By MOLLY SPAETH

In the midst of the toughest job mar-ket in recent memory,many students andsoon-to-be graduates are still searchingfor jobs and internships. The CareerDevelopment Center’s Spring CareerFair, which began Wednesday and con-tinues today, provides yet anotheropportunity for students to meetemployers in their continuing search —but some fear it may already be too late.

“Compared to most Stanford stu-dents, I feel really behind,” said LaurenSwartz ‘11. “The fact that I have anunpaid internship already lined upmakes me feel better, but I really want totry to find a paid internship.”

With the global economic crisis con-tinuing to swirl, paid internships seem tobe particularly elusive. As a result, thecompetition for the limited number ofavailable paid internships has inevitablytoughened.

“There were a few signs at the CareerFair that said ‘Paid Internship,’ and Inoticed that those stands were superfull,” Swartz said.

But many employers say there is stillroom for optimism.

Jessica Blatnik, a representative fromQUIA, a San Mateo-based educationaltechnology program,said her company isoffering more positions to new graduatesthis year than ever before. She did note,however, that the economic crisis hashad an effect on the application process.

“I think we’re getting less targetedresumes,” Blatnik said.“For example, wewould get a resume with all financeexperience for a sales position when nor-mally we would get a resume with moresales or marketing experience.”

Blatnik attributed the increase ingeneral resumes to the instability in thefinancial market. Though the resumesare less targeted, she still welcomes theincrease in applicants.

“It’s nice to have a big volume — itgives us more people to choose from,”she said. “We’re getting resumes frommore people than usual, which is alwayspositive.”

Chris Weber, a representative fromsoftware engineering firm RapLeaf, saidthat although he has seen a lot moreapplications this year than in years past,his company has not cut any positionopenings this year. In addition, Weberhad some good news for job applicants.

“Just be thankful you’re graduatingthis year, rather than last year,” he said.“My perception is that people are start-

By ROBERT TOEWSSTAFF WRITER

Kenneth Arrow, winner of the 1972 NobelPrize in Economics, recipient of a 2004National Medal of Science and professoremeritus in Economics at Stanford University,spoke Wednesday night on a broad range oftopics in front of a packed crowd in CubberleyAuditorium.

The presentation was one in a series oftalks entitled “Stanford Pioneers in Science,”which spotlights members of Stanford’s facul-ty who have received a Nobel Prize, aNational Medal of Science or a MacArthurFellowship Grant.

Economics professor John Shoven openedthe talk with an overview of Arrow’s life andaccomplishments, referring to him as “one of

the greatest living economists.”Arrow was then interviewed by Paul

Costello, executive director of communicationfor the Stanford University School ofMedicine, on topics ranging from his child-hood and time in the Army to his views on thecurrent economic situation and healthcarereform.

In response to questions about the currenteconomic crisis, Arrow said he believed thatthe strategies employed by the federal gov-ernment — particularly by LawrenceSummers, President Obama’s chief economicadviser and Arrow’s nephew — were basical-ly sound. In particular, he praised the govern-ment’s efforts to bring the financial systemback into order and to jumpstart consumer

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Budget cuts hit drama dept.By LAURA STAMPLER

Reduction and cancellations of tradition-ally popular classes in the arts have hit theUniversity, as budget cuts are no longer a dis-tant threat to students, but a reality.

Student-favorite Drama 103: BeginningImprovising will be reduced from four sec-tions to one section per year, and Drama 104:Introduction to Sketch Comedy will be cutentirely from the drama department’s list ofoffered courses.

Based on high enrollment and atten-dance, as well as consistent five-star ratingson CourseRank, Daniel Klein — a Drama103 alumnus and the current instructor for

both courses — previously thought his class-es would be safe.

“And then another round of cuts came,”Klein said. “And I got an email over breaksaying, ‘I’m really sorry, but there’s onlyenough funding for one section next year.’And it was unclear what funding there wouldbe for SIMPS [Stanford’s by-auditionimprovisational group].”

The University has committed itself toeducation in the arts with projects like theArts Initiative. As faculty leader of the ArtsInitiative, Bryan Wolf’s goal is for the arts tobe an inescapable part of the Stanford expe-rience.

“We want the arts to be so accessible and

so visible and so much a part of everyday lifeat Stanford that you can’t come throughStanford without some contact with it,” Wolfsaid, “and that’s what it means to be aStanford student.”

But given that the Arts Initiative’s moneyis of less value in the current economic cli-mate, its income is going toward the endow-ment for its future protection, rather thansalaries or programming. Though the ArtsInitiative is maintaining its commitments todepartments and programs, the amount ofmonetary support has been reduced by 15 to25 percent. Wolf said departments them-selves choose how the money should be real-located.

With diminished resourcesand a dedication to protectthe core classes, thedrama department, inparticular, has cut 15 per-cent of its budget for lec-turers. So, in spite of studentinterest and consistentlypositive CourseRankreviews, Klein’s courses havebeen cut and drastically reduced.

Klein’s former students responded to thecuts with surprise and dismay.

“There have been few classes as success-

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CARD BLASTS BRONCOS

By DANIEL BOHMSTAFF WRITER

The Stanford baseball team contin-ued its hot hitting on Wednesday whenit defeated the Broncos at Santa Clara,16-3.

The Cardinal (15-13) broke openwhat was a competitive game with a10-run sixth inning, the team’s highest-scoring inning of the year.

Stanford took the lead in the top ofthe first on a solo homerun by juniorleft-fielder Toby Gerhart. The two-sport star drove a 2-1 pitch over theleft center field fence to give theCardinal a lead it would not relin-quish.

The Stanford offense added tworuns in both the third and fifth inningson a pair of RBI knocks from sopho-more second baseman Colin Walshand an RBI double by sophomoreshortstop Jake Schlander. The visitingCardinal already had a 5-2 lead beforeits sixth-inning explosion.

Senior first baseman BrentMilleville began the rally with the firstof his two singles in the inning. Twobatters later, sophomore pinch hitterJonathan Kaskow greeted new pitcherJoe Supple by doubling homeMilleville and sophomore catcherZach Jones, who also singled.

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Sophomore catcher Zach Jones and the Stanford offense erupted for 10 runs in the sixth inning in Santa Clara to lead the Cardinal pastthe Broncos, 16-3. Next up for the red-hot Stanford bats is a showdown with one of the top teams in the country: Pac-10 rival ASU.

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THE STRENGTH TO HEAL

STUDENT GOV’T

GSC members criticize $167 Vaden fee

By DANIEL BUISTAFF WRITER

Last night, the Graduate StudentCouncil (GSC) met with members ofthe University administration to dis-cuss the recently announced $167 per-quarter charge to students for VadenHealth Center services.

The fee, announced last week, wasmet with great discontent from thestudent body for its application toeven those who do not request servic-es from Vaden and for the lack of stu-dent body input in the decision.

As a result, the GSC met with ViceProvost of Student Affairs GregBoardman and Vaden Director IraFreedman to address student con-cerns about the causes of and motiva-tions for the new charge.

Boardman cited the University’s

economic difficulties, which havemade it hard for Vaden to juggle itsfinances and maintain its services. Henoted that other options, notably staffposition cuts, were thoroughly consid-ered before implementing the fee.However, in light of the manyUniversity staff layoffs thus far andthe millions of dollars that the healthcenter needs to make up due to thecuts, “we felt at this point and time itwas necessary.”

In years past, a general fundderived from student tuition had paidfor the majority of primary medicalservices offered by Vaden. Boardmanand Freedman said that the health-care model for future years atStanford would provide much moretransparency in showing how muchmoney would go to each service.

“The model that we’re going to beusing next year will be much moreclear,” Freedman reassured. “[Theissue of transparency] just hasn’t comeup prior to this because the Universityhas just been providing somethingthat was free.”

One of the more controversialareas of discussion was the decision todistribute costs across all students,including those who don’t use Vadenservices.

“I think the University is selectingthe philosophy [of distributing costs]because charging people at the time ofservice heightens the penalty of beingill or injured,” Freedman clarified.“[Vaden] provides a community goodthat I think is appropriate to distributethroughout the entire community.”

When concerns were raised thatthe fee, created as a solution to theeconomic situation, would still beimposed upon students after thefinancial crisis has subsided, adminis-trators were hesitant to guarantee thatthe fee would be removed from thestudent bill.

“It’s subject to annual review andadjustment,” Freedman said. “I thinkit will be a matter of where ourexpenses are relative to inflation andour sources of funds. I don’t see thatwe’re going to [come back to having]a majority of the services covered bythe general fund.”

Mary van de Hoven, a third-yearearth sciences graduate student, wasconcerned about the difficulties somegraduate students might have in pay-ing for healthcare and suggested alower base price accompanied with aco-pay for students who use Vaden.

“It feels like a lot of people wouldbe happier if it were a smaller basefee, with a little bit of co-pay,” addedFen Zhao, a fifth-year student inapplied sciences, citing similar systemsfor healthcare used at the Universityof California schools.

Many GSC delegates were alsoincensed by the fact that the studentbody was left poorly informed aboutthe process of creating the fee.

“I feel like, in this case, studentinput was not sought,” said RyanPeacock, a third-year graduate stu-dent in chemical engineering.“It’s dis-appointing, seeing as you’re putting alarge fee on everyone’s bill. At nopoint were we really consulted or

were opinions gotten.”To address everyone’s lingering

concerns, GSC co-Chair PolinaSegalova proposed the creation of aVaden Advisory Committee thatwould serve as the liaison between thestudent body and administrators infurther discussions.

“This is still an early part of theprocess,” Boardman reminded. “Weare nowhere near the final step ofevery detail of our new policy. As wecontinue discussions, we’re going tocommunicate to you any furtherdetails.”

To abate a few of the concerns,Freedman mentioned that theincrease in Cardinal Care would be5.8 percent,much less than in previousyears, in part because of the creationof the fee and changes in healthcarecosts.

The GSC also welcomed its recent-ly elected delegates last night.Delegates discussed the 33 percentdecrease in voter turnouts, citing poorpublicity strategy and lack of informa-tion about candidates prior to theelection.

Incoming ASSU President DavidGobaud ‘08, MS ‘10 also appeared atthe meeting, promising closer coordi-nation between the graduate studentbody and the ASSU.

“An overall goal is getting moregraduate students involved and know-ing what the ASSU is doing to workon graduate issues,” he said.

Contact Daniel Bui at dlbui@stanford.edu.

ing to hire again. There’s a percep-tion that we’ve gotten over theworst of it, and now people aremore comfortable extending thecredit of hiring.”

Projections of a better job marketin the future, however, don’t get grad-uating seniors — or their bankaccounts — too far.

“It definitely seems that the num-ber of entry-level positions is down,”said Marisa Dowling ‘09. “It’s really

hard, because I need to find some-thing that will pay. I don’t want to gointo more debt before I go to medicalschool.”

Mallory Bounds ‘08 first madecontact with her current employer atlast year’s Spring Career Fair. Shereturned this year to the fair, not as astudent,but as a recruiter for the pub-lic policy consulting firm SPHEREInstitute, where she’s been workingsince graduation. Bounds had advicefor anxious students worried aboutfinding a job.

“People are under the impressionthat if you don’t have a job now, it’stoo late,” she said. “But a lot of peo-ple my year didn’t get jobs until clos-

er to graduation. I was a little pan-icked, but everything ended up beingjust fine. There is still plenty of time.”

Although there are still many jobopenings, some students have takenthe competitiveness of this year’smarket to heart, pledging to be evenmore aggressive in the job searchnext year.

“I’m going to start looking thissummer for internships for next sum-mer,” said Kelsey King ‘11.

The Spring Career Fair has its sec-ond and final session today inTresidder, noon to 4 p.m.

Contact Molly Spaeth at mspaeth@stanford.edu.

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Unbeknownst to the majority of theundergraduate student body,the Fac-ulty Senate passed a measure at its

March 5 meeting that seems destined to in-crease student anxiety, even though it’sunder the guise of simplifying the academiccalendar. Without any undergraduate input,the Senate voted to move the drop deadlineup an entire week, so that it coincides withthe add deadline, and combined the gradingand withdrawal deadline at the end of theeighth week of the quarter.

The change may appear minute, and, in-deed, it was overshadowed at the time by anuproar over the loss of our beloved holidayon the first Monday of every quarter. Con-sider, however, what a difference one weekof classes can make in a 10-week quarterwhen it comes to determining whether youcan squeak a passing grade out of that chemclass, or whether you need to lighten yourload for your mental sanity.

By week three, many students have yet tohand in a major assignment or sit for anexam, and they have no real idea of the pro-fessor’s expectations for midterms or essays.And yet, as of next year, the third week ofeach quarter will be every student’s lastchance to make a binding decision aboutwhether or not to stay in or opt out.

The Senate claims that “this [new] calen-dar simplifies life at Stanford in that it re-duces the number of deadlines from five tothree.” They justify the combination by not-ing that “one of the arguments frequentlyused for keeping [these different deadlines]relates to student stress.”The Senate claims,“What really causes the biggest stress forstudents is when they mess up one or theother deadlines. [They find] they need todrop a class [because] they’ve got an awfulmidterm grade, but it’s too late now to drop

and it causes more frustration,more stress tohave those [deadlines] separated.”

Though the editorial board respects theFaculty Senate’s consideration of our stresslevels, and admits we may have so much onour plates that three deadlines for changingcourses are better than five,we see no reasonwhy the Senate did not push the add dead-line back, instead of moving the drop dead-line up. Such a move would have served thesame simplification purposes, and studentscould finalize their schedules after threeweeks of class, with a far better sense of howgreat a workload they are taking on as theyhead into the crunch time of the quarter.Thefirst midterm grade is generally a good signof how a student is doing overall, and stu-dents under the new system will be morelikely to lack this valuable indicator whenthey have to choose to drop a class so earlyin the quarter.

The fairly straightforward case of this datechange exposes a larger failing in the wayFaculty Senate meetings are conducted. Themeetings are notably absent of student input,with the exception of the ASSU Executives,and many of the decisions under the Senate’sjurisdiction seem more suited to an ASSUUndergraduate Senate meeting, as theystand to affect students at least as greatly asthey affect faculty. While the Faculty Senatehas our interests in mind, their closed-doordeliberations about the academic calendarand other issues may bind students to re-forms that may end up detracting from theStanford experience, and ultimately compli-cate the already frenzied add/drop/freak-out-and-withdrawal process. While threedeadlines are nicer than five, the chance topostpone those agonizing drop decisions onemore week is worth the slight inconvenienceof our current calendar.

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DEMBY DOWNER Nicole Demby

The new Stanfordpolitics?

When I saw the Internet homepage ofThe New York Times the other day,I felt like I had walked into a differ-

ent era. Sure, my father had fought policeoutside the Columbia administration build-ings in ‘68, but it’s been rare in my lifetime tosee students in New York holding such a vis-ible public protest that resulted in policeusing teargas. Yet that is exactly what hap-pened this week as students at the NewSchool called for the resignation of theirpresident, a man they criticize for runningthe school like a corporation.These protestscame after 18 students were suspended dur-ing protests at NYU in February.

I often balk at trying to decipher whethersimilar events that happen synchronously indifferent places are coincidental, or whetherthey constitute a larger cultural trend. Yetdespite this aversion, the New School andNYU protests can’t help but evoke memo-ries of the student protests that broke out allover Greece last year, the recent protests inMoldova where students used Twitter andFacebook to organize rallies against the re-strictive Communist government and otherrecent political activity that has emergedfrom young people around the world. Per-haps, sparked by recent events such as theimploding economy, the “me” generationhas revealed more of a social consciousnessthan those that dubbed them so give themcredit for.

Even placid Stanford may be seeing theeffects of this potential trend.Though gener-ally seen as more apolitical and conservativethan some of its collegiate peers, Stanfordhas boasted recent articles in the StanfordMagazine and The Stanford Daily whichhave recalled a time when Stanford was rifewith protest against authority (spurred by anew book by former Stanford president,Richard Lyman, on his tumultuous terms).While this kind of reflexive political activitymay have since been absent from this cam-pus, a return to the authority-questioningsdays of yore may be occurring. While theStanford politics of the past few decades wasprimarily isolated to school-sanctioned hu-manitarian groups working on global issues,lately, some recent political activity harkensback to Stanford’s more radical days with itsfocus on the space and functioning of theUniversity itself.

Sitting on the floor of my friend’s room atSynergy, I listened to him describe a projecthe initiated called the Stanford Free School,a community of students devoted to publicacts of protest and collaborative artistic ac-

tion.In a recent meeting,the group staged anart blast by walking into the Coho, hangingup art they had made and walking out. Someof the students involved in planning lastyear’s “Rumsfest,” a comedic celebrationextravaganza protesting Donald Rumsfeld’spresence at Stanford,are now working to or-chestrate “Condival,” a reaction to Con-doleezza Rice’s return to campus. Bothevents may be indicative of a growing inter-est among certain students to take part in akind of collaborative activity, one that blursthe distinctions between art and politics.Thistype of activity is nothing new — it has pre-viously manifested itself in everything fromWoodstock to flash mobs — yet it strikes meas a novelty here at Stanford.

I’ve long been averse to what I dismiss asa certain brand of Northern California hip-pie utopianism.Whenever someone looks atme starry-eyed and waxes poetical abouthow Burning Man changed their life, or thegreat things being done in some intentionalcommunity living in the forest somewhere,the cynical New Yorker in me balks.Yet withtheir embrace of public art as a form of polit-ical protest, the aforementioned recent hap-penings at Stanford combine the best ofmany aesthetic and political sensibilities.They express an absurdist view demonstrat-ed by many New Yorkers, yet seem to haveroots in a particularly West Coast counter-cultural optimism that claims collaborativeaction can enact real change. They are themanifestations of what happens when youcombine the astounding minds of Stanfordstudents with a critical political conscious-ness. In attempting to isolate a global themeof growing student political activity, it is cru-cial to understand that global trends mani-fest themselves uniquely in different places.

Nicole is scheming about more public art/per-formance/protest projects (perhaps a sponta-neously erupting dinner party outside Meyerlibrary next week?). Email her and tell heryour ideas at demb33@stanford.edu.

In fall quarter of my junior year, I took oneof the most memorable courses in myStanford career, entitled “The Ethics and

Politics of Public Service,” taught by Profes-sor Rob Reich.On the final day of class,Pres-ident Hennessy made a guest appearance toanswer many of our questions that had arisenthroughout the course regarding Stanford’spolicies toward public service, as well asethics in general.

When the question-answer period began,I raised my hand. After a while, PresidentHennessy called on me. This was my ques-tion:

“President Hennessy, you have men-tioned that ethical goodness ought to be in-stilled early on in a person’s life by his or herparents. Does this mean that the Universitydoes not feel it has a duty to perform an ac-tive role in trying to shape a culture thatstresses building moral character?”

“And if so, why?” I continued. “Whyshould the University not actively aid thecreation of moral character and virtue whenevidence suggests that this is so severely lack-ing on college campuses, even here at Stan-ford? Can you make the argument that learn-ing vocational subjects is more importantthan learning the value of being a good per-son? What are your arguments against theUniversity actively pursuing this role instressing character building?” Then, accord-ing to my notes, I took a deep breath.

I wish I could remember President Hen-nessey’s precise response because I did notmerely ask this question in order to be heard.The question I asked Stanford’s presidentthat morning was one that for years hadbeen, and continues to be, troubling me be-fore I even began attending this university.

Stanford takes a rather laissez-faire viewin the development of moral character andcivic duty among its student body, though theUniversity does mandate that each studentfulfills a General Education Requirementthrough an ethical reasoning course. Grant-ed, opportunities abound for students to callupon themselves to develop or strengthentheir inner sense of responsibility to othersthrough community service, civic action oreven through academic courses. It wouldseem, however, that such students are a self-selecting group.

Too little is asked of us by this schoolwhen it comes to developing moral charac-ter. Stanford does everything it can to pre-pare us to be successful in whatever form wevalue success, which, for many of us, is calcu-lated in monetary terms.As indispensable aspersonal success may be, I still hear thosewords echoing in my head: “Can you makethe argument that learning vocational sub-jects is more important than learning thevalue of being a good person?” Is money re-ally all that a college degree ought to be goodfor?

Some hold that morality is based in reli-gion, and that to teach about ethics and re-sponsibility to others approaches religiouspreaching. I disagree. To me, character, re-sponsibility, morality and ethical behaviorhas, as both an academic vocation and adaily-life practice, everything to do with act-ing according to empathy, understanding theother as one does the self and maintaining apassion for bettering the world. In my opin-ion, it has very little to do with God’s rewardfor such action. Moral character is what aris-es when a person has an understanding ofthis empathy, of this responsibility for some-thing outside of the self. It is innate in us to be

selfish, but character and responsibility canbe taught. It should be taught outside thehome if the home has not done its job.

Ethics in Society is still not a major.Why?Does the University simply care more aboutthe financial success of its students more thanit does how they garner such success? Havewe decided it is just too difficult to teachmorality without getting into the realm of re-ligion? Whatever the reason, the evidencesuggests that the powers that be at Stanforddo not believe it is the University’s place toinstill the lessons of moral character, civicduty and ethical makeup into the soul of itsstudent body.

Certainly, we as students are not withoutblame.With opportunities for service readilyavailable, why do so few of us take advan-tage? What does this say about our values,about our generation? The me-first mentali-ty so pervasive among many in the studentbody is enough to make one wonder howmany of us even enter the service arena with-out one eye on our resume.

One wonders whether this culture ischangeable, if perhaps the recent financialcrisis is enough to make people our age thinktwice about the culture of greed and narcis-sism that got us into this mess. If a silver lin-ing may be drawn, perhaps these hard timesmay cause us to take another look both in-side and outside ourselves.

I look at this university, at universities ingeneral, and I marvel at the societal culturethey seek to create.A university is, looked atthrough the romanticist’s glasses, a piece ofutopia, literally separate from the rest of so-ciety, where students congregate in a thirstfor knowledge, to meet others and to findthemselves. Our mentors and teachers seeknothing more than to stand before or walkside by side with us, bestowing us with theirown knowledge. If you allow yourself to ac-cept this vision, you cannot but conclude thatour university has indeed forged for us abeautiful world.

But without ethics, the distribution ofknowledge, technology, math and scienceamounts to nothing. What is the mind with-out the soul?

Mark went over the word limit. Again. mr-donig@stanford.edu.

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[Recent activism]harkens back toStanford’s moreradical days...

Mind without soul?

By KENAN JIANGSTAFF WRITER

The Stanford women’s gymnas-tics team finds itself appearing atthe NCAA Championships for the10th consecutive time, beginningtoday in Lincoln, Neb.

The Cardinal will also aim for itsthird consecutive Super Six berth.Of all the teams that compete in theNCAA Championships, only sixwill have a final chance at the title.The Cardinal is ranked No. 9 in itsdraw, which includes the top-ranked defending champions,Georgia, as well as No. 4 LSU, No. 5Florida, No. 8 Oklahoma and No. 12Penn State.

The team preliminaries will de-termine NCAA individual all-around champions. Stanford seniorNicole Ourada and junior captainCarly Janiga have both earned All-American honors and will competein the all-around. Janiga is the Pacif-ic-10 Conference and NCAA SouthCentral Regional all-around titlewinner.

Today’s session will determinethe all-around NCAA champion.Saturday’s session, meanwhile, willdetermine the NCAA individualchampion. The top three in each ofthe six team sessions will go to theFriday Super Six team final. Al-though it will technically be onlypreliminary competition, it is ab-solutely essential that Stanford per-form well during prelims in order tomake finals, where it has the oppor-tunity to compete for the nationalchampionship.

“Our team goals this week are,like every weekend, to hit 24 rou-tines and to have fun,” junior BlairRyland said.“We’ve worked so hardthis season, and it’s time to let thatwork come out.”

“Personally, my goal is to do thesame gymnastics I’ve been doing inthe gym these past couple weeksand to help bring the energy duringour practice and meets,” she contin-ued.

On vault, Stanford will start Ry-land, sophomore Danielle Ikoma,Janiga, Ourada, sophomore ShelleyAlexander and freshman CatherineNguyen. On uneven bars, Stanfordwill feature senior captain KellyFee, Alexander, freshman NicolePechanec, junior Alysse Ishino, Jani-ga and Ourada. On beam, Stanfordhas senior Heather Purnell, as wellas Ishino, Ourada, Ikoma, Janigaand Alexander. Finishing the floorexercise will be Alexander, Ryland,freshman Nicole Pechanec, Janiga,Ourada and sophomore TenayaWest, who just recently recoveredfrom an injury, in time for theNCAA South Central Regional.

“I think that I can speak for the

whole team when I say that we areall so excited to be competing witheach other tomorrow, one last timethis year,” Ryland said. “We had ateam meeting the other night, andwe really got to see the progressionthat we have come from the begin-ning of the year and the love that wehave for one another. I think that wedon’t have many nerves for thismeet because we have nothing tolose and everything to gain. We aregoing to have tomorrow and enjoycompeting together.”

Stanford has reached the NCAAChampionships 10 times since 1992,and has qualified for the nationalmeet seven of the past 10 years. TheCardinal women have reached theSuper Six four times, all since 2002,and finished third at NCAAs in2004 and 2008.

Stanford’s top finishers last yearwere Ourada in third place and Jani-ga in fourth in the all-around; Janigawas also eighth on the floor.

“There’s definitely no nervous-ness in the locker room right now,”Ryland said. “We had a very emo-tional team activity last night thatreminded us just how close thisteam is. We are a family in everysense of the word, and we’re excitedto have fun and do what we love to-gether. We only get a couple moretimes to do this as a team, and we’regoing to make it count.”

“I’ve always believed that any-thing can happen in sport,” Janigaadded. “Even the best team in thenation can open a door to the under-dog on the last day of the year.”

Should the Stanford womenqualify for the Super Six, they willcompete for a team championshipstarting at 4 p.m. on Friday.

Contact Kenan Jiang at kenanj@stan-ford.edu.

The day is finally here. Tonight,the San Jose Sharks will begintheir 2009 playoff run withwhat is easily the most com-

plete and skilled team in the fran-chise’s history and look to put years ofplayoff disappointment behind them.It is time for the players to put awaythe razors and start those playoffbeards. It is time for the growing num-ber of hockey nuts in the Bay Area tohope they’ll still be heading down tothe “Shark Tank” come June.

Just don’t think that because SanJose wrapped up the season with anNHL-best 53-18-11 record that a tripto the finals is anything more thanprobable. In fact,even though they se-cured the most points, if by only one,the Sharks are by no means the bestteam going into the postseason. Thathonor has to go to the Boston Bruins,who finished with the same number ofwins as the Sharks, allowed the fewestgoals of any team in the league andoutscored everyone except for the of-fensive machine that is the DetroitRed Wings.

But, as any true hockey fan knows,it really doesn’t matter at all who hadthe best season or who looks the beston paper. No game or series is a surething, and a game can slip away withonly a few seconds left on the clock(just ask Miami of Ohio, who nearlyhad the NCAA title all locked up).The closest thing to a sure thing head-ing into this year’s Stanley Cup Play-offs is that many of the series, and es-pecially the finals, are going to comedown to the wire. Four of the lastseven finals have gone to seven games,and there hasn’t been a sweep in thefinal round in over ten years.

That is why, without a doubt, theNHL offers the most exciting and dra-matic postseason in any sport. Itstretches well over a month and in-cludes anywhere from 60 to 105 games— the entire NFL schedule, mean-while, consists of just 256 games in itsregular season. Throw in the handfulof games that seem to make it tofourth, fifth or sixth overtimes everyyear, and there really is nothing morethat a fan could ask for.

But back to the Sharks. The badnews for San Jose fans is that, despitebeing the top overall seed and having

secured the home-ice advantage allthe way through the postseason, theSharks still face an extremely difficultroad to the Cup. Anaheim, their firstround opponent,has been to the finalstwice in the last five postseasons, theonly team to do so more than once inthat span.

When the Ducks are clicking —and they have been the last month orso — they can light the lamp as well asanyone in the league. Add Scott Nei-demeyer and Chris Pronger on theblue line, and it is easy to understandwhy they were the fifth-best powerplay team in the league. And theyboast one of the most legendary play-off goalies of the last decade in J.S.Giguere,assuming he can summon upthat playoff magic once again after arough season.

And that’s just what the eighthseeded team in the West brings to thetable.

The Sharks will potentially have toknock off both Detroit and a resur-gent Chicago Blackhawks club thatfeatures some of the best youngskaters and scorers in the league inPatrick Kane and Jonathan Toews inthe next two rounds just to reach thefinals. If they can get that far, it couldbe a match-up of the two best regularseason teams with Boston,or other 50-game winners like Washington andNew Jersey.

But that doesn’t mean there isn’treason to hope for a Cup or to expectgreat things. This is the team that ledthe league in points, after all. Just re-member that,even if the Sharks fall inthe first round or two, it isn’t necessar-ily a choke. The Sharks, Bruins andRed Wings can all claim to be the bestteam in the NHL when they are play-ing at their best, but none of them arethat much better than the other 13playoff teams playing to their full po-tential for three full periods.

Anything can happen, and that’swhy we love the postseason. TheSharks might take it all, but they, oranyone else (whatever their regularseason record), will have to earn it onevery shift the rest of the way. Whenthe puck drops tonight, a new seasonbegins.

Erik Adams is ready for the puck todrop on what’s shaping up to be one ofthe most exciting postseasons Bay Areahockey has ever seen. Contact him atekadams@stanford.edu.

Men’s gymnastics ready forrun at national title

The top-ranked Stanford men’s gym-nastics team will begin the final stage ofits hunt for an NCAA Championshiptoday in Minneapolis, as the Cardinaltakes the floor against some of the na-tion’s top talent.

Revenge will be large factor in theweekend’s competition, as Stanfordlooks to repay No. 2 Oklahoma, whichnarrowly defeated Stanford on itshome-turf for the title last season; theSooners bested the Cardinal by just.045.

“It was a heartbreaking loss for us,”senior Sho Nakamori told GoStan-ford.com. “We didn’t have the best day— the day that we needed to win thechampionship. After that, we got to-gether and regrouped and figured out aplan for what we wanted for this year.We’ve been really motivated to makesure that doesn’t happen again this year.We’ve been training really hard andpreparing very, very diligently.”

The Cardinal men will take the floortoday against No. 4 Michigan, No. 5 Cal-ifornia, No. 8 Penn State, No. 9 Nebras-ka and No. 12 Navy, while the Soonerscompete against the other half of thefield. The top-three finishing teams oneach side of the bracket will move on toFriday’s finals, which start at 7 p.m.

In the various events, Stanford isranked No. 1 in the floor exercise, stillrings and horizontal bar, led by seniorsNakamori and Bryant Hadden, redshirtjunior Greg Ter-Zakhariants and soph-

omores Josh Dixon and Tim Gentry.Nakamori could be a strong contenderfor individual honors regardless of howthe team finishes, as the senior is rankedNo. 1 on parallel bars, No. 2 in all-around, No. 4 on the floor exercise andpommel horse and No.5 on the horizon-tal bar.

Still, it’s a team title for Stanford thatis atop Nakamori’s wish list going intotoday’s competition.

“We’ve been focused on that for solong, ever since I came in as a fresh-man,” Nakamori told GoStanford.com.“If we can leave with that, it will makemy collegiate career. At this point, it’snot about the individual, but about theteam.”

— By Denis Griffin

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Junior Allyse Ishino and the Cardinal women will be looking to topple the com-petition today in order to earn a chance at their third straight shot at a nation-al title. Only three teams from each preliminary will advance to the final round.

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Senior Sho Nakamori offers the Cardinal its best shot at an individualall-around title at the NCAA Championships in Minneapolis today.Nakamori is the top-ranked gymnast, nationally, on parallel bars.

Huntingfor a crown

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS4/4 NCAA South Central

RegionalSECOND PLACE 196.2

UP NEXTNCAA TEAM PRELIMINARIES4/16 Lincoln, Neb.

GAME NOTES: The Cardinal women need tofinish in the top three at the team preliminar-ies today in order to advance to the SuperSix for the third consecutive season. Stanfordsenior Nicole Ourada and junior Carly Jani-ga are both considered strong contenders tocapture the all-around title at this year’sNCAA Championships and will look to leadtheir teammates on to the finals.

MEN’S GYMNASTICS4/4 MPSF Championships

FIRST PLACE 363.750

UP NEXTNCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS4/16 Minneapolis

GAME NOTES: The Stanford men will be out toavenge last season’s loss in the NCAA Champi-onships at Maples Pavilion against Oklahoma, asthe Sooners won by just .025 team points. Stan-ford carries a No. 1 ranking into today’s eventsand will look to finish as one of the top threeteams in the preliminaries in order to move on tothe finals, scheduled for Friday and Saturday.

No. 9 Stanford women gunning for thirdstraight Super Six berth in Lincoln, Neb.

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NHL playoffdrama backon tap at last

ErikAdamsThe Inside Pitch

But that was just the beginning.The Cardinal would go on to scoreeight more runs in the sixth, aided bythree walks and two errors by theBroncos (14-18).Milleville and juniorthird baseman Adam Gaylord bothhad two RBI singles in the innings.

Milleville was quick to point outthe serendipity that was needed toput together a 10-run inning.

“Baseball is a funny game,” hesaid. “Every ball we hit seemed tofind a hole. They made a few errorsand walked a few guys, and we justpiled on.”

Lost in the exploits of the Stanfordoffense was a solid performance bythe Cardinal pitching staff. With anupcoming series at No. 4 ArizonaState,head coach Mark Marquess de-cided not to wear out any arms and hethrew a series of pitchers at SantaClara.

Freshman Brian Busick pitchedtwo perfect innings to lead a paradeof six Cardinal pitchers — nonegoing more than a pair of innings —in holding the Broncos to just six hits.Both Busick and sophomore MichaelMarshall threw two shutout innings.

Like the pitching, the Cardinal of-fense was incredibly balanced. Noplayer had more than two RBI andWalsh was the only player with threehits. Milleville, Jones, Gaylord, Ger-hart and Schlander all had a pair ofhits.

With another standout perform-ance, the Stanford offense seems tohave overcome the slump thatplagued the team early in the season.The Cardinal scored 30 runs in twomidweek victories this week and vet-erans like Milleville and Gerhart ap-pear to have found their respectivestrokes that helped lead Stanford tothe College World Series a year ago.

The early-season pressure felt bythe veterans has definitely subsidedas of late.

“Being a senior, I put too muchpressure on myself to do well,” saidMilleville, one of the team’s two sen-ior starters. “When we started doingpoorly, I just relaxed and focused onseeing the ball and hitting it.”

Since an atrocious 3-9 start, whichincluded a six-game losing streak, the

Cardinal is 12-4, putting the team inposition to make a run at a Regionalbid.

Stanford will have a difficult timecontinuing its hot streak this week-end in Tempe, Ariz. The Sun Devilsare not only one of the best teams inthe country,but they will also be look-ing for revenge after Stanford tooktwo of three from them last year,knocking ASU from the top of thenational rankings in the process.

Can the offense keep it up?Milleville hopes so.

“We are definitely going to haveto hit,” he said. “They have somegreat pitchers and hitters, so we willneed to score some runs.”

The Cardinal will look to repeatlast season’s success and continuesthis season’s surge when its faces Ari-zona State, beginning Friday at 6:30p.m.

Contact Daniel Bohm at bohmd@stanford.edu.

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STANFORD 16 SANTA CLARA 34/15/09 STANFORD SANTA CLARA

AB R H BI AB R H BIWalsh 2b 5 2 3 2 Parra lf 3 0 0 0

August cf 5 1 1 2 Herbst lf/cf 1 0 0 0Giuliani ph/cf 1 0 0 0 Long cf 3 0 0 0

Gerhart lf 4 2 2 2 Glenn cf/ph lf 1 0 0 0Whitlow ph/lf 2 0 1 1 Heintz lf 0 0 0 0

Kiilsgaard rf 3 1 0 0 Karcich ss 4 1 2 0McColl ph/rf 2 0 0 0 O’Connor ss 0 0 0 0

Milleville 1b 4 2 2 2 Klein c 3 1 2 2Jones c 5 2 2 1 Santia pr 0 0 0 0Inman dh 0 0 0 0 Terry c 0 0 0 0

Griffiths ph 2 0 0 0 Fuerst 3b 4 0 1 0Kaskow ph 2 1 1 2 Van Dusen pr/3b 0 0 0

0Olabisi ph 1 0 0 0 Biancardi dh 4 1 1 0

Gaylord 3b 3 2 2 2 Wagner 1b 2 0 0 0Moon ph/3b 1 1 1 0 Morton 1b 1 0 0 0

Schlander ss 4 2 2 1 Madden rf 2 0 0 0Busick p 0 0 0 0 Abraham 2b 2 0 0 0

Pracher p 0 0 0 0 Dore ph 1 0 0 0Marshall p 0 0 0 0 Twining p 0 0 0 0Thompson p 0 0 0 0 Supple p 0 0 0 0Hancock p 0 0 0 0 Kiriu p 0 0 0 0Walker p 0 0 0 0 Graham p 0 0 0 0

Totals 44 16 17 15 31 3 6 2

R H EStanford 102 02(10) 001 16 17 0Santa Clara 000 200 100 3 6 4

E—O’Connor (1); Fuerst (8); Madden (2); Twining (1). DP—Stanford 2. LOB—Stanford 6; Santa Clara 6. 2B—Walsh (6);Kaskow (4), Schlander (4); Karcich (14); Biancardi (4). HR—Gerhart (3); Klein (4). SH—Schlander (3). SB—Walsh (3); Gerhart(5); Milleville (3).

Pitchers IP H R ER BB SOStanfordBusick W (1-0) 2.0 0 0 0 0 0Pracher 2.0 2 2 2 0 1Marshall 2.0 1 0 0 2 0Thompson 1.0 1 1 0 2 0Hancock 1.0 2 0 0 0 0Walker 1.0 0 0 0 1 0Santa ClaraTwining L (0-1) 4.0 6 5 5 0 5Supple 1.0 3 2 2 0 2Kiriu 0.1 2 6 4 3 0Graham 3.2 6 3 2 1 6

WP— Thompson (1). PB—Klein 2 (9).

HP: Dan Payne 1B: Gary DiFabio 3B: Mark Beller

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demand through the various stimulusmeasures.

Nonetheless, he was hesitant tospeak too concretely about his viewson the nation’s immediate future.

“The idea that we can actuallypredict what’s going to happen withany certitude is foolish. If you look atthe record of economic forecasting,it’s very poor,” Arrow warned.

He did, however, express his beliefthat the economic downturn has notyet reached its lowest point. He wasalso hesitant to agree with the notionthat the economy’s fundamentalswere sound, pointing to less-than-

stellar GDP growth rates in the U.S.in recent decades, the country’s grow-ing trade deficit with the rest of theworld and its relatively low savingsrate.

When questioned by Costelloabout his childhood,Arrow identifiedhis experiences as a youth during theGreat Depression as particularlyformative.

“I think a lot of people who grewup during the Great Depression whomight otherwise have gone into otherfields were stimulated to get into eco-nomics, to try to figure out wherethings went wrong, to try to figure outhow to fix things,” Arrow said.

Arrow was awarded the NobelPrize in Economics in 1972 both forhis breakthrough contributions togeneral equilibrium theory and forhis Ph.D. dissertation, which virtually

founded the now well-establishedfield of social choice theory. Hereceived the award at age 51, which,to this day, remains the youngest ageat which anyone has received theaward.

Social choice theory, which studiesways in which individual preferencescan be aggregated to determine socialchoices, is now a standard part of col-lege economics and political sciencecurricula. Fundamental to this theoryis what is now called the “ArrowImpossibility Theorem,” whichArrow formulated in his Ph.D. disser-tation.

He was also awarded the presti-gious National Medal of Science in2004 by President Bush, becomingonly the ninth economist to win theaward.

A total of five of Arrow’s Ph.D.

advisees have also gone on to winNobel Prizes, a number believed tobe unparalleled in his field.

In addition to being a highly deco-rated academician, Arrow has beenactive in public policy matters, serv-ing on the Council of EconomicAdvisers during President Kennedy’sadministration, among other posi-tions.

Arrow has also published a num-ber of seminal papers on health eco-nomics. In Wednesday’s talk, hedelved briefly into his views onhealthcare reform in America,expressing his view that the currentsystem is largely nonsensical andarguing in favor of a single payer sys-tem.

“The current employer-basedhealthcare system really does notmake any sense,” Arrow said. “Inorder to have a healthy, functioningcapitalist system, you are going tohave some firms getting bigger andsome getting smaller. That is howgrowth and technological progressare fueled. But if you have firms pro-viding health care to their employees,that provides a disincentive to firmsdownsizing.”

Contact Robert Toews at rtoews@stan-ford.edu.

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ful as [Drama] 104, and certainly nodrama class more successful than it,”said Brandon Silberstein ‘08, M.S.‘09,a current member of Stanford’ssketch comedy troupe The RobberBarons. “What other class, whenyou’re done with it, turns its partici-pants into a full-fledged — and nowvery popular — performing groupthat makes money and performs inThe Laugh Factory and Second Cityand IO West?”

Silberstein said he fears the classis getting cut because it isn’t seen asstrictly academic as others.

Claire Slattery ‘09, a currentSIMPS member, took Drama 103 herfreshman year and believes it strong-ly impacted her career at Stanfordfor the better.

“Improv is a state of mind, a state

of play, an attitude and a tone,” shesaid. “It’s one of those great classeswhere even if you aren’t studyingdrama, anyone could take it, andeveryone should take it. It allows usto make mistakes and celebrate fail-ures.”

Improvising provides studentswith an unconventional problemsolving skill set for even the mostpractical scenarios, and has proventhat it has mass appeal. At times,nearly a third of the students inDrama 103 have gone to the designdepartment looking to develop theircreativity, their ability to collaborateand methods for presenting theirideas in interesting ways. Workshopshave also been offered at the GSB.

Jamie Cornejo ‘10, a HumBiomajor who is currently enrolled inDrama 103, was confused about theprogram cuts, given the classes’immense popularity.

“The first day of class, 68 peopleshowed up for 24 spots,” Cornejosaid. “Prof. Klein had to open up

another section.”Klein said another section was

possible because funding is still mal-leable for the current quarter.Department Chair Peggy Phelangranted Klein’s request.

Drama 104 was offered for thefirst time last winter to 18 students. Inits second quarter, the class hasincreased to 29. In a similar vein,Drama 103’s four sections are consis-tently at capacity. This creates prob-lems for deciding which students willbe accepted into its one section dur-ing the 2009-2010 academic schoolyear. While some courses give stu-dents priority based on seniority,Drama 103 is a prerequisite for theSIMPS, so younger students — whocould potentially join the groupmight be at an advantage.

The sacrifice of Drama 103 and104 is just one example of the cutsthat are being made in the artsdepartments.

“That all departments inHumanities & Sciences have been

asked to cut their departmentalbudgets by 10 percent for 2009-2010— drama is in no way being singledout,” wrote Richard Saller, dean ofHumanities & Sciences, in an emailto The Daily. “Furthermore, the 10percent cut for departments is lessthan the average that the school as awhole is absorbing.”

While it is acknowledged that theUniversity as a whole is hurting, thefuture of the arts at Stanford over thenext few years is in question.

“While all departments atStanford are suffering, the dominoeffect in drama is particularly acute,”Phelan said. “When we cut produc-tion staff, we limit opportunities forstudents to have their work pro-duced. And when we limit thoseopportunities, we do indeed cut intothe educational part of our mission,too — to study and produce per-formance.”

The music department has felt theimpact of the economic crisis as well.

“Our department runs very lean

to begin with, so trimming has been adifficult exercise,” said DepartmentChair Stephen Sano.

Sano added that, althoughattempts have been made to stave offreductions in the core curriculum,the doctoral program in compositionhas experienced a 66 percent reduc-tion in funding this year alone.Furthermore, touring for theStanford Symphony Orchestra andthe Stanford Jazz Orchestra has beenput on an indefinite hold, while theWind Ensemble’s tour to Italy wascancelled. Sano equates this situationto a varsity athletic team only beingable to play home games.

Yet, in spite of cuts, Sano main-tains some optimism.

“We have worked hard to sustainthe core of our academic program,and it’s been both amazing andheartening to see how everyone inthe department has pulled togetherto continue delivering our core mis-sion in the musical education of ourstudents,” he said.

This sentiment is consistentthroughout the arts faculty. Kleinpostulated that the budget cuts actu-ally serve as an opportunity forimprov, by granting the program “achance to redistribute it even morebroadly.” Options have been dis-cussed with the Arts Initiative, theprogram in design, the GSB andnumerous others to receive fundingand even a formal joint.

Klein has a two-fold mission forthe future of Stanford improv — hebelieves it is crucial for improvisationto be taken for academic credit, andfor Stanford to maintain a top-notchimprov group, because “there arethings you learn onstage that you cannever get in a classroom.”

“We’re improvisers,” Klein said,“and if we can’t come up with a cre-ative solution to this exact scenario,then I don’t think that we’ve beenlearning our lessons.”

Contact Laura Stampler at lastamp@stanford.edu.

DRAMAContinued from front page