimpact on me,because I have been aStanford fan since birth. While obvi-ously I now root for the Cardinal as astudent first, I was foremost a son oftwo Stanford alums growing up. AsWyndam discussed earlier in theweek,its hard when your favorite col-lege team from childhood clasheswith your current college team.Luck-ily for me,those are both Stanford,soI can root doubly hard without ques-tioning it.

Beyond the its-been-with-me-since-birth logic, though, thingschange a little.People will accept youas a Yankees fan even if they feel

that cheering for the Evil Empireshould be punishable by firing squad if you come from New York. Ifyour whole family has gone to USC,they cant be surprised that you rootfor the Trojans (although they can stillmake sure you know what a rottenhellhole U$C is and rejoice in everyfailure of your pitiful excuse for aschool, all while wearing BiggestUpset Ever shirts).

Still, many people feel that thesefrom-birth reasons are the only legiti-mate ones for liking a team.But whatmakes your reason for liking oneteam legitimate? Is it necessarily

true that growing up in Green Bay is abetter reason for supporting thePackers than liking green and yellow?I say no.

When I tell people that Im a Coltsfan, people invariably question mychoice.No,Im not from Indianapolisor Baltimore, and no, nobody else inmy family likes them. In fact, Ivenever been to Indianapolis or Balti-more, and Ive never seen a Coltsgame in person. My question is: whydoes this make me any less of a fanthan someone who grew up in Indi-anapolis?

I started cheering for the Colts alittle more than a decade ago because:1) As mentioned before, I live insouthern California, far enough awayfrom the Chargers that I wouldntconsider them a hometown team,

so I had to choose for myself,2) I real-ly liked Peyton Manning from hisdays at Tennessee, and I loved theColts style and 3) Yes, Ill admit,blueis my favorite color, and I like theblue-and-white combo.

The decision to root for them wastruly my own,and it was not based onany fair-weather fandom (the Coltshadnt been to a Super Bowl since thedays of Johnny Unitas). Not living inthe Indianapolis market, I had towork to follow the team,and I still do.Im not pretending I know moreabout the Colts than anyone in theworld, but I do follow them pretty

closely and I have confidence saying Ifollow them more than most Indi-anapolis natives. As far as I can tell,that is at least as legitimate as my rea-son for supporting the Angels.

As I see it, who cares why youstarted rooting for a team? Maybe itsbecause you grew up there,maybe itsbecause you like the mascot, maybeits because your uncle knew theowner, maybe its because your girl-friend likes the team or maybe its be-cause your boyfriend hates the team.

However it started, if youre pas-sionate about that team,youre a realfan in my book.

Jacob Jaffe also roots against theToronto Raptors because JurassicPark was really scary. Help comforthim at jwjaffe@stanford.edu.

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