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WEDNESDAY Volume 239May 11, 2011 Issue 60

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Tablo delves into identity at Asian ImagesBy KATE ABBOTTDEPUTY EDITOR

Korean hip-hop star and Stanfordgraduate Tablo spoke Tuesday eveningat the annual Asian Images event in hisfirst public appearance in over a year.

Daniel Seonwoong Lee 01 M.A.02,also known as Tablo,the front manfor Korean hip-hop group Epik High,addressed a variety of topics with anintimate gathering of students in Cub-berley Auditorium.

Christopher Sung 12 moderatedthe discussion,and questions from au-dience members for Lee were re-ceived via text message.Sung openedthe discussion by asking Lee aboutidentifying with multiple cultures; Leehas lived in Korea, Canada and theU.S.

I never really thought of myself asAsian until I was put into a positionwhere I had to,he said.Learning to

deal with being Asian was learning todeal with being different.

Lee also addressed issues ofparental pressure, discussing his par-ents initial disappointment in his cho-sen career path.

When I told [my parents] I wantedto do music, they actually thought Iwas insane,Lee said.

The dilemma between doing whatthey wanted and following my passion. . . wasnt a dilemma at all,he added.If you seriously consider giving up

your passion, it probably means youarent passionate enough.If you have apassion you just go.

Sung proceeded to ask Lee a seriesof difficult questions,including his atti-tude towards the influence of academ-ics on entering a creative industry.Leegraduated from Stanford with a bach-elors and masters degree in EnglishLiterature in just three and a half years.

How Stanford affects careers is

different for everyone, he said. Itsdependent on whether youre apply-ing your time on what you envision orhope your future to be.If youre spend-ing all of your time on academics . . .thats all youre going to get out ofStanford or any college.

I spent a lot of time doing thingsthat no one asked me to do,he added,like performing his music on campusand in clubs in San Francisco.

Instead of focusing on his music ca-reer, Lee spoke about his college

roommate,who spent much of his timeat Stanford photographing landscapesand was recently featured in a 100most creative peoplelist.

I wish I could tell you he was in[the magazine] for photography, buthes actually working at Google, Leesaid.

Lees roommate helped to create

By MATT BETTONVILLESTAFF WRITER

Last night, the Senate passed a handful offunding bills, approved its budget for next yearand passed several action items, notably creatingASSU Parliamentarian and Publications Boardconsultant positions and appointing EmmaOgiemwanye 12 as ASSU executive chief of staff.

The senators began the meeting by reviewingfunding bills from student organizations. Threeexamined in-depth were requests from fraternitySigma Phi Epsilon for funding to fix a community

house in East Palo Alto, from Project Motivationfor reserve funds for a keynote speaker and fromthe Stanford African Students Association for themajority of its spring funding to go toward aspeaker.

All three funding bills passed unanimously.The ASSU budget also passed unanimously

after considerable debate. The rise in the alloca-tion for Senate associates from $250 to $1,000generated contention, as senators mostly agreedthat the position was important, but manythought it was not taken seriously enough to re-ceive more funding.After noting that the ASSUendowment had increased enough to allow forthe extra allocation,the budget bill passed.

Several times throughout the meeting, sena-tors requested additional outlets for informationabout past Senate actions. ASSU PresidentMichael Cruz 12 pointed to the online ASSUSenate archives, noting that the hardcopy Senatearchive files were thrown away when the ASSUrented space to Courserank.

A later bill creating the office of ASSU Parlia-mentarian was amended to include the responsi-

ASSU also approves Pub Board,Parliamentarian, Chief of Staff bills

School of Medicineaims to turn pure

science into curesEmphasis placed on translational research

By AN LE NGUYENMANAGING EDITOR

In recent years, the conversa-tion on medical advances hasbrought forth a striking observa-tion:new medical treatments haveemerged in low numbers despitesimultaneous increases in re-search funding and publishedfindings. Critics blame these stag-nant numbers on a lack of transla-tional research at the nationallevel Stanford,however,stands

out as an exception to this trend.The School of Medicine has

spearheaded various programswith the objective of translatingscientific discoveries into humantrials and studies. The Interdisci-plinary Translational ResearchProgram (ITRP), for instance,links the basic sciences with clini-cal science to develop new diag-nostic and therapeutic treatments.The program serves as a collabo-rative breeding ground for med-ical students, graduate students,postdoctoral fellows and clinicalfellows.

I think were a big exception,said Irv Weissman, director ofStanfords Institute of Stem CellBiology and Regenerative Medi-cine.

In all honesty, the Universitytop to bottom wants this, to bringin people who are the translation-alists who bring not only clinicalexcellence, but a history of doingand wanting to do clinical trials,Weissman said.

But more could be done.National Institutes of Health

(NIH) appropriations have in-creased from approximately

$3.569 billion in 1980 to nearly$30.860 billion in 2010.In 2010,theFood and Drug Administrations(FDA) Center for Drug Evalua-tion and Research approved 21new molecular entities,down from26 in 2009.

According to Philip Pizzo,deanof the School of Medicine,lookingat dollar values alone can be mis-leading.

It is certainly true that fundingfor biomedical research has been amajor resource for the U.S. and

has helped make this nation theleader in biosciences,Pizzo wrotein an email to The Daily.[But] it isalso true that on average thatfunding has not kept pace with in-flation over the last decade.

We are looking at bleak fund-ing for research over the nextyears, below inflation, because ofthe national economy, he said.

Medical school experts say thatobstacles to translational researchand new treatment developmentcome in many other shapes andforms.

Pocketbook, priorities and BigPharma

In general, scientists obtainfunding for biomedical researchby submitting grant proposals tothe NIH and other agencies.

NIH is our biggest funder,said Kathleen Thompson,directorof the medical schools researchmanagement group.They fund alittle more than half of the re-search in the School of Medicine.

As desirable as it is, federalfunding comes with strings at-

Five appointed to Searsville

Dam Committee

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Five Stanford faculty members specializ-ing in environmental science,history and lawhave been named to a committee tasked withstudying the Searsville Dam for the next twoyears.The committee will consider the needsof the University, the surrounding communi-ty and the environment in order to recom-mend a course of action for its future.

Robert Reidy, vice president for Land,

Buildings and Real Estate, asked the fivemembers to join the Searsville Study Steer-ing Committee. The professors are ChrisField, professor of biology and of environ-mental earth system science and faculty di-rector for the Jasper Ridge Biological Pre-

serve;Jeffrey Koseff,professor in the Schoolof Engineering and the director of theWoods Institute for the Environment;Pamela Matson,dean of the School of EarthSciences and a professor in environmentalstudies;Barton Thompson Jr.,a professor ofnatural resources law and the director of theWoods Institute and Richard White, a pro-fessor of American history.

The Searsville Dam and Reservoir,locat-ed in the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, isthe only one of Stanfords water storagedams located directly on a stream.Once usedfor recreation,the lake now suffers from sed-imentation that has reduced the water quan-tity to 10 percent of its original capacity.The

dam is still a source of non-potable waterused at Stanford for landscape irrigation.There are many complicated issues in-

volved in Searsville Dam and Reservoir,andit is very important to the University that weconsider possible future actions with great

care,said Jean McCown,director of commu-nity relations, in a press release.So we arefortunate that scholars who have committedtheir lives to studying environmental issueshave volunteered to help.

They will look at potential research andacademic programs at the Jasper Ridge Bio-logical Preserve, the Universitys water sup-ply and storage needs, biological diversity including both the habitats and wetlands cre-ated by the reservoir as well as potential fishpassage upstream of the dam,the possible ef-fects on upstream and downstream flood riskand the cost and impact of sediment removal,disposal and ongoing management.

The committee will be helped by staff and

faculty members specializing in areas includ-ing engineering, hydrology, risk manage-ment,biology, land use, environmental plan-ning and environmental law.

Billy Gallagher

Israel Independence Day on the Farm

IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily

Students congregated in White Plaza yesterday afternoon to celebrate Israel Independence Day. The event, put on bythe Stanford Israel Alliance, offered falafel, volleyball and music to students hoping to enjoy the 63rd birthday of Israel.

UNIVERSITY

Senate passes

spending bills

What is White? Week kicks off

ALISA ROYER/The Stanford Daily

What is White? Week, sponsored by The ASSU Diveristy Advisory Board and a number of other groups, commec last night at the WomensCommuniy Center with a faculty panel on whiteness in America featuring Professor Gary Segura and Professor Toms Jimnez.

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tached.What their focus is or what their

budget is for each institute,and whatareas of disease theyre most inter-ested in are typically whats driving

whether or not we do research incertain areas,Thompson said.

Neurobiology professor Ben Bar-res thinks that academia needs tolook beyond federal agencies to fi-nance translational research, espe-cially given the current funding crisis.

I would like to see much morecollaboration between academiaand industry, Barres said.

Theres some parts that we arevery good at and there are other

good parts industry is good at, headded.

At Stanford, industry fundingdoes exist, but it is small relative toother money sources.

We do get industry sponsoredprojects, Thompson said. Theyretypically in the form of clinical trials,but its only about 10 percent of ouroverall research funding that comesfrom clinical trials.

Meanwhile, the medical schoolsclinical trial volume has remainedfairly flat over the past three years.

We were almost in the exactsame place that we were in the lasttwo years,Thompson said.

Even when industry isnt the onepaying the bills, the evolution fromdiscovery to treatment still relies onpharmaceutical companies. Oncemedical findings are published, the

idea is to get them picked up by thepharmaceutical industry.Translationto diagnostic and therapeutic appli-cations usually hinges on this latterstep.

But Big Pharma hasnt alwaysbeen game.Industry players are nottoo keen about financing researchwhen they do not own the intellectu-al property rights.

Stanford scientists,for their part,have reservations about industry ties

too.I think there is a lot of effort

going on to try to improve relation-ships with industry sponsors,Thompson said.But there are alsoissues related to our academic free-dom that sometimes becomes anissue with industry sponsors theright to publish freely [for example].Sometimes industry sponsors wantyou to keep certain information con-fidential and we just cant do that,thats not what our mission is.

Medical mentalityIn the past, there has been a pre-

vailing bias in favor of pure sci-ence, rather than research on med-ical applications and disease treat-ments. A decade ago, translationalscience which often involvesgrunt work did not necessarily

help the ambitious young scientistwho aimed to ascend the universityhierarchy.

But at Stanford, a change hascome. The Masters of Medicine(MOM) program,started by Barres,is a clear example of this change.Unique to the School of Medicine,the MOM program aims to providedoctoral students with training inclinical medicine to enhance transla-tional research.

We have this huge interest inour incoming Ph.D. students . . . 20percent applied to take this pro-gram,Barres said.

He explained that the studentsaccepted to the MOM programlearn about research and humanbiology and human disease.

Thats not to say pure scienceisnt important.

I know from my own work thatand from being on the faculty herefor about 40 years,that we dont gettranslational science unless we havepeople doing pure science, Weiss-man said. Sometimes, like in stemcell research, the pure science dis-covery can lead rapidly to transla-tion to medical trials and hopefullysoon medical therapies.

For now,the challenge is finding away to provide interested studentswith the opportunity to participatein this innovative field.

The big thing for us is to be ableto fund people who want to be inthat place in translation,Weissmansaid. So that means instead of thegovernment cutting back on fund-ing,for people who want to do a jointM.D. and Ph.D. degree, we ought toincrease it.

I dont know of many people,hardly anybody,who would say,I dopure science and I dont care aboutthe medical implications,he added.On the other hand . . . the drive to-ward translating discoveries is quiterecent.

Getting the best and brightestpeople to work on disease is the bat-

tle,Barres said.On that front, Stanford has al-ready made significant headway.

Ties to a broken healthcare systemMedical advances need to reach

actual patients in order to make adifference.Weissman noted that theimperfect healthcare system is an-other impediment to the develop-ment and application of new treat-ments.

What has held back the transla-tion of advances in institutions likeStanford to treat the general popu-lace, I would argue, is the lack of a

comprehensive medical insurancefor all people,rich and poor,he said.

According to Weissman,the U.S.healthcare system is not national,even with the Obama plan.

These findings when done atStanford . . . wouldnt budge the sta-tistics, unless everybody adoptedthem,he said.That costs money, itcosts the health care system.And inour particular health care system, ifyoure uninsured, you dont getthese therapies, largely.

Prognosis for the futureThe future for translational re-

search, especially at Stanford, stillshines brightly.

This is time when people mov-ing into medical research careerswill be able to do the most to changethe outlook for curing and/or treat-ing serious mainline diseases,Weissman said.

Furthermore, the benefits ofmedical progress may simply need alittle more time before they are fullyfelt.

It is important to know that in-vestments in research need to beconsidered long-term ones, Pizzosaid. Discoveries take years andsometimes its more than a decadebefore they progress to a clinicaloutcome.So the assumption that re-cent investments will have immedi-ate payoffs is unlikely.

That said, there have beenmajor advances over the years inclinical medicine because of re-search funding.

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Google Streetview.He merged his inside time at

Stanford,with his major in computerscience or whatever, and his outsidehobby to create something new,Leesaid. Thats a remarkable exampleof what you can do.

Lee also answered two darkerquestions, as Sung called them: bat-tling depression and dealing with re-cent attacks by Internet communitieson his Stanford credentials,which af-fected his family in Korea.He first ac-knowledged the campus phenome-non known as the Stanford DuckSyndrome.

When I was here,we didnt havethat term, he said. I think it de-scribes pretty much what I wentthrough,too . . . I went through de-pression at Stanford but not becauseof Stanford,and I was treated at Stan-ford medical center. It wasnt some-thing that was blocking my life entire-ly, but maybe thats because I wasopen to seeking help and speaking topeople about it.

Lee then turned to the attemptsby netizens last summer to defamehim and his family over the validity of

his Stanford degree, before becom-

ing visibly upset by the memories.Its not exactly a South Korean

problem; its an Internet problem,he said. The Internet doesnt haveborders.

My stress was never aboutwhether or not people believe whatpeople were saying about my creden-tials; it was never about being recog-nized, Lee said. It doesnt changemy past, what Ive learned or whatIve accomplished. My stress hadeverything to do with the fact that myfamily was being attacked. It neverwent beyond that for me.

Lee remained in good spiritsthroughout his discussion, pausingonly to note his nervousness and to

joke occasionally with Sung. Whenasked if Lee had any imparting wis-dom for students,he wasnt sure howto answer.

How do I give advice? Success isoverrated. Friendship is underrated.And the best movies are R-rated,he

joked.The Asian Images event was

hosted by the Stanford Asian Amer-ican Students Association as part ofan annual series that brings promi-nent members of Asian Pacific Is-lander cultures to discuss identityand life in the public eye with Stan-ford students.

Contact Kate Abbott at kmabbott@

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bility of highlighting year-to-yearchanges in bills, especially budgets,so that senators could better under-stand the decisions they were mak-ing.

Publications Board DirectorAlice Nam 11 presented a bill cre-ating two consultant positions,meant to assist student publicationsin developing and learning theirpublications print layout and webdesign strategies. The bill passed,and applications will open soon forthe two paid positions.

Print design and web designwere two things that were specificto publications that werent reallyavailable anywhere else, Namsaid.

We wanted to make sure thatespecially new groups that have themotivation have the resources tolearn print design and web design,she added.

Another major bill was the ap-pointment off Ogiemwanye aschief of staff to Cruz and Vice Pres-ident Stewart Macgregor-Dennis13. Both Executives testified toOgiemwanyes commitment to theposition, saying they planned tohave daily meetings or calls with

her.Other senators echoed the be-lief in Ogiemwanyes commitment.

I came by the executive officeafter last nights committee meet-ing and lo and behold they wereskyping Emma, said SenatorDaniel DeLong 13.

The Senate met some disagree-ment over the bill to form the AdHoc Committee on the Governing

Documents of the Association,meant to update and improveASSU documents. In the bills listof members,the Senate had troubledeciding whether to allow the com-mittee to nominate additional, full-voting members, or to leave thatpower to the Senate. The Senatecompromised by allowing the com-mittee to appoint ex officio mem-bers, while keeping the appoint-ment of voting power in the Senate.

The open forum brought a pres-entation from Keshav Rao 12about a new social network calledLocra. Rao and two others arebuilding the site,locra.org,as a cen-tral place to find charitable oppor-tunities and track service participa-tion. Rao said the Haas Center forPublic Service had expressed muchearly interest in the site as well.

The Senate was mostly im-pressed with the website, particu-larly in the resource it presents tothem as a Senate. Senator Alon El-hanan 14 noted that the Senatecould follow up with the site to en-sure that service groups receivingASSU funding were completingtheir projects.

The Senate AppropriationsCommittee agreed to meet withRao and other Locra leaders at alater date.

The final bill approved at themeeting appointed DeLong as in-ternal development chair for the

Senate,who will be in charge of so-cial events for senators.The bill was presented as a no-

tice for next meeting, but Elhananmotioned to suspend the rules inthe interest of allocating any moreSenate time away from an internalsocial affair.

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CONDOLEEZZA RICE MAKES CAMEO ON NBCS 30 ROCK

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Then theres the personal legacy. Twoweeks ago,Rice made a rare cameo appear-ance on NBCs comedy series 30 Rock,poking fun at herself as the spurned lover ofhigh-powered GE executive Jack Donaghy(Alec Baldwin).

Rices torrid love affair with Jack sur-faced in the season one episode The

Break Up when Jack coyly mentioned hisrelationship with a high-ranking AfricanAmerican member of the Bush administra-tion.But with barely a vague suggestion ofphone sex and a handsome attache, the re-lationship ended thanks to Jacks jealoussuspicions of Condis flirty relationshipwith Russian Prime Minister VladimirPutin.

The real-life Rice described how she wasslightly caught off-guard to hear about hersecret sitcom lover.

Yeah I was a little surprised,Rice said.I thought it was a kind of funny,funny sto-ryline.

Rice, who admits to being an infrequentviewer of 30 Rock, reassured us that Jackhad nothing to worry about.

He didnt have to worry about that,ok?she laughed.

In its five seasons, 30 Rock has carveda niche for itself in the primetime marketwith its eccentric antics and wacky story-lines (check Liz Lemons recent comeup-pance by a plastic bag). It has also taken itsfair share of playful jabs at the Bush admin-istration at one point, Jack leaves GE togo work for the federal government only todiscover the White House in total shambles,

replete with leaky ceilings and nary a work-ing pen in sight.

So a silly, fabricated romance betweenthe two powerful figures seemed like a nat-ural extension of the shows characteristiczaniness. Condi isnt Jack Donaghys onlyhigh-profile lover the long list also in-cludes Martha Stewart and shower-buddy

Greta Van Susteren.The former Secretary of State first heard

about her alleged paramour through an oldco-worker.

She had seen this storyline developabout Alec Baldwin and me and she saidGee wouldnt it be fun if you did a cameoabout it, Rice said. I said sure, sure, sureand somebody who represents me got intouch with them.

Rice frequently fields offers for thesekinds of appearances, including a chance tocompete on Dancing with the Stars whichshe refused.

Thats maximum embarrassment to beon Dancing with the Stars, but [30 Rock]kind of appealed to me because its kind of aquirky show, she said. And I like AlecBaldwin and I love Tina Fey.

Neither party initially put much effortinto pursuing the appearance, so the idealanguished for a year.

Then out of the blue, they came backand said, Gee wed really like to do it nextweek or something,Rice said. It was oneof those things where it was really very closein time.

To prepare,Rice ran lines with one of herco-workers, a former child actress, before

jetting off to New York the week of March16 to film. The appearance aired in the April28 episode Everything Sunny All theTime.

In the episode, Jacks current wife AveryJessup (Elizabeth Banks) is detained inNorth Korea by a pop culture-obsessed,megalomaniacal Kim Jong-Il (Margaret

Cho). Desperate to bring Avery home,Jackhas no choice but to come groveling to hisbitter ex-girlfriend for help. But be-fore Condi agrees to help him, she chal-lenges Jack to a piano/flute-off. A profes-sional flutist came in to teach Baldwin howto hold the instrument properly.Rice,on theother hand, is a famously accomplished pi-anist and picked out the pieces played onthe show herself. Condi eventually trumpsJack on the third and final song, an excerptof Mozarts D Minor Concerto.

That one would be impossible for theflute to play, Rice said. I wasnt trying tobe fair. I was trying to get revenge, right?

During the scene, Jack apologizes forbreaking up with Condi via text message(Me + U = :().

Well I thought, my goodness, how couldyou do that and I mean to go out with KarlRove on Valentines Day? My goodness,Rice joked.

Despite his characters conservativeleanings, Alec Baldwin is notorious for hisliberal activism, most famously lampoonedin Team America: World Police as thehead of Hollywoods activist, liberal crowd.However, the two set aside their politicaldifferences during the taping.

He made me feel very relaxed because I[hadnt] had time to memorize lines, Ricesaid. And he said, Nobody rememberslines. We just make it up. He was reallygreat.

As for 30 Rocks own lampooning ofthe Bush administration,Rice has no beef.

Everybody pokes fun at each other,

Rice said. Thats the nice thing aboutAmerican politics. If you cant laugh togeth-er then youve lost something really impor-tant.

Its nice to see professors not takingthemselves too seriously, said Anissa Chi-tour 13.It did make me laugh,but it didntchange my opinion of her as a politician orprofessor.

However, Rice has no plans to continueher acting career nor does she think theresa future for Jack and Condi.

No I think theyre done. Big splitsover, she said.

And although the Osama bin Laden as-sassination eclipsed her appearance the fol-lowing week, Rice certainly is not disap-pointed.

Its a real victory for American patienceand persistence, Rice said. It took us al-most 10 years,but it shows you cant escapeAmericas long reach. I think this is a victo-ry across presidents and I think thats a goodthing.

I think Jack would have liked it, sheadded.

Contact Lauren Wilson at lhwilson@stan-ford.edu.

FEATURES

The last two weeks have been good

to Condoleezza Rice.On the polit-

ical front, there was Osama bin

Laden. Last week, after President

Obama announced the death of

the former al-Qaeda leader, Rice proudly

stepped back into the media spotlight, credit-

ing the Bush administration her administra-

tion for helping to lay the groundwork for

bin Ladens death.

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Iwas a child who dreamt of frol-icking in the rainforest withmacaws, monkeys, iguanas and

butterflies, however it wasnt until Icame to Stanford that I actually re-alized those dreams. Since Im allabout sharing experiences, Id liketo plant the seeds for you to haveyour own rainforest adventure onan ecotourism trip. It isnt as hard orexpensive as you think.

First, there is a distinction onemust make when labeling some-thing as ecotourism. It is an experi-ence out in nature where thewildlife acts naturally. This meansno feeding the monkeys to makethem come close to tourists for pic-tures.The field guides should be ofhigh caliber with specializedtraining in tropical ecology and fa-miliarity with the proximate naturalsystem.The way in which one viewsnature and the activities on an eco-tourism trip should ensure the fu-ture sustainability of the ecosystem,and lastly you as the ecotourist mustgive something back to the environ-ment or surrounding community.

The example that epitomizes a

proper ecotourism venture is Rain-forest Expeditions (RFE),a compa-ny that operates three ecolodges onthe Tambopata River in the Madrede Dios region of Peru. Its cushyecotourism there are showers,scented sheets, delicious cookedmeals and the best guides in all ofPeru as far as Im concerned.Not tomention you can fly to Puerto Mal-donado after a quick stop in Cuzco(perfect chance to check out MachuPicchu and the Sacred Valley of theIncas), jump on a boat and in threehours you are in the middle of therainforest.

One of the lodges, called PosadaAmazonas,has an interesting profitsharing scheme between the eco-tourism company and the local Es-eeja community. Community mem-

bers are involved in the decision-making process surrounding theecotourism operation, and many ofthem are also employed at thelodge. RFE is most famous for itsgiant river otters found at oxbowlakes and macaws at the clay lick.The Tambopata Research Centerboasts the largest clay lick in theworld that attracts thousands ofbirds every day, ranging in size fromparrotlets to the macaws. There isnothing more spectacular than thecacophony of the flocks of resplen-dent birds.

The lodges value scientific col-laboration, and each summer theyhost Stanford students to conductresearch. Projects range in contentfrom forest carbon stocks,to streamfish ecology,to macaw reproductionand the impacts of tourists onwildlife. For more information,check out the Tambopata SummerResearch Program through the An-thropology department.

Yet, for every actual ecotourismplace one may visit, there are at

Last week, I saw a YouTubevideo that I have not beenable to stop thinking about.

The video,titled It Gets Better,is Googles attempt to highlight theIt Gets Better Project spearhead-ed by media pundit and author DanSavage. The project started whenDan and his spouse,Terry, posted avideo in response to the recent risein suicides among gay Americanteenagers. They talked about howthey were both heavily bullied inhigh school but had an incredible

time in college and after, found eachother, fell in love and even adopteda son and started a family.

The message was simple: beingbullied for being gay in high schoolsucks, but stick it out,because it getsbetter.

Dan and Terry spread the videoto their personal networks, andsoon, this grassroots effort becamethe It Gets Better Project, withthousands of other individuals andcouples, including celebrities likeAdam Lambert, Kathy Griffin andLady Gaga candidly sharing theirown personal stories with the sameessential central message. EvenPresident Obama took the opportu-nity to offer his sympathies for thefamilies of those affected by the sui-cides and to offer advice to LGBThigh school students nationwide suf-fering from bullying.

As I watched the video, I was re-minded of my time attending middleschool in New Zealand.Every singleday,a group of older boys would tellme to go back to my country andmake offensive remarks about myethnicity.Add to that the fact that Iwas also obese and hadnt hit puber-ty, and the jokes got even crueler.Things sometimes got really uglywith physical altercations that oftenleft me hurt and bruised. I remem-ber often hiding in some remote cor-ner of the school so the bullieswouldnt find me during lunchtime.

Bullying is one of the most horri-ble things you can ever experiencein your life, because it crushes your

self-esteem and makes you utterlypowerless.It still pains me as I thinkabout it. Bullying is also, unfortu-nately,not limited to high school andnot limited to the LGBT communi-ty.

Bullying is real and present ateven an accepting community likeStanford. I know personal friendswho have been verbally and,in somecases,physically bullied by so-calledfriends, roommates, significant oth-ers, teammates and sometimes evencomplete strangers.

But you dont have to accept anyof it.

You dont have to accept it be-cause you cant give them the satis-faction that they have gotten to you.

You dont have to accept it be-cause doing so will validate theirclaims over your mind, your bodyand most importantly, your self-re-spect.

You dont have to accept it be-cause you are an incredible, inspir-ing individual with a beautiful, richlife ahead of you that you cannotwait to get to.

It honestly does get better. Fast-forward a few months from NewZealand. My parents moved to NewYork City. My school was more di-verse and a lot more accepting.I hadalways been shy, introverted andquiet,but I made the best decision ofmy life and joined the debate team.I devoted to it all my time and ener-gy,gained much-needed self-esteemand confidence and graduated asone of the top debaters in the coun-try.After I entered Stanford,I start-ed exercising and eating better,gradually lost weight and gained a fitphysique.I worked at free clinics ed-ucating others to make similarlifestyle changes and now run a non-profit organization that is, amongother things, working to expandsuch education to clinics nation-wide.

I know it can sometimes feel ex-cruciatingly hard and painful right

When my twin sister and Iwere four months old andour brother Matt was

three,our dad noticed that he couldnot stay awake at night to help mymom care for us.He could not pickus up because we were too heavyfor him. For a 33-year-old family-oriented guy, these symptoms wereworrisome and prompted him to goto the doctor. My dad was diag-nosed with chronic myelogenous

leukemia, an aggressive cancer ofthe blood.

Immediately, my parents re-searched treatment options and de-cided to go forward with a bonemarrow transplant. Essentially, in-tensive chemo and radiation thera-py killed all of my dads cells,strik-ing a careful balance not to kill himbut to kill everything else in hisbody.With all cells inside of my dadcompletely wiped out (people canonly survive in this state for a num-ber of hours), doctors injectedhealthy bone marrow from myuncle Mike into my dad, rescuinghim. No one really knew whatwould happen next, as this treat-ment was experimental at the time.My dads body began reproducingMikes cells and things looked great

for about five months.When my dad relapsed, the doc-

tors told him there was nothingthey could do. The cancer wasback, stronger than before and hisonly option was to wait a year,untilhis body could undergo anotherbone marrow transplant. Knowing

that he probably did not have ayear to wait, my mom contacted adoctor conducting cancer researchat Fred Hutchinson Cancer Re-search Center in Seattle,Washing-ton. Dr. Hugano enrolled my dadin her study of an interferon drug.This drug and the work of an amaz-ing team of cancer researchers putmy dad in remission and he hasbeen cancer free for the last 20years.

The most recent cancer statisticsestimate that in 2011, approximate-ly 1.5 million people will be diag-nosed with cancer and over half amillion people will not survive theirbattle with the disease.My dad wasthere, teaching me how to ride mybike, helping me with math home-work, encouraging me on a dailybasis to be the best I can be.I cannotimagine what my life would havebeen like without him there.I Relaybecause I am and always will begrateful for the cancer research thatsaved my dad, and I hope that itcontinues to save others in the fu-ture. Stanford Relay for Life willtake place this weekend, May 14 toMay 15,at the Stanford track.We in-vite you to participate in our games,win awesome prizes, listen to the

best bands on campus,eat deliciousfood, hear inspiring stories andmost importantly, support our fightagainst cancer or honor someoneyou love this weekend at StanfordRelay for Life.

KELSEY BECHELLI,11

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Dear Editor,

The editorial in The Stanford Dailyof May 6,2011 is correct in pointingout that alumni interviews ofprospective students may not addto the information that the Admis-

sion Office already has. However,it misses the point when it statesthat the interviews may be detri-mental to disadvantaged candi-dates who may not be as poisedas those from more privilegedbackgrounds. I was an alumni in-terviewer for many years for Yale,and the main purpose of that rolewas to provide personal experi-

ence and impressions of Yale to thecandidates to help them decide ifYale was the right school for them.It can serve to reassure all candi-dates that their application wouldbe considered holistically. Serv-ing on the alumni interview com-

mittee served also to bond alumnito the University, although it doescreate more work for the Admis-sion Office. In any case,the call forStanford to end the alumni inter-view committee does not seem tostand on much merit.

OSCAR WAND,PORTOLA VALLEY CA.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

On Ecotourism

WANDERLUST

OP-EDS

MIS S FIT: LIFESTYLE CHOICES Erica Morgan

It Gets Better

Relay for LifeJohnnyBartz

Iwas a child who dreamt of frol-icking in the rainforest withmacaws, monkeys, iguanas and

butterflies, however it wasnt until Icame to Stanford that I actually re-alized those dreams. Since Im allabout sharing experiences, Id liketo plant the seeds for you to haveyour own rainforest adventure onan ecotourism trip. It isnt as hard orexpensive as you think.

First, there is a distinction onemust make when labeling some-thing as ecotourism. It is an experi-ence out in nature where thewildlife acts naturally. This meansno feeding the monkeys to makethem come close to tourists for pic-tures.The field guides should be of

high caliber with specializedtraining in tropical ecology and fa-miliarity with the proximate naturalsystem.The way in which one viewsnature and the activities on an eco-tourism trip should ensure the fu-ture sustainability of the ecosystem,and lastly you as the ecotourist mustgive something back to the environ-ment or surrounding community.

The example that epitomizes aproper ecotourism venture is Rain-forest Expeditions (RFE),a compa-ny that operates three ecolodges onthe Tambopata River in the Madrede Dios region of Peru. Its cushyecotourism there are showers,scented sheets, delicious cookedmeals and the best guides in all ofPeru as far as Im concerned.Not tomention you can fly to Puerto Mal-donado after a quick stop in Cuzco(perfect chance to check out MachuPicchu and the Sacred Valley of theIncas), jump on a boat and in threehours you are in the middle of therainforest.

One of the lodges, called PosadaAmazonas,has an interesting profit

sharing scheme between the eco-tourism company and the local Es-eeja community. Community mem-bers are involved in the decision-making process surrounding theecotourism operation, and many ofthem are also employed at thelodge. RFE is most famous for itsgiant river otters found at oxbowlakes and macaws at the clay lick.

The Tambopata Research Centerboasts the largest clay lick in theworld that attracts thousands ofbirds every day, ranging in size fromparrotlets to the macaws. There isnothing more spectacular than thecacophony of the flocks of resplen-dent birds.

The lodges value scientific col-laboration, and each summer theyhost Stanford students to conductresearch. Projects range in contentfrom forest carbon stocks,to streamfish ecology,to macaw reproductionand the impacts of tourists onwildlife. For more information,check out the Tambopata SummerResearch Program through the An-thropology department.

Yet, for every actual ecotourismplace one may visit, there are atleast five operators of what I like tocall poser ecotourism. Its usuallysmall, unorganized, informal tripsled by knowledgeable local guideswho are nothing more than peoplewho can speak English and enter-

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Last Thursday, a week after theFaculty Senates controversialdecision to support the rein-

statement of ROTC at Stanford,

Provost John Etchemendy issued anop-ed directed at students who feltthe decision condoned prejudiceagainst transgender people. Whilereaching out to the student body wasa commendable action in itself,Etchemendys taking sides with thepro-return camp, then undemocrati-cally calling for an end to the anger ofthe anti-return camp without ad-dressing their additional frustrations,sends a message that Stanfords ad-ministration does not respect therights of the students to oppose deci-sions made by the administration.

Provost Etchemendy attempts toreach out to the anti-return commu-nity saying, It took great couragefor our transgender students to pub-licly express their opposition to

ROTC.Etchemendy, however, fol-lows this with a contradictory assess-ment of those opposed to ROTCsreturn,saying,It continues to trou-ble me that any student would inter-pret the ROTC decision as a signthat the University does not honorand respect its transgender students,faculty and staff.

After reading such a bold state-ment, I was hoping for ProvostEtchemendy to defend it name-ly, by addressing the lingering con-cerns of the transgender populationon campus. Etchemendy, ratherthan doing this, simply tells the op-position to stop being so angry atthe administration becausewhichever way the decision went,it would be interpreted by some

members of the community as asign . . . that their interests, feelingsand principles were somehow lessimportant,i.e. because the decision

was hard. This shows disrespect to-ward transgender people who areunderstandably upset when theysee what appears to them as Stan-ford condoning sexual discrimina-tion and institutionalizing it for thelong haul by supporting a groupthat represents the perpetrators ofsexual discrimination. Note that Isay, what appears to them. Eventhough this topic is by no meansclear,Etchemendy must do more toshow respect for the gravity of theissue, discrimination, or else the allof LGBT community, all membersof some racial or non-racial minori-ty group and the rest of the Stanfordpopulation are threatened in theirright to have respectful, emotionaland anti-administrative discourse.

By making an ill-conceived attemptto quiet the debate by asking stu-dents to bow down to faculty andadministrative decisions, ProvostEtchemendy manifests a false no-tion that the administration of Stan-ford has moral supremacy over itsstudents that in the face of dis-sent, the administration reigns.

Provost Etchemendy, as a lead-ing administrator and an incrediblyintelligent individual, should beaware of and able to address the ad-ditional concerns of the transgen-d er p op ul at io n. I ns te ad ,Etchemendy falls rank-and-file be-hind faculty senators who wereswayed by the hope that as moremilitary leaders are drawn fromcommunities like ours . . . the more

quickly any remaining discrimina-tion based on sexual orientation orgender identity will genuinelycease, then simply says, I hope

that is true. His blind hope leavesopen the unanswered questionsthat lie at the root of the continuedfrustration.What reason have we tobelieve that by training future mili-tary leaders in a liberal institutionthat those leaders will not be forcedto conform once they reach the mil-itary? That ROTC itself does not re-inforce the discriminative? That ourliberal institution, which fails totruly listen to all the concerns of thetransgender population,will ingrainin future leaders here the valuesthey need to stand up to years andyears of established discriminationin the military? By not attemptingto assuage these concerns,

Etchemendy effectively says thatstudents concerns come second tothe prerogatives of the institution,and that the administrators of this

school,rather than offering their in-credible perspective to enlighten allstudents on the intricacies of thesecontroversial topics, will choose toevade dissent.

Provost Etchemendy ends hisop-ed with a plea to the transgenderpopulation and their allies, saying,Our community is far from perfect,but it is remarkably accepting. Letus use this opportunity to reaffirmour values and to strengthen ourcommunity. To you, ProvostEtchemendy, I return this plea, ask-ing you to take another brave stepfrom what youve already done, andaddress the lingering concerns ofthe transgender population and

their supporters.Our community ofstudents is not perfectly wise in ourviews. However, our community ofstudents, willing to stand up to what

we see as discrimination,is remark-ably accepting. If you have thecourage to address our reasonablereservations then we will change thetone of our dissent and work withyou more collaboratively. We wantthe opportunity to stand in equitywith the administration in strength-ening the values of this institution,so that future generations of Stan-ford students can promote a wellthought-out set of values in the insti-tutions they are destined to lead.Wewill not,however,accept any call forpassivity, for servility or for weak-ness in doing so.

JONATHAN POTO,13

OP-ED

ROTC: Provost Etchemendy,Open, Not Close The Doors To Dissent

now, but I want you to know thatyou are not alone. I want you toknow that if you ever need someoneto talk to, there are remarkable re-sources all over this campus (theBridge and CAPS being just two of

several). Most importantly, I wantyou to know that there are peopleall over the world who love youwithout even knowing you,and thatonce you get past this,it will not onlyget better,but amazing.

Please do not hesitate to emailme at vineet24@stanford.edu.

With massive amounts of loveand hope,

VINEET SINGAL 12

BETTERContinued from page 4

least five operators of what I like tocall poser ecotourism. Its usuallysmall, unorganized, informal tripsled by knowledgeable local guideswho are nothing more than peoplewho can speak English and enter-tain a crowd.

One such example I experi-enced was in Iquitos,Peru.A kid myage approached my friend and meon the street, and soon we had ne-gotiated a good price and wereaboard a little boat humming downthe Amazon. There were manymemorable kitsch ecotourism ac-tivities, but the best/worst was avisit to an island of tame rainforestanimals.Monkeys were thrown into

our arms which we carefully seton the ground, for fear of the dis-ease. A coati attacked me from anearby tree, crazed by the shinycarabineer on my backpack. Ananaconda was put around my neck,which thankfully did not suffocateme. The icing on the cake was thesad toucan that didnt even havethe dignity to fly away from myshoulder. It wasnt ecotourism andmore importantly it didnt comewith a rabies shot.

Unfortunately, many eco-

tourism adventures follow the lat-ter example.I highly encourage youto do your homework before beingdisappointed or supporting an ac-tivity that actually harms surround-ing ecological and human commu-nities.A good way to determine le-gitimacy is to look for websites,sus-tainability certifications, testimoni-als and photos of the lodges and ac-tivities.

If all else fails, and youre readyto get your hands dirty and bravethe mosquitos, I suggest you find aconservation project that soundsinteresting and contact the re-searchers with an offer to volunteeryour time for a week or two.Usual-ly youll make a donation whichessentially is a modest fee to coveryour basic food and lodging ex-penses. You wont have laundryservice or scented sheets, but youwill gain hands-on experience

working in the field while makingpositive contributions to an envi-ronmental cause.

Whether you actually work on aproject or simply exercise thepower of the purse, wherever youtravel,ecotourism or not,you carryan impact on local economies andenvironments. Trust me, responsi-ble travel is the new cool thing.

Johnny wants to hear about your bestecotourism experience. Tell himabout it at jbartz@stanford.edu.

BARTZContinued from page 4

tain a crowd.One such example I experi-

enced was in Iquitos,Peru.A kid myage approached my friend and meon the street, and soon we had ne-gotiated a good price and wereaboard a little boat humming downthe Amazon. There were manymemorable kitsch ecotourism ac-tivities, but the best/worst was avisit to an island of tame rainforestanimals.Monkeys were thrown intoour arms which we carefully seton the ground, for fear of the dis-ease. A coati attacked me from anearby tree, crazed by the shinycarabineer on my backpack. Ananaconda was put around my neck,which thankfully did not suffocateme. The icing on the cake was thesad toucan that didnt even havethe dignity to fly away from myshoulder. It wasnt ecotourism andmore importantly it didnt comewith a rabies shot.

Unfortunately,many ecotourismadventures follow the latter example.I highly encourage you to do yourhomework before being disap-

pointed or supporting an activitythat actually harms surroundingecological and human communi-ties.A good way to determine legit-

imacy is to look for websites, sus-tainability certifications, testimoni-als and photos of the lodges and ac-tivities.

If all else fails, and youre readyto get your hands dirty and bravethe mosquitos, I suggest you find aconservation project that soundsinteresting and contact the re-searchers with an offer to volunteeryour time for a week or two.Usual-ly youll make a donation whichessentially is a modest fee to coveryour basic food and lodging ex-penses. You wont have laundryservice or scented sheets, but youwill gain hands-on experienceworking in the field while makingpositive contributions to an envi-ronmental cause.

Whether you actually work on aproject or simply exercise thepower of the purse, wherever youtravel,ecotourism or not,you carryan impact on local economies andenvironments. Trust me, responsi-ble travel is the new cool thing.

Johnny wants to hear about your bestecotourism experience. Tell himabout it at jbartz@stanford.edu.

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By JACK BLANCHATDESK EDITOR

The Stanford baseball teamcontinued its midweek magic onTuesday, overpowering UC-Davisin every facet of the game en routeto an 11-4 victory.

The Cardinal (27-16, 9-9 Pac-10) clobbered the Aggie pitchingstaff for 14 hits and got a solid start-ing performance from sophomorerighty Dean McArdle,who extend-ed his record to 7-2 by holding theAggies (14-26) to just three earnedruns in 6.1 innings.

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Freshman right fielder AustinWilson, who went 3-for-5 on Tues-day night,said the game was anoth-er example of the teams high con-fidence and good hitting as of late.

I feel like were just hot as ateam right now, Wilson said.Were kind of clicking, and justgetting into a good win streak rightnow.

Wilsons solid night at the plate

raised his batting average to .331on the year, but he wasnt the onlyone who had a good night at thedish, as sophomore third basemanStephen Piscotty went 2-for-3 withtwo walks and three RBI andfreshman designated hitter DannyDiekroeger, shortstop KennyDiekroeger and sophomore centerfielder Tyler Gaffney all had two

RBI.After not registering a hit in the

first two innings,Stanford brought19 men to the plate in the third andfourth innings, pushing across nineruns on eight hits to boast a 9-1 leadafter four.

After freshman first basemanBrian Ragira plated another run inthe fifth, UC-Davis chipped awayat the Cardinal lead in the top ofthe seventh, when pinch hitterSpencer Brann smashed a two-runhome run over the right field wallto cut the lead to 10-3.

McArdle was chased from the

game after giving up two more sin-gles in the inning, and another runscored when junior lefty ScottSnodgress pitch got past seniorcatcher Zach Jones, making thelead 10-4.

Sophomore Kenny Diekroegeranswered back in the bottom of theinning with an RBI single for Stan-ford just after Ragira dashed all the

way to second base on a droppedthird strike.

Snodgress passed the ball to fel-low junior A.J.Talt to close out thegame, and the righty sidearmercruised through the ninth, strikingout one and giving up one hit be-fore shutting the door on the Ag-gies with a soft grounder to secondbase.

With the victory, the Cardinalextended its winning streak to sixgames and is now 12-1 in gamesplayed on either Monday or Tues-day this season.

Despite giving up 12 hits to UC-

Davis on Tuesday, Wilson said theteam had no concerns going intoanother weekend of Pac-10 confer-ence play, this time at Oregon.

Were very confident, the winlast weekend against Washingtonwas huge,Wilson said. So gettingthis win, going into Oregon, I feellike this confidence will help us alot.

Were feeling good and swing-ing the bat well, hopefully that can

just stay within us and we can con-tinue to pick each other up, headded.

That confidence stems largelyfrom the Cardinals hot bats, asWilsons improved hitting alongwith Piscottys extraordinary .373batting average means that nineCardinal hitters now have battingaverages above .300.

Wilson attributed the teamssuccess to better maturity for ateam that regularly starts seven oreight underclassmen, including his

own development at the plate.For me, its been better plate

discipline and really seeing the ballwell, Wilson said. Its been notmissing my pitch,and Ive just beenworking on that in the cage, justdriving the ball to center field andletting the hits come, basically.

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dont quite know what to makeof the controversy over Pitts-burgh Steelers running back

Rashard Mendenhalls tweetsabout the successful operation tokill al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

To give a quick recap,Mendenhallposted a couple of bin Laden-relatedtweets on May 2,the day after the newsinitially broke. He first wrote,Whatkind of person celebrates death? Itsamazing how people can HATE a manthey have never even heard speak.Weve only heard one side...

He also later added another tweet,saying,For those of you who said youwant to see Bin Laden burn in hell andpiss on his ashes,I ask how would Godfeel about your heart?

Despite an attempt to clarify thosemessages, Mendenhalls commentswhipped up a predictable storm of con-troversy across the Internet, withsports commentators and other ath-letes rushing to pass judgment. TheSteelers organization issued a state-ment distancing itself from Menden-hall and his comments, and he quicklylost one of his corporate endorsements.The running back was generally ostra-cized and condemned for what lookedlike a statement in favor of bin Laden.A commentator at a Pennsylvanianewspaper, Mark Madden, evenopined that the Steelers should cutMendenhall if he does not apologizeand that the organization should bar itsplayers from maintaining public ac-

Yun named to First-team All-Pac-

10 team; Cardinal given No. 4seed in Indiana Regional

For the second consecutive sea-son, the Stanford mens golf team isheaded to Indiana for the first roundof the NCAA Tournament.The Car-dinal was awarded the No. 4 seed inthe 14-team Indiana Regional atWolf Run Golf Club in Zionsville,

Ind. In order of seeding, Alabama,Illinois and Iowa are the No. 1, No.2and No.3 seeds,respectively.

The five lowest-scoring teamsand the lowest-scoring individualnot on one of those teams will ad-vance to the NCAA Finals atKarsten Creek in Stillwater, Okla.Those championships will be heldfrom May 31 to June 5.

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Stanford junior Delano Howell, above, finished second in the long jump at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invi-tational last week. Stanford competes in the Pac-10 Track & Field Championships beginning Friday.

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Sophomore righty Dean McArdle, above, improved to 7-2 on the season in Tuesdays 11-4 win over UC-Davis.McArdle went 6.1 innings and allowed four runs on 10 hits while striking out one. This was an encouraging out-ing for McArdle, who had struggled of late. Stanford travels to Oregon for a three-game series this weekend.

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Stanford freshman Andrew Yun, above, was named to the All-Pac-10 First-Team this week. Yun won one tournament this season and had six other top-10s. Yun leads Stanford into the NCAA tournament as a No. 4 seed.

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counts on social networks like Twitterand Facebook.

I disagree with Maddens stance oncutting Mendenhall the premisethat you can be fired from your job forexpressing contrarian views worries

me deeply. However, its interestingthat he would suggest preventing ath-letes from accessing social network-ing.

Before the advent of the Internetand the spread of social networking,athletes and their comments weregenerally filtered by several sourcesbefore ever reaching the public eye.Every professional and college teamhas media relations staff tasked specif-ically with managing the public per-sonas of their athletes.

Generally, athletes (and anyone,for that matter) speak much morecarefully when theres a journalistwaving a microphone or a camera intheir faces.The old media,as it were,acts as a kind of filter itself, as only asmall fraction of sound bites from a

press conference actually end up inprint or on SportsCenter. Even then,theres always a media relationsstaffer on hand to shut down the inter-view if the questions get too edgy.

By contrast, social networkingwebsites and other Internet mediaplatforms,like blogging,allows playersto reach fans and the public unfiltered.Twitter doesnt have any of the con-trols that exist in the traditional mediabusiness; no Steelers staffer monitors

every tweet from every player.How-ever, that forum is just as public, andsometimes even more so,than the san-itized comments that dreary sports-writers and columnists (like yourstruly) write up and run in print on aweekly basis.

So back to the original question:should professional and college teamsban athletes from using Twitter ormaintaining public Facebook pro-files? My initial reaction, naturally, isthat they shouldnt to do so wouldabridge the First Amendment rightsthat my colleagues and I hold dear.However,athletes are very public rep-resentatives of their teams andachieve large followings in the firstplace only because of those high-pro-file positions.Whether I agree with it

or not, Mendenhalls comments didnot reflect well on the Steelers, whomhe is charged with representing inpublic.

Still, I like having athletes on Twit-ter,and I think the fans and the athletesthemselves like it, too.The best solu-tion, then, is probably one that com-bines the speed and connectivity ofnew media with the controls that exist-ed in older media.Teams shouldnt kickathletes off Twitter altogether,but in-

stead should require that players put alltweets through their media depart-ment before sending them out into theweb.Athletes will still get to tweet,fanswill get to connect with their favoriteplayers and organizations wont findthemselves unexpectedly embarrassedby the players who represent them.

Kabir Sawhney would love to filteryour tweets and wall posts.All of them.Remember to check with Kabir before

you drunkenly PM that hottie thisweekend at ksawhney@stanford.edu.

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The Indiana Regional marks thebeginning of Stanfords quest for aninth national championship. TheCardinal last took home the nation-al title in 2007.

Stanford got more good newsthis week, as freshman AndrewYun was named to the All-Pac-10First Team. Yun won one title thisseason, The Prestige at PGA Westwith a score of -12 and had six othertop-10 finishes. Joining Yun on theAll-Pac-10 First-Team is the con-

ferences Golfer and Freshman ofthe Year, Patrick Cantlay ofUCLA, Gregor Main of UCLA,Daniel Miernicki of Oregon, AlexMoore of Oregon State, ScottPinckney of Arizona State, MartinTrainer of USC, Pontus Widegrenof UCLA and Chris Williams ofWashington.

Daniel Bohm

Pac-12 unveils preliminaryfootball TV schedule

Four 2011 Stanford footballgames were selected to be broad-cast on ABC and ESPN yesterday.

The sister networks announcedtheir initial Pac-12 TV schedule,which will likely be amended be-fore the college football seasonkicks off in September.

Stanfords Sept. 17 game at Ari-zona is set to be televised on ESPNat 7:45 p.m.and its Oct.22 game ver-sus Washington is scheduled to beon either ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 at5 p.m.The following week, on Oct.29, Stanford travels to Los Angelesfor a much-anticipated game atUSC, which ABC is scheduled totelevise at 5 p.m.The last game thathas already been assigned a TV slotis the Cardinals season finale,which comes at Stanford Stadiumagainst Notre Dame on Nov. 26.

Like the Washington game, Stan-fords matchup with Notre Damewill be broadcast on either ABC orone of the two main ESPN net-works.

It is likely that more Stanfordgames will be added to the TVschedule at a later date. The mostnotable unassigned game is Stan-fords Nov. 12 tussle with Oregon,which pits two of the nations pre-season top-10 teams against one an-other.ABC and ESPN have yet toconfirm which games will be broad-cast on Nov. 12.

As a conference, the Pac-12 willsee at least 20 games broadcast byABC or ESPN throughout its inau-

gural season. As the season pro-gresses, selections that have yet tobe confirmed will be announced ei-ther six or 12 days in advance of therelevant game.

Daniel Bohm

Mens water polo reveals2011 recruits

Head coach John Vargas an-nounced the newest members ofthe Stanford mens water polo teamyesterday, confirming that AlexBowen, Michael Carter, RobertDunlevie and Clayton Evans will betaking to the water with the Cardi-

nal this fall.For a team that fell in the Moun-tain Pacific Sports FederationChampionship final and ended the2010 season 15-8 (5-3 MPSF), theannouncement is a small but impor-tant development as the fall seasonapproaches and Stanford looks tomake another run at the conferencetitle.

A San Diego native, Bowen is atwo-time prep All-American andearned first-team honors as a seniorlast fall.Hes a two-time selection tothe San Diego Union Tribunes All-Academic First Team and holds theCIF San Diego Sections careerscoring record with 547 goals.

Bowen also boasts considerableinternational experience, havingplayed with the U.S.Youth and Ju-nior National Teams since 2008. Asa junior Olympian,Bowen is a six-time All-American.

Carter,the only recruit that hailsfrom a state other than California,comes to Stanford fromLawrenceville,N.J. after moving tothe U.S. with his parents fromSouth Africa.He was named to theNortheast Zone Youth/JuniorTeam every year from 2008-10 andwas an All-American at the 2010

junior Olympics. Carter has alsomade a splash on Lawrencevillesswimming team, earning All-American honors in his junior and

senior seasons.Dunlevie wont be moving farthis fall, as hes a product of thenearby Sacred Heart PreparatorySchool. He was a team captain forthe Gators and led them to a sec-ond-place finish in the CCS Divi-sion II championships last year.

Stanford has seen contributionsfrom the Dunlevie family before,asRoberts older sister Vee is a cur-rent member of the womens waterpolo team.

The only goalie of the bunch,Evans is a 2010 All-American outof Los Angeles Loyola HighSchool.He captained the Cubs dur-ing his junior and senior years,earning the Mission Leagues MostValuable Goalkeeper award andleading his team to the CIF semifi-

nal round in each.

Nate Adams

BRIEFSContinued from page 6

The Cardinal now takes a fewdays off before it travels north thisweekend to Oregon to take on theDucks (23-23, 5-13) in a three-game weekend series.The Cardinaland Ducks tangle in Eugene start-ing Friday night at 7 p.m.

Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@stanford.edu.

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