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By SAMANTHA MCGIRRSENIOR STAFF WRITER

When it comes to crime, one word may beenough to sway people’s perceptions.

This finding came from the Stanford study“Metaphors We Think With: The Role of Metaphor in Reasoning,”published in the Feb.23 edition of PloS ONE.The study shows that

people are more likely to support harsher lawsand increased jailing of offenders when toldcrime is a “beast” preying on a community.When crime is described as a “virus”infecting acity,however,people are more likely to proposesocial reform.

First-year psychology graduate student PaulThibodeau, the study’s lead author,said the re-sults demonstrate the powerful influence of metaphor in shaping solutions to complexproblems.

“Things like crime and other difficult socialissues are very abstract and complicated,” hesaid. “It’s hard to think clearly about how tosolve the issue.Metaphors about crime are a lit-tle easier to talk about.When we use metaphorsfor crime,we import structures from other do-mains.”

In a series of five experiments, participantswere given one of two versions of a report onrising crime rates in the fictional city of Addi-

son. The versions framed crime either as a“beast”or a “virus”but offered identical statis-tics detailing the rise. Participants were thenasked to propose solutions to the crime.

Researchers found that the subjects’ re-sponses varied depending on the metaphor

used. In one study, 71 percent of subjects pro-posed more law enforcement when told crimewas a “beast,” compared to 54 percent of sub-jects who did so after reading crime was a“virus.”

When asked to cite the most influential partof the report,only 15 of the 485 participants se-lected the metaphor;the majority said the sta-

tistics held the most sway in determining theirpolicy decisions.

Psychology assistant professor LeraBoroditsky, who co-authored the study, saidthese findings show the extent to which peopleunderestimate the role of language in decision-

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Case broughtagainst ASSU

ROTC bill

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FAO to remain

unaffected by 

Pell Grant cutsSSQL president’s petition questions

constitutionality of advisory bill

By KATE ABBOTTDEPUTY EDITOR

Alok Vaid-Menon ‘13, president of Stanford Stu-dents for Queer Liberation (SSQL),filed a petition tobring a case against the ASSU with the Constitution-al Council, which was approved this week. Constitu-tional Council case W2011-1,Vaid-Menon v.Cardona,will determine the constitutionality of a bill passed by

the Undergraduate Senate to place an “advisory ref-erendum” question on the spring elections ballot,which is intended to gauge student opinion regardingROTC.

The Constitutional Council is the judicial branchof the ASSU, but Vaid-Menon’s case will be the firstthe body has heard in over one year. However, theSenate recently passed a bill redefining some of theroles of the Constitutional Council and of the solici-tors general so that both can become more activebodies.

According to Constitutional Council Chair SamirSiddhanti ‘12, before the Council’s Rules of Orderwere passed two weeks ago,“there was no frameworkfor how to accept or try to a case.”

Siddhanti said that Vaid-Menon’s petition wasfiled late Sunday evening,and both parties were noti-fied by Tuesday. He said that given the new rules, thefive-member Council hopes to set a precedent by hav-ing a quick turnaround for tri als.

“This is the very first trial we’ve gotten since the

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RESEARCH

Crime metaphors sway public opinion

Admins will rely on other sources tocover gaps from lower gov’t funds

By MARIANNE LeVINESTAFF WRITER

Federal funding for Pell Grants may de-crease significantly if the Senate also passesthe H.R.1 bill recently passed by the House of Representatives. Stanford’s Financial AidOffice is confident that these proposed cuts,if enacted,would have a limited impact on theUniversity’s need-based financial aid policy.

The Pell Grant program helps low- to mid-

dle-income undergraduates pay for collegeand also provides funding for working low-in-come adults who want to return to school tospecialize in certain interests and skills.

Under the proposed H.R.1 bill, the PellGrant program could face a 24 percent reduc-tion, totaling $5.7 billion, which leaves eachstudent with $4,015 instead of $4,860 in grantmoney.

According to the Center on Budget Poli-cies and Priorities (CBPP), one of the coun-try’s leading policy organizations on legisla-tion affecting low-income families, H.R.1’sstipulations could be detrimental to the de-mographic they affect.

The Pell Grant is unique in that it consistsof two different types of funding, mandatoryand discretionary.The former is a legal guar-antee that each student will receive $690 an-nually to help finance his or her education.But the bulk of Pell Grants are funded by dis-cretionary means; an annual appropriationbill essentially allows the government tospend money to support these grants.

Cuts are,for the most part,directed at thelatter.However,the CBPP claims that H.R.1threatens to eliminate the mandatory compo-nent altogether by 2014.

“Proponents of cuts in assistance to lower-income individuals and families often claimthat America should strive to achieve equali-ty in opportunities rather than equality inoutcomes,” according to the CBPP website.“Cuts in programs like this, which help pro-vide improved opportunities for success inschool and work to otherwise-qualified dis-advantaged young people, make a mockeryof such claims.”

According to CBPP research,downsizingthe discretionary awards could lead to $64 bil-lion in cuts in mandatory funding for Pell

Grants in the next 10 years.Representatives for the CBPP declined tocomment to The Daily on the issue.

Stanford’s director of financial aid, KarenCooper,does not believe the decision on PellGrants will have a significant effect on theUniversity’s financial aid policies.

“The Pell Grant program is very helpful tous and makes a difference in our overallbudget,” Cooper said. “If it’s a short-termchange,we should be able to absorb that withinstitutional funds . . . in the long run we mayneed to expect a little bit more of all of ourstudents before we take in Stanford scholar-ship funds.”

Each Stanford student’s total financial aidaward is determined by calculating both par-ent and student contributions as well asawards and scholarships that make up the dif-ference.Cooper indicated that cuts to the PellGrant program might require increased stu-

dent loans.Still,Cooper remains optimistic.“For the last four or five years,we’ve been

expanding our financial aid pool,even during

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By CASSANDRA FELICIANODESK EDITOR

Scientists at the School of Medicinehave created an animal model of a rareand fatal brain tumor affecting young

children. This model is the first of itskind and will allow scientists to betterstudy Diffuse Intrinsic PontineGlioma (DIGP),a disease that is fatalfor nearly all children who are diag-

nosed, according to a paper publishedin the Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences.

Led by pediatric neurologistMichelle Monje, the team found thatthese models could be made by inject-

ing human DIGP cells,donated by theparents of deceased patients, directlyinto mice. Using this model, the teamfound new molecular signals thatprompt the cancer to grow.

“In a mouse,that population of cellsis responsive to the Hedgehog path-way, a signaling pathway important innormal development and many formsof cancer,” Monje said.“We tested therole [of the pathway] by regulating it

genetically, and in mice with regulatedpathways, [ . . . ] cells didn’t look asstrange.”

These signals could also one dayhold the key to curing the cancer by

acting as signals for anti-tumor drugs.Monje and her team said they plannedto pursue potential cures.

The animal model represents someof the biggest advances for this partic-ular disease, where treatment ad-

vances have been stagnant for 35years,Monje said.Part of the problem is the lack of 

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Bellydancers, jugglers and playwrights, oh my! It was a night of food, drinks and merriment at Sigma Nu as art-lovers stopped to look and listen at thisyear’s Winter SNAPS, where fellow students showcased their musical, poetic and overall artistic talent.

new group was brought in,”he said,“but that’s what we would like todo, especially given the time sensi-tive nature of this case.”

ASSU President Angelina Car-dona ‘11 authored the bill to place

an “advisory referendum”questionon the general elections ballot ask-ing student opinion on the poten-tial for ROTC to return to campus.

Both the Senate and the GraduateStudent Council voted to pass thebill at the beginning of February.

At the time, Cardona said thatVaid-Menon was consulted on thedrafting of the language of the bill sothat it could be presented with “neu-tral language.” In an interview withThe Daily,Vaid-Menon said that de-spite consultation, he was “frustrat-ed by the passing of the bill.”

“In no way did I ever give my

complete acceptance of this bill,”he said.“This is a way for me to ad-dress my concerns.”

For Vaid-Menon,asking for stu-

dent opinion by voting on supportfor the ROTC issue is like “puttingcivil rights on the ballot box.”

Vaid-Menon and SSQL opposethe return of ROTC to Stanfordbecause it does not allow transgen-der students to participate.

“It frames ROTC as a questionand not as a policy,” he said. “TheUniversity is very firm in its non-discrimination policy, which in-cludes gender identity. It seems

generally silly to have a questionthat violates this University policy.”Siddhanti said that the evidence

required to prove constitutionalityof an ASSU bill or action variesfrom case to case.

“Most of the arguments are[ASSU] constitutionally based,andthe petitioner argues why or whynot there’s a violation,and in somecases people can bring witnesses,”he said. “It’s pretty much anythingallowed in real court.”

“There’s also a segment forfriends of the court to be heard,”Siddhanti added. “We want tomake the process much more trans-parent and open to the public.”

Cardona said that she was “notsurprised” to hear about the case.She said that she recommended the

Constitutional Council as an av-enue for Vaid-Menon to explorewhen he initially voiced concernsover the bill.

“When I showed [Vaid-Menon]the original draft, he had concernsabout the bill in and of itself,” Car-dona said.

“Situations like this is why theConstitutional Council exists and soI think that the trial will be good andthe process will be an educationalone for everyone,” she added.

Vaid-Menon argues that it i s theresponsibility of the ASSU to up-hold University policies in additionto its own, including the non-dis-crimination policy.

“There’s this rhetoric for its stillokay for people to vote and have asay on civil rights of other people,”

he said. “We need to consider theethics of voting on this bill.”

Although Vaid-Menon filed thepetition as an individual, he saidthat his effort to aid SSQL’s oppo-sition to ROTC means that his ac-tions can be interpreted as on be-half of the group.

“I think, from my perspective,the distinguishing factor that does-n’t make the bill unconstitutional isthat it’s a non-binding referendum,

equitable to other avenues of inputthat the ad hoc committee has wel-comed,”Cardona said. “That’s def-initely within my bounds as presi-dent to have proposed and I stillsupport [the bill].”

“That being said, I do under-stand where [Vaid-Menon] is com-ing from and want to do everythingI can to support and represent thetransgender community as well.”

Both Vaid-Menon and Cardonarecognize that ultimately, the deci-sion to recognize ROTC will bemade by the Faculty Senate afterreceiving the report from the adhoc committee in May.

“I don’t see this as that big of adeal, to be honest, because at theend of the day, people understandthat the students themselves aren’t

making this decision,”Vaid-Menonsaid. “This is much more of a sym-bolic campaign, and it’s time forstudents to hold the University ac-countable.”

“I hope the rhetoric behind thiscase doesn’t dwindle down toROTC:should it return or should itnot, because that’s not what thiscase is about,” Cardona said. “Thequestion this case is focusing on iswhether or not posing an advisoryquestion to the campus communityis constitutional or not.”

The trial will be next Wednes-day, March 9, at 8 p.m.and open tothe public.The location has not yetbeen determined.

Contact Kate Abbott at kmabbott @stanford.edu.

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making.“These studies show the power of 

language in framing our decisions,especially in cases where we don’trealize it,” she said. “We all like tothink we make rational decisions,but even a single word can bring a

whole knowledge structure thatguides our reasoning.”The study also accounted for po-

litical party affiliation,with Republi-cans being 10 percent more likelythan Democrats to suggest enforce-ment-based solutions. Subjects whoread that crime was a “beast” wereabout 20 percent more likely to sup-port such solutions,regardless of af-filiation.

Law professor Robert Weisbergsaid the study reveals how crime rhet-oric itself has become a metaphor forpolitical and social unease.

“Crime enters political discoursein a way where it substitutes forother issues,” he said. “It’s a goodmetaphoric issue for people express-ing their anger or frustration at otherthings.”

Since crime is an inherentlyloaded topic,policy makers and pub-lic officials should ensure the lan-guage used to describe it does notunduly inflame passions, Weisbergsaid.

“Colorful language is not alwaysaccurate,” he said.“We have a hugeapparatus of criminal justice in theUnited States and we want to see if itis solving problems efficiently. It isnot a military machine or somethingout of a sci-fi movie . . . neutralizingthe language with which crime is dis-cussed would be a good thing.”

Thibodeau cautions, however,that language is just one of many fac-tors that influence people’s opinionson crime and other issues.

“It worked pretty well when wegave people a report on crime andthey didn’t have background con-text,”he said.“In the real world,peo-ple have more information. Allthings being equal,subtle metaphor-ic clues can help us structure how wethink about abstract and complex is-sues.”

Contact Samantha McGirr at smcgirr @stanford.edu.

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available samples.“The tumor is not biopsied, as

diagnosis can be made radiologi-cally (by MRI) and biopsy is dan-gerous because of the tumor loca-tion,” wrote senior author

Philip Beachy, professor of devel-opmental biology, in an e-mail toThe Daily.

Although Monje declined togive names,she said other researchinstitutions have attempted to cre-ate samples as well.Stanford,how-ever, is the first in the world toachieve any success.

DIPG is particularly difficult totreat because the cancerous cellsentwine themselves with healthycells in the brain stem. Since thebrain stem is necessary for thebody’s survival, surgery is not anoption.

As a result, Monje’s findings“give a lot of hope,” said DanahJewett, whose late son, Dylan, wasone of the earliest donors toMonje’s research in January 2009.

“For 35 years, parents were toldthat their child was going to die,”Jewett said.

“These children need it so badlyand their families need it so badly,”she added.

DIPG, which primarily affectschildren ages five through nine, isone of the more common pediatrictumors, Monje said.It affects up to400 children annually in the U.S.Less than 1 percent of victims livethrough the first five years once thecancer has set.

Six other families have followedin the Jewett’s footsteps and decid-ed to donate their tumor cells,Monje said.

Her team has also been contact-ed by a number of other re-searchers interested in furtherstudying the disease.

For their part, Beachy said thatthe team has two future studieslined up:the first on the new tumormodel to determine what kinds of therapies might be useful, and an-other to understand the possiblecell of origin and changes in nor-mal cell function that cause the tu-mors.

Several pharmaceutical compa-nies are also working to developdrugs that will treat this cancer.Monje’s new mouse models willtest some of the drugs.

The research was funded in partby the National Institutes of Health, the National Brain TumorFoundation and the HowardHughes Medical Institute.

Ivy Nguyen contributed to this re-port.

Contact Cassandra Feliciano at ccfe-lici@stanford.edu.

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the economic recession,” she said.“Even though endowment has re-duced, the University remains com-mitted to need-based financial aid.Money gets taken away from otherthings to keep our financial aid pro-gram whole.”

Cooper indicated that programs

like The Stanford Fund (TSF) havebeen helpful in bridging financial aidgaps. In the past, about half of themoney from TSF has gone to provid-ing scholarships. This year, the num-ber increased to 75 percent due to adecline in endowment funds.

“Stanford re-prioritizes fundingto make sure the University meetsthe expectations of its students,”Cooper said.

Contact Marianne LeVine at mlevine2@stanford.edu.

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FEATURESBEYOND BANDURA’S

BOBOSHow serendipity flung Albert Bandura into the

spotlight as a leading social psychologist

By JENNY THAISTAFF WRITER

With twinkling eyesand a gently wrin-kled face in a per-

petual half-smile,Albert Bandura

looks every inch the quintessentialkindly grandfather, from the mutedburgundy sweater to the soft lull of his voice.

Bandura, a man of many talents,has had a long and illustrious aca-demic career spanning over sixdecades. The David Starr JordanProfessor Emeritus of Social Sci-ence in Psychology, Bandura hascontributed immensely to the fieldof social psychology, and is the fa-ther behind the theory of self-effica-cy and social learning theory.Ranked as the most cited living psy-chologist in the world, Bandura hasauthored seven books to date andhas written over 180 articles.

Bandura was born and raised inMundare,a small hamlet in northernAlberta, Canada with a populationof approximately 400 people,mostlyimmigrants from Poland andUkraine. His elementary and sec-ondary school years at the onlyschool in town were “very limited ineducation resources,” recalled Ban-dura. Usually, limited educationalresources would be seen as a hin-drance, but Bandura looks back onhis schooldays as an opportunity forself-learning, a major skill that is thecenter of his social learning theory.

“We pilfered a teacher’strigonometry book,so that we could

study it ourselves,” Bandura said.“The students had to take charge of their own education.”

Bandura’s early resolve forscholastic success was largely due tohis upbringing because his parents,

though they received no formal edu-cation, placed enormous emphasison academic development.

“My mother told me I could tillthe land, play pool and drink myself to oblivion,” Bandura said. “Or Icould get an education.”

“Needless to say, I chose the lat-ter,” Bandura added with a light-hearted chuckle.

Bandura’s summers were spentpicking up carpentry, a skill set thatwould later help pay for his collegeeducation.One memorable summerafter high school graduation, Ban-dura ventured farther north, wherehe worked at Whitehorse in theYukon filling in holes along theAlaskan highway.

Bandura recalled the shock hereceived almost immediately uponhis arrival.

“I pulled up to the base camp,and the first thing I saw was an am-bulance. I asked someone if therehad been an accident, and someonetold me, ‘No, that’s our cook. Hedrank all of the lemon extract for thealcohol,so we have to take him in toget his stomach pumped out.’”

The robust, quirky life of theworkers at Whitehorse was an excit-ing time for Bandura, who saw theYukon tundra as a backdrop for “theblossoming of the psychopathology

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It took me 24 years to find anabalone shell.Granted,I’d spentthe first 23 years of my life living

on a coastline where abalone don’t but I’d faithfully combed WestCoast beaches at every opportunityto no avail until, last weekend, acrescent of mother of pearl finallycaught my eye.

I pulled aside some rocks, andthere it was: four inches long with afreckling of barnacles and delicatearch of pores the perfect redabalone shell.

Although any long-term Califor-nia resident who’s really lookedknows abalone shells aren’t impos-sible to find, they are quite rarethese days. In the late 1900s,abalone once so common that itwas considered a “trash fish” eatenonly by the poor fell victim to thecombined pressures of overfishingand Withering disease (a bacterialinfection that starves the mollusk toan untimely end). Today, the soleabalone fishery in California isrecreational,with each license limit-ed to only 24 red abalone each year.The few restaurants that still serveabalone at a premium ac-quire their portions from Mexicoor, increasingly, from local abalonefarmers.

Today, with only 22 percent of US fisheries sustainably managedand at least 14 percent of globalfisheries collapsed, piscivores in-creasingly turn to the products of aquaculture the captive rearingof fish, shellfish, crustaceans andeven algae. Abalone farming inwhich juveniles are reared in shal-low-water pens on a diet of fast-growing kelp in tidally flushed wa-ters is touted as one of the mostsustainable examples of the ex-panding industry. It is also a labor of love: it can take half a decade forabalone to reach harvestable size.(Before it died, the owner of myshell would have been a scantymouthful.)

Mariculture as practiced byabalone farmers, for example

harnesses the natural ocean systemby placing enclosures adjacent to orjust off the shoreline. Such farmingstrategies use seawater to flush outwaste products and provide cleanwater for captive animals.Other ex-amples include shrimp ponds inSoutheast Asia (sadly, known fortheir role in mangrove habitat de-struction), salmon farms in the Pa-

cific Northwest and tuna “ranches”off the coast of Mexico (which pro-duce “laxfish,” as the Japanese callthe LAX airport-marked meat).

Aquaculture has intuitive appeal:it seems like an ideal way to conserve

wild populations while shrinking hu-manity’s marine “footprint” by con-centrating biomass production in asmall area. Yet modern aquaculture,as it is currently practiced,is hardly aviable substitute for sustainablymanaged fisheries.

Most fish farms bear eerie (butunsurprising) resemblances to high-density terrestrial livestock opera-tions. Farmed fish require huge in-puts of food and regular doses of antibiotics and hormones, and theyproduce high concentrations of waste products. Many farm-rearedspecies are predatory in the wildand require high-protein diets incaptivity; even ecological herbi-vores, like tilapia, grow faster onfishmeal and oil. So fish farms canactually intensify pressure on wild

fisheries while converting an-chovies into bluefin. Denselypacked pens are incubators of dis-ease;farmed salmon are believed tospread sea lice to migratory wildpopulations as they swim by.

Farm denizens can also have di-rect effects on their wild cousins if and when they escape their waterycorrals. As much as terrestrial live-

stock are the products of hundredsof years of domestication,so too areaquaculture species chosen andbred for domestic viability.These species are transported tofarms around the world,where theirescape means introduction of anon-native species. Atlantic salmonreared in British Columbia are thepostcard example: in the last 15years,one million have escaped intothe Pacific Ocean. Today, anAlaskan recreational fishing permitcomes with strict quotas for nativesalmon but you’re welcome to asmany Atlantics as you can hook.

Even when farms rear localspecies, escapees can dilute the wildgene pool by introducing maladap-tive traits acquired over years incaptivity. Such “outbreeding de-pression” disrupts the balance be-tween the native population and theenvironment it has adapted to.

And farmed replacements forwild catches don’t necessarily pro-tect at-risk fisheries. Bluefin ranch-es, for example, rear ocean-caughtjuvenile fish, removing a subsetfrom wild populations. And thereintroduction of abalone to com-mercial markets, where today apound of meat can sell for a whop-ping $58, has whetted the appetites

of poachers. Just last month, twoSan Francisco men were arrestedafter their third illegal harvest of wild red abalone.

Still, there are plenty of ways tomake aquaculture sustainable:usingclosed circulation systems that pre-vent contamination of local waters,choosing native herbivorous fish andexercising patience instead of boost-ing natural growth rates with wildfish biomass.Like the creation of theabalone shell I’m holding, though,these methods take time and a senseof the delicate balance between or-ganisms and nature.

Today, aquaculture produces 45million tons of food each year (com-pare to: 100 million tons extractedannually from the ocean). It’s agrowing business sector and a criti-

cal protein source something wecannot ignore as we look for ways tofeed a burgeoning human popula-tion. So it’s important that we learnto do it right right away.

Do you know where your seafoodcomes from? Send your thoughts andcomments to Holly at hollyvm@stan-ford.edu.

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I HAVE TWO HEADS

He regards me with a sidelong, speculative glare: howmuch effort would it take to

bite this human’s nose and make ablitz for the nearest roof? I don’tblame him. It’s a beautiful Sundaymorning at the Palo Alto JuniorMuseum and Zoo and, if I were asimilarly feathered specimen, Iwould want to go preen on a highperch too. I turn my grudgingcharge this way and that on my fist,letting guests view the striking tailfeathers that are his namesake. No,they don’t eat fish too often.Yes, heis native to the area. A red tailed

hawk wings past far overhead tomake my case in point, no doubtwondering why the sulky lookingmale on my glove isn’t making bet-ter use of the day.An older gentle-man strolls over, a giant STAN-FORD reading in stark relief acrosshis chest.We talk briefly about cam-pus news before questions turn tome. Am I here with some sort of Stanford volunteering committee?I can’t help but laugh. Oh,Stanford.

People on campus are quick tosay they want to leave the Stanfordbubble, but I don’t think putting ge-ographic distance between yourself and campus is going to necessarilywork. I’ve never felt as detachedfrom campus as I do when at thezoo, and the PAJMZ is a mere nineblocks off campus.There are groups

that venture further for servicebased goals and still drag the bubblewith them. What about those thatdon’t necessarily have a passion forthe topics targeted by the group,butare looking for a way to escape cam-pus living? Really, unless you dis-tance yourself from the remnants of the Farm,you aren’t doing much ex-cept toting the pressures of Stan-ford living around with you.

Similarly, loading up on the“Stanford University (insert clubname)” extracurriculars isn’t goingto cut it either. Your friends fromsection are your friends on Face-book; your friends from your clubare in your lecture,and there gets tobe a point when going to unwindwith some juggling turns into talk-

ing about whatever you were talk-ing about in lab class.There is some-thing to be said for meeting peoplewho have no idea why ProfessorDoe gave you 17 problems for nextweek,and hopefully,don’t care.

I know that, when I get to the

zoo, I can let go of that Alex tiedinto the workings of Stanford, andmeet people as just another animalzealot.As I’ve expounded in “NewGER Required,” there isn’t a wayto show,via transcript or admission,that you are a decent person. Byseeking out activities beyond the

reach of Stanford, you can forge areputation based on your character,and not your image amid the group.I’m the type of person that revels incutting up squid for the shark tank,sharing my knowledge of ferretanatomy with kindergarten scienceclasses and forcing the raccoons toget some exercise by runningaround their enclosure with grapes.If I were just another volunteeramid the Cardinal swarm, I wouldprobably be constantly reminded of some bit of busywork or stress Ishould have left on Palm Drive.

Even more importantly, forthose who feel misrepresented bytheir transcripts, pursuing opportu-nities outside the University showsinitiative and drive that otherwise

might not be emphasized on paper.My boss at the zoo, for example,wanted to be sure I was diligentenough to arrive on time to my shiftindefinitely. Even before I arrived

This is the last edit ion of “ThisColumn Is Ironic”you’ll readthat was written on the Farm.

Scary, isn’t it? Sadly, my ever-pro-lific course load of political sciencepapers precludes me from barrag-ing you with wit during our DeadWeek issue. (I promise you, politi-cal science actually requires me todo some work.) When The Dailyresumes in spring quarter, I won’tbe here. Instead, I’ll be living it upat home in Scranton, Pennsylvaniafor a few weeks until I begin myquarter abroad. That’s right, guys:I’m going to Oxford, and you’recoming with me. Don’t worry,things won’t change that much. Imight start throwing a random “u”into my words here and there. I

might also talk about tea more. Getexcited.Yet, before any of that can hap-

pen, I still have roughly two weeksleft here on campus. I thought I’dbe feeling sad about leaving. How-ever,as March 18 looms nearer andnearer, I’ve never been more readyto leave. It’s time. Personally, thesepast two quarters have been filledwith their share of ups and downs most of which are intrinsicallytied to Stanford.When so much of your life takes place in one concen-trated area, it can get kind of hardto dissociate things.So for all of itsfantastic resources and opportuni-ties, there’s one thing that thisplace can’t give me: a fresh start.Oxford does just that. It’s what Ineed right now.

(Come to think of it,I think thatthis stands in the upper echelon of “first world problems.” Let’s goover my situation in the clearest of terms: I currently feel complacentand stagnant at the elite universityI attend.To solve this problem, I’mgoing to jet set across the Atlanticto another elite university to getmyself back on track. Jesus, life’s

tough,isn’t it?)This isn’t to say that leaving

Stanford won’t be extraordinarilydifficult. The Farm is my secondhome. Even though I’m ready toleave, I’m not sure I can deal withsix months away from this Eden weall inhabit. (Plus, I’m going to bemissing spring quarter at Stanford.Big mistake. The sun! The heatwaves! The sorority girls!) I keep

asking myself, “How am I evergoing to live life without the Bro-muda Triangle or the Axe andPalm?”The answer there is,“Quiteeasily.” At the same time, I alsokeep asking myself, “I know I’mready to take a break, but can Ox-ford ever measure up to Stanford?”

Ah, now there’s a better ques-tion. Because no matter how in-credible Oxford may be, it will cer-tainly have a lot to live up to. InEngland, I won’t be able to climbup on the roof of The Knoll or s trollon Stanford Golf Course for mid-night talks about life. I won’t haveoffensive and hilarious sessions of poker and/or Halo well into thewee hours with my best friends.And as beautiful and medieval asOxford may be, there’s nothing

like walking through the MainQuad on the sunniest of springdays. These are just a few thingsthat Oxford will never be able toreplicate. Then again, I don’t wantit to. There are certain memoriesand experiences both good andbad that are indelibly tied to

SEEING GREEN

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The Octopus’s Garden

Paradise Lost(But Only Temporarily)

AlexHicks-Nelson

ShaneSavitsky

HollyMoeller

Popping the bubble

By seeking out

activities beyond the

reach of Stanford,youcan forge a reputation

based on your

character,and not your

image amid the group

There are plenty

of ways to make

aquaculture

sustainable

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on campus for fall quarter, my re-solve to volunteer there was tested.My boss didn’t return my calls, ig-nored my e-mails and generally hidfrom me.When I finally got to Cali-fornia, I wasn’t greeted as just an-other member of a Stanford affiliat-ed program I had to go throughall the paperwork and finger print-

ing and waiting associated with get-ting a volunteer position with thecity of Palo Alto.I couldn’t just relyon students from previous years tohave made a good impression onthe zoo staff. As strange as it maysound,the fact that I had to strugglea bit to earn my place at the zoomakes me all the more proud andthankful for the opportunities I’vefound there.

While I enjoy hearing aboutStanford affiliated “giving back”programs, I can’t help but mull overthe state of institutions wholly un-

connected to the Farm.The staff atthe PAJMZ didn’t realize anyoneon campus would be interested inhelping out at the zoo,and I expectmany nearby organizations havemuch the same mindset. How mu-tually beneficial it seems,then, to fi-nally escape the Stanford bubble byventuring outside of the clubs andorganizations tightly knit into itsstructure.

Have you found your own way to de-feat the bubble?  Tell Alex about it at ahicksne@stanford.edu.

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this place. I’d never change that.You know, I poke fun at Stan-

ford in this column a lot,but that’sonly out of love.That’s somethingmy friends know all too well. I canbe bitingly sarcastic to them some-times, but I only make fun of thepeople and things I care about themost. Oh, and last I checked, I’ve

written whole columns making funof myself, too. In the end, I guessthat just makes me a sarcasticStanford-loving narcissist. Seemsabout right.

See you on the other side, Stan-ford. I may need a quarter away,but there’s no place I’d ratherspend my senior year.

Shane welcomes any tips for surviv-ing Oxford in spring quarter, but first he has to survive a month inScranton.Any ideas? E-mail him at savitsky@stanford.edu.

SAVITSKY Continued from page 4

of everyday life.”“Booze was their main nutrient,”

Bandura said.“They were orderinglarge quantities of sugar that theyused to brew up.This one morningthey go up early, [to check] on thedeepest alcoholic mash. What theyfound there instead was half a dozen

drunken grizzly bears lumberingaround camp.Fortunately,they werea little too tipsy to actually be reallydangerous.”

According to Bandura, fortuity a factor generally avoided by psy-chologists,who interpret such eventsas unpredictable plays a moreimportant role in shaping people’slives.

“In psych, we avoid fortuity,”Bandura said. “Fortuitous eventsare just nuisances in our causal theo-ries. I tried to bring some science tobear on my fortuitous life,and that’show I got into psych.”

It was, in fact, fortuity that ledBandura to ultimately choose psy-chology as his field of study for hisbachelor’s degree at the Universityof British Columbia, a decision

largely based on a chance encounterwith a course catalog.“I had originally planned to major

in biology,”Bandura said.“I was withpre-meds and engineers who had re-ally early schedules. I didn’t haveclasses that early those were at atime that I didn’t know even existed!So I had a lot of time.I noticed some-one had left a course catalog. Whileflipping through it,there was a psychcourse that fit in with my schedulethat I decided to take.”

Bandura was hooked on psych.Making use of his carpentry skills,hewas able to speed through his educa-tion, earning his B.A. in three yearsand receiving his M.A. and Ph.D.from the University of Iowa in threeadditional years. It was also duringhis graduate student years,by anoth-

er stroke of luck, that he met hiswife,whom he married in 1952.

“One morning, we were late toour golf time,so they bumped us to alater time,” Bandura said. “Twowomen were ahead of us.They wereslowing down, and we were speed-ing up.I met my wife in the sand trap.Had we been at the earlier time,ourlives would have never converged.”

In 1953, Bandura joined Stan-ford’s faculty, where he has re-mained ever since. He has taughtthousands of students and prolifical-ly contributed many research arti-cles and studies involving various as-pects of social psychology.The Bobo

doll study,which looked at the socialpatterns of behavior associated withaggression, is his most well knownpiece of research.

“That study always seems tohaunt me,”Bandura admitted.“Thegreat thing about psychology is thatit is the only study that integrates in-terpsychic events,social relations,bi-ology and socio-structural events.There’s no other discipline that inte-grates all of these very different dis-ciplines.”

Bandura and his wife, Ginny,

have two daughters, Mary andCarol, both of whom grew up to fol-low careers within the fields of ei-ther clinical or social psychology.

Over the years, Bandura has be-come an expert at juggling severalroles at once as professor, as fa-ther and more recently, as grandfa-ther.

“He loves his grandchildren,”said Ian Gotlib, also a David StarrJordan Professor of Psychology.“And he appreciates good wine.”

Now in the twilight of his career,Bandura has more time for leisureactivities, which include wine tours,backpacking in the Sierras and gar-dening.

“I maintain some of my ruralroots,”Bandura said.“I have a hugegarden,where I am the major suppli-

er of tomatoes, which have beenclaimed as ‘the golden standard’ bymy colleagues.”

But Bandura still likes to keepbusy. Instead of settling back intothe comfort of his armchair, baskingin the glow of his numerous achieve-ments,Bandura’s back is erect, lean-ing slightly forward toward the fu-ture, while always having a numberof current projects buzzing away.One of his major current projects isthe application of social learningtheory and the self-efficacy model toaddress major concerns on a globallevel, such as human rights in devel-oping countries, environmental sus-tainability and the AIDS epidemic.

That’s not bad for someone whostumbled into psychology by fortuity.Having learned from a lifetime of 

serendipity,Bandura believes in max-imizing every chance opportunity.

“You can take [hardships] andturn them into enabling experi-ences,” Bandura said.“You can’t af-ford to be a realist. Realists willabort if they run into difficulties, orthey will become cynical. Learninghow to work through it when en-countering setbacks and conflicts isa life-long skill, but an importantone for success.”

“You don’t get bored that way,”he added.

Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@stan-ford.edu.

BANDURA Continued from page 3

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Just one more win.That’s all it will take for the Stanford women to com-

plete their second perfect Pac-10 season in as many years,as they close out conference play by hosting rival Caltonight. For a team that’s made a habit of running awaywith conference titles and setting records for win streaks,aperfect season sure doesn’t seem like much.

No.2 Stanford (26-2,17-0 Pac-10) clinched its 11th con-secutive regular season Pac-10 championship last Saturdaywith a 99-60 rout of Oregon, a win that ex-tended the program’sbest-ever home winningstreak to 61 games.Theteam has won everygame in Maples Pavil-ion since beating SanFrancisco, 96-61, onNov. 28,2007.

Tonight’s matchupwith Cal (15-13, 7-10)also marks the team’sannual Senior Night,where guards JeanettePohlen, Melanie Mur-phy and Hannah Don-

aghe will be honoredalong with forwardsKayla Pedersen andAshley Cimino. Otherthan the redshirt Mur-phy, Stanford’s seniorclass is per3fect atMaples and has endedevery year with a FinalFour appearance with one more, it wouldset a Stanford record.

“Our senior class isamazing,and me along with everyone else is going to missthem so much ,” said freshman guard Toni Kokenis.“They’ve definitely taken us under their wing and helpedus out . . . we all get along super well and we’re really goodfriends, so it’s definitely going to be emotional for us.”

She may lack the experience of phenoms like Pohlenand Pedersen, but Kokenis has managed to work her wayinto Stanford’s lineup and make some serious contribu-

tions this season. The Oak Brook, Ill. native has averaged

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Softball heads to Fullerton for

DeMarini Invitational

The Stanford softball team moveson to their next challenge this week-end, heading south to Fullerton, Calif.for the DeMarini Invitational.

The Cardinal (12-3) will play fivegames over the three-day weekend,with doubleheaders on Friday andSaturday. Stanford will square off 

against Southern Mississippi andIowa on Friday, UC-Santa Barbaraand Murray State on Saturday, thenfinish up against Cal State Northridgeon Sunday.

The Cardinal is coming off a solid 4-1 weekend at home last weekend in theStanford Nike Invitational that includ-ed a 4-2 win over the No. 24 KentuckyWildcats.

Stanford’s only loss over the week-end was a 2-1 defeat at the hands of theMemphis Tigers, but the Card thenswept its final four games, blowing outNorth Dakota State 12-0,knocking off Kentucky 4-2,blasting Colorado State16-2 and beating UC-Davis 5-3.

Sophomore Jenna Rich was an of-fensive force for the Cardinal, tallyingeight hits with two triples and a homerun, and junior Ashley Hansen also

had eight hits, with five doubles andeight RBI.Sophomore Teagan Gerhart and

senior Ashley Chinn also continuedtheir dominant seasons in the pitch-ing circle, as they split time over theweekend with Chinn recording a 0.54ERA and picking up two wins and asave.

The Card’s biggest test this week-end will come against UC-Santa Bar-bara, which has a 9-5 record this sea-son, a .313 team batting average and ascoring differential of 66-44 in theirfavor.

The solid weekend on the Farmhelped push Stanford’s ranking up toNo.14 in the ESPN.com/USA Softballpoll and No. 16 USA Today/NFCApoll.

After the weekend in Fullerton,

Stanford will take next week off as itprepares for finals.The Cardinal will beback in action the weekend of March18-20 as it hosts the Stanford LouisvilleSlugger Classic at Smith Family Stadi-um.The Cardinal will wrap up the pre-season tournaments at home the fol-lowing weekend with the Stanford In-vitational,March 25-27.

Jack Blanchat 

SPORTS BRIEFS

SPORTS

How do

we define

success?

Stanford men’s basketballhas one more regular-sea-

son game left. After theteam squeaked out a winTuesday night,the Cardinal

sits at 15-14.With the NCAA Tourna-ment out of reach (barring a miracu-lous Pac-10 Tournament victory) andthe NIT likely to pass on Stanford aswell,the question has to be asked:wasthis a successful season?

There can be arguments on bothsides,and it all really boils down to anever-more difficult question to an-swer:what is a successful season for ateam like Stanford?

This is a question that most Stan-ford teams don’t have to answer.Women’s basketball can be a top-fiveteam all season, but if it doesn’t atleast reach the Final Four,this seasonwill be a disappointment. Both gym-nastics teams and tennis teams ex-

pect to be contending for national ti-tles, so an early postseason exit not to mention missing the postsea-son entirely would be disastrous.On the flipside, the wrestling teamhas never won a conference or na-tional title,so just finishing in the tophalf of the conference can be seen assomewhat of a success.

People often look at the teams atthe top of each sport when thinkingabout a “successful” season, andteams that greatly improved or dis-appointed compared to preseasonexpectations. The majority of teams,though, fall into a somewhat nebu-lous middle ground between successand failure, and only fans of theseparticular teams pay close attentionto assessing the end result.

It is this category where Stanfordmen’s basketball finds itself. Theteam is flirting with a .500 record anda sub-.500 Pac-10 record.The Cardi-nal is coming off a 28-8 season in2007-08, a 20-14 season in 2008-09and a 14-18 season last year, but it issomewhat hard to compare each of those teams.

The team three years ago reachedthe Sweet 16 and was led by theLopez twins and head coach TrentJohnson. All three of them left afterthat season,along with three seniors,so the ‘08-’09 team was all about re-building under new head coach John-ny Dawkins. That team got off to afast start, winning its first 10 gamesduring a very easy non-conferenceslate. Once Pac-10 season rolledaround, though, the Cardinal re-

gressed, going 6-12 in conferenceplay.The non-conference success wasenough to get Stanford into the Col-lege Basketball Invitational, wherethe Cardinal won two games beforebeing ousted by Pac-10 foe OregonState in overtime of the semifinal.

After that season, Stanford lostfour key contributors LawrenceHill,Anthony Goods,Mitch Johnsonand Kenny Brown to graduation,so the burden last year fell squarelyon the shoulders of Landry Fields.Fields responded, reaching doublefigures in points in all 32 of the Cardi-nal’s games and rising from a relativeunknown to an NBA draft pick, butthe team around him was young andinexperienced. Stanford finishedbelow .500 and missed the postseasonentirely for the first time in 17 years,

but the team actually improved itsPac-10 record by one game, which issurprising considering the team waspicked to finish last in the conference.

That brings us to this year. TheCardinal lost Fields to graduation,leaving the team with large shoes tofill and no seniors on the team to fillthem. Instead, Stanford brought in ahighly touted group of freshmen andplugged them in along with the re-turning role-players. Jeremy Green,who was the Cardinal’s second op-tion when Fields was around,was ex-pected to take the lead role,and JoshOwens returned from a medical ab-sence to give the team more physical-ity down low.

Stanford was picked to finishninth in the conference,and current-ly sits in eighth with one game to play.The Cardinal has lost most of thegames it should lose (at Butler,at Ok-lahoma State, etc.), won most of thegames it should win (vs. North Car-olina A&T,vs.Yale,etc.) and pulled afew surprises both ways (beatingWashington but losing to Oregon athome).All in all, though, the record

WIN STREAK ON THE LINEBy MILES BENNETT-SMITH

DESK EDITOR

The Stanford men’s volley-ball team embarks on yet anoth-er MPSF road trip this weekendthrough Southern California,this time to face UC-Irvine andUC-San Diego in a two-gameseries that begins Friday night inIrvine.

The Cardinal (13-4, 9-4

MPSF) moved up a spot,to No.3,in the American VolleyballCoaches Association rankingswith their third straight win lastweekend, a five-set thriller overthen-No.3 UC-Santa Barbara. Italso marked Stanford’s thirdthree-game winning streak of theseason.

If Stanford is to build on its re-cent momentum, it can’t afford aletdown against the Anteaters onthe road.The last time the Cardi-nal had a three-game win streak,it was swept in a shocking homeloss to UC-San Diego in mid-

February.“We finally got our 2-0 week-

end, I’m really happy with theway we played and battledagainst a good [Santa Barbara]team,” said head coach John

Kosty. “I don’t think we’ll have aproblem getting ready for the[Irvine] game.”

Irvine gave the Cardinal justabout all it could handle in thelast meeting between the teamson Feb.12.Stanford took the firstset,hitting a robust .419 as a teamwith just three attack errors, butsaw its offense stall in the secondand third sets, hitting just .182and .061 as a team.

Junior outside hitter BradLawson shouldered much of theload,as the Cardinal roared backand took the fourth set to extendthe match with a game-high 23kills and just four errors for a .442hitting percentage. Senior out-side hitter Spencer McLachlinrebounded from his strugglesearly in the match to notch 13kills across the fourth and fifthsets while hitting .550.

The match against theAnteaters has plenty of postsea-

Back-to-back perfectPac-10 records in sight

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GAME NOTES: Stanford looks for its fourth

consecutive win in the MPSF over the last

two weeks, but the test gets a little taller 

this weekend, as the Card heads south to

take on UC-Irvine on Friday night and

UC-San Diego on Saturday.

Jacob

JaffeFields of Failure

Please see JAFFE,page 8

Stanford Daily File PhotoKayla Pedersen (No.14) and Jeanette Pohlen (No. 23) will be two of five seniors hon-ored on Thursday’s Senior Night against Cal in the last Pac-10 regular season game. Please see WBBALL,page 8

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Junior Erik Shoji and the Cardinal are on a three-game conference winning streak, but Stanford faces atough challenge this weekend against MPSF rivals UC-Santa Barbara and UC-San Diego.

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over 17 minutes per game in herrookie season,and since recoveringfrom a minor head injury lastmonth, Kokenis has become a sta-ple of Stanford’s score sheets with7.9 points and 1.00 steals per game,63.2 percent shooting from thefield, a 46.2 percent clip from be-yond the arc and 9-for-10 shootingfrom the charity stripe. Kokenisposted six steals across Stanford’slast three games, each of which sawher break into double-digit pointtotals.

“I’m definitely trying to bringmore energy off the bench andmake our pace go a little bit faster,”Kokenis said about her recent con-tributions. “I want to speed up thetempo a little bit by definitely pick-ing up the defense and pushing theball, getting it out of my lane so wecan get some fast-break opportuni-ties and speed the game up.”

That speed has been one of Ko-kenis’ unique additions to a power-heavy Stanford roster. AgainstOregon State last Thursday, shesparked a number of fast breaksand fired up the crowd with cross-court runs to the basket.

She also impressed in Stanford’sfirst game against Cal, scoring 12points on 4-for-7 shooting in a 78-45victory in early January.

After a solid start, the GoldenBears have struggled mightily inthe back half of the conference sea-son, plummeting into a six-game

losing streak that they just snappedwith a 58-49, come-from-behindvictory over the visiting OregonState Beavers.Sophomore forwardDeNesha Stallworth Cal’s lead-ing scorer at 14.5 points and 6.7 re-

bounds per game posted ninepoints on clutch second-half shoot-ing.

Rachelle Federico scored a ca-

reer-high 15 points from the guardposition a fine performance forthe four-year veteran on Cal’s Se-nior Night. It was her last game atHaas Pavilion, but Federico wasmaking her first career start given her performance, her secondmay come against the Cardinal.

After snapping the prolongedlosing streak, Federico says herteam’s confidence is ramping backup.

“There was some sort of vibethat we had,” she said.“Cal basket-ball was back . . . A sense of pridekicked in. For whatever reason itwas,we were able to get back to Calbasketball.”

With a postseason berth securedand the Final Four only a monthaway, it might be easy for Stanfordto see tonight’s matchup as a step-ping stone a final chance to pre-pare for single-elimination play.

Kokenis acknowledges that agame like this can provide a tune-up before the Big Dance, but saysthe team needs to focus on funda-mentals and coming away with awin.

“Cal’s definitely an aggressiveteam, so it’s good for us to be play-ing against them since they pres-sure so much, that’s somethingwe’ve definitely been working on,”Kokenis said. “But’s really it’s justtaking care of the ball . . . and mak-ing sure we know what we’re doingon each possession and gettinggood shots.”

Stanford will tip off with Cal at 8

p.m. tonight in Maples Pavilion. Aceremony for the team’s seniorclass will follow the game.

Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@stanford.edu.

WBBALLContinued from page 6

son implications, as No. 7 Irvine isjust one game back of Stanford inthe loss column at 7-5.The Cardinalis currently third,half a game behindBYU and two games back of confer-ence-leading USC with nine MPSFmatches remaining.

The first round of the MountainPacific Sports Federation Tourna-ment begins on April 23, and theCardinal seems almost assured of aspot in the tournament as one of 

the top eight finishers in confer-ence play.

It’s hard to imagine that the Car-dinal would repeat its last perform-

ance against the Toreros, when theteam hit .182 with 23 attack errors onjust 99 swings in the 3-0 loss. Thereweren’t many bright spots, eventhough freshman outside hitterBrian Cook did tally 12 kills andMcLachlin had 11.

Normally reliable junior liberoErik Shoji was also off his game,withjust three digs to his name, wellbelow his season average of 2.31 digsper set,the ninth-best average in thecountry.

After this weekend’s matches,

Stanford will have a mandatory two-week layoff for Dead Week and fi-nals,before resuming play on Satur-day, March 19 in a non-conference

match against California Baptist atBurnham Pavilion.

The Cardinal will be hard-pressed to get back into the swing of things before jumping right backinto MPSF play against Cal StateNorthridge and Long Beach State athome the next weekend.

Stanford kicks off the weekendagainst the UC-Irvine Anteaters atCrawford Hall at 7 p.m.Friday night.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-bs@stanford.edu.

MVBALLContinued from page 6

stands about where most people ex-pected it to: around .500 overall anda touch below .500 in Pac-10 play.

Apart from just the wins and loss-es,the product on the court has beeneverything you would expect fromthis team.The returners have shownsome ability to take over games (seeGreen’s 7-for-7 start on Tuesdaynight and Owens’ 31 points and 11rebounds last weekend) and someability to fall flat on their faces (seeJarrett Mann’s one point and sixturnovers against Seattle Universityand Owens’ 3-for-11, two-reboundperformance against Oregon State).

For as up-and-down as the juniorshave been, the freshmen have been

even more volatile, which is every-thing you expect from teenagersthrust into big-time roles on a Pac-10team. A starter most of the year,Dwight Powell has had performancesbefitting his athleticism,notching two

double-doubles and as many as 20points in a game,but he has also beenheld to five points or fewer nine timesthis season and has looked visiblyfrustrated on the court more thanonce. Anthony Brown has been astarter for the past month and a half,scoring 21 points on two separate oc-casions and giving glimpses of elitetalent, but he has also disappeared atcrucial times (three points total in 51minutes in home games against theArizona schools).Aaron Bright,JohnGage and Josh Huestis have also hadsignificant ups and downs in their firstseason on the Farm, and all havegiven signs of future promise.

That promise could be the keytake-away point from this year, be-cause the 2010-11 campaign can’t belabeled as a major success or failure.Instead, this season was almost anextended introduction to the teamwe’ll see for years to come.

And in that sense,this season wassuccessful.

Jacob Jaffe just wants to be,just wantsto be successful.Give him career ad-vice at jwjaffe@stanford.edu.

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