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By KURT CHIRBASCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Last months repeal of dont ask, donttell (DADT), a federal policy that bannedopenly gay people from serving in the mili-tary, has ushered in a new stage in the debateover whether ROTC will be brought back toStanford. Considered by some to contradictStanfords nondiscrimination policy, DADTwas seen as a major obstacle to overcome bythose who supported the return of ROTC,whose program at Stanford ended in the1970s.

Within the committee, DADT was al-ways one of our hold-ups, said ImaniFranklin 13, a member of the Faculty Senatead hoc committee on ROTC formed lastMarch to explore a possible return. There

would not be much consideration aboutbringing ROTC back if dont ask, dont tellwas still in place.

Now that its been repealed, Franklinadded,we can go forward with the conversa-tion, and its much more likely that ROTCcould be brought back to campus if thatswhat the general Stanford communitywants.

However, the repeal has left the LGBTcommunity at Stanford divided.

While some LGBT groups view it as suc-cess for gay and lesbian people,who can nowserve in uniform openly, others such asStanford Students for Queer Liberation(SSQL) and the Stanford Queer-Straight Al-liance (SQSA) believe the repeal may beused as grounds to justify the return ofROTC even though the military has otherdiscriminatory policies in place.

In particular, the two groups say they are

concerned that transgender people are stillexcluded from service according the Uni-form Code of Military Justice.

Now that DADT is repealed, we ac-knowledge and appreciate the fact that gay,lesbian and bisexual service members cannow serve openly, said Janani Balasubra-manian 12,a member of SSQLs subcommit-tee on ROTC. But on the other hand, themilitary is still completely closed off to trans-gender people. We feel that, on the groundsthat Stanford does have gender identity in itsnondiscrimination clause,that we should op-pose ROTC.

Early in fall quarter,SSQL formed a sub-committee to investigate ROTC soon afterDaniel Colligan, a graduate student in com-puter science and president of the group

Stanford Says No to War, came to speak atone of their meetings.He presented his viewson ROTC and asked the group if it would liketo take a stance on the issue as well.

We had already been talking about theROTC issue in light of DADT, Balasubra-manian said,but he was definitely sort of aspark for us.

The group spent several meetings tryingto determine what its position on the issuewould be.After deciding that it was a queer

rights organization, not just a gay rights or-ganization, SSQL came to the conclusionthat it could not support a program that dis-criminates against transgender people.

Its first act was writing a Nov. 15 op-ed inThe Daily,which laid out its views on ROTC.Now,because of the repeal,the group has de-cided to write another letter. While it wasoriginally to be addressed to exclusively tothe Office of Diversity and Access asking it to

uphold Stanfords nondiscrimination policy,it is now an open letter to all and has beensent to most of the administration.

In fact, SSQL has been shifting its tactics.We still really want to watch whats going

on with the Faculty Senate and present ourvoices, SSQL president Alok Vaid-Menon13 said,but weve reoriented our efforts tocreate a consciousness amongst the studentbody.

Next week, the groups members plan onpassing out flyers about their position inWhite Plaza to bring attention to their cause,which is pointing out the exclusion of trans-gender people.

Vaid-Menon said he does recognize divi-

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Cantor Arts Center director

announces retirement after

20-year career

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Cantor Arts Center director Tom Seligmanannounced in December his plans to retire atthe end of 2011.

Donald Kennedy, University president atthe time,recruited Seligman in 1991 to head ef-

forts to rebuild and reinvent the campus muse-um into todays Cantor Arts Center.The muse-um had been badly damaged in the 1989 LomaPrieta earthquake and was closed for years be-fore reopening in 1999.

Seligman was recruited to head a museumthat,at best,had a virtual existence,said Pres-ident Gerhard Casper at the inaugural eventfor the Cantor Arts Center in 1999. WithoutToms faith,optimism,organizational talent,at-tention to detail, steadiness,calm and childlikeinnocence or what he pretends to be his in-nocence we would not be able to give thisking without a kingdom a realm that he willnow rule with the same forbearance andawareness of revenue constraints that have

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By RUOKE YANG

On a typical day in Stanfords math corner, men sitpondering arcane expressions illustrated in Greek.But, although there are quite a few female gradu-

ate students in the Department of Mathematics,women are scarcer on the faculty there are

three female professors out of 46 mathematics faculty in total.Why the gap? Stanford professors have a few ideas.Two generations ago, there was severe bias and women

could not become mathematicians without fighting the system,but I dont think that is the case now,said math professor JoanLicata.There may be isolated sexist attitudes, but my personalexperience has been generally positive.

But old biases can leave a legacy that takes a long time tochange, as you notice that the senior faculty we see now are theproduct of an earlier age where the prevalent social distortionspromoted men,Licata added.

Sociology professor Shelley Correll said gender disparity is-sues have certainly improved from a situation where therewere no women to a situation where there are some womeninmathematics.

The changes havent been across the board. In computer sci-ence (CS), for example, the number of women in the field hasdecreased since the 1980s,according to Correll.

College majors did become more integrated until the 1990s,where it has become a flat trajectory,Correll said.

On the possible causes for gender disparities, Licata said thatwhile it would be incorrect to rule out the effect biology has onmens and womens career choices, it is more practical to focuson the social aspects that contribute to the current picture.

Correll mentioned the typical differences in how boys andgirls are conditioned to act.

Girls are encouraged to care more about others,while boysare pushed to be more independent,she said.

Parents pass on more than genes by socializing expecta-tions, she added.

Amy Pang,a graduate student in math, recalled how in highschool,her affinity for math caused others to call her a robot.But, she added,the characterization died out in college.

Correll indicated such stereotypes can be useful labels thatgive a rough idea of peoples personalities and interests,but be-come harmful if others judge their individual abilities based onthose preconceptions.

Motherhood might have something to do with the lack ofwomen in mathematics, although it is less likely than other po-

tential explanations.The years when people want to have kids are also the yearswhen people also try to get tenure that then is bound to causesome conflict in balancing the two,Licata said.

But both Licata and Correll agreed that this specific issue ishardly restricted to math and extends to most disciplines.

Neither Licata nor Pang expects math departments to beevenly split between men and women.But statistics may be mis-leading,suggesting a problem when there may be none.

It is more important that current students have equal op-tions, Licata said.I care less about whether a department hasethnic or gender parity and more that math departments aregenerally welcoming,open and supportive places for everybody.So Im more interested in the experiences of people today.

People should never be forced into anything, Pang said.Girls should be offered what boys are offered and vice versa,and then be allowed to choose for their own.

To further this goal, Licata created an organization calledStanford Women in Math (SWiM). Its goal, which Pang strong-ly supports,is to connect the female minority in math by givingthem easier ways to get to know each other, Pang said.

Contact Ruoke Yang at [email protected].

By SOPHIA VO

Ive heard that SLE kids are per-haps more artsy and less techy,said Rebecca Amato 14. Also,Ive noticed I havent met toomany right-handed IHUM kids.

So SLE kids must be left-handed,she joked.

It sounds like a disease,said Maria Posa14.Shes got the SLE.

So go some SLE kid sterotypes. Andalmost every year, it plays out in Gaieties:big glasses, parted hair, awkward socialhabits. At a house meeting, one studentcommented that her dorm was able to laughat the dramatization all the more because itwas so removed from the truth.

SLE students live not on another planet,but in Florence Moore (FloMo).

Its not really a cave, joked Ben Rad-cliffe 13.We venture out on occasion, likeFridays and Saturdays.

The program includes lectures and sec-tions based in a residence hall. Films, playsand tutoring are mixed in with daily dormlife. With the activities kept in one area,there is a stigma about the program thatcomes from the outside:the IHUM world.

But Faisan, like typical freshman dorms,has a lounge, stairs, resident assistants(RAs), laptops attached to students andlong hallways. At a routine house meeting,residents showed clear camaraderie onestudent ran around hugging everyone. An-other dressed in full attire as a dictator foran upcoming play. Others brought in freshlybaked goods for the taking.And the couch-es were full.

Four of us sophomores re-applied forFloMo because we love it so much, Rad-cliffe said. SLEers are really into kooky,eccentric things.One of them is our author-itarian government, which manages Faisandaily life. Theres an oligarchy called theCouncil of Five, which bakes and puts upposters.It tries to instill a sense of discipline

and order.Theres also a revolution, led by me,

RA Morielle Stroethoff 12 added. Therevolution believes not in the pursuit ofperfection.We believe in love and compas-sion. And also peanut butter and honeysandwiches.

Stoethoff reflected on the residents shehas met during fall quarter as an RA.

My freshmen this year are amazing, soreal and honest, she said.Everyone has areally strong personality and usually has aweird talent you dont know about. [Its] acombination of fuzzy and techy [people].

But if SLE kids are so like your averageStanford students, why is there the stigma?One SLE alumna had a theory.

Quite a bit is that FloMo is more distantthan other dorms,said Nabila Abdallah 13.

I was one of the not-so-studious of SLEkids, she added. My average sleep timewas 4 a.m.,and it wasnt part of studying.InSLE, I pretty much got to know everyone.

Some stereotypes might emerge just be-cause SLE is so self-contained.

Socially? It was difficult that I didntknow many people well outside my dorm.Im still struggling with that balance, saidGregory Valdespino 13.

But for many students,the relative isola-tion is worth it.

SLE doesnt enlighten you, addedValdespino.It gives you the skills to think.Its not like I know everything, but my cu-riosity has been piqued in enough thingsthat I know what questions to ask.

Students read Greek epics, scripture,

English classics and more.You can see the trajectory of thoughts

in academia,Valdespino explained. Withsome professors and some ideas, you seehow they apply to our modern life, how thestruggles Im going through in college,intel-lectually or socially, have been going onlong through civilization.

More than 90 professors lecture by theend of the year.

SLE students take in a wide breadth ofthe humanities. Techies enjoy that theydont have to take a ton of fuzzy classeslater on. Fuzzies enjoy absorbing materialtheyre passionate about, which they couldgo on to study even more in the future.

Eva Oped 14 gave an inside scoop onlingo unique to SLE.

SLEcture, SLEssays, SLEople, SLEc-tion, Flove, Oped said. SLove meansSLincest. SLExile could be SLE exile be-cause we take over all the lounges. NorthFloMorians are people who are aroundduring the day but suspiciously go else-where at night.

The general consensus seems to be thatthose who choose SLE love it.

The community definitely is close-knit,Oped went on.We really take care of

each other.SLE administrators feel the companion-

ship encouraged by the SLE program, aswell.

I get a sense of the community in thelecture sections because I see the way theytalk to each other, said history professorand SLE academic director Carolyn

Lougee. Its not that theyre sitting theretalking about Plato, but there are a lot ofclose friendships.At our banquet,there wasa challenge to translate a passage of a Latinepic into English poetry. Eight people readpoems. Everybody loves it when they seetheir classmates achieving.

We dont nurture competition at all.One persons accomplishment is every-ones glory, Lougee added.

As apart as SLE might sometimes seemfrom the rest of the Stanford world,admin-istrators do their best to see that the com-munity isnt totally separated from otherdorms.

We had the opportunity to move thedorm to Roble and we said no because itwasnt sure that they would be mixed inwith other dorms, Lougee said.It would-nt be good if they were set apart.

The new ideas in my life [from SLE]made a big impact,maybe because Im froma small-town farm in Idaho,said SLE assis-tant director Greg Watkins 85 Ph.D. 03.We have a year to cultivate a different wayof thinking about what you study and aboutlife in general.

Contact Sophia Vo at [email protected].

Men still dominate Stanfords mathfaculty.How much does it matter?

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characterized the last seven years.A search committee to find a re-

placement for Seligman will form inearly 2011.Seligman will remain in-volved as a senior consulting cura-tor, continuing to organize the Up-coming Nigeriaexhibit and an Indi-an jewelry project slated to open in2013.

Ellen Huet

Espinosa is new PaloAlto mayor


Sid Espinosa and Yiaway Yehare the new mayor and vice mayor,respectively, of Palo Alto. Bothwere elected unanimously by thecity council on Tuesday.

Epinosa, 38, was elected vicemayor in 2007 and was co-chair-man of last years city council. Asmayor, Espinosa said he will leadthe city council in studying city fi-nances, land use, transportationplanning and other topics.

Yeh, 38, was elected to thecouncil in 2007. He said he andEspinosa have previously dis-

cussed new ideas for the city andwill work together in their com-

ing terms. Ivy Nguyen

New law reduces

marijuana penalty


Under a new law that took effectJan. 1, the penalty for the possessionof up to one ounce of marijuana hasbeen reduced from a misdemeanor toan infraction.The law, introduced bySen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco,states that those found in possessionof less than 28.5 grams will be given a$100 maximum fine,which is less thansome traffic tickets.

According to Bill Larson, aspokesman for the Stanford Depart-ment of Public Safety,the departmentdoes not have a specific policy regard-ing marijuana possession and will en-force the new law.Larson said he didnot anticipate much change to thenumber of citations issued for mari-

juana possession.The reduction is intended to save

the states judicial system millions ofdollars by sparing many of the morethan 60,000 people arrested each yearfor marijuana-related misdemeanorsfrom appearing in court.

This new law is the first time theCalifornia legislature has voluntarilyreduced penalties for marijuana orany drug offense since 1975,accord-ing to NORML, a group supportingmarijuana legalization.

Ivy Nguyen

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Cantor Arts Center director Tom Seligman, above, announced that he willretire at the end of 2011. Seligman has served as director of the center for20 years. A committee will form early this year to search for his successor.


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LOOK IN G UP

THI S COLUMN SEN T FR OM MY IPHON E

Im a sucker for new beginnings.Its an affection that has re-vealed itself in various ways: all

of my diaries since third grade havehighly exclamatory first entries, Irestarted the Pokemon Game Boygames dozens of times and finishedzero and Ive been faithful to thetradition of writing New Years res-olutions since I can remember. I al-ways saw perfection in future po-tential.

Somehow, though, I simultane-ously developed a raging intoler-

ance for The End.The phrase Imbad at endings became a repeatresident on the tip of my tonguearound birthdays and the anxiousends of school years. Perhaps be-cause Ive become so deeply invest-ed in present experiences and in thepeople I care about around me(which also means a bad habit of ne-glecting important e-mails duringvacations), partings are always se-vere. And I actually imagine a 5-year-old Nina still out in the world,living out a scene from a well-known photograph taken in a coun-try I feel was left too unexpectedly.I have stores of memories of major-ly tearful farewells to family inKorea or family in California. Yousee? No goodbye I ever made was atrivial or clear-cut matter.

I suppose my love of beginningsand my reaction to endings are atheart one and the same: Im reallyconscious of discontinuity. It ex-plains my emphasis on propergoodbyes and my enthusiasm forDay Ones.If something was chang-ing,I had to address it by either big,fat tears or big,shiny proclamations.They had to be big big enough toacknowledge the important andambiguous possibilities in change.

It was only recently, however,sometime last week, that I revisitedthis . . . little perspective of mine. Itwas when the words New Yearsresolutionsbegan their annual en-trances into the conversationsaround me;I noticed,unexpectedly,a bit of scuff on the pedestal of the

words. I thought a bit longer andharder on the general life-cycle ofmost resolutions: sudden dramaticbirths, then mid-life crises, thenquiet resignations. But why? Be-cause one-day demolitions of life-long habits usually fail.Because ourlives arent montage sequences orsharply-cut collages. Because somethings in our life may change drasti-cally, but not all of them can.

And unexpectedly, that is allvery reassuring.

Thus, my train of thought turnedan avenue: I considered with fur-rowed brow how my freak-outswere also a severe disregard for pil-lars of my life that had so thankful-ly stuck around.Like safety and se-curity and never truly needing athing. I suddenly understood how

dangerous it was that I so easily for-got these privileges and was insteadconstantly feeling crises. In my ruts

of overreaction, I forgot the bless-ings of my familys constant love ormy friends loyalty truths thatwouldnt be erased by brief spells ofseparation. Relatedly, as I thought

of my past New Years attempts todestroy fatal personality flaws, I re-alized I never wrote a resolution tokeep an aspect of myself that I liked.In both ways,I so often ignored thelong-term parts of my life that Ishould have appreciated; I rathereasily exchanged them for(over)doses of drama.

Okay, I just thought of a resolu-tion perhaps the only one goingin my diary this year: keep check onreality/avoid going overboard. Notbad, huh? Its definitely a uniquestep for me. Especially because asthis year progresses, I find myselfgrowing particularly nervous aboutThe End of college, The End of ca-reer-free thinking and all of thatstuff. But The End of the Worldwont come from those things

(though I do graduate in 2012! Uh-oh?), and emotional explosionswaste energy. Im quite positive that

just as before,I can look forward toanother cornucopia year of adven-tures, even if they dont all seemfabulous at first glance. Just beinghere again is a bullet on that list ofrealities we all can be grateful for.Yes,times come, times go and timeschange in super important ways.But between the episodes, its goodto remember how certain greatparts of our lives have stayed reli-ably the same . . . and no fondnessfor the melodramatic can shakethat.

One wonderful, certain thing thathasnt changed is your way to reachNina whenever you wish, at ni-

[email protected]. And, after all,she still sends you her best New Yeargreetings!

I developed a

raging

intolerance for

The End.

NinaChung

Beginnings, Endingsand Reality Checks

Editors note:This column originallyran on Oct.20, 2010.

By far my favorite part of TheSocial Networkwas the lineAnd Stanford. Its time for

them to see this in Palo Alto.TheFacebook was great and all, but ifZuckerberg wanted to make it big,he had to go to California, just likethe gold rushers and aspiring moviestars before him.Once again,Holly-wood reclaims its position as thedestination for excitement anddreams, a reclamation that unfortu-nately becomes writer AaronSorkins biggest source of uninten-tional comedy in the movie.

Either Sorkin didnt do his re-search, or he just didnt care, be-cause I found it quite incongruousto see the most boring college townin the world represented as ourheros Island of Circe.Theres prob-ably a reason that most of thosescenes take place inside the house.And Stanford, which is home onlyto model-thin coeds who all can af-ford apartments in Palo Alto and

crazy coked-out sorority parties.Just where exactly Sean Parkerwent on campus to have said partiesthat proved so alluring to ruddyyoung Zuckerberg escapes me.Cer-tainly not the Cowell Cluster; Impretty sure there hasnt been an all-campus sorority party over there todate.

All nitpicking aside though,Sorkins characterization gratifiesme. Even if I am four years late tothe party,Im still finally at the placeto be. Even after all my requisitecollegiate disillusionment, I still get

jazzed to discover that Steve Jobsand Eric Schmidt had lunch over atTown and Country or that MarkZuckerberg goes to the Nuthouse.Ive been to those places! More-over,the South Bay held enough in-

trigue to prompt the founding ofValleywag, Americas first SiliconValley gossip blog. They could betalking about people I know!

Though if you desire the realstory, just ask the one of the many05 alums making their way back oncampus this weekend.They entered

college in 2001 and so are perhapsthe best witnesses to the transfor-mative power that Facebook heldover us college students. That wasback when Facebook was, ahem,still discovering its identity. Peoplewould actually list their favoritemovies;you could still indicate thatyou were interested in RandomPlay and Whatever I Can Get in-stead of just Friendship and Net-working,and people had no qualmsposting all their compromising pho-tos. If Inlovewith McHottie was at-tending Generic Party, you couldcount on them to be there, damn it.The lascivious dissolution of thepublic/private sphere,all behind thesafety of the Internet,was preciselythe seduction,as movie Zuckerbergfreely admitted.That was the Face-book of the man whose businesscard said,Im the CEO, bitch.

My second favorite part of TheSocial Networkwas JTs speech tomovie Zuckerberg right before hegoes into a business meeting in hispajamas to curse them out. Hard-wired into many a brain, including

mine, is an inherent contempt fortraditional authority and corporateculture, which provides the fuel forthe romance of the tech scene withtheir company-wide excursions toBurning Man and permission ofcargo shorts at board meetings. Itwould just be so cool to work there,though admittedly not cool enoughfor me to actually take any CS class-es.What I love even more, though,is that this unique culture is a directproduct of Stanford, the place al-ways looking forward. Armed withonly your mind and an ability tofunction without sleep, you can cre-ate multi-billion dollar corporateempires without ever having to buya suit or practice your golf game.Facebook and Google are ap-proaching dullness by the second

(the delightful awkwardness of thepoke is pretty much extinct), but iftheyre the faces of our new corpo-rate overlords,Im OK with that, aslong Zucky-boy keeps doing all hispresentations in pullover fleece.

But before I finish my apotheo-sis of all things Facebook, I should

take a step back to remind you allthat my lowly old English depart-ment produced some American vi-sionaries as well. John Steinbeck,Ken Kesey you may have heardof them.Theyre the embodiment ofwhat Stanfords revolutionary spiritused to represent before CS ran thistown: a collection of the brightestyoung minds in the country, givenunparalleled academic freedom,working to take down the wastefulsystems holding America back fromachieving its true potential, not justcreating new ones that have a moreseamless integration with yoursmart phone.The Social Networkdoesnt really have an ending, butSorkin insinuates through JT thatthe arc of the start-up firm bends to-ward hubris. In 30 years, dont be

surprised if the next great Americanhero has to leave the stuffy technoc-racy of Palo Alto in order to realizehis dream.

Got the next idea to change America?Email [email protected] so hecan come up with a better one.

Peter

McDonald

The Death of All Idealism

If Zuckerberg

wanted to make

it big,he had to

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sions within just the left-leaningcommunity over this issue.

I definitely think theyrethere, Vaid-Menon said. I thinkthere are a lot of people that nowsee it as fair for the military to beback recruiting on campus becausegay men and women can now serveopenly.

One of these people is Zev Kar-lin-Neumann 11, campus directorof Stanford Democrats. While theorganization has yet to take an offi-cial stance, and may not given thelarge umbrella of members it cov-ers, Karlin-Neumann says he sup-ports the return of ROTC in light ofthe policys repeal.

I think a number of StanfordDemocrats like myself believe thatits very important to have an inte-grated military, Karlin-Neumannsaid,and not just in terms of allow-ing people of all races, backgroundsand sexual orientations to serve.People who come from institutions

like Stanford should also be al-

lowed to engage in the militarythrough something like ROTC aswell.

Karlin-Neumann said the issueis at least worth re-examining.

I think DADT was a very obvi-ous obstacle to bringing ROTCback,and I think that the exclusionof ROTC is the product of somehistorical issues with the military,he said. But since issues are con-stantly evolving, I think our re-sponses to them should change aswell. [The repeal] does offer reasonto revisit some of these policies,andit should be open for discussion.

And it will be next Tuesday nightwhen the Faculty Senate committeeholds a town-hall style meeting inthe Betchel International CenterAssembly room from 7 to 9 p.m.,where the committee members willbe introduced and students canvoice their opinions.

Its going to be a really openforum, Franklin said.I would def-initely encourage students to cometo the town hall, because studentsare going to have a large role in thisdecision.

Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas@

stanford.edu.

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By MILES BENNETT-SMITHSTAFF WRITER

Just three years removed from a painful 3-25 season, the 2010 Stanford mens volleyballteam used the slogan Worst to First as itstormed to the programs second NCAA Divi-sion I title.The mantra, coined by revered as-sistant coach Al Roderigues,who passed awayfrom cancer two months before the champi-onship match, helped bring a surge of fan sup-port and enthusiasm to Maples Pavilion during

the run. Eight months later, tonight is the be-ginning of what players and coaches havedeemed the First to First season with its firstmatch against UC-Santa Cruz.

The road to another national championshipwill not be easy for this Cardinal team. Tobegin with, Stanford will have to replace lastseasons American Volleyball Coaches Asso-ciation (AVCA) national player of the yearand two-time AVCA first team All-American


Bring Winter

Classic to the

Bay Area

For the past four years, theNHLs Winter Classic hascaptivated both hockey en-thusiasts and casual fansalike. The concept is quite

simple: schedule a marquee matchupon New Years Day and play the gamein an outdoor stadium.

The purpose behind staging theWinter Classic is twofold.It seeks to re-turn hockey to its roots as an outdoorgame,played in winter on frozen pondsand lakes.Many NHL players learnedthe game outside,and theres certainlynothing wrong with venturing outsideevery so often.The past four Classicshave sought to fulfill this ideal by beinghosted in some of Americas biggerhockey cities (Buffalo and Pittsburgh)or being held in iconic venues (WrigleyField in Chicago and Fenway Park inBoston).

The second purpose of the Classic is

somewhat more commercial. Since itsinception,the Winter Classic has consis-tently been one of the NHLs biggestgames in terms of TV viewership; iteven surpasses some Stanley Cupgames in television ratings.Because theleague and its network partner,NBC,aggressively market the game, it cap-tures casual American fans,somethingthat the NHL desperately wants.It alsohelps that the game is held on the NewYears holiday.

While the NHL has not yet decidedon the location and teams for nextyears Classic, the top two possibilitiesappear to be a Rangers-Flyers matchupin Philadelphia or a Red Wings game atthe Big House in Ann Arbor, Mich.Games in both locations would do wellat filling both of the NHLs goals for theWinter Classic.

However, the NHL cannot contin-ue to satisfy tradition and reach out tothe casual viewer simultaneously. Theleague appears to be looking strictly atthe Northeast, with a little bit of theMidwest thrown in,as the only placeswhere expansion is possible.The Clas-sic risks becoming the province of asubset of NHL teams;already,there hasbeen grumbling because the PittsburghPenguins have played in two of the fourgames held thus far.

In order to reach out to casual fansall over the country,the NHL needs toevaluate staging the Winter Classic in adifferent region than between Chicagoand New York.I, for one,think it wouldbe great for the NHL if next years Clas-sic came here to the Bay Area,in Can-dlestick Park or AT&T Park.

The Bay Area would be a good fitfor the game for several reasons.Though they rank behind a few teams,especially the Giants and the 49ers, inthe regions collective sports conscious-ness,the Sharks have a dedicated andpassionate fan base that would surelysnap up tickets to a Classic at Candle-stick.

By and large, the NHL has over-looked the West Coast in its marketingstrategy,despite the fact that Californiaowns some of the nations largest mediamarkets. Before this year, the WinterClassic was held at 1 p.m.Eastern time;this was good for not conflicting withBCS bowl games, but bad for viewersout West.No one is going to get up at 10a.m.to watch a hockey game.

A Bay Area Classic would also at-tract a large number of casual fans from

the West Coast that may otherwise nothave tuned in to the game.The WinterClassic would electrify the hockey cul-ture in the region,which could certainlyuse some revitalization.

Lastly,and perhaps most important-ly,San Francisco in January can be quitecold.The main objection of the puriststo venturing outside the Northeast isthat it would take the Winterout ofWinter Classic.However,as any SanFran resident knows,it gets pretty chillyin the city,and we wouldnt have to re-solve the logical quandary of how onecan play on a sheet of ice in 70-degreeoutdoor temperatures.

The Winter Classic has been incred-ibly good for hockey,providing it with agreat deal of exposure among anAmerican viewing public that is gener-ally apathetic to the sport.The NHL

needs to leverage the Classic appropri-ately to maximize its benefit,and mov-ing outside of the Northeast and intothe Bay Area is the best way to spreadon the West Coast.

Kabir Sawhney has returned to theworld of irrelevant sports.Remind himthat Stanford just won the OrangeBowl at [email protected].

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MENS BASKETBALL

Young squadtested overwinter break

By CAROLINE CASELLIDESK EDITOR

Before deftly handling visiting California in

its first Pac-10 matchup of the season on Sun-day, the Stanford mens basketball team hadlittle time to relax during the holiday break,with five non-conference games in just overtwo weeks.The Card experienced early successand remains undefeated at Maples Pavilion,with wins over UC-Riverside, North CarolinaA&T and Yale, but it continues to struggle onthe road,falling in consecutive contests to But-ler and Oklahoma State, its toughest non-con-ference opponents of the year.

On Sunday,Dec. 12, the Card never trailedagainst visiting Riverside, jumping out to aquick 7-0 lead that it maintained.Stanford wonthe game, 55-48.

Junior guard Jeremy Green, who gave fansa scare when he collapsed from exhaustionafter the final game of the 76 Classic,started offslowly,but he came back with a vengeance toscore all of his game-leading 22 points in the

second half.At halftime, I went back and thoughtabout why I was missing so much, he said.Iwanted to let the game come to me instead offorcing it. I concentrated more on makingshots and I settled in.

The Cardinal dominated the boards,out-re-bounding the Highlanders by a 43-27 margin.Redshirt junior big man Josh Owens led theteam his 10 rebounds and 14 points notchedhim his first career double-double.

Several days later, still on the Farm, Stan-ford dominated North Carolina A&T,winning76-59.After trailing by as many as seven in thefirst half, the Card turned around to lead by 20points in the games final minutes.Twelve play-ers saw minutes, with key contributions againcoming from captains Green and Owens,with18 and 15 points, respectively.North CarolinaA&T junior guard Nic Simpson led the nightwith 20 points on 8-for-15 shooting.

J.O. is finding himself,said Stanford headcoach Johnny Dawkins of Owens, who sat outall of last season.Every game you see him get-ting better and better.

Owens is refocused and driven after hisyear off, as evidenced by his continued im-provement on the court.

When youre away from the game for ayear,you appreciate it a lot more,he said.Itsdefinitely a different mindset,and I think thatsbeen the biggest difference.

However,road games continued to be diffi-cult for Stanfords young squad, which fell de-cisively to Butler, last years national runner-up, and to Oklahoma State, which it faced inthe Pac-10/Big 12 Hardwood Series.

Playing on Dec. 18 in Indianapolis, Butlertook control early,with a 10-point lead halfwaythrough the first period;the Bulldogs stretched

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setter Kawika Shoji. Junior EvanBarry looks likely to be head coachJohn Kostys choice to step intoShojis big shoes.

Barry spent the summer at theFederation Internationale de Vol-leyball (FIVB) Junior World BeachVolleyball Championships inTurkey and has been playing wellin open-gym sessions, but he willneed to create chemistry with afront line that will also be withoutAVCA second team All-Americanopposite hitter Evan Romero andStanfords career record holder inblocks, middle blocker GarrettWerner; both graduated last spring.

Despite losing three starters,theCardinal has plenty of reason to beoptimistic about its chances thisyear. Barry will be joined on thecourt by Mountain Pacific SportsFederation (MPSF) player of theyear and AVCA first team All-American outside hitter Brad Law-son, only a junior.Two-time AVCA

first team All-American liberoErik Shoji, Kawikas youngerbrother, will provide leadershipand consistency to the defense, and

the teams other returning starters senior outside hitter SpencerMcLachlin and junior middleblocker Gus Ellis make thisStanford team another strong can-didate for postseason success.

The MPSF coaches agree, pick-ing Stanford to finish third in thetough conference behind UC-Irvine and USC.Last year,the Car-dinal was picked to finish fourthbefore going 16-6 in league play. Itlost only one set total in the MPSFand NCAA Tournaments, sweep-ing both Ohio State and Penn Stateat a raucous Maples Pavilion lastMay.

Kosty, too,seems optimistic thatthis years core returners will givethe team enough veteran leader-ship to balance out what looks tobe a very promising incoming class,headlined by two opposite hitters,Steven Irving and Daniel Tublin.The class also includes EricMochalski, a top outside hitterwho also plays opposite,and a mid-dle blocker, Denny Falls, whoKosty sums up simply as dynam-ic.

Many have tabbed Stanfordsfreshmen as the top recruiting class

in the nation. Five of the seven are6-foot-4 or taller (the exceptionsbeing a pair of 5-foot-9 liberos,Scott Sakaida and Grant Delgado),

and two played on the U.S. JuniorNational Team.

After visiting the White Houseand meeting with PresidentObama over the summer, the teamspent the winter break preparingfor what promises to be a toughearly schedule. After openingagainst Santa Cruz, Stanford playshost to Brigham Young for a dou-bleheader in the MPSF opener.TheCardinal then hits the road,playingat Hawaii before a weekend trip toCal State Northridge and LongBeach State.

A midseason trip to Lewis andLoyola of Chicago breaks up theconference schedule, but marks theonly time Stanford will leave theWest Coast.

Tonights match against UC-Santa Cruz will be at 7 p.m.at Burn-ham Pavilion.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith [email protected].

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the final score of the Orange Bowlwas 40-14 in favor of Stanford. Infact, the Cardinal beat Virginia Techby a final score of 40-12.

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their advantage to 19 at halftime.Butlers senior forward MattHoward scored 10 straight points toopen the second half and finishedwith a game-high 27 points and 10rebounds in the Bulldogs 83-50

thrashing.Green was Stanfords leading

scorer with 16 points but shot only 5-for-15 from the field, and Owensadded another 13. Butler outshotthe Cardinal 45.6 percent to 31.4percent a season low for the Card and had 39 rebounds to Stan-fords 29. Junior center Jack Trotterwas Stanfords leading rebounder,with seven total rebounds.

On Dec. 21, in Stillwater, Okla.,the Card continued to have trouble,getting off to a rough 7-0 deficitagainst the Cowboys and failing toscore in the games first six minutes.Stanford rallied to retie the score at12-12 and took the lead until the firsthalfs final seconds, but the secondhalf, and game, belonged to the

home team.The Cowboys outscoredthe Cardinal 45-35 in the second pe-riod,and though Stanford narrowedthe deficit to six with 1:48 remaining,Oklahoma State held on to win thegame, 79-68.

Owens tallied his second careerdouble-double, leading the Cardwith 21 points and 10 rebounds, andGreen added 17. Freshmen AaronBright and Dwight Powell hadstrong contributions off the bench Bright scored 15, going 8-for-8from the free-throw line,and Powellhad 10 points, two blocks and fourrebounds.

Cowboy junior guard KeitonPage had 23 points, 20 in the secondhalf,and five of Oklahoma States 11three-pointers.Three other players:Ray Penn, Marshall Moses and

Jean-Paul Olukemi, had 14, 13 and12 points,respectively.

In its last matchup before thePac-10 season, Stanford stayed per-fect at Maples with a 60-44 decisionover Yale. Dawkins made a notablelineup change, electing to go smallby starting Bright at the point guardposition, and juniors Jarrett Mannand Green off the ball.

I like Aaron there [at the pointguard position], Dawkins said. Ithink that hes been playing steadyfor us,and hes helped us.Im actual-ly very encouraged that well keep

getting better at that position.Both teams started off slowly,

and Yale entered the half with a one-

point lead, but Stanford awoke totake control of the game in the sec-ond period. Green had 11 of his 15points in the second half,and Owensadded 12. Dawkins, however, wasmore impressed with his teams de-fensive effort the Card had 15points off turnovers, 10 steals andfour blocks.

The Yale game wrapped up Stan-fords non-conference scheduleuntil March, and Dawkins is opti-mistic about his teams preparationentering the Pac-10 season.

We are excited about Pac-10starting up, Dawkins said after theYale game, prior to defeating Cali-fornia last Sunday. I think wevehad some amazing tests.Weve beenon the road in some incredible envi-ronments. I think our kids have

grown from that experience, andthats going to help us. I think weplayed a good schedule in prepara-tion for Pac-10 play and are pre-pared for the conference.

Stanford will resume Pac-10 playthis weekend on the road against theArizona schools. The Cardinal willface Arizona State on Thursday at5:30 p.m. in Tempe and will take onArizona on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. inTucson.

Contact Caroline Caselli at [email protected].

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