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The Stanford DailyA n I n d e p e n d e n t P u b l i c a t i o n

THURSDAY Volume 242A

July 12, 2012 Issue 2SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION

Opinions 5Was the International Olympic Committee justified in

defining competition gender by hormones?

Sports 6Remembering the life and career of formerStanford basketball forward Peter Sauer

Intermission 12Singer Frank Ocean talks heartbreak, history andhealing in his debut album channel ORANGE

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By EDITH PRECIADOCONTRIBUTING WRITER

From developing open platforms for educationalstart-ups to helping empower at-risk youth in Red-wood City, several Stanford students working atStanford or in the Bay Area this summer are foster-ing close mentorships as part of their summer work.

Joseph Abbott 14, a computer science major cur-rently living in Crothers, hopes to hone in on his inter-ests in computer science and education through an in-ternship with Root-1, an educational start-up basedin Mountain View. He complements this internshipwith tutoring on the side.

Just one year since its founding, Root-1 has tested

new platforms for education with charter schoolsaround the Bay Area. The start-up focuses on mid-dle- and high school-level content and creates appli-cations with an open platform for teachers to addoriginal or available content to games. Subjects rangefrom vocabulary and sentence structure to mathe-matics.

One of the most definitive aspects of Abbotts ex-perience this summer is his close work with severalex-Google engineers in his company.

We found out that every engineer had one internmatched up, Abbott said, adding that because ofthis, his learning experience so far has much more en-riching and demanding than previous summer jobs.

Last summer, Abbott tutored in his hometown inTexas.My appointed engineer and I actually have a lot

in common, and I think thats why we were pairedup, he said. He is extremely thorough and paysgreat attention to detail. That is something I really ap-preciate as a novice in programming who is just tryingto get a feel for how industry-quality code looks andworks.

For Patrick Lee 14, an intended chemistry major,his summer job performing research for the Depart-ment of Chemistry is his first real job. Lee received aBing Grant to work in Professor Chaitan Khoslaschemistry lab doing research on inhibitors of bacteria

with a Type III secretion system, such as salmonella,yersinia and chlamydia. Lee says the project is vital

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NEWSSTUDENT LIFE

Students frustrated bylines at Arrillaga dining

By RACHEL BEYDADAILY INTERN

Its 6 p.m. on a Thursday.High school students in suitssurround the doors of the Ar-rillaga Family Dining Com-

mons business conferenceattendees.Inside the building, the

stairs are crammed with stu-dents dodging dozens of sum-mer campers traveling up anddown. The line extends downthe stairs, but today is not asbad as when it extends outsideor wraps around to EscondidoRoad. As I move farther upthe line, a whiteboard with acolorfully written schedule onit becomes visible: Eight sum-

mer programs are scheduledto dine at Arrillaga between 5p.m. and 6:15 p.m.

With most dining halls re-served for summer confer-ences or closed for renova-tions, Arrillaga is the only din-ing hall open to students, fac-ulty and staff this summer.With The Axe and Palmclosed, Olives staying open forshorter hours and LagunitaDining only serving studentsliving in certain residences,

students are left with limitedsummer dining options.

Once through the crowd, Iswipe through, only to be metwith many shorter lines tobrave. In the background of aloud sea of voices, I hear dish-

es fall to the floor. Lines formup behind the silverware, thedrink machine and the frozenyogurt, and even French friesrequire a wait.

After finally getting myfood, I meet the next obstacle:seating. High school studentsfill the tables, with the occa-sional Stanford student scat-tered about. A girl passes me,complaining to her friend thatthere is nowhere to sit. I lookaround and see shes right. I

check outside on the balcony,with no luck. I take a peek atthe other side of the dininghall. Also full. Finally, some-one gets up to leave, and I takehis spot.

Its super crowded andthey run out of food quickly,said Jessica Waldman 15. Imspending my whole paycheckon this meal plan, but the placeis being taken over by high

UNIVERSITY

The humble beginnings of a sandwich superstarBy DAVID ENGDAILY INTERN

Ike Shehadeh had reached his break-ing point.

The 29-year-old San Francisco nativehad dropped out of college to start a super-

market business, only to see it fall apart afew years later. He was sleeping anywherehe could, including in vans and on friendscouches pretty much anywhere he

could find shelter. For months, he evencalled an abandoned warehouse withoutelectricity his home.

I felt terrible, Shehadeh said, reflect-ing on the experience. I needed to get outof there. I wanted to make sure that I wasgoing to at least try my business.

So on Halloween in 2007, just threemonths after he was bagging groceries at alocal Trader Joes grocery store, Shehadehopened up shop in San Franciscos Castro

neighborhood a modest 400-square-foot hole-in-the-wall sandwich eatery. Hecalled it Ikes Place.

That first night, Shehadeh didnt sell asingle sandwich.

It was one of the worst days of mylife, he said.

Nearly five years later, customers whogorge themselves on one of the 20,000

Students use their summer breaks to

find and become teachers to others

STUDENT LIFE

Learning howto be a mentor

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Long lines of high school students attending summercamps coupled with Stanford students living on campusthis quarter crowd Arrillaga Family Dining Commons.

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By AMRUTHA DORAIDAILY INTERN

Although the July 3 announcement regard-

ing the discovery of the Higgs boson particlewas made in Geneva, Switzerland, physicists atthe SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory inMenlo Park were anything but distanced fromthe discovery.

Some Stanford researchers were there inGeneva. Ten Stanford-affiliated physicistswere on location working for CERN at the Eu-ropean Laboratory for Particle Physics, somewere in attendance at the International Confer-ence of High Energy Physics in Melbourne,Australia, and some 25 theorists and six experi-mentalists waited until midnight to watch theannouncement from SLAC itself.

The announcement revealed the findings oftwo independent research projects based at theLarge Hadron Collider in Geneva CompactMuon Solenoid (CMS) and ATLAS whichconfirmed the existence of a particle that fit theprofile constructed for the Higgs boson afteryears of speculation. Several SLAC physicistsplayed a role in the ATLAS project.

We saw the . . . reconstructed mass fromthe two experiments was roughly the same, 125to 126 gigaelectron volts, said SLAC experi-mental physicist Tim Barklow. They both sawroughly the same signal and the same decaymodes and roughly the same mass. And they

both achieved that independently, so it was justabsolute confirmation that a new particle hadbeen seen.

The important discovery of the particle re-

sulted in an outpouring of praise and awe fromscientists across the globe. The Higgs bosonwould explain the origin of mass through the es-tablishment of a Higgs field, a ubiquitous quan-tum field responsibly for giving elementary par-ticles their mass.

Whats important is this thing called theHiggs field . . . and thats what makes thingshave mass, thats what makes things evenexist, said Andy Freeberg, director of mediarelations for SLAC. So finding this Higgsboson, this particle, is sort of evidence for thefact that the Higgs field exists.

Freeberg compares the Higgs field to a mag-

netic field. While in a magnetic field, objects areacted upon based on their mass, and a Higgsfield would in and of itself determine this mass.The mass would be decided based on the extentto which the Higgs field interacts with differenttypes of particles.

The Higgs boson confirms what has been acrucial part of our understanding of subatomicparticles for several decades, Barklow said.[It] has been theorized to give mass to all thefundamental particles in nature. And . . . theparticle associated with this Higgs field has nowbeen discovered after decades of searching.

On top of the 40-odd SLAC physicists who-

played a direct role in the ATLAS project, re-search conducted at SLAC in the 1990s alsopaved the way for the discovery of the particle.Although SLACs particle collider is no longerin use, it facilitated research on the Z boson, an-other elementary particle. The understanding ofthe Z boson helped determined where to lookfor the Higgs boson, according to Freeburg.

Despite this landmark discovery in physics,

however, both Barklow and Freeberg say thatthere is still much more ground to cover. Thecomplexities of the Higgs boson and Higgs fieldstill need to be mapped out. Their hope is thatpinning down these specifics will allow theworld of physics to apply this knowledge toother pressing questions, such as the existenceof supersymmetry.

This really key model, the standard modelof physics, works, Freeburg said, and all ofthe major pieces are potentially now in place.

Contact Amrutha Dorai at amrutha.dorai@gmail.com.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

ASSU Executive plans to shrink cabinet, give less in stipendsBy SAMANTHA GILBERT

DAILY INTERN

The 2012-2013 ASSU Executive cabinetwill be significantly smaller and cost lessmoney, according to incoming ASSU Presi-dent Robbie Zimbroff 12.

This years cabinet is going to be much

leaner than last years, Zimbroff said in anemail to The Daily. The target number isaround three or four people. Thats a signif-icant cut from the 19 appointed by 2011-2012ASSU Executive Michael Cruz 12 and Stew-art Macgregor-Dennis 13.

[The change] also coincides with a shiftin philosophy, he said. The main impetusfor change is . . . common sense, just doingwhat will work . . . instead of having a Chairof Food or a Chair of Social Entrepreneur-ship.

Noting the need for greater diversity,Zimbroff and his vice president, William

Wagstaff 12, have not designated specificcabinet roles on the application. We arelooking for people that come from diverse

academic and co-curricular backgrounds,Zimbroff said.

Our cabinet members will have experi-ence interacting with administrators and theresourcefulness to handle student issues inseveral different areas, Wagstaff said. Oneof the best things cabinet members can do ishave a sense of the bigger picture, how all

the moving parts of student life fit together.Along with fewer cabinet members,

salaries are expected to change as well.$7,000 was set aside for the executive cabinetfrom the past fiscal years budget, and Zim-broff believes the full amount will not beused this year because of the changes.

How much of [the budget] we actuallyuse to pay our cabinet depends on the [exact]number of people we end up hiring, he said.The money unused for . . . stipends will beallocated back to student activities duringthe year.

Generally, the cabinet members will be

paid more, because there are fewer of them,he added.

A third change that will occur is the sepa-

ration of the Community Action Board(CAB) from the ASSU Executive. Accord-ing to Wagstaff, the CAB will now functionas an ASSU-chartered organization underthe advisement of Tommy Lee Woon, asso-ciate dean of educational resources.

The idea behind this change was to makethe CAB a stable body at Stanford, indepen-

dent of the changing priorities of the ASSUExecutive, and to increase the institutionalknowledge with support from administra-tors, Wagstaff said.

With the changes to the CAB, decreasingsalary payout across the cabinet and a de-crease in the number of people involved,Zimbroff and Wagstaff hope to stress team-work and create a streamlined, balanced Ex-ecutive.

The goal is to create a tight-knit team,Zimbroff said. Strong teams work well bal-ancing individual and group efforts, andthats what were shooting for here.

Contact Samantha Gilbert at samanthag.nbtb12@gmail.com.

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mouth-watering sandwiches thatIkes Place sells every week may besurprised by the restaurants hum-

ble beginnings. Far more remark-able, however, is the journey of itsowner.

I remember a moment, aboutthree months before I opened upIkes, I thought about all of thethings that I thought about growingup about being something spe-cial, he said. I realized that maybenone of it was ever going to happen,maybe I wasnt going to be anything,maybe I wasnt meant to be any-thing.

Since hitting that emotional

rock bottom in July of 2007, She-hadeh has taken steps to rebuild hislife through his burgeoning busi-ness. Although he does not dwell onthose times much anymore, She-hadeh derives a sense of sustainedmotivation from his experiences.

Right now, I dont really lookback upon my past as a negative atall. I find it inspiring, he said. I findit humorous. I find it refreshing that I was able to be in all thoseplaces and still have the ability to notlet it keep me.

Having escaped from thoseplaces, Ike started his own Place,and revisited his childhood in theprocess.

When I was eight years old, I re-member I would always turn myleftover meals into sandwiches, hesaid. So when I was looking to getinto the food industry, I just wantedto open up a sandwich place.

And Shehadeh made sandwich-es. Lots of them.

The eclectic menu, which fea-tures hundreds of distinct offerings,indirectly resulted from Shehadehslack of spending money as a youngrestaurateur. When he first opened

Ikes Place, Shehadeh could only af-

ford to eat in at his own restau-rant.Eating three to five sandwiches

a day, I was definitely looking forsome more variety, so the menustarted expanding, he said.

Shehadeh claims to have eaten1,000 of his own sandwiches in 2008,including the #1 Elvis Kieth (halalchicken, teriyaki sauce, wasabimayo and Swiss cheese) sandwichfor 90 consecutive days.

An avid sports enthusiast, She-hadeh has also invented sandwiches

representing some of the San Fran-cisco Giants pitchers, such as theMatt Cain, which was namedESPNs greatest sports sandwich inthe country for 2011. This past year,he developed a sandwich in the like-ness of a San Francisco 49ers playerin exchange for NFC Championshiptickets.

It was a good trade . . . for bothof us, Shehadeh chuckled.

Apart from the variety present inthe menu, many other elements ofShehadehs life before fame have re-

vealed themselves in Ikes Place, in-cluding the one ingredient slatheredonto all of his sandwiches: his secretdirty sauce. The especially deli-

cious mayonnaise-based spread is

a variation of a sauce he invented byaccident while still the manager ofhis supermarket business.

A customer came in and theywanted me to make them garlicbread, but I didnt have the ingredi-ents to make garlic bread I didnthave garlic, he said. And so wemixed this sauce. It was a little bit ofevery single spice we had in thedeli.

When he is not managing one ofhis eight Ikes Place locations, She-hadeh enjoys studying neuro-lin-

guistic programming (a branch ofpsychotherapy), acupuncture, Chi-nese herbs and leadership. Wher-ever it is I perceive I have a weak-ness, I study that, he said.

With two new Bay Area store-fronts opened in the past two weeks,business is booming. But how farwill Shehadeh take it?

As long as theres a demand,theres going to be a next store; Imreally taking it location by location,he said. And if it stops today, Idstill feel blessed with a wonderful

life.

Contact David Eng at david_eng@pacbell.net.

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Ike Shehadeh, owner of the Ikes Place sandwich franchise, stands out-side his shop in the Huang Engineering Center at Stanford.

because natural inhibitors ofthese bacteria are slow, inefficientand difficult to isolate.

For Lee, mentorships havealso played a key role in shapinghis success to date in his fellow-ship. A postdoctoral mentor hasbeen overseeing Lees project,giving him tips on safety andteaching him relevant techniques,such as how to use nuclear mag-netic resonance spectroscopy.

I have a huge amount of re-spect for how he is able to attendto his own projects and help meout at the same time, Lee said,adding that he found the general

aura of excitement produced bythe older mentors in the lab moti-vating.

I really admire the enthusi-asm and dedication of the gradu-ate students and postdoctoral fel-lows in the lab, said Lee. Itstruly exciting to know youre inthe midst of cutting-edge re-search, and its inspiring to seesuch commitment from the labmembers day in and day out.

Michael Celentano 14 is a re-search assistant for Physics Pro-fessor Giorgio Gratta, doing re-search on radiation oncology. Ce-lentano is studying how tumormotions affect radiation.

Celentano says he is excitedabout his summer research thisyear, which is much more fast-paced than his physics research insummers past.

The potential to help cancerpatients is very exciting, Celen-tano said.

He added that the products heis working on might be imple-mented in treatments in StanfordHospital and Clinics.

For other Stanford students

doing work in the area, mentor-ship is part of the job descriptionitself.

Alemar Brito 15 plans to pur-sue a career in education. He findshis community service work-studyinternship with Sequoia HighSchool in Redwood City this sum-mer well suited to that end.

Among his several roles at Se-quoia, Brito teaches leadershipand English-language develop-ment classes for at-risk ninthgraders and English-languagelearner (ELL) students, respec-tively. He also works for a pro-gram that helps motivate trou-blesome students.

As one of his projects, Britoguides students in creating a doc-umentary to help empower themthrough self-expression. He alsoheads resume and interview

workshops for ELL students.[These students] have so

much to offer, Brito said.[They have] experiences thatmany people do not have, butthey feel that their lack of Eng-lish skills hinders them fromreaching their dreams. It is my

job to help them realize they cando it.

Britos family background hasencouraged his passion for ser-vice work and his affinity for fos-tering close mentorship positionswith underprivileged youth.

I come from a family wherehelping those who cannot helpthemselves is emphasized morethan anything else, Brito said.My experience so far has beenamazing. This is not my first timeteaching kids, but this is the firsttime I have [taught] material thatI find to be extremely crucial tothe students development andidentity creation.

These student mentees andmentors urge other Stanford stu-dents looking into research or in-ternship positions in the area totake advantage of opportunitiesby scoping out best-fit on-campusresearch opportunities and in-ternships. They also recommendfostering links with co-workers,who can often become close men-tors or mentees.

I would advise to be proac-tive and as dedicated as possible,Lee said. With these researchexperiences, you get out what youput in.

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schoolers.Despite Waldmans com-

plaints, all students living in cam-pus residences other than Mir-rielees are required to purchase a

Stanford meal plan, costing from$1,583 to $1,774 for the 10-weeksummer session. With Arrillaga asone of the few dining options oncampus, students are forced to putup with the crowded atmosphere.

I usually try to come around7:30 to avoid all of the kids, saidJon Riel M.S. 12.

Although several dining hallsare serving participants of sum-

mer conferences, Arrillaga ac-commodates an overwhelmingamount of the summer programattendees. Ten programs areoften scheduled to eat at Arrilla-ga in one 90-minute time window.As a result, there is little room forStanfords students, who havefew other places to eat.

It was not this crazy duringthe school year. Now it is frustrat-

ing just to try to eat, said AmyEngler 13.

Stanford Residential and Din-ing Enterprises declined to com-ment on the number of studentsor the crowds, instead saying re-sponses to questions would take7-10 days.

Contact Rachel Beyda at rachel-beyda@comcast.net.

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With the SummerOlympics set to beginJuly 27 in London, the

International Olympic Commit-tee (IOC) has ruled that womenwith hyperandrogenism a con-dition in which the body producesexcessively high levels of andro-

gens, male hormones with per-formance-enhancing effects may be declared ineligible forcompetition.

Prompted by several high-pro-file cases of gender ambiguity in in-ternational athletic competition among them the controversy sur-rounding South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya,the 2009 world champion at 800meters who was later found to haveunusually high levels of testos-terone and both male and female

organs the IOCs ruling hasfrustrated intersex activists whoadvocate for an identity-based,rather than biology-based, classi-fication of athletes. People whoidentify as women, such advo-cates have suggested, ought to beallowed to compete as women,regardless of their physical char-acteristics. As Barbara Kingwrote at npr.org, Excluding ath-letes who have trained and com-peted as women from theOlympics on the basis of naturally

occurring hormones in their bloodinappropriately reduces athleticability to hormone levels, and gen-der to biology.

This type of argument makessome excellent points. First, theIOC ruling held that androgenlevels falling into the malerange might render hyperandro-genic female athletes ineligible.Androgens, however, occur natu-rally in both males and females,and just as some women are tallerthan some men, some women

have higher androgen levels thansome men. It is therefore unclearprecisely why the term male

range should be used to describeandrogen levels, any more thanheights between 5-foot-8 and 6-foot-5 should be called the malerange.

Furthermore, the ruling ap-pears discriminatory on its face male athletes with abnormally

high but naturally occurring levelsof testosterone are not subject toexpulsion from the Games. Whyshould women with abnormallyhigh levels of androgens be subjectto regulations while men with sim-ilarly unusual levels are not?

But I ultimately disagree withthe idea that gender classificationsin competitive sport should bemade on the basis of self-definedidentity rather than biological in-dicators. Reasons unique to thenature of athletic competition dic-

tate that we decide otherwise.First and most simply, there is a

very important purpose for draw-ing lines yes, sometimes arbi-trary and sometimes apparentlyirrational between men andwomen in the arena of sports thatdo not exist in society at large.That purpose is ensuring thatwomen have a safe, productiveand fruitful arena in which to com-pete on an equal playing field, justas men do.

Completing the fight began

with Title IX. Without a distinc-tion between men and women onthe playing field in otherwords, in a world in which the onlydeciding factor was absolute per-formance there would not be asingle woman at the Olympics,and few in college or professionalsports, today.

If we accept the necessity ofdrawing some sort of line, it alsofollows that there will be somepeople hopefully as few as pos-sible who fall unfairly on the

wrong side of it, much as someteenagers are mature enough todrink at 17 and some 30-year-olds

are not, or some 15-year-olds are

intelligent and well-informedenough to vote and some 50-year-olds are not. Our goal shouldtherefore be minimizing the errorzone of a clearly necessary line,not eliminating it altogether.

Last, unlike matters of humanrights or political equality, athleticcompetition is a zero-sum game.Gains for one at least in termsof places, medals and points, theprimary indicators of Olympicsuccess are necessarily made atthe expense of another. If Athlete

A wins gold, Athlete B by defini-tion cannot. While allowing inter-sex or high-androgen individualsto, for example, participate fullyin society, to vote and to hold jobson the basis of their self-identityexpands the pie of rights and abil-ities available to all, allowing in-tersex individuals with abnormal-ly high levels of male hormones tocompete as women unfairly disad-vantages other women.

Ultimately, changes to IOCpolicy should certainly be made.

The science behind the logicneeds updating, more thoughtshould be given to defining a nor-mal male range and the IOCshould consider what to do withhyperandrogenic men.

But that is insufficient reasonto do away with the concept of aline between men and women insports a line that works to thebenefit of both women and theathletic world at large.

Miles wants to hear what you think

about gender lines at the Olympics.Email him your views at milesu1@stanford.edu.

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Olympics shouldnt erase gender lines

UNIVERSITY

Woods Institute fundsinterdisciplinary projects

By CYNTHIA MAO

DAILY INTERN

The Woods Institute for theEnvironment awarded $833,000in Environmental Venture Pro-

ject (EVP) grants on June 25,adding to the $7.2 million total ithas given to fund research pro-

jects since 2004. Grant s areawarded to projects that seek tosolve environmental and sustain-ability problems.

What we want are proposalsthat are high risk, transformative

and have the potential to pro-duce solutions to major environ-mental challenges, said EVPprogram manager Kelly Dayton.

This year, the faculty commit-tee received 26 letters of intentthat were narrowed down to 11before an executive committeeselected the final five projects toreceive funding.

Dayton said projects shouldalso show intellectual merit, in-novation and sizzle, the com-mittees indicator of how exciting

the research is and how it pushesthe boundaries of science.The name of the game is in-

terdisciplinary, said JamesJones, senior fellow at the WoodsInstitute and co-chair of the EVPfaculty committee. We have tohave proposals that have a realsense of interdisciplinary ap-proaches to environmental prob-lems. . . . One requirement of theprogram is that you have twoprincipal investigators from dif-ferent departments. Ideally, they

do really different things.According to Dayton, the

program brings diverse facul-ties together, particularly thosethat have not collaborated be-fore, and introduces new schol-arly communities to the WoodsInstitute.

Its really . . . to encouragethe cross-pollination of the disci-plines, Dayton said. Thats re-ally where new discoveries aremade; its not deep within a disci-pline, but at the intersection of

disciplines.Neil Malhotra, associate pro-

fessor at the Graduate School of

Business, was awarded a grant

along with Michael Tomz, associ-ate professor of political science,and Benoit Monin, professor ofpsychology. Their project on cor-porate responsibility seeks to de-termine whether environmentalpractices are profitable for cor-porations.

We want to look at . . . dif-ferent ways in which people in-teract with firms, Malhotra said.We want to see if corporate en-vironmentalism is profitable andthe conditions under which

theyre possible.According to Malhotra, therehas been an increasing amount ofpressure on corporations to helpthe environment in the past few

decades, but corporations dontknow what kind of impact envi-ronmental practices can have on

the behavior of consumers.These environmental ques-

tions are important things for so-ciety to solve, he said, and itlooks very unlikely that the gov-ernment is going to be the wayfor these problems to be solved.

Another project that receivedfunding from the EVP aims tospeed up the detection of bacte-ria in water.

One of the gaps in ensuringpublic health and safety is beingable to detect water quality very

quickly, said Sindy Tang, assis-

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Ideally, [the

projects] do

really different

things. JAMES JONES

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By KAREN FENGDAILY INTERN

Chris Derrick has had a goodrun. The 2012 graduate received adegree in economics with a focusin law and has become one of themost decorated distance runnersin Stanford history.

But it wasnt always that way.Until high school, Derrick playedbasketball and baseball but foundthat his lack of ability left him at adead end. Fearing that he would-nt participate in any activities inhigh school, his parents forcedhim to take part in a cross-countrysummer camp. One practice later,he knew he had found his sport.

He improved drasticallythroughout his high-school careerat Neuqua Valley High School inNaperville, Ill., to become the

2007 Gatorade National BoysCross-Country Runner of theYear, the 2008 Nike Cross Na-tionals individual and team cham-pion and the 2008 Illinois cross-country state champion. Derrickbroke the record for the highschool-only 5,000 meters with atime of 13:55.96.

Derrick solidified his place inStanford lore with records of13:19.58 in the indoor 5,000,7:46.81 in the indoor 3,000 and27:31.38 in the 10,000. Additional-

ly, he is a 14-time All-American incross-country and track and field,

a three-time NCAA runner-upand one of only six men to place inthe top 10 at the NCAA Cross-country Championship for fourconsecutive years.

At the beginning of his finalyear at Stanford, he consideredmaking the U.S. Olympic team asa possibility but never thoughtthat he would get as close as hedid. Derricks bid for a spot on theteam soon became an attainablereality, as he ran two Olympicqualifying A times early in theseason for the 5,000 and 10,000, atthe Millrose Games in Februaryand the Payton Jordan CardinalInvitational in May, respectively.His 10,000 time of 27:31.38 madehim a favorite to make the U.S.team, as it set an American colle-giate record and was the fastesttime run by an American going

into the Olympic trials this sea-son.Despite his early successes,

Derricks hectic schedule as agraduating senior, coupled with aheavy running regimen and footinjury late in the season, began towear on his performance. He fin-ished his collegiate career runningthe 10,000 at the NCAA OutdoorTrack and Field Championshipson June 6 at Drake Stadium inDes Moines, Iowa. He put up afight with leaders Cam Levins and

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STILL EXISTS

Devastation. If youre aCeltics or Suns fan, thatsprobably the best word to

describe what happened last week.As you watched your beloved stars

announce their decisions to jointeams that youve no doubt grownto hate with a violent passion, allyou could do was shake your headin disbelief.

Ray Allen to the Heat. SteveNash to the Lakers. Even if yourenot a Celtics or Suns fan, you stillmust have asked, How the helldid that happen?

So how the hell didit happen?In June, Nash wasnt even surethat he would be leaving Phoenix.But on Independence Day, three

days after Lakers general managerMitch Kupchak contacted Nash,the 38-year-old veteran pointguards move to the City of Angelswas finalized. A mere two dayslater, Allen agreed to a two-year,$6.3 million contract with theHeat, despite the fact that theCeltics offered twice as much.

The sudden nature of thesemoves made them all the morebaffling. Nash is joining a long-standing conference foe withwhich hes had a heated playoff

history. Likewise, Allen is signingwith a team that ended his NBAplayoff run the past two seasons.And I cant be the only one whothinks that Allen in a Heat jerseydoesnt even look right.

Im not saying that the playersshould bear the blame. Every ath-lete wants to win. In terms of per-sonal career moves, Allen andNash both made good, if not great,decisions.

Had Allen stayed with theCeltics, he wouldve most likely

had to battle with up-and-comer

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This years Bank of the WestClassic features the top two Amer-ican collegiate tennis players play-ing on their home court. Earlier thisseason, rising junior Nicole Gibbsand rising senior Mallory Burdetteestablished themselves as top con-

tenders in a historic Cardinal sweepof the NCAA Championships finalin May. Gibbs and Burdette wonthe doubles draw and placed aschampion and runner-up, respec-tively, in singles.

Both earned wild-card berthsfor the Classic. On Tuesday, Gibbsfaced qualifier NoppawanLertcheewakarn of Thailand (No.

162 in the world) at 11 a.m. Aftertrailing 2-0, Gibbs recovered totake the first set 6-4 and battledthrough consecutive ties to take thesecond set 6-4 for her first WomensTennis Association win.

That evening at 7 p.m., Burdettetook on No. 77 Anne Keothavongof Britain. She lost the first set 6-2but bounced back to battle out the

second and third set 7-5 and 6-4, re-spectively, for another Cardinalwin.

With their singles wins, bothqualified for the second round, withGibbs facing first-seeded SerenaWilliams (No. 4 in the world)Wednesday and Burdette facing

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Recently graduated Chris Derrick (above) is one of the fastest distancerunners in both Stanford and NCAA history as a 14-time All-American.

Going the distance

W. Tennis

Gibbs falls to Serena Williams; Burdette to face Marion Bartoli

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The cruel truth about sportsis that, unlike Hollywoodblockbusters, there are

rarely any fairy-tale endings.Hard work is often just that, withno deserved payoff, and the un-derdog is normally crushed bybigger and better opponents.

Now, before I get accused byfans of Roger Federer of bias andbitterness because yes, I amtalking about last Sundays Wim-bledon final here I want tomake this clear: Federer out-played Andy Murray and deserv-ingly won his record-equalingseventh Wimbledon title. Therewere no poor decisions or refer-eeing favoritism that led to theresult. Federer won fair andsquare, no complaints.

But Federers victory was nofairy-tale ending. A player who

spent a hefty chunk of his life asworld No. 1 regained his crownand etched his name once againin the history books. Yet a play-er who was the odds-on favoriteto win this match not in the foursets it finally took, but in justthree, cant be our Hollywoodhero.

Everyone has to start from thebeginning, so when Federer firstrose up the ATP rankings it musthave felt like a dream to him. But

those days are long gone. Arecord 17 Grand Slam titles and286 weeks spent as world No. 1later, many though not themodest Federer himself re-gard him as the greatest player ofall time. Federer is undoubtedly alegend, but he is also clearly Go-liath.

Murray, meanwhile, is theperennial underdog, David. Hehas finished the last four yearsranked No. 4 and been deniedtime and again in Grand Slamtournaments by the trio abovehim: Federer, Rafael Nadal andNovak Djokovic. Unfortunatelyfor Murray, both of the other twoRoger rivals have already doneenough to be counted among thebest of all time. Nadal has 11Grand Slam titles and has spent102 weeks at No. 1, and Djokovichas five and has held the top spotfor 53 weeks.

That being said, Federer isfive years older than Murray, sothe Scot can hope for a window ofopportunity when the great Swissplayer decides to hang up hisracket. As for the other two,Nadal is just a year older, andDjokovic is actually a weekyounger.

Should Murray ever walkaway with the top prize from anyof the worlds four Grand Slams,no one will be able to say didntearn it. To do so, he will almostcertainly have to find a way pastone or more of the Big Threealong the way. Not just in a regu-lar match, but probably also inthe final. The last 30 straightGrand Slam finals have featuredat least one of the trio, and Mur-rays four losses at that stagehave come against Djokovic andFederer.

A player who grew up in a tinyScottish town under the cloud ofan unspeakable tragedy (one ofthe United Kingdoms worst-ever gun crimes, in which 16 chil-dren and one adult were mur-dered, took place at his primaryschool while he attended class),Murray has been anything but afailure. He has won 22 singles ti-tles, beating the entire top threein the process, been ranked ashighly as No. 2 and become thefirst Brit to reach the final ofWimbledon since 1938.

Through him, Dunblane hasbecome known not for a torturedpast, but as the hometown ofprobably the greatest British ten-nis player of all time.

But Sundays final made itclear how fiercely his ambitionburns, and that his success todate is not enough. Willed on by60 million Brits, and especiallyby 8,000 old neighbors who seein his achievements a way to healthe wounds that still cut sodeeply, he was brought to tearsby the sheer emotion of it all. Hehas sometimes had a mixed rela-tionship with British fans, but hesurely won over those last heartsand minds with his passion andperformance in the final.

If Andy Murray wins a

Grand Slam title, and especial-ly if that title is Wimbledon, thespiritual home of tennis, maybe,

just maybe well finally have ourfairy-tale ending.

Tom Taylor loves fairy-tale endingsin sports almost as much as he lovesfairy-tale endings in cheesy Holly-wood blockbusters. Send him a listof cheesy movies with heartwarm-ing endings at tom.taylor@stan-ford.edu.

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Floreal heads to Universityof Kentucky

Edrick Floreal resigned as theStanford Franklin P. Johnson Di-rector of Track and Field this

past Monday to take over as thehead coach of the University ofKentucky mens and womenscross-country and track and fieldteams.

Floreal joined the Cardinalcoaching staff in 1998 as the assis-tant coach and became the headcoach in 2005. In his eight seasonsat the helm, he was named MPSFCoach of the Year five times, the2009 West Regional IndoorCoach of the Year and the 2006West Regional Outdoor Coach

of the Year.While Floreals coaching spe-cialty is the hurdles, sprints and

jumps, he has also been responsiblefor three Stanford womensNCAA cross-country running ti-tles. In addition, the mens cross-country team finished in the topfive for three out of the past fouryears.

Under his guidance, the mensand womens teams finished inthe top 10 at the NCAA champi-onships seven times for both the

outdoor and indoor seasons. Hehas also led 91 Cardinal All-Americans, who have amassed atotal of 197 national honors.

During this past season, hecoached senior Amaechi Mor-ton, who won the 400-meter hur-dles at both the NCAA and Pac-12 championships. Morton willbe representing Nigeria at the2012 Summer Olympics in Lon-don.

One of Floreals other most

accomplished athletes is EricaMcLain, a 2008 Stanford gradu-ate who won three NCAA titlesand was a member of the U.S.Olympic team in Beijing.

As a former athlete on theCanadian Olympic team, Florealcompeted in the triple jump andlong jump at the 1988 and 1992Summer Olympics, respectively.

Floreal is also a two-timeNCAA indoor champion andthree-time NCAA outdoorchampion in the triple jump, hav-ing competed at the University ofArkansas.

Schwarzmann hired as assistantcoach for womens lacrosse

Former San Diego Statewomens lacrosse assistant coachLauren Schwarzmann will be

joining the Stanford coachingstaff for the upcoming season,head coach Amy Bokker con-firmed last Friday.

Schwarzmann started hercoaching career at Cincinnati,where she served as both the offen-sive coordinator and director of re-cruiting for the womens team.

After three seasons with theBearcats, she took on the role of

assistant coach at San Diego Statein the teams first year of exis-tence. Schwarzmann helped theAztecs finish their inaugural sea-son with a 5-10 overall record anda 2-5 MPSF conference record.

Schwarzmann will be splittingresponsibilities with current assis-tant coach Brooke McKenzie,who has been part of Bokkersstaff for the past three seasons.

Stephen Sambu and stayed withthe front of the pack with one lap togo but was outkicked mentally andphysically, falling back as Levinsand Sambu finished in 28:07.14 and28:09.52, respectively. Derricksdisappointing third-place finishwith a time of 28:17.28 capped hisstreak of never winning an NCAAchampionship.

Following the race, Levins high-lighted Derricks success and apol-ogized in an interview with Flo-track.

Im sorry to Chris, Levinssaid. Its his last race; hes definite-ly the best collegiate to never winan NCAA title. Im sorry to havetaken that away from him. I knowhe wanted it so badly.

But Derricks loss didnt pre-vent him from trying to reach hisultimate goal. On the rainy eveningof June 22, Derrick surged back torun the 10,000-meter final at theOlympic track and field trials at

Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.I just wanted to do the type of

race that would get me an A stan-dard and go fast and hope that Iwould get in the top three, Derricksaid. But I didnt run too different-ly from normal. I just stayed withthe leaders as long as possible.

The race began according toplan: He moved from the back ofthe pack to fifth and planned tobattle it out with Matt Tegenkampas they ran 5,000 meters together.With 10 laps to go, however,Tegenkamp picked up the paceand made a bid for third, creating a

gap that Derrick struggled to fill, ashe finally came in fourth with atime of 27:40.23, behind GalenRupp (27:25.33), Tegenkamp(27:33.94) and Dathan Ritzenhein(27:36.09).

I felt like it was a pretty goodrace, given the chances at the endof a very long collegiate season,Derrick said. My body was prettyworn down and my foot was in-

jured, but it was a good effort. Itstill was a bit of a lost opportunity,but Im not too disappointed.

Despite not making theOlympic team and having an ag-

gravated foot injury that kept himout of the 5,000, Derrick remainsoptimistic. He is the main alternatefor the U.S. team if any of the topthree finishers are unable to com-pete at London, and he plans to goprofessional and get a sponsorshipfollowing this season. And the 21-year-old has not given up on theOlympics yet.

I plan to run and train andhopefully be around in anotherfour, eight years, Derrick said.

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REMEMBERING PETER SAUERStanfords fundamentally unselfish forward of the 90s led by example and set the tone for Cardinal basketballs golden era

By JOSEPH BEYDA

SUMMER MANAGING EDITOR

Two Arizona fans stood outsidethe McKale center, began anarticle in the Feb. 26, 1999 issue

of The Stanford Daily, smoking their ciga-rettes during halftime of last months Cardi-nal-Wildcat basketball game.

I just cant stand Stanford, one ex-claimed to a friend. And I cant stand PeterSauer. Sauers an asshole.

When asked how he came to his colorfulconclusion, a strange look a mix thatshowed he was both angered that such an

inquiry was made and confused at trying tofind the answer crossed his face.What do you mean? He just is! Look at

him!

Peter Sauer 99, 35, died on Sunday nightwhen he collapsed due to an enlarged heartand hit his head on a concrete basketballcourt, fracturing his skull. A former Bank ofAmerica executive with a wife and threekids, Sauer led squads that featured some ofStanfords best scorers of all time: BrevinKnight, Arthur Lee, Kris Weems and MarkMadsen.

Called quietly aggressive, smother-ing and a pest in that 1996 Daily article,Sauer managed to get under opposingcrowds skin with his apparently laid-backdemeanor and solid all-around play. Evenhis hair, straight off the head of Kramerfrom Seinfeld, was a source of annoy-ance.

The student body really liked himthough, because he was so scrappy, becausehe would get on other teams nerves, re-calls Jim Tankersley 00, a former mensbasketball columnist for The Daily and itsVolume 215 Editor In Chief. The Sixth-

Man Club loved guys who got on otherteams nerves, and absolutely, Sauer.

Sauer was never a top-three scorer, buthe was a key part of teams that made fourNCAA tournament appearances, reachedthe Final Four in 1998 and won the Cardi-nals first ever Pac-10 title its final season.

The way his friends described him as aperson, Tankersley said, was very similarto what his game was like: fundamentallyunselfish.

Both a small and power forward for theCardinal, Sauer started 96 times over hisfinal three seasons, including in each of his

last 95 collegiate games, captaining theteam in his junior and senior seasons.

He was the heart and soul of our pro-

gram in terms of leadership and mentoring other

players, said Madsen, a three-year teammate ofSauers, after his death. Pete was so well-loved.He was a leader among men and you know hecared about you.

Sauers career truly began at the end of hisfreshman year, during the 1996 NCAA tourna-ment. As Stanford lost a 79-74 heartbreakeragainst top-ranked Massachusetts, a clutch per-former was born.

Down by three points late in the game, Stan-ford needed a big perimeter shot to keep its sea-son alive. Things went Sauer.

Head coach Mike Montgomery knew that

his sharpshooter would not get a clean look,reads the April 1, 1996 edition of The Daily. Sothe play went to the second option, freshmanPeter Sauer fading back on the left wing to thethree-point line.

Wed been running that play a lot down thestretch for 10-15 footers, but we needed thethree, Sauer said. That made it a lot harder afade-away 20-footer.

Sauer got a clean look at the basket but shotoff-balance. The trajectory of the shot reflectedits hurried nature, as the ball ricocheted hard offthe glass and rim.

I remember thinking at the time, Wow, a

classmate of mine is taking this big shot real-ly? remembers Ed Guzman 99, a Stanfordfreshman that year who is now the Sports CopyChief at The Washington Post. He just kind ofshook it off and kept going.

Instead of crushing the young freshman,Sauers trial-by-fire reinforced a work ethic thatwould pay dividends several times over the nextthree years.

The veterans all acknowledged that I playedhard, and thats how we look at it in our pro-gram, Sauer said. If you play hard off the bench,youll get no words from the coach for not havingshots fall.

His days coming off the bench were short-lived, and the next time Stanfords postseasonfate rested on Sauer, he wouldnt miss.

Sauer quickly established himself as the 1997Cardinals starting power forward, and thesophomore was a quiet spark plug in Pac-10 play;a week after Stanford had been swept by in-staterivals Cal, USC and UCLA, Sauer helped keepthe Cardinal in the hunt for the conference titlewith a double-double against Oregon.

Still a perfect 10-0 at home but on the bubblefor the NCAA tournament, the Cardinal traileda favored Arizona team at halftime of a must-win

game. In a packed house of 7,391 at Maples Pavil-ReutersFormer Cardinal forward Peter Sauer, pictured here in a Jan. 16, 1999 game againstUCLA, captained the team for two seasons and was known for his clutch performances. Please see SAUER, page 11

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By BILLY GALLAGHEREDITOR-IN-CHIEF

With the first pick in the 2012 NFLDraft, the Indianapolis Colts se-lect Andrew Luck, quarter-

back, Stanford...Luck strides across the Radio City Music

Hall stage in a dark-blue suit and a tie with lilacand lavender stripes, his normally shaggy hairgroomed for the occasion. He bear hugs theleague commissioner and flashes a goofy smilefor the rows of cameras.

Back at Stanford, in the Rains apartment heshares with Luck, Griff Whalen is also beam-ing. Its early in the evening on Thursday, April26, and Whalen has a math midterm at 7. Hesits on a couch with Lucks girlfriend, anxious-ly reviewing his math notes while glancing atthe 36-inch TV in the corner of their livingroom.

Whalen has been roommates with Luckand David DeCastro, Stanfords All-Ameri-can guard who would also be drafted in the firstround, for the past three years. He doesnt wantto leave before DeCastro is selected, but 7 o-clock quickly approaches and he has a linear al-

gebra and vector calculus test to take.On this day, much more than their

wardrobes and the 3,000 miles between PaloAlto and Manhattan separate Whalen from hisbest friend.

For Luck, and even for DeCastro, the draftis both a coronation of a blue-chip college ca-reer and the road to riches. For Whalen, whohas been advised that hes a late-round pick atbest, it is a reminder that life after football couldcome sooner than hed prefer.

It was pretty awesome to see one of mybest friends up there, he recalls. It wasnt asurprise, but at the same time, I dont think thatdiminished it at all.

Two days later, Luck is back in their Rainsapartment. Hes eager to see where Whalenwill end up. The quarterback sits alone becausehis favorite receiver, the quiet senior from Syl-vania, Ohio, is holed up with family in a nearbyhotel room.

Back in the Palo Alto hotel room with hisfamily, Whalen watches as the draft passes andeventually realizes he will be an undrafted play-er. After switching positions twice before hisfreshman season began and fighting his way toboth a scholarship and a starting spot, Whalen

will have to again fight for a spot.Minutes after the draft ends, the Colts call to

offer him a chance to reunite with Luck andStanford tight end Coby Fleener. Other teamscall, but he has made up his mind.

We talked to each other every couplehours, just texting to see if hed heard any-thing, Luck says. I knew if he wasnt drafted,I definitely wanted him in Indianapolis, so Imglad it worked out...to have Griff sign withthem as well, that was special.

Under NFL rules, players still taking classescannot participate in the 10-day organizedteam activities (OTAs). For the Colts, thatmeans Luck, Whalen and Ohio wide receiverLaVon Brazill need to stay away.

For Whalen, it does not bode well that he ismissing one of the rare opportunities to makean impression on coaches. However, he has amajor advantage over the other wide receivers.While theyre playing catch with less-heraldedquarterbacks in Indianapolis, Whalen will beworking out with Luck at Stanford.

On an unusually windy Friday morning,three weeks after rookie minicamp, Whalenmeets up with Luck and cornerback Johnson

Bademosi, who recently signed with the Cleve-land Browns, on an empty practice field oncampus. Their classmates are busy in class, inthe library or sleeping in after Thursdays se-nior pub night.

They all don Stanford gear, except forLucks white Colts hat. Fleener and Luck playcatch and joke as they warm up. Whalenstretches and runs quick sprints nearby with ascowl-like focus.

Luck warms up more by throwing routes toWhalen and Bademosi. Several balls sail pastBademosi or miss him; on every throw the ballseems to drop into Whalens hands perfectly.Only one throw appears a bit off target.Whalen extends his right hand and pulls it ineasily.

Its like one and one, Bademosi says, talk-ing about Whalen and Lucks chemistry.

Aw, dont come too flat, Luck grimacesafter he and Whalen miss for the first time ofthe day. Weve gotta do that again.

They practice the route three more timesbefore moving on.

Fleener and Luck tower over Whalen as

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Avery Bradley and newly signedJason Terry for playing time, notto mention rumors of his deterio-

rating relationship with RajonRondo. For Nash, it was aboutputting himself in the best positionto win a championship while stay-ing close to his family. Both Allenand Nash wanted to add at leastone more championship to theiralready illustrious careers. Thetwo veterans followed the old say-ing to the letter: If you cant beatem, join em.

If you cant really blame theplayers, then that leaves theleague to be the scapegoat for al-

lowing these kinds of trades andsignings to happen in the firstplace. Add that to the already end-less list of things you hate aboutthe NBA.

But as it turns out, the NBAisnt only the professional sportsleague thats seen its fair share ofeye-popping trades and signings.In the NFL, we saw Brett Favregoing from the Packers to theVikings. In the MLB, it was John-ny Damon from the Red Sox tothe Yankees. In the NHL, it was

Eric Lindros from the Flyers to theRangers. In the eyes of devastatedfans, those players were sportstraitors. Well, they probably were.But the fact that these athleteswere even allowed to jump fromone rival team to another is a tes-tament to how some professionalleagues can be excruciating to fol-low.

And thats why college sports,for me at least, will always be infi-nitely better to watch and followthan professional sports.

In the pros, its never safe forfans to get too attached to anyplayer. At any given moment, thestar player on your favorite teamcould sign with or be traded to anarchrival. Only a few franchiseplayers are somewhat immune.Kobe Bryant would probablyrather pass the ball than beshipped to the Celtics. DerekJeter would probably rather re-tire than wear a Red Sox hat. TomBrady would probably rather loseboth Rob Gronkowski and WesWelker than play for Rex Ryan.But you cant say for sure thateven those transactions cant ever

happen. After all, most Packersfans believed that Favre wouldend his career on Lambeau Fieldafter being at Green Bay for 16seasons, but they got a slap in theface two years later when Favrereappeared in a purple uniform.

In college, theres no suchthing as quitting one team to join

a Big Three or any kind of dreamteam. When Andrew Luck cameback last season, he didnt trans-fer to Oklahoma State so that hewould have Justin Blackmon tothrow to. He came back to playwith his teammates and made thebest of what he had. And if theend result was losing to Okla-homa State in the Fiesta Bowl,then so be it. Its easy to take thatkind of loyalty in college athleticsfor granted, but that doesntmean its not there. Loyalty is

what defines college sports.Its true that many college ath-

letes will go pro before playingout their four years. But if they doelect to return, its with the sameteams. Transfers certainly hap-pen, but theyre nowhere near asprolific as the trades that occur inthe pros. Most college athleteswill never win a national champi-onship, but they still stick it out attheir schools. Theyd rather godown fighting with their team-mates than find a shortcut to win-

ning. As a fan, you have to respectthat.

And the appreciation that youdevelop for college athletes goesfar beyond their college careers.Im a Boston sports fan, whichmeans that Im never going to likethe Colts. But when AndrewLuck takes the field against thePats in November, Ill still rootfor him. As for Ray Allen, Ill al-ways respect him, but I certainlywont be cheering him on whenthe Celtics and the Heat meet

next year.Theres no loyalty in sports,

Nash told ESPN in an interviewexplaining how he came to signwith the Lakers. Nash could verywell make it to the NBA Finalswith Kobe next season, but thatwont mean what he said was cor-rect.

In professional sports, loyaltymight be non-existent. But in col-lege sports, loyalty is everything.

George Chen better not be ques-

tioning his loyalty to The StanfordDaily. Make sure he stays put atgchen15@stanford.edu.

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second-seeded Marion Bartoli (No.10 in the world) Thursday. Bothwere also selected to play in the dou-

bles draw against third-seeded teamNatalie Grandin and Vladimira Uh-lirova on Wednesday afternoon.

At 3:25 p.m., Gibbs and defend-ing champion Serena Williams,fresh off her fifth Wimbledon titlethis past Saturday, walked onto theTaube Family Tennis Stadium hard-courts to thunderous applause.Williams easily took a 4-0 lead in thefirst set with her signature powerfulserves and groundstrokes, butGibbs held on to take a game fromWilliams to move the set to 4-1 as

the crowd roared. Williams took thenext game, but then two straight er-rors by the favorite made it 5-2.There were cheers of Go Gibbsy!

as groups of Stanford fans were refu-eled by Gibbss potential comeback.One more back-and-forth gameclosed the first set 6-2 in favor ofWilliams.

In the second set, Williams tookfive straight games as Gibbs strug-gled against her power and startedmaking unforced errors near the

end of games. In a dramatic sixthgame served by Williams, Gibbstook the lead 40-15 and almost lost itas a frustrated and rejuvenatedWilliams took the advantage. Twounforced errors, however, gaveGibbs her first break of the match. Afinal Williams-dominated gameearned her a 6-1 victory. Both setstook 62 minutes.

At the post-game press confer-ence, Williams seemed impressed.

Its good to see promisingyoung American players coming

up, Williams said. Shes a fighter,and thats important.

Gibbs moved on after her loss tocompete in the doubles match with

Burdette at 5:40 p.m. on Court 6.The first set featured extremelyclose games, with the teams tied at 6-6. The tiebreaker, too, was tied at 3-3 until Grandin and Uhlirova madea break for it, leading 6-3 and even-tually winning it 7-5.

The second set featured an early2-0 lead by Burdette and Gibbs,

though they would eventually giveback ground as Grandin and Uhliro-va pulled up to tie the set at 3-3.Three straight games by Burdetteand Gibbs gave them the second set6-3, evening the match and sendingit to a decisive final set.

The third set was dominated byGrandin and Uhlirova, who won thedeciding set 10-6, defeating the Car-dinal duo 7-6(5), 3-6, 10-6.

Burdette will face the No. 2 seedof the tournament, Marion Bartoli,this afternoon in the singles draw at

the Taube Family Tennis Stadium.

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they circle up in a miniature huddle

to discuss a play.Luck takes a snap and drops

back. Whalen comes out of hisstance hard, breaks crisply andsprints past Bademosi, snagging theperfect ball out of the air.

Did you think I couldve gonelike one deeper or was that good?he says, panting as he jogs back.

No, I liked that, Luck re-sponds.

The three discuss Colts practices,which Fleener can attend, but Luckand Whalen are relegated to watch-

ing on tape.Whos done with school?

Fleener mocks, raising his hand andlooking at Luck and Whalen. Luckand Fleener joke between plays.Whalen barely speaks if it isnt abouta route or play.

That was perfect, Luck saysafter a throw to Fleener.

Thats what she said, Fleenerretorts.

Whalen and Luck had a whirl-wind end to their Stanford careers finishing finals on June 8, flying toIndianapolis for a week of mini-camp, flying back to Stanford for

commencement and then flyingright back to Indianapolis for moreminicamp.

Luck, DeCastro and Whalenleave behind three years of living to-gether, and four of competing andtaking classes. The casual observer

will notice that they leave Stanfordwith three straight bowl appear-ances, two BCS bowls and a #4 rank-ing in their senior season.

But they also leave behind a hostof memories not seen by the public:the football teams ultra-competitivesoccer games with the nationalchampion womens soccer team,swimming in the Luck familys near-by pool and cracking jokes in theCalifornia sunshine and eating casu-al dinners with fellow senior and progolfer Michelle Wie.

Lucks immediate future is clear-cut. Hell be trying to step into theshoes of one of the greatest quarter-backs of all time, Peyton Manning.Whalens future is much more tenu-ous. He moves to a new city fightingto earn a job. And if that doesntwork out, hell look for opportunitiesoutside of football.

Theres so many different thingsyou can do with product design,Whalen says. Stuff in the engineer-ing field is changing so quickly,things that were relevant four yearsago are no longer relevant at all.Whatever I might be doing mightnot even exist right now.

The Colts current roster stands at85 players and needs to be pareddown to 53 by the end of preseason,in late August. Most of the 15 un-drafted free agents will be cut.Whalen is one of 10 receivers on thelist; most teams only take six, maybe

seven into the season. He will have toimpress on special teams and out-work other rookies and journeymanreceivers to make the roster.

Luck isnt the type of person touse his clout to suggest Colts man-agement give Whalen a spot.Whalen isnt the kind to ask for ahelping hand.

A longer version of this story isavailable online at www.stanforddai-ly.com. Contact Billy Gallagher atwmg2014@stanford.edu.

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As a former player, Schwarz-mann was an all-league player atJohns Hopkins University for allfour years of her collegiate ca-reer. In her senior season in 2008,she was named one of the best

womens lacrosse players in thenation.

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ion, Tankersley, a freshman at thetime, took in the action from anoverflow student section behind

one of the baskets.That Arizona team was reallygood, he recalled of the No. 12Wildcats. They were better thanus. They were more athletic, theymade more shots, but Brevin hewas Brevin, and he got up for biggames.

I remember it being veryback-and-forth, and being like no sportingevent I had ever attended. I mean,

just the tension was enormous.Every possession, from about mid-way through the second half, it felt

like the game depended on it, whichis pretty amazing for a regular-sea-son game.

With Stanford down by twopoints in the final moments, it wastime for Sauers redemption.

Its not often that a college bas-ketball player gets a chance to playhero by making the last-minute shotin a big game, began The DailysMarch 7, 1997 recap. For Stanfordsophomore Peter Sauer, its alreadyhappened twice.

The last play, you could feel it,

everyone in the building expectedBrevin to take that shot every-one, Tankersley remembered.And he drove, and they collapsedon him . . . he did the exact rightthing for a point guard.

He found Sauer, and Sauer waswide freaking open. We knew, assoon as he caught the ball, not evenwhen he shot but as soon as hecaught it, that it was going in.

Last night, Sauer got a secondchance, the story continued, andthis time the 6-foot-7 forward deliv-

ered.Ive been thinking about that

ever since that happened, Sauer saidof his missed shot against UMasss.So its nice to get one in.

Sauers shot was merely the fin-ishing touch to one of the mostthrilling games in Maples Pavilionhistory.

I remember being on the courtbouncing up and down, Tankersleysaid, and feeling like I had never

jumped higher in my life, becauseeverybodys going and the floor wasreally, really springy. The playerswere just elated and bouncing

around, and it was the first time youreally thought, You know, theseguys could have a run in them.

The Cardinal made it to theSweet Sixteen that year behind twolate Sauer jumpers in a 72-66 winover Wake Forest, but its tourna-ment ended in overtime against

Utah.Probably the Sweet Sixteenwouldnt have happened withoutthat Sauer shot, Guzman said of theArizona game. That seems hyper-bolic, but I really believe that, be-cause that was a huge stepping stoneto what they would go on and be-come.

The Final Four run wouldnthave happened [either], he added.

But even the Final Four runwould have its roots in a disappoint-ing, second-place conference finish.

Sauer, ever in the background, wasone of the Cardinals most reliableoptions as a junior.

That year, Stanford was unex-pectedly riding a school-record 18-game winning streak without thegraduated Knight when Arizonarolled back into Maples Pavilion fora huge, top-10 tilt. Sauers 23 pointsagainst the Wildcats were a careerbest, but the undefeated Cardinal letthings slip away in the second halfand was embarrassed at home, 93-75.

Overshadowed by Lee and Mad-sen, Sauers performance wasnteven mentioned in The Dailys recapof that game until its second-to-lastparagraph. (Tankersley and Guz-man were the two sports editors thatnight.)

It almost feels like a relic of col-lege basketball right now, becauseyou dont think of a lot of teams thatare like this today, but what madethose teams work well was that theyhad some really well-defined roleplayers, Tankersley said. Sauer

was just there leading the team, giv-ing them energy, doing all the littlethings. Everybody had these greatroles and as a captain, he sort of wasthe orchestrator of a lot of thoseroles.

His absence from the limelightwas explored later that year in a fea-ture by Cardinal Today, a game-dayprogram published by The Daily.

If you remember him only as theman who sank the game-winningshot against Arizona last season,youve missed quite a bit, opened

the article.Junior forward Peter Sauers

contributions to Stanfords success[are] substantial, but his actual valueto the team may escape the notice ofthe average fan.

. . . Hes very vocal hes aleader, said junior guard ArthurLee. If he sees someone on the teamthat needs encouragement, hell goup to the guy and give him all the en-

couragement he needs.Guzman, The Dailys HeadSports Managing Editor at the time,happened to be rooming with seniorcenter Tim Young in Roble Hall thatyear.

Tim really kind of deferred toPete Sauer, Guzman said. [Sauerwould] always come to our room andwas checking in on Tim and seeinghow he was doing. To me, that spokevolumes about his leadership abili-ties, that even guys who were slightlyolder than him were willing to turn to

him and look to him to set that tonefor the team as a whole.

Sauers on-the-court intensitytranslated into his best collegiate sea-son, as he went on to average 9.2points and 4.6 rebounds per game asa junior. But despite the Cardinals15-3 finish in Pac-10 play, 17-1 Ari-zona grabbed the crown and extend-ed Stanfords conference-titledrought to 35 seasons.

Despite the Pac-10 disappoint-ment, the Cardinal still earned a

three-seed in the 1998 tournamentand was poised for one of the bestpostseason runs in school history.

Along the way [through theNCAA tournament], the March 11Cardinal Today story concluded,the Card can expect some closegames, and some wonder who willhave the ball if Stanford needs thebucket in crunch time.

I definitely feel comfortable inthat situation, Sauer said. Im will-ing and ready to take that shot.

Its not like he hasnt done it be-

fore.

Sauer only played for about a halfin each of the teams five tournamentgames. In St. Louis where Sauersdad Mark worked as an executivewith the Blues hockey organization he watched from the bench asStanford grabbed an emotional EliteEight win over Rhode Island thanksto a late-game slam dunk, and-one,by Madsen, clinching the Cardinalsonly Final Four berth since its 1942national title.

Sauer injured his knee the nextweek in practice, just four days be-

fore the looming semifinal againstKentucky, forcing him to join theteam in San Antonio late. After anMRI and a fitting for a brace, Sauerstill made the start.

Down four in overtime, Sauersunk a long three-pointer with 9.2seconds cut Stanfords deficit to one,86-85. The Cardinal was forced to

foul and the Wildcats Wayne Turn-er missed both shots.

Sauer grabbed the rebound, butwith just two seconds to work with hecould only launch a long heave at thebuzzer. It went wide right.

Just give us five more seconds,he said after the game. Thats all Iwas asking for.

He really kind of brought an airof optimism to the team and to theschool , Guzman said. Thepoint he was trying to make was, youknow, we more or less left it all on the

floor there, and yeah, it hurts, butwell be alright.

Ill always remember seeing thispicture in Stanford Magazine not toolong after the Final Four run, Guz-man recalled. Sauer had his armsaround Art Lee, I think, as theyrewalking off the floor after what to mewas just an agonizing one-pointovertime loss. But hes smiling. Andit was like, Wow, that just shows youthe difference between him andmost of the rest of us who are justfans.

Undeterred, the Cardinal set itssights back on the Pac-10 title for the1998-9 season, Sauers second as asmall forward.

Though he would reach doublefigures 14 times as a senior, Sauercontinued to embrace his standing asa role player on a team stacked withoffensive talent. On Jan. 12, TheDaily named Sauer one of its twoAthletes of the Week after a 71-62 win over Cal and not just be-cause of his 13 points in that game.

More importantly, the graphicread, his solid defense and all-around hustle kept the Cardinal inthe game when the starting guardsstruggled from the perimeter in thefirst half.

That was the role Sauer carvedout for himself, always hustling,playing for the team and not forhimself. Fundamentally un-selfish.

Following a series of victoriesthat year, the Cardinal faced thefearsome Wildcats at Maples Pavil-ion on Feb. 28, another chapter inthat heated rivalry. The Cardinal

was just a win away from clinchingits first outright conference champi-onship in 57 years.

It was probably the one time inmy life I scalped tickets, Guzmansaid. Coming off that Final Fouryear, tickets were impossible. It wasthehot ticket.

The thing that I remember for

that game was just how loud it gotfor all the pregame stuff, for all theovations, he added. They were

just drowning out the PA announc-er . . . My ears were ringing for quitea while after that game.

No. 6 Stanford grabbed a 20-point lead in the first half and neverlooked back, dominating its No. 7foes 98-83.

All four of the original mem-bers of the Stanford basketballClass of 1999 stood heroically on theMaples hardwood, reported The

Daily on March 1, and watched thescoreboard clock tick to zeroes forthe last time.

. . . Sauer was the first to jumpon top of the scorers table, an islandin the seas of humanity that spilledonto the floor.

Sauers Stanford career, like hislife, would come to an end far tooearly.

The second-seeded Cardinaleased by Alcorn State in the firstround of the tournament but was

upset by 10th-seeded Gonzaga,which never trailed after erasingStanfords early 1-0 lead.

Though the Cardinal climbedto within four points at the half on aphenomenal basket by Peter Saueras time expired, as the March 29recap in The Daily read, it was sim-ply not meant to be for Stanfordthat year.

Peter Sauer formed a huddle athalf court with Lee and Weems. Hedidnt want to let go just yet. Therewas time for one last memory al-

beit a painful one.I really cant believe this is all

over now, Sauer said in the lockerroom after the game. What makesthis all so fun is the relationshipswith these guys.

The good times on the roadtrips, the chemistry we had off thecourt and all the times we hung out. . . that is what I will always remem-ber. It seems impossible that I justtook that jersey off for the lasttime.

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Frank Ocean is 24 years

old. Its easy to forget this

given that he has written

for Beyonc, sung on Watch

The Throne and released the

most important and critically

acclaimed mixtape of 2011. The

youthful ambition of channel

ORANGE, however, gives him

away. Its bold, both musically

and thematically, and the enthu-

siasm with which Ocean throws

himself into each of his songs

sometimes in vain is a point-

ed reminder that this long-await-

ed album is a debut, albeit an

excellent one.

After the opening track,

Start, which contains a smat-

tering of the household and elec-

tronic noises that Ocean is

already known for, channel

presents a revamped Thinkin

Bout You. Whereas Oceans

stripped-down, Tumblr-released

demo echoed the conversational

sprezzaturaof the lyrics, the

album version, complete withmulti-tracked vocals and an

echoed drumbeat, sounds almost

over-thought.

After the bedroom slow jam

Sierra Leone, Ocean toys with

the idea of disillusionment on

Sweet Life, a Pharrell Williams

co-write that shows just what

upscale production can do.

Complete with The Neptunes-

style instrumentation, SweetLife is smart and crisp. Why

see the world / When youve got

the beach? Ocean asks as he

fleshes out the question of privi-

lege, setting the stage for Super

Rich Kids, a standout track fea-

turing Earl Sweatshirt of Odd

Future, the hip-hop collective of

which Ocean is also a member.

The combination of Oceans

silky vocals and Earls spot-on

matter-of-factness (Too many

bottles of this wine we cant pro-

nounce) captures the voices of

jaded Los Angeles youth.

Ocean gets ahead of himself

with Pilot Jones and Crack

Rock, the most overtly topical

songs on the album. Tired tropessuch as My brother get popped /

And dont no one hear the sound

are unnatural coming from

Ocean; his songwriting strength

lies in moments, not generalities.

Pyramids serves as the

centerpiece of the album.

Clocking in at 10 minutes,

Pyramids is an epic in three

parts, showcasing Oceans lyrical

talents as he tells the story ofCleopatra and her modern-day

counterpart, beautifully juxta-

posing images of opulence and

poverty.

The second half of the

album is much smoother: From

the summery Lost to the sen-

suous White, Ocean packs his

tracks with small yet exquisite

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There comes a point in every post-breakup rit-

ual when a girl gets angry, changes her hair

color and becomes vocal about vengeance.

During an era of Adele withdrawals, Marina and the

Diamonds second album, Electra Heart, and I

met at this particular intersection. Together, weve

survived botched pixie cuts, peroxide-blonde dye

jobs, the transition from student to unemploymentand a bevy of Mr. Not-So-Rights. The concept

album Electra Heart summons Marinas alter ego

a shadow sister called Electra Heart who has

chopped and screwed her long dark locks for a

Madonna-like hairstyle and sound. No longer the

quirky alterna-girl who asked, Why would you want

to be a Hollywood wife? in her 2010 single

Hollywood, the new Marina has assumed the cari-

cature of housewife, beauty queen, home-wrecker,

idle teen, but she does so as a sacrificial model to

the wreckage of male expectations.

In her opening track, Bubblegum Bitch,

Marina welcomes you to the life of Electra Heart in

true power-punk fashion, with an upbeat tempo and

diabetic-sweet lyrics like Candy vest, sweetie pie,

wanna be adored / Im the girl you die for. However,

her lemonade lyrics arent without bite, as she fol-

lows that stanza with lyrics on the reality of an

unhealthy love: I chew you up and I spit you out /

Cause thats what your love is all about.

The insatiable lead single Primadonna follows

with an orchestra of the disco-house beat and synth

that overpopulates radio today, but she revamps it

to create a more original, operatic sound la

Florence Welch. Essentially, this homage to high-

maintenance diva status doesnt make me want to

duct-tape my ears shut like Lana del Rey does with

her melancholy belting. For those unable to translate

my hyperboles, Primadonna is pretty great as far

as generic catchy singles go.

Radioactive has a similar synth and housevibe, but with a more powerful urgency to remove

pleasantries and approach darker sentiments with-

out the satirical guise. She confronts her ex-lovers

duplicity with an accusatory directness: In the night

your heart is full / And by the morning empty / Well

baby, Im the one who left you, youre not the one who

left me. If that isnt a scorned womans anthem,

then Alanis Morissette has always been lucky in love.

(Hint: she hasnt been.)

Both self-destructive and fiercely honest, Electra

Heart is a dialogue of the post-breakup rage and

man-sanity that has inspired testaments of talent

throughout music history (Joan Jett, the godmother of

punk, would not approve of this kind of blasphemy).

If this hyperbole seems overwrought with fan-girl

worship, Marina and the Diamonds Electra Heart

can at least be designated as a great soundtrack for ex-

boyfriend effigy burning, mixed martial arts training

and target practice. Save your internship money from

Katy Perrys watered-down electro-pop on the big

screen and download Electra Heart instead. heidi SIGUA

contact heidi :hsigua31@stanford.edu

Courtesy Marina and the Diamonds Press Photography

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surprises. Monks explores the

higher end of Oceans vocal reg-

ister, drawing inevitable Stevie

Wonder comparisons, while

Pink Matter pairs soulful con-templation with an excellent

guest verse from Andr 3000.

Where Crack Rock fails,

Bad Religion succeeds. Ocean

tackles the issues of religion and

self-discovery through the cre-

ation of a nuanced, sympatheticcharacter on a wonderfully bare

track. Bad Religion threatens

to erupt into spectacle several

times but holds back, exposing a

rare vulnerability in the vocals.

Frank Ocean is credited on

his album as a musician, vocalistand producer, but above all,

Ocean emerges from channel

ORANGE as a storyteller. His

name is absent from the album

cover, indicative of his approach

and dedication to his craft.

Channel ORANGEdeserves to be attended to with

the lyrics sheet in hand. And best

of all, Frank Ocean is only 24,

promising to be around for years

to come.

natasha AVERYcontact natasha:

navery@stanford.edu

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Stanford is the only school I ever

wanted to go to before I knew it

was hard to get in to, before I knew it

was even a good school. I just thought it

was cute. Like most things in life, I wasattracted to the packaging. Call me shallow

but it worked out, amirite?

I have this theory that unless youre in

a market, its really hard to gauge the prag-

matic dynamics within it. For me one of

these foreign markets is alcohol. You see, I

dont drink, and Ive realized only in

recent months I may never fully under-

stand the brand value of most alcoholic

beverages. I thought Smirnoff was good

but apparently its the Pontiac of vodka. I

was fooled by all the Mad Men integra-

tions. This isnt terribly sad, save for the

reality that when my friend Paco says Delta

Dude* is the Popov of fraternities, I have

to phone a friend or Google it to decipher

any meaning.

But markets dont exclusively refer to

products. Take, for example, the populari-

ty matrix of a grade above or below you in

school. You can try to use heuristics like

friend groups and attractiveness to deter-

mine the relationships and/or hierarchy,but it doesnt always work. In high school

that phenomenon helped out a kid in my

year named Tom, who, though awkward

and dweebish to most of my grade, was

empirically fit and so was desired by many

a younger lady and even the occasional lad.

And yet the most pressing example of

this phenomenon, the faulty advertising, is

what occurs when I try to understand

schools other than Stanford.

Because I never wanted to go any-where else, I never really considered what

it would be like to go there, the one excep-

tion being that when I pictured myself at

Yale, I was always wearing a constricting

blue V-neck with accent-white stripe and

giant Y, sometimes in reverse colors, seat-

ed Indian-style in a crowded college at the

feet of Ludacris and an anonymous white

male moderator while we all threw our

heads back in laughter and sipped tea from

fine china. This fantasy/expectation is the

direct result of a Yale tour group in which

the guide described a recent visit from

Luda to a tea party which he concluded

by saying, and I quote, Ludacris loves

Yale. This savory admissions nugget

would go on to be my mothers key

ammunition to try to convince me to go to

Yale. If nothing else, let that seemingly

tangential anecdote illustrate how easily

distorted are the workings of universitymarketing. Aha! Aristotelian I am!

Now, being away from Stanford and

in the thick of things at UCLAs unofficial

campus, Westwood, combined with the

fact that Im an Alabama native and know

only Alabama (good) and Auburn (evil),

Im confronted with the difficulty of

understanding anything about other uni-

versities. Not just the prestige, but actually

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In the past few years, Zac

Brown Band has been bestknown for its sad but touch-

ing acoustic singles that consistent-

ly achieve the top spot on the

Billboard country charts. However,

its latest album, Uncaged, con-

nects more with the bands roots:

relaxed and upbeat music that

brightens the soul.

Browns fifth album,

Uncaged, released on July 10

by Atlantic Records, HomeGrown and Bigger Picture,

reveals an almost tropical side of

the traditional western country

artist. While all the songs ooze

this relaxed mood, the one song

that fully exudes it is Island

Song. As the songs name

implies, the lyrics concentrate

mostly on relaxing at a beach

with music, drinks and dance. By

exaggerating the rs in rum andusing a ukulele in place of a gui-

tar, its easy to imagine relaxing

on a beach in a hammock while

a nearby band plays this light,

upbeat song.

Despite displaying this new

style, the band stays close to its

western roots with its lead single

The Wind. A fast, upbeat love

song, The Wind contrasts with

the bands past hit singles, whichfocused more on the tragedies of

life. It serves as a good example of

Zac Brown Bands ability to convey

any mood through song, whether

its depression or jubilation.

The one fault in this almost-

perfect country album is the

third song on the album,

Goodbye In Her Eyes. Not

only is it reminiscent of almost

every other country break-up

song, but the song also drags on

far too long to capture the short-

term interest of todays audience.

It repeats the line I saw goodbye

in her eyes enough to make

someone never want to hear

those words again.

However, in all, Zac Brown

Band has released yet another

solid record that is sure to put

many more No. 1 country sin-

gles under this bands belt.

margaret LIN

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