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By JOSEE SMITHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

A recently developed and newly released Stan-ford-created blood test can detect Down syndromeand two other major genetic defects at early stages of pregnancy. Experts have expressed concerns, howev-er, about the ethics of knowing a fetus’s genetics dur-ing a period of pregnancy when abortion is both saferand more commonly legal.

The $1,200 test, which analyzes fetal DNA in ex-pectant mothers at 10 weeks, is being offered by Veri-nata Health — a Redwood City biotechnology com-pany — which licensed a technique designed byStanford biophysicist Stephen Quake.

A Verinata-sponsored clinical trial, published inthe journal of the American Congress of Obstetricsand Gynecology, demonstrated the test’s effective-ness. The technique was able to predict all 89 cases of Down syndrome in 532 maternal blood samples, 35 of 36 cases of Edwards syndrome and 11 of 14 cases of Patau syndrome.

By MARSHALL WATKINSDESK EDITOR

While Mitt Romney’s six victoriesin the “Super Tuesday” Republicanprimaries will allow him to maintainhis status as the presumptive Republi-can presidential nominee, a protract-ed and ugly battle for primary dele-gates could continue even up to theAugust convention, according to Stan-ford faculty observers.

Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, currently holds 415delegates, more than the combined to-tals of the other contenders, and willrequire 1,144 delegates to clinch thenomination. The Romney campaignhas sought to portray his victories onTuesday — including a narrow win in

the crucial battleground state of Ohio— and his superiority in the delegatecount as cues for the Republican partyto coalesce behind his candidacy.

Bill Whalen, a research fellow atthe Hoover Institution, expressed

skepticism, however, that the SuperTuesday results changed the dynamicof the primary race, arguing that —

while Newt Gingrich and Rick Santo-rum remain Romney’s principal chal-lengers — no candidate offered a par-ticularly strong performance.

“There was no big winner on Tues-day, but Romney avoided a disaster,”

said Tammy Frisby, lecturer in politicalscience and a research fellow at theHoover Institution. “To say he was abig winner is to overplay what he ac-complished.”

Whalen described both Santo-rum’s comfortable victory in Ten-nessee — despite indications of asurge by Romney in the days beforethe primary — and the narrowness of Romney’s margin of victory in Ohioas surprising outcomes.

“Romney won by 10,000 votes in astate where he outspent Santorum 4 to1, in a state where he was far more or-ganized than Santorum,” Whalen said.

Despite Romney’s substantial leadin delegates, Whalen noted that his in-ability to connect with socially conser-vative Republicans — and his failure

to mobilize the Republican base —could create a problematic enthusi-asm gap for the party in the upcominggeneral election against President

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Mother-son pairdiscusses startups

Super Tuesday results suggest race will continue until convention

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Andy Kurtzig, founder of JustAnswer, spoke about his entrepreneurialendeavours as part of Stanford Entrepreneurship Week. He wasjoined by his mother Sandra, founder of ASK Corporation.

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Award-winning reporter and blogger JudithTorrea shares tales from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

By NATASHA WEASERDESK EDITOR

“The danger in Ciudad Juarez is to be alive,” said JudithTorrea, a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford,speaking Wednesday night at the Women’s CommunityCenter on her experience as an award-winning journalistand blogger.

Torrea, who is originally from Spain, won the Re-porters Without Borders BOB (Best of Blogs) award in2011 for reporting from the front line of the Mexican drugconflict in her blog “Ciudad Juarez, en la sombra del nar-cotrafico”. The title, when translated to English, reads“Ciudad Juarez, under the shadow of drug trafficking.”

Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican town that borders the Texancity of El Paso, is one of the most dangerous cities in theworld and is a focal point of Mexican President FelipeCalderon’s “war on drug trafficking.” Torrea estimatedthat there have been over 10,000 deaths by violence in thecity since the “war on drug trafficking” was launched in2006.

Torrea said that, while working for the Spanish-lan-guage People magazine in New York City from 2007 to2009, she witnessed how the celebrity culture of drugusage in the United States is linked to the drug conflict in

Purim partying


Stanford’s Jewish Student Association hosted a Purim celebration Wednesday night at the Bechtel International Center. Studentsmarked the holiday with live music, a costume contest, drinks and carnival games. Readings were held earlier in the day.


Judith Torrea, a Knight Fellow, won an award for her blogcovering the ongoing drug conflict in Ciudad Juarez. Shespoke Wednesday as part of International Womens’ Week.

By MATT BETTONVILLEDESK EDITOR

Stanford Entrepreneurship Week — which ex-tended three days past its usual weeklong time peri-od this year — concluded Wednesday with a jointpresentation by entrepreneur Sandra Kurtzig andher son Andy Kurtzig. The duo shared their experi-ences founding companies, and advised those in at-tendance to seek out work that inspires them.

As founder of ASK Corporation in 1972, SandraKurtzig spent much of her career selling minicom-puters — precursors of modern PCs — to business-es. ASK is best known for its ManMan brand, an ab-breviation for the manufacturing management soft-ware the company sold.

Despite her success with decades-old computerhardware, Kurtzig encouraged audience membersto stay ahead of trends and anticipate future oppor-tunities.

“When everything else is trying to go into a par-ticular market . . . that’s probably the time to startthinking about what the next market is going to be,”

she said.Sandra Kurtzig is currently chairman and CEO

of Kenandy, a company she founded in 2010 with theintent of bringing social platforms to business andmanufacturing.

“We think the next market is going to be [busi-ness to business],” she said, referring to companiessuch as ASK and Kenandy that sell services prima-rily to enterprise customers.

Andy Kurtzig followed in his mother’s footstepson the entrepreneurial track.

“He’s really been an entrepreneur, a serial entre-preneur, since he’s been a kid,” said Sandra Kurtzig,recounting a story of Andy selling balloons during aparty in his childhood. “He continues to have ideasone after another all his life.”

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PA Fire Chiefs sign

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By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Palo Alto City Councilvoted Monday in favor of a newcontract with the city’s Fire Chiefs’Association that will save the citytens of thousands of dollars in up-coming years. The council’s votewas unanimous.

The agreement matches similarconcessions made previously byother labor groups with the intentof helping to cut municipal spend-ing and to balance the city budget.

The new contract will save thecity approximately $51,000 in fiscalyear 2012 and nearly $84,000 in fis-cal year 2013, according to a reportby the city’s human resources de-partment. The bulk of the savingswill be achieved through the dis-

continuation of bonuses providedin exchange for meeting perform-ance targets, and through associa-tion members funding 10 percentof their medical premiums for thefirst time.

A further reform included inthe contract will reduce the city’spension obligations to new associ-

ation employees. The reform,which will include increasing theretirement age from 50 to 55, isn’texpected to generate savings forthe city until fiscal year 2015.

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Quake-Catcher Network, aStanford-based group, has devel-oped a network of seismic sensorscapable of giving subscribers ad-vance warning of imminent earth-quakes. The network detectedMonday morning’s 4.0 magnitudeearthquake 10 seconds before it hit

Stanford.The network employs around2,000 inexpensive seismic sensorsplugged into volunteers’ comput-ers, which communicate withStanford servers over the Inter-net. The system has the ability towarn customers electronically —by means such as text message or

email — as far ahead as tens of seconds before the strongestshaking occurs, allowing them totake cover.

Corporate clients can also usethis warning system, allowingfirms to save documents, turn off sensitive equipment or stop eleva-

tors at the nearest floor to allowpassengers to escape. Subscriberswould also receive a post-earth-quake notification noting thetremor’s magnitude and duration.

“The concept is ultimately toget to the place where we can reli-ably identify and characterizeearthquakes before they’ve ex-panded to the surrounding re-gions,” said Jesse Mitchell, net-work co-founder and assistantgeophysics professor, to the Stan-ford News Service.

Quake-Catcher Network’s seis-mic sensors range from $30 to $150in cost — as compared to tradi-tional prices upwards of $3,000 —allowing the group to create a larg-er network and thus enjoy greater

accuracy and detection rates whilecovering a larger area.“There’s an amazing amount of

science that one can do with lotsand lots of sensors, science that’smuch harder to do when you havefewer sensors,” Mitchell said.

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Innovative photography

Ren Ng, named one of the top inventors of 2011 by Time magazine, spoke to students Wednesday in CrothersMemorial Hall. Ng’s company recently released a new digital camera pioneering light field photography.

Barack Obama.While attaining 1,144 dele-

gates may be mathematically im-probable for Santorum and Gin-grich, Whalen said that if both

continue to siphon off delegatesfrom Romney’s tally, they mayhave the opportunity to blockRomney from winning on the firstballot at the Republican conven-tion.

Romney’s reliance on narrowplurality wins has led to increasedvulnerability and, in Whalen’s es-timation, the race’s possible con-tinuation up to the June 5 Califor-nia primary.

“If the race continues on itscurrent trajectory, Romney canwin the majority of the delegatesbefore the convention,” Frisbysaid.

However, citing Santorum andGingrich’s refusals to drop out of the race, she added, “Super Tues-

day did nothing to change thelikelihood that we’re going all theway to the convention.”

Whalen further downplayedthe chances of Santorum or Gin-grich winning the nomination,noting that even though Santo-rum had won states around thecountry — unlike Gingrich, who

has only won so far in Georgiaand South Carolina — his lossesin Ohio and Michigan diminishedhis assertion that he could becompetitive in blue-collar statesin a general election.

Whalen said that Obamacould be the principal beneficiaryof the Republicans’ intra-partyconflict, citing the negative effectsof the protracted primary’s heat-

ed rhetoric. He added that theuninspiring victory margins couldhurt Romney’s popularity withindependent voters.

“The longer Republicans fighteach other, the more presidentialBarack Obama looks,” Whalensaid. “He looks like a leader, andthe Republicans look divided.”

Frisby highlighted the 2008Democrat primary contest be-tween Hillary Clinton andObama as evidence that an ex-tended primary has the potentialto produce a tested and polishedcandidate, but disputed the no-tion that any such benefits arecurrently accruing to the Repub-lican contenders.

“You want to move into the

general election with a strong or-ganization and a clear message,”Frisby said. “The Republicans ap-pear to be failing on that dramat-ically . . . The lack of a compellingmessage is quite striking.”

Contact Marshall Watkins at [email protected].

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Mexico. In 2009, she left her postat People and moved back to Ciu-

dad Juarez.“People thought I was crazybecause they were trying to leaveand I was coming back,” she said.“But I felt obligated to tell socie-ty what was happening.”

“I found the life, the happiness[in Ciudad Juarez] that I do notfind in other parts of the world,”she added. “It is not a beautifulcity, but the people are amazing.”

During her talk, Torrea shareda slideshow of her photos fromCiudad Juarez and recountedseveral anecdotes from her timereporting and living in the city.

She emphasized that she wit-nessed firsthand how accounts of events in Ciudad Juarez put for-ward by the Mexican authorities

rarely match what is really hap-pening on the ground.She criticized the security,

business and governmental insti-tutions in Mexico, citing their cor-ruption and ineffectiveness. Tor-rea also claimed that theCalderon administration startedthe “so-called war on drugs” be-cause it had links to the SinaloaCartel, and thus had an interest indefeating the Juarez Cartel.

Torrea said the outspoken na-ture of her blog posts has led tothreats from government and se-curity officials, but she remainsundeterred.

“When you are a journalist,you do not need to believe any-thing that somebody is telling

you, you need to prove what is re-ally happening,” she said. “Theonly thing I am afraid of is notdoing what I know I need to do.”

Torrea also said she is passion-ate about representing the voiceof the people rather than focusingon the voice of the “powerful,” inaddition to avoiding characteriz-ing people by labels of “good”

and “evil” — a negative trait sheattributed to the mainstreammedia.

She recounted meetings withthose involved in the drug tradein Ciudad Juarez who have no op-portunity for further educationand employment.

“They are trapped in a prisonin the desert . . . They turn to con-suming drugs then being involvedin a cartel,” she said. “This is aworld of people with no opportu-nities — they did not choose tobe born into this.”

“The Calderon administrationis trying to change the image of Ciudad Juarez . . . They shouldchange the reality instead,” sheadded.

As a project for her KnightFellowship, Torrea intends tobuild a multimedia platform forwomen bloggers in conflict zonesworldwide. She said her next stepwill be to recruit Stanford stu-dents to help with programming,translation and networking.

“Silicon Valley might be pri-marily men but it is women whoare making the most differencewith technology in conflictzones,” she said.

After her talk, audience mem-bers raised questions on topicsranging from her work as a jour-nalist to her thoughts on policy is-sues.

Responding to a question onthe difficulties of being a female

journalist in a conflict zone, Tor-rea said, “I think women are oftenbetter at reporting the situationbecause of the instinctive sensi-tivity they bring to the story.”

“It’s fascinating to hear herstory and how she risked her lifeto provide the facts,” said audi-

ence member Shahab Fadavi ’15.“It was a genuinely inspiringtalk.”

Torrea’s talk was part of a se-ries of events put on this week torecognize International Women’sWeek.

Contact Natasha Weaser at [email protected].

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By CHRIS FREDERICKCONTRIBUTING WRITER

While most freshmensit — or snooze —through IHUMlecture, some of their fellow ad-

mits are learning Mandarin inChina, working for a nonprofit intheir home state or following theirpassions around the globe.

Approximately 20 to 30 stu-dents defer their admission toStanford every year, an optioncommonly known as taking a gap

year, according to Assistant Di-rector of Admissions DavidLazo.

“Common gap year plans in-clude language immersion pro-grams through the U.S. State De-partment, professional participa-tion in the fine and performingarts and nonprofit work,” wroteLazo in an email to The Daily.

He noted that a few studentsdefer their admission in order tocomplete national military service— for instance, international stu-dents from countries such as Sin-gapore, which has a two-year na-tional service requirement for allmale citizens.

Although national newssources have stated that universi-

ties are reporting increasinglypopularity of gap years, Lazo saidthat this is not the case at Stan-ford.

“The number of students re-questing a gap year has remainedrelatively stable for the past sev-eral years,” he said.

During her gap year, CarolineHodge ’13 apprenticed at an or-ganic farm in Connecticut, in-terned as a reporter for the PaloAlto Daily News, volunteered andtraveled in South America andworked as a counselor at a sum-mer camp focused on social andenvironmental justice.

“I learned a lot about myself,”Hodge said. “I had space from thefrenetic pace of high school. I had

the time and space to remember

why I liked learning.”Hodge added that she appreci-

ated the unique opportunity tolive in a different environmentwhen traveling in South America.

“I would meet people who hadno idea what it meant that I wasfrom California, or that I wasgoing to Stanford next year orthat I was taking a year off,” shesaid.

Taking a year off also helpedHodge discover new interests.

“My whole interest in sustain-able agriculture, which has beensuch a big part of my college expe-rience — that all came from

working on a farm [during my gap

year],” she said. “I didn’t think itwould make a lasting impressionon me, [but] it really did.”

Unlike Hodge, some gap yearstudents, such as British nationalGeorge Burgess ’15, choose to de-vote themselves to a single proj-ect. Burgess used his year off toexpand EducationApps, an edu-cational mobile app business hestarted while in high school. Henoted that being a young entre-preneur was difficult at times.

“It gets sort of lonely runningyour own business at somepoints,” Burgess said. “For a longtime, it was just me working alone

the entire day, but it was definite-

ly worthwhile.”Burgess added that many of his

peers took gap years, a popularoption for high school graduatesin England, according to the WallStreet Journal.

“It seems like in the U.S. fewerpeople are even familiar with thisidea,” Burgess said. “I don’t knowwhy because I think it’s a fantasticexperience.”

“It’s the only chance you reallyhave to take an entire year off, andnot have any commitments, anyworries, work a bit, travel [or do]whatever you’re going to do. I justthink that sort of freedom doesn’t

come too often in life,” he added.

For Olympian Rachael Flatt’15, a gap year was a chance tospend time honing her skill as afigure skater. After a hectic senioryear, which included training forthe 2010 Winter Olympics andtaking four AP classes, Flatt saidshe was “busy and exhausted.”

“I needed a little bit more timeto sort everything out, and I reallywanted to give skating a goodshot, just focusing on training,”she said.

While Flatt’s gap year provid-ed a respite from academic pres-sures, the intense focus on athlet-ics was draining at times.

“The hardest part about mygap year was knowing that it wassolely about skating,” Flatt said.“For me, I need a balance, andschool was that good distractionfrom skating.”

Due to overtraining, Flatt suf-fered injuries during the year, in-cluding a stress fracture. Never-theless, she said the time allowedher “to grow up quite a bit.”

According to Lazo, newly ad-mitted students are often curiousabout gap years when they cometo Admit Weekend, but ultimate-ly, few choose to take time off.

“ Most students who requestand are granted a gap year haveplans in place well before they

learn of their admission decision,”he said.He warned students wishing to

pursue a gap year that they shouldbe able to present a “fully formedand researched plan” to the ad-missions office.

While the experience is not foreveryone, students who take gapyears can continue to benefit evenafter they arrive at the Farm.

“Pursuing a gap year is a per-sonal decision,” Lazo added. “Ap-plicants who take a gap year oftenreport to us that they are invigor-ated and ready to fully immersethemselves in the Stanford expe-rience.”

Contact Chris Frederick at cfred@

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OPINIONS

The Special Fees process ex-ists so that student groupsthat want more than $6,000

in annual funding from studentgovernment can take their re-quests directly to the student body

in the spring quarter elections.There are three ways to get on theballot: for groups already receivingSpecial Fees (and meeting a fewother requirements), approval of their budgets by 60% of the Senateis enough, while other groups mustcollect the signatures of 10% of un-dergraduates plus Senate ap-proval, or they can bypass the Sen-ate completely with signatures of 15% of undergraduates.

The more groups that receiveSpecial Fees, the more studentsare charged to supply the funding.If there were only a few studentgroups that needed Special Fees,such that each application couldbe scrutinized by campus mediaand the voters, then perhaps thesystem we have would makesense. However, the reality is thatSpecial Fees allows dozens of stu-dent groups to pursue largeamounts of funding without muchoversight, and the natural result isoverfunding.

In last year’s elections, 44 stu-dent groups’ petitions for under-graduate Special Fees were ap-proved by voters, while two wererejected. The rejects, StanfordChaparral and The Claw Maga-zine, both missed approval by lessthan 2 percent of the vote. In abrilliant act of satire-turned-truth,The Stanford Flipside receivedfunding approval with 69 percentof the vote, despite flaunting its in-

tention to spend the bulk of themoney on a Segway in its weeklysatirical publication, purportedlyfor “distribution.” Unfortunately,it appears that the stunt wasn’tenough to change the system.Next year, maybe they should askfor a hot air balloon or a camel tofurther revolutionize their distri-bution efforts.

Clearly, many of the groupsthat are currently petitioning tobe on this year’s Special Fees bal-lot will have little reason to fearrejection by the student body. Ac-cordingly, they do not have muchincentive to be economical. In themajority of cases, asking for

$60,000 when $50,000 would suf-fice is not going to put a group’sapproval in jeopardy. The result isunnecessary spending that comesout of students’ pockets. Evenworse, the lack of accountability

reduces incentives for organizinggreat campus events. Groupswould work harder if theythought that their future fundingdepended on proving their worth.

The problem is not that stu-dent groups are corrupt or waste-ful. When you are heavily in-volved in a community or a causethat is important to you, it is onlynatural to use all available re-sources to fulfill your vision, and itis better to have money left overthan to have asked for too little. Imyself am a financial officer forSTAND, a group that fightsagainst genocide and other massatrocities. Though we do not makeuse of Special Fees, I know fromexperience how tricky it is evenwithin the General Fees system tobalance thriftiness with the needto ensure that one’s group hasenough cash to perform its func-tions. In the Special Fees system,where a single all-or-nothing votedetermines budgets a year in ad-vance, the stakes are much higher.

When I vote on Special Fees, Ifeel like I have to assume thatgroups would cease operations if they don’t get approval. I don’tknow if this is true or not — manygroups do have other sources of funding, and indeed the Chaparralstill received funding from theASSU this year. Like about 70 per-cent of voters, I end up voting yesfor nearly every group because,

being unfamiliar with many of them, I am simply not qualified todecide which group should get themoney and which shouldn’t. It’spractically an invitation to be prej-udiced. If I vote for the Black Stu-dent Union, the Jewish Student As-sociation and the Queer-StraightAlliance, how can I possibly justifyturning down the Stanford Ameri-can Indian Organization or Stan-ford Women in Business, given thatI know nothing about how any of these groups operate?

Granting large sums of moneyto student groups is too complex atask for voters. It’s ridiculous thatwe’re expected to gauge, in a few

minutes of spare time, which five-and six-figure requests are validand which are excessive. As hard-working students, we simply don’thave the time or the interest topore through forty-plus budgets,and besides, the budgets are sovaguely written that we stillwouldn’t learn anything. To accu-rately evaluate requests, thegroup leaders who write themneed to be questioned line-by-lineon how they plan to use theirfunding and why they can betrusted to do a good job.

We need a trusted student

committee that can take owner-ship of the entire Special Feesprocess. Besides just voting pro-posals up or down, the committeecould work with student groups torevise their budgets to appropri-ate spending levels. A processoverseen by people who actuallycare about budgetary details issure to save money over the cur-rent system, which revolvesaround voters who would proba-bly prefer that someone else didthe job.

Think you know how to fix Special Fees? Tell Jeff your idea at [email protected].

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QUEENSTOWN, NZ. Onceagain, I was indebted toKathrin’s driving skills. Al-

ready foiled by my inability todrive a car with manual transmis-sion, now I could only sit back asshe maneuvered our truck up thefour-wheel drive ski lift road. Itbeing austral summer, there was-n’t a speck of snow in sight, butthere were plenty of trees. And asusual, we were in search of onespecies in particular: Douglas fir,which is rapidly becoming a nastyinvasive species following its in-

troduction from my North Ameri-can home.

This site, a few kilometers out-side of the city, was perhaps theleast remote of the places we’dvisit during our research in south-ern New Zealand. Most of thetime, we’re privileged to work inpretty isolated spots: Though myfield sites are marked by Douglas-fir plantations, an obvious humanmodification, they generally lackcell phone reception, paved roadsor other humans. I double-checkthe first aid kit and emergency lo-cator beacon every time I shoul-der my pack.

We get off the beaten path par-ticularly quickly in New Zealandbecause its human populationdensity is exceptionally low — atleast, compared to that of theUnited States (and my home stateof New Jersey in particular). EachKiwi could, in theory, sprawl outover six hectares, or roughly adozen American football f ields. Of course, 71 percent of people live inone of the country’s urban centers,which leaves a whole lot of real es-tate open to roving ecologists. Bycomparison, we denizens of theLower 48 — the contiguous Unit-ed States — squat on just 2.5hectares per person.

And yet, at the start of everyhike, we find the trappings of hu-manity. Usually it’s a beer bottle ortwo tossed at the side of the road.

(I once spotted the remains of anentire case tucked discretely intothe shrubbery.) As we trek uphill,the casual merrymakers drop out,and we encounter only the occa-sional tramping hut, an overnightbunkhouse for hikers, firewoodstacked neatly at its door.

Off-track, signs of human occu-pation are only indirect: Deerbrowse here, pine saplings growthere. Both species were deliber-ate human introductions to thecountry. Likewise, the absence of moa — the famed giant flightlessbirds, hunted to extinction aroundA.D. 1400 — and general silenceof the forests, whose songbirdshave been devastated by non-na-tive rats and possums, reveal

human impacts to the trained ob-server.Inevitably, our field surveys

bring us above the tree line —which is, admittedly, exceptionallylow in New Zealand. Even here,out among the tussock grasseswith spectacular views of a rugged,untamed landscape, we findwildling conifer seedlings, foreign-ers sprouting where no native treecould stand.

It’s easy to get depressed herein New Zealand, where so manyhuman-introduced organisms areoverrunning the native flora andfauna. But Aotearoa — as theFirst Peoples call their homeland

— is still a land of wildness . It’s stillthe place where you can hike fordays without encountering anoth-er human being. It’s still the placewhere city folk take off for the hillsover a weekend and return withfresh venison in their packs. It’s

still the place that calls those of uswho feel the urge to “get awayfrom it all.”

I love New Zealand for thisreason — for the same reason thatI loved Alaska when I workedthere so many years ago. I’m intox-icated by the knowledge that I amlooking out over distant peaksthat are rarely — if ever — visitedby humans. I don’t consider myself an explorer or trailblazer. I simplylike to reach the edge of humancivilization and look out over alimitless landscape, as its edgesdisappear beyond the horizon.

But just because something isout of sight doesn’t mean it’s outof reach.

Last week, the seventh episodeof the BBC’s Frozen Planet seriesaired here in New Zealand. This isthe infamous “climate changeepisode,” once deemed too con-troversial for American audi-ences. Sir David Attenborough —we were treated to the British ver-sion of the documentary, perhapsas a reward for tolerating Britishroad rules — points out shrinkingice shelves and thinning per-mafrost, both signs of human im-pact even at the farthest extremesof our world.

As it warms our poles andmountaintops, climate change willdeliver even more untamedwilderness into our hands. Un-doubtedly, we will press our advan-

tage, first laying new tracks, beforecharting opened shipping routesand finally farming thawed soil.

But what of the beer bottle-and cigarette butt-strewn rubblewe leave behind? Will this frontierslide inexorably forward as well?Will we call our domination of theEarth complete? And what will itmean for our humanity when wedo?

Holly welcomes questions, com-ments and loans of stick-shift cars for driving lessons at hollyvm@ stanford.edu. She refuses to master a 4WD, though: There are some places she prefers not to reach.

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The new test offers the possibil-ity of being able to examine fetalDNA as early as five weeks intopregnancy and to test it with just ablood drop, according to StanfordLaw School professor and tech-nology ethics expert Hank Greely’74.

The blood test eliminates therisk of more invasive tests such asamniocentesis, which can only becarried out later in pregnancy andcreate a higher risk of miscarriage.

The blood test counts the millionsof free-floating fetal DNA in ma-ternal blood, detecting excessivegenetic material that might signal abirth defect.

“This would not entirely re-place the more invasive method of amniocentesis, but it might signifi-cantly reduce the number of moth-ers that undergo amniocentesis,”wrote Ahmad Salehi, a clinical as-sociate professor in the StanfordSchool of Medicine, in an email toThe Daily.

“This is the first step toward areal transformation to how wehave babies in this country,” Greelysaid. “We’ve been able to do prena-

tal testing for over forty years but itinvolves difficult, expensive, un-pleasant, risky procedures. This isno long needle or invasive proce-dure.”

“There are five million preg-nancies in the world and 2 percentget genetic testing,” Greely added.“In a few years, this kind of testingwill be very common.”

While testing is currently limit-ed to Down syndrome, Edwardssyndrome and Patau syndrome,the technique may be broadly ap-plied in the future.

“Soon you will be able to look atany section of the genome youwant,” Greely said. Doctors wouldbe able to see if the fetus has Tay

Sachs disease, sickle cell anemia, “if they’re a redhead, a boy or a girl.”

The test opens up “broader dis-cussions,” according to Greely.

“We need to let parents havecomplete decision-making power,”he added. “It’s just better than hav-ing the government decide whatyou can and can’t do in pregnancy.”

“I believe the availability of rather easy techniques for prenataldetection of Down syndromewould be like a double-edgedsword,” Salehi wrote. “On the onehand, it may lead to an increase inabortion rates of fetuses withDown syndrome. However, it mayalso open up a new window for

early detection and treatment.”“It needs to become more ac-

curate to become diagnostic.Right now it’s recognized asscreening, not as diagnostic,”added Greely. “By making it easi-er to test you make it easier to ter-minate pregnancies you don’t

want. It raises some hard ques-tions for some people.”

“Our research has shown thatamong more than 300 genes tripli-cated in Down syndrome there area few genes that play major roles incognitive disabilities,” Salehiwrote. “For this reason, targeting

these specific genes and reducingtheir expression to normal in uteromight be a fundamental therapyfor children with Down syn-drome.”

Contact Josee Smith at jsmith11@ stanford.edu.

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Andy Kurtzig — currentlyCEO of JustAnswer, a company hefounded in 2003 — then spoke

about his own experiences, recall-ing personal stories of wanting todrop out of college to follow his en-trepreneurial dreams.

“All the superstars, Steve Jobs,Bill Gates, etc. dropped out of col-lege and were super successful,”Andy Kurtzig said. He added thathis mother convinced him to gradu-ate a year early from the Universityof California, Berkeley instead of dropping out.

Andy shared several stories of his ultimately unsuccessful ideas toillustrate his method of testing amarket. One of his early online en-terprises, a website called FileFun,tried to create a resell market for

music and other files online, a con-cept quickly ended by Apple’s in-clusion of Digital Rights Manage-ment (DRM) software in its music.

Another site he created,Darester, tried to apply the eBayonline auction model to sell servic-es instead of goods. Kurtzig startedthe venture with auctioning off

dares in a college setting, offeringthe example of paying someone toshove a pie in an employer’s face.

“After two months . . . I realizedit was not the kind of business Iwanted to be in,” he said, laughingat the unexpected ways peopleused the service.

With persistence, however,Andy Kurtzig found major successwith his current company, JustAn-swer.

He attributed the company’sconceptual origins to his wife’spregnancy, when — despite her fre-quent medical questions — shehad less frequent access to doctorsfor qualified and timely medical ad-

vice. Following the experience,Andy Kurtzig decided to create aservice that provides personalizedand on-demand help from real doc-tors, lawyers and other specialists.

He emphasized the lengthy hir-ing and verification process, whichincludes everything from standard-ized tests to software verification.

“It’s actually harder to becomea JustAnswer expert than it is to getinto Stanford,” he quipped.

Andy Kurtzig stressed that,more so than simply working formoney, entrepreneurs have to lovewhat they do.

“It’s really important thatyou’re passionate about making adifference in the world,” he said. “Iget letters all the time from cus-tomers that say, ‘You saved mydaughter’s life’ and things like that.That’s what we do. We help peopleall day.”

Contact Matt Bettonville at [email protected].

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By ANDERS MIKKELSENSTAFF WRITER

Chasson Randle may be just a freshman,but he in no way seemed intimidated by hisfirst trip to the big stage of the Pac-12 tourna-ment. The guard was impossible to stop onWednesday night, scoring a career-high 30points, as Stanford cruised by Arizona State

85-65 in the opening round.The Cardinal (21-11, 11-8 Pac-12) enteredthe tournament as the No. 7 seed but appearsto be reverting back to the winning ways thathad it leading the Pac-12 at the start of theseason.

From the start, it was apparent that Ari-zona State (10-21, 6-13) was again unable tokeep up with the Cardinal. Stanford provedunstoppable from behind the arc early, asRandle, sophomore guard Aaron Bright andsophomore forward Anthony Brown con-nected on a series of threes. The Cardinalwent an incredible nine of 15 behind thethree-point line in the first half alone.

Throughout the first half, Randle demon-strated why he was named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman team earlier this week. The guardalternated between attacking the rim anddraining threes, shredding any defense

thrown at him. He had 27 of his 30 points inthe first half, setting a conference tournamentrecord for most points in a half, and also con-tributed three steals on the defensive end.

In an attempt to slow him down, the SunDevils resorted to fouling Randle almostevery time he touched the ball, and the fresh-man made them pay. A 73.8-percent free-throw shooter this season, Randle got 12 at-tempts from the free-throw line in the firsthalf and sunk 10 of them.

He was equally dangerous from the field,hitting five of six threes in the first half and sixof eight on the game. He scored his 30 on just11 shot attempts in the most efficient and pro-ductive game of his young career.

Despite his hot shooting hand, Randleshowed no interest in padding his stats in thesecond half, preferring to get his teammatesinto the action. He took just three shots, as

head coach Johnny Dawkins allowed thebench to get some tournament experience.The comfortable lead held by the Cardinal al-lowed Dawkins to rest his starters, knowingthat Stanford still has three more games towin if it hopes to capture the Pac-12 title.

Overall, Dawkins has to be happy withhow the Stanford team played, as the Cardi-nal shot 47.3 percent from the field and 52.6percent from three-point range, and out-re-bounded Arizona State 32-28. Stanford alsocontrolled the ball far better than usual, com-mitting just 10 turnovers.

With Arizona State behind them, Stanfordturns to a rematch with Cal, the tournament’sNo. 2 seed. In their meeting Sunday, the Car-dinal defeated its rival 75-70, preventing theGolden Bears from winning the Pac-12 regu-lar season title. Stanford would love to earnits second victory over Cal in less than a weekby knocking them out of tournament-titlecontention as well.

The Golden Bears will definitely not godown without a fight, however. Not only dothey want to avenge the loss that cost themthe No. 1 seed, but a victory could ensurethem a spot in the NCAA tournament. Caland Washington are the only Pac-12 teamswith the potential to earn at-large bids, but anearly loss in the Pac-12 tournament wouldgreatly hurt their chances.

To beat Cal, Stanford has to do a better jobof stopping forward Harper Kamp and guardAllen Crabbe. Kamp has averaged just 11.3points and 5.1 rebounds per game this season,but has put up an average of 17 and 6.5 inCal’s two meetings with Stanford this year.

Crabbe, the Golden Bears’ leading scorer,has averaged 19 points against Stanford, well

above his 15.4 average for the season.Another key to defeating Cal is to force

the Golden Bears to rely on their bench. Al-though Stanford has exceptional depth, Caldoes not, with the entire bench averaging justfive points per game against Stanford. If Cal’sstarting lineup gets into foul trouble, like itdid last Sunday, the reserve unit will struggleto pick up the scoring slack.

The Cardinal will face off with Cal tonightat 6 p.m. at the Staples Center. The winner of that matchup will face the winner of the 8:30p.m. game between No. 3 seed Oregon andNo. 6 seed Colorado.

Contact Anders Mikkelsen at amikk@stanford.edu.


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RUNAWAY RANDLEManningdecision ano-brainer

By now, you’ve probablyheard that the great Pey-ton Manning’s time isover in Indianapolis.Cue the Andrew Luck

era for the Colts.But if you’re aware that Peyton’s

days in blue and white are over,you’ve probably also seen the rangeof immediate reactions to this mo-mentous announcement. For themost part, those in the nationalmedia are throwing up their hands,asking Colts owner Jim Irsay how hecould do such a thing, promising thatPeyton will make the Colts rue theday they ever cut him and damningthe cold and cruel business of foot-ball for ending the career of a legendin such ignominious fashion.

But hold on just a second. Take astep back and remove the emotions,and you’ll see that the IndianapolisColts organization did the only logi-cal thing for the prolonged success of its football team.

You don’t have to ignore howgreat No. 18 is (was), but don’t ignorethe facts in this situation. PeytonManning is old in football years,missed the entirety of last seasonwith a significant neck injury andwas due a huge bonus that wouldhave forced the Colts to break thebank for him, a guy who could con-ceivably never play in the NFL againif there’s any setback in his rehabprocess.

When you’re faced with all thosemorbid details, holding the No. 1pick in the draft and the incomingplayer happens to be the most pro-ready NFL quarterback prospectsince Manning, the choice youshould make is obvious.

In the NFL, you always want toget rid of a talented player too earlyinstead of too late, and when you’vegot a younger talent waiting in thewings, the choice becomes even eas-ier. That’s why the Packers got rid of Brett Favre for Aaron Rodgers.That’s why the 49ers got rid of JoeMontana (who was better thanManning, by the way) for SteveYoung. That’s why the Patriots rou-tinely trade away great veteran play-ers to get draft picks, a strategy thatseems to work pretty well for them.

But instead of many in the mediafully realizing all these details, youget writers like ESPN’s Gene Woj-ciechowski making arguments forwhy the Colts should have keptManning.

He writes, “Irsay would rather

roll the bones on Andrew Luck orRobert Griffin III than on Manning.Luck and RG3 have a combinedzero NFL snaps. Manning has aSuper Bowl ring and four leagueMVP awards, and has thrown formore yards in NFL history thaneveryone except Brett Favre andDan Marino. And never mind whatcaused this divorce or where he’llend up next.”

No, Gene, we have to mind whatcaused this divorce. You can’t ignoreManning’s bum neck just because of what he did in the past. You also can’tignore that you’re sitting on the firstpick in the draft and all you have todo to secure your team’s future iscash in your winning lottery ticket bywriting “Andrew Luck” on a piece of

paper in April.Oh, but Gene says that’s not

good enough. He continues, “Luck,the presumptive No. 1 choice, was aremarkable college quarterback.But show me the documentationthat guarantees he’ll be a remark-able NFL quarterback. I’ll go read— and fi nish — James Joyce’s“Ulysses” as you try to find that pa-perwork.”

Tell you what, Gene, while I findthat paperwork on Luck, why don’tyou go find the paperwork that saysManning will definitely return to fullform once he hits the field. Oh, wait,that paperwork doesn’t exist . . . andyour argument is specious and total-ly idiotic. Once again, the Colts’choice is obvious.

Finally, it’s worth mentioning thatthe way the Colts let go of Manningwas more than classy. They called apress conference, laid out all the de-tails of the lamentable split, Irsayand Manning both cried and Irsaypromised that no Colt would everwear No. 18 again. The Colts reiterat-ed just how important Manning willforever be to their franchise andwished him along in the classiest waypossible. We should all be so luckywhen we get fired.

So when you look at the whole of this Peyton Manning situation, re-

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Chiney Ogwumike, above, was one of three Stanford players named to the All-Pac-12 team, along with sister Nnemkadi Ogwumike and Toni Kokenis. After afirst-round bye, the Card will open Pac-12 tournament play against Washington.Please see BLANCHAT, page 6

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Freshman guard Chasson Randle (5) goes up for a basket past Arizona State's Jonathan Gilling(31) in the first half of the Cardinal’s opening Pac-12 tournament game at Staples Center in Los

Angeles. Stanford advanced easily, 85-65, behind Randle’s record-breaking first half.

By TOM TAYLORSENIOR STAFF WRITER

After receiving a first-round bye, the Stanfordwomen’s basketball team will begin its Pac-12 tourna-ment campaign today against Washington at the GalenCenter in Los Angeles. The No. 2 Cardinal looks to cap-ture the inaugural Pac-12 tournament title in addition tothe regular season title, which it clinched with a victoryover Oregon last month.

Top-seeded Stanford (28-1, 18-0 Pac-12) — a teamthat has appeared in every championship game since thefirst Pac-10 tournament in 2002 — hopes to pick up itsninth tournament title this weekend, but it will need towin three straight games on consecutive days. However,the task is even harder for Washington (17-12, 8-10),which defeated Oregon yesterday 72-56. Although theHuskies will be buoyed by the momentum of yesterday’svictory, they would need to win four games in as manydays to take home the trophy, including tomorrow’s un-

even matchup against the Cardinal.The Huskies are one of only two Pac-12 squads thatStanford played just once this season, with the other beingtheir in-state rival, Washington State. The Cardinal wonthat game back on Jan. 23, 65-47, with a solid second-half performance that made up for a tight opening period. Butif Stanford follows its season trend — it has drasticallyimproved against all of the teams that gave it a tough ridethe first time around — there should be no struggleagainst the Huskies tomorrow. Stanford edged OregonState at Maples 67-60 and then routed the Beavers 78-45in Corvallis, and the squad hung on to win 74-71 in over-time against California on the Farm before thrashing itsarchrival 86-61 across the Bay last Sunday.

“I think we have been constantly growing since the be-ginning,” said sophomore forward Chiney Ogwumike.

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TROPICAL DEPRESSION

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The No. 3 Stanford men’s volleyball team suffered its second loss in a week and its fifth on the season. TheCard fell to No. 13 Hawaii in four sets on Wednesday after defeating the Warriors just one day before.

By DANIEL LUPINSTAFF WRITER

The month of March hasproven unkind to the No. 3 Stan-ford men’s volleyball team. Afterwinning 12 of its first 15 matches,the Cardinal has gone 2-2 in the

past week, entering a 22-day breakafter last night’s loss to No. 14Hawaii in Maples Pavilion.

Wednesday evening’s 3-1 de-feat (20-25, 25-22, 25-20, 25-23) tothe Warriors was all the morepainful because just one night be-fore, Stanford (14-5, 11-4 Moun-tain Pacific Sports Federation)beat Hawaii (7-12, 4-10) in thesame number of sets.

Moving forward, it will be in-teresting to see how the team re-sponds to real adversity for thefirst time. A theme has developedfor the Cardinal — despite consis-tent play from senior All-Ameri-cans Brad Lawson and Erik Shoji,Stanford has struggled in matchesin which the supporting cast has

not been at its best — which it willneed to address in order to be suc-cessful in the deep MPSF.

Tuesday night’s match was suc-cessful for the Card due in largepart to sophomore Steven Irvinand senior Gus Ellis. Irvin pacedthe Cardinal with 19 kills en routeto a career-high night, and Elliswas a perfect eight-for-eight on hishitting attempts. The team won ahard-fought match 22-25, 25-19,25-18, 25-23, the likes of which the

team’s ardent supporters havecome to expect.

Despite losing a sloppy first setin which the two teams combinedfor 11 service errors, includingfour in a row at one point, Stan-ford was able to find its footing inthe second. Trailing 8-10 after yet

another service error, the Cardembarked on a 10-3 run that wascatalyzed by an Ellis solo block.After trading points for much of the rest of the set, Ellis, alongsidesophomore Brian Cook, came upwith a crucial block to seal the setfor Stanford.

Stanford’s offense, which hadstruggled in the first two sets, cameto life in the third. The Cardinalwould hit .481 as a team for therest of the match, with Ellis andIrvin leading the way. The two con-tributed 16 of their combined 27kills in the final two games, includ-ing Irvin’s eight fourth-quarterkills and his match-deciding point.

On Wednesday night, the War-riors would return the favor in al-

most identical fashion. Stanfordwon the first set, holding Hawaii toa .237 hitting percentage, by far itslowest clip of the match, while theCard hit .387.

The tides turned in the secondset for Hawaii, when the Cardi-nal’s offense came to a halt. TheWarriors were able to best Stan-ford’s lowly .194 hitting percent-age in the set by using a balancedattack, with five different Hawaiihitters registering kills in the set.

Senior Steven Hunt, who ledthe Warriors with 22 kills in thematch, was instrumental in theteam’s third set victory, registeringthree early kills to give Hawaii a 5-3 lead. Despite going back andforth, Stanford was never able totake the lead. Hawaii capitalized,

reeling off five straight points toclose out the set after blockingLawson.

The final set of the match be-longed to Hawaii freshman andGerman national J.P. Marks, whotallied eight of his career-high 18kills in the final and deciding set.Despite holding a 19-18 lead andtying the score at 23, Stanford wasunable to come up with the bigplays necessary to prolong thematch one set further.

Cook and Lawson finishedwith a combined 35 kills for theCardinal, but it was enough, as therest of the team hit a paltry .244.Senior Evan Barry had 48 assistsand 12 digs in the loss.

Stanford will have an extended

break to rest and regroup beforeresuming the grueling final stretchof MPSF play.

“We will look at what weak-nesses they exploited and work tofix those,” Irvin said after the loss.

The Cardinal has until March30 to work out the kinks, when itwill head to Malibu, Calif. to takeon Pepperdine.

Contact Daniel Lupin at delupin@ stanford.edu.

“We’ve never been too high, andwe’ve never been too low, andthat’s a good thing because westeadily keep improving. We’re

just hoping to build off of our lastwin at Cal . . . for the [Pac-12]tournament, and then build onthat for the bigger tournament.”

The recent Pac-12 awards hon-ored that steady progress, namingsenior forward Nnemkadi Ogwu-mike the Player of the Year; sister

Chiney the Defensive Player of the Year; and both, along withsophomore guard Toni Kokenis,to the All-Pac-12 team. Headcoach Tara VanDerveer tookhome the conference’s Coach of the Year award, and the Ogwu-mike sisters remain among the 15players shortlisted for the nation-al John R. Wooden Player of theYear. But with the regular seasonnow behind them, Stanford’splayers face their biggest tests of the season this weekend and inthe weeks to come.

“[We’re taking it] just one dayat a time, really,” Nnemkadi Og-wumike said. “At this point we’reonly guaranteed two games, andwe want to play way more thanthat. I think we’re just takingevery day gratefully and trying tohave fun. I think when we havefun, we do well, so that’s kind of what we’re focusing on.”

The Huskies were led in scor-ing through the regular season byredshirt senior center ReginaRogers and freshman point guardJazmine Davis, with averages of 16.3 and 16.2 points per game, re-spectively. The two were in excep-tional form against the Ducksyesterday, with Davis putting up23 points and Rogers 21. Wash-ington also had standout per-formances from freshman for-ward Aminah Williams and red-shirt senior forward MackenzieArgens, pulling down 16 and 10

rebounds, respectively.In comparison, the Ogwumike

sisters have double-double sea-son averages, with 21.6 points pergame and 10.5 rebounds pergame for Nnemkadi, and 15.9 and

10.1 for Chiney. Although otherplayers might seem further off statistically — Kokenis and jun-ior forward Joslyn Tinkle comenext in scoring with 9.7 and 8.8ppg, respectively — multiple ca-reer highs have been set by manyof them over the season.

But despite the statistical edgeher team holds, VanDerveer istaking nothing for granted thisweekend.

“We have to be hungry,” Van-Derveer said. “We have to go intoit no matter who we’re playing,and I think there’s going to besome really exciting basketballwith all the teams. There’s such a

jumble there that you don’t knowwho you are going to play. Who-ever we play, if you’re in thatchampionship game you’re goingto have to play well.”

The second-round contest of the Pac-12 tournament betweenStanford and Washington will tipoff today at 12 p.m. at the GalenCenter in Los Angeles.

Contact Tom Taylor at [email protected].

TOURNEY Continued from page 5

member that, at a certain point, weall have to face facts. When Manninggets into the Hall of Fame someday,there’s no way he’ll deliver a bitter,Michael Jordan-esque rant abouthow the Colts slighted him by letting

him go. He, and we, all should realizethat this situation doesn’t come upoften — and the Colts made theonly logical decision.

Jack Blanchat just praised the Patri-ots for the first and last time in hislife. Kick him off the Brady Band-wagon at [email protected] follow him on Twitter @jmblan-chat.

BLANCHATContinued from page 5

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high, and we’ve never

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that’s a good thing,

because we steadily

keep improving.

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