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The Stanford DailyPA Council

halts bike plan

Index Features/3 Opinions/4 Sports/5 Classifieds/6 Recycle Me

Proposal aims to grow bike network

By JORDAN SHAPIRO

A plan to expand Palo Altospedestrian and bicycle networkremains on hold despite overallpositive reception by the CityCouncil and community mem-bers.The City Council voted Nov.7 to send the Bicycle and Pedestri-an Transportation Plan back tocity staff for further revisions.Thelast plan addressing bicycle trans-portation in the city was in 2003.Community members respondedwith excitement to the newest ini-

tiative when its sponsors releasedan initial draft in July.The City of Palo Alto Bicycle

and Pedestrian Plan would repairbike paths around the city and cre-ate bike boulevards, new lanes toclear congestion with pedestrians.The plan also lays out details formaking intersections, curbs, side-walks and parking spaces morebiker-friendly.

Palo Alto has invested a lot oftime and effort in biking, saidPalo Alto Councilman GregSchmid. I think our bike usageboth for pleasure trips and for get-ting to work has increased dramat-ically over the last 10 years,and thebike plan helps set up a network ofpathways.

Schmid said he believes that

the community widely supportsthe new bike initiative and isproud of the collaborative effort itinvolved.According to Schmid,re-visions to the Bicycle and Pedes-trian Plan should include a morecomprehensive summary and in-clusion of several small changesthat the City Council brought for-ward in discussion.

It came to us a few weeksago, said Councilwoman GailPrice. We felt that there neededto be a little more discussion ofsome of the more innovative rec-ommendations, recognizing that[for] some of the proposals thereneeds to be. . . precautionary lan-guage or some caveats that indi-cate . . . additional work is neededon some of these areas.

As Price understands it, shesaid, the Bicycle and PedestrianPlan needs slight refinementsand enhancements.The fine-tun-ing required is mainly a result ofconcerns raised at the public hear-ing on Nov.7.

The big obstacle is makingsure that we have funding that canpay for some of our more ambi-tious activities,Schmid said.Partof the funding has to come from

our own sources,but we also wantto make sure that were wellplaced to go for . . . regional, stateand national funding alterna-tives.

Schmid noted that Stanfordhas made significant effort in pro-viding alternatives to driving.PaloAlto will face the challenge of in-tegrating its changes with the bikepaths on Stanfords campus, butSchmid said he looks forward tothe collaborative effort.

The other part of an ambi-tious plan like this is the questionof being able to secure resourcesand funding in order to implementall of the items in this plan, Pricesaid.She added that the developeragreement of the Stanford Hospi-tal expansion may be a possible

source for some funds for the ini-tiative.The Bicycle and Pedestrian

Plan would prove financially tax-ing to the city, calling for $642,720per typical mile of Class 1 SharedUse Path, $42,600 per mile ofClass 2 Bike Lanes and $115,100per mile of Enhanced Bike Lanes,among other expenditures.

The report for the Bicycle andPedestrian Plan assesses eachfacet of its proposal against the2003 plans criteria of safety,con-nectivity and special circum-stances, as well as the five Isevaluation framework of inte-gration, inclusion, innovation, in-vestment and institutional part-nerships. If the plan passes afterrevisions, the city will make grad-

ual changes based on which initia-tives are understood to be themost necessary based on these cri-teria.

I would hope that the com-munity would be supportive ofour effort as a city to find fundingfor some of these recommenda-tions, Price said.And also in anideal situation it would be nice to

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Community Action Chair resignsBy KURT CHIRBAS

ASSU President Michael Cruz 12recently took over the position ofChair of the Community ActionBoard (CAB), replacing AracelyMondragon 13, who stepped downfrom the post in mid-October for per-sonal reasons unrelated to her workon the Board.Cruz said the split wasamicable.

Mondragon declined to commenton the issue,citing the personal natureof the resignation.

While it is a loss, we still have astrong group of leaders . . . who areworking as a whole to make up thoseshoes,Cruz said.

The ASSU Executive formed theCommunity Action Board duringspring quarter of the last academicyear with the intention of creating abody that would foster further cele-bration of the culture of diversity andidentity that already exists [at Stan-ford], according to Cruz.The Boardfeatures representatives from 23 dif-ferent on-campus communities and, more informally, members of theASSU Undergraduate Senate Advo-cacy Committee.

According to Cruz, the Executiveteam thought it would be a naturalfit for him to become the Boardschair since he had worked closely withMondragon prior to her resignation.

Cruz noted that the Board was a com-ponent of his campaign platform withASSU Vice President Stewart Mac-gregor-Dennis 13, and that he re-mains particularly passionate aboutthe project.Cruz said the Board is oneof the Executives top priorities for theyear.

The Board took a temporary hiatusfollowing Mondragons resignation.Itresumed its work on Monday, Nov. 14during its normal biweekly meeting.

I took a little bit of time to regroupher notes and transition,Cruz said.Ihad been mostly focusing on vision . . .so it took a little bit of time to transi-

By NEEL THAKKAR

Faculty and students involved withStanford Law Schools Three StrikesProject have drafted a ballot initiativethat would revise Californias contro-versial Three Strikes Law.Pending ap-proval by the Office of the State At-torney General and the collection of500,000 signatures, the proposalwould appear on the state ballot in2012.

Under the 17-year-old law,personsconvicted of felonies can be sentencedto up to 25 years of life in prison if theyhave been previously convicted oftwo serious or violent felonies.

According to Michael Romano,the director of the Three Strikes Pro-ject, the law has sentenced people tolife imprisonment for relatively smallcrimes, such as drug possession orpetty theft.

That is not a way to run a state or

a criminal justice policy, Romanosaid.A life sentence for petty theft ordrug possession is excessive.

Though the Three Strikes Projectsusual work is to argue on behalf ofclients given third strikes for non-seri-ous,non-violent crimes,it began workon the ballot initiative about a yearago after being approached by theNAACP Legal Defense Fund.

The initiative would restrict appli-cation of the third strike to serious orviolent felonies only, which Romanosaid is meant to restore the law to itsoriginal intent.

If the initiative passes,over 3,000 ofthe roughly 8,800 inmates currently jailed for third-strike offenses couldgo back to court for a new sentence,according to Malaina Freedman,a lawstudent who works with Romano.

Californias Three Strikes Law waspassed in 1994,partly in reaction to astring of gruesome murders commit-ted by ex-felons.California is one of 24

By JULIA ENTHOVEN

The Office of Alcohol Policy andEducation (OAPE) piloted a newprogram called Say SomethingMonday night,in an effort to encour-age students to intervene when theirpeers engage in dangerous and nega-tive behaviors associated with alco-hol and drugs.

What we are trying to do is justchallenge a culture of by-standing by

getting people to just act,said RalphCastro, director of the OAPE.It is avery simple concept.

The office, which the Office of theVice Provost for Student Affairsfounded this September in responseto growing concerns about alcoholpoisoning and binge drinking amongstudents, adapted the program frommaterials developed by the Universi-ty of Pennsylvania.

The presentation focused on em-powering students to recognize whena friends behavior moves past occa-sional bad nightsto a serious prob-lem that needs to be addressed, aswell as giving students strategies tointervene in harmful situations.

With sections titled What toLook For, What to Say andWhere to Go, the program encour-

aged attendees to speak up as part ofa larger intervention. It also empha-sized the importance of individualresponsibility toward helpingstrangers and best friends alike.

We all have these great capes,Superman and woman capes . . .hanging up in our closet, Castrosaid. What were saying is less Su-perman and more Clark Kent. Wewant you to be there in the beginningas Clark Kent and intervene. Youdont have to turn into Supermanevery night. Thats what were goingfor . . . by giving people a presenta-tion and saying Hey, this is onestep.

The presenters reminded stu-dents that of the 64 students whowere taken to the hospital last yearfor alcohol poisoning, not a singleone reported a friend saying some-thing to them about their alcoholconsumption. Every one of them,however, wished that someone had.

In contrast with AlcoholEdu, theonline module that all freshmenmust complete before coming toStanford, Say Something has beenadapted specifically for Stanford and

is arranged by campus leaders.Mark Duarte 14, who attended

the pilot with his fraternity KappaSigma, said that the program wasmore personal and more relat-able because it was very cognizantof issues specific to Stanford.

Say Something also focuses solelyon information about how peers canhelp each other, while AlcoholEdueducates students on how they cankeep themselves from dangerous orharmful situations.

Made up of all males and mostlymembers of the Greek community,the student audience responded pos-itively to the presentation.

I definitely thought it was valu-able, Stuart Upfill-Brown 13 said.

I thought it was more complete,Duarte said.It kind of tied all the is-sues [together].

Jarreau Bowen 07, assistant di-

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Strikes project adopts new goal

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Jarreau Bowen 07 spoke Monday at Say Something, an alcohol safetytraining program organized by the Office of Alcohol Policy and Education. Theentirely male audience included several members of Greek organizations.

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Occupy Meyer

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Students gathered Monday as part of a new effort to "Occupy Meyer" Library. Publicity emails invited communi-ty members to study in solidarity and discuss the Occupy movement in Meyer, which remains open 24 hours.

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STUDENT LIFE

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Ballot initiative aims

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NEWS BRIEF

Researchers use cell

transformation to

understand autism

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

A team of Stanford researchers

was recently able to transform skincells from individuals with a rareautism-linked condition known asTimothy syndrome into full-fledgedbrain cells,presenting another look atpotential genetic precursors of autism.

Timothy syndrome is exceedinglyrare an estimated 20 peoplearound the world have it but be-cause it is controlled by a single genedefect,it may aid scientists in identify-ing the developmental abnormalitiesin children with autism. Individualswith Timothy syndrome display simi-lar developmental and communica-tion problems to those with autism.

The Stanford team, led by post-doctoral research fellow in neurobi-ology Sergiu Pasca and associate pro-fessor of neurobiology Ricardo Dol-metsch, published its findings online

in Nature Medicine.Compared with skin cell samples

taken from healthy patients, thosetaken from Timothy syndrome pa-tients grew into a different propor-tion of brain cell subtypes, lackingcells active in the corpus callosum, apart of the brain that facilitates com-munication between the two hemi-spheres. The cells also produced toomuch of a chemical that makes theneurotransmitters dopamine andnorepinephrine,which aid in sensoryprocessing and social behavior.

The findings substantiate those ofother studies that have claimed thatautism stems from poor communica-tion between parts of the brain.How-ever,the National Autism Society andresearchers themselves cautioned

against generalizing the findings to allforms of autism,as Timothy syndromeonly covers a subset of patients.

Ellora Israni

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Lofgren discusses immigration,DREAM ActBy EDWARD NGAI

U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lof-gren 70 kicked off AmericanDream Week with a speech Mon-day evening, calling the currentAmerican immigration system un-believably unfair and criticizingboth Republican legislators and theObama administration.

As part of a weeklong series ofevents sponsored by several stu-dents groups,Rep.Lofgren,D-Calif.,the ranking Democrat on the HouseSubcommittee on Immigration, dis-cussed what she described as theshortcomings of American immigra-tion policy, expressed dim hopes forbipartisan compromise on immigra-tion legislation before the 2012 elec-tion and shared harsh words for herRepublican colleagues in Congresswho have opposed Democrat-led ef-forts at such legislation.

The event,entitled The Califor-nia DREAM Act Passed, NowWhat? centered on the prospects

for a federal version of the DREAMAct, a bill that would provide condi-tional permanent residency to cer-tain illegal immigrants who came tothe United States as minors.Incarna-tions of the bill have been debated inCongress for a decade,with the mostrecent rejected by the Senate in Dec.2010 after passing the House.

[Passing the DREAM Act in the

House] was one of the most mean-ingful moments Ive had, Lofgrensaid. Our galleries were filled with[students who would have benefitedfrom the DREAM Act], and it wasreally thrilling to see . . . these youngpeople explode into applause.

Expressing tremendous disap-pointment that the Senate was un-able to reach the 60-vote thresholdto advance the bill, Lofgren addedthat the DREAM Acts future isbleak in the current Congress.

If [the act] was a problem then,its even worse today with Republi-cans in charge of the House, shesaid.There is not a chance that I seethat the DREAM Act will be takenup.

According to Lofgren, this dark-ens even the smallest glimmers ofhope for comprehensive immigra-tion reform in the near future.

If we cant get the DREAM Actthrough, the prospects for compre-hensive reform . . . in this Congressis very, very slim, she said.

Lofgren said she blames a lack ofbipartisanship for inaction on illegalimmigration.

Originally the DREAM Actwas a bipartisan bill. It was ChrisCannon, a Republican from Utah,and Howard Berman, Democrat ofsouthern California, who put [thebill] together with very even,biparti-san sponsorship [in 2003], she said.

That was probably the last time wesaw any bipartisanship on [immigra-tion.]

In particular, Lofgren had harshwords for legislators who have so farrejected attempts to change the sta-tus quo on illegal immigration, de-

spite neither partys satisfaction withtodays policies.

Sometimes my colleagues saytheyre not against immigration, justagainst illegal immigration, shesaid.But if you look at many of theindividuals who say that,in fact theywork very hard to make it almost im-possible to legally immigrate to theUnited States. Its not a line that Ibuy.

Lofgren also criticized PresidentBarack Obamas handling of illegalimmigrants.

I support President Obamas re-election, but I think stepping on thegas pedal [enforcing] a system thatalmost everybody acknowledges isbroken is . . . not the smartest, shesaid. [This administration] has de-

ported over a million people so far,actually [exceeding] the deporta-tions of the two terms of the Bushadministration.

Lofgren maintained that thereare opportunities for progress on thetopic of immigration,which has beenemotional and controversial on bothsides of the aisle.

In the [last sitting of] Congress,

myself and a couple other Democra-tic members decided that we shouldhave secret meetings with Republi-cans on immigration,she said.Andwe had . . . over 100 hours of meet-ings,and after over a year we drafteda bill and watermarked it so nobody

could leak it.But the same political factors that

stopped the progress of that bill stillexist today,Lofgren said.

Right now [Republicans] areafraid of primary fights, she said.

Lofgren encouraged audiencemembers to assess their own partici-pation in the debate concerning im-migration.

I have a role in that, but all ofyou do as well,she said.

Ireri Hernandez 15,an organizerof the event,said she agrees.

I feel that informing people isthe first step to getting anythingdone,Hernandez said.This week isabout informing people in gettingthem to ask questions.It may not bereally relevant to them [personally],

but it is relevant to their country.The hope isnt lost, RafaelVazquez 12, ASSU Senate Chairand an organizer of AmericanDream Week added. [We] do nowhave tangible steps . . . to see some-thing like the DREAM Act passed.

Contact Edward Ngai at edngai@stanford.edu.

states with similar laws,but is widelyregarded as the harshest non-capitalsentencing lawin the nation,accord-

ing to Romano.Still, the original law retains some

staunch supporters. Mike Reynoldshelped draft it after his daughter Kim-ber was murdered in 1992.

According to Reynolds, the statesaw a 37 percent drop in crime in thefirst four years after the law was im-plemented. He said he also believesthe law has helped contribute to a 40-year low in crime rates.

While all states have seen drops,Reynolds said,none have as much asin California.

Although the proposed revisionwould not affect third-strikers jailedfor serious or violent crimes,Reynolds said he believes letting anycareer criminalsout of jail would bedisastrous.

If criminals are on the street,es-pecially repeat offenders, what arethey going to be doing?he asked.

The debate over the Three StrikesLaw is part of a larger debate over thefuture of Californias prison system.

Last May, the Supreme Courtruled in a 5-4 decision that the statesprisons were overcrowded enough toconstitute cruel and unusual punish-ment.At one point, the prison popu-lation was at 156,000 almost dou-ble the systems capacity.

As a result,California has begun acomplicated process called realign-ment, in which it will move tens ofthousands of prisoners deemed low-risk to county jails. Inmates will alsobe given the opportunity to serve onlyhalf their sentence if they behavewell, as opposed to the former two-

thirds requirement.Reynolds said he believes thecombination of the realignment pro-gram and a reformed Three StrikesLaw would be overload, and hardfor the public to swallow.

However, Romano noted that astudy by the California Departmentof Corrections found that third-strik-ers jailed for non-serious,non-violentcrimes were the least dangerous in-

mates. Giving them a way out of jailwould leave more room for higher-risk inmates,Romano said.

There have been past efforts at re-forming the law, the most notable ofwhich came in 2004.

That attempt,Proposition 66, wasmuch more ambitious altering thesecond and third strike and redefining

burglary and received no supportfrom prominent law enforcement of-ficers or elected officials.The measurefailed by a substantial margin.

Calling the 2004 effort not well-conceived, Romano said the Stan-ford teams approach is much sim-pler.

He said he expects significant sup-port from law enforcement and elect-ed officials in the coming months,al-though there have not been any suchannouncements so far.

An independent poll conducted inJune found that 74 percent of regis-tered voters also agree with alteringthe Three Strikes Law.

But such support is tenuous. The2004 proposition also enjoyed sup-port from a healthy majority of voters

until the last month of campaigning,when it sank under attacks from dis-trict attorneys and elected officials.

Reynolds said he believes the votewill essentially be a referendum onthe success of the Three Strikes Law.

Laws come and laws go,he said.The question is which ones work andwhich ones dont.

Contact Neel Thakkar at nthakkar@stanford.edu.

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see more individuals walking and

biking and taking advantage of theresources that we have and the onesthat are to come.

Palo Alto Planning Director Cur-tis Williams said he believes city staffwill likely bring a revised version ofthe plan before the City Council byFebruary.

Contact Jordan Shapiro at jordansh@stanford.edu.

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tion to including the implementationsteps of that as well.

Dane Bratz 13, who represents

the interfraternal Greek communityon the Board,agreed.

We were kind of in flux untilnow,Bratz said.Weve kind of gotback started on what we were doing,and were going to really approachthe issues more in the winter andspring quarters.

The Board has recently refined itsgoals for the upcoming year, choos-ing to focus its attention on threemain projects, according to Cruz.These include collaborating withTommy Lee Woon,director of diver-sity and first-generation programs,on a series of race and identity talks;working with Residential Educationon the development of its new springquarter course for Resident Assis-tants (RAs);and holding an all-cam-pus event to celebrate diversity in the

spring,during which the Board plansto present and publish a student re-port on diversity.

Cruz said the Board has also re-cently engaged in conversations withthe Stanford Department of PublicSafety (DPS), hoping to establish aforum that would strengthen the re-lationship between the student body

and the police. He said this has be-come the fourth project the Boardhopes to have completed by the endof the year.

In alignment with its first goal,theBoard has entered into discussionswith Woon and plans to launch a di-versity ally program at the begin-ning of winter quarter,Cruz said.The

focus of this project will be exploringhow someone can be an ally to acommunity that he or she does notidentify with, according to Cruz.Hegave the example that while he iden-tifies as Filipino, the program mayexplore how he could support theNative American community.

Cruz said the Board has also start-ed to talk with Dean of ResidentialEducation Deborah Golder andother ResEd administrators aboutthe spring RA course, hoping to in-corporate issues about diversity andidentity into its curriculum.

The campus really sees RAs as abastion of Stanford culture, Cruzsaid. RA training has historicallybeen viewed as a way to really makean effect on Stanford culture in a pos-itive way.

Bratz said many of the Boardmembers have provided input onhow issues affecting their communi-ty could be represented in the RAcourse.For instance,as the represen-tative for the interfraternal commu-nity, Bratz said he might examinehow the course could address resi-dents interactions with social events

thrown at Greek houses.The Board is still working on how

the data will be collected for the stu-dent report on diversity,according toCruz.He said the report may consistof a mixture of polls,numerical data,information about current policiesand the stories of individual commu-nity members. Students prepared a

similar report in the 1990s,accordingto Cruz.

The report will be presented inthe spring during the Stanford Show-case, an all-campus event being or-ganized by several student groups.

Because of the leadership transi-tion change,the Board hasnt accom-plished that much thus far, Bratzsaid. Im really excited thoughabout getting to work on these initia-tives during the spring and winterquarters.I think over those two quar-ters, we can really accomplish theconcrete set of goals that weve setforth, and I think those by them-

selves will hopefully make a differ-ence on the campus.

According to Bratz, the Boardcan be deemed successful at the endof the year if it follows through on thethree projects it has planned for it-self. He said he hopes that if theBoard delivers on those projects, itcould become a permanent fixture in

campus life.This is a unique thing that hasnt

happened with the ASSU ExecutiveBoard before, Bratz said.Wed re-ally like to set up a foundation forhaving a body like this, so in the fu-ture, it could maybe do even moreambitious things than what we arecontemplating right now.

Other representatives on theBoard The Daily contacted eitherdid not respond or declined to com-ment.

Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas@stanford.edu.

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n every country I have visit-ed thus far,I have always ex-perienced a moment of disil-lusionment, when I realize

that my wondrous destina-tion is also affected by hardshipsand inequality. In Spain,I was surethat this moment would comewhile watching the 5 million-strong protests on unemployment.To put those into perspective,Spains population is only slightlylarger than Californias. It has thehighest unemployment rate of anyindustrialized country.

I imagined that I would see asmall sect of protesters workingagainst the government and alarger number of citizens whowould disagree with their claims.

Then, on Oct.15, I walked outmy door to Gran Via, the largeststreet in Madrid, planning to goon a peaceful run. Instead, I ran

into a seemingly endless streamof protesters who had closeddown the road and migrated to-ward the Plaza del Sol.Signs wereheld high, people played instru-ments and danced among the dis-

content.Yet it wasnt angry. It wasabout positive sentimientos, toshow what was wanted,but not todwell on the wrong.

In Spain, the protests are notnew. They have gone on heresince May 15. For months, thou-sands of protestors camped out inPlaza del Sol, crowding the streetsto such a degree that they becameimpossible to traverse.

In addition to this particularmovement, protests have beenconducted against cuts to publiceducation.Whole families, includ-ing babies in strollers,wore greenT-shirts reading Escuela publica:de todas para todas (Publicschool:of all for all).

These protests are not consid-ered fringe movements and areembraced by the majority ofSpaniards.

Like everywhere else, thereare things that must be fixed.Butmy love of this country has notwavered, and I cant imagine abetter educational experience.

Kara Murray

By SHIRLEY YARIN

Stanford is a wired university, withWi-Fi accessible almost anywhereon campus, computers in the lob-bies of many buildings and smart-phones commonly in students

pockets. Information related to social net-working and schoolwork alike flows con-stantly back and forth from the cloud.Have the lines between real life and virtualreality blurred?

Matt Ivester MBA 12, who at age 23founded the social network website Juicy-Campus.com, thinks these two worlds havebecome one. With the tag line AlwaysAnonymous,Always Juicy,the site he found-ed became so controversial that it was bannedfrom several college campuses and investigat-ed by two attorneys general. However,its ef-fects show how powerful anonymity on theWeb can be.

Anonymity has the effect of magnifyingthe ego and putting fewer filters on what wedo, said communication professor DavidVoelker Ph.D.94.

In retrospect, Ivester said that theanonymity JuicyCampus.com offered con-tributed to both the success and the eventu-al downfall of the company.

Now 28 years old and in his second year at

the Graduate School of Business,Ivester usedhis experience with JuicyCampus.com asbackground for his book lol...OMG! pub-lished Oct.10, which advises college studentson how to maintain their online reputations.Ivester suggests in his book that studentsshould frequently Google search their name,set their profiles on private and cross-linkpositive content so it appears at the top ofsearch engine results.

In person, Ivester stressed the need tomake a good impression online because, hesaid, the Internet is now like a permanentrecord.While he agreed that college is a timeto try new things on the road to self-discovery,in his book he warns students about the ad-verse consequences of publishing these mo-ments online. Because first impressions areoften made online,he said,it is crucial to man-age ones digital reputation.

People often take the shortcut way of get-ting to know someone by just looking throughthe bullet points of their life on Facebook,Ivester said.

As a result of the primacy effect, wherepeople adhere to their first impressions, aquick glance at someones Facebook profilecan have long-lasting consequences.Accord-ing to Ivester, college admissions, tenant se-lection and online dating further intensify thepressure to maintain a clean online image.Job

applicants, he said, are evaluated online aswell as on paper: career development centersoften analyze potential employees Internetactivity and notify employers of possibleproblems relating to discrimination,violenceor drug abuse.

Despite the lack of online privacy and thedangers associated with social media, Ivesteremphasized the need to maintain a strong on-line presence, arguing that it provides effi-cient long-distance communication and al-lows users to create their own digital image.

And in any case, some,like Voelker, thinkthat the nature of privacy itself is changing asa result of technological transformations.

Digital citizenship,or the concept of par-ticipating in societal debates via information

technology, has also gained importance be-cause,according to computer science profes-sor Eric Roberts, the Internet cannot be cen-sored because that might be a violation of theFirst Amendment and would be difficult toimplement.

With such a high flow of unrestricted dataon the Internet, Ivester hopes to change be-haviors by giving people the information theyneed to make the right decisions and be re-sponsible, especially here on the Farm.

Stanford has the opportunity to take aleadership role in the national higher educa-tion scene regarding the challenges of digitalcitizenship,he said.

Contact Shirley Yarin at syarin@stanford.edu.

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A PEACEFUL PROTEST

OCCUPYABROAD

PROFILE

Tackling the digital worldsblurred boundaries

Courtesy of Matt Ivester

All photos courtesy of Erika Alvero Koski

At 3 p.m.one Sunday afternoon,as our lit-tle Stanford contingent clustered togeth-er outside the OK Market, the PlazaItalia and streets surrounding the Baque-dano statue swarmed with a festively-

garbed crowd of all ages,milling about and gatheringon the street to form a line. Vendors hawked theirwares,selling banners with the words La educacines un derecho (Education is a right) spanning thered,white and blue of the Chilean flag.Other aspir-ing entrepreneurs took advantage of the scorchinghot sun beating down on the marchers and were sell-

ing ice cream andjugo natural(fresh fruit juice).HadI not known that it was a student march, I wouldhave mistaken the gathering crowd as one for a con-cert or a soccer game.

The relaxed chatter of the participants marked astark contrast to the unauthorized protest I had seenbefore,with carabinero (Chilean police officer) tanksrunning through the crowds and scattering the protes-tors with spurts of water and tear gas.In that protestthere was a clear division between the student protes-

tors,who were there to protest against the educationsystem, and the rabble-rousers, who were there justfor the thrill of the protest,playing tag, throwing paintat the carabineros tanks and breaking street lamps.

This time it was instead an exciting Sunday after-noon family activity. Protestors chanted,Y va a caerla educacin de Pinochet(Down with the educationof Augusto Pinochet,who was president from 1973-1989). Many elderly marchers carried signs readingLos abuelos apoyamos a nuestros nietos (Grand-parents support our grandchildren),and further sup-port arrived later, as the protestors path woundunder apartment buildings. Residents from abovesprinkled water over the sweating marchers downbelow, some actually pulling out shower heads andhoses to cheers of agua(water) from the street.

The protest culminated at Parque Almagro,wherestudent activists gave enthusiastic speeches andartists played cumbia, a type of Latin Americanmusic,to a wildly dancing audience.

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I M DO N E W I T H MY LIF E

Can you see it? The light at theend of the tunnel,AKA winterbreak, AKA the end of finals

and our first chance to breathe thatwonderful sigh of relief that comeswith closing out one of the more hec-tic quarters of the year. I can, and Ihave never been more thankful toflip to the final month in my calen-dar,December.

I wanted to make a grand analo-gy about how we have reached theend of a long journey,which has beena long time coming.But lets be realhere, this upcoming break is just abreak.More or less a rest stop on theroad of life,if I want to get metaphor-

ical with it.Scary thought,huh? Herewe are,limping to the finish line,onlyto be told the race is not over yet.Ohno, buddy. Some of the fun hasnteven started.

Someone once asked me what Ithought about the conundrum ofstudents being afraid to voice thestress and strain they feel, trying totake on the world without lettinganyone see them sweat.To me, thatwas a pretty accurate description of cue dramatic music TheDuck Syndrome. The Duck Syn-drome (which will henceforth be af-fectionately called TDS) is the ideathat we are all ducks, looking cool,calm and collected on the surface,but underneath our little feet arepaddling like crazy to keep us afloat.

No duck wants to admit to anotherduck how much of a struggle it is tokeep his or her head above water,even though every other duck is inthe same position.TDS is somethingthats not unique to Stanford,but itsdefinitely ubiquitous.

Im pretty sure revealing yourweakness to the public goes againstrule #1 in The Art of War play-book, but saying nothing could beeven more damaging. If we keeppaddling, what happens when weretoo tired to go on? No one wants tosee a ducks heart give out.Thats notcute. And what does a ducks heartfailure look like? Well, it comes in avariety of forms. From a student-turned-zombie who hasnt sleptmore than three hours a night in thelast month falling asleep everywhere

on campus, to that kid in lecturewhos been sick with something re-sembling whooping cough for eightout of 10 weeks but refuses to stayhome and get better for fear of miss-ing some critical information. Orbreaking out in a cold sweat becauseyou just realized that your exam,15-

minute presentation and 20-page re-search paper are all due the day be-fore the event you planned for yourstudent group. And, of course,theres always the classic psychoticbreakdown.

But most of the time we talkabout these situations, we do it with

an air of nonchalance, like its notonly inevitable, but also mandatory.Late nights,ridiculously early morn-ings and moments of near insanityjust amount to more stories from thetrenches that well one day tell ourgrandchildren.We display these bat-tle wounds with pride, seeing whosgone through worse and lived to talkabout it.

At a place that encourages stu-dents to do more, work smarter andbe better, we become used to doingthe absolute most all the time.So weoften forget that its when we take astep back and do a little less thannothing that things finally start get-ting done.If you need proof,just lookat your own life. Chances are youknow of at least one instance when

you (or a friend) aced a test you did-nt study for, or you (or a friend)bagged a breezy by saying hello.Thisis not to say that we should all runaround not doing anything to getanywhere in life. Some effort is re-quired. Really, its about knowingthat in certain situations, less can bea lot more.

Theres a beauty to doing noth-ing. It might be hard to realize oradmit that fact, but its somethingworth discovering, and the upcom-ing winter break is the perfect timeto start exploring.Realistically,wereall going to have TDS for life, andthats why well go off and run theworld (if we want to). That doesntmean we cant have moments of restand relaxation in between,though.Ifa duck can leave the water to take a

nap,so can we.And my calendar tellsme there will be plenty of time forthat this December.

Camira might be suffering from TDS,but shes never too busy to respond toreader emails. Send her one atcamirap@stanford.edu.

Ducks in December

Ihave had epic crushes. Thesecrushes of mine, as many girlsmight know, were characterized

by a disproportionate amount of

time spent thinking about a particu-lar boy. All of these epochal crushesresulted, sooner or later, in the boydiscovering the dramatic secret. Butthey were never informed throughthe grapevine, oh no. Rather, themessenger was me, face-to-face andheart all aflutter every time. Indeed,even after the huge heart-wrenchingfeelings had faded,I always resolvedto express my feelings. It seemed theright thing to do,really; I was alwaysconvinced that he deserved to knowthe real story,considering it ultimate-ly had everything to do with him.That habit of mine was one of theconsequences of my deep belief inhonesty.

Back in those days, honesty wascrystal clear. It was unique for beingsimultaneously mature and simple:one told either the entire story or notthe entire story. I believe in opencommunication and no lying, inbeing frank and avoiding hints.Buthonesty also comes into our expres-sion of opinions about others, andthese days the nuances of this side arecreeping slowly into focus. Honestywill always be my best policy, but thefine print beckons. When is justbeing honestan excuse for self-pro-motion? When does it just entangleothers lives? When is it just plainselfish?

These are the questions thatbegan haunting me recently, after Iignited a bomb of a discussion withsomeone I care very much about byconveying a few . . . honest things. Itold her my opinion on specific

events of late.I told her about certaincharacteristics I saw in her that I did-nt think that she herself realized. Itold her how these things were affect-ing me. Well, it wasnt all frill andfancy,and both of us were significant-ly affected. During and immediatelyafter that talk, reaching back to mymotives for starting it, my justifica-tion was that I could somehow helpher by revealing these thoughts of

mine.Having more time between theevent and me, though,shows me dif-ferently. I had translated many of thebeliefs that had been forming in myhead these past few years and hadlaid them on the table. Im realizingnow that she didnt need to hear all ofthem,and what she heard hurt her ina way I didnt expect. Neither of usregrets the conversation, even if weregret the execution; its funny howIve known her all of my life, and stillwe learned years worth of thingsabout each other in that hour. But ittaught me something about my needfor what might be called full disclo-sure. When I think of my motivesnow, I wonder if there was more self-interest involved in getting my seem-ingly smart opinion out than I want-ed to admit.

Over time, Ive become veryaware of my high regard for my ownopinion relative to others. I used tobristle frequently at recommenda-tions,suggestions and other arbitrarythings I insecurely regarded as con-descension.Apparently, I much pre-ferred to let my voice loose at the ex-pense of anyone elses contribution.But its caused so many unnecessarycomplications. Sometimes I thinkwere too confident in our own un-derstanding of other people, whothey are and whats best for them.Then we let these ideas spiral right

out into the world and out of our con-trol. In a sense, its being honest. Inanother sense, its being irresponsi-ble.And beyond that, its an assump-tion that were legitimate enough tomake such calls on another personslife,even if we qualify ourselves with,Well,I think shes . . . or No of-fense,but . . .

Editors Note:As a continuation ofthe conversation The Daily has en-

gaged in by covering aspects of theOccupy movement,we are pub-lishing a series of original op-edswritten by Stanford students affili-ated with the Occupy the Future

group,which formed on our cam-pus.These student op-eds repre-sent part of a series of op-eds byStanford faculty and students.Thecomplete series will be availableon Boston Review online atbostonreview.net .Below is a state-ment from the group that intro-duces the overall effort and the stu-dent pieces.

The Occupy protests haveaccomplished a great deal.They have galvanized

many forms of public response tothe glaring inequalities of wealthand income that now character-ize American society. We are insympathy with those protests.But it isnt parks or public spaceswe aspire to occupy. It is the fu-ture of our country that is at stakeand that we hope to help shape to occupy through our ac-tions. For this broader Occupymovement to grow, it will requireother groups outside encamp-ments to mobilize other con-stituencies, by other means,

around other issues.That is what we, a coalition offaculty, staff, undergraduate andgraduate students operatingunder the name of Occupy theFuture, intend to do at Stanford.We call on the entire Stanfordcommunity, together with a hostof groups from the Bay Area, tojoin in a rally on White Plaza onFriday, Dec. 9 from 1:30 to 3:00p.m. We do not, however, meanfor this to be a one-time event.In-stead, we intend to coordinate aseries of activities that point tothe future, including numerousopinion articles (appearing inBoston Review and The StanfordDaily), two upcoming teach-inevents centered around filmviewings, a host of discussions be-

fore and an open forum followingthe Dec.9 rally.

In undertaking these activi-ties, we are motivated by three

main issues.The first is the deep and grow-

ing division between the havesand have-nots. Across multipleareas of life health, education,income, housing we see thegreatest inequalities the UnitedStates has known since at least theGreat Depression.We are the 99percent is not a mere rhetoricaldevice. Its consistent with datashowing that over the past decadeonly the top 1 percent of wage-earners has seen their incomesrise. The next 2 to 5 percent hasexperienced flat wages, andeveryone else has experienced adrop in earnings. The generaltrend toward increasing inequali-ty has been going on for 30 years,but has now reached unprece-dented levels. The top 1 percenthas claimed nearly all of thegrowth in personal income overthe past 20 years,with most of thataccruing to the top .1 percent.Consider this staggering fact: in2009 the net worth of the 400wealthiest households in theUnited States exceeded that ofthe bottom 50 percent of allAmerican households; 400 fami-lies have more than 155 millionAmericans.

But extreme inequality is notthe only issue. The second prob-

lem is that many of the inequali-ties we see have undone theAmerican Dream of opportunityfor all and instead fuel corruptionof our very democracy.We claimto be a country committed to afair contest in which everyone,rich or poor, has an equal oppor-tunity to get a job and get ahead,where hard work and playing bythe rules will lead to a decent life,not poverty. But instead, socialmobility in the United States isdeclining.One third of Americansare in poverty or near povertywhile the government bails outrich Wall Street bankers andlargely ignores the rest of thecountry, including the 14 millionwho are out of work and lookingfor a job. We look away as CEOs

cut sweetheart deals that securefor them extraordinary compen-sation even as their firms fail.

The gap between the 1 percent

and the 99 percent has helped tocreate an environment wherestate policies are responsive tothe rich, not the many; wherepoliticians are responsive towealthy individuals and corpora-tions,not the many.The upshot isa staggering lack of accountabili-ty for those who led us into eco-nomic crisis. Meaningful democ-racy cannot exist when monied in-terests can buy elections andwhen lobbyists can buy legisla-tion. More than two-thirds ofAmericans support increasingtaxes on the 1 percent, but ourelected representatives in Con-gress fail to respond.

Finally, there is the issue offinding a way to manage the econ-omy and provide a decent life forall in a way that is environmental-ly sustainable. No solution to theproblems of climate disruptioncan be found that does not in-volve the developed world reduc-ing its level of carbon emissions.But special interests motivat-ed by a desire to protect profits have continually blocked regula-tions that seek to accomplish thistask and deal with other criticalenvironmental problems. Creat-ing jobs is important,but we mustalso find ways to make our econo-my sustainable. We can hardly

hope to Occupy the Future ifthere is no future to occupy.To learn more about Occupy

the Future and the list of eventsreferenced above, please seewww.occupythefuture-stanford.org.

PAUL EHRLICH

Professor of Biology

DAVID GRUSKY

Professor of Sociology

DAVID LAITIN

Professor of Political Science

DOUG MCADAM

Professor of Sociology

ROB REICH

Professor of Political Science

DEBRA SATZ

Professor of Philosophy

Stanford students,and Ameri-cans generally, are inculcatedwith a strong attachment to

the notion of meritocracy:that suc-cess in some area is distributedbased upon merit. Nowhere doesthis seem more prevalent than ineducation.We are submitted to ex-

amination from our earliest years,and our performance may ulti-mately decide our class standing,both in school and in society.If oureducation system is meritocratic,then how do we define merit, andin what context is it expressed?Importantly, how do inequalitiesdefine this context?

My parents were immigrants.Sitting at about double the pover-ty line, they used most of their in-come and burned through theirsavings to enroll me in privateschool for the first three years ofmy education.This was unsustain-able. And so I moved to a publicschool during third grade, wheresomething remarkable happened I became a phenomenal stu-dent. The reality is, much of thematerial I was then being taught atpublic school I had alreadylearned, and in more detail,in myprevious semesters at the privateschool. My teachers were im-pressed by my intell igence.

In this case, a small inequality created by my prior education increased my merit in the eyes

of my instructors,and I was recom-mended for an advanced middleschool. To be sure, the effect wasreal. I certainly had an easier timecomprehending material that Ihad previously learned.The typesof inequalities that enrich the per-formance of an individual are

widespread in education and strat-ified by socioeconomic status.Justconsider how many undergradu-ates at top universities spend theirfree time tutoring middle and highschool students at no less than $60per hour. Indeed, it is no coinci-dence that children of educatedparents fare better in school. Soci-ety cannot expect to eliminatethese inequalities.They will alwaysexist to some degree or another,but they ensure that meritocracy isnever grounded in a fully levelplaying field.

I attended a very average mid-dle school and was enrolled in veryaverage courses.My parents werenot educated, and did not under-stand the class stratification of thepublic school system. We were anunruly and unmotivated group ofstudents often at odds with ayoung and inexperienced teacher.My most salient lesson from sev-enth-grade math was learning howto fire paper projectiles with rub-ber bands.Receiving my schedulethe second semester of that year,Irealized that by mistake or inter-

vention I had been moved to anhonorsmath class.This class wasmuch smaller, with half the stu-dents,all of whom were quiet andattentive.But on day one,I was al-ready too far behind to catch up.Ireturned to my previous class.

This second type of inequality is

one that need not exist. It involvesthe stratification or segregation of students into classes based onfalse or incomplete measures ofmerit. It creates institutional in-equalities whereby those studentsalready benefitting from inequali-ties rooted outside the classroom(in families and socioeconomic cir-cumstances) are given the in-creased benefit of inequalitieswithin the classroom, such as per-sonalized attention,smaller classesand more experienced instructors.Education is cumulative, and thegap between the advantaged anddisadvantaged group widens year-ly.I know this because I spent twoyears catching up on high schoolmath before even beginning calcu-lus at community college. Thesetypes of inequalities create long-lasting disparities,even if individu-als manage to catch-up. Everyday, in simple conversation withclassmates, Im reminded of howlarge the gap is and where my owndeficiencies remain. More impor-

OPINIONS

OP-ED

Occupy the Future:Beyond the honor roll

Occupy the Future

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SPORTS BRIEFS

By PALANI ESWARANCONTRIBUTING WRITER

It was a long afternoon for theCardinal wrestling team on Sun-day.The team lost its third matchin a row, this time to No. 11 Mis-souri (3-1) in Burnham Pavilionby a score of 26-9. Stanford (4-4)won just three of the afternoons10 matches. Top-ranked redshirtsenior Nick Amuchastegui, No. 5

junior Ryan Mango and sopho-more Dan Scherer each recordedwins at 174 pounds, 133 poundsand heavyweight, respectively.

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Both Amuchastegui andMango looked impressive andwon important matches, withAmuchastegui taking on No. 5Dorian Henderson. The All-American wrestled well both onthe mat and on his feet,recordinga takedown and an escape anddefeating Henderson 3-0. Mangofaced off against No. 13 NathanMcCormick in a tough match,eventually earning the decision9-5.

Both Mango and Amuchasteguifaced their toughest tests of the sea-son. Prior to Sunday, Mango hadnot wrestled a ranked opponent,

and Amuchastegui hadnt faced atop-five wrestler. Their ability totake care of business against topwrestlers in their weight classbodes well for the rest of the sea-son and will help their seeding atthe NCAA Tournament in March.

Amuchasteguis win was his102nd,bringing him to sixth on theall-time career wins list at Stan-ford.Amuchastegui won his 100thmatch against Central Michiganlast week with a major decisionover the Chippewas AnthonyBrill.

Another bright spot for theCardinal was the season debut ofredshirt sophomores Bret Baum-bach at 165 pounds and Richard

Kessler at 197 pounds. Bothwrestlers lost but wrestled tough.Baumbach lost 6-2 to No.13 ZachToal, and Kessler lost to No. 12Brent Haynes by a score of 5-3.

But there werent too manypositives to take from the dual.Redshirt junior Timmy Boone at149 pounds,freshman Josh Laud-erdale at 157 pounds, redshirt

junior Spence Patrick at 184pounds,redshirt junior Matt Sen-cenbaugh at 125 pounds andsophomore Donovan Halpin at141 pounds were the other Cardi-nal wrestlers to lose on Sunday.Of Stanfords seven losses, threewere by major decision and onewas by technical fall.

The Cardinal started the sea-

son off 4-1 with dominating per-formances against North CentralCollege, Northern Illinois, CalState Bakersfield and Menlo Col-lege. The teams loss to top-15Northwestern in the first dual ofthe season almost seemed like afluke after Stanfords four straightwins.

But since then the Card has lostthree straight to Central Michi-gan, Chattanooga and Missouri,atrio of talented squads.Missouri isranked eleventh in the nation, andCentral Michigan and Chat-tanooga are undoubtedly the mostsuccessful programs in their re-spective conferences.

Stanfords duals with Central

Michigan and Chattanooga weremuch closer than the dual againstMissouri. Central Michigan wonby nine,and Chattanooga won byseven. In both those meets, Stan-ford was one or two matches froma win.

While Stanford has remainedcompetitive throughout the sea-son,the team still has not recordeda win against a top-25 opponentthis year, and one has to wonderhow this team will fare againsttop-tier opponents throughoutthe rest of the season. In each ofStanfords losses there have beena few solid individual performanc-es,but the team has yet to put to-

Andrew Luck, David Shaw earnPac-12s highest honors in football

Both quarterback Andrew Luck and headcoach David Shaw took home some new hard-ware on Monday, as Luck was named the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year for the secondconsecutive season and Shaw was selected asthe Pac-12 Coach of the Year.

Thanks to Lucks sustained excellence,Stanford completed another 11-1 season inShaws first season leading the Cardinal.UnderShaws leadership, the Cardinal recorded back-to-back 11-win seasons for the first time inschool history and crafted an offense that cur-rently ranks fifth nationally in scoring (43.58points per game) and 10th in total offense(480.92 yards per game).

Luck,who broke his own school record with35 touchdown passes in 2011, is only the fifthplayer ever to be named the conferences of-fensive player of the year in consecutive sea-sons, joining USCs Reggie Bush and CharlesWhite, Washington States Ruben Mayes andStanfords John Elway as the only players to doso.

Luck also broke Elways record for mosttouchdown passes in school history, set a newmark in total offense with 10,218 career yards

and now ranks first in school history with 31wins as a starter.

In addition, Lucks recognition means theCardinal has now taken home the award inthree consecutive years, after Toby Gerhartwon the award in 2009.

Joining the quarterback on the Pac-12s all-conference first team were tight end CobyFleener,right guard David DeCastro,left tack-le Jonathan Martin, outside linebacker ChaseThomas and safety Delano Howell.

Running back Stepfan Taylor,defensive endBen Gardner and kicker Jordan Williamsonfollowed by making the Pac-12s all-confer-ence second team, and nine Cardinal playersreceived honorable mention linebackerMax Bergen, offensive linemen David Yankeyand Cameron Fleming, fullback Ryan Hewitt,defensive tackle Matt Masifilo, wide receivers

Ty Montgomery and Drew Terrell, safetyMichael Thomas and tight end Levine Toilolo.

Cal linebacker Mychal Kendricks wasnamed the Pat Tillman Defensive Player of theYear, while USC receiver Marqise Lee andOregon running back DeAnthony Thomasshared Offensive Freshman of the Year honors.USCs Dion Bailey was named the confer-ences Defensive Freshman of the Year.

Jack Blanchat

LOSING SKID

DERRICK LEADS CARD IN NCAAsBy MILES BENNETT-SMITH

MANAGING EDITOR

Halfway through last MondaysNCAA Cross Country Champi-onship race, the No. 5 Stanfordmens team was sitting in secondplace with two runners in the top 11.Heavy favorite No.1 Wisconsin wasalready seemingly in cruise controlfor the team title the Badgerswere just two places away from hav-ing five runners garner All-Ameri-can honors but the Cardinal wasputting on an impressive showingwithout its No. 3 runner, redshirt

junior Benjamin Johnson, who wassidelined with a foot injury.

Over the next 5,000 meters,No.2Oklahoma State, No. 6 Coloradoand No.3 BYU all snuck past Stan-ford to knock head coach JasonDunns team off the podium by amere four points. But senior ChrisDerrick ran one of the best races ofhis already impressive collegiate ca-reer, outkicking Ionas LeonardKorir down the stretch to matchRyan Hall 05 and Neftalem Araia08 for the best NCAA position inStanford history with a runner-upfinish in the individual race.

The No. 13 womens team ran asolid race,earning the squad its firsttop-10 finish since 2008 in a verycrowded field. Junior KathyKroeger paced the Card with a 21st-place finish on the 6-kilometercourse and was joined by redshirtsenior Stephanie Marcy as an All-American, the first such honor forboth runners in cross country.

On a cold, cloudy day in TerreHaute, Ind.,the races on both sideswere sizzling. Despite finishing in28:57.5, Derrick was 13 seconds be-hind winner Lawi Lalang of Ari-zona. Lalang competing in just

his first season of cross countrycapped off an undefeated seasonwith the win and added a courserecord in the process.

Teammate and fellow seniorJake Riley hung with Derrick andthe lead pack for the first severalkilometers before Lalang threwdown the gauntlet as he has in al-most every race this season andsurged ahead after two miles.

Southern Utahs CameronLevins and Korir went with him,butno one could catch the Kenyan as he

Cal rivalryencouragesschool pride

Igot some criticism from friendsand enemies alike for not show-ing sufficient enthusiasm andspirit in the wake of the Stan-ford football teams defeat to

Oregon in my last column. Perhapsfrustration got the better of me aftera game that promised so much but,atleast for Cardinal fans, never quitedelivered. Whatever excuse I can

muster,though,karma paid me backfor showing weakness nine RedZone points or not, something wentwrong when I showed up for the BigGame. As I scanned my ID card toenter the stadium,I discovered I had-nt been allocated a ticket.

In an ironic twist of fate, this wasprobably the one game at which mypresence and my voice would havemade a difference. As palatable aswatching football in the Californiasun might be, my British upbringingmakes it hard to take the job of a fanseriously unless you have to deal withat least a little rain.Watching on TV,Icouldnt believe the stadium was soempty on such a perfectly cold andmiserable evening.

It was heartbreaking to sit athome alone through the single mostimportant game Stanford will play allseason. Forget Oregon, forget thesupposed rivalry with USC and for-get any BCS bowl or even nationalchampionship aspirations win-ning this game and holding on to theAxe will always matter more. Everysports team on campus varsityand club wants to beat Cal, andthey all get their chance,from the BigSplash to the Big Spike. It doesntend with real athletes either; amongother rivalry clashes in the week be-fore the Big Game, the two schoolsquiz bowl teams squared off,and justa few short hours before the crowdspacked into Stanford Stadium, TheStanford Daily itself welcomed TheDaily Californian to campus for theannual Ink Bowl, an event that has

been taking place for at least the past40 years.It is these side-events that make

the Big Game mean as much as itdoes.There are only a very few luckyindividuals on campus who can claimto have represented the Cardinal onthe football field against anotherschool, but there are hundreds,maybe thousands who have battledCal in some way at some point intheir Stanford careers. Standing upalongside your fellow students andseeing the whites of the eyes of thoseGolden Bears, you get to feel howmuch this rivalry matters.More thanany amount of standing facelessamong a crowd,you assume person-al responsibility for the win.

Big Game day was not a great dayjust because Stanford held on to the

Axe. The icing on the cake was re-taining the Exacto Knife with a 42-21win and sending the Daily Cal homewithout even the consolation prize ofa boat-race win.With this victory TheDaily extended its winning streak tothree games over its most hated and only rival.

Playing flag football, or in factany version of football,was a new ex-perience for this international stu-dent, and I cannot claim to haveshown much prowess on the field that honor should probably go to ourpart-time managing editor ofsports/part-time quarterback and tothe showing by The Dailys businessteam.What I did do,though,was putmy body on the line even if an oldinjury and being wrestled by a Calplayer in a blatant case of holdinglimited me to just three downs and stand up for my friends and fel-low students. I even managed todemonstrate far better footballknowledge than both the Cal playersand their so-called coach. At morethan one point we had to walk on thefield to disrupt play when a GoldenBear had his flags tied on so tight hecould drag the Stanford player grab-bing them along with him, and alsowhen their players took flag footballso seriously they committed in-fringements for holding and rough-ness that wouldnt even be legal inreal football.

In my fourth proper year of life asa grad student on the Farm, I finallyfeel I have earned the right to wearcardinal, and no matter how many

points I might have in my studentticket account,or whether I success-fully navigate the online ticketingsystem,I deserve my place in the RedZone.Go Card.

Tom Taylor has gone from hatingfootball to a possible career as a refer-ee.Ask him if he saw as much holdingin the Notre Dame game as the InkBowl at tom.taylor@stanford.edu.

Mens basketball routs Pacific

Returning home from a narrowloss to No.4 Syracuse, the Stanfordmens basketball team was on top ofits game last night, dominating Pa-cific 79-37.

The Cardinal (6-1) was led byredshirt senior forward Josh Owensand freshman guard Chasson Ran-dle, who both scored 14 points.However, it was defense that keptStanford comfortably ahead of theTigers. Pacific (2-3) did not attempta free throw all game,as the Cardi-nal committed only nine fouls.TheTigers shot just 30.2 percent fromthe floor and 27.8 percent from thethree-point line. Travis Fulton had13 points to lead Pacific, but noother player scored more than sixpoints.

On the other hand, 12 differentStanford players scored, and theCardinal shot 51.8 percent from thefield. Stanford led 38-23 at halftimeon the strength of 11 points fromRandle. For the game, the youngpoint guard made four of his fivethree-point attempts.

Pacific got a quick three-pointerto start the second half and cut thelead to 12 at 40-28, but Stanfordwent on a 39-6 run over a 17-minutespan to salt the game away.

We had about eight bad posses-sions where we took six bad shots,and made some really poor deci-sions, said Pacific head coach Bob

Thomason.When we did that, it re-ally separated us in the score.Overall, the Cardinal outscored

the Tigers 41-14 after the break tocoast back into the win column.

The team will now travel to thePacific Northwest to take on SeattleUniversity on Thursday.

Jacob Jaffe

Derrick, Unterreiner named toPac-12 All-Academic first team

With the cross country seasonfinished just a week ago, the Stan-ford teams were well-representedon the Pac-12 All-Academic teams.Leading the way were senior ChrisDerrick and redshirt junior MilesUnterreiner,who were two of the 10runners selected for the mens firstteam. Redshirt junior BenjaminJohnson was named to the secondteam,as were junior Kathy Kroegerand redshirt senior MadelineDuhon on the womens side.

Derrick, Stanfords top runnerand this years NCAA runner-up,earns his second consecutive first-team selection thanks to his 3.86grade-point average while majoringin economics. Unterreiner is also arepeat selection, having won anElite 88 Award in the past due to his4.04 GPA while majoring in history.

Johnson, who was injured thisyear and unable to compete at

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Redshirt junior quarterback Andrew Luck tookhome his second straight Pac-12 OffensivePlayer of the Year award and was one of sixCardinal players on the all-conference first team.

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Junior Ryan Mango was one of the lone bright spots for the Stanford wrestling team in a 26-9 home loss to No.11 Missouri. Mango, the No. 5 wrestler at 133 pounds, beat the Tigers No. 13 Nathan McCormick 9-5.

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gether a complete dual against ahigh-caliber school.

One thing to note is that Stan-ford had a very similar start to lastyears season. In 2010 the Cardinallost its first match,won its next twoand proceeded to drop four in a row.But the team bounced back, finish-

ing with a dual record of 9-8. Theteam also placed 11th at the NCAATournament with great individualperformances. The team has threetournaments to find its stride beforeits next dual against Boise State onJan. 5.

Next, the Cardinal will travel toLas Vegas for the Cliff Keen LasVegas Collegiate Wrestling Invita-tional on Dec.2-3.

Contact Palani Eswaran atpalani14@stanford.edu.

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burned the field and opened up a 14-second gap less than a mile aftermaking his move.

Derrick, who has a reputationfor closing fast, chose to hang backand not try to run with Lalang, in-

stead coming on strong in the finalkilometers to first pass Levins,Ore-gons Luke Puskedra and Wiscon-sins Mohammed Ahmed,and final-ly kick past Korir in the final 300meters to finish second. Riley wasan All-American for the secondstraight year after crossing the linein 18th place.

After the race, Derrick said hehad mixed emotions despite hisfourth consecutive top-10 finish andfelt there were a few lingering ques-tions in his mind about what couldhave been.

I still feel like I left here withoutbeing 100-percent happy, as a teamand as an individual, he said.Ourhighest finish was third place asfreshmen, and at the time I washappy but felt like there was more

on the horizon, and we never ac-complished our goal of winning anational championship as a team,and its a little disappointing.

Races like these are won andlost on the margins, not talent-wiseor work-ethic-wise,Derrick added.I dont think I ran a courageousrace. I think I ran smart and rantough, but I had to depend on otherpeople to slip up. But there arequestions I have to ask myself. Iknow the way that I ran which wasplanned, but did I run the race thatgave me the best chance to win? Atthe end of the day,I think it was theright decision, but theres alwayssome lingering doubt.

Stanford did, however, have oneof its better showings this season onthe national stage. Sophomore An-drew Berberick surprised many by

coming in 55th overall, 10 placesahead of Brendan Gregg in the red-shirt seniors final race.

Sophomore Erik Olson com-pleted the Cardinals scoring by fin-ishing 127th but improved his timeand place from last years race.

I thought we ran pretty well,Dunn said.I cant remember a racethat so closely followed the rank-ings. I think that just shows howgood all the top teams were this sea-

son. It hurts to miss the podium bysuch a small margin, but all of theteams ahead of us ran really well.

The same was true on thewomens side, where just 27 pointsseparated the top four teams, andseveral schools had surprising re-sults. No. 4 Georgetown took theteam title with 162 points, holdingNo.3 Washington eight points back,two-time defending champion Vil-lanova 19 behind and heavy pre-race favorite No. 1 Florida State 26points off the pace.

But the field had plenty of othernotable finishes No. 8 Arizonacame in 19th, No. 6 Coloradoslipped to 11th and No. 16 Oregonstormed to a fifth-place finish be-hind a great race from junior JordanHasay.

Hasay finished second to Vil-lanovas Sheila Reid, who won hersecond straight individual crownwith a big kick to shake Hasay in thefinal 50 meters.

The Cardinal was done in by alack of depth in the end, as theteams fourth and fifth runners sophomore Jessica Tonn and juniorClaire Durkin finished in 111thand 192nd place, respectively.

With the cross country seasoncomplete, many of the runners onboth teams will turn their attentionto indoor track, where Stanfordshould have one of the strongestsides in the nation,with Derrick andsenior Elliott Heath forming a for-midable duo.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith atmilesbs@stanford.edu.

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NCAAs,has a 3.59 GPA while ma- joring in chemical engineering.Kroeger,Stanfords leading runneron the womens side, finished 21stat NCAAs and has a GPA of 3.93while majoring in mathematical

and computational science. Duhonboasts a 3.90 GPA while majoringin management science and engi-neering.

In addition, the Cardinal had 10men and 11 women chosen as hon-orable mentions.The Stanford menfinished fifth and the women fin-ished 10th at the NCAA Champi-onships last week.

Jacob Jaffe

Nnemkadi Ogwumike namedPac-12 Player of the Week

Coming off its first loss of theseason,the No. 5 Stanford womensbasketball team received somerecognition Monday when seniorforward Nnemkadi Ogwumike was

named Pac-12 Player of the Week.Ogwumike, a former Pac-10

Player of the Year and the Cardi-nals best offensive weapon, scored56 points in a pair of tough roadcontests last week. Against peren-nial favorite No.2 Connecticut lastMonday, Ogwumike struggled withfoul trouble but still managed tolead the team with 22 points inStanfords 68-58 loss.

The Cardinal responded in a big

way by winning at Xavier on Friday,and once again, it was Ogwumikeleading the charge.The senior dom-inated the Musketeers, scoring 34of the teams 80 points and haulingin 13 rebounds to help Stanfordbounce back.

For the year, Ogwumike leadsthe team with 25.8 points and 11.3rebounds per game while shooting60 percent from the field and 86percent from the free-throw line.The two-time All-American waspicked as a Preseason All-Ameri-can as well,and along with her sisterChiney, forms one of the best low-post combinations in the country.

Stanford hosts UC-Davis onWednesday at 7 p.m.

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rector of OAPE,explained that theoffice hopes to expand and enlargethe program in the next fewmonths.

Hopefully by winter quarterwe can do a couple of really largescale Say Somethings where peoplecome out and share their stories,he said.

When asked whether it might re-place AlcoholEdu in the future,Bowen said that although he wasnt

sure, he hopes the OAPE will con-tinue to improve AlcoholEdu in thecoming years.

I would love and our officehas talked about it quite a bit todevelop something that is moreStanford-focused than AlcoholEdu

is, Bowen said.I think we have acouple more years with AlcoholE-du,he later added.

So far this year,Bowen estimat-ed that alcohol-related hospital vis-its are about on par with last year.

Castro said that because OAPEhas been attempting a culturechange, effects will be only gradu-ally visible.

In two months [since OAPEwas founded], although the alco-hol trends are similar to last year,we are starting to see that we arebeing infused into the culture,Bowen explained. So now itsabout how do we keep that going .. . Hopefully this time next quar-

ter, and this time spring quarter,and especially this time next year,we start seeing differences in actu-al numbers.

Contact Julia Enthoven at jjejje@stanford.edu.

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Once upon a time, we were kidswho said all sorts of crazy things wedidnt think mattered beyond theplayground.By now,weve accumu-lated a lot more stuff in our headsthat tend to persuade us exactly the

opposite. Ive been realizing howmuch damage our words can do,es-pecially because,despite being hon-est, theyre too easily misplaced,one-sided and insensitive to our lis-teners ears. Most importantly,theyre too easily used for self-glori-fying purposes that have little to dowith our listener anyway.

Im all for honesty,no less than be-fore.But now Im just starting to seewhere the need for wisdom kicks in.

Hopefully you dont find this columntoo ironic for a columnist. If you do(or if you dont), Nina wants to hear

you! Email her at ninamc@stanford.edu.

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tantly, institutional inequalities cutagainst the claim that educationalopportunity is based on a merito-cratic system.

We can no longer accept a socialmobility grounded in rare or heroicexamples. Students ofallsocioeco-nomic backgrounds should occupythe future of our institutes of higherlearning.Inequalities exist, and theywill always exist. But if we wish toprogress toward a more just society,we must stop building them into ourinstitutions.

RON ALFAM.D./Ph.D.Candidate,Stanford University

School of Medicine

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