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Law schooldefendsObama image

By ROBERT TOEWSSTAFF WRITER

Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project isembroiled in a highly publicized copyright caseinvolving the popular red and blue Obama“Hope” poster, which became a ubiquitous sym-bol of Barack Obama’s presidential campaignover the past two years. Heading the legal team isAnthony Falzone, a lecturer at the law school andthe executive director of the Fair Use Project.

The case centers around the fact that streetartist Shepard Fairey used a news photographfrom the Associated Press (AP) as the basis forthe poster. Last week, the AP announced it haddetermined that it owned the photograph,accused Fairey of copyright infringement anddemanded a portion of any revenue he receivedfrom use of the image. Falzone is defendingFairey against these charges.

In response to the AP’s accusations, Falzoneand the Stanford Fair Use Project team preemp-tively filed a lawsuit last week asking a federaljudge to declare that Fairey is protected fromcopyright infringement claims.

“There should be no doubt about the legalityof Fairey’s work,” Falzone said in a press release.“He used the photograph for a purpose entirelydifferent than the original, and transformed itdramatically. The original photograph is a literaldepiction of Obama, whereas Fairey’s poster cre-ates powerful new meaning and conveys a radi-cally different message that has no analogue inthe original photograph.”

The Fair Use Project, founded in 2006, pro-vides legal support to a range of projects designedto clarify — and extend — the boundaries of “fairuse” in order to enhance creative freedom.

The image became an iconic symbol ofObama’s grassroots campaign, featured on T-shirts, buttons, magnets and posters. The Obamateam welcomed the image but never adopted itofficially due to copyright concerns.

While copyright laws allow limited use ofcopyrighted materials for purposes like criticismor comment, the AP maintains that Fairey’sposter constitutes copyright infringement.A pho-tographer for the AP took the photo of Obama atthe National Press Club in April 2006.

“[We are] disappointed by the surprise filingby Shepard Fairey and his company, and by Mr.Fairey’s failure to recognize the rights of photog-raphers in their works,” said Paul Corford, aspokesman for the AP.

By AN LE NGUYENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Monday afternoon marked the beginning ofTree Week — Stanford’s annual quest to replaceits much-loved unofficial mascot. This year, thethree main contenders for the Stanford Tree per-formed their outrageous entrance stunts beforean intimate audience of Tree stalwarts.

According to reigning Tree Patrick Fortune’09, the yearly tradition is meant to be a sponta-neous “mix of confidence and creativity.”

Although yesterday’s informational meetingtook place amid gloomy skies at the BandShack, it was marked by electric energy on thepart of the candidates.

Dressed in a rocketeer costume, Kyle Owen’10 initiated his Tree campaign by flying across azip cable suspended between two trees. His stuntrepresented the launch to becoming Tree. Hisflight was truncated, however, by a head-on col-lision with a ladder. Fortunately, Owen took theprecaution of equipping himself with a helmetbefore he used a fire extinguisher to propel him-self across the cable, obscured by a cloud ofsmoke. Kalena Masching ’08, a friend of Owenand five-time Tree Week spectator, assured TheDaily that no trees were harmed in the process.

“I’ve been thinking about this for a long timeand am excited to do some fun things with thesereally cool guys,” said Owen of his candidacy.

Following Owen’s stunt, Jack Cackler ’09 wascarried forth on a platform by several of hispeers. He was then hoisted from the ground andcommenced to read his speech aloud, danglingmid-air from a tree. According to supporters,deeply rooted in Cackler’s ideology is a commit-ment to bring “awesomeness” back to Stanford.But Cackler himself emphasized his desire tobring create a spirit of glee across campusthrough “a little bit of enthusiasm and a lot ofhard work.”

“I really enjoyed my time at Stanford, and Iwant to do something to give back to it,” Cackleradded.“There’s no better way I can do that thanas Tree.”

Last year, Cackler was disqualified from theTree competition for crossing the line with hisstunts — one of which featured him runninginto nine fluorescent light bulbs until his midsec-tion was bleeding profusely. Cackler, who alsoate a live snake during last year’s campaign, ranunsuccessfully for ASSU Vice President lastspring and currently serves on The Daily’s edito-rial board.

The afternoon closed with a stunt staged byJonathan Strange ’11. Strange entered the scene

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Dancers hold up signs revealing the $130,473.70 grand total raised by Dance Marathon. The total includeda match by private donors, made possible by the national FACE AIDS organization.

Donations down due to poor economy

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SWEET REVENGESTANFORD AVENGES EARLY-SEASON LOSS TO CAL

By WYNDAM MAKOWSKYMANAGING EDITOR

With its chances at the regular-seasonPacific-10 Conference title hanging in thebalance, No. 5 Stanford exploded in thesecond half to take down No. 3 Californiaat Maples Pavilion, 58-41, on Saturday.

The Cardinal (20-4, 11-1 Pac-10)trailed its Bay Area rival by a game in theconference standings, after dropping theyear’s first meeting in January.With a win,the Golden Bears (20-3, 11-1) would havehad a commanding, two-game lead that,outside of a surprising upset, would likelyhave given Cal the regular-season Pac-10championship.

Instead, despite being down byfour at halftime, the Cardinalrefused to submit, and nowstands tied with the GoldenBears in the conference stand-ings. Led by junior centerJayne Appel, who was hon-ored as Pac-10

Player of the Week for the fourth timethis year, the Cardinal went on a 19-0 runthat lasted over seven minutes and elevat-ed Stanford from a three-point deficit to a16-point advantage.

“We had a real lack of focus from that14-minute mark on and that’s not some-

thing I’ve seen from my team thisyear,” said Cal coach JoanneBoyle.

Appel led all playerswith 22 points and 14rebounds for her 10th double-

double of the year. She was alsostout defensively, holding Bears starDevanei Hampton to just seven points ofher own.

Please see WBBALL, page 5

STUDENT LIFE

OSA openseventscalendar

By NIKHIL KAMATSTAFF WRITER

Since the Office of Student Affairs(OSA) released a beta version of anew student events calendar lastWednesday, Stanford students nowhave a new way to publicize theirevents to the greater Stanford commu-nity.

ASSU Executive OperationsManager David Gobaud ’11 createdthe calendar, available at studen-tevents.stanford.edu, because of defi-ciencies in the previous Stanfordevents calendar. He said Stanford’sevent calendar included someStanford events but also local PaloAlto community events that were oflimited interest to many students.

Gobaud said the new calendaroffers a place exclusively reserved forstudent events like parties, studentperformances and meeting times andlocations for all student organizations.

“Level three parties can’t be postedon the old events calendar because it’sopen to the public,” Gobaud noted.“The new student events calendar isbehind WebAuth and therefore limit-ed to Stanford, and that’s why theOSA is allowing level three parties tobe posted there.”

Any student affiliated withStanford can register to post events onthe Web site, which is organized as aseries of Google calendars dividedinto a broad range of over 22 differentcategories. All campus organizationsthat have registered with the calendarare available, along with the option ofaccessing an RSS feed containing all oftheir event details. Students can alsosubscribe to any calendar through iCalfeeds.

“The interface is better because ituses Google calendar,” Gobaud said.“You can import it into your iPhone oryour own calendar.”

Gobaud said development on thecalendar started last quarter after dis-cussion among the ASSU executivecabinet on creating a more accessiblestudent events calendar. Gobaud eval-uated several options, such as Stanfordwebmail’s Zimbra platform or usingGoogle calendar in isolation, beforeNanci Howe, director of student activ-ities, referred him to Scott Stocker, thedirector of web communications.

“Scott developed the events.stan-ford.edu Web site and software,”Gobaud said. “He gave me a copy of

Please see CALENDAR, page 6

By SHANE SAVITSKY

Rather than spend their longweekend finishing a problem set orcatching up on sleep, some 600Stanford students took out an entireday to dance in order to raise aware-ness and money for HIV/AIDS.

The fifth annual Stanford DanceMarathon took place at ArrillagaAlumni Center from 1 p.m. onSaturday until 1 p.m. on Sunday.Thisyear, however, featured fewerdancers than usual — a decreasethat organizers attributed toValentine’s Day, which also fell onSaturday.

Despite the lower turnout, how-ever, the weekend’s soggy weatherdid not dampen the spirit of thosewho took part. Dance Marathon’s

Director of External Affairs LeahKuritzky ‘10 said the event waseverything she had hoped for.

“We had a great turnout, and itwas fortunate that the rain held outuntil late at night,” Kuritzky said.“Even with the rain, come 4 a.m.,several brave, rain-soaked moralerstrekked to the Alumni Center towork their morale magic for whatare traditionally three of the tough-est hours of Dance Marathon fordancers.”

In the midst of economic reces-sion, the event raised over $130,000.FACE AIDS, a national non-profitfounded by Stanford students,matched the dancers’ fundraising of$68,670.35 through private donations

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GAME NOTES: Stanford closed out the gameagainst Cal on a 36-11 run. Junior JayneAppel was honored as Pac-10 Player of theWeek for the fourth time this season. TheCardinal is now tied with Cal for the Pac-10Conference lead.

Fair Use Project backs artist

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Tree Week off to a flying startwith zip cables, Santa Claus

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FEATURESSeven defining

moments of

Dance Marathon

Courtesy Jessie Liu

Students dance the night away atDance Marathon this pastSaturday and Sunday.

By SIJIA WANG

The Bands: Three bands performedat Dance Marathon throughoutthe night — Dizzy Balloon, TheJakes and Vance Brown.They def-initely rocked the Arrillaga

Alumni Center. After each set, the crowdwould chant, “One more song! One moresong!” and the bands happily caved in, con-tenting the crowd with another soulfulmelody or head-banging tune.

Fighting for a Good Cause: The DanceMarathon-ers marched onto the dance floor,prepared to support a cause they knewwould benefit people halfway around theworld. In the weeks preceding DanceMarathon, they had raised money for FACEAIDS, a non-profit organization that is dedi-cated to fighting AIDS by building sanitaryhealthcare facilities in Africa. By the end ofDance Marathon, the money had beencounted — Stanford students had con-tributed more than $130,000 to a cause worthfighting for.

The Hackers: In conjunction with the regularDance Marathon-ers, the “hackers” donated24 hours of their time to developing valuableprograms, such as databases, for Partners inHealth and other organizations. The ultra-techie computer programmers workedtogether collaboratively to accomplish Javacoding projects.

The Game Room: When the noise on thedance floor became too overwhelming, thedancers drifted over to the Game Room torelax and banter with friends. Playing Jengawhile completely worn-out proved to be just

as exciting as drunk Jenga. Dance DanceRevolution tempted those masochistic types,who ended up three times more lead-footedthan they had been upon entering the GameRoom.

The Halfway Point: When 1 a.m. rolledaround, the dancers all heaved a collectivesigh of relief. They had spent the past 12hours dancing to everything from hip-hop torock to techno music. In recognition of thehalfway point, the DJ of the hour played BonJovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer.” The DanceMarathon-ers all sang the lyrics together,belting out the words,“Ohh . . . we’re halfwaythere,” as loudly as they could. The energy inthe room was electric, and previously

exhausted faces lit up with optimism as thedancers embraced each other.

The Pumped-Up Moralers: Every threehours, moralers charged onto the dance floorto Dance Marathon’s theme song, Journey’s“Any Way You Want It.” Dressed in outra-geously sparkly and colorful rallying gear,they rushed onto the stage and danced pas-sionately while strumming imaginary guitarsand lip-syncing a thousand times better thanAshlee Simpson. The choreography may nothave been perfect, but it hardly mattered tothe dancers, who were overjoyed to see theirfriends come cheer them on.

Sitting Down . . . Finally: After 20-plus hours,

the dancers could easily be differentiatedfrom the rest of the crowd — they couldbarely drag their feet along the floor, andstanding still became more painful than danc-ing. They remained committed until the lastmoment . . . until the 24th hour struck. Whenthat moment came, the dancers collapsedonto the floor, amazingly fatigued but mirac-ulously exultant. They had truly accom-plished something meaningful and proved tothemselves that they could overcome tired-ness and physical pain to take a literal standfor what they believed in.

Sijia Wang was on the Event/Morale Committeefor Dance Marathon. Contact her at sijiaw@stanford.edu.

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My problem set asks me to calculate mycarbon footprint, then look at thebreakdown and identify five things I

could do to meaningfully reduce it. So Ilooked, and I was not surprised to see thatabout 70 percent of what was left was due tomy use of transportation. I felt really badabout writing “visit my family less” on myproblem set though,and the last time I tried tocut back on emissions from going to Con-necticut, it took me four days to get home. (Ifyou have the time, Amtrak is pretty rad. Justmake sure you bring more than one box ofRaisin Bran.) Anyway, I felt really bad aboutall the little balloons full of CO2 that this foot-print calculator showed me standing next to,so I tried to do penance by not turning on myheater. Turns out it was around 41 degreesthat night, and now I’d love to borrow somedecongestant if you have any.

Alright. I’m not going to solve my trans-portation problem by trying to make up for itin other ways. So let’s examine how we candeal with it on its own terms.

The issue with transportation,at least in theUnited States, is largely a problem of systemdesign. Trying to target transportation meanstrying to coordinate the actions of literally mil-lions of end users who are limited by what arelatively unplanned system makes available.This means people can basically either use anoil-derived product (gasoline or diesel) or beone of those magnificent hippies who startcars with screwdrivers and try to find wastevegetable oil at restaurants to make intobiodiesel. The system resembles the electricpower sector in that millions of end users areconsuming whatever electricity they are pro-vided with, but there is a very important dis-tinction: electricity supply, including fuel di-versification, is very carefully planned.

Power is supplied by and/or through utili-ties, which are subject to heavy regulation bythe state, have obligations to supply a certainvolume of power at any given time and makehuge infrastructural investments that essen-tially close the industry to competition.Trans-portation doesn’t have the equivalent of atransportation utility, a natural monopolythat is tightly controlled by the state and man-ages,plans for and provides fuels.What it doeshave are refineries, which are typically local-ized industrial facilities subjected to stringentcontrols by the regional government (the BayArea, for example, has four). Entry into therefining business is nearly impossible due to

the difficulty of siting refineries, the enor-mous upfront costs and the fact that existingrefineries have obligations to supply certainamounts of petroleum-based fuel to meet an-ticipated demand. These refineries are thusmanaging and supplying fuels, but they arenot asked to be planners. Why is this impor-tant? Without a central planning institution,there is little to no chance that alternativetransport fuels will make a smooth entry intothe market at any point.

Carmakers won’t introduce cars that can’tbe fueled; private enterprise will not providefuels that cars can’t use. When people try tochange the system from the ground up,we runinto problems like, “How do you apply a gastax to alternative fuels?” — important be-cause this keeps the highway system going —and “How do you make sure there’s enoughelectricity to support a burgeoning electriccar contingent?” — important because elec-tric power utilities often struggle to keep upwith power demand, as planning for newpower plants and new distribution systemscan take upwards of a decade. In a carbon-limited world, implementing a few fuel econ-omy standards, offering rebates on hybridsand then hoping that the transportation sec-tor will sort itself out is not going to cut it.Theproblem is too large.

We need transportation utilities, naturalmonopoly-like institutions that control plan-ning and distribution for all transportationfuels.Why not approach the refining industryas an existing institution that is well-suited tothe role? Refining is not traditionally viewedas a good business, so it seems possible thatcompanies that own refineries (often oil com-panies, but not always) could be convinced tooperate the refineries as tolling plants, wherethe company receives compensation for oper-ating the infrastructure. Oil companies andgas stations would be largely unaffected bythis arrangement, and the refining system it-self need not be more nationalized than powerutilities are. Rather than try to create entirelynew transportation oversight institutions,whynot ask refineries to become transportationutilities? Integrating system planning withsupply might allow us to see solutions to thetransportation problem more clearly.

Emily often tries to mix oil and water but findsthat they inevitably separate after an hour ortwo. We’re still in a drought. Email her at gru-berte@stanford.edu.

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Over the course of the next couplemonths, departments around the Uni-versity will face budget cuts for the

coming year. One of the first casualties of thefunding decline was announced earlier thismonth when VPUE reported that it is termi-nating the head peer academic counselor(HPAC) and peer mentor (PM) programs, aswell as cutting back significantly on AdmitWeekend and New Student Orientation(NSO) festivities.

While the loss of HPACs and PMs is re-grettable, the programs were not reachingtheir full potential and it was the best place tobegin trimming the budget. The editorialboard only regrets that students were mostlyexcluded from this decision.

The HPAC and PM programs played twomajor roles on campus, providing both aca-demic leadership opportunities for upper-classmen, and additional academic supportfor freshmen. But there are a whole host ofleadership opportunities available to stu-dents at Stanford, particularly in academicfields.With over 650 voluntary student organ-izations, almost all of which offer leadershippositions to brilliant Stanford students, it’snot difficult to find some way to take a leader-ship role on campus. And there are also aplethora of academic resources available tostudents, especially freshmen.

Between academic advisors,the FreshmanDean’s Office and residential academic direc-tors, there are plenty of resources available tohelp students plan classes and find mentors— some individual departments, like humanbiology,even have their own student advisors.

While it was nice having more approach-able undergraduate “peers” like the PMs orHPACs to go to for academic advice, there isa sufficient number of resources so that theywill not be sorely missed.

Though not necessarily academically fo-cused,the large number of dorm staff in everyfreshman dorm are yet another resource. Asfar back as two years ago, some HPAC spotswere being removed to make way for addi-tional RAs in about half of the freshmandorms,and freshmen may end up being betterserved with a better-trained, more versatiledorm staff.

Meanwhile, peer mentors — although

useful during NSO, particularly for first-timefaculty advisors — were openly mocked in“Gaieties” this year, in which a cast memberplaying a PM informed his freshmen, “I’llmake you brownies your first week, and thenyou’ll never hear from me again.”

Aside from these criticism, both theHPAC and PM programs were somewhatuseful, but the editorial board acknowledgesthat VPUE is required to cut 10 percent of itsbudget by next year, and this is as good placeas any to begin.

The decision to cut programming fromAdmit Weekend and NSO, however, is hard-er to swallow. True, the schedules for bothevents are packed, and even cutting half ofthe programs would leave a very full weekendand week, respectively. Even so, the editorialboard would like to stress how crucial a well-run Admit Weekend is to attracting a goodfreshman class.

While the California sun does a lot of thework for us, showing an incredibly diversegroup of high-school seniors, a great time isessential to preserving high matriculationrates. While no specific cuts from eitherAdmit Weekend or NSO have been an-nounced yet, it will be interesting to see whatimpact this has on matriculation.

Additionally, as NSO is such a formativeexperience in every Stanford student’s life,significantly cutting programming could put adamper on the freshman experience as awhole.We await news on which programs willface the axe and hope the cuts will be madecarefully.

But ultimately, the editorial board’sbiggest complaint about these cuts has to dowith the lack of transparency and studentinput.The ASSU made an admirable push tocollect student input on budget cuts and pres-ent it to the administration,but the VPUE de-cisions were made with seemingly minimalstudent consultation.

While we are confident that Admit Week-end will be a success,and Stanford will contin-ue to be (objectively) the best university inthe world, we would like to see more studentinvolvement in this process as VPUE andother University departments decide what tocut next.

HPAC,PM program cuts anappropriate decision

EDITORIAL

There’s a beverage here!Without an all-powerful Greek sys-

tem that lords over the hedonistichordes,a la USC (honestly,who out-

side of Compton doesn’t hate that damnedfight song), a great deal of one’s social expe-rience at the Stan is dictated by whether ornot you get hosed by the god-awful systemthat puts even the BCS to shame: the Draw.

The only other institution that gives theOSA a run for its money for “Most Souls De-voured,” the Draw, by sheer randomness (orkarmic justice, depending on one’s view ofthe world) can decide whether a person isthrowing pre-parties before Cafe Night orthinking of throwing themselves off the topof the psych building once they realize theyhave been relegated to Soto.There are inher-ent flaws in the housing system, and thank-fully, ResEd is currently in the process ofmaking it less horrific.

With that said, there are still students whoget to tromp about in bacchanalian pursuitson the almighty Row, and there are still peo-ple who live in . . . Soto.Stanford’s guaranteeof housing for four years is incredibly gener-ous, but you will always have basic systemicinequalities.

Yet to add insult to injury, four-classdorms, including the much-lampooned Soto,my humble abode in FloMo and a variety ofother residences across campus are left atfurther disadvantage by lack of access todorm funds for alcohol, the golden nectar ofcollege students.

Let’s be honest here.At a school that is al-most entirely devoid of a singular campusfeel, the only tie that binds nearly all of us to-gether, other than the ability to enjoy four

years in this reality-free country club, is thebottle.The sports teams, the Band (I applaudyour level of debauchery,LSJUMB),VIS,SkiTeam, the a capella groups (insert Testimonyjoke here), the drama folks — hell, I have nodoubt even the Chess Team gets its drink on.That’s right, Chess Team; I am calling youout. In fact, I am going to go so far as to saythat you are probably the biggest closetdrinkers on campus. Maybe the facade ofnerd-dom is actually your guise for rampantalcoholism. Maybe.

In all sincerity, when you have a campusthat consumes alcohol at the relatively highlevels that we do, being unable to spend ourstudent funds on alcohol-related events onlyfurther widens the social divide between thehaves and have-Sotos.

Alcohol is not the end-all, be-all (both theMormon Church and Chi Theta Chi can at-test to this),and I do not suggest booze is nec-essary for a fun evening (talk to the zombie-like folks in Meyer . . . or not). But I will notshy away from the notion that alcohol is asizeable component of a non-BYU collegeexperience, and limiting the ability of us lessfortunate souls to plan spirited events is aproblem that should be addressed.

I do need to make it perfectly clear that Iam deeply appreciative of the incredibly rea-sonable open-door policy employed indorms; thank you, Stanford, for being lessstupid than most other educational institu-tions in the state. Unlike the majority ofCSUs and UCs, the Stan puts a heavy empha-sis on personal responsibility and safety, andnot fascism.

I do understand the rationale for not giv-

ing four-class dorms the tap to the proverbialkeg; you don’t want to encourage excessivedrinking on the part of the dear innocentfreshmen.My word,what will those poor,op-pressed frosh in four-class dorms do? Well,probably have a 21-year-old fellow residentbuy them some good ol’ fashioned hard A.Now that’s systematic exploitation I can be-lieve in! And I would question the legality ofat least a third of the residents on the Row,yet they still wind up with boatloads ofFranzia, and the rest of us . . . not so much.It’s a sad truth.

In a perfect world, let us imagine a Stan-ford where places like Loro and Trancoscould use dorm funds to buy a keg for a Fri-day evening.Not only would the general hap-piness of the student body increase, particu-larly because juniors can drink away the factthat they live in either Loro or Trancos, butwe can combat the supposed rise of alco-holism on campus by providing freshmenwith less irresponsible and more maturedrinking partners. Instead of chirpy Robleyoung’uns downing shots of crap vodka be-fore tromping off to the bowels of SAE, wecan provide wide-eyed frosh with responsi-ble booze buddies in the basement of Twain.

And just think: If this dream could be, infact, realized, there might actually be a daywhen you would no longer need to beashamed that you call Soto home.

Now that is something to drink to.

If you care to throw one back or would like toactually defend Soto and/or the sobriety of theChess Team, please email Zack atzwarma@stanford.edu.

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By HALEY MURPHYDESK EDITOR

Saturday’s game against Califor-nia played a familiar tune for Stan-ford men’s basketball as the sym-phony of a 22-point first-half leadtrailed into a humdrum seven-pointdefeat. Despite outstanding shoot-ing during the first period, the Cardi-nal found itself in an unwanted rolereversal for the last three minutes ofplay in Haas Pavilion, finally drop-ping 82-75.The disappointing shift inmomentum, however, was a not newone for the Card, as all but three ofits Pacific-10 Conference losses havecome after giving up a lead of eightpoints or greater.

This time, Stanford’s lead camebig and early. The Cardinal (15-8, 4-8 Pac-10) got out to a quick start,going 19 for 28 from the field beforethe break. Stanford lit it up fromlong range, matching the Bay’scrummy weather by raining ninethrees on the Bears (19-6, 8-4) inonly 12 first-half attempts. In fact,bythe time Stanford found a few min-utes of rest in the locker room, thescoreboard read 50-36, and the pos-sibilities of a second consecutive Calsweep, a fresh start to the back halfof conference play and the dis-pelling of doubts about being ableto hang onto a lead, all seemed tan-gible.

Bears’ junior guard Jerome Ran-dle saluted the sensational offensiveplay by Stanford.

“They came out like they were athome and controlled the game,”Randle said. “They determinedwhere they wanted the game to go,and we let them.”

Some of the biggest contributorsfor Stanford were junior forwardLandry Fields and senior guard An-thony Goods, who were both in dou-ble figures by halftime with 10 pointsapiece. They finished with 16 and 13points, respectively. Senior forwardLawrence Hill added another ninepoints and three rebounds in thefirst half, and finished with 15 pointsand seven boards.

However, it was freshman guardJeremy Green who led the way early,with all 11 of his points coming be-fore intermission; Green was 3-3from behind the arc.

But Cal’s lethargic play disap-peared during the Bears’ lockerroom meeting, and with the start ofthe second half, a fairytale statementwin proved too good to be true forthe Card.

“You knew there was a goodchance [Stanford’s hot shooting]wouldn’t happen again [in the sec-ond half],” said Cal head coach MikeMontgomery. “But you can’t sitaround and hope it doesn’t happen.”

So, Cal did anything but sit. The

Bears tore open the second half,starting with a 16-3 run to pull with-in one at 13:59. Stanford kept a nar-row lead until 3:04, when Cal beganits last 10-4 drive and prevented theCardinal from securing anything butfoul shots down the stretch.

Cal junior Patrick Christopher,who managed 14 of his game-high 21points in the second half, said theBears knew at halftime that is wasdo or die.

“No way we were going to quituntil it was all zeroes on the clock,”he said. “There was not a doubt inmy mind we were going to win thisgame.”

Along with Randle (18 points,seven rebounds), Cal’s uphill climbwas led by junior Jamal Boykin (11points). But freshman guard JorgeGutierrez was instrumental in theCal comeback, marking 10 points,eight rebounds and five steals, whilestifling Stanford opponents defen-sively.

Stanford head coach JohnnyDawkins commended the Bears’grittiness.

“I give Cal a lot of credit — theyfought the whole 40 minutes,”Dawkins said. “We got to a big lead,but it was a bit early to have that typeof lead.”

Call it a lack of stamina, or the in-evitable cooling off of shooters, butStanford’s early success dropped off,and a first-half shooting percentageof 67.9 collapsed on itself to become33.3 percent in the second. Downlow, the Card was out-rebounded 37-25, and wrangled only five offensiveboards (all in the second half).

“For us to lose like that is likesomebody taking something fromus,” Fields said. “It’s like they decid-ed to say, ‘That’s ours, and we’ve de-cided to take it from you.’”

To a certain extent, Fields is right:The Bears took all they could fromStanford. But, with a trend like thisthroughout the season, Cardinalfans are left to wonder: How muchwas taken, and how much was givenaway?

Contact Haley Murphy at hmmur-phy@stanford.edu.

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By DAN BOHMSTAFF WRITER

The No.8 Stanford softball team breezed through theCampbell/Cartier Classic this weekend in San Diego,smashing its way to victories in all four of its games.

The Cardinal scored 30 runs in the rain-shortenedtournament en route to improving its record to 8-1 on theseason.

On Thursday,Stanford opened the tournament by de-feating UC-Santa Barbara 4-0. Senior pitcher MissyPenna continued her brilliant work from the circle,keep-ing hitters off balance and not allowing the Gauchos tomuster any sort of rally.The former All-American threwa complete game, allowing just three hits while strikingout 13.

Junior left fielder Alissa Haber celebrated her 21stbirthday by smashing her first home run of the seasonto lead the Stanford offense. The home run was espe-cially sweet as it came off a former rival.

“The UCSB pitcher actually went to my rival highschool and we played club ball together,so it was nice toget the best of her,”Haber said after the game.

Junior third baseman Shannon Koplitz added threehits for the Cardinal.

On Friday, Stanford defeated No. 24 Long BeachState 8-3 in a game called after five innings due to in-clement weather.The win was Stanford’s first against aranked opponent this season.

Freshman shortstop Ashley Hansen led the Cardinalin an offensive barrage that would continue for the rest ofthe weekend. Hansen cracked a three-run homer in thebottom of the second to push the Cardinal ahead 4-0.

Koplitz then broke the game open in the bottom of thefourth by hitting a bases-clearing triple to put the Cardi-nal ahead 8-3.

Penna again picked up the win for the Cardinal,goingall five innings, allowing only six hits while striking outeight.

Hansen finished the game 3-for-3, with four RBIs, inwhat was the beginning of a monumental offensive week-end for the highly touted freshman.

Head coach John Rittman raved about the maturity ofhis budding star.

“Ashley is a leader on the field,” Rittman said.“De-spite being a freshman,she plays like a veteran because ofthe experiences she has had playing club and internation-al ball.”

On Saturday, Hansen became just the third Stanfordplayer to record two triples in a game and led Stanford toa 9-5 victory over Utah State.

Both Hansen and Haber went 3-for-5,while the fresh-man knocked in three more runs. Haber scored threetimes out of the leadoff spot.

Sophomore Ashley Chinn picked up the win in the cir-cle for the Cardinal,throwing a complete game and strik-ing out eight.

On Sunday,the Cardinal came from behind to defeatNo.24 San Diego State 9-2.After falling into a 2-0 hole inthe second inning,the Stanford offense exploded for nineruns in the middle innings to put the game out of reach.

Hansen recorded her seventh consecutive multi-hitgame for the Cardinal,going 2-4 with a pair of RBIs andtwo runs scored.

Junior catcher Rosey Neill became just the fifth Stan-ford player to record 30 career home runs when she hit atwo-run shot in the bottom of the fourth to put the Cardi-nal ahead for good.

Senior second baseman Maddy Coon would addher first home run of the season an inning later as partof a five-run rally that helped clinch the win.

One reason the Stanford offense has looked so pow-erful early in the season is the tremendous production it

has been getting out of the top three batters in the line-up:Haber,Hansen and Coon.

The three are combining to hit a gaudy .506 with 10doubles and five triples.Coon has also recorded a team-leading 11 walks, which contributes to her .656 on-basepercentage.Hansen has enjoyed hitting between Haber and Coon inthe lineup.

“It is helpful to hit behind Haber,”Hansen said.“Weare similar hitters, and I can learn a pitcher’s tendenciesfrom seeing how they pitch her. I’m also really comfort-able with Maddy behind me,knowing she’ll pick me up.”

With these three players on base so often, the job ofthe middle of the Stanford lineup becomes a lot easier.

Rittman is pleased with the way his entire lineup hasshaped up.

“The top five hitters have really produced,” he said.“They have all come up with big hits in big situations.Also,the competition for spots in the bottom half of the orderhas only made everyone better.”

The Cardinal will open its home schedule next week-end when it plays host to the Stanford Nike Invitational,beginning Friday at 12:15 p.m.against Sacramento State.

Contact Dan Bohm at bohmd@stanford.edu.

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SPORTS

Stanford loses lead, game to Cal

SOFTBALL2/15 vs. San Diego State W 9-2

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GAME NOTES: Stanford scored 30 runs in a shortened Camp-bell/Cartier Classic while winning all four of its games. The Car-dinal’s win against Long Beach State marked its first against aranked opponent this season.

Destructionon theDiamond

MEN’S VOLLEYALL

Men split decisive home series

WRESTLING

Stanford pins Cal Poly in nail-biterBy ZOE LEAVITT

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The last dual meet of the season forStanford wrestling came down to the finalminutes as the Cardinal snatched a 21-18win from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

With the teams tied after eight gruelingmatches, sophomore Cameron Teitlemanwas victorious in the tie-breaking matchto save the day for Stanford.

Although Stanford (8-13-1) forfeitedthe heavyweight match, it won six of theeight remaining weight classes to achieveits third Pacific-10 Conference win thisseason.

Junior Tyler Parker jumpstarted thedual meet at 149 pounds,where he held onto win a close,6-5 match against returningPac-10 placer Eric Maldonado.Parker (3-2) fought through his injury this weekendafter sitting out of several recent matches.

“That kid is something special in a lotof ways,” said coach Jason Borrelli aboutParker and his performance over theweekend.“He’s probably more hurt thananyone knows. He’s a tough kid.You’re alittle more cautious when you’ve got in-juries,you protect yourself sometimes,buthe did enough to win.”

Redshirt freshman NickAmuchastegui then took back the Cardi-nal lead, defeating Joel Shaw 6-1. Thematch gave Amuchastegui his 26th win of

the year, cementing his position as thefourth-most winning Stanford freshmanof all time.

The Mustangs,however,were tough totame. At 174 pounds, Cal Poly’s RyanDesRoches defeated freshman VictorHaug (8-21) to tie the score yet again.

But the Cardinal rallied back in thenext two matches. Junior Jake Johnson(28-14) pinned his opponent to score animportant six points for Stanford.

At 197 pounds, Senior Luke Feist (19-11) made his team proud in his very lasthome match. He won 5-0 to widen Stan-ford’s lead 15-6.

“Luke’s been a big part of this programthese few years,”Borrelli said.“It’s nice togo out this way, with a win for him and awin for the team.”

The dual swung back to the lowerweight classes, where freshman MattScencebaugh fought in another nail-bitingmatch. After achieving Stanford’s onlywin against No. 11 Boise State in his lastmatch,Scencebaugh proved himself againby defeating Pac-10 placer Micah Fergu-son in overtime.

With the score at 18-12, 16th-rankedMustang Filip Novachkov pinned AustinQuarles in the first period to tie up thescore once again.

On an 18-18 tie,the dual came down toTeitleman and Andy Wagner at 141pounds.Teitleman defeated Wagner 4-0 to

close the dual season in Stanford’s favorand show how much the team has grownthroughout the season.

“Putting a kid in that situation tells youa lot about your athletes,” Borrelli saidabout the pressure placed on Teitleman.

“We’ve never put him in that situationbefore,” Borrelli continued.“He went outthere and stayed relaxed, did enough towin and enough for the team to win. Hewrestled a smart match and kept his com-posure.”

After a rocky start to the season, Car-dinal wrestling has surged in the pastweeks and this final match proved the res-olution to many season goals.

“We’ve come a long way,”Borrelli said.“You kind of wish the dual match seasonwas just starting.If you can figure out howto win the close matches, that’s when yourwrestling improves. That’s what our guysare starting to figure out. I know — or Idon’t know,but I have a pretty strong feel-ing — if we wrestled some of those earliermatches now,we would do better.”

“We’re pretty excited,”Borrelli contin-ued. “We fought hard and had to over-come a lot to win this dual meet.Hopeful-ly we’ll be able to build on that momen-tum for the Pac-10s. It’s a good way to goout.”

Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stanford.edu.

By JACOB JAFFECONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Stanford men’s volleyball team ex-perienced highs and lows this weekend,splitting two matches at home against top-ranked opponents.

The No. 7 Cardinal (8-6, 4-5 MountainPacific Sports Federation) started off theweekend with a dominating four-set victo-ry over previously unbeaten No.3 Pepper-dine — 30-18,28-30,30-25,30-24 — Fridaynight at Maples Pavilion.

Stanford out-hit Pepperdine in everyset,and for the match,the Cardinal hit .399,compared to only .236 for the Waves.Stan-ford led Pepperdine in every major catego-ry,with five more digs and three more aces,while amassing 17 fewer errors.The biggestdifference, though, was in the blocking,where Stanford totaled 17.5 blocks, whilePepperdine managed only seven.

“The ability to put a good block up lim-ited their hitters and enabled our defenseto dig balls and continue the rallies,” saidjunior opposite Evan Romero.

The Cardinal front line did allow Pep-perdine’s senior opposite Paul Carroll torecord 29 kills,but Carroll was held to onlya .274 hitting percentage.Stanford held therest of the team to a .214 hitting percentageon the match,due in large part to great de-fensive play.The leader of the defense wasonce again freshman libero Erik Shoji,whorecorded 26 digs, including numerous re-markable saves.

“I believe that the player that stepped itup the most was Erik Shoji,”Romero said.“Twenty-six digs in a match is quite an im-pressive feat.He passed extremely well,al-lowing our offense to roll smoothly.”

On the offensive side of the ball, theplayer of the game was Romero, who had24 kills while hitting .435 for the match.Freshman outside hitter Brad Lawsonadded a double-double with 15 kills and 10digs. Sophomore outside hitter SpencerMcLachlin and senior middle blockerBrandon Williams chipped in with 13 and10 kills,respectively.

The Cardinal started hot, scoring 18 ofthe first 22 points in the match to take acommanding lead in the first set. Aftercruising to an easy win in the first set, theCardinal faced a tougher Pepperdine at-tack in the second set, falling narrowly bytwo points. Stanford then pulled away ineach of the final two sets to secure the vic-tory. This match was quite a turnaroundfrom the previous matchup of the twoteams earlier in the year,when Pepperdineswept the Cardinal in Malibu.

“The biggest differences between thisweekend’s Pepperdine match and the pre-vious one was that we carried out our gameplan,and did so with confidence,”Romerosaid. “We played hard, blocked well, hitsmart shots and did not fluctuate emotion-ally. We kept a high intensity the entirematch.”

The Cardinal hoped to transfer this in-tensity to its next match against No. 5

Southern California,but the team failed tobring the same emotion and precision,falling in straight sets — 31-29,30-28,30-25— Saturday night at Burnham Pavilion.The loss was Stanford’s first at home,and itdropped the Cardinal below .500 in MPSFplay.

Stanford was once again led in kills byRomero with 11, followed by Lawson andMcLachlin with 10 apiece. The Cardinalhad difficulty with USC’s block, though,hitting only .233 for the match, with its topthree hitters combining to hit only .149.

“We did not execute the game plan any-where near the level we did against Pepper-dine,”Romero said.“Against a good team,we have to make the small plays,and therewere times that we did not do that.”

The Cardinal did lose several crucialpoints, which were the difference in thematch.Down 29-25 in the first set,Stanfordrallied to tie the game by staving off four setpoints, but then lost the next two to dropthe set. In the second set, the Cardinal led27-26,but lost four of the last five points tolose the set. The third set looked to be aturning point for the Cardinal men,as theyjumped to a 15-7 lead early,the largest leadfor either team in the match.Stanford onlywon 10 of the remaining 33 points in thematch, though, falling to USC for the sec-ond time this year.

The team can see its potential, but itsmain problem has been consistency.

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Despite leading by 14 points heading into the break, Stanford men’s basket-ball failed to finish strong, losing to Cal on the road. The loss puts the Cardi-nal into a deep hole as it fell to 4-8 on the season in Pac-10 play.

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The Stanford softball team has been an offensive jug-gernaut this year. Led by a talented core of freshmen,the team has catapulted itself in the national rank-ings, and currently resides in the No. 8 spot.

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WOMEN’S SWIMMING

Cardinal clinches undefeated season at CalBy ZACH ZIMMERMAN

DESK EDITOR

Finishing the dual meet regularseason by crushing an archrival in ahostile environment is impressive.Winning 19 straight Pacific-10 Con-ference dual meets and 41 of 42head-to-head competitions is justplain scary.

The No. 2 Stanford women’sswimming and diving team com-pleted the dual meet regular seasonundefeated for the 15th time inschool history by emphatically de-feating No. 11 California, 162-129,Saturday in Berkeley. With the win,the Cardinal capped off an un-precedented season in which it beatall six ranked opponents that itfaced in dual meet competition.

Stanford had little difficulty indefeating the Bears. The day beganwith first- and third-place finishesby the Cardinal in the 200-metermedley relay and the 1,000freestyle.

After narrowly losing in the 200free, Stanford bounced back tosweep three straight events and cat-apulted itself to a sizeable lead.Thiscushion allowed the team to utilizemany of the younger swimmers andprovide valuable race experience

before postseason competitioncommences.

The Cardinal’s impressive meetwas highlighted by the performanceof three swimmers who qualifiedfor the NCAA Championships.

Freshman Betsy Webb punchedher ticket to the NCAAs by record-ing the third-fastest time in Stan-ford history in the 100 backstroke.Her time of 52.88 seconds was just.03 seconds short of the second all-time score set by current Stanfordhead coach Lea Maurer.

Sophomore Liz Smith and juniorOlympic medalist Elaine Breedenalso recorded “A” qualifying timesin the 200 breaststroke and 200 but-terfly, respectively.

Freshman Angela Duckworth,whose third-place finish in the 1,000free helped clinch the victory forStanford, spoke very highly of theefforts of her teammates.

“[Webb] finished first in the 100-meter backstroke and created a lotof momentum for us,” Duckworthsaid. “She touched out one of Cal’sbiggest swimmers so it was a big winfor our team.”

Fellow freshman Jamie Brucehad a career day for the Cardinal,racing to three personal bests onValentine’s Day.

Stanford divers once again keptpace, sweeping both the one- andthree-meter competitions.

Sophomore Meg Hostage hadtwo qualifying “A” scores on Satur-day, placing first in the one-metercompetition and second in thethree-meter. Current Pac-10 Diverof the Month junior Carmen Stellarcontinued her extraordinary seasonby winning the three-meter compe-tition with a career-high score indual meet competition of 308.93.

Senior Sarah Ohr followed suit,recording two “B” scores and fin-ishing third in both diving competi-tions.

The Cardinal divers were ex-pected to defeat a Cal team thatputs more emphasis on the swim-ming events, but nonetheless madetheir case as a force to be reckonedwith in the postseason.

“This team has a lot of fight init,” Ohr said. “If one member of theteam isn’t performing well that day,we can always count on another toreally step it up. We also have astrong tradition of excellence, and Ithink we all take great pride indoing out part to continue it.”

Up next for the Cardinal are thePac-10 Championships in Washing-ton. Stanford will enter the compe-

tition as the clear-cut favorites.However, the team understandsthat postseason competition is awhole new world and that successwill be more difficult to come by.

“We are undefeated in dualmeets, but Pac-10s are completelydifferent because they score threeheats when dual meets only scorethe top five swimmers,” Duckworthsaid. “But if everyone swims welland has fun, who knows what couldhappen. “

With Pac-10s and NCAAs rightaround the corner, Stanford hasproven itself as both a conferenceand national contender. The Cardi-nal has already defeated such pow-erhouses as Michigan and Floridaearlier in the season, and remains atthe heels of Georgia at the top of thenational standings.

However, as echoed time andtime again by the Cardinal women,the only ranking that matters is thatwhich is attained at the end of thepostseason.

“From here on out its just fine-tuning the details,” Smith said, “andmaking sure we stay positive, fo-cused, relaxed and unified.”

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Senior Jillian Harmon was theonly other Cardinal player to score indouble figures, tallying 18 points on8-13 shooting. She helped lead Stan-ford in transition in the second half,as the Cardinal was able to exploitCal’s foul trouble. Both Alexis Gray-Lawson,who scored 37 points againstStanford in January, and AshleyWalker recorded their third fouls lessthan four minutes into the period,and Stanford immediately took ad-vantage. Down 30-22 at the time, theCardinal closed out the game on a 36-11 run.

“I think we made our statement,”said redshirt junior Rosalyn Gold-Onwude.“We just couldn’t let it hap-pen again. It’s a pride issue.”

But while Stanford was able to as-sert itself late in the game, it did takesome time for the team to build anymomentum. As has been an issue attimes this season, the Cardinal didnot always capitalize on opportuni-ties early in the contest. Despitejumping out to a 9-4 lead to begin thegame, a combination of turnoversand missed shots allowed Cal to take

a slim halftime lead.“It was a battle,like a heavyweight

fight,” said Stanford coach Tara Van-Derveer.“We started running a littlebit, we hit some nice outside shotsand we went into Jayne really well inthe second half.”

“We just knew we had to stick inthere,” Appel said. “Even if we’redown, we’re still going to be givingour all and playing as hard as we can.”

The Cardinal’s victory broke theBears’ 13-game winning streak thatdates back to mid-December, andprevented Cal’s first sweep of Stan-ford since 1985-1986. Walker andLaura Greif led the Bears with 11points apiece, but the Cardinal wasable to shut down Cal’s other offen-sive threats — Gray-Lawson onlynotched four points on the afternoon,and Natasha Vital was just 2-11 fromthe field.

Outside of Harmon and Appel,Stanford didn’t shoot particularly

well, either, as sophomore forwardKayla Pedersen shot 20 percent, andsophomore Jeanette Pohlen andfreshman Lindy La Rocque were acombined 3-11 from beyond the arc.But the Cardinal was able to hit shotswhen it mattered — La Rocque hit athree-pointer early in the second halfto cut Cal’s lead to three. Just mo-ments later, she dove for a loose balland tossed it to Harmon,who laid it into bring the Bears’ lead down to jut asingle point.

“Lindy goes for that loose ball,andwe get the energy going,”VanDerveersaid.

After another few minutes ofback-and-forth, Harmon nailed along-distance jumper of her own togive the Cardinal a 37-34 lead. Stan-ford never trailed again.

The victory extends the Cardinal’scurrent winning streak to seven gameswith just six contests remaining on itsPac-10 schedule.

Stanford is next in action on Thurs-day at Maples against Oregon State at7 p.m.

Contact Wyndam Makowsky atmakowsky@stanford.edu.

WBBALLContinued from front page

“Our team has to continue to learnfrom our mistakes and work hard inpractice,” Romero said. “We have avery talented team that has to masterthe ability to play at a high level consis-tently.”

The Cardinal next returns home onMarch 3 to take on UC-Santa Cruz.

Contact Jacob Jaffe at jwjaffe@stan-ford.edu.

VOLLEYBALLContinued from page 4

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the events.stanford software, andwe are hosting it on the ASSUserver, and I modified it to useGoogle calendar to visualize theresults.”

The calendar already has 109events posted from over 87 stu-dents registered to the calendar.Any student or organization canregister to add events to the calen-dar, although repeated abuse ofcalendar policies could result in aban.

“We’re trusting the Stanfordcommunity to not abuse this,”Gobaud pointed out. “We want thisto be as easy as possible for stu-

dents to use; there is no approvalprocess.”

While the calendar has not beenwidely publicized to the broaderStanford community, studentorganization leaders have receivedemails from the OSA regarding theproject, and responses to the calen-dar have generally been positive.Chang Kim ’09, co-president of theKorean drumming ensembleHwimori and campus liaison forthe Korean Students Association,said the calendar’s biggest strengthwas its simple layout.

“There is no extra clutter, andall the information is right there,”Kim said. “I think this will suit myneeds very well because it’s right tothe point.”

Raagapella President VigananPattamatta ’11 said the calendar isa large improvement from email

lists, through which events werepreviously publicized, explainingthat the sheer volume of emailfrom lists often means that newsgoes ignored or forgotten. But, asleader of a performing arts group,Pattamatta said it would be nice ifgroups could add additional mediato the calendar.

“If there are four differentevents that a person could go to inone day, you could definitely makean impression by having a videotrailer or flier,” Pattamatta noted.

Gobaud said the next phase ofthe calendar would involveFacebook integration.

“It’s really open for change, andI just want to make this is as usableas possible for students,” he said.

Contact Nikhil Kamat at nvkamat@stanford.edu.

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for a grand total of $130,473.70. Thattotal is expected to increase, though,as final donations arrive in the comingweeks.

Going back the previous threeyears, Dance Marathon raised$121,888.92, $150,893.62 and $58,000,respectively; however, those years didnot feature FACE AIDS matching, sothis year’s dance donation totalsaw a 44 percent decreasefrom last year.

Dance MarathonCampus Director JessieLiu ’09 attributed thedifference to the pooreconomic climate.While dancers wereprovided extensive sup-port in fundraising, shesaid, several contactedevent organizers with con-cerns about asking their fam-ilies for donations duringthese difficult times. Liu also notedhow sponsorship was down this year,with many previous donors cuttingback or no longer even contributing.

“Fundraising isn’t the main focus,though,” she added. “The real focusis on improving awareness amongthe student body of HIV/AIDS andinspiring individuals to help in thecause.” To that purpose, this year’sevent featured a contemplationroom focusing on individuals withHIV/AIDS, as well as ahealth/human rights service fair andresearch/service project symposium.

Ninety percent of the 2009 pro-ceeds ($123,606.60) will go toPartners in Health (PIH), a non-prof-it organization dedicated to theexpansion of healthcare in developingcountries, in particular its work inRwanda. Dance Marathon added alocal secondary beneficiary this yearas well: Ellipse HIV Support Services,a Bay Area charity committed tostopping the spread of HIV/AIDS inSan Mateo County, which will receive

the other 10 percent of funds($6,867.04) toward working withHIV-positive individuals in SanMateo County.

“We are very proud of all of ourdedicated fundraisers, and apprecia-tive of FACE AIDS donors for mak-ing a donation total of this magnitudepossible, despite the recession,”Kuritzky said.

Dancers taking part in the eventhad to pledge to raise $192, anamount equal to the price of annualHIV/AIDS medication for an adultand pediatric patient. The impact of

the event was evident to many ofthe dancers who took part.

“I think theHIV/AIDS cause, espe-cially with regard toDance Marathon, issomething special,”said Ariana Koblitz’12. “We, as students,are making a stand

and highlighting thefact that this is some-

thing so easily preventa-ble in today’s world.”When the clock struck one

on Sunday afternoon, the hundreds ofdancers who filed out of Arrillagamay have been exhausted, but theywere more than pleased with theirday’s work.

“At the end of Dance Marathon,you start to realize the extent of whatyou’ve done,” said Gino Mazzotti’10. “You may feel terrible and tiredand exhausted, but you come to real-ize that you’ve done something greatover the past 24 hours out of puresolidarity.”

Dance Marathon wasn’t the onlymarathon fundraiser held over theweekend; organizers also added the“Hack-a-thon” event for those whoprefer to code rather than dance forgood. This 24-hour programmingspree was set up and conceived byDavid Gobaud ’08.A total of 34 pro-grammers participated in the eventby checking for bugs in programsand Web sites run by DanceMarathon’s beneficiaries and othernon-profit organizations.

Students targeted OpenMRS, an

open medical records system used byPartners in Health; two projects forKiva, where lenders can make micro-loans to those in need around theworld; a revamped Web site and data-base for Ellipse; a Facebook applica-tion for FACE AIDS; and an iPhoneapplication and other projects forThe Extraordinaries, so people canspend their free time working onprojects that are socially beneficial.

“It was absolutely amazing,”Gobaud said. “We got more donethan I ever thought we would. Wefixed more bugs and features in 24hours than OpenMRS’s core teamdo in an average weekend. Theresults are absolutely fabulous.”

Kamil Dada contributed to this story.

Contact Shane Savitsky at savitsky@stanford.edu.

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as Santa Claus, with a procession ofeight cyclists serving as his reindeer.

“If you go to any [of the] games,the Tree is an integral part,” saidRaylene Poppino ’11, a public policymajor who supports the Strangecampaign. “It builds up Stanfordpride and John Strange is doing aphenomenal job.”

“It’s a good way for people to getexcited about what’s coming upnext,” added Katherine Matsumoto’11.

Reflecting on his experience asthe treasured mascot, Fortune said,“I’ve loved it. It was everything Iexpected it to be and more.”

And while all three contenders

may greatly pine for the distinctionof being Tree, only one will ascendthe evergreen throne at the end ofthis week.

Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@stanford.edu.

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Further complicating matters isthe fact that the photographer whotook the photo claims he was work-ing for the AP on a freelance basis atthe time and therfore he, not the AP,has the rights to the image.

Contact Robert Toews at rtoews@stanford.edu.

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