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THURSDAY Volume 240A

July 7, 2011 Issue 2SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION

Opinions 6 Moeller on the balancing act between man and nature; Kureishi on ‘saving face’

Sports 7 Earthquakes MLS game moves to Stanford, brings in record crowd

Features 10 Aerial fabrics classes at Arrillaga Center for Sports & Rec soar in popularity

Entertainment 12 Humans a dull shadow of ‘Transformer’ machines; Bentley’s back in ‘Bachelorette’

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NEWS

ACADEMICS

GSB professor Gerald Meier dies at age 88By ELAINA KOROS

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Graduate School of Business (GSB) pro-fessor emeritus Gerald Meier J.D. ‘66, anearly expert in development economics andadvocate for attention to developing coun-tries, died June 21 from complications relatedto a malignant brain tumor. He was 88.

Meier, who taught at the GSB from 1962to 2005, co-authored “Leading Issues in Eco-nomic Development,” one of the first booksabout economic development in Americaand introduced Stanford’s first course on theeconomics of less-developed countries, afterthen-GSB dean Ernie Arbuckle ‘33 MBA ‘36recruited him to strengthen the program.

Through teaching undergraduates as wellas students in the GSB and Stanford Law

School, Meier became a prominent professorand mentor to young people. From checkingin with former students to hosting reggae par-ties at his home, Meier connected with his stu-dents on a unique level.

“The main thing is . . . how much he lovedstudents,” said his son Andrew Meier. “Hetaught generations of Stanford students andhe really enjoyed both his undergraduate andgraduates. I don’t know how many GSB pro-fessors taught undergrads, but one thing heloved doing was his sophomore seminar.”

Meier wrote 34 books and over 50 articlesin scholarly journals. He often spoke over-seas, presenting to leaders of less-developedcountries and participating in global conven-tions. He also served as a consultant to theWorld Bank.

“A prolific writer, Jerry was also a creative

teacher who encouraged me to spread mywings in the classroom and bring globaliza-tion to life for GSB students,” said formerGSB professor Peter Henry, in a statementAndrew Meier provided to The Daily. “I amsorry to see him go, but his legacy of intellec-tual curiosity, kindness and good humor willstay with me always.”

Meier, who was also a former Rhodes

Scholar, received his B.A. from Reed Col-lege, a B. Litt. from Oxford University and hisPh.D. from Harvard University in 1953. Be-fore joining the Stanford community, Meiertaught at Harvard, Oxford, Williams College,Yale University, the University of West In-dies, the University of Sussex and Wesleyan

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79 students stillwithout housing

RESEARCH

Cigarettes target black youths, study saysBy HARINI JAGANATHAN

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The leading menthol cigarette manufacturerin the United States may be targeting its adver-tisement campaigns toward African Americanyouths, according to a School of Medicine studyrecently published in the Nicotine andTobacco Research journal.

The study found that Newport, the leadingmenthol cigarette, is also the most popularbrand among African-American smokers andthe second most popular brand among youngsmokers. Author Lisa Henriksen, a senior re-searcher at the Stanford Prevention ResearchCenter, said she conducted the study in order tosupplement a body of studies that examine cig-arette-marketing techniques directed towardcertain demographics but do not include re-

search on African Americans or youths.“I worked on the FDA report about menthol

and noticed that there were few studies aboutprice, strategic marketing and price-vulnerablegroups who smoke menthol cigarettes, so thatwas the reason for going back and looking at thedata,” she said in a phone interview with TheDaily.

The study found evidence contradictingclaims made by Lorillard, Inc., the manufactur-er of Newport cigarettes, to the Food and DrugAdministration that it does not base availabili-ty of promotions on race or ethnicity.

“This evidence contradicts the manufactur-er’s claims that the availability of its promotionsis not based on race/ethnicity,” the study said.

The study examined data about advertise-

By HAELIN CHOINTERN

79 undergraduates who entered the Draw stilldo not have housing for fall quarter ahead of thewaiting-list assignments that will come out July23.

According to statistics on the Stanford Hous-ing Department website, there have historicallybeen students unassigned every year. The num-ber is down from 89 undergraduates in 2009 and122 in 2010.

Nevertheless, some unassigned undergradu-ates are still finding the process frustrating.

According to Aaron Peterson ‘13, being leftwithout a housing assignment hinders some as-pects of his summer before junior year.

“I think it [the waiting-list process] absolutelydisadvantages us because we’re starting off with-out the security of knowing where we’re living,and we just have to go through a whole, arduousprocess that we weren’t expecting or told about,”Peterson said.

He added that he would rather be worryingabout classes and internships than his housing sit-uation.

According to Executive Director of StudentHousing Rodger Whitney, the consistent groupof unassigned students is a product of the balanc-ing act between meeting the four years of guaran-teed housing for all undergraduates as well as ac-commodating the “significant number of cancel-

UNIVERSITY

VPUE launches Faculty College

By HIROKO SUNAMARA INTERN

Six teams of Stanford professors will focus oncreating innovative, team-taught curricula as partof the 2012 Faculty College, unveiled by ViceProvost for Undergraduate Education HarryElam at the Faculty Senate’s June 9 meeting.

By providing the space, time and resources formultidisciplinary education, Elam said he hopes torevolutionize the concept of teaching itself at Stan-ford in a response to globalization.

“Twenty-first century education means re-sponding to the fact that students have changed

and we need new methodologies for reachingthem; that the world has changed and we need newmethodologies for connecting our students to it,”he wrote in an email to The Daily. “Stanford needsto keep evolving, to teach in ways that our stu-dents, and the global community, relate to.”

The six main initiatives include the Ethics of War Project; the Division of Literatures, Culturesand Languages Project; the Electrical and Envi-ronmental Engineering Track Project; the Net-works Project; the Bioengineering UndergraduateDesign Project and the Arts Structured LiberalEducation Project.

Elam stressed collaboration as integral to eachinitiative.

“What we’re doing here is providing a differentand potentially unique platform for such projects,”he said. “We’re allowing faculty from across disci-plines to work collaboratively, to bounce ideas off of each other and put the emphasis on undergrad-uate education.”

“As we developed the idea of Faculty College,certain projects surfaced as ones that would be

ideal for the first Faculty College class,” he wrote.He added that the projects chosen are reflectionsof the individuals in the Faculty College class,“stretching across schools from Law to Humani-ties and Sciences.”

French and Italian associate professor DanEdelstein will work with biology Deborah GordonM.S. ‘77 and computer science professor EricRoberts on the “Networks Project,”entitled “Social Animals, Social Revolutions andSocial Networks.”

“Rather than simply trying to get students totake more humanities classes, we tried to come upwith classes that already address some of the morescientific issues that students are interested in [andto] show how there is an important humanistic di-mension to those classes or topics,” Edelstein said.

“One of the ideas we came up with was ‘socialnetwork,’ which at the beginning we were going to

call ‘From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg’ . . . the ideabeing that there’s a long history to judicial networkand that it didn’t just all start with Facebook,” headded.

Each team leads an initiative and is to meet col-lectively with its affiliates a minimum of two orthree times per quarter.

Col. Joseph Felter Ph.D. ‘05, senior researchscholar at the Center for International Securityand Cooperation, will work on the Ethics of Warproject. His teammates include political scienceprofessor Scott Sagan, philosophy professorDebra Satz, senior Law School lecturer AllenWeiner J.D. ‘89 and School of Medicine professorPaul Wise.

Felter suggested there is a need for a broadgrasp of topics in the undergraduate community.

“So many of this century’s greatest challengeswill require interdisciplinary approaches to under-stand and address,” he said. “Today’s students willbe better prepared to contribute to these efforts if

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University, where he introduced the firstuniversity-level course in developmenteconomics.

“Not many business schools are con-cerned with poverty and the reduction of poverty,” Meier said during the GSB’s75th anniversary celebration. “Stanford,I’d say, is one of the few.”

“Jerry will be missed by a huge num-ber of his admirers like me,” said Harvardeconomics professor Amartya Sen, in thestatement Andrew Meier provided toThe Daily.

Raised on the West Coast, near Seattleand Tacoma, Washington, Meier devel-oped a love for the outdoors from an earlyage. He enjoyed biking, swimming, beingnear the beach, visiting the track shop andworking out at the gym, where he knewall of the football coaches by their firstnames.

A father of four sons — David,Daniel, Jeremy and Andrew — and hus-band of 57 years to Gretl Slote, Meiermade his family, which saw his passionfirsthand and enjoyed hiking and spend-ing family summers abroad with him,first.

Contant Elaina Koros at [email protected].

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By ELLORA ISRANINEWS EDITOR

This report covers a selection of in-cidents from June 30 to July 7 asrecorded in the Stanford UniversityDepartment of Public Safety bulletin.

During this period, there were sev-eral bike thefts and citations for publicintoxication around campus. Howev-er, no incidents whatsoever were re-ported on the Fourth of July.

THURSDAY, JUNE 30I At 2:58 p.m., a non-injury, vehicle-

versus-fixed-object collision oc-curred at the corner of Via Puebloand Via Ortega.

FRIDAY, JULY 1I At 8:00 a.m., a woman was cited and

released at Escondido School formisusing a disabled permit.

SATURDAY, JULY 2I At 12:20 a.m., a man at Theta Delta

Chi was transported to the San JoseMail Jail and booked for public in-toxication.

I At 9:00 a.m., a woman was cited andreleased for driving unlicensed atthe corner of Arboretum and PalmDrive.

I At 9:25 a.m., a man was cited and re-leased on an outstanding warrantout of Santa Clara county, also at thecorner of Arboretum and PalmDrive.

I Between 10:15 p.m. and 10:20 p.m.,an unknown suspect was seen at-tempting to light a fire near the baseof a tree at the corner of GalvezStreet and Nelson Street but wasscared away. The same suspect wasseen lighting a fire a short time later.

TUESDAY, JULY 5I At 2:30 p.m., a man was transported

from the corner of Bowdoin Streetand Campus Drive to the San JoseMain Jail and booked for public in-toxication.

I Between 6:00 p.m. and 7:26 p.m., asuspect ordered food from the Tree-house restaurant, then walked outwith the items without paying forthem. The suspect was detained out-side the establishment.

I At 6:25 p.m., two individuals wereinvolved in a verbal altercation thatescalated to one suspect slapping theother. The incident occurred in Es-condido Village.

Contact Ellora Israni at [email protected].

By HENRY ZHU

Stanford is one of six universi-ties involved in the federal gov-ernment’s Advanced Manufac-turing Partnership, an initiativethat aims to help create high-techmanufacturing jobs in the U.S.and boost the development of ad-vanced technologies. With assis-tance from the government, mem-bers of the group, which also in-cludes a group of U.S. companies,

are set to invest more than $500million is research, developmentand education over the next year.

President Barack Obama an-nounced the partnership June 24at Carnegie Mellon University’sNational Robotics EngineeringCenter, located in Pittsburgh,Penn., in front of representativesfrom the six involved universities

— Carnegie Mellon University,UC-Berkeley, Georgia Instituteof Technology, MIT, Universityof Michigan and Stanford.

The initiative is derived from arecommendation by the Presi-dent’s Council of Advisors on Sci-ence and Technology (PCAST),which focuses on investment innew and advanced technologies.

“In the last five months, thePCAST has studied administra-tive actions to promote advancedmanufacturing,” said ProfessorThomas Kenny, who representedStanford at the event, in a phoneinterview with The Daily. “It pub-lished a report a few weeks ago;

the recommendation was that theadministration should have a new,funded initiative that will consistof partnerships between universi-ties and industries to promotetechnologies, new design method-ologies and educational tools.”

Obama also invited to the an-nouncement various governmentagencies — including the Depart-

ment of Defense, the NationalScience Foundation, the NationalInstitute of Standards and Tech-nology and the Department of Energy — as well as top execu-tives from large private-sectormanufacturing companies —among them Intel, Ford MotorCo., Procter & Gamble, Johnson& Johnson, Honeywell and DowChemical.

Universities such as Stanfordwere included in the initiative tosettle concerns that efficient prac-tices favored by corporationscould lower the demand for work-ers, decrease wages and worsenthe unemployment rate. The uni-

versities’ role is to foster an innov-ative environment and produceboth the tools and the skilledworkers to revolutionize manu-facturing.

“Stanford was pleased to par-ticipate [in the partnership] be-cause President Obama’s initia-tive matches the mission of theUniversity, which is to advance in-

novation through research andeducation,” wrote Stanfordspokeswoman Lisa Lapin in anemail to The Daily.

Part of that, Kenny said, is be-cause of the people on campus.“Stanford is comprised of edu-

cators, researchers, innovatorsand leaders,” he added.

Stanford’s participation inObama’s initiative will not re-quire a direct investment on theUniversity’s part in the shortterm. Already-existing facilitiesdedicated to innovative manufac-turing, such as the Center for Inte-grated Systems, will wait for a se-ries of program-funding an-

nouncements from governmentagencies.It can also write proposals to

organizations such as the Depart-ment of Energy, the Departmentof Commerce, the Department of Defense and the National ScienceFoundation, in order to bring

UNIVERSITY

Obama chooses Stanford for high-tech initiativeUniversity one of six in

Manufacturing Partnership

Courtesy of Andrew Meier GSB professor emeritus Gerald Meier, an expert on economics in developing countries, taught atStanford from 1962 to 2005. He died June 21 at the age of 88 in his Stanford home.

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STUDENT LIFE

GSC discussesfunds, management

By HAELIN CHOINTERN

The Graduate Student Councildiscussed funding, equipment man-agement and future event planningin their meeting Wednesday at theGraduate Community Center.

The meeting kicked off with adiscussion over four differentevents needing funding. NanditaGarud, a third-year graduate stu-dent in genetics, represented theCross Disciplinary Healthcare In-novation Partnership at Stanfordand asked for funding for the“health care happy hour” eventplanned in August.

“This [event] is a new idea thatwe’re having,” Garud said. “It’ssomething less formal.”

A $300 food budget was recom-mended for the event, which wasprojected to bring in 80 people. Thevote, however, failed to pass withfour in favor of funding the event,one abstaining and two votingmembers asking to table the issueuntil the next meeting so they couldbetter understand the “scope of theevent.”

The remaining funding mea-

sures, $75 for the Stanford BrewingClub’s beer judging class, $280 forthe Russian Student Association’sdinner event and $200 for a culturalfestival in August organized byBengalis at Stanford, all passedunanimously with little discussion.

The meeting continued onto thetopic of equipment and an equip-ment master.

Justin Brown, a fifth-year geo-physics graduate student, intro-duced the issue.

“The old equipment master —he’s done,” Brown said. “Who’sgoing to be responsible for theequipment?”

The issue came to a quick con-clusion when Addy Satija, GSChousing co-chair, announced thatthere was an equipment masterready to take over in the fall and aninterim equipment master in thesummer.

The last matter for the councilwas the July 4 barbeque. GSC co-Chair Marine Denolle started theconversation by praising the jobdone by the Graduate StudentCouncil.

“I think it went very well,” De-nolle said. “It was very intense be-cause it was actually hard to definewhat was supposed to be done.”

Due to a problem with leftover

lations over the summer.”“Student Housing is charged withallocating enough housing to under-graduate students to meet this guar-antee while still keeping our housingfully occupied,” he wrote in an emailto The Daily. “Doing so makes thebest use of our facilities and allowsStanford to accept the maximumnumber of freshmen and transferstudents.”

“Vacancies come from studentswho decide to take a leave of ab-sence, are suspended or get accept-ed late to overseas-studies pro-grams,” he added. “If we assignedall students during the Draw, wewould open autumn quarter with asignificant number of vacancies,and fewer students would be able toattend the University.”

Will Monroe ‘13, who is alsounassigned, is optimistic that the sit-uation will work itself out, despitecomplaints about the wait list.

“The main thing that was disap-pointing was the news that wecouldn’t keep our Draw group to-gether,” Monroe said. “Even if we

get our bottom choice, it’d still becool as long as we [the Draw group]can stay together. But since we can’tstay together, we’re a bit worriedabout what our housing situation is

going to be like next year.”The housing-assignment process

involves three different “rounds”:the Draw, the waiting list and con-tinuous assignments. If unassignedafter the first draw, students go onthe waiting list to wait for housing. If they are still unassigned after thesecond round, students go into con-tinuous assignments.

Shortly before the July 3 waiting-list-ranking deadline, Housing an-nounced that it had added OakCreek Apartments, which abutsStanford campus, to the list of resi-dences students may rank. Howev-er, Housing is also “currently con-sidering some additional projects tobuild new undergraduate housing,”Whitney said.

“There will probably be no addi-tional housing ready for occupancyfor at least two years,” he wrote.“We will meet our obligation to theguarantee and have all undergradu-ate students with guaranteed yearsremaining assigned by the end of

the first week of autumn quarter, if not before.”Both Monroe and Peterson men-

tioned that more clarity on theHousing Department website could

help students on the waiting list fig-ure out the application process. Ac-cording to Monroe, the HousingDepartment website could be morehelpful if the information were pre-sented more explicitly.

“It’s a nightmare trying to findthe dates, the deadlines,” Monroesaid. “They’re hidden within, like,three layers of pages that I have tosee when I’ve got to submit theseforms and stuff.”

Housing, however, disputesthose claims about the website.

“We are in the process of revis-ing our site at this time, but the feed-back we generally receive is differ-ent from what you have heard,”Whitney wrote. “What we havefound is that we have extensive in-formation on the website, but thatstudents do not always successfullynavigate deep enough into the of-ferings, causing them to sometimesmiss important details.”

Ellora Israni contributed to this re-

port.Contant Haelin Cho at haelin.cho@

gmail.com.

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ments, promotions and pack pricesfor Newport and for Marlboro, theleading non-menthol cigarette.Trained observers and researcherslooked at these factors in 407 storeswithin walking distance from 91high schools across California.

Henriksen said the most chal-lenging part of completing thestudy was data collection and ob-taining cigarette pack prices.

The study found that advertise-ments and promotions for New-port cigarettes were more likely tobe found in neighborhoods with ahigher proportion of African-American students. The advertisedpack prices for Newport cigarettes

were also lower in those sameareas. These patterns did not ap-pear for non-menthol cigarettes.

Henriksen emphasized that thestudy found that cigarette manu-facturers target not only African

Americans, but also youths. Shecalled Lorillard’s marketing“predatory” in a statement toReuters.

“I hope [the research] will callattention to the tobacco industry’suse of advertising and promotionto target vulnerable groups and en-courage the FDA to consider thatevidence in banning menthol,” shesaid to The Daily.

Congress passed The FamilySmoking Prevention and TobaccoControl Act in 2009, which per-mits states and communities to de-velop restrictions on the time,place and manner of tobacco mar-keting. This act also banned anumber of cigarette additives in-cluding candy, fruit and spice be-cause of their possible appeal toyouth, but the question of a men-thol ban fell to the FDA, whichhas the power to ban menthol cig-

arettes under The Family Smok-ing Prevention and Tobacco Con-trol Act.

Stanford Law professor RobertL. Rabin felt that the results of thisstudy could influence a future men-

thol ban.“The principal manufacturer of

menthol cigarettes, I think some-thing like 85 percent of their busi-ness is in menthol cigarettes, [is]going to continue to lobby veryhard not to have a menthol ban,”Rabin said. “There’s lots of pres-sure on the other side. Stuff of thiskind is likely to increase pressure toget menthol banned as an additivein cigarettes.”

Rabin also added that limitingthe ways that cigarette manufactur-ers can market is “more complicat-ed.”

Henriksen said that she plans tocontinue researching similar issueson a broader scale. She recently re-ceived a grant from the NationalCancer Institute to examine tobac-co industry marketing in a sampleof stores across the nation.

“I hope I’ll have some opportu-

nity to look at this problem in alarger, more representative sam-ple,” she said.

Contact Harini Jaganathan at harini- [email protected].

CIGARETTESContinued from page 3

Meeting focuses on upcominginitiatives and events

“It’s a nightmare trying to find thedates,the deadlines.”

— WILL MONROE ‘13

long-term funding to Stanford.“Following [Obama’s] an-

nouncement, we have been work-ing on recommendations and plansfor education (shared manufactur-ing curriculum, manufacturing de-gree programs, outreach, examplesof industry/academic infrastructureand curriculum) and research (uni-versity/industry partnerships onmanufacturing, infrastructure net-works, roadmaps),” Kenny wrotein a separate email to The Daily.

“As this moves along, there willbe ideas and opportunities for pro-grams and activities at Stanford,”he added. “The Product Realiza-tion Lab led by [mechanical engi-

neering] professor Dave Beach isan excellent example, in that it pro-vides access for more than 1000 stu-dents each year to get their hands

on modern manufacturing toolsand learn how to design and makethings.”

Stanford cites its own history of practical innovation as a qualifica-tion for its participation in the pro-gram.

“The areas of focus are particu-lar strengths of Stanford, includinginformation technology, nanotech-nology and biotechnology,” wroteLapin. “We believe partnershipssuch as the manufacturing initiativeare key to the transfer of knowl-edge, and we are proud to join withthe federal government and indus-try leaders in this effort.”

Contact Henry Zhu at hz2014@stanford.edu.

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S PORTS

By KEVIN ZHANG andRACHEL WOLFARD

School may be out for the Cardinal faith-ful, but the team’s usual home of StanfordStadium was buzzing with activity last Satur-day. It wasn’t for a football game, the venue’smain event, and there were no national teamsor popular European squads in sight. Instead,fans in the Stanford area came out in droves tosee the San Jose Earthquakes (5-5-6) play theNew York Red Bulls (5-3-10) in a nationallytelevised Major League Soccer contest overIndependence Day weekend. San Jose squan-dered a late lead and settled for a 2-2 tie.

The match, which the Earthquakes relo-cated from the traditional Buck Shaw Stadi-um in Santa Clara, saw a crowd of 41,208 —the largest ever for a non-doubleheader in theEarthquakes’ history.

The stadium change surprised many fanswhen it was announced last April, but theadded exposure and publicity of the Stanford-hosted event seems to have paid off, accord-ing to the team.

“With more people, there was more elec-tricity,” said San Jose Earthquakes PresidentDave Kaval ‘98 MBA ‘03. “Being at Stanfordalso enables us to have fireworks after thegame and is an opportunity for fans all overthe Bay Area to watch the Earthquakes.”

Given Kaval’s background, the decision tomove the game to Stanford may have been asmuch about loyalty as business. Besides beinga Stanford alumnus, Kaval is a Cardinal foot-ball season ticket holder and says he enjoyedworking with the Stanford staff to make thetransition possible.

“As a season ticket holder, I believe thatStanford Stadium is a hidden gem in the BayArea,” Kaval said. “Having this marqueematchup here is an opportunity for people tosee this. The Stanford staff has been tremen-dous to work with, and we would love to comeback.”

Kaval has memories of Stanford’s role inthe 1994 FIFA World Cup, when a then-larg-er Stanford Stadium was one of nine venues tohost the event in the U.S. — and one of only

two on the West Coast.“As an alumnus, I want to create new his-tory as Stanford did 17 years ago with theWorld Cup,” Kaval said. “That is why we[honored] ‘94 World Cup players at half-

time.”Former Team USA players Tab Ramos,

Thomas Dooley, Marcelo Balboa, PaulCaligiuri, Fernando Clavijo, Mike Sorber,Juergen Sommer, Cobi Jones and JohnHarkes were on site Saturday evening, almost17 years after their 1-0 loss to Brazil in theRound of 16 at Stanford on July 4, 1994.

When the pregame festivities outside Stan-ford Stadium concluded and the game got un-derway, the large crowd quieted early. In justthe seventh minute, Red Bull forward Joel

Lindpere put in the first goal of the game fromthe outskirts of the 6-yard box.It wasn’t until the 37th minute that the

Earthquakes leveled the playing field withmidfielder Khari Stephenson’s unassisted

goal. The Red Bulls and the Earthquakes en-tered halftime with a 1-1 tie.

In the 68th minute, San Jose took the leadafter forward Steven Lenhart split two RedBull defenders and hammered in a headergoal off of an assist from teammate StevenBeitashour.

Toward the end of the game, the Red Bullspicked up the intensity with back-to-back at-tempted shots on goal. San Jose goalkeeperJon Busch saved the first attempt and ener-gized the crowd as he blocked the second in

order to hold onto the lead. His efforts would-n’t hold up, however, as Lindpere took con-trol of an assist from Red Bull forward Mehdi

S.J. EARTHQUAKES VISIT STANFORD STADIUMSOCCER SHOWCASE

Kevin Tsukii/The Stanford DailyEarthquakes defender Ramiro Corales, right, tries to slide-tackle attacking Red Bull forward Dane

Richards. San Jose took a 2-1 lead late in the match but was unable to stop the New York on-slaught, as they surrendered a late goal and the game ended 2-2.

JosephBeyda

DON’T PAY PLAYERS

We all know about Stan-ford’s 34 varsity sports,101 NCAA champi-onships and 17 Direc-tors’ Cups. But maybe

the most impressive way to describe Car-dinal athletics is with a big fat zero.

According to a Wall Street Journal(WSJ) report late last month, Stanford isone of only four schools in an AutomaticQualifying Conference— and the onlyone west of the Mississippi—that hasnever recorded a major NCAA rules vio-lation.

That’s something to be proud of, espe-cially in an athletic environment that’shearing increasing calls for an end to colle-giate amateurism. In early June, SouthCarolina coach Steve Spurrier, with thebacking of several other big-name SEC

coaches, introduced a pay-for-play pro-posal for football players that would in-clude a moderate $300 stipend per game.It would also break NCAA rules.

But let’s not kid ourselves. Benefits arealready being doled out — albeit improp-erly — to star players nationwide; just askUSC or Ohio State, or 62 of the 66 AQteams for that matter.

So what’s the point of stemming theTide (Alabama: five infractions)? Is pay-ing college athletes something that shouldhave happened Sooner (Oklahoma:seven infractions)? If almost everyone’sbreaking the rules, shouldn’t we join in thefun too, and just grin and Bear (Cal: seveninfractions) the immorality of it all?

Or is pay-for-play even immoral in thefirst place?

Advocates for plans such as Spurrier’sclaim that players aren’t getting their fairshare of the profits they help create. A six-figure scholarship over four years is nice,yet it pales in comparison to the $70 mil-lion that a school like Texas makes onfootball alone each season.

Let’s clear up one thing, right off thebat. Rule-breaking institutions have al-ways had their own interests in mind, not

those of the recruits. USC didn’t want toimprove the financial situation of Reggie

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I’m a better person than you.Or at least, if you’re an artsstudent, my undergrad de-gree counts for more thanyours. When I compare the

successes of classmates, I see my fel-low science or technology friendshave landed well-paying jobs in fi-nance or consultancy whereas themore socially oriented are stuckworking for NGOs. Based purely onfuture monetary success, art degreesare a waste of your time, your parents’money and perhaps even your univer-sity’s resources.

I hasten to add, before I get a land-slide of abuse, that I don’t actuallyagree with the above statement, butit’s the best way I could sum up in anacademic context my interpretationof what is becoming an easy target forabuse by Daily columnists: the Capi-tal One Cup. I do see some of the ar-guments behind an alternative to theDirectors’ Cup; since Stanford basi-cally has the largest college athleticsprogram in the country, it is almost a

shoo-in.But be careful what you wish for.Patriotic friends of mine stand by

the argument that America is a class-less society, and while the raw statis-tics contradict this assertion, I have toadmit that the underlying intention isgood. The statement “all men are cre-ated equal” from the Declaration of Independence is not just a memorablephrase but should be a guiding princi-ple behind any system of government.

The Capital One Cup’s version of this quote is “every championshipcounts,” but though the words mightsound a little similar, the raw ideology

is very different. Glossing over thefact that the statement is not true —some NCAA championships actuallydon’t count — it reminds me muchmore of a quote from George Or-well’s satirical book about the Russ-ian Revolution, “Animal Farm”: “Allanimals are equal, but some animalsare more equal than others.”

It’s not quite as catchy, but in theinterest of honesty, perhaps the Capi-tal One Cup’s organizers should try:“Most championships count, thoughsome count more than others.”

The changes in the ranking system

Here we go again. An-other month, anotherstory about the illegalexploits of a collegefootball program.

This time, it’s the Oregon Ducks,who apparently used a recruiternamed Will Lyles to funnel topprospects to Eugene in exchange for$25,000.

And while it’s not particularlyshocking to find out that a top pro-gram may have been bending therules in order to win football games—Ohio State, Auburn and USC cometo mind — the recent allegationslevied against Oregon could be a dis-aster for a program that appears to beon the cusp of national prominence

for the next decade or more.For the last 10 years, the Ducks

have been steadily climbing up the na-tional rankings thanks to some goodcoaching, great recruiting and thedeep pockets of Nike’s Phil Knight, anOregon alumnus. The Ducks got justone Pac-10 title between 1957 and1999, but they have captured fourconference championships since 2000and made their way to three BCSbowls in that time, including lastyear’s national championship game.

But now the Ducks have to deal

with the fact that their rise to successmay have been augmented by some il-legitimate recruiting, and Oregon

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JackBlanchat


Fleener selected for Mackey Award watch listFifth-year senior Coby Fleener was named to the

preseason watch list for the John Mackey Award,which recognizes the top collegiate tight end at theend of each season.

Given since 2000, the honor will be awarded atthe Home Depot ESPN College Football AwardsRed Carpet Show on Dec. 8.

Fleener set personal bests in all major offensivecategories for the Cardinal this season as the team’sthird-leading receiver, with 28 catches for 434 yardsand seven touchdowns. He crossed the goal linethree times in a 14:44 span in the Orange Bowl tohelp Stanford break ahead of Virginia Tech in thesecond half of a 40-12 win. In doing so, he set careerhighs in touchdowns (3), receiving yards (178) andreceptions (6). All three touchdowns were from atleast 38 yards out, with the second one — Fleener’slongest at Stanford — going for 58.

An All-Pac-10 second-team selection after lastseason, he will join juniors Zach Ertz and LevineToilolo to fill out a strong tight end corps this year.

—Joseph Beyda

Dawkins signs two-year extension

Stanford announced yesterday that men’s bas-ketball head coach Johnny Dawkins had signed acontract extension through the 2015-16 season. Hisprevious contract, a six-year deal, was set to expire

before the 2013-14 season.Entering his fourth year at the helm of the Cardi-nal program, Dawkins has a 49-48 record, includinga 20-win season in 2008-09 that saw Stanford reachthe semifinals of the College Basketball Invitation-al. He brought in a top-20 recruiting class last seasonto help fill the void left by the departures of theLopez twins in 2008 and Landry Fields in 2010.Dawkins helped develop Fields into a second-roundpick and starter for the New York Knicks and looksto do the same with Pac-10 All-Freshmen honoreesAnthony Brown and Dwight Powell during theirsophomore seasons.

His successes off the Farm include a 2008Olympic gold-medal run, serving as Player Person-nel Director, and an 11-year stint at Duke underworld-renowned coach Mike Krzyzewski. Dawkinswas also Duke’s all-time leading scorer with 2,556points from 1986 until 2006, when J.J. Redick, aplayer of his, beat that record.

— Joseph Beyda

Women’s water polo players chosenfor national team

The U.S. Women’s Junior National Team will in-clude four Cardinal water polo players — two of them incoming freshmen — when it heads to theFINA Junior World Championships in Italy this

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Stanford Daily File PhotoCoby Fleener, left, side-steps an Arizona State defender down the sideline. Fleener was an instrumental parttof the Cardinal offense last season, especially in the Orange Bowl, where he scored three late touchdowns.

NEW CUP NOT ASPERFECT AS OTHERS

MISTAKES WILL COSTTHE DUCKS

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Bush’s family; it wanted to win footballgames.

But even from an altruistic, give-players-what-they-deserve stand-point, what about the athletes thataren’t pulling in any money? It’s welldocumented that the overwhelmingmajority of NCAA revenue comesfrom football and men’s basketball;other sports are lucky to profit at all.And if the goal is to align player paywith the revenues they generate, thenathletes in the so-called “country-club” or “Olympic” sports— whichare much harder to make a living inpost-graduation— would be hung outto dry. In a way, the problem has al-ready manifested itself in major

NCAA violations, which surroundfootball 55 percent of the time, accord-ing to the WSJ report.

What’s more, paying players wouldpresent a host of logistical issues. Oneof the best things about college athlet-ics is that it’s completely devoid of all of

the revenue-sharing drama that’s com-monplace in professional leagues. Butif they paid players, schools wouldhave to decide how big a slice of therevenue pie they would be willing togive up. And the possibility of— dareI say it — an NCAA lockout just isn’tfair to young players looking to devel-op their skills.

With the players under contractand open bidding wars breaking outfor top recruits, the NCAA would beforced to again mimic professionalleagues with a salary cap. Though itwould sure be fun to watch certaincash-strapped, Division-I state schools(particularly one in the East Bay)struggle to keep up with the growing fi-nancial burdens that would be placedon legitimate big-sport contenders, asalary cap would be the only hope of maintaining any parity in college ath-letics. But then, athletes would beturned away from schools which had

so many other things going for them just because their payroll exceededNCAA limits. By leveling the playingfield, the necessary salary-cap stepwould neglect the one thing that trulyseparates college and pro sports: thecollege part.

And that’s where Stanford comesin. Coaches and administrators herealways talk about how Stanford sells it-self, how recruits are drawn to theschool by its world-class education.Learning would have no value in a sys-tem that sold 18-year-old athletes tothe school that writes the biggestcheck. So if you’re concerned by sto-ries of top-tier athletes failing classes,abandoning their education after twoyears or ending up on the wrong side of the law, then pay-for-play is not foryou.

Stanford’s clean record doesn’t justindicate that the athletic departmentcan follow rules. It’s also a reflection of the value we place on a wide variety of sports and the important role we giveeducation, even for student-athletes.

There’s no need to institute pay-for-play to legitimize the misbehaviorof all but four major institutions in thiscountry. There’s a right way to play —

and win — the game of college sports,and Stanford knows just how.

Joseph Beyda wants a $300 stipend to go watch football games. Offer him some fundraising tips at jbeyda@stanford.edu.

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from the Directors’ Cup might seemrelatively benign, but before throw-ing your support behind this newaward, it is worth considering what itslong-term impact could be. Universi-ties are generally ideological bubbleswhere equality rules far more than itdoes in the outside world. You studywhat you study because of raw inter-est rather than monetary greed, andstudents from all backgrounds andsubjects mix freely as equals. Collegeathletes, regardless of the future jobprospects in their chosen discipline,should be treated the same.

This utopia isn’t perfect, becausethere isn’t an endless supply of re-sources and money, and so not allsports can receive either varsity statusor NCAA recognition. But the inten-tion is good.

Or at least it was. There have al-ways been motives for concentratingsolely on the big sports — not least,the TV revenue they bring in— butthe Capital One Cup turns the screweven further on the little sports. TheCardinal might be well-advised todrop the six men’s and six women’s

varsity teams absent from the cup’srankings in favor of creating newteams to better suit this competition,or perhaps to simply pour the savingsinto the football program. Maybe thatis what other schools have been doingfor years, shirking sporting diversityin search of success in just one big-money discipline, and maybe this ex-plains why Stanford traditionally hasstruggled to compete at the very topof the football hierarchy.

Even smaller sports actually in-cluded in the Capital One Cup mightbe at risk. Men’s lacrosse is worthtwice as much as golf, and so it wouldmake competitive sense to sacrificethe latter in order to make space for anew varsity team of the former. Canyou imagine if that had happened a

few years ago? Whatever you think of either his sport or his private life, it ishard not to feel some kind of respectfor the achievements of Tiger Woodsand a little bit of pride that one of his-tory’s most iconic sportsmen went toStanford.

Smaller colleges whose athleticsprograms are limited to a football orbasketball program may find a signif-icant advantage in this new rankingsystem, but the larger and more var-ied athletics departments will almostcertainly lose out. Many student-ath-letes may find their sports disappear-ing before their very eyes as attentionshifts to the more important, i.e. high-er point-scoring, disciplines. Thebreadth of the college sporting worldwill surely narrow.

On its website, the NCAA claimsthat it was formed “to protect stu-dent-athletes,” but through its affilia-tion with this new championship —

Capital One is an official “CorporateChampion” of the NCAA — itseems to be doing the very opposite.

Tom Taylor is more equal than you.Disagree at [email protected].

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some count morethan others.

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Silk Students flip for aerial fabrics classesSilk


By STEPHANIE YOUNG

Tucked away in a back room of the Arrillaga Center forSports and Recreation, therock climbing wall exists, un-beknownst to many students.

But for students in the aerial fabricsclass, this rock wall is their home base, aplace where they twist, twirl, pull, stretchand hang upside down multiple times aweek.

Aerial fabrics, described as “equalparts grace, strength and adrenaline, and100 percent Cirque Du Soleil,” on theStanford Athletics Physical Education,Recreation and Wellness website, is nei-ther an official Stanford varsity nor aclub team. Rather, the troupe holds of-fice hours, hosts aerial fabrics classes at avariety of skill levels and performs inshows — the group’s most recent expo-sition, the Aerial Fabrics Showcase2011, took place in early June at the rockclimbing wall.

Also called aerial tissue or aerialskills, aerial fabrics is a more recent phe-

nomenon in the aerial arts and hassteadily grown in exposure and popular-

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fans should be considering just howdamaging the consequences might beif they get slapped with several yearsof probation and scholarship restric-tions from the NCAA.

When big football schools likeUSC, Ohio State, Oklahoma or Al-abama are penalized for their wrong-doing, everybody in the collegesports world knows that the programwill be right back at the top when therestrictions are lifted because, well,they’re USC (or Ohio State or Okla-homa or Alabama). These big pro-

grams always succeed not only be-cause they can always lure in top re-cruits with a 100,000-seat stadiumand a trophy room filled with Heis-man statuettes and national titles, butalso because they can count on theirboosters to support them throughthick and thin.

But Oregon doesn’t have thatsame legacy of success to support it,and that means that the punishmentthat may be awaiting the Ducks couldbe much more problematic than itwould be for a more established pro-gram.

Sure, the Ducks will still have theirswimming pool full of gold coinscourtesy of Phil Knight to help themcontinue to upgrade their already-ridiculous facilities and attract top-

tier recruits, but that doesn’t meanthat Oregon won’t suddenly becomeold news after a couple of years out of the spotlight. Consider the exampleof new Pac-12 member Colorado.The Buffaloes were a perennial con-tender for the Big-12 title during the90s and early 2000s, but the Buffaloeshave had just one winning seasonsince a major recruiting scandal sur-faced in 2004.

Another factor that could nega-tively affect the Ducks is that the topprogram in the Pac-12, USC, will becoming off probation at the sametime. Because the Ducks have beenon their steady uptick for the last fewyears, they now compete for a lot of recruits against the Trojans, but if Oregon is facing serious penalties

from the NCAA while USC is unfet-tered, the Trojans could quickly re-gain their dominant position in thePac-12.

Although it’s probably too earlyto speculate about the conference’sfuture power structure consideringthat Oregon hasn’t even been pun-ished for its recruiting malfeasances,a world where USC is perched firm-ly atop the Pac-12 is just the picturethat the Ducks (and everyone else inthe conference, for that matter)have been trying to overcome foryears. But thanks to USC’s nationalprominence and on-field successover the past decade, it’s wellequipped to rebound and fill anyvoid that the Ducks would leaveatop the Pac-12 — the hallmark of a

powerhouse program.So while Oregon has worked hard

and recruited well (maybe a little toowell) to reach this point, the potentialramifications of its actions couldleave the Ducks where they startedover a decade ago— looking up thestandings in the Pac-12 — but with anew set of questions to answer. In-stead of asking themselves what itwould take to get to the top, headcoach Chip Kelly and the Ducksmight be wondering what could havebeen — and that could be the mostbitter pill to swallow.

Jack Blanchat has been recruitingreaders “a little too well.” Help him

gain a following at [email protected].

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September.Goalie Kate Baldoni and driver

Kaley Dodson were both instru-mental in capturing Stanford’s101st NCAA championship in Mayas freshmen. Baldoni posted theMountain Pacific Sports Federa-tion’s best goals-against averagewith a 4.04, while Dodson scored 27goals and had two hat tricks.

Joining them will be AshleyGrossman and Kiley Neushul, partof Stanford’s six-member incomingfreshman class. Dodson, Grossmanand Baldoni were all members of the bronze-medal-winning TeamUSA at the Junior World Champi-onships in Russia in 2009.

—Joseph Beyda

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Ballouchy and scored his secondgoal of the game in the 85th minuteto put the score where it would end,at 2-2.

Going into the match, one of theother draws of the contest wasFrench national team player andRed Bull forward Thierry Henry.However, Henry was not presentduring the match due to a red cardsuspension.

Taking his place was Ballouchy,a graduate of both Palo Alto’sHenry Gunn High School andSanta Clara University.

“It was awesome,” Ballouchysaid. “I went to school five minutesfrom here. I went to college 20 min-utes from here. It’s a special placeto play soccer.”

Members of the Earthquakeswere also pleased with the atmos-

phere and crowd at Stanford.“It was fantastic [to be at Stan-ford],” said San Jose head coachFrank Yallop. “I think the playerswarmed up to the crowd a bit afterseeming a bit nervous in the begin-ning of the game. It is always toughto play in a new stadium, because itdoesn’t feel like home. But towardthe end of the game, it felt like homeand it was a great for everybody.”

Lenhart noticed several differ-ences between Stanford Stadiumand Buck Shaw, the current homefor the Earthquakes.

“[The roar of the crowd at BuckShaw compared to Stanford] is likea double-double at In-N-Out ver-sus a Big Mac,” he said. “It was fun.I wish I went to school here.”

Contact Kevin Zhang at [email protected] and Rachel Wolfard at [email protected].

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ity in mainstream culture — per-formance artist, Pink, featuredthese aerial silk skills in her 2010Grammy performance. Rooted inthe circus arts, aerial fabrics hasbeen adapted from a highly special-ized skill to one that complete be-ginners can attempt with relativeease. The once extremely stretchymaterials — the type that the Stan-ford group still uses — have be-come more rigid and less stretchy,making the fabric much more ac-cessible to beginners and more eas-ily adapted for yoga and condition-

al training.Professionals usually know the

basics of static trapeze, aerial hoopand rope in addition to aerial fab-rics but chooses to specialize in oneof the disciplines. Artists usuallyhave at least some previous dancetraining or gymnastics on their re-sume, however, the group at Stan-ford hosts classes that assume nobackground whatsoever.

For Sommer Panage ‘08 M.S.‘09, an instructor for both the aeri-al fabrics class at Stanford and atthe San Francisco Circus Center, aclass she took at Stanford as an un-dergraduate sparked her interest inthe art. Currently working atApple as a programmer, she stilltrains and teaches almost everyday.

“Aerial arts has gotten me intothe best shape of my life,” Panage

said, noting that “there’s nothing Ilove doing more than hanging up-side down 30 feet in the air gettingready for a big drop or dancing myway up and down a rope to my fa-vorite song.”

Though she doubts that she’llever pursue the circus arts profes-sionally, Panage plans to continuetraining, practicing and performingin the foreseeable future.

Though safety is a concern formany — Panage does acknowl-edge that there isn’t much in termsof harnesses and lines because theyget tangled in the silk — carefulhabits and training, such as practic-ing low to the ground and the use of mats, can make the art of aerial fab-

rics a relatively secure hobby.The various aerial fabrics classes

at Stanford, particularly the intro-ductory class, are designed for a two-fold purpose, according to Panage.The first goal is to introduce stu-dents to the circus arts, the most fa-mous example being Cirque duSoleil. The second is to encouragestudents to pursue aerial fabrics as away to improve strength and flexibil-ity — a typical aerialist can whip out10 to 20 pull-ups, 50 v-ups and 50 to100 pushups in addition to perform-ing the splits and a backbend — andto engage the muscles in the body ina dynamic manner.

The beginning class teaches stu-dents how to climb and performtricks on the silk, but couples thosemore awe-inspiring features with

the importance of stretching,ground conditioning and safety. In

the intermediate level, students aretaught the basics of routine choreo-graphing with music. For the moreadvanced students, students whohave trained outside of Stanford,the silks at Arrillaga offer an av-enue to practice their skills on cam-pus. All of the classes have grownin popularity and interest.

And according to Erica Lieber-man ‘14, one of the teaching assis-tants for the beginning aerial fab-rics class, the training comes withan additional bonus.

“You’re pretty much guaran-teed a six-pack,” she said.

Contact Stephanie Young at [email protected].

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Mehmet Inonu/The Stanford DailyEarthquakes forward Steven Lenhart, right, jostles for position with Red Bulldefender Carlos Mendes. Lenhart’s 68th-minute goal captured a temporarylead for San Jose, but the Earthquakes couldn’t hold on.

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Ialways knew that Shigeru Miyamoto, thevideo game luminary behind Mario andZelda, drew his inspiration from unusual

sources. No, not giant mushrooms— Shigs isfamous for turning banal facets of his everyday life into some of the most fantastical experi-ences in gaming. Mario was the name of hislandlord, Pikmin came from working in hisgarden and Zelda was inspired by his child-hood trips to rural Japan.

Zelda fans like myself, however, owe creditto an even less-predictable source of inspira-tion.

It turns out the TV drama “Twin Peaks”played a small but important role in Zelda’sdevelopment as Miyamoto guided the series toits golden age in the midst of the Clinton years.According to interviews leading up to E3 andthe 25th anniversary of the series, Miyamoto

made David Lynch’s anti-quated serial drama such awater-cooler topic at theoffice that he and long-time series creatorsTakashi Tezuka andEiji Aonuma could hard-ly help its influence fromcreeping into their games.

Even by Shiggy’s standards, that revelationwarrants a few head scratches or raised eye-brows. I’ve seen a few reruns of “Twin Peaks”myself, and I’m not sure how schoolyard mur-ders, campy humor and creepy one-armeddudes translate into the bright and quirky landof Hyrule.

But if we zoom out a bit — and take thesegentlemen’s words at face value— there’s areasonable justification, both vague and specif-

ic, for “Twin Peaks” having a right-ful place in the Zelda-verse.

“At the time [we madeLink’s Awakening], ‘TwinPeaks’ was rather popular,”

Tezuka explained at a recent“Iwata Asks” discussion. “The drama was allabout a small number of characters in a smalltown. . . I wanted to make something that,while it would be small enough in scope to eas-ily understand, it would have deep and distinc-tive characteristics.”

“I thought, ‘You really want to makeZelda like that?!’” Aonuma said in response.“Now the mystery is solved (laughs). When Iwas reading Tanabe-san’s comments in thestrategy guide, I saw, ‘Tezuka-san suggested wemake all the characters suspicious types like inthe then-popular “Twin Peaks.”’”

If you’ve played Link’s Awakening, you’ll

know it as a major turning point for the seriesthat took Link out of Hyrule, ditched Ganonand the Triforce, and broke the fourth wallwhenever it could. Characters like Marin andthe shopkeeper aren’t what they seem, and thesecrets hinted at by the Owl and the Ocarinakeep players guessing at what mysteries may belurking just under the surface. The isolated,quirky setting of Koholint Island suspends theplayer’s disbelief; this isn’t Hyrule, anythingcould happen here. The main draw of Link’s

Awakening— and the legacy that’s earned it acouple remakes and re-releases — isn’t so dif-ferent from the sense of wonder that keptviewers coming back for the next episode of “Twin Peaks.”

But that’s an exceptional example, isn’t it?Link’s Awakening is remembered fondly, but itfalls outside what many gamers consider the“core” of the Zelda series. Surely the anchors of the entire franchise — games like “Ocarina of Time” — are immune to such outlandish

influences.Nope.It took a bit of a paradigm shift, but I’m

actually surprised at how natural it feels to view

Ocarina through this new lens. Most of its pre-sentation is basic, and its compelling materialcomes more from the player’s imaginationthan the game itself. Mysterious characters fitright in with that dynamic, and their low-restextures and voiceless dialogue only add to theplayer’s personal concept of who they are.

And ultimately, the series is better for it.We think of Zelda as an epic experience, but in

so many ways it’s really not — it’s a simplestory with classic setup. It’s not the clash of nations or Patrick Stewart voiceovers thatbring us back again and again, but our ownsense of wonder and imagination. A game likeZelda gives us just enough backstory to sendour childish dreams downstream and justenough freedom to flesh them out with eddiesof our own design, emergent byproducts of aninteractive medium that feel epic for their con-text and intimate for their detail.

Given how much we cling to great gamesas beacons of true originality, it’s funny to see

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Abig, bold and brave performer, BeyonceKnowles is known for her over-the-top

vocals, incredible stage presence and, mostof all, her ability to seemingly produce a hit oncommand, whether it be in collaboration with oth-ers (see Destiny’s Child, or, more recently, her2010 hit “Telephone” with Lady Gaga) or on herown (“Single Ladies,” etc.) However, Queen B laysquiescent in “ 4,” the artist’s fourth solo studioalbum. Instead, Beyonce seems to take the roadless traveled, masterfully exploring the themes of both individualism and romance in what proves tobe a more nuanced and sophisticated collection

than her previous work.Beyonce’s last two albums — “B’Day,”released in 2006 and the two-part 2008 album, “IAm . . . Sasha Fierce” — solidified her status as apowerhouse, stocked with chart-topping, club-dominating hits that had Beyonce all over theradio and wowing crowds with her energetic liveperformances. However, “4” reflects the strategicmove of a woman who already has a strong fanbase and uses this certainty to give her the freedomto try something a bit different.

In fact, as far as commercialism is concerned,“4” doesn’t begin to compare to Beyonce’s previ-ous albums. Frankly, there might be two Top-20hits in the dozen songs “4” is composed of, butBeyonce very clearly did not entirely write thealbum for the profits it would bring in. Instead,

MUSIC REVIEW

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TV RECAP

Bentley’s back

MOVIE REVIEW

Humans, plot take back seat in ‘Transformers’

Director Michael Bay’s conclusion to the iconic robot trilogy “Transformers” lives up to summer-blockbuster expecta-tions, using stylized special effects to mask a thinly devel-

oped plot that, while much more understandable than its predeces-sor, is unable to surpass the 2007 hit that started it all.

Like the previous summer hit “X-Men: First Class,”“Transformers: Dark of the Moon ” features a clever appropriationof American history, asserting that the true intention of Apollo 11’smission to the moon was to investigate the crash site of what turnsout to be former Autobot leader Sentinel Prime (voiced by Leonard

Nimoy), who fled the robots’ home planet Cybertron in order toprotect a valuable new technology from the antagonisticDecepticons. The findings of Apollo 11 disappeared into the recessesof classified government intelligence, only to reemerge in the presentday when the Decepticons begin searching for the long-lost ruins,which may hold the key to restoring Cybertron. Human protagonistSam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), now a job-hunting college graduatewe can all relate to, gets sucked back into global conflict when his

Just in case any (read: all) of you readershaven’t been faithfully watching “TheBachelorette” for two hours a week, let me

introduce you to the man whose absolute scum-baggery has defined this season: a fine younglump of human slime by the name of Bentley.Bentley is that guy your mom warned you aboutwhen you went off to college, telling Ashley toher face that he had real feelings for her and thenturning to the camera and laughing about howshe was ugly, stupid and “haha, oh man, totally falling for it!” He confounded me for every episode that he showed up in, because his levelsof cruelty were so ridiculously, unrealistically evil;

at first, I thought the show had put him up toplaying with her mind, but if that were the case,they wouldn’t have had him leave the show early.It remains a mystery.

Anyway, this episode was a big deal becauseBentley, after leaving the show three episodes ago,returned for more screen time. We all assumedthat the producers had made him come back toconfess to Ashley that he didn’t actually have feel-ings for her so she could stop freaking talkingabout him every second of every episode, but to

my surprise, Bentley kept up his lies— but forthe first time, Ash saw through them! I very, very,very briefly felt a flicker of respect for her.

After Bentley, the episode was mostly forget-table and involved a lot of the ‘Borings’ (the suit-ors whose names and faces are unremarkable tothe point that I’ve had to come up withmnemonic devices to remember them). The firstone-on-one date was with Southern Gent; thegroup date involved Dragon Racing and pairedup Constantine and Ben F., which was inconve-nient because I have never been able to tell themapart. Blake, the festering sack of turds that lovesto badmouth the others behind their backs, wasfinally sent home. He was confused; I was tri-umphant. People complained about things thatweren’t worth complaining about. Ash got inse-cure and cried. Yawn.

Since nothing much happened this episode,I’ve decided that I need to spend some time onAmes, because I find him infinitely and uninten-tionally hilarious. Ames is intended to be thetoken intellectual, the manifestation of all that“smart is sexy” jargon, and yes, he’s charming,

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the vulnerability first introduced in the slower, impassioned “IAm . . . “ half of her third album reemerges in “4.” Beyonce isall grown up now and takes the time to reflect more on whatshe’s experienced than what she has yet to do.

Ironically, where Beyonce falls flat is in attempts at herprevious style. The first single of “4,” “Run the World (Girls),”features uninspired lyrics — albeit an empowering message —haphazardly thrown over the popular electro-hit “Pon de

Floor” by Major Lazer. Another upbeat attempt, “Party,” alsodisappoints; though the addition of Andre 3000 adds to thesong, Beyonce simply doesn’t bring enough of the raw vocalenergy she usually delivers to her more popular tracks, leaving“Party” strangely suspended between her upbeat and slowersongs.

Unexpectedly for many, her exploration with deeper top-ics comes with remarkable success. Though the songs aremore sentimental, Beyonce generally brings power to each andevery one of them, creating an album full of successfully variedsound and thoughtful songwriting. One of the best songs of the album is the first, “1+1,” a slow ballad very obviously writ-ten about her hubby, rapper and music mogul Jay-Z. Beyonceexpresses some lyrical poeticism, singing, “ I don’t know muchabout algebra/But I know 1+1=2/And it’s me and you/That’s all we’ll have when the world is through.” The best by far, though, of “4” is “I Was Here,” the second-to-last song and final ballad, inwhich she contemplates the power and humanity of the individ-ual, simultaneously delivering a particularly fantastic vocal per-formance.

“4” might not feature Beyonce’s traditional barrage of hits,but it’s a wise album, expressing a more thoughtful side of awoman usually seen as a larger-than-life personality.

—a n d re a HINTON

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Autobot friends become locked in battle against theDecepticons with the fate of the Earth at stake.

Reprising his role as the neurotic, accidental mediatorbetween humans and robots, LaBeouf flaunts his fast-talkingcomedic ability like a frat-boy version of Jesse Eisenberg, butcompared to the other films in the franchise, has relatively

less material to work with. Surprising and often humorouscameos include John Malkovich, Frances McDormand,Patrick Dempsey and Ken Jeong, but in the end, most of thehuman characters feel unnecessary. Going back to its Hasbroroots, Transformers is, at heart, a story about robots in dis-guise and, whether intentionally or not, Bay’s latest filmreflects this. For despite the efforts made at interweaving thehuman and robot narratives, by the end of the climactic bat-tle sequence, it seems quite clear that the real star is OptimusPrime (voiced by Peter Cullen).

While many have been panning model RosieHuntington-Whiteley’s acting chops as the Sexy Girlfriend, afranchise staple, I found her comparable to Megan Fox, whostarred in the first two films. But whereas Fox’s tomboyishMikaela was semi-plausible as a romantic interest for thesocially awkward Witwicky, Huntingon-Whiteley perpetually

looks like she stepped out of a Victoria’s Secret ad, thus ren-dering the relationship almost farcical. And if rumors aboutFox’s departure in conjunction with Bay’s demands for anovertly sexual performance are true, then I don’t blame her.Huntington-Whiteley is consistently objectified and exploit-ed, being leered at not only by the camera but also by every

single male character including the Decepticons.In true Michael Bay fashion, quick-cutting action andgrand explosions abound, which I would argue make the 3Dviewing experience worth the extra cost. While the humansand their world still look slightly less than perfectly realistic,the CGI and the transformers themselves are simply stun-ning. Live-action, 3D cinema technology may not have quitehit its stride yet, but Bay makes highly effective use of it.

An instructor once told me that sequels rarely trumpthe original and are almost always made for financial gain.While this is almost certainly true of “Transformers,” thefilm never pretends to be more than what it is. Just sit back,relax and let the high-budget, fast-paced action wash over you.

— m i s a S H I K U M A

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but oh my god he is impossible totake seriously. Everyone knows andloves an ‘Ames;’ he’s that guy in your friend group that everyone

loves to give a hard time. Any attempt at seriousness or charm willbe met with a resounding “SHUTUP, AMES” from the crowd. He’sthe guy who, when the suitors allhad to fight each other, got saddledwith the hot pink uniform and thenproceeded to get the living hellkicked out of him and had to go toa hospital in that same little pinkuniform. You love him in the same

way you would love a particularly ugly pug: with affection, with pro-tectiveness and with not a hint of romance. Unfortunately, nobody seems to have told him that,because in this episode, he tried tobe suave. He pulls Ashley into theelevator, winks knowingly andpresses the button for the highestfloor (shut up, Ames). He goes infor a tremendously awkward kiss;

she giggles and he hushes her (shutup, Ames). The elevator doorsopen and someone goes to enter;Ames sort of herds them away whilestill trying to maintain James Bondstatus (for the love of God shut up ,Ames). I literally could not breathefor laughing.

Tune in next week, whenAshley will be crying about boys inTaiwan.

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some of the biggest names in theindustry talk candidly about theirinspirations from obscure or unre-markable parts of everyday life. Butif you’re willing to accept thatgames, like anything else, are partof a back-and-forth exchange of creative ideas, it makes the devel-

opment process itself that muchmore inspiring: men likeMiyamoto, of course, have nocommunion with gaming gods thatspark billion-dollar ideas into theirminds. They’re not crazy people,drug addicts or geniuses. They’renormal people like you and me,

and the fact that they can deftly translate a family vacation or a day in the garden into a moving, engag-ing experience is damned impres-sive.

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they are educated in environmentsthat expose them to multiple disci-plines — regardless of their chosencourse of study — and encouraged toengage in collaborative problem-solving approaches and harnessingemerging technologies effectively.”

Elam also touched on the pro-gram’s place within broader Univer-sity ventures.

“We have the changes that arecurrently being considered by SUES,the Study of Undergraduate Educa-tion at Stanford,” Elam wrote. “Cer-tainly, one of the major things thatwill come out of that study is the needfor integration of what we considergeneral education and major require-ments — each needs to inform theother.”

Despite the variety of projects,Elam stressed that each one will bebased on a common tenet: team-work.

“The goals of Faculty College aresimple: to provide faculty with the

space to develop an idea for innova-tive curricula, change or exciting newcourses,” he said.

Contact Hiroko Sunamara at [email protected].

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do it in our own backyards by forgoingpesticides and growing native plants.We have to note which species requirehuman absence, which tolerate somedegree of disturbance and which thrivein our presence. And we have to createand maintain a patchwork landscapeallowing for these differences, whilestill providing for human needs.

So gather up your ones and zeros,because the future of conservation isout in that landscape matrix.

Or, if you prefer traditional uses of bina-ry, send your coded questions, com-ments and critiques to Holly at [email protected].

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buns and a few complications withthe barbecue, the council proposedanother barbecue event for BastilleDay, a French national holiday onJuly 14.

The bigger issue was about bet-ter planning the next event. Due toa few complaints that all the mem-bers of the Graduate Student

Council should contribute to orga-nize a better barbecue, Cathy Jan, asecond-year graduate student inelectrical engineering, asked toplan shifts for the next meeting.

“If we have all these tasks to do,it’s great that all of you showed up,”Jan said. “Showing up for an hourisn’t going to cut it.”

The next meeting of the Gradu-ate Student Council will be in twoweeks.

Contact Haelin Cho at haelin.cho@ gmail.com.

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MEHMET INONU/The Stanford DailyWork continues to progress on the Bing Concert Hall, located at the end of Museum Way facing the Cantor ArtsCenter. Construction is scheduled to be completed in summer 2012, with the first performance in early 2013.

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