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By ERIC MESSINGER and ESPERANZA GUEVARA

Cardinal red may be the official color of Stanford, butthe balance of blood donations at the University is still inthe red.

The Stanford Blood Center (SBC) is currently facing a“critical blood shortage” and is continuing its efforts toincrease the incoming supply from the Stanford communi-ty. The shortage is particularly serious for blood types Aand O, the two most common blood types of the Americanpopulation.

Stanford Blood Bank Nurse Jane Gold noted that theshortages are an ongoing problem in work on campus.

A crucial factor in the periodic shortages is the numberof institutions the SBC is responsible for supplying. TheSBC currently provides blood donations to StanfordMedical Center, the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital,the Palo Alto Veterans’ Medical Center, El CaminoHospital and San Jose’s O’Connor Hospital.

“We use more blood in this area than our donors give,”noted SBC Public Relations Associate Brooke Krannich.

According to Krannich, shortages often force the SBCto import blood from other locations.

“We do have to import blood from other parts of fromparts of the country,” Krannich said. “The Midwest is gen-erally a place that has more blood than they need.”

“When I say typically, it’s not all the time,” she added.The level of travel among the Stanford community, as

well as its international character, also causes problems forthe SBC by preventing contributions from potentialdonors.

“Another reason there’s a blood shortage is because ofthe available blood pool,” Gold said. “Anybody born inEurope is deferred because of mad cow disease. Peoplewho have traveled to malarial countries — India, thePhilippines, Belize, Honduras. [This happens], especially inthe Stanford community, because we have so many foreignstudents and people who travel.”

Gold also pointed to the variety of complex medicalprocedures conducted in local hospitals.

“Stanford Hospital does a lot of liver transplants [and]heart transplants,” Gold said. “In March, we had to [trans-port] 7,000 units of blood because of a lot of liver trans-plants, heart transplants and premature babies.”

Law profs.eyed forSupreme Court

Kathleen Sullivan,Pamela Karlan on many short lists

By ERIC MESSINGERDESK EDITOR

Stanford Law Profs. Kathleen Sullivan andPamela Karlan are rumored to be under con-sideration for President Obama’s pick toreplace Supreme Court Justice David Souter,according to numerous media reports.

Word leaked late Thursday night thatSouter plans to retire as of the Court’s summerrecess. The retirement is the first under theObama administration, and will result in thefirst appointment under a Democratic presi-dent in 15 years.

In discussions of likely prospects for whoPresident Obama will nominate, Law Prof. andformer Dean Kathleen Sullivan has placedprominently on short lists of potential candi-dates, and has been discussed as a possiblepick since before Obama was elected. Sullivanis a constitutional law scholar, and also hasresearch interests in federal litigation and,appropriately, the Supreme Court.

According to Academe Today, an internalpublication put out by the Stanford LawLibrary which tracks mentions of Stanford fac-ulty and alumni in national discourse,Sullivan’s name has come up in short lists byThe New York Times, The Washington Post,The Wall Street Journal, Politico, The LondonTimes and The National Law Journal.

Local papers have also noted the possibili-ty of Sullivan as a choice, with The SanFrancisco Chronicle dedicating a prominenteditorial to a recommendation on her behalf.The Chronicle was effusive in its praise, sayingthat “She is perhaps the best intellectuallyqualified person to replace Justice Souter. Herwork, particularly in the New Federalist

Papers, reveals a mind able to grasp andexplain the interplay between technology,social change and the Constitution. KathleenSullivan is the perfect choice, and the fact thatshe’s lesbian should not be an issue for any-one.”

Sullivan served as Law School dean from1999-2004, and was the first woman to serve asthe dean of any Stanford school.

Stanford Law Professor Pamela Karlan isalso being mentioned in discussions of possi-ble nominees. The New York Times reportedthat Karlan “co-wrote an election law text-book that Mr. Obama not only taught frombut also contributed comments to when it wasin draft form.”

While at the Farm, Karlan has founded theStanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic,which provides an opportunity for students toget substantive practice in arguing cases. LikeSullivan, Karlan studies Constitutional law,and also studies public interest law, amongother research interests.

Fitting with the possibility of either Sullivanor Karlan, Obama’s pick is “a choice manypolitical observers expect will be a woman,”

Dollies make a splashBy MOLLY SPAETH

“Out with the old!”

“In with the new!”“Out with the old!”“In with the new!”

Clad in outfits ranging from gold lamae pants and a sil-ver bikini top to a piano keyboard-print vest and brightblue Hawaiian shorts, members of the Band engaged ina back-and-forth shouting match as they ushered in the

2009-2010 Stanford Dollies at Dolliesplash last Fridayunder a rainy sky.

“I’ve been drunk since 10!” one Band member yellsacross the crowd in front of the Bookstore.

“Me too!” his friend shouts back.It was a little past noon, and Dolliesplash was

already underway.Traditionally, Dolliesplash marks the time of transi-

tion when the previous year’s Dollies relinquish theirtitle to the newest Dollies. This year’s Dollies are SheaRitchie ‘12, Nia Amina-Minor ‘12, Paula Markey ‘10,Kim Souza ‘11 and Elise Birkhofer ‘12. During eachDolliesplash, the new Dollies make their debut to theBand and the Stanford community by performing avariety of dances. At the end, the girls are traditionallythrown into the Claw. Hence the name, Dolliesplash.

“Yeah, dollies! You’re so beautiful!” a formerDollie yells to the girls as they line up for their nextdance.With a beaming smile, Ritchie acknowledges thesupport and starts to dance.

The new Dollies have clearly put care into makingtheir debut the best that they can. Dressed in whitedresses with red-jeweled embroidery, white Nikes withred swooshes and white dancing gloves, the newDollies perform 10 dances. A few are traditional, andsome are based on their own choreography. All ofthem, however, are met with applause from an enthu-siastic crowd.

“Go Kim!” one onlooker shouts.Although it is apparent that the intense bouts of

dancing are taking a toll on the girls’ stamina, the ener-gy that radiates from the Band and the crowd seems togive the new Dollies the extra push they need to per-form.That’s not to say that the girls are performing thewhole time. With occasional instrumental interludesprovided by the Band, the Dollies spend some time re-grouping in the back and giving their red Nike swoosh-es a chance to take a break.

During the middle of the show, Dollies past andpresent re-group for one of the most memorable eventsof Dolliesplash — the Dollie alumni performance.

“This is amazing!” one Stanford sweatshirt-cladfreshman exclaims as the former Dollies, from differentyears and different backgrounds, come together andperform for the crowd.

It really is a sight to see, as around 20 girls cometogether to perform a dance that had been, at least atone point, very prevalent in their lives as Dollies. Whilesome former Dollies are dressed in tights and blue glit-

ter jackets, others look as if they had just come from an11 a.m. Friday morning history section, beige boots andall.

But although their dress may differ, as soon as theBand starts playing the familiar chords of years past,the traditional moves and smiles from the women allmeld into seamless choreography.

Proud moms take pictures. Mesmerized boyfriendshold flowers. Some bystanders don’t quite know what isgoing on, but hear something about Crayola costumes.Nevertheless, the Band and Dollies have attractedquite a crowd around the Claw. The event seems to bea success.

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BY WYNDAM MAKOWSKYMANAGING EDITOR

For once,a lack of certainty on the gridiron may bebeneficial to the Stanford football program.Withtwo sessions of practice over and the spring gamein the books, the Cardinal has solidified a fewstarters, but not out of anything negative —

intense position battles and the further emergence ofyoung players has led to challenges for evenentrenched,older Cardinal players.

“We came charging out through each springpractice — it was very intense,” said head coach JimHarbaugh.“It was hard to tell the first practice fromthe 12th practice. It was highly competitive the wholetime.”

There were 14 practices in total,spread out from February24 to March 9,and from April 1 to the spring game on April13, which was an inter-squad scrimmage conducted undergame-like conditions. In any given practice, coacheswould have players face off in position drills, orHarbaugh would bring them together for 7-on-7 or 11-on-11 work.

As a result, players got a significant amount oftime to show off their talent and the results of a win-ter of weight training.With few certifiable stars anda number of starters departing, this meant thatposition battles were largely up for grabs — fromquarterback to kicker, depth charts shiftedthroughout the spring.

The most notable position battle was quarter-back, where senior Tavita Pritchard, who com-manded the team for the past year and a half, facedan intense challenge from freshman Andrew Luck.After junior AlexLoukas went down with an ACL injury, it became a two-man race,and Luck came out on top after a five-touchdown performance in thespring game.Though he has not definitively won the starting job, hehas jumped from third on the depth chart to first, and will be in thenew position of fending off a challenge from Pritchard in summercamp.

“Andrew was very impressive in the spring game,but he was impres-sive all spring long,”Harbaugh said.

While Luck’s performance quickly made news across the Pacific-10Conference,other players emerged, too, such as freshman wide receiv-er Chris Owusu,who beat out sophomore Doug Baldwin for a startingjob.The speedster, who missed a number of games last season with aninjury, impressed Harbaugh with his resilience.

“He made huge strides,” said Harbaugh, who is entering his thirdyear at the helm of the program. “His level of competitiveness and

toughness emerged throughout the spring.He got hit a lot,and woundup being durable.”

But the most hidden,and yet perhaps the most intriguing,story of thespring was on the defense, and particularly in the back seven, where amyriad of players are contending for jobs at linebacker and defensiveback.

Any Stanford football fan would reasonably assume that sen-iors Clinton Snyder and Bo McNally, team leaders in recent years,would be assured of starting roles.But Harbaugh emphasized thatno one was safe, and indeed that all three linebacker and all fourdefensive back starting positions were still undetermined.

Freshman Johnson Bademosi has been pushing McNally at freesafety, while junior Nick Macaluso has been competing with Snyder atmiddle linebacker. Meanwhile, the two outside linebacker positionshave no clear frontrunner — sophomores Chike Amajoyi and Max

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The Dollies made their debut at Dolliesplash last Friday.Their dance consisted of new choreography, as well asroutines from past years.

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Poor weather conditions left the Claw empty, posing aproblem for the ritualistic fountain dip. The Band decid-ed to use buckets instead, dousing the Dollies.

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Please see COURT, page 6Please see FOOTBALL, page 4

Please see DOLLIES, page 2Please see BLOOD, page 6

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THE STRENGTH TO HEAL

By KATE ABBOTTCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Leyan Lo, a second-year graduate stu-dent in physics, was too young toexperience the original Rubik’s Cube

fad during the 1980s. But after gettinginvolved with the Cube in college, Lo isimmersed in the resurging movement,with some new twists and turns.

SQUARE ONE Lo has earned three world records at

competitions since 2005 for events that didnot even exist 20 years ago. After pickingup the Cube during his undergraduateyears at Caltech, Lo has helped turn a pas-sion into an international competition.

Now carrying a Cube with him to mostplaces, Lo first encountered one in seventhgrade; a teacher at a summer camp assignedsolving the Cube as a final project. Afterlearning the basic sequences to solving thefirst and second layers, he promptly put theCube down and pursued other interests.

In Lo’s freshman year of college, friendand now co-developer of the InternationalRubik’s Cube Competition Tyson Maoconvinced him to give cubing another try.

“[Mao] picked it up at a summer campand was really good and got a bunch ofpeople together and they all solve it reallyfast,” Lo said.

The duo started a club and generatedenough interest to take a simple hobby tothe next level. Solving the Cube as quicklyas you can is commonly referred to as“speedcubing,” which is now one of thethree main events at competitions.

“At my first competition, I solved it in alittle over a minute,” Lo said.“I kept work-ing, and as I learned more algorithms, I gotfaster and faster and now I solve it in 12seconds on average.”

DOING THE MATHThe key to the Cube is practice. And

then there are also sequences to learn, pat-terns to memorize and edge pieces to keeptrack of. On first glance, the Cube is a fun

and nostalgic toy, but a deeper look withLo reveals the science behind the solution.

“[The Cube is] a good thing to have onyour desk when you’re bored and you cansit and play with it,” Lo said.

Idle practicing helps to “cut down onrecognition time, which is essential to solv-ing it faster,” according to Lo. And it cer-tainly doesn’t hurt to know a thing or twoabout the math involved.

Lo said that it is a common beginner’sstrategy to solve the Cube layer by layer,and to remember that you’re not lookingto move colors, but to move coordinatededge and corner pieces. There is a pletho-ra of information about basic solvingavailable on the Internet, especially onLo’s Web site, www.leyanlo.com.

“There is lots of experimentation withwhat is the best method, because no oneknows what that is,” Lo said.“At first, cub-ing took up a lot of time mainly because Iwas slow and spent a lot more time prac-ticing. [But] there’s not that much to doafter you learn a certain point.”

A basic solve involves 100 moves, onaverage. According to Lo, a speedcuberaverages 50 to 57 moves for each solve.

And the equipment has changed sincethe 1980s, too. Lo showed off hisSpeedcube, which had been lubricated andre-stickered. The center white piece alsofeatures his name.

“After it’s been lubricated and brokenin, it turns a lot better than the ones youget right out of the box,” Lo said.

COMPETINGCubing has become a popular culture

phenomenon in recent years. Rubik’sCubes saw a surge of popularity followingthe release of the movie “The Pursuit ofHappyness” in 2007. Mao taught WillSmith how to solve the Cube for themovie, and Smith can now finish it in twominutes, Lo added.

The development of the InternationalRubik’s Cube Competition has taken thispopularity to the next level. Lo helpeddevelop a set of rules and regulations

specifically for competing. Sequences andillegal moves are defined — and cubing isno longer child’s play.

“It’s all easy until you start running acompetition,” Lo said.“You think you justhave a stopwatch that you can start andstop it, but we want to make it really pre-cise. There is a science to it.”

Competitions typically feature threemain events: speed solving, one-handedsolving and blindfolded solving. Lo hasheld three world records for speed solvingand blindfolded solving. His fastest speedsolve was 11.13 seconds.

“It happens with a lot of practice,” Losaid. “Trying to get the world record in2006 was a lot different than trying to getthe world record today. In 2006 it was at11.75, and now it’s at 7.8 seconds, so it’salmost twice as fast as what it was.”

And things continue to change.“Back when I started, a six-minute

blindfold time was really good,” Lo said.

Currently, Lo has no intention of tryingto break more records. Instead, he prac-tices occasionally and helps host events.When he arrived at Stanford two yearsago, there was nothing like a Rubik’s Cubeclub. But in August, the U.S. cubing nation-als will be held on campus.

“Right now, I’m trying to get my one-handed time a little faster,” Lo said. “I tryto stay on top of the speed solve and myblindfold solve. I’ve learned everythingthat I want to learn — every now and thenI play around with it.”

But Lo continues to solve for fun, andhelps out his friends who are interested inlearning.

“It’s always good to have a problemthat no matter how messed up it is, you canalways fix it,” he said.

Contact Kate Abbott at kmabbott@stan-ford.edu.

However, there is one problem.“Dude, there’s no water in the fountain,” says an

onlooker.“Yeah, I thought it was supposed to be

DollieSPLASH,” replies his freshman friend.Some of the spectators who have seen

Dolliesplash in previous years, too, wonder exactlywhat this unforeseen lack of flowing fountain wateris going to have on the girls’ baptismal-like inaugura-tion.

“What are they going to do? The fountain’s noton,” Kate Barber ‘11 says to her boyfriend.

Alas, the lack of water in the fountain on Friday,due presumably to less-than-ideal weather condi-tions, seems to present a large barrier to fulfilling oneof the most fundamental goals of the event. But in asheer stroke of genius, members of the band onceagain demonstrate their ingenuity by invoking one ofthe most ancient and effective means of transferringmoisture — buckets of water.

After a highly energized and robust round of“All Right Now,” the Dollies happily collapse intoa panting group hug, celebrating the finale of anevent they have been working toward for weeks.They’re panting and visibly exhausted, but wearingsparkling smiles that rival the shine of the glitteradorned on their dresses. Jacob “Diego” Marshall‘09, however, is one of the first to disrupt this happyhug of relief.

“AAAAAAAAHHH!” he shouts with a warrior-like cry as he douses an entire bucket of water overMinor.

The girls scatter.Although it is a little unclear howmany tubs of water the Band has stored within itsdepths, they are clearly full of anticipation. But whenthe new Dollies pose for a picture, a rally-clad mem-ber of the Band darts out from the back row withanother red bucket. In a tender moment, WileyBirkhofer ‘09 drenches his sister Elise. In true broth-er-sister fashion she pretends to get mad, but thenhugs her brother as they later pose for a picture withtheir mom and the Tree, Jonathan Strange ‘11.

As the crowd scatters, the Dollies are left withfriends and family, dressed in Dollie-emblazoned redfuzzy bathrobes to warm up. Although theirDolliesplash has been atypical in the sense that the“splash” had not come from the fountain, the girlsstill maintained their optimism.

“It’s supposed to be good luck when it rains onyour wedding day,” Ritchie said, “so hopefully it wasa sign that it is going to be a great year.”

Contact Molly Spaeth at mspaeth@stanford.edu.

DOLLIES Continued from front pageCraft of the CubeLeyan Lo, three-time Rubik’s Cube record-holder, reveals how he came to conquer the Cube

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I need an iClimate.

Seriously, if Apple’s not busy, I have a jobfor some really good interface designers.I will also accept a team of die-hard

SymSys kids, CS kids or the type of EE thatspecializes in hardware design and then goesto work at Google because he can’t stand theidea of working on things no person will di-rectly interact with. (Hi, buddy!)

Here’s the deal. Climate protection andsustainability are extremely difficult to enact,and not just because of obvious barriers like“Drag racing is fun” and “Oh man does thatsteak smell super.” The user interface is allwrong.

The problem is that we are not taught toproduce in a way that makes use by otherpeople simplest — we are taught to producethings as conveniently as possible.

Because we grow up being rewarded forproducing things in ways that make our liveseasier, we never really move past that stage.If you’ll get a better grade on a paper youwrite about something you already know,why would you try to write something newand radical that may fall flat and that onlyyou and your professor will read anyway?

So we end up with machines designed toprocess bottles submitted for recycling, butonly if the proper bottles are submitted. Themachines are precisely tuned to accept, say,number 1 plastics. But the bottlers find it eas-ier to make number 1 bottles with resin lidsthat aren’t recyclable,so the lids become con-tamination. Making food containers out ofnumber 6 plastics is a bit cheaper, so restau-rants typically buy those. Many upstream de-cisions and processes are simplified, but inthe end? The consumer stands in front of arecycling bin with precious little chance of re-

cycling properly unless he or she has put sub-stantial time and effort into learning the nu-ances of the system.

As an energy engineer, I’ve been taughtthat efficiency improvements at the end of achain are the most productive because of anupstream snowball effect.Take light bulbs —changing out an incandescent for a CFL actu-ally has more substantial impact than it ini-tially appears. Not only are you using lesspower at your outlet, but you’re avoiding thetransmission line losses and the generatinglosses associated with the power you wouldhave been using. So reducing consumptionby one unit at the wall outlet is equivalent toreducing consumption by many units all theway upstream at the power plant.

It’s this kind of thinking that has con-vinced me that we have to focus on sustain-ability’s user interface. If we put a little moreeffort into making more sophisticated recy-cling equipment, or, say, coordinated effortsby recyclers and by packaging manufacturersso that products could be both manufacturedand recycled efficiently, it would be mucheasier for the public to take part in the sus-tainability movement.

After sucking up the initial pain of a newsystem and of actually having to get indus-tries to communicate directly, enabling oursystems to interact efficiently would proba-bly not be that technically difficult. Themajor issue would be financing the transition— some sectors would save money and ef-fort, to be sure. Stanford has to hand sortplastics to avoid contamination, and that’s alot of work time that could be better usedelsewhere. But takeout container manufac-turers would have to cough it up for higher-grade plastic. Overall, we’d be setting our-selves up for simpler manufacturing process-

es and ease of recycling instead of downcy-cling, but it would take some serious inter-in-dustry discussion and capital allocation.

I’d rather spend money on this than oncompostable plastics that compost facilitiesdon’t know how to deal with, though.

Additionally, if education campaignscould use slogans like “Recycle PlasticHere!” instead of “Check the number onyour plastic container, then call your local re-cycling center to see if they can recycle thattype of plastic, then ensure it’s in a shape theycan handle, then put it into the appropriatebin — careful, there are five of them — andrecycle!” . . .

You see what I mean. People would beless frustrated and more empowered.

Beyond that, we wouldn’t have to bethrowing out improperly mixed bags of recy-clables,etc.etc.etc.So the same amount of ef-fort would probably have a greater impact,since we wouldn’t constantly be compensat-ing for mistakes.

This argument and plea goes for manymore things than recyclables. Let’s make iteasier to choose to move to mature, superiortechnologies. Let’s make it so that you don’thave to call the local utility to decide whetheran electric car is a good idea in the city you’redriving through. Let’s develop climate poli-cies we like and make sustainability fun.

Killer app, anyone?

Emily is torturing the climate through flight again.Virgin America serves absinthe now — and that’s akiller user interface.Email Emily at gruberte@stan-ford.edu to plan your next trip to Prague.

The great ideal of the academy is prima-rily that diametrically opposed andcontrarian beliefs can cross swords

and do battle for the betterment of the stu-dent body and humanity at large. Stanfordmarkets itself, as do other premier educa-tional institutions, as a repository of diverseand dynamic ideas concerning how to com-prehend the world in which we reside. Be-sides an exalted quality of life and dreams ofimmense wealth and luxury, the central drawof the school is its supposed intellectual vital-ity. “To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is themalady of the ignorant,” which I believespeaks to the importance of a solid liberal ed-ucation, though this could be the official slo-gan of the University of Southern California.

Stanford University, or at least how I tookdown the Kool-aid, is meant to be welcomingand receptive to ALL ideologies and creeds.However, this does not seem to be the actualcase here at the Stan. Last year’s presidentialelection exemplifies this truth to a tee. In thename of full discretion, I am a proud, lifelongDem. I heard then-Senator Obama speaktwo years ago and left the room truly in aweof the man who seemed uniquely equippedto lead the nation.

Yet after arriving on campus last year, Iwas somewhat appalled at the outright toxicenvironment spewing forth from the primar-ies. The energy I felt after hearing the Sena-tor had been perverted by a variety ofObama-nistas into this smug self-righteous-ness that brutally attacked anyone who stoodagainst them. If it was not for the fact that Icouldn’t stand Howard Wolfson and somecrap coming out of the Clinton campaign, Iwould have seriously supported Hillary, if forno other reason than to go against what cameacross as a cult-like atmosphere pervadingthe campus.

The general election was less worse, butonly slightly. I recall a frosh in the fall quar-ter, one-unit CSRE-sponsored “PresidentialPolitics” class trying to argue that HRC sup-porters were more likely to be racist, where-by I excoriated the chap for a few solid min-utes. And while I derisively mocked Gover-

nor Sarah Palin because I legitimately be-lieve her to be an idiot, I still held a degree ofsympathy for actual McCain voters, whoseactive support for their candidate was akin tolarge-scale public suicide. With the HooverInstitute, Condi, an incredible econ depart-ment and an inseparable marriage to SiliconValley’s entrepreneurialism, Stanford, moreso than most of our peer institutions,has a de-cidedly less liberal bent. Even so, The Stan-ford Review and Stanford Conservative So-ciety had to hold its election-watchingparty/wake off campus at the University Ave.Round Table. HOORAY, PUBLIC DIS-COURSE!

Such behavior, however, goes far beyondthe charged 2008 presidential election. I havea variety of incredibly intelligent, well-rea-soned and articulate friends who happen tobe more moderate, or *gasp*, conservativethan your average college student. Generallyspeaking, only in small gatherings or private

discussions do such students actually feelcomfortable in expressing their beliefs. TheReview seems to occasionally pick absurdistand highly contentious fights simply for thehell of it, but the greater campus populacesummarily dismisses their views, regardlessof their persuasiveness or merit.

Issues regarding the emphases placed onsustainability and varying conceptions of di-versity seem to be the third rails of campuslife; dare to even foster a healthy discussion,and the responses are often less than cordial.Disallowing issues from even being thrownabout in the public square,besides increasingthe tyranny of the majority,breeds intellectu-al stasis. I did not come to Stanford to loungein some plush, vaguely liberal echo chamber,to wallow in holier-than-thou contempt forthose whose top priorities aren’t in lock stepwith the residents of Palo Alto.

I firmly believe in a woman’s right tochoose, same-sex marriage as a civil rightsissue and public education as a fundamentalright for all Americans. However, this cam-pus needs to foster lively discussions on suchissues so that the focus is not on demoniza-tion,but rather on civil discourse with the po-tential to establish intellectual commonground.

What are we afraid of, folks? That the be-liefs we steadfastly cling to might not hold upin the face of reasonable opposition? Thatthose who might not fully agree with our be-liefs are racist, anti-environment or just less-er human beings? At an institution like Stan-ford, if we cannot be open to the ideas or be-liefs of others, if we cannot learn from thevaried experiences of those around us,we aredamned to shape a world that demands or-thodoxy, devalues minority opinions and re-jects intellectual diversity. In short, civiliza-tion as we know it will become one big USC.FIGHT ON,TROJANS!

Care to tell Zack that he is an ignorant schmuckdevoid of basic humanity,or that Pete Carroll isactually the second coming of the Lord JesusChrist? Send him a scathing rebuke at zwar-ma@stanford.edu.

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OPINIONS

Columbia Professor Mark C. Taylor’srecent op-ed in The New York Timessuggesting that we “End the Universi-

ty as We Know It” is one of a long line of cri-tiques of higher education, along withWilliam Deresiewicz’s “The Disadvantagesof an Elite Education” and Rick Perlstein’s“What’s the Matter With College?” Becausethese essays ostensibly evaluate our educa-tional experience right here at Stanford, wewanted to take the opportunity to respondto Taylor’s indictment of universities as over-specialized, impractical and non-collabora-tive.

Stanford, we feel, is none of these things.While there is some truth to Taylor’s assess-ment — perhaps more so at some institu-tions than others — one need only look atthe myriad of interdisciplinary and hands-ondepartments, majors, programs, fellowshipsand courses to see that Stanford Universityappreciates both the value of specializedknowledge and the importance of workingacross traditional academic and real-worlddivides.

Taylor, for example, proposes restructur-ing curricula, abolishing permanent depart-ments and increasing collaboration betweeninstitutions. Here at Stanford, curricula arefrequently reappraised and restructured.The history department has voted to remainin the humanities rather than migrate to thesocial sciences. Cultural and Social Anthro-pology and Anthropological Sciences haveengaged in a decade-long process of merg-ing, splitting and reconstitution, a mating rit-ual worthy of anthropological study itself.

That being said, abolishing permanentdepartments might be taking things a bit far.Many Stanford students enjoy being able tofocus their attentions on particular subjects,and Taylor’s proposal to create constantly-evolving “problem-focused programs” —Mind, Body, Water, Language, Money — isintriguing,but does not necessarily appeal toall.

Stanford welcomes those who prefer toconcentrate on electrical engineering,for ex-ample, rather than ask everyone to reorientthemselves around a given problem. At thesame time, we offer countless opportunitiesfor that same student to work within multi-ple departments, design his or her ownmajor, study at other universities addressingour interests in different ways, collaborateacross departments and work outside of theUniversity setting on specific problems.

Symbolic Systems faculty are drawn fromcomputer science, linguistics, philosophy,psychology and education. The Science,Technology and Society (STS) program in-cludes a similar range of faculty from depart-ments as diverse as classics, electrical engi-neering, economics, management scienceand engineering, English and Cultural andSocial Anthropology.

“Water,” one of Taylor’s proposed “prob-lem-focused programs,” gets a significantamount of interdisciplinary attention at theBill Lane Center for the American West,where several recent conferences broughttogether environmentalists, farmers, legalexperts, water regulators and other stake-holders. Same goes for the Woods Institute

for the Environment, which lists a series ofStrategic Collaborations within and withoutthe University — on food security and theenvironment with the Freeman Spogli Insti-tute for International Studies, with theWorld Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conser-vancy, and with the Monterey Bay Aquari-um.

The interconnectedness of Stanford’smajors, departments and programs is im-pressive.The depth that some students studyin incredibly specialized fields is similarly re-markable. Taylor may decry overspecializedtheses and publishing dissertations, but itwas just such a research project that ledLarry Page and Sergey Brin to developPageRank and later Google.Taylor’s sugges-tion to transform traditional dissertations byusing new media such as film and the Webhave been implemented in many PWR2classes, as well as in Stanford’s collaborativeMetamedia “Collaboratory,” where stu-dents’ final projects are often online andwiki-based.

We are certainly a university looking tothe outside world and oriented toward real-world applicability,as envisioned by our uni-versity’s founders.At the same time,we haveour fair share of philosophy students and lib-eral arts majors happily ensconced in GreenLibrary and willing to debate Marx at thedrop of a hat. This intellectual diversity is astrength which the University can draw on asa foundation for the more interdisciplinaryprograms it develops.

Stanford grad students, while perhapsgrumbling about being exploited for cheaplabor, are not the hyper-specialized, hope-lessly unemployable individuals who “willnever hold the kind of job for which they arebeing trained” that Taylor contends mostgraduate students are. Many will have trou-ble, especially in these economic circum-stances, finding a tenured position, but oth-ers will succeed, and still others will go on tointeresting careers where their undergradu-ate and graduate education will inform theirwork and form the basis for their skills.

Professor tenures is a complex issue, andTaylor is correct that tenure can lead to anatrophied department,where no one has anyincentive to be productive and professorsmerely stand in the way of their graduatestudents getting jobs. Yet tenure also allowsprofessors to speak their minds — to penop-eds in major newspapers, for instance —without fear of retaliation. And judging bythe proliferation of articles in “journals readby no one other than a few like-minded col-leagues” (and all the students they’ve evertaught) — most of Stanford’s professorshave not fallen down on the job once they re-ceive tenure.

Thus, we applaud Taylor for leveling hiscritique at the field of higher learning inwhich he is an active and clearly caring par-ticipant. Such introspection is valuable if weare to continue refining, improving and evenrestructuring our universities. We also ap-plaud Stanford for striking an ideal balancebetween specialization and generalization,collaboration and individuality, liberal artsand applied sciences and the practical andthe theoretical.

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By JACOB JAFFEDESK EDITOR

For the fifth year in a row,the Stan-ford women’s rugby team found itselfin the championship game,and for thefifth year in a row, its opponent wasPenn State. For only the second ofthose five years, though, the Cardinaldid not finish victoriously.

The women’s rugby team, a clubteam comprising about 40 girls, hasbeen one of Stanford’s most success-ful programs in recent years, winningthree of the past four national titlesand placing second the other year.The start of Stanford’s run coincidedwith its hiring of head coachJonathan Griffin, a former playerand coach in Ireland and the UnitedKingdom. Griffin and his team cameinto this season expecting more ofthe same success.

“Our goal was to win the champi-onship, plain and simple,” Griffinsaid. “We felt we were good enough.You have to set high goals and workhard to achieve them.”

Stanford entered the nationalplayoffs as the first seed from the Pa-cific Coast Conference. After domi-nating UCLA 81-10 in the Sweet 16and edging Army 29-15 in the roundof eight, the Cardinal advanced tothe Final Four, which was held innearby Palo Alto this past weekend.

In Stanford’s semifinal gameagainst Brown on Friday, the Cardi-nal ran up against tough opposition,particularly in the early goings.

“Brown is a very physical team,”said senior hooker/flanker DianaPeng. “They play a very contact-heavy game, but we sustained reallyhard defense against it.”

With just 12 minutes left in thegame, the Cardinal held a slim 17-12lead. The Stanford women respond-ed with 14 points in the game’s finalminutes to cruise to a 19-point winover Brown.

“[Against Brown] we forced themto chase us wide and play in space,”Griffin said. “We moved the ballaway from channel one and channeltwo and used our team speed. Wewere comfortable in the open field.”

The win over Brown moved Stan-ford into the national championshipgame on Saturday against PennState, which had blanked Navy 33-0in the semifinals.

Penn State proved to be a toughopponent for the Cardinal to handle.The Cardinal hung with the NittanyLions for the first half of the champi-onship game, trailing only 12-7 athalftime. In the second half, though,Penn State exploded for 34 points, in-cluding five tries (rugby’s equivalentof touchdowns) in the final 25 min-utes of the game. Meanwhile, theCardinal could not manage a singlepoint after the 15-minute mark of thegame, allowing Penn State to runaway with a 46-7 win.

One main reason for the lopsidedsecond half was the three yellow cardsgiven to the Cardinal, which causedthe team to play down one player forover 20 minutes of the game.

“We were under pressure thewhole game, so we were trying toforce things,” Griffin said.

One of the bright spots for theCardinal was fifth-year inside centerMelissa Smit.

“She was simply magnificent —she played absolutely brilliantly,”Griffin said. “Her defense, her tack-ling, her leadership, her desire to getback up and keep going and trackpeople down were sensational.”

However, Penn State’s forma-tions and strength were too much forthe Cardinal from the beginning, al-lowing only one try in the wholegame.

“Penn State had a group of seniorplayers who are very good, and thatgave them a wealth of experience,”Griffin said. “They set a platform upfront we could not compete with,which allowed the back line to domi-nate.”

The loss is a disappointing end toan otherwise successful season forthe Cardinal rugby team.

“Though we didn’t achieve theoutcome we wanted, this group andthese experiences were somethinglife-changing to be a part of,” Pengsaid.

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

By ANARGHYA VARDHANASTAFF WRITER

Several members of the Cardinal trackand field team had amazing performances,and even broke records, when Stanford host-ed the Payton Jordan Invitational this pastweekend.

Leading the way for the Cardinal were thedistance runners, led by freshman Chris Der-rick, who highlighted the meet by breakingthe American junior record in the 5,000 me-ters with a time of 13 minutes, 29.98 seconds.The race was initially very close betweenDerrick and Oklahoma State freshman Ger-man Fernandez. Derrick created a gap be-tween them in the final three laps, distancinghimself from Fernandez, while shattering theprevious record — held by 2008 U.S.Olympian and current Oregon runner GalenRupp — by almost eight seconds. Derrick’stime is also the fifth-fastest time in theNCAA this year.

“It was incredible to run a race like that infront of all of my friends, my family, and onmy home track,” Derrick said. “The greatcompetition to both win the race and get therecord only elevated the already tremendousracing atmosphere.”

Also faring well in the event was fifth-yearHakon DeVries, who achieved a personalbest and regional-qualifying time of 14:03.64.

Fifth-year Garrett Heath finished third inthe collegiate division of the 1,500, movinghim to third in the NCAA rankings. His timeof 3:37.57 was also a personal best, and thefifth best in Stanford history. Sophomore El-liot Heath followed in his brother’s footsteps,running a personal best and regional-qualify-ing time of 3:43.10 in the same race.

Senior Chris Mocko also ran a personalbest in the 3,000 steeplechase, placing fourthin the event with a time of 8:50.30, which was

also a regional standard and the eighthfastest in Stanford history.

The male sprinters were led by freshmanAmaechi Morton, who won both the 400 hur-dles with a time of 50.23 seconds, and theopen 400 with a time of 47.23 seconds.

“I need to learn how to get out a littleharder,”Morton said of the improvements hehopes to make.“However, I am glad with myconsistency and happy with my race.”

Leading the men in the field events wassenior Daniel Schaerer, whose toss of 199feet, four inches was a personal best and re-

gional-qualifying standard. Schaerer’s markalso places him second on the all-time Stan-ford list.Another thrower who achieved a re-gional standard was freshman GeoffreyTabor with a toss of 55-3 in the shot put.

The women were also led by the distancerunners, with senior Lauren Centrowitz tyingthe Stanford school record in the 1,500 with atime of 4:10.42. Centrowitz’s time was thethird-fastest this year in the NCAA.

Also faring well in the same event andachieving regional standards were senior Ali-cia Follmar and freshman Laurynne Chete-

lat, with times of 4:17.63 and 4:20.68, respec-tively.Junior Kate Niehaus had an incredible meet,achieving a personal best by 28 seconds in the5,000. Her time of 16:19.20 was also a region-al standard.

The female sprinters were led by seniorIdara Otu and junior Griffin Matthew. Otuachieved a personal best and regional-qualify-ing mark for the 400 hurdles in 59.50.Matthewachieved a personal best and regional-qualify-ing mark in the 200 with a 23.59.

“It felt great to finally break 24 secondsand hit the regional mark,” Matthew said.“Now, I’m really looking forward to gettingsome good workouts before regionals, so thatI can give the sprinters from ASU and Cal arun for their money.”

Leading the way in the field events for thewomen was senior Michaela Wallerstedt, whohad a personal best and regional qualifying tossin the shot put with her throw of 52-8. SeniorJaynie Goodbody had a regional-qualifyingstandard in the hammer throw with a 192-10.

With the conclusion of the Payton JordanInvitational, the Cardinal now has to preparefor the Pacific-10 Conference Champi-onships, which take place May 16-17 in Eu-gene, Ore.

Contact Anarghya Vardhana at vardhana@stanford.edu.

SPORTS BRIEFSShoji brothers named first-team All-Americans

Kawika and Erik Shoji, who led the Stanford men’svolleyball team to a 21-11 record and a No. 4 nationalranking, were named to the All-American first team bythe American Volleyball Coaches Association yester-day.

Kawika, a junior setter, was a second-team selectionlast year and improved this year, tallying a school-record 1,394 assists. He was also a leader on the team,getting kills, digs, blocks and assists routinely.

His brother Erik was both the only freshman andonly libero on the first team. He led the nation with 447digs, which is believed to be an NCAA record, althoughno official statistics have been kept by the NCAA.

The Shoji brothers are the first pair of Cardinal vol-leyball teammates to be named to the first team in 16years,and they are the first brothers from any volleyballprogram to be named to the first team together.

Barte named Pac-10 Player of the YearSophomore Hilary Barte, Stanford’s No. 1 women’s

tennis player,was voted the Pacific-10 Conference Play-er of the Year yesterday.

Barte, who won the Pac-10 Freshman of the Yearaward last year, is the first Cardinal woman to win thePlayer of the Year award since 2002.

As the No. 7 player in the nation, Barte was the high-est-ranked player in the Pac-10, posting a 31-5 record.She has won 13 of her last 14 matches,and is 20-5 against

ranked opponents; Bart currently heads to the NCAAchampionships as the seventh seed.

Senior Jessica Nguyen, ranked No. 73, and juniorLindsay Burdette, ranked No. 88, were honorable men-tions, with both holding records of 20-9.

Klahn, Clayton, Thacher honored on All-Pac-10 teamsThe Stanford’s men’s tennis team was well-repre-

sented on All-Pacific-10 Conference teams,as freshmanBradley Klahn and sophomore Alex Clayton werenamed to the first team, and freshman Ryan Thacherwas named to the second team. In addition, Klahn wasnamed Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, joining Claytonand senior Matt Bruch as winners of the award who stillplay for the Cardinal.

Klahn, who is ranked No. 34 nationally, posted a 33-7 overall record, including an 18-6 record againstranked opponents, while splitting time between playingNo. 1 and No. 2 for the Cardinal. His most notableachievement, though, was winning the singles and dou-bles titles at the Pac-10 Championships last month.

Clayton, who is ranked No. 21 nationally, went 28-10for the year,while playing mostly No.1 for the Cardinal,and he might have been ranked even higher if not for aninjury during the season. Thacher went 18-8 for Stan-ford, mostly at the No. 3 spot, and won the doubles titlewith Klahn at the Pac-10 Championships.

— By Jacob Jaffe

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FOOTBALL|Starting spots up for grabs

WyndamMakowskyBetween the lines

SPORTS

Trust issuesin A-Rodexposé

Investigative journalists toe a fine linebetween serving the public interestand printing gratuitous drivel.What isactually relevant?In the case of Alex Rodriguez,the em-

battled New York Yankees slugger,every-thing.Or,at least that’s the case that SportsIllustrated’s Selena Roberts presents inher book, “A-Rod: The Many Lives ofAlex Rodriguez,”which hit stands yester-day.

Roberts uses her status as the whistle-blower on Rodriguez’s steroid abuse earli-er this year to pen this unauthorized biog-raphy. She spares no detail in examiningRodriquez’s life—she mentions every-thing from pitch tipping to steroids to hisaffinity for wearing Yankees hats in stripclubs to being abandoned by his father,andthat’s just what the publishers releasedearly.

Roberts wants to paint a picture of theman,but given the nature of the book —namely, that it relies heavily on anony-mous sources, and A-Rod has alreadycried foul over its allegations — is it reallypossible to do it in a responsible,journalis-tic manner?

Little gotcha facts like A-Rod’s fond-ness of strippers are ancillary and unnec-essary points that do little but defame theman;the more serious charges are that hetipped pitches while in Texas, and tooksteroids as far back as high school andthrough his days as a Yankee.That is rele-vant information for baseball fans, whilethe off-field actions are, frankly, none ofour business.

But can we trust Roberts? Her report-ing of Rodriguez’s steroid use in Februarygrants her some leeway,but whereas shewas quoting a report back then, she ismainly relying on nameless individualsnow. Since Watergate, anonymoussources have become a fixture of Ameri-can journalism,and Roberts uses them atwill.But when people refuse to go on therecord, denials become easier — BuckShowalter, Rodriguez’s former managerin Texas, laughed off allegations that A-Rod tipped pitches.Pitch tipping is a seri-ous offense,one that should offend base-ball fans far more than steroid usage — iftrue, it is a transgression on a Pete Roselevel.It is not something that can be statedwithout 100 percent certainty. Robertsthinks she’s right, and I doubt she wouldpublish if she didn’t, but until a playercomes forth in support of Roberts’ claims,it’s her word as an outside observeragainst a man who coached A-Rod,day-to-day,for a year.

Additionally, Roberts is not infallible— indeed,while at The New York Times,she was the poster child for overeagerpress coverage during the Duke lacrosserape trial.She led the rush to accuse and,when it turned out that the athletes wereinnocent, refused to apologize for equat-ing the students to gangsters and drugdealers, instead blaming the District At-torney for leading the press down an er-rant path.The media’s actions throughoutthe ordeal were reprehensible —Roberts’ in particular — but instead ofbeing punished,she received a spot at thenation’s most historic sports magazine.Scoring first on the A-Rod steroids storydoesn’t erase her history.

There is enough of a lack of certaintyabout her sources that fellow mediamembers have been taking Roberts totask all week. Jason Whitlock, writing inThe Kansas City Star,said,“The majorityof the stuff written in her book is informa-tion the National Enquirer might reject.”Others,such as WFAN’s Craig Carton,goafter her for what is perceived as a hatch-et job that resembled her work on theDuke case.

It’s the essential problem with anunauthorized work that relies on anony-mous sources and general observations— the truth of its claims is very much un-certain.But a larger problem exists:Evenif Roberts’ accusations are not proven be-yond a doubt,there is little that Rodriguezcan do besides deny, deny, deny. Such isthe state of the modern press — with littlethreat of libel suits,anything goes,from al-legations of cheating to unnecessary andinvasive looks into the lives of others.Egregious errors are met with job offers,and Rodriguez, already public enemynumber one,has little recourse of his own.In a dying industry where the bottom linebecomes ever more important,the actualveracity of these claims becomes irrele-vant.

To steal an old comic book adage:whowatches the watchmen? Or, in this case,the watchdogs?

Apparently,no one.

Wyndam Makowsky hopes A-Rod willturn around and write a tell-all book expos-ing Selena Roberts. Contact him atmakowsky@stanford.edu.

RUNAWAY WINSeveral Cardinal track and field athletes post personal, historical records

Courtesy of Chris Derrick

Freshman distance runner Chris Derrick broke the American junior record in the 5,000 metersby running a 13:29.98 at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational this past Saturday on the Farm.

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UP NEXTPAC-10 MULTI-EVENT CHAMPIONSHIPS5/9-10 Eugene, Ore.

GAME NOTES: Stanford track and field received severaloutstanding performances last Saturday at the PaytonJordan Cardinal Invitational. Freshman Chris Derrickset an American junior record in the 5,000 meters, fifth-year Garrett Heath recorded the third-fastest time in theNCAA this year and fifth-year Lauren Centrowitz tied theStanford record in the 1,500 meters. The track and fieldteam will now head to Eugene, Ore. for the Pac-10Championships.

Bergen are battling for the weakside,andsenior Will Powers and freshman AlexDebniak are vying for the strongside.

“We’re two deep at each position,”Harbaugh said.“There are parts of thegame that each of them has to improve.Some cover well,but don’t play the runas well.”

Harbaugh has also thrown otherplayers into the mix. Throughout theirtime on the field,athletes experimentedin a variety of roles — for example,soph-omore Owen Marecic, widely consid-ered to be one of the top blocking full-backs on the West Coast, spent a lot oftime at middle linebacker.Debniak im-pressed at running back in the springgame,running for 91 yards on only fourcarries.

“You can always grow someone’srole as a two-way player,” Harbaughsaid.

Embodying that concept is RichardSherman,a former leading wide receiver

for the Cardinal, who is now in fiercecompetition for a starting job at corner-back with freshman Michael Thomasand sophomore Corey Gatewood.Nev-ertheless,he still caught two touchdownsin the spring game.

The position battles will resumewhen Stanford heads to camp in thesummer, and incoming freshmen willsoon join; some freshmen, like line-backer Shayne Skov, are expected tomake contributions immediately.

But, for now, the Cardinal is back inthe weight room,as players try and buildup enough strength to play every downin the Pac-10.For some,it could be theirticket to increased playing time — fresh-

man Chase Thomas, for example, im-pressed as a pass rushing defensive endthroughout the spring, but, in Har-baugh’s words,will need the 12 weeks oftraining to bulk up further to withstandthe season’s grind.

Harbaugh remained optimisticabout the effect of competition on histeam.

“It’s not a seat-of-the-pants thing —everyone got their reps,”Harbaugh said.“At many places, there will be a starterand a quality backup.But no one inher-its a position.”

Contact Wyndam Makowsky atmakowsky@stanford.edu.

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Stanford loses to PennState in championship

WOMEN’S RUGBY

Card sees familiarfoe, unfamiliar result

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By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Education Prof. Linda Darling-Hammond will take home a tophonor from the Haas Center forPublic Service for her efforts locallyand beyond.

Darling-Hammond is the recipientof the Miriam Aaron RolandVolunteer Service Prize, according toThe Stanford Report. The prize “rec-ognizes Stanford faculty who engageand involve students in integratingacademic scholarship with significantand meaningful volunteer service tosociety.”

Darling-Hammond has beenheavily involved in both the Stanfordcommunity and Palo Alto. In additionto founding the Stanford LeadershipInstitute, Darling-Hammond has alsoserved as a faculty sponsor at the EastPalo Alto Academy, which she alsoaided in founding. The Academy, apublic school, graduates 90 percent ofits students, which The Report refersto as “unheard of for its area.”

National education policy andeducation reform efforts have alsobeen a part of Darling-Hammond’swork, including instrumental effortsin the 1990s that included her book“What Matters Most: Teaching forAmerica’s Future.” She focused par-ticularly on establishing the incen-tives that are often necessary toattract quality teachers to lower-income areas.

More recently, she has served asan education adviser to PresidentObama during both his election cam-paign and his transition.

EPGY EXPANDSONLINE SCHOOLBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Stanford’s popular EducationalProgram for Gifted Youth (EPGY)will be expanding its ranks in the fallto serve students in seventh, eighthand ninth grades.

According to The StanfordReport, EPGY’s Online HighSchool will now accept applicationsfrom students in seventh, eighth andninth grades. The move will takeeffect beginning in the fall of 2009,and comes after steady growth forthe program in recent years.

EPGY will provide a number ofspecial offerings for its middle schoolstudents, including an early start onChinese and Latin courses and ahands-on physics course. The middleschool program will aim to “developskills, strategies and techniquesrequired of self-directed learners.”

The Online High School is fully

accredited by the WesternAssociation of Schools and Colleges,and awards high school diplomas toqualified students. The program iscurrently accepting applications.

NEW FACE AT SCIDBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Reserve Bank of India (RBI)Deputy Governor Rakesh Mohanresigned on Monday to take up aposition as a consulting professor atthe Stanford Center for InternationalDevelopment.

Mohan will quit the RBI and takeup the new assignment starting June15 for six months.

He was seen by sources as a likelycandidate to become the RBI’sGovernor, succeeding Y.V. Reddywho retired in September 2008.

At the RBI, Mohan is in charge ofmonetary policy, financial markets,economic research and statistics, sec-retary’s department and communica-tion. He also recently headed thecommittee on financial sector assess-ment that conducted a stress test onthe Indian financial system.

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according to a New York Timesreport. Most of the other legal lumi-naries considered to be in contentionfor the spot, including U.S. Court ofAppeals Second Circuit Judge SoniaSotomayor, are also women.

In the event that PresidentObama were to tap a Stanford facul-ty member, he or she would join aCourt already filled with Stanfordconnections. Justices AnthonyKennedy ‘58 and Stephen Breyer ‘59both received bachelor’s degrees atthe University. Justice AntoninScalia was a visiting professor at the

Law School decades ago, and JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburg was also a fel-low at the Center for BehavioralSciences, 1977-1978.

The Daily attempted contact withboth Sullivan and Karlan, but theywere not reached for comment.

“There are a number of StanfordLaw School faculty and alumni whomay be considered for upcomingjudicial appointments, including theSupreme Court of the UnitedStates,” wrote Assistant Director ofCommunications Tayla Klein in anemail to The Daily. “As a matter ofpolicy, we do not comment on spec-ulation surrounding these appoint-ments.”

Contact Eric Messinger at messinger@stanford.edu.

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The SBC holds periodic blooddrives on campus in addition toaccepting donations throughout theweek. Monday saw a visit by theMobile Blood Van to Roble andLagunita Court following a recentstop at White Plaza.

Gold said she is generally pleasedat the response from the Stanfordcommunity when drives occur oncampus.

“The Stanford communitydonates a lot,” she said. “Wheneverwe have the Blood Mobile, a lot ofstudents come.”

Still, the SBC staff expressed ahope that more members of theStanford community would con-tribute.

“I know people here are reallybusy,” Krannich said, “but they’rebusy all over the country.”

Contact Eric Messinger at messinger@stanford.edu and Esperanza Guevara ateguevara@stanford.edu.

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