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Class of 2016 admit rate at historic low

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

GDC abandons push to placeASSU Constitution on ballot

By JULIA ENTHOVEN andMARSHALL WATKINS

Amidst mounting criticism and concerns,

the ASSU Governing Documents Commis-sion (GDC) decided to cease attempts toratify a proposed new ASSU Constitutionthis election season. The decision was madeshortly after a March 19 Joint LegislativeMeeting, in which the Undergraduate Sen-ate and the Graduate Student Council(GSC) did not provide the two-thirds ma-

jority in each legislative body required toplace the Constitution on the spring ballot.

While Senate and GSC representativesexpressed mostly favorable impressions ofthe proposed Constitution, the bill failed toreceive enough votes at the Joint Legislative

Meeting, mostly reflecting representativeabsences during finals week rather than sus-tained objections to the documents provi-sions. The Senate was three votes short of

the requisite for passage, while the GSC wasone vote short.Former ASSU executive officials, howev-

er, circulated emails in the days leading up tothe Joint Legislative meeting, identifyingareas that they foresaw as being problemat-ic in the proposed Constitution.

In light of the ongoing dispute involvingASSU alumni . . . the ASSU GDC has de-termined that it is unable to continue pursu-ing the ratification of the new ASSU Consti-tution, wrote ASSU President Michael

Research suggests futureof stroke recoveryBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Researchers at the School of Medicinerecently identified two molecules as poten-tially having a significant impact on futurestroke treatment and recovery.

Mice that were genetically engineeredto lack two immune system molecules ortheir corresponding cell receptor in thebrain were better able to regain advancedmotor functions following a stroke.

The molecules, K and D, and theircell receptor, PirB, are usually involved inregulating the brains ability to form andeliminate connections between neurons.

Researchers found that when per-formed in excess, the formation and elimi-nation of brain synapses leads to a high riskfor conditions such as epilepsy or schizo-phrenia.

The study, published March 22 in Neu-ron, showed that mice that were geneticallyengineered to lack either molecule or PirB,which is the receptor that molecules K andD bind to in order to carry out their func-tion, experienced noticeably better motorperformance recovery after the researchersinduced strokes, compared to mice withnormal levels of K, D and PirB.

Concentrations of molecules K and Dincreased drastically after the induced

strokes, according to the results of thestudy.The mice that were deficient in mole-

cules K and D recovered advanced motorfunctions, such as traversing a horizontalladder or spinning on a rod, significantlybetter than control mice and had smallerstroke-affected areas following the inducedstroke. Results of the experiment with micethat lacked the cell receptor PirB mirroredthe results for mice lacking molecules Kand D.

UNIVERSITY

Student-athleteWopat dies at 19

By KRISTIAN DAVIS BAILEYDESK EDITOR

Samantha Sam Wopat 14, a member of thewomens volleyball team, died Sunday, March 25, atStanford Hospital following a weeklong battle in theintensive care unit. Wopat was hospitalized Satur-day, March 17, after attempting suicide in her Suitesresidence.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of SamWopat, said Bob Bowlsby, director of StanfordAthletics in a University statement. She was an in-tegral member of the Stanford Athletics family anda tremendous student and athlete. On behalf of ouradministration, coaches and students I extend mycondolences to Sams siblings, parents, relatives andfriends. Stanford University and the Womens Vol-leyball program have lost a wonderful youngwoman.

Wopat is survived by her parents, Ron andKathy Wopat of Santa Barbara, Calif.; her twin sis-ter, Carly Wopat 14, also on the Stanford womensvolleyball team; and two younger brothers, Jacksonand Eli.

A memorial service for Wopat will be held at 1:30p.m. in Memorial Church on Wednesday, April 18.

As a high school student Wopat played track andfield, basketball and volleyball at Dos Pueblos HighSchool in Goleta, Calif. She was planning to com-plete a major in English with an emphasis on cre-ative writing, according to an October interviewwith The Daily.

Wopat joined the Stanford womens volleyballteam as an outside hitter in 2010, though her athlet-ic success began much earlier. She participated onthree U.S. Junior Olympics teams from 2006-08,competed in the World Championships as a memberof the U.S. Youth National team and played in the2010 U.S. Womens Junior National Team.

The Charger Account the student newspaperat Wopats high school ran a tribute on March 30.

By MARGARET RAWSON

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Quarterback Andrew Luck isnt theonly Cardinal powerhouse who wontbe returning to the Farm this fall. JulieLythcott-Haims 89, associate viceprovost for undergraduate educationand dean of freshmen and undergradu-ate advising, will step down in June topursue a master of fine arts in writing,with an emphasis in poetry, from theCalifornia College of the Arts in SanFrancisco.

This is something that for four yearshas been my hobby and Ive decided tomake it my focus, Lythcott-Haims saidof her choice to turn to writing full-time.I got to a point where it felt that not todo it would be to suppress an importantpart of myself.

Lythcott-Haims, known across cam-pus as Dean Julie, has been a part ofthe Stanford community since her un-dergraduate years, when she served as aResident Assistant in Branner and as asenior class president, in addition toparticipating in a host of other extracur-ricular activities. After Stanford, shegraduated from Harvard Law Schooland practiced corporate law in SiliconValley.

She joined Stanford in 1998 as asso-ciate dean for student affairs at StanfordLaw School and became a member ofUniversity President John Hennessyssenior staff in 2000. In 2002, she took onthe role of Stanfords first dean of fresh-men.

Lythcott-Haims became dean of Un-dergraduate Advising and Research(UAR) in 2009 and continued her workwith freshmen and transfer students. In2010, she was awarded the Lloyd W.Dinkelspiel Award for contributions toundergraduate education.

Shes been an incredible and iconicfigure at Stanford, both in terms of herwork with students but also her workwith faculty and parents, Vice Provostfor Undergraduate Education HarryElam said. Everybody knows DeanJulie and I think thats a tribute to herpassion, her commitment to Stanfordand her concern about people.

According to Elam, the Universitywill begin a national search for a re-placement.

Discovering her voice as a writerLythcott-Haims development into a

writer was not something she predicted.I got feedback when I was an under-

graduate here that my writing needed alot of work - and they were right, she

said. I shrank in the face of that advice.I was ashamed.Now, after discovering poetry, she is

coming full circle to embrace an identi-ty as a writer.

Until NSO [New Student Orienta-

tion] 2007, I was pretty sure I couldnt

stand poetry, Lythcott-Haims said. Sheconnected with the medium for the firsttime when she read Lucille Cliftons col-lection of poems, Good Woman, forthe annual NSO Three Books panel thatfall an event that Lythcott-Haimsherself kick-started.

It was the first time a set of poemsreally spoke directly and deeply to meas a human being, she said, recallinghow she was moved to hear a white,male freshman share how Cliftonspoems spoke to him as well.

A few months later, Lythcott-Haimsbegan writing.

I was discovering myself, my voice,through poetry, she said.

Though she has kept her work large-ly private, Lythcott-Haims has sharedsome of her creative endeavors with the

public through the Stanford Story-telling Project, the Red Couch Projectand Dance Marathon, where she per-formed her song, Cant Tell You HisName, about a loved ones lost battlewith AIDS.

Her first formal project, however,will be a work of nonfiction about par-enting in America.

I intend to write about something Icare deeply about, which is the way inwhich parenting has changed in the lastcouple of decades and the importanceof young people turning into independ-ent, self-actualized adults and the po-tential consequences to us as a society not to mention to the individual of not doing so, she said.

Though she will draw from her roleat Stanford and her experience as a par-ent, this is a national issue that is notspecial to Stanford, she noted.

Lythcott-Haims and her husband,

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Courtesy of Stanford AthleticsSamantha Sam Wopat, an outside hitter for theStanford womens volleyball team, died at StanfordHospital on March 25.

NEWS BRIEFS

By ELLORA ISRANI

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

About 6.6 percent of applicants wereadmitted to Stanford Friday when theOffice of Undergraduate Admissionsreleased notification letters via email.The number is the lowest in Universityhistory, down from last years 7.1 per-cent admit rate.

The University received a total of36,631 applications this year, a 6.6-per-cent jump over last years applicantpool. 755 students received offers of ad-mission in December due to the restric-tive early action process. These early ac-tion applicants faced a 12.8 admit rate.

Stanford extended offers to 1,672more students on Friday. Another 789were placed on the wait list.

Stanford has been exceedingly for-

tunate to attract a simply amazinggroup of applicants from all over theworld, said Dean of Admission and Fi-nancial Aid Richard Shaw in a press re-

lease. In our review, we were humbledby the exceptional accomplishments ofthose candidates who have been admit-ted, as well as the competitive strengthof all of the applicants.

Nitish Kulkarni, who attends

Oakridge International School in Hy-derabad, India, was one such luckyadmit to the Class of 2016.

One of the main reasons that mademe choose it is that Stanford wants stu-dents coming in to be students, and notsemi-professionals like other schoolswant you to be, Kulkarni wrote in anemail to The Daily. I see Stanford as aplace where I can just be myself.

On Thursday, six Ivy League univer-sities also posted all-time low admissionrates: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dart-mouth, the University of Pennsylvaniaand Cornell. Harvards was the lowestat 5.9 percent, followed by the otherIvies at 6.8, 7.9, 9.4, 12.3, and 16.2 per-cent, respectively.

Brown and Columbia saw slight in-creases in their admission rates, posting

final percentages of 9.6 and 7.4.Princeton and Harvard reintroduced

their restrictive early action programsthis year after a four-year hiatus. This

gave students the option to receive theirdecisions early without having to make abinding commitment to enroll. Althoughthe schools each saw an overall drop inapplicants, both universities ultimatelyadmitted fewer students than in previous

years, anticipating a higher percentage ofadmitted students to matriculate.These admission changes at peer

universities also coincided with a de-crease of 18 percent in the number ofstudents who applied to Yale early ac-tion. Yale, however, experienced anoverall increase in its applicant poolwhen regular decision applicationswere taken into account.

Last years 7.1 percent admit rate atStanford reflected a .1-point drop from2010. In an effort to increase total stu-dent capacity and to accommodate 50additional students, the University ex-panded classroom and residential facil-ities and ultimately admitted 96 moreindividuals.

Admitted students have until May 1to inform the University whether they

will be attending.

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

University accepts 6.6 percent ofapplicants, on track with peers

Courtesty of Julie and Dan Lythcott-Haims

Associate Vice Provost for Undergradu-ate Education Julie Lythcott-Haims 89will leave Stanford to attend the Califor-nia College of the Arts in San Franciscoto pursue her passion for writing.

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Memorial service details announced forstar sophomore volleyball player

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New Stanford center opens doors at Peking UniversityBy SANDY HUANG

After almost five years of plan-ning, the University opened theStanford Center at Peking Uni-

versity (SCPKU) last month.SCPKU, a $7 million project de-signed to strengthen ties withPeking University (PKU), buildsoff of a partnership between thetwo universities dating back to the1970s, which has included joint ac-ademic ventures and a Bing Over-seas Studies Program (BOSP) es-tablished in 2004.

University President JohnHennessy, currently on a sabbati-cal that began Feb. 15, attendedthe opening ceremony at the newcenter.

At minimum, several hundredfaculty and students will make useof the SCPKU, according to An-drew Walder, senior fellow at theFreeman Spogli Institute, in an

email to The Daily. Walder saidthat over 50 members of the Stan-ford community have already par-ticipated in conferences or otherevents at the new center in thepast two weeks alone.

This new education and re-search hub will welcome 10 ofStanfords programs, includingthe Asian Liver Center, the Cen-ter for Sustainable Development& Global Competitiveness andthe Rural Education Action Proj-

ect (REAP). The seven other de-partments that will conduct oper-ations at the center are the Centeron Philanthropy and Civil Society(PACS), the Stanford China Pro-

gram, the Graduate School ofBusiness, Stanford Hospital andClinics, the School of Engineeringand the Shorenstein Asia-PacificResearch Center.

As far as collaboration is con-cerned, Stanford does not operatein a top down model we ex-pect collaborations to developfrom the bottom up, through in-dividual programs and projectsthat are directed by researchersand heads of academic pro-grams, Walder said.

For example, REAP had previ-ously been collaborating with theChina Institute for EducationalFinance Research at PKU.

Stanfords past collaborationwith PKU make it a natural host

for the expanded engagementthat Stanford envisions, wroteMatthew Boswell, REAP projectmanager for technology andhuman capital, in an email to TheDaily. The new center is a downpayment on this vision, and pro-vides some of the infrastructurethat a vibrant academic partner-ship requires.

Kim Meredith, the executivedirector of PACS, stated thatSCPKU gives her research center

the opportunity to add an addi-tional Ph.D. or two to our groupwho would just focus on work inChina.

We would hope to convene

what I would call a China Coun-cil or China Advisory Council,she added, and really utilize theindividuals who participated withus on the ground floor to help usthink about how we continue ourwork in China over the futureyears.

For Jenna Nicholas 12, whoaccompanied Meredith on aPACS trip to China, the openingof the SCPKU marked a symbol-ic turning point in East/West rela-tions where American and Chi-nese students can work side-by-side forging friendships, visionand joint ventures in technology,science and social initiatives.

BOSPs physical plant inChina may also benefit from the

new center.Walder said that the BOSP of-fices may eventually move awayfrom Peking Universitys agingdormitory complex for overseas

students and into the larger facil-ities at SCPKU.

The distance between the for-eign student residences andSCPKU is roughly the same as the

distance between Tresidder andMaples Pavilion, Walder said.Thats a serious hike, but it hasnever been seen as a serious barri-er to a quality education at Stan-ford.

The architectural firm Mo At-elier Szeto designed the new cen-ter, which was named after the fa-ther of former Stanford trusteeChien Lee 75. The SCPKU build-ing incorporates three levels courtyard, mezzanine and garden.By using traditional gujian wood,the building was constructedwithout any nails or glue.

Brian Chhor 13, who is spend-ing spring quarter at the BeijingBOSP program, said that explor-ing SCPKU gave him a sense of

normalcy akin to being in theStanford bubble, commenting thatSCPKU is much sleeker than theolder PKU academic buildings.

Chhor said that the new center

features the best amalgamationof Stanford and Chinese cultureand that he was particularly im-pressed by the paintings of Stan-ford at the four corners of the

eaves and overhangs, sort of like aChinese quad.Its things like this that re-

mind me how lucky and proud Iam to be a part of such an amazinginstitution, Chhor said. So muchswag.

Contact Sandy Huang at sun-huang@stanford.edu.

Dan, have a son, Sawyer, who is 12,and a daughter Avery, who is 10.

Lythcott-Haims departurefrom Stanford will not be the firstsignificant change of direction inher life.

My first transition was to fleesomething that was making meterribly unhappy and to find some-thing that would bring me joy, shesaid of her decision to leave theworld of corporate law to come toStanford.

Being a university administra-tor has indeed brought me joy. Thedifference now is Im not fleeing,Lythcott-Haims said. I love whatI do and yet Ive decided that inorder to feel fulfilled I need toturn to writing.

She said she hopes her deci-sion will inspire others.

I hope that my decision to gooff into the realm of creative andartistic expression may give somestudents who are reluctant tomake that choice a little bit ofconfidence that it is a path thatpeople pursue and an incrediblyrewarding one.

Advising at StanfordThose who spoke with The

Daily agreed that Lythcott-Haims legacy will be her work intransforming undergraduate ad-vising at Stanford.

Shes made a real difference,said Elam, noting a survey onwhich 71 percent of students saidthey were satisfied with advising.

This past fall, Lythcott-Haimspresented a report on undergrad-uate advising to the Faculty Sen-ate and cited similar positive sta-tistics, such as an increase in facul-ty and staff serving as pre-majoradvisors. Much of Lythcott-Haims work has focused on lend-ing credibility and relevance tothe advising process for under-graduates, she said.

Im really proud of what myteam has done in the name of ad-vising, she said, particularly not-ing the developing Stanford 101program, a University-wide col-

laboration to create a curriculumfor freshmen with themes of nav-igation and reflection on theirtime at Stanford.

One of our ongoing challengesis to help our undergraduatesvalue getting advice from peopleolder than the upperclassman

down the hall, but Im sensingwere making real inroads there,she added.

Students and colleagues reflectShe really made me confi-

dent to pursue what Im passion-ate about and what really inter-ests me, even though it wasntwhat my peers were doing, saidBrittany Rymer 13, who hadLythcott-Haims as her pre-majoradvisor. Having her as an advisorwas really important to build thatconfidence.

Everyone at Stanford whosbeen lucky enough to come intocontact with Julie has met adeeply humane and compassion-ate person, said English Profes-sor Jennifer Summit. Her mes-sage has always been to take risksto bring our best selves to ourwork and her decision shows thatthats a process that never stops.

I know its not an easy thingto do to follow a dream and thatswhat shes doing, Elam said ofLythcott-Haims choice to pursuewriting. I think its an excitingtime for her.

Michael Tubbs 12 describedLythcott-Haims as a fixture ofthe freshman experience andreferenced what many studentswill remember most vividly: herleading students in shouting theirclass years at big campus events.

I expect that Stanford stu-

dents will be shouting their classnumerals into the next centuryand beyond, Ill just miss gettingto be a part of it, Lythcott-Haimssaid of the tradition, adding thatshe will be back in two years toshout hers at her 25th reunion.

A longtime fan, Lythcott-Haims noted that she has re-newed her season tickets forStanford football. For the firsttime in awhile, however, shewont be cheering with studentsin the Red Zone.

Stanford is not an institutionin my life. Stanford is like ahuman being to me that I cherishlike a mentor or like a goodfriend, Lythcott-Haims reflect-ed. There is nothing I wont

miss.

Contact Margaret Rawson atmarawson@stanford.edu.

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Sam Wopat is forever in ourhearts and memories, the tributesaid. She will be missed dearlyand will always be rememberedfor her exquisite smile and love oflaughter.

The article also mentioned that

the Santa Barbara VolleyballClub created a fund in Wopatshonor.

Campus response and resourcesCampus-wide responses to

Wopats hospitalization began inthe days following her attemptedsuicide.

On March 19, Resident Assis-tants (RAs) and other Suites resi-dents sent emails announcing avigil for Wopat.

Saturday was a hard night formany members of our communi-ty, wrote one RA. If you wouldlike to send love/support for thoseinvolved, take a trip to Maples

Pavilion. At the entrance is a treefrom which we are hanging mes-sages, notes, drawings, etc. Materi-als should be in a brown bag nearthe tree.

Associate Dean for ResidentialEducation Nate Boswell and Sen-ior Associate Dean for ReligiousLife Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neu-mann emailed the Suites commu-nity on March 30 echoing the senti-ments of the student messages.

It is always an incredibly diffi-

cult thing when a member of ourcommunity passes on and wewould like to create a space forSuites residents to process togeth-er and gather as a community, theemail read.

In an April 2 op-ed in TheDaily, Vice Provost Greg Board-man encouraged students to uti-lize campus resources, includingResidential Education staff,Counseling and PsychologicalServices (CAPS), the Office ofReligious Life and the BridgePeer Counseling Center.

Contact Kristian Davis Bailey atkbailey@stanford.edu.

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Cruz 12 and ParliamentarianAlex Kindel 14, GDC co-chairs,in an email to student governmentrepresentatives. We do not be-lieve that to do so would be in thebest interests of the current Asso-ciation.

Irreconcilably out of dateCruz and Kindel called the ex-

isting Constitution, which has notbeen updated since the 1970s, ir-reconcilably out of date. Theyadded that reform is necessary toensure the long-term efficacyand sustainability of the ASSU asthe representative body of Stan-ford students and identified 15flaws with the existing Governing

Documents, in particular, that arein need of change.

They listed the current Consti-tutions lack of distinct boundarybetween ASSU entities, under-representation of co-terminal andtransfer students and violation offederal law as primary concerns.

At 32 pages, less than half thecurrent documents length, theproposed Constitution includessignificant changes, such as theconsolidation of Executive, GSCand Senate bylaws and authority.It also adjusts the standard ofproof that students are subject toin the case of disciplinary pro-ceedings, to align the standardwith federal law.

According to Kindel, othersuggestions, such as a reduction inthe number of Senators from 15 tonine, were discarded due to feed-back before voting. There was alsodiscussion about reserving Senate

seats for upperclassmen; remov-ing the requirement that ASSUlegislation must exclusively ad-dress issues that uniquely and di-rectly affect Stanford students;and establishing looser criteria forclosing ASSU meetings to thepublic.

Alumni criticismThe Constitution and its review

process received extensive criti-cism from ASSU alumni.

Five former ASSU executiveofficials wrote an email to ASSU

and GSC member lists on March12 expressing concerns with theproposed Constitution. In particu-lar, they identified a requirementthat special fees groups petitiontwice for ballot placement eachyear and the removal of a Rightsof the Accused section of the cur-rent Constitution as the two mostsalient issues.

Although they agreed that thecurrent Constitution could use im-provement, these alumni calledfor a delay of at least one quarterin the documents ballot submis-sion to allow more thorough pub-lic review.

We are confident that addi-tional problems of such magni-tude exist in the current draft and

have yet to be identified, the for-mer executives wrote.The concerns of the five former

executives were echoed and fur-ther expanded in a March 19 emailco-signed by 34 ASSU alumni. Theletter outlined 32 additional con-cerns with the Constitution andsimilarly disapproved of the re-view periods brevity.

Everyone had good inten-tions and saw all of the good thingsthat it was doing, former ASSUPresident David Gobaud 10, whoendorsed both letters, said. But[they] didnt understand the mag-nitude and the consequences ofwhat they were doing, both in-tended and unintended.

One of the principle objections

of the five former ASSU officialsand the 34 signatories concernedthe deletion of the Rights of theAccused from the new Constitu-tion.

The Rights of the Accusedsection has been completely re-moved and replaced with a couplewatered down bullet points,wrote Kamil Dada 11 M.A. 12, aGSC member and former Dailyeditor in chief, in an email to theSenate and the GSC.

Cruz and Kindel noted, howev-er, that the current Rights of the

Accused are not in accordancewith federal law and must be re-vised.

If we keep [the Rights of theAccused] in for FundamentalStandard violations, we violate theDear Colleague Letter of the Of-fice for Civil Rights (OCR), Cruzsaid at a March 13 Senate meeting.If Stanford does not abide by theOffice for Civil Rights, it is put in

jeopardy of violating Title IX,which means that it is no longer el-igible for federal funding.

Cruz and Kindel also said aRights of the Accused clause is re-dundant in the ASSU Constitu-tion because such protections areincluded in the Universitys judi-cial charter. ASSU Vice President

Stewart MacGregor-Dennis 13,however, agreed with alumni andformer officials that retaining theprovision in the central Constitu-tion might provide extra protec-tion.

[While] the Rights to the Ac-cused might be represented in the

judicial charter as well, I think itmight still make sense to keep it inthe Constitution because that isthe ultimate constraint, he said.

Hurried processThe hurried discussion and

compromise surrounding the judi-cial protections clause reflected amore general sense of urgency asthe ASSU rushed to complete thedocument in time for spring elec-

tions and the end of its mem-bers terms. To be placed on thespring ballot, the document re-quired two-thirds approval fromboth legislative bodies by March21, 21 days before the election.

The short time period that theConstitution, released Feb. 26, wasavailable for public review was aprinciple criticism of the GDCseffort. The document, which Cruzconsistently emphasized to be aworking draft, continued to un-dergo editing until the morning ofa March 14 Joint LegislativeMeeting.

This did not give anyone suffi-cient time to read through thedocument and note the ramifica-tions of the changes, Dada wrotein an email to The Daily.

Cruz countered that all mem-bers of the community, includingsome of the alumni who signed thecriticizing letter, had been invitedto give feedback throughout theGDCs yearlong investigation.

I think from the charter of theGDC in the spring of 2011 untilthe voting to place it on the ballot not to confirm the Constitu-

tion, but to place it on the ballot . .. that that year of process was along enough period of publicinput, Cruz said.

The battle over the ASSU Gov-erning Documents continues to bea clash between those eager for ur-gent reform and those wary of un-intended consequences. Dada em-phasized that his concern stemsfrom the importance of the Consti-tution which must also be ap-proved by the Stanford Board ofTrustees following the studentbody vote in maintaining stu-dent and ASSU independence.

This is the most importantdocument to the ASSU and ar-guably the most important docu-ment for the student body, Gob-

aud concurred, It deserves dueprocess.Cruz agreed, standing by his

personal sentiment that reform ofthe governing documents is neces-sary for student welfare.

The structure of the ASSUdoes matter to every single Stan-ford student, even if they dont seeexactly how it [does], he said.This is important work that Ihope is carried into the future. Butas an outgoing ASSU President, Ibelieve that it is no longer myplace to advocate on these points.

Contact Julia Enthoven at jjejje@stanford.edu and MarshallWatkins at mtwatkins@stanford.edu.

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The current treatment forstrokes, tissue plasminogen activa-tor (tPA), is only effective if ad-ministered within hours of astroke and only acts to limit thedamage of the stroke. tPA is alsonot capable of restoring or replac-ing the lost connections in thebrain caused by the stroke.

The National Institutes ofHealth, the Mathers CharitableFoundation, the Ellison Founda-tion and the National Defense Sci-ence & Engineering GraduateFellowship funded the study.

Alice Phillips

Law School Dean

Larry Kramer to

leave for Hewlett

Foundation

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Larry Kramer, dean of Stan-ford Law School since 2004, an-nounced Wednesday that he willleave Stanford in August to serveas president of the William andFlora Hewlett Foundation.

It has been an incrediblehonor to work at Stanford Law

School these past eight years,Kramer said to The Stanford Re-port. I had the privilege to workwith amazingly talented faculty,

staff and students to supporttheir innovative scholarship andwork and be part of what I believeis easily the worlds best universi-ty. It has been an exciting time ofgreat change and equally greatchallenges, but the law school hasa strong, positive trajectory, and Icant wait to see the direction ittakes under future leadership.

Kramer oversaw the LawSchools recent curriculum re-form, which took five years andemphasized more team-orientedproblem-solving techniques. Thephysical campus of the LawSchool was also expanded andimproved under Kramer.

Larry Kramer transformedthe Stanford Law School, both

physically and programmatical-ly, said Acting President andProvost John Etchemendy to TheStanford Report. He pioneereda new vision of legal educationand then oversaw the creation ofa physical plant capable of sup-porting the new program. His vi-sion has benefited not only lawstudents but the university atlarge, by integrating the lawschool with the rest of the univer-sity. Larry is a national leader inlegal academia and a universityleader at Stanford. His impact hasbeen tremendous and he will bemissed.

Billy Gallagher

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This is the most important documentto the ASSU and arguably the

most important document for thestudent body.

DAVID GOBAUD,former ASSU President

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Mapping space andtime

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By JUSTINE ZHANG

The Spatial History Lab, located on the top floorof Wallenberg Hall, resembles the office of athriving new start-up. The brightly lit space isfilled with computers and whiteboards, the wallsare lined with maps and infographics, and a

water cooler sits somewhere in the corner.Studying history, it seems, is no longer a matter of por-

ing over books in a library, but a matter of exploring thepast and present dynamically.

The idea behind it is that history takes place in space,as well as time, so historians study change over time, but thechanges that take place across space are just as important,said History Prof. Jon Christensen 81 M.A. 06 Ph.D. 12, aprincipal investigator of multiple projects in the lab.

Christensen, along with fellow history professorsRichard White and Zephyr Frank, founded the lab in 2007with a grant given to White by the Mellon Foundation.

Since its inception, the lab has branched out into several re-search project topics spanning from ecological history inthe Bay Area to Chinese-Canadian immigration.

The spatial aspect of the research, however, has re-mained consistent. The groups output includes researchpapers as well as animated displays of data and trendsthroughout time and space, which are posted on thegroups website.

According to Frank, the labs current director, creatinga dynamic visualization of a historical event allows a re-searcher to glean new perspectives.

Visualization leads us to be explicit about spatial di-mensions in historical arguments, instead of assumingspace is an empty container and human activity is au-tonomous to spatial constraints, he said.

For instance, a group of researchers developed a visual-ization of a yellow fever outbreak in Rio de Janeiro in 1850.The visual overlays a map of the region with discrete pointsshowing individual incidences of yellow fever and continu-ous colored regions indicating hot spots of the epidemic.The display is then animated through the months that theepidemic occurred, allowing a viewer to see how the dis-ease moved across the city through space and time.

[Conventional] literature tends to refer to epidemicsas a unified whole, Frank said. An epidemic is usually re-ferred to very generally by city and by year.

This approach overlooks the individual experience or,as Frank termed it, what one person in Rio is thinkingabout right now, yesterday or last week.

The visualization revealed the surprising trend that thedisease migrated unpredictably instead of spreading out-ward from a point of origin, appearing in different loca-tions in a seemingly random fashion.

According to Frank, the visualization thus allows a

modern observer to experience the human side of theevent the increased sense of fear brought on by the ideathat the disease spread to new places randomly and with-out warning.

To affiliated researchers, the visual aspect of the lab al-lows for new trends and insights to be extracted from oldinformation.

Mapping data spatially enables us to tease apart rela-tionships that would not otherwise be apparent were thedata stuck in spreadsheet form, said Jenny Rempel 12 inan email to The Daily.

Rempel, an earth systems major and Daily columnist,has been working with Christensen to study the interac-tions between natural and urban areas in cities. She saidthat the spatial tools she has used have been crucial to un-derstanding these correlations.

Spatial analysis lets us visualize otherwise static andcumbersome data in a more dynamic and understandablefashion, and, in the process, it makes this data accessible toa much wider audience, Rempel said.

Along with representing data visually, the lab is alsoconcerned with extracting existing data. Often informationexists in forms that are dense in data but difficult to under-stand easily for example, as points on a map or scatteredreferences in an historical text.

Cameron Blevins, a third-year graduate student special-izing in American history, is working on a study of 19th-century Texas newspapers to reconstruct how the periods

newspapers presented geographic conceptions of theworld to their readers. His research involves mining un-structured texts to extract place names.

In an age of big data, scholars from history to litera-ture are facing a deluge of information and sources to ana-lyze, Blevins said in an email to The Daily. The problemis not necessarily going to be a problem of scarcity, but oneof abundance.

In this respect, the Spatial History Lab is as much a tech-nological study as it is an historical one. To compile andparse historical data, the lab uses a program that can pickup cues such as geographical references in historical litera-ture so that they can be recognized by a computer. To thisend, the lab enlists people from a variety of disciplines.

While the areas of study may interest students majoringin history or urban studies, the data-processing angle hasattracted engineering and computer science students, aswell.

This project has opened their minds to creative possi-bilities in the humanities, Christensen said. If human be-

ings are an important part of the human-computer interac-tion, one must understand the human side of the equation,and thats what the humanities are about.

The interdisciplinary nature of the lab is one reason whyit has grown to become a highly collaborative research fa-cility.

The degree of complexity and the technical knowledgethats required in a project generally exceeds any one per-sons capacity, Frank said.

The collaborative atmosphere is highly appealing to stu-dent researchers such as Blevins.

It offers a think-tank workspace in which people canbounce ideas off of one another, draw on each other for ex-pertise and be exposed to other projects and topics, Franksaid.

Frank said he envisions increased collaboration withother departments as the project expands. This year, theproject began making formal connections with other digi-tal humanities projects such as the Stanford Literary Lab.In fact, a name change for the lab is pending because thesetwo ventures are planning to merge together.

As the lab expands, it continues to attract a wide varietyof faculty members and student research assistants.

[The lab was] one of the main reasons why I applied toStanford as it was a truly unique resource that no other pro-gram in the country could match, Blevins said.

For its founding members, the continued appeal of thelabs innovative approach has not gone unnoticed.

Its fun and interesting and creative, Christensen saidof the lab. Its exciting to work in new ways using comput-er technologies and techniques to do new kinds of re-search.

Contact Justine Zhang at justinez@stanford.edu.

Spatial analysis lets us

visualize otherwise static

and cumbersome data in

a more dynamic and

understandable fasion.

JENNY REMPEL,senior

Stanfords Spatial History Lab

digitally navigates history through spatial

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OPINIONS

Reflecting on DeanJulies departure

By the end of 12th grade, Ihad achieved the goodlife a preview version

of what I thought I wanted for therest of my life. My name and facewas broadcast to the student bodytwice weekly; I had an impressiveresume; I had a solid group of hi-larious friends, and options in theromance arena; I was seen assuper nice because I distributedbaked goods, mix CDs and car-pool rides; I was labeled a goodperson because I led so muchcommunity service. I was enjoying

the perfect balance of highachievement alongside magnani-mous reputation; I was comfort-able, ambitious and really happy. I

was decent, while hoping tochange the world in my name.Thankfully, that kind of life aspi-ration was and is completely so-cially condoned. Pride in self maynot be, but as long as I never con-sciously addressed my own self-ishness, and others around me be-lieved I was good, I was safe. Sowhen my Stanford career began,everything I said and did was driv-en by my hearts ultimate inten-tion: the ideal life I tasted that sen-ior year.

But today, the beginning of my

last quarter here begins, com-mencement beckons and much ofwhat I used to want from collegeand beyond seems like someone

elses dream. Somehow, my exis-tence at this school and my pic-ture of the future seems . . . dif-ferent. For a while, though, Icouldnt figure out why. After all,the Work bookmark group inmy browser is filled with listings Iwould have tagged four yearsago, too; I find myself lookinginto the same general post-col-

lege plans I would have pickedout during freshman year. Plus, I

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EDITORIAL

As announced over break,Julie Lythcott-Haims 89,associate vice provost for

undergraduate education anddean of freshmen and undergrad-uate advising, will step downfrom her role at Stanford at theend of spring quarter to pursue agraduate degree in writing. Lyth-cott-Haims, known to many as

Dean Julie, has had a tremen-dous impact at Stanford since joining the administration in1998, and we at the EditorialBoard would like to reflect on hertime at Stanford.

Dean Julie first came to theUniversity as an undergraduatemajoring in American Studies.She lived in Branner as a fresh-man, and she was also an RAthere during her junior and sen-ior years. After graduating in1989, she attended Harvard LawSchool and briefly worked in cor-porate law before returning toStanford in 1998 as the associatedean of student affairs in the Law

School. Two years later she be-came a member of PresidentHennessys senior staff, and in2002 she became Stanfords firstdean of freshman.

When the Freshman DeansOffice merged with Undergradu-ate Advising and Research(UAR) in 2009, Dean Julie be-came the head of the undergrad-uate advising system at Stanford.So although among students sheis perhaps most known for herclass role-calls at campus events,her inspiring school-spirit at foot-ball games or repping Stanfordon her Twitter account, Dean

Julie has had a significant impacton broadening the role of pre-major advising and expandingundergraduate access to re-sources to conduct their own re-search. One significant change isthat undeclared students are nowrequired to meet with their pre-major advisor once per quarterbefore enrolling in classes. At aminimum, this provides a neededopportunity for underclassmento reflect on what they have done,what they want to do and wherethey are headed.

In addition, Dean Julie hasspearheaded an 18-month effortto plan the Reflection Seminars,

currently a pilot program thataims to provide even more intro-spection for freshmen. We ap-

plaud both directives, as manyfreshmen choose to narrow theiracademic experiences at a timewhen the faculty and administra-tion want them to explore themost. We hope that Dean Juliessuccessor can maintain enthusi-asm for these initiatives whilecritically examining other areasof Stanford life for underclass-

men.With that in mind, Dean Juliesenergy and school-spirit maynever be matched. While the Uni-versity searches for her replace-ment, we believe that the searchteam should prioritize candidateswho are undergraduate alumni ofthe university. Not only shouldthe candidate bleed Cardinal red,but he or she should be someonewho, by the nature of having at-tended Stanford, has an instantconnection with each incomingclass of freshmen.

Dean Julie was able to tran-scend the role of an administrator she was one of us. When refer-

ring in an interview to the Stan-ford band playing at Admit Week-end, she said: youre not in Cam-bridge, youre not in New Haven,youre not in Princeton, youre inPalo Alto, and we do things differ-ently here. Dean Julie knew whatmade Stanford unique, and hersuccessor should as well.

It is safe to say that Dean Juliepositively impacted thousands ofstudents, and her presence oncampus will be sorely missed. De-spite her considerable adminis-trative duties, she also managedto personally connect with manyindividual students, writing

words of encouragement on theirFacebook walls, reading graduateschool personal statements andmeeting personally with disillu-sioned students. One of our fond-est memories was the 2009 BigGame, when Stanford was stag-ing a comeback late in the fourthquarter. Dean Julie, in the firstrow of the Red Zone, turnedaround and started shouting Doyou believe? This was followedby hundreds of students yellingback We believe! AlthoughStanford eventually lost thegame, Dean Julies fighting spiritleft a profound impression. Weare confident that she will take

this enthusiasm to her writing en-deavors, and we cant wait to seewhat she will accomplish.

Alexis de Tocqueville, wor-ried about the undue powerAmerican democracy

granted to the people, famouslywarned about the tyranny of themajority. There is now a new des-potism, equally dangerous. It is a

tyranny of the individual over him-self as damaging to social utilityas it is to personal intellectualgrowth.

In his recent New Yorker essayGroupthink, Jonah Lehrer ex-amines the efficacy of brainstorm-ing most specifically, its keystrategic rule that brainstormersrefrain from criticizing eachothers ideas during the thought-generation process. He finds thatwhile hundreds of businesses,think tanks and schools continueto employ brainstorming as a strat-egy for finding solutions to toughproblems, theres just one prob-lem: It doesnt work.

In fact, explains Lehrer, count-less studies have shown that ban-

ning criticism during brainstormingsessions lowers the number, qualityand efficacy of the groups final de-cisions. Groups that encourage crit-icism of faulty ideas regularly out-perform groups where a friendlybut false consensus prevails.

But technology particularlythe Internet tends to generateprecisely this type of dangerousconsensus among the like-minded.Legal scholar Cass Sunstein haswarned in his book Republic.com2.0 that new forms of social mediahave allowed individuals to controlwhat they read, see and hear to anunprecedented degree. Since we

prefer to consume things we knowand like, argues Sunstein, this hasfragmented and polarized the de-livery of previously nonpartisancontent to consumers of newmedia. Thus liberals can watchRachel Maddow every night with-

out ever reading CharlesKrauthammer, while conservativescan obsessively replay YouTubeclips of Newt Gingrich pontificatingabout food stamps without evertaking a serious look at Paul Krug-man. The results are echo cham-bers and information cocoonswhere sheltered citizens successful-ly avoid dealing with opinions theydont want to hear.

Social networking contributesto the problem. Our friends, on thewhole, tend to share our ideologicaland political outlook on the world,and Facebook has now enabled usto take that comforting consensusonline (thus the domination of mynews feed by links to the Huffing-ton Post and The New York Times

and the general absence of links tothe National Review and the Week-ly Standard). Surrounding our-selves with circles of the pleasantlylike-minded, argues Sunstein, canbe comfortable. But it comes at thecost of increasing partisan polariza-tion and the calcification of existingideological prejudices.

This is all, of course, little morethan statistical confirmation ofwhat British philosopher John Stu-art Mill recognized nearly one hun-dred and fifty years ago in his 1869work On Liberty that dis-agreement and discord tend tomaximize social utility, while con-

formity, forged by legal or socialpressure, tends to minimize it.

First of all, notes Mill, never tak-ing intellectual opposition seriouslyundermines our ability to see wherewe may be wrong and to change ouropinions accordingly. Society andthe individual both lose out whenerrors go unchallenged. Equally im-portantly, conformity limits ourability to more keenly discern why,when and how we are right. With-out the blessing of a loyal opposi-tion, we can start to take the cor-rectness of our opinions for grant-ed, without fully appreciating theunderlying premises or reasons forthat correctness. The luxury of con-sensus thus begets intellectual com-

placency.While Stanford is in some ways a

beautifully diverse place, inhabitedby people from nearly all back-grounds and cultures, I think that itcan also be ideologically homoge-neous to a degree that Sunstein,Lehrer and Mill would find damag-ing.

I dont buy Rick Santorums as-sertion that college is a liberal con-spiracy to indoctrinate young peo-ple; every political science andethics professor with whom Ivetaken classes has done his or her

The invisible why

The tyranny of homogeneity

NinaChung

MilesUnterreiner

On the passing ofSam Wopat 14Dear Stanford students:

As many of you may alreadyknow, the university tragi-cally lost a member of the

sophomore class and of thewomens volleyball team on March25, just as many of you were endingfinals and beginning spring break.

Samantha Sam Wopat died atStanford Hospital, where she hadbeen hospitalized since Saturday,March 17. A memorial service forthe Stanford community has beenscheduled for Memorial Church

on Wednesday, April 18, at 1:30p.m.

The death of a student is onethat profoundly affects all of us. Ittouches the entire university com-munity. It is human nature to seekexplanations and closure, especial-ly when faced with the issue ofdeath; however, it is not alwayspossible to have the certainty weseek.

It is unlikely that the universitywill release further informationout of respect for the wishes of theWopat family. I hope that, like theuniversity, each of you will contin-ue to recognize and respect the

familys need for privacy. We hopeyou will keep them in yourthoughts during this difficult time.

The university continues to pro-vide support for Sams teammatesand friends. It is always incrediblyheartbreaking when a member ofour community passes away. So Iwould like to remind you of thecampus resources that are avail-able to Stanford students.

They include:

Residential Education: resident

assistants, resident fellows, resi-dence deans

Counseling and PsychologicalServices

Office of Religious Life The Bridge Peer Counseling

CenterWe hope you will seek help

from those resources if you need toin order to process the thoughtsand feelings that may emerge inthe aftermath of Sams passing.

Sincerely,

GREG BOARDMAN

Vice Provost for Student Affairs

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best to encourage real debate, andto present both sides of controver-sial political issues.

But the student responses tosuch intellectual exercises tend tobe one-sided, or at best prefacedby I dont actually believe this,but . . . There are generally lotsof people willing to argue formore limits on corporations andmore spending on the social safe-ty net, but few willing to advance aprincipled case against regulationor mount a spirited defense of thefree market. The fact that I agreewith most of it makes mattersworse; I much prefer a nuanced

refutation of my own beliefs toendless variations on them.

Transcending this reflexive con-formity requires a deliberate effortto continuously engage with argu-

ments we find wrong and even ab-surd. Here at Stanford, it might re-quire a daily dose of David Brooksor George Will, some Hayek orFriedman alongside Rawls andMarx a spoonful of distastefulmedicine forced down the throat tocure the ailment of ideological ho-mogeneity.

It might rankle at first. But in theend, both the individual and societyas a whole benefit from a real en-gagement with thoughtful opposi-tion.

Agree or, even better, disagree with Miles anytime at milesu1@stan-ford.edu.

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look the same, my hobbieshavent changed much and casu-al, four-year-old acquaintancessay Im stil l recognizably me. Thetrajectory of my time here seemsto have run along with generallogic and predictability. Whatchanged, then? Why does thatgirl four years ago feel like astranger Id probably be interest-ed to meet?

This question has been thebackdrop for the numerous job-related chats Ive been having re-cently with friends and variousother income-earning human be-ings in the world. I initially startedcontacting these people to learnwhat their work was like and if Iwould like it: publishing, free-lance writing, consulting, gradu-ate study, urban nonprofits. Butwhat I found myself learningmost was how little their job titletold me relative to their purposesbehind it. Why are you doingwhat you do? is the question thathas uncovered the most.

I honestly didnt expect a grad-uate course professor to ask me ifwhat I wanted from grad school

was an entrance to a fascinatingsubject, or just an escape from the

job search. I didnt expect mymusic major friend to tell me shehad loved performing ever sinceseeing the joy it gave her grand-parents during their most painfuldays. I didnt expect my own fa-ther to explain how he was leav-ing consulting to start a new in-vestment firm in order to havedeeper relationships with the

people with whom he was work-ing. Why didnt I expect these an-swers? Its because I forget thattheres a heart inside every story the part of the story I actuallylove the most. Behind everyword, action and interactionthere is intention, and I think thatintention is born ultimately in ourhearts.

Of course, not everyone isthinking about their heart andwhat it seeks most, or aboutwhether its necessary to under-stand how their heart plays intotheir version of the good life.Our deepest life objective is an

invisible thing, with little territo-ry in daily conversations. It isquiet and completely unan-nounced, even if it guides every-thing any of us will ever do . . .which I believe it does.

Sometime in the first century, aguy named Matthew wrote a rev-olutionary statement: where ourtreasures are, our hearts are also.And I agree. He suggested thatwhat people desire most from lifegoes beyond rationale or intellectand right to the core of who weare. He suggested that what wetreasure is the giveaway of ourheart, which defines us. Well, nowonder my life is different. Some-where between four years agoand now, what I want from life

and what I wantto want com-pletely changed. And it wasnt amere head decision.

In the end, this is just a schoolcolumn written by a random 21-year old girl. Yet I hope it meanssomething, if it comes straightfrom my heart.

Curious? Questions? Complaints?Email Nina at ninamc@stanford.edu. Happy April, Stanford!

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By MIKE SCHWARTZ andANDERS MIKKELSEN

After finishing seventh in the Pac-12 dur-ing the regular season, Stanford found itselfin the postseason for the first time since 2009,

competing in the National Invitational Tour-nament (NIT). The Cardinal would end upcruising through the bracket and securing thesecond NIT title in school history, finishing aonce-disappointing season with an impres-sive 26-11 record.

This season has been a little bit of a rollercoaster ride for us, said head coach JohnnyDawkins. We started off so strong, battledthrough some adversity in the middle andthen we ended as strong as we ever couldhave imagined.

As the No. 3 seed in its region, Stanfordfaced No. 6 Cleveland State in the openinground. The Cardinal took an early lead, butthe Vikings mounted a furious comeback,cutting the Stanford advantage to just one atthe half.

After the break, an early three by Cleve-land State gave the Vikings their first lead of

the game at 33-31. Forward Anthony Brownthen scored six unanswered points as theCardinal retook control of the game. Stan-ford pushed the lead as high as 20 points withthree minutes remaining, ultimately winning76-65.

Brown led the Cardinal, as the sophomorecomplemented his 15 points with a career-high 12 rebounds in one of his greatest gamesat the Farm. Sophomore guard Aaron Brightalso had the first of his many brilliant tourna-ment performances with a game-high 17points.

In the second round, Stanford found itselfpitted against No. 7 Illinois State, which wascoming off a stunning overtime upset of No. 2

By TOM TAYLORSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Five straight Aprils, five straight heart-breaks.

Last night, the No. 1 Baylor womens bas-ketball team defeated No. 2 Stanford 59-47 inthe semifinals of the NCAA tournament inDenver.

It was the fifth straight time the Cardinal(35-2) had made the trip to the Final Four andits fifth straight loss in the last two rounds. In theprevious four seasons it was knocked out of thetournament by the eventual national champi-on, and many expect the undefeated LadyBears (39-0) to repeat that success. If it wins thefinal, Baylor will also make history by becom-ing the first team to win 40 games in a season.

Obviously, no one feels good after a loss, es-

pecially if its in the Final Four, senior forwardNnemkadi Ogwumike said after losing her lastcollegiate game. But I just kind of look back andreflect on what it took for us to get here, and Iwould have rather gone down with my teamthan up with any other team.

Having not played against the Bears since2008, a year before Associated Press NationalPlayer of the Year Brittney Griner started hercollegiate career, both teams were unknown toone another. Trying to crack the puzzle of how todeal with the 6-foot-8 junior center, Stanfordhead coach Tara VanDerveer set her team upwith the radical strategy of playing five on four;leaving the Bears junior guard Jordan Madden(who had a shooting percentage in the tourna-ment of just 26.3) free to take her shot and usingthe spare player to double-team Griner.

The tactic seemed to work. Griner had a rel-atively quiet game, going without scoring for a

full 15 minutes spanning halftime and endingwith 13 points, eight rebounds and just twoblocks. In comparison, Nneka Ogwumikescored 22 points to set a new single-season

record for a Cardinal player with 807 points overa single year, and also grabbed nine boards.

Beyond Griners abilities to block shots, re-bound, shoot and even dunk, the real effect thatshe has on other teams is that her presencechanges the way they play basketball. Stanfordhad shot 42.1 percent from the field and 23.8 per-

cent from beyond the arc in the tournament upto Sundays semifinal; against Baylor it shot just33.3 percent and 11.8 percent from downtown.

Both Nneka Ogwumike and her sister, soph-

omore forward Chiney, got into foul trouble inthe second half, and when the latter fouled outwith 7:39 remaining in the game, the Cardinalhad trouble recovering. The Card also commit-ted 17 fouls to Baylors nine, sending the Bearsto the charity stripe 26 times.

In the first half Stanford refused to let the

Lady Bears open up a gap and responded to anearly four-point deficit to tie and then lead the

Men are a

trendier

team

For several years, there hasreally been no comparisonbetween Stanford mens

basketball and womensbasketball. While the men

have struggled to get over .500, thewomen have been blowing out theiropposition left and right. The menhavent been able to sniff NCAAtournament contention, whereas thewomen are locks to be national titlecontenders year after year.

This year, that reality has notchanged one bit. In a weak Pac-12,the Stanford men still managed tofinish in the bottom half of the con-ference, and the team has been onsuch a downward trend that an NITberth was seen as quite an achieve-ment. On the other hand, the womencontinued their destruction of thePac-12 by running their winningstreak over conference foes to 78games and had an overall winningstreak of 32 games this year.

However, sometimes perceptionplays an even bigger role than reality,and for the first time in recent mem-ory, the perception is much more fa-vorable to the Stanford men than thewomen.

Stanford womens basketball hasgone to the Final Four each of the lastfive years, which is one of the mostimpressive streaks in the sports his-tory. But after falling to No. 1 Baylorlast night, the Cardinal has yet againfailed to secure the elusive nationaltitle. For the seniors, particularly All-American Nnemkadi Ogwumike,last night marks the end of four un-satisfying trips to the Final Four. At

some point, the national view ofStanford womens basketball has be-come similar to that of Andy Murrayin mens tennis an immaculaterecord and total domination of lesserfoes, but just not enough against thetop-quality competition to win thebig one.

For a team with such an impres-sive resume and the amount of talentthat Stanford has, almost no one inthe media gave Stanford a shot towin the national championship,which says something about the ef-fect of all these Final Four defeats.Im not suggesting that the team hasstopped believing it can win, but youhave to wonder if doubts start creep-ing in when Stanford falls behind byeight or 10 points deep in the postsea-

son.Doubts about whether the teamcan indeed close the deal can also bedetrimental to recruiting. Stanford

SPORTS

RICH SCHULTS/Stanford Athletics

Sophomore guard Aaron Bright averaged 16.8 points per game in the NIT, never scoring below double figures, and was named thetournaments Most Outstanding Player after Stanford dominated Minnesota 75-51 in the final at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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BASEBALL

Stanford slips, drops four of fiveBy JOSEPH BEYDA

DESK EDITOR

The last week has been anything but a breakfor the No. 3 Stanford baseball team, whichplayed seven games in eight days to open itsconference season. And while a pair of victoriesagainst No. 29 USC in a doubleheader got thatbusy stretch off to a promising start, springbreak quickly turned into a humbling experi-ence for the Cardinal (16-6, 2-4 Pac-12), whose

sloppy play cost it four Pac-12 games in a rowand its first series loss of the season.

No. 15 Arizona ranked as highly aseighth in some polls before the weekend may have been picked to finish second in thePac-12 behind Stanford, but it got a quick serieswin in Tucson, edging the Cardinal on Fridayand Saturday before securing the sweep Sun-day with its second straight complete-gameperformance on the mound.

Stanfords play over the last several contests

seems hardly characteristic of the squad, whichjumped out to a 13-2 record before its confer-ence opener thanks to consistent defense andexcellent hitting from everyone in the lineup.The Cardinal committed just 15 errors in itsfirst 17 contests but has tacked on 14 more inthe last five games alone. Meanwhile, its 1-2-3batters have combined for just 10 hits over thesame stretch.

NHAT V. MEYER/MCT

Stanford senior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike put up 22 points in her final career game to seta school record for scoring in a season, but Stanford was still eliminated in the Final Four.

NNEKAS 22 NOT

ENOUGH IN SEMIS

CARD CAPTURES NIT CROWN

BEARSTOPPLECARD

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will invariably have one of the top re-cruiting classes in the countrythanks to its success under TaraVanDerveer and the allure of whatthe Farm has to offer. The onlyquestion is if that one extra top re-

cruit will pick a place like Connecti-cut instead of Stanford. And ifyouve watched any amount ofwomens basketball, you knowwhat kind of impact one player canhave (see: Brittney Griner, MayaMoore, Candace Parker, DianaTaurasi, etc.).

Meanwhile, the Stanford mensbasketball team has faced none ofthe expectations and pressure thathave followed the women for years.The Stanford men quietly extendedtheir season with an NIT berth, anddespite less-than-stellar attendanceat Maples Pavilion, the Cardinal ad-vanced past Cleveland State beforethe rest of the bracket disintegratedin Stanfords favor.

As a three-seed, Stanford faced

two five-seeds, two six-seeds and aseven-seed while playing threehome games and two neutral-sitegames en route to an NIT title. Al-though no win in particular wastruly notable (Stanford was favoredin all five), stringing together fivestraight wins in any postseasontournament is impressive. Winninggames you should win is an impor-tant part of sports just ask Mis-souri and Duke and its an area

where Stanford has struggled (see:losses to Butler and Utah).

In the past few weeks, though,the Stanford men did anything butstruggle. The Cardinal played in-spired basketball, getting impres-sive contributions from a variety ofplayers while gaining momentumwith each game. The way Stanfordplayed on both ends of the floor bythe end of the tournament broughtback memories of the good old

days of Mike Montgomery andyearly trips to the Big Dance. It waseasily the best Stanford has lookedin Johnny Dawkins four-yeartenure, and it brought back some-thing that has been missing for allfour of those years: hope. For once,Stanford mens basketball is trend-ing upward, and with a strong cropof recruits ready to join the Cardi-nals solid core of underclassmen,the future looks bright.

Of course, if youre placing earlybets on the 2012-13 season, youd stillbe smart to predict the Stanfordwomen to advance deep into theNCAAs, and youd be foolish to ex-pect the men to do the same.

But for the first time in a long time,the buzz surrounding the mens team

has at least equaled that of thewomens team. And considering thatwomens team just made the nationalsemifinals for the fifth straight year,Id call that a pretty positive sign.

Jacob Jaffe is planning to take onBrittney Griner one-on-one to re-vive Stanfords basketball pride.Wish him luck or place a bet at jw- jaffe@stanford.edu and follow himon Twitter @Jacob_Jaffe.

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game. Baylor pulled ahead to take a25-23 lead into the break, but theCard quickly regained the lead afterreturning from the locker room. Itcould not make the advantagecount, though, and the Bears movedahead and grabbed enough of a leadthat the Cardinal could not quitepull itself back into contention.

Ultimately, I think also it waskind of difficult for us to really fig-ure out what we wanted to do on of-fense, Nneka Ogwumike said. Ithink we were too worried about[Griner].

Baylor will now face NotreDame in Tuesdays final. In Sun-days first semifinal the Irish trailedConnecticut at the half after drop-

ping an early lead and almost al-lowed the Huskies to sneak past forthe win in the final seconds of regu-

lation. After forcing overtime,though, Notre Dame pulled out an83-71 victory.

Stanford, meanwhile, will lookback on yet another bittersweet

year. By most teams standards, itwas a great season: winning boththe Pac-12 conference and tourna-ment, continuing a four-year unde-feated reign at Maples Pavilion andreaching the Final Four of theNCAA tournament. However, it isnow 20 years since VanDerveersprogram last took home a nationaltitle all three of the other semifi-nal participants have won it withinthe last 11 years and it now grad-uates several key players.

The bright side for Stanford fansis that, as always, there will be freshtalent arriving on the Farm for nextyear, and with VanDerveer at thehelm it may well get back to theFinal Four for yet another bite at theapple.

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Those deficiencies began to emergeagainst the Trojans (16-9, 3-5) who brought a13-6 record to Sunken Diamond and keptthings close all weekend. After the March 24game was postponed to the following after-noon due to rain, the Cardinal needed athree-run rally in the bottom of the ninth anda two-run, walk-off homer by sophomorerightfielder Austin Wilson to get junior

righthander Mark Appel a complete-gamewin in the series opener.Junior lefthander Brett Mooneyham and

freshman closer David Schmidt held USC to just two runs in the second game thatevening, but Stanford could barely squeak

out the 3-2 decision. The Cardinal would notescape the mediocre weekend unscathed,committing a season-high six errors fiveof them by sophomore shortstop LonnieKauppila in an 8-4 loss that saw freshmanstarter John Hochstatter last just 1.2 innings.

The squad briefly returned to form onWednesday after another scheduling irregu-larity, which saw a rained-out Tuesday trip to

UC-Davis replaced at the last minute by ahome bout with St. Marys. Stanford gotthree runs on freshman designated hitterAlex Blandinos first career homer and wenton to win 10-4, continuing its midweek dom-inance of the Gaels (14-12, 1-5 WCC), which

came into the Wednesday matchup with thelowest ERA in the country (2.04).

But errors would haunt the Cardinal yetagain against Arizona, and Stanford came upshort in a weekend series for the first time thisseason. A passed ball set up a two-RBI singlefor Blandino to open the scoring in the sec-ond inning of the Friday night opener, butArizona responded with two runs of its own

in the bottom half of the frame and jumpedout to a 4-3 lead in the third. Stanford showedits resilience, though, knotting things up in thesixth on a poor throw by Wildcat starter KurtHeyer and adding three more unearned runson a trio of Arizona errors in the seventh.

Appel rode the 7-4 advantage into thebottom of the ninth, but hit the leadoff batterand quickly walked another. Stanford headcoach Mark Marquess then brought inSchmidt, and the freshman gave up a walk ofhis own and allowed two runs with a one-outsingle. Senior designated hitter BobbyBrown then added a single which shouldhave just brought home the Wildcats sev-

enth tally, but the ball slipped under the gloveof sophomore centerfielder Jake Stewart forhis first error of the season and the winningrun came around to score.

The Saturday matchup between a pair ofundefeated starters 5-0 Mooneyham forthe Cardinal and 3-0 sophomore KonnerWade for Wildcats produced a lower-scoring game than the 8-7 Friday contest. ButStanfords lefthander was outdueled for thefirst time this season, as Arizonas rightypitched a complete-game three-hitter in a 4-2 Wildcat victory.

The Cardinal couldnt break up the no-hitter until the top of the sixth but grasped amomentary 2-1 lead on a rally set up by aKauppila infield single and a Stewart double.Yet the Wildcats refused to back down, tack-ing on two runs of their own both un-earned in the bottom of the frame.

Stanford couldnt bring home its two en-suing baserunners in the seventh, couldntget another hit off Wade in the final three in-nings and couldnt draw even with Arizona,which tacked on an eighth-inning run onSchmidts third hit batsman of the season enroute to a 4-2 win.

Defense was less of a concern for the Car-dinal in the Sunday finale, but the squadserror-free performance was not nearlyenough, as its bats fell silent yet again to giveArizona its first sweep over Stanford in 19years.

A Wilson triple opened the scoring in thetop of the fourth as the Cardinal jumped outto an early 2-0 lead, yet the Wildcats respond-ed with runs in the next three innings to givefreshman righty John Hochstatter (3-3) histhird straight loss. Sophomore righthanderJames Farris (4-1) tossed a six-hit complete

game for Arizona in its 6-2 victory.As little production as Stanford has got-

ten out of its offense over the last week,though, sophomore first baseman Brian Ra-gira has shown flashes of brilliance. He cameup with two hits off Farris and is currently rid-ing an eight-game hit streak.

Stanford will hope to revive the rest of itslineup again tonight against the Gaels, whichwill come to Sunken Diamond for the secondtime in six days. Though the Cardinal beat St.Marys 5-0 on the road earlier this season be-fore last weeks 10-4 win, both teams comeinto this matchup fatigued just a day after re-turning from weekend road trips.

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Redshirt junior quarterback Andrew Luck completed 46 of his 50 passes at Stanfords pro dayon March 22, his last chance to impress scouts before the NFL draft later this month.

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Sophomore first baseman Brian Ragira has been one of the few bright spots for the Cardinal lineup recently. He is riding an eight-gamehit streak even through the difficulties of the squad, which has lost four of its last five games, all of them against conference foes.

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LUCK SHINES

AT PRO DAYBy JACK BLANCHATMANAGING EDITOR

In his last chance to impress scoutsand media members before Aprils NFLdraft, redshirt junior quarterback An-drew Luck didnt disappoint, putting to-gether a dazzling performance at theStanford football pro day on March 22.

And while the superstar quarterbackand future first overall pick didnt exactlyhave a lot on the line at his pro day histalent has been well-documented formore than two years Luck still capital-ized on the opportunity to show morethan 100 scouts from all 32 NFL teams

just who will be taking snaps next season.On a cold, windy day on the Farm,

Luck completed 46 of his 50 passes onthrows that highlighted his mobility, in-cluding several snaps where Luck wasforced to race away from a coach chasingwith a broom that was intended to simu-late the reach and speed of an NFL passrusher.

I wanted to put my best foot forwardand show that I could make all the throwsthat I am going to be asked to do. Ithought I did that to a degree, so it was agood day in that regard, Luck said after-ward. I wanted to go out there and showthat I could make every throw that anNFL quarterback has to make.

Luck also said the pro day was a goodopportunity to highlight what hed beenworking on so far this offseason withquarterback coach George Whitfield, thementor to last years number one overallpick, Carolina Panthers passer Cam New-ton.

Ive been working a lot on throwing

from awkward positions, maybe differentpositions, Luck said. Ive tried to workthat in to some of the throws. Whether itsrunning left and trying to get it acrossyour body or types of throws like that aregoing to be throws you will have a chanceto complete at the next level.

With his final throw of the day, Lucktook the opportunity to add one addition-al highlight and show off a little bit,launching a 70-yard pass downfield intothe hands of senior wide receiver ChrisOwusu, who dropped the pass at the goalline.

I think he could probably throw itfurther than that, redshirt senior tightend Coby Fleener said.

Maybe, in fact, his arm strength isnthis weakness after all, Fleener contin-ued, adding a quick shot at the scouts and

media members that have criticizedLucks deep passing abilities this season.For his part, Fleener also impressed

the NFL scouts by showcasing his impres-sive speed. The 6-foot-6, 247-pound tight

end wowed teams by running the 40-yarddash in 4.4 seconds, an effort that likelyhelped Fleener solidify his status as afirst-round pick as the best tight end inthis seasons draft class.

Also impressing were defensive tackleMatthew Masifilo, safety Delano Howelland cornerback Johnson Bademosi.Masifilo showed off his strength bybench-pressing 225 pounds 38 times,Howell improved on his performance atFebruarys NFL combine by recording abetter broad jump, vertical leap and 40-yard dash, and Bademosi blazed his wayto a 4.3-second 40-yard dash, then toppedit off with a 40-inch vertical leap of hisown.

Conversely, offensive tackle and likelyfirst-round pick Jonathan Martin, whowas unable to participate in the NFLcombine due to illness, didnt have a greatday. Martin only notched 20 reps on the225-pound bench press, a low number foran offensive lineman.

However, Martin and fellow first-round lineman David DeCastro both saidthe atmosphere and fanfare of the proday were exciting as they head towardsthe NFL draft.

It is always nice when you can proveyour talents to as many people as possi-ble, Martin said. Its always fun to get infront of people and show what you cando. I prefer to play football, obviously. Iam never going to run 40 yards in a game,unless it is chasing down an interceptionor something, but yeah, it is always fun tocompete.

Even though he did not run or partici-

pate in any of the pro day drills, DeCastroadded that the event helped him to con-tinue to motivate himself as his NFL ca-reer comes ever closer.

I still think that I might not get draft-ed, that is how I push myself, he said.The fear of failure, you have to get bet-ter every day or you arent going to be anygood.

Martin echoed his teammates senti-ments, saying that he wasnt going tospend any time speculating about wherehe might be drafted on April 26 at NewYorks Radio City Music Hall.

Its something that you cant pay at-tention to, he said. There is all kinds ofbuzz, but you dont think about it as aplayer. You concentrate on what you cando, set goals for yourself and cancel out allthe outside noise.

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Ole Miss in the opening roundand was looking to do the same tothe Cardinal.

The matchup was back andforth for the first half, yet Illinois

State began to pull away in thesecond. The Redbirds took an 11-point lead before Bright tookover with nine straight points, andthe Cardinal began to even thegame up.

With the game tied at 78 and 20seconds left on the clock, Stanfordheld the ball hoping for a last-sec-ond victory. Unfortunately, a con-tested three by freshman guardChasson Randle would fall off themark, sending the game to over-time. While the Redbirds contin-ued to put up a fight, the Cardinalprevailed 92-88 in the extra ses-sion.

The star of the game was againBright, who put up a game-high 29points while shooting 11 of 13

from the field. The sophomore hitsix threes and also dished out sixassists. His backcourt mate Ran-dle added 19 points, while sopho-more forward Dwight Powell hada season-high 18 as well as ninerebounds off the bench.

The victory secured Stanfordsspot in the NITs Elite Eight,where the Cardinal hosted No. 5Nevada. The Wolf Pack had notbeen seriously tested in either ofits first two games, defeating bothNo. 4 Oral Roberts and No. 8Bucknell with ease.

In front of a home crowd forthe last time this season, Stanfordput on a show. The Cardinalcruised to a 15-point lead in thefirst half and didnt let up, thrash-ing Nevada, 84-56. Senior centerJosh Owens made the most of hisfinal game at Maples Pavilion,pouring in a game-high 15 points,while Randle was his usual bril-liant self, also scoring 15 as Stan-ford headed to the Final Four inNew York.

Stanford brought in BaltimoreRavens linebacker Ray Lewis asits pre-game motivational speak-er before the Cardinals semifinalmatchup with Massachusetts, andhis speech propelled the team toplay its best basketball of theyear.

If you aint pissed off forgreatness, then youre okay withbeing mediocre, Lewis told the

Stanford players. Unfortunatelyfor the UMass Minutemen, theCard was definitely pissed off forgreatness that Tuesday night.

Stanford controlled much ofthe first half, riding the wave ofmomentum from Lewis pep talkto take an early lead. Nearly everyoffensive possession resulted inan easy bucket. A pair of 3-point-ers from Bright and Randle gavethe Cardinal its biggest lead of thefirst half, as the squad went up 26-14.

But UMass would turn itaround, buckling down on de-fense and heating up offensively.The Minutemen began playingselfless basketball, spreading theball around and setting them-

selves up with open shots to go ona quick 9-1 run and pull to withintwo points of the Card. Stanfordcould not break away fromUMass, and at the end of the firsthalf, Stanford led just 36-33 with achance to play for the NIT cham-pionship on the line.

Neither team managed to findits offensive rhythm for the firstfew minutes of the second half, asthey combined for just two fieldgoals in the first 2:44. The Minute-men managed to keep pace withthe Cardinal, answering eachStanford score with a bucket oftheir own. With just 7:17 remain-ing, sophomore guard ChazWilliams hit a jumper to tie thegame at 52 apiece, but Brightcountered almost immediatelywith a jumper on Stanfords nextpossession. The sophomore had agreat game for the Cardinal, scor-ing 13 points off the bench. TheCardinal would not lose theirlead, going on to beat UMass 74-64 and earning the chance to play

Minnesota in the finals.The last time Stanford played

in the NIT championship gamewas 1991, when it beat Oklahomato capture the crown. The Cardi-nal was hoping for a similar resultagainst the Minnesota GoldenGophers, a No. 6 seed that hadplayed well to earn its bid in thechampionship game.

In the title matchup, the Cardi-

nal delivered its most impressiveperformance of the seasonagainst a Minnesota team thatwas completely overwhelmed.Stanford could not have picked abetter game to shoot 50 percentfrom the field and 46 percentfrom the 3-point line, as well asforce 22 turnovers and grab 36 re-bounds. After senior Jarrett Manngrabbed a steal and converted thetransition layup to even the scoreat 21, Stanford would not lookback, closing out the first half on a

10-4 run to take a six-point lead.The second half would be a

completely different story. Stan-ford scored 11 straight points toopen the period, cruising by Min-nesota on its way to an easy 75-51victory. The Cardinal was firing onall cylinders, converting both inthe paint and beyond the arc. Theguard combination of Randle andBright led the way, scoring 15

points each to help Stanford earnits first NIT championship in 21years. Brights performance wonhim Most Outstanding Playerhonors for the tournament.

We have had good runs be-fore, but never on a stage of thismagnitude where youre playingfor a championship, Dawkinssaid of the dominant second half.It says a lot about our kids, theirbelief and them being able toshare in those experiences.

The season could not have

ended on a more positive note forthe Card, and their dominant per-formance provided just a glimpseof things to come. While seniorsMann, Josh Owens, Andrew Zim-merman and Jack Trotter will bemissed along with associatehead coach Dick Davey, who is re-tiring after a storied career theCardinal boasts a young core thatwill help it make a mark on the

NCAA next season and hopefullyearn an elusive spot in the BigDance.

With sophomores Bright, An-thony Brown and forward JoshHuestis back next year along withfreshman standout Randle, Stan-ford has the pieces in place tomake a run at a Pac-12 title and maybe even a little more.

Contact Mike Schwartz atmikes23@stanford.edu and AndersMikkelsen at amikk@stanford.edu.

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