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By MARGARET RAWSONDESK EDITOR

The ASSU Undergraduate Senate will continuedebate Tuesday on a much-anticipated campaign fi-nance bill authored by Executives Angelina Cardona11 and Kelsei Wharton 12.The bill,with the potentialto reform the entire executive campaign process,would set executive-campaign spending caps and de-crease the amount of f unds offered through public fi-nancing if it can overcome concerns about enforce-ment and constitutionality.

The bill would set spending caps at $750 for pub-licly financed slates, granting up to $500 of ASSUfunds per slate, and $1,000 for slates spending theirown money.The executives would allocate $3,000 of their budget to campaign expenses,to be split evenlybetween publicly financed slates. Currently,the exec-utives allocate $4,500, granting up to $750 per publiclyfinanced slate and capping those slates total spendingat $1,500 each.

When first presenting their bill last Tuesday, Car-dona and Wharton spoke of creating a culture of ac-cessibility in which no student is deterred from run-ning for office due to monetary concerns.Then,m anysenators seemed amenable to the bill on philosophi-cal grounds; some recalled their own difficulties in de-ciding to spend personal funds to run for the Senate.

Zachary Warma 11, a senator last year, attendedthe meeting to discuss several concerns about thebills unintended consequences, questioning whetherhigh levels of spending are truly a problem. (Warma isnow chair of the Daily editorial board.)

The original version of this years bill cited as ra-tionale that spending continues to increase annual-ly, but Cardona indicated that section would not ap-pear in an amended version this Tuesday. Since 2008,the winning slate has not always been the one thatspent the most.

In 2008, the winning ticket,Johnny Dorsey 09 and

If passed, bill would test ASSU constitution

Card shuts down Huskies offense

Dining cant find name in records

Full Moon, Mausoleum Party deemed successes

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MONDAY Volume 238November 1, 2010 Issue 32

CRIME & SAFETY

Fernandezmay haveused alias

By ANNA SCHUESSLERSTAFF WRITER

A 20-year-old man who was ar-rested on campus on Oct. 19 for al-legedly burglarizing a Palo Altohome may have used an alias whileworking in a Stanford dining hall,Lt.Sandra Brown of the Palo Alto Po-lice Department told The Daily.

Brown told the San Jose MercuryNews after the arrest that Jose LuisFernandez of East Palo Alto workedin a Stanford dining hall, but EricMontell, the executive director of Stanford Dining, has since said hecannot find Fernandezs name inDinings employment records.

In an e-mail to The Daily,Montellsaid Dinings records did not indi-cate a person by this name havingworked in any of the Stanford Din-ing locations.

Bill Larson, a spokesman for the

STUDENT LIFE

Campuscelebratestraditions

By BRANDON POWELL

Stanford came to life over theweekend in celebration of the dead,with parties and events abounding asstudents and faculty donned costumesand makeup for the night (or multiplenights).

Three junior class presidents Marie Calgiuri,Cody Sam and IsabelleWijangco spoke to The Daily aboutthe end of Stanfords first official Tra-ditions Week.

Traditions Week was born tomake Mausoleum Party and FullMoon on the Quad more sustainableevents that contribute more to theStanford community, Sam said.I tsnot just a party.Its also about philan-thropy, trying to help balance the

budget by selling T-shirts and gettingpeople more involved in the Stanfordcommunity.

By encompassing Mausoleum andFull Moon in something regarded astradition, Calgiuri said the juniorpresidents could emphasize to stu-dents and faculty that these eventsmust happen every year.

Its a really important part of ourschool, she said.Sort of like a land-mark event that we always want tohave.

The three went on to explain whatTraditions Week entailed. Tuesdaybegan the pre-orders for the Mau-soleum Party T-shirts that read Partywith Leland.

At first we thought it was just acool phrase,and then we figured peo-ple might actually buy these tanks,

By KABIR SAWHNEY MANAGING EDITOR

There was no letting up this time forStanford.

The No.13 Cardinal football team(7-1,4-1 Pac-10) cruised past Washing-ton (3-5, 2-3) on Saturday afternoon,

rolling up 28 first-half points en routeto a 41-0 victory.The Cardinal won the battle at the

line of scrimmage throughout thegame its offensive line manhandledthe Washington front seven andopened up huge holes for Stanfordsrunning backs,getting big blocks bothat the line and downfield. Redshirtsophomore quarterback AndrewLuck had excellent pass protectionand plenty of time to make throws tohis receivers.

The line played excellently today,said sophomore running back StepfanTaylor,the Cards leading rusher.Thetwo touchdowns I got, I was basicallyuntouched,and they blocked well for[freshman running back Anthony]Wilkerson and [sophomore runningback] Tyler Gaffney.

While the offensive line controlledthe line of scrimmage when Stanfordhad the ball,the defensive front seven

made sure the Huskies couldnt do thesame.Stanford defensive linemen andlinebackers were in the backfield allgame long,notching three sacks and sixtackles for loss.The unit kept up con-stant pressure on Washington quarter-

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STUDENT LIFE

For DM,new strategy,higher goal

By BRENDAN OBYRNE

Organizers of Dance Marathon, the24-hour dance party that raises moneyand awareness to fight HIV and AIDS,have tweaked their recruitment strategythis year in an effort to donate $100,000toward combating the pandemic.

The group last year raised $87,000,which was donated to the Boston-basedPartners in Health and the San Francisco-based Bay Area Young Positives. Ninetypercent was matched by the Palo Alto-based organization FACE AIDS, whichwas founded by Stanford students in 2005.

This year, organizers are focusingmore intently on fundraising and on re-

cruiting dancers who will stay on theirfeet for the full 24-hour party.

We are more about getting engageddancers that are really dedicated, saidLouis Lu 12,Dance Marathons public re-

lations executive. Lu said recruitingdancers who will remain standing for thefull 24 hours is important because last year,

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DYLAN PLOFKER/The Stanford DailyMany dancers remained on their feet during the 2010 Dance Marathon, above, but others grew weary and left before the end of the overnightmarathon. This year, students registering for Dance Marathon pledged they would attend, raise $192 and remain standing for 24 hours.

Courtesy of The Daily of the University of WashingtonQuarterback Andrew Luck posted an impressive game Saturday, throwing for 192 yards and a touchdown on 19-26 passing. Lucks running game was perhaps even more impressive, giving the Card 92 yards on five carries.

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a significant number of dancers ei-ther never showed or left early.

Last year it was about gettingas many people involved as wecould, Lu said,but this year,ourgoal is to get all the dancers to stayfor the entire 24 hours.

Organizers are also focusing onfreshman registration this year, cit-ing the time constraints of upper-classmen. As part of this push, or-ganizers have visited freshmandorm meetings dressed in rally gear,hoping to get freshmen excitedabout the event.

And for some freshmen, itsworked.

Ive heard from people who haddone it before that its a greatevent, said Michael Lipman 14,who registered for the event. Itseems like a fun way to support a re-ally good organization.

Said Kevin Hurlbutt 14,anotherfreshman who registered:It seemslike a really fun way to do somecommunity service. And all of myfriends are going to do it with me,soits going to be entertaining foreverybody.

More than 500 dancers have reg-istered for this years marathon,which is set to take place in Arrilla-ga Alumni Center on Feb.12 and 13,2011. During registration, dancerspledged to stay for 24 hours,remainon their feet and raise $192 towardthe overall donation.

The registration deadline fordancers was Oct. 29, but studentscan still sign up to be moralers,who raise $60 and work three-hourshifts to motivate the marathondancers.The deadline to sign up tobe a moraler is Nov. 14.

Dance Marathon organizers alsoput together Hackathon,which en-courages students who have com-puter skills to participate in a 24-hour coding session.Instead of rais-ing $192, hackers donate their tech-related services to nonprofit organ-izat ions. The deadl ine fo rHackathon was also Oct. 29, butHackathon Director Sam King 12said organizers might allow a lateregistration process to fill emptyslots on projects.

Contact Brendan OByrne at [email protected].

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TOPStudents dance at the burial sit e of the Stanford family on Saturday during Mausoleum Party. Bus trans-portation was improved over previous years with increased security staff. (LUIS AGUILAR/The Stanford Daily)BOTTOMStudents across campus carved pumpkins last week and over the weekend to make jack-o-lanternsthat they then displayed outside their residences. (BRYANT TAN/The Stanford Daily)


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back Jake Locker, constantly forcinghim out of the pocket and pressuringhim into making poor throws.

Stanfords defensive line was espe-cially impressive.The trio of redshirt

junior defensive end Matt Masifilo,senior nose tackle Sione Fua and red-shirt senior defensive end Brian Bul-cke kept the Washington offensive lineengaged and freed up the Cardinallinebacking corps to stuff the Huskyrunning game.

Masifilo had one of the best gamesof his career, making five tackles, in-cluding three solo tackles,and sackingLocker twice himself.

We just took the opportunity toget after them,Masifilo said.Fua andBulcke were dominating the line somuch in front that everything had tobounce outside to us.We just stressedplaying as a team.

Overall, Stanfords defense limitedthe Huskies to just 107 total yards onoffense, the second-fewest yards al-lowed in Stanford history.The rushingattack was held to 19 yards on 25 at-tempts,and Washington never got pastthe Stanford 42-yard line.

Leading the defense were sopho-more inside linebacker Shayne Skovand redshirt sophomore outside line-backer Chase Thomas. Thomas hadnine tackles and a sack, while Skovadded eight tackles. Both helped theStanford defense bounce back from afew tough outings in its last threegames,it gave up 52 points to Oregon,failed to stop USC at numerous critical

junctures and gave up three fourth-quarter touchdowns to a one-winWashington State team.

Our linebackers were outstand-ing, said Stanford head coach JimHarbaugh.They kept up a lot of pres-sure on Jake and clogged up the run-ning lanes.

We were making it an emphasis tostop them on first down, put them inlong-yardage situations and then letour defensive line play aggressivelyand wreak havoc, Skov said. Any-time the quarterback gets hit that fre-

quently, thats tough [for Washing-ton].

Stanfords much-maligned pass de-fense also played very well.Locker,be-lieved to be one of the top NFLprospects of the upcoming draft, wasseverely limited, earning just 64 yardson 7-14 passing with no scores and twointerceptions. His vaunted mobilitywas also shut down,as he ran the balleight times for one net yard (he gained17 yards but lost 16). Both Stanford in-terceptions killed Washington drivesthat looked to be gaining some mo-mentum and ensured that Washingtonwould be unable to get back in thegame.

While Locker struggled,Luck hada strong game both through the airand on the ground.Luck threw for 192yards and a touchdown on 19-26 pass-ing. He also threw an interception ona Hail Mary play as time expired inthe first half.

Perhaps a bigger story was Lucksmobility,as he gained 92 yards on fivecarries. His biggest run came on a so-called read option play on Stan-fords first drive of the game. Luckfaked a handoff to Taylor, who drewthe defense to the right, and ran 51yards down the left side of the fieldinto the end zone.The play gave theCardinal early momentum andsucked the energy out of a raucousHusky Stadium crowd.

The guys had a great block on theedge, and I cut inside of him, Lucksaid.Stepfan did a great job of carry-ing his fakeout. I dont think peoplerealized I had the ball,and it was easyto sprint from there.

It was just an incredible fake byAndrew, Harbaugh said.I thoughtStepfan Taylor had the ball for 20yards and thought,Oh,good,we got a10,15, 20-yard gain with Stepfan, butthen I realized that Andrew Lucksgot the ball, and hes streaking downthe sideline, and I couldnt be morepleased.

Lucks big run was just one ele-ment of a Stanford running attack

that repeatedly pounded Washington,moving the ball methodically andkeeping the clock running. Taylortook 20 carries for 104 yards and twotouchdowns, and Gaffney added 13carries, 50 yards and a touchdown inhis first game back from a leg injury.Overall,Stanford gained 278 yards on47 carries for an average of 5.9 yardsper carry.

More than any other statistic, thedisparity between the two runninggames illustrated the gap between thetwo teams. The Huskies only ran for19 yards on 25 carries,or an average of 0.8 yards per carry.The Card also helda big advantage in time of possession,holding the ball for 37 minutes and 30seconds.

For Washington, the loss means adifficult path to earn bowl eligibility.The Huskies need to win three of their last four games to become bowl-eligible, but with their next gameagainst No. 2 Oregon,that could be aformula to missing out on the postsea-son.

Meanwhile,Stanford took anotherstep toward a high finish in the Pac-10and potentially earning a BCS bowlberth.However,next weeks matchupagainst Arizona (7-1, 4-1 Pac-10)looms large.The two teams are tiedfor second in the conference, and theWildcats have looked impressive inconference play so far.

Nevertheless, Harbaugh believeshis team can have success, highlight-ing the improvements it has madeover the course of the season.

Ive thought a lot about what suc-cess is and what makes a successfulyear,and to me, its improvement,hesaid. Its an improvement-equals-success formula. Improvement willlead to wins, and wins will lead tochampionships. Well move on withhumble hearts and see if we cant makesome improvements when we getback.

Contact Kabir Sawhney at [email protected].

Stanford Department of PublicSafety, confirmed the arrest tookplace on the Stanford campus butwould not offer further comment,asthe alleged crime is under the juris-diction of the Palo Alto Police De-partment.

Brown said investigators in-volved in Fernandezs case provided

the information that he was affiliat-ed with Stanford Dining.Knowledgeof Fernandezs schedule at a dininghall,she said, prompted the arrest.

The absence of Fernandezsname from Stanford Dining em-ployee records might be attributedto Fernandezs possible use of analias. We have whats known asAKAs, or also known as names,Brown said. He may have beenusing an AKA while he was workingat a dining hall.

Fernandez faces jail time if he isfound guilty of the Oct.8 burglary,in

which he allegedly broke into a cou-ples home while they slept inside,stole several items and took off inthe couples Volkswagen.He was al-ready on probation for similarcharges,and he now faces more seri-ous consequences for his breach of probation restrictions.

He was on probation for burgla-ry, and he violated his probation,Brown said.Hes going to be in jailfor a long time.

Contact Anna Schuessler at annas7 @stanford.edu.

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Sam said.It hadnt been done before,so we were really excited about that.On Wednesday, students could

write notes and send candy and post-cards to their friends abroad.Wijangcosaid a major goal for the junior presi-dents is to keep their class unified,es-pecially because so many juniors goabroad at some point during the year.An activity like the note-writing, theyhoped, could strengthen the unity of the junior class.

Thursday brought philanthropy inthe form of 20 pumpkins,donated byTrader Joes,in White Plaza, where stu-dents could paint them. Calgiuri saidthe pumpkins, along with additionalunpainted ones, were sent to the Lu-cile Packard Childrens Hospital forthe children to decorate.

Friday was a pump-up day for Sat-urdays Mausoleum Party.

We had the Sea People playing inWhite Plaza during lunch, Sam said.We also distributed all the T-shirts,

just to get people in the mood for a bigparty were investing so much into thisweek.

Finally came Mausoleum.Sam wasexcited that this year marked the fifthanniversary of the return of Mau-soleum after its hiatus from 2002 to2006.

So,if you saw Mausoleum on the

posters with a 5 in place of the s, itsbecause it calls attention to the fifthanniversary of Mausoleums return,Sam said,which is why it should meana lot to the campus.

Before the weekend, the unani-

mous concern voiced by the class pres-idents was the threat of rain.But theysaid they were certain the party wouldbe at the Stanford Mausoleum regard-less of the weather.

That was kind of by popular de-mand, Calgiuri said. Our freshmanyear,when it rained and the party washeld in Old Union, the general feed-back was that it just wasnt the same.

New to Mausoleum this year wasthe chance for students to take pic-tures of themselves and others in cos-tume on the dance floor and have theirpictures projected on a screen at theparty, thanks to the Palo Alto-basedstartup Cooliris.

At the party, the costume varietywas expectedly diverse. From Greekdeities to bananas to The Coon fromSouth Parkto Ken from Toy Story3 to superheroes to burlesquedancers,it seemed all beings dead,alive, fictional and inanimate werein attendance.

On Sunday, the junior class presi-dents expressed satisfaction with theoutcome of the event. Sam saidchanges to the bus system, which in-cluded security and ID checks at eachstop,was one issue that was not com-pletely resolved but was still an im-provement upon last year.

We were actually told by the ad-

ministration that this is the smoothestthe bus system had ever gone, Wi-

jangco said.Student reception was also gener-

ally positive,though some expressed aslight disturbance at the scene at the

Mausoleum.I found it odd that there were Hal-loween decorations on the Mau-soleum itself, said Susan Haynes 14.But as a whole,it was a great party.

To me there was something disre-spectful about 1,000 college kids grind-ing next to a 16-year-olds grave, saidKonstantine Buhler 14.I think Janesintention was to have a place whereLeland could rest,not a place for kidsto put a tacky plastic skeleton on hisgate and blast house music.

Some students also drew compar-isons to Full Moon on the Quad,whichtook place Monday of last week.

Strangely enough, the Mau-soleum Party seemed less restrainedthan Full Moon, said Linus Mixson14. Perhaps being in costume madepeople feel bolder and less connectedto their actions.

Halloween options were not limit-ed to student parties,as a few eventswere designed for the kids of Stanford.

Geoffrey and Patti Baker,resident fel-lows in Larkin,held a mass pumpkincarving in the Larkin courtyard on Sat-urday, and Arroyo hosted a trick-or-treat party on Sunday with activitiesfor small kids.

Contact Brandon Powell at [email protected].

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Fagan Harris 09, self-reportedspending $3,597.31. CompetitorsDavid Gobaud 10 and Greg Gold-gof 08 spent $3,768.55,The Daily re-ported.

In 2009, Gobaud and Jay de laTorre 10 accepted public financing.

Their competitors, Bennett Hauser10 and Matt Sprague 10, did nottake public money and pledged tokeep their spending under $2,000.Gobaud and de la Torre went on towin the election.

In 2010, Cardona and Whartonself-reported spending $998.91 ontheir campaign last spring includ-ing $500 from the ASSU, Whartonsaid on Tuesday.Cardona and Whar-ton, the only slate among six to getpublic financing that year, believethey underspent at least one of theircompeting slates.

Still, Cardona said any expecta-tion to spend personal funds couldstill represent a hurdle to certainstudents.

Recent efforts to create spendinglimits have not been successful the 10th and 11th UndergraduateSenates did not pass bills containingcaps. In 1999, the ASSU Constitu-tional Council case Hartke v.Youngresulted in the ruling that mandato-ry campaign spending restrictionsrepresent a clear abridgement of free speech,violating Article I,Sec-

tion 3.2,of the ASSU c j1onstitution.If passed, the Cardona-Wharton

bill could lead to a new case beforethe Constitutional Council.

Cardona, who said she consid-ered the Hartke v. Young ruling indrafting the bill, maintained that aConstitutional Council case wouldbe a positive outcome and wouldease the minds of those worriedabout constitutionality.

Legal precedent since 2000 maybe on Cardonas side. In 2007, the

U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appealsruled in Flint v. Dennison against aUniversity of Montana student,Aaron Flint, who surpassed schoolcampaign spending limits.The rulingstated: Educational interests out-weigh the free speech interests of the students who campaigned withinthat limited public forum.

I think its important to makethe clarification that were nottelling people how to spend theirmoney or express themselves . . .were just saying how much to s pendoverall, Cardona said. We dontwant to s tifle innovation.

Cardona said compared to itspeer institutions, some of whichallow no campaign spending, Stan-ford spends much more on elections.UC-Berkeley, for example, capsspending at $1,000.

Still, if the bill passes the consti-tutionality test,sever al concerns re-main about enforcement.

Their ideals are correct in tryingto provide a level of equity in cam-paigns,Warma said, while going onto argue the bill would only serve to

institutionalize financial discrepan-cies by mandating that non-financedslates spend 25 percent more thanpublicly funded slates, $1,000 to $750.

Warma also worried the billwould unnecessarily tie the ASSUfinancial manager into the highlypolitical and emotional campaignprocess, affecting the long-termhealth of the institution of theASSU.

You dont want your moneymen or women remotely near the

stench of elections,Warma said.The bill would require each slateto submit an itemized budget of campaign expenses before cam-paigning,to be audited by the finan-cial manager after the election.

An independent auditor couldbe a solution to that,Cardona said.She said she and Wharton are stillseeking feedback on the bill and areflexible to changes,she said.

Warma also complained of needlessly confusing languageand questioned whether each sena-tor had given the bill three pagesin full a thorough reading.

As of Sunday evening, severalsenators were positive about thebills prospects.

I think the bills going to pass.Ididnt hear one senator strongly op-pose [it], said Senator Kamil Saeid13; Senator Stewart Macgregor-Dennis 13 expressed a similar sense.

The Senate meets Tuesday at 7p.m.in the Old Union Nitery.

Contact Margaret Rawson at [email protected].

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Vote Jerry Brown for governor of California

F acing a 12.4 percent unemployment rate and a budget deficit of $19.1 billion,Californias next governor will have to make impor-tant decisions from day one.After examining both candidatesplans for dealing with the budget, the environment and the economy,the editorial board recommends that voters choose Democratic nomi-nee Jerry Brown for governor of California.

Though less than comprehensive,Browns budget plan offers prag-matic ideas for addressing the Golden States fiscal woes.He promisesto adopt a pay-as-you-go funding approach,vetoing any new spend-ing bills that are not financed by additional revenues, and proposing aconstitutional amendment to write the policy into law.He has champi-oned a rainy day fund,which would collect money during times of budget surplus to soften the blow of economic downturns.He has alsopublished specific plans to reduce the structural costs of the state prisonsystem and Medi-Cal. Browns proposals will not close the deficit anytime soon, but they do offer a long-term solution to a long-term prob-lem.Any who doubt Browns commitment to fiscal responsibility needonly to look at his record as governor during the 1970s, when he over-

saw the largest budget surplus in state history.Meg Whitman, the Republican nominee, plans to cut $15 billionfrom the California budget by firing 40,000 public employees and cut-ting social programs all while eliminating the capital gains tax toline the pockets of wealthy investors.The loss of so many jobs in sucha dismal economy would be a dangerous experiment in how to exac-erbate a recession.Furthermore,$9 billion of the $15 billion Whitmanhas pledged to cut has yet to be identified, meaning that thousandsmore public employees would have to be fired under Whitmans plan.

Kenneth Arrow, a Nobel Prize winner and Stanford professor of economics,joined an impressive list of California scholars in signing aletter concluding that Whitmans budget and economy proposal,Meg 2010,is based on faulty economic theories and on studies thatare fundamentally unsound.Fortunately, the state legislature wouldnever accede to Whitmans draconian policies.Whitman would haveto devise a new budget plan upon taking office.

We are pleased that both Brown and Whitman support significant in-vestment in renewable energy and have come out in favor of AB 32,Cal-ifornias emissions-pricing scheme.Whitman deserves credit for standingbehind Californias 33 percent renewable energy standard, but Brownhas made the same commitment and offered a much more detailed andextensive plan for bringing renewable energy and jobs to California.Under Browns plan, California would see an additional 20,000megawatts of renewable energy by 2020,including solar panels on com-mercial buildings and along highways.Financing would be provided forefficiency upgrades to buildings,which consume approximately 40 per-cent of energy used in the U.S.

Voters this year have an important choice at the ballot box. Meg

Whitman offers radical spending cuts that would be ill advised in nor-

mal times and catastrophic for a languid economy like Californias.Jerry Brown offers a long-term commitment to fiscal health that doesnot sacrifice the economy and detailed plans to build Californiasclean energy future.

Legalize it? Examining thesticky issues of Proposition 19

Youve probably heard of Proposition 19, the Regulate,Controland Tax Cannabis Act of 2010,which will go before California vot-ers on Tuesday.If passed,Proposition 19 would unburden the Cal-ifornia criminal justice system while allowing the state to regulate the mar-ijuana industry.On the other hand,it raises some concerns,like the possi-ble boom of marijuana advertisements geared toward teens.

But what the board finds particularly troubling about Proposition 19is its contradiction of federal law.

Oh,come on,dude,you might say.Legalizing pot is so harmless!Perhaps it is.But lets conduct a thought experiment for a moment. Sup-pose a conservative state were debating a proposition that would make itillegal for a woman to have an abortion.Every Democrat in the countrywould be campaigning to put an end to the bill,and in all likelihood,the

same people who are championing Proposition 19 would be on the streetscalling the people of the conservative state traitors to America.Even socialconservatives would likely argue that the better way to contest abortionwould be to overturn Roe v.Wade,not contradict the ruling via a state law.

In the case of Proposition 19,the U.S.attorney general made clear theJustice Department would vigorously enforcefederal laws against mar-ijuana even if the proposition passes.

The majority of the board supports the notion of legalizing marijuana,but some members,including supporters,feel the proposition is poorlycrafted.According to its terms, employers cannot discriminate againstworkers who smoke,but they can reprimand poor performance that re-sults from stoned employees.This led opponents of the bill to claim that atrucking company could not stop stoned drivers from getting behind thewheel until an accident occurred. The propositions vague languagemakes it difficult to determine if thats true.Therefore,if Proposition 19passes,the editorial board strongly supports the California legislature tak-ing steps to clarify and standardize what could be a very sticky situation.

All we ask if that our classmates who choose to support the bill under-stand the full implications of their vote.This isnt just about weed itsabout federalism and the unknown ramifications of an ambiguous propo-sition.

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4 N Monday, November 1, 2010 The Stanford Daily

R ecently,I have noticed a gaping hole inour collective academic experience. Asstudents, our lives are filled primarilywith two things:events and deadlines.There isthat party you need to go to (an event) and thatpaper you need to write (a deadline).I r ealizethis is an enormous oversimplification for mostof you, since we live in a world filled with hy-brids of these two ideas. (For example, where

would we put a SURPS presentation? It is cer-tainly an event,but one with the preparation re-quired for many other types of deadlines.)Nonetheless, this bifurcation is for the mostpart how we live our lives.

Calendars manage many of our day-to-dayevents when/where we need to be given atime of day.This seems to work extremely well I am alerted on the calendar application onmy iPhone as soon as I need to get off my buttand head somewhere.It is simple and clean.

But deadlines are not as easy to plan our dayaround.Lets look at the options we currentlyhave:

We could somehow mark off a block of timeon our calendar as a period to get somethingdone.This works really well for many tasks for example,we tell ourselves, I will get gro-ceries after dinner and thats pretty muchit.This seems to work for meaningless errands things that you plan for and get out of yourway.

We could also make a daily routine to chipoff tasks that we do regularly taking a show-er, working out, getting breakfast, the usual.Many have extended this idea to put in month-ly reminders in their calendars to do their laun-dry, check their University balance, cut theirhair the list goes on and on. Most of these

tasks are similar to errands they are simplyrepeating ones.As you can see,many of the mindless repeti-

tions of our day/week/quarter have clearly de-fined goals and time periods in which we needto accomplish them.They are the clerical partsof our college experience and can be dealt withas such.

Yet most of the things that are left study-ing for that midterm,writing a research propos-al, reviewing that thing in lecture and fleshingout that great business idea come to definethe Stanford academic experience. These aretasks that have real relevance to the richness of our intellectual lives here.Yet ironically,despite(and perhaps because) of their inherent dimen-sion and scope,they are the least-defined partsof our schedules.

What seems to be the answer? Split the workup into manageable chunks? Learn how to sayno more easily? Be more organized? Work likea dog regardless? All these seem to be said to usat different parts of our academic experience,from middle school on.

Yet I think that the core of the issue is simpleaccounting .And no,keeping a list of things todo is not accounting. It is enumerating .The lat-ter holds all its tasks to a false equivalence be-tween its contents that is usually totally untrue.

Get bananasand read 300 pages of a novel just cant be put into one list without losing thesignificance of the reading or inflating the s ig-nificance of the grocery store.

Yet how are these tasks essentially different?Time. One task expects much more qualitytime over another.

Accounting means to add this dimension of time to the things we are obligated to get done.

The one constant for all of us is the amount of hours that are available to us every week.Whata great currency,then, to decide a tasks worthagainst the hours it requires in a day! Lets saysomething important will take 10 hours of yourtime this week.Assuming some other time setaside for classes, extracurriculars, meals, sleepand the like, you know exactly the time youhave to play with.Any given Sunday,you im-mediately realize the worth of the hour be-tween your lunch and your class every day thatweek. By squeezing the crevices of time fortheir worth,work splits up into chunks and longperiods naturally. It immediately becomes ap-parent what you can and cannot do.You knowwhen you must work like a dog and when youcan relax. All the mottos we were ever givenabout time management seem to point towardthis extra dimension!

The accounting of time with respect to ourtasks arms us with the tools we need to make in-formed decisions about our weeks,our monthsand our years to come at Stanford.Perhaps inanother decade, well be ready for a couplemore dimensions.

To tell Aaditya to stop procrastinating by lookingup theories about time management, e-mail himat [email protected].

OPINIONS

Ed. note: Today we introduce our freshmancolumnist, David Spencer Nelson.

Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM)is a necessary program. Students, manyof whom come from math- and science-based backgrounds,should be introduced tohigher humanities classes in their first year

at Stanford. Not only is the program impor-tant academically; it is also an integral partof gaining continuity in the freshman class,both socially and intellectually.

Moreover, IHUM offers brilliant lec-tures. Some of the Universitys best profes-sors teach its courses and offer very com-pelling talks.

But the program is hugely flawed. IHUMintroduces freshman to a picture of the hu-manities not at all like the interactive semi-nars that the English and Philosophy De-partments thrive on.Its too bad,because itsonly takes a few run-ins with the programsarbitrary grading scales and lecture-like dis-cussion sections before many students giveup on IHUM,and, sometimes,the humani-ties in general.

The first thing most students notice whenthey sit down in section is that this class isnot just about educating;its about handingyou a slice of humble pie.Freshmen are toldnot to expect good grades, but arent toldhow to get better ones.The seemingly arbi-trary nature of IHUMs grading scales isalienating to students with a mild interest inthe humanities.

It often feels like the program is designedmore to help you realize your limitationsthan to expand them.Students struggling tobreak the B-HUM curse are likely to be-come apathetic and stop trying to do muchmore than pass.

IHUM is problematic in another way: itdoesnt reflect what the humanities value.The humanities greatest strength is open-ness, the possible validity of every interpre-tation. Yet the program is about reception,not creation.

From my own experience and what I cangather from my classmates testimony,IHUM is centered more around receivingknowledge from professors than discussingand independently analyzing texts. Fromthe instant students walk into section, theassumption is that students need to betaught the right answer. Students are treat-ed as empty vessels,like they are inherentlylacking.Students are not active in their owneducation.Elsewhere in the humanities,val-orizing one perspective over another is asin.The humanities are about giving voice toideas and dissecting them, not receiving thegospel from pontificators.Yet in section,the

perspective of students is always secondary.Whats wrong with IHUM? The answer

is very simple: students dont like illogicalsystems without explanations; studentsdont like classes that dont offer a path tosuccess; students dont like classes that dontinvolve them or recognize their contribu-tions.

No one wants to be an observer to his orher own education. Especially in the hu-manities, where there is often no absoluteright answer, students need to be given thefreedom to make interpretations and opin-ions, to engage with the course material ontheir own terms.The programs current for-mat makes that difficult, because sectionsare more often than not devoted to explain-ing lectures rather than independent discus-sion.

Stanford should introduce students tothe humanities in a way that reflects whatthe humanities truly are. Like the majorityof English and philosophy classes at Stan-ford, IHUM should be conducted in a semi-nar format. Students should be in small, en-gaged groups.They should be encouraged totry to gain deeper understandings throughdiscussion with each other, moderated by afaculty member.

The program,which at the moment is notconducted like an introductory class, needsto become one.Students dont enjoy the for-giveness given in most introductory classes,especially when it comes to grades.Studentsare expected to perform to a standard thatisnt made clear, and theyre given preciouslittle guidance on how to better their efforts.Thats central to the problem:IHUM shouldbe about helping,not humbling.

What IHUM fails most arent the stu-dents, but the departments in the humani-ties.It manages to dissuade students in greatnumbers from taking more classes in the hu-manities for fear of having another hellishexperience. The departments should takecharge of IHUM and try to improve the over-all experience.

Want to chat about The Dailys new freshmancolumn? E-mail David at [email protected].

T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY

C ARDINAL S IN S

C OMPILERS , S TETHOSCOPES AND H EMINGWAY

Idont have a past.I cant talk about the dayswhen I was a little boy,when I played withtrucks and trains and dressed up as a cow-boy for Halloween.I cant talk about my daysplaying in Little League.I cant talk about myawkward growth spurt in high school, abouthearing my name during graduation or read-ing my name on my high school diploma. Icant see my school pictures and see myself.Icant talk about those experiences becausethey never happened.

It makes me sad, thinking about how thereare parts of my past that I s imply cant change.Regardless of whether or not I decide to recon-struct for myself a more normal childhood to essentially lie that doesnt change the factthat I had to grow up as a little girl,with uncom-fortable dresses and Barbie dolls, and to put upwith 20 years of feeling miserable but neverknowing quite why.

The narrative of my life,due to my transi-tion,is incoherent,blurry.Whatever happenedbefore sophomore year of college in my mindis simply a nebulous black hole.It was as if Ididnt actually start existing until I finally cameout to myself as a guy.Whenever I have to referto a time before my transition from my in-fant years to the end of my freshman year Iget really uncomfortable.I realize that if I wantto continue my life as a man,there are parts of my life I have to leave behind.

I realize that I probably cant go back to myhigh school. I went to a Catholic high school,and I dont think theyll be a fan of the transthing.No one will recognize me if I go back.Myteachers did a lot for me and got me to Stan-ford,and I owe them. But I dont know if I willever be able to come back and thank them.Sure,high school wasnt the best experience I spent most of it feeling depressed and con-fused but it was still four years of my lifethat I essentially have to erase from my lifenarrative. And there are people from highschool who refuse to talk to me because of mytransition,something that gets me upset when-ever I think about it.

If I ever find myself a girlfriend wouldshe know beforehand about my identity as atrans person, or would this be a secret that Iwouldnt disclose until later? If I meet a girlat Stanford,shell be very aware of my transi-tion.But if I meet someone after Stanford,atwork or at grad school, once I look more con-vincingly like a guy,people will assume I was

born male,and the trans issue isnt necessaryto disclose prior to or during the first date.But when will I tell her? I know I have to,eventually.Would I tell her when were final-ly seriously dating,when she sees me less asthis anomaly of nature, as Cristopher thetransguy who can tell her all about beingqueer and trans,but just as Cris,her cute andnot short, but fun-sized boyfriend who justhappened to be born as a girl, no big deal? Iknow that the time I come out will affect thedynamics of our relationship, and Im notvery sure how I would handle it.

When I have kids, will I tell them abouttheir dads past? Do I want to give them infor-mation that will confuse them, give other kidson the playground an excuse to make fun of them? Or will I have to construct some newpast that is more conventional, more consis-tent with my appearance and identity but is alla complete lie? Will I even need to tell themthe truth at all? Will my kids live in a societywhere that sort of stuff doesnt matter any-more?

I understand in order to become a healthyperson and finally be happy, I need to ac-knowledge that my life prior to my transition as uncomfortable as it all is to think about is still part of my life.My past experience,despite how awkward and painful it was,hasshaped me as a young man, and there arethings I have learned in this life and this bodythat I dont think many biologically male menever learn. I should be thankful for the chanceto live this life.

But if someone asked me once if I had thechoice to change my biological sex and relivemy life from the beginning,what would I say?And at the moment, I dont know how I wouldanswer.And that scares me.

Cheer up a sad transboy. E-mail Cristopher Bautista at [email protected].

Reconstructing My Life Narrative

Enumerating and Accounting

A Bad First Impression

AadityaShidham

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CROSS COUNTRY WINS PAC-10By ZACH ZIMMERMAN

DESK EDITOR

For the first time in five years, Stanford hascemented itself as the center for Pac-10 dis-tance running.On Saturday,the No.1 mens andNo.9 womens cross country teams won theirrespective races in Seattle at the Pac-10 Cham-pionships,bringing both conference titles backto the Farm.

The women were up first in the 6,000-meterrace on a rainy day in Washington. Thoughranked in the top 10 nationally,the Cardinalschances at victory appeared low as it was set toface No. 2 Oregon, No.6 Arizona and No. 20Washington,the defending champion.

Although the Ducks took the individualtitle, Stanford showcased its depth.A second-place finish from sophomore Kathy Kroeger,afifth-place result from redshirt junior StephanieMarcy and an eighth-place finish by freshmanJessica Tonn managed to squeak out a victory.The Cardinal squad was the only team to placethree runners in the top 10 as it clinched its firstPac-10 title since 2007.

Stanford finished with 62 points,the highesttotal by a conference champion since 1989. Inan extremely tight race,Ar izona placed secondwith 65 points, and Oregon and Washingtontied for third with 68.With the top four teams allwithin six points of each other,Saturdays racewas the closest conference championship inPac-10 history.

Our goal going into the race was to win,butwe knew it would be a really tough,really closerace,Kroeger said, after finishing with a timeof 19:49.43.At a couple points during the race,they announced current team scores, and wewere consistently among the top teams, so we

knew we had a shot. But ultimately it wouldcome down to finishing strong in the last mile of

the race.Even after everyone had finished,wedidnt know who had won until they announcedthe scores.

Stanford also received scoring performanc-es from junior Georgia Griffin and Alex Gits,aswell as strong finishes from sophomore AlexDunne and redshirt junior Madeline Duhon.Gits,a senior who finished in 26th, discussed theimplications of this meet for the remainingraces of the season.

We now more than ever have a huge targeton our backs, she said.The Pac-10 is just ascompetitive as the larger upcoming races,so weknow now, going in,we have to repeat our per-formances or better them to see the same re-sults.

In the 8,000-meter mens race, there wasnever any doubt once the gun sounded that Stan-ford would take home the title.

The Cardinal was once again led by the BigThree,a trio comprised of veteran runners ElliottHeath, Jake Riley and Chris Derrick. WhileHeath crossed the finish line in first place with atime of 23:00.46, his individual conference titlewas all but a technicality, as Riley and Derrickfinished with virtually identical scores of 23:00.57and 23:00.59,respectively.

The major goal of this program is to winchampionships, Derrick said, so when we goout there and accomplish that, it always feelsgood.

Possibly more impressive than the finish of thetop three were the performances of the Cardi-nals secondary runners.Without veterans Ben-

jamin Johnson and Brendan Gregg, Stanfordneeded to receive stellar runs from Riley Sullivanand Erik Olson.The two did not disappoint.

Olson and Riley Sullivan finished in 11thand 15th, respectively, adding to the ninth-

place finish of surprise star Miles Unterrein-er and the 10th-place performance of J.T.Sullivan.

Our entire second pack of guys really ran asmart race and that is what ultimately won themeet for us,Heath said.I think there are someother teams out there with some good depth,butI think there are very few that can match up withour depth if we continue to make strides as a teamlike this weekend.

With all seven runners inside the top 15,Stan-ford easily won with just 25 total points.No.3 Ore-gon finished in a distant second with 56 points,fol-lowed by No.22 Cal in third with 86.The champi-onship marked the mens first since 2005.

Up next for the Stanford men and womenare the NCAA West Regionals, which takeplace in Eugene,Ore.,on Nov.13.

While the Cardinal will undoubtedly turn itssights toward the final meets of the year,mem-bers of the cross country program can enjoy theexperience of being the last champions in thecurrent version of the Pac-10.

Seeing as this is the last one there will everbe,it feels really good that it went to Stanford,Jake Riley said.Its a testament to the hardwork weve been putting in all season,and itsgreat to have something to show for it.

It is such an unbelievable feeling, Gitsadded.I remember my freshman year beingoverjoyed to be part of a program that winschampionships,and it is such a joy for the rest of our competitors to know,once again,they cantkeep Stanford out of the equation.

Contact Zach Zimmerman at [email protected].

S PORTS

By MILES BENNETT-SMITHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The mens soccer team closed outits home season in style on Sunday,celebrating Senior Day with a decisive3-0 victory over Oregon State.The tri-umph helped ease some of the pain of Friday nights heartbreaking 1-0 lossto Washington in the rain, a defeatthat likely ended Stanfords postsea-son hopes.

The weekend results pushed theCardinals record to 8-9-0 on the yearand 4-5-0 in the Pac-10,with its finalregular season game against rival Cal-ifornia on Nov. 11.

Oregon State (6-8-0, 1-6-0 Pac-10)offered little resistance during Sun-days game in front of a small crowd atLaird Q. Cagan Stadium. Stanfordcame out playing some of its most re-laxed and fluid soccer of the season,which redshirt junior Garrett Guntherattributed to the new starting lineup.

It was really easy for us, becauseweve played together for so long,Gunther said.We are really comfort-able with each other, and we knoweach others tendencies and weak-nesses, so that just makes everythingsimpler.

Head coach Bret Simon started allsix players from the class of 2011, aswell as redshirt senior Thiago SaFreire, and remarkably, each wasmore or less in his natural position.

The Cardinal wasted little timetaking the lead,a s the team came outfiring and broke through in the fifthminute. Senior defender RyanThomass corner kick fell to senior de-fender Shaun Culver in the middle of the box,and Culver left the ball off forsenior forward Dominique Yayhavi.Yayhavi, Stanfords leading scorer,finished the play and tallied his sixthgoal of the season.

It was only 10 minutes later thatthe Cardinal added to its lead with a

surprising blast from Thomas. Gun-ther played a short ball off anothercorner kick that found Thomas in a lit-tle space on the right side,and the de-fender hit a sharply driven ballthrough a crowd in front of the goal.Goalie Steve Spangler could not getto it, and a sliding attempt by an Ore-gon State defender was too late asThomas scored his second career goal.

Sophomore Dersu Abolfathicapped the afternoons scoring late inthe first half,as he found himself wideopen in front of the goal only to whiff on the shot,before gathering himself and slotting his second attempt pastthe keeper.

Stanford maintained possessionfor most of the first half, dominatingOregon State in almost every aspectof the game.Even though the Beaverscame out with a bit more energy in thesecond half,the Cardinal was still thestronger side. Redshirt freshmangoalie Jason Dodson made a few im-pressive saves before being replacedby fellow redshirt freshman GalenPerkins in the 75th minute. Perkins

was able to hold down the Beaver at-tack, preserving the shutout for Stan-ford.

Dodson could not,however,keep aclean sheet Friday night against Wash-ington (9-5-1, 3-4-0) in what would bethe Cardinals third straight 1-0 lossand its seventh loss by one goal.

The Cardinal came out strongagainst a physical Washington teamthat had taken the first matchup of theseason, 2-0 at home.

Stanford caught a huge break inthe 10th minute when WashingtonsTaylor Mueller was given a red cardand ejected from the match, leavingthe Huskies to play 80 minutes with 10men.

Stanford sent attackers forward allnight long in the rain and forcedWashington into a defensive shell formost of the night. The Cardinal out-shot the Huskies 12-3 in the secondhalf, and senior defenders CameronLamming and Bobby Warshaw com-

bined for nine shots.But Husky goal-keeper Richey Spencer made severalkey saves to keep Washington alive,and Stanford began to press a littletoo hard as time wound down.

In the 84th minute, the Cardinalwas caught with too many men infront of the ball, and Washingtonmade it count. Two Husky attackerscombined to lead the break,and a per-fectly played through-ball left Dod-son helpless as senior Matt VanHouten scored his fifth goal of theseason, three of which have comeagainst the Cardinal.

The biggest thing we took awayfrom the game was that we have to ex-ecute on our chances, Gunther said.Its kind of the story of our season.We never have played a game thisyear where we thought we played par-ticularly poorly, but we lost a lot of games when we didnt finish.

After the loss, Simon said therewasnt much he could tell the team.

Theres not a whole lot you cansay after a game like that. I thankedthem for working hard and said we

just werent good e nough that night,he said.

We had a lot of chances, and wedidnt finish them, and I thought ourmovement with the ball wasnt thatcrisp. If you leave the game hanginglike that,it can sometimes be snatchedaway.

The loss likely ensured that Stan-ford will miss the postseason for theeighth time in nine years.Even with awin in its final game, the Card wouldonly reach a .500 record, which wouldprobably not be enough to secure anat-large bid to the NCAA Tourna-ment field of 48 teams.

However, a game against rival Calstill remains after the upcoming byeweekend. The Cardinal will look toplay the role of spoiler against the Pac-10 leader and send the senior class off with a win on Nov.11 in Berkeley.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at [email protected].

DanielBohmOn My Mind

MENS SOCCER

Card blanks OregonState on Senior Day

By KATHERINE KNOX CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The No.4 Stanford womens volleyball team (18-2,9-2 Pac-10) bounced back from a tough loss last week-end with consecutive sweeps of No.18 Oregon (16-7, 4-7) and Oregon State (8-17, 1-10) to open up the secondhalf of conference play.

Sophomore setter Karissa Cook made her returndebut in Eugene Friday night to help bring down theDucks in straight sets,25-17, 25-16, 25-22.The return toa 6-2 setting offense allowed senior setter/oppositeCassidy Lichtman to resume her utility role.Lichtmanpicked up 20 assists,five digs and fivekills in three sets.

Oregon setterLauren Plumworked for 32 assists,splitting the offensebetween sophomoreoutside hitters KatFischer and AlainaBergsma and senioropposite HeatherMeyers.Meyers,whohas been a primaryhitter for the Duckssince her freshmanyear, was held to a

.115 hitting percent-age on the night, butstill brought Ore-gons hitting per-centage up to .078.

Low hitting per-centages character-ized the Oregon of-fense in the first set.The Ducks called a time out after stringing togetherthree consecutive hitting errors and posted a fourthupon returning to the court to put Stanford up 18-12.

The Cardinal gained an early lead in the second andmaintained it throughout the set, as senior libero GabiAiles served out two four-point stretches to give Stan-ford its lead. Defense by Ailes,Cook and senior outsidehitter Alix Klineman was supplemented by an unbeat-able block.Freshman middle blocker Carly Wopat col-lected 8 blocks on the match.

Oregon took the lead at 21-20 in the third set, forc-ing Stanford head coach John Dunning to call his firstand only timeout of the match. Cook proceeded to rat-tle off four serves before Klineman put down a kill toend the match.

Early offensive frustration yielded 28 total hitting

errors from the Ducks to the minimal 10 errors postedby Stanford. Because Oregon had difficulty siding outfirst-strike, the team ended up taking a full 29 swingsmore than the Cardinal, who still strung together onlyfour fewer kills than the Ducks on the match.

With Ailes gathering 23 digs in three sets, Stanfordsdefense pushed back the Oregon offense,creating op-portunities to force hitting errors.In addition to havingalready broken records for average digs per set, seasondigs and career digs for the Stanford volleyball pro-gram,Ailes has picked 1,955 digs to date after totaling41 for the weekend.

After a day of rest in Eugene, the Card headednorth to Corvallis yesterday morning for a Halloweenbattle against a spirited orange-and-black OSU crowdof 850 fans.

Stanford took an early lead in the first set that wasquickly squandered with a service error, two attack er-rors and a r eception error.A block by junior StephanieBrowne and sophomore Hayley Spelman gave theCard the boost to force nine hitting errors out of theBeavers in the first,yielding a swift 25-17 win.

Timely kills by Beaver outside hitters Jill Sawatzkyand Camille Saxton matched six attack errors by theCardinal early in the second to keep OSU in contention

throughout the set. The Beavers held four leads mid-setuntil a service error by setter Megan McBride and an-other block by Browne and Spelman forced OSU to

call a timeout.A pair of kills from freshman outside hit-ter Rachel Williams and Klineman allowed Stanford topull ahead and take the set 25-21.

The Beavers continued to spread the offense be-tween Saxton, Dre Shaw, and Ashley Eneliko in thethird, but the setters pushed sets out to Sawatzky dur-ing crucial points in the set. While Sawatzky delivered14 kills on the match,the Beaver offense was held to a.127 hitting percentage as Ailes picked up 18 more digsand the Card put down nine blocks.

Cook and Lichtman each put up 19 assists, enablingKlineman,Lichtman and Williams to get 31 combinedkills in the three sets. Led by Klineman,who continuesto top the conference charts for kills earned and pointsearned, the Card continues to lead the nation in teamhitting percentage.

Stanford remains second to Cal in the conference asit continues the quest for its fifth consecutive Pac-10title.

The team returns to Maples Pavilion next weekendto host UCLA at on Friday at 7 p.m. on Friday andSouthern California on Sunday at 1 p.m.

Contact Katherine Knox at [email protected].

Stanford ismissing asports bar

VOLLEYBALL TAKES

STRAIGHT SWEEPS

So Stanford blew outWashington. It was prob-ably the Cardinals mostimpressive performanceof the season. The much-

maligned defense was stout, themost overrated player in the coun-try,Jake Locker,was held in checkand Stanford committed to the runand shoved it down the Huskiesthroats all day.That is my analysis of the game.

Now, on to my experience of watching the game.As many of youknow,the Stanford game coincidedwith Game 3 of the World Series,and,like many sports fans,I wantedto watch both. When you live atStanford, that basically means youhave one option go to The OldPro.

I have been to The Old Promore times than Id care to admit,and Im sure Ill be there plentymore, but it took until yesterdayfor me to realize that it was moreout of necessity than anything else.

I showed up about two hoursbefore either game started only tofind out it cost $30 just to get in!There was a $10 cover charge and$20 that was good for food or drinkcredit. If you didnt have $30 (cashonly),you werent getting in.If youdidnt want to eat, too bad, you

were paying 30 fucking dollars.And this is supposed to be a col-lege town.Deplorable.

Once you got in, it wasnt as if they were cutting you deals. $14 fora small pitcher of Bud Light. Thepitcher held about 3.5 beers. To putthat in perspective, you can get a 24-pack of Bud Light at Safeway forabout that much. Eight chickenwings cost $12. What happened to asports bar being a utilitarian com-munity spot? Where are thepeanuts? Deals? Instead, at nightthere is just some guy whose sole

job it is to yell at you to keep walk-ing. How dare you actually TALKto your friends? Shame.

There was one good thing aboutthe ridiculous prices. My friendsand I were expecting the place tobe a mob scene given the bevy of sporting events on Saturday, but itnever got too full.Im fairly certainthat even the posh people of Palo

Alto were scared away by the ab-solutely egregious door price.Andof course, there were almost nostudents.(How dare a sports bar ina college town cater to college stu-dents? That would be something!)

I guess I shouldnt really be sur-prised by any of this.The Old Pro,which may be my favorite bar inPalo Alto (which is like being thesmartest kid at Cal not very dif-ficult), has always been identity-less and pricey. I think its sup-posed to be a sports bar all theTVs, the mechanical bull and thepennants on the wall seem to sug-gest that but come 10 p.m.or so,hip-hop music starts blaring overthe televisions for people to dance. . . at a bar without a dance floor.

But people are still going to go toThe Old Pro. It will be packed onmost every weekend night,becausethere isnt a viable alternative in thearea. The Dutch Goose, Oasis,Nut

House and Rosattis are all muchbetter sports bar environments butlack the television capacity of TheOld Pro. If Im forgetting some-place, please do enlighten me.

On campus,you can watch a sin-gle game at the CoHo, the Tree-house and even Old Union, butagain, they dont give the opportu-nity to watch two games at once.Some people might say I am askingtoo much to have a decent sportsbar at Stanford, but I doubt thereare many, if any, college campusesin America that have such a putridselection of places to watch games.

So like it or not,The Old Pro hasa monopoly. Hopefully it will stopabusing that privilege, or maybesome entrepreneurial type willstep up and create some competi-tion because my salary at TheDaily doesnt support $30 covers.

Despite five years at Stanford, Daniel Bohm hasnt realized that Palo Alto isnt really considered a college town. Dispel his delusions at [email protected].

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailyJacob Riley, Elliott Heath and Chris Derrick finished1-2-3, within heartbeats of one another, at Satur-days race in Seattle, bringing the mens cross coun-try Pac-10 conference title back to the Farm.

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailySophomore Hayley Spelman aided No. 4 womensvolleyball in sweeping both Oregon and OregonState over the weekend, following last weekendsheartbreaking loss to California.

WOMENS VOLLEYBALL10/31 at Oregon StateW 3-0

UP NEXTUCLA(6-15, 0-11 Pac-10)11/5 Maples Pavilion

7 P.M.

GAME NOTES:Stanford kept pace in thePac-10 race with sweeps over bothOregon schools last weekend. It facesrematches with the Southern Califor-nia schools starting on Friday night.Earlier in the season, the Card split itsroad trip to USC and UCLA, beatingthe Trojans, 3-1, before falling 3-2 tothe Bruins.


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