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Palo Alto approves

new firefighter

contract

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Sixteen months of negotiationsbetween the city of Palo Alto and its

firefighters came to a conclusionMonday night when the Palo AltoCity Council voted unanimously toratify a new three-year deal with theunion.

The new contract imposes a sec-ond pension tier for new workersand requires employees to con-tribute to their pension and medicalcosts. The new contract also nolonger includes the minimum-staffing provision,which requires 29firefighters to be on duty at alltimes.Other city labor groups suchas the Service Employees Interna-tional Union, Local 521 and thenon-unionized group of profession-als and managers have also recentlyaccepted second pension tiers andrequirements to contribute towardtheir medical premiums.

The contracts ratification endsthe binding-arbitration processthat began after the city declaredan impasse in negotiations in Feb-ruary. The new concessions willsave the city of Palo Alto approxi-mately $1.1 million in the currentfiscal year and $1.4 million annual-ly in future years.

Combined with rising revenuesand savings, the $1.1 million in sav-ings negotiated in new contractswill likely stave off projected per-sonnel cuts for the current fiscalyear, according to the City CouncilFinance Committee at its Tuesdaymeeting. Revenue from documen-tary-transfer tax and from sales taxare both up $1.2 million above pro- jections, and hotel taxes have ex-

ceeded projections by $600,000.The removal of the minimum-staffing provision will also allow thecity to save money by reducing FireDepartment staffing.The citys Pol-icy & Services Committee will re-view a more detailed report on waysto reduce Fire Department staffinglevels in November.

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School of Ed joins

STEM initiative

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Stanford Teacher Education Pro-

gram (STEP) joined a nation-wideinitiative called 100Kin10, which isdesigned to improve the perform-ances of American K-12 students in

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By ILEANA NAJARRO

San Mateo County supervisors vote Nov. 1 on whetherto accept Stanfords $10.2 million offer to repair the 1.8-mile stretch of the Lower Alpine Road Trail and completea decade-long project detained by conflicting residentialopinions.

Officials have until Dec. 31 of this year to accept thefund. If they refuse the offer, the funds will go to SantaClara County for recreational activities for Stanford resi-dents.

The full Alpine Road trail extends from the corner of ElCamino Real and Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto to a mileinto Portola Valley and includes a portion of the StanfordLoop trail.The plans to build the trail network stem fromagreements in Stanfords 2000 General Use Permit with

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Students remain unaware of CAB initiativesBy MARIANNE LEVINE

DESK EDITOR

Four weeks into autumn quarter,the ASSUsCommunity Action Board (CAB) remains in itsquiet change stage, according to ASSU VicePresident Stewart Macgregor-Dennis 13.

The ASSU announced the creation of theCAB spring quarter last year.According to itsblueprint posted on the ASSU website, theCAB held its first meeting the second week ofschool and is currently planning its first campus-

wide event to be held during mid November.The CAB, chaired by Aracely Mondragon

13, represents 23 on-campus communities. Ac-cording to the CAB website, the representedcommunities for the 2011-12 academic year in-clude the African American Fraternal andSororal Association, the API community, theAfrican American community, theChicano/Latino community,the Christian com-munity, the Corporate Diversity LeadershipCoalition, the First Generation and Low-In-come community, the Interfraternal Greek

community, the Interfaith/Religious communi-ty,the Jewish community, the LGBTQ commu-nity, the Multicultural Greek community, theMuslim community, the Native community, thePolynesian community,the Power to ACT:Abil-ities Coming Together community,the Student-Athletes community, the Womens communityand the Undefined/Undetermined community.

Though the CAB does not represent everycommunity on campus, board representatives

RESEARCH

Study findsselfishness can

yield respect

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Achcar discusses MENA revolutions

By MARWA FARAGDESK EDITOR

Gilbert Achcar,professor of development stud-

ies and international relations at the School of Ori-ental and African Studies of the University of Lon-don,delivered a lecture Wednesday evening on theroots and dynamics of the 2011 revolutionary up-heavals in the Middle East and North Africa(MENA).

Achcar started the lecture with a presentationof development data, comparing the MENA re-gion to other developing regions, drawing particu-lar attention to figures on average annual growthrate, population growth and unemployment rates.

There is a lack of development even in relativeterms in the region . . . the problem translatesabove all in the region in record unemploymentrates, he said.Here the difference is striking.It is

by far the region of the world with highest rates ofunemployment, and this has been confirmed overdecades.

He highlighted youth unemployment, where

By ALEXIS GARDUNO

Individuals who act in their own self-interest are more likely to gain prestigeand leadership recognition than thosewho exhibit altruistic characteristics,ac-cording to a recent study.

Stanfords Graduate School of Busi-ness (GSB) collaborated with North-western Universitys Kellogg School ofManagement and Carnegie MellonUniversitys Tepper School of Businesson the report, which was published inthe Journal of Personality and SocialPsychology.

Robert Livingston, co-author of thestudy and an assistant professor at Kel-logg,wrote in an email to The Daily thatthe collaboration between these threebusiness schools sprung out of personalfriendships and similar academic inter-ests.He said the researchers conducted

all of their three experiments at the be-havioral lab at Stanfords GSB.One might think that generosity

would be a virtue (and selfishness abane) for people who are aspiring to beelevated to high positions of authorityand power by others,Livingston wrote.Instead, the study found the oppositewas true.

According to Livingstone, their re-search sought to explore how an indi-viduals contribution to a group wouldaffect teammates perceptions of him orher. He said that individuals who morefrequently acted in their self-interestachieved a greater sense of prestigewithin the group even over thosewho contributed often to the team.

The study also asked participants cal led intergroup members tochoose a leader whom they felt would

be best in one of two different situa-tions.According to the report, the situa-tions were designed to be either more

Process critical to reflecting onMiddle East revolutions

NEWS BRIEFS

San Mateo County to voteon Stanford offer for trail

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SHADI BUSHRA/The Stanford DailyFrom left to right: Waveney Hudlin, Kadesia Woods, Tyler Brooks and Jessica Anderson 14 of The Chica-go Collective performed at a breast cancer fundraiser in the CoHo, organized by Sigma Theta Psi.

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Alpine Trail

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San Mateo County is debating whether to accept Stanfords $10.2 million offer to repair the Lower Alpine Road Trail, which extendsfrom the corner of El Camino Real and Sand Hill Road to a mile into Portola Valley and includes a portion of Stanford Loop trail.

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science,technology,engineering andmathematics STEM departments,according to an announcement fromthe School of Education.

The 100Kin10 program hopes totrain 100,000 teachers throughout

the next decade in STEM subjects.STEP and the School of Educa-tion plan to educate a minimum of230 STEM teachers to work in ele-mentary schools, middle schoolsand high schools throughout thecountry. STEP also retains doctor-ate and Ph.D. students in the mathand sciences who will travel tothese schools to act as regulatorsand co-teachers in the classrooms.

Stanford [University] is knownfor educating outstanding mathand science teachers, said educa-tion professor Rachel Lotan, direc-tor of STEP. We are among thevery few university-based pro-grams involved in [the initiative].

Lotan added that the teachersinvolved in this program will beable to apply their experience to

other nation-wide programs to im-prove the performance of Ameri-can students. In order to achievethis goal, STEP has developed cri-

teria to measure the STEM teach-ers effectiveness.

Over 80 organizations, in busi-ness and in education, have madecommitments to help recruit andfoster teachers for this initiative.Nearly $20 million was initiallypledged to 100Kin10 by founda-tions and corporations supportingthe recruitment of STEM teachers.

100Kin10 was first announced atthe Clinton Global Initiative

America Meeting in Chicago in2011. There, former President BillClinton urged corporations andfoundations to support the initia-tive. President Barack Obama andSecretary of Education Arne Dun-can have also praised the program,encouraging the programs inte-grated strategy.

Currently, the United States islagging behind other countries inthe math and sciences, includingChina and Finland. 100Kin10 willprepare, recruit and support100,000 teachers over the next 10years to prepare all American stu-dents with the skills needed to excelin both the sciences and mathemat-ics. By improving education in themath and sciences,100Kin10 hopesto provide students with the tools

needed to solve the nations currentand predicted problems.

Josee Smith

STEMContinued from front page

cooperative or competitive innature.

The cooperativetest asked in-tergroup members to choose aleader who would allocate re-sources while the competitivetest asked the members to choose a

leader who would help them incompetition against a rival out-group.

These experiments demon-strate that the leaders that peoplewant vary as a function of the inter-group situation, wrote Nir Halevy,co-author of the study and GSB as-sistant professor,in an email to TheDaily. He said that the qualitiesteammates seek in a leader changedepending on the circumstance.

Halevy also said that these find-ings are universally applicable andcould shine more light on how a sys-tem of leadership develops,whether in offices or on the realityshow Survivor.

He said the study also explored

the relationship between thosewho are in an in-group and thosewho are in an out-group within asociety.

One interesting finding wasthat generosity toward out-groupmembers does not lead to respectand admiration in the eyes of oth-ers, Halevy said.In fact, it led tolower levels of prestige comparedto showing generosity toward in-group members only.

Halevy added that these find-

ings should by no means discouragepeople in the process of climbingthe ladder to show generosity they simply explain the behavioraltendencies of individuals operatingin a competitive atmosphere.

According to Halevy,the studysco-authors have many ideas aboutwhere to take their research next.For instance, he said the studyleaves areas open for examination,such as the extent to which aspir-ing leaders strategically display be-haviors that can boost their prestigeor dominance, depending on thegroup context.

Contact Alexis Garduno at agar-duno@stanford.edu.

SELFISHNESSContinued from front page

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The Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) recently joined the nation-wide initiative 100Kin10, designedto improve the performance of American K-12 students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Santa Clara County. As part of thedeal,the University agreed to builda pair of recreational trails worth$19 million from the campus to thesurrounding foothills in return forpermission to add five millionsquare feet of new buildings oncampus. The trail through SanMateo County property runs alongAlpine Road from Ladera to Stan-ford Weekend Acres.

As of now,associate professor ofimmunology PJ Utz a residentof Ladera, one of the San Mateo

communities along the trail de-scribed the condition of the trail asunsafe for bikers.

Utz said the portions of the trailthat are only two or three feet wideare at risk of eroding into the creekseparating San Mateo County fromSanta Clara County.Those sectionsare also dangerously close to majorfreeway ramps.

The trail as it exists in its cur-rent condition is much too danger-ous to be used by typical commut-ing bikers or certainly my kids andfamily,Utz said.As a taxpayer, asa parent,as a resident and as a bikerI think that it would be fiscally irre-sponsible for the supervisors to nottake the money and fix the trail.

In addition to voting on Stan-fords offer to repair the trail, San

Mateo County officials will alsovote on granting the county respon-sibility to design the revampedtrail, conducting an environmentalreview and requesting an extensionto complete the remodeling byDec. 31.

For Stanfords part, if Stanfordhas to comply with this agreement,which we said we would in our 2000agreement,we would like to see themoney go for this purpose becausewe do have many people in Laderaand Weekend Acres that work atStanford and [are] alumni . . . thatit would be worth the restoration,said Larry Horton,director of gov-ernment and community relations.Any improvement to the trail after-ward would be funded by taxes.

From 2000 to 2005, residents ofLadera, Weekend Acres and othercommunities debated the trails lo-cation, ultimately settling on itspresent site. In 2006, Stanford of-fered $8.4 million to San MateoCounty and $2.8 million to PortolaValley to repair the conditions ofthe connector trail. Only PortolaValley accepted the offer.

Horton attributed San Mateo

Countys refusal to internal politi-cal disputes. Utz, who formerly op-posed Stanfords offer, also attrib-uted the hesitation to miscommuni-cation on behalf of residents, whoinformed others of false facts relat-ing to the trails remodeling. Thecounty refused Stanfords secondoffer in 2009 for similar reasons.However, Stanfords General UsePermit prevents the county fromfully rejecting the offer that standsnow until Dec.31.

Horton said that current opposi-tion to the offer also stems fromresidents in Weekend Acres whoexpress legitimate safety concernsthey think will come from the re-modeling, which should not be ig-nored.

Every safety and traffic issueasked by Weekend Acres must bestudied in the Environmental Im-pact report according to a particu-lar design and then evaluated,Horton said.I can assure you thatSan Mateo County should not ap-prove it if they do not have a designthat is safe and accommodatesthose matters.

Utz,who will be a key speaker atthe vote in November, said he ishopeful for the outcome.

I think the likely scenario hereis that the supervisors will vote toagree to have Stanford pay for de-signing the trail and then get publicfeedback for what that trail wouldlook like, Utz said.

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By JENNY THAIDESK EDITOR

Techie or fuzzy? Its a de-ceptively innocent ques-tion, but on a campus inthe heart of Silicon Valley,the voices of the humani-

ties can easily be lost in the technical

buzz and clamor of industry.According to Debra Satz, senior

associate dean for the humanities andthe arts,the decline in humanities en-rollment has been a long and endur-ing trend,and Stanford programs aredetermined to reverse it.

The steady decline in the human-ities can be traced back to as far asthe 1960s and 70s. For Stanford, the

60s were the golden age for humani-ties more than a third of the stu-dents majored in the area.Fifty yearslater, while enrollment for scienceand engineering classes have growntremendously, humanities enroll-ment continues to slip.

About 17 percent of students atStanford major in the humanities,Satz wrote in an email to The Daily.We have a declining number of stu-dents taking classes in the humani-ties beyond the mandated require-ments like IHUM.

Stanfords flagging numbers inthe humanities are an anomaly in theUnited States.According to a survey

conducted by the American Acade-my of Arts & Sciences,the number ofhumanities bachelors degrees hasactually experienced healthy growthover the last decade after experienc-ing a slight depression.

Some argue that the strength ofthe humanities at least in the eyesof the public is simply dwarfed incomparison to the gargantuan sci-

ence and engineering departments.Stanford has an image prob-

lem, said professor of classicsRichard Martin. People think of itas MIT West, so those who are inter-ested in medieval history or Islamicstudies dont apply here.

One factor contributing to theperception of Stanford as the holyland of technology so dubbed bymedieval history professor PhilippeBuc may come from the relative-ly small percentage of admits inter-ested in the humanities.

The cultivation of a techie-driv-en reputation, in theory, results in aself-selecting applicant pool that

leans heavily toward science and en-gineering.

About the same number of ourincoming admits say that they are in-terested in the humanities, Satzsaid. Our applicant pool looksroughly like our admit pool in termsof humanities interest.

On top of having only a modestnumber of humanities-inclined in-

coming students,humanities depart-ments are also faced with the all-fa-miliar force of parental pressure topick the right major.

Ive seen firsthand the kind ofculture that quickly develops . . . thepeer and parental pressure thatpushes students into supposedly vo-cational majors,wrote English De-partment Chair Gavin Jones in anemail to The Daily.

Given that the lifetime earningsof science and engineering majorsare significantly higher than those ofhumanities majors, the desire for fi-nancial stability is not completelyunfounded. But Martin warns stu-

dents against drawing the conclusionthat a humanities degree is equitableto financial self-destruction.

We need to wean people fromthe idea that humanities are not use-ful,Martin said.You can do a liber-al arts degree and still get a job.AndI dont mean like working in a library

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By ANDREW DUONG

When Stanfords Program in HumanBiology (HumBio) was first intro-duced a little over 40 years ago, itwas praised for its uniquely interdis-ciplinary nature one that com-

bined the two seemingly disparate areas of social sci-ence and hard science. It was in a way revolutionary,for at the time interdisciplinary programs were fewand far between. Forty years after the first graduat-ing class in the program, the human biology major

has grown to be the largest undergraduate major atStanford.

We try to integrate across multiple disciplines,said Carol Boggs,director of the HumBio program.Students really understand that this is necessary ifwere going to solve the worlds problems.

The HumBio major is rooted in the core, a set ofsix classes three science and three social science that every student in the major must take,usuallyin his or her sophomore year.

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Let me just begin by saying thatthis column has been a strug-gle. I literally agonized for

days over the subject matter.Sure, Ihad a few ideas, but none of themseemed good enough or appropri-ately timed for the circumstances ofthis particular week. Body paint-ing? Too trite. Reunion Homecom-ing? Way too obvious.Lemon zest?(Yes, that was an option for thisweeks column.) Too obscure. I satand waited for inspiration to de-scend upon me in a golden haze. Itook long walks, hoping my Eure-ka! moment would come some-where between Alvarado andGerona.Not one bit.

The column youre reading nowis not the original version.My previ-ous draft was demolished when Mi-crosoft Word shut down unexpect-edly just as I was hitting the savebutton which, as a side note,wouldnt have happened if I hadbeen working on my laptop, butthats been in the shop for a weekafter I splashed water all over itslogic board. Could I do nothingright this week? Could nothing hap-pen in my favor? I felt like throwingmy hands up and screaming,I giveup, okay! Obviously, its just notmeant to happen.

So, sighing, I picked up thephone, cancelled the hair appoint-

ment Ive been meaning to have forthe past seven months (by God,thiswill happen at some point!), paidthe cancellation fee and started towrite. Originally, I was going to tryand redo the column from memory,but something made me stop.

I was trying too hard to makethis the perfectcolumn.All thosetimes I had dismissed my ideas be-cause they werent exactly the rightfit for this week had no bearing onthe merit of the ideas themselves,but more about my insecurity overhow people might perceive them.Deep down, I think I was scaredthat people would judge me forwhat I considered importantenough to write about. In trying towrite a column for someone else, Ihad second-guessed myself and lost

my own voice.We all want to control what peo-

ple think of us and whether theylike us.And when things dont workout whether thats in a relation-ship,an assignment,a project or justlife in general I, at least,blame iton my own actions or lack thereof.If only I had tried that much hard-er, said something else or acted dif-ferently . . . Things could havebeen different. More aptly, I couldhave made things different.

But thats all a fallacy. There isonly so much we can do in order tochange or control the situation. Imdefinitely not advocating a passiveapproach to life,but sometimes, lifethrows you a curveball that youcouldnt have predicted. Nothing

you could have done would havechanged the situation, so why sec-ond-guess yourself to begin with?

Over-thinking is just your inse-curity talking.Acting is your confi-dence talking.Do what feels right inthe moment.Nothing is wrong withbelieving in your own voice and fol-lowing your own ideas. Trying tocraft something in the hopes thatanother person will like it ultimate-ly leaves you feeling empty and un-satisfied. There is no such thing asthe perfect column. Theres nosuch thing as the perfectscheduleor the perfectday or the perfectroutine. As much as we all want asemblance of control over our lives,theres a certain amount of uncer-

tainty that we all need to accept inlife.This whole week has been an ex-

ercise in (im)perfection for me.Nothing seemed to go right. Butthat doesnt mean it was all a waste.How you react to a situation mat-ters so much more than how you tryto preempt it. Because more oftenthan not,things dont go as planned,no matter how much you may havetried to manipulate the outcome.And sometimes, what we see as im-perfect may just end up being thebest thing that happens to us.

Leslie seriously wants to talk to someone about lemon zest. If thatsyour thing, then you should email herat labrian@stanford.edu.

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Perfectly imperfect

Heres this weeks hot advice!

DO: Break the Stanford Bubble.DOO-DOO: Poop in someone

elses toilet . . .I trekked across the Bay to

spend a night in the fascinating

world of Berkeley last weekend.Now before you sharpie traitorover my face, burn the newspaperand piss on the ashes. (Im not surewhat the equivalent of disrespectfulvandalism would be for Internetreaders. Maybe turn me into aWTF?!?!gif?),please allow me tomake my view of Berkeley perfect-ly clear. I hate the school of Berke-ley, but I rather enjoy the city ofBerkeley. (To be honest, I dont re-ally hate Berkeley minus the un-speakable 2009 Big Game. But I amtrying to encourage a healthy rival-ry.So . . . suck it,Cal.)

Some of my high school friendsfrom the L.A.area had traveled upfor USCs Weekender game againstCal, so I hopped on CalTrain toBART for a mini reunion.(You may

be wondering where my reluctantcheering landed for such a game,considering I have an honest dislikefor all things USC. I was cheeringfor some anomaly in our logical uni-verse to emerge, allowing bothteams to lose. The same thing Icheer for whenever the Yankeesplay the Red Sox.)

We had a party at my friendshouse off campus, and it was ex-tremely enjoyable. I got to catch upwith old friends. I got to meet boatpeople from all over California whowere there for some giant sailingrace called a regatta.I mistook re-

gatta for ricotta, so when they keptsaying, I drove here from SanDiego for the regatta,I kept look-ing around the house for some

amazing Italian cheese that was ap-parently worth a seven-hour drive.

But the highlight of my night washands-down getting to crack thecase of The Poop Intruders (aka theDookie Duo)! (Those of you thathave emailed me complainingabout the lack of poop jokes in a

column titled Doo-Doos, well,this dumps for you.) Apparentlytwo girls had drunkenly broken intothe Cal womens soccer teamshouse next door (while they wereinside), locked the soccer team outof their own bathroom and then es-caped out the window to find therefuge of anonymity in our partyfilled with random boat people.

The soccer girls were furious andthreatened to call the cops on theparty if the situation wasnt rectified(more like rectum-fied . . . lolz!). Afew of us went back to their housewith the intent of climbing backthrough the window and unlockingthe door, hoping that would be theend of things.But once in the bath-room,shit hit the fan.Literally. (Justkidding, not literally. But that

wouldve been awesome.) The twointruders had left a message . . . inthe form of a rather large dookiefloating in the middle of the bowl.Asenseless crime? Perhaps. A scent-less crime? By no means.

The party became a witch-hunt.My friends and I had some fun pop-ping up in various areas around theroom and proudly proclaiming inour best Spartacus voice,I am thepooper! The whole ordeal turnedinto a bizarre and unforgettablenight, and it only could have hap-pened because of my journey toBerkeley.

One of the best ways to get themost out of your Stanford experi-ence is to get away from Stanford.(Its paradoxical,so it must be true!)

Get off campus, if possible,on a reg-ular basis.

But, Chase, theres alwayssomething going on here. I love ithere.Why would I want to leave?Because Stanford is not the realworld. Part of the college experi-ence is preparing for the real world,and this is not the real world.Mini-mum wage isnt eleven dollars anhour.There isnt as much apprecia-tion or tolerance for diversity.Thereare people that may have neverheard of your major (Im looking atyou, Symbolic Systems). The realworld isnt seen through cardinal-colored glasses.

But the real world is a lot moreinteresting.Theres a Stanford bub-ble that we are well aware of.When

I go to shows in San Francisco oncea month, theres an emo/hardcoremusic bubble to explore.Theres an-other at my church in Menlo Parkevery Sunday. And another downsouth at UC-Santa Cruz.Theres anentire exciting world to explore andinteresting people to meet,but it re-quires getting away from Stanford.

Most of us are here at Stanfordbecause we intend to change theworld in some way or another, butthat requires being part of thatworld. That requires breaking theStanford Bubble.

If you need a reason or excuse to getoff campus (especially if youre a cute

girl and want to get dinner), emailChase at ninjaish@stanford.edu.

Breaking the Stanford Bubble!

Chase

Ishii

Leslie

Brian

How you react to a

situation matters somuch more than how

you try to preempt it.

Because more often

than not,things dont

go as planned.

or going to grad school and wastingfive years of your life.

With declining student interest,humanities departments have beenforced to adopt a number of strate-gies to defend the value of their re-spective fields and market them tostudents.

Professors dont like to dealwith the idea of having to markettheir field, Martin said. But hu-manities are pushed into that posi-tion. Were fighting an anti-intellec-tual and vocational mentality.

Classics has been one of the fewhumanities departments that haveexperienced a slow but steadygrowth, at least partially thanks toaggressive advertising and a strongpresence in IHUM and freshmanIntroductory Seminars.Classics alsoinvested a significant amount oftime developing an appealing cur-riculum.It includes a series of entry-level classes such as classicalmythology, which are designed toattract a broad range of students,and brings in senior faculty mem-bers to teach classes with low enroll-ment.

The hardest sell is Intro toGreek, which usually attracts 15 to20 students, Martin said.We sup-port their interest theyre gettingour most seasoned professors.

Other departments, such as

Comparative Literature, haveadopted similar tactics in an effortto make their respective fields moresalient to an increasingly technolo-gy-oriented society.

For instance,Amir Eshel,chair ofundergraduate studies,comparativeliterature will be teaching a seminartitled Narrative and Ethics,whichwill look at not only traditionalforms of literature but also films,tel-

evision shows and video games asmediums for exploring storytelling.

The insight we gained in hu-manities over millennia . . . we canapply those skills to look at showslike Battlestar Galactica, or Dex-ter or The Wire, Eshel said.These shows touch upon issues likedrug addiction, role of the media,corruption issues that are veryrelevant to this world.

Other departments are alsoworking to throw off the assump-tion that humanities are entrenchedin the past.

For instance, the Department ofHistory developed a series of inter-disciplinary tracks specially de-signed to guide students academicinterests towards a specific careerpath. Their newest track, GlobalAffairs and World History, isgeared toward students who seek toapply their history studies towards acareer in government,business andnon-governmental organizations.

Acquiring deep knowledgeabout multiple parts of the globe,learning to ask probing questionsand construct arguments,evaluatingevidence and writing and speakingeffectively are all timeless skills in aglobalizing world, wrote HistoryDepartment Chair Karen Wigen inan email to The Daily.

With the advancements in tech-

nology leading to globalization, hu-manities departments also see anopportunity to take the skillsetstheir students develop and applythem in a more pragmatic setting.

[Societies] change and develop,but were constantly going back tothe languages,said Gabriella Safran,chair of the Division of Literatures,Cultures and Languages (DLCL).Students need real literacy and real

fluency.Students need to understandjust how important it is to becomemultilingual and global citizens.

Confronted with declining en-rollment in foreign language classesbeyond the second year, the DLCLlaunched a new program that willprovide funding to any studentsmajoring or minoring in any de-partment under the DLCL to goabroad and conduct research, amove that Safran hopes will en-courage students to take more ad-vanced language classes.

Our mission is to get half ofStanford students to minor in amodern language,she said.

Other departments such as Eng-lish are optimistic that restructuringand developing new curriculum willbolster student enthusiasm whileshowcasing its versatility in otherdisciplines.

We cant wave a magic wand,Jones said.But we can think aboutoffering a course on Harry Potter,or on new media, or on environ-mental writing, or in the medicalhumanities.

The concerted efforts of the hu-manities departments to add a freshand interdisciplinary focus to theircurriculums will hopefully dispelthe pervasive conception that theStanford students academic inter-ests are bifurcated into either the

humanities or engineering.The fuzzy-techie divide is amyth thats been made real, Mar-tin said. Not only is it really de-meaning to the fuzzy side, but its

just an excuse for one side not to[have anything to] do with theother.

Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@stan-ford.edu.

The core is a really big timecommitment, said Jenna Wixon-Genack 12, a student advisor forthe HumBio department.

Boggs described the core morehumorously.

Its a serious bonding experi-ence,she said with a smile.

Despite the time commitment,many students find the core aworthwhile and rewarding experi-ence.

The core is a very wonderfullearning experience, one that I real-ly enjoyed and one that is somewhatunique in that it is a very well-con-structed learning experience, saidWixon-Genack. It can be a muchmore significant experience thantaking just one class.

The major grants students agreat deal of freedom.Students canchoose their own area of concentra-tion, which can cover many topicsincluding the environment and en-vironmental policy, biomedical sci-ence and brain and behavior.

It is so flexible by design, saidCristina Leos 13,who worked at theStanford Prevention Research Cen-ter last summer. You could have afocus on psychology or evolution oranthropology if you wanted to. Its abroad scope. It allows people fromdifferent backgrounds to find anarea that theyre interested in.

The final component of theHumBio major is perhaps the mostintriguing one: students are re-quired to participate in an intern-ship that relates to their area of con-centration. These internships com-bine classroom experience withpractical situations, a combinationthat can produce incredible experi-ences.

A couple of years ago I had an

advisee who was one of the three ac-credited members of the delegationto the UN from Tuvalu he wasable to watch UN security discus-sions in Iraq, Boggs said.Anotherstudent worked for a Colorado pro-fessional soccer team in the trainingroom.

Of course many students canalso choose to fulfill the internshiprequirement through more tradi-tional means, such as shadowing aphysician or working in a Stanfordlaboratory. Nevertheless, each stu-dent gains a unique experiencefrom his or her work.

Year after year, students contin-ue to declare HumBio as their majordespite the apparent rigor. Perhapsthe most compelling reason for theirdecisions is the sense of communityamong HumBio students.

People would much ratherwork together to achieve somethingrather than work against each otherseparately,Wixon-Genack said.

My [study] group would spendhours and hours and hours togeth-er, Leos added. Obviously it wasreally a tiring experience,but I had alot of fun doing it.

As the HumBio program wel-comes the 40th reunion of its firstgraduating class, current students,alumni and faculty gather to cele-brate. Of course, none of it would

have been possible without the ded-icated faculty, according to Wixon-Genack.

The professors and the peoplewho are involved in HumBio andhave made it what it is today havedone a great service to Stanford,she said.

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the figures are even larger, yetshowed evidence against the per-ception that the proportion ofyouth in the total population ishigher than in other regions aroundthe world.

Achcar moved from his exposi-tion on general conditions in theMENA region to identify cronycapitalism and despotism asroots of the 2011 movements.

The reason for all this . . . is thekind of capitalism that we find inthe region, which is crony capital-ism at its worst, he said.There islittle incentive for private capital toget into big or long-term invest-ment. Most of the kind of capital-ism you have is hit-and-run kind ofcapitalism.

Achcar indicated that countriesthat combine corruption and des-potism tend to have the strongestprotest movements. According toAchcar, the question to be asked,however,is not how the revolutionsoccurred but why they took so long,

given the regions conditions.This was no lightning in theblue sky or anything of the kind this was expected, he said. Ofcourse no one could have predictedthe form of it.

This form was largely shaped bysatellite television, namely AlJazeera,as well as social media.

Revolution in communicationtechnology is very much at the cen-ter of the way it spread . . . not thecause, but the way it spread, hesaid, describing the moniker Face-book revolutionas caricatural.

Achcar also favored the termrevolutionary processes overrevolutions.

I would call what is happeninga revolutionary process, emphasiz-ing process,he said. It really indi-

cates that we are going through a

process and it is far from finished.Achcar described the process as

uneven. He stated that Tunisiaand Egypt completed stage one,which consisted of toppling its for-mer rulers Ben Ali and HosniMubarak. The remnants of theirregimes however,remain.

The mass movement was ableto overthrow, topple the tip of theiceberg, he said. This is the cor-rect characterization, because itsonly the top of the iceberg theperson most closely representingthe despotic character. This hasbeen done while the regime in bothcountries is still there.

Achcer emphasized that al-though the protests across theMENA region share common rootsand features, differences betweenstates and societies have led andwill continue to lead to differencesin how the revolutionary processesunfold.

Certainly what started in De-cember 2010 in the Middle Eastand North Africa wont be stop-ping anytime soon . . . its a pro-tracted process . . . the outcome ofwhat we are seeing will be deter-mined by whoever comes to pre-vail, he said.

Professor of history Joel Beininmoderated the question and an-swer session following the lecture.

Attendees posed questionsabout geopolitical factors, implica-tions for Lebanon in wake of theArab Spring, the different ap-proach to reform in Morocco andJordan, the nature of democratictransformations, U.S. regional poli-cy, local workers movements, therelationship between capitalismand sovereignty and future scenar-ios for Syria.

The lecture was co-sponsored bythe Abbasi Program in IslamicStudies, CDDRL Program on ArabReform and Democracy and Stan-ford Humanities Center.

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believe the Boards creation is astep in the right direction.

There are many communitieson campus and we recognize thatnot everyone is represented on theboard, the CAB said in a jointstatement to The Daily. Thus westrive to work with existing re-sources that are already aimed atthe entire student body in hopes of

engaging as many students as possi-ble.The Community Board said that

its primary goals are to align andwork with existing resources oncampus, to streamline communica-tion between communities andtheir CAB representatives, to en-courage dialogue within the boardand across campus about the defini-tion of community, and to in-crease awareness about the differ-ent communities on campus.

According to Michael Cruz 12,ASSU President,the CAB has beenworking on cross-community ini-tiatives and projects within theircommunity.Cruz cited last weeksDisability Resource Fair as an ex-ample of one of the CABs initia-

tives, describing the event as agreat success. The CAB hopesthat through its projects and in-creased communication, the Boardwill foster greater understandingand tolerance within the largerStanford community.

Many members of the communi-ties represented on the board, wheninterviewed by The Daily, knew lit-tle of the boards purpose. Somewere unaware of the boards exis-tence.

I actually dont know anythingabout the ASSU Community Boardbesides the fact that it exists,since I

know the representative for theChristian community personally,said Josh Wong 14, a member of In-terVarsity Christian Fellowship. Iam not aware of any communica-tion yet between the board andChristian community members. Idoubt most community memberseven know about the board at all.

Macgregor-Dennis attributedthis apparent general lack of knowl-edge among students about theCAB to the fact that the board iscurrently working behind thescenes.He said he expects the boardto launch an outreach initiativesometime during winter quarter.

Contact Marianne LeVine atmlevine2@stanford.edu.

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By MARSHALL WATKINS

While the Sophomore Celebration hasbeen a tradition at Stanford for the past 12years,an increasing number of universi-ties across the nation are beginning tohold similar ceremonies for their sec-ond-year students in an effort tocombat the sophomore slump.

Sophomore slump is a phe-nomenon in which students intheir second year of collegestruggle academically com-pared to their freshman year.Nearly one quarter of allsophomore college studentsare affected by the slump, ac-cording to a study by highereducation professor LaurieSchreiner at Azusa PacificUniversity.

While opinion remains divid-

ed on the extent to which theslump phenomenon prevails atStanford, most sophomoresnoted a significant transitionbetween campus life in theirfreshman and sophomoreyears.

Sophomore slump is anactual thing because people gofrom their excited freshmandorms with open doors . . . tosophomore dorms or upper-class dorms, said Eric Yurko13.Youre with your friends,but so is everyone else.Theyrenot really super interested inmaking friends.

Sophomore Celebra-tion was the first event ina planned series of

sophomore-oriented oc-casions and was attendedby approximately half ofthe Class of 2014. Co-Presi-dent Dhruv Amin 14 notedthat this years sophomore class gov-ernment sought to expand the pro-gramming available to the Class of2014 in order to combat the slump.

According to Counseling and Psycho-logical Services (CAPS) director Dr.Ron Albuch-er, sophomore usage of university counseling servicesdoes increase compared to freshman year.However,Dr.Albucher indicated that this increase is not related to thesophomore slump, nor the transition between freshmanand sophomore year.

Academically too,the change can be abrupt.In partic-

ular, sophomores who may have pursued a

preconceived career trajectory throughouttheir time at university may begin to ques-tion their commitment to their chosensubject as the time to decide their majorapproaches,according to several academ-ic directors interviewed for this article.Kristin Black, Academic Director for

Toyon, Crothers and Branner, also notedthat since all parts of life [at Stanford] are

connected,academic and social problems alikecan spread to other parts of students lives.

One possibility as to why [sophomore slump]is occurring is that a large number of Stanford stu-

dents do an assortment of activities in high school thathave nothing to do with what they are actually interest-

ed in,so when they arrive, they may fall into a similar pat-tern until they realize Stanford is no longer high

school,said Michael Silverman 13.The student government has sought to

maintain and expand the academic sup-port system available to sophomores, of-

fering an Academic Advising Initiative topromote advisor interaction with seniors

as well as alumni mentoring pro-grams through the Career Devel-

opment Center. iDeclare week,scheduled for winter quarter, of-

fers extensive advice for sopho-mores on distinguishing betweenmajors, exploring their academicpreferences and then choosingand declaring a major.Students also noted the positive

aspects of sophomore year. KorenBakkegard, associate dean of un-

dergraduate advising and re-search, linked the increased

emphasis on class unity through the 2002 creation

of the Freshman DeansOffice and the intro-

duction of the Sopho-more Celebration to a stronger classspirit that is increas-ingly evident inalumni activity.

In my opinion, Ifeel like the sopho-

more slump is somethingthat affects people who dont make the effort to

meet other people, said Tyler Woods 14. Yes, workmay be harder and youre stressed with finding a majorand getting better grades, but I dont think peopleshould lose sight of the fact that other things matter incollege as well.

Contact Marshall Watkins at mtwatkins@stanford.edu.

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SWIMMING AND DIVING

Cardinal welcomes new Pac-12 foeBy GEORGE CHEN

Both the men and womensswimming and diving teams arecoming off impressive perform-ances this past weekend as theyprepare to swim against Utah atthe Avery Aquatic Center onThursday.The mens team won thetwo-day Pacific Invitational de-spite only attending the Saturday

session.Lots of credit goes to the fresh-man class freshman JonathanEdwards won three individual

events and classmates DavidNolan and Eric Peske were amongothers who displayed auspiciousearly-season speed.

The womens team dominatedtheir own two-day George HainesInvitational at home, winning 17out of the total 21 events. Sopho-more Andie Taylor led the way,picking up victories in both the200-meter free and 200-meter fly

by considerable margins.Utah,the newest member of thePac-12, finished fifth at both themen and womens Mountain West

Conference Championship lastseason. In comparison, the Cardi-nal mens and womens teams wonconference titles by sweeping thetougher 2011 Pac-10 Champi-onships. Utah will be the first Pac-12 team that the Cardinal swim-mers face.

We dont know too muchabout Utah because they just

joined the Pac-12, said freshman

Ethan Hallowell, a specialist insprint and mid-distance freestyleevents. But its good that werecompeting against them because

well see them down the road at thePac-12 Championships.

Given that the Pac-12 Champi-onships arent until February andthe NCAA Championship doesnttake place until March, early sea-son dual meets may not be theteams main concern.

Right now, were not too wor-ried about our racing times be-cause its still early in the season,

Hallowell added. Were mainlyfocusing on practices, and in that

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NO EASYREBOUNDAHEAD

By DAVID PEREZ

This weekend will be a change of pace for theStanford mens water polo team, which is comingoff its first loss of the conference season last week-end to UCLA and dropped out of the top spot inthe national rankings to number three.The Cardi-nal (9-3, 2-1 MPSF) opens up a long weekend onFriday night with a visit to Stockton Calif.,where itwill face No.6 Pacific.

It wont end there, however, as Stanford thenhas four more games over the weekend,all at SantaClara against teams from the East Coast on Sat-urday the Card faces Bucknell and Harvard, fol-lowed by Brown and Air Force on Sunday.

Stanford previously faced Pacific at the NorCalInvitational in the teams first weekend of the sea-son, knocking off the Tigers 9-8 in overtime. TheCardinals overtime win against Pacific was fol-lowed by losses to USC and California in the semi-finals and the third-place game, respectively

since then, Stanford has beaten both USC and Cal.Still, Pacific boasts a very formidable offense,

and Stanford should expect a tough game.They have one of the best 2-meters in the

country and some very good outside shooters,said redshirt junior driver Travis Noll in referenceto Balazs Erdelyi, who leads the team with 35goals and was last years MPSF Newcomer of the

By CHRISSY JONESSTAFF WRITER

The Stanford womens tennis team is al-ready back at work, kicking off its 2011-12campaign this month and rebounding froma heartbreaking loss to Florida in last yearsNCAA Championship match to start theyear on a good note.

This past weekend, sophomores Eliza-beth Ecker and Amelia Herring, freshmanEllen Tsay and senior Veronica Li repre-sented the Cardinal in the St. Marys Invita-tional. The headline of the weekend wasTsay, the sole freshman on the squad, whomade it all the way to the semifinal round ofthe tournament.

I had a great time because Im not usedto having teammates pump me up duringand in between my points,Tsay said of herfirst college tennis match. Just hearingHear we go, Card really boosted mymorale,especially in a tight match.

Tsay cruised through her first roundmatch, defeating Megan Heneghan of UC-Davis with ease,6-1,6-0.Her second matchwas closer, as she beat Saint Marys JadeFrampton 7-5, 6-2. Tsay won by default inthe quarterfinals, then dropped the first setagainst Saint Marys Jenny Julien 6-4 in thesemifinals, but came back ready to play inthe second set.

The entire match was up and down,Tsay said.I lost the first set, but in the sec-ond set,I felt I stepped up my game and con-trolled the court.

Tsay rallied from a 4-1 deficit to comeback and take the set 6-4.

[Julien] became more and more frus-trated in the second set,which allowed me toget back in it, she said.

It all reversed in the third set,though, as

Tsay fell 7-5 after leading 4-1.She regained her confidence and came

back to win,Tsay admitted.It was a greatexperience and could have gone either way.The main thing is, Ill learn from what Ifailed to do, namely closing out the match,and continue working on my game.

Ecker described the team atmospherethat Tsay highlighted as a big reason for hergood play this past weekend.

[Ellen] definitely adds a lot of characterand spunk to the team, Ecker said.Shesadjusting to college life and the independ-ence that comes with it, as each of us did, sothe teams a great source of support and mo-tivation for her.

Ecker and Herring were both defeated inthe first round of the tournament, and Limade the round of sixteen.The doubles duoof Herring and Tsay made the quarterfinalsbefore defaulting due to Herring sufferingan injury. Regardless of their own results,Tsays teammates were all impressed byhow their new freshman played.

She did such a great job staying calmand keeping her composure under pressurein the first match of her college career,Ecker said,and we are all so proud of her.

The weekend prior to St. Marys Invita-tional,the Cardinal sent junior Mallory Bur-dette, sophomore Nicole Gibbs and juniorStacey Tan to Pacific Palisades,Calif. to rep-resent the Cardinal in the ITA All-Ameri-can Championships. After losing her firstround singles match to Alabamas MaryAnne Macfarlane, Burdette flew throughfour consolation rounds to capture the con-solation title over Floridas Joanna Mather,6-1,6-2.

Burdette and Gibbs proved to be a for-

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Junior Travis Noll (above) and the mens water polo team suffered a tough loss to No. 3 UCLAlast week. With five games in three days starting Friday, things dont get any easier.

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Who shouldyou root for

now?

By the time you read thiscolumn, game one of theWorld Series will already

be in the books, butchances are you didnt

watch it anyway.In this non-coastal Fall Classic,plen-

ty of fans are going to tune out due tothe fact that the Yankees, Phillies andRed Sox are sitting at home drinkingbeer and eating fried chicken right now.And while those teams carry some ofthe biggest fan bases with them, theyalso inspire a lot of people to watchgames strictly to root against them.

Neither the Rangers nor the Cardi-nals inspire the same kind of hate re-served for those big-money teams, sowho should you,the fan with no root-ing interest,cheer for in this World Se-ries reserved for teams from states thatborder my home state of Arkansas?Ive provided a few reasons for eachteam just ahead.

Reasons to root for the Cardinals:1.Albert Pujols:He is the best play-

er in baseball, and he puts on a promfor kids with Down Syndrome everyyear.Theres no reason not to like thisfuture first-ballot Hall of Famer unlessyoure one of the teams that hes dom-inated over the years.

2. America:The Cardinals center-fielder is named Jon Jay, and if youknow your American history,youll re-call that John Jay was a signer of theDeclaration of Independence and thefirst Chief Justice of the SupremeCourt of the United States.Is this a ten-uous reason to root for a team? Yes.But Im willing to bet that its the rea-son why history professor JackRakove,a Cubs fan,will be rooting forthe Cardinals.

3.Jonah Keri:This writer for ESPNspinoff website Grantland has a littlecrush on the Rangers;as in,he will notstop writing about the Rangers.Why isthis a reason not to root for Texas? Be-cause if Texas wins,Keri will probablywant to write another book like hissloppy, boring tome on the rise of theTampa Bay Rays,The Extra Two Per-

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Sophomore Nicole Gibbs (above) and the Stanford womens tennis team are looking to improve onlast years NCAA runner-up finish. They kicked off their season across the Bay last weekend.

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The Stanford swimming and diving teams will introduce new Pac-12 member Utah to the conference this weekend,with both the Cardinal men and womens teams riding high after each team won its tournament last weekend.

respect, weve started out the sea-son really well.

Even with the emphasis on prac-tices, both the mens and womensteams are undefeated in dual meetsand invites so far this season. Themens team has dominated Cente-nary College, UC-Santa Cruz andHawaii in dual meet situations,while the womens team downedSan Jose State in a similar fashion.

As for diving, the mens team isloaded with freshmen talent and

upperclassmen experience. TheCardinal may have the top two na-tional recruits from last year in

freshmen Kristian Ipsen and Con-nor Kuremsky, who look to bestrong additions to the other fiveveteran divers.

The six women divers showequal promise with one freshmanand four upperclassmen. Sopho-more Stephanie Phipps, who quali-fied for last years NCAA Champi-onships in the 3-meter, has alreadywon three straight diving eventsthis season.The Utes are coming inwith only five divers total, so thenumbers are clearly in the Cardi-nals favor.

Like their swimming counter-

parts, the Cardinal divers are em-phasizing practice, particularly ac-curacy and consistency in routines.

Right now, were focusing ontraining muscle memory duringpractice,which involves repetitionsof simple activities done on land,Kuremsky said.[Head coach Rick]Schavone wants us to be able todive stupid by the end of season,meaning that we wont even have tothink about the dives as were exe-cuting them.

The Cardinal swimmers anddivers host Utah this Thursday at 1p.m.at Avery Aquatic Center.

Contact George Chen at gchen15@stanford.edu.

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SPORTS BRIEFS

Cardinal baseball releases 2012 schedule

The Stanford baseball team released its 2012schedule on Wednesday, posting a slate that featuresseries against nine teams that played in the CollegeWorld Series last season.

After a travel-intensive year in 2011 that includedthree straight road trips to start the season,the Cardi-nal has home series against Vanderbilt, Texas, Rice,

Arizona State and California,and doesnt have a sin-gle weekend series away from the West Coast.Expectations will be high for Stanford this season

after an appearance in the Super Regionals last year,the Cardinals first since 2008. After defeating CalState Fullerton,Illinois and Kansas State to advanceto the Supers,North Carolina swept the Cardinal in abest-of-three series to end the season.

Stanford returns its top nine hitters from last sea-son and boasts three potential first-round draft picksin juniors Mark Appel, Stephen Piscotty and KennyDiekroeger.

The Cardinal also returns junior Tyler Gaffney,who is carrying a 22-game hit streak into 2012, thelongest for a Stanford player since 1988, and sopho-more Brian Ragira,who was last years Pac-10 Fresh-man of the Year.

On the mound, Stanford will have to answer forthe loss of closer Chris Reed, who was a first-roundpick of the Los Angeles Dodgers in June,as well as thedepartures of starters Jordan Pries and Danny Sand-

brink and bullpen mainstay Scott Snodgress. Seniorlefthander Brett Mooneyham will return to the line-up after missing all of the 2011 season with a hand in-

jury.Stanford baseball will embark on the 2012 season

starting Friday, Feb. 17 with a three-game seriesagainst Vanderbilt.

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Junior righthander Mark Appel (above) and the Stanford baseball team face a tough 2012 schedule that includes series against nineteams that played in last years College World Series. The Cardinal opens the season on Feb. 17, 2012 against Vanderbilt.

midable pair as they won fivestraight matches as a doubles teamto seize the doubles championshipover Floridas Allie Will and SofieOyen,6-2,7-6 (2).

This coming weekend, StanfordWomens tennis will have the op-portunity to demonstrate its domi-nance in the ITA Northwest Re-gional Championships here on theFarm.All healthy Cardinal playerswill be showcasing their talents ontheir home courts.Tsay in particularis excited to play on her turf for thefirst time and hopes to use herstrengths to her advantage.

I try to come into net a lot dur-ing the point to finish it off,and I likemoving forward in general, shesaid. I think I have a good court

sense that allows me to work thepoint and move my opponentaround, something I intend ondoing this weekend.I really want toincrease my first serve percentageand hit even more aggressivelyagainst my opponents.

Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj@stanford.edu.

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Year as a freshman.The rest of the weekend will

provide a different kind of test for

the Cardinal.Games against teamsfrom the other side of the countryare generally rare for Stanfordsince the top collegiate water poloteams are concentrated on theWest Coast.

In fact, no team from the EastCoast has ever made it to the cham-pionship game of the NCAA Tour-nament,and in its only other gameagainst an East Coast team thisyear, Stanford knocked off No. 16Princeton in a 14-3 landslide.

With that said, playing fivegames in a weekend is sure to begrueling.The players seem up to thetask,though.

We have been grinding in prac-tice the last couple of weeks, and Ithink everyone is in peak conditionto play optimally this weekend,

Noll said.Bucknell is the highest ranked

among the four eastern teams at No.15, but each team would love tospring a big upset to define theirseason.

One factor that will be an advan-tage for Stanford is the tremendousdepth of this years squad.The Car-dinal has routinely used a rotationof 12 or 13 players this year,and thisweekend might be a chance to ex-pand that even more.

Assuming we take care of busi-ness early on in the game,it might bea good chance for other players toget some good playing time, Nollsaid.

But Stanford is not letting itselflook too far ahead into the week-

end.We are concentrating on thefirst game in practice all week,Nollsaid. Because that is a conferencegame, but we dont want to getahead of ourselves.

The two key Stanford players tolook at in that game will be fresh-man utility Alex Bowen and juniortwo-meter Forrest Watkins.

Bowen is the Cardinals leadingscorer this season, and as if that wasnot enough for him to draw a lot ofattention from the Tigers, he also

scored five goals against them intheir previous meeting.

Still, if you ask any of the playerson this team, it is not their offensethey have to worry about.

The reason for our losses havebeen defensive breakdowns,not be-cause of our offense, said Noll.

Because of this, Watkins contri-

butions may be even more impor-tant to the outcome of the game.Heis Stanfords top 2-meter defender,which means he will be pittedagainst Pacifics All-American jun-ior center Goran Tomasevic formost of the contest.

The Cardinal starts its weekendat Pacific on Friday at 3 p.m., thenreturns to the Bay Area to take onBucknell and Harvard on Saturday.The weekend concludes withmatches against Brown and AirForce on Sunday.

Contact David Perez at davidp3@stanford.edu.

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cent:How Wall Street Strategies Tooka Major League Baseball Team fromWorst to First.If youre a fan of well-

written books, you should probablyroot for the Cards.4.Cardinal:Because if you have to

pick a reason,OMG we are the samecolor almost is probably as good asany other.

Reasons to root for the Rangers:1. Partying: Ron Washington and

Josh Hamilton have both dabbled withsome special substances in the past,and anyone who likes to throw down alittle bit should definitely feel a connec-tion to the kindred spirits wearing red,white and blue.

2. Diversity: The Rangers haveplayers from Japan,Cuba,the Domini-can Republic, Venezuela and Missis-

sippi.Hooray for tolerance!3. Tony La Russa: Dont like

PETA? La Russa was nominated forPETAs Sexiest Vegetarian in 2007.Dont like drunk driving? La Russawas arrested for DUI back in 2007(apparently that was a bad year forhim).Against Arizonas SB 1070 bill?Tony expressed support for the bill

back in 2010.Dont like communica-ble disease? La Russa contracted shin-gles in 2011. Do yourself a favor anddo not Google image search Tony LaRussa shingles.Hes also a whiner.Allcompelling reasons to root for theRangers,right?

4.The Underdog factor:The Car-dinals have won 10 World Series al-ready.Thats the second-most in base-ball history behind the Yankees.Theyre an established franchise.They have real, time-honored rival-ries.So far,the Rangers are mostly fa-mous for dumping tons of money intoroided out dudes like Alex Ro-driguez, Jose Canseco, Rafael

Palmiero and Sammy Sosa. Theyvecome from being one of the bottom-dweller of the American League to aback-to-back AL champ. Dont jumpon the Cardinals bandwagon. TheRangers deserve your love.

So there you have it,four reasons toconsider supporting each of theseteams, with some being helpful and

some being not so helpful.If Ive failedto sway you towards either side,I en-courage you to tune in anyhowbaseball is the best way to pass theweek between football games.And allyou Yankees, Sox, Giants and Philsfans,just remember:only 116 days untilSpring Training!

Jack Blanchat hopes youre impressedwith his efforts at fairness and politicalcorrectness. As a big-time Rangers

fan, it took every ounce of his inner southern gentleman. Get ready for game two at blanchat@stanford.eduor follow him on Twitter@jmblanchat.

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