Gobaud introduces Drawmatchmaker program

By LAURA STAMPLER

Music engulfed a packed White Plaza yes-terday in a student-organized celebration ofEarth Day 2009. GreenFest, sponsored byStudents for a Sustainable Stanford (SSS), isa week’s worth of celebration and environ-mentally conscious events, its raison d’etrebeing yesterday’s festivities.

GreenFest coordinators Molly Oshun ‘11and Alex Luisi ‘12 made sure that no student,activist or otherwise, could walk around cam-pus without noticing the events.

White Plaza was lined with brightly deco-rated stands representing numerous studentorganizations, artwork, a produce stand,games, raffles and musical performances.

Crowds surrounded the Parking andTransportation Services (PT&S) stand,which had a display of stationary bikes con-nected to blenders.

“We’re peddle-powering smoothies with-out electricity,” said bike coordinatorAriadne Scott.“So, it’s a blender bike! JambaJuice donated all of the fruit and juice, so wecan get on and peddle-power smoothies onEarth Day.”

PT&S also had a “Love your bike” com-plimentary maintenance station to promotealternative modes of transportation and puton a raffle, the winner of which would be able

to name a Zip Car.Some students chose to come to the event

in costume, or even full-on body paint.“I really love Earth Day; I think it’s a fab-

ulous day, and I’m down for any excuse towear a costume,” said Jolie Glaser ‘08, whodyed herself for the occasion. “Last year, Istarted dying myself green and wearing cos-tumes to Earth Day, and it was so much funthat I had to do it again. I think that theturnout today is excellent and it’s also awe-some that just being green and walkingaround campus, people will say ‘Happy EarthDay’ to me, even away from this event. It’sreally fun.”

“You know, every day should be EarthDay,” said Matt Lucky ‘10.“It shouldn’t haveto be official to be celebrated. But I actuallyhave my class on sustainable energy rightafter this, so GreenFest is pretty appropriateright now.”

Earth Day has become the world’s largestsecular holiday and its history is closelylinked to the Stanford community. Stanford’sown Denis Hayes ‘69 coordinated the firstEarth Day on April 22, 1970 as a way toappreciate the Earth’s environment. Hayeskicked off the GreenFest 2009 festivities bygiving a speech on Meyer Lawn on April 14

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GSC discussesbudget

By DANIEL BUISTAFF WRITER

Last night, the Graduate StudentCouncil (GSC) discussed the newlyappointed members of the NominationsCommission (NomCom), budgetingissues and departmental responses to therecently announced Vaden HealthCenter fee.

The GSC began the meeting with theSenate report, where incoming ASSUPresident David Gobaud ‘08 M.S. ‘10announced the development of a Website called the ASSU Matchmaker.Created separately from StanfordResidential & Dining Enterprises, thesite is designed to help students with sim-ilar living preferences connect with oneanother for the upcoming Draw.

“It helps people who are entering thelottery find roommates with similarinterests, such as social level or noiselevel,” Gobaud said.

After entering their preferences, theprogram will run an algorithm that willrecommend the best matches to partici-pating students. Gobaud stressed thatthe results of the algorithm would simplybe recommendations for finding livingpartners.

“It’s up to you to initiate contact andto form a group if you want,” he finished.

The GSC was introduced to JonathanBakke Grad ‘11, the newly appointedchair of NomCom, a body that selectsstudents to take leadership positions inUniversity committees.

Delegates continued the meetingwith a discussion on budgeting issues forthe following year.

The recent decision by the Universityto dramatically slash funding for theGraduate Student Programming Board(GSPB) was met with a major con-tention from the GSC.

Funding for the GSPB provided bythe Graduate Life Office and the Office

13 Stanford facultymembers submit appeal

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Profs.criticizestimulus

By MOLLY SPAETH

In a paper submitted last week, 13Stanford experts on telecommunica-tions, auctions and competition policyjoined 58 other economists in urgingthe National TelecommunicationsInformation Agency (NTIA) and theRural Utilities Service (RUS) toaward broadband stimulus grants tothe lowest bidder,using auction mech-anisms to distribute grants.

The economists say that this willlead to greater efficiency in capitalallocation of the $7.2 billion in eco-nomic stimulus money slated for high-speed Internet development.

The paper, which has been signedby 71 different economists from vari-ous universities across the country,was submitted in response to thebroadband stimulus Notice of Inquiry(or NOI) that called on individuals orgroups to submit various proposals onthe most efficient means of distribut-ing grant money to improve telecom-munications and broadband servicefor underserved areas.

The proposal was based on the suc-cess that procurement auctions havehad in providing universal services tovarious sectors of the U.S. govern-ment, and in underserved areas ofcountries like Chile and India.

Last Friday, Gregory Rosston,deputy director of the StanfordInstitute for Economic PolicyResearch (SIEPR) and formerdeputy chief economist of the FederalCommunications Commission (FCC),met with leaders of the NationalEconomic Council, the FCC, NTIAand RUS to discuss the proposal.

“I had some people at this meetingwho were very interested and somewho were very skeptical, so whoknows what’s going to happen,”Rosston said. “The fact that NTIAcalled me back after the meeting is agood sign.”

A key goal of the proposal was tomake the grant selection process moretransparent and less politically moti-vated.

“It allows projects in different areasto compete against each other insteadof competing by having yourCongressman call my Congressman,”Rosston said.

However, there are some barriersto turning the proposal into action.The NTIA administrator nominee,Larry Strickling, has yet to be con-firmed by the Senate. Until he is con-firmed, it will be much harder to dis-tribute the $3.6 billion that has beenallocated to the NTIA for creatingbroadband infrastructure.

Furthermore, under the AmericanRecovery and Reinvestment Act,Congress has until Feb. 17, 2010 todeliver a national broadband plan.However, RUS has plans to distributea large chunk of its money bySeptember, and NTIA will be spend-ing its money in three phases: spring2009, fall 2009, and spring 2010.

For this reason, many worry thatthe stimulus money allocated forbroadband grants may be spent beforea national broadband plan even exists.However, the policymakers whoworked on the proposal recognizedthis problem and urged lawmakers toallocate at least a portion of the firstwave of broadband stimulus fundingand expand if the program were suc-cessful.

“We realize [the proposal] is sort ofpushing the envelope,” Rosston said.“If you don’t want to do this all atonce, then you should allocate at least

OBAMA: HAS CHANGE COME?By DAVID GILL

Last November, Sarahi Constantine ‘11spent the night before the electionhanding out flyers for the BarackObama campaign, making sure thatpeople knew where they could vote

and how to get there.Constantine was part of the Stanford chap-

ter of Students for Obama, an organization thatcaptured some of the excitement felt by manystudents around the country who joined theeffort to elect the Senator from Illinois tobecome the 44th President of the UnitedStates.

Almost 100 days after the inauguration,

Constantine now says that while she does notnecessarily agree with all of the new adminis-tration’s policies, she is very happy with theopenness that Obama introduced inWashington — in how he listens to people andmakes decisions.

“A variety of opinions brings the best solu-tions, and I just love it when I hear how hisadvisers argue over, say, economic policy,”Constantine said.“I know that Obama is listen-ing to everyone, something we have not seen inthe past eight years.”

According to a recent New York Times/CBSNews poll, Constantine’s optimism is shared bytwo-thirds of Americans who approve ofPresident Obama’s performance thus far.

Recently, though, there has also been grow-ing criticism aimed at the President, includingamong Obama supporters. Some have raisedquestions on whether, for example, the admin-istration is doing enough to address the eco-nomic meltdown, restore faith in the financialmarkets and deal with the situation in Iraq andAfghanistan.

With the Obama team facing the transitionfrom a campaign to a presidency, some havealso suggested that students who went all-outfor Obama last fall have now come down toearth and are, well, over him.

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Students gathered in White Plaza yesterday to celebrate Earth Day, with booths hosted by studentgroups such as Students for a Sustainable Stanford.

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Sophomore pitcher Ashley Chinn had nine strikeouts whileallowing only three walks and no hits in the Cardinal’s 3-0 vic-tory over San Jose State.

SPARTANSBLANKED

Sophomore AshleyChinn throws no-hitter

By CHRIS FITZGERALDDAILY SPORTS INTERN

No. 4 Stanford (37-6, 7-5 Pacific-10Conference) bounced back from a los-ing weekend in Arizona, blanking SanJose State (18-30, 5-10 Western AthleticConference) last night. The Cardinalrode on the shoulders of sophomoreAshley Chinn in the circle. Chinn no-hitthe Spartans and posted nine strikeoutsin the 3-0 win at Smith Family Stadium.

The Spartans entered the game win-less against Stanford since 2002.Coupled with the Card’s 20-1 homerecord entering play on Wednesday,Stanford was a paper champion beforeplay began. On the other hand,Stanford had lost four of its last sixgames, including two losses by run ruleat the Arizona schools.

Chinn praised her team’s ability tobounce back after a pair of losses lastweekend.

“The series was pretty ugly, wethought,” Chinn said. “It’s somethingwe don’t want to repeat. We came outand had a great practice on Monday.”

Chinn tossed seven completeinnings, facing 22 Spartan hitters. Shesurrendered just three walks and didnot allow a runner to move beyond sec-ond base.

Stanford scored all three runs in thesixth inning. Sophomore Melissa Koutzstarted the scoring surge with a walk,but freshman Maya Burns and class-mate Jenna Becerra followed with fly-outs in succession, creating an all-too-

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Marina Jenkins J.D. ‘10, who served as acoordinator for the Stanford for Obamachapter, may be one of those students.

“I’m very confident with Obama asPresident,” she said. “It’s hard to imaginehow anyone else in his position, having toface with what he’s facing, would have doneany different or better.”

At the same time, Jenkins also expressedconcerns about some of the White House’spolicies. For example, she fears that WallStreet may have too big of a say on how thegovernment approaches the economic crisisand that some of Obama’s advisers are try-ing to “put bandages over a broken finan-cial system instead of repairing it.”

Debashish Bakshi ‘10, who was also aStanford campus coordinator for Obama,said that while he is generally happy withthe President, he is also “not sure” about theplan to remove toxic assets from banks andwhy detainees in Afghanistan are treateddifferently from those in Guantanamo Bay.

So are students more realistic todayabout Obama than they were during thecampaign?

“It’s hard to shift from being defensiveof your candidate all the time to askingquestions and participating in an open dis-cussion,” Jenkins noted. “It took me awhile, but I am now in a position where Iam able to provide some, let’s call it ‘con-structive criticism.’”

Some who worked on the campaignreject the notion that expectations were toohigh to begin with.

“The campaign used very strong rhetoricabout change, but it was clear that Obamawould not be able to solve everything atonce,” Constantine said. “We have alwaysbeen realistic about that.”

Stephanie Parker ‘11, who was also withthe Stanford for Obama group, felt thatwhile it is true that Obama’s persona was akey attraction for many students, support-ers who have worked on policy researchand know where Obama stood are happywith what he has already accomplished.

“I hear people disappointed and evenangry,” she said. “I think those who areangry simply project onto Obama theirunrealistic expectations that all problems

will be solved within a few months. Or,maybe they are just looking for a reason tobe mad no matter what.”

Bakshi echoed this sentiment.“People were fairly realistic during the

campaign, and for those who cared aboutprogressive issues like putting a lot ofmoney into health care, schools and renew-able energy, I think Obama has met theirexpectations,” Bakshi said.

Law Prof. Bill Gould, who was on thecampaign’s team of advisers, said he feelsinspired by Obama’s taking on so manyissues at the same time, although he worriesthat he may not be politically able to fightall of these battles at once.

Gould added that while he is also trou-bled with the approach that TreasurySecretary Timothy Geithner and EconomicAdviser Larry Summers are taking with theeconomic crisis, he finds that Obama has“moved effectively to listen to what otherpeople are saying as well, and to publicreaction.”

This overall high satisfaction withObama’s first few months in office can alsobe explained by the “grace period” theyoung President is still enjoying. Or, asJenkins suggested, Obama’s backers atStanford may simply need more time toadjust to their candidate now making deci-sions that call for deeper scrutiny.

But with the election vibe fading andfinals approaching, some students whoworked day in and day out for the cam-paign have moved on. Or have they?

Gould said he would not be surprised iffervent Obama supporters do not show thesame enthusiasm next time, assuming hecontinues acting the way he has so far. Atthe grassroots level, however, not everyoneagrees. Parker sensed that many studentshave indeed moved on with their lives.

“An effort to redeploy them now wouldprobably be much more difficult,” shesmiled.

In the meantime, those who worked forthe campaign are planning their nextmoves. Constantine, for instance, is hopingfor a future career in Washington. Bakshi iscurrently exploring new opportunities forpolitical activism, eyeing San Francisco

Mayor Gavin Newsom’s campaign forCalifornia governor. And Parker is “repri-oritizing school,” but said she will probablyalso be involved with the upcoming race forCalifornia governor.

At the same time, some are trying to get

a grasp of where the political wind blows bylooking at something as simple asUniversity dorms.

“Stanford was one of the most Pro-Obama campuses during the election,”Bakshi observed. “I think that has not real-

ly changed. Hey, when I go around campusthese days, I still see a lot of Obama posterson the windows and walls!”

Contact David Gill at david.gill78@gmail.com.

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Debashish Bakshi ‘10, Sarahi Constantine ‘11 and Marina Jenkins J.D. ‘10 were ardently pro-Obama in the fall. Now, like millions of oth-ers across America, they are evaluating Obama on the policy he has brought forward, not his campaign promises and persona.

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Jason Law ‘10

“When I was a ProFro, I wasawoken in the middle of the nightwhen my RoHo’s roommate, whohad been pledging Sigma Chi,stumbled into the room. He wascompletely wasted, wore only tat-tered boxers, and was covered inketchup. That’s when I decidednot to rush a fraternity.”

Xavi Gaeta ‘09

“The ProFro in the room next to mecame early, so my whole hall gangedup on her. We stalked her onMySpace and set our desktop backgrounds as picturesof her and her boyfriend. The look of horror on her facewhen she came into our room was unforgettable.”

Avantika Agarwal ‘12

“When my friend was a ProFro, he got taken onto aboat on Lake Lag with a bunch of drunk grad stu-dents, who thought it was would be incredibly funnyto capsize the boat in order to allow the ProFros thedelight of enjoying a swim in the not-so-beautifullake. Stay away from sketchy, drunk grads!”

Brett Ostrander ‘11

“When I was a RoHo I was looking around myroom for my misplaced ID card when my ProFrocame strolling in with a ‘Strawberry Fields’smoothie from Late Nite. He placed my card on thedesk and then coldly said ‘thanks...’”

Stephanie Vezich ‘10

“When I was a RoHo, I walked in on my ProFrohooking up with some guy in my roommate’s bed.Pretty traumatizing for all involved parties.”

Jeri Canlas ‘11

“I got locked out because [the RoHos] were drinking

in the inner room. They left a bot-tle of Smirnoff on my sleepingbag. I slept in the lounge withfriends I met that weekend.”

Jonathan Scrafford ‘09

“When my little sister was aProFro, she got sexiled by herRoHo. She left the room to take ashower and came back to a lockeddoor. She was told to ‘wait aminute,’ after which she waitedhalf an hour for the room host tolet her in, when she noticed themale guest who had kept her

RoHo occupied. Her RoHo made it sufficiently obvi-ous that they wanted to be left alone together, so mysister packed up her stuff and spent the night withmy mom at an off-campus hotel. Naturally, my sisterdecided not to come to Stanford. Don’t let this hap-pen to a ProFro ever again.”

James Barton ‘09

“My advice to a ProFro is ask for directions beforeyou go anywhere. I was placed in a bad, low-ener-gy dorm on west campus, and I wanted to eatbreakfast at Wilbur with some friends. I got stuckbehind the Encina Modules for 30 minutes, and myVerizon phone was dead — curse you, Stanford-AT&T conglomeration! Still, don’t judge whatdorm life is going to be like at Stanford by whereyou’re placed for Admit Weekend.”

Cynthia He ‘10

“I never met my RoHo. We must have missed eachother at the meet-and-greet. And she never cameback. Apparently she got ‘sick’ and stayed at herboyfriend’s.”

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a portion of the money and try thissystem and see what is the price perhousehold.”

Although the proposal wasn’t offi-cially submitted until April 13, the ideaof using procurement auctions to dis-tribute stimulus money had been cir-culated throughout the group of poli-

cymakers before the stimulus bill hadeven existed, back when Rosston wasworking on Obama’s transition team.Once the stimulus bill was passed,brainstorming began and 13 Stanfordeconomists got on board. Afterwards,they sent their proposal out to othernotable names in economics.

“We thought this was a prettyimportant thing with so much moneyat stake,” Rosston said. “We got a listof names of people who were intelecommunications — around 120people. A few made comments and

had some questions on things, but wedidn’t end up changing it very muchand got people to sign on.”

Not every economist whoendorsed the procurement auctionproposal endorsed the stimulus pack-age, however. In fact, many disagreedon the overall effectiveness of thestimulus package and broadbandinfrastructure development on creat-ing jobs and spurring the economy.

“I was originally hesitant to jointhis team partly because I’m againstthe stimulus package,” said AndrzejSkrzypacz, associate professor of eco-nomics at the GSB. “I was thinkingthat if I’m writing something aboutspending the stimulus money, maybethat will be interpreted that I’m one ofthe guys who is saying that we shouldbe spending the money. But that’s notwhat we’re writing about.We’re sayingthat given that we’re going to spendmoney, let’s at least minimize waste.”

Economics Prof. Paul Milgrom,one of the signatories of the paper,dis-agreed with Skrzypacz’s sentiment.

“I think that for us to have a coun-try that’s unified, it is really importantthat communication access be widelyavailable,” Milgrom said. “I think wedo need a stimulus package at thispoint, and I think the best use of thestimulus money is to spur investment,and I think this is a relatively goodone.”

Now that the paper has been sub-mitted for review, the 71 economistswho signed on can only wait to seewhether the NTIA and RUS adopttheir new auction approach.

“The government will have to givethe proposal a careful hearing,”Milgrom said.“It’s always the case thatbureaucrats think that they recognizethe flaws in new ways and they are lesscognizant of the flaws in the old ways.We will advocate and try to convince

people that there really are flaws inthe old approach.”

If the NTIA and RUS do decide touse procurement auctions and theapproach is successful, Skrzypacz pre-dicted that the entire process of allo-cating subsidies in areas outside thetelecommunications industry could berevolutionized.

“I think there is a huge opportuni-

ty to change, in general, how policiesare made,” Skrzypacz said. “This willbe like a pilot program. We can try touse the auctions, and if it is successful,I think it will make it much easier forpolicymakers to see auctions as arobust way to allocate subsidies.”

Contact Molly Spaeth at mspaeth@stanford.edu.

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recycling awardBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Stanford University was awardedthe 2009 American Forest & PaperAssociation (AF&PA) award todayduring an Earth Day fair on campus.Stanford recovered nearly 3,000 tonsof paper for recycling and avoidedmore than $130,000 in landfill fees in2008, and its success in recyclingefforts can largely be credited toonline outreach, promotional mate-rials, staff presentations and person-al contacts within the Stanford com-munity.

The AF&PA awards annuallyrecognize a business, community,school and college or university foroutstanding dedication to paperrecycling efforts. The AF&PArecently announced that similarrecycling programs across the coun-try have recovered 57.4 percent of allpaper consumed in the U.S. for recy-cling in 2008.

11 Stanford facultyinducted into AAASBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Eleven Stanford faculty membersand one University consulting pro-fessor have been elected into theAmerican Academy of Arts andSciences, one of the country’s oldesthonorary learned societies.

The newly elected fellows from

Stanford are:— Hongjie Dai, the J.G. Jacksonand C.J. Wood professor in chem-istry— Deborah Hensler, the Judge JohnW. Ford professor in dispute and res-olution and associate dean for grad-uate studies at the Law School— Matthew Jackson, the William D.Eberle professor in economics— Aharon Kapitulnik, professor ofphysics and applied physics— Mark Krasnow, professor and

chair of the Department ofBiochemistry— Alexander Krosnick, the

Frederic O. Glover professor inhumanities and social sciences— W. James Nelson, the Rudy J. andDaphne Donohue Munzer professorand professor of molecular and cel-lular physiology— Norman Nie, research professorof political science— Stuart S. P. Parkin, consulting

professor of applied physics anddirector of the IBM-StanfordSpintronic Science and ApplicationsCenter — Deborah Rhode, the Ernest W.McFarland professor of law— Jennifer Widom, the Fletcher

Jones professor of computer scienceand professor of electrical engineer-ing— Tobias Wolff , the Ward W. andPriscilla B. Woods professor and fac-ulty member in the Department ofEnglish

The Class of 2009 had a total of212 new fellows and 19 foreign hon-orary members. With the election ofthis year’s class, the number of livingAcademy fellows among theStanford community is 254.

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about his role in Earth Day’s con-ception and how current studentscan get involved in the sustainabilityeffort.

Other events around campusincluded activist seminars, a CleanTech Exhibition, a speech by famedsocial and environmental socialadvocate Majora Carter on“Greening the Ghetto” andStanford’s first-ever SustainableFashion Show (SFS), which tookplace last night.

“Essentially, our mission of theshow is to take eco-friendliness toanother level and really apply sus-tainability to some new field andmake it a much more widespreadand popular thing, especiallyamongst the students at Stanford,”said SFS Head CoordinatorDarienne Truner ‘11. “We haveupwards of 20 designers that areshowcased in our fashion show, andeach one keeps our remains sustain-able, either through using sustain-able textiles like organic cotton,hemp, bamboo, or they reinvent vin-tage clothes, or they actually maketheir clothes out of recyclable items,

such as newspaper. It was a reallyinteresting and diverse show withlots of different artistic perspec-tives.”

Students involved in the sustain-ability movement on campus viewedGreenFest and Earth Day as a suc-cess in uniting diverse environmen-tally conscious organizations.

“I think every activist group oncampus suffers from time to timefrom being so wrapped up in theirissue that they don’t give a thoughtto other issues,” said SSS co-President John Mulrow ‘09. “AndGreenfest is actually a counter tothat point, because over 20 studentgroups are out in White Plaza, repre-sented from all different back-grounds of activism: social, econom-ic, food, environmental activism —things like that are coming together.”

Even the events that were creat-ed around GreenFest spawned newstudent activist groups. The SFSinspired the Sustainable FashionCollective, which will be hosting theshow for years to come. The MajoraCarter talk not only combined theefforts of five student organizations,but also inspired the creation ofEnvironmental Justice, which will bestarting up this quarter.

Contact Laura Stampler at lastamp@stanford.edu.

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of the Provost was completelyremoved, making it difficult for theboard to maintain the vast majority ofthe activities that it plans for graduatestudents each year.

“I know, as an off-campus student,I’m just angry that this got cutbecause the Provost subsidized on-campus programming, but this wasthe only major off-campus program-

ming committee,” said, RyanPeacock, a third-year graduate stu-dent in chemical engineering.“I’d liketo see [the GSC] work for the longterm to see that this program be fund-ed.”

Delegates discussed a number ofother benefits of making sure that theGSPB stays afloat, noting the impor-tance of the events held by the boardin maintaining graduate student men-tal health. Members agreed that pro-viding additional funding to compen-sate for the board’s losses was a highpriority.

“One of the advantages to putting

GSC money into something like thisis that we wouldn’t have to abide byall of the rules that come with run-ning through the Provost,” addedFren Zhao, a fifth-year graduate stu-dent in applied physics. “We wouldhave more control over decisions forevents.”

The GSC proposed to move$5,000 to help the GSPB hold itsevents. Members also agreed to allot$4,000 to the Diversity AdvocacyCommittee for the following year.

The meeting ended with a discus-sion with representatives from dif-ferent graduate school departments

about the recently announcedVaden Health Center fee, which hasmet much discord from students andadministrators. Weeks after theunveiling of the fee, the general sen-timent is still one of confusion.

“Everybody is wondering what . . .is going on and what we are going todo about it,” said Adam Bederg, agraduate student in computer sci-ence. “There still has been no formalannouncement.”

While the University cites eco-nomic troubles as reasons for thenew fee, many students have seenthe financial crisis extends far

beyond the University itself and intotheir own pockets, making it difficultfor them to bear a part of the bur-den.

“The whole idea of law schoolfunding was based upon the fact thatstudents would make a lot of moneyover their summers and would beable to pay it back, but the fact thatlots of students are losing their jobsruins that model,” said Eric Osborne,a former NomCom chair and LawSchool student.

Still, other graduate departmentswere feeling more optimistic abouthow they would handle the fees. The

history department noted that itmight have the funds to cover a sub-stantial part of the fee for its students.

Many of the departments alsostressed that students might havemuch more say than even Universityofficials in how the University willrespond to difficulties resulting fromthe fee.

“I think we should keep writingletters to departments [about thefee],” said GSC co-Chair PolinaSegalova.

Contact Daniel Bui at dlbui@stan-ford.edu.

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“We’re saying that

given that we’re going

to spend money, let’s

at least minimize

waste.”— PROF. ANDRZEJ SKRZYPACZ

Dear Prospective Freshman,

Let me just be the 300th person to say:Welcome to Stanford! I hope you findyour stay pleasant, memorable and,

naturally, academically enriching. As I amsure you will discover, I, like everyone elsehere, am filled with advice about what to dohere. Unlike everyone else here, though, I’mnot going to give you advice for how to makethe most of your Stanford career, or even forhow to pick the college that best fits you.Those are your calls.

No, what I’m going to advise you on is farmore pressing: how to make the most of yourStanford Admit Weekend experience. Whoknows, this may be the last time you spend afull weekend sober here. Make it worth re-membering.

Below I’ve created a conveniently labeledlist of “do’s” and “don’ts.” I’m sure you canfigure out how this works.

DO: Shower. You may think I am joking,but I am not.You will likely be here for threehot spring days, and should you fail to bathethat entire time,I can assure you that you willno longer be greeted with open arms. Theshowers may be cement-y, and they may notclose all the way, but suck it up and have areal Stanford experience.

DON’T: Forget who your RoHo’s room-mate is. I forgot mine, and the next thing Iknew, I had followed a very confusedstranger into the laundry room.

DO: Pig out.You probably will be amazedby the sheer amount and variety of Stanfordfood while you are here. Enjoy that amaze-ment while it lasts. Plus, having long mealsmeans you get more chances to joke around,have debates or start food fights.

DON’T: Obsess about attending everyevent this weekend. Admit Weekend shouldbe helpful for deciding your college, but itshould also be a break. You stressed enough

to get here.DO:Go to a fun class, like Drama 104 (Fri-

day at 1:15 p.m. in Roble Gym room 33).There are a million different lectures you cango to, but if you really want to get a feel forStanford, go to a class where you get to dosomething.

DON’T:Bother going into downtown PaloAlto.If you’re going to take a trip while you’rehere,take the time and hit up San Francisco —the food’s comparably priced (if not cheaper),and the city is vastly more interesting. Askyour RoHo about how to get there.

DO: Go fountain hopping.DON’T: Go “lake” hopping. Unless you

don’t mind frogs and mosquitoes, in whichcase you should absolutely go lake hopping.

DO: Do literally everything that DeanJulie tells you to do. Don’t ask why, just do it.

DON’T: Drink. You might think that theAdministration is kidding about this, but se-riously, if you as a ProFro drink, Stanford ad-ministrators will literally tear apart the fabricof the Universe (yes, we have the technolo-gy), and it will be entirely your fault. You’llhave all of freshman year to make bad deci-sions, so you don’t need to start now.

DO: Hook up with someone. I say this notbecause it’s a good idea, but rather because Ithink ProFros sexiling their RoHos is a hilar-ious concept. If you can pull off this coup,then by all means, shoot for the stars.

DO:Spend time with your RoHos and fel-low admits. Most of them will be interesting,helpful and, I am sure you will be shocked atthis, at least as smart as you are. A few ofthem will be tools,but you will learn to ignorethem in time.

DON’T: Mention SATs. You will seemlike one of those tools.

DO: Share your interests.You like skiing?Sweet! You’ve climbed seven major sky-scrapers? Cool! You have a detailed collec-tion of dead wasps and gnats in your dresser?Interesting! Don’t be ashamed of what ex-cites you — it’s why you’re here. Just be sureto listen to what makes your fellow ProFrolight up, because that’s one of the best rea-sons to stay.

DON’T: Not shower. I am using a doublenegative to emphasize again how importantpersonal hygiene is.

DO: Contact Kevin at ktwebb@stanford.edu ifyou have any Admit Weekend questions,or justsee him emcee with Robber Barons SketchComedy at the A Cappella show Friday night.

DEMBY DOWNER Nicole Demby

KevinWebb

4 � Thursday,April 23, 2009 The Stanford Daily

We were destined to be best friendsfor life, or so we thought. We hadbeen inseparable since we were two.

Yet slowly, I realized we were merely goingthrough the motions of best-friendship. Ourconversations became more forced. We hadto fight to find excuses to see each other.Gradually, we filled the void left by our wan-ing friendship with other friends with whomwe had more in common.

It’s not that I’m skeptical of the saying“best friends forever” in general; it’s just thatit’s never held true in my own life. Despitehow close I’ve been with friends in the past,despite how secure our friendship seemed,in my lifetime even my longest standingfriendships have fizzled over the course oftime. This may seem like a depressingthought,and perhaps it is for those of you forwhom friendship is contingent on sittingnext to someone on the first day of kinder-garten, and then being the bridesmaid orbest man at their wedding. I, on the otherhand, would like to see my lack of lifelongbestfrienditude as a testament to the factthat people tend to grow, rather than stag-nate overtime. It’s either that, or I’m aBFFAE leper.

This week’s Science Times ran an articlewhose headline seriously read, “What AreFriends For? A Longer Life.”The article dis-cussed a woman who reached out to her cir-cle of childhood friends, “the girls fromAmes,” when she was diagnosed with breast

cancer. These ancient friends provided herwith the support network she needed to re-cover. You know, the article says (roughly)people with more friends are 22 percent lesslikely to die young, horrible deaths.

So science reinforces our sappiest notionsof friendship. People who love and arebeloved aren’t only happier; they’re healthi-er too. Listen up, all you unpopular kids outthere. You’d better try harder to makefriends, or you’re going to die of cancer!

Yet maybe the paradigm of the life-longfriend isn’t necessarily the ideal. Maybe it’sgood that we can experience closeness with awide range of people over the course of ourlifetime without this closeness being contin-gent on some sort of unbreakable bond.

It sounds like a horrendous cliche, but it’strue: college is a time of change and growth.Many of the friends I had freshman year havesince become acquaintances with whom Imerely exchange a passing “hi!” on my wayto class. I also developed friendships fresh-man year that I have sustained; these friend-ships are the ones that grew as I did.They en-dured fights and even extended periods ofdiscomfort, yet ultimately persevered be-cause of their flexibility. It’s been our capaci-ty to communicate our problems, no matterhow deep or seemingly insurmountable, thathas sustained them.

I once asked my dad what it was like to bemarried to someone (my mother) for almost30 years. He said something like, “Your rela-

tionship goes through a lot of stages — somegood and some bad.The trick is that it keepschanging, that even after so many years, ithasn’t fully settled into any one thing.”

Life has its own natural ebb and flow, andtwo friends are deluding themselves to thinktheir relationship will not reflect that. It is theability to talk about these ebbs and flows thatestablishes a more solid connection, a core ofgood communication that gives enduringfriendships their flexible form. My parentsmay be a testament to the fact that this flexi-bility can engender really long relationships.Yet there is a reason why half of all marriagesend in divorce. Sometimes the strain of somuch change is too much for even the mostflexible friendships. Sometimes time bringstoo many tensions to the fore. Sometimes thecapability to communicate breaks down. Itisn’t necessarily anyone’s fault. It just hap-pens.

While I certainly hope my closest friendshere at Stanford will remain close for a longtime to come, I acknowledge the possibilitythat one day we may be happy memories ineach other’s Facebook albums. It’s a slightlysaddening notion, but not too depressing ifyou value friendships for what they are, andyour enjoyment of them is not contingent onsome artificial stipulation that they must re-main unmovable for eternity.

Nicole is missing Charlie. Email her atdemb33@stanford.edu.

OPINIONS

Artists of all stripes came out of thewoodwork this weekend andbrought a refreshing new vibe to

White Plaza. An Art Affair is the kind ofevent the editorial board wishes we as a cam-pus could enjoy more often, especially inthese pre-summer months of sunshine andglory.

Students and visitors, who would normal-ly dart across the plaza as quickly as possible,slowed down to see their peers strum bluegrass,dance bangra,perform in short theatri-cal pieces and just express themselves artis-tically. Submissions from all over campus —representing students of various fields andstudies — decorated the otherwise starkplaza. It was just about as tranquil and artsyas it gets around these parts lately, and thereaction from the student body was genuine-ly enthusiastic. And then, on Monday, thetents went down and all was quiet on the cre-ative front once again.The editorial board isin mourning.

We would like to see regular displays thelikes of Art Affair, accepting open submis-sions from average students who call theirincredible talents “just a hobby” — for morethan just three days a year. The editorialboard is dismayed to note that the Art Affairis the only “Arts and Music” event listed onthe ASSU Student Events calendar for theentire school year, indicating a clear lack ofoutlets for students who are not art majors todisplay their work or participate in a visible

artistic community. These gifted individualsshould be able to share their gifts with thecampus to the same degree that athletes,thespians or academic club participants areable to present their talents to the Stanfordcommunity.

The Stanford Organizing Committee forthe Arts’ (SOCA) tireless efforts to makethe three-day exhibit truly an affair — withfree food, CDs and professional equipment— undoubtedly contributed to the largecrowds that gathered on the plaza. The edi-torial board believes that, with the demon-strated art enthusiasm shown this weekendat Art Affair,Stanford should sustain a morepermanent creative works display in theplaza, led by the SOCA and other student artgroups.

What SOCA’s An Art Affair proved wasthat there is a great untapped wealth of tal-ent on campus that goes overlooked by thePrinceton Review and other guides whichtend to concentrate primarily on ourschool’s techie prowess and pre-professionalrigor. But there is more to Stanford thanwhat can be found in research labs and lec-ture halls. We are also a campus of poets,painters, sculptors, actors, dancers and cre-ative voices,and we should embrace this sideof our selves as enthusiastically as we em-brace the other. A longer and more perma-nent installation of creative student submis-sions in White Plaza would be a great placeto begin.

Art Affair provides greatoutlet for creativity

Students deserve info oncommunity center cuts

Last quarter, as the decision for the nextfiscal year’s budget was drawing clos-er,numerous students gathered in sup-

port of Stanford’s community centers. OnMarch 6, there was a rally for communitycenters in which students were asking for theprotection of full-time community centeremployees and for the community centerbudgets to not be cut by more than 10 per-cent. It has been more than a month sincethen, and students have still not receivedconcrete answers to their concerns. Al-though some information was released earli-er this month, there has yet to be a public ad-dress or detailed release of the budget cuts.

We, the Concerned Students for Commu-nity Centers (CSCC),understand that it is in-evitable that cuts will be made across theUniversity. However, we believe there needsto be transparency and student input in thebudget cut process, especially when it comesto programs as vital to our student experi-ence as the community centers. From whatlittle information that has been released sofar, we suspect that the cuts made within theVice Provost of Student Affairs office willdisproportionately affect community cen-ters. We are also alarmed by Vice ProvostGreg Boardman’s announcement that thecuts will be permanent, meaning that com-munity center budgets will stay reduced evenafter the current economic recession passes.

As you know, community centers havecultivated many student leaders on campusand have provided many students with aplace which they can call home. The staffmembers and the culturally sensitive pro-grams provided by these centers give manystudents somewhere to go when they seekthe support that they cannot find elsewhereon campus — whether they need academicor career advice,or mental or emotional sup-port. Community centers provide a place inwhich students are able to learn more aboutthemselves and about others, and are criticalcomponents of Stanford’s commitment todiversity. Community centers’ budgets arealready lean. Making unreasonable budgetcuts will force community centers to elimi-nate some programs altogether and willmake staff members’ employment unstable,diminishing the ability of the communitycenters to do their job overall.

As students who actively use and benefitfrom community centers, we have the rightto be kept informed about issues that affectus.We urge you to join us at our rally this Fri-day at noon in White Plaza, as we unite for acommunity-wide response to the lack oftransparency and to protect our secondhomes.

TINA DUONG ‘12Concerned Students for Community Centers

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The Stanford Daily Thursday,April 23, 2009 � 5

By ANTHONY NGUYENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The No. 13 Stanford women’s tennisteam dropped its final match of the sea-son to No. 8 California over the weekendin a close,4-3 decision.With the loss,Stan-ford fell to 17-4 overall and 6-2 in Pacific-10 Conference play.

The Cardinal women took the earlylead in the afternoon, capturing the dou-bles point with wins by the doubles teamof sophomore Hilary Barte and juniorLindsay Burdette, and by freshmenLogan Hansen and Veronica Li.

Barte added to the Cardinal’s leadwith a quick 6-3,6-1 win over Jana Jurico-va for the 2-0 Stanford edge. Cal cameroaring back, however, with threestraight singles wins.

Sophomore Carolyn McVeigh tied upthe match with a 7-6 (3), 7-5 win over Bo-jana Bobusic. But in the decisive match,Burdette dropped a hard-fought 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-2 decision to Marina Cossou.

“I would say that it was tough to take,but we played an unbelievable doublespoint and we couldn’t quite figure it outin singles,” Burdette said. “They wereranked ahead of us, we were on theirhome court and they played very well.”

Nearing the end of a long dual-matchseason, Stanford did not have enough topush out another close win over theGolden Bears.

“Coming towards the end of the sea-son, we have to balance pushing our-selves to the end versus pushing our-selves too hard,”Burdette said.“We werea little beat up going into it.”

Earlier this season, Stanford defeatedCal 4-3 on the Farm, preserving itsdecade-long home winning streak. Thistime around, Cal had just enough to pullout the win.

“When we played them at home, weprobably should have lost, but we won,”Burdette said. “When we played at their

By ALYSSA AHLUWALIA

Stanford men’s tennis has continued to shinefollowing its victories over Pacific-10 Conferenceteams Oregon and Washington last week, whilealso sweeping San Francisco 7-0 at home onWednesday.The success continued on through theweekend with a victory over the California Gold-en Bears on Saturday.

Sophomore Alex Clayton and senior MattBruch both made their return to the game againstSan Francisco, and their 8-3 doubles victory overopponents Hart and Nauchbauer marked a defi-nite game highlight. In fact,Stanford dominated indoubles — only losing five games total in the threematches. Freshmen Ryan Thacher and BradleyKlahn dominated over USF players Tu and Cohen8-1. Senior Blake Muller and junior Richard Wirefollowed suit against USF opponents Rosario andChing 8-1.

The Cardinal continued its dominance overSan Francisco in singles. Sophomore Greg Hirsh-man notched his third straight victory over Mitchdel Rosario, 6-0, 6-1. Other highlights includedRyan Thacher’s 6-2, 6-1 victory over Rainer Nach-bauer; senior Jeff Zeller’s 6-2, 6-1 win over KarillKarchmit;and Bradley Klahn’s defeat of San Fran-cisco’s Tommy Tu 6-2, 6-3.

“It was Jeff Zeller’s game,” Clayton said.“He isnow undefeated in singles.”

Saturday’s Pac-10 finale at home was the desig-nated Senior Day held in honor of seniors Bruch,Zeller and Muller.

“It was a great way for the seniors to go out,”Clayton said.“The ceremony was really meaning-ful and the crowd was great and excited for a winthat day.”

The Cardinal did not disappoint with a 6-1 winover California. In doubles, Cardinal playersKlahn and Thacher won against Golden Bear op-ponents Chizever and Zibini 8-6; and Stanford’sMuller and Wire dominated Dahan and Katsarov8-5. In singles, Klahn came back from a rough firstset to defeat Golden Bear Pedro Zerbini 3-6, 6-0,6-2; Clayton, newly returned from injury, won instraight sets over Eoin Heavey 6-4, 6-4; andThacher continued the success by winning againstopponent Nick Andrews 6-4,7-5. In addition,Wirebeat out Thai Tu 6-2, 7-5 and Muller won againstJonathan Dahan of Cal 6-4, 6-4.

The success of the No. 8 Stanford men’s tennisteam continued when Klahn was named the Pac-10 Player of the Week on April 20. Klahn has re-ceived three weekly honors this season,the most ofanyone in the conference. Winning three weeklyawards in one season had only been done twice be-fore in the history of the Pac-10,and Klahn became

CAL CLIPS CARDINAL

MEN’S TENNIS

Rolling intothe Pac-10Tournament

6 � Thursday,April 23, 2009 The Stanford Daily

By SARAH OHRCONTRIBUTING WRITER

It was a weekend of mixed emotions forStanford women’s lacrosse, as the team re-turned home from a regular season-endingthree-day trip to the East Coast,where the Car-dinal went 1-1 in games against Davidson andthe North Carolina.The No.14 Cardinal embar-rassed the Davidson Wildcats, rolling to a 19-4

win, but fell short against No. 4 North Carolina,13-10.

The team’s spirits were high after the David-son game, as 14 different players scored at leastone goal.The Cardinal (10-4, 6-0 Mountain Pa-cific Sports Federation) was led to victory bysenior co-captain Bess Siegfried, who had twogoals and two assists, and sophomore SarahFlynn, who had two goals and one assist. Mean-while, sophomore Karen Nesbitt, sophomoreMaggie Sachs and freshman Maria Fortino eachposted two goals.These were the first two goalsof Fortino’s Stanford career.

On the defensive end, the Cardinal has beenforced to make several adjustments, as it lostsenior starter Maris Perlman to a torn ACL last

week,and is just welcoming back senior co-cap-tain defender Melissa Vogelsong from a tornmeniscus. Sophomore Leslie Foard and seniorJamie Nesbitt stepped up to fill the shoes ofPerlman, who is hoping to return for NCAAplayoffs if the Cardinal qualifies. These defen-sive road bumps did not seem to faze the Cardi-nal,as it held the Wildcats to a measly four goals,due in large part to the play of sophomore goal-keeper Annie Read.

No.4 UNC,as expected,presented more of achallenge on Sunday, edging the Cardinal.

The leading scorers in the game againstUNC included junior Lauren Schmidt, sopho-

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Mixed results in North CarolinaCardinal splits games againstDavidson, North Carolina

SPORTS

How’s lifein the bigleagues?

Any Stanford student whohas paid any attention toCardinal baseball over thelast 20-plus years knows

that this team has had a long historyof success.The program has two Col-lege World Series victories and hasappeared in the finals five times since1987.

Eleven of the Cardinal’s 16 tripsto Omaha have come in the last 22years, and long-time head coachMark Marquess just moved into a tiefor eighth place on the all-timeNCAA wins list for coaches.

This program has produced starmajor-leaguers, like Mike Mussina,Carlos Quentin and a total of 76MLB players dating back over 100years. Of course, only a small portionof the total players drafted andsigned every year actually make animpact in the big leagues, but Cardi-nal baseball has regularly crankedout players full of potential.

This week, The Inside Pitch willcheck in on some players from lastyear’s CWS team and see how theyare performing on their journey toreach the Show.

Jason Castro, C: First Round, 10thoverall pick, Houston Astros

Castro started every game for theCard last season, leading all batterswith a .376 average and 73 RBI, andhe was second on the team in homerswith 14.After signing with the Astroslast summer, he hit .275 with twohome runs in 39 games for Tri-City ofthe New York-Penn league. He start-ed this year with the LancasterJetHawks of the Class-A AdvancedCalifornia League,and is batting .260with four doubles, a triple and ahome run in just 12 games. But whatthe numbers can’t show is his defenseand his ability to control the gameand work with pitchers.Don’t be sur-prised if you see him making an ap-pearance in Houston in the next twoor three years.

Jeremy Bleich, SP: CompensationRound A, 44th overall pick, NewYork Yankees

Bleich was limited to nine starts in2008 by injury, but he was extremelyeffective when he pitched. The left-hander compiled a 3-3 record and anERA of just 2.09 over 47.1 innings,while striking out 42 and holding op-posing batters to just a .229 average.Pitching this season for the TampaYankees of the Class-A AdvancedFlorida State League, he is 1-0 in twostarts with an ERA of just 2.53 andhas six strikeouts in just 10.2 inningsof work.The road through the minorleagues is often a long one for start-ing pitchers, but left-handers whocan strike hitters out while maintain-ing a low ERA are always in de-mand.

Cord Phelps, 2B: Third Round, 107thoverall pick, Cleveland Indians

Phelps was the ultimate table-set-ter for the Cardinal last season, hit-ting .351 with an on-base percentageof .445 from the leadoff spot. Theswitch hitter scored a team-high 76runs and added 13 home runs of hisown while playing solid defensethroughout the year. He played partof last summer with the MahoningValley Scrappers of the New York-Penn league, hitting .312 with twohome runs, 24 runs scored and 22

ErikAdamsThe Inside Pitch

Please see LACROSSE,page 8

Please see COLUMN,page 7

BAT MENStanford’s offense powers team to win over Cal, .500 conference record

Cardinal dominates USF, Cal infinal regular-season matches

By JACK SALISBURYSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Slowly but surely, the Cardinal bats seemto be coming alive as the season goes on.TheStanford offense was in full force Wednesdaynight, giving the team an 8-3 lead after thefirst four innings. The team never lookedback en route to an 11-7 victory over Cal atSunken Diamond in the rubber match be-tween two rivals.

The heart of the lineup was instrumentalin rallying the troops: batting third, junioroutfielder Toby Gerhart filled the box scorewith three hits, three runs and two RBIs.Thefour and five spots provided the power, assenior first baseman Brent Milleville hit atwo-run homer in the third inning and, bat-ting cleanup, sophomore rightfielder KellenKiilsgaard followed suit the next inning, hit-ting a two-run shot off the right-field score-board.

Junior right-hander Kyle Thompson was

credited with the victory after taking over inrelief of freshman Brian Busick. The Cardi-nal pitching was not the story of the night —the team called on seven pitchers over thecourse of the game — but it still got the jobdone in a win that moved Stanford above the.500 mark with a record of 17-16 overall and8-8 in the Pacific-10 Conference.

“I think we started very slowly,and I thinkwe’ve gotten better,” head coach Mark Mar-quess said. “Especially offensively, we reallyweren’t swinging the bats well [before] andhave played much better baseball, so hope-fully we can continue to improve. We’re justa little over halfway [through the season] andhopefully these last four weekends can con-tinue to build our improvement and finishstrong.”

“Anytime you can get 11 runs, you shouldwin the ballgame,” said sophomore closerDrew Storen, who picked up his fifth save ofthe season,Wednesday night.“We had someguys step up and it’s always nice to have some

nice offensive production. I’m excited aboutour offense.”

The win also marked a milestone of sortsfor Marquess, who won his 1343rd game asthe Cardinal’s head coach. The victorymoved him past USC’s Rod Dedeaux to givehim sole possession of eighth place on the all-time NCAA Division-I win list.

The Bears fell to 18-20 on the season, butthey were not lacking chances in the game’sfinal innings. Cal loaded the bases with justone out in the top of the seventh, but as iscommon in baseball, all of the momentumwent away with one swing; Bears freshmanDanny Oh lined out to Milleville at first basefor an easy double play, and just like that, theCardinal was out of the jam.

Cal reliever Michael Bugary didn’t do hispart to further the Bears’ cause, either. Al-though he has been one of the top relieversfor Cal this season,he was chronically wild inthe eighth inning, throwing five wild pitchesin total in his appearance.After reaching firstbase on a single,sophomore second basemanColin Walsh scored after advancing threetimes on three separate wild pitches.

By the time Bugary finally retired theCardinal in the eighth, Stanford had a four-run cushion, which was more than enoughfor Storen — he retired the side in order inthe top of the ninth to seal the victory.

Stanford now faces the last-place team inthe Pac-10, Arizona, for a three-game seriesat Sunken Diamond. Though the Wildcatsare in last, the Pac-10 is a packed conference— the Cardinal is two and a half games out ofsecond, but only three games ahead of last-place Arizona — and Stanford knows itwon’t be easy.

Continued from front page

NO HIT|Chinn overpowers SJSUfamiliar, two-out situation. Butfreshman Sarah Hassman savedthe inning with a base knock andadvanced Koutz to second.

Then, the Cardinal bats un-loaded. Junior Alissa Habercracked a two-run double to leftfield, and then scored on a highfastball, which freshman AshleyHansen crushed into the gap be-tween left and center for a dou-ble. The onslaught producedthree runs, the entirety of Stan-ford’s offense on the evening,butit was more than enough forChinn.

“The pressure was on for meto keep it a 0-0 game,” Chinnsaid.“The runs took some weightoff my shoulders.”

Chinn only accelerated her

game after the fourth inning. Sheretired 12 of the last 13 Spartanhitters, fanning five in the finalthree frames en route to her 13thcomplete game of the year.

Chinn, now the owner of animpressive 1.82 ERA on the sea-son, gave credit to her veterancatcher for the no-hitter.

“[Junior] Rosey Neill helpedout a lot,” she said. “She kind ofjust told me what to throw, and Ithrew it.”

San Jose State hung in withStanford, surrendering only sixhits in a losing effort. FreshmanAmanda Pridemore took the lossafter five innings of work, walk-ing six and striking out two forthe Spartans.

Pridemore struggled with her

command of the strike zone,coughing up half a dozen walksto Stanford hitters. Conversely,Chinn noted a contrast in hercontrol and variance of pitches.

Since Sunday’s loss at Ari-zona State, Chinn saw noticeableimprovement.

“I worked my change-up in alot today, which was very benefi-cial,” she said. “I didn’t eventhink about the no-hitter.”

Stanford improved to 38-6overall, while San Jose statedropped to 18-30. The Cardinalresumes conference play on Fri-day against Oregon. First pitch isscheduled for 7 p.m.

Contact Chris Fitzgerald at chrish-fitz@gmail.com.

Please see MTENNIS,page 8

Please see BASEBALL,page 8

Stanford Daily File Photo

Junior outfielder Toby Gerhart connected for three of Stanford’s 11 hits as the Cardinaljumped out to an early 8-3 lead over California and never looked back in an 11-7 victory.

CHRIS SEEWALD/The Stanford Daily

The Cardinal could not overcome the Bears in a 4-3 loss at Berkeley to end the reg-ular season. Stanford next competes in the Pac-10 Championships.

Please see WTENNIS,page 8

BASEBALL4/22 vs. Cal W 11-7

UP NEXTARIZONA(17-19, 3-12 Pac-10)4/24 Sunken Diamond

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GAME NOTES: Stanford’s offense has come alive, scor-ing 11 runs in each of the past two games. The Cardi-nal has won eight of its past nine home games. Stan-ford hopes to continue this streak against Arizona,which is last in the Pac-10 and has lost four straightconference games.

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RBI in just 35 games.This year withthe Kinston Indians of the Class-AAdvanced Carolina League, he is.279 with nine runs and seven RBI injust 12 games. If he can continue toplay solid defense in the middle-in-field and get on base regularly, heshould move up through the systemsteadily.

Sean Ratliff, OF: Fourth Round,134th overall pick, New York Mets

The slugger piled up 22 homeruns and a .294 average for Stanfordlast season, while managing to stealeight bases as well. His averagedipped last summer to .229 whileplaying for Brooklyn of the NewYork-Penn league, but he still blast-ed seven homers in 59 games. Thisyear, he is playing with the Savan-nah Sand Gnats of the Class-A Ad-vanced South Atlantic League, andis hitting .300 with one dinger in 12games.

Overview of other picks:

Austin Yount: 12th Round, 367thoverall pick, L.A. Dodgers

Currently in extended SpringTraining, he hit .301 with a homerand 21 RBI for the Ogden Raptorsof the Rookie-Level PioneerLeague last summer.

Erik Davis, P: 13th Round, 405thoverall pick, San Diego Padres

Davis compiled a 2-0 record witha 2.70 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 26.2innings last summer, and is current-ly 3-0 with a 2.16 ERA and 10 strike-outs in 8.1 innings for the FortWayne Tincaps of the Class-A Mid-west League.

Erik Adams wishes his favorite team’smascot was as menacing as a SandGnat. Email him at ekadams@stan-ford.edu.

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place, we should have won, but welost. It was definitely a little bit hereand there.”

Adding to the weekend’s woes,the loss ended Stanford’s streak of 21consecutive Pac-10 titles,as SouthernCalifornia defeated UCLA in LosAngeles to go undefeated in leagueplay.

Despite the bad news, Stanfordcan immediately avenge its losstoday at the Pac-10 Championshipsin Ojai, Calif.

The Cardinal will send five play-ers to the championship singles draw:Barte, Burdette, senior JessicaNguyen, McVeigh and Li. In the firstround, Burdette and Nguyen willface off against Bobusic and Anders-son of Cal.

“I know that I want to play asmany of them as possible,” Burdettesaid of Cal’s players. “This tourna-ment brings a whole different set ofpressure from the team match. It’llbe completely up for grabs — itshould be good.”

Stanford will also send Hansen,sophomore Jennifer Yen and seniorIsamarie Perez to the InvitationalSingles draw.

In championship doubles,Hansenand Li, and McVeigh and Nguyenwill represent the Card.Missing fromthe lineup is Stanford’s top duo ofBarte and Burdette, who elected tosit out the doubles draw.

“We’ve got a ton of tennis left toplay, and we’ve already establishedour doubles ranking,” Burdette said.“We’re just going to focus on our sin-gles this week.”

Also representing the Cardinalare Perez and Yen in the invitationaldoubles draw.

With two freshmen at the Pac-10Championships, the team is ready tocompete for its first individual cham-pionship since the fall season.

“It’s hard not to be excited aboutOjai,” Burdette said. “It’s super funsince it’s an individual tournament— the venue and seeing all the play-ers you played with in juniors.”

While this past weekend did notgo how Stanford had envisioned it,Burdette is optimistic about the teamheading into postseason play.

“I think that the Cal match, al-though it would have been great topull it out, shows that all of the best

teams in the country are neck-and-neck,” Burdette said. “It’s anybody’sgame on any given day. Somebodypretty surprising is going to come outsuccessful in NCAAs and I hope it’sus.”

Contact Anthony Nguyen at an-guyen9@stanford.edu.

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“It’s a big series and that’s thething about the Pac-10 — it’s sopacked that if you have one badweekend, it can swing one way or an-other just depending on how youplay,” Storen said.

The Cardinal will kick off thethree-game series — the third gameof its seven-game homestand — Fri-day at 5 p.m. at Sunken Diamond.

Contact Jack Salisbury at jack24@stanford.edu.

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SPORTS BRIEFCardinal teams rewarded for work in

classroomAs part of its new campaign to

make student-athletes into better stu-dents, the NCAA recognized athleticteams who achieved the best in theirrespective sports. Eleven of Stan-ford’s teams were recognized — foot-ball, men’s golf, men’s soccer, softball,women’s gymnastics, women’s tennis,women’s indoor track and field,women’s outdoor track and field,women’s soccer, women’s water poloand women’s volleyball.

In order to be recognized, eachteam had to finish among the top 10percent in its respective sport in theAcademic Progress Rate (APR),which the NCAA created threeyears ago.The APR takes graduationrates, retention rates and eligibilityinto account, and gives each team ascore out of 1000. The recognizedteams finished with scores between965 and 1000.

The next round of recognitionswill come out on May 6.

— By Jacob Jaffe

PHILIP TOM/The Stanford Daily

Freshman Bradley Klahn, the reigning Pac-10 Player of the Week, led the Car-dinal men to easy victories over San Francisco and Cal to end the regular sea-son. The team will now travel to the Pac-10 Championships in Ojai, Calif.

STANFORD 11 CALIFORNIA 74/22/09CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA

AB R H BI AB R H BIJackson cf 4 1 1 1 Walsh 2b 3 3 2 1

Guinn ss 5 1 2 0 August cf 4 1 1 0

Canha 1b 4 2 2 3 Gerhart lf 4 3 3 2

Kobernus 2b 5 1 3 3 Kiilsgaard rf 4 2 3 3

Smith dh 5 0 0 0 Milleville 1b 4 1 1 2

Oh rf 3 0 0 0 Jones c 3 0 0 0

Brady 3b 4 0 1 0 Mooneyham dh 0 0 0 0

Krist c 4 0 0 0 Moon dh 2 0 0 0

Gorman lf 3 0 1 1 Clowe dh 1 0 0 0

Tanaka lf 1 1 1 0 Olabisi pr 0 1 0 0

Diemer p 0 0 0 0 Gaylord 3b 4 0 1 0

Flemer p 0 0 0 0 Schlander ss 4 0 0 0

Wolford p 0 0 0 0 Busick p 0 0 0 0

Bugary p 0 0 0 0 Thompson p 0 0 0 0

Pracher p 0 0 0 0

Marshall p 0 0 0 0

Hancock p 0 0 0 0

Fearnow p 0 0 0 0

Storen p 0 0 0 0

Totals 36 7 10 7 33 11 11 8

R H ECalifornia 100 230 010 7 10 1Stanford 104 300 12X 11 11 1

E—Guinn; Kiilsgaard. DP—California 2; Stanford 2. LOB—California

7; Stanford 4. 2B—August; Gerhart 2. 3B—Canha. HR—Kobernus;

Kiilsgaard; Milleville. HBP—Oh. SB—Jackson; Kobernus; Tanaka;

Jones 2. CS—Walsh.

Pitchers IP H R ER BB SOCaliforniaDiemer L (1-5) 2.1 6 5 5 2 1

Flemer 1.2 3 3 3 0 2

Wolford 2.0 0 1 1 2 1

Bugary 2.0 2 2 2 2 1

StanfordBusick 2.0 1 1 1 1 1

Thompson W (1-0) 2.0 2 2 2 0 1

Pracher 0.2 2 3 3 1 0

Marshall 1.0 2 0 0 1 2

Hancock 0.2 0 0 0 0 0

Fearnow 1.1 3 1 1 1 1

Storen S (5) 1.1 0 0 0 0 2

WP—Diemer; Bugary 5. HBP—by Busick (Oh).

Umpires—HP: Billy Haze 1B: Greg Charles 3B: Phil Benson.

Start: 5 p.m. Time: 3:20. Attendance: 1506

mores Karen Nesbitt and SarahFlynn and senior Jamie Nesbitt, whoeach scored two goals for the Cardi-nal. The defense also had a strongperformance, again demonstratingits ability to adjust.

The next step for the Cardinalcomes with the MPSF Tournament.The tournament is being played atthe Farm’s own Laird Q. Cagan Sta-dium this weekend.

“It’s a special week for our seniorclass,” Siegfried said. “We could notask for much better than having ourfinal MPSF Tournament on ourhome turf.”

Games will be played Thursdaythrough Sunday.The Cardinal has setitself up by gaining a bye in the firstround of the tournament for its un-

defeated conference record.“We have worked hard to put our-

selves in the best situation possiblegoing into the league champi-onships,” Siegfried said.“It’s huge tohave a bye and be able to go into thesecond round rested and well-ener-gized.”

The Cardinal is looking to upholdthe legacy it has built in MPSF play.

“We are excited, prepared andready to defend our title,” Siegfriedsaid.

A win at this weekend’s playoffswould mark Stanford’s fifth consecu-tive MPSF title, and the first underfirst-year head coach Amy Bokker.

Stanford will begin its tourna-ment run tomorrow night at 6 p.m.against the winner of Thursday’squarterfinal match-up between Den-ver and UC-Davis. Admission to allgames is free.

Contact Sarah Ohr at sohr@stanford.edu.

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the first one to do so as a freshman.“It’s an amazing accomplishment,

and he deserves the praise,” Claytonsaid about his teammate.

The Pac-10 Championships aretaking place in Ojai, Calif., todaythrough Sunday. Matches begin withtwo rounds of singles on at 8 a.m.Fiveplayers will be competing Thursdayin the championship singles bracket— Klahn, Muller, Clayton, Wire andThacher.Also, the Cardinal will havefour doubles teams — Wire and

Muller; Klahn and Thacher; Claytonand Kelly in championship doubles,and Hirshman and Zeller in invita-tional doubles.

The goal for the team is to get indi-vidual matches in,have all the playersdo their best and prepare for theNCAA Championships in May.

“The NCAA Championships[are] about the team playing andbeing ranked together as a whole,rather than as individuals,” Claytonsaid.

If the Cardinal wins on May 8, theteam will go to Texas to continue inthe NCAA Tournament.

Contact Alyssa Ahluwalia ataahluw13@stanford.edu.

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