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By MARSHALL WATKINSDESK EDITOR

Chi Theta Chi (XOX) representa-tives and University administratorsare close to a structured agreementthat would see the houses lease lapsefor a minimum of two years, duringwhich the two groups will jointly man-age and operate the residence.

The deal, which has yet to be final-ized, will see the University assumelegal ownership of the house, collectstudent funds for housing and pay forrepairs. The Alumni Board will be re-sponsible for managing and oversee-

ing the residential program, the provi-sion of food and board and housestaffing.

This arrangement allows the ChiTheta Chi alumni organization todemonstrate that it is qualified to takeover and sustain management of thehouse once the University has confi-dence that the alumni organizationwill maintain a reliable, healthy andproductive educational experienceand living environment, wrote ViceProvost of Student Affairs GregBoardman and Senior Associate ViceProvost of Residential and DiningEnterprises Shirley Everett in a jointstatement.

Administrators first moved to ter-minate Chi Theta Chis lease on Feb.8, citing pressing life safety issues aswell as structural shortcomings in thehouses operation and finances, with

the stated intent of assuming controlof the house on April 2. The Universi-ty, which owns the land on whichXOX stands, later postponed itstakeover until Aug. 31, when the an-nually renewed lease of the house willexpire.

While earlier indications suggest-ing the University may have adopteda softer approach to the lease issue ul-timately failed to match the hopes ofXOX representatives, Abel Allison08, president of the XOX alumniboard, emphasized that an agreementthat would protect critical aspects ofthe houses culture would offer some

consolation.Ultimately, what I care about is

preserving the aspects of the housethat define it, Allison said. If wehave a defined and measurable way toregain that lease and protect thethings we care about . . . its not ideal,but its acceptable.

Boardman and Everett acknowl-edged the extensive efforts of XOXcommunity members in advocatingthe houses continued independence.In late February, the ASSU Under-graduate Senate unanimously passeda resolution in support of an inde-pendent Chi Theta Chi, citing supportfrom, among others, Boardman.

Chi Theta Chi is indeed a specialplace, as is evidenced by the passion-ate commitment of its residents and

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University confirmsend of XOX lease

Student-athletes discuss hopes,

training and life balance

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Studentsprepare forOlympics

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Dorsey discussesmobile payments

By AARON SEKHRISTAFF WRITER

Simplicity, communication and elegancewere the principal themes articulated byJack Dorsey CEO of Square, a mobilepayments company, and one of the originalfounders of Twitter in a presentation toan overflowing audience in the PackardElectrical Engineering Building Wednesdayevening.

The presentation featured Dorsey,Square Chief Operating Officer KeithRabois 91 and Square Vice President ofHardware Jesse Dorogusker 93 M.S. 97 en-gaging in an open discussion of the nature ofthe mobile payment business, the develop-ment of Square and their future plans.

Dorsey began the event with a brief dis-cussion of the payments not as transactions,but as communication, a simple interaction

that is an expression of value from party toparty.He described the companys origin as an

attempt to address a simple problemdemonstrated by the need of a friend to ac-cept credit card payments for pieces of art

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Students reflect on Admit Weekend alcohol policy

By MARY HARRISONSTAFF WRITER

As over 1,000 prospective freshmen(ProFros) converged on campus last week-end for Admit Weekend 2012, Stanfordsnormal, unofficially liberal alcohol ruleswere replaced by a zero-tolerance policy onthe consumption of alcohol. The more strin-gent regime is implemented across campusfor the annual event, even in residences nothosting ProFros.

The policy is in place because of legal lia-bilities since many ProFros are under 18

but also to ensure that ProFros take ad-vantage of Stanfords diverse array of socialopportunities without their judgment im-paired by alcohol.

Stanfords Official Student Alcohol Poli-cy states that Stanford students are prohib-ited from providing, serving or in any waymaking alcohol available to any prospectivefrosh and that no alcohol is to be present,served or consumed at any . . . function dur-ing Admit Weekend.

This part of the Official Student AlcoholPolicy was enacted in 2001 in response to al-cohol-related incidents in previous years,and is enforced largely by residential staff aswell as Admit Weekend student staff.

The University looks at certain week-end periods as . . . high-risk periods, but also

periods for which alcohol shouldnt be thecenterpiece to the social milieu, said RalphCastro, director of the Office of AlcoholPolicy and Education (OAPE), in reference

to Admit Weekend and New Student Orien-tation (NSO).If a student were to violate the Admit

Weekend alcohol policy, it would be consid-ered a violation of the Fundamental Stan-dard and that student would be referred toJudicial Affairs.

Similarly, if a student organization orhouse were to host an event that served al-cohol, that entity would be referred to theOrganization Conduct Board. Potentialpenalties include social suspension, alcohol

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By TAYLOR GROSSMANSTAFF WRITER

Had Stanford competed as its owncountry in the Beijing Olympics, itwould have placed 11th tied withJapan in total Olympics medals. Thissummer is shaping up to be no differ-ent, as track and field athletes, synchro-nized swimmers, divers and water poloplayers, among others, prepare for theimpending games in London.

When you think of the Stanfordathletics brand, the Olympics play a bigpart in shaping that brand, said JimYoung, senior assistant athletic directorof communications and media rela-tions. Over the years, Stanford Univer-sity has been able to attract world classathletes in a wide variety of sports, anda large part of their Olympic path wentright through Stanford. Were veryproud of our Olympic heritage and tra-dition.

Freshmen and seniors alike are en-tering their final few months of trainingbefore heading to London. AmaechiMorton 12, one Olympic hopeful, hasbeen training as a 400-meter hurdlerfor the U.S. trials at the end of June.

Ive just been doing the samething, Morton said, when asked abouthis training this year. Im trying to getmentally ready thats an importantpart, too. If youre not ready mentally,no matter how physically ready youare, it doesnt matter . . . I keep telling

myself constantly that I can do this, thatI belong there.While the Olympics had always

been in the back of Mortons mind, theydidnt become a tangible goal until hissophomore year of college. For Kateri-na Stefanidi 12, a pole-vaulter fromGreece, the Olympics were also initial-ly a distant aspiration, leading her to ini-tially choose Stanford for its academicexcellence.

The Olympics didnt really come

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Please seeXOX, page 5

Interim period will see joint management of house

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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Square, spoke Wednesday evening about thefuture of mobile payments, presenting Square as an alternative to traditional transactions.Please see DORSEY, page 3

Twitter co-founder, Square CEO looksat human aspects of transactions

Castro defends decade-old policy andits application to Row residences

By JACOB JAFFE and JACK BLANCHAT

According to multiple sources, Stanford ath-letic director Bob Bowlsby has been offered the

job of Big 12 commissioner and will accept thejob. Bowlsby will replace interim commissionerChuck Neinas, who stepped in as interim com-missioner when Dan Beebe, who had been thecommissioner since 2007, was fired in September2011.

The 60-year-old Bowlsby, a native of Water-loo, Iowa, was the athletic director at NorthernIowa from 1984-1991 and the athletic director at

the University of Iowa from 1991-2006. Bowlsbyreplaced Ted Leland as Stanfords sixth athleticdirector in April 2006.

In addition to his experience in Iowa and onthe Farm, Bowlsby is also on the United StatesOlympic Committee Board of Directors, and wasthe head of the NCAA Basketball SelectionCommittee in 2006.

Under his leadership, Stanford has continuedits tradition of athletic success, extending its un-precedented streak of consecutive seasons with

A.D. TO BE CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER

BIG 12 CALLS BOWLSBY

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Stanford Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby (above, center) will become the new commissioner of the Big12 conference after six years at Stanford. Bowlsby, 60, is expected to announce the move this Friday.

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Hoover fellow speaks on diplomacyNATASHA WEASER

DESK EDITOR

Diplomacy is difficult because

you do not always achieve whatyou want and there is constant ten-sion on how to protect your own in-terests while working with the in-terests of the other country, saidMark Cassayre, a career U.S. diplo-mat and a current national securityaffairs fellow at the Hoover Institu-tion, speaking at the Haas Centeron Wednesday afternoon.

Cassayres talk was titled, Na-tional Security: Cooperation be-tween Diplomats and the Military.In addition to addressing the rela-tionship between the U.S. Depart-ment of State and the military, hebranched out to discuss generalpolicy issues and practical aspectsof a foreign service career.

Prior to arriving at Stanford,

Cassayre worked for the State De-partment in Kenya, Ukraine,Namibia, and Switzerland. Most re-cently, he served as the politicalcounselor to the U.S. Mission to theUnited Nations in Geneva, whichrequired working with agenciessuch as the U.N. Human RightsCouncil, the World Health Organi-zation and the International LaborOrganization.

Cassayre began his talk by giv-ing a background of the State De-partment, including its history andorganizational structure, beforedelving into how and why he be-came involved.

I grew up in Napa, Californiaand did not have a lot of exposureto diplomats and international af-

fairs, he said. But I always had aninterest in languages and studyingabroad.

Cassayre then listed and ex-plained the responsibilities of astate official, which he said includeprotecting U.S citizens abroad andpromoting U.S interests in areassuch as trade and democracy.

Shifting the focus of the talk tothe relationship between the StateDepartment and the military, hepointed out that there are 100 de-fense personnel for every State De-partment employee.

People talk about diplomacybeing our first line of defense, he

joked. Well, it is obviously not avery thick or deep line.

Even though Cassayre stated

we [the State Department and the

military] coordinate closely on aday to day basis, he highlighted thekey challenge of the different waysin which both institutions divideworld regions for operations.

Additionally, he noted that bothgroups do have very different cul-tures, backgrounds and trainingmethods.

Despite these obstacles, Cas-sayre said, The overarching themeof my experience is that there is aneed for military and State to worktogether. He cited Afghanistanand Pakistan as examples of placeswhere it is essential we work handin glove for programs to be effec-

tive on the ground.Some projects cannot achieve

their objectives without coordina-tion with the military, he said, cit-ing his work in the Ukraine de-stroying old armaments as an ex-ample of essential collaboration.

We try our best to make this aninter-agency process to make sureall entities are represented and atthe table in order to organize agood policy approach, he added.

Cassayre spent the second halfof the event in an open discussionwith participants. One audiencemember posed a question on thebalance between private beliefsand diplomatic instruction.

Frankly I have not had an issueof defending a policy that I disagreewith, Cassayre said. Until you are

very senior, you dont have to de-fend a wide range of issues butrather focus on a set of issues thatyou are an expert in. They usuallyarent very controversial.

Within the organization, youhave a voice and ways to share youropinions, he added.

Cassayre also discussed the roleof human rights in diplomacy, andthe corresponding ability of diplo-macy to raise awareness of humanrights violations.

Human rights being on theagenda has never been a questionand will not go away, he said. Butsometimes it is challenging because

we have to do what is most effectivefor our overall range of interests.

Audience questions also cov-ered more practical aspects ofworking for the State Department,including learning new languagesand specializing in geographic re-gions.

New policies encourage offi-cers to have experience in two re-gions so they are not diffused toomuch and have a better under-standing of those regions, Cas-sayre said. But signing up forworldwide availability is part of theadventure of the job.

The event was sponsored by theStanford Military Service Network.

Contact Natasha Weaser at nweas-

er@stanford.edu.

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Mark Cassayre, a career State Department diplomat and a current

national security affairs fellow at the Hoover Institution, discussed coop-eration between the military and civilian diplomats Wednesday afternoon.

suspension or probation.While the Row the focal

point of many on-campus socialactivities did not host ProFrosor Admit Weekend events, the

zero-tolerance policy still ex-tended to Row house resi dents.Several Row houses can-

celled special dinners quar-terly celebrations for mosthouse communities, at which al-cohol is normally served andresidents were prohibited fromdrinking in common spaces.

I, personally, do not like thestrictness of the alcohol policyover Admit Weekend, wroteLibby Cummings 12, financialmanager at Slavianskii Dom, inan email to The Daily. [It]makes upperclassmen resentthe admitted students for caus-ing an alteration in the socialenvironment on campus.

[ProFros] signed a con-

tract, too, Castro said. Theyagreed to abide by all of ourpolicies and procedures. Failureto uphold our policies and pro-cedures could constitute a disci-plinary action on their endwhich could include the revoca-tion of an offer to come to Stan-ford.

Castro argued for the policyon several grounds, noting thatany incident involving ProFros many of whom are minors and alcohol could result in legalramifications for the Universityas well as the concerned stu-dents and ProFros.

Since everyone was honestand open about alcohol on cam-pus, I didnt feel like it was a

cover-up, said Laura Zalles, aProFro from Palo Alto, on therule. I felt like it was a responsi-ble policy since there are parentsand high schoolers here.

It [the alcohol policy] feelslike a bit of a cover-up, dissent-ed Jeremy Bernstein, a ProFrofrom the United Kingdom. Ifeel like theyre pretending alco-hol doesnt exist on campus.

None of the ProFros inter-viewed by The Daily had seenany alcohol on campus, nor hadthey seen any University stu-dents visibly intoxicated.

Castro also noted that thepolicy affords freshmen an unim-paired opportunity to fully expe-rience Stanford and make appro-

priate value judgments.

We have a very vibrant socialscene at Stanford, but there aremany other aspects other than[alcohol], Castro said. If stu-dents are making the decision tocome here based on that, thatsnot what we want.

If were asking people to re-ally evaluate the next four or fiveyears of their life and a major lifedecision, why would we provide

an opportunity for them to drinkand impair that decision? Cas-tro added.

Elodie Nierenberg 15, a headhouse host (HoHo) in Larkin,expressed support for the policy,noting that a lot of [ProFros]havent been exposed to collegedrinking culture and it is impor-tant for them not to feel pressureor be intimidated by college life.

Asked whether the dorm staffhad had to deal with any alcohol-related incidents in the dorm thisweekend, Nierenberg said, Al-cohol within the dorm wasnt aproblem, but I know there wereparties on campus this week-end.

I think that there generally is

not enough inclusion of Rowhouses in Admit Weekend . . .largely because of the fear thatthere would be alcohol, wroteJacob Boehm 12, communitymanager at Columbae.

Boehm added that Columbaehad altered regular house pro-gramming in order to conform toAdmit Weekends dry alcoholpolicy, saying that the policykeeps the students focused,healthy, and out of potentiallyharmful situations.

Brittni Dixon-Smith 11 M.S.12, a resident assistant (RA) inStorey, downplayed the policysimpact on house life.

It happens every year youcome to expect it, and you plan

for it, Dixon-Smith said. Theissue is having ProFros involvedin these environments, wherethey could be at risk and not beable to handle themselves.

Dixon-Smith also noted in-creased supervision and guid-ance given to house staff fromUniversity administrators, withthe intent of preventing any po-tential issue from emerging.

Castro said his office hasnever had to deal with any majorviolations of the Admit Weekendalcohol policy.

For the most part, students .. . understand our expectationsabout [the policy], Castro said.

Contact Mary Harrison at mharri-

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into my mind until last year when Igot the Olympic B standard, Ste-fanidi said. Every athlete has thedream to go to the Olympics. I cantsay that I never thought aboutgoing, but there are always short-term goals that overwhelm you.

Stefanidi now is only a few inch-es away from securing the OlympicA standard of 14 9, which will se-

cure her a spot on the Greek nation-al team this summer.Kristian Ipsen 15, a diver and a

member of the U.S. National DivingTeam since 2009, also chose Stan-ford in part for the variety of oppor-tunities offered outside of the pool.

Ive always been really intoschool, Ipsen said. A lot of my fel-low competitors have taken thisyear off just to train for theOlympics, but I really wanted to goto school and experience every-thing about college.

Unlike Morton and Stefanidi,the London Olympics have been onIpsens radar for quite a while, atleast since the diver was an alter-nate for the 2008 U.S. team. Al-though he is enthused about being a

student at Stanford, Ipsen has takenspring quarter off in order to devotehimself more fully to his trainingschedule.

Other athletes have also found itdifficult to balance the rigors of top-tier athletics with the challenges ofbeing a Stanford student, eventual-ly opting to take a leave of absence.Maria Koroleva 12, a synchronizedswimmer, decided to postpone hersenior year at Stanford in order totrain with the U.S. National Team.

When you are pursuing theOlympic dream, you arent just aregular athlete, Koroleva said.You have to go above and be-yond.

The team component of syn-chronized swimming made this

commitment especially intense forKoroleva. She recently qualified forthe Olympics in the duet thezenith of synchronized swimmingevents but described her qualifi-cation as bittersweet after the U.S.Team failed to make it to theOlympics.

When she returns to campus thisfall, Koroleva said shell be happy tofocus on school. She described lifein Indianapolis, where she has beenwith the National Team since lastJune, as all training, and not reallymuch of anything else.

Im excited to come back. Younever really know how much youappreciate your school until you

leave, Koroleva said.Back in the pool, womens water

polo players Annika Dries 14 andMelissa Seidemann 13 have alsotaken this year off to train with theU.S. National Team in preparationfor London, as did incoming fresh-man Maggie Steffens 16.

While some athletes have beenforced to choose between attendingStanford and training for London,Morton asserted that Stanfordsstress on the excellence of aca-demics and athletics goes one andone together and has pushed himto achieve distinction on all fronts.

Coming from the institution,you want to excel, Morton said.Because its Stanford, you want tohold the name up high. You want tolook to the expectations and thestandards.

Success is contagious, saidArantxa King 11 MA12, a redshirtsenior on the track team.

King is an Olympic veteran, hav-ing competed as a long jumper inBeijing in 2008 for her nativeBermuda. She hopes to repeat thefeat this year in London.

I can imagine that, from my ex-perience, being an athlete is being astudent just in a different dimen-sion, King said. So, people who as-pire to do really well in their sport,from my perspective, can also be

very alert and smart in the class-room as well . . . If youre dedicatedto your sport, you are dedicated toexcel in other areas.

Chris Derrick 12, a distancerunner on the track team whohopes to qualify for the 5,000 and10,000 meter events, noted thatStanford opens a lot of opportuni-ties for the world beyond sports.

A lot of the sports that were re-ally good at are not necessarily themost mainstream, Derrick said.For people who are doing trackand field or water polo, they knowtheres going to have to be a lifeafter sports and given the facili-ties and the tradition of Stanford it gives them a great chance to de-velop those athletic components,

but the academic prowess also givesthem a chance to develop for lifeafter sports.

Despite their remarkable ac-complishments as student-athletes,prospective Olympians down-played their accomplishments inthe context of the greater Stanfordcommunity.

When I came here, my friendsfrom home were like Oh, are youtreated like a superstar at Stan-ford? King recalled. And I said,No, no one is, because everyonehere is a superstar.

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that he was selling.He very simply wanted to

make a payment but didnt have

access to those payment rails,which meant that he lost out onimportant revenue, Dorsey ex-plained.

Discussing the current state ofelectronic payment processing,Dorsey emphasized, those sys-tems are not beautiful, not easy,not mobile. The user experienceis designed to maximize utilityand nothing e lse.

Honing the process over thelast three years, the Square teamfound its main audience in soleproprietors and brick-and-mor-tar small businesses.

There are 26 million busi-nesses in America today that do

not accept credit cards, Dorseysaid, describing those firms asprime consumers of Squaresservices.

Critiquing large credit cardcompanies for the hidden costsof payments that no one is tellingbusinesses about, Dorsey pre-sented Squares flat rate of 2.75

percent as an alternative to themess that is credit payments.Furthermore, relating the tech-nological capabilities currentlyavailable to Squares paymentsmodel, he discussed the poten-tial use of Square products.

Dorsey explained that Squarecan create tabs to develop rela-tionships between producer andconsumer, use geolocation tech-nologies to alert consumers ofbusinesses near them, make thepayments process less laboriousand allow small businesses ac-cess to analytic tools.

Its 97 degrees out, and thereare a bunch of people down the

street who want lemonade, andyou, as a business, dont sellthat, Dorsey hypothesized.Square will help you say, whydont you change that?

The big retailers, like Star-bucks and Walmart, alreadyhave these tools at their dispos-al, Dorsey added. Why cant

smaller businesses utilize themas well?

Dorsey ultimately expressedhis ambition for the company toserve as one that can makeevery transaction meaningful toboth the consumer and the ven-dor. He then opened his presen-tation to his two colleagues for aquestion-and-answer round, inwhich audience questionsranged from security and userinteraction to possible competi-tors for Squares products.

On the issue of security,Rabois discussed using the troveof information available toSquare, such as the time and

place of transactions, to raisecertain internal flags and promptinvestigations of suspicious be-havior.

In response to concerns ex-pressed by an audience memberabout the viability of a paymentmethod vastly different fromconventional point-of-sales

transaction, Dorsey emphasizedthe incremental nature ofSquares evolution and applica-tion.

We are not trying to createnew behavior, but borrow fromwhat people have already learntand make it simpler and more ef-ficient, Dorsey clarified.

The talk was well received bythose who attended and partici-pated in an informal discussionsession with the three speakersafter the event.

Ike Shehadeh, proprietor ofthe popular campus eatery IkesPlace, told The Daily, I thoughtthe event was very informative to

hear about the company. I usethem in some of my stores, and toknow whats happening behindthe scenes makes me want to dobusiness with them more.

As far as it goes right now, atthe business at the volume thatmine is, it might not be feasiblegiven what I need, and where

they are, Shehadeh added. Iknow they can get there, andhopefully they can get to thatstage where we can start workingwith them.

Visit The Dailys website for an ex-clusive interview with Twitter co-founder and Square CEO JackDorsey. Dorsey dishes advice toentrepreneurs, comments on In-stagram and offers perspective onthis past years Applied SciencesNYC competition between Cor-nell and Stanford.

Contact Aaron Sekhri at asekhri@stanford.edu.

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By JENNY THAIDESK EDITOR

Unlike most offices in the Eng-lish Department, the furni-tures centerpiece is not aheavy desk. Rather, AdamJohnsons office is spacious,

with ceiling-high bookshelves crammedwith an eclectic assortment of books. BigGodzilla and dinosaur action figures toys to amuse Johnsons children linethe tops of the bookshelves. With the two

enormous armchairs, a coffee table toppedwith more books and a desktop computertucked away in a corner, Johnsons officereflects his dedication to his two life call-ings: creative writing and family.

Named one of the nations most influ-ential and imaginative college professorsby Playboy, Johnson is an associate profes-sor of English with an emphasis in creativewriting. He is also a Whiting Writers Awardrecipient. His fiction has appeared in publi-cations including Harpers, The Paris Re-view and Best American Short Storiesand Random House published his most re-cent novel, The Orphan Masters Son, inJanuary of this year.

Johnson was born in South Dakota andraised in Arizona. From an early age, he cul-tivated a probing sensibility to understand-ing the world around him. In his early child-hood, Johnsons favorite place was thePhoenix Zoo. His father, a zoo night watch-man, would take his son out on evening ex-cursions to see the animals. It was fromthese excursions that Johnson developed agrowing awareness of the depth and multi-layered nature of stories.

I developed a sense really early on thatthere was a behind-the-scenes to every-thing, that people who came to the zoo sawone zoo but my father had the keys to thebackrooms where . . . you could see the an-imals in different behaviors, Johnson said.That had a very big influence on me as awriter, that just behind the veil of anythingwas a richer, truer, more human story.

In addition to the animals he interactedwith at the zoo, desert tortoises, a Caymanalligator and a seven-foot-long boa were

just a few creatures that lived at home withJohnson. His memories of his early child-hood days are filled with these animals.

We had every animal you could imag-ine, Johnson said. People would leavethem, intending them to go to the zoo butwhen someone left an African gray parrot .. . my dad would bring that thing home.

Johnsons animal adventure days werebrought to a close when his parents di-vorced and Johnson moved to live with hismother. His mother, a psychologist strug-gling to establish her practice, worked longhours, leaving Johnson to roam independ-ently. An only child and a latchkey kid,Johnson spent most of his free time wan-dering the alleys of the neighborhood. Oneof his favorite pastimes was investigatingthe contents of peoples dumpsters, an ac-tivity driven by his early interest in stories

behind the veil of the everyday.I would look at all of the trash that wasin there and I would try to figure out wholived in that house by what they threwaway, Johnson said. Like what kind offamily they were . . . everything seemedlike a treasure to me.

After finishing high school at age seven-teen, Johnson made his foray into commer-cial industrial construction for severalyears, working on projects including an air-separation plant, the I-10 freeway and aparking garage at a mall.

I still love concrete . . . that you canform and shore up this liquid and turn itinto something of such permanence, John-son said. I still like going by buildings inArizona and saying, Hey . . . its still there,it didnt fall down yet.

Construction work also opened Johnson

up to a world of new stories.Those jobs in the late 80s were just

filled with characters, you know, guys whowere just out of jail, people on leave, peoplewho traveled the world, Johnson said.[The Vietnam vets] had hair-raising andhilarious stories about their military serviceand stories of great compassion. These

were guys that lived outside normal society,on the margins, by their own codes.

Part Sioux, Johnson reflected on story-telling as a valued skill in his family andlocal community. For Johnsons family, thetruthfulness of a story was less importantthan conveying a certain value or essenceof humanity.

I remember that no one ever askedwhether a story was true or not, Johnsonsaid. They would tell tall tales and legendsright up beside personal stories. One wouldbe clearly mythical and impossible and theother very personal, but they coexisted.

The murky boundary in Johnsons workreflects his rejection of nonfiction and fic-tion as mutually exclusive.

I think my fiction is really infused withtrue life and my nonfiction is infused withmyth, too, he said. Its hard for me to sep-arate the two.

In fact, Johnsons penchant for blending

fiction and fact in his writing became an ob-stacle during his undergraduate years atArizona State University, where he studied

journalism. Much to the exasperation of hisjournalism professors, Johnson had the no-torious habit of creatively producing hisown quotes.

They could always tell when I lied,Johnson said. I always felt that there wassome truth that I perceived that I could notget a quote for or verify with some facts,and so Id make something up. Id make upa quote that captured the experience that Ifelt I had.

Johnsons tendency to invent or exag-gerate was also spurred on by his desire toaugment the positive aspects of life.

If I found a 10 dollar bill on the ground,I could go to my friends and tell them that Ifound twelve dollars, he said. It was some

urge to make the good rare things in lifeeven better somehow.

Finding the truth-driven world of jour-nalism too limiting a field for his wild imag-ination, Johnson found his lifes calling jun-ior year when he took his first creative writ-ing class.

It was one of my few epiphanies in life

. . . I just loved it, he said. I knew this wasthe missing thing.

Writing seeped in and consumed John-sons day-to-day life, often overtaking hissocial time with friends. For Johnsonthough, this was not at all a high price to pay creative writing gave him the freedomand exploration of the stories he had beenfascinated with his entire life.

Fiction, or probably just writing, allowsyou to be better than you are, he said. Youspend weeks crafting this story, on yourown, orchestrating it, composing it, makingeverything perfect.

Although many of Johnsons stories areinfused with a bizarre blend of the super-natural and fantastical, writing fiction re-mains a deeply personal process for him.His first novel, Parasites Like Us, a storyinvolving a dog and bird apocalypse, was in-fluenced by Johnsons family story in SouthDakota.

Johnsons latest novel, The OrphanMasters Son, tells the journey of a NorthKorean professional kidnapper. The novelwas the product of Johnsons six years of re-search and drafting, which included a six-day visit to Pyongyang.

Despite the several years of research hehad completed, Johnson was taken abackby the rigidity and strangeness of a countrythat is completely censored.

I knew exactly what to expect therephysically . . . but nothing can prepare youpsychologically for a world without spon-taneity, a world of complete order and con-formity, Johnson said.

With his linebacker build and impres-sive stature, Johnson stuck out in the NorthKorean crowd. However, he found the psy-chological lash of being ignored out of fearunsettling.

I stand out visually, he said. One ofthe more unusual things they see that day, orthat week . . . [but] they wouldnt even lookat me. The safe bet for them was to pretendthat I didnt exist. I felt transparent.

You really feel people weigh every-thing they say ahead of time for all possibleconsequences, Johnson added. You got

the sense of the way the people youve in-teracted [with] have digested censorship to

the degree that they are their own censors.The oppressive atmosphere in NorthKorea fueled Johnsons desire to individu-alize the people, to write a tale that not onlyspoke of cruelty but also of compassion andlove.

Johnson said that warmth and stronglove from his wife and family have helpedhim write tales of enduring hope more eas-ily. Speaking fondly of his wife, Johnson re-called their romantic plans to testify theirabsolute faith and trust in each other, in-volving a secret wedding.

We decided to get bulletproof vests . . .we got a pair of Olympic Match-22 pistols,and we were going to Death Valley in thedesert and my wife and I were going toshoot each other in the heart, Johnsonsaid.

The couple never managed to carry out

their secret wedding plans as right aroundthe planned date the infamous North Hol-lywood shootout an armed confronta-tion between two heavily armed bank rob-bers and officers of the Los Angeles PoliceDepartment (LAPD) occurred. Yearslater, with three children in tow, the coupledecided to abandon their secret weddingplans.

For Johnson, his love for writing andraising a family are linked together.

Writing wasnt fun, but it was fulfilling,which is what parenting turned out to belike, Johnson said.

Despite his accomplishments, what ex-cites Johnson more than anything is to seestudents craft new stories, regardless of tal-ent or skill.

Telling a story is such a noble endeavorthat nothing, I believe, could ever be a fail-

ure, Johnson said. I love all stories and astory that a student is writing, drafting inmanuscript form, is more rewarding than apublished story. The struggle is still there;its still in play. Theyre still discovering it.The story is still becoming itself.

Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@stanford.edu.

Telling a story is such a noble endeavor that nothing, I believe,

could ever be a failure. ADAM JOHNSON, associate professor of English

Courtesy of Adam Johnson

Under the careful supervision of minders (tour guides), associate professor Adam Johnson tried his hand as a lecturer at Pohyon Templein Sangwon Valley. Johnsons six-day visit to North Korea was important research for his latest novel, The Orphan Masters Son.

WEAVING FICTION INTOFACTAdam Johnson untangles his lifes narrative

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PowerPoint presentationshave become the teachingtool of choice in many Stan-

ford classes. After all, how elsewould it be possible for a professor

running short on time to finish thematerial other than by flashingdozens of testable facts on a screenin a matter of seconds? And howcould students answer emails andshop online during lecture if thebulk of the material werent avail-able on Coursework later?

More importantly, PowerPointpresentations are fairly easy toprepare and extremely easy toreuse, which reduces the amountof time that busy lecturers have tospend preparing for each class.From IHUM to computer scienceto human biology, many of the lec-ture classes I have taken have con-sisted of continuous slideshows di-vided into 50 or 75 minute seg-ments.

There is no denying that Power-Point presentations can be effec-tive in conveying information. Be-yond slideshows, the use of a com-puter interface allows a lecturer toshare diagrams, photos and educa-tional videos, which facilitates in-class learning that may not beachievable any other way. For ex-ample, it would be hard for a lec-turer to adequately explain FridaKahlos contributions to art with-out showing some of her paintingsto the class. Likewise, at the end ofa complex discussion, whether thetopic is cell biology or moral phi-losophy, many students are glad tobe presented with a slide summa-rizing the lectures main points in

laymans terms. Clearly, technolo-gy does have some role in the Stan-

ford lecture hall.My concern is when Power-

Point threatens to switch roles withthe professor; that is, when insteadof the slides being a supplement to

the professors teaching, the pro-fessors teaching becomes a sup-plement to the words on the slides.There is always a risk of this hap-pening because bright screensdraw in eyes. This leads to the clas-sic situation where everyone hasread the static lines of text threetimes before the professor getsaround to reading them, while inthe interim no one heard what heor she was saying. Professor JamesGross, who taught my Psychology1 class last year, has solved thisproblem. Whenever the slide ma-terial was not directly relevant towhat he was saying, he would clicka button to make the screen goblack. Not only did he receivemore attention this way, it was sur-prisingly refreshing to the eyes tohave that electronic glow go awayoccasionally.

Speakers become more engag-ing when they do not have to com-pete with a bright screen behindthem. When all eyes are focused onthem, professors sense the atten-tion of the audience and performat a higher level. Stanford lecturersare passionate, often quirky peo-ple, and they are most interestingwhen they share their knowledgein their own voices, not the bullet-speak of PowerPoint.

Worse, poorly designed slidescan contain way too many factsand figures for anyone to digest atonce, creating confusion about

how much students are expectedto know. Good teachers should be

able to explain all of the courseconcepts in their own words duringthe lecture periods. If they cant,then the course has too much ma-terial.

As wonderful as visual learningis, lets not forget the value of theoral tradition, and the excitementthat comes with hearing the secretsof the universe passed down bywise elders. The Greeks hadHomer to recite The Iliad, andwe have access to 21st centuryknowledge from some of the fore-most contributors to it. I wouldrather learn from these peoplesown words than from projectionsof textbook images.

When I look back on highschool where slideshow lec-tures existed, but were less com-mon part of me wonders how Ilearned so much in classes thatlacked a succession of bullet pointsto guide me through the material.In particular, I remember my soph-omore year history class, where myteacher seemingly narrated the en-tire history of Europe from the1200s, barely looking at her notesas the class scribbled down herwords at a furious pace. We shouldstrive for a similarly engagedlearning experience that demandsthe same level of concentration,rather than relying too heavily onMicrosoft Office.

Questions, comments, suggestions,

anonymous tip-offs? Contact Jeff atjeff2013@stanford.edu.

ST. HELENA, CA. Its a fineSaturday, and the traffic linesup on Highway 29 as the days

crop of tourists meander from vine-yard to vineyard along the road thatbisects Napa Valley.

By years end, 4.5 million peoplewill have passed through, samplingvintages from the state that grows 92percent of the nations grapes andsupplies 60 percent of its wine. Morethan 200 million cases of California

wine are sold within the UnitedStates each year; a further 250 mil-lion find their homes abroad. Cali-fornia is the worlds fourth largestwine exporter after Italy, France,and Spain.

And Napa Valley is at the heartof it all.

The 30-mile-long valley holdswhat economists term a businesscluster a local clump of buyers,suppliers and complementary busi-nesses that share a common indus-try (in this case, winemaking).Napas soils and climate (the so-called terroir which defines a re-gions vineyard potential) first es-tablished its winemaking creden-tials, but as its reputation grew, vint-ners and retailers alike flocked to

the region.By concentrating their financial

capital and expertise within the re-gion, wine industry members droveinnovation, stimulated competitionand opened the doors for new busi-nesses. Their collective efforts at-tracted international attention,more visitors and more investment:They put Napa Valley on an interna-tional map.

Napa is just one of dozens ofbusiness clusters around the world Silicon Valley is another exampleeven closer to home.

Grounded in a special environ-ment, a local knowledge base or in-expensive labor, business clustersthrive in a globalized economy.Goods and services produced withthe clusters particular efficiency orpanache can be relayed anywhereon the planet within the span of min-utes, hours or days.

Because the global economyconnects multiple supply-and-de-mand points, it winnows the marketdown to the most cost-effective pro-ducers, often with marked gains inefficiency. For example, by growingcrops on farmland matched to theirneeds and then shipping those cropsabroad to meet market demand(rather than forcibly growing themon dry, but local, sites), we save 100trillion gallons of water globally.

When economic efficiency pro-duces environmental opportunity,its tempting to think only of global-

izations win-win aspects. In reality,however, by focusing on the out-

comes at the endpoints mon-soon-watered jasmine rice paddiesin Thailand; the canvas bag of pearlygrains at my parents home in NewJersey we often forget aboutwhat happens in between.

Unfortunately, that in-betweenpart is going to demand our atten-tion.

Globally, a quarter of our carbondioxide emissions (and a third of theUnited States emissions) comefrom the transportation sector.

Some of that comes from cars, busesand commercial airliners. But therest comes from shipping wine,pineapples, computer parts and allsorts of things from business centerto strip mall.

Climate change aside, the re-liance of shipping on fossil fuels is in-herently unsustainable. Regardlessof which supply estimates you be-lieve, fossil fuel resources are finite.If we dont notice shortages in ourlifetimes and we probably will then our children certainly will.

Rising fuel prices are the firstsigns of dwindling supplies. Whenenergy costs go up, so too will thecosts of producing, packaging and,especially, shipping that Napa-grown bottle of wine. Already, wine-makers are shipping wine in flexi-tanks shipping container-sizedbag in a box setups to savetransport costs of weighty glass bot-tles. Should oil prices skyrocket,well quickly learn exactly how farevery item in the supermarket trav-els.

Most frightening to me is theknowledge that transportation willbe one of the hardest things to fuelwith renewable energy sources.High energy-density hydrocarbonslike gas and jet fuel are perfect forcars and airplanes: They carry along-distance punch without pack-ing on the weight. Well need somebig advances in battery technologyto recapitulate those efficiencies in

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OP-ED

University statementon Chi Theta Chi lease

discussions

Stanford University and theChi Theta Chi Alumni Boardhave been actively engaged in

a dialogue regarding the status ofthe Chi Theta Chi house at 576 Al-varado Row. The University has

listened to the concerns of studentsand alumni and has decided toenter into a re-structured agree-ment with Chi Theta Chi alumniorganization that will govern thehouse for a minimum of two years.

The University has exercisedits option not to renew the currentlease for the house, effective Sep-tember 1, 2012, at which time theUniversity will have legal owner-ship of the house, collect studentfunds for housing, and pay for re-pairs; however, the alumni organ-ization will continue to be respon-sible for the ongoing managementand oversight of the residentialprogram, food/board provision,and student staffing. This arrange-ment allows the Chi Theta Chi

alumni organization to demon-strate that it is qualified to takeover and sustain management ofthe house once the University hasconfidence that the alumni organ-ization will maintain a reliablysafe, healthy and productive edu-cational experience and living en-vironment for Stanford under-graduates.

Stanford University has a long-standing commitment to inde-pendent houses and sees them asa vital and important piece of therich cultural fabric of the under-graduate experience. This doesnot preclude the University fromhaving expectations for these

communities. Chi Theta Chi is in-deed a special place, as is evi-denced by the passionate commit-ment of its residents and alumni.Our ideal is for Chi Theta Chi toregain its independence whilealso meeting or exceeding ourshared expectations. Specific ex-pectations and details of thisarrangement are still beingworked out.

Our expectation is that the

alumni organization of Chi ThetaChi will take the next two to threeyears to demonstrate the sus-tained ability to manage housestaffing, establish corporate self-governance, and create an effec-tive partnership with the Univer-sity that will ensure the house isoperated with a commitment tolife safety and University commu-nity values.

GREG BOARDMAN

Vice Provost for Student Affairs

SHIRLEY EVERETT

Senior Associate Vice Provost for

Residential & Dining Enterprises

Why it matters that 70state parks are closing

As youve strolled in and outof the CoHo for the pastfew weeks, have you no-

ticed the colorful array of nature-themed photos on the walls? Aspart of our campaign to raiseawareness of the imminent clo-sure of state parks in California,Students for a Sustainable Stan-ford organized a State ParksPhoto Contest. Weve printed anddisplayed the stunning imagesand equally moving personal sto-ries submitted by the Stanfordcommunity, each of which draws

us willingly into the majesticmountains, forests and ocean ofCalifornia. It is such a pity that thepossibility of creating new memo-ries like these is now at risk.

Seventy parks are due to be

closed this summer. CaliforniaState Parks, the governmentagency in charge under the Cali-fornia Department of Parks andRecreation, explains that the clo-sures are due to a $22 millionbudget shortfall. Exactly whatdoes this mean? The simple an-swer is that nobody really knows.Administratively, services likepublic bathrooms, parking lotsand park ranger patrols will bepulled. Museums and interpretivehikes will no longer take place.But, if you care to duck under theCLOSED signs, maneuveraround the CLOSED banners orhop nimbly over the locked gates,

you can still explore and accessthese areas of beauty.

Is it really so bad that wereclosing our state parks then? Weof Students for a SustainableStanford are afraid that the an-

swer is yes. Theres a lot of uncer-tainty about what will happenwhen these parks are no longerprotected or managed. Never be-fore have parks been closed intimes of recession, and park man-agement boards will lose a sourceof revenue in visitor spending. Ac-cording to the Save Our StateParks campaign, every $1 invest-ed in the state park system returns$2.35 to the states General Fundby boosting local business incomeand customer streams. More im-portantly, the closure of the stateparks is a clear statement of thepriorities of our government lead-ers. It sets a precedent that may

threaten the continued existenceof these precious natural re-sources in California.

Californias budget crisis is oc-curring in a larger, complex con-text, and difficult decisions are

being made in various other sec-tors and social services in ourstate. But it is clear that the clo-sure of state parks does morelong-term, indirect harm than itdoes short-term good in terms ofcost savings, and so we of Studentsfor a Sustainable Stanford opposeand caution against the impend-ing closures.

In addition to planning the dis-play in the CoHo (that you shouldcheck out pronto), we organized afield trip last quarter to CastleRock State Park, one of the parksslated for closure. Were ramping

OPINIONSSEEINGGREEN

Transportation costs

will rise as suppliesdwindle.

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Contacting The Daily: Section editors can be reached at (650) 721-5815 from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. The Advertising Department can bereached at (650) 721-5803, and the Classified Advertising Department can be reached at (650) 721-5801 during normal businesshours. Send letters to the editor to eic@stanforddaily.com, op-eds to editorial@stanforddaily.com and photos or videos to multi-media@stanforddaily.com. Op-eds are capped at 700 words and letters are capped at 500 words.

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MODERNMANNERS

If you miss this column, the slides willbe on Coursework

Business clusters and thetransportation squeeze

Please seeOP-ED, page 5

HollyMoeller

JeffMandell

Please seeMOELLER, page 5

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our campaign up in the next fewweeks. Noon to 1 p.m. on Friday,May 4, well be tabling in WhitePlaza; come hang out with us andlets have a discussion! Next

week, well be showing a shortdocumentary, The First 70,about state park closure in Cali-fornia. Well also be organizing atalk by Reed Holderman, execu-tive director of The SempevirensFund that has decided to adoptCastle Rock and keep it open.Sometime Memorial Day week-end, well visit Castle Rock to seeit for ourselves, and we want youto come with us. More informa-tion and updates will be posted onour website at http://sustainabili-ty.stanford.edu.

Help us save our state parks,please.

JUDEE BURR 12

Vice President of Outreach,

Students for a Sustainable Stanford

SHARON TAN 14

Outreach Coordinator,

Students for a Sustainable Stanford

OP-EDContinued from page 4

trans-oceanic flights.As energy supplies shrink, so

will our economic horizons. Welllook to homegrown suppliers offood, wine and commodities, simul-taneously making both more eco-

nomical and more sustainablechoices.I can think of a few vintages

and flavors that Ill be missing.But I can also think of one friend, inparticular, who might even be a lit-tle grateful. During our travels inNew Zealand, I relied on Kathrinto know the best local ice creamery,find the freshest pastries and pullover at the en route salmon farm.Citizen of the world though she is,shes also a very local connoisseur.

Its almost a shame, she wouldsay, of finding a favorite Argentin-ian wine or real German chocolatein the supermarket. There shouldalways be something that makesactually going to a place special.

Holly welcomes comments, ques-tions and freshly pressed grape juiceat hollyvm@stanford.edu.

MOELLERContinued from page 4

alumni, Boardman and Everettwrote in their statement. Ourideal is for Chi Theta Chi to re-gain its independence while alsomeeting or exceeding our shared

expectations.House residents and staff ex-pressed concern, however, at theleases lapse, arguing against anentrenched University role in thehistorically independent house.

Joint oversight denies uswhat were already clearly capa-ble of doing running the houseon our own, said Laura Mc-Martin 14. I dont know how

joint oversight would allow us todemonstrate that we can [do so].

Gerad Hanono 12, XOXhouse manager, expressed con-cern and disappointment thatresidents had been largely ex-cluded from the negotiationswith the University, at the admin-istrations request, and deprived

of any indication of progress, asentiment echoed by McMartinin an op-ed in The Daily (Nonews for Chi Theta Chi NOTokay, April 25).

Its unfortunate that wevebeen left out of the process, sincewere the main stakeholders,Hanono said.

The amount of work the stu-dents have put in and are willingto put in is astounding, Allisonnoted. It makes us really sad thatwe couldnt have everyone in thisconversation throughout.

McMartin and Hanono alsocriticized the degree to which theUniversitys presence has alreadybecome apparent to house resi-dents. Administrators have con-

ducted walk-throughs of thehouse including one during fi-nals week of winter quarter as

well as inspections of personalspaces. Staff selection for nextyear, however, was conductedunder the assumption that thehouse will operate largely underthe status quo.

We have to be very aware,McMartin said. It adds up, allthese things that were quite com-fortable living with but that theUniversity sees as a significant

problem. The standards are a lit-tle ridiculous.McMartin argued that the

Universitys silence on the matterof Chi Theta Chis lease andthe lack of direct contact betweenresidents and the administratorsadjudicating the houses future demonstrated an inherentdisconnect between students andadministrators, drawing paral-

lels to a lack of communicationbetween the University and stu-dents on the topic of mentalhealth .

We residents are seriouslyconfused about how the Univer-sity is holding our lease over ourheads, claiming to have ourhealth in mind, while makingzero effort to reach out and seehow were actually doing, Mc-

Martin wrote in an email to TheDaily. I cant accept that theUniversity has students interestsin mind at all since theyve thor-oughly disrupted our communitythat has been functioning happilyand healthily on its own.

Boardman and Everett de-clined to comment on the allegedlack of communication betweenthe University and Chi Theta Chi

residents.While Boardman and Everett

expressed support for Chi ThetaChi as a vital and important pieceof the rich cultural fabric of theundergraduate experience, Alli-son voiced concern that any loss ofautonomy and self-management however temporary mightirreparably damage the housesunique character and tradition.

The [potential] loss of institu-tional memory is very concern-ing, Allison said. Its somethingIm very worried about, and wellbe doing a lot of soul searching . .. Its going to take some work andconversation to figure out howwere going to [preserve that].

Contact Marshall Watkins at mt-watkins@stanford.edu.

XOXContinued from front page

Stanford Daily File PhotoDespite two months of negotiations, Chi Theta Chis lease will expire on August 31. For at least the followingtwo years, the house will be governed jointly by University administrators and by the XOX Alumni Board.

NEWS BRIEF

Guilty tendencies produce

better business leaders

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

According to Stanford researchers, peopleinclined to feel guilt make better business lead-ers, as they retain a stronger sense of responsi-bility to colleagues and subordinates that inturn elicits trust in their leadership.

In the researchers study, groups of up to fivestrangers underwent personality tests assessingtraits such as guilt proneness, shame proneness

and extraversion. Without any designatedleader, the groups were then assigned two col-lective tasks, such as devising a marketing cam-paign.

A strong correlation between guilt prone-ness and the individuals most likely to be

judged by others as the groups leaders was con-sistent throughout all groups tested. The corre-lation between guilt proneness and leadershipwas also stronger than extraversion, a previous-ly well-established indicator of leadership.

Similar results were obtained in a study of

incoming MBA students, in which surveys offormer colleagues and clients established fur-ther connections between guilt proneness and

others perception of their leadership.Researchers supported the correlation by

arguing that greater guilt proneness led to in-creased willingness to accommodate outsideviewpoints and a greater accountability to thegroups interests as a whole. In practical terms,that may translate into behavior such as sup-porting layoffs to keep a firm profitable.

If people feel guilty towards their organiza-tions, theyll behave in ways that make sure theylive up to the organizations expectations, saidBecky Schaumberg Ph.D. 14, the studys lead

researcher, according to the Huffington Post. Marshall Watkins

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By JACK BLANCHATMANAGING EDITOR

When the Indianapolis Coltspicked Cardinal quarterback An-drew Luck first overall in the NFLdraft on Thursday night, it markedthe fourth time a Stanford signal-caller has been taken first overall.Luck joined the illustrious club ofBobby Garrett, Jim Plunkett andJohn Elway as the four Cardinalfirst picks, and Stanford is nowone of just five schools to havefour or more players taken firstoverall.

And while Lucks selectionwas a huge media event, watched

by millions of football fans allover the globe, a dig through TheStanford Dailys archives revealsthat the distinction of beingpicked first overall in the NFLdraft has changed quite a bit overthe years. A look back at the daysthat Garrett, Plunkett and Elwaywere drafted first overall revealsan incredible amount about howStanford, the NFL and the UnitedStates have changed over the last60 years.

Bobby Garrett, ClevelandBrowns, 1954 Draft

Garrett, a Los Angeles native,was an All-American quarter-back and an outstanding defen-

sive back for the Stanford Indiansin the early 1950s. Garretts ex-ploits earned him both the MVPof the 1954 Hula Bowl and theW.J. Voit Memorial Trophy as themost outstanding football playeron the West Coast.

Back then, the NFL was still afledgling league with just 12 teams(only two on the West Coast) andthe draft was far different than it istoday. Instead of seven rounds, the1954 draft had 30 rounds, and apeculiar quirk called the bonuspick. Today, the team with theworst record in the NFL is guar-anteed to pick first overall, but thedrafts of the 1940s and 50s tossed

every teams name into a randomlottery, and the winner of the lot-tery got to pick first overall.

Under the tutelage of futureHall of Fame coach Paul Brown,the 1953 Cleveland Browns went11-1 in the regular season, thenlost the NFL ChampionshipGame to the Detroit Lions, 17-16,in a rematch of the 1952 NFL titlegame. The Browns were the dom-inant force of the early 50s, goingto six consecutive championshipgames after joining the league in1950, but they had the good for-tune of winning the bonus picklottery, allowing them the oppor-tunity to add to their already

stacked team.The Browns were hoping to

find a successor to aging quarter-back Otto Graham (another fu-ture Hall of Famer) and thuspicked Garrett first overall.

I am perfectly delighted tohave been chosen by the Browns,Garrett said in the Jan. 29, 1954edition of The Daily. I considerPaul Brown one of the greatcoaches in the game.

However, Garrett was unsurewhether or not he would take histalents to the NFL, as the UnitedStates was still in the final stagesof the Korean War.

Im in the Air ROTC, but it isstill not sure whether or not I willbe called, Garrett said.

Eventually, Garrett did makeit to the NFL, where his career

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TENNIS

Men, women both start at TaubeBy JACOB JAFFE

DESK EDITOR

With the Pac-12 Championships complet-ed, the Stanford mens and womens tennisteams can now prepare for the NCAA tour-nament.

The first event in the NCAA tournamentis the 64-school team competition, and boththe men and women have earned top-16seeds, meaning that Stanfords Taube FamilyTennis Center to host the first two rounds ofplay May 11-13.

On the mens side, the Cardinal (17-8, 5-2Pac-12) has been given the No. 11 overallseed. In the first round, Stanford will host au-tomatic qualifier Sacramento State (11-12),which won the Big Sky tournament to ad-vance to NCAAs for the ninth time. The Car-dinal last met the Hornets in January 2011with Stanford earning the sweep, but Sacra-mento States team is much different this yearwith freshmen comprising over half the start-ing spots.

If Stanford takes care of SacramentoState, it will take on the winner of Texas and

Santa Clara in the second round. USC, theteam that knocked Stanford out of the Pac-12tournament, is the No. 1 overall seed. The Tro-

jans have swept the Cardinal in all threemeetings, while no other team has sweptStanford.

On the womens side, the Cardinal (18-1,9-1 Pac-12) is the No. 4 overall seed. Stanfordwill start its tournament run against StonyBrook (14-7), the automatic qualifier out of

HISTORY ON LUCKS SIDE

MICHAEL LIU/The Stanford Daily

New Indianapolis Colt Andrew Luck (above) is the fourth Cardinalquarterback to be picked first overall, following in the footsteps offormer Stanford players Bobby Garrett, Jim Plunkett and John Elway.

By AUSTIN BLOCKSTAFF WRITER

Andrew Yun shot a 4-under-par 68 on thefinal day of play over the weekend to secure atwo-shot victory at the Pac-12 Championships,held at Oregon States Trysting Tree Golf Club.However, Yun was one of the only Stanfordgolfers to play well, and the No. 8 Cardinalstruggled to a sixth-place finish at 8-over-par,20 strokes behind tournament winner Cal.

It was a disappointing event for the team,said sophomore Cameron Wilson. We feltthat everyone was playing well coming off [theCardinals mid-April second-place finish at]Pasatiempo, and Stanford teams have been

successful at Trysting Tree in the past.Yun, who shot rounds of 68-70-69-68 to fin-

ish at -13, is Stanfords first conference cham-pion since 2002, when Jim Seki won the Pac-10Championship at the same course. This wasYuns second collegiate tournament win: hewon his first last year as a sophomore at ThePrestige at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif.

Behind Yun, freshman Patrick Rodgers, thenations third-ranked college golfer, vaultedup the leaderboard with a tournament-lowround of 65, but a final round 70 left him ineighth place.

From there, the drop-off was severe. Stan-fords next-lowest scoring golfer was seniorDavid Chung, who finished 19 shots behind

Rodgers at +13.Unfortunately we had the same problem

we have been struggling with all year. We havea couple guys play really well but cant get agood fourth or fifth score in there to capital-ize, said junior Steven Kearney. In a game ofaddition, you are only as strong as your weak-est link.

However, Kearney refused to consider theCardinals sixth-place finish a huge setback.

Every tournament is simply just prepara-tion for NCAAs, he said. We are in the posi-tion now where we may not be a favorite, but Ithink we will play better if we are consideredunderdogs. All of our focus is being put in re-gionals now.

I definitely dont think [the sixth-place fin-

ish] shows how much talent we have, because Ifeel like we have the most talent out of anyteam in the Pac-12 and maybe even in thecountry, Yun said. We just have to have someconfidence and I think were maybe lackingthat a little bit.

Perhaps the most disappointing moment ofthe weekend came from a pencil, not from agolf club, when Wilson, whose second-round66 put him in a tie for seventh halfway throughthe tournament, was disqualified after he acci-dentally signed an incorrect scorecard for histhird round of play.

[His disqualification] was a little disap-pointing but its just a good thing it didnt hap-pen at NCAAs, and I think he learned from itand we all learned from it, Rodgers said.

In addition to the reminder to be circum-spect when signing a scorecard, the Cardinalnow has a golden opportunity ahead of it, as

Stanford hosts one of the six NCAA regionalsat the Stanford Golf Course starting May 17.

We couldnt be more thrilled to play re-gionals at home, Wilson said. Often, playersstruggle to play in familiar settings as they placetoo much internal pressure on themselves . . .It will be important to focus on the inherent ad-vantages that we have playing at our homecourse, as well as the great support well enjoyall weekend from our fans and supporters.

Its going to play a lot different from ourhome tournament, Rodgers said. Our hometournament was wet, it was playing long, nowits going to be firm, its going to be playing re-ally fast, the greens are going to be fast, the pinsare going to be really difficult, the rough isgoing to be up, so Stanford will be all we canask for . . . I think were all excited.

A fifth-place finish or better will send theCardinal to the NCAA Championships, heldat Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, start-ing May 29. Riviera is the annual site of thePGA Tours Northern Trust Open and hashosted three PGA major championships, mostrecently the 1995 PGA Championship.

After three rounds of stroke play, the 30-team field at the NCAA Championships willbe whittled to eight, and the remaining eightteams will then square off in a match-playbracket to determine the NCAA champion.

SPORTS

YUN SHINING MOMENT Gradingthe NFLmatches

Now that the 2012NFL draft is en-shrined in historyand every team hashad its pick of the un-

drafted free agents, we in the sportsmedia get to do our favorite thing:make predictions for the futurebased on the limited knowledge we

have in the present.While a lot of people like to give

grades to NFL teams about theirdraft, Im going to switch the script alittle bit. Instead, Im going to givesome grades to the matches be-tween the (former) Cardinal play-ers and their new NFL teams, takinginto account just how well the dozenguys who are joining the league fitwith their newfound employers.

Indianapolis Colts: AndrewLuck, Coby Fleener and GriffWhalen A

All three of these players are in agreat situation in Indianapolis.While the team is in need of a lot ofhelp, Luck and Fleener will startevery game right away, and I have tobelieve that Whalen also has an ex-cellent chance to make the team,which is really the ultimate goal forany undrafted free agent. The Coltswent out of their way to draft andsign Lucks two favorite targetsfrom last season, so theyre definite-ly going to do everything they can toaccommodate their new franchisequarterback, and that means thatWhalen will likely end up with ahorseshoe on his helmet come fall.

Pittsburgh Steelers: David De-Castro A+

If I could, I would put about a mil-lion plusses on this pick for the Steel-ers. Just imagine the scene from AChristmas Story where Ralphiegets an A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus-ad infinitum for his essay on the Red

Rider BB Gun. While it alwaysmake me throw up in my mouth a lit-tle bit when I hear the clich thatPittsburgh is a tough, blue-collar,hard-working town, somethingabout the brutish personality of theSteelers and DeCastro seems to fitperfectly. I can say from firsthand ex-perience that talking to DeCastro isabout as intimidating as trying totalk to a displeased rhinoceros. Alto-gether, I cant wait to see him inblack and gold, and I think he andcenter Maurkice Pouncey could im-mediately give the Steelers the bestinterior offensive line in the NFL an absolute necessity when you playagainst teams like the Ravens twicea year.

Miami Dolphins: Jonathan Mar-

tin B+While I like this pick for the Dol-phins, I do think there will be somegrowing pains for Martin, as heslikely going to have to switch to theother side of the line if he wants toplay right away. Asking a player toswitch positions, in addition to play-ing against the freakish defensiveends that populate the NFL nowa-days, is a tall task to ask, especiallywhen that player is a rookie. Martinis in a great situation to learn how toplay in the NFL from Pro Bowl lefttackle Jake Long, but dont be sur-prised to see Martin struggle fromtime to time in his first season, espe-cially with a rookie quarterback(Dolphins first-round pick RyanTannehill) taking the snaps.

San Francisco 49ers: ChrisOwusu, Matt Masifilo and MichaelThomas C

I do like the fact that the 49erspicked up all three of these guys, asOwusu, Masifilo and Thomas areall excellent players but I dontnecessarily like these players elect-ing to sign with the 49ers. Let meexplain: the Niners are a talented,veteran team, as evidenced by thefact that they made it all the way tothe NFC Championship Game lastyear. Therefore, its going to be dif-ficult for all three guys to make theteam, much less contribute in theirrookie years. The Niners have anexcellent defense and a surprising-ly deep receiving corps due to theadditions of Randy Moss, Mario

Manningham and first-round pickA.J. Jenkins this winter, so its pos-sible that none of these three play-ers could make the team come thisfall unless former coach Jim Har-baugh goes out of his way to pro-tect his guys.

Buffalo Bills: Delano Howell C

Howells choice of Buffalo was abit curious to me because the Billsactually have a pretty talentedgroup of cornerbacks and safetiesalready, as they signed four otherundrafted cornerbacks and tookSouth Carolina corner Stephon

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Junior Andrew Yun (above) captured a two-shot victory at the Pac-12 Championship over theweekend. Yun is the first Cardinal golfer to take home an individual conference title since 2002.

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flamed out faster than perhaps anyfirst pick in NFL history. First, Gar-rett was traded to the Green BayPackers before training camp evenstarted. Next, he had to serve twoyears in the Air Force, forcing him

away from the game of football.After his two years of militaryservice, the Browns reacquiredGarrett from the Packers in anoth-er trade.

Finally, when he got to Cleve-land, the Browns discovered thatGarrett couldnt possibly playquarterback in the NFL he stut-tered so badly that it was impossi-ble for him to even call plays in thehuddle.

In the end, Bobby Garrett, theNo. 1 pick in the 1954 draft, onlyplayed nine games in the NFL.

Jim Plunkett, New England Pa-triots, 1971

By 1971, the NFL was a muchlarger enterprise, as the league hadmerged with the popular Ameri-

can Football League in 1970, and

the first-ever Super Bowl had beenplayed just four year beforehand.Plunkett, who had captured the1970 Heisman Trophy, was select-ed first by the Boston Patriots, whowere coming off a dreadful 2-12season.

While the Patriots entertainedtrade offers from 17 of the 25 otherteams in the league, they eventuallypicked Plunkett, calling him at 7:04a.m. to tell him he was a Patriot.

I feel honored to be pickedfirst, I just feel great about it,Plunkett told The Daily on Jan. 29,1971. It will be great to play withBoston. I feel I can play right nowas a pro, but I dont expect to playright away.

Hes the Joe Namath of the fu-ture, Indians head coach JohnMazur told The Daily.

Ole Miss quarterback ArchieManning, the second-runner upfor the Heisman trophy and the fa-ther-to-be of Peyton and Eli Man-ning, was selected second overallby the New Orleans Saints, and theHouston Oilers picked SantaClara quarterback Dan Pastoriniwith the third overall choice.

Plunkett wasnt quite the smash

hit that Mazur expected him to be,

as he struggled mightily after hisrookie season. After five yearswith the Patriots, he was traded tothe San Francisco 49ers and thenreleased after a 5-9 season in 1977.

Plunkett then finally regainedthat magic touch that made himthe first overall pick when he

joined the Oakland Raiders in1978. He eventually stepped intothe starting role in 1980 after Pas-torini, the Raiders starter, went

down with a broken leg, and Plun-kett went on to lead the silver andblack to Super Bowl victories in1981 and 1984.

John Elway, Baltimore Colts,1983

Elway, the runner-up to Geor-gia running back Herschel Walkerfor the 1982 Heisman, was sure tobe a superstar professional athlete but he wasnt sure whether thatwould be in professional baseballor football.

The Baltimore Colts, pickingfirst overall after a 0-8-1 campaignin the strike-shortened 1982 sea-son, clearly wished to pick thestrong-armed Californian, butElway wasnt having it. After theColts picked him first overall

(Walker was picked first by the

United States Football LeaguesNew Jersey Generals), Elway in-sisted he would join the New YorkYankees organization if the Coltsdid not trade him to a West Coastteam or a (NFL) contender, theApril 27, 1983 issue of The Dailyreported.

Elway made his ire toward theColts clear, especially during a bit-ter phone call with Colts headcoach Frank Kush.

I said, Mr. Kush, I dont wantto be a jerk or anything, but wevetold you for the past three monthsthat I dont want to play for Balti-more. And I know for a fact youvebeen offered three (first-roundpicks) and a quarterback and youturned that down. And right nowyouve got nothing. And then Ihung up the phone, Elway said.

Eventually, Elways fit gar-nered him the trade he so desired,as he joined the other equine NFLteam when the Colts traded him tothe Denver Broncos, who hadgone 2-7 in 1982, on May 2.

This time, Elways responsewas much different.

Im definitely thrilled to behere, Elway told The Daily on

May 3. Its something I didnt ex-

pect to happen. Im glad to be play-ing in the NFL and Im glad to beplaying for the Denver Broncos.

Elway would play for the Bron-cos for the next 15 years, takingthem to five Super Bowls and win-ning two in the final two years ofhis career.

Clearly, the NFL draft haschanged immensely over the past60 years, and its interesting to con-sider how some of the players in

the careers of Plunkett and Elwayhave already affected Lucksweek-old NFL career. After all,Archie Manning, who was draftedright after Plunkett, is the father ofPeyton Manning, the man Luckwill be replacing with the Colts,who was signed this offseason bythe John Elway, the Executive VicePresident of Football Operationsfor the Denver Broncos. Today, itsimpossible to know what the tra-

jectory of Lucks career will looklike, but perhaps only one thing isfor sure Luck probably wantshis career to look more like that ofPlunkett or Elway than that ofBobby Garrett.

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Stanford last won the NCAAChampionship in 2007, and theCardinal finished second in the na-tion in 2008.

I think [our disappointing fin-

ish at Pac-12s] was definitely goodfor us because I think we are goingto work really hard, probably evenharder than we ever have, goinginto regionals, Yun said. Wereextremely motivated and we wantto get another win under our beltsbefore we head out to nationals.

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the America East Conference.The winner of that match willtake on the winner of SaintMarys vs. Yale.

Womens tennis is looking for

its second national title in threeyears and its 17th title in 31 years.If seeds hold, the Cardinal couldface rematches with No. 5-seedUSC in the quarterfinals, No. 1-seed UCLA (the only team tobeat Stanford this year) in thesemifinals and No. 2-seed Florida(the team Stanford has met in thefinal each of the last two years) inthe final.

After the first two rounds, boththe mens and womens tourna-ments will move to Athens, Ga.,for the remaining rounds.

Following the conclusion ofthe team tournament, the focuswill switch to individuals duringthe NCAA singles and doubleschampionships from May 23-28.

Stanford will have participants ineach individual tournament.

Seniors Bradley Klahn andRyan Thacher will representStanford during the mens tour-naments. Each is an unseededentrant to the 64-player singlestournament, while the pair willbe the No. 4 seed in the 32-teamdoubles tournament. The duolost to a team from Texas A&Min the NCAA doubles final lastyear. Klahn, who missed the be-ginning of the season due to in-

jury, won the NCAA singles titlein 2010.

Pac-12 singles championNicole Gibbs leads a trio of Stan-ford women competing in the in-dividual tournament. The sopho-

more is the No. 3 overall seed,while her teammate, junior Mallo-ry Burdette, is the No. 5 seed. Jun-

ior Stacey Tan made the singlesbracket as well as an unseeded at-large. For doubles, Gibbs and Bur-dette will team up as the No. 2seed, while Tan will join freshman

Ellen Tsay to form Stanfords sec-ond doubles entrant.

Stanfords NCAA tournament

action will kick off May 11 at 2p.m. with the Cardinal womenhosting Stony Brook. The menbegin May 12 at noon againstSacramento State.

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Gilmore with the 10th overall pick.Howell is certainly talented enoughto beat out the other undraftedguys, but the numbers dont reallyappear to be in his favor.

Cleveland Browns: JohnsonBademosi AI think Cleveland is an excellent

spot for Bademosi, because hellhave a great shot to make the teamright away. The Browns defensivebackfield was (surprisingly) the sec-ond-best in the league last season,but they were 30th in the league inrun defense, so if Bademosi showsin training camp that he make a fewsure tackles against running backson the second level and play somespecial teams, hell probably see afair amount of playing time. Thatsaid, Bademosi will be switchingfrom cornerback to safety, so thatmight hamper his chances a bit.

Philadelphia Eagles: JeremyStewart A

Word on the street is that Stew-art will switch to fullback to try andmake the Eagles, and I think thathes got a good chance to do it be-cause hes a strong blocker andshort-yardage guy. Hes also been a

reliable special teamer in his time atStanford, and that is always a hugeboost to any player trying to make ateam.

Oakland Raiders: Corey Gate-wood B+

I rate Gatewood so highly be-cause hes switched back and forthbetween offense and defense threetimes in his Stanford career, so itsnice to see him get an opportunity

at the next level. While he doesntnecessarily have a natural position,he did play well at cornerback nearthe end of last season. That said, Idbe surprised to see him make theRaiders roster, even with formerStanford defensive coordinatorJason Tarver now running theRaider defense.

Altogether, the NFL now has amassive influx of talented Cardinalplayers that, one way or another, willbe making their mark on the leaguefor years to come. Someday, whenthese guys are starters for playoffteams, itll be fun to watch them clashagainst their former teammates and remember just how much funthey were to watch on the Farm.

Jack Blanchat triple-dog-dares youto challenge his draft grades. Findout why he skipped the double-dog-dare at blanchat@stanford.edu or follow him on Twitter @jm-blanchat.

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Senior Ryan Thacher (above) and the Cardinal tennis teams open up thefirst two rounds of NCAAs at the Taube Family Tennis Center nextweekend. The mens team begins its title run against Sacramento State,while the womens team will tussle with Stony Brook.

an NCAA title to 35 years. TheCardinal also became the secondathletics program ever with 100NCAA team titles. Stanfordadded the inaugural womensCapital One Cup to its trophycase to go along with its 17 con-secutive Directors Cups. In 2011,

Bowlsby signed a contract exten-

sion with Stanford that ranthrough 2017.

Bowlsby was highly influentialin the resurgence of Stanfordfootball during his time on theFarm, as he hired Jim Harbaughas the head football coach in 2006.Bowlsby was also instrumental inthe hiring process for Pac-12 com-missioner Larry Scott and in thenegotiations for the Pac-12s $3billion dollar television deal in2011.

The Big 12 Conference is in

the midst of change, starting with

the departures of Colorado andNebraska to the Pac-12 and BigTen, respectively, last year. After ayear with 10 schools, the Big 12lost two more when Missouri andTexas A&M decided to leave forthe SEC. Faced with the possibili-ty of collapse, the Big 12 hasagreed to add West Virginia andTCU to get back to 10 schools fornext season.

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