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Happinessincreaseswith ageNew study says olderpeople have more joy

Early process likely to become morecompetitive, says admission chief

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Grant to addresslow numbers offemale med profs

By WILLA BROCK

A dean at the Stanford School of Medicine has received agrant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to re-search why few women attain professorships in medicine.

Hannah Valantine,professor and senior associate dean for

diversity and leadership in the School of Medicine, wasawarded the NIH grant to conduct a study exploring the caus-es and possible solutions for the low numbers of women be-coming full professors.

Women represent 50 percent of graduates from medicalschools and about 45 percent of assistant professors in thefield of academic medicine.But only 18 percent of full profes-sors are women.

Ive addressed many of the structural issues that limit theadvancement of women in academic careers, including issuesaround work-life balance and the collision of the biologicaltime clock with the academic time clock, Valantine said.But recently my attention and interest have begun to be fo-cused on the psychological factors that come into play.

The $2 million grant,one of six NIH Directors PathfinderAwards bestowed this August, aims to promote diversity inthe scientific workforce.It will enable Valantine and her teamto conduct a variety of experiments over the course of threeyears, focusing especially on the phenomenon known as thestereotype threat a concept pioneered by ClaudeSteele, a former Stanford professor and how it affectswomen faculty in the medical field.

By DANA EDWARDS

The stereotype of the grouchyold-timer may be a thing of the past.

People become happier as theyget older,according to an Oct.25 ar-

ticle in the journal Psychology andAging detailing the results of a 10-year study led by a Stanford profes-sor.

Laura Carstensen, psychologyprofessor and director of the Stan-ford Center on Longevity, led thestudy, which was co-authored bypostdoctoral fellows Bulent TuranPh.D. 09, Susanne Scheibe and re-searchers from other universities.

The study collected data over 10years in order to examine the fluctu-ating levels of happiness in individu-als as they aged a decade.

There is a lot of evidence sug-gesting that as people get older,theyget more positive emotionally, butnone of it is conclusive,Turan said.This is the first study examining theissue in a longitudinal assay.

The study included 184 Bay Area

Stanford researcher will examinewhy few women attain professorships

Former victim discussesexperiences, current work

Crusader against sex trafficking speaks

By MARIANNE LEVINECONTRIBUTING WRITER

On Wednesday, Somaly Mam, one of Time

magazines 100 most influential people, spokeout at the Womens Community Center againsthuman sex trafficking, drawing on personal ex-perience as well as a lifetime spent combatingthe practices spread.

At a young age, Somaly Mam was sold intosexual slavery by a man pretending to be hergrandfather.After witnessing the murder of herbest friend, Mam escaped the brothel. In 1996,she established the Cambodian non-profit or-ganization Agir Pour les Femmes en SituationPrecaire (AFESIP), dedicated to saving younggirls sold into sexual slavery.The victims range inage from 4 to 12, and the organization has res-cued more than 6,000 young women since itsfounding.

In 2007, the Somaly Mam Foundation was es-tablished by two Americans to advocate for thevictims of sexual trafficking and allow their voic-es to be heard in the world community.

Viviana Arcia 13,the chair of womens issuesfor ASSU and one of the events organizers,saysMam understands the importance of the sur-vivors perspective.

Shes a representative of victim-centered

activism. . . that is,letting survivors choose their

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Sankai Juku, one of Japans premier Butoh companies, performs Tuesday at Memorial Auditorium. The company performed itsmost recent work, Tobari (As If in an Inexhaustible Flux), an artistic depiction of the cycles of life, death and rebirth.

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GSC discusses VSO funding,new bus routes

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Early-actionapps see 7percent rise

By KATHLEEN CHAYKOWSKIDESK EDITOR

The Graduate Student Council (GSC) con-sidered three requests for funding, discussedbudget concerns regarding the funding of Vol-untary Student Organizations (VSOs) and an-nounced updates on current student program-ming at Wednesday nights meeting.

Co-chair and medical student Jessica Tsai

began the meeting by thanking council mem-bers for organizing last weekends council re-treat. A primary topic at the retreat was thestate of the councils funding for VSOs,accord-ing to Tsai.

Fourth-year genetics student and deputyfunding chair Erik Lehnert said that the coun-cil has decreased its reserve amount to basi-cally what we want to contain it at. . . so theremight be a time in April when we say, OK,

close shop.Were done funding here.I recommend having these conversations

with every group that comes,he added,sayingthe council will need to consider whether ornot it will continue to fund full dinners at guestspeaker events.

Engineers for a Susta inable World and theHong Kong Student Association were award-

By BRANDON POWELL

The Office of Admission is reviewing applica-tions for admission that were submitted underthe restrictive early action program,whose dead-line was Nov. 1.

Bob Patterson,director of admission,said theoffice has received approximately 5,950 applica-tions under the early-action program,a 7 percentincrease from last year.

Despite the increase in applicants, Pattersonsaid the number of acceptances would remainroughly the same as last year, when 760 offers ofadmission were given to early applicants.

Universities and colleges are continuing tosee an increase in application[s]. . . but were notseeing an increase in enrollment,Patterson said.With an increased applicant pool and the sameclass size, its going to be a little more competi-

tive.The restrictive early-action process is a meansby which college applicants can apply to Stanfordbefore the normal Jan. 1 deadline and find outtheir admission status in mid-December.Appli-cants are either accepted, rejected or deferred.Those accepted have until May 1 to respond tothe admission offer.

We encourage students to apply if they knowStanford is their first choice,Patterson said.Wealso encourage students to apply if they feel pre-pared and ready to submit their application.

There is no disadvantage to applying early,and the only advantage would be finding out thedecision earlier,Patterson said.

If were going to admit a student in restric-tive early action, we would admit the same stu-dent in regular decision, Patterson said.

In reference to deferrals when a studentsadmission decision is postponed to the regular

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By ASHLEY MENZIES

Pandora has long maintained its place as atop source for personalized music. Userssimply type in their favorite artists or songs,and the site generates a playlist of songs tai-lored to their musical tastes. Now imagine

this idea of personalized recommendations appliedto your online news content.

Dan Olsen M.B.A.98, CEO of YourVersion andStanford Graduate School of Business alumnus, hasfounded a website that does exactly this. A user, inlieu of using a search engine, a bookmark or an RSSfeed, may simply go to one website and all the newshe or she cares about will appear.

Olsen describes YourVersion as the Pandora ofreal-time Web content. What he has termed a dis-covery engine pulls together the most recent andrelative online sources related to the users interestswithout any searching, including news,blogs, tweetsand videos.

You sit back and our product just pushes it backto you,Olsen said.

How Does It Work?Users type their interests into the YourVersion

discovery engine,which then produces articles thatare both recent and relevant to their topics. The site

gives the user control via a recency-relevancy slid-er in the top left corner of the page.Depending on theusers intent,he or she can shift a dial more towardmore recent or more relevant content.

The site also encourages sharing content and pro-vides tools to simplify the process.Users can share linksvia Facebook,Twitter or e-mail.YourVersion providesWeb browser tools for Chrome,Safari and Firefox.Thesite automatically shortens URLs to 140 characters,which is the character limitation on Twitter.

I love the link-shortening feature of theYourVersion toolbar for Firefox, and I love that ittracks your preferences over time ande-mails you interesting stories,said Stephanie Werner 11, a for-mer marketing intern atYourVersion, in an e-mail toThe Daily.

Using these browser tools,users can share whatevercontent from any website,as long as theyre loggedin to YourVersion. Toshare content via Face-book takes about five seconds.

As Werner pointed out, the

site also sends out an optionalweekly e-mail tailored to the users

interests.It provides the top 10 stories of the week,aswell as a free iPod and iPad app so users can accessYourVersion anywhere they go.

Why YourVersion?Olsen came up with the idea for the site after real-

izing that several websites gain so much personaldata about their users, yet never use any of it. He be-lieves that even though OpenTable a restaurantreservation booking site provides a great service

to its customers,it misses the oppor-tunity to provide personalized rec-ommendations based on users his-tory.To Olsen,Amazon does a greatjob at this,with its More Items to

Consider and New For Yousuggestions,among others.

Olsen decided to capitalizeon the idea of information gath-

ering to help people access thenews they care about.He thought,Why dont we help people solvethe information overload prob-

lem?The Official Google Blog

noted that there are a trillion

unique URLs, and the numberof individual web pages out

there is growing by several billion pages per day.Olsen said that it becomes challenging for people

to sort through the material relevant to their inter-ests.

The way to solve this information overload chal-lenge for users is to serve what is highly relative tothem,Olsen proposed.The tool needs to get smartabout you.

YourVersion also harnesses collective intelli-gence. In other words, it aggregates all of the data

from users, while adding human intelligence to makethe content more personalized. In particular,YourVersion gathers a large amount of attentiondata the interaction between the user and the site.

The YourVersion staff has conducted 80 one-on-one usability tests.In each test,a staff member watch-es the respondent interact with the site and tracks po-tential difficulties.

A number of Stanford students have internedwith the start-up to help ensure a positive customerexperience.

I had a great time working at YourVersion,saidOrr Keshet, a computer science coterminal student.The working environment is fun and you are alwaysworking on something interesting.There is never adull moment.

Since its launch in 2009 at the TechCrunch50 Con-ference, YourVersion has won the Peoples ChoiceAwards at multiple start-up events: TechCrunch50,SF New Tech, the Play Berkeley Digita l Media Con-ference, SNAP Summits FailCon and SF Beta.

Stanford students are starting to catch the vision.I like YourVersion because it enables me to eas-

ily follow my key interests,said Cassandra Espinozall.It could be very useful to other students.

Contact Ashley Menzies amenzies@stanford.edu.

Youre told that your child canhave the opportunity to go to aprivate boarding school run bysomeone who appears wealthy,said John Stevens.Its no charge

until hes 18 if you sign one piece of paper . . . .itturns out that this paper is a consent for adoption.Ithink that is a literal kidnapping.

Stevens and two other Stanford entrepreneurshave built the organization KaeMe which meansremember me in the Ghanaian dialect of Twi to help Ghanas government reverse practices theysee as egregious in Ghanaian orphanages.

Now, KaeMe is in the midst of its largest re-cruiting effort ever,hoping to accelerate the com-pletion of a database of Ghanaian orphans. Theyhope to send three groups totaling 40 volunteersto Ghana this summer.

Stevens,a Stanford-trained cardiothoracic sur-geon,learned about the state of Ghanas orphan-age system when he and his wife Marci traveled toGhana in 2002.With intentions of building an or-phanage of their own,they were instead inspired

by observations of many mismanaged orphanagesand ultimately decided to work with the govern-ment to improve the existing system.

After working for years to improve orphan-ages in the Attawa District,Stevens shared his ex-periences with QuestBridge founder,Ashoka Fel-low and Rhodes Scholar Michael McCulloughM.D.89.

On partnering with McCullough,Stevens,him-self the founder of multiple for-profit corpora-tions, said, I realized that Michael had a set ofskills which I woefully lacked and that we could dofar more together than either of us alone.

To Stevens network of government contacts,McCullough added the expertise of colleague Jen-nifer Miller and the organizational structure ofthe nonprofit BeAGoodDoctor.org. McCulloughand Miller cofounded BeAGoodDoctor.org inorder to centralize fundraising and managementfor their smaller nonprofits: S.C.O.P.E., theCourage Project and clinical internship organiza-tions in Honduras,Nepal and Dharamsala.

Before the two committed to Stevens idea,

Miller led three students on a fact-finding mission.Officials explained to them that at the time, in2008,the most immediate problem was miscalcu-

lated Western generosity.Churches,clubs,governments . . . even Cana-

dian actresses send money to Ghana to fund theirown orphanages, without understanding the re-sponsibilities of monitoring them, Miller said.

McCullough further described the phenome-non of detrimental generosity.

If you are an entrepreneurial Ghanaianworking for an orphanage funded by a remotedonor say, a church in Oklahoma and wantto keep this money coming in,you have dangerousincentives to label children orphans who are notactually orphans, and [you] will hesitate to findthem homes.

Millers team surveyed approximately 9 per-cent of the orphanage population and found thatfewer than 50 percent of those children had actu-ally been orphaned. The rest were given up bypoverty-stricken families, often under hollowpromises of schooling,food, clothing and medical

treatment.The orphanage where I found my daughterPerpetua was clearly one of the better orphan-

ages, Stevens recalled.Even then, she was hun-gry every day and was beaten on a regular basis.

The formulation of KaeMe coincided with ef-forts by Ghanas government to take control overreckless institutions,as well as with an internation-al movement to improve the lives of orphanedand abandoned children. Ghanas governmentpassed the Care Reform Initiative in 2006,raisingthe countrys policy on care, education and reset-tlement of orphans to standards set by UNICEFand the International Hague Conventions.

When we went in there and started askingquestions to government officials,they were beingasked the same questions by UNICEF, Stevenssaid. The organizational structure we providedhad answers to these questions.

With these foundations in place, McCulloughand Miller began searching for undergrads whocould carry out the groundwork in Ghana.

My skill is in finding a group of highly talent-ed, socially conscious and diverse students people who I know are capable of accomplishingtasks which usually demand much more age and

experience, McCullough said.

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One of McCulloughs goals is toexpand the role students play in theorganization and to mentor thesestudents to success in both their im-mediate and greater life goals.In ad-dition to a multitude of Fulbright andTruman Fellowship winners, four ofKaeMes previous leaders have goneon to win Rhodes Scholarships.

I want our student leaders toleave with the same momentum intheir own lives as they bring intoleading these projects, McCulloughsaid.

Last June KaeMe directed eightstudents five from Stanford ingathering medical and familialrecords and producing video inter-views of Ghanaian orphans.

Through the volunteers work,

we are creating an electronic data-base of the orphans,along with a net-work of people who are becomingeducated about the issues, Stevenssaid.

The goal of the electronic data-base is to help Ghanas Departmentof Social Welfare (DSW) make in-formed decisions about what shouldbe done with each of the more than4,000 children in orphanages, as wellas to assist the DSW with implemen-tation.

To minimize costs to the govern-ment,DSW workers accompany vol-unteers to each orphanage, sharingthe transportation resources fundedby KaeMe. Once there, student vol-unteers collect and record relevantinformation from school reports,hos-pital records and caregiver notes.DSW workers talk to the heads of or-phanages, informing them of newregulations that must be met to avoidbeing shut down. In addition, DSWworkers establish a permanentmeans of contact with these orphan-ages.

Workers also conduct a formal,in-formational video interview of eachorphan.Student volunteers follow upwith an informal second interview,meant to illuminate the personalityof each child.

Volunteers must constantly weightheir own cultural standards againsttheir desire to maintain respect forlocals. On one occasion, after wit-nessing a pre-school-aged child in di-apers rubbing himself along theground, the group of volunteers de-

liberated extensively about whetheror not to inform a caregiver.

Volunteer Faradia Pierre 12 re-called another orphans opinionthat the child would just get his bot-toms dirty so they might as well givethem to the other children.

This may offend our sentiments,Pierre added,yet in a relatively poorcountry such as Ghana, pragmatismoften reigns.

In spite of struggles, Pierre andher student colleagues successfullyadded more than 600 children frommore than 15 orphanages to the data-base,all in a single summer.

According to Stevens, the currentemphasis on volunteers will shift asthe completion of the database nears.We also want to support the or-phans in the transition to a newhome.This means improving schools,hospitals and community centers.

McCullough hopes that withinfive years, KaeMes efforts will helpthe Ghanaian government find fami-lies for the majority of orphans andreduce the number of orphanages to

40.What we are facilitating is for

each individual community to beself-sufficient and capable of caringfor and finding homes for their or-phans,McCullough said.Whatevera childs specific health or educationneeds are, they will have people inplace to meet those needs.

The hard work of the volunteersin Ghana and the commitment byKaeMes founders to be more effi-cient, reliable and targeted to theneeds of Ghanas people are helpingbring the organizations goals intofruition.

Stevens puts it best,saying,Werea partner with the government.Werenot coming in as a kind of westernpeople that know it all. . . .we knowthat were ignorant of so many won-derful things that the Ghanaian peo-ple have to offer.Can we solve all theproblems? No way. Can we make adifference in a lot of kids lives? For

sure.

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By ELLORA ISRANI

Ahead of President Obamas speech to Indiasparliament on Monday about the promising poten-tial of the U.S.-India relationship,Anja Ma nuel 96,

visiting scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute forInternational Studies, postulated a very differenttheory: for all the hype, U.S.-India relations are farfrom where they could be.

Manuel published an article entit led Weak Tieslast week in Foreign Policy magazine, calling the eco-nomic relationship between the two superpowersanemic.

On the surface,all the elements are in place foran economic love affair between the United Statesand India, wrote Manuel.Yet the economic rela-tionship between these two natural partners remainsfar below potential.

The U.S.-India economic relationship is alreadyquite strong, but given the amount of rhetoric youhave about it. . . you hear both sides saying againand again how wonderful the bilateral business-to-business ties are, and I think we shouldnt be too self-congratulatory, Manuel said in an interview withThe Daily.

In the article, Manuel suggests several potentialsteps for both sides that could provide economic anddiplomatic benefits. For example, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh and the Indian Parliament couldattempt to liberalize the license raj the govern-

mental red tape complicating foreign business in-

volvement in India while the United States couldattempt to equalize the disparity between last yearsforeign direct investment in China,$15.8 billion, andin India,$3.5 billion.

However, Manuel cautions against being too crit-ical of the Washington-New Delhi ties, which shecalled very,very good.

India is only going to become a closer and closerpartner of the United States in the next five,10, 15years, Manuel said. [We will have] closer and clos-

er economic ties,close r and closer people-to-peopleties, including lots of Indian students studying here.There are very few American students studying inIndia.I bet that will change. I bet in a decade youllhave a Stanford program in India.

Manuel points to three recent presidential visitsto India President Clinton in 2000, PresidentBush in 2006 and now President Obama in 2010 as a clear indication of the strength of the diplomat-ic relationship between the two nations.

Three presidential visits in a decade is a lot,Manuel said. Before then it took, like,50 years forthree U.S.president s to show up in India.

Still, the definition of the U.S.-India partnershiphas varied widely under the three presidents. Duringthe Bush administration,significant focus was placedon the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement, whichManuel herself helped to negotiate. However,Obamas cabinet is taking a much broader approach.

The Obama administration has been extremelyengaged, its just that theyre engaged on a hugenumber of issues, Manuel said, including multipledialogues:one on energy and one on education andall these different things. But none of them are all-

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US-India ties anemic,says scholarSteeles studies have shown that if

a person is reminded of a negativestereotype associated with a groupthey belong to before performing atask, their ability to succeed at thetask decreases.

Very specific pathways in thebrain are activated as a consequenceof this feeling of fear, of succumbingto this negative stereotype associat-ed with your identity group,Valan-

tine said. The anxiety areas of thebrain are activated, and the areasthat are responsible for spatial cog-nitive function are diminished, sothat the performance actually comesout worse.

The goal of Valantines study is toidentify the situations that may trig-ger this stereotype threat in womenfaculty, and then to design interven-tions to address them.Co-investiga-tor and pediatrics professor ChristySandborg expects one of the triggersis a sense of isolation.

You see the majority of men inleadership, and you say, Well, I

dont belong here, she said. Andif its hard, youre thinking yourenot succeeding because you dontbelong.

A possible intervention to ad-dress this insecurity,she said, wouldbe to invite members in leadershippositions from different back-grounds to speak to assistant profes-sors about the hardships they too en-countered while building their ca-reers.

It normalizes that feeling of iso-lation and not belonging,Sandborgsaid, and says that its not becauseyoure a woman or a man or any-thing, its just because everybody

feels that way.The results of the study will ap-

pear in three stages: the first basedon qualitative data from the test s ub-

jects such as questionnaires anddiary entries; the second on morelong-term effects, such as the num-ber of grants received and number ofpromotions to leadership positions;and the third on any change in reten-tion rates over next five years ofwomen faculty in medical academia.

Valantines immediate team in-cludes eight people from many dif-ferent departments.

Were taking a multidisciplinary

approach to the issue that requirespsychologists, sociologists, psychia-trists, neuro-imaging specialists, epi-demiologists and people who areskilled at programming for careerand faculty development, she said.

The team epidemiologist andmedicine professor,Marilyn Winkle-by,believes it is important to discov-er the root causes of this loss ofwomen in medicine.

Its especially concerning at theacademic research institutions likeStanford and the Ivy Leagues, be-cause,in essence, youre losing someof the brightest and most talentedwomen, she said.And if the U.S. is

really going to maintain its competi-tiveness in science and medicine,youneed these women.

Above all, Sandborg says, thestudy is intended to enact realchange within professorial ranks.

I hope that we actually will beable to design relatively straightfor-ward interventions that we then candeploy pretty easily to actually im-prove the way things are,Sandborgsaid. Were going to use this, if itworks.

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participants, ranging from ages 18 to94. The subjects were carefully se-lected to represent a wide variety ofages,education levels,ethnicities andsocioeconomic statuses.

We took great pains to make itvery representative of the BayArea, said Hal Ersner-HerschfieldPh.D.09, another co-author.

The subjects were asked to carrypagers for one week every five years once at the beginning of the study,once at the five-year mark,and onceat the 10-year mark.

We paged them randomly, fivetimes a day,and every time they werepaged they had to rate their emo-tions on a scale of one to seven.Turan said. We looked at the aver-age of all the positive and negativeemotions, not the intensity but thefrequency. We subtracted the fre-quency of positive emotions fromthe frequency of negative emotions.Then we looked to see if, as peoplegot older, their positive emotionalfrequency got higher.

The researchers employed the ex-perience-sampling method (ESM),which they argue produces more ac-curate results than asking partici-pants to generalize about their emo-tional health.

Compare, for example, the dif-

ferent types of information that indi-viduals draw upon to answer the fol-lowing questions,the authors wrote.(a) How much anger do you feel atthis moment? and (b) To what de-gree are you an angry person? In theformer,the respondent draws on im-mediate feeling states.The latter de-mands an averaging of emotionaltendencies and a comparison ofthose tendencies to what he or sheexpects is typical of other people.

The researchers found that, onaverage, the people became more

positive over the course of 10 years.The study was not meant to iden-

tify the causes of this increased hap-piness, said Carstensen, but shepoints to other research that sug-gests a growing sense of mortalitymay change a persons perspectiveon life.

This particular study doesnt ad-dress why?Carstensen wrote in ane-mail to The Daily. It simply de-scribes changes in emotional livesover time. Other experimental re-search in our laboratory, however,suggests that time horizons influenceexperience. Paradoxically perhaps,longer time horizons are associatedwith greater angst than shorter ones,and of course time horizons shrinkwith age.

The reason people get more pos-itive as they get older is expressedwell by the socio-emotional selectiv-ity theory,Turan said, referring to atheory developed by Carstensen.When you see that you dont havemuch life left,you change your prior-ities.Youre more interested in emo-tional well-being rather than lifegoals you may have previously had.

The author suggested that thesefindings might contradict popularopinion.

Young people are regularly told,These are the best years in life,Carstensen said. Emotionallyspeaking,thats simply not so.

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upcoming events. Voting on the Chi-nese Women Collective at Stanford(CWCS) request for $175 to host aworkshop with a Chinese makeupartist is being postponed until nextweek until more information isknown about the qualifications of theartist.

The council confirmed that theCWCS could spend the $160 it hadpreviously been awarded to cover thecost of food at a skin-care event atStanford Shopping Center. TheCWCS had expressed concerns thatthe funds could not be used becausethe Shopping Center is not technicallypart of Stanford campus,but the GSCvoted to permit the use of funds be-cause, in the words of Lehnert, theShopping Center is still Stanford-owned property.

Ward Thomas,transportation oper-ations supervisor at Stanford Parkingand Transportation Services (P&TS),

presented the Marguerite routechanges proposed for early 2011 anddiscussed the proposal with councilmembers.

The changes are projected to re-duce fuel consumption by 30,000 gal-lons and distance traveled by 10,000

miles over one year,with expected im-plementation around Jan.19, Thomassaid.

Thomas emphasized that thechanges are not only an attempt to cutspending,but also to reduce route re-dundancy and congestion. Thechanges would alter 11 of the current15 routes,and most would be minor,al-though more extensive changes areplanned for the A line, B line, C line,Midnight Express and Shopping Ex-press routes.

Raj Bhandari M.S.10, the CEO ofStanford Student Enterprises, report-ed on construction progress of the newASSU Student Store.The new outfitwill be in Tresidder Student Union atthe former site of the Ticket Office.

The Jan. 3 deadline may be de-layed a little because of flooring is-sues,Bhandari said.

He said the store still plans to holdits annual Thanksgiving Sale.

Kelsei Wharton 12, ASSU vicepresident,reminded the council aboutevents on campus related to DomesticViolence Awareness Month. He alsodiscussed ways student governmentcould increase Red Zone support atmens and womens basketball games,

possibly through raffles or class com-petitions.

Mary Van der Hoven,doctoral stu-dent in earth sciences and the councilsThanksgiving coordinator,announcedthe menu for graduate studentsTurkey Day.Van der Hoven said gravy,pumpkin pie and stuffing will all behomemade and wine will be offered tograduate students. Volunteers will beneeded to assist with carding and dis-tributing wristbands, she said.

Tsai closed the meeting by encour-aging council members to participatein the Rivals for Lifeblood drive, towhich 24 graduate students donatedblood last year.

An ASSU joint legislative meetingis scheduled for Nov. 30, and the lastmeeting of winter quarter is set forDec.1.

Contact Kathleen Chaykowski at kath-leenchaykowski@stanford.edu.

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Rachel Kolb

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THIS COLUMN IS IRONIC

Did I come to Oxford out of a desire toreinvent myself? This is a questionthat kept sliding through my head

when I arrived in Britain in time for FreshersWeek,the Oxford version of NSO.It was as ifId entered freshman year all over again,marveling at stone buildings,towering spiresand a world that seemed fresh and new.

Dont get me wrong:I hadnt come to Ox-ford to escape Stanford.The decision to leavemy life on-campus had been a difficult one.But it was still enticing to realize how much Iwas learning and changing through my trav-els.I could be anything here.It was the samefeeling Id had during those hazy Septemberdays two years ago,but tempered less by ap-prehension and more by wonder.

For the first time, I saw how much I had

matured in those two years, and how muchmy peers had also. Besides being older andmore confident,the greatest difference wasour sense of Stanford identity. Even if webegan as strangers, we all knew the Farm.I fall else failed, we could always talk aboutStern or Roble or Kimball, or compare noteson classes and clubs and very likely discoverand discuss mutual friends. During oneevening in London,I sat through a 30-minuteconversation about favorite restaurants inPalo Alto.Although it at first felt comfortingto disclose my Stanford self to these newfriends,I soon found it restrictive.I had cometo Oxford to discover myself outside the bub-ble but, eight time zones and 5000 milesaway,that bubble still persisted.

We were all bound by the context of beingStanford Students, with a capital S.This phe-nomenon,for me, was not unlike that of re-turning home for the holidays and seeing oldhigh school friends,or returning to any groupin which I have a fixed role. During these in-teractions, I often find conversation lapsinginto the same patterns of reminisce. We dis-

cuss the same things we did in our friend-ships heyday,the same events,the same peo-ple.As for the foreign territory of our presentselves? Only categorized and summed up

into a neatly rehearsed elevator speech.Weare perpetually stuck in our past lives, be-cause that is the only common context thatwe share.

Packaging myself into a prescribed con-text seemed to be the best way to makesmall talk in this city of dreaming spires, butit was not what I wanted from my timeabroad. I did not want to reinvent myself atOxford,but I did want to see how my identi-ty would hold up in, say,London rather thanPalo Alto.

In many ways,this is indeed what has hap-pened. My experiences have allowed me todiscover and reaffirm things about myselfand other people.But, surprisingly, these re-flections have even arisen from seeminglyunrelated situations like my Oxford tutorial.

Having done the reading and having writtenthe required weekly essay,I remember walk-ing into my first tutorial with a sense of min-gled anticipation and dread. I expected tohave the logic of my argument picked apart,my thesis dismantled, each paragraph andsentence challenged.

But I had forgotten:this was not PWR 1.Instead, my Oxford don merely read theessay through, then launched our meetinginto a broader philosophical discussion. Mywritten argument was only the starting point,not an end in itself.I realized with some as-tonishment that she had given me the com-pliment of taking my writing skills for grant-ed.

Taking each others identities for granted not ignoring them, but building on theminstead of dwelling on surface details arethese not the qualities we seek in our closestrelationships? Our closest friends are thefriends with whom we are not bound by con-text or circumstance,the ones with whom weare free to be simply . . . ourselves.A friend-ship is like an intellectual conversation:free-

flowing,not bound by the rules of rhetoricalargument,not even required to have a singleunified thesis.

Perhaps it is appropriate that I should end

up reflecting so much on friendship, being sofar from the people with whom I am used tosharing my life.Being at Oxford has broughtme to question my own approach to the rela-tionships that make our time at Stanford somemorable.Why do we limit ourselves to acertain context,within a certain group? Is itbecause the full stretch and sprawl of ouridentity is too overwhelming, too tedious ortoo difficult to express? Are we afraid toallow the people around us to see us as morethan physics or English majors, or singers orswimmers, or even Stanford students? Ashard as we try, none of these labels can de-note us truly.

In the end,all I can say is this:once I re-turn to the Farm, I can only hope that mytime abroad will challenge me to examinethe context, the assumptions and the labelswith which I define myself.

If you think Rachel should be thinking farther

outside the box, help fill her inbox atrkolb@stanford.edu.

On Monday night, I found myself inCubberley Auditorium with 400 of myclosest friends to see George Clooney

up close and personal. All of the ladiesaround me gabbed about his chiseled fea-tures and his perfect body. I have to admit:there wasnt a hair out of place. This is onegood-looking dude. His handsomeness is sodistracting that I think the girl next to mewho snapped pictures the entire time didnteven hear a word he said.In fact,Im not suremost people there heard anything he had tosay.They were all too busy imagining sunningthemselves on the patio of his villa on LakeComo.

Personally,I couldnt wait to hear his sure-to-be hilarious stories about working on theOceans Eleven series or how it feels tohave been named People Magazines SexiestMan Alive twice. The problem is, he didnttalk about any of that. He talked about

Africa. Here I am,expecting badass tales ofhis drunken debauchery at the AcademyAwards and he starts preaching to me aboutSudan.Way to be a downer, George. If hesgoing to talk about humanitarian things, hecould at least talk about the good stuff.Youknow, like the $61 million his Hope for Haititelethon raised earlier this year. At leastwere seeing resul wait, theres a choleraoutbreak in Port-au-Prince? Oh.Damn.

Honestly, I dont understand how GeorgeClooney is an expert on Africa. I guess hewon an Oscar for Syriana and that moviemight have been set in Africa. I remembersomething about oil.There was definitely adesert in there somewhere.I m going to as-sume that they have deserts and oil in Africa,thus it doesnt seem far-fetched that in re-searching his role,George somehow figuredout everything there is to know aboutAfrican politics. Or maybe he still thinks hesBatman and he has to save the world.Actual-

ly,that explanation makes more sense.My first tip-off that this talk wouldnt be

George relating how to pick up supermodelafter supermodel should have been that itwas co-sponsored by STAND and Crothers.STAND is a national student anti-genocideorganization.Im told its name actually does-nt STAND for anything anymore, but if itdid,it would probably be something like Stu-dents Telling Africa Not to Die.Then we haveCrothers as the global citizenship focusdorm.Are we really tossing these theme dis-tinctions out this easily now? Its starting toget a little ridiculous,Stanford.Maybe we candesignate West Flo as the aboriginal Aus-tralian theme dorm next. (Dont get mestarted on how Storey, the human biologytheme house, has a prime location on theLower Row.Come to think of it,I dont thinkSigma Nu has done anything relevant for a

while,so can we make their house the politi-cal science theme house? Not for selfish rea-sons or anything. . . )

Then again, I guess I shouldnt be sur-prised that Mondays talk would be an ac-tivist discussion of the upcoming referendumin Sudan.This is Stanford were talking about where were constantly bombarded with astream of e-mails for this charity group andthat activist event.It wouldnt surprise me tohear that theres some group out there oncampus dedicated to stopping polio amongInuit children in northwest Alaska. Justseems like something we here at Stanfordwould do, right? Personally, I think a moreworthwhile cause would be helping to fund astint in rehab for Ke$ha, but thats just be-cause I dont want to deal with her anymore.

For me, I think Stanfords overwhelmingactivism only made the George Clooneyevent more amusing.We pride ourselves on

being so forward-thinking when it comes tosocial issues,yet the only way to get 400 peo-ple together to hear about this Sudan matterwas to have one of the worlds biggest moviestars on hand. I understand that even we atStanford cant possibly care about all of theseissues.You were probably still worried aboutfreeing Tibet. Maybe you were trying to pro-mote political freedom in Iran. Perhaps youwere raising awareness about genocide in theCongo. Or were you still texting the RedCross on your iPhone to donate more moneyfor earthquake relief in Haiti?

You know what? Who cares about any ofthat? George Clooney was here on Monday!And he was looking good. Damn good.Thats all that matters.

There are few people on this planet more at-tractive than George Clooney.Shane knows heisnt one of them,so make him feel better by e-mailing him at savitsky@stanford.edu.

Amid all the classes to take, clubs to

join, friends to run around with andall other sorts of general collegiate

mayhem,it can be easy to run out of time forthe arts.As midterms rolled around,we putthings on pause to make room for studying.Our calendars are booked,and the free timewe have we use to relax.As Ive been writingthis column about improving the music situ-ation on campus,Ive realized that a simpleway to build it up is if people just make moretime for it.

Give up your studies! Devote your life toyour instrument! No students here clearlyhave certain priorities. But its still useful tothink about how the priorities play out. Ar-guably, were mostly here to learn, right? Wehave amazing faculty who impart all varietiesof important knowledge and research intoour little heads.We need time to do the read-ings, to go to lecture, to finish the problemsets.With only four years, we pile up the unitseach quarter to fit in as many classes as possi-ble.And thats not even enough seniors al-

ways bemoan the fact that they ran out oftime to take the dozens of other classes thatlooked interesting. Not to mention that peo-ple generally try to get good grades.

But academics arent the only way tolearn.Though music is a specific subject,play-ing an instrument is its own satisfying type oflearning. Aside from the fun of creatingmusic,instruments can supplement our stud-ies in other areas.Being taught how to manip-ulate these little musical machines candemonstrate all kinds of concepts,from emo-tion to physics to culture. And if you join amusical group, you get to deal with all sorts ofgroup dynamics and management issues.

Clearly you can learn from music if youwant to add that means of learning into yourlife.But were not just in college to learn;youcould learn most things from books. Collegealso gives us a community of friends andpeers to enjoy.One of the most exciting partsabout showing up at Stanford was the possi-bility of meeting,knowing and making friendswith some crazy-awesome people. Buryingyourself in academics at the expense of

friends isnt all that rewarding, and (if youtake a cynical career perspective) it denies

you a big networking opportunity.Luckily, having fun with friends doesnt

have to be a reason to ignore the arts andmusic either.As Ive talked about before,a lotof students here are pretty amazing musi-cians.If you play an instrument,you can joina group,or put one together.Even if you dontplay, you can attend your friends concertsand performances. Im not suggesting peoplearent doing this we have tons of musicgroups, and weve all heard a friend shout,Isee you [insert name]! at student shows.

But there are several times when Ive seenmusic take a back seat. When that instrument

sits under the bed,collecting dust.When thosetwo hours during that concert on a Fridayseem essential for studying even though thetest is Monday.When a full schedule equatesto a student group and classes without anymusic lessons.

There are plenty of good reasons to study,and I dont mean to suggest sacrificing for thesake of the arts.But all the time spent procras-tinating or wasting time out of laziness those are prime moments to pull the instru-ment out of the closet and be creative. Face-book and YouTube dont need you. Whenyoure 40,youll more fondly remember jam-ming with your friends or that awesome con-cert you went to.

I know Im just another person pleadingfor more participation and appreciation ofthe arts.And I know that were all ridiculous-ly busy its not like music is neglected oncampus. But in college and in life, its easy toget caught up in the routine and push somethings down the priority ladder. So dont letmusic go too much by the wayside.

Direct comments to lucaswj@stanford.edu ifyou have the time.

You know you dont have to wearthat thing anymore. Youre inAmerica! said the elderly

woman to my friend, pointing to her head-scarf.Little did she know that this friend hadboth grown up in America and made thevery personal decision to wear the hijab, orIslamic headscarf,despite protest and lack ofsupport from a number of her own familyand friends.

As human beings,we often take in the vi-sual cues around us and very naturally jumpto conclusions. Although there is no doubtthat there are women today who are forcedto dress a certain way and are limited in soci-etal participation in a highly subjugated man-ner,it is also very true that females of a vari-ety of races, backgrounds and ages embracethe decision to wear the hijab.

I choose to cover because its a command-ment directed to women in the Holy Quran.I hate how people stare.I love matching myscarves with the rest of my outfits; Ivelearned so much about color coordination inthe process. I get so annoyed with studentswho think Im going to be quiet in sectionand not have opinions of my own; its liketheir mouth drops in shock when they hearthat I have a voice and its actually quite loud.I love not having to worry about my hairwhen Im running late for class.

Wherever I go, its like Im a walking ex-pert or spokesperson for Islam and Mus-lims (because were all the same, right?). Iwonder if Id have more friends if I didntwear hijab. I love the sense of empowermentI get and how all my interactions and rela-tionships are based on how I think and act,not necessarily what I look like.Its nice to beregarded as a human, not an object. I hatehow some people abuse religion to carry outviolence and then it ends up hurting me. Itsso frustrating how a country like Francethinks it has the right to regulate and limithow a woman can express herself.Its alreadytough sorting out issues of religion and cul-ture as a college student, and I appreciatehow my friends really respect me for having

my values and beliefs while being able tokeep an open mind. Its not oppressing; itsliberating.

Hijab means many different things tomany different women. Among the mostcommon interpretations behind the com-mandment to wear hijab is the requirementthat women dress in a modest way that cov-ers all but their faces, hands and oftentimesfeet. The commandment is based on the Is-

lamic emphasis on the concept of modesty aswell as specific verses from the Quran andProphetic traditions. For mainstream schol-ars and Muslims, the headscarf is a physicalboundary that facilitates modest and profes-sional interaction between genders,not isola-tion; many verses in the Quran indicate theimportance and equity of women in societyand their duty to be active and involvedmembers within the political,social and eco-nomic realms of the local,national and glob-al communities in which they reside.

Despite the prevalence and recognition ofthe importance of wearing hijab in manyMuslim societies, it is also agreed upon thatthe headscarf is a very personal decision andaspect of a practitioners relationship withGod, a relationship that cannot be enforcedor dictated by any man or woman.Dr. JamalBadawi of the North American Fiqh Councilemphasizes that although he views hijab as arequired tenet in Islam, it was never in theProphetic approach to implement compul-sion or forcein these matters.

Ill never forget what one colleague oncesaid to me on this issue:I may not agree withor completely understand your decision towear hijab, but I would die defending yourright to make that choice.

STAMP and MSANs co-production ofHijabi Monologuesthis past weekend andtodays A Day in the Life of a Hijabiillumi-nate the right of a woman to choose how toexpress herself. I urge you to ask instead ofassume, and I leave you with these words:Its about whats in your head,not on it.

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own path and method of healing,which sadly many activists workingwith abused women do not do,Arciasaid.They [the survivors] are the ex-perts,they are the only ones that trulyunderstand their situation and Mamis conscious of the fact that these girlsneed to be viewed and treated as au-tonomous people who have agency.

The event began with the perform-ance of the traditional Cambodian

blessing dance.The five dancers werevictims of sex trafficking, and beganto cry as they recounted their difficultpasts.

I am happy to meet you all. Inever thought today was possible,said one performer through a transla-tor. I look at you like brothers andsisters that care about me.I have a fa-

ther that is despicable and I was soldby my own sister so I never felt love.

Sex trafficking is not limited toCambodia. Bill Livermore, the CEOand the executive director of the So-maly Mam Foundation,spoke on the

global nature of the problem.The UN estimates 12.5 millionslaves in the world today, he said,adding that 17,000 people are traf-ficked into the U.S.every year.

This is a problem of historicalproportions, he said. Its devastat-ing. $32 billion is made in slavery. It isthe second most profitable crime

after drugs.Livermore described the two main

functions of the Somaly Mam Foun-dation:empowering survivors and en-suring that a strict rule of law is en-forced.

The Somaly Mam Foundationhelps to fund shelters throughoutCambodia and encourages victim re-habilitation through dance therapy.

The Voices for Change program,one program of the Foundation inwhich survivors help counsel recentvictims, has also been successful.Ac-cording to Livermore, the program

has encouraged more women inbrothels to seek assistance. Intakerates at Cambodian shelters have in-creased from 60 percent to 90 percentwithin the past two years. Mam saidthe victims gain a sense of solidaritythat helps them recover.

What I needed when I was youngwas a mother, Mam said.But I did-nt have a mother.My life started bad.Its like all of their lives.We had beenborn without parents, without love.We were born in very bad luck.

The Somaly Mam Foundation en-courages its members to voice theiropinions about the center.

I always believe the idea comes

from the center, Mam said.Everyyear we have the girls get together.They tell us what they want the centerto do.They are not soft at all.Empow-er the survivor.Dont start tomorrow.Start now.

Contact Marianne LeVine atmlevine2@stanford.edu.

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consuming in a way that when I wasdoing this in the Bush administra-tion,the civilian nuclear deal was ahuge priori ty.

This diversity of interactioncould present both benefits andchallenges.

Stuff has sort of gone moreunder the radar, Manuel said.And thats both OK, becausethats how allies work together . . .

on the other hand,what worries meabout the diplomatic relationship isthat when you try to do too much,the danger is that you dont get any-thing done.

Another major obstacle in eco-nomic and diplomatic connectionshas been the tense relationship be-tween India and Pakistan.India has

encouraged the United States todeclare Pakistan a terrorist state,although the U.S. has so far refusedto do so.

We are more natural partnerswith India because its a democracy,its a very open society, you havelots of Indian students in the U.S.,and you have lots and lots of Indi-an-Americans in the U.S., Manuelsaid. Its a different relationshipfrom the one we have with Pak-istan, which is an essential partnerfor us, in particular an essentialpartner in Afghanistan and in thewar on terror.

Despite these issues,Manuel af-

firms the promising nature of theU.S.-India r elationship.

India has definitely moved tothe front of what people are think-ing about in the U.S.,s aid Manuel.It will be a natural partnership.

Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-ford.edu.

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We had been born without

parents,without love. SOMALY MAM

decision round Patterson saidthe admission office usually prefersto give students an answer rightaway.

We defer students when wewant to see additional informationfrom them and when we want tolook at them in the context of theentire applicant pool, Pattersonsaid, but our philosophy is that wewant to let as many as we can knowour final decision.

Matt Lopez 14 was admittedunder restrictive early action lastyear and expressed gratification forthat aspect of the admissionprocess.

REA is a great way to attractstudents that are eager and inter-ested in Stanford without scaringthem away with the commitment ofhaving to enroll if they get in,Lopez said.For me,it was a greatrelief to find out that I was admit-ted so early,and it gave me all themore reason to choose to enrollhere.

Contact Brandon Powell at bpowell1@stanford.edu.

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Correction

In Meningitis case remains iso-lated (Nov. 10), information attrib-uted to Marie Oamek should havebeen attributed to Rodger Whitney,executive director of Student Hous-ing.The Daily incorrectly attributedthe information to Oamek,managerof housing information and commu-nication, who provided Whitneyscomments to The Daily.

In Fans Rally for BCS Bid(Nov.10), The Daily incorrectly im-plied that, traditionally, the No. 2Pac-10 team would automaticallyget a Rose Bowl bid if the No.1 teamin the conference went to the BCStitle game. In fact, while the No. 2Pac-10 team would have beenstrongly favored for the spot,it wasnever a guarantee.

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PAC-10 EXPANSION

Stanford Athletics expects financial gainBy HENRY ZHU

After grappling with budget difficulties forthe past two years,Stanford Athletics is set toreceive a significant boost in revenue as thenew Pac-12 Conferences media deals arerenegotiated in 2011.

With the full integration of Colorado andUtah to the existing Pac-10 set for the 2011-12

academic year, the Pac-12 has made aggres-sive moves to increase the conferences at-tractiveness to media networks.

Along with the addition of the new schools,the Pac-12 will employ a new revenue-sharingplan, which will go into effect starting in the2012-13 academic year.Though yet to be ne-

gotiated,the new media deals are expected toearn upward of $175 million,which will be dis-

tributed evenly among the schools in the con-ference.

Currently, the Pac-10 uses an appearance-based model to parcel out revenue: theschools that appear on television the most re-ceive the biggest shares.This arrangement hashistorically favored the Southern California

Press, Ratcliffe earnconference accoladesAfter a stellar season, Stanford senior for-

ward Christen Press won the Pac-10s playerof the year award yesterday,the second con-secutive year a Stanford player has won the

award.Press captained Stanford to an undefeated17-0-2 record,including a 9-0-0 record in con-ference play. She led the nation in goals with23, and also had seven assists for Stanford.Press will end her Stanford career in posses-sion of a number of all-time school records,in-cluding goals (68) and assists (40).She is alsoa finalist for the Lowes Senior CLASSAward and a two-time All-Pac-10 selection.

Cardinal head coach Paul Ratcliffe wasalso named Pac-10 coach of the year for thethird consecutive season. This season, Rat-cliffe guided Stanford to its second consecu-tive undefeated regular season and No. 1overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Four Stanford players were named to theAll-Pac-10 first team: Press, junior midfield-er Teresa Noyola, sophomore defenderRachel Quon and junior forward LindsayTaylor.Two sophomores, midfielder MariahNogueira and defender Courtney Verloo,were named to the second team, and goal-keeper Emily Oliver was named to the all-freshman team.

All of the honors were decided by a vote ofthe conferences coaches.Stanford will host the first two rounds of

the NCAA Tournament at Laird Q. CaganStadium.The Cardinals first match is on Fri-day against Sacramento State, with kickoffscheduled for 7 p.m.

Kabir Sawhney

Womens basketballsigns six players for2011-2012 season

On Wednesday, the official opening day ofthe fall signing period,Stanford womens bas-ketball announced the signing of six recruitsto National Letters of Intent for the 2011-2012 season.

The signees are Jasmine Camp,Alex Green,Taylor Greenfield, Amber Orrange, Erica

Payne and Bonnie Samuelson. Head coachTara VanDerveer is confident in the groups

By MILES BENNETT-SMITHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The mens soccer team has dealt withadversity all season long.Several injuries tokey players kept head coach Bret Simonfrom finalizing a consistent roster early onin the season,and four straight heartbreak-ing losses two of which came in over-time knocked the Cardinal from its pre-season perch at No.13 in the national rank-ings.

Stanford fought its way back to .500 en-tering Pac-10 play and stunned then-No.13UCLA with a late goal at home.But a latethree-game slide saw the teams NCAATournament dreams all but disappear head-ing into the final week of conference play.

Tonight, the Cardinal will head acrossthe Bay to take on its rival,No. 8 California(11-2-3, 7-1-1 Pac-10), in the last regularseason game of 2010.At stake for Stanford(8-9-0, 4-5-0) on Veterans Day is mostlypride,as a postseason bid is all but impos-sible,but Simon says that it wont be diffi-cult for the players to get fired up for thematch.

This is a big rivalry game, no ques-tion,Simon said.Its a measuring stick,aswell,because Cal is the highest-rated teamon the West Coast,so this should give us achance to see where were at. Its also im-portant to make a statement for our seniorsas well as for our younger players.

It wont be easy to send the class of 2011off in style,however.Cal enters the game ona three-game winning streak and has lostonly once in its last 13 matches.The last timethe teams met, on Oct. 2, Cal came out ofLaird Q. Cagan Stadium with a 3-0 win thatwas much closer than it appeared on paper.

Sophomore midfielder Hunter Gorskiesaid that the toughest part of this final game

might be playing away from Stanford,evenif Berkeley is just across the Bay.

Going to play at their home facilitymight be the biggest challenge because itsalways tough to play on the road,he sa id.But it will definitely be a scrap,a fight, andif we are ready for it then we should beokay.

It will be redshirt senior midfielder Thia-go Sa Freires last game in a Stanford uni-form, and he commented that although thisyears record isnt stellar, the Card is still aquality team capable of pulling off theupset.

Cal is definitely a great team, but werea real good team too, he said.This is ourlast chance to prove ourselves. We are goingto go out there and play our game, and maythe best team win.

History is not on the Cardinals sidethe last Stanford team to win in Berkeleywas the 2000 squad that reached the NCAAquarterfinals. NCAA player of the yearRyan Nelsen and fellow All-American LeeMorrison headlined that team.

It would be real sweet to knock themoff,Gorskie said.Obviously we want to goout strong and maybe try to get back atthem.

It will take a strong effort to exact re-venge on the Golden Bears, but the gamemight come at the perfect time for an upset.Cal has played in an astounding five straightovertime games, four of which went into

double overtime. However, if the GoldenBears win, they will clinch the Pac-10 titleoutright and earn an automatic berth to theNCAA Tournament.

Kickoff at Edwards Stadium is slated for2 p.m.this afternoon.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu.

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FACEOFF

SPORTS

Card plays Cal in last game

Be waryof the

letdown

Woo! We just won a biggame over a top-Xteam. Everyonestalking about us, andwere all the way up

to No.Y in the polls! If we win out andABC happens,well go to the Z Bowl.Go us! After last week, how could wepossibly be challenged by a team like

Q? Theyre nowhere near as good asthe team we just beat!Ever heard something to that effect

(with the possible replacement of actu-al numbers and words for the letters)?The number of different teams everyyear that fit this mold is astounding,andthe reason so many different teamshave these moments is that they areoften followed by massive letdowns.

Take South Carolina, for example.The Gamecocks hosted what nearlyeveryone believed to be the best teamin the country,then-No. 1 Alabama,inearly October with College GameDayon hand and the nation watching.TheotherUSC came up with a huge two-touchdown win,catapulting it from No.19 to No. 10 in the polls and bringingthoughts of an SEC title to Columbia,S.C. A road trip to Lexington the fol-lowing week to take on Kentucky, los-ers of three straight ,appeared to be justthe next step in one of the Gamecocksbest seasons.

Until they lost.All the momentum from that bigwin,all the plans for glory,all the hypeand media attention were gone in theblink of an eye. South Carolina is backto having a pretty good season,current-ly sitting at No.23 with a chance to winthe pathetic SEC East on Saturday atFlorida. But the Gamecocks couldnever match the euphoria from that bigwin,nor could they match the agony ofthe following defeat.

This is the way of college football.Missouri beat then-No.1 Oklahoma athome and jumped up to No. 6 in theBCS and No.4 in the computers with achance to go undefeated the Tigersthen followed up their high with twolows,dropping their next two games onthe road,falling to No.21.Arizona hadto escape Cal at home with a fourth-quarter bomb the week after beatingthen-No. 9 Iowa. Those sameHawkeyes nearly lost to lowly Indianathis past weekend after blowing outpreviously unbeaten Michigan State.

The list goes on and on.The fact is,its hard to come back from a big victo-ry and win again the next week, partic-ularly on the road.

Why do I bring this up? Well,as youmight have heard, Stanford blew outthen-No.15 Arizona on Saturday in aprimetime game on national television.You might have heard that Stanford isall the way up to No.6 in the BCS stand-ings and has a very legitimate claim asthe best one-loss team in the country.And chances are,youve heard the sce-narios that could lead to Stanford play-ing in the Rose Bowl if it wins out.

What you likely have not heard orcared as much about is that the Cardi-nal has a game this weekend.And justlike every other game in college foot-ball, its not a gimme (if you dont be-lieve me,watch the highlights of JamesMadison-Virginia Tech, and look atwhere both teams are now).

Stanford is playing Arizona Statethis Saturday, and the timing seems tofavor the Cardinal. While Stanford isriding the wave of momentum from theArizona win,the Sun Devils are tryingto recuperate from a heartbreakingone-point loss at USC.

Arizona State is 4-5, with half itswins coming against FCS opponents.Its only Pac-10 victories are against theWashington schools,and it is among theworst teams in the country in turnovermargin. The Sun Devils rank fifth orworse in the Pac-10 in 12 of the 17major statistical categories.

On the other hand, Stanford hasone of the best offenses in the country.The Cardinal is fifth nationally in scor-ing, seventh in passing efficiency andtied for second in fewest sacks allowed.Stanford has the best third-down con-version rate,the highest time of posses-sion and the most red zone opportuni-ties and conversions in the country.And it has a better defense in yards al-lowed and points allowed than ASU.

So Stanford has this one in the bag,

right? In a word, no. Oddsmakers setthe betting line for this game at only

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CARD HITS

THE ROAD

By KATHERINE KNOXCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The No. 2 Stanford womens volleyball team (20-2, 11-2Pac-10) will embark on its longest road trip of the season thisweekend as it heads north to take on the Washington StateCougars (6-16, 0-12) and the No.11 Washington Huskies (18-5, 7-5) on Friday and Saturday.The Cardinal approaches theweekend fresh off a pair of wins in Maples Pavilion last week-end that allowed the team to reclaim a tie atop the conferencestandings with No.4 California (21-2, 11-2).

Three returning All-American seniors have contributedsignificantly to the Cardinals success thus far.Outside hitterAlix Klineman,libero Gabi Ailes and setter/opposite CassidyLichtman have led the Card to the top of the Pac-10 in bothhitting percentage and assists per set,as well as second in digsper set.

The Card has been able to better utilize Lichtman as botha setter and an opposite hitter since the return of sophomoresetter Karissa Cook.After earning her 11th double-double ofthe season, Lichtman was recognized as Pac-10 player of theweek for the first time in her Stanford career.

The Cardinal seniors will enter Bohler Gym in Pullmanthis Friday to take on the Cougars for the last time this season.WSU comes into the match off a loss to in-state rival Wash-

ington in straight sets last weekend, and has not won a singleconference match this season. The Cougars bottom out the

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The Stanford mens soccer team will conclude its season this afternoon when it faces rival Cal in Berke-ley. The Cardinal will look to end on a strong note after likely failing to reach the NCAA Tournament.

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailyThe No. 2 womens volleyball team heads to Washington this weekend to clashwith a pair of conference foes in the Cougars and Huskies. The Cardinal will bewithout Stephanie Browne, above, who was injured against UCLA last weekend.Please seeVBALL,page 7 Please see BRIEFS,page 7 Please seeJAFFE,page 7

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On Friday night,the No.4 Stanford mens waterpolo team will look to continue a five-game win-ning streak when it battles No. 13 UC-Davis, be-fore taking on No.7 Pacific on Sunday.

The first game will take place at Schaal Aquat-ics Center at 6 p.m.So far this year, the Cardinal is1-1 in Friday night contests,losing a squeaker toNo. 3 UCLA on Oct. 15 and dominating No. 11

Santa Clara on Oct.29.Stanford (12-5,5-1 MPSF) will certainly not behappy to, once again, be leaving Avery AquaticCenter and heading on the road its last 13 home

games have all ended in victory for the Cardinal,although due to odd scheduling, a mere threehome contests have taken place this season.

UC-Davis, a member of the Western WaterPolo Association (WWPA),has had a very success-ful season to date.The Aggies (15-8, 12-1 WWPA)are currently sitting pretty in second place of theWWPA standings.

The Aggies had a tough game this past week-end,suffering their first league loss, 6-1, to No. 9

Loyola Marymount. With this loss, Davis lost itsperfect record in the league as well as its hold onfirst place.The squad will be looking to rebound ina big way against Stanford.

On offense the Aggies are led by a couple ofprolific goal scorers: junior Aaron Salit, who hasnetted a whopping 43 goals,and senior Cory Lyle,who has scored 31 times.The Aggie defense is sta-bilized by junior Kevin Peat,who has accumulated186 saves on the year,to the tune of 10.6 per game.

Stanford will look to play spoiler in Fridays fes-tivities,and it hopes to keep the wave of momen-tum that it has accumulated in its recent stretch ofinspired play alive.

Friday marks the 12th and final out-of-confer-ence game for Stanford this season so far, the

MENS WATER POLO

Stanford looks to extend winning streak

seven, and it has since gone down tofive.Thats right,the sixth-best team inthe country is supposed to win by lessthan a touchdown against a sub-.500team that hasnt been to a bowl gamesince 2007.

The Cardinal will have to play inSun Devil Stadium,and as South Car-olina and Missouri can attest, roadgames are not always kind to the newkids on the block.Stanford has not won

in Tempe since 1999, and the Sun Dev-ils will be entirely motivated to keepthat streak alive.Arizona State needsto win out in order to assure itself of abowl game,and it figures to be eager to

erase last weeks loss.Winning out should not be on Stan-

fords mind. True, every media outletthat mentions the Cardinal is talkingabout the chances it could be left out ofa BCS bowl. But the decision will bemoot if Stanford cant win this week,and history shows thats no guarantee.Taking it one game at a time mightbe the most overused clich? in history,but it gets said so often for a reason.

Of course, the Cardinal could an-nounce itself to the rest of the country asa legitimate contender and blast the SunDevils as the stats say it should on its wayto an 11- or 12-win season.But this onestill has trap gamewritten all over it.

Jacob Jaffe plans to write next weekscolumn entirely as a cryptogram.Sendhim cipher suggestions at jwjaffe@

stanford.edu.

JAFFEContinued from page 6 Pac-10 in every conference statistic

aside from service aces, where theyrank seventh (Stanford, in compari-son,ranks ninth).

Nonetheless, Washington Statedoes post impressive statistics from itsprimary outside hitter junior Mea-gan Ganzer is third in the Pac-10 inboth kills per set (4.80) and points perset (5.45). Ganzer posted 12 kills on 38swings against the Card at Maples lastmonth, but was held to a less-than-stellar .105 hitting percentage by the

Stanford defense.Ailes picked up 19digs in three quick sets.The Huskies,though perennial con-

ference contenders,have not met theirtraditional success in the Pac-10 this

season. Until beating the Cougars inPullman last weekend,Washington haddropped five consecutive matches onthe road,relegating the team to fourthplace in the conference standings.

The Huskies remain on the brinkof the top 10 in the AVCA CoachesPoll because they remain undefeatedin Hec Edmundson Pavilion this sea-son.Although Stanford brought downthe Huskies in four close sets earlierthis season,24-26, 25-17,25-16, 32-30,the Card has fallen in its last two visitsto Seattle the team has posted a 4-5 record on the road against Washing-ton under current head coach JohnDunning.

Freshman middle blocker CarlyWopat anticipated the importance of

playing our calm and collected gamewithout letting being on the road in-terfere with what we can do.

With redshirt junior middle block-er Stephanie Browne sidelined by in-

jury, Wopat has become Stanfordsteam leader in blocks per set.

Led by senior outside and oppositehitters Becky Perry and Kindra Carl-son,as well as senior setter Jenna Hag-glund,Washingtons fast pin-to-pin of-fense may pose trouble for the Stan-ford block.Although the Card posted10 blocks against the Huskies lastmonth, Carlsons .184 hitting percent-age was significantly lower than herseason average of .312, making herless of a priority than usual.

Carlson and Perry rank eighth andninth in the Pac-10 in points earnedper set, making Washington the onlyteam in the conference to have twoplayers in the top 10.Perry picked up24.5 points with 24 kills in the loss to

Stanford at Maples last month.How-ever, Stanfords Klineman leads theconference in this statistic,bringing inan average of 6.26 points per set forthe Card. The senior put up 32 kills

against the Huskies at Maples in thefirst half of conference play.

The match should yield a battle atthe net, with Stanford posting thehighest hitting percentage in the na-tion at .319 and Washington postingthe lowest opponent hitting percent-age in the Pac-10 at .158.

Wopat said that the Card wouldemphasize putting up a solid blockand getting touches, so Gabi [Ailes]can dig everything that gets by.

Ailes and Husky libero Jenna Or-landi both put up digging averages inthe conferences top three.

The end game,Wopat added,isto out-pass-and-serve them.

Stanford will take on the Cougarsthis Friday at 7 p.m.in Pullman,before

traveling to Seattle the next day toface the Huskies at 7 p.m.

Contact Katherine Knox at kknox12@stanford.edu.

VBALLContinued from page 6

overall athleticism and strong three-point shooting.

The class includes three guards inOrrange,Camp and Green,all notedfor their quickness.Orrange, a pointguard from Houston, tallied 657points in her high school season lastyear, and averaged 16.0 points, 7.0assists and 6.7 rebounds per game.Camp, from the Atlanta area, aver-

aged 13.8 points and 3.8 assists pergame, and was part of USA Basket-balls Womens U16 National TeamTrials roster. Dallas native Green,who can play both guard positions,looks to lead her high school team toa fourth consecutive Texas state title.

Rounding out the class are dy-namic wing players Greenfield,Payne and Samuelson.As a sopho-more, Greenfield averaged 12.7points a game and shot 53.9 percentfrom the field and 42.5 percent fromthe three-point arc; she was also atrials roster member of USA Bas-ketballs U16 and U17 teams.

Payne, a Bay Area product who at-tended Carondelet, the same highschool that two-time All-AmericanJayne Appel attended, averaged15.0 points, 10.9 rebounds and 2.2blocks per game last season.Samuelson, a two-time invitee tothe U16 and U17 USA BasketballNational Team Trials,averaged 27.1points and 9.0 rebounds per game asa junior.

The 2010-2011 Cardinal will openits season this Sunday at MaplesPavilion against Rutgers at 2 p.m.

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schools;USC and UCLA tend to ap-pear on television more often thanthe other eight schools.

When asked if this new revenuewill keep the Stanford athletic de-partment financially stable, BrianTalbott, the chief financial officer ofStanford Athletics, was cautiouslyoptimistic.

It depends on what the actualamount of the deal ends up being,but the expectation is there to be a

big boost to the budget for manyyears to come,Talbott said.He added that the predefined

revenue split was a superior modelfor Stanford.

This is absolutely better, Tal-bott said.Its much easier to budgetwhen you know the amount ofmoney youre getting at the begin-ning of the year.

Still, its hard to quantify exactlyhow much Stanford Athletics will re-ceive as the conference expands. Inaddition to bringing in two new

schools, the Pac-12 ChampionshipGame in football will bring in addi-tional revenue for the conference.

Stanfords athletics departmenthas recently had to aggressively cutcosts to stay profitable without cut-ting any of its 35 varsity sports,though the fencing team had to raise$250,000 by itself to keep its varsitystatus.The 2010-11 budget for athlet-ics operations and financial aid cur-rently stands at $85.7 million,repre-senting 9 percent of the Universitysbudget for administrative and auxil-iary units.

Across the Bay,UC-Berkeley hashad to cut five of its varsity athleticteams, which will impact 163 stu-

dent-athletes and 13 full-time coach-es at Cal.Its a course of last resort for any

athletic department to do anythinglike this,Talbott said. Our new TVdeal will hopefully help preventsomething like this from happeningand bring financial stability [to Stan-ford Athletics].

Though Stanford may not havebeen in desperate need of money,theincoming revenue will be very help-ful.

We are largely dependent on our

endowment and gifts, and both ofthose sources suffered as a result ofthe economic downturn, Talbottsaid. The additional money fromthe TV deal will certainly help usbounce back.

Indeed, losses in the athletics en-dowment (which is separate fromStanfords general endowment)were especially damaging for theathletics department. A 27 percentdrop in fiscal year 2009 in the endow-ment caused a $5 million shortfall,since much of the departments fi-nancial aid for athletes was coveredby endowment payouts.

Stanford Athletics, a self-con-tained entity that runs independent-

ly on the revenues it generates, hasnot yet figured out whether it will beable to contribute any surplus backto the Universitys general budget,according to Talbott.

Well have to wait until we seewhat the actual TV deal is, he said.The current TV deal has provisionsto allow us to renegotiate. We willhave a good idea hopefully beforethe start of next football season.

Contact Henry Zhu at hz2014@stan-ford.edu.

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NOTES: No.14StanfordlookstoregaintheAxefromitsbiggestrival,No.25Cal,inthis yearsBigGame.TheCardi-nalneedstobeatCal inordertokeepitsdreamsofa RoseBowlalive.TheGoldenBearshavewonfouroftheirpastfivegamesdespitelosingstarrunningbackJahvidBesttoaviolentconcussion.Calhaswonsixofthe pastsevenBigGames,butStanfordwonthelastmatchupatStanfordStadiumin2007.

Cardinal looks to take the Axe back from CalByCHRISTINANGUYEN

STAFFWRITER

BigGameishere.TheStanford-Calrivalrycommenced

withthefirstBigGameonMarch19,1892inSanFranciscosHaightStreetGrounds.Stanfordholdsaslightlead intheseries,55-45-11.Inrecentyears,however,theri-valry hasbeendominatedby Cal:theGoldenBearshavewonsixofthepastsevenBigGames,includinga resounding37-16winlastyear.

ThisyearsStanfordteam,however,is

nottheStanfordteamofyearspast.No.14Stanford(7-3,6-2Pac-10)isbowl

eligibleandrankedinthetop15forthef irstt imesince2001.Additionally, theteamiscomingoffatrioofhugewins:againstArizonaState,followinga pairofmomentum-haltinglossesagainstOregonStateandArizona;againstthen-No.7Ore-gon,makingStanfordbowl-eligibleforthefirsttimesince2001andkeepingtheCar-dinalintheracefor aRoseBowlappear-ance;andfinally,againstthen-No.11USC,rackingupthemostpoints ever scoredagainsttheTrojansina55-21massacre at

theLosAngelesColiseum.Stanford,however,isnotreadytobask

initspastachievements.Weknowwhoweare,saidHead

CoachJimHarbaughatMondayspre-BigGamepressconference.Wereabluecol-larteamthatsgottaprepare,gottastudy,gotta practice with great intensity.. .[O]urguys,theyhavetheabilitytohandletoughtimesand theyhavethe abilitytohandlemorerewardingtimes. .. Wereal-readybacktowork.

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LEARNINGFROM PAPA

By WYNDAM MAKOWSKYSENIORSTAFFWR ITER

The112thBigGame willbequitea spectacle.BothCalandStanfordarewellregarded,thestakesareashighastheRoseBowlandtheresa legitimateHeisman contenderinvolved.

Cuethemediainvasion.Asreportersfrom acrossthenation descendon

theFarm,GregPapaandhis localComcastTVshowChronicleLivewillmoveoutofthestudioandbroad-casttheirFridayepisodelivefromStanfordsfootballpracticefieldat5 p.m.ina rare,open-to-the-publicevent.

PriortosittingdownwithCardinallegendsDarrinNelsonandBob Murphytodayonair, PapaspokewithTheDailyaboutthekeystoSaturdaysgame.

TheStanfordDaily(TSD): Whatdoeseachteamneedtodoinordertowin?

GregPapa(GP): Themostimportantplayerin thegameisKevinRiley,theCalquarterback.Hesgottoplayatthehighlevel hesplayedatearlyin theyearandinfourofthelastfivewhenheswon,andnotthewayhe playedagainstOregon andUSC back-to-back.Whenhe playswell, theyretypicallya verygoodoffensiveteam,andwhenhedoesnt,theystrug-gle.SohesgottobeonpointbecauseobviouslyStan-fordsoffenseisstateof theartandtheyregoingtoscore.

Calcanbe up-and-downdefensively,buttheyvegotsomegoodcorners.SydQuanThompsonis atremendousplayer.Eventhoughhesasmallguy,hellhaveachancetoplayintheNFLandbeaprettygoodplayer.Hesagreat tacklerandatoughguy.DarianHaganontheothersideisgood,too,soitwilldependonwhatCaldefenseshowsup.

Stanforddefensivelyhasgottenmuchbetterastheseasonhas progressed.Theywere verypoor early.

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Juniorforward ChristenPress andtherest of theStanfordwomens soccerteamlook to con-tinuetheirundefeatedseasonandtheirtitlerunwhentheytakeonSantaClaratonight.

BAYBATTLE,TAKE TWO

BySAMSVOBODADESKEDITOR

TheNo.1Stanfordwomenssoccerteammaybeplayinginthenationalchampionship tournament, buttonightsSweetSixteenmatchwillbealocal affair,as the Card takes onPeninsularivalSantaClaraUniversityforaspotinthenationalquarterfinals.

Thegameisarematchofthissea-sonsearlierSouth Bayderby,whichtookplaceatSantaClarasBuckShawStadiumbackonOct.1.Althoughthe

Broncostooktheleadearlyinthatgame,theCardinalendedupwithadominating6-2victory,withforwardsKelley OHara and Christen Presseachnotchingtwogoalsandan assist.Theroutwaseerilysimilarto the2008matchupbetweenthetwoteams,alsoatBuckShawStadium,inwhichStan-fordstormedtoa5-0 win.

Despitehis teamsrecent successagainstSCU,however,StanfordHeadCoachPaulRatcliffeknows thatthis

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Facing No. 13 UC-Davis on Friday in its final non-conference game of the season and No. 7 Pacific on Sunday, theNo. 4 Stanford mens water polo team looks to extend its season-best five-game winning streak to seven this weekend.

Card is 7-4 outside of MPSF play.After facing Davis on Friday, the

Cardinal will come home to squareoff against No. 7 Pacific (14-8, 2-3MPSF) on Sunday. The Tigers cur-rently sit in sixth place in the confer-ence standings. After tough road

losses to USC and UC-Irvine to

close out October, Pacific bouncedback well last weekend at home,beating Santa Clara, 14-7, beforeedging UC-Santa Barbara,8-7,for itssecond conference win of the season.

Before facing Stanford,the Tigerswill play California at home on Sat-urday.

Goran Tomasevic and BalazsErdelyi will lead the Pacific offenseagainst Stanford redshirt juniorgoalkeeper Brian Pingree. The twoplayers have combined for 60 goals

this season, accounting for nearly

half of the Tigers tot