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Graduates of Stanfords Grad-uate School of Business (GSB)are pursuing a more diverse arrayof careers of late, according to theGSBs Career Management Cen-ter. Many of these graduates arelooking to the education industryrather than business or finance.

The most significant trend wehave seen in recent years has beenan extraordinary diversificationin what GSB students choose topursue, said Pulin Sanghvi MBA97, director and assistant dean ofthe GSB Career ManagementCenter. We have approximately780 MBA students and more than300 firms that hire them, whichmeans that, any given year, 80 per-cent of employers will hire onlyone student.

Sanghvi also noted that a sig-

nificant number of MBA studentsare pursuing joint degrees withother schools at Stanford.

Nereyda Salinas, managing di-rector of career resources for theSchool of Education, has seen anincrease in students applying tothe joint MBA-Masters of Edu-cation program.

A good portion of these joint-degree students are defi-nitely pursuing long-term careersin education, Salinas said.These students are looking topursue education-managementcareers . . . They are trying to im-pact the field of education in ascalable manner.

Students who are interestedin education who get an MBA will

look for opportunities where theycan drive change, Sanghviechoed.

Education Pioneers, a non-profit that places graduate stu-dent fellows into education or-ganizations to gain experience inthe industry, has been a startingpoint for many GSB students.

I think the opportunity to dowell by kids, particularly low-in-come kids, makes an education

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Barghouti calls

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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Industry experts discuss future ofautomotive industry, electric cars

Joint degree program withSchool of Ed. offers variety

SPER hosts prominent Palestinian leader

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By DANIELLE LUSSIER

The number of alcohol-relatedtransportations this year has in-creased from 44 cases at this pointlast year to 53 this year, accordingto the Office of Alcohol Policy &Education (OAPE), though direc-tor Ralph Castro warned that theslight increase may be deceptive.

The University created OAPEthis academic year with a goal ofcombating alcohol-related injury.According to Castro, a main target

for the office is to address the trendof pre-gaming, when studentsdrink large amounts of alcohol,usually in the form of hard liquor,in a short period of time before at-

tending an event.Castro said in an email to The

Daily that 14 of this years cases oc-curred before highly advertisedall-campus events seven eachwere related to pre-gaming beforeFull Moon on the Quad and Mau-soleum party.

Castro said that the increase inalcohol-related hospitalizationsmay be the result of increased stu-dent awareness toward dangeroussituations.

[The numbers] may actuallybe reflective of pro-social, anti-bystanding behaviors, he said,referring to the goals of OAPEscurrent programming. [In-

creased attention] could be posi-tively contributing to studentsbeing more willing to call for help,thus increasing the numbers.

Say Something at Stanford, the

OAPEs majorpromotion thisyear, tries to en-gage bystandersto intervene whenthey see fellow stu-dents at dangerouslevels of intoxication.

OAPE is also working onan official sober monitor programfor Stanford events and parties, ac-cording to Castro.

Others around campus havenoticed changes from the presenceof the OAPE.

Stuart Bennett, a resident fel-low in Serra, said, Educating stu-dents to take some responsibility

for their friends who are drinkingirresponsibly rather than be by-standers can be effective.

Tessa Smith 13, a residentialpeer health educator, said she

views OAPEas a resource

that allowsstudents who

choose to drinkto do so safely,

in addition to be-coming educated

on other issues in thebig picture of the alcohol

scene.Smith described the OAPE as a

valuable new resource on campusfor health and wellness, even if ittakes some time to get rolling with-in the student body.

The OAPEs initiative to pro-mote alternatives to alcohol-cen-

tric social events has taken shapewith Cardinal Nights, which, asstated on the OAPEs website,

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Former Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti advocated in a Monday night speechfor non-violent protests and boycotts to oppose violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

UNIVERSITY

GSB gradshead intoeducation

By ANTONIO RAMIREZ

Mustafa Barghouti, doctor and for-mer Palestinian presidential candidate,endorsed a peaceful means to end theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict when hespoke Nonday evening at a Studentsfor Palestinian Equal Rights (SPER)presentation titled, The Voice ofPalestinian Civil Society: A Call forNon-Violent Resistance.

Barghouti, an alumnus of the Stan-ford Graduate School of Business,founded the Union of Palestinian Med-

ical Relief Committees, a healthcare or-ganization serving the Gaza Strip andWest Bank. He was a candidate to suc-ceed Yasser Arafat as the PalestinianAuthority president until his arrest byIsraeli soldiers. Barghouti still received19.8 percent of the vote in 2005.

Barghouti advocated through histalk for a peaceful means to end the Is-raeli-Palestinian conflict, giving ac-counts from a Palestinian perspective.He recounted stories of trying to breakthrough the Israeli naval blockade in

the Gaza Strip to provide medical serv-ices.

SPER is a student group best knownfor its calls for divestment from Israelicompanies committing human rightsviolations in Israel settlements. Bargh-outi spent much of his speech dis-cussing his view on these violations,which many on the Israeli side of theconflict refute.

I am sure, there is much discomfortwhen Israelis hear the word apartheid,Barghouti said, referring to an accusa-tion SPER and others level at Israeli

treatment of Palestinians.If I was an Israeli, I would feel dis-

comfort, too, he said.Barghouti addressed the plight of

the Palestinians, describing to the audi-ence how Palestinians are frequentlyhumiliated at Israeli border crossingson their way to work. One of the slideshe presented showed men jammed intoa metal turnstile gate as they madetheir way to work.

By MATT BETTONVILLEDESK EDITOR

With the automotive industry on the vergeof major changes due to rising oil prices andincreasing emissions restrictions, the StanfordEnergy Clubs Energy 360 program broughttogether experts and executives Mondayevening for a holistic discussion about the in-dustrys future.

We do a deep dive into energy topics,said Karim Farhat, president of the StanfordEnergy Club.

Energy 360 is a quarterly interdisciplinaryprogram that tries to address all aspects ofpredominant energy issues, including the

technology, policy and business perspectives.The panel featured representatives from

longstanding automakers, new entries in themarket, new software service providers andlegislators.

Panelist Jim McKinney from the Califor-nia Energy Commission set the scene for thediscussions importance with statistics aboutCalifornia transportation. According to McK-inney, California boasts 26.2 million cars and

just fewer than one million trucks on the road.In a single year, the state uses 18.8 billion gal-lons of gasoline and diesel fuel.

The main topic of discussion at the panel

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Executives from General Motors, Tesla Motors, RelayRides, Streetline and the California EnergyCommission discussed the future of transportation in California in a panel Monday.

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Castro downplays rise inalcohol transport numbers

Sleep and Dreamsprofessor finds caffeine

disrupts sleep ofmorning peopleBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Getting a midday jolt of caffeine at theCoHo or an energy drink at the Axe andPalm could leave you tossing and turningat night, unless you are already a nightowl, said a recent Stanford study. Thestudy showed that morning people aremore likely than night owls to awakenduring the night after consuming caffeine.

Jamie Zeitzer, an assistant professor ofpsychiatry and behavioral sciences, led theresearch, which was published in SleepMedicine and further covered by Scientif-ic American. Zeitzer is also the assistantlecturer for the popular course Sleep andDreams.

According to the researchers, this wasthe first study to examine the effects of

caffeine consumption while categorizingpeople by the time of day when they aremost alert. Fifty college students wereasked to record their daily intake of caf-feine as well as their wake and sleep timesover the course of a week.

Zeitzer noted that most of the college-aged participants were so sleep deprivedthat they slept well after going to bed re-gardless; however, the more caffeine thatthe early risers had in their body, the

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profession a really attractiveone, said Liam Garland, BayArea managing director of Edu-cation Pioneers. We are alsocatching grad students at a part of

their career where they are not asinterested in being a teacher, butare more excited by system-widereform.

Many of the Education Pio-neers fellows are current GSBstudents.

We get a lot of applicationsfrom current GSB-ers to be a partof our fellowship, Garland said.Stanford is one of the top tenschools for Education Pioneers . .. This tells me that not just Educa-tion Pioneers, but also our part-ner education organizations arereally impressed by them.

Garland also noted that he be-lieves a joint degree is a powerfultool in the education field.

The fact that Stanford has a

dual degree in business and edu-cation distinguishes it from otherschools, Garland said. Dual-de-gree candidates are really greatfor the Education Pioneers expe-rience . . . We think that bettersolutions will be developed frompeople in different backgroundsand different degree types strug-gling over the same problems. We

want to create conversations withmultiple perspectives represent-ed.

Stanford graduates have en-tered a diverse array of educa-tion-related opportunities. Some,like Eduardo Briceo, graduateof the joint MBA-Masters of Ed-ucation program and an 06 Edu-cation Pioneers fellow, are pursu-ing careers in nonprofits. Briceo

co-founded Brainology, an educa-tion and entrepreneurial non-profit.

Theres a trend where alumnigain a few years of private sectorexperience after their fellowshipwith Education Pioneers andthen come back to educationafter that, Garland said.

Others are entering chartermanagement and government or-ganizations. Ash Solar, anothergraduate of the joint MBA-Mas-ters of Education program andan 07 Education Pioneers Fel-low, is now the chief talent andstrategy officer for the TennesseeState Department of Education.

When youve got somebodyin business school, and they are

looking at career paths, theres anopportunity oftentimes to gainreally substantial experiencequickly in education, Garlandsaid. This is another thing thatattracts MBA students to the in-dustry.

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Barghouti reminded the audi-ence that students, not just adultworkers, also face a daily bordercrossing into Israel for school. Tomake it through the gates on time,

Palestinians are forced to arriveat 4 a.m. on an average day.The separation itself, accord-

ing to Barghouti, is oppressive formany Palestinians.

I am forbidden from entering

the city I was born in, he said, re-ferring to Jerusalem.

Barghouti showed the audi-ence several videos depictinggraphic scenes. One showed Is-raeli soldiers using bullets to clearout a building in order to send in amilitary police dog that attackedan unarmed woman, while anoth-er showed soldiers beating ayoung man at an Israeli-Palestin-

ian checkpoint.We are not respected by Is-rael, Barghouti said, while con-tinuing to advocate for a non-vio-lent approach to solving the con-flict.

Barghouti also referencedHana al-Shalabi, a Palestinianwoman placed in an Israeliprison, who is currently ap-proaching day 19 of her hungerstrike.

In addition, Barghouti calledfor boycotts to stimulate changein global opinion toward Israel.He referred to the Arab Springrevolutions as a model for inciting

change in the oppression of Pales-tinians through nonviolentprotest.

Contact Antonio Ramirez atajram741@stanford.edu.

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longer they spent awake during

the night.

Billy Gallagher

Google Waltz Lab

teaches active

creativity

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Google Waltz Lab, a projectsearching for innovation inwaltz, according to its website,has found a new lead at Stanford.The program, which began as adance class on Googles main

campus in Mountain View, is mov-ing to Stanford under the direc-tion of dance instructor RichardPowers.

The lab creates videos to sharenew waltz steps and ideas, ex-panding Googles culture of inno-

vation to dance. The videos arepublically available, and have gen-erated an online discussion withcommenters from all over theworld.

Waltz Lab encourages viewersto riff on the dance steps they seeand submit videos in response,generating a conversation in dancesteps.

The lab is playtime, and its theultimate designers challenge be creative on demand, saidAcata Felton 12, a dancer in WaltzLab.

The Waltz Lab will officiallymove to Stanford in April.

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By AMRITA RAO

Its difficult to walk when you cant seeyour feet, but misstep and you will stillfall.Authentic as the stomach-eliminating

weightless feeling was, the lack of impactat the bottom reminded me that I wasstanding firmly on carpeted floor. It wasmore disorienting to look up at the labmanager speaking to me and to see noone.

I was participating in a virtual reality

demo called the pit world at StanfordsVirtual Human Interaction Lab on thefourth floor of McClatchy Hall in theMain Quad. Recently renovated, the labis full of cutting-edge Virtual Reality(VR) technology, including an elevatedhaptic floor and an ambisonic sound oral-izer to create touch and sound feedbackin virtual worlds.

Lab researchers study how everydayinteractions are carried over into the vir-tual world and how virtual experiencescan change physical behavior.

We try to stay three to four years aheadof what other [researchers] are doing, saidJeremy Bailenson, director of the lab and anassociate professor of communication.

Bailenson developed the lab from afour-person project in 2003 and nur-tured it into the sophisticated facility itis today.

Virtual Human Interaction Lab re-searchers collaborate on interdisciplinaryprojects with various departments atStanford and other universities, as well aswith tech companies. Current researchtopics include environmental conserva-tion behavior, gesturing in teaching andsocial identity in virtual networks.

As part of my tour of the lab, I experi-enced a conservation behavior demon-stration firsthand. When I put on thehead-mounted display a hefty piece ofheadgear with goggles I was transport-ed into a woodland scene and grasped achainsaw firmly with large, manly armsthat appeared to come out of my sides.Donning the avatar of a lumberjack for 30seconds, I cut down a tree and watched itfall.

Subjects of the actual experiment weretold that using recycled toilet paper couldsave the tree. After it fell, the forestsounds died out.

Its what we call pro-social behaviorencouragement, said Cody Karutz, thelab manager. Speeding up time in VR al-

lows the participant to virtually compresshis or her impact on the environment over30 or 40 years into a couple of minutes.

Right now, the idea of climate changeis very abstract, and VR can put you inplaces that you never could be to makethese connections more visceral, Bailen-son said.

In order to run the lab, Bailenson andhis team employ 15 undergraduate pro-grammers recruited through a summertraining program. Programming each vir-tual world takes 200 to 300 hours.

We have a lot of really fantasticequipment, said undergraduate pro-

grammer Tina Roh 14.Were trying to figure out how we canuse all that technology together, saidPamela Martinez 13.Its really excitingto work with a new technology in a waythat no one has ever done before.

Martinez was part of a team thathacked the Microsoft Kinect system touse it as an alternative to the labs track-ing devices. Virtual reality involves track-ing motions and rendering feedback, andwith the Kinect emerging as the fastest-selling gadget in consumer history, mil-lions of homes now have half of what theyneed for VR. In fact, Microsoft represen-tatives visited the lab recently to study its

use of the Kinect.Karutz said he believes it is only a mat-

ter of time before the VR technology thelab uses becomes sophisticated enough tomake distinguishing between real and vir-tual spaces difficult.

Entering the lab, one first sees a lentic-ular display on the opposite wall that ren-ders 3D images without requiring theviewer to wear glasses. With increased de-velopment of haptic, or tactile, feedback,touch will no longer serve as a test of real-ity. Technically, the viewer could becomeimmersed in a VR scene without beingsure if the world is real or virtual.

This may raise ethical questions, espe-cially in terms of advertising and market-ing research, in addition to the manipula-tion of participant behavior in the sustain-ability experiment. The lab asserts, how-ever, that all of its experiments are runthrough the Institutional Review Boardand have zero ethical concerns.

Our job as a lab is to think about howtechnology is changing and stay ahead ofthat, Bailenson said. We want to under-stand the ethics of people spending timein virtual spaces.

Contact Amrita Rao at arao15@stanford.edu.

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By CHRIS FREDERICK

In a crowded garage at the Hasso Plat-tner Institute of Design at Stanford(d.school), a group of students lounge

on red couches, fiddle with Legos andrethink education. The students planis straightforward: Buy a red truck, fill itwith tools and drive it to schools. The team Jason Chua 11 M.S. 12, Prat GanapathyM.S. 12, Kathayoon Khalil Ph.D. 14, Eu-gene Korsunskiy M.F.A. 12, Diane Lee 12and Aaron Peck 12 calls itself SparkLaband hopes to deliver hands-on learning toBay Area students.

SparkLab was developed as part of amechanical engineering class known infor-mally as Design Garage. Other teams inthe class are tackling projects rethinking

journalism and redesigning the wheelchair.The teams are advised by prominent fig-ures, such as IDEO founder David Kelly.

Our whole point is that manipulatingmatter with your hands is how you get asense of empowerment that you can change

the world around you, Korsunskiy said ofhis teams vision.

Korsunskiy said he realized, reflectingon his own experience in school, that tin-kering opportunities tended to diminish ashe advanced through the grade levels. Theteam saw a problem with hands-on work inthe current education system.

Theres a lot of high-level educationpolicymakers who in theory claim to agreethat the future of the country depends on aworkforce thats creative . . . but no onesdoing anything about it, Korsunskiy said.As [they]re talking about how creativityneeds to be expanded, shop classes arebeing cut . . . so we decided: We are goingto do something about this.

When the SparkLab team talked toworking teachers, they learned that manylacked the time and space to emphasizecreativity in the classroom.

We came up with the idea that maybewe can be this mobile-tinkering field tripthat comes to you, Korsunskiy said.

SparkLab plans to target middle schoolstudents initially. Inside the truck, the teamwill guide students through the process ofcreating their own product.

Take the example of middle school stu-dents building a homemade lamp. First,they would choose their favorite lamp de-

signs. Then, they would create a rough ver-sion using materials such as Popsicle sticksand twist ties before building a clay proto-type. At that point, the SparkLab teamwould use software called Autodesk 123D

to photograph the clay prototype frommultiple angles, generating a three-dimen-sional model of the lamp. Finally, a 3Dprinter would spit out layers of hot glue toproduce a physical copy of the lamp.

While the technology itself is impres-sive, the most important part is for kids tohave an artifact that they can take homeand show their parents, Peck said.

The SparkLab team also aims to balancethe expensive tools with plenty of low-techitems of the sort that might be found in ashop class.

The trucks physical location outside ofschools is key to the projects effectiveness.Khalil described the classroom as a psy-chological barrier for some kids.

Its not just a physical, outside space,its psychological space, Chua said. Oncestudents step out of the classroom, it frees

them to be more creative.Unlike a conventional startup, Spark-

Lab does not expect to generate any rev-enue. Instead, the project will rely on fund-ing from an online Kickstarter campaign thus far, SparkLab has raised over $7,500toward a target of $25,000. Team membershope to persuade tool companies to donateexpensive items such as laser cutters or 3Dprinters.

Despite its promise, SparkLab faces

some obstacles. With $25,000, the teamwould only be able to afford a single truck,limiting the number of students who couldbenefit from the project. However, as Chuaemphasized, right now, were concentrat-

ing on focused impact, rather than super-scaled impact.In this stage of their project, the Spark-

Lab team has also been busy holding work-shops and attending interviews, and theyvefound it hard to find time for introspection,according to Korsunskiy. Nevertheless, theSparkLab team has been able to meet im-portant Bay Area contacts at events such asMaker Faire, a two-day festival celebratingcreativity and hands-on making.

It seems like weve struck a nervesomewhere, where this idea resonates witha lot of people, Chua said.

Among other local figures, the groupmet the founder of Make, a magazine fo-cused on do-it-yourself (DIY) projects, aswell as officials from the San Francisco Ex-ploratorium, design software company Au-todesk and San Jose-based nonprofit Re-

source Area For Teaching (RAFT). Re-sponses to the project have been positive.

This is an incredibly cool idea get-ting these tools into the hands of kids!wrote Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, onSparkLabs Kickstarter page.

I love the truck. This is a great way tobring the tools and materials for making tomore young makers, wrote Dale Dougher-ty, founding editor of MAKE magazine, onthe same page.

The SparkLab team tested out their ideaon campus last year by running designworkshops at Splash!, a program thatbrings middle school, high school and un-derserved students to Stanfords campus

for two days. Working with sixth gradersand Yahoo! executives, the team was sur-prised to find that the younger studentswere more creative.

Its really sad to see what happens be-tween those ages that really squashes anysemblance of fearless, creative endeavors,Korsunskiy said.

With a hectic schedule, the team mem-bers say that it is important to beat stressand maintain their enthusiasm. Their teamdynamic reflects this ethos.

We believe that the team that has themost fun together comes up with the bestideas, Korsunskiy said.

We basically spend our waking lives to-gether, so wed better have fun, or our liveswill suck, Chua added. Some of us are tothe point where we communicate in blinksand grunts.

Despite all the support, developing aunique education project has not been easy.

Every person has an opinion on educa-tion . . . We have trouble figuring outwhats new, Khalil said. But we decided, itdoesnt matter if the solution is new theproblems are still here, and they dont goaway.

Contact Chris Frederick at cfred@stanford.edu.

Stanford Daily file photo

Writer Amrita Rao participated in a conservation behavior demo used to encouragepro-social behavior. She chopped down a tree and observed its environmental impact.

Stanford Daily file photoStanfords Virtual Human Interaction Lab is full of cutting-edge virtual reality technologythat lab researchers use to study how everyday interactions work in the virtual world.

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OPINIONS

Istarted teaching math tokindergarteners and firstgraders after school twice a

week. For two major reasons, Ifeel obligated to share that I getpaid for this. First, I want to givean honest depiction: I am a starv-ing college student looking for arelatively easy minimum wage

job, not Mother Teresa. Second,by stating that I get paid, it impliesit is through a professional organ-ization and that Im not just ran-domly showing up to elementaryschools, giving out snacks andteaching tiny kids how to add ofmy own accord. That would bekind of creepy.

Some days, I take my group ofstudents outside to do math onthe playground, partially becausethey are kindergarteners anddont have the attention span tobe inside a classroom for twohours, and partially because Im in

college but still dont have the at-tention span to be inside a class-room for two hours. On this par-ticular day, we were doing sub-traction by jumping backwards ona number line near the kickballcourt. (Best teacher ever!) Thechildren were laughing and excit-ed to be outside, and everythingwas great.

But then one girl started crying a soft, slow cry. At first, it was

just sniffles and heavy breathing,but the other children began tonotice, and her panic began togrow. I had no idea why she wasupset. I started walking over to as-sess the situation, but the momentshe saw me coming, she screamedand ran across the blacktop to the

jungle gym on the other side ofthe playground. I began to runafter her, leaving the rest of theclass of kindergarteners standingthere with no instruction otherthan to do math with eachother. (Worst teacher ever.)

She was hiding in the windingtunnel slide. But she didnt comeout when I called her name. Istuck my head inside and calledher again, and when she saw me,her face grew terrified, and shebegan to scamper backwards upthe slide out of fear. It was themost scared Id ever seen a child.

She eventually came down, orrather was forced down by theother kids using the slide. Andonce she had taken many slow,deep breaths, she was able to tellme what was going on. She hadseen her mother and younger sis-ter walk by across the parking lot,but her mother had promised heron that day that she would bepicked up before her sister. Shefelt forgotten. Abandoned. Shefelt like nothing.

I know many of us deal withfeelings of shame and inadequacyon a very real level, but there was

something about seeing the re-sponse of a seven-year-old, so vul-nerable and uninhibited, thatmade the pain seem that muchmore visceral.

Shame, for something wevedone or that has been done to us,often rears its ugly head throughunhealthy addictions, resentmenttoward others or complete bitter-ness and hatred toward oneself.And its not like a skinned kneeon a playground, where we can

just slap a band-aid on it and call ita day. These wounds run so deeplyto the core of our emotionalhealth and conception of identitythat we deem them too dangerousor painful to expose to others. Weget really good at climbing back-

wards up the slide.At least from my experience,hiding shame or sorrow doesntmake the pain go away or allevi-ate it. In fact, refusing to identifyor acknowledge it just compoundsthe problem; it breeds the loneli-

ness that no one truly knows orunderstands you. The pain ofabandonment or rejection, self-loathing or self-pity, needs to bebrought into the light in order forthe hope of healing to be seen.

What the crying kindergartengirl from my math class neededmost was to be heard. Only whenwe can talk openly with someoneabout our faults or ways wevebeen hurt can we begin to tell ourstory in a more positive light, fo-cusing on how things can be bet-ter. Only then can we re-conceivethe suffering and creativelychoose how to deal with it.

Healing requires an opennessto sharing your story with othersand a boldness to receiving andembracing their stories withoutshying away. Shame and sufferingexist, and they are very real. We ei-

ther choose to support and shareour pain together in love, or weare left to bear it alone.

Share a story from your own teach-ing experience with Chase emailhim at ninjaish@stanford.edu.

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In elementary school, I may nothave understood the full socialand economic ramifications of

my familys decision to participatein community-supported agricul-ture (CSA), but I certainly under-stood the excitement and child-hood delight that came from open-ing a box filled with a weekly sur-prise. Each Wednesday, my sisterand I would marvel at the wonder-ful new assortment of fruits andveggies to be touched, named, nib-bled, cooked and noshed. In theprocess, my parents not only taught

their daughters about food, but alsobrought them to the forefront of thelocal foods movement.

Community-supported agricul-ture represents a growing model forconnecting consumers with farmersto provide support for local foodsystems. Membership in a CSA typ-ically involves pledging financialsupport for a local farm or farms,such that CSA members cover theanticipated costs of farm operationand, in return, receive shares of thefarms products. My childhoodCSA operated by having share-holders pay a monthly or quarterlyfee, for which they received a week-ly box of vegetables, fruit, herbs,flowers and even eggs.

CSAs are on the rise in the Unit-ed States, having grown from agrand total of two in 1986 to over4,500 as of this January. There areseveral CSAs in our area, some withdrop-off points right on campus.This past fall, Earth Systems alumniBriana Swette and Simon Neelybegan a successful CSA and deliv-ered weekly boxes of kale, heirloomtomatoes, eggplant and other treatsfrom their farm in Morgan Hill.

Im in favor of almost any activi-ty that increases food literacy andconnects individuals with theirfarmers, and the Stanford commu-nity now has an opportunity to gobeyond this typical CSA model andsupport a more creative frameworkfor strengthening local food sys-

tems. A team of undergraduates hasspent the quarter devoting theirSenior Seminar project in EarthSystems to sustaining the East PaloAlto Farmers Market by initiatinga new CSA at Stanford.

The East Palo Alto (EPA)Farmers Market began in June2008 to provide a local, easily ac-cessible alternative food source toresidents who now travel distancesoutside the city to find stores withquality, fresh produce, accordingto Collective Roots, an EPA non-profit organization that sponsorsthe market.

Unfortunately, the EPA Farm-ers Market is perhaps facing its lastseason, as it does not provide mar-ket vendors with enough revenue

to make their continued presenceprofitable. There are many reasonswhy farmers markets in low-in-come communities struggle to stayafloat, and some would argue thatwe should focus on the consumerside, perhaps via educational out-

reach or broader efforts to restruc-ture food access in EPA. However,the Stanford team working to sus-tain the market has focused on thesupply chain.

Their goal is to guarantee mar-ket vendors a minimum incomelevel. To sustain two to five farmers

at the market, they are aiming to es-tablish a CSA with 50 to 75 mem-bers, comprised primarily of Stan-ford faculty, staff and graduate stu-dents.

Should this new CSA actuallysucceed, it will be an impressive op-portunity for the Stanford commu-nity to strengthen local food sys-tems on several fronts. First, CSAmembers will be supporting localfarmers from the Agriculture &Land-Based Training Association(ALBA) in Salinas, Calif. StanfordDining already sources much of itsproduce from ALBA, an organiza-tion operating on the triple bottomline of economic viability, socialequity and ecological land manage-ment. ALBA educates and em-powers limited-resource farm-workers, helping them developtheir own sustainable farms. Sec-ond, CSA members will promotefood security in EPA by ensuringthat these ALBA farmers will be-come dedicated farmers marketvendors.

However, theres a distinct risk tothis CSA. Its possible that the EarthSystems students have found a busi-ness model (the CSA) that is betterfor the farmers than sustaining themarket. If that happens, the farmersand CSA members will benefit, butthe initial goal of supporting theEPA farmers market itself will notbe met. Theres a simple solution:Farmers participating in the CSA

should sign a contract guaranteeingthey will stay at the market in orderto participate in the CSA.

Once this contract is secured, thenovel EPA-Stanford-ALBA com-munity-supported agriculture proj-ect will be an excellent opportunityfor local food systems engagement.Ideally, the CSA will grow to per-haps even subsidize a differentialprice range whereby EPA residentscan participate in the CSA at a re-duced price. Because its hard for fi-nancially strapped EPA residentsto shoulder the upfront costs ofmembership in a CSA, this type ofdifferential price model, already inplace at locations such as the PhatBeets Produce in Oakland, is an ob-vious next step once the initial CSA

is economically viable.

Jenny would love to give you moreinformation about the EPA CSA.For your own weekly box of fruit andveggie joy, email Jenny at jrempel@stanford.edu.

Something left behind

A Stanford CSA for EPA

It was the most

scared Id ever

seen a child. She

felt like nothing.

JennyRempel

ChaseIshii

was the question of electric vehi-cles entering a market previouslydominated by internal combus-tion engine vehicles for over 100

years. Panelist Marc Tarpenning,co-founder of one of the biggestchallengers to the major au-tomakers, Tesla Motors, describedhow battery technology is justreaching the point at which elec-tric cars can be practical upmar-ket, but the technology is on paceto drop in price.

Cell phones used to be 10grand apiece, Tarpenning said.Each model of Tesla has beencheaper than the previous one,and its going to continue like thatfor a long time.

Byron Shaw, managing direc-tor at General Motors AdvancedTechnology Office, sat on thepanel to discuss GMs outlook onthe future of cars and trucks.

We look out toward 2030when we start planning ourproducts, Shaw said. He notedthat some demographic projec-tions indicate most of the worldliving in cities much larger thanany currently in existence by2030, and such dense popula-tions may change transportationcompletely.

For now, however, Shaw em-phasized that GM is staying withconsumer demands.

The internal combustion en-gine is not going away anytimesoon, he said. What youll see ismore and more miles being re-placed . . . with battery or fuel

cells as the technology develops.Other panelists commented

on new transportation modelsand software services. S h e l -by Clark, founder of RelayRides,discussed his companys philoso-phy. RelayRides allows car own-ers to rent their cars to others forpersonal profit.

Clark said that much of the en-

vironmental impact from carscomes from the manufacturingand resources needed to make thevehicle. Car sharing programssuch as RelayRides promote thepossibility of having less cars onthe road by allowing people to usecars that would otherwise be sit-ting idly in parking lots.

The challenge we face is thisAmerican love of our cars, Clarksaid. Maybe we can all startthinking about the fact that youdont have to own your car.

You dont get upset about notowning your train, he added.

Kurt Buecheler, vice presi-dent and general manager ofStreetline, a company develop-ing sensor-based systems to opti-

mize parking for cities, offered adifferent perspective on thepanel. Streetline presents data ina mobile phone application thatpoints users to available parkingspots.

The panelists were generally inagreement that legislation andregulation will need to evolvealong with the automotive indus-try to address future problems.Regulating parking in the face ofmassive overpopulation and deal-ing with increased load on theelectric grid from the charging ofelectric vehicle batteries maypose major obstacles in the nearfuture.

Shaw noted, however, the diffi-culties that governmental actionspose for automakers.

It takes us about seven yearsto design a vehicle from concep-tion to seeing that car on thestreet, he said, referring tochanges over the last decade inEnvironmental ProtectionAgency and Corporate Average

Fuel Economy regulations.

Tarpenning recognizedJapans success with setting aprice floor on gasoline after theoil scare of the 1970s. The pricefloor forced Japanese automakerssuch as Toyota and Honda to en-gineer more efficient cars to meetconsumer demand.

In the start-up realm, Buechel-er encouraged entrepreneurs to

focus on reinventing industries,

calling for medicine for majorproblems in the world instead ofvitamins to slightly enhancelife.

Is something transformation-al? Did it really make a differ-ence? he asked.

Contact Matt Bettonville at mbet-tonville@stanford.edu.

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seeks to provide consistent, viable,and novel opportunities for social-izing without alcohol on Thursday,Friday, and Saturday nights.

Castro noted success with theCardinal Nights program and said,there have been nearly 7,000 stu-dent contacts at Cardinal Nightsevents since October.

Rocio Novo 15 appreciated theopportunity presented by Cardinal

Nights to attend Cirque du Soleil inDecember.I really enjoyed it, and I would

recommend events like that foranyone, Novo said.

This past fall quarter, Ujamaadorm staff planned an alcohol-freeevent in coordination with theOAPE to bring together WestCampus residents during the week-end of Big Game. Tubbs said theOAPE provided event funding andhelped her and the Ujamaa staffdevelop event ideas.

We really wanted somethingthat would have alternate activitiesfor people to do, said Tajah Tubbs12, resident assistant in Ujamaa.

We didnt want it to be like a typi-cal party.

Even this event wasnt entirelyimmune to pre-gaming. Though hedid not enter the event, one studentwas transported after arrivingheavily intoxicated.

One of the biggest challengesthat the OAPE faces is student mis-conception about alcohol use oncampus. With hospitalizations ris-ing, students may take this as an in-dication of a strong alcohol pres-ence on campus.

People think that a lot morepeople drink on campus than actu-ally do, Smith said.

The OAPE recently distributedits Core Survey on Alcohol andDrug Use to collect more exact sta-tistics on student alcohol and drughabits. Results from the survey,which concluded in late February,have not yet been released.

The survey sought to quantifyand challenge assumptions aboutthe drinking culture at Stanford.The OAPEs goal is to keep drink-ing safe and social, not to eliminateit from campus culture, accordingto Castro.

The alcohol policy was clari-fied last year, and emphasis wasplaced on discouraging high-riskdrinking practices, Castro said.

Other dorm staff members arealso taking steps to cultivate safedrinking environments.

You have to look out for oneanother, and that message needs tobegin in the dorm, Bennett said.

One of the things I liked dur-ing RA training is that theystressed to us being open aboutdrinking and our experiences, saidAnnika Graangard, resident assis-tant in Serra. Graangard said shebelieves that this openness con-tributes to increased awarenessabout alcohol and the issues associ-ated with it.

The OAPE also seeks to pro-

mote an appropriate attitude to-ward drinking for students turning21. Castro said that the office sendsout 21st birthday cards with safetymessages to all students the day be-fore their birthdays.

Additionally, the OAPElaunched a social media campaignthat pushes out pro-social alcoholmessages via Twitter, Facebook andYouTube, Castro said.

As a new entity on campus, theOAPE is not engrained in theStanford culture yet, but it will be,Smith said.

Contact Danielle Lussier at dlussier@stanford.edu.

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By DANIEL E. LUPIN

STAFF WRITER

Of the many emotionssport induces, disappointmentis unfortunately often at thetop of the list. The No. 3 Stan-ford mens volleyball teamwas once again confrontedwith this uncomfortable feel-ing following a split at homethis weekend against UC-SanDiego and No. 2 UC-Irvine,one that set the team back inits quest for a Mountain Pacif-ic Sports Federation (MPSF)title. The Cardinal (13-4, 10-3MPSF) now sits in a tie for sec-ond place with UCI, one and ahalf games back of first-placeUCLA, following a 25-21, 25-

15, 22-25, 25-19 win overUCSD on Friday and a 25-21,17-25, 25-17, 25-15 loss to UCIon Saturday.

Fridays win over UCSD(3-15, 1-12) was a step in theright direction for the Cardi-nal following the loss to No. 4USC the previous weekend.Consistent as ever, All-Ameri-can outside hitter Brad Law-son continued his remarkablesenior campaign, finishingwith a match-high 18 kills anda pair of rocket aces that em-phatically closed out thematch for Stanford. He was

joined in double-figure kills by

sophomores Steven Irvin and

Eric Mochalski, who finishedwith 15 and 12, respectively.

MENS VOLLEYBALL

UC -IRVINE 3

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3/3, Maples Pavilion

After a bit of a shaky startin the first set, the Cardinalwas able to take control fol-lowing a 10-4 run that put itahead 15-10. The Tritons wereable to keep the set close,trimming the lead to 22-19thanks to strong play by juniorJohl Awerkamp, who had fivekills in the set. Stanford was fi-nally able to close UCSD outon a kill by Mochalski to end it

at 25-21.The second set went morequickly for Stanford, as Law-son, Mochalski and Irvin com-bined for 14 kills in the set tolead the Cardinal. Lawson fin-ished off UCSD on consecu-tive kills.

The same fighting spiritthat allowed UCSD to stayclose in the first set finally pre-vailed in the third, as the Tri-tons took the back-and-forthaffair. UCSD jumped out to a14-10 lead on the strength ofgood defense and opportunis-

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Stanford baseball passes first true test

No. 31 is no problem for Card

Republicancandidates

fit for office?

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ts Super Tuesday. The daywhen 10 states, accounting for410 delegates, will hold theirprimaries and caucuses to de-

cide the Republican nomina-tion for this years presidential elec-tion in November.

Huh? You might be wondering:Why has politics managed to spill outof the News section and leak into theSports section? And why should Icare? I myself am not even a citizenof this country, why should it even beimportant who gets to sit in the OvalOffice?

As much as I might not want toadmit it, the identity of the U.S. presi-dent does actually have a big impacton my life; the president is able tomake a huge impact, for good or bad,on my world both inside and outsideof this countrys borders. And thehealth of the president is perhaps justas important as all the other issues

that have been endlessly debatedover this drawn-out campaign.

A candidates health is importantprimarily because it would not be agood thing if the President were un-able to do his or her job due to healthproblems. But being healthy hasother advantages too: Being physi-cally fit aids cognitive abilities andbeing able to blow off steam by goingfor a run or hitting the gym reducesstress. There is a third reason as well.Ahead of the last Gulf War, a seniorIraqi made the suggestion that Presi-dents George W. Bush and SaddamHussein could square up againsteach other mano-a-mano to settletheir differences. It might have beena joke, but if it werent, maybe itwould have been worth seriouslyconsidering. Almost 5,000 Allied sol-diers died as a direct result of the in-vasion and its aftermath, and thenumber of Iraqi lives lost could num-ber anything from between 100,000to 1,000,000.

So, assuming one of them can de-feat incumbent President BarackObama, the athletic abilities of thefour remaining Republican candi-dates might just turn out to be prettyimportant over the next four years.

But how could we analyze thisimportant facet of the candidates?Last week, the professional football

By GEORGE CHENDESK EDITOR

The Stanford mens swimming teamfaced off against some of the best teams inthe nation this past weekend, as three of thetop six teams competed at the inauguralPac-12 Championships in East Los Ange-les. But none of those teams came evenclose to stopping the Cardinal from takingthe 2012 Pac-12 crown and winning its 31st-consecutive conference title in the process.

Unfazed by the high level of competi-tion, No. 3 Stanford (7-1, 3-1 Pac-12) fin-ished on top of the scoreboard with 939.5points, more than 100 points ahead of sec-

ond-place Cal and almost 400 points aheadof third-place Arizona.

Despite the Cardinals large margin ofvictory, it would have been difficult to pre-dict the final results before the meet kickedoff on Wednesday night. Even with Stan-fords storied success in the conference set-ting, Arizona could easily have been con-sidered the favorite heading into the week-end. The Wildcats were ranked No. 1 in thenation and also defeated the Cardinal in adual meet in January.

The only time that Stanford ever founditself trailing was after the first event, whenthe team was touched out by Cal in the 200medley relay. In the very next event, how-

ever, the Cardinal answered with a victoryin the 800 freestyle relay thanks to a clutchanchor swim by senior David Mosko.

The team had unrivaled success in relayevents, a huge contributing factor to theirultimate victory. What made the Cardinalsstellar performance even more impressivewas the fact that going into the meet, theteam didnt have a single top seed in any ofthe relays. By the end of Saturday night,however, Stanford had won three of thefive relay events in which it competed.

Other than the teams overall domi-nance at the four-day meet, the biggeststory this past weekend was freshmanDavid Nolan. The talented youngster an-

nounced his presence as an elite collegeswimmer at the national level after beingnamed the Swimmer of the Meet for his in-dividual triple-win effort. Nolan won the200 backstroke along with his specialty, the200 individual medley.

The freshmans most impressive victory,however, may have come in the 100 back-stroke, where Nolan edged out Cals TomShields, the defending NCAA and confer-ence champion in that event. Nolan dis-played his speed by finishing the first half ofhis race over a half-second faster than therest of the field, and then he somehow man-aged to hold off a charging Shields downthe stretch for the victory. Nolan alsoplayed a critical role in the three winningrelays for Stanford, bringing his total goldmedal count to six.

But Nolan wasnt the only freshmanwho was critical to Stanfords success in thepool. Distance specialist Drew Cosgareawon the 400 individual medley and alsoplaced fourth in the 1650 freestyle. In themedley event, Cosgarea led a 1-2-3 sweepfor Stanford. The team was able to fullycapitalize off its tremendous depth in thatevent, as four of the top five finishers wereStanford swimmers. In that event alone,Stanford scored 85 points, which put theCardinal well ahead of its opponents with

just one day of competition left.While the talented freshmen were criti-

cal to the Cardinals success at the confer-ence championship, senior leadership also

played a major role in the win. Senior ChadLa Tourette defended his conference titlein the 1650 freestyle one last time as he beatsecond-place finisher Cristian Quintero byalmost 15 seconds. With the win, LaTourette captured his fourth-consecutiveconference championship in the 1650. Thesenior also added to his already-impressivepostseason resume by winning the 500freestyle, his first conference title in thatevent.

In a few weeks, the newly crowned Pac-12 champion will carry its momentum tothe NCAA championships, where the Car-dinal will try to win the grand prize thenational title.

Contact George Chen at gchen15@stanford.edu.

SPORTS

By JACK MOSBACHER

Jack Mosbacher was a member of the Stanfordbaseball team from 2008 to 2011. Each week,hell take a look at the Cardinals ups anddowns on its road to the College World Series.

When you looked at the No. 1 Stanfordbaseball teams schedule prior to the start ofthe year, this past weekends series againstFresno State would not have stood out onebit.

Because it was sandwiched between series

with No. 12 Vanderbilt, No. 5 Texas and No. 7Rice, you probably wouldnt have guessedthat this would be the series when wed reallylearn about the character and resilience of thishighly touted baseball team.

But it was. In fact, we learned far more

about the Cardinal this weekend than in anyother week because the Cardinal was on theroad for the first t ime, and because the Cardi-nal actually lost.

Rolling into Fresno touting an unblem-ished 8-0 record, the Cardinal had plenty to beconfident about. Following back-to-backsweeps of Vanderbilt and Texas, the Cardinalwore a No. 1 national ranking on its back forthe first time in a decade. And on a cold, windyFriday night, the Cardinal (and stud pitcherMark Appel) was beaten.

Frankly, you dont learn much about the

character of a team in an early-season sweep.After all, you have no way of knowing howgood or bad the losing team actually was untilit is tested in the crucible of later competition.So despite the early-season excitement sur-rounding Stanfords two early sweeps, you

werent going to see me too excited. The sam-ple size available for judgment was just toosmall, and the sample quality of these tradi-tional powerhouses was misleading at best(See: Vanderbilt being swept by Oregon andTexas limping out of the gates at 4-7, includinga loss to lowly UT-Arlington).

After this weekend, however, Im truly ex-cited. Why? Because the Cardinal lost andthen responded like a champion should.

Trust me when I say that the Stanford base-ball players like being good. They enjoy thepressure of being called the best team in the

nation. And they knew how disastrous a seriesloss to an unranked opponent would be fortheir national standings. So, when the Cardi-nal dropped its first game of the year on Fri-

SETTLING

FOR A SPLIT

Stanford Daily File Photo

For the fourth-straight year, senior Chad La Tourette (above) took first place in the 1650 freestyle at the Pac-12 Championships as the Stanford mensswimming and diving team overcame a stacked field to win its 31st-straight conference title. La Tourette added another win in the 500 freestyle.

Tom Taylor

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Sophomore middle blocker Eric Mochalski (13, above) helped the Stanford mensvolleyball team beat UC-San Diego in four sets on Friday. The Cardinal could notduplicate the victory against UC-Irvine on Saturday, though, falling in four sets.Please see TAYLOR, page 6

Please see MINUTE, page 6

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tic hitting by Awerkamp. Stanfordeventually tied the set at 22apiece, but it was not enough, as

UCSD came up with consecutiveblocks to hold on.

Stanford prevailed in thefourth despite more pesky playfrom the Tritons, who reduced an18-12 lead to 22-19 before a serv-ice error by sophomore VaunLennon set up Lawsons back-to-back aces to finish off the victory.

Looking to build on the mo-mentum of Fridays success, Stan-ford came out hoping to make astatement against the Anteaters(14-3, 10-3), but in the end Irvinewas the team making the state-ment.

After a pair of highly competi-tive sets to open the match, Stan-ford struggled with its passing, re-sulting in a .117 hitting percent-age in the final two sets of thematch. Despite another strongouting from Lawson, who fin-ished with 21 kills, the Cardinalwas not able to make a serious runat the Anteaters, a team it hadbeaten in straight sets just twoweeks prior.

The Cardinal started promis-ingly enough, as Stanford

jumped out to a 10-5 lead in theopening set on a combined blockby senior Gus Ellis and sopho-more Brian Cook. Then thingstook a turn for the worse, as jun-ior Kevin Tillie took control ofthe set for UCI en route to a ca-reer-high 22 kills for theAnteaters. Stanford mustered

just nine kills in the set, as UCIclosed out Stanford on consecu-tive kills by Tillie.

Stanford appeared to regain itsfooting in the second, finishing theset with a .476 hitting percentagebehind eight kills from Lawson.This time, Stanford jumped out toan 11-4 lead and never lookedback, trading blows with theAnteaters until the decisive blockby Ellis and Irvin.

But then the troubles thatplagued the Cardinal the entirenight reared their ugly heads inthe third set and never disap-peared, as Stanford slogged itsway through two of its worst sets

of the season. The only man forStanford who seemed to be find-ing any success was Lawson, whobashed his way through the UCIdefense despite minimal offensivehelp from his teammates.

The Cardinal will look to re-gain its footing today and tomor-

row night against No. 14 Hawaii.Tonights match will be in Burn-ham Pavilion, and Wednesdayswill be in Maples Pavilion, bothstarting at 7 p.m.

Contact Daniel E. Lupin at delupin@stanford.edu.

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By SARAH MAISELCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Despite building an early leadagainst No. 11 Vanderbilt on Sat-urday, the No. 16 Stanfordwomens lacrosse team (1-4)could not hold its early momen-tum and fell 15-9 to continue itsearly season struggles. The teamhad hoped to carry its momentumoff its thrilling first win of the sea-son, but the strength and speed ofthe Commodore offense eventu-ally overpowered the Cardinal.

The first half opened with astrong and balanced showing byStanford on both sides of thefield. Seniors Catherine Swansonand Emilie Boeri both scoredwithin the first 10 minutes, settingthe tone for a period of offensivedominance. Boeri then assisted

the Cards next two goals, one byfreshmen Emily Newstrom andanother by her sister, senior AnnaBoeri.

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STANFORD 9

3/3, Laird Q. Cagan Stadium

Stanford held the advantage inpossession in the first half, due inpart to a strong showing by theCardinal defense. Led by juniorElizabeth Adam and sophomoregoalkeeper Lyndsey Muoz, thebackfield held the usually explo-sive Vanderbilt attack to justthree goals. Going into the break,Stanford led 6-3 and showed no

signs of slowing down.However, the Commodores

offense finally awoke and tied thescore 6-6 within the first two min-utes of the second period. Fresh-man Kyle Frasier responded withher second goal of the game topush the Card up by one, but itwould be the teams last lead ofthe game. Vanderbilt scored itsnext three goals in under aminute, and while Newstromssecond goal of the game a fewminutes later pushed Stanfordwithin one, that was as close as theCardinal would get for the rest ofthe game.

Vanderbilt went on four three-goal runs to outscore Stanford 12-3 in the second period. The Com-modores ran a fast-paced attackand dominated possession, whichprevented the Cardinal from hold-ing the ball long enough to mounta comeback. Vanderbilts edge indraw control proved crucial andallowed it to score multiple goalsin the span of a few minutes.

I think our biggest struggleright now is the transition,Muoz said. This is where mostof our turnovers are coming from,and this causes unsettled play forour defense. In the second half,the turnovers in transition arewhat led to Vanderbilts goals andshifted momentum for the game.

While another loss in the earlyseason was a frustrating result,perhaps part of the problem wasthat the Cardinal was without oneof its leading scorers, sophomoreAnna Kim, who dislocated hershoulder last weekend when shescored the game-winning goal inthe final seconds against James

Madison. The offense did receivea boost from freshmen Frasierand Newstrom, who combined forfour goals, a good sign that theyouthful team has potential forfuture development. Althoughthe team eventually lost its lead,this was the first game in whichStanford did not trail at the break.

While the 1-4 record againsttop-20 teams is not where theCardinal would like to be, it nowheads into its first contest againstan unranked team with a chanceto regain its feet.

When we work as hard as wepossibly can, the wins will come,Muoz said. Yes, unfortunatelywere 1-4 right now but I know ifwe keep working hard well startto win. I also think its good thatwere starting our season withsuch tough competition, and itwill prepare us not only for con-ference play, but for the NCAAtournament as well.

Sundays game against New

Hampshire is the last at CaganStadium until April 13. The teamwill then travel east to faceBrown, Harvard and Albany be-fore conference play begins April3 at Fresno State.

Contact Sarah Maisel at sgmaisel@stanford.edu.

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Freshman midfielder Hannah Farr (above) and the No. 16 Stanfordwomens lacrosse team jumped out to a 6-3 lead at halftime over No.

11 Vanderbilt, but the Cardinal could not hold the lead in a 15-9 loss.

day night, the players didnt justget mad; they got even. And thenthey rubbed it in a little bit.

In the final two games, the Car-dinal treated Fresno State like alittle brother who had just scoreda lucky basket in a pickup basket-ball game. Stanford outscored theBulldogs on Saturday and Sundayby a combined score of 25-2. Ithink the message the Cardinalsent to the baseball world wasclear: losses are not only flukes,but we will treat them as personalinsults.

Thats an exciting prospect be-cause this wont be the only Fridaygame the Cardinal loses this year.While youre unlikely to find any-one outside of the Appel familywho believes in Mark as much as Ido, the Stanford ace will be goingup against some of the best oppos-ing pitchers in the country thisyear, including fellow first-round

talents like Arizonas Kurt Heyerand Arizona States BradyRodgers.

Like Ive said, we didnt learnmuch that we didnt already knowabout the Cardinal in its first two

weekend series. We knew theteam was loaded with talent andthat, on paper, it could play withany team in the country. What wedidnt know was how it would re-spond to eventual adversity.

Would Stanford be like the el-ementary school bully who push-es kids around until somebody ac-tually hits back? Or would theCardinal be the type of team thatrelishes the challenge of playingthe underdog every once in awhile, much like the last Stanfordteam to make it to the CollegeWorld Series in 2008?

Three weeks into the season,Im ready to admit that Im excit-ed about this Stanford baseballteam, because it is exactly the typeof team that people like to watch.The players have confidence andswagger they know theyregood but they also arent afraidto play like they have a chip ontheir shoulder. They believe thatanything short of a trip to theWorld Series in Omaha would bea disappointment.

The Cardinals reaction to Fri-days loss speaks volumes about

the character of this team. Onething is for sure: Stanford wont begoing down without a fight.

Contact Jack Mosbacher at jack-mos@stanford.edu.

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world turned to the NFL scoutingcombine to learn more about theplayers in the upcoming NFL Draft.If its good enough for football,maybe it should be good enough forthe Republicans. At the very least, Idrather see the candidates doing conedrills and the 40-yard dash than de-bate again.

Given that, disappointingly, this isprobably not going to be happeningany time soon, what can we learnabout the candidates? Time to turnwith trepidation to the Internet. Mytrepidation stems from that fact thatIm not entirely convinced that allthe facts on the Web are incrediblyreliable, and also because searchingfor Santorum famously producessome interesting hits.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is rela-tively hard to get detailed facts onthe physical attributes of these four,but after a little bit of work I came upwith age and some estimate of their

heights and weights: Newt Gingrichis 68 years old, 5-foot-10 and 240pounds; Ron Paul is 76 years old, 5-foot-10 and 135 pounds; Mitt Rom-ney is 64 years old, 6-foot-2 and 197pounds; and Rick Santorum is 53years old, 6-foot-4 and 170 pounds.

And, for comparison, the stats oftheir biggest rival Barack Obamais 50 years old, 6-foot-1 and 180pounds.

While Obama beats all four onage, that is perhaps a cheap shot thatdoesnt take into account lifestylefactors. We could instead look atBody Mass Index, a simple way to es-timate whether a person is the nor-mal weight for his or her height (any-thing between 18.5 and 24.9 is con-

sidered normal.) Gingrich, Paul,Romney and Santorum measure upas 34.4, 19.4, 25.3 and 20.7 on this sta-tistic, respectively, and Rival-in-Chief Obama is 23.7. While Paul,Santorum and Obama are classifiedwithin the normal range, Romney ismarginally overweight, and Gin-grich is obese. This analysis, though,has its limitations. Simply beingheavier doesnt imply that someonenecessarily has greater body fat though Gingrich is probably not allmuscle and lighter bodies can stillbe unfit ones.

However, probably the best clueto their athletic fitness is to look atwhat they do to stay healthy. Gin-grichs exercise of choice is appar-ently golf, and it shows. He is clearlynot among the fittest of the candi-dates. Santorum supposedly does 50push-ups a day, but doesnt seem tohave a publicized health routineapart from that. The other three,though, all at least represented highschool teams, Romney and Paul asrunners. In fact, Paul was even Penn-sylvanias 220-yard dash state cham-pion in 1952, and Obama was on hishigh schools basketball team. Rom-

ney still runs; Paul, though holdingthe honor of being the oldest, regu-larly walks and rides his bike, evenchallenging others to a bike ride inthe Houston heat; and Obama stillplays basketball and hits the gym.

Obama is going to be a toughcompetitor to beat, but if health doesplay a part in this election, perhapsRomney or Paul might be best suit-ed to keep pace with him.

Tom Taylor just wrote a sports col-umn with more references to NewtGingrichs obesity than to college or professional sports. Remind himwhy politics have no place in sportscolumns at tom.taylor@stanford.edu.

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