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Transgender Awareness Week kicks off

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Student groups petition for special feesBy JOSHUA FALK

DESK EDITOR

Various student groups have begun the peti-tioning process to get special fees requests on thisyear’s ballot, the largest of which topped$185,000. University budget cuts forced manygroups to dig into their reserve funds this year inorder to meet operating costs that were previous-ly covered by special fees.

Thus far, some of the major increases havecome from three groups:club sports requested a22-percent increase, KZSU petitioned for a 25-

percent increase and Alternative Spring Break(ASB) asked for a 257-percent increase.

Last year,the club sports budget was reducedto $152,320 after it petitioned for $204,850.Thegroup is requesting a budget of $185,622.40 forthe 2011-12 academic year.

Graduate student Kate Johnson, the clubsports financial officer, said the group dippedinto its reserve account to meet its financialneeds for the 2010-11 academic year.

“We did have a pretty sizable reserve account,and we drew on that pretty heavily,” Johnsonsaid.“But now we don’t have much in the way of

reserves.”The group’s biggest expenses are coaching

fees, facilities rentals, travel expenses, registra-tion fees and equipment,Johnson said.

She added that clubs sports are “a great re-source for the graduate students on this campus,”noting that many involved with club sports werevarsity athletes in college.

Johnson said the group still needed about 600more signatures,particularly from graduate stu-dents.

Q&A panel features transgender-identified student panelists

Man killed onCaltrain right of way

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Southbound Caltrain #284 struckand killed a 24-year-old male resi-dent of Sunnyvale at the Palo AltoCaltrain station last night around7:30 p.m.

“Preliminary investigation indi-cates that the person acted inten-tionally,”Public Information OfficerChristine Dunn wrote in a press re-lease.

Roughly 115 passengers were onthe train when it hit the man. Thetrain was not scheduled to stop at thePalo Alto station.

This is the fourth fatality on theCaltrain right of way this year.Eleven fatalities occurred on theCaltrain right of way last year; ninehave been deemed suicides by thecoroner’s office and two are awaitingfinal investigation.

Joshua Falk

U.S.Supreme Court

hears Stanford v.Roche patent case

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The U.S. Supreme Court heardoral arguments yesterday for thebiotech patent case Board of Trustees of Stanford University v.Roche Molecular Systems.

The question presented to theCourt is whether a university re-searcher, without the university’sconsent, can assign the patent rightsfor federally funded inventions.These inventions are nearly alwaysassigned to universities by law.

The case stemmed from a disputebetween Stanford and the biotechcompany over the right to royaltieson several patents that sprung fromthe work of School of Medicine pro-fessor Mark Holodniy. Holodniy’sresearch, which established amethod to detect HIV,is now used inHIV test kits sold by Roche.

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UNIVERSITY

Facebook set to leaveStanford Reserach Park

By RYAN MAYFIELDSTAFF WRITER

Facebook will move its head-quarters from Stanford Research

Park to the former Sun Microsys-tems campus in Menlo Park by2013. New housing units will soontake over the social media giant’scurrent space.

The current Facebook head-quarters is located at 1601 Califor-nia Avenue in Palo Alto.Since establishing its headquartersthere in 2009,Facebook has knownit would need to move again by2013. In an agreement negotiatedin 2005 between Stanford and thecity of Palo Alto, the Universityagreed to transform Facebook’sportion of the research park intohousing units,according to TiffanyGriego, director of asset manage-ment at Stanford Research Park.

Because of this agreement,Facebook’s lease will only last for

two more years. The company, infact, has been preparing for itsmove to a new site for some time.With a 15-year lease and a provi-sion to purchase the land after five

years, the new Menlo Park head-quarters has approximately1,000,000 square feet of officespace. This will provide enoughroom to house more than one anda half times Facebook’s globalstaff, which currently exceeds2,000 employees.

“They have been strategizing

their relocation for some time inorder to ensure their new campuscould accommodate their aggres-sive growth projections,” Griegowrote in an e-mail to The Daily.“The Menlo Park campus is of sig-nificant size,and unfortunately, wedidn’t have a campus of this size inthe research park to lease to Face-book.”

Although the networkinggiant’s staff has not begun the tran-sition yet, the first wave shouldbegin moving to Menlo Park at thebeginning of summer. Facebookprojects that renovations will becompleted then. It plans to main-tain its offices in Palo Alto until2013, when the transition will befully completed.

In addition to leasing the 57-

acre Sun Microsystems campus,Facebook has also purchased 22acres of land across the street from

Social networking giantwill move to Menlo Park

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Transgender Awareness Week 2011 began with a Q&A panel at El Centro Chicano yesterday at noon. Above, Christopher Bautista ‘11 talks abouthis experiences as a transgender student at Stanford. The panel also featured Leanna Keyes ‘14 and doctoral student Charles Ledbetter.

By MARWA FARAGDESK EDITOR

Transgender Awareness Week 2011kicked off yesterday with a Q&A panel ledby transgender-identified Stanford stu-dents and “Trans 101,” an informationalsession featuring activist Jamison Green.Several other talks and performances willtake place in the coming days.

Transgender Awareness Week seeks to“raise awareness of transgender issues andthe idea that transgender issues are distinctfrom what most people think of as gay is-sues,” said Alok Vaid-Menon ‘13, co-presi-dent of Stanford Students for Queer Liber-ation (SSQL).

This week’s planned events include atalk by Autumn Sandeen, a transgender-identified U.S. Navy veteran,on the repealof “don’t ask,don’t tell” this Friday.Discus-sions on transgender health and legal is-

sues and a performance by local transgen-der-identified rapper Katastrophe are alsoset to take place.

Holly Fetter ‘13,co-president of SSQL,hopes the events will teach students about“what transgender means and what kind of identities are under the trans-umbrella.”She also hopes to “get students thinkingabout the fluidity of gender and put facesto the amorphous idea of ‘transgender.’”

Both Fetter and Vaid-Menon empha-sized the importance of appealing to dif-ferent segments of the Stanford communi-ty,from transgender-identified students tostudents with no background on transgen-der issues.

“We’re really looking forward to culti-

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Tree Week continues: milk pong

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Tree candidates demonstrated their milk-drinking prowess yesterday dur-ing a Tree stunt in White Plaza. Above, Trevor Kalkus ‘14 downs a glassof milk: much needed sustenance in his quest to become the next Tree.

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vating an ethos of inclusion . . . mak-ing sure that everyone understandsthe importance of transgender is-sues and is confident being able toidentify as a trans-ally,” Vaid-Menon said.

However, awareness is notTransgender Awareness Week’s

only goal. The organizers hope tocatalyze change at the administra-tive level to make Stanford moretransgender friendly.

These changes might include en-abling transgender students tochange their names and reflectingthese changes on class rosters, atVaden or on University IDs.

“We want to make administra-tors, professors and staff moreaware of the unique needs of trans-

identified students,” Fetter said.Yesterday’s Q&A panelists,

who spoke about their experiencesas transgender Stanford students,articulated these needs. The panelfeatured Cristopher Bautista ‘11,Leanna Keyes ‘14 and doctoral stu-dent Charles Ledbetter.

Bautista, a Daily columnist,spoke about his personal circum-stances.

“I had to e-mail professors [whenI first came out as transgender] say-ing my legal name is this,but my pre-

ferred name is this,and I prefer malepronouns,” Bautista said. “It wasvery stressful.”

Bautista also talked about hisstruggle to change his SUID card.

“It was ridiculous; I had to reallyfight with them,” he said. “Theyeventually gave me a new ID, but itwas such an inconvenience that Iwas on the verge of giving up.”

The panelists also cited treatmentby fellow students as a challenge.

“One thing that I’ve noticedboth in the queer community andthe general community is thatthere’s a ‘transgender bubble’ bothphysically and emotionally,” Keyessaid. “It’s disconcerting whenyou’re in a big lecture hall and thereare people who are more comfort-able sitting on the floor than being a

little crammed next to you.”Administrative figures attend-

ing the session emphasized the im-portance of transgender issues.

“It was really heartwarming tosee the students feel so comfortablebeing so open,” said Kristina Lobo,director of student developmentand leadership programs at theHaas Center.“I felt like the wholething made me feel closer to anystudent who’s in this [situation].”

The timing of TransgenderAwareness Week coincides withthe current debate on ROTC aswell as the recent release of a na-tional study on transgender dis-crimination. SSQL opposesROTC’s return to campus due tothe military’s exclusion of trans-gender individuals.

“Working on the ROTC cam-paign has shown us how unawarepeople are of transgender issues,”Fetter said.

Recent research on transgenderdiscrimination, published by theNational Center for TransgenderEquality and the National Gay andLesbian Taskforce, found that thesample of transgender respondentsstudied was “nearly four timesmore likely to have a household in-

come of less than $10,000 per yearcompared to the general popula-tion.” According to the study, “90percent of those surveyed reportedexperiencing harassment, mistreat-ment or discrimination”on the job.

“This is the first time we can ar-ticulate with statistics how disen-franchised transgender people areand bring those issues to the fore-front of campus,”Vaid-Menon said.

Despite the serious issues facing

the transgender community atStanford and at large, Fetterstressed that the awareness week isnot about “the sadness or thetragedy in transgender issues.”

“This week is about celebratingtrans-identity,” he said. “We’rehoping to give the community achance to celebrate the T inLGBT.”

Transgender Awareness Week2011 is organized by Stanford Stu-dents for Queer Liberation (SSQL)and co-sponsored by the ASSU Di-versity Advisory Board,CAPS,Pro-gressive Christians at Stanford andStanford Democrats, among othercampus organizations.

Contact Marwa Farag at [email protected].

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KZSU last year requested abudget of $80,699 but received$65,269. This year, the group is re-questing $81,338.

“We don’t think of it so much asan increase as a negation of a de-crease,” said Alan Joyce, one of KZSU’s general managers.“At thispoint, we really need to get back towhat we consider our standard

budget.”“This year, we already depletedthrough our reserves, and we reallyfeel like we can’t continue to oper-ate at the current budget level,” headded.

KZSU made major equipmentpurchases over the last two years,buying a new transmitter and re-placing a console that had been inthe studio since the 1980s.The groupcurrently spends more on travel inorder to cover away games for eightsports.

Joyce was “cautiously optimistic”that KZSU’s petition would suc-ceed.

“The response has been prettypositive to our petition,”Joyce said.“I think we’re on track to succeed.”

Alterative Spring Break (ASB),

which runs 15 to 17 trips over springbreak, is requesting a budget of $80,358.25. The group received$22,524 last year after petitioningfor $79,858.

“Last year’s expenditures cameto about $67,000,” said ShaanChugh, a member of the ASB team

in charge of finance.Although ASB’s expenditureslast year totaled $67,000,the group ispetitioning for $80,358.25. Aplanned increase in ASB trips,from17 to 19, accounts for the increase,Chugh said.

“In previous years, AlternativeSpring Break has been very popularwith the students,”he said.

The largest share of ASB’s budg-et is travel costs for its 17 trips,eachof which includes roughly 14 stu-dents.

The Stanford Daily,which has re-ceived special fees in the past, is re-questing $89,500 in special fees tocover half the paper’s printing costs,the same amount requested lastyear.

Requests for other groups can be

found at petitions.stanford.edu.Special fees petitioning ends on

Mar. 4 at 4 p.m. The results will beposted to the ASSU Elections Com-mission website on Mar.8 at 4 p.m.

Contact Joshua Falk at [email protected].

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the campus. This property is con-nected to the Sun Microsystemscampus via an underground tunneland includes two buildings. Thereare currently no plans to move em-ployees there, but the additionalland allows for potential long-termgrowth.

As Facebook prepares to departfrom the Stanford Research Park,the University faces a deadline tosubmit plans to the city for its hous-ing development.

“We expect to raze the commer-cial buildings and begin construc-tion on the housing in 2014,”Griegowrote.

While the housing developmentwill make less land available forcommercial lease at Stanford Re-

search Park, there will still be anumber of sites available.

Companies Tesla, HewlettPackard, Lockheed Martin andSkype being a few of them cur-rently rent space at Stanford Re-search Park,and the majority of thefacility will still be home to entre-preneurs and innovators after Face-book departs.

Facebook’s headquarters aren’tmoving very far.Griego expects theties established between the Uni-versity and the company, notablybetween students and the website,to remain the same.

“We continue to have an ex-tremely positive relationship withFacebook,”Griego said.“They havebeen an excellent, professional, re-sponsible and exciting tenant.”

Facebook did not return inter-view requests by The Daily.

Contact Ryan Mayfield at [email protected].

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The crux of the conflict is anagreement signed by Holodniywhen he went to work at Cetus, anearly biotech firm where a “poly-merase chain reaction”(PCR) tech-nology was developed.PCR is a crit-ical component of Holodniy’s HIVdetection method, and the agree-ment stated that future develop-ments based on Cetus technologywould be its intellectual property.

Donald Ayer, representing Stan-ford University, opened yesterday’shour-long oral argument.

“The inventor, because he isworking here [at Cetus] at the timeof the assignment on a federallyfunded project as an employee of Stanford University, is essentiallyworking on something covered byBayh-Dole,” Ayer said. “And being

covered by Bayh-Dole means that

he lacks the power to transfer title tothis future invention to someoneelse,because the statute has alreadyspoken for it.”

Chief Justice John Roberts shotback that Ayer cloaked himself inthe interests of the United States.

It “has long been the rule that in-ventors have title to their patentsinitially, even if they make those in-ventions while working for some-body else,”Roberts said.

Several justices focused on thefine difference between “I will as-sign”and “I hereby do assign”claus-es in the Stanford contract andCetus agreement,respectively.

The Supreme Court did not indi-cate how it might rule on the case,though some justices did oppose a

more expansive reading of the Bayh-Dole Act,which Stanford favors.The Court is expected to make a

ruling by July.

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By BILLY GALLAGHERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The 31st president of the United States,Supreme Court justices,a secretary of state,the governor of New York, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. sen-ators,the editor of The New York Times and

two secretary-generals of the United Nations have all,at one point, stood at the same podium.

It has become an increasingly prestigious honor toaddress the graduating class of Stanford University at

commencement every June. In the past decade alone,Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan,Condoleezza Rice, SandraDay O’Connor, Steve Jobs,Tom Brokaw, Oprah Winfreyand Associate Justice of theSupreme Court AnthonyKennedy have delivered com-mencement speeches to grad-uating classes.

On Jan. 14, the senior classpresidents announced thatFelipe Calderón, the incum-bent president of Mexico,would join the group of nota-bles as Stanford’s 2011 Com-mencement speaker.

The selection, per usual,has not come without contro-versy. While many seniors areappreciative of the opportu-nity to hear words of wisdomfrom such a prominent politi-cal figure, others object toCalderón’s invitation basedon how he has conducted pol-icy in his country, particularlyhis deployment of troops to drug-trafficking regions inMexico.

In her article “Mexican President’s Visit to StanfordMeets with Objection” published on Feb. 9, 2011, byThe Bay Citizen,journalist Elena Shore described howCalderon’s selection has prompted a reaction fromwithin the Bay Area.

According to Shore, an editorial written by MariaMejía published by El Mensajero,a Bay Area Spanish-language newspaper,described Stanford’s selection asthe “wrong choice.” Mejía wrote that the purpose of acommencement is to inspire students, and that if shewere a student,she wouldn’t feel inspired by Calderón.

“I don’t admire his war against drug trafficking,”

Mejía said. “Maybe his motives are legitimate and hisintentions are good. But the reality is that it has left aterrible trail of dead bodies. I can’t believe that morethan 30,000 dead during his administration due to vio-lence stemming from narcotrafficking is somethingthat could inspire me.”

According to Shore, Miguel Robles, director of theLatin American Alliance for the Rights of Immigrants(ALIADI) told El Mensajero that the Stanford com-munity as well as other California universities shouldprotest a speaker who has “generated so much socialdisorder,so much death.”

It is estimated that the war on drugs is responsible

for the deaths of more than 34,000 people since 2006 aswell as 15,000 people in 2010 alone,according to Shore,citing El Mensajero.

Every year, the four senior class presidents make arecommendation to President Hennessy for the Com-mencement speaker on behalf of the senior class. Thisyear’s presidents Dante DiCicco, Mona Hadidi,MollySpaeth and Pamon Forouhor chose to poll the seniorclass,asking them to suggest candidates,Spaeth said.

The class presidents typically submit an unrankedlist of three to five candidates to President Hennessy,who selects the speaker after discussions with the sen-

ior class presidents, faculty, other administrators andtrustees, according to Jeff Wachtel, senior assistant tothe president and secretaryof the Board of Trustees.The feasibility of getting apotential candidate to ac-cept an invitation is a majorconsideration.“Believe it or not, eventhough it’s Stanford,it’s notthe kind of thing people doreadily,”Wachtel said.“Peo-ple aren’t lining up to beCommencement speakersbecause they get so manyinvitations to do this.”In addition to being select-ed based on one’s speakingabilities,candidates are alsoconsidered based on theirconnection to the Universi-

ty. One factor in selectingCalderón, Wachtel said, isthe fact that he is a familyfriend of a member of theclass of 2011.“The senior class presi-

dents were particularly excited about Calderón beingthe speaker,” Wachtel said. “That was very persuasivefor us.”

DiCicco said that the senior class presidents viewedCalderón’s selection as a timely one.

“Right now, we believe, is a very significant time inrelations between the U.S. and Mexico, particularlyCalifornia and Mexico,” DiCicco said. “We feel thatCalderón,drawing from his experiences in public poli-cy, can give a very powerful speech to us as an outgoingworld leader to future world leaders.”

Many student reactions were positive toward, orat least curious about, the selection. Cristal Garcia‘11, a student administrative assistant for the Stan-

ford Center for Latin American Studies, wrote in ane-mail to The Daily that Calderón’s high profile andhigh-pressure position will make for a more interest-ing speech.

“To take on such an influential role [requires] morethan just books,” Garcia said. “And . . . someone whofaces these kinds of challenges is [someone] I wouldlike to listen to.”

Wachtel noted that some opposition to Calderón’sinvitation is not unexpected.

“There’s always some negative reaction to every

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REACTING TOCALDERÓN

“We feel that Calderón,

drawing from his experience

in public policy,can give a

very powerful speech to us...”

DANTE DICICCO ‘11,senior class president

Students, administrators, Bay Area activists divided overselection of Mexican president as 2011 Commencement speaker

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Felipe Calderón celebrated his victory in Mexico’s 2006 presidential race.

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It’s that time of year again. GirlScout cookies are back!

Two days ago, I was leaving agrocery store with a bag of candy,and much to my delight,there weretwo little Girl Scouts sitting behinda small plastic table set up in frontof the store covered with boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Despite the factthat I was already holding a bag fullof sugar, I just had to get a box of cookies.It’s all for a good cause.

I ended up getting a box of Thin

Mints,but while I was deliberating,I noticed that some of the cookieshad different names than what Iwas used to seeing. CaramelDeLites, those devilishly deliciousbites of vanilla cookies draped withcaramel and coconut and stripedwith chocolate, were calledSamoas. Peanut Butter Patties,those hefty, chocolate-coveredpucks of peanut butter and cookie,were called Tagalongs. My fa-vorites, Peanut Butter Sandwiches,were called Do-Si-Dos. EvenShortbreads, a.k.a. the worst GirlScout cookies, were renamed, toTrefoils.

What was this? What was wrongwith the names I grew up with? If someone says to you, “here, have a

Caramel DeLite,” you know thatyou’ll be getting a delightfulcaramel treat. It doesn’t get muchclearer than Peanut Butter Sand-wiches.And when you walk up to aGirl Scout cookie table and seeonly boxes labeled Shortbreads,you know to walk away immediate-

ly (I actually really like shortbread,but Shortbreads are another story).But if someone offers you a Taga-long, you’ll either: a) think they’rejust being really clingy or b) need to

ask for further explanation, whichis 10 whole seconds of your life thatcould have been saved if they hadjust offered you a Peanut ButterPatty. In those 10 seconds, youcould have eaten a second PeanutButter Patty. Does that make the

stakes clearer?Names are funny. After I got

back from the grocery, I waspreparing a pork belly in thekitchen when a housemate came in.While we were talking about thename “pork belly”(which sounds awhole lot better than “1.5-poundslab of unsliced bacon”), we some-how got to talking about our ownnames. She mentioned that whateveryone called her here was actu-ally different than what she wasknown by back home.For whatever

reason, one of her freshman yearfriends had just started calling herthis new name, and as everyonethought that they were super close,everyone started calling her thisname as well.Can you imagine hav-ing the name you’re known by bedecided by such an arbitrary thinglike that?

Well, sure. Your parents pickedyour name for you.There’s so muchpower in a name, it seems almostunfair that choosing it was out of your hands. I mean, if I tell you thatyour choices for a blind date are be-tween Gilligan, Mark and Spike,you’re probably going to assignimaginary faces or traits to thesenames that are similar to what mostpeople would assign.

We do have a little flexibility.Whenever I write my name on apaper or test,I write my given name,Timothy. Everywhere else, I mostlygo by Tim,although maybe a third of my friends call me Timmy. People

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I HAVE TWO HEADS

Sitting in the coffee shop,I am inmy element. My companion istelling a lively story, I’m laugh-

ing, and the time scrambles beforewe part ways.As I slip out the door,my companion tells me to say helloto my parents,and that’s when I re-member:she’s their age,rather thanmine. But yet it is we who arefriends.Aren’t we?

This sort of generation gap issomething that often strikes me,since many people I like seeingoutside of my Stanford life are sig-nificantly older than I am. Whilegrowing up, I always gravitated to-

ward adult company to an unusualdegree, and since starting college,I’ve transitioned into a more equalrelationship with those I once con-sidered only as teachers and rolemodels.A few of the people I con-sider friends are older than my par-ents, and their life circumstancesare starkly different from mysweatshirt-wearing, bicycle-wield-ing existence in California. I enjoytheir company, but still grapplewith questions about the nature of a friendship stretched across somany years, questions about thetype of footing on which we can in-teract.

In a sense, these questions areunnecessary. Friendship is friend-ship, in all its forms. No two rela-tionships have the same dynamic,

regardless, and variety in the ageand background of our friends onlyadds spice to our lives, so to speak.The older we get,the more the illu-sion of age vanishes. (Haven’t weall learned this in growing up toview our parents more as fellowhuman beings rather than assupreme oracles?) Finally, thebeauty of being able to connectwith people despite divergent cir-cumstances is a testament to ourcommonly held humanity, or what-ever you’d like to call it.

Still,age isn’t just an illusion.It’sreal and shapes our interactionseven if only subconsciously. For uscollege students, can our friendswho are 30,40, 50 or 60 years old becalled friends in the same sense asour friends who are 20? Or shouldwe think of these older friends lessas friends and more as mentors?Semantics can be tricky some-times. And the dilemmas of form-ing friendships with people whoare of different ages than we arecan be rather varied.

First of all, there is the questionof experience. In the case of olderfriends, we find ourselves interact-ing with people who have more ex-periences than we do and more sto-

ries to tell.They are undergoing lifestages with which we can’t yetidentify, or for which we can’t yetprovide concrete support. Theymay have more resources at handor more advice to give.Through itall, there looms the question of rec-

iprocity: because we are still young,it is sometimes easy to wonder howmuch we have to offer in these re-lationships, besides our company.We can sometimes feel like lessthan peers.

From the flipside, friendshipsacross generations can grapplewith the question of fluidity. Olderfriends can perceive themselves assettled in their ways as stagnantand boring, even. We, on the otherhand, are beautiful, free, youngspirits that should be out soakingup the world, not languishing indull conversations about grown-upstuff. Go on, enjoy being young!Don’t let the old folks tie youdown! Just as we can wonder howwell we can reciprocate given ourlimited life experience,people sev-

eral years older can wonder whythe heck 20-year-olds would wantto spend time with them.

For me, the answer is simple. Ienjoy having friends from differentage groups because I enjoy theshift in perspective that suchfriends can offer. Being at Stan-ford, we undergraduates are con-tinually exposed to the same clus-

One might get the idea thatthe only justification for op-posing ROTC on campus is

because of the military’s discrimi-natory practices against membersof the LGBT community. In the fogof the post-9/11 patriotic fever, wemay have lost sight of the issues thatdrove anti-war movements of thepast.

The goal of most higher educa-tion is to teach the mind how tothink, not what to think. Many un-dergraduate freshmen that do notunderstand this can be heard moan-

ing phrases like “Why do I have towaste my time on all of these re-quired courses! They have nothingto do with my major!”The reason isthis: exposure to mathematics, phi-losophy, ethics, logic and art allowsone to go through the process of learning how to learn. You learnhow to become a free thinker. Theprocess teaches you how to over-throw your previous beliefs and tothink critically and clearly aboutcomplex issues in the world whilstavoiding pitfalls and logical fallaciesthat easily ensnare the uneducated.

If this is the goal, then militaryservice and membership in theROTC is the antithesis of this goal.In the military, an individual isturned into a tool, a machine thatobeys the chain of command. It is

necessary to divorce the individ-ual’s ethical reasoning from his/heractions or risks paralysis. Once en-listed, military personnel largely donot have the luxury of choosing tofight in only morally defensiblewars.

This is the parable portrayed inthe 1970s by George Lucasthroughout the Star Wars movies

using Darth Vader.Darth Vader be-comes both literally and figurative-ly the machine of the Empire andcommits many atrocities in thename of defending it.Only when hismorality is resurrected does hecease to be the machine.(Seriously,if you were distracted by the lightsabers and missed that part, gowatch it again.)

Now, consider how you mightweigh the moral defensibility of thepurposeful U.S. napalming of civil-ians in Tokyo and other cities inWWII or the subsequent use of two

nuclear weapons, killing many hun-dreds of thousands of civilians onlyto secure more favorable terms of surrender (Alderaan . . . anyone? . .. anyone?).Maybe it would be worthit. Maybe it would be justifiable tosome.The point is that the guys in theplanes that dropped those bombsdidn’t grapple with that, because itwas their job to follow to the orders,not to decide them.

Stanley Milgram’s obedience ex-periments in the 1960s at Yale andPhillip Zimbardo’s prison experi-ment conducted on this very cam-pus in the 1970s potently demon-strate the power of an authority, aninstitution and a role in overridingan individual’s sense of morality.Weknow how to mechanize people.The military does this with exceed-

ing efficiency.If the goal of higher education is

to nurture the parts of the mind thatcan think independently, whyshould we subject students to an in-stitution that works counter to thatpurpose?

KEITH SUDHEIMER,POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

[ _____ ] at Stanford:

NAACP’s Effort to Foster

Multicultural Understanding

Dear Editor,

Last week, the Opinions sectionfeatured an article by Alex Hicks-Nelson that referenced our Stan-ford NAACP event “Black at Stan-ford”in relation to her column “Re-ality Check” on electronic Blackdiscourse at Stanford. Though weappreciate the fact that our eventwas viewed as “interesting,” Nel-son’s article simultaneously includ-

ed a degree of ambivalence that ne-cessitates some clarification aboutthe purpose of our project.

It is evident on Stanford’s cam-pus that people do not recognizethe viewpoints of other students onthe topic of race as it intersects witha kaleidoscope of social constructslike class,gender, sexuality and reli-gion.This conversation is often sup-pressed by a “political correctness”that is convenient and sometimeseven comforting, but is neither pro-gressive nor personal enough to an-swer the question:“How might raceimpact my own life?”

Though some believe that Stan-

ford race relations are not any dif-ferent than outside “the bubble,”Stanford NAACP’s initial discus-sion on black identity has alreadyattested to the unique experiencesof members of the Diaspora atStanford. From a single discussion,we have already realized a widerange of experiences that revive themeaning of the 2010 Black Plazashirts lettered “I Am The Diaspo-ra,” with identities ranging from“Astronauts” to “Jewish.” We aredocumenting how socioeconomics,how being biracial and ideas of

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“passing,” how learning in majori-ty-minority high schools and howbeing a minority in a predominant-ly white institution affect views of blackness at Stanford. These arepowerful narratives and are onlyjust the beginning of the developingpicture.

For clarification, “Black at Stan-ford” is only the first part of a largerproject called “[ _________ ] at Stan-ford” (pronounced “Blank” at Stan-ford). [ _________ ] at Stanford is anongoing series depicting various per-spectives,experiences,trials and suc-cesses of the various demographicsrepresented on the Stanford campus.We seek to promote cultural appre-ciation and awareness through a se-ries of interviews,forums and sincereconversations within different de-mographic groups that will, uponcompletion,be shown to the greaterStanford population in the form of adocumentary.

The beauty of our project is thatit allows people to think,to connectand to speak from a more educatedperspective on the thoughts and ex-periences of others whose ideasthey may have otherwise disregard-ed. Our organization holds firm tothe belief that one may speak of theevents and experiences of others,but you cannot adequately speakfrom their perspective , as perspec-tive is, especially when raciallygrounded,deeply personal.

If you would like your perspec-tive to be included in this education-al project in the form of an inter-view or you are hosting an eventalong these lines,do not hesitate tocontact the coordinators, ChristianBeauvoir ([email protected])and Olivia Smarr ([email protected]). If you simply want tolearn from your peers, come to ournext [ _____ ] at Stanford discussion.But most importantly, initiate theconversation on your own terms.

In Justice,CHRISTIAN BEAUVOIR ‘14,OLIVIA

SMARR ‘14,MATT MILLER ‘12

Stanford NAACP

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ter of peers. As wonderful as thiscan be, it doesn’t always providethe opportunities for completely,thought-provokingly diverse inter-action. Throw in the frequent on-campus perceptions that profes-sors are “unapproachable,” thatgraduate students are “busy” and“have their own lives,” and it canbecome all too easy to forget thefeeling of living in a world in whicha larger age spectrum exists. Es-caping the usual set of cohorts,even if only for an hour or two,canbe like a breath of fresh air.

As enjoyable as multi-genera-tional friendships are, I suppose

some doubts might always linger.We, after all, often seek out socialinteractions with people who arelike us. Differences in age are an-other way of pressing us beyondthat comfort zone. Even if we findsurprising similarities in someonewho is 20 or 30 years older than weare,or in someone who is consider-ably younger, those very differ-ences in age might predispose us tofeelings of uncertainty.We wonderwhat level of familiarity is appro-priate, how much confidence wecan share, how this relationshipstacks up beside the others in ourlives.

Ultimately, I would argue thatwe ask ourselves these questionsabout everyone.Differences in agecan make them seem morepoignant, but the answers we comeup with just make life more inter-esting. After all, which of us Stan-ford students wants to be withother Stanford students all thetime? Tempting, but I’ll pass.

Rachel is expanding the breadth of her multi-generational friendships. If you know of anyone from a past or future generation and/or have a timemachine, e-mail her at [email protected].

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sometimes ask me what determineswhich name I go by, and while I

can’t really explain it myself, it usu-ally just comes down to how I wantto appear to that person.

In high school,I took it one stepfurther and tried to give myself thenickname Moose.A couple of peo-ple actually started calling meMoose, probably tickled by thefact that they could now say theyknew a Moose, but most of myclose friends refused to go alongwith my power play.At that point,I really envied the foreign ex-change students who got to choosetheir own English name.

The Moose experiment and theGirl Scout cookies show how hardit is to change something so tied inwith your identity, but since whendoes something being hard stopStanford students? We spend so

much time grooming ourselves,choosing the right clothes, workingout to stay in shape, why don’t wespend time thinking of a name thatbetter suits us? Sure,there are a lotof practical and professional rea-sons to dissuade us, and I’m notsuggesting that we all go and getlegal name changes (althoughthat’d be cool), but it might just besomething fun to try.

As long as you don’t decide on anonsense name like Do-Si-Do.

Tim is craving some more Girl Scout Cookies.Tell him your favorite kindat [email protected].

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Wrestling takes fourth at Pac-10sThe Stanford wrestling team placed fourth at

the Pac-10 Championships in Corvallis, Ore.The fourth-place finish is the Cardinal’s second-highest in the last 25 years in a sport where Stan-ford has never won a conference or nationaltitle.

Senior Zack Giesen led the way for Stanfordas the only Cardinal wrestler to win his weightclass. Giesen took home the Pac-10 title in the197-pound weight class after winning all threeof his matches by decision, including two by a

point each.Junior Nick Amuchastegui, senior Justin

Paulsen and sophomore Ryan Mango will joinGiesen at the NCAA Championships March17-19 in Philadelphia, Penn., by virtue of theirautomatic qualifications. Amuchastegui fin-ished second at 174 pounds after winning the165-pound weight class last year. Paulsen fin-ished third at 133 pounds,winning three match-es by major decision and losing once. Mangofinished fourth at 125 pounds, losing in the sec-ond round after winning by technical fall in the

first round.In addition to Mango, redshirt sophomore

Timmy Boone, redshirt freshman Kyle Meyerand senior Lucas Espericueta finished fourth intheir respective weight classes. Redshirt fresh-man Jordan Gray finished fifth at 141 pounds,and freshman Dan Scherer finished fifth at 184pounds, while senior Dylan Rush finished sixthin the heavyweight class.

Overall, Stanford finished with 110 points,


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reg McElroy is smarterthan you. Well, maybenot, considering thispaper’s audience, but

the Rhodes finalist andAlabama quarterback notched anear-perfect score in the Wonderlic,the timed test given to NFL prospectsto try and gauge intelligence andproblem-solving ability. The partici-pant has 12 minutes to solve 50 ques-tions.Only once has a player scored a(verified) 50 Harvard’s Pat McI-nally in the 1970s. McElroy’s 48,leaked this weekend,would place himright at the top of active NFL players.(Try it yourself. I did. McElroy beatme.)

Rarely do we hear stories like this.The occasional brainiac scores 40-plus, but often,the tales are of incom-prehensibly low totals. Vince Young,who would go on to be the No.3 pickin the 2006 draft, tallied six points onhis first attempt at the Wonderlic.Jeff

George,a top overall selection,scored10 points, just beating out SebastianJanikowski,who managed to get ninepoints.

In a football sense, this can meanvery little.One can demonstrate intel-ligence on the field even if he can’t fig-ure out logic problems. Dan Marino,who owns just about every passingrecord imaginable,scored a whopping16 points on the Wonderlic.Needlessto say,studies have shown that this testis not predictive of gridiron success.

But there is a larger, educational,non-football point to be made. Fan-house’s Clay Travis makes it: “AllWonderlic scores should be public.And if you’ve been eligible at a schoolfour years and test sub-literate, yourschool should lose ‘ship.”

There’s a lot to look at in thattweet,so let’s unpack it.

First, Wonderlic scores are keptprivate and released only when awriter finds a good source or the play-er broadcasts his result. Second, ascore below 10 indicates “literacyproblems.” It makes sense: withoutclimbing on too high of a pedestal,many of the questions are so basic tounderstand (and solve) that unlessthere is a legitimate issue reading theproblem,it’s hard to imagine that any-one with, ostensibly, a college educa-tion would be able to get them wrong.

Putting aside people with legiti-mate and serious learning disabilitiesfor a moment, let’s look at what Travisis saying. Theoretically, the “student”comes before “athlete,” and if a uni-versity’s goal is to educate,then it must

follow through even with peoplewho wouldn’t be there if not for theirskills with a pigskin. We could use upevery inch of this broadsheet (andmany, many more) detailing the aca-demic travesties that come with big-time college football, from admittingstudents who barely qualify to ram-

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The Stanford women’s tennisteam continued to demonstrate itsdominance as it easily disposed of two Pac-10 rivals over the week-end. Despite just returning fromthe ITA National Team IndoorChampionships last Wednesdayand dealing with subpar weatherconditions on the Farm, Stanford

(11-0, 2-0 Pac-10) proved to be ontop of its game.On Friday afternoon,the Cardi-

nal swept Oregon (6-4,0-2 Pac-10)by a score of 7-0, and then on Sat-urday, coasted past WashingtonState (8-5, 0-2 Pac-10) as well, dis-posing of the Cougars, 7-0.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

OREGON 0

STANFORD 7

WASHINGTON STATE 0

STANFORD 7

2/25-2/26, Taube Tennis Stadium

After capturing the indoor titleover No. 2 Florida in Char-lottesville, Va., over Presidents’Day weekend, No.1 Stanford con-tinued to exert its power over itsopponents with these two key vic-tories.With the two wins,the Cardi-nal has prolonged its NCAA-record home winning streak to 171

matches, a stretch spanning 12years.Freshman Kristie Ahn under-

stands the hardships of returningfrom a cross-country trek only toface two major rivals days later.

“The past week has been espe-

cially rough,making up work frommissing school and such,”she said.

Despite the adjustments theteam had to make, the Cardinalstill got the job done.

“These victories were key inmaintaining our momentum,”Ahnsaid. “It’s easy to become compla-cent after winning a big tourna-ment,but we were looking to keepdominating, so these were both im-portant wins for our team.”

Singles matches were playedfirst under the threat of rain on Fri-day afternoon at Taube Tennis Sta-dium, with Ahn defeating Ore-gon’s Rabea Stuckemann, 6-1, 6-0,on court four in the first match.Oncourt two, sophomore MalloryBurdette followed close behindwith a victory over PatriciaSkowronski, 6-2, 6-1. The Cardinalalso clinched the next three pointswith victories from sophomoreStacey Tan over the Ducks’ Pascale

Neubert, 6-1, 6-4; freshman NicoleGibbs over Julia Metzger, 6-0, 6-2;and senior Jennifer Yen over LanaButtner,6-0, 4-6,6-2. Last to finishthe singles point was senior HilaryBarte on court one, beating Ore-gon’s Pavlina Smatova, 6-3,7-5.

Stanford also swept the doublespoint, with the team of Ahn/Gibbscruising past Smatova/Skowrons-k i , 8 -1. Senior Caro lynMcVeigh/Tan on court three fin-ished next with an 8-4 victory overNeubert/Stuckemann,and the sec-ond team of Burdette/Yen con-cluded the match with an 8-4 tri-umph over Trudie du Toit/Metzger.

Weather was definitely a signif-icant factor in this match.

“The conditions were tough foreveryone,even though Oregon andWashington State usually play in-doors, because we just came back

Cardinal a shade

better than Crimson

By REBECCA HANLEY

The Stanford women’s lacrosseteam improved its record to 4-0 thisSunday at Cagan Stadium with awin over Harvard. The game washard fought for both sides, and theCardinal’s 18-17 victory did notcome easily.

The Crimson (0-1) led the gameearly, taking a quick 2-0 lead withinthe first three minutes of the game.This was the first time all seasonthat No. 13 Stanford (4-0, 1-0MPSF) had trailed, and the Cardi-

nal took a while to regroup.While Stanford was trying to

find its groove,the Crimson built upits lead to 9-5 with 6:47 left in thefirst half.In order to allow her teamto regroup, Stanford head coachAmy Bokker called a timeout.Themove did just that, and a new teamstepped back on the field,full of en-ergy and poise.

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“The whole first half we werefeeling a little jittery,” said sopho-more defender Elizabeth Adam.“But when the coaches pulled us infor the timeout, they told us, com-pletely calmly, that they had faith inus to pull this game out. That reallycalmed us down and got our headsback in the fight.”

With only a few minutes left inthe first half, the Cardinal scoredfour consecutive goals to tie thegame at 9-9. Coming off the bench,sophomore midfielder JacquelineCandelaria added two goals and the

energy the team needed to close inon the Crimson. Senior midfielderLeslie Foard scored the final goal of the half to complete her hat trickand to tie the game with just 47 sec-onds left.

Just 13 seconds into the secondhalf, Stanford took its first lead of the game with a goal by senior mid-

Stanford notchespair of 7-0 wins

Stanford ekes outwin over Harvard

WyndamMakowskyBetween the lines

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily

Junior Hilary Barte and the No. 1 Stanford women’s tennis team showed no ill effects from their short turnaround as the Cardinal routed Oregon andWashington State over the weekend. The two wins bring Stanford’s season record to 11-0 and its home winning streak to 171 matches.


Senior midfielder Leslie Foard (left) scored a hat trick in the first half to bring the Stanford women’s lacrosse teameven with Harvard at halftime. The No. 13 Cardinal went on to win 18-17 on a late eight-meter goal.

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from ITA National Indoors,” Ahnsaid.“It was windy,cold and ugly onFriday, and it’s safe to say that wedidn’t play our prettiest tennis, butwe got the job done.Luckily,it onlyrained in the morning, so we wereable to get out there and finish our

matches without too much of adelay.”

On Saturday afternoon, Stan-ford claimed a 7-0 win over Wash-ington State.Singles was once againconducted first, with rain loomingin the distance. Playing on courtthree, Gibbs captured the first vic-tory over WSU’s Ksenia Googe, 6-1, 6-1. Next to finish was McVeighwith a 6-0, 6-2 win over Lea Jansenon court six, followed by Burdettewith a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Liudmi-

la Vasilieva. The last three singlespoints were also clinched by Stan-ford, with victories from Ahn overAndjela Kankaras, 6-2, 6-2, toclinch the match; Barte over Elisa-beth Fournier,7-5, 6-0;and Tan overOlga Musilovich,1-6, 7-5, 1-0 (12).

Stanford swept the doublespoint as well, as Barte/Burdette de-feated Musilovich/Vasilieva 8-3and Ahn/Gibbs disposed of Go oge/ Kan karas, 8- 0.McVeigh/Yen also easily thumped

Jansen/Fournier,8-1.“I think our team could take

even more pride in our doubles,”Ahn said.“We are no doubt knownfor our great singles play,but I thinkwe should also be known for ourdoubles play.”

The Cardinal next takes on SanFrancisco Thursday at 1:30 p.m. atTaube Tennis Stadium.

Contact Chrissy Jones at [email protected].

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pant cheating and plagiarism to ath-letes being suspended, routinely, forbeing unable to meet minimumscholastic requirements. Too often,“student”doesnot come before “ath-lete.” Coaches will pay lip service tothe idea but rarely practice what they

preach, mainly because there is noperson or mechanism there to stopthem.

Which leads us to the final clauseof the tweet:penalties in this case,in the form of a lost scholarship fornot properly educating your athletes.

I love it.Schools don’t need to make every

football player a rocket scientist.Butplayers should at least be at basic lit-eracy levels. It is the lowest of lowbars. And if they can’t surpass it again, excluding actual disabilitiesand not just stupidity then there issomething fundamentally wrong withthe way their institution has goneabout educating them. The institu-tions should be punished accordingly.

To make it work, the Wonderlicwould have to be given to all graduat-

ing players,not just the ones who aretrying to make it in the NFL. AnNCAA-mandated exit exam, if youwill. The Wonderlic itself is not per-fect, but it does test the crucial part of the collegiate experience: analyticalskills. University education is lessabout learning straight facts hello,high school and more about devel-oping problem-solving techniquesand the ability to think critically.TheWonderlic’s value is in its examina-tion of those proficiencies, even as

many of its questions appeal to thelowest common denominator.Let’s be clear.This isn’t about pub-

lic shaming and embarrassment (of players). It’s about ensuring that uni-versities fulfill the most rudimentarygoals of education. If they cannot dothat,they ought to be called on it andlose a scholarship for every playerthey,as an institution,failed.

I’d like to see the school thatprotests. If you can’t prove that yourathletes canread,you don’t deserve tofield a checkers team,much less a fullsquad of football players.

Wyndam Makowsky won’t releasehis Wonderlic score, but sources arereporting it’s an even,prime number.Discuss your score at [email protected].

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fielder Karen Nesbitt. The Cardi-nal, riding on the momentum of Nesbitt’s goal, pushed the lead to12-9 with goals from redshirt seniormidfielder Lauren Schmidt andjunior midfielder Anna Boeri.

Although its lead was relin-quished, the Crimson did not godown easily, scoring six straightgoals to retake the lead. With 9:53left, the Crimson had a 17-16 lead,but the Cardinal once again foundthe momentum and fought back.

Nesbitt scored her fourth goal of the game with 6:53 left to tie thegame back up. For the fifth time inthe game, Harvard and Stanfordwere knotted up, and each teamhad chances to score the go-aheadgoal.

Once again, Candelaria took itupon herself to secure Stanford’svictory. As the final minutes dwin-dled, Candelaria drew a foul in theeight-meter arc, giving her a free-

position shot. With confidence,Candelaria took the eight-meter,looked the goalie in the eyes andthen buried a shot. Her free-posi-tion shot was her fourth goal of the

game and turned out to be the dif-ference.Aside from Candelaria’s aggres-

sive attacking skills, senior goal-keeper Annie Read stepped up bigin the final minutes of the game,denying the Crimson its last shot oncage and securing the one-goal vic-tory for Cardinal. Read came upwith several strong saves consider-ing she was playing with an ear in-fection.

“Throughout the whole game,many different people stepped upand made an impact when we need-ed them too.”said sophomore mid-fielder Carolyn Bradley.

After the win,Stanford will nowhit the road for the first time thisyear.The Cardinal will open a five-game road trip with games against

Ohio State and Canisius in Colum-bus, Ohio on Saturday and Sunday.

Contact Rebecca Hanley at [email protected].

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well behind Boise State’s winningtotal of 147. The Broncos had fourindividual winners, while second-place Oregon State and third-placeArizona State each had two.

The remaining 48 spots at theNCAA Championships will go toat-large qualifiers, whose nameswill be announced March 9.

Softball wins four of five in StanfordNike Invitational

The Stanford softball teamdropped its first game of the week-end before winning its last four torun its record to 12-3.

First up on Friday was Memphis,which snuck by the No.16 Cardinal,2-1, thanks to superb pitching fromCarly Hummel, who outdueledStanford sophomore pitcher Tea-gan Gerhart. The Cardinal man-aged only six hits and only onefor extra bases against Hummel.

Stanford bounced back laterthat night with a thorough pound-ing of North Dakota State to getback on the winning trail.The Car-dinal run-ruled the Bison after scor-ing 12 in just four innings,while sen-

ior pitcher Ashley Chinn shut outNDSU, allowing only two hits infive innings. Junior shortstop Ash-ley Hansen and freshman thirdbaseman Michelle Prong eachhomered for Stanford, and the twocombined for seven RBI.

On Saturday, the Cardinal con-tinued its success with two morevictories. In the first game of the

day, Stanford edged by its onlyranked opponent of the weekend,No. 24 Kentucky, 4-2. All six runswere scored in the first three in-

nings, and it was up to Stanford’spitching staff to keep the Wildcatsoff the board after that.Gerhart gotthe start for the Cardinal, but shelasted only two-plus innings beforeChinn took over.Chinn pitched fiveinnings and allowed only one un-earned run to pick up her secondvictory in as many days.

Following up the hard-foughtwin, Stanford had another cake-walk as it destroyed ColoradoState,16-2, in five innings.The Car-dinal had more runs than outs onoffense,and five players had multi-ple RBI. Gerhart took the easy vic-tory by allowing two runs in five in-nings, and she also scored two runsof her own as part of the offensiveonslaught.

In the final game of the week-

end,Stanford held off UC-Davis, 5-3, to finish the invitational strong.Gerhart pitched four solid innings,allowing only one run on three hits,and she left holding a 2-1 lead.TheCardinal tacked on three more runsin the next two innings, and Chinnminimized the damage in the sev-enth to notch her first save of theseason. Hansen and junior catcher

Maya Burns each knocked in a pairof runs for Stanford,which finishedits first homestand of the year witha 4-1 record.

The Cardinal will travel to Fuller-ton,Calif.,next weekend to competein the DeMarini Invitational.

Jacob Jaffe

Volleyball’s Brad Lawson receivesnational honors

After a standout weekendagainst a pair of top-10 teams fromSouthern California, Stanford out-side hitter Brad Lawson was namedthe AVCA National Player of theWeek. The junior has now earnedthe award three times in his career.

Lawson was critical to Stanford’ssweep last weekend,posting 18 killsand six digs in four-set victory overthen-No. 8 UCLA. Against thethird-ranked Gauchos from UC-

Santa Barbara a day later, theHawaii native powered his team outof a 2-0 set deficit with 25 kills,eightdigs and a .564 hitting percentage.

No. 4 Stanford (12-4 MPSF, 9-4)will head south this weekend, tak-ing on UC-Irvine on Friday andUC-San Diego on Saturday.

Nate Adams

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The No. 16 Stanford softball team played at home for the first time in 2011at the Stanford Nike Invitational. After losing its first game to Memphis onFriday, the Cardinal reeled off four straight victories to finish off the week-end, including two wins by run-rule and one win over a ranked team.


Redshirt freshman Jordan Gray (left)finished fifth in the 141-pound weightclass at the Pac-10 Championships,but he finished with a victory by major decision as Stanford placed fourth.

speaker we select,” Wachtel said.“The amount of reaction varies.Even someone as popular asOprah had some negative reac-tion.”

Wachtel said the biggest prob-lem the University has had with aCommencement speaker duringthe past decade has not been theresult of direct objection to thespeaker himself, citing the invita-tion of the president of Peru, Ale-

jandro Toledo, to speak at Stan-ford’s 2003 commencement as anexample.

Toledo,who holds three degreesfrom Stanford, had an all-time lowapproval rating at the time,and wasin a battle with the Peruvian Con-gress.When the Peruvian congresstold him he would be unable to usethe presidential plane to fly to PaloAlto, Toledo insisted he wouldmake it to Stanford even if he hadto fly commercially and ultimatelymade it to campus for the speech,Wachtel said.

In 2000, then-U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was selectedas the Commencement speaker.

Some students protested to drawpublic attention to global causesand crises, but not specifically toprotest Annan’s selection.

“People are welcome to protestand express their opinion,” Wach-tel said. However, “we would notallow his [Annan’s] speech to be in-terrupted . . . we just want to be re-spectful.”

Hadidi noted that Calderón willtry to relate to the graduating classregardless of its politics.

“At the end of the day, he’s notcoming here to give us a policyspeech,”Hadidi said. “He’s here togive us a Commencement speech,and therefore we’re hoping he will

provide inspiration to our class.”“It’s an incredible honor to have

a current, sitting foreign head of state come and speak to our class,”DiCicco said, noting that the factthat Calderón is a family friend of asenior “adds another layer of depthto the Commencement speech.

Calderón is expected to be oncampus from June 10 to 12.

“We’re very excited,” Forouhorsaid. “I don’t think we could behappier with our selection at thispoint.We’re really looking forwardto it.”

Contact Billy Gallagher at [email protected].

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