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By MARISA LANDICHOSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Crawling through lecturehalls, swinging into bikersmouths and emerging frombackpacks, caterpillars tra-ditionally overrun thecampus every year dur-ing spring quarter. Thoughthe furry menaces werenot a problem last year,thanks to a focused pestmanagement campaign,the caterpillars maymake a return soon,Grounds Serviceswarned.

We havent seen almostany outbreaks yet, which maybe an indication that it may begood this year, said MaxPinedo, supervisor forHorticulture,Pest Managementand Tree Maintenance. He cau-tioned, however, that an out-break could happen suddenlyand Grounds Services mustcontinually monitor thetrees.

Colored red and yellow,with four distinctive whitetufts of hair, the WesternTussock Caterpillar is themost common caterpil-lar species on campus.The caterpillars usuallyhatch in late Februaryand then feed on oakleaves until mid-June,when they eventually spincocoons and morph intoTussock moths.

The problem comes whenthere is an explosion in the

caterpillar population, whichlast happened in the spring of2006 and 2007.

In the last eight years,Grounds Services has madeattempts to prevent the infes-tations because trees maysuffer permanent damagefrom too many caterpil-lars feeding on theirleaves. The main motivefor their efforts, however,is student complaints.

Of course they candamage the trees if its a biginfestation, like anyinsect. Pinedo said.But [theyre] more likea nuisance for people,especially when they startdropping.

As trees become too full, thecaterpillars drop on silk stringsand hang underneath the trees often swinging in the path of

unwary bicyclists.Many upperclassmen remem-

ber these times in horror.I was biking once, and one

fell in my lap [and another] onewent in my mouth, said BettyPham 09, who created aFacebook group, StanfordUnion of Caterpillar Killahs(SUCK), in her freshmanyear.These stories arent allthat uncommon.

Learning from theswarms in past years,Grounds Services hasrefined its caterpillarcontainment strategy tofocus on prevention. Thisyear, Pinedo said, theywill rely mainly on spray-ing the egg nests with high-

STUDENT LIFE

Sorority rush

numbers increase

By CHRISTINE McFADDENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

As spring sorority rush finishes up at Stanford and girlsget settled into their respective sisterhoods, statistics show asignificant increase in participants this year.

This year, 307 girls signed up to participate inRecruitment, and of that number, 258 girls attended the lastnight, Preference Night, said Stanfords ISC RecruitmentChair Joyce Dela Pena 10,in an email to the Daily.

According to Victoria Harman 09, a sorority recruitmentcounselor,approximately 250 girls signed up for Recruitmentlast year, marking an over 20 percent increase in this yearsrush.

The minimum for this years new pledge classes was 42girls, which meant that each participating sorority Kappa

Alpha Theta,Pi Beta Phi, Chi Omega,Delta Delta Delta andKappa Kappa Gamma gave out at least that many bids.The one exception was Alpha Epsilon Phi, Stanfords newestsorority, which took fewer members.

These numbers are higher from last year and the yearbefore, both in terms of the number of girls who signed upand how many returned every night, Dela Pena said.Thereare probably several reasons for this,one being that the fresh-men classes are just larger than they have been in the past.

Dela Pena went on to list additional explanations for theincreased number of girls who rushed, including the numberof sorority-sponsored activities put on each year that couldhave perhaps helped to spread the Greek word. From philan-thropic opportunities to sports games, Greek life is adver-tised across a broad spectrum of campus-wide events.

With the rush statistics,the number of girls who come toPreference Night is always lower than the number who startout girls pull themselves out of the process for various rea-sons,and it happens every year, said ISC President Ali Fox09. But despite that, we had incredible retention rates the best weve had in recent memory so were quitepleased with that.

The sharp increase in the number of girls rushing coin-cides with this years Draw changes,but the ISC downplayedspeculation that increased interest in sororities this year

stems from students hoping to bypass the Draw.Alyssa Lo 12,who received a bid from Delta Delta Delta,

received automatic housing in the TriDelt house next year,which includes two-room doubles.

Its very nice to not have to worry about learning the newDraw system and to not worry about where Im going tolive, Lo said when asked about avoiding the Draw thisspring.

Lo did,however, say that her primary reasons for rushingwere social.

We dont feel that the Draw or changes to the Draw havemuch to do with this growing interest, Dela Pena said.Halfof Stanfords ISC sororities are un-housed, and these attractan equal number of women as the housed chapters.

While many girls do go into Recruitment hoping to livein a housed sorority,the attraction is not a stress-free housingoption, but rather the sense of community and friendship thatthis particular environment fosters, she added.

Fox agreed that the Draw had nothing to do with theinflux of girls.

In regard to why the retention rate was so high and why

Approx. 50 more girls rushed this yearfor over 20 percent increase

STUDENT LIFE

Caterpillarplaguemay return

Summer Research College cutBy ELIZABETH TITUS

For undergraduates looking to live oncampus this summer while they doresearch, Summer Research College(SRC) is no longer an option, according toUniversity administrators.SRC previouslyhoused about 200 students in Manzanita,hired staff and ran academic and socialprogramming,but with a shrinking budget,funding has been redirected.

Were putting as much money as wecan into the direct student grants, ratherthan spend money on that res idential com-ponent, said Vice Provost forUndergraduate Education John Bravman.

But some students applying for summerhousing could still end up in Manzanita,explained Executive Director of Student

Housing Rodger Whitney. Housing assign-ments will be determined by summerDraw numbers, and student researcherswill not have priority in those residences,he said.

Whitney said Student Housing is pre-pared to accommodate would-be SRC stu-dents, and that to his knowledge,Residential Education would hire addi-tional resident assistants (RAs) forManzanita.

While Bravman would not disclose thecost of the SRC residential program,whichemployed five to seven RAs and twoRCCs,he said that the cuts would preserveresearch grants for something like 15more students. SRC Director BrianThomas wrote in an email to The Dailythat those grants usually amount to $5,200

for full-time researchers.Thomas noted, however, that some of

SRCs academic programming will remain.Well still be running a small series of

workshops and faculty dinners this sum-

mer, he said.The real academic focus ofSRC, then and now, is to provide under-graduates interested in research an oppor-tunity to participate in research-relatedworkshops and panel discussions.

Bravman said he does not think stu-dents summer research experience willchange significantly.

I think the main character of SRCcomes through the work students aredoing with faculty and often in departmen-tal clusters, he said. We do not have anystrong evidence that this residential com-ponent was a particularly critical part of

the program. I liked having it,but again, Icompare that to 15 or so more studentsthat we could support.

Philip Bui 11,who participated in SRClast summer, said that cutting the residen-

tial program definitely changes the expe-rience.

I really enjoyed it, he said about liv-ing in Castao. It was really nice talkingto people about my research. I definitelymade some good friends because of SRC.

Cecilia Jojola 11 also really enjoyed theprogram and said the SRC staff was animportant part of the summer she spent inthe program.

The 2008 summer staff were the mostamazing bunch of people, and they were

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always planning some cool eventfor the dorm, she said.[SRC] wasone of the best experiences Ive hadon this campus.As a matter of fact,it was the main reason Ive tried toconvince so many of my otherfriends to spend a summer atStanford.

Bravman said he will send a let-ter to the Stanford community in

the next two weeks that talksabout all the reductions weve hadto endure in VPUE, includingundergraduate research.

I think after our reductions thisyear, we still have about the largestundergraduate research program inthe country, he said. Its still amulti-million-dollar program. Tenyears ago, I think that number wasabout $300,000. Weve greatlyexpanded this program over thepast decade. Unfortunately, wevehad to pull it back some because ofthe large decrease in theUniversitys endowment.

Even though he felt the cut wasnecessary,Thomas said he will missthe residential program.

I know Ive watched a reallydedicated and engaged group of

students come together under thesame roof over the five summersthat Ive been directing SRC, hesaid.

Thomas added, however, thatafter weighing the residential pro-gram against research opportuni-ties, the cut was the right thing todo.

Students can find more informa-tion on the SRC Web site or throughdepartments and programs thatreceive VPUE research funding.

Contact Elizabeth Titus at etitus@stanford.edu.

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Doctor sentenced tojail for illegal practice

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

A Colorado doctor has been sen-tenced to nine months in jail for ille-gally prescribing generic Prozac to aStanford University student who latercommitted suicide.

Just after his freshman year atStanford, 19-year-old John McKayused a credit card to purchase 90 cap-sules of fluoxetine, the generic namefor Prozac.

In his online application, McKayrequested the drug for treatment ofadult attention deficit disorder(ADD) and moderate depression.McKay also stated that he had beenprescribed the drug before and that hewas not suicidal.

Hageseth was working under arestricted license and was not allowedto write prescriptions in Colorado,butstill shipped the generic Prozac toMcKay in June 2005.

Seven weeks later, on August 2,2005, McKay committed suicide. Anautopsy found that he died from acombination of carbon monoxide andalcohol poisoning. He also had fluoxe-tine in his system.

San Mateo County prosecutorscharged Hageseth with practicingmedicine illegally, but not with pre-scribing the wrong drug or causingMcKays death. Hageseth entered ano-contest plea to the felony count ofpracticing medicine illegally.

On Friday,Judge James Ellis of theCounty Superior Court sentencedHageseth to nine months of imprison-ment. Hageseth will serve the sen-tence in Colorado while recoveringfrom heart surgery.

Histor Prof.namedCarnegie Scholar

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Assistant Professor of HistoryRobert Crews was named one of the2009 Carnegie Scholars last week forhis ongoing research on MuslimsWithout Borders?: Empires, Statesand Transnational Communities.

The new Carnegie Scholars wereselected for their compelling ideasand commitment to enriching thequality of the public dialogue onIslam.

The Carnegie Corporation pro-vides funding,with two-year grants ofup to $100,000, to support well-estab-lished and promising young thinkers,analysts and writers.

In his project, Crews seeks tounderstand how the mobility andinterconnectedness of Muslims have

intersected with the politics ofempires, states, nations and locales.His research challenges predominantAmerican frameworks for under-standing Muslim identities of anundifferentiated Muslim world onone hand,and the nation-state on theother.

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NEWS BRIEFS

pressure water.We go and basically release the

cocoons that are attached to thebranches and trunks with powerwashing,he said.

Under the Integrated PestManagement (IPM) program,launched in 1997, the University haspursued a course stressing the leastimpact on the environment.The IPMprogram includes a move away from

chemical pesticides and towardsmore inventive means of suppressingpests.

These efforts have included therelease of the caterpillars naturalpredators, such as lacewing larvaeand wasps in 1998-2000 and spinedsoldier bugs in 2007, but neitherpredator had any substantial success.

We did the release,and we neversaw [the spined soldier bugs] again,said Horticulture Technician JulieDay. It was not very successfulbecause the caterpillars are so fuzzythat the spiny beetles were not ableto penetrate.

Though power washing is lessharmful than chemical treatments,some students have still complainedabout the water wasted in theprocess.

I dont think there is any need tospray, said Donald Hoang 09. Ithink its a waste of money. Hoangstarted the Facebook group Save

the Caterpillars in the middle of the2006 infestation.

I mean, its not a big dealthere are bugs everywhere, headded.

Ian Markham 12 agreed that

power washing was preferable topesticides, but only if the caterpillarswere actually a proven harm.

Killing them for personal com-fort, for having to brush off a harm-less thing which doesnt sting, noritches or bites,is just foolishness andspecies-ism, he said. Markham alsocautioned against the potential dis-ruption of other wildlife living in thetrees,such as the many bird nests oncampus that may be damaged bypower washing.

Pinedo did mention that the hairi-ness of this certain species of cater-pillar was often an irritant to the skinand triggered the allergies of some

on campus. For the most part, how-ever, students complained about thecaterpillars as a nuisance,he said.

Pham was against the insectsparticularly because they dont turninto anything pretty they turn intomoths.

Im sure there are some ecologi-cal reasons for their existence, butaesthetically not so much, sheadded.

Due to the lull in 2008 and thecaterpillars absence so far this year,Grounds Services is optimistic that2009 will be caterpillar-free.

But students are not as certain ofthe reprieve.

Toyon resident assistant (RA)Edgar Flores 10 was moved to sendout a warning email to the RA listslast month, complete with photos,places to avoid and an ominous sub-

ject line,They are coming.Pham is already convinced that

the caterpillars will be back.

I freaked out pretty recentlywhen I saw three caterpillars on mybike within two days, she said.

Contact Marisa Landicho at landi-cho@stanford.edu.

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Human and Civil Rights

in America:

Obamas PromiseA lecture by Prof. Cruz Reynoso, a

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WASHINGTON (AP) Barack Obamasmission to Latin America was about goodwill,and he came home claiming progress, backedby leaders from the region who took a likingto his here-to-listen style. But the real testawaits.

As Obama himself put it, recasting a rela-

tionship takes not just words,but deeds.So Obama embraced Cubas overture to

put every issue on the table, but he wants theCastro government to free political prisoners.He had attention-snaring handshakes andsmiles with Hugo Chavez, but he wants theVenezuelan leader to stop being an authori-tarian figure. Obama pledged the U.S. andMexico are united on the drug war, but vio-lence keeps on raging.

For now, Obama has what he wanted. Astart.

What we showed here is that we can makeprogress when were willing to break freefrom some of the stale debates and old ideolo-gies that have dominated and distorted thedebate in this hemisphere for far too long,hesaid Sunday at the end of the Summit of theAmericas.

The White House hopes it will all pay off -Obamas personal diplomacy, his promises tolead without lecturing,his willingness to hear

leftist leaders gripe about the past.Obama even spelled out how, in his view,

that political chain of events will happen.He said countries will be more apt to coop-

erate with the United States on tough issues,even if only on the margins. Resistance basedon anti-American conceptions of the past willfall away.And nations already friendly to theU.S. will be more willing to help because theirpeople and neighbors will see us as a forcefor good or at least not a force for ill.Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva

said the U.S.and Lat in America are now cre-ating a new way of looking at each other, ofdefeating our differences.

Even Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega,acritic of U.S. policy, said he found Obamareceptive to dealing with the issues raised atthe summit in Trinidad and Tobago. Ortegasaid Obama is the president of an empirethat has rules the president cannot change.Nevertheless, he said, I want to believe that

hes inclined, that hes got the will.The dragging economy didnt consume

nearly the attention it normally would have ata summit of the type. The U.S. relationshipwith its peers framed the debate.

In a closing news conference, Obamaoffered up lines bound to appeal to those fol-lowing his words across the Americas. Hespoke of standing up for freedoms but respect-ing the cultures of other democracies, even ifthe U.S. deeply opposes the policies of a coun-try.

His message:The United States should be aleader in democracy, but not a lecturer.

And so if we are practicing what wepreach and if we occasionally confess to hav-ing strayed from our values and our ideals,that strengthens our hand,Obama said.Thatallows us to speak with greater moral forceand clarity around these issues.

On Cuba, he said the government inHavana should release political prisoners,

embrace democratic freedoms and cut fees onthe money that Cuban-Americans send backto their families. Obama has lifted somerestrictions on Cuba, and Cuban PresidentRaul Castro responded with a broad,concilia-tory overture.

As for Venezuela,Obamas friendly encoun-ters with Chavez at the summit drew intensepublicity partly, Obama said, becauseChavez is good at getting in front of TV cam-eras. Chavezs anti-American rhetoric has, inthe past, led Obama to call him a demagogue.

the number of girls who rushed wasalso high,I think it is not a functionof fear of the Draw,but rather a signthat Greek life at Stanford is aliveand thriving, she said.

Fox felt that the changes to theDraw are so new that people aretrying to navigate it right now ratherthan avoid it.

The growing number of prospec-tive new members indicates that the

Greek community has become avery desirable community to takepart in, providing a strong networkand true bonds that cannot be foundelsewhere on campus,Fox said.Weare thrilled at the unprecedentedinterest in sororities at Stanford andlook forward to engaging with ournewest members.

Contact Christine McFadden atcnm714@stanford.edu.

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OPINIONS

Jane Stanford once called a Universityof high degreethe means by which stu-dents will become of greater service to

the public. In many ways, her vision hasbeen realized at Stanford, where no matterthe field of study a student pursues, a life ofpublic service is a real possibility.

But a life of service requires more thanthe tools that enable us to serve the public;itrequires a deep drive on the part of thosewho would serve.This passion is the meansby which students can become public ser-vants and therefore part of what any univer-sity of high degree should try to deliver.Thankfully, Stanford has some wonderfulprograms devoted to just that, and we hopethey will be around for future generations ofStanfords up-and-coming leaders.

Stanfords Alternative Spring Break(ASB) and its Impact Abroad programs,sponsored by the Haas Center, are service-learning initiatives meant to transform stu-dents into advocates of social change, actingas the first step in the long process of shapingthat passion and helping students gainawareness of issues facing humanity.Al l thebetter, the hands-on nature of these pro-grams provides participants with the oppor-tunity to seek potential solutions.These pro-grams are distinguished not only by combin-ing learning and service,but also by offeringfinancial aid to students in need,opening upthe possibility of public and internationalservice to all students,even those who can-not afford other programs.

The ASB program wherein studentstake a one-unit winter quarter course andthen go on a service-learning trip over springbreak has been around for 22 years andhas won more awards than we care to list.More crucially,it has garnered the support ofstudents,on whom it depends for funding (itwas approved for special fees this year with 81percent of the vote).With many ASB alumniwho remember the program as life-changing,

ASBs financial future is secure. However,Impact Abroad is still emerging and is verymuch at risk of cutbacks or elimination.

While Impact Abroad is still in the earlystages of development (the program was

only introduced in 2008),it has the potentialto achieve tremendous things.Modeled afterASB, Impact Abroad requires participantsto take a one-unit spring quarter course andthen participate in a 3-4 week service-learn-ing experience abroad; this summers desti-nations are Argentina,India and Nicaragua.The program expands the bounds of Stan-ford public service beyond U.S. borders andbeyond the short confines of a one-weekspring break. It was given funding for athree-year pilot program,leaving it with onlytwo more academic years before its fundingwill depend on the generosity of alumni or adeclaration of support from the University.

There can be no denying that the Univer-sity is facing tough choices in a time of eco-nomic crisis and a significantly smaller en-dowment.In such moments,the question be-comes, what should be the Universitys toppriorities? Be it learning about communitydevelopment in a post-Katrina New Or-leans, experiencing migrant trails along theU.S.-Mexico border, being immersed in thevillage life of rural India or volunteering in aschool system in eastern Argentina, suchservice-learning initiatives are as close to theheart of the University mission and JaneStanfords founding principles as anyother type of program.They give students anappreciation for the urgency of problemsfacing the world, a critical step in thatprocess of fostering lifelong passion.

When students arrive at Stanford, theirlife paths are still wide open. Whateverpiques their interest during their years onthe Farm is likely to be what they pursue inlife. The power of service-learning trips isbest illustrated not by what the service stu-dents accomplish or the knowledge they ac-crue, but in the ways such experiences re-shape students lives, giving them firsthandinsight into challenges and inspiring them toseek solutions. If an initiative has the poten-tial to trigger a deep passion for a life of pub-

lic service (and Stanfords service-learningprograms often do just that),it should be oneof Stanfords top priorities.Funding and ex-panding Impact Abroad should be an essen-tial University mission this coming year.

Impact Abroad deservesfull support

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OP-E D

The proliferation of stopsigns must be stopped!

This is the first year I have had the pleas-ure of having a car on campus.Its beennice to be able to get off campus once

in a while and fetch toiletries without havingto wait two hours for the right Marguerite.

As someone who hails from SouthernCalifornia, Im familiar with the car cul-ture. Down there, highways are referred towith the definite article attached.One says,Iam going to take the 101 to get downtownasif the highway is a destination itself.In truth,it is.Southern Californians spend a lot of timeon their highways.

A lot of Northern Californians (and basi-cally everyone else in other major regions inthe United States) like to make fun of South-ern Californians for spending a lot of time intraffic.This is not true,at least in my experi-ence. Yes, we do spend a lot of time in our

cars,but its because there is so much spacebetween Point A and Point B.Stanford is a totally different experience.

It takes a long time to get from place to placeher, too, but that is not because of the dis-tance.It is because of the stop signs.

Lets take,for example,a drive from Man-zanita, where I unfortunately reside, to Sla-vanskii Dom at the end of the Row.That is,according to Google Earth,a distance of 0.82miles following Campus Drive and then upthe Row. There are, according to my usualroute,seven seven! stop signs betweenhere and there.Thats an average of 618 feetbetween each stop sign.Thats ridiculous.Or,God forbid,lets say I am trying to park in theTresidder lot.That is just 0.79 miles,and thereare eight eight! stop signs between meand the post office.Wow.

I pity anyone trying to get from Mirreleesto Robinson through campus there mustbe at least 15 stops signs in between.Theressimply no reason for it.I am reminded of thatopening scene in Office Spacewhere one ofthe characters,driving to work, is outpaced byan old man in a walker.I am regularly beatento locations by people on their bikes.Pathetic.

Now, I understand the need to be safe,blah blah blah,but it is unclear how addition-

al stop signs actually make us safer. I knowmany drivers and have been in their cars where they do what is known as a Cali-fornia roll and only slow down, withoutstopping, at a stop sign. Some particularlybrazen types dont slow down at all. This isobviously not safe,but the vast proliferationof stop signs only frustrates drivers and in-centivizes them to break the rules.

With better-constructed roads, moreyield signs and fewer four-way stops,driv-ing on campus would be much more efficientand safer.Now that bikers have,at long last,been reined in, the need for excessive stopsigns is even more questionable than it wasone or two years ago.

I secretly think well, not so secretlyanymore that the Powers That Be here atour fine university are constantly trying to

make it more difficult for us to drive and useour cars, without overtly declaring they are

doing so.The first example is, of course, thebyzantine parking system,in which it is neverclear when or where one is allowed to park.Ive racked up several parking tickets myselfthrough trial and error.The dearth of parkingin places where one might actually want topark say, Tresidder, or on the Row isalso indicative of my suspicion.

If the administration is trying to cut downon the number of student drivers,they mightas well come out and say it.Maybe they haveand I dont know.But the parking and drivingsystem, on East Campus at least, is hardlystructured in a way that makes it easy orpleasant to drive. Its not impossible, certain-ly,but I have never seen anything quite like it.

Stuart Baimel is moving very slowly on Cam- pus Drive. Tailgate him at sbaimel@stanford.edu.

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Stuart Baimel

At Stanford, its remarkably easy to for-get the way that most of Americaviews mental illness: as weakness, as

moral failure,and as something thats only upto the affected individual to solve.Therapy isstigmatized, and antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs tend to be hidden in the back ofthe medicine cabinet and never openly dis-cussed.

Why is this such a problem for people tocome to terms with, particularly given thatthere is a ton of research done in the field,anddrugs to treat these disorders are targeted andeffective and overwhelmingly safe? The U.S.tradition of treating mental health patientsisnt the most illustrious individuals withmental retardation were kept in cages andshown in circuses, soldiers with anxiety andpanic disorders were branded as cowards orworse, and schizophrenia was often misdiag-nosed as witchcraft and treated by a trip to thestake.

So we dont have the best history with all ofthis,but still, why is acknowledging mental ill-ness as being on par with any other type of

bodily ailment still so hard to do in America?The root of it might just be that its just really,really hard for society as a whole to acknowl-edge that the human brain is every bit as muchof an organ as the liver,and just like any otherbody part, a lot can go wrong with it. To behuman means to be a rational being, the oneliving creature on earth with full control of itsdestiny.To turn around and admit that biolog-ical defects can change how we think meansthat they can change who we are. It involvessacrificing the belief in a pure, complete freewill that was essentially the basis for thefounding of the country and the belief in self-efficacy and control that gets us through theday.

When you have a cold, you drink orangejuice,and when you have a blocked artery,youget coronary bypass surgery we recognizean illness, and then we treat it.However, thekind of automatic reaction to treat these ill-nesses with proven medicines and techniquesisnt so automatic when it comes to mentalhealth. Thinking about how we view mentalhealth treatment seems particularly impor-tant on this day in American history; I still re-member how horrified I was 10 years agotoday when I heard what had happened inColorado.To think that someone, barely evenout of childhood,could commit such acts of vi-olence was scary, worldview-changing stuff tome,as it was for so much of the country.

The problem, though,is that in the weeksafter the tragedy, How could they? wasnever the right question to ask.People triedto pin it on what they saw as logical explana-tions, but it turned out that the Columbinekillers werent goths, or Nazis, or occultists.They didnt listen to too much heavy metal ordecide to take innocent lives because theywatched Natural Born Killers and didnt

go to church.America tried to understand anact that defied reason through what we thinkof as the best ways to define the unreason-able scapegoating and placing the blameon the media and elsewhere but all ofthese things were incapable of explainingmental illness as severe as that of Eric Harris.

Its agreed now amongst the dozens of psy-chologists and psychiatrists that poured overthe pages of his diary, Web sites and inter-viewed family and acquaintances that Harrismet the qualifications for a psychopath, andnot the way we use that term casually theactual disorder. Its why he reveled in thekillings, why he laughed his way through amorning most would find the epitome of terri-

fying.Psychopaths are wired so differently from

what wed call the regularhuman brain thatits literally impossible for one to imagine thethought processes of the other. Psychopathsdont comprehend emotions like remorse orhappiness in the same way some people withcolor blindness dont comprehend red orgreen,so asking How could they? is nevergoing to yield a satisfactory answer therecertainly is an answer, but a brain wired foremotion and empathy could never under-stand it.

It wasnt the outside world that made theboys commit their crime, but the inside one,and an American people that fails to admitthat this sort of thing goes on is going to missthe problem every single time. You cant tellsomeone with major depression to get betterby spending more time outside or with friends,and you cant cure a psychopath with churchcamp and detention.

In Bowling for Columbine, MarilynManson famously said that if he had thechance to talk to the two teenaged killers, hewouldnt talk at all, but rather he would justlisten to them,because thats what no one did.There is so much research and information asto how to better treat mental illness in Ameri-ca,and 10 years after a tragic act,we still dontunderstand. Its probably time everybodystarted listening to it.

Matt Gillespie thinks the way we think is some-times worth thinking about. Contact him atmattg3@stanford.edu.

Slogan-heavy and substance-light ASSUUndergraduate Senate campaigns havebecome dominant. This is mostly be-

cause it works to get people elected. Howev-er, for the reemergence of substantive cam-paigns, the electoral system should bechanged. Each voter should be allowed onlyone Senate vote, rather than the 15 that weare given now.

Perhaps the most infamous campaign slo-gan of recent years is Holy Cow,Its ShelleyGao from last year. Despite relying almostpurely on this one slogan,Shelley Gao hand-ily earned the greatest amount of votes in lastyears election season. She wasted no efforttrying to explain her platform,and she was re-warded with an unambiguous victory.Just incase people thought that last year might havebeen a fluke,her campaign flyers this electionseason also featured her well-known cow.Gao again rose to success,receiving the third-highest vote totals this year.

Gao isnt the only one.In addition to Gaos

slogan-heavy campaign,many other slogancandidates this year had success as well.AntonZietsmans flyers said little about his platform,other than his endorsements and his sloganGot it Covered from A to Z and he re-ceived the second-highest amount of votes.Riding on the back of his timely SlumdogSivaramslogan, Varun Sivaram moved on towin the fourth-highest vote total.MohammadAli, this years top vote-getter,did have plat-form details on his flyers,but he was no doubtaided by his famous name.

My point is that slogans and catch phraseshave become the name of the game when itcomes to ASSU Undergraduate Senate cam-paigns.To be clear, this is not in any way thefault of the candidates themselves.Those can-didates who relied on slogans and went on tosucceed are simply apt analysts of the elec-toral environment.They realized what it tookto win. Rather than blame them,I hold thatour voting system is directly responsible forthe reliance on slogans in Senate campaigns.

Imagine an average undergraduate voter.She has 15 Senate votes to dispense with,but

when the time comes to vote, she probablydoes not already have 15 people in mind.Wehave a small campus,and it is quite possiblethat our voter knows a few of the candidates.

Lets be conservative and say she knows andwill vote for six people running for Senate.

Now,what will she do with the remainingnine votes? It is unlikely that she will simplymove on and abstain from using all of thoseremaining votes. Instead, she will lookthrough the candidates again to see whomshe recognizes.Those candidates who ran slo-gan-heavy campaigns and who were widelydistributed will stick in her mind. It is quitelikely that these candidates will receive atleast some of her remaining votes.

Thus,while many students might be moreintensely passionate in support of differingcandidates, they will be more passively infavor of the same sloganeering candidates.Aswe have seen in recent years,those slogan-re-lying candidates have become some of thehighest vote-getters in a given election year.

Now,let me give my disclaimer. I am in noway saying that Gao or Zietsman or Sivaramor Ali only won Senate seats due to passivevotes, nor am I saying that they didnt have

enthusiastic supporters.The number of per-sonal emails that circulated the StanfordWeb-space in the days preceding the electionopenly displayed the energy and enthusiasmof their supporters.What I am saying is thatour system of 15 votes sharply incentivizescampaigns that are slogan-heavy and thatthese candidates adapted their campaigns tofit these circumstances.

If,instead of 15 votes,each undergraduatewere only allowed one vote,we would see adrastically different campaign. Each Senatecandidate would have to fight for each votersindividual vote.Thus,even if a voter knew sixof the candidates, she would be forced tochoose the one she thought would best repre-sent her interests.This would force candidatesto campaign on a more substantive platformto prove that they are most deserving of eachvoters single vote. That would make for amore competitive, and potentially more ag-gressive campaign, sure, but ultimately itwould provide greater benefit to the Stanfordcommunity.

SAGAR DOSHI 09

Sagar Doshi has run for both UndergraduateSenate and ASSU Executive.

Thinking about the unthinkable

PI T H A N D PLEONASM

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By JEFF LUCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Despite a tough loss to division championUC-Irvine on Friday, the Stanford mens volley-ball team pulled together to end its season on ahigh note by sweeping opponent UCLA. WithNo. 5 USC upset by Hawaii in a drawn-outslugfest, the Cardinal will hold home-court ad-vantage in the first round of the upcomingMountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF)Tournament.

On Friday,No. 4 Stanford (21-10,14-8 MPSF)faced off against No. 1 UC-Irvine in the teamssecond encounter of the season. Despite edginga lead in the middle of the first set, the Cardinaleventually crumbled under the weight of theAnteaters offense, 30-28, 30-24, 30-22. Junioroutside hitter Evan Romero knocked in 13 killsand freshman outside hitter Brad Lawson

chipped in another 11,but the Stanford offensewas unable to offer an adequate response toIrvines nine team blocks.

Defensively, the Cardinal players took a se-vere beating from the Anteaters outside hitters,who combined for a total of 27 kills in just threesets. Freshman libero Erik Shoji managed 14digs, but minimal blocking allowed the Irvineplayers to maintain an incredible .457 team hit-ting percentage, the highest any team has hitagainst Stanford all season.

Theyre a good, solid team, and they havevery few weaknesses, said Stanford head coachJohn Kosty.Its tough to score in streaks againstthem unless you come with your A game.Andthats something we need to get better at.

Elsewhere, No.5 USC snapped a three-gamelosing streak and bridged the gap in the MPSFrankings to tie the Cardinal at fourth place bysweeping No. 14 Hawaii. The two teams havebeen in constant battle since earlier this monthfor the No.4 position, which guarantees home-court advantage for the first round of the MPSFTournament.

Saturday saw Stanford against No.9 UCLA,

which had previously defeated the Cardinal in afive-game nail biter.With the help of 43 assistsfrom junior setter Kawika Shoji, the Cardinal

cruised past its opponent in an uneventful 30-23,

30-26, 30-28 victory. Romero, who led the teamwith 16 kills,was one of three Stanford players toreach double digits in kills Lawson and soph-omore outside hitter Spencer McLachlin put up11 and 14, respectively. Senior middle blockerBrandon Williams put up four individual blocks,and the team as a whole hit .366.

Saturday nights win gave Stanford its 21stvictory of the season, the most since the 1997championship team won 27.

For the Cardinal players, the excitement ofthe night lasted long after the UCLA players leftthe gymnasium.Because USC held a tiebreakerover Stanford,a victory over UCLA meant littleif the Trojans won their match against Hawaii.When the news came that Hawaii had lost thefirst set, the team resigned to losing its first-round home advantage.

[We were] just planning on going to USC thisweek,Kosty said.

After waiting with bated breath,however,theStanford players werent disappointed by thefinal result. Hawaii junior outside hitter JosephStrotman and sophomore outside hitter JoshuaWalker knocked in 30 and 29 kills apiece to shift

the momentum and help the Warriors take the

By ERIK ADAMSSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Stanford baseball headed south to Tempe,

Ariz.on a roll last weekend,having won nine ofits previous 11 contests, but was stopped in itstracks by No.2 Arizona State.

Except for the first seven innings on Satur-day, Stanford (15-16, 7-8 Pacific-10 Confer-ence) was never really in control. The lonebright spot of the weekend was freshmanstarter Jordan Pries, who limited the top of-fense in the conference to no runs and just twohits in seven beautiful innings in Saturdays 7-2loss. The right-hander walked five but struckout a career-high 10 batters.

He did a phenomenal job,a great job,saidStanford head coach Mark Marquess. Hecame up with big pitches, and in a couple bigspots, with guys in scoring position,he steppedup and got them out. You cant ask for muchmore than that.

Pries is 3-0 this year with a 3.43 ERA, andopposing batters are hitting just .189 againsthim.

The rough weekend certainly doesnt spelldoom for Stanfords postseason hopes, but theCardinal will need to find a way to put somedistance between itself and the cluttered mid-dle of the Pac-10 before seasons end.There arestill 24 games to be played 12 in the confer-ence before the playoffs arrive,and a strongfinish could launch Stanford toward anotherrun at Omaha.

FRIDAY: ASU 14, STANFORD 6The Sun Devils (28-8,13-2) didnt waste any

time getting on the board,jumping all over theCardinals starter, junior Jeffrey Inman. Afterallowing a pair of runs in the first inning, theright-hander managed only a single out in thesecond before being knocked out of the game.Arizona State centerfielder Jason Kipnis who entered the game batting over .400 with 10homers and 14 doubles drove in three runswith a bases-loaded double off the wall in right,

and sophomore Danny Sandbrink relievedInman after the next batter singled.

With just a few short daysbetween now and the2009 NFL Draft, itstime, finally, to talk

about the stars of tomorrow ratherthan the stars of yesterday.While fartoo much of the NFLs regular-sea-son storylines consist of questionslieke Where has he gone? andWill he or wont he retire? theres

no better gauge for where teams arehere and now or,for that matter,where they think theyre going than the draft.

In years past, Ive devoted plentyof copy to explaining why the draft isimportant and worth watching.While those arguments alwaysseemed pretty clear to me, year inand year out, there was always somecolumnist or pundit declaring that itwas nothing more than a crap-shoot, boring and unwatchable.Forwhatever reason, though, Ive beenhearing much less of that this year aseven the mainstream media seems tohave finally conceded the point thatfans have known all along thedraft is not only worth watching, itsthe single most important event onthe NFL calendar each year. Anygiven game, even the Super Bowl,merely determines whos on top forthe here and now. The results of thedraft? Well, those ramifications can

last a decade or more.So, with that said, I thought itwould be appropriate this year tolaunch into some general draft dosand donts. Take them for whattheyre worth, but I guarantee you,its the best any under-qualified,over-exuberant fan would have tooffer.Rule No. 1: Avoid quarterbacks un-less youre really ready for them.Itseasy to follow the prevailing wisdomand believe that any team that does-nt currently have a franchise signal-caller on its roster needs to do any-thing and everything to secure oneon draft day.And to an extent, thatstrue.When a John Elway, cant-misstype of QB comes along, you takehim.

But in most cases,theres no suchthing as a slam-dunk, sure-fireprospect, and that goes double forQBs. And when youre not staringstraight at the next Elway, Favre,Montana or Manning,you dont pullthe trigger and take him unlessyouve got the support structurethere to help his growth.

Case in point:Alex Smith v.Aaron

SOFTBALL

Arizonas give Card bookend lossesBy CHRIS FITZGERALD

DAILY SPORTS INTERN

No.2 Stanford softball was disheartened in thedesert last weekend by losing two of three gamesto the Arizona schools.Stanford was outscored 29-11 on the trip,and fell by the run rule twice,whileCardinal pitchers coughed up three homers ineach of the two losses. The meetings pushed theCardinal to 1-5 in recent conference games.

Friday night marked the first run-rule loss Stan-ford (37-6,7-5 Pacific-10 Conference) has taken allseason.No. 9 Arizona (35-9,7-2 Pac-10) produced13 hits on the evening,including three home runs,the most in a single game off Cardinal pitching thisseason.

On the loss,Stanford head coach John Rittmanlooked at the bigger picture.

Winning in the Pac-10 on the road is extreme-

ly difficult,he said.We just played two of the bestoffensive teams in the country.

Arizona sophomore Brittany Lastrapes hadthree of the Wildcats 13 total hits, including athree-run homer in the sixth to make it a 10-4game.Two more runs in the inning were enough tofinish the game prematurely, 12-4. Wildcat juniorKLee Arredondo was 3-4 at the plate, adding atwo-run blast beyond the fence at HillenbrandStadium.In fact, eight of the 12 Wildcat runs weredriven across by home runs.

As for the Arizona pitching staff,junior SarahAkamine improved to 15-4 in the circle this sea-son. The California native struck out two and sur-rendered eight hits,allowing just two earned runsin six complete innings of work.Meanwhile,Stan-ford senior Missy Penna took the loss.The decisionmarked a stretch in which Penna has lost two ofher last three, only having pitched one inning

against Cal on April 11 to pick up a no decision.However,Stanford found some positive energy

in the form of junior Alissa Haber.Haber went 3-4 and scored a run,while senior Maddie Coon con-tributed two RBI on a deep single with two onbase.Junior Rosey Neill capped an offensive effortin the sixth with her ninth home run of the year.

The Stanford team put Fridays meet behind itas it embarked on the 115-mile trip to Tempe,Ariz.Saturday proved that the Cardinal could easily re-turn to form,and the team earned a 7-6 win span-ning eight innings.

Penna recorded a dozen strikeouts, giving her1,155 on her career to move ahead of 2004 gradDana Sorensons mark of 1,154.Penna now standsin first place atop the career record books,and alsoadded to her total in the top spot for career com-

Stanford drops three as Sun

Devils out-shine card in Arizona

SPORTS

TAYLOR CONE/The Stanford Daily

Freshman Brett Mooneyham and most of Stanfords pitching staff struggled to contain Arizona State batters. Some redemption was foundin freshman starter Jordan Pries, but the Cardinal still gave up 27 runs in just three games against the Sun Devils.

VIVIAN WONG/The Stanford Daily

Junior outside hitter Evan Romero posted a team-leading 16 kills on Saturday and was oneof three Cardinal players to register 11 or more kills in Stanfords win over UCLA.

KILL-ING UCLA

BASEBALL

4/19 vs. Arizona State L 6-3

UP NEXT

SANTA CLARA(15-20, 4-8 WCC)

4/20 Sunken Diamond5 P.M.

COVERAGE:RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM (kzsu.stanford.edu)

GAME NOTES: Stanford looks to rebound after droppingthree straight to the Sun Devils over the weekend. Recent

history bodes well for the Cardinal (15-16, 7-8 Pac-10),though, as Stanford easily downed the Broncos on April

15, 16-3.

SOFTBALL

4/19 vs. Arizona State

L 10-1

UP NEXT

SAN JOSE STATE(18-29, 5-10 WAC)4/22 Smith Family Stadium

6 P.M.

GAME NOTES: The Cardinal (37-6, 7-5Pac-10) registered bookend losses

during its three-game trip to theArizonas last weekend. But, Stanford

hopes to build on the solid

performances by junior Alissa Haber tosecure a victory against San Jose State.SJSU is also coming off a 1-of-3

weekend, as the Spartans dropped their

last two games against Hawaii.

MENS VOLLEYBALL

4/18 vs. UCLAW 3-0

UP NEXT USC(17-10, 13-9 MPSF)2/24 Maples Pavilion 7 P.M.

GAME NOTES: Stanford (21-10, 14-8 MPSF) clinched home-court advantage for the opening round of its conferencetournament last weekend with a win over UCLA. The post-

season starts for the Cardinal with a meeting with No. 5

USC. The Trojans are coming off an upset by No. 11

Hawaii, but still threaten to push Stanford to an early exitfrom the MPSF Tournament.

Card secures home court for post-season opener with win over UCLADos and

donts of the

NFL draft

Denis

Griffin

Rants and Raves

Hung out to dry

Please seeVOLLEYBALL,page 6

Please see GRIFFIN,page 6Please see SOFTBALL,page 6

Please see BASEBALL,page 6

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WOMENS GYMNASTICS

Women fall short of Super SixBy KENAN JIANG

STAFF WRITER

The Stanford womens gymnastics team finished 0.075points shy of making a third consecutive appearance in theNCAA Super Six Finals this past weekend.The teams ulti-mate goal for the season was to make the Super Six rank-ing,which would give it the opportunity to compete for thenational title on the last day of the NCAA Championships.But, the Cardinal came up short in the battle for the final

spot,as it was edged out by LSU in the final rotation.Of six teams in its draw,Stanford finished fourth in pre-

lims,and only the top three teams enter the Super Six.Stan-ford competed on Thursday at the Devaney Center in Lin-coln,Neb.,and after 24 routines and 3.5 hours,it finished be-hind LSU, runner-up Florida and defending championGeorgia, which featured 2004 Olympic silver medalistCourtney Kupets.

Georgia won the Session I draw with 197.45 points, fol-lowed by Florida with 196.375, LSU with 196.3, Stanfordwith 196.225, Penn State with 196.1 and Oklahoma with195.825.

Stanford finished its season eighth in the nation, mark-ing the teams third consecutive top-10 finish during an as-tronomical rise for the womens gymnastics team sincehead coach Kristen Smyth took over the programs helm.

Going into the final rotation,the Cardinal had put itself ina great position to make the Super Six.However,senior cap-tain Kelly Fee injured her ankle in the final parts of her rou-tine and was not able to continue. Still, the five remainingStanford gymnasts nailed their routines for a combined scoreof 48.95. Sophomore Shelley Alexander placed 10th with a9.875, coming up just short of her first All-American honors.

LSU rallied,though,and stuck all of its vault routines fora team total of 49.95, which edged Stanfords best efforts.

Stanford performed extremely well on the uneven barswith a team score of 49.175,losing only to Georgias 49.375.Stanford junior Carly Janiga posted a 9.9, while seniorNicole Ourada, freshman Nicole Pechanec, senior KellyFee,Alexander and junior Allyse Ishino also bolstered theteam with a 9.875,9.825, 9.8,9.775 and 9.75, respectively.

Overall, the Cardinal showed solid scores across theboard, but the culmination of little errors was enough tokeep the young team out of a Super Six position.In the end,the Super Six did not include a single Pacific-10 Conference

team, as perennial contender UCLA was edged out byUtah in a tiebreaker,and Oregon State finished fifth.

At the end of the competition,Georgia won the nation-al championship, beating out Florida, LSU, Alabama,Arkansas and Utah.

After the Cardinals team season ended, Ourada andJaniga competed in the individual event finals on Saturday.In prelims,both earned first-team All-American honors inthe uneven bars.To qualify, they finished among the topfour in the session. Janiga also earned second-team All-American in the all-around, while Ourada did so on thefloor,snagging her seventh career All-American honor.

On Saturday,Janiga went on to finish second in the indi-vidual uneven bars,with a score of 9.9125, marking the bestfinish in any event for Stanford since 2001. Janiga lost tochampion Courtney Kupets who was also the NCAA all-around champion with a score of 9.95.Ourada also placed10th in the uneven bars to cap off a stellar career.

Although the Cardinal will surely miss Ourada when itreturns to action next year,Janiga and her teammates keeptheir eyes set on the Super Six for the 2010 season,and withless than a tenth of a point separating them from that goal,the achievement may be within reach.

Contact Kenan Jiang at kenanj@stanford.edu.

CYCLING

Stanford cyclists host home raceBy ZOE LEAVITT

STAFF WRITER

The Stanford cycling club team successfully hosted itsfirst on-campus race in years on Sunday, much to the de-light of the team, its alumni and the cheering fans whowatched blurs of bikers speeding down Campus Drive.Over 200 racers flooded Galvez Field to sweat through acombined hundreds of laps over the course of the morn-ing.

Every team in the Western Collegiate Cycling Confer-ence hosts a race each season,but the Stanford team pre-viously held its races on various off-campus sites,such asin Redwood City in 2008 and Santa Clara in 2007. Due tofunding problems and bureaucratic tangles, putting Stan-fords race on campus has been a holy grail that eludedStanford cycling for many years. Frustrated by the lack ofexposure from off-campus races,the team pooled its tal-ents this year to successfully organize a campus race,giv-

ing this weekend more than the usual race excitement.Looping around Galvez Field over Campus Drive,Galvez Street,Arboretum and Lasuen Street, the .925-mile course brought significant challenges despite its flat-ness.The sharp corners necessitated heightened concen-tration and focus on handling skills in order for the ridersto stay on track.Although the course was short, the 60-minute race called for intense endurance and highspeeds.

I got several compliments from other teams on thequality of the course, said road captain Rae Browns-berger 10.The pavement is good and a few turns arepretty technical, which makes the race a lot of fun. Wethought turn three, less than 90 degrees and slightly off-camber,had the potential to cause some trouble.Therewere a couple crashes, but thats bike racing.Overall,thecourse was safe and fast.

The Stanford cyclists used their bureaucratic triumphsto add momentum on the course this weekend, finishingthe day with several standout performances. Browns-berger sprinted through the womens A field race to astrong victory. In the womens Brace, Jen Daly, a grad-uate student in the School of Education, pushed forwardin the last lap to take the lead, which she held through thefinish line for first place. Stefan Meister,a graduate stu-

dent in management science and engineering, finishedsecond in the mens Brace.By hosting a race on campus, the cycling team hoped

to generate publicity and invigorate a lineup that shrunk

with a high graduation rate last year. In particular, theyhoped to reach out to students who had never watched arace before and encourage people to join the team.Whilecyclists may look intimidating in their Spandex suits,Brownsberger and the rest of the team tried to share theirunofficial motto with the student body: No pressure,bike fun.

Aside from student outreach,the team also wanted togive friends and other student fans a chance to watch arace without worrying about off-campus transportation,and Sunday brought great success in both.

The success of this years event makes us optimisticabout holding our race on campus again,said race direc-tor Meister, who was largely responsible for the week-ends events.The feedback was very positive from rac-ers,officials, and spectators. Repeating the event shouldbe easier next year, but we will still face challenges suchas securing enough funding.

As this race was the last before conference champi-

onships, the stakes were high for Stanford, and the teamnow looks to keep its momentum. But the cycling team,which holds three of the last 10 national championshipsand has produced three Olympians and 18 All-Ameri-cans in the past 10 years, already sees this weekend as anaccomplishment. The team member believe their per-formance this weekend should put them in prime stand-ing for the conference championship, April 24-25. Be-cause collegiate cycling values scores at the conferencechampionship almost as much as the cumulative scoresfrom the rest of the season, the team hopes to keep up itsfitness for next weekend.The Cardinal is also looking toqualify for the Collegiate Road Nationals in Fort Collins,Colo.,May 8-10.

Individual winners of the conference championshiproad race and criterion get to start at the front of the packat Nationals,which can be a great advantage when thereare 100-plus riders on the start line,Brownsberger said.The Stanford A women also have a team time trial Na-tional Championship to defend this year in Fort Collins,so well be focusing a great deal on preparing for that.

However,as their season stretches toward the end,theStanford cyclists are also looking after their health andwell-being.

You can bet that the Stanford riders will spend some

quality time with their feet up these next few weeks torest up for all these races,Brownsberger said.

Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stanford.edu.

Rodgers. Youll never convince methat Rodgers was the better prospectcoming out of college,but four yearsafter the Cal QB was selected, hesthe one poised to be a franchise sig-nal-caller for years to come, whileSmith is rapidly becoming an after-thought in San Francisco.The differ-ence? Smith was thrust into a situa-tion with no stable offensive system,no veteran leadership around him

and no proven offensive playmakersto lean on while he developed.Rodgers got to sit on the bench andlearn behind Brett Favre for most ofthree years before he was calledupon to start.

So to Detroit and other, well, de-veloping teams,unless you see morein the likes of Matt Stafford andMark Sanchez than I do, you mightbe better off waiting on that QB ofthe future so that whenever you gethim,youre ready for him.Rule No. 2: Reach for the stars, butdont get burned. When it comes tothe draft, one term that often getsthrown around with reckless aban-don is boom-or-bust. Used to refer

to a prospect or pick, it usually de-scribes a player with tremendousphysical capabilities, but some ques-tion marks as to whether hell beable to perform at the next level.

The best recent example wouldbe a player like Adam PacmanJones, who everyone knew was atremendous physical talent at cor-nerback when he was selected byTennessee, but was also surroundedby the same character concerns thatdog him to this day.The law and Pac-mans inability to stay within it has,essentially, prevented him frombeing the player he could have been,and landed him decisively on the

bustside of the equation.Going forward,then, the name of

the game for teams is that taking achance on a player with tremendousupside is one thing if youre not surehow that 4.4 speed will translatefrom a small college to the NFL.Itssomething entirely different if, likePacman, you think he might spendmore time in local strip clubs andcourtrooms. A player with solidcharacter and tremendous upsidewho doesnt become a star will stilllikely provide solid depth. But, aplayer with the pedigree and talent,but not the common sense to stay outof trouble could, ultimately, be acomplete waste of a selection.

Rule No. 3: Make an effort in thetrenches. Another common clich ofthe draft is the need to build a solidteam by building in the trenches.Thenotion that solid offensive and de-fensive linemen are worth their(often prodigious) weight in gold isan old one,and largely true.

But when it comes to draftinglinemen,the moniker that all teamsshould fear is a simple one:inconsis-tent motor. A player built like abulldozer is just a massive waste ofspace if he doesnt play with any pas-sion or intensity.And if that gargan-tuan guard is giving questionable ef-fort in college,when a big payday is

on the line in the draft,what do youthink hell be like when he gets to thepros and hes already been handedhis signing bonus? The answer: noth-ing good.Not for your team, anyway.

So if your team breaks one of theabove cardinal rules during thedraft,youll be able to say I told youso when things turn sour. Unfortu-nately,that wont stop your franchisefrom making dumb moves, but atleast youll know the train wreckwhen you see it.And I promise,youwont be able to turn away.

Denis Griffin will not get up from thecouch this entire weekend.Make plansto join him at djgriff@stanford.edu.

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Sandbrink allowed a two-RBIdouble to right-fielder Matt New-man,running the score to a 7-3 ASUadvantage,and giving the Sun Devilsall the runs they would need. Sand-brink struck out the next two battersto escape the inning.

Although Stanford held the leadbriefly at 3-2 after scoring three runsin the top of the second,it never feltlike the Cardinal was really in thegame. Sun Devil starter Josh Spence,delivering his worst performance ofthis season,still managed to limit theCard to six runs on eight hits throughseven innings, keeping a perfect 8-0record.He also crushed any hope ofa Stanford rally by stranding six run-ners and allowing only one run in hisfinal four innings of work.

But there were a few positives forStanford, including Clowes 3-for-4day with three RBI, both matching

career highs.Ben has been swinging the batvery well lately,Marquess said.Hehas been helping us, and his bat isgoing to help us this year.

Sophomore Colin Walsh ran hishitting streak to seven games, andsophomores Alex Pracher andMichael Marshall, along with fresh-man Brian Busick,managed to holdthe powerful ASU lineup to just onerun on three hits over the final 4.1 in-nings.

SATURDAY: ASU 7, STANFORD 2The night after being knocked

around by ASUs bats, Stanfordturned to Pries to be the stopper.Heturned in the best performance of hisyoung career shutting out the SunDevils and holding them to just twohits,while striking out a career-high10 batters in seven innings but itwasnt enough for the Cardinal.

Walsh scored from third on a

fielders choice in the fourth inningto give Stanford a 1-0 lead, and Priesmade it stick until he left the game

after seven with the score still 1-0.The Cardinal added an insurancerun on an RBI-double by senior JoeyAugust in the eighth, before turning

to sophomore closer Drew Storen inthe bottom of the eighth.Storen had been nearly un-hit-

table all year, and hadnt walked aman since the first batter he facedthis season.But that streak of domi-nance came to an end in this outing,as ASU pushed across seven runs onthe right-hander,who only managedone out.

The line looked worse than hisperformance actually was, as thingssnowballed after a series of toughbreaks and close calls. ShortstopDrew Maggi led off the inning with atriple to right on a ball that sopho-more Kellen Kiilsgaard appeared tohave a chance on, but he and Augustcollided and the ball rolled to thewall.

After a lengthy delay to check onAugust, who injured his left shin onthe play but stayed in the game,Storen got ahead 0-2 on Kipnis,be-fore a pitch barely off the inside cor-

ner nicked the batter.The ball didntmove at all and Kipnis leaned hiselbow towards the plate andStoren argued the call momentarilybefore returning to the mound visi-bly frustrated.

Storen walked the next man hefaced before allowing a single and adouble to the next two.He then got astrikeout, but issued two more walks one intentional and a wildpitch before being relived by Mar-shall with the score 4-2 and the basesloaded. Marshall allowed a three-RBI single to Maggi before escapingthe inning.

Stanford had been 10-0 beforethe loss when leading after seven in-nings this season.

SUNDAY: ASU 6, STANFORD 3The Sun Devils pushed across

five runs in the fourth inning, andthat was more than enough forstarter Seth Blair. Blair held Stan-

ford to two runs on six hits through6.2 solid innings and picked up hisfourth win of the year.

Freshman Brett Mooneyhamstarted for Stanford, but was neverable to find his command.In just 3.1innings of work, he issued eight

walks and routinely fell behind ASUhitters.Senior Max Fearnow and Bu-sick combined to allow just two runsthe rest of the way, but the damagewas already done.

Stanford did hit its first homeruns of the weekend a pair of soloshots by junior Adam Gaylord andKiilsgaard. The homer by Gaylordwas the first of his collegiate careerand came on a rocketing line drive toleft field.

The Cardinal will look to get backon a roll tonight when it hosts SantaClara (15-20, 4-8 WCC) at 5 p.m.That game is the first of seven con-secutive home games for Stanford,including a Pac-10 series with Ari-zona this weekend. Every game thisseason can be heard on KZSU 90.1FM.

Contact Erik Adams at ekadams@stanford.edu.

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next three sets in a 30-32,33-31, 38-36, 30-27 victory.

With the home-court advantagefirmly in its grasp, the Stanfordmens volleyball team will now ded-icate itself to training for the up-coming match against USC. TheCardinal has not played USC sinceit was swept by the Trojans in lateJanuary.

With the first round of the MPSFTournament just around the corner,Stanford will need all the confi-dence and improvement it hasgained in the 15 victories since thelast Trojans encounter to surpass itsdisappointing first-round exit last

year.Contact Jeff Lu at jjlu@stanford.edu.

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plete games with her 28th on theyear. Meanwhile, junior Megan El-liot took the loss for No. 5 ArizonaState (36-9,6-4).

Rittman praised his team for thecomeback win.

[The team] fought it out for thewin,he said.It shows the heart anddetermination [we] have.

Freshman Jenna Becerra regis-tered the game-winning hit in the topof the eighth for the Cardinal. Thedeep single scored freshman MayaBurns from second, and this high-light of Becerras night also markedher fourth homer on the year. Shealso added three RBI on the eveningto finish 2-3 at the plate.

Earlier, junior Shannon Koplitzhad clobbered a two-run bomb in thesixth, which extended Stanfordslead to 6-1, but the Sun Devils re-fused to go down without a fight.Five ASU hits the seventh, includingback-to-back home runs, tied thegame. Penna then struck out twoconsecutive Sun Devil batters toclose the inning and force extra in-nings.But, when Becerra brought inBurns,she was able to cap off a nine-hit Cardinal effort.

Sundays match,however,did nottreat Stanford well.Run-ruled again,sophomore Ashley Chinn picked upher second conference loss of theyear.

Stanford totaled only four hitsand five base runners on the after-noon. The Sun Devils defeated theCardinal 10-1, with 11 hits over justfive innings of play.Krista Donnen-worth, who had a home run againstStanford on Saturday, was 3-3 at thedish, with another long ball and adouble. Stanfords lone shimmercame again from Haber, whocrushed a leadoff home run to openplay on Sunday. But, the decisionmarked the first time this season that

Stanford scored first and ended upwith a loss.

Freshman Hillary Bach hurledfive innings in the circle for ASU,striking out four in the win. Chinnstruck out two and surrendered fiveearned runs in the five-inning lossfor Stanford.

Rittman put the weekend in per-spective for the team.

You have to limit your mistakeswhen you play strong offensiveteams,he said. We need to do a bet-ter job of putting together the big in-ning on our end as well.

Stanford next plays San JoseState this Wednesday in Smith Fami-ly Stadium.

Contact Chris Fitzgerald at chrishfitz@gmail.com.

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Junior Alissa Haber offered Stanfordtwo home runs during its trip to thedesert. However, her hits werentenough to prevent the Card fromgoing 1-for-3 on the weekend.

Winning in

the Pac-10 on

the road is

extremely

difficult

JOHN RITTMAN,head coach