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MONDAY Volume 238November 15, 2010 Issue 42

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Officewriter,

alum draws

fans on Farm

By MARGARET RAWSONDESK EDITOR

When Greg Daniels and PaulLieberstein spoke at Stanford in2003 about their experience writingfor The Simpsonsand King of theHill, Carrie Kemper 06 was in theaudience. Things came full circle forKemper,now a staff writer for TheOffice, Friday afternoon when she

joined Daniels, executive producerand developer of The Office, andLieberstein, executive producer,writer and cast member,on a panel todiscuss Boy-Men at The Office the Petty Comedy of the Dysfunc-tional Workplace, hosted by theProgram in American Studies.

Scores of Office enthusiastsfilled a lecture hall in the geologybuilding Friday to hear Daniels,Lieberstein and Kemper talk abouttheir work, jumping between topicsfrom how characters develop on theEmmy-award winning comedy seriesto the shows future after SteveCarells scheduled departure at theend of the current season.

Kemper, an American Studiesmajor and editor in chief of The Stan-ford Chaparral while at Stanford,commented on the success of TheOfficeas pulling from common lifeexperiences such as a tough economy.

People are able to make fun of

Carrie Kemper 06says show draws oncommon experiences

STUDENT LIFE

Big GameWeek kicksoff today

By LAURYN WILLIAMS

Stanfords 113th Big Game Weekwill be celebrated with festivities begin-ning on Monday and lasting until theannual rivalry game against UC-Berke-ley on Saturday.

The first Big Game in 1892 resulted

in a 14-10 victory for Stanford,and eversince, the annual game has been thecause of a weeks worth of entertain-ment. Big Game Week staple Gaieties,this year entitled The Last Temptationof Cal,will be performed in MemorialAuditorium Wednesday through Fri-day at 8 p.m. and will be accented bymany other events throughout theweek.

The Axe Committee will begin a113-hour countdown leading up to thegame on Monday at 7 p.m.and will hangthe Beat Calbanner from Meyer Li-brary as well, according to committeechairman Jake Smith 12.

The marquee event of Big GameWeek 2010 is the DJ competition andSteve Aoki and Kid Sister concert onTuesday at 8 p.m.at the Arrillaga Alum-ni Center. Aoki graduated from UC-Santa Barbara and has established his

By KABIR SAWHNEYMANAGING EDITOR

With talk of a letdown game swirlingaround it all week, the No.6 Stanford footballteam headed to Tempe on Saturday to take ona dangerous Arizona State squad. Despite anuncharacteristically weak day from the offense,the Cardinal managed to pull out a win,defeat-ing the Sun Devils (4-6, 2-5 Pac-10) by a finalscore of 17-13.

Stanford (9-1, 6-1) entered the game after abig win over then-No.15 Arizona last weekend,and the magnitude of that game led some com-mentators to predict that the Cardinal wouldnot come out against the Sun Devils in topform, leaving itself vulnerable to an upset.Through the first half, an upset looked like adistinct possibility, with neither team gainingany ground and both defenses holding strong.The half ended in a 7-7 tie,after Stanford seniorkicker Nate Whitaker missed a field goal with16 seconds left.

The third quarter continued to see strongdefensive play from both teams.After tradingpunts to open the second half,Stanford finallytook a lead on a Whitaker field goal, only to

watch the Sun Devils march down the field ontheir next drive for a touchdown.A 39-yard runfrom running back Cameron Marshall got Ari-zona State into the red zone,and an eight-yardtouchdown pass from quarterback StevenThreet to wide receiver Kerry Taylor gave theSun Devils their first lead of the game at 13-10

(kicker Thomas Weber missed the extra point).The fourth quarter started with a grim out-

look for the Cardinal.After trading punts fol-lowing the Sun Devil touchdown,Stanford wasdriving into Arizona State territory with its firstdrive of the fourth quarter. Redshirt sopho-more quarterback Andrew Luck threw an in-

terception at the ASU six-yard line,giv ing theSun Devils an opportunity to increase theirlead.

However, the Cardinal defense came upwith a stop, forcing Arizona State to punt from

It was one of those moments I knew would

be recorded forever. WOLF BLITZER

Broadcasters talkthe decade in news

By ZOE LEAVITTSENIOR STAFF WRITER

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer andCNN senior producer DavidBohrman 76 spoke to Stanford stu-dents and community members in thefifth annual Daniel Pearl MemorialLecture in Dinkelspiel Auditorium onSunday night. Entitled The War onTerror: From the Headlines to theBack Pages,the talk focused on theprogression in Americas focus fromterrorism to the Iraq war to the econ-omy over the past 10 years.

Pulling examples from electionsand exit polls, Blitzer discussed theebb and flow of optimism and fear inAmerican politics.The speakers usedvideo clips of CNNs election cover-age to illustrate the change in voters

values following 9/11, which Blitzercalled the most important story ofthe new millennium.

Following the 20th century,whichwas the most horrific century in thehistory of the world . . . I was con-vinced that as were moving into anew millennium, things [were] goingto be better, Blitzer said. Now wehave the first 10 years to reflect, andIm not exactly sure things are a wholelot better.

The personal experiences of thespeakers carried plenty of material

for reflection.Blitzer,host of The Sit-uation Roomon CNN,has served asa CNN reporter for the past 20 years.Bohrman has worked closely withBlitzer over the past 10 years asCNNs senior vice president of pro-gramming. Looking back over thepast decade, Blitzer offered his owninsights on causes and effects of polit-ical change.

Despite the profound change 9/11enacted on American society,Blitzersaid, Americans cast their ballotsbased on whatever issue most affect-ed them personally at the time of theelections.

By the 2006 midterm elections,CNNs polls showed corruption re-placing the war and terrorism as vot-ers first concerns. But even corrup-tions import lessened in the face of

the failing economy during the 2008election.The country [was] getting so

caught up in their lives and in theeconomy, Bohrman said, but whatwas being given up was focus on thewar on terror and on war itself.

Despite the somber subject, thespeakers focused on hopeful mo-ments as well, showing video clips ofcheering voters on the night of the2008 presidential election.

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GAME NOTES: The Cardinal will travel across the Bay forthe 113th Big Game Saturday. Cal held No. 1 Oregon

to only a 15-13 loss this weekend and has won every

other home game this season; however, Stanford looks

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Stanford senior wide receiver Doug Baldwin (89) carries the ball for Stanford against ASU. The Cardinal narrowly edged past the Sun Devils to keepits hopes of a BCS berth alive. Arizona State, with a 4-6 overall record, was officially eliminated from bowl eligibility following Saturdays game.

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In the fifth annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on Sunday, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, above, and senior pro-ducer David Bohrman 76 discussed the fading coverage of the war on terror over the decade.

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own record company, Dim Mak, alongwith a clothing line.Aokis fellow head-liner,Kid Sister,is a female rapper fromChicago.

Steve Aoki is a popular party DJ,said Kevin Chow 13, the publicity di-rector of the Stanford Concert Net-work (SCN), which is putting on theevent.He is known for having excitingshows where he crowd-surfs and spraysbeverages on the audience.

SCN contacted Aokis agent, whoinformed them Aoki was on a collegetour and would be available to performat Stanford during Big Game Weekalong with Kid Sister. The SCN corecame up with the idea of adding a cam-pus-wide guest DJ contest.

Originally we wanted to do a liveDJ competition, but the idea was lastminute, and we made a Web page in-stead,Chow said.

For the competition, six DJs up-loaded their mixes to the concert web-site and allowed students to select theirfavorite one.The DJs garnered suffi-cient buzz, and as of Friday had re-ceived more than 1,000 votes and 4,500plays of the six mixes, Chow said. Thewinner will be announced during theshow on Tuesday,he said.

Also on Tuesday is the Rivals forLifeblood drive,themed There WillBe Blood. It will take place from 11a.m. to 7 p.m.at Arrillaga Sports Cen-ter. Both the Stanford and Cal bloodbanks will host a competition to deter-mine which school can donate the mostblood to the UC-San Francisco blood

bank. A bone marrow typing drivesponsored by Lambda Phi Epsilon will

also take place on Tuesday andWednesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. inWhite Plaza.

Stanford student organizations faceoff in the name of school rivalry as well.Big Sing pits Stanford a capella groupsagainst groups from Cal and will takeplace Tuesday at 8 p.m.at 155 DwinelleHall on the Berkeley campus.The staffof The Daily is set to battle the staff ofThe Daily Californian in a flag footballshowdown, Ink Bowl, at the UC-Berkeley campus on the day of BigGame.

Fan Central events for the freshmanand junior classes are scheduled to takeplace on Wednesday at 12 p.m.in WhitePlaza.The sophomore and senior class-es are scheduled to gather for Fan Cen-tral on Thursday at the same time andlocation.

The Big Game rally will occur onThursday night at 10 p.m. in OldUnion courtyard and will bring thefootball players out for recognition bytheir peers, Smith said. This, asidefrom the last showing of Gaieties onFriday night at 8 p.m., will close theweeks events and prepare the stu-dent body for the main event at Cali-fornia Memorial Stadium on Satur-day at 12:30 p.m.

According to ASSU Senate ChairMichael Cruz 12, the ASSU and AxeCommittee will cosponsor highly sub-sidized bus tickets to Memorial Stadi-um. The Senate is also planning aviewing party for students who willnot secure nine Red Zone Points be-fore the game.

Contact Lauryn Williams at [email protected].

WEEKContinued from front page

2NMonday, November 15, 2010 The Stanford Daily

Hospital namesnew CEO

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Amir Dan Rubin is set to become president andchief executive of Stanford Hospital & Clinics onJan.3, the hospital board of directors announced onFriday.

Rubin, the chief operating officer of theUCLA Health System in Los Angeles, succeedsMartha Marsh, who announced in February shewould retire after eight years as Stanford Hospi-tals CEO.

He joins Stanford in the midst of a multi-bil-lion dollar hospital expansion project, which isstill in the approval process at Palo Alto CityHall. Stanford expects approval of a new $2 bil-lion inpatient facility by the city in 2011; an envi-

ronmental impact report for the entire projectwent before the city council in May and has beenthe basis of some concern in Palo Alto over thetraffic impacts of the project.

Board chair Mariann Byerwalter laudedRubin in a statement as an outstanding execu-tive to lead Stanford Hospital at this transforma-tive time in our history.

Rubin,a Los Angeles native, graduated fromUC-Berkeley and holds two masters degreesfrom the University of Michigan. He joined theUCLA Health System in 2005 and has been in-volved in four hospital projects, including the$1.5 billion UCLA medical center, Silicon Val-ley/San Jose Business Journal reported.

Stanford has the ability to change the face ofhealth care,Rubin said in a statement.To be partof an organization that can have such a broad im-pact on humanity is unique and truly inspiring.

Elizabeth Titus

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Gang of Four advocates for nonproliferation

John Tinker,1958-2010After a protracted struggle with cancer, John

Tinker, a long-time lecturer in Stanfords Pro-gram in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR), died onNov.4 at his home in San Francisco at the age of52.

A special kind of pathos fills the heart whensomebody as involved with writing as John Tinkerwas dies.Moments like these remind us that,al-though many of us spend our lives in the midst oflanguage, no words can ever fill the hole an indi-vidual leaves when they pass away.However, as

those who knew John and took classes with himor worked with him as a col-league privately sort throughand ponder over their reminis-cences of their departed teacherand friend, it is important torecord for the collective memoryhow much John Tinker gave toStanford and to the culture ofwriting and scholarship here ofwhich we are all parts.

John graduated with a bache-lor of arts and highest honors in 1990 from UC-Berkeley.Hi s doctoral dissertation,f iled throughthe Stanford English department in 1996,was onWilliam Beckford:The First English Homosex-ual,with Terry Castle as his dissertation advisorand John Bender and Bliss Carnochan as readers.He maintained his interest in the beginnings ofgay culture and the relation between style andsubculture in later years, teaching, for example,courses on the Gothic novel and writing articlessuch as William Beckford(2000) and VagrantSympathies: From Stylistic Analysis to a Peda-gogy of Style (2003).

At the same time as he kept working onstyle, gay culture and the novel, John Tinkerbroadened his interests into other scholarlyareas as well. He joined PWR (or Writing andCritical Thinking,as it was then called) in 1997.John was the person who developed PWRs nowlong-standing partnership with the Cantor ArtsCenter.He was a co-founder of the Hume Writ-ing Center and emerged as a crucial figure in theevolution of the Writing Center here at Stan-ford, serving as its assistant director between2004 and 2007 and producing scholarship on theCenters activities, such as Generating NewCultures of Writing:Collaborations between theStanford Writing Center and High School Writ-ing Centers (2006).

Indeed,he was a significant figure in the writ-ing-center world more generally, and he servedfor a number of years as a regional representa-tive of the International Writing Centers Associ-ation and as president of the Northern Califor-nia Writing Centers Association. Even as Johnwas battling with a fatal disease,he remained anactive and uplifting presence in the worlds hecared about. His last public presentation wasInvention and Eloquence:Rhetoric in the Mu-

seum,a videotaped presentation delivered at aconference in New Orleans in 2008. Subsequent-ly,he remained for many at Stanford studentsand faculty alike the real-life personificationof a subtle,modest, personal eloquence and in-vention in the face of direly adverse circum-stances.

John Tinker will never be replaced. His loss isirrecoverable. But the Program in Writing andRhetoric will do its level best to make sure he is al-ways remembered here with the admiration and af-fection he rightly inspired.There will be a plaque inthe Hume Writing Center to mark his contribu-tions in a permanent and (appropriately) writtenform. But the liveliest and happiest tribute Johncould have conceived of will be the presence in theHume Writing Center of classes of Stanford under-graduates raising their essays to a new level ofpower and generally getting a kick out of writing.

Nicholas Jenkins, Department of

English, faculty director of PWR

By DEVIN BANERJEESENIOR STAFF WRITER

Four former statesmen HenryKissinger, Sam Nunn, George Shultz andWilliam Perry 49 M.S. 50 addressed an

audience of Stanford students on Friday onthe prospects and challenges of global nu-clear nonproliferation. The gatheringmarked the fourth conference held at Stan-ford by the four men, who have come to beknown in their advocacy as the Gang ofFour.

After a screening of Nuclear TippingPoint, a documentary produced by theWashington, D.C.-based Nuclear SecurityProject detailing the mens efforts,the panel,moderated by Phil Taubman 70, took ques-tions from the audience.

Asked what must be done in the U.S. tobegin a process toward nuclear nonprolifera-tion and disarmament, Perry said,The firstthing that needs to be done is the UnitedStates needs to ratify the New Start treaty.

New Start was signed by President Obamaand Russian President Medvedev in April asa follow-up to the 1991 START I treaty and

the 1993 START II treaty between the twonations.If ratified, New Start would limit thenations nuclear weapons stockpiles to nearlytwo-thirds of their current sizes.

In Japan on Sunday, Obama toldMedvedev the U.S.administration is commit-

ted to ratifying the treaty during the lame-ducksession of Congress that begins this week.

Asked what actions,if any,the U.S. shouldtake regarding the security of Pakistans nu-clear arsenal a common concern in thefield of national security due to declared at-tempts by terrorist networks to obtain nu-clear material each of the four men had ananswer.

They have their nuclear weapons verywell hidden and secured,to protect them not

only from the Indians but also from the Unit-ed States, Perry said. He would not recom-mend a U.S. military operation in Pakistan tosecure the weapons,he said.

But we should do what we can to preventa nuclear exchange in the Asian subconti-

nent, Kissinger added. This is not some-thing we will observe quietly.

Shultz said the U.S. should engage Indiaand Pakistan diplomatically and regional-ize the answers. Fortunately, India is lessand less preoccupied with Pakistan and moreaware of its global role, he said.

Nunn said the U.S. should share withIndia and Pakistan lessons learned betweenthe U.S. and Soviet Union during the ColdWar.

Asked what Stanford students can do topromote nuclear nonproliferation, Perry re-turned to the current legislative prospects:New Start and the Comprehensive Test BanTreaty. The latter was signed by the U.S. in1996, but its ratification is stalled in the Sen-

ate.If they fail to be ratified, it will be be-cause the American public doesnt under-stand them, said Perry, who suggested thatstudents show Nuclear Tipping Point, thedocumentary, to their friends to spreadawareness of the threat posed by nuclearweapons.

Shultz led the organization of three previ-ous conferences at Stanford on the menscause.The first was held at the Hoover Insti-tution in October 2006 on the 20th anniver-sary of the summit in Reykjavik,Iceland,be-tween Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev.(As Secretary of State, Shultz sat next toReagan there.) The following two meetingswere held in October 2007 and September2009.

Contact Devin Banerjee at [email protected].

We should do what we can to prevent a nuclearexchange in the Asian subcontinent.

HENRY KISSINGER

FRANCISCA GILMORE/The Stanford Daily

Former Sen. Sam Nunn, center, discusses nuclear nonproliferation on Friday. Joining him were Henry Kissinger, left, William Perry, right, and George Shultz, not pictured.Tinker

OBITUARY

NEWS BRIEFS

It was a national moment,and itwas a rare global moment of unitythat was pretty exciting, Bohrmansaid.

It was one of those moments Iknew would be recorded forever,Blitzer said.

While the pair cautioned againsttaking the recent midterm electionsas strong indicators for the 2012 pres-idential race, they said PresidentObama may need to enact further re-

form in order to be re-elected.Over years, over decades, the

economy is always the bread-and-butter issue that voters are most con-cerned about,Blitzer said.

All these big companies are doingwell, relatively speaking, but theyrenot hiring,Blitzer said in response toan audience members question, de-scribing the new normal that hin-ders Americas economic growth.

Though Bohrman and Blitzer didnot speak much on journalism, thereason for the talk,an annual remem-brance of Daniel Pearl, remained inaudience members minds in the formof a large photograph of Pearl pro-

jected on the wall behind the stage.

Pearl, who graduated from Stan-ford in 1985,was kidnapped and mur-dered in Pakistan in 2002 while inves-tigating the link between shoebomber Richard Reid and Al Qaeda.

Following his death, Pearls familyfounded the Daniel Pearl Founda-tion, which sponsors programs on

journalism, Judaism,music and peaceacross the country. University Presi-dent Hennessy sits on the honoraryboard of the foundation, along withBill Clinton,Eli Wiesel and others.

While Daniels story makes usafraid because of the horrors of ourtime, it also forbids us from fear be-cause of what Danny representedwhen he was alive and what he con-

tinues to represent after his death,said Pearls father, Judea, in an intro-duction to the talk.

By honoring Danny, we honorthe whole community of journalistsand media pioneers who dedicatetheir talents to helping us see theworld through prism of truth and un-derstanding,he said.

The fifth annual Daniel PearlMemorial Lecture was sponsored byHillel, the Office for Religious Life,the Office of the President,the DanielPearl Foundation and the ASSUSpeakers Bureau.

Contact Zoe Leavitt at [email protected].

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Four Loko is the alcohol craze thatssweeping the nation. At 12 percentABV, one 24-ounce Four Loko is a

powerful drink,the equivalent of about fouror five normal beer cans.With caffeine, tau-rine,guarana and a massive amount of sugar,Four Loko has some unpredictable effectsalong with its sheer alcoholic power.Also,at$2.50 a can, its very attractive to college stu-dents and easy to consume in large quanti-ties.

It is said that the combination of alcoholand caffeine,along with sugar that masks thetaste of alcohol,makes drinkers less aware oftheir own inebriation and therefore morelikely to attempt to drive or make other reck-

less decisions. Mixing alcohol, a depressant,with caffeine, a stimulant,has been linked toexcessive consumption and alcohol poison-ing,irresponsible behavior and drunk driving.The effects of Four Loko arent well known,but the drink has been slowly accumulating areputation for the hijinks it causes,as the web-site Four Loko Stories can attest.

As its popularity has increased, Four Lokohas been blamed for a growing number of un-pleasant incidents on college campuses. Es-pecially in the last few months, there hasbeen an incredibly strong reaction to thegrowing popularity of the drink. Numerousuniversities, among them Brandeis, North-eastern and Boston Universities, havewarned their students about the dangers of

Four Loko and similar alcoholic energydrinks.Others, like the University of RhodeIsland and Ramapo College (NJ), havebanned the drink altogether.Ramapo had 17students and 6 visitors hospitalized becauseof Four Loko before it took steps toward re-moving it from campus. At the moment, itseems likely that Four Loko bans will spreadacross collegiate America.

The knee-jerk reaction to substances onejudges dangerous is to ban them. However,this is an incomplete solution. Especially atuniversities, which serve, if not to preparestudents for the realities of adult life,at leastto equip them to use adult freedom to its bestends, banning substances that students will

face in later life is a poor answer to problemslike the Four Loko problem.The answer foruniversities like Stanford is,fittingly enough,education.

Stanford is known for having an alcoholpolicy that,uniquely and rightly,treats its stu-dents like responsible adults.That treatmentshould extend to the issue of Four Loko.

Much like it doesnt ban books, Stanfordshouldnt hastily ban Four Loko. Stanfordteaches students to understand the value ofbooks with hateful and dangerous rhetoric,and,just the same, Stanford should equip stu-dents with the skills to enjoy beverages likeFour Loko (if they want to), which can bedangerous, in a responsible manner.Banningdrinks like Four Loko implies that students

dont have the necessary skills to deal withthese substances.

That implication itself shows a need for ed-ucation. Stanford students will most likelygraduate into a world where alcoholic energydrinks are legal or available.We should knowhow to drink them or at least know why weshould abstain from them.

Stanford has not been affected by the FourLoko craze so strongly. However, the popu-lar, sugary drink will probably breach theStanford bubble soon enough. Stanfordshould not succumb to the knee-jerk urge toban it. Rather, Stanford should react know-ing that, armed with the proper information,its students can learn to use Four Loko in a

safe way.The University should never take it uponitself to deny us any of the privileges of anadult in the United States.It should not be aparental figure in the lives of its students.Stanfords administration should only inter-est itself with ensuring that all students havethe tools to safeguard their own well being.Stanford students themselves should be en-trusted with the decision of whether or notthey wish to consume Four Loko and similarsubstances.The Universitys mission shouldbe to arm them with the necessary knowl-edge to decide and act as informed people.

Should the University ban Four Loko? Voiceyour concern at [email protected].

OPINIONS

Forty years after Stanford Universitysphase-out of the Reserve OfficersTraining Corps (ROTC), based on mass

protest, punitive clauses in student contractsand concerns about the academic compatibil-ity of its courses, a Stanford University Facul-ty Senate ad hoc committee is investigatingthe possibility of reintroducing ROTC to theUniversity, pursuant to the repeal of DontAsk, Dont Tell, (DADT) the U.S. militarypolicy mandating the discharge of servicemembers known (or discovered) to be homo-sexual. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Ap-peals has ordered a stay on implementingDADTs repeal, leaving the issue in legallimbo.

In reading the available information onDADT for Stanford University,the proposalssponsors apparently have little interest in theoutcome of DADT and provide no materiallink between the repeal of DADT and the re-

instatement of ROTC in the actual proposal.From the outset, the implication that ROTCwould be reinstated on the condition thatDADT is repealed is patently false.

In fact,in the Senate minutes,Dr. StephenKrasner urges fellow Senate members to rein-state ROTC regardless of the fate of DADT:If we go forward with this [ROTC], I wouldurge the committee to not make it hostage towhat happens to Dont Ask, Dont Tell.Thelink between DADT and ROTC at Stanford isat best, artificial,and at worst,misleading.

Not only do Senate members demonstrate

an indifference to DADT,even as they co-optits language,they also betray barely concealedcontempt for proponents of its repeal.

Dr. David Kennedy states: The premisethat underlies our bringing this question to theSenate is the assumption that the Dont Ask,Dont Tell Policy, which has been a serious im-

pediment to reopening this discussion at all,will probably go away within the next year ortwo, and the field will be open to have a rea-

sonable discussion.(Italics added.)Does a reasonable discussion mean that

a bunch of liberal, Bay Area intellectualswont be so hung up on institutional discrimi-nation in the military? Had the presenters anyinterest in human rights, they would realizethat the repeal of DADT does not end recruit-ment discrimination against LGBT people.Transgender individuals are categorically ex-cluded by outdated medical regulations.In ad-dition to this kind of outmoded de jure dis-

crimination, the military disproportionatelyrecruits the poor, people of color and recentimmigrants to say nothing of the endemicgender discrimination highlighted in recenthigh-profile abuse cases.

In this regard,the serious impedimenttoreinstating ROTC,that is that the military willno longer practice discriminatory practiceswhich conflict with Stanfords anti-discrimi-nation policies,is false. Until the military suc-cessfully addresses its endemic official and un-official forms of discrimination, then ROTC,which is subject to the militarys recruitment

criteria,will violate Stanfords commitment toprohibit discrimination, including harass-ment,against students on the basis of sex,race,age, color, disability, religion, sexual orienta-tion,gender identity,national and ethnic ori-gin (Statement of Non-Discrimination Poli-cy).

Accordingly, Stanford Students for QueerLiberation holds the following position onROTC:

We oppose the reintroduction of ROTC atStanford for two reasons.First,we adamantlyoppose any dialogue on this issue until DADThas been repealed at the federal level, as thislegislation is in direct opposition to Stanfordsnon-discrimination policies and mission. Sec-ond,as an organization that supports a radicalqueer political framework, we oppose ROTCas a representation of militarism. The UnitedStates military is an institution steeped inracism, sexism and other oppressive systems

in both its recruiting practices and everydayfunctions, and thus we do not feel it in our in-terests to support the ROTC program evenafter the repeal of DADT.We hope that othersocial justice-oriented student groups will findcommon ground on this issue and similarlywork against the militarization of our campus.

CHARLES LEDBETTER,graduate student,

with contributions from

JANANI BALASUBRAMANIAN 12

Written on behalf of Stanford Students

for Queer Liberation

THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTY

OP-ED

CARDINAL SINS

This Friday marks the 12th annual In-ternational Transgender Day of Re-membrance. On this day,people from

across the world gather and remember allthose transgender people who have beenkilled this year due to hate and prejudice.According to the official InternationalTransgender Day of Remembrance website,the official count during the year of 2009was 98 murders however, the actualnumber is much higher than that,simply be-

cause many murders are not reported.This time of the year is always difficultfor me.The first TDoR vigil I at tended wasduring my sophomore year, in 2008. I re-member it clearly we were still reelingfrom the passing of Prop 8.It was well pastsunset, and we gathered in the sculpturegarden by Roble. We stood in a circle andpassed around a list of the transgender peo-ple who had been killed that year. One byone,we read each name, their date of deathand how they were murdered.

I was on the verge of coming out to my-self then. And I was terrified. I rememberhow scared I was then, listening to nameafter name, murder after murder. Thesewere not just names. These were peoplewho were just trying to live their lives, peo-ple who deserved to be happy, who de-served to be loved, who deserved a good

job, a decent education, a family peoplelike me.But they were dead,because some-one thought they didnt deserve to live.

I admit I am lucky.I have lived within anhour of San Francisco all my life. I go to a

school that accepts me, who knows me bymy preferred name. I am able to write thiscolumn. I have family and friends who loveme. Who knows, if the circumstanceswerent right, if I had lived someplace else,met the wrong people,found myself in onebad night, one slip-up, one encounter withsomeone a bit too ignorant or a bit toodrunk I could have easily become one ofthose names read out loud by candlelight.But Im not. Im still here. Im still alive.And I know its weird to say this, but attimes, Im surprised that Ive lasted thislong. Why was I left here, when so manyother people were taken away? It seemedso random.

This is a society that assumes a genderbinary, that assumes this strict divide be-tween male and female, that men must actthis way, and women must act this way,andanything that mixes the two is weird,unnat-ural,shouldnt exist.It is a mindset that per-vades the subconscious of our culture, andit is this mindset that kills gender-variantpeople and those who do not so neatly fit

into those little checkboxes marked maleand female.I remember back as a sopho-more,at that vigil, I felt helpless, that therewas nothing I could do to stop these mur-ders.In retrospect,I suppose it was this mo-ment in my life,as this scared little 19-year-old, that motivated me to write this column.As I grew older, I realized that if some cos-mic force is keeping me alive,then Im notgoing to waste a moment.People like Bran-don Teena, Gwen Araujo, Rita Hester andcountless others who have been forgottencan no longer speak for themselves, be-cause they are no longer here. But Im stillhere. And Im going to keep writing. Imgoing to keep talking. The only way any-ones going to shut me up is if Im dead.(And Im not planning that anytime soon,trust me.)

In 38 states, it is still legal to fire or nothire an individual due to gender identity.TheEmployment Non-Discrimination Act stilldoes not include transgender rights. Andevery year, more and more trans people aregetting killed for simply being who they are.

It doesnt have to be this way.Theres still somuch that needs to be done. As much as Iwould like to,I cant do all this alone.So I as kyou to use gender-neutral pronouns. Thinkabout the forms you have to fill out on adaily basis. If you are presented with thosestress-inducing M/F checkboxes,dont checkeither, or if you see there is a third box thatstates decline to state or other, checkthat instead. Bring up this column in a con-versation today or this week.And when youtalk about LGBT rights,dont forget the lastletter in the acronym.I remember a friend ofmine telling me that the T in LGBTstands for terrific because hell, we areterrific people,and terrific people deserve tobe happy.

I know this week is Big Game week, andIm excited as you about Stanford shankingCal this Saturday. However, I ask that youtake one moment and remember. It willmean a lot.

E-mail Cristopher Bautista at [email protected].

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This weekend almost wreaked havocon the infamous Bowl Champi-onship Series. When No. 2 Auburn

and No.3 TCU came from two touchdownsbehind to earn hard-fought victories andNo.1 Oregon squeaked by with a two-pointwin after Cal missed a short fourth-quarterfield goal, the powers of college footballbreathed a sigh of relief.If those three teamshad gone down, the projected nationalchampionship game would likely have beenundefeated Boise State against . . .whichever one-loss team the voters andcomputers happened to like best.

In the end,the chance to play for the titlewill be decided off the field by a system thathas astounded us with its capriciousness.Consider that over the last four weeks,Boise State has fallen from No. 3 to No. 4

while winning four blowouts by a com-bined 150 points.And how exactly are weso sure Oregon deserves to be ahead of aBronco team that throttled the Ducks lastyear and returned all but one starter?

Why so much confusion? Because thesystem that determines the winners and los-ers in college football is just a glorifiedguessing game. Thats why weve had ashared national championship and an unde-feated team (Utah in the 2009 Sugar Bowl)destroying the No. 4 team in a bowl gamewithout getting a chance to play for it all.Thats why we have utterly inane conversa-tions about style points (e.g.,praising coach-es for running up the score mercilessly oninferior opponents) and speculate aboutBCS bowl games looking for teams thattravel well when deciding who deserves

an at-large bid.It is in this context that our beloved

Stanford Cardinal (9-1, No. 6 BCS) comesinto its final two games of the seasonagainst Cal and Oregon State. With onlyone loss on the road to the nations top-ranked team, the Cardinal, who severalESPN pundits called the best one-lossteam in the country,has earned the right toplay in a marquee bowl game. If a couple ofbounces had fallen differently for the topthree teams on Saturday, the Cardinalwould have been in a position to argue itdeserved a shot to play for the title. In-stead, Stanford is left hoping that a set ofarchaic rules and biased voters dont rele-gate it to the Alamo Bowl.

Of course, the Cardinal must win itsfinal two games against a tough Oregon

State team and this Saturday in Berkeleyagainst a Cal squad coming off a near-upset of Oregon. And we as a universitymust be there to support them. Yes, thegames are over Thanksgiving break, andthere might be some high expectations ofRed Zone points for Big Game,but every-one who can go to these games must do so.This has been one of the best seasons ofStanford football in memory, and if the en-thusiasm of our fans is one metric that willaffect the teams chances to play in theright bowl, it would be a shame if we con-strained their success. The weak fan sup-port in our biggest home win against Ari-zona earned us the derision of the sportsworld. This weekend is Cal dont let ithappen again. Lets show up, lets be loudand lets beat the Bears.

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An otherwise impressive season forStanford field hockey came to a close inChapel Hill,N.C.,on Saturday morning, asthe No.19 Cardinal fell,3-1, to No.2 North

Carolina in the first round of the NCAATournament.

Stanford (15-6, 5-1 NorPac) saw action

in the NCAA Tournament for the thirdtime in the past four seasons, and has ap-peared in the tournament 10 times in theprograms history. However, the Cardinalhas never won a game in the NCAA Tour-nament,despite making its first postseasonappearance in 1985.

Stanford finished 15-6 overall,includingits fourth consecutive championship in theNorPac Tournament.

This years 15-win season marks thethird-highest win total in school history,with last years 17-win record an all-timehigh.

Saturdays game against defendingNCAA champion North Carolina (20-2, 4-1 ACC) proved tough for the Card.

Jaclyn Radvany broke the ice for NorthCarolina in the 10th minute,with a follow-up shot after her first attempt hit the cross-

bar. At 16:09, Marta Malmberg gave theTar Heels a 2-0 lead, scoring on a penaltycorner. Elizabeth Stephens scored sevenminutes later for North Carolina off an ini-tial block by Stanford junior goalkeeperAlessandra Moss.

To counter North Carolinas aggressive

attack, Moss had a career-high 17 saves for


SPORTS

By NATE ADAMS and BROOKE DAVIS

Stanford womens soccer is headed to theround of 16 in the NCAA Tournament after tak-ing down Sacramento State and Santa Clara intwo very different games over the weekend.

After more than 30 shots, Stanford was ableto break through for a goal against SacramentoState in Fridays tournament opener. FreshmanSidney Payne knocked in the winning score andassisted on two later goals for the top-seededCardinal,while classmate and goalkeeper EmilyOliver secured the 3-0 shutout.All of Stanfordsgoals Paynes, along with two more fromfreshman Taylor McCann and sophomore NinaWatkins came from freshmen or players offthe bench.

Stanford (20-0-2) had more than its share ofchances in the first half, when the Cardinal out-shot the Hornets (9-10-1) by a margin of 19-2.But for every look that Stanford had, it either

just missed the mark or was turned away by Hor-net keeper Savannah Abercrombie.

Stanford coach Paul Ratcliffe,who led Stan-ford over Sacramento State by a score of 7-0 in

2007,had nothing but praise for the Hornets de-fensive tenacity.

I was very impressed with SacramentoState; I think [head coach] Randy [Dedini] or-ganized his team with a great game plan, hesaid.Their team really battled hard and made ita really tough game, and obviously their goal-keeper was really tremendous in the first halfand in the second half. She made some spectac-ular saves.

It took an unusual play for the Cardinal to fi-nally break through.In the 65th minute, sopho-more defender Rachel Quon sent a cross fromthe right side into the box, where Payne made aquick spin move before tapping it past Aber-crombie with a back-heel. For Payne, who wassubbed in just a few minutes earlier, it was thesecond goal of her freshman season.Along withQuon,junior defender Camille Levin was cred-ited with an assist.

The goal came in a flash, and Payne said sherelied mostly on instinct to make the game-win-ning reaction.

I think I hit it with my back-heel,she said.I just tried to make contact and get the goal.

Ratcliffe was happy to defend his choice ofsubstituting Payne,who he says has been makinggreat strides in practice.

Sydneys been training very, very well, andshes been getting better and better as a player,he said. I knew she could go in and score thegoal; there was no doubt in my mind that shecould break the ice for us,and she did.

With eight minutes to go, McCann knockedin some insurance for Stanford.After recoveringa Payne rebound in the box amidst a flurry of de-fenders, McCann powered a shot that deflectedoff a sliding Hornet defender into the right sideof the goal.

A few minutes later,after knocking a center-ing pass onto the box, Watkins fired a headerfrom a few yards out to beat Abercrombie on theleft side. It was the first goal of Watkins colle-giate career.

Its great to have players that can come in,especially freshmen, and have a big impact andscore goals for us, Ratcliffe said.Its great forthe team spirit,and its a credit to the freshmenthat theyve worked so hard this year and beenso tremendous for us.

The tournament continued as the Card tookon local rival Santa Clara (13-7-2) on Sunday af-ternoon in a rematch of last years hard-foughtSweet Sixteen matchup.Tensions were high,andthe game was full of pressure and physicality,but

in the end, Stanford managed to defeat theBroncos, 2-1, and secure its place in the nextround of the tournament.

Stanford started the game on the attack andkept the pressure on,resulting in an early goal.

In the 19th minute, redshirt freshman AnnieCase drove down the left side before sending ina pinpoint cross to Marjani Hing-Glover. Theforward, who was in the starting lineup withsophomore Courtney Verloo out due to injury,expertly timed her jump and hit a crisp,left-foot-ed volley past Santa Clara goalkeeper BiancaHenninger from the top of the box.

I wanted to prove myself and show what Ican do.Hing-Glover said.

Marjani had a great weekend, said seniorforward Christen Press. We call her shot theJani Rocket,and it just rocketed right into thenet.

Stanford remained the aggressor, but SantaClara was still very much in the game.The Bron-cos only had two shots in the first half, but Me-leana Shims free kick off the crossbar was awarning.Both teams played very physically, rid-dling the field with free kicks and falling players.In the 15th minute, Press was taken down bySanta Clara defender Margueritte Aozasa,whograbbed Presss ponytail and yanked her to theturf.Despite the high pressure,Stanford kept thescore at 1-0 at the half.

Just four minutes into the second half, it was2-0 in favor of the Cardinal. Junior Lindsay Tay-lor swung in a corner kick,and sophomore cen-ter back Alina Garciamendez beat her markerto power a low header into the net. It was thefirst goal of the season for the Mexican nationalteamer,and it would prove to be vital.

Despite dominant play from Stanford afterthe second goal,the games next goal was scoredby Santa Clara. Kendra Perry received the ballat the top of the box, turned and hit a low left-footed drive past Oliver into the corner of thegoal.Just like that, Santa Clara had a lifeline.

We had a lot of chances,Ratcliffe said.Wedidnt execute,and their goalkeeper made somegreat saves.We let them hang around, and theyscored a goal late,and it became a game.

The goal shifted the momentum, and Stan-ford went from cruise control to hanging on.Stanfords defense was able to hold on, preserv-ing the 2-1 victory and a spot in the Sweet Six-teen.

The Cardinal will host UCLA in the round of16 at 7 p.m. on Friday at Laird Q. Cagan Stadi-um.

Sam Svoboda contributed to this report.

Contact Nate Adams at [email protected] Brooke Davis at [email protected].

It doesnt get

bigger than

Big Game

Daniel

Bohm

On My Mind

Pause for a second,Stanfordfans, exhale and be gladthat the Card survived itstrip to the desert.Now getready for Big Game.

Dont think about how the SunDevils nearly put a wrench in Stan-fords magical season anymore.Dontthink about how the offensive line thatI applauded so aggressively last weekwas consistently beat at the point of at-

tack against Arizona State.Dont evenconsider Stanfords shaky play in thered zone or Nate Whitakers missedfield goal. Dont do it, because if theCardinal plays like that next week atCal,it will lose.

Instead, be glad that the defenseheld strong all game and that the Car-dinal remained the anti-Vontaze Bur-fict and kept its composure in the faceof a team hungry for an upset.Did younotice how calm Andrew Luck lookedleading Stanford down the field in thefourth quarter?

Still, if Stanford has a repeat per-formance next week, the Axe will re-main in Berkeley.

Cal may be 5-5 on the season,but ithas been exceptionally impressive athome.The Golden Bears will be play-ing for bowl eligibility,and they wouldlove nothing more than to ruin Stan-fords BCS-bound season.Not to men-tion the fact that Cal has owned the BigGame in the past decade, winning

seven of the last eight.The Golden Bears home-roadsplits this year are nothing short ofstunning.Cal has been an awfully rudehost, going 4-1 at home, with its onlyloss coming last weekend against No.1Oregon (more on that in a second).Inhome games,Cal has outscored its op-ponents 202-49.On the road,however,Cal is 1-4 (the only win being over no-longer-hapless Washington State) andhas been outmatched by a total of 158-81. Too bad Stanford has to travel toMemorial Stadium on Saturday.

Most impressive for Cal, however,may be its 15-13 loss this past weekendagainst Oregon.The Cal defense man-aged to slow down the Ducks offense,making it not look straight out of avideo game for the first time all season.

Cal was able to stay in the game de-spite starting backup Brock Mansionat quarterback.I cant say Ive watchedhim play, but Mansion was deemedworse than Kevin Riley, so he cant be

great. (For reference, go to YouTube,type in Kevin Riley Oregon State,and watch the first video).

What is scary is that in the abstract,Oregon is very similar to Stanford onoffense.Most football fans will proba-bly read that and say huh?Sure,Ore-gon runs the spread out of the shotgunand Stanford utilizes a pro-style of-fense, but both offenses rely on just afew simple tactics to win. For example,the vast majority of what Oregon runsis a slight variation,whether a differentformation or a different motion, of afew plays (zone read,speed option andwide receiver screens).

Stanfords offense is quite complex,but it, too,relies on the ability to run afew plays very well (namely,power).Aswe saw against Arizona State, if Stan-ford cant run the ball,there will be a lotof third and longs,and although Luck isgreat,that is not a winning recipe.

Jeff Tedford and the other Calcoaches showed Saturday that they

could draw up a scheme to stop Ore-gon. If they are able to do that withStanford, it could mean another low-scoring game (Cal will almost un-doubtedly struggle to move the ball onStanford).

Sure,comparing Stanfords offense

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GAME NOTES:After defeating Sacramento State and SantaClara this past weekend, the No. 1 Cardinal looks to takeon UCLA in the round of 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

Stanford beat UCLA 2-0 earlier this season on October 10

and will have home-field advantage on Friday.

SWEET SIXTEEN UP NEXT

Cross country secures qualification forNCAA Championships

The Stanford cross country teams took careof business on Saturday, performing admirablyat the NCAA West Regional and virtuallyclinching spots at the NCAA Championships.

The No.2 men are locks for nationals on Nov.22 after finishing second overall at regionals. Theteam approached the 10,000-meter course with adifferent strategy than it has used in past races,electing to stick together instead of sending itsthree stars Jake Riley,Chris Derrick and ElliottHeath to the front of the pack.Stanford placed

just two points behind winner Oregon with 65 totalpoints. The Cardinal beat the Ducks two weeksago at the Pac-10 Championships in Seattle.

Derrick led the way for Stanford,f inishing inseventh overall, although Heath and Riley fin-ished just fractions of a second behind his time of30:14.57 in eighth and ninth place, respectively.Redshirt freshman Andrew Berberick and red-shirt sophomore Miles Unterreiner also ran wellfor the Card, finishing in 21st and 22nd, respec-tively.

The women,up to No.4 in the national rank-ings after a gutsy conference championship per-formance,placed third at the 6,000-meter region-al,behind rivals Washington and Oregon.Sopho-more Kathy Kroeger, who has led the Cardinalin every race thus far this year,once again set thepace for Stanford, finishing in fifth place overallwith a time of 20:13.47. Kroeger,along with red-shirt junior Steph Marcy (11th) and sophomoreAlex Dunne (17th),helped propel the Cardinalto a final score of 86 points.

While a third-place finish does not guaranteean automatic bid to the NCAA Championships,the Cardinal has all but locked up an at-large bidto contend for a national title.

The NCAA Championships will be held inTerre Haute,Ind., on Nov. 22.

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Junior midfielder Kristy Zurmuhlen (18) looks for a header. After defeating Sacramento Stateand Santa Clara, Stanford will host UCLA in round-three play of the NCAA Tournament.

WOMENS BASKETBALL

Cardinal starts season off rightBy NATE ADAMS

DESK EDITOR

Though it struggled to get into a smooth of-fensive rhythm, No. 3 Stanford womens bas-ketball was able to pull away from visitingRutgers after a scrappy first half on Sunday af-ternoon, eventually sealing a 63-50 victory inits season opener. Junior forward NnemkadiOgwumike played all 40 minutes for Stanford(1-0) and led both teams with 20 points,while

her younger sister Chiney, a freshman, con-tributed a game-high 12 rebounds in just 21minutes.

Stanford got off to a strong start thanks tosome quick rebounds and strong shootingfrom beyond the arc, but the teams accuracyfloundered a bit after the opening minutes.Following a free throw from Chiney Ogwu-mike that opened the scoring for the Cardinal,

sophomore Joslyn Tinkle sank a three from afull step beyond the arc.The Missoula,Mont.,native added another three just a few minuteslater,while Chiney Ogwumike,who Cardinalcoach Tara VanDerveer tapped as a starter inher first regular season game in a Stanford uni-form, pulled down six rebounds in under fiveminutes, helping Stanford spurt out to a 10-4lead.

The Scarlet Knights (0-2) bounced back towithin 12-11 on a Nikki Speed jumpshot just a

few minutes later, and continued to answerStanford shot for shot.Monique Oliver gaveRutgers its first lead of the game at 17-16 mid-way through the half, and the visitors wouldcontinue to hang tough in the opening frame.

Both teams had some difficulty finding thehoop in the middle stretch of the half, withStanford missing seven consecutive three-pointers in the 10 minutes following Tinkles

last basket from long range.The Cardinal wasshooting 9-for-23 overall at that point, withRutgers shooting at a similar 9-for-22 clip.

Jeanette [Pohlen] is a very capable three-point shooter, as is Kayla [Pedersen], but Ithink we didnt do as much as we needed to doin terms of creating good shots for them,Van-Derveer said about her teams first-half of-fense. [We need to] recognize how to movethe ball and give them better shots.

Pohlen and Pedersen, both seniors this

year, each finished the game shooting just 1-for-5 from beyond the arc.The biggest edge for the Cardinal, and the

difference that allowed it to maintain somecontrol going into halftime, was in rebound-ing.When it headed into the locker room witha 32-29 lead, Stanford was out-boarding Rut-

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gers 25 to 15 and had converted 11second-chance points. A team-high10 of those rebounds came fromChiney Ogwumike.

VanDerveer went with the samestarting five in the second half, andthanks to a more aggressive ap-proach, they were immediately ableto extend the Cardinal lead and holdon for the win. Tinkle opened thescoring from the field once again,thi s

time with a two-pointer. NnemkadiOgwumike followed that with alayup,and Pedersen dropped a noth-ing-but-net three from deep on theleft side that electrified the crowdand gave Stanford a 39-29 lead lessthan three minutes into the half.

The Cardinal found success bycontinuing to force the ball in close.Tinkle drove in for a layup with justover eight minutes remaining tomake it 52-40, and Pedersenstretched the score to 54-40 on a shotfrom the edge of the paint a momentlater, giving the Cardinal a lead of 14.

We got more aggressive in thesecond half,and that helped us a lot,VanDerveer said.We started out re-ally concerned about putting the ballon the floor,and they hit some shots.Then we had to tighten it up . . . as wegot more aggressive in the secondhalf,we looked better.

Rutgers was only able to pull asclose as 10, making it 60-50 on a

three-pointer from April Sykes be-fore Nnemkadi Ogwumike closedout the scoring with a layup and afree throw from a foul on the play.

By games end,Nnemkadi Ogwu-mike, Pedersen and Pohlen Stan-fords three returning starters hadeach played a full 40 minutes, mostsurprising for Nnemkadi Ogwumike,who was limited to just 13 minutes inher teams first two exhibition gamesby a sore left ankle.The reigning Pac-10 player of the year said she was keptoff the court only as a precautionarymeasure,and that shes ready to playas often as needed.

The win wasnt pretty at times,buttheres still plenty for the Cardinal tobe encouraged about.Tinkle scored10 points en route to a solid perform-ance as a starter,and Chiney Ogwu-mike made huge contributions, par-ticularly on rebounds.

I think she did very well in termsof being aggressive, Nnemkadi said

of her younger sister.I think she han-dled herself very well. . . she com-posed herself nicely,and did whatever

she could when she was on the court.Adding to the positive takeaways,

Pedersen was confident that the 2010squad was off to a good start in termsof coordination on the court.In a yearthat Stanford boasts a versatile rota-tion that can change positions orzones often, she was encouraged tosee it working well in game one.

I think our communication wasoutstanding, she said. Everybody

knew who was guarding who, whatdefenses we were in, what offenseswe were in, so I think everybody

stepped up.With the victory, VanDerveer

takes a small step toward Rutgerscoach C.Vivian Stringer in the histo-ry book.The Stanford coach is fifth inall-time wins with 758, compared toStringers third-place mark of 843.

Stanford will hit the road thisweekend,playing its next two gamesat Utah on Friday and Gonzaga onSunday.

Contact Nate Adams at [email protected].

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Junior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike (30), reigning Pac-10 Player of the Year,played a full 40 minutes in Sundays game against Rutgers, leading the No. 3Card to a successful season-opener 63-50 victory over the Scarlet Knights.

Starting with the ball on its own15-yard line, Stanford put togetherone of its classic drives,grinding out85 yards in 10 plays while taking 5:22off the clock,ending with a one-yardtouchdown run from senior two-wayplayer Owen Marecic. Whitakerdrilled the extra point, giving theCard a 17-13 lead with just over fiveminutes remaining in the game.Stan-fords running game finally started to

find some space against a suffocatingASU front seven, with sophomoreStepfan Taylor and freshman Antho-ny Wilkerson gaining chunks ofyardage.

Stanfords defense held up on thenext ASU drive,with sophomore line-backer Shayne Skov sacking Threeton third down to force the punt beforethe Sun Devils could even move thechains once.

Stanford used its final drive to killthe clock and preserve the win. TheCardinal running game, especiallyWilkerson, continued to grind outyards. Indeed, on his final run of thegame,Wilkerson got behind the ASUdefense and had a clear shot at the endzone, but slid down at the ArizonaState four-yard line to keep the clockmoving. Two kneel-downs by Luckended the game,giving the Card thewin.

Arizona State came into the gameneeding to win out to secure bowl el-

igibility, and its desperation showed,especially on defense. Led by line-backer Vontaze Burfict, the SunDevil defense swarmed the line ofscrimmage, putting pressure on theStanford backfield. ASUs frontseven completely stuffed Stanfordsvertical running game.The Cardinaloffensive line, which had dominatedArizonas much-vaunted defensiveline just a week ago, couldnt findsimilar success against the Sun Dev-ils run defense.

The Sun Devils also distinguishedthemselves from earlier Stanford op-ponents in mounting a credible passrush. Luck was hurried and hit farmore often than usual, and wassacked once in the second quarter,

just the fourth sack surrendered bythe Cardinal all season.While Luckwould throw for 292 yards on thegame, he ended with no passingtouchdowns and one interception.

The one bright spot for Stanfords

offense was Wilkersons play. Thetrue freshman led the Cardinal inrushing with 10 carries for 65 yards,even though he did not enter thegame until the final five minutes ofthe third quarter. Taylor, who hadspearheaded Stanfords running at-tack over the last several games,failed to make any headway againstASU,finishing with 16 carries for just39 yards (a lowly 2.4 yards per carry).Overall, Stanfords rushing attacktallied a low 3.0 yards per carry, in-cluding 18 carries for only nine yardsin the first half.

Stanford was once again withoutthe services of junior receiver Chris

Owusu,who was held out of the gamewith an undisclosed injury.Owusu hasmissed a number of games due to var-ious injuries already, but looked fullyhealthy last week against Arizonawhile racking up 165 receiving yardson nine catches.

Defensively, Stanford continuedto play well, holding the Sun Devilsto 268 yards of total offense. Threetwas held to just 158 yards on 16-26passing, despite entering the gamenear the top of the Pac-10s stat sheet.The Cardinal front seven also man-aged to limit ASUs (admittedlyweak) rushing attack to 110 yards on23 carries.

As it did last weekend against Ari-zona, the defenses impact went be-yond the stat sheet, with clutch playsto nullify big ASU drives.Junior safe-ty Delano Howell picked off Threetin the first quarter,and freshman cor-nerback Barry Browning recovereda fumble at its own goal line early in

the second quarter when junior de-fensive back Michael Thomasknocked the ball loose from a divingThreet.

When you have the best quarter-back in the nation,a Heisman candi-date on the other side of the ball,you

just have do your job and keep themout of the end zone,said senior cor-nerback Richard Sherman in apostgame press conference.No mat-ter how long it takes,hes going to getit done.

With a 4-6 overall record and twogames remaining,Arizona State is of-ficially eliminated from bowl eligibil-ity two of the Sun Devils winscame over FCS opponents, and onlyone of those can count toward eligi-bility.However, if Arizona State winsout,it may still gain a waiver to play ina bowl game if there are not enougheligible teams to fill all the bowl slots.

By beating ASU,Stanford kept itshopes of a BCS berth alive.With a 9-

1 overall record,the Cardinal shouldbe ranked in the top 10 of the finalBCS standings if it wins out, but nu-merous factors could see Stanford inthe Rose Bowl,another BCS bowl ora lesser bowl, most likely the AlamoBowl. It will also help the Card thatits only loss came to No. 1 Oregon,which survived against California inBerkeley on Saturday with a 15-13victory.

Up next for Stanford is the 113thBig Game against Cal (5-5,3-4) acrossthe Bay at Memorial Stadium inBerkeley. The Golden Bears havelooked unbeatable at home theywon every home game this season by

big margins prior to playing theDucks,and only lost by two points toOregon at home, which is no smallfeat against the countrys top team.

Stanford will take on Cal Saturdayat 12:30 p.m.in Berkeley.

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to Oregons is probably dumb, be-cause Stanford can likely out-muscleCals defense,which probably isnt asphysical as Arizona States. Still, wesaw last year that the Golden Bearsdefense can give Stanfords offenseenough trouble to make a game of it.

Regardless, it is the biggest Big

Game for Stanford in a long, longtime, and it should be great.It is toobad Big Game isnt the final game ofthe year,like it used to be, and falls onthe first weekend of Thanksgivingbreak,as many students,I am certain,will have already headed home for thebreak.

Whether you are going to thegame or not, if you are on campus,enjoy the week.Have fun with all thebuild-up to Saturday;there is nothingbetter than a campus rallying arounda single game for a single team.Thereare few weeks as fun as Big Gameweek (although professors seem to al-ways find a way to make it less fun thanit could be),so get out there and enjoyit this is as important as it gets forStanford on Saturday.

This might just be Daniel Bohms fa-vorite week of the year.Let him know

youre going to Big Game [email protected].

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BRYANT TAN/The Stanford DailyThe No. 19 Cardinal saw its season come to a close Saturday morning in a 3-0 loss to North Carolina during the firstround of NCAA play. Stanford finished with a 15-6 record overall, the third-most season wins in school history.

the game on Saturday, off 25 shotsfrom the Tar Heels.

Scoring slowed in the second half,and Stanford was able to hold the TarHeels at three until a late push dur-ing the last 10 minutes provided aglimmer of hope for the Card.

Senior Katherine Swank scoredoff an assist by senior Xanthe Trav-los at the 62:03 mark,and a few min-utes later, an apparent score off apenalty corner offered more hope.Officials disallowed the goal, how-ever, leading to a final score of 3-1.

Swank was the first Stanfordplayer to score in the NCAA Tour-nament since Melissa Stais goal in2000.

Sophomore Becky Dru, one ofStanfords top offensive threats,was completely shut down by theTar Heel defense.Dru powered theCardinal to its title in the NorPacTournament,but could not find thenet against North Carolina despiteleading all Stanford players withthree shots.For the season, Dru ledthe Cardinal in numerous statisticalcategories, including goals with 13,assists with 10, points with 36 andshots with 88.

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their own lives, Kemper said of theNBC sitcom chronicling the Scran-ton, Penn., paper company DunderMifflin,now owned by Sabre due tohard times.

The show is also known for its pi-oneering use of the mockumen-tary format.

Sitcoms were ready to be mar-ried to the reality show format,Lieberstien said.

Daniels said of the shows successthat different audience memberswatch for different reasons.

Most people come for Toby,Kemper added, referencing Lieber-steins role as the beloved and ordi-nary human resources representa-

tive Toby Flenderson.Lieberstein later commented on

his experience bridging producing,writing and acting.

Being on set so much has influ-enced the way I write . . . and helpedme as a producer, too, Liebersteinsaid, describing how actors floataround in the dark when they re-ceive limited direction.

Kemper,commenting on the sym-posiums theme of immature men,described how certain characters,such as Dwight Schrute, played byRainn Wilson, and Michael Scott,played by Carell, are boys in adultbodies.

What have you got againstmen?quipped Lieberstein.

Daniels said that boy-menare a

staple of comedy and, when askedabout a narrative behind The Of-fice,said,We all have enough to eathere in America now. Maybe were

frivolous.When asked about Carells im-

pending departure from the show,Lieberstein said, Were not goingoff the air.

Discussing the collaborativeprocess of writing an episode,Daniels said,It all boils down to onething:if the person running things lis-tens to the other people.

The panel also commented on thenature of careers in television writ-ing and production. When askedabout advice for aspiring writers andproducers, the tr io showed aYouTube clip of girls tripping overhurdles in a track race, followed bythe tagline The courage to contin-ue.

Good luck, Kemper said as the

clip ended.Jokes aside,Lieberstein elaborat-

ed on his career path from an eco-nomics major at Hamilton College.

I never thought this was avail-able to me,he said.

About specific strategies to getin the mindset of a different humanbeing when writing, Daniels asked,What if that ugly behavior werepart of our characters? He addedthat he finds it easier to write for theparts of Dwight Schrute andMichael Scott than Erin, the secre-tary played by Kempers older sis-ter,Ellie.

Kemper commented that shefinds it easier to write for her sisterbecause she can imagine her deliveryof the lines. Clearly, comedy runs inthe family, as younger brother BillyKemper 11 currently edits The Stan-ford Chaparral.

The first episode Kemper wrote

for The Office,titled The Ultima-tum,will air Jan.6.

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