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Federalist Societys annual event returns to the Farm

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By ALEXIS GARDUNOCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Researchers from the Stanford School ofMedicine gathered with patients Sunday tocelebrate a successful clinical trial that testedan alternative to the immunosuppressantdrug regimen that patients must normally fol-low after a transplant procedure.

If one were able to make to make everytransplantation a reality in the 20th century,the goal for the 21st century should be to do itwithout drugs, said Samuel Strober, an asso-ciate professor in the immunology andrheumatology department.

Traditionally, patients who receive trans-plants must take immunosuppressant drugsto prevent their own immune systems fromattacking the new organ because the immunesystem recognizes it as foreign.

In order to prevent the transplant recipi-ents body from attacking the new organwithout a drug regimen, the researchers sup-pressed each patients immune system via ra-diation therapy and then introduced some ofthe donors immune cells into the recipientsimmune system via the thymus and peripher-al lymphoid tissue. Introducing immune cells

from the donor prevented the recipients im-mune system from recognizing the trans-planted organs cells as foreign and attackingthe tissue.

This alternative, which worked in 12 of 15kidney transplant patients who participatedin the trial, would eliminate the potential tocontract drug-induced toxicity that can resultfrom taking the immunosuppressant drugs. Itwould also eliminate the cost of the immuno-suppressant drugs for patients, which can runanywhere from $20,000 to $120,000 over a pa-tients lifetime.

Patients on the traditional immunosup-pressant regimen may experience negativeside effects, such as increased susceptibility toinfection. Some ultimately reject their donat-ed organ.

In patients using drugs nowadays, half oftransplants will be lost over a couple ofmonths, Strober said.

One of the study participants, John Every,former vice president of the University of Pa-cific and an early participant in the trial, re-

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Stanford doctors attended a lunch event Sunday with participants from a successful clinical trialto eliminate the need for kidney transplant patients to continually take immunosuppressants.

WORLD & NATION

ASSU leadersattend Israelpolicy event

By LINDSEY TXAKEEYANG

Six Stanford students traveledto Washington, D.C., this week toattend the annual American IsraelPublic Affairs Committee(AIPAC) policy conference, head-lined by speakers including Presi-dent Barack Obama. Conferenceevents began Sunday and will last

through Tuesday.Three out of the six Stanford stu-

dents in attendance are ASSU rep-resentatives, including ASSU Presi-dent Michael Cruz 12, DeputyChair of the Undergraduate SenateDan Ashton 14 and Senator AlonElhanan 14. Each student attend-ing the conference, however, madean individual decision to attend theconference out of interest, not as arepresentative of the ASSU.

I want to make this clear: Stan-ford is not sending anyone, [andthe] ASSU is not sending anyone,Cruz said, adding that the studentsin attendance are students whohappen to be interested in nationalor international policy. But Stan-ford student body presidents typi-cally are invited to attend AIPAC,he added.

Cruz said his predecessors haveattended this conference, as well,so its something of a tradition.

According to Ashton, AnAIPAC field organizer approachedhim as someone who might be in-terested in learning more about theAmerican-Israeli relationship.

Im hoping to learn where theAmerican-Israeli relationship isfrom the standpoint of Americanpolicymakers to sort of seewhere the discussion is becauseobviously right now its very muchin the news with Iran and Israel pos-sibly having conflict, so its some-thing thats probably on the fore-

front of a lot of peoples minds,Ashton said. Im just interested inseeing where the dialogue is.

Confirmed speakers for the con-ference include Israeli Prime Minis-ter Benjamin Netanyahu, IsraeliPresident Shimon Peres and theU.S. Secretary of Defense LeonPanetta. A number of U.S. repre-sentatives and senators will be in at-tendance as well.

Stanford students at AIPAC will

By SHELLEY XUCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Television trumps newsprint,Twitter has trumped the press re-lease [and] the blog post outpacesthe first broadcast news, said JohnGithongo, CEO of Inuka KenyaTrust and former Permanent Sec-retary for Government and Ethicsto the President of Kenya, to inter-national innovators and Stanfordstudents in Cubberley AuditoriumSaturday.

Githongo delivered thekeynote address for the StanfordAssociation for International De-velopment (SAID) conference onRethinking Reform: Innovationsin Improving Governance.

Karl Eikenberry, former UnitedStates Ambassador to Afghanistan,was scheduled to give the closingremarks of the conference butpulled out for unspecified reasons.Kavita Ramdas, executive director

By MARY ANNTOMAN-MILLER

DESK EDITOR

The Stanford Law SchoolChapter of the Federalist Societyhosted a student symposium thispast weekend to discuss and de-bate Bureaucracy Unbound:Can Limited Government andthe Administrative State Co-Exist? Around 500 law studentsfrom across the nation witnessedlively debates and presentationsin Cemex Auditorium on March

2 and 3.Twenty-five prominent legal

scholars, practitioners and offi-cials from across the nation, in-cluding five judges and LarryKramer, dean of Stanford LawSchool, led the discussions. U.S.Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), amember of the Senate JudiciaryCommittee, presented thekeynote address at a banquet for400 people Saturday night at theArrillaga Alumni Center.

Students from a range of top

law schools, including Harvard,Yale, the University of Chicago,Columbia University and theUniversity of Texas at Austin, at-tended the 31st annual confer-ence, which had not been held atStanford since 1996.

Kramer said that one of thegoals of the event was to bringtop lawyers and scholars from allsides of the issues to debate.

Conference co-chair IlanWurman J.D. 13 echoedKramers sentiments, saying,there was no answer in one par-

ticular direction [to the mainquestion of the symposium] be-cause we had a strong balance ofliberal and conservative views oneach panel.

The conservative paneliststended to answer that the admin-istrative state needs to be dimin-ished dramatically if it can coex-ist with principles of limited gov-ernment, Wurman said.

Friday evenings panel dis-cussing the Rule of Law and theAdministrative State, was mod-

erated by the Honorable CarlosBea 56, J.D. 58, who currentlyserves on the U.S. Court of Ap-peals for the Ninth Circuit. Inlight of the plurality of voices,there were disagreements amongthe panelists regarding the defi-nition of the rule of law, a termthe speakers pointed out as orig-inating from Aristotle andLocke. Panelists included Har-vard Law School ProfessorDavid Barron, NYU Law SchoolProfessor Richard Epstein, OhioState University Law School

Professor Peter Shane and theHonorable Brett Kavanaugh, a

judge on the U.S. Court of Ap-peals for the D.C. Circuit.

Panelists discussed whetherthe modern conditions of life andgovernmental administration re-quire some redefinition of therule of law. The opaque constitu-tional underpinnings of a regula-tory state were hotly contested.

According to Wurman, the

Study tracks ocean

path of baby turtles

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Stanford-affiliated Centerfor Ocean Solutions (COS) in Mon-terey, Calif. released research lastweek connecting a baby turtleschance at survival with the locationof its birth. The study found thatstrong currents off the coast of CostaRica are particularly successful atshepherding baby turtles to the safe-ty of offshore waters. This informa-tion, coupled with the researcherslook at turtle breeding grounds, maydirect future conservation efforts.

According to former COS marinebiologist and executive director ofthe Stanford-affiliated Tag-a-GiantFoundation George Shillinger, thePlaya Grande beach in Costa Rica isa popular breeding ground for turtlesbecause regional winds create largeeddies on the beach that provide the

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turtles with shelter from the ele-ments. The vegetation in the ed-dies offers nutrients for the breed-ing turtles.

The strong ocean currents then

carry baby turtles far offshore intothe warm waters that promotegrowth.

The study shows that there areareas in this world that are specialfor the leatherback, and if you de-stroy the nesting beach, you takeaway from the turtles a very im-portant launch pad, Shillingersaid in a Stanford News Service re-lease.

Baby leatherback turtles areonly the size of a computer mouseand could not support the size of asatellite tag or radio transmitter,so the researchers had to use com-puter models to simulate the pathof the baby turtles in the ocean.The team entered physicaloceanographic characteristics

such as water temperature, seasurface height, winds and currentsin the eastern Pacific region areafrom Mexico to Panama, whereleatherbacks are known to nest.

The researchers then used thisdata to simulate the dispersal ofhatchlings from four nestingbeaches, providing for the firsttime an idea of the locations to

which baby turtles disperse.Once we put all of this to-

gether we might start to reallyunderstand the life history ofthese turtles from emergence toadulthood, Shillinger said. Andthat information helps us devel-op conservation strategies thatlink leatherback nesting beaches,hatchling highways and nurseryhabitats with migration corridors

and foraging hotspots for juve-nile and adult turtles across thePacific.

The study was released onlinelast week in the Proceedings of theRoyal Society B British scientificjournal.

Alice Phillips

New drug gives hopeto blood cancer

patients

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

A randomized, double-blindand placebo-controlled study in-

volving Stanford UniversitySchool of Medicine researchersshowed that people with myelofi-brosis blood cancer canbenefit from ruxolitinib, the firstFDA-approved therapy formyelofibrosis. Ruxolitinib blocksthe JAK2 tyrosine kinase proteinthat is both mutated and unusual-ly active in 50 to 60 percent of

myelofibrosis patients.Myelofibrosis patients in the

advanced stage suffer from wors-ening blood counts, spleen en-largement and other sporadicsymptoms such as fever, nightsweats and muscle and bonepains. Patients in the study re-ported decreases in these symp-toms when given ruxolitinib.

In the trial, 155 patients re-

ceived ruxolitinib while 154 tooka placebo twice daily. The twogroups spleen volumes weremeasured over 24 weeks via mag-netic resonance imaging with theprimary endpoint for the study ata 35 percent reduction in thespleen volume.

Approximately 46 percent ofpatients on ruxolitinib reportedexperiencing a 50 percent orgreater improvement in theirmyelofibrosis symptoms. Fivepercent of patients receiving theplacebo drug reported the sameimprovement of their symptoms.

Myelofibrosis, affectingroughly 30,000 people in theUnited States, is one of the manymyeloproliferative neoplasm

(MPN) diseases that affect ap-proximately 150,000 people inthe United States. MPN diseasesare characterized by the overpro-duction of red blood cells,platelets or white blood cells bythe patients bone marrow. Thisoverproduction can lead to scar-ring within the bone marrow, thusdecreasing the bone marrows

blood-making ability.The multi-site phase-3 trial,

published March 1 in the NewEngland Journal of Medicine,was led by researchers at the MDAnderson Cancer Center inHouston and the Mayo Clinic inScottsdale, Ariz. Jason Gotlib, anassociate professor of medicine,managed the Stanford UniversitySchool of Medicine researchers

who participated in the trial. With15 participating patients, Stan-ford was the single largest re-cruiting site in the 300-patient,89-site trial.

Ruxolitinib doesnt cure thedisease, but the degree of benefitis clinically meaningful and sub-stantial and allows many patientsto re-engage in their daily activi-ties, Gotlib said in a School ofMedicine press release.

In November, the FDA ap-proved the treatment for patientswith intermediate to advancedcases of myelofibrosis. Ruxoli-tinib is called Jakafi when mar-keted and is produced by Incyte,Corp., which also funded the clin-ical trial.

Hagop Katarjian, chair of thedepartment of leukemia in theDivision of Cancer Medicine atMD Anderson Cancer Center, isthe studys senior author. SrdanVerstovsek, an associate profes-sor in Katarjians department,was the first author of the study.

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ceived his kidney transplant 11years ago on his birthday, what herefers to as the best birthdaypresent. Although Every even-tually had to return to a lower

dosage of one of his previousdrugs, he said he is grateful forhow the teams research im-proved his quality of life.

Likewise, Karen Burke, whoreceived her kidney transplant in2006, also benefited from thegrant funded by the National In-stitutes of Health, without whichshe said she could not have af-forded her treatment. As her kid-neys declined to 12 percent oftheir full functionality, she metwith her nephrologist John Scan-dling, director of kidney and pan-creas transplantation at theSchool of Medicine, who recom-mended she undergo an organtransplant. Since the trial, Burkehas remained off immunosup-

pressant drugs and lives inModesto with her two daughters.Whats the best drug? No

drug, said Stephan Busque, di-rector of the adult kidney andpancreas transplant program atthe School of Medicine.

Contact Alexis Garduno at agar-duno@stanford.edu.

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of the program on social entrepre-

neurship at the Freeman Spogli In-stitute for International Studies(FSI), replaced him.

The SAID Conference, organ-ized in conjunction with FSI, is theassociations capstone event. Ac-cording to conference directorColin Casey 12, the conferenceseeks to address some of the mostpressing and intractable dialoguestoday.

[The] conference is predicat-ed on the idea that there is still along way to go in improving gov-ernance, he said. We hope to en-gage the most salient debates inthe field.

We bring speakers fromacross the gamut, but they allshare the same conviction that

government needs to be im-proved, said Caseys fellow con-ference director Jonah Rexer 12.

Githongo discussed the impli-

cations of a new digital world ongovernance in his keynote ad-dress.

Leaders need to learn differ-ent language and social media,he said.

But Githongo also noted that

the digital age may harm gover-nance as much as it helps, throughdigital medias potential tostrengthen human trafficking andmoney laundering networks.

He said that the ultimate chal-lenge to developing countriestoday is reconciling the hardwareof democracy, such as educationand poverty, with the software ofdemocracy, such as freedom ofspeech and accountability. Githon-go said that if this balance cannotbe achieved, the system crashes.

Equality has replaced simplemeasures of poverty as the greatestchallenge facing the world today,he said.

Countries are forced to inno-vate from poverty, Githongo

added. Digital technology has al-lowed countries in the third worldto go from the third world to thefirst world.

He cited Nigeria as an exampleof a country where the people ac-complish a great deal through theuse of mobile phones.

In her closing remarks, Ramdasreemphasized the issues Githongoraised and accentuated the impor-

tance of being in a conversationthat is inclusive when discussingissues such as transparency and ac-countability in government.

Ramdas said that improvinggovernance is as much a top-downas a bottom-up approach becauseboth government and citizens mustapply effort equally.

The conference also featuredfour different panels: Transparency

and Accountability in FightingCorruption, Technological Innova-tion and Governance, Governanceat the Grassroots and Leadershipand State Capacity.

The panels went really well,said Larry Diamond, director ofthe Center on Democracy, Devel-opment, and the Rule of Law, andmoderator for the panel on Trans-parency and Accountability. Wewere not only exposed to the inten-sity and scope of the problem, butpositive things that are happeningand very practical initiatives thatgovernments are adopting to im-prove the quality of government.

Ramdas, who also moderatedthe panel on Technological Innova-tion and Governance, noted the

honesty with which speakers ad-dressed the issue, from admittingthe relative failure of some WorldBank initiatives to openly dis-

cussing controversial governmentreforms.

Robert Klitgaard, professor atthe Claremont Graduate Universi-ty, discussed two specific innova-tions in reform during the Trans-parency and Accountability in

Fighting Corruption panel: a Peru-vian non-governmental organiza-tion called Ciudadanos al Da thatresearches good governance andawards local governments for suc-cessfully implementing transpar-ent practices and an Indian websitecalled ipaidabribe.com, where citi-zens can report and complainabout corrupt government.

Past SAID conference topicshave included innovations in de-velopment and post-conflict globalhealth issues.

Next years SAID conferencetheme has yet to be decided.

I couldnt have asked for it togo more smoothly, Rexer said ofthe event. We came up with someproductive insights and actionable

changes.Contact Shelley Xu at sxu8@stan-ford.edu.

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forced to innovatefrom poverty.

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Once you leave the Stanford bubble, there is real discrim-ination, said Mala Chatterjee 14, co-founder of Stan-ford Students for Reason (SSR), a new student-led or-ganization aimed at giving voice to uncommon view-points on campus about local and national issues.

[Right now, students] wont even have any of the requisite skills to dealwith discrimination or to try and combat it, she said, explaining her belief thata one-sided, mostly liberal Stanford atmosphere shelters students from havingto craft original, convincing arguments and stifles those who hold unpopularviews.

According to Chatterjee, SSR seeks to help students develop the skills of ar-gumentation necessary to effectively support their views in the face of opposi-tion.

The clubs first meeting took place on Jan. 23. Co-founders Chatterjee and

Ian Ball 14 estimate that a group of 25 attended. After the success of this initialmeeting, the club has met nearly every Monday night in the Nitery building todiscuss topics ranging from childhood obesity to the sanctity of life. Each meet-ing begins with a topic and then functions as an open forum for participants toexpress their views. A student moderator keeps the conversation in check andleads each discussion.

Mayukh Sen 14, a member of SSR, described his future hopes for the club.As the overall level of discourse increases, we want to invite students from

groups, Sen said.The club also hopes to organize debates on various controversial topics and

bring in professors to speak at meetings.Ball first noticed a need for the club last year during the campus-wide debate

over the return of ROTC. Ball said he found it difficult to express his position thatROTC should return.

Many saw this as a personal attack and felt personally offended, and I thinkthat impeded discourse [on] a topic which was important to discuss, he said.

Daniel No 14, SSR web content manager, had a similar experience de-bating ROTCs return to campus in his freshman dorm.

Things got particularly ugly when the huge ROTC debate hit the cam-pus, he wrote in an email to The Daily. It became apparent to us that there

was a problem with the way intellectual discourse was being handled on cam-pus, and thats how the idea for the club came about.

Chatterjee and Ball said they view the obstacles they faced in discussingROTC as symptomatic of a larger issue with discourse at Stanford, ultimately re-lating to a perceived suppression of more conservative views on campus.

Chatterjee said she believes that students who do not hold the com-mon liberal positions for certain topics keep quiet and do not share theiropinions with others, a sentiment Ball agrees with, and finds particularlyproblematic.

When people are not exposed to alternative viewpoints, they arentable to rationally defend their position, Ball said.

[On issues such as minimum wage and gay marriage], a lot of peopleon campus have this gut reaction, Ball said. [Yet] they never have to de-

fend themselves because whenever they hear the opposition they walk awayand say that it is offensive.

Ball and Chatterjee decided to channel their frustrations to change theway students approach controversial topics at Stanford through SSR. Both stu-dents have backgrounds in philosophy and debate to help them moderate SSRdiscussions.

I got interested in philosophy really early on, when I was about 11 or 12,and I took my first philosophy course, Chatterjee wrote in an email to TheDaily.

When I was younger, Id basically just read philosophy on my own and tryand find independent study or summer courses, she added.

Ball was on his high schools parliamentary debate team, which helped himlearn to form and scrutinize arguments.

With their skills and passion for the art of debate, the duo is trying to facil-itate discovery through the exchange of opinions on topics discussed in clubmeetings.

The idea was to try and create an environment where people can havecontroversial conversations and have different types of views and [not just]present the most popular position at Stanford so that people dont get offend-ed or take things personally, but rather learn, Chatterjee said.

The club also aims to influence the focus of discourse on campus by show-ing student interest groups how to critically analyze their chosen causes to bet-ter include and address non-mainstream viewpoints.

A lot of these liberal causes seem to misdirect [student] attention, Ballsaid.

The overarching goal of SSR is to raise topics that are usually avoided.The group hopes to serve as the figurative person who brings up both reli-gion and politics at the dinner table of Stanford discourse in the processmaking space for others to do the same.

I think there are real battles [at Stanford] that we should deal with. Itis not as if we live in this color blind, perfectly tolerant society Ball said. I

think [intolerance] is present, but we are afraid to confront it.

Contact Adrienne Von Schulthess at avon11@stanford.edu.

By KATY STORCH

Much like a chef prepares anelaborate meal with diverseingredients, Allison Carruth04 M.A. 08 Ph.D., the newassociate director of Stan-

fords Science, Technology and Society pro-gram (STS), has returned to campus to con-coct a dish of her own. However, instead ofa gourmet meal, this dish comes in the form

of spicing up the major with a blend of STScourses and concentrations relating to theintersection between contemporary cul-ture, biotechnology and food science.

The STS program, which provides stu-dents with an interdisciplinary approach tostudying science, technology, engineeringand other interrelated fields, recently un-derwent administrative changes, with thehiring of a new director, Fred Turner of theCommunication Department, and Carruth,formerly an associate professor of Englishat the University of Oregon.

Since arriving on campus, Carruth hasassisted in revamping the entire STS majorafter evaluating similar programs acrossthe country and receiving input from stu-dents and faculty. The new curriculum willkeep much of its initial focus, but will ex-pand to include two new tracks: Environ-ment and Sustainability and Life Scienceand Biotechnology. In addition, a moreconcentrated core will directly inform eachof the six individual tracks within themajor. The changes are set to take effect onSept. 1, 2012.

Carruth comes to Stanford with a back-ground in food studies, environmental hu-manities and post-industrial American lit-erature and culture experience that hasallowed her to contribute to innovations inthe new STS curriculum.

Dr. Carruth brings an exceptional ex-pertise to bear on the intersection of cul-ture and technology, Turner said. [She hasincorporated] a forward-looking desire tointegrate new areas of scientific and tech-

nological activity intoconversation with new

approaches in the hu-manities and social sci-ences.

As a result of her con-tributions to the pro-gram, STS students suchas Maya Amoils 12, apeer advisor in the STSprogram, are able to fur-ther specialize their aca-demic focus within themajor.

The concentrationoptions seem exciting,cutting-edge and rele-vant to Stanfords broad-er ethos . . . and ensurethat students graduatewith more concentratedinterests and expertise,

Amoils said.Aside from polishing the STS curricu-

lum, Carruth also teaches courses in the de-partment, including a new course titled,Wired Space, Green Space, open to allclass years and majors, and a senior collo-quium titled, Food in the InformationAge.

Along the lines of her interest in foodstudies, Carruths senior colloquium focus-es on the culture and politics of food in themodern age, allowing students to incorpo-rate ideas and material from the arts, an-thropology and natural sciences into theirstudies. Among other class projects, Car-ruth splits the students into teams and as-signs them a Bay Area start-up dealing with

food and environmentalissues to profile in order

to understand food sys-tems and practices incontemporary society.

Dr. Carruth did notfall short of my expecta-tions, said Amoils, whotook the colloquium thispast fall quarter. It wasone of my favorite class-es at Stanford.

Carruth said she feelsequally inspired by herinteractions with the stu-dents taking her courseand those who are underher guidance as STS ma-

jors.According to Car-

ruth, The students arecurious, ask really great

questions and are veryentrepreneurial as they pursue their con-centrations within the major.

Carruth said she believes that the honorsstudents in the program are especially im-pressive as they carve out their own aca-demic fields and push for an understandingof the ethical dilemmas and social potentialfaced by a technologically advanced society.

She cited one student who is carryingout studies on the California high-speedrail project, a topic Carruth argues bridgesboth quantitative and qualitative researchmethods in its focus on the infrastructure ofthe project and the technological obstaclesthat stand in its way.

Despite her varied intellectual interests,

Carruth suggests she was not raised in anacademic family.

My grandfather went as far as the sev-enth grade and then worked in an oil re-finery all his life, but he was a self-taughtstudent of history and science, Carruthsaid.

As a child, Carruth was a voraciousreader and recalls frequently readingbooks with her grandparents, an activitythat instilled in her the value of education

and hard work from a young age.Raised in an extended family that in-

cludes factory workers, ranchers, entrepre-neurs, educators and psychologists, Car-ruths interest in the transformative powersand environmental consequences of the In-dustrial Age took hold early on.

She completed her masters and doctor-ate degrees at Stanford in English andAmerican literature and wrote her disser-tation on the history of industrial agricul-ture in America. Her work has recentlybeen expanded into a book titled, GlobalAppetites: American Power and the Litera-ture of Food. According to Carruth, thebook examines work by American writersand artists, arguing that industrial agricul-ture became a facilitator of Americanpower, and that food became an inspirationfor new kinds of art.

In the future, Carruth hopes to continueto publish work that inspires discussion andinterest in others.

Having a career where I get to be in aworld-class research community environ-ment, collaborating with great scholars[makes up] one big piece of the long-termgoal, she said.

The Stanford community, in otherwords, is a pivotal ingredient in the broaderscope of her career as both an architect or chef of the STS program, and as acontributor to the greater dish of acade-mia.

Contact Katy Storch at kstorch8@stanford.edu.

Courtesy of Allison Carruth

Allison Carruth, associate directorof Stanfords Science, Technologyand Society (STS) program, hasplayed a pivotal role in redesign-ing the department curriculum.

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Activism is more than just

clicking a button

This is the third and last in a series ofcolumns by the author dealing withdivestment and the Israeli-Palestin-ian conflict.

When talking about Is-rael/Palestine, its all tooeasy to focus on the

things we dont agree about. Thatis natural and to some extent nec-essary. Without deeply engaging

with, acknowledging and workingout compromises on issues of fun-damental difference, no long-term solution will ever be possi-ble.

But we also shouldnt losesight of things we can all agree on.Here on campus, with the hotlycontested issue of divestment sooften taking center stage, its easyto forget that there are other op-tions out there options that allsides in this debate should feelsafe supporting. Even better,theyre options that can have aconcrete and measurable impacton real people, right now.

Two years ago, the Stanford Is-

rael Alliance proposed an initia-tive called Invest for Peace (IFP),which sought to raise money andsupport for microfinance andpeace-building organizations op-erating in the occupied territo-

ries. Unfortunately, StudentsConfronting Apartheid by Israel(SCAI), the predecessor to Stu-dents for Palestinian EqualRights (SPER), viewed IFP as anattempt to blunt the momentumof its own drive for divestment,while the inevitable graduation ofstudents involved with the pro-gram slowly bled it of drive andenergy.

We should bring IFP, or a formof it, back to campus.

A reconstituted cooperativeinvestment board, composed ofrepresentatives from both SPERand Stanford Israel Alliance(SIA), would have an encourag-ingly broad and diverse array ofprograms from which to select.

It could start by fundraisingfor Seeds of Peace, a peace-build-ing organization targeted specifi-cally toward children and adoles-cents. Founded in 1993, the pro-gram brings young Israelis andPalestinians together at its inter-

How many times in recentweeks have you as a stu-dent or community mem-

ber added your name to the latestonline petition? Change.org, oneof the larger online sites for gen-erating e-petitions, has a dizzy-ing array of topics subject to on-line activism: Apples labor prac-

tices in China, MPAA movie rat-ings, North Korean refugees andmore. These online petitions, ac-cording to a University of West-minster study, are being generat-ed at far greater rates than theirnon-online predecessors. Thisdeluge of online petitions leadsus to ask the question: How effec-tive is this new form of digital ac-tivism?

Change.org certainly believesin the efficacy of online petitions:It cites a number of examples ofpetitions that have arguably ledto companies and governmentsamending policies. For instance,after an online petition drive at

Change.org and a mass exodus ofcustomers, Bank of America de-cided not to implement a new $5per month banking fee. Verizonsimilarly dropped a proposed $2online payment fee after highlynegative Internet coverage and130,000 Change.org signatures.

But how critical were the on-line petitions in achieving theseends? In both of the above exam-ples as with many of the otherChange.org examples the on-line petition was merely one com-ponent of public disapproval.Furthermore, most of the suc-cessful petitions ultimately con-cern corporate decisions or high-profile criminal cases while moresubstantial issues generally re-quire more institutional supportto effect change. For instance, awildly popular citizen-initiatedpetition at Whitehouse.gov thatcalled for marijuana legalizationwas unsuccessful in producingmeaningful discourse in govern-ment over reform of controlledsubstances laws.

Many believe that online peti-tions have greatly risen in popu-larity because the strategy allowsthe signatories to feel good be-

cause they have done some-thing, without necessarily hav-ing accomplished anything sub-stantive. This phenomenon,termed slacktivism, could becounterproductive: Citizens whomay have otherwise engaged ineffective advocacy, such as writ-ing their representatives or

protesting, might instead feelcontent signing online petitionswithout realizing that each signa-ture has a minimal effect on thepolicymaking process.

In addition to doubts aboutthe efficacy of online petitions,the Editorial Board questionswhether effective online peti-tions are even desirable. For in-stance, one oft-cited instance ofan effective online petition is theRoad Tax petition in the UnitedKingdom, calling for the scrap-ping of a pay-as-you-drive tax. Inthe span of a few months in 2006and 2007, the Road Tax petitionmanaged to accumulate more

than 1.8 million signatures in anation of just 60 million; theBritish government was, accord-ing to the Westminster study, sub-sequently forced to scrap its roadtax plans that many consideredan unpopular but necessary pathto safeguard the environment.When government steps in tomake difficult decisions whether unpopular tax hikesaimed at protecting the environ-ment or research for diseases thathave few victims the ease andswiftness with which online peti-tions can garner the appearanceof massive public opposition to ameasure may kill legislationaimed at the long-term, best in-terests of constituents.

The Internet undoubtedlypresents exciting new opportuni-ties for citizens to become in-volved in the policymakingprocess and to present their con-cerns directly to corporations andgovernments. However, giventhat the overall efficacy of suchpetitions has not been convinc-ingly shown, the Editorial Boardsuggests to readers that they domore than sign a petition if theywant to bring about change.

One lingering questionfor the Palestinian

nonviolence movement

Fadi Quran is a remarkableman. Peter Beinart suggest-ed it in his Daily Beast fea-

ture. Robert Wright wrote it inThe Atlantic. I know it from ourthree memorable overlappingyears at Stanford.

In fall 2006, I approached afreshman Fadi, asking, So, whenare you and I going to get to knoweach other? Despite a plethoraof ideological obstacles, the trustthe two of us would forge overweekly campus walks, a Shabbat

dinner at my home, and even pub-lic debate, was unique. I passion-ately disagreed with his views. YetI understood that the enlightenedvalues, intellect, and a once-in-a-generation leadership he exudedpredestined him to become a mancapable of transforming a conflictthat enflames the passions ofArab and Jew alike.

By now, many of us havedoubtless seen the video of Fadisarrest in Hebron. Undoubtedly,Fadis protest was entirely nonvi-olent, and the soldiers brutal ar-rest was unjustifiable. Fair-mind-ed people, be they pro-Israel (as Iam) or otherwise, were right to

call for Fadis release from jail andfor his charges to be dropped (as Idid). And out of respect for hishardship, I felt a duty to await hisrelease before publishing thispiece.

Nonviolence has the capabilityto transform the Israeli-Palestin-ian conflict. Indeed, Kenneth Pol-lack of the Brookings Institutionfamously argued that if [thePalestinians] had been led byGandhi rather than [former PLOChairman] Yasser Arafat, they

would have had a state twentyyears ago. The means are worthy.And if these nonviolent meansare paired with worthy ends, weought to cheer the movement onand do everything possible to em-power it.

Free thinkers are predisposedto rally behind nonviolent move-ments, with good reason. Histori-cally, such justified means havebeen married to equally just ends.Our collective memory of nonvio-lence is tied to Gandhis and Kings,men who stood for righteousnesswhile confronting hardship and

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Once upon a time, freshfrom high school, I arrivedat Stanford with plans to

double major in film and commu-nication. Before college, most ofmy money used to vanish, albeitwith my consent, at the box officeat least once every two weeks.Movie nights with friends hadbeen Friday staples. So, freshmanyear sans car, the inaccessibility of

the theater was one of the firstgrave things I felt. Over time, mytap on the movie scene dimin-ished; the balance of movies Iveseen against movies I want to seetipped more precariously towardthe latter.

Most of us realize there was athing we didnt pack with us in themove to Stanford. Yet I haventquit saying that I love watchingmovies sitting still in one placeand getting lost in a visual story. Ilove how favorite movies becomecampaigns we make to convertour friends into fans. I love howwe can debate whether a moviewas realistic or not. I love how we

can sit right next to each otherwatching the same movie and no-tice entirely different details on

the screen before us.With that, ladies and gentle-men, I now transform this littlenewspaper section into a strategicsoapbox about the followingthree movies, among those I keepwatching over and over again.(And in so doing, possibly subjectmyself to the familiar criticism:You like that movie?) My un-abashed objective here, of course,is to persuade you to see them all.Here goes . . .

O ceans TwelveBecause its enchanting to

watch people with chemistry. Mylittle brother and I watched this

movie maybe a dozen times onesummer, repeatedly enjoyingwhat felt like a two-hour long in-side joke. I hadnt noticed at first,but Twelve constantly refer-ences Eleven (and I lovedEleven); Rusty (Brad Pitt) istalking with a full mouth in almostevery one of his scenes and snarkydouble entendre dominates thescript. Theres a scene in which

Rusty and Isabel (CatherineZeta-Jones) first meet in Italy its a second of eye contact as shesits alone at a cafe and he grins ather while sprinting away from thelocal policemen chasing him.Later:

I think I saw you yesterday,she says.

Oh, yeah?Yeah, you were being chased

by the police.Chasing me? No. I dont think

so, he says.Im quite sure it was you.Doesnt say much for the police.

THE YOUNGADULT SECTION

OP-ED

Conflict and cooperation

Three of my favorite movies

We should bring

Invest for Peace,

or a form of it,

back to campus.

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Thats how the love-affair-of-the-movie starts. Its a microcosm

of the entire movie: hints of anidea, mysterious nods to a pastevent, characters that totally clickand forget that technically theyrein complete disagreement. Dontwe love when that happens in reallife?

The Royal TenenbaumsBecause in the process of

doing what we think is best, weoften foil others trying to do thesame exact thing. Royal (GeneHackman) is an estranged hus-band and father who attempts toreconnect his splintered family bypretending hes dying of cancerafter getting kicked out of thehotel he was living in for years.Now-grown children, grandchil-

dren, an adopted child, uniquecoping mechanisms and hiddenlove interests all end up under thesame roof like in the olden days,except less willingly. In their re-acquaintances, they surprise eachother as they learn how muchthey had all attempted to escape

each other.Looks like you and Dad are

back together again, huh? Chas(Ben Stiller) says.

Hes your dad, too, Chas,Richie (Luke Wilson) says.

No, hes not.Yes, he is.You really hate me, dont

you?No, I dont. I love you.

The Science of SleepBecause we know how great

our minds are at making compli-cated situations out of tiny facts.Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal)falls in love with his neighborStephanie (Charlotte Gains-bourg). But our protagonist is not

simply an artist by occupation he is an overactive dreamerwhose imagination starts confus-ing him as to which events havehappened and which he has onlydreamt. He seems childish to us attimes; really, though, he puts pic-tures to the ideas that can haunt

anyone with an unshakable crush.The way he sees it:

Its not fair. She changed ex-actly the second I started to likeher. Its like a big bang. You know,the first instant, its very small andthen the next nanosecond, huge infinite. I wish I could travelback to the time when I didntfind her attractive.

So there you have it my firstlist-style column! And, yes Illadmit that this column wasspurred on by my viewing, finally,of Hugo this past weekend.

Convinced?? Not quite? Thatsokay! we can talk about this.Email Nina at ninamc@stanford.edu.

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discrimination. Likewise, an em-powered, emboldened, effectivenonviolent Palestinian move-ment whose ultimate aims werean end to occupation and a real-ization of the all-too-elusive two-state solution (one Jewish, onePalestinian) could be the greatestopportunity for peace in this con-flicts history. Moreover, Israelwould be wise to reach out andstrengthen nonviolent Palestini-ans protesting for a two-state so-lution because such a movementwould not present a strategicthreat to Israel. Quite the con-trary: it would present an existen-tial threat to anti-Israel terroristentities like Hamas by fundamen-tally undercutting two assertionsthat underpin the extremist nar-rative: that the Palestinians mustexterminate Israel to achieve in-dependence, and that they canonly do so through violence.

If, however, the goal of thenonviolent movement is itself ex-tremist to turn Israel, the WestBank, and Gaza into a single na-tion, demographically renderingJews a minority and effectivelywiping off the map the Jewishstate it will lose people like meforever. A movements justmeans does not negate entirelyunjustifiable ends. The Jewishpeople have yearned for millen-nia to take the reins of their owndestiny, in their own autonomous

nation and in their ancestralhomeland. That Jews today haverealized this dream despite un-ending historical persecution andconstant threats of Israels exter-mination is nothing short ofmiraculous. I acknowledge thatthe Palestinians, too, have a claimto this land, and I accept theirright for statehood. But just as Ihope nonviolence paves the way

for Palestinian independence, noactor can be considered accept-able if its stated goal would meanthe destruction of another sover-eign state. Such unjust proclama-tions require no Gandhian orKingian moral courage, but in-stead evoke the radical senti-ments of Hamas and Hezbollah.

Fadi has tapped into some-thing. Never before have I seen somany proudly pro-Israel Jews rallybehind a Palestinian. The nonvio-lent movement is real and grow-ing, and I believe that within a gen-eration its leaders have the poten-tial to replace both Fatah andHamas as the legitimate represen-tation of Palestinian aspirations.

Now, with Fadi freed, is the

time for the leaders of this move-ment to state their ultimate goal.Do you acknowledge Israelsright to exist, or not? Is it the two-state solution you seek, or a defacto destruction of Israel? Theanswers will determine whether I,and those like me, can stand withyou for your means or cannotfor your ends.

MARK DONIG 09

Former co-president of the

Stanford Israel Alliance

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national camp in Maine for ses-sions of constructive, rational, in-tense dialogue. In doing so, Seedsof Peace tries to reach impres-sionable young people before theembittering draught of experi-ence permanently makes recon-ciliation impossible empower-ing seeds who will one daygrow into world leaders commit-ted to finding peaceful solutionsto intractable problems.

The board could also consid-er Lend for Peace, a Kiva-esquemicrofinance organizationdoing on-the-ground invest-ment work in the Palestinianterritories. Founded by two Jewsand two Palestinians, LFP wascreated to enable people of allfaiths and backgrounds to makea tangible difference in the Is-raeli-Palestinian conflict by co-operatively addressing theoften-ignored issue of economic

inequality and Palestinian pover-ty. Its website connects potentialinvestors directly with aspiringPalestinian small business own-ers people like Hadeel, 29,who hopes to start her own pho-tography business, or Lutfia, 45,who is looking for a loan of$1,000 to purchase sheep for her

growing agricultural firm.These are only two of many

options, all of which the new In-vest for Peace board could andshould consider. I could talkabout the Peres Center for Peace,the Valley of Peace Initiative,Green Action or dozens of otherventures promoting joint Israeli-Palestinian economic develop-ment and cooperative dialogue.

It is sometimes objected thatsuch initiatives merely paint apleasant-looking gloss over morefundamental structural issues,implicitly authorizing or legiti-mating Israeli human-rightsabuses by offering surface-levelsolutions to deeper problems.One critic characterized pro-grams like Invest for Peace asdropping a quarter in someonestin cup after youve chopped offher hands.

Believing that would be a mis-take. The very real differencesuch initiatives make is not triv-ial. Furthermore, cooperative in-vestment need not operate in avacuum, nor should it be con-strued as a roadblock to other av-

enues for peace-building. It isonly one element an absolute-ly essential one of a broaderhuman rights framework.

In 2001s Promises, one of myfavorite documentaries, Israelifilmmaker B.Z. Goldberg chroni-cles the lives of seven Israeli andPalestinian children who, though

only a few miles apart, live in whatseem like different universes.

The initial stages of the filmare chilling. Moishe lives in an Is-raeli settlement, next to a firingrange for Israeli soldiers. The fir-ing range inspires him. Maybe ifthey miss, he muses, theyll hitan Arab. A half-smile lights uphis face.

Faraj, meanwhile, lives in the

Deheishe refugee camp in theWest Bank and is an ardent sup-porter of Hamas. He lives in aworld where schools seem toteach children little but how tohate Jews and Israel, and wherehastily scrawled anti-Israel graf-fiti adorns walls and doorways.

But by the films astonishingconclusion, the exceptional Mr.Goldberg has brought the chil-dren together in one place, forone day. And despite some initialdistrust, they do what all kids do;they play, eat and laugh together.

It might at first seem a senti-mental, useless gesture. But likeMr. Goldberg, we shouldnt un-derestimate the power of cooper-ation to effect real and lasting

change. Lets get started.

Miles has truly enjoyed hearing your opinions on this series ofcolumns, and he would like to sin-cerely thank all of those whoemailed him at milesu1@stan-ford.edu with suggestions and crit-icism. Thanks for reading.

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be given the opportunity to interactwith many of these people throughbreakout sessions.

Its really engaging with Amer-icas policy makers, Ashton said.

Theres a lot of young peoplefrom all over the country and youget to see what young people allover the country are doing, which isreally cool, Elhanan said. Thatssort of my goal, you know, just tomeet interesting people as much aspossible.

Elhanan also attended the con-ference last year.

President Obama emphasizedthe importance of young people at-tending the AIPAC conference in a

speech Sunday .Every time I come to AIPAC,

Im especially impressed to see somany young people here, Obama

said. You carry with you an ex-traordinary legacy of more than sixdecades of friendship between theUnited States and Israel. And youhave the opportunity and the re-sponsibility to make your markon the world.

Cruz highlighted the trip as anopportunity to network with otherstudent leaders.

My biggest goal in terms ofgoing on this trip is to interact withand ask fellow student body presi-dents some of the real issues of ourday and see how other universitiesare approaching those issues, Cruzsaid.

Contact Lindsey Txakeeyang ntxa-kee@stanford.edu.

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BEARS BUMPED OFF Maplesrocking

yet again

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or the first time in sever-al years, Maples Pavilionon Sunday resembledthe Maples Pavilion of

old as the Stanford mensbasketball team held off archrivalCal on Senior Day.

Sure, this wasnt anywhere nearundefeated Stanford stunning Ari-zona on The Shot, nor was it even agame with national implications.But considering where this pro-gram has been for the past fewyears, a tough win over the bestteam in the conference in the finalgame of the regular season was stilla momentous achievement.

The Cardinals win was evenmore impressive considering theteam had to play most of the contest5-on-8. Despite playing at home,Stanford couldnt catch a breakfrom the officials, and to say that thecalls were questionable is a drasticunderstatement. There were 24fouls called on Stanford comparedto 16 on the Golden Bears, andthree of those fouls came in Calsdesperation mode in the finalminute.

But the sheer numbers dont tellthe full story. There were chargescalled as blocks, blocks called ascharges and several phantom foulsthat the players themselves didntseem to understand. The Cardinalsstarting frontcourt of seniors JoshOwens and Andrew Zimmermannwas in foul trouble early and at leasthalf the calls were perplexing. Onthe other hand, the Bears had al-most no foul issues, particularly inthe second half.

As frustrating as the officiatingwas, the response from the Maplescrowd was encouraging. Despitethe presence of a substantial Calcontingent, the crowd responded tothe questionable calls by rainingboos louder than Ive heard in myfour years on the Farm.

Ive been fairly disappointedwith Stanford mens basketball inmy time here because this programhas been underachieving for years. Ihavent been convinced that John-ny Dawkins is necessarily the rightcoach to lead the Cardinal, and onegame hasnt changed that. But for40 minutes, you could see the po-tential of this squad, and as the teamimproves, maybe the fan base willas well.

Back when I started watchingStanford basketball as a kid,Maples Pavilion was known as oneof the tougher environments foropposing teams to enter, and SixthMan was among the nations mostintimidating student sections. Goback and check out The Shot onYouTube. Look how insane that at-mosphere was. Heck, Tiger Woodswas celebrating right there with thestudents.

These days, Sixth Man has hadto lower its price from cheap to re-ally cheap to free to the currentstate of needing to bribe studentswith raffles and prizes just to getthem to come to the arena. Therewas a time when people with no in-terest in basketball would come out

to Maples just to be a part of the at-mosphere. Now, plenty of basket-ball fans skip games to watch otherson television.

Sundays game wasnt quite likethe old days, but it was a start.Maples was near capacity, and theplace was rocking from the get-go.Yes, some of the noise came fromthe Cal section (which still feels theneed to yell lame cheers during thenational anthem), but that onlyhelped spark the Stanford faithfulinto even more raucousness.

Of course, it all comes back tothe team. On a campus with world-class athletes in virtually everysport, where multiple other top-fiveteams also play home games atMaples Pavilion, the fan supportwill always struggle if the team isntcompetitive.

And that is exactly why Sun-days win was so encouraging. TheCardinals 20th win of the seasondidnt get close to putting Stanfordin NCAA tournament contention,but it did give the team some much-needed momentum before thisweeks Pac-12 tournament.

Zimmermann played perhapshis most inspired game in his finalhome game, and the Cardinal back-court of freshman Chasson Randle,sophomore Anthony Brown and

SPORTS

BASEBALL

Card drops its first but takes seriesBy JOSEPH BEYDA

DESK EDITOR

The No. 1 Stanford baseball team droppedits first decision of the season in last Fridaysseries opener against Fresno State, butbounced back with two decisive wins to grabits third straight series win.

Sophomore first baseman Brian Ragiraand junior third baseman Stephen Piscottycontinued to set the tone for Stanford (10-1)at the plate, combining for seven RBIs and 12hits over the weekend. Despite junior

righthander Mark Appels first loss of theseason to begin the road trip, Saturday starterBrett Mooneyham and Sunday starter JohnHochstatter clamped down, allowing twototal runs over their 12.1 innings of work inthe final two games of the series. No batter forthe Bulldogs (5-7) had more than four hits onthe weekend, and the Cardinal earned its sec-ond shutout of the season on Saturday to goalong with a 16-0 offensive onslaught.

The Cardinal lost its first game of the sea-son on Friday, falling 7-4 thanks to a four-runBulldog sixth inning just the second four-

spot laid on Stanford all year. Appel (2-1) hadhis third career complete game for Stanfordand set a career high in strikeouts for the sec-ond straight weekend, but eight Fresno Statehits and a pair of home runs from Bulldogcenterfielder Aaron Judge outweighedAppels 11 punchouts.

Down 2-0 in the top of the third after atwo-run shot from the Bulldog sophomore,Stanford tied the game on a two-run doublefrom Ragira. Judge hit a solo homer in the

By TOM TAYLORSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Last night, the Stanfordwomens basketball team de-

feated archrival Cal 86-61 in theharsh atmosphere of the HaasPavilion in Berkeley.

With the win, No. 2 Stanford(28-1, 18-0 Pac-12) finished offits third straight unbeaten con-ference season, with its last suchloss coming in the 2008-09 sea-son against the Golden Bears.Though on the losing end lastnight, Cal (22-8, 13-5 Pac-12) hasalready secured the No. 2 seed inthe Pac-12 tournament that willtake place this week in Los An-geles. Should both teams live upto expectations in the confer-ence tournament, last nightsgame might not be the final timethat they square off against eachother this year or even this

week.Four Cardinal players scoredin double figures. Sophomoreguard Toni Kokenis narrowlybeat senior forward NnemkadiOgwumike for the team lead inpoints with 23 and 22, respec-tively. Sophomore forwardChiney Ogwumike took homeanother double-double with 12points and 12 rebounds. Addi-tionally, both Kokenis and fresh-man forward Bonnie Samuelsonhit three shots from behind thearc, while junior forward JoslynTinkle had two threes as part ofher 16-point haul. Just two Gold-en Bears made it into double fig-

ures and their leading pointscorers were kept below theirseason averages, including fresh-man forward Reshanda Gray,who fouled out of the game.

Though Stanford won the tip-off, Nneka Ogwumike missed onher first jumper, and by the endof the opening minute, the Gold-en Bears held a 4-0 lead. In thenext three and a half minutes,though, Cal missed four shots,turned the ball over three timesand conceded two fouls, handinga 7-4 advantage to the Cardinal.Any chance that early lead mayhave given Cal to turn the tableson the Pac-12 champion hadbeen lost as Stanford hit itsstride, and by the half, the visi-tors held a comfortable 43-24lead.

Its hard to credit Stanfordenough, said Cal head coachLindsay Gottlieb after the game.

Theyre really good. I reallythink that Chiney and Nnekamight be the best post combina-tion to ever play in womens col-lege basketball. And I thoughttheir supporting cast played re-ally, really well, and I thoughtthey played very, very hard,made life difficult for us.

Gottliebs biggest concern athalf, though, was her own teamspoor cooperation on the floor.Berkeley went into the breakwith an assist-to-turnover ratio of

just 0.33, compared to Stanfords2.00. Worse still, the Golden

CAL DENIEDPAC-12 TITLE

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Jacob

Jaffe

Stat on the Back

NHAT V. MEYER/MCT

Senior forward Andrew Zimmermann (center) had one of the best games of his Stanford career inhis last regular season contest Sunday. Stanfords upset stopped Cal from earning a share of the Pac-

12 title and will provide the Card with momentum going into the Pac-12 tournament.

D. ROSS CAMERON/MCT

Sophomore guard Toni Kokenis had 23 points for Stanford, fueling adominant first half for the Cardinal that left the squad up 19 at the break.Kokenis contributed three treys to the squads 8-20 perimeter clip.

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By ANDERS MIKKELSENSTAFF WRITER

In Stanfords biggest game of the sea-son Sunday, the Cardinal was able to beatrival Cal and deny the Golden Bears ashare of the Pac-12 regular season title.The victory secured Stanfords first 20-win season since 2007-08 and gave thesquad plenty of momentum going into theseason-ending conference tournament.

The Cardinal (20-10, 10-8 Pac-12)came into the game knowing that, win orlose, it would finish the regular season sev-enth in the Pac-12. Cal (23-8, 13-5), how-ever, had the regular season conferencetitle on the line and was sure to come outfighting. Stanford was determined to ruinthis for the Golden Bears, as well as pro-vide a great end to the season in front ofan energetic home crowd on Senior Night.

The Cardinal came out hard, roaring toa 17-7 lead eight minutes into the game. Asusual, the catalyst for the offense wasfreshman guard Chasson Randle, whoscored eight early points and finished witha team-high 17.

Despite Stanfords offensive push, thegame got off to a chippy start with two

early technical fouls called on an ex-change between Cal guard Justin Cobbsand Stanford senior guard Jarrett Mann inthe first three minutes. The two squadswould eventually combine for 40 fouls,though the Maples Pavilion crowd was au-dibly upset with many calls the GoldenBears only had seven fouls to Stanfords19 at one point in the second half.

Stanford took one of its largest leads ofthe game, 14 points, at the 7:30 mark dueto a rare three from senior Andrew Zim-mermann. The forward was definitely de-termined to take advantage of his finalhome regular-season game, scoring a sea-son-high 13 points while playing his high-est minutes total of the season.

Head coach Johnny Dawkins madesure to point out Zimmermanns contri-

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sophomore Aaron Bright com-bined for 39 important points tomake up for a subpar game fromOwens, the teams second-leadingscorer. Fellow seniors JarrettMann and Jack Trotter had high-lights of their own, as each had acrowd-thrilling dunk to keep themomentum on Stanfords side.

And, oh yeah, it stopped theCardinals biggest rival from win-ning a share of the conferencetitle.

Moving forward, the teamsshort-term and long-term paths arevery much up in the air. This winshowed that the Cardinal has the

ability to beat any team in the con-ference, but last week in Utah, theteam showed it can lose to anyteam in the conference as well. ThePac-12 is wide open, and Stanfordhas a legitimate shot at contending

for the title, but also has a similarlylegitimate shot at losing to ArizonaState on Wednesday.

The future is unknown, but Sun-day could be a good start to gettingStanford mens basketball where itonce was.

Jacob Jaffe almost slipped on a ref-erees uniform for the second halfto help call the game, but recentPac-12 football history convincedhim otherwise. Suggest a classierway for Jacob to streak at the Car-dinals postseason games at jw-jaffe@stanford.edu and follow himon Twitter @Jacob_Jaffe.

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Klahn and Thacher take home

Pacific Coast Doubles crown

Seniors Bradley Klahn and RyanThacher repeated as Pacific Coast Doubleschampions on Sunday in La Jolla, Calif.,fending off the independent duo of KrisKwinta and John Peers in a tight 6-4, 6-4match.

After winning the same title last March,Klahn and Thacher are now the first dou-bles team to win the Pacific Coast crown inback-to-back seasons in over 20 years. Thelast pair to do so was former Stanford All-Americans Jared Palmer and JonathanStark, who both went on to win multipleGrand Slam titles after reaching the 1991NCAA Doubles final together and takinghome the 1990 team national title.

Klahn and Thacher breezed throughtheir early matches, dropping just fourgames in the first two rounds. They stormedpast Peter Lucassen and Jaak Poldma ofPac-12 rival and three-time defendingNCAA champion USC in the fourth roundbefore getting past a duo from Cal 6-4, 6-1 inthe quarterfinals.

On Sunday, Klahn and Thacher beat Se-bastian Fanselow and Jenson Turner of Pep-perdine 6-2, 7-6 (3) in their semifinal matchbefore moving on to the finals.

Stanford freshmen John Morrissey andRobert Stineman also participated in thetournament, falling in the third round to theUCLA duo of Dennis Mkrtchian andMaxime Tabatruong.

Joseph Beyda

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Seniors Bradley Klahn (left) and Ryan Thacher (right) capturedtheir second consecutive Pacific Coast Doubles title on Sunday,making them the first back-to-back winners in 20 years.

Bears had only scored four pointsfrom the four turnovers made bythe Cardinal, whereas Stanfordhad notched up 19 from the nineturnovers made by its cross-Bay ri-

vals.The last time these two teamsplayed each other, back on Jan. 28on the Farm, California pulledback from a nine-point deficit atthe end of the first period to forceovertime before ultimatelyfalling 74-71. This time around,though, there was no fairytalecomeback in regulation. TheGolden Bears were better afterthe break, making just three

more turnovers and adding sevenassists to bring their ratio up to amore respectable 0.83, but thegap was just too large and Stan-ford ultimately too good.

Cal only narrowly lost out onpoints to the Cardinal throughthe second half, forcing eightturnovers and making nine steals,but this came in part from Stan-fords freer approach to the sec-

ond half. The squad dazzled thecrowd with gutsy plays that didntalways work out, but highlightedthe teams potential when suc-cessful.

We really tried to be aggres-sive, Chiney Ogwumike ex-plained. We collectively alllooked to score and I think thatshows how much weve beenpracticing and working on our of-fense. Our team is gelling, and

were working hard, and its thetime where you either get with itor you sort of give up.

Older sister Nneka put aslightly different spin on things asher collegiate career heads into itsfinal postseason.

I think at this point in timepeople really need to buy intohaving fun out and being outthere and just playing for each

other for 40 minutes, she said.Because if you have fun, theresreally no stress.

Both Stanford and Californiawill be back in action this Thurs-day at the Galen Center in LosAngeles against the winners ofWashington/Oregon andUtah/Colorado, respectively.

Contact Tom Taylor at tom.taylor@stanford.edu.

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debate about the administrativestate is crucial due to its om-nipresence in the United States.

The framers created a gov-ernment that would enable self-government by channeling thepassions of the people but alsochecking the ambition of therulers, Wurman said. He empha-sized that this required a rule oflaw and a separation of powers,but the administrative state oftenundermines these important prin-ciples.

Barron, who served as actingAssistant Attorney General forthe Office of Legal Counsel in theDepartment of Justice, said thatas the world grew more com-

plex, more delegation was needed[to administrative rule-making]as Congress could not delve intoeverything.

He added that a question re-mains regarding how to regular-ize and confine the administra-tive side of U.S. government.Some Federalist members referto the administrative state as afourth branch of governancealongside the traditional threebranches of government.

Wurman emphasized how therule of law is undermined by theinherent complexity of the legalsystem. Referencing the panel

discussing Congress v. Agencies:Gridlock, Organized Interests

and Regulatory Capture, Wur-man said that the most fascinat-ing part for me was ProfessorMichael McConnells illustra-tions of just how voluminous andcomplex our modern laws are such that not even lawmakersknow what they are reading.

Wurman noted that this recur-ring theme was re-emphasized byLee in his keynote speech.

Barron added that there hasbeen much open-ended delega-tion [and growth in] the adminis-trative state since the New Deal.

Congress makes rules, thendelegates, he said.

The panel on Technology andRegulation included PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel 89, J.D. 92,Stanford Law School ProfessorMark Lemley, Anthony Falzone

of the Stanford Center for Inter-net and Society and Ted Ullyot,general counsel for Facebook.Panelists explored the relation-ship between technology and theadministrative state. They consid-ered to what degree developmentin technology has been slowerthan anticipated in recent yearsand whether the administrativestate has been an asset or a hin-drance to effective use of technol-ogy.

Thiel highlighted that the paceof technological development hasbeen decelerating for severaldecades, but that the fields of fi-nance and computers have pro-vided exceptions. Thiel noted thatboth computers and finance

[have] been lightly regulated dur-ing the last 40 years.Rocket scientists went to WallStreet because they werent ableto build rockets, he commented.

The panelists, including Thiel,urged extreme caution about reg-ulation in the computer industry.The faster computer products arechanged and undated, the harderit is for government regulators tofollow, Thiel said.

Cultivate, invest and get outof the way, Falzone said.

Contact Mary Ann Toman-Millerat tomanmil@stanford.edu.

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CARD ROLLS IN

PAC-12 OPENERSBy CHRISSY JONES

STAFF WRITER

With a weekend spent more in transit than on thecourts, the No. 11 Cardinal continued to cruise as itflew by No. 7 Cal (6-4) on Friday with a 5-2 beatingand finished off business at No. 28 Washington onSunday with a 6-1 victory.

Stanford (8-0, 2-0 Pac-12) showed strength indoubles play, as the Cardinal went six for six thisweekend in doubles matches. In fact, it has yet todrop a doubles match thus far in the regular season,as junior Mallory Burdette who plays on courtone with sophomore Nicole Gibbs pointed out.

Weve been working a lot on doubles in practice,and its definitely showing in our matches, Burdetteacknowledged. It has to do with chemistry, and Ithink all three courts have it this year.

Stanford captured the first point in the Cal matchwith three doubles victories, though the Cardinalwas only up a break on courts two and three.

Doubles is about instinctive play, Burdette said.

With Nicole, I have to be able to read when she hits

a good shot or a weaker shot. I have to know when tomove back or when to attack. I think were continu-

ally improving.She also described how freshman Ellen Tsay andjunior Stacey Tan make a formidable pair on courttwo, with Tan bringing the big groundstrokes andTsay right there on top of the net to finish the point.Similarly, sophomore Kristie Ahn and senior Veron-ica Li complement each other as they both movearound well at the net.

In singles play, Tan lost the first match to CalsAnett Schutting 6-3, 6-3, evening the score at 1-1.Gibbs quickly launched the Cardinal ahead againwith a 6-2, 6-4 win over Zsofi Susanyi. Li, Burdetteand Tsay also came out triumphant, as Ahn fell instraight sets to Annie Goransson.

Burdette fought hard to pull out a three-settiebreaker win over Cals Taylor Davis. Although Calwas ranked above Stanford going into the weekend,the Cardinals hard-fought victory was more impor-tant for helping to boost the squads confidence thanmoving past the Golden Bears in the ITA rankings.

I knew going into the match that we might be alittle rusty, Burdette said. So I was trying to keepmy cool out there. [Davis] was doing a good job ofgetting my big shots back, so it was about executingand putting short balls away.

In the heat of such a close match, Burdette saidshe had to concentrate her emotions in order to playher best.

I think at times I can show too much emotion,she admitted. Now, I have routines that I do in be-tween points to keep me in the moment and focusedon the things that I can control. Its important to goup to the line with the same energy and mentalityevery time.

Burdettes composure paid off in the Washingtonmatch as well, as she defeated Andjela Nemcevic 6-1, 6-4 on Sunday. Stanford had already taken thedoubles point with victories on every court and con-tinued to roll with wins from Gibbs, Tan, Tsay and Li.Junior Natalie Dillon lost to Riko Shimizo after a

very close first set. Tsay also was forced to fight backafter dropping the first set and came back to win in atiebreaker, 4-6, 6-4 (10-7).

The 6-1 score doesnt reflect what went on in thematch, Burdette noted. It got really tight in themiddle of the match, and the courts were split so thatyou couldnt see how everyone else was doing. Wewere all happy with the way it turned out.

Stanford continues their travels this weekend tothe Pac-12s newest competitors, Colorado andUtah. Like at Washington, the Cardinal will be play-ing indoors.

Weve been hearing a lot about their conditionsand facilities, Burdette explained. Our court sur-faces at Stanford are lightning fast and might even befaster than the indoor courts, so no matter thechange, it shouldnt be too big of a deal.

Stanford will be looking to capture its ninth win at12:30 p.m. this Friday, March 9, against No. 33 Utah.

Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj@stanford.edu.

fourth to put Fresno State aheadagain, but the Cardinal respondedin the top of the fifth on a Piscottydouble that made it 4-3.

Things unraveled in the sixth,however, and five hits by the Bull-dogs put Stanford in the hole. NoCardinal player had a multi-hitnight, and juniors Tyler Gaffneyand Kenny Diekroeger each strik-

ing out twice at the heart of thelineup.After their disappearing act on

Friday, Stanfords bats were backin time for the late Saturday start.The squad put up a seven-runbeating on Fresno State starterCody Kendall in his one-plus in-nings of work and never stoppedhitting en route to a 16-0 win. TenCardinal batters includingeight of nine starters had base

hits as part of the teams thirddouble-digit victory in as manyweekends this season.

Meanwhile, Mooneyhamshomecoming to the Fresno areawas spectacular, as the redshirt

junior lefthander took a no-hitterinto the sixth and struck out 13Bulldog batters, matching his ca-reer-best, to move to 3-0 on the

season.Ragira and Diekroeger made it3-0 in the first inning with RBI hits,and junior centerfielder Jake Stew-art added a three-run homer in thetop of the second to blow open thescoring. Gaffney and Piscotty fol-lowed with back-to-back doublesto tack on another run and chaseKendall, before junior catcher EricSmith hit a home run of his own this one a solo shot in the third.

After being held off the boardin the fourth, the Cardinal battedaround in a six-run fifth inning toincrease its lead to 14, highlightedby a two-RBI double by Smithrand Diekroegers second two-bagger of the evening.

Sophomore rightfielder AustinWilson hit another solo shot forStanford in the sixth, and fresh-

man catcher Wayne Taylor had hisfirst career RBI on a ninth-inningdouble to cap the scoring at 16-0.

The Cardinal rode its offensivemomentum into the rubber game,greeting Bulldog lefthander TomHarlan with a four-run openingframe. Stewart and Gaffney ledoff the afternoon with singles andwere brought home by a Ragirafielders choice and a Diekroegerdouble. The first of two RBI sin-gles from sophomore shortstopLonnie Kauppila and a Wilsonfielders choice made it 4-0 to endthe first.

A fourth-inning error by Fres-no State extended the lead to 5-0,but Stanford already had all theoffense it needed as Hochstatter

clamped down in his second ca-reer start. His only two earnedruns came at the end of his six-hitouting in the bottom of the sixthinning. The freshman fromDanville, Calif. scattered justthree hits over the first fiveframes.

A two-out rally by Stanford inthe top of the seventh made it 9-2with Kauppila singling home arun, Wilson doubling home anoth-er and Smith adding two morewith his only hit of the afternoon.

Junior righthander DeanMcArdle cleaned things up yetagain for the Cardinal, getting outof the sixth before the Bulldogscould do too much damage and al-lowing just one hit in his 2.2 in-

nings of relief. Freshman closerDavid Schmidt wrapped theweekend up with a near-perfectninth inning, giving up just onebaserunner on a walk.

Stanford wraps up its noncon-ference stretch this week, travel-ing to St. Marys on Tuesday at 2p.m. and then hosting No. 4 Riceon the weekend at Sunken Dia-mond. Rice also came into thisweekend undefeated beforefalling to Texas on Friday, butbounced back with two strongwins to improve to 11-1.

Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@stanford.edu.

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First baseman Brian Ragira had a team-leading five RBIs on the week-end, continuing his impressive sophomore season by driving in runs inall three games of Stanfords series win on the road at Fresno State.

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Junior Mallory Burdette was one of several undefeat-ed Cardinal players this weekend, as she eked out athree-set win over Cals Taylor Davis before beating

Washingtons Andjela Nemcevic 6-1, 6-4 on Sunday.

butions, even with his three first-half fouls.

[Zimmermann] came out andgave us a big lift, Dawkins said. Ifelt good with Zimmermann in thegame, and I knew he understoodhow to play with three fouls. Iknew he wouldnt go out there andpick up another one quick, andthats the trust you have to have ina player, especially a senior.

Cal couldnt be counted out,

however, as the Golden Bearstook advantage of Stanfords 12first-half fouls. Senior forwardHarper Kamp, also playing hisfinal regular season game, scorednine of his 19 points in the finaleight minutes of the half and sunkfive free throws as Cal closed thegap to single-digits, 39-34, at thebreak.

A three-pointer from sopho-more guard Allen Crabbe cut the

Stanford lead to two to start thehalf. Crabbe, Cals leading scorer,had a game-high 20 points, with 13coming in the second half.

Stanford, however, refused togive up any ground, going on a 9-2run to keep the momentum on theCardinal side and hold onto its ad-vantage into the final minutes. TheGolden Bears struck back timeand time again, finally cutting theCardinal lead to 72-70 with 1:11 togo.

With the game on the line and42 seconds remaining, sophomoreguard Aaron Bright put it on him-self to win the game for the Cardi-nal. After he was fouled, Bright hitthe first free throw but missed the

second. The 5-foot-11 guard mayhave been the smallest guy on thecourt, but he was not intimidated,grabbing the offensive rebound ofhis own shot and drawing anotherfoul.

Bright again hit the first andmissed the second to make it 74-70, but yet again, he was able tocollect the offensive rebound. Hewould be fouled and hit one morefree throw to stretch the Stanfordlead to five and seal the game forthe Cardinal.

Stanford was outreboundedfor one of the only times all year,but made up for it with one of thesquads best shooting performanc-es of the season. The team shot46.7 percent from the field and44.4 percent from behind the arcto best the Golden Bears, whose24-for-59 afternoon fell short ofCals conference-leading clip of48.1 percent.

Stanford has now won four ofits last six games with the two loss-es being a one-point heartbreakerat Utah and a four-point lossagainst Oregon in which the Car-dinal led for the first 37 minutes.

Momentum is key for Stanfordheading into the Pac-12 tourna-ment this week, as the Cardinalspoor middle of the season has leftit with no chance of receiving anat-large bid to the Big Dance.

We know that we have to winthe tournament [to make theNCAA tournament], Zimmer-mann said. Were playing withnothing to lose and thats always agreat feeling, because some of theother teams might be a littletighter.

As the 7th seed in the tourna-ment, Stanford will face ArizonaState (10-20, 6-12) in the firstround. The Cardinal played theSun Devils earlier in the year anddemolished them, winning 68-44.

A victory against Arizona Statewould give Stanford a rematchwith Cal in the second round.

Dawkins feels optimistic aboutthe Cardinals chances.

There are a number of teamsthat have a chance at winning thePac-12 tournament, he said. Itstarts with believing, first of all,and it starts with going out thereand executing.

After last nights victory, Stan-ford definitely believes it can pulloff a Cinderella story and make itto March Madness. All thats leftto do is execute.

Contact Anders Mikkelsen atamikk@stanford.edu.

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We know we

have to win the

[Pac-12]

tournament.

ANDREW

ZIMMERMANN,

senior forward