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BY JACOB JOHNSONDESK EDITOR

Stanford Athletics will sell seats inSection 13 of Maples Pavilion forthe mens basketball games againstNo.20 UCLA and USC this week-end.

Tickets in this section will only be avail-able to season-ticket holders andBuck/Cardinal Club members. Section 13was previously reserved for Sixth Man mem-bers, provoking an outcry from sections ofthe student body.

The Sixth Man is organized and run bystudents, with assistance from the Stanfordmens basketball program.Last Tuesday, the

athletic department announced that theSicth Man will be restricted to Sections 9-12.The Stanford Band usually occupies Section9, but there is room for some Sixth Manmembers as well.

On Wednesday, Sixth Man ManagingDirector Alexis Link 10 released a state-ment to the groups email list,protesting thedecision. The email included a survey inwhich students, alumni, University employ-ees and others were asked to respond to theathletic departments decision. One of thequestions asked students if the decision tosell seats in Section 13 to season-ticket hold-ers and donors bothered them. With 1000votes tallied, 89.5 percent of respondentssaid,Yes, it is a student section.

Furthermore, Link claimed that she and

the other Sixth Man organizers were notinformed by the Athletic Department of thecoming sale.

I was never informed by the members ofthe athletic department who were responsi-ble for this decision,Link wrote in an emailto The Daily on Friday. She claimed shefound out about the sale of tickets in Section13 from a member of the mens basketballprogram and was never directly contacted.

There were discussions earlier in theseason regarding selling Section 13 to theBuck Cardinal Club, Link admitted.However, she said the idea was shot downcompletely after vehement opposition fromboth the Sixth Man Committee and the

By KAMIL DADA and ANDREA FULLER

Condoleezza Rice will formally return toStanford on March 2, said her chief of staff, Colby

Cooper. Rice has been settling into her HooverInstitution office in recent weeks, and her staffarrived on campus Dec. 15 to prepare for herreturn.

The former Secretary of State will not immedi-ately return to teaching but has publicly stated sheexpects to work on a book and eventually return tothe classroom. She will also participate in Hoovertask forces dealing with issues including nationalsecurity, according to Hoover Senior AssociateDirector Richard Sousa.

Stanford administrators and some of Rices old-est friends applaud her renewed relationship withthe University, though others who oppose Bushadministration policies or clashed with her asprovost are less enthusiastic.

Prof.Rices return to Stanford will provide ourstudents and the academic community with a greatopportunity to learn from her experience in publicservice and international affairs, UniversityPresident John Hennessy told The Daily in a state-ment.We are proud and pleased that she has cho-sen to return to her faculty appointment and to pur-sue her future teaching and research interests here.

Future as a Political Science ProfessorWhile Rice will not immediately return to the

classroom, a number of professors look forward toher interactions with students.

Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at Hoover,believes Rice has a lot to contribute in terms of fos-tering policy debate, providing analysis and engag-ing students.

Many people will want to find ways to discussand evaluate her role as Secretary of State and,pre-vious to that, as National Security Advisor, in anextremely controversial period and one in whichthe United States did things that were very trou-bling,frankly, Diamond said.

When Rice will resume teaching,however, is stillunclear.

Coit Blacker, director of the Freeman SpogliInstitute, is one of Rices close personal friends and

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice waves goodbye as she leavesthe State Department in Washington on Jan. 16, 2009. Sinceleaving the capital, Rice has been making the transition back toStanford, where she is a tenured political science professor.

Rices history marked by conflict

Few equate Rumsfeld, RiceBy ANDREA FULLER and KAMIL DADA

Condoleezza Rices return to Stanford has been quietso far, despite the clamor over George W. Bushs 2006visit and Donald Rumsfelds 2007 appointment at theHoover Institution.

Following Rumsfelds selection as a DistinguishedVisiting Fellow in fall 2007, faculty and students circulat-ed petitions in opposition. Debate over his appointmentconsumed Faculty Senate and ASSU meetings. Despiteclaims by student activists that Rice was also complicit inwar crimes, the anti-Rice movement pales in compari-son to that targeting the former Secretary of Defense.

Rice will be taking up a position at Hoover, just as

Rumsfeld did,but few equate her arrival with his contro-versial appointment.The former Secretary of State, afterall, is a tenured political science professor and a formerStanford provost.

[Rice] is returning to a long-established position,whereas Rumsfeld was appointed to something he hadnot held before and in a much more minor role as a dis-tinguished visiting scholar, said senior Hoover FellowLarry Diamond. I also think Rumsfelds service asSecretary of Defense was far more ignominious thanCondi Rices service in either of her positions, where Ithink the ultimate record is at least more mixed.

George Shultz, a distinguished fellow at Hoover,argued that Rice never truly left campus and comparedher return to his own experience coming back to Stanfordafter serving as Secretary of State under PresidentReagan.

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Condoleezza Rice stands in the Quad in October1993, shortly after her appointment as Provost. Inher early days, Rice handled dramatic budget cuts.

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in many quarters [when she

left] because she had not been

a popular provost.

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Barton Bernstein still remembers where he wassitting at the end of a long table, CondoleezzaRice to his right, and three seats away from thespeaker. It was the early 1980s, and the history pro-fessor and new political science assistant professor,respectively, had gathered at Galvez House, thebuilding that once housed the arms control center.

Those gathered in the room went around thetable, discussing what they wanted to accomplish intheir life. Bernstein distinctly remembers Rice say-ing that she hoped to be Secretary of State orNational Security Advisor.

I remember thinking, Highly unlikely, headmitted over 20 years later.

Rice would go on to fulfill not one but both ofthose goals. Her time in Washington would cap offnearly two decades spent as a well-liked Stanfordprofessor and sometimes-controversial provost.While her return to the Farm means a return tosome of her most beloved friends, it also marks areturn to some of her oldest enemies.

A Charismatic Lecturer

At age 19,Rice received her bachelors degree inpolitical science from the University of Denver,where she would receive her Ph.D. in 1981 afterreceiving a masters degree in the same subject fromNotre Dame.The young scholar came to Stanford in1981 after receiving a Ford Foundation post-doctor-al fellowship,and she began teaching as an assistantpolitical science professor in 1982.

Rice was tenured in 1987,becoming an associateprofessor. From 1989-1991, she served as a Sovietexpert on the National Security Council, and manylamented her parting. In a 1989 Daily article, shewas labeled a charismatic and innovative teacher,and one student recalled giving the popular profes-sor a birthday cake and singing during class. (Riceoffered posts in Bush administration,Jan. 12, 1989).

Rice received the Gores Award for Excellence inTeaching in 1984 and the School of Humanities andSciences Deans Award for Distinguished Teaching

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in 1993. Over a decade later, students stillremember her engaging lectures, particularlyin her class entitled The Role of the Militaryin Politics. Her classes enjoyed the politicalsimulations she conducted,and students laterpraised her intelligence and ability to synthe-size information.

She was always extremely prepared as aninstructor and a lecturer, said Chris Aguas92. She very clearly had a deep intimacywith the material in terms of the historical

basis.But it was her personable nature thatdrew many undergraduates to Rice.Her will-ingness to talk with students about every-thing from classes to football built her a fol-lowing in the political science department.

She was approachable; she was extreme-ly caring and warm and kind and [had] allsorts of qualities that I wouldnt have neces-sarily expected in an advisor or professor,said Erin Alaimo 88, who would later workin Washington. She had a truly profoundimpact on my life, my career.

Emmanuel Bart-Plange 93 not only tookRices popular lecture course, but also stud-ied with her in directed readings. (He jokedhes still bitter about his A- grades.) The foot-ball player would also work with Rice andher father at The Center for a NewGeneration, an after-school enrichment pro-gram for East Palo Alto students that Riceco-founded.

For Bart-Plange, Rice was more than anordinary professor. She kept in touch withhim over the years, and even got to know his

mother.When I got married she sent me a giftwith a card from the White House, he said.She didnt have to do that, and she did.

Her love of sports and music enabledmany students to relate to Rice on a person-al level as well.Alan Brown 85, an advisee ofRices, said that he talked with the professorabout football as much as the Soviet invasionof Afghanistan.

Its hard sometimes for kids to approacha Stanford professor, he said. I never feltthat with Prof.Rice. You could question any-thing, you could discuss anything. She wasopen to ideas as opposed to spewing some-thing shed already written.

Her office door was always open,if I everneeded to talk about a paper I was writing orclasses I was taking, added Eric Abrams 85,another advisee.It was really cool to engageher in conversation about things outside ofacademia. She was a huge football fan.

These personal connections have changedhow many of Rices former students feelabout her time in the unpopular Bush admin-istration. Most jumped to her defense,sayingthey fully believed that she did what shethought was right for the country andbelieved her intelligence enabled her tomake the best decisions possible.

My feeling is she will be judged favorablyas someone who did the best job that she pos-sibly could have,Alaimo said. I have neverknown her not to do the best job, not to puther absolute everything into everything shesever done.

And while some students are disappoint-ed with her political legacy,their memories ofRice as a professor remain untarnished.

She was absolutely one of my favoriteprofessors, maybe in the top two or three inthe whole time I was there, said EdwardAnderson 91. I think its unfortunate thatshe had such a long association with the Bushadministration, but I was excited to see herget into politics and do so well.Over time Iverespected her less, but shes obviously anincredible person.

The Young ProfessorMany professors, too, would look fondly

on Rices early time at Stanford, even thosewho would later go on to criticize her tenureas provost.

Many, many afternoons, Condi wouldcome out of her office, sit down at the secre-tarys desk,take off her shoes,and the two ofthem would cackle, said Political ScienceProf. Emeritus Hubert Marshall,whose officewas close to Rices. It was just little thingslike that that I liked about her.

Other professors vividly recalled fondmemories of their early exchanges with Rice.

George Shultz, former Secretary of Stateunder President Reagan and distinguishedfellow at the Hoover Institution, said that hefirst met Rice after her stint in Washington onthe National Security Council for the firstPresident Bush.

The reason why I remember [her] sovividly is that [she] has such a capable andinteresting personality,he said. She is fun tobe with,shes interest ing, shes got a lot to say.So,shes a person that I like to have on my listof good friends.

History Prof. Emeritus David Kennedy

agreed and admired Rices strong character.She was one of the most poised and self-

possessed individuals on the face of the plan-et,he said. That was evident to me from thevery first day that I met her, which I believewas her first day on the campus.

Kennedy said that during Stanfords cen-tennial campaign in the late 80s and early90s, he often travelled with Rice to variousStanford events and tried to envision what aworld after the Cold War might look like.

We were a little bit ahead of our timebecause the Cold War hadnt quite endedthen,he said. I got to know her best in thatcontext, and I was consistently impressedwith how well-informed she was and how bal-anced her judgment was and how extraordi-narily well-spoken she was.

Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at theHoover Institution, was also very impressedwith her poise, articulateness and ambition.He was also surprised to hear of her politicalaffiliations.

You would expect a young African-American political science professor, espe-

cially back in those days, to be a liberalDemocrat, he said, and so, when I foundout she wasnt,I was surprised and it certain-ly made her all the more interesting.

But Rice was not without detractors in herearly years. Her time in the first Bush admin-istration and political zeal sat poorly withsome of her fellow scholars.

I had no negative personal interactionswith her except that I found her very early onto be a very rigid ideologically oriented pro-fessor, said Political Science Prof. EmeritusJohn Manley. It didnt appeal to me verymuch.

And while many found the young profes-

sor amiable, some were less than impressedwith her scholarship.Im still surprised that she would want to

return to Stanford and a professorship,wrote History Prof. Emeritus Paul Seaver,who would later butt heads with Rice overthe Cultures, Ideas and Values (CIV) pro-gram. As I understand it, Russianists did notregard her as particularly distinguished as ascholar; on the other hand,I believe that stu-dents who took her courses regarded her as agood teacher.

Bernstein, who knew the professor fromvarious committees, seminars and personalinteractions, agreed.

Condi Rice is only somewhat better thana mediocre scholar, he said. Her strengthsare vigorous right-wing opinionation, markedsocial poise and a fluency in oral presenta-tion. Among the Stanford scholars in theSoviet-Russian area, she would rank near thebottom in the University. Over the years, inmy talking with at least four people in thefield, each of them would rank her at or nearthe bottom and this was true before she went

to the Bush administrationand became prominent.Most of the people

who think shes brillianthavent read her, haventheard her, cant judge, arebeing kind and are takenin by social poise andsuperficial fluency,Bernstein added.

Appointment as ProvostRices life would

change dramatically inMay 1993, whenUniversity PresidentGerhard Casperannounced that the politi-cal science professorwould take on the No. 2

job at the University:provost. Casper met Ricea year and a half prior,when she was a memberof the presidential searchcommittee that selectedCasper.

The President told TheDaily in 1993 that hebelieved her experience ingovernment would helpher deal with complexissues, and that the herselection signaled theimportance of diversity tothe University (Caspernames Condoleezza Riceas new provost, May 13,1993).

In an exclusive inter-view with The Daily a fewdays after, Rice praiseddiversity and dismissedher politics as irrelevant two issues that studentswould view in a substan-tially different light inlater years (Experiencedin the business of change,May 21,1993).

The first crisis Rice

would face, however, wasbalancing the budget.Soon after becomingProvost in 1993, Riceannounced that theUniversity would facemassive cuts to curbStanfords deficit andhoped that administrativerestructuring would solve long-term prob-lems (Additional budget cuts looming forUniversity, Oct.1, 1993).

The Daily reported that Rice said the situ-ation is so serious that if she wereapproached tomorrow with the greatest ideasince the silicon chip, [shed] have to say,Sorry, we cant afford that.

The Provost would announce that sheplanned to slash another $18 to $20 millionfrom the budget, drastically reducing centraladministrative costs over the next threeyears.

Budget cuts would make Rice a fair num-ber of enemies, and few departments werepleased about the cost reduction estimates

they were asked to submit. Some faculty feltthat little was left to cut after other cuts inrecent years. Students would also complainthat they were not involved enough in theprocess, to which Rice responded that thebudget has to be on my timetable (Rice,Senate discuss cuts, Feb. 2, 1993).

Further controversial changes by Riceincluded contracting out management of theFaculty Club and the Stanford UniversityPress (Budget stable, provost says, Nov. 11,1996).

I am often asked if [in contracting out],we are trying to run Stanford like a business,Rice said.The answer is no.We have to lookat ways to cut costs.

Coit Blacker, director of the FreemanSpogli Institute and a long-time personalfriend of Rice, told The Daily last week thatthe budget cuts were especially trying on theformer Provost.

[The budget cuts] earned Provost Rice alot of animosity or hostility from groups thatfelt that they had been targeted, he said.SoI think it was a very difficult time for her, but

she has never been one to shy away frommaking difficult decisions,if in her judgment,they are the right decisions, and thats whatshe did.

But as the years passed, budget cuts grewless controversial. Rice sliced $6.1 millionfrom the budget in her first year, a figurethat decreased over the next few years. Sheultimately cut $16.8 million from the budg-et between 1994 and 1996, and theUniversity went on to enjoy multi-million-dollar surpluses.

The Diversity DebatesThough many lauded the pick of Rice as

provost as a sign of Stanfords commitmentto diversity, tension soon built between Riceand women and minority groups on campus.

When she pushed for more U.S.-bornminority faculty, some students claimed shewas fueling anti-immigrant hysteria (U.S.born hiring policy questioned, Oct. 6, 1993).But the most heated controversy involvingRice and diversity in her early years wouldcome as a result of her budget cuts. As thebudget was pared down,campus ethnic com-munity centers became wary that they wouldbe affected, and the Provost did little toassuage their concerns.

Tensions boiled over at a meeting in 1994,

when Rice tried to address the communitycenters concerns, at one point drawing scoffsfrom the crowd (Skeptical crowd grills topofficials at a forum on ethnic center cuts,Jan.

13, 1994).You dont have the standing to question

my commitment to minorities and minorityissues, Rice said at the forum. Ive beenblack all my life.

At another forum the following month,the Provost also drew snickers when she toldthe audience you have to trust me.Studentstold The Daily they felt like the Provost didnot respect them, and that they feared shehad a conservative agenda. The Daily called

her impatient, even testy and one seniorlabeled her unprofessional, personallyinsulting and obnoxious (Out of the loop,students fear conservative agenda,Feb. 25,1994).

Though the ethnic centers would ultimate-ly escape budget cuts,Rices decision to elim-inate the position of Cecilia Burciaga,associ-ate dean of Student Affairs and Casa Zapataresident fellow (RF), drew the ire of students.Rice claimed the dismissal of the 20-yearemployee was strictly for fiscal reasons, butthe firing outraged students.

A group of students soon began a hungerstrike, with over 40 people fasting for 24hours in the Quad, and four continuing forthree days. The strike protested Burciagaslayoff and called on the University to betteraddress a number of Chicano/a issues. Thestrikes ultimately ended after three days, andthe University agreed to sign a letter declar-ing its commitment to diversity (Strike endsafter three days,agreement reached, May 9,1994).

Condi is one tough nut, said Jim Leckie,

a civil engineering profes-sor who observed thenegotiations between fac-ulty and students. Youwould have thought shewas negotiating with theRussians and not with stu-dents. She clearly receivedher management trainingin the Pentagon.

Female faculty, too,were displeased with Rice.Some expressed outragein 1993 with the decisionof the ProvostsCommittee on theRecruitment andRetention of WomenFaculty to remove a num-ber of personal anecdotesabout discrimination fromits report. Some femalefaculty suggested she wasworried about Stanfordsimage; the committeecountered that quoteswere eliminated to protectprivacy.

Rices commitmentto women faculty wouldagain be questioned fol-lowing the denial of tenureto Assistant History Prof.Karen Sawislak. Thoughher department approvedher for tenure, she wasrejected by the deans ofthe School of Humanitiesand Sciences. Studentswould form the StudentCoalition to Tenure KarenSawislak, though Ricewould eventually deny herappeal in 1998, sparkingfurther outcry.

Women faculty wouldcite Sawislaks case as oneexample of the Provostsinsensitivity to their issues.A group of female profes-sors released a report in

1998 declaring thatStanford had a poor recordof tenuring women facultyin recent years.Rice wouldcall the report error-rid-den and a polemic, dis-missing their concerns(Tenure criticized, Feb.25,1998).

I dont believe myself that there is a cri-sis, Rice would say at a later meeting. Ithink Stanford is a good place for women.(Caucus reports on female profs, May 11,1998.)

I very strongly feel that tenure is an eval-uation, she added. Youve had seven yearsto prove it. If we start to introduce affirma-tive action policies into our tenure practices,weve entered a slippery slope.

A group of faculty and staff would go onto submit a complaint to the U.S.Departmentof Labor in November 1998, alleging genderdiscrimination in University hiring and pro-motion practices including tenure.The inves-tigation did not end until December 2007,

when the Department of Labor ruled in favorof the University.

No one in this complaint is asking for apreference, Sawislak said. Were asking tobe evaluated based on our qualifications.(Labor Dept.may probe University, Feb.3,1999.)

The Final Provost YearsRices final years as Provost would not be

free of controversy. Many of the decisionscited as her major accomplishments wouldreceive mixed reactions.

While the Provosts push for graduatehousing is considered one of her achieve-ments she fought for short-term reconfig-uration to allow more students on campusand announced in 1998 that $15 millionwould go to building long-term housing students at the time were not fully satisfied.

In May 1998, over 100 graduate studentscamped out in the quad to protest lack ofadequate housing options. Her attituderubbed some students the wrong way.

I didnt need students on the Quad to tell

me that there was a housing problem, Ricelater remarked (Room for protest on cam-pus? Oct.6, 1998).

People protesting in the Quad would

never get me or, I think I can speak forGerhard [Casper] too, to do something thatwe wouldnt do to violate our personalprinciples or to do something that is not inthe interest of the University, Rice added,speaking about the protests that hadoccurred in recent years.

Rices formation of introductory seminarsand Sophomore College were undoubtedlypopular enhancements to undergraduateeducation. But her support of replacing theCultures, Ideas and Values program with

Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) gar-nered mixed reactions.In 1995, a committee supported by the

Provost began to reevaluate the CIV pro-gram, which received varied responses fromstudents, some of whom complained aboutthe excessive yet superficial reading. Someprofessors vehemently objected to the evalu-ation process, and History Prof. CarolynLougee Chappell complained it was shroud-ed in secrecy (CIV professors object toshortening program, May 29, 1996).

Although the CIV committee beganmeeting in October 1995, the first meetingheld with CIV faculty to discuss their con-cerns took place a full year later.

Instead of CIV faculty and student-pro-pelled changes, the push is coming from thetop down, Lougee Chappell said. Thisadministration wants to do away with every-thing that was in place before they came tomakeover the Universitys image.(Students award CIV high marks, Jan. 27,1997.)

History Prof. Emeritus Paul Seaver peti-

tioned the committees review, saying it wasinadequate, but to no avail IHUM wasfully implemented in 2000.

I was always glad that I had tenure,Seaver said. Otherwise I would have beenout on my ear for refusing to be a team play-er in my unsuccessful defense of the fresh-man CIV program.

His battles with Rice over CIV scarred hisimpression of her.

She was the least collegial colleague I canremember of any academic I met at Stanfordin more than 40 years, Seaver recently saidto The Daily. Her style was authoritarian;she had no time for faculty governance.Hence committees were regarded as a wasteof time, told what to do rather than consult-ed, and constituted of those too intimidatedto stand up to her bullying; given her controlof the budget, faculty were relatively easy tointimidate.

ResignationIn December 1998, Rice announced that

she would step down as Provost the followingsummer. Casper and others heaped praise onthe departing Provost, as did a number ofother faculty.But others were less enthused.

I think most people were happy to seeher leave once Bush stole the first election in2000, Political Science Prof. Emeritus JohnManley told The Daily.There was a big sighof relief in many quarters because she hadnot been a popular provost.

Her role as provost was very authoritari-an, very rigid, very dogmatic and not well-appreciated by the people with whom shehad to interact, he added.

History Prof.Barton Bernstein agreed.Almost everybody I know who dealt with

her came away annoyed, if not angry, hesaid. One heard of various tales where shewould get a long report from somebody,oneof the deans, and send it back within hourswith a one-word to one-sentence negative.

I liked Condi when she was withoutpower, he added.I found her pleasant,try-ing to grow, not very well educated,but eagerto know. As she gained power, I found herarrogant, not any smarter,not likely to do herhomework, but ferociously opinionated and

willing to impose her dictates. Shes a veryauthoritarian person, although shes probablyvery good at sucking up to power.

At the time, Rice dismissed rumors thatshe would assist George Bush in his run forthe presidency and said she was hesitant toreturn to government.That would all change,of course, and Rice would go on to supportBush and become his National SecurityAdvisor. Long before the world woulddebate her performance in that role and asSecretary of State, Stanford was deeplyaffected by the popular professor and often-controversial Provost.

Looking back, Blacker suggested that noone was surprised that Rice would go intopolitics.

I think both by temperament and inclina-tion, Secretary Rice is on the activist end ofthe spectrum in the academic world,he said.Plus, its hard to say no when the Presidentasks you to do something.

Marisa Landicho, Paul Craft, Nikhil Kamat, Anna Dearybury, Joshua Alvarez and Eric

Messinger contributed to this report.

Contact Andrea Fuller at anfuller@stanford.eduand Kamil Dada at kamild@stanford.edu.

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Continued from front page

HISTORY| Former Provost tackled budget cuts, diversity, IHUMI Slashing the University budget by $16.8

million between 1994 and 1996

I Eliminating the position of CeciliaBurciaga, associate dean of StudentAffairs and Casa Zapata resident fellowin 1994

I Denial of tenure to Assistant History Prof.Karen Sawislak in 1998

I Making a commitment to expanding

graduate housing in 1998

I Formation of Sophomore College in1995

I Creation of introductory seminars in1997

I Replacing Cultures, Ideas and Values(CIV) with Introduction to the Humanities(IHUM) in 2000

MAJOR DECISIONS AS

PROVOST:

She was the least

collegial colleague I can

remember of any

academic I met at

Stanford in more than 40

years.

PAUL SEAVER,history professor emeritus

She was extremely

caring and warm and

kind and all sorts of

qualities that I wouldnt

have necessarily expected

in an advisor or professor.

ERIN ALAIMO '88

Stanford Daily File Photo

Condoleezza Rice is known for her love of piano and is a trained concert pianist.The former Provost is also an avid football fan and once was an ice skater. She hasmaintained her passion for piano over the years, despite her busy schedule.

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has known her for close to 30 yearsthrough teaching and writingtogether.He suggested that the for-mer Secretary of State would needsome time to decompress.

She is at a point in her careerwhere she can define her relation-ship with Stanford, Blacker said.Shes been on a professional tread-mill that most people would findutterly exhausting for the last 15years. So its really up to her todefine the nature of her relationshipwith the University going forward.Shes just trying to catch her breathnow. I dont think shes thought veryhard about it.

Chair of the Political ScienceDepartment James Fearon said hehad not spoken to Rice personallyabout teaching,but added that Ricewould be able to return to teachingshould she wish to. He said that ifshe resumed her role as an active

faculty member in the department,she will have teaching obligations,asall faculty do.

Blacker explained that it was dif-ficult for him to think of Rice oncampus for any period of time with-out going back to the classroom.

She considers Stanford herhome, he said. I dont think shewould ever leave Stanford in thatsense. I dont think she would everresign her professorship. She lovesthis institution.

Blacker added, however, thatRice has always been a bit restless.

If there is a really interestingchallenge that comes her way, I haveno doubt that she would seize thatopportunity,as long as she can takeanother leave of absence fromStanford, he said.

Enthusiasm for Her ReturnThough Rice has made enemies

in the political sphere,the professorhas many friends and supporters oncampus, particularly at Hoover.

George Shultz, former Secretaryof State under President Reaganand distinguished fellow at Hoover,

was pleased to hear of her return tocampus and is looking forward tointeracting with another high-levelpolicy-maker.

Shes a gifted person intellec-tually, musically and in terms ofcapacity of friendship and good con-versation, he said.

Political Science Prof. StephenKrasner arrived at Stanford the

same year that Rice did (1981) andis glad to see her return. Heexplained that over the years, thetwo spent a lot of time together,sharing similar interests in every-thing from political theory to tennis.

Shes a good tennis player; shehits the ball hard,Krasner joked.

Krasner went on to work for theNational Security Council and thenreported directly to Rice as directorof policy planning at the StateDepartment. He believes Rice wassuccessful in her time as Secretary ofState.

She was very proactive aboutlinking the U.S. with the Europeansin terms of negotiating with Iran,he said.She was very committed tothe Six Points talks with NorthKorea.

Thinking back to their timetogether in Washington, Krasnerpointed out that Rice was an excel-lent athlete and musician. He notedthat Rice played the piano regularlywith a small group of musicians inWashington and was very talented.

As Secretary of State, she decid-ed to take up golf, he said. Sheactually got to be a decent golf play-er,which is not something you expectgiven the demands of the job.

He added that Rice had an activesocial calendar in Washington, mak-ing time for her friends despite hernear around-the-clock schedule.

Shes kept her friends throughall her stages of her life, he said.The people that she knew whenshe came to Stanford, when just aresearch scholar in 1981 many ofthose people are people shes stillfriendly with.

Opposition to RiceBut Rices return will not be cel-

ebrated by all. She made a numberof enemies during her tenure asprovost, and some of those woundshave yet to heal a decade later. Herrole in the controversial administra-tion of President George W. Bushhas only exacerbated feelings of illwill among some professors.

Few of her objectors deny Ricesright to return as a tenured profes-sor,but some are dismayed with herchoice to come back.

Political Science Prof. EmeritusHubert Marshall said that, althoughhe personally liked Rice,he believesprofessors should not mix policy-making with teaching because itprecludes objectivity. Rices case,hesaid, was exacerbated by herinvolvement in the controversialIraq War and accusations that theBush administration endorsed tor-ture and the denial of habeas corpus

in Guantanamo Bay.People whove been working

at Washington at that level aregoing to be preoccupied with theirplace in history, Marshall said.Almost all of them write booksand almost all of their books aredefensive. Ive never known thehighest-level person to say,Well, Iwas wrong.

I know that nobody who teach-es in the social sciences is absolutelyobjective, but I do think that the

rank and file of those people whoteach in the social sciences reallymake an effort to be objective, headded. People who have reallybeen policy-makers just really cantmeet that test.

Political Science Prof. EmeritusCharles Drekmeier similarlybelieved Rices image had beencompromised by her time inWashington,though he admitted shehas the right to be at Stanford.

Why she didnt extricate herself[from the Bush administration] Icant understand, Drekmeier said.She compromised her integrity inways that will make it hard for herto be trusted . . . There is no ques-tion that she colluded in the denialof the use of instruments of torture.

Even though Rice has the rightto return, Political Science Prof.Emeritus John Manley said students

and faculty should not keep theirobjections quiet.

The fact that shes tenured andthat the administration would wel-come her back is no reason for peo-ple at Stanford who object to herreturn to stifle themselves, he said.People have a right to speak outwhether shes tenured or not.

I cannot think of Condi as myformer colleague without her handsstained by the blood of over 4,000American soldiers and untold num-

bers of Iraqis,Manley added.Blacker, however, emphasized

that he hoped the Stanford commu-nity would give Rice time to read-

just. He said that regardless of whatone thinks of the policies and theconduct of the Bush administration,the mental, emotional and physicaldemands that were placed on theformer Secretary of State wereextreme.

I hope people will suspend judg-ment about what Condis returnmeans until Secretary Rice has timeto figure out what her returnmeans, he said.

The Daily is scheduled for an exclu-sive interview with Rice next week.

Contact Kamil Dada at kamild@stan- ford.edu and Andrea Fuller atanfuller@stanford.edu.

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ASSU pushes budget survey at meetingBy ZOE RICHARDS

The ASSU continued budget talkswith students at the third Town HallMeeting at 5pm in Old Union Friday.ASSU executives Jonny Dorsey andFagan Harris as well as Senate DeputyChair, Shelley Gao and Admin &Rules Chair, Luukas Ilves, urged stu-dents to fill out a survey that theybegan circulating Thursday eveningasking students for more detailedinput about their budget priorities.

Preliminary results from the sur-vey indicate that students listed

Undergraduate Advising andResearch (UAR) research grants andfellowships, Vaden Health Center,Counseling and Psychological

Services (CAPS) and The Bridgeamong the top priorities that shouldbe most insulated from budget cuts.Athletic programs and club sports arealso among the high-ranking studentpriorities along with introductoryseminars and Haas Center program-ming. Some areas that could be com-promised according to the surveyinclude,Varsity Athletics,IHUM, stu-dent government, and new studentorientation (NSO).

In response to the latest surveyresults, Jordan McCarthy 11 suggest-ed that NSO organizers should be

careful about what they cut.Preserve the kernel without keep-

ing all of the flashy stuff,he said.Many students agreed that trim-

ming the overstuffed freshman orien-tation could save the university quite abit of money.

Opening the floor to student dia-logue, Harris emphasized the impor-tance of not just re-allocating dollars,but integrating programs, looking atthe problems holistically and figuringout how the University can run moreefficiently.

University spending sparkeddebate as attendees raised issuesabout student employment andsalaries.Angelina Cardona 11,ASSUchair of mental health initiatives,

noted that cutting resident assistant(RA) salaries in half could save the

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Stanford Daily File Photo

Condoleezza Rice and Residence Dean Thom Massey stand in the Quad in theearly morning hours of May 29, 1998. Rice spoke with protestors who calledfor graduate housing reform, decrying the lack of affordable options. Ricewould champion the increase in graduate housing funds to the Faculty Senate.

McFaul selected as National

Security Affairs special assistantBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Political Science Professor Michael McFaul has beenselected by President Obama to serve as special assis-tant to the President for National Security Affairs andsenior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs at theNational Security Council.

McFaul is currently the deputy director of StanfordsFreeman Spogli Institute for International Studies anddirector of the Center on Democracy, Development andthe Rule of Law. He was also a senior adviser toObamas campaign on Russia and Eurasia issues,and hecontinued to advise on foreign policy issues during thetransition period.

President-elect Obama was fortunate to have thebenefit of Mikes counsel on a range of vital issues dur-ing the campaign including dealing with a resurgent

Russia, said Freeman Spogli Institute Director Coit D.Blacker in a statement.Now,from the White House,the

President can call on Mikes expertise and experience inthe region to build more constructive relationships withRussia, Eurasia and our allies across a broad strategicfront.

McFaul graduated from Stanford with a bachelorsdegree in international relations in 1986 and a mastersin Russian and East European studies also in 1986. He

went on to receive a doctorate in international relationsfrom Oxford in 1991.

NEWS BRIEFS

Daily Poll QuestionWhat do you think of Condoleezza Rices returnto campus?

a) I think its great; were lucky to have herb) Shes a valuable asset, but I dont agree

with her politicsc) Shes a war criminal and has no place hered) I dont care

vote today at stanforddaily.com!

Why she didnt extricate herself [from the

Bush administration], I cant understand.

She compromised her integrity in ways that

will make it hard for her to be trusted.

CHARLES DREKMEIER,political science professor emeritus

Professor Rices return to Stanford will

provide our students and the academic

community with a great opportunity to

learn from her experience in public serviceand international affairs.

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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Ensler brings insight on Congo

By ZOE LEAVITT

Eve Ensler, writer of the The Vagina Monologues,called on students to take a stand against the atrocities com-mitted toward women in the Democratic Republic of the

Congo (DRC) on Friday. In a discussion with Congolesegynecologist Dr. Dennis Mukwege, Ensler outlined horrorafter horror witnessed in the DRC,and argued that violenceagainst women was a universal issue.

I wish I could tell you violence against women was aparticularly cultural thing, Ensler said.In fact, it isnt. Its ahuman thing. I have yet to be in any village or town in theentire world where violence against women isnt rampant.

Ensler began her speech with a bang,drawing in the audi-ence with a monologue based on the experiences ofCongolese rape survivors.From the perspective of a girl kid-napped by soldiers, Ensler hammered home her pointsthrough a series of rules for survival.

Get over this It cant happen to you. . . these soldiersare here to protect me thing,Ensler said in her monologue.It will only confuse you.Never look at him when he is rap-ing you . . . build yourself a hole and crawl inside . . . Afterthe first 20 times, it will no longer hurt you.Your insides willno longer belong to you.

Mukwege further opened the audiences eyes by dis-cussing his experiences as a doctor in the Panzi hospital, ahospital he helped establish to aid rape survivors withwomen ranging from tiny,six month-old infants to 80-year-old grandmothers.

Though Mukwege began work in obstetrics and gynecol-

ogy,helping women injured in childbirth, he soon began tosee other cases of physical damage to womens bodies as thewar in the DRC developed.

I started seeing cases of rape with assault, not normalrapes, Mukwege said through an interpreter. Rapes withatrocities, with psychological tortures, with the aim ofdestroying a womans genital organs.When I saw the first

instance, I thought it was the only incident,but I started see-ing more and I realized this was part of the war.

Since 1999, Mukwege estimates the hospital has helped24,000 women. He performs about 10 surgeries each day torepair fistulas, or holes in womens genital areas. He hasrepeatedly described this rape and mutilation practice assexual terrorism.

When you meet these women, families, communities,that have been terrorized by rape,you realize rape is as ter-rible as any major biological weapon you can use,

Mukwege said.Mukwege further challenged the audience to think aboutthe consequences of rape.

Not only are these women infected by HIV/AIDS, butthey also have no chance of being able to have children inthe future, he said. These things also destroy any socialcohesion within the community.When a father is not able toprotect his child or his wife,then those family links are bro-ken, leading to a total lack of social cohesion.And in the endthese populations end up moving away,so you have a hugenumber of displaced persons.The end result is the result of aterrorist action.

Ensler emphasized that just like any terrorist action,rapeand genital mutilation are problems not specific to race orparticular groups of people.

Economically, she explained that the cell phones andDVD players that most Stanford students own help fund theterrorism taking place in the DRC. Since the Congo holdsmuch of the worlds reserves of coltan,a mineral vital to suchelectronic devices, the resource attracts militant groups.

While Ensler has traveled across the world and talked tothousands of victims of rape and violence, she said nothingin her experiences prepared her for what she witnessed inthe Congo.She used her speech to pass on this knowledge tothe Stanford community and to inspire people to action, or

at least awareness.I really didnt want to know what was going on in theCongo, because once you know, theres a kind of sacredresponsibility, she concluded. Now you all know what Iknow,so now you are al l equally responsible.

Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stanford.edu.

Monologues writer, Mukwege

discuss violence against women

I was received warmly, Schultzsaid, but I didnt feel as though Iwas coming back to anything. I feltas though I never left theUniversity.

Shultz said he had been involvedwith universities continuously eversince he joined the MIT faculty afterserving as a marine in World War II.He said he never sold his house oncampus and would visit the Farm

regularly.It was just continuity and a nat-

ural place to come back to; I thinkCondi has the same situation, hesaid.Shes basically been a univer-sity person for all of her adult life.Shes taken this detour into govern-ment for a while,but she has shownthat she can get back into the swimvery fast.

Rumsfeld,Shultz argued,did nothave the same long-term academicconnection.

Don had been an overseer atHoover, but has never been a uni-versity person, Shultz said. Hiscareer has been in politics.

Director of the Freeman SpogliInstitute Coit Blacker whoserved as a former special assistantto President Clinton for NationalSecurity Affairs believes it wouldnot be appropriate to apply politicalstandards to people who go on leavefor public service positions.

I am sure there were many peo-ple who were unhappy with somethings that the Clinton administra-tion did, but I had taken a leave ofabsence,and I think it is appropriatethat when a faculty member doesthat,you hold on to that position forhim or her, Blacker said. That is

just a matter of principle.He added that there was never

any prospect that Rumsfeld wasgoing to move to Palo Alto so thathe could be a full-time fellow atHoover.

So his status vis--vis Stanfordis completely different fromSecretary Rices, who is a tenuredmember of the political sciencedepartments faculty kind ofapples and oranges, Blacker said.

A number of professors involvedin the anti-Rumsfeld movementhave also told The Daily that theydo not object to Rices return to

campus, even if they disagree withher politics.Humanities Prof. Rob Polhemussaid his objection to Rumsfeld waslargely based on his lack of creden-tials as an academic, a problem thatdoes not apply to Rice. Polhemuspushed forward the petition thatcalled Rumsfelds appointmentcontemptible.

Shes a full professor who does

have the right to be here,Polhemussaid. I dont have any objection toher being here.

I know a lot of people dont likewhat her role in American history ofthe last eight years [was], but thatsa separate issue, he added. Youdont bump somebody from tenure[for that].

Associate French and ItalianProf. Joshua Landy, anotherRumsfeld objector, agreed thatRices return should not be equatedwith Rumsfelds.

Its a completely different case,Landy said. For one thing, shesreturning to a job that was keptopen for her as opposed to DonaldRumsfeld having a position createdfor him. . . Prof. Rice has a distin-guished academic career behindher.Theres every reason for her tobe here and every reason to return.

While students rallied in White

Plaza over Rumsfelds appointment,Rices return has received a moretepid response from studentactivists. No formal coalition has yetdeveloped to oppose Rice,althoughsome students consider both herand Rumsfeld war criminals.

Daniel Murray,a first-year Ph.D.candidate in Modern Thought andLiterature, said several students inhis program are concerned aboutRices role in sanctioning torture.The students are trying to puttogether a fall symposium abouttorture and accountability,featuringlegal scholars,journalists and otherswho study human rights issues.

On Feb. 3, Stanford AmnestyInternational (SAI) held a screen-ing of American Faust: From Condito Neo-Condi, a documentary onRice that approximately 50 peopleattended.Both Murray and SAI co-President Emma Laughlin 09 saidraising awareness of Rices potentialhuman rights violations was a keygoal a point echoed by AdamHudson 10, president of StanfordSays No to War,who said his grouphas no firm plans yet, but eventuallyhopes to work with other organiza-tions in opposing Rice.

[SAI members are] very flab-bergasted that she would be comingback and that theres not massiveprotest going on, Laughlin said.Im certainly in favor of academicfreedom,and people can talk aboutwhether or not torture works, butthats a lot different than actuallygoing out and doing it.

Students like Laughlin deem

Rice a war criminal for heralleged sanction of torture and herpush for war in Iraq. Laughlin saidshe knew one alumnus who metpeople in Europe who nicknamedStanford War Crimes University,based on its affiliation with Rice andRumsfeld.

The Stanford Democrats do notplan to take an official stance onRices return to campus, accordingto President Ashwin Mudaliar 09,who said he personally opposedmany of Rices decisions.

We need to give her a fullreview before giving her job back,even if she is tenured, he said. Ipromise that if any professor liedthe way she did, they would not beat this university anymore.

Contact Andrea Fuller at anfuller@ stanford.edu and Kamil Dada atkamild@stanford.edu.

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Professor Rice has a

distinguished

academic career

behind her.There's

every reason for her

to be here and every

reason to return.

JOSHUA LANDY,associate French and

Italian professor

university 2 million dollars.Other stu-dents protested that student salariesare very important, noting that per-haps Peer Health Educators andfreshman RAs should be paid more.

Going back to the pre-establishedpriorities of maintaining front-lineemployees, Harris reminded thegroup that student welfare was themost important.

One priority of the students iscaring about the welfare of others,hesaid.

Dorsey added that the process ofcutting back on programming is a dif-ficult path for all of those involvedincluding the Universitys administra-tion.

Have empathy for these adminis-trators who are losing things they carea lot about,He said.[They are] alsomaking personal sacrifices.

As budgeting decisions draw near-er,the ASSU is considering compilinga student-friendly website that willmake updates made by the Provost

and Budgeting Committee and gener-al information about the budgetingprocess more easily accessible tointerested students now and whenbudget cuts continue in the fall.

In the end, ASSU Executivesimplored students to rally theirfriends to let the University knowwhat matters most in budgeting deci-sions.

Weve got to look in the mirrorand see what weve never seenbefore, Harris said.

Contact Zoe Richards at iamzoe@stan-ford.edu.

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Contrary to popular belief, I am NOT Black,Indian or Hispanic.

I could go shopping for days and buy every-thing I see!

I know its college,but sometimes I wonder if I

have a drinking problem.For real.

I LOVE standardized tests.

Ive been to therapy and taken medication foranxiety. People think therapy is only for crazypeople,but I think everyone in the whole worldwould be happier if they went to therapy.

I didnt cry in The Notebook,but I tell everyoneI did.

My brother killed himself when I was seven. Iwas there but I cant remember it.

I can never have enough purses.

I know I dont deserve to go to war, but some-times I feel guilty that Im at Stanford while myhigh school friends get blown up inAfghanistan.

I make my bed every day.

Notes on Matts Facebook News Feed,2/11/2009

Where did this phenomenon come

from? Over 4,000,000 people have al-ready jumped on Facebooks 25Random Things About Me bandwagon, withover 100,000,000 random facts posted in lessthan two weeks. In two weeks, a lifetime ofhopes, fears,dreams and shampoo preferenceshave been spilled out into cyberspace for all theworld to read.It all just seems a little strange.

First off, to get things straight, most of thefactson the lists are meaningless crap, com-pletely inconsequential drivel that reminds youwhy its been years since youve even seen mostof your Facebook friends. Some, though, aregenuinely mind-blowing stuff.Take the ten Ipulled for this column:theyre funny,clever,ir-relevant, self-indulgent and heart-wrenching,often all at the same time.

More than anything else,I think it has to dowith the advent of online social networking andhow its reshaped our conceptions of our ownidentities.Advances in technology have madeus both the best and worst connected collegestudents in history.We have access to hundredsof mediums by which to communicate, butmost of them grant us an almost absurd amount

of psychic distance in our relationships,not tomention free reign to wholly detach ourselvesfrom first-person interaction. We share ourtext-based fears on AIM.We whisper our text-based secrets on Facebook. We recount our

text-based dreams on G-chat. Technology letsus communicate without communicating,to in-dulge in an online super persona and create amore crafted,calculated self.Unlike life, theresno randomness to online discourse, no chanceof saying the wrong thing its damn near

impossible to put your text-based foot into yourtext-based mouth when you get an infiniteamount of chances to revise your presentationand phrasing. Say the wrong thing in an AIMbox and you get to delete it; say it in the realworld and you have to deal with the conse-quences.

Facebook exploded so quickly because itwas a way for us to learn everything we wantedto know about our peers without them realizingthat we were interested,and a way for individ-uals to control and precisely manipulate howtheir own image was presented to the world.Its impersonal and fake on both ends, and Ithink the 25 Things phenomenon is an exten-sion of this.Maybe the lists are only smoke andmirrors, more artificially rendered fluff thatbears no resemblance to real life, but maybetheyre so popular because people are excitedand relieved to find out that their classmatesare just as weird,scared,and generally twistedas they are sometimes. Maybe the world justgets complicated when we stake very real emo-tions on very fake,detached interactions.

As obnoxious as reading that your high

school ex loves backrubs and barn dances(sigh) might be,I still think anything that pullspeople away from their micromanaged publicimage, even if it still has to be hopelessly re-moved from the real world,is probably a step inthe right direction. Sure, most everything inthese notes is immaterial and serves no purposebut to further shape ones self-styled cyber per-sona,but a few of these things I wish so badly Idfound out face to face over a beer instead of onmy laptop in Meyer.These are big, meaningful,brave statements,but this medium makes themseem trivial and worthless.

During NSO, dorms have incoming resi-dents anonymously write secrets that get put upon an all-dorm poster,and people never fail tobe shocked at what their classmates have dealtwith in their lives.Not signing our names maymake us more comfortable, but what ifanonymity isnt the answer? What if all weveneeded this whole time was just a real conver-sation?Now forward this to 25 people or youll neverbe able to have children.

Matt Gillespie holds his breath in tunnels andwiped back to front until he was fourteen yearsold.Share your earth-shattering secrets with himat mattg3 atstanford dotedu. Or,you know,

just tell him in person.

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This past week,Stanford hit the bottomof the barrel or waste bin secur-ing third-to-last place in the Waste

Minimizationcompetition for Week Four ofRecycleMania, a 10-week competition thatpromotes recycling and waste reduction oncollege and university campuses across thenation. RecycleMania, an annual contest puton by the College and University RecyclingCouncil (CURC) and the National RecyclingCoalition (NRC), seeks to heighten aware-ness of schools waste management and recy-cling programs.The competition has come along way since the inaugural contest betweenMiami University and Ohio University in2001. According to the RecycleMania Website, 514 schools are currently registered forthe 2009 competition,and 148 participated inthe waste reduction component of the com-petition.

Stanford students generally pride them-selves on being environmentally consciousand socially aware. So what did we do to de-serve the unimpressive 146th-place finish?Apparently,we produced a larger amount ofsolid waste per capita, including recyclablesand trash,than almost any other school in ourpeer group.While Virginia Wesleyan Collegeput competitors to shame with a mere 1.56pounds of waste per person, Stanfordclaimed one of the largest trash heaps, al-legedly generating 32.43 pounds of munici-pal solid waste per person.

Although the editorial board is somewhatskeptical about the reliability of the NRCsmethods for measuring campus waste re-sults are calculated by taking the volume ofrecyclables, adding it to the volume of trashand dividing this number with the populationfigure Stanfords dismal performanceserves as a wake-up call for the reexamina-tion of University recycling and solid wastemanagement programs.

On one hand, the board is proud of thesteps that Stanford has taken to minimizewaste production and promote the collection

of compostable material. According to theStanford Recycling Center Web site,the Uni-versity is currently diverting 61 percent of its

waste away from the landfill.On the other hand, there is still significant

room for improvement.For starters,StanfordHospitality & Auxiliaries,the group that oper-ates Tresidder Memorial Eateries,should placehighly visible and clearly labeled compost binsin the dining area at Tresidder Union.The ab-sence of these bins undermines the education-al component of Stanfords composting andrecycling programs, as students are not neces-sarily aware of what they can do to reducewaste.The editorial board commends effortsto sort compostable material off-site, but be-lieves that the sustainability initiative would befar more effective if students were informed ofwhat items constitute compost versus trash,and were encouraged to sort it themselves.

The board acknowledges that compostingand recycling programs are expensive for theUniversity.Nevertheless, there are a numberof steps Stanford can and should take to en-courage waste reduction while simultane-ously cutting costs. Stanford Dining shouldmove in the direct ion of New York Universi-ty and implement tray-lessdining.By elim-inating trays in residential dining locations,Stanford can conserve water, reduce theamount of chemical detergents released intothe environment and lower energy costs.Tray-less dining also has the added benefit ofreducing the volume of food wasted in dininghalls.While some dining halls have fliers en-couraging students to refrain from usingtrays when possible, taking them out of thedining halls altogether is the best way to havea significant effect.

Ultimately, if it wants to climb in the Re-cycleMania rankings, Stanford should workharder to ensure that students are active,rather than passive,part icipants in a sustain-able food system.Visual cues such as labeledwaste bins and informational signs are key toincreasing campus environmental aware-ness.With more students doing their best togenerate less waste, recycle and compost theappropriate materials each and every day,

Stanford can reduce energy costs and pro-mote sustainability.Who says you cant haveyour cake and eat it too?

Stanford not yet a top-tiersustainable school

EDITORIAL

Dear Distinguished Faculty of StanfordUniversity,

It was recently announced that as part ofthe cuts in programs under the ViceProvost of Undergraduate Education

(VPUE), the Peer Mentor program and hon-oraria for pre-major faculty advising wouldbe cut.As a two-time Peer Mentor,I think Ispeak for most students that the Peer Men-toring program was never particularly wellorganized and constantly underutilized, andmost students were content to see it go.

The loss of honoraria for pre-major advis-ing is far more concerning, however. Pre-major faculty advising has been a constantcomplaint among undergraduates at Stan-ford. Many students rush to declare a majorsimply to get the quality advising from facul-ty that they so need.The participation rate forfaculty is already low,even with a monetaryreward,and it will likely decline even more.Many incoming students already receive fac-ulty advisers who are poorly matched to theirinterests and cannot really help them. Thisphenomenon will likely get worse.

Weve had a long history of mediocre fac-

ulty advising.While doing research for this ar-ticle, I read a 1995 Stanford Report articleabout a report discussing reform of facultyadvising. The article could have been writtentoday. The Stanford Dailys Editorial Boardwrites an article about advising every year.Areview of Faculty Senate minutes from thepast decade indicates that the issue has beendiscussed every year. At this point, talkingabout improving advising seems moot in theera of budget cuts. I am willing to concedethat point.

For all students, that first meeting withtheir faculty adviser during New Student Ori-entation is their first interaction with Stan-

ford faculty.I remember mine well vastlyover-preparing by doing extensive researchand making an agenda for the meeting.I tookthis meeting seriously,and I was pleased thatmy adviser attempted to answer the millionquestions I had and directed me to otherswho could answer the ones he could not.Hevalued my intellectual development.The ex-perience for me, and every other student atStanford is formative: a good adviser canopen doors to other interesting professorsand direct a students interests.A bad advisercan instill disillusionment in a freshman evenbefore Fall Quarter classes have started.Stu-dents take these interactions seriously,but itis clear from the highly variable quality andlow participation rate that some faculty donot.

Many faculty members seem content to letUndergraduate Advising and Research(UAR) handle the workload.UAR,I am sure,is under significant strain as it is a softareathat is easy to get cut. Professional staffshould certainly play a role, but in the endthey can only facilitate interaction with facul-ty and cannot replace one-on-one interactionwith scholars.

What I am asking, faculty, is to not let thesituation get worse,as it very well could.Yoursalaries have not been cut. Faculty has not,nor will they be, laid off.Your jobs are not indanger. We recognize that decreasing re-search budgets and fewer graduate students

are a problem, but research and teaching atStanford will continue.

What I am asking for is an increase in fac-ulty participation in the pre-major advisingprogram,and even more importantly,for pro-fessors not to take this lightly.If every tenure-track faculty member participated, eachfreshman could have his or her own adviser.While the faculty participation rate has notbeen publicized in recent years,Faculty Sen-ate minutes from years past indicate it isabout 10 percent. One in 10.Anecdotal evi-dence based on adviser-student ratios for cur-rent students indicates it is about the same.Students have had their freshman-year advis-er be health care personnel, Graduate Schoolof Business administrators and other peopleessentially unrelated to undergraduate edu-cation.While those people might be great ad-visers, it speaks to the dearth of tenure-trackfaculty.

If more faculty participate, it will benefitfaculty fewer advisees per professor,mak-ing the program more attractive overall meaning each student would have an adviserclose to the interests listed on each personsApproaching Stanford forms.

So this is my appeal to you: in an era ofbudget cuts,it is up to you,the faculty of Stan-ford University,to preserve and maybe evenimprove the quality of advising at Stanford.You will find that students are better pre-pared to work with major advisers,who manyof you are, seriously.You should participate,but even more importantly,value the oppor-tunity to shape and hone a young, brightmind.

Stuart Baimel is currently devising plans so thateach student has personal assistants,along with

personal faculty advisers. Join the planning atsbaimel@stanford.edu.

Unsigned editorials in the space above represent the views of The Stanford Daily's editorial board and do notnecessarily reflect the opinions of the Daily staff.The editorial board is comprised of two former Daily staffers,

three at-large student members and the two editorial board co-chairs.Any signed columns and contributionsare the views of their respective writers and do not necessarily represent the views of the entire editorial board.

To contact the editorial board for an issue to be considered,or to submit an op-ed,please emaileditorial@daily.stanford.edu.

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Baseball rallies to win Vandy seriesBy DENIS GRIFFIN

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The No.5 Stanford baseball team came outof its soggy opening weekend successfully, tak-ing two out of three from Vanderbilt before agame scheduled for Sunday against UC-River-side was rained out.The Cardinal showed plen-ty of heart throughout the weekend,staging late

rallies in all three games.On Friday and Saturday, Stanford came out

strong,taking its season opener with a 6-5 extra-innings victory over the Commodores,and wonagain 6-5 in the series final game to earn the se-ries victory.

Friday nights home opener featured amatchup of top-tier collegiate pitchers,as Stan-ford junior Jeff Inman went up against Vander-

bilt lefty Mike Minor.Both of the pitchers werenamed to the preseason watch-list for the Gold-en Spikes Award, which annually honors thebest player in college baseball.

Minor was tough on the Cardinal early,keeping Stanford off the board through the firstthree innings of play.Minor appeared to be infine form to start the season,showing off a livearm as his fastballs popped loudly into the

catchers mitt.Minor was good, Stanford coach Mark

Marquess said.Thank God we got him out ofthere.He was tough.

Inman,meanwhile, ran into trouble early, asVanderbilt scored a pair of runs on three hits inthe second inning and three runs on four hits inthe third to take a 5-0 lead. But the Stanford

junior, who went 7-2 last season with a 4.27ERA, settled down, allowing no runs and justone hit over the next four innings of play.A keypart of Inmans success was his ability to keepthe ball down, inducing the Commodores toground out eight times, compared to just twofly-outs over that span.

I was very pleased with Inman;I thought hedid a real nice job of coming back, Marquesssaid.He started off a little shaky then gave usthree or four shutout innings after they scoredthe five on him.And then Pries. . . thats a greatperformance for a freshman.

My control was there the whole time,Inman said.I was making them put it in play,but I think later in the game I was starting to hitmy spots a little better.

Meanwhile, the Cardinal offense was mak-

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SPORTS

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n case you missed it and oddsare you did the Stanfordbaseball team opened its 2009season this past weekend with a

three game series against Vanderbilt.The results? Not perfect,but all in all,a series victory against one of the na-tions new marquis programs is a re-sult the Cardinal will gladly accept.And so should its fans.

The season opening series forStanford featured a solid turnout,but for the most part one didnt getthe sense that it was students fillingthe stands. And I, for one, have noidea why that is.

Ill be the first to admit:I certain-ly wish collegiate baseball wereplayed with wooden bats it wouldadd an additional bit of aesthetic ap-peal to the game and give the casualfan a better grasp of the statisticswithout needing to stop and think asmuch about the inherent differencesbetween the college and professionalgames.

But,that said,theres still an awfullot to like out at the Sunken Dia-mond, starting with an absolutely

gorgeous field and progressing on toone of Stanfords most consistently

Freshmen overcome early deficit by CardBy NATE ADAMS

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Stanford womens basketball teammanaged to cruise past the Oregon Ducksafter a rough start Saturday night, ultimatelywinning by a comfortable 68-49 margin.

Freshman Nnemkadi Ogwumike led theCardinal with 13 points, while fellow class-mate Sarah Boothe and sophomore JeanettePohlen each added 11 of their own. With thewin, Stanford remains tied with Californiaatop the Pacific-10 Conference as it headsinto its final road trip of the regular season.

Oregon (9-17, 5-10 Pac-10) started offstrong, with five different players scoring inthe first seven minutes of the game as theDucks opened up an early six-point lead.During this stretch, the No. 4 Cardinal (22-4,13-1) shot only 3-for-10 from the field andgave up three sloppy turnovers.

We didnt have anything going at the be-ginning of the game, said Stanford headcoach Tara VanDerveer.It was disappointingto see lack of focus and lack of effort.

Less than seven minutes into the game,with her team trailing 12-6, VanDerveer de-cided to take action, simultaneously subbingout all five of her starters.Three of the playersshe put in to replace them Ogwumike,Boothe and Lindy La Rocque were fresh-men, each averaging under 20 minutes pergame. It was the only time VanDerveer couldrecall having ever replaced her entire startingcrew at once.

When the game started, it had a slow feelto it,she recalled. When we had that time-out, I told them,We just need a change.Weneed more energy and more people workinghard defensively.

A set of fresh legs all 10 of them cer-tainly made the difference. Following thattimeout, the Cardinal went on a 25-0 run, thefirst 20 of those points coming from freshmen.Boothe and Ogwumike went back and forthscoring field goals for a full seven minutes,

driving the score to 19-12 and going 6-for-8 inthe process. Ogwumike had an impressivefive of her six total rebounds during thatstretch, and she and Boothe each went on toscore a game-leading nine points in the half.

I was pleased with how Sarah and Nneka,and all our young players,came in gave us agreat spark in first half, and really continuedto play hard,VanDerveer said.It was greatto see all the contributions.Theyre talentedplayers and they took the opportunity. If Icouldve decided things, I wouldve had thestarting players take care of that, but some-times you have to make some changes.

After clearly displaying its depth of talent,the Cardinal continued to play well as Van-Derveer mixed her regulars in one by one.Pohlen in particular stood out among thenon-freshman contributors in the first half,scoring a momentum-stealing three-pointer

MENS BASKETBALL

Third time with-

out the charm

By DENIS GRIFFINSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Just when you thought it couldntget any worse for the Stanford mensbasketball team,it did. On Saturday,the Cardinal authored a fitting fol-low-up to a pair of gut-wrenching de-feats at Cal and Oregon State when ithanded the Oregon men their firstPacific-10 Conference win of the sea-son, 68-60. The win was the Ducksfirst victory since a contest againstLong Beach State on Dec. 29, snap-

ping a 14-game losing streak.The loss marked the third consec-utive defeat for the Cardinal (15-10,4-10 Pac-10) and has to be consid-ered the low-point in a season thathas now had plenty of them.On Feb.14, Stanford fell in Berkeley 82-75,after leading by more than 20 pointsin the first half. The team followedthat up with a Thursday game againstthe Beavers in which the Cardinalscored just 17 points in the first half.

And now, the Stanford men havelost to a Ducks squad that came intothe game at 6-20 overall on the sea-son and 0-14 in the Pac-10.

Had the Ducks lost to the Cardi-nal, they would have been just thesecond team ever to start the seasonoff at 0-15 in the Pac-10 since theconference went to its current, 18-game schedule in 1978-1979.

We grew tonight as a team, wemade plays we havent been mak-ing, Oregons Joevan Catron told

the Associated Press after the game.Those were some of the worst eightweeks of my life,and to fight throughit just shows what this team has andthe fight were going to have downthe line.

Junior Landry Fields and seniorsLawrence Hill and Anthony Goodseach reached double-digit point to-tals in the loss, with tallies of 19, 18and 16, respectively. But Oregonsdefense flummoxed the rest of theCardinal attack, as freshman JackTrotter (two points) and seniorMitch Johnson (five points) were theonly other Stanford players to scorein the game.

The Ducks, meanwhile, madegood use of a more balanced attack.While Oregon also featured threeplayers in double digits offensively,its bench came through with 23

points to augment this attack, whichwas led by center Michael Dunigans14 points and eight rebounds.

We know that they play hard for40 minutes, Stanford head coachJohnny Dawkins told the San JoseMercury News. Theyve done thateven though their record doesnt re-flect that. They never quit. Wewatched enough tape on them, andtalked to our guys,so we knew whattype of team wed face from thestandpoint that they are going to playhard.

But it was in ball security that theDucks truly made their dent in theCardinals hopes. While Stanford

players turned the ball over 12 times,Oregon turned it over only eighttimes.Thus, the Ducks were able toattempt five more shots on the night,a margin that was largely responsiblefor their victory.

The game was tightly contested atboth the start and finish of the firsthalf, but in keeping with a recenttheme for the Cardinal, there was apoint at which Stanford seemedclose to pulling away.With nine min-utes remaining in the half, a three-pointer from Goods and a basketeach from Johnson, Fields and Hillhad helped put the Cardinal on top,21-14. But by the 3:02 mark, a layupby Tajuan Porter put the Ducks backwithin one, 23-22. Oregon held a 29-28 lead going into halftime with aMASARU OKA/The Stanford Daily

Freshman Nnemkadi Ogwumike led all scorers with 13 points, and secured six rebounds for the Card,setting Stanford on track for its ninth consecutive conference win against Oregon on Saturday.

Card drops thirdstraight at Oregon

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Sophomore Michael Marshall and fellow pitchers went head-to-head with a deep Vanderbilt bullpen. Although Marshall was unable to find thewin in the first of Saturdays games, Stanford found its second 6-5 victory in the back half of the days double-header.

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GAME NOTES: Stanford dropped its third

consecutive Pac-10 loss on Saturday, fallingto 4-10 in the conference, and giving the

Ducks their first Pac-10 win. Stanford looks

for the ultimate rebound against No. 20

UCLA, but struggled last time against theBruins, losing 97-63 on Jan. 31.

Please see MBBALL,page 8

GAME NOTES: The lady Card notched its ninthconsecutive win against Oregon on Satur-day. This time out, though, scoring camefrom unusual suspects, with a 25-point first-half spurt coming largely at the hands offreshmen Nnemkadi Ogwumike and SarahBoothe. The Cardinal next faces UCLA onFriday in Los Angeles.

Please seeWBBALL,page 7

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GAME NOTES: Stanford opened the season by taking twoof three games in its weekend series against Vanderbilt.

In all three outings, the Cardinal offense rallied to score

late in the game, twice securing victories. Next, Stanfordmakes its first road trip to Cal State-Fullerton to take onthe Titans Feb. 27-March 1.

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successful athletic programs.Both ofthose were on display this weekendas the Cardinal pulled no punches inopening its season against one of theSECs best.

Vanderbilt has produced topMLB Draft picks David Price (asouthpaw drafted first overall by theTampa Bay Rays in 2007) and PedroAlvarez (a third baseman draftedsecond overall by the Pittsburgh Pi-

rates in 2008) in recent years, andfrom the looks of its freshman class,elite talent is still flocking toNashville,Tenn.On Friday,the Com-modores had one of the nations toppitching prospects on the mound inlefty Mike Minor.In short, overcom-ing the kind of talent Vandy was ableto throw on the field was no smallfeat, even for the No. 5 Cardinal.

We want to see where we are,and you can only do that by playingagainst the best teams in the country,and Vanderbilt is certainly one ofthose teams, said junior starter JeffInman.

There was certainly a buzz in theair as Stanford opened its season,and only part of that was for the cal-iber of opponent it faced.The Cardi-nal finished last year in Omaha,Neb.at the College World Series, tied forthird in the nation behind only Geor-gia and eventual champion FresnoState.

But the buzz wasnt to see theCardinal team that was, either. Atleast not entirely. Many of the starswho drove the Cardinal deep intothe postseason, like catcher JasonCastro, centerfielder Sean Ratliff,second baseman Cord Phelps, firstbaseman and designated hitterRandy Molina and starter ErikDavis, had moved on to the profes-sional leagues.

No,the real reason the weekendseries was a must-see was to size upthe Cardinals chances at defendingits status as one of the countrys pre-mier programs this year.

And the verdict? Quite positive.While last year the Cardinal was

propelled by power up and down thelineup,the game plan will need to bedifferent this year.Perhaps the heartof the teams offense is its outfield,where seniors Joey August and Jeff

Whitlow manned the corners, and junior Toby Gerhart has shifted tocenter and looked quite capable tostart the season. Its a speedy triothat should be able to cover a lot ofground and to help make the Cardi-nal pitching staff look good.

Gerhart and senior BrentMilleville will be relied upon to pro-vide the power for the Cardinal. Apair of sophomores, meanwhile, willneed to take the next step in orderfor Stanfords offense to truly thrive.Shortstop Jake Schlander, who sawplenty of playing time largely for hisdefense last season, could becomeeven more of an asset if he develops

offensively, becoming more of acomplete player. Meanwhile, thirdbaseman and backup catcher ZachJones has moved to the leadoff spot,taking over for Phelps.

In terms of pitching,the Cardinallooks to have a solid rotation onpaper,but it is in the bullpen where itcould truly shine. Sophomore closerDrew Storen has already establishedhimself as one of the Pac-10s mosttalented arms, and if Fridays threeinnings from Jason Pries are any in-dication,there are more young armsbacking him up.

So as the 2009 season opens, itstime to greet the new Cardinal, notquite the same as,but possibly just asgood as, the old Cardinal. Just in adifferent way. The only question iswhy youre not paying attention.

Denis Griffin is a certified baseball junkie. Contact him at djgriff@stan-ford.edu.

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and notching two steals and three as-sists.She went on to lead both teamsin assists with seven.

After fighting back from its slowstart with this eclectic group of con-tributors,the Cardinal headed into thelocker room leading 36-16.The half-time cushion proved more than suffi-cient as Stanford coasted to victory.

They just went to work,Oregonhead coach Bev Smith said of Stan-fords mid-period turnaround.Theyreally brought the energy and thedepth, and thats something that willhelp them into the season and deep

into the tournament as well.Smiths Ducks came out with en-

ergy after the intermission,ultimate-ly outscoring the Cardinal 33-32 inthe half. Junior guard Taylor Lilleyled both teams in the half with ninepoints.Lilley,currently second on herteam in points per game with 10.4,embodied Oregons resilient spirit.

We won the second half, butthere are no moral victories, Smithsaid. I think it was credit to ouryoung team,though,[which] bouncesback from a lot of adversity andwa