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Vocal critic of failed Internet regu-lations outlines future legislation

By SARAH MOORESTAFF WRITER

This years ASSU Executive candidatessparred Monday night during a debate atthe CoHo co-sponsored by The Daily andThe Stanford Review. Slates Zimbroff-Wagstaff, Open Source Candidates andMacgregor-Dennis & Druthi participated,while a fourth and fifth slate, Family Mat-ters and Mwaura-Mbatia, dropped out ofthe presidential race fewer than 24 hoursbefore the event.

Slates had one minute to respond toeach of 12 questions.

Robbie Zimbroff 12 and WilliamWagstaff 12 emphasized that they did notwish to reinvent the wheel of ASSU ifelected. The Open Source Candidatesslate, Daniel Koning 14 and Kian Ameli

13, representing the Chaparral, stressedtheir accessibility through their campaign

wiki site, while Stewart Macgregor-Dennis13, current ASSU vice president, and hisrunning mate Druthi Ghanta 14 highlight-ed that they offer a slate with an ASSU in-sider and outsider.

Macgregor-Denniss work as ASSUvice president and his nearly $10,000 salarywere the topic of much debate, but none ofthe slates said they would take a wage-cutor refuse payment altogether if elected.

Its not right to view the presidency asa leadership position in a student group,Macgregor-Dennis said. Its more like a

job that should be compensated that way.Macgregor-Dennis added that he re-

duced his course load in order to be able tocommit more time to ASSU work this year.

Wagstaff commented that as a first-gen-eration student who would not be able tocontinue his work as a resident assistant

(RA) or maintain another job if elected, hewould not refuse monetary compensation

from the ASSU.Koning said he would not turn away themoney either.

We think theres nothing wrong withtaking the money and running, Koningsaid. Its actually part of our agenda.

Another recurring issue at the debatewas a textbook exchange program advo-cated by Zimbroff and Wagstaff.

The textbook exchange could go along way, and the ASSU could be a conduitfor that, Zimbroff said. Its an example ofwhat we would use money on, and we feelthat would be an effective use of funds.

Macgregor-Dennis countered by sayingthere is no need for the exchange, pointingto Book Bazaar, a student-initiated web-site that organizes student textbook tradeswithout cost to the ASSU. Macgregor-Dennis noted that the program was started

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Searsville committee to evaluate impactBy MATT BETTONVILLE

DESK EDITOR

The newly formed Searsville AlternativesStudy Steering Committee is now directingplanning efforts for potentially majorchanges to the Stanford-owned SearsvilleDam and Reservoir. Because the dam con-trols water flow to Stanfords Jasper Biologi-cal Preserve and has a controversial environ-mental impact on surrounding areas, thecommittee formed to conduct thorough stud-ies over the next two years to precede any ac-tion, according to Philippe Cohen, adminis-trative director of Jasper Ridge and a mem-ber of the Searsville Alternatives StudySteering Committee.

Cohen gave a presentation Monday nightat the Stanford National Accelerator Centeroutlining the issues the committee faces.

Jasper Ridge presents a particularly chal-lenging situation for the committee. Accord-ing to Cohen, the reserve tries to maintain ahands-off policy as a biological field sta-tion, leaving the terrain untouched by hu-mans. This policy allows for important fieldresearch projects, including the Jasper RidgeGlobal Change Experiment, which has beencollecting climate change data since 1992.

The preserve also protects several nativeand endangered species, including the steel-headed trout and California red-legged frog.

The idea of the hands-off policy is to re-move the human influence factor from natu-

ral environments. However, the manmadeSearsville Dam has had a major influence onthe local environment since its construction

in 1892 and the Jasper Ridge area is startingto feel its long-term consequences, Cohensaid.

In particular, a 1998 study showed that thedam trapped huge amounts of sediment inSearsville Lake. The study recorded 207,000tons of sediment flowing into the dam andonly 15,000 tons flowing out. Searsville Lakewas a public recreation area until Stanfordclosed it to the public in 1975.

Over the last decade, the once-popularlake has diminished in size and become over-

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Class president slates cite unity as goalBy SARAH MOORE

STAFF WRITER

Next years senior and sophomoreclasses have some competition for classpresident with three and two slates run-ning for office, respectively. One slate isrunning uncontested for the junior classpresidency.

This turnout is a significant decreasefor the sophomore class, as the past twoelections each had four slates campaign-ing for sophomore class president. For atleast the past seven years, there have beenno fewer than three sophomore slates.

The number of slates for junior classpresident is down to one, a more common

occurrence for junior elections.The drop in sophomore slates does not

necessarily indicate that the class of 2015is less engaged than freshman classes ofthe past, wrote Alicia Hamar 15 of theslate Sophomores: Order of the Cardinalin an email to The Daily.

Although there are less slates runningthis year, it just may mean that freshmen

are as involved in other pursuits, Hamarsaid. Although there are only two slatesrunning, we are confident that both slatesare committed and interested in servingthe class. Class presidency isnt everyonescup of tea.

The other sophomore slate is The In-credibles, who agreed that their class is

very involved and accomplished on cam-pus.

We know that students in our classare extremely accomplished, but we dontalways hear about it, said CostnerMcKenzie 15 of The Incredibles. Thegroup said that, if elected, it hopes to cre-ate a sophomore tracker that would in-form students of their classs achieve-

ments.Both slates for sophomore class presi-dent recognize that the transition out ofthe freshmen experience can make stu-dents more independent and even less in-tune with the rest of their class.

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Law SchoolDean to leavefor HewlettKramer led curriculum overhaul and

shift to quarterly academic calendar

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Challenging stereotypes

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Disability justice activist Mia Mingus, center, speaks on a panel of disability and queer rights activists Monday evening in Roble Theater. Theevent was part of Transgender Awareness Week, which kicked off Monday afternoon and will continue throughout the week.

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Rep. IssadiscussesSOPA/PIPA

By AARON SEKHRI

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)engaged in a public conversation Mon-day evening with Anthony Falzone, di-rector of the Fair Use Project at the Cen-ter for Internet and Society (CIS), on thebroad subject of Internet freedoms andintellectual property. The event, entitledSOPA, PIPA and Internet Freedom:Where Do We Go From Here? was held

at the Law School in front of a crowd ofmostly graduate students and faculty.Honing in on the heavily opposed

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Pro-tect IP Act (PIPA), which failed in theU.S. Senate and House, respectively, Issadiscussed the need for unambiguous lawsin this domain.

Issa, chairman of the House Commit-tee on Oversight and Government Re-form, weighed in on SOPA and PIPA,both of which he vocally opposed. Artic-ulating his primary concerns against thelaws, Issa claimed that the legislation wastoo loosely written and exhibited anunreasonable expansion of individualand judicial power.

When asked by Falzone about the in-troduction of the bills in Congress, Issasaid that many thought the law would

pass, and the defeat was a surprise tomany in Congress. The legislations con-ception, he said, was lacking in intelli-gence, transparency and precision.

Issa detailed the strategy against thelaw as stalling for time, and making it ra-dioactive, citing the work of a number oflegislators, most significantly Rep. JasonChaffetz (R-Utah).

Explaining the key factors that de-railed SOPA and PIPA, Issa reflected onwhat he saw as the most important criti-

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By ANTONIO RAMIREZ

Stanford Law School Dean LarryKramer announced Wednesday of springbreak that he will be leaving the Universityto serve as president of the William and FloraHewlett Foundation, a philanthropy organi-zation that issues grants to solve social andenvironmental problems. Kramer will suc-ceed current Hewlett Foundation PresidentPaul Brest, who took the role upon leavingthe Stanford Law School Dean position in1999.

Kramer leaves behind a legacy of reformsto the law school curriculum, including de-veloping clinics that allow law students torepresent clients, moving the law school to

the quarter system and overseeing expan-sion of the law campus.When Dean Kramer arrived, he made

the buildup of the legal clinic one of his pri-orities, said Lawrence C. Marshall, directorof the Mills Legal Clinic, which operates as a

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single law firm and encapsulatesthe Law Schools assortment oflitigation clinics, including onesdevoted to international humanrights, environmental law, com-munity law and Supreme Courtlitigation.

Since Dean Kramer has ar-

rived in 2004, the law school hasdeveloped the capacity for everystudent to take a legal clinic,Marshall said. Weve trans-formed the program from a part-time to a full-time program, ex-panded the range of opportunitiesacross subject areas for studentsto study and engage in clinicalwork, and went from two to 10clinics.

Later this year, another newclinic will be open at the LawSchool the Stanford JuelsgaardIntellectual Property and Innova-tion Clinic.

It is a further testament to thediversification of kinds of experi-ences that are available throughthe program, Marshall said in ref-erence to the new clinic. At atime, clinics were almost exclu-sively engaged in litigation. Now,we have clinics that work on trans-actions for nonprofit organiza-tions, clinics that do fact-finding inthe international human rightsarena and, now, the Juelsgaardclinic, which will be engaged inpolicy-oriented work on behalf of

clients.With the intention of facilitat-

ing interdisciplinary educationwith the rest of the University, thelaw school switched its academiccalendar from a semester to aquarter system in the 2009-10school year, under Kramers lead-ership.

Professors are used to think-ing about criminal law or contractsas a semester course, Brest said.Changing the course to the moreintensive period of a quarter re-quires retooling and working withfaculty to overcome resistance. To

help them change requires politi-cal and personal skills and per-suasion.

Stanford is now among only ahandful of law schools to use thequarter system.

Joint degree programs also sawa rise under Kramers leadership.Currently, the number of formal

joint degree programs stands at 28.In addition to reforms to the

curriculum, Kramer oversaw theconstruction of the William H.Neukom Building and the Munger

Residences.Mr. Neukom was a graduate

of the law school, and I had begungetting to know him when I wasdean, said Brest in reference tothe process of constructing theNeukom Building. He seemedwell-disposed to the law school,but it took Larry Kramer to buildthe trust, the confidence, and to de-velop the common interest tomake the deal for Mr. Neukom toput as much money as he did intothis beautiful new building.

Underlying everything is a vi-sion of the importance of the law

school not just as a center for re-search but as a way of betterpreparing students for the legalprofession and for work in publicpolicy, Brest added.

Over the years, Kramer has alsoheld periodic, open town hallmeetings. At each meeting,Kramer made a small presentationabout the schools current policiesand opened the floor to questions.

He would be very straightfor-ward with the students, saidAdam Sieff, a first-year Stanfordlaw student, referring to his im-pression of Kramer at one of thetown hall meetings. He would gostep-by-step and be very transpar-ent and very honest. I know as astudent I appreciated that.

Kramers new occupation asthe president of the Hewlett Foun-dation has significant worldly im-plications, according to Susan Bell,vice president of the HewlettFoundation and the deputy chairof the search committee for thefoundations new president

To conduct the process tosearch for the next president of theHewlett Foundation, we decidedto take the time to talk to peoplefrom all over the country and out-side the country about the world inwhich this president would be op-erating the foundation over thenext decade, Bell said. [We dis-cussed] what are some of the issuesthat will be arising that will impactthe work we do in education, glob-al development and in the envi-ronment.

Larry has all the things wewere looking for in terms of abright and lively mind, a hungerand curiosity to make a differencein the world about the big issuesthat vex our socSHARE programtargets first-gen., low-income stu-dentsety, she added. He has awonderful way of going about hiswork, as has been demonstrated atthe law school.

Kramer also expressed his ex-citement for the new role.The role of the foundation is

to deploy resources not just fi-nancial, but human and intellec-tual to make the world a bet-ter place, Kramer said. The op-portunity to head such an organi-zation was exciting to me, andHewlett in particular focuses onissues that I care about and doesso in ways that make sense tome.

Contact Antonio Ramirez atajram741@stanford.edu.

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SHARE connects low-income students with mentorsBy NITHYA VIJAYAKUMAR

Launched at the beginning of the month,the SHadow Alums in the REal World(SHARE) pilot program aims to increase ex-ploration of career options for first-genera-

tion college students by taking them into theworkplaces of Stanford alumni.

The program is the result of a partnershipbetween the First-Generation Low IncomePartnership (FLIP), the Career Develop-ment Center (CDC), Stanford Alumni Men-toring (SAM) and the ePortfolio project.

Applications to the program to the pro-gram closed April 1, and selected studentsparticipated in an orientation last Tuesday inOld Union. While the program encouragedall interested Stanford students to apply, itplaced priority on those who identify as first-generation or low-income.

SHARE is ideal for a range of interests:

from those who dont know what they wantand would like to explore to those who doknow what they want and have specific ques-tions, said Sonoo Thadaney, a leader forSHARE at the Diversity and First Genera-tion Office.

Each alumnus mentor hosts a small groupof two to four undergraduates, with the goalof giving students the opportunity to experi-ence the workplace, ask questions and beginnetworking.

Stanford called upon alumni who identi-fied as first-generation, low-income or sup-porters to host students. According toThadaney, many alumni said they appreciat-ed the support they received at Stanford asfirst-generation or low-income students andwere eager to pass the baton forward throughthe SHARE program.

[Alumni] commented that what mayseem commonplace to most Stanford stu-

dents certainly was not to them as first-gen,Thadaney said. And thus they were happy tosee the Universitys focus on the needs of thisstudent community.

While alumni from many companies of-fered to host students, the SHARE program

has decided to stay small for the pilot year.Companies hosting students include Intuit;Bailard; VMware, Inc.; Tarana Wireless;Farella Braun+Martel LLP; and the KIPPFoundation.

Each new student member of the programcreates an ePortfolio, an online platform foreach student to document academic worksuch as papers, projects and audio files of pre-sentations. The Office of the Registrar hasspearheaded the ePortfolio pilot programthroughout campus to explore how onlinelearning portfolios can be used in the future.

Unlike Facebook, which represents a stu-dents social identity, the Stanford ePortfolio

is intended to help students document vari-ous aspects of their intellectual identity as alearner, Thadaney said. The ePortfolio alsoserves as a means of introducing students inSHARE to alumni mentors and helping thembuild a professional network.

According to Thadaney, the ePortfolioswill provide a valuable source of feedbackabout SHARE, since it encourages alumniand students to reflect on their experiences.She said the qualitative data from these re-flections, combined with staff opinions andideas, will be used to improve and further de-velop SHARE.

Student and alumni participation inSHARE have been finalized for the month ofApril, but there are still a few spots available,Thadaney added.

Contact Nithya Vijayakumar at nithyapv@stan-ford.edu.

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Law School Dean Larry Kramer leaves behind a legacy of significant reforms to the Law School curriculum, in-cluding expanding interdisciplinary education options and moving the Law School to the quarter system.

without any ASSU funding.Book Bazaar is currently not

being maintained, but the pro-grams website says it will returnin winter 2012.

Macgregor-Dennis and Ghan-ta emphasized the value of theirslates combined experience,

both from within and outside ofstudent government.

Ive been a critic of the ASSUand the ASSU not being connect-ed with the student body, which Ithink will give us an advantagenext year because Ill have thatperspective, Ghanta said. Shealso commented that Macgregor-Denniss extensive past workwith the ASSU would allow thepair to start work with differentgroups from day one instead ofhaving to learn the inner-work-ings of student government.

Zimbroff and Wagstaffstressed their other studentgroup involvement, includingtheir work as RAs, in club sportsand in various other student or-ganizations.

ASSU experience doesntprepare you better to be ASSUpresident, Zimbroff said. Weknow students day-to-day lives,so our experiences prepare usbetter.

The Open Source Candidatesalso did not feel that their lack ofexperience in student govern-ment hurts their qualifications.

I dont have a whole lot of ex-perience, but I know what Imdoing, Ameli said. To whichKoning added, We may not besmart, but were both streetsmart.

All slates were asked to de-scribe one action item from their

platform.Macgregor-Dennis & Druthispoke about creating an ASSUCivic Action Unit, which Ghantadescribed as the leveraging plat-form for students to pursue non-profit experiences next year.

Wagstaff and Zimbroff com-mented on campus tutoring pro-grams.

There are 47 different groupsthat go to tutor in [East PaloAlto] EPA, and we think thats agreat thing, but we want to con-solidate, Wagstaff said. Wewant to condense our service ef-forts and also monitor the greatwork there.

During a question-and-an-swer session with the audience,

the slates were asked how theywould discern which commentsand concerns from students meritserious attention and which aresubmitted as jokes.

If I caught my son smoking acigarette, I would make himsmoke the whole pack, Koningsaid. If I caught my son smokinga joint, I would make him smokean ounce blunt. If someone post-ed a joke to our wiki, you betterbelieve, boy howdy, that wewould implement it.

Contact Sarah Moore at smoore6@stanford.edu.

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cisms levied against the bills: Do-main Name System (DNS) block-ing and a stifling effect on innova-tion.

The law would have basicallyshut off the innovation created ina 20-square mile radius of righthere, said Issa, referring to Sili-con Valley.

On Jan. 18, more than 7,000websites issued blackouts inprotest of the two bills. Issa credit-ed the multitude of websites thatprotested the bills as soundingtheir death knell.

He proceeded to discuss hisown alternative, the Online Pro-tection and Enforcement of Digi-tal Trade (OPEN) Act, which he

claimed would more effectivelyaddress the online piracy debate.

We have to make legislationas surgical and as minimal as pos-sible to diminish the unintendedconsequences and the excesseslarge, loose laws create, Issa said.

Issa also described his Madi-son program, a crowdsourcingplatform that integrates com-ments and suggestions from thepeople at each step of the legisla-tive process.

He described his vision for thelegislative process as one inwhich laws are presented asworking documents to be trans-parently viewed and critiqued asthey evolve, although he admit-ted the difficulties of achievingsuch a goal.

Issa maintained that the sig-nificant challenges we face in thearea of Internet legislation arethe result of a tax structure that

balances legitimate ends againstthe arbitrary creation of taxes by

government to raise funds, sti-fling innovative businesses.

In response to audience ques-tions, Issa continued to assert hissupport for minimal, but effectivegovernment regulation. He alsostressed the importance of reach-ing a consensus, conducting grad-ual change and creating transpar-ent, open government.

The talk left me less cynicalabout the nature of politics, saidJosh Horowitz, a first-year Ph.D.student who attended the event.Hearing a congressperson speak-ing for the first time was a human-izing experience and removedquite a few prejudices I had aboutlegislators and the process as awhole.

Contact Aaron Sekhri at asekhri@stanford.edu.

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Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) spoke about his opposition to theSOPA and PIPA acts that recently failed in Congress. Issa proposes analternative bill called the OPEN Act to address online piracy.

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In the spirit of the upcoming ASSUelections on April 12 and 13, TheDaily took a look back on some ofthe more humorous ASSU Execu-tive slates and one ASSU Sen-

ate proposal of the past. Althoughthe Stanford Chaparral has traditionallyrun a joke slate in elections, we assureyou that these slates except for one were no joke.

ASSU presidential slate for 1971-72On April 13, 1971, The Daily reported

on a slate that proposed to eliminate theASSU entirely.

The ticket of Chris Hocker 73 andRobin Friedman 73 have campaigned

on a platform of dismantling the ASSUand ending its influence on student or-ganizations. They support a program feeof $0, The Daily reported.

This is an unusually important elec-tion. It has come to rest on whether theASSU should continue to exist. [A fee of$0 will] emasculate or destroy a lot of im-portant campus organizations, saidLarry Diamond 73 M.A. 78 Ph.D. 80,current director of the Center forDemocracy, Development and The Ruleof Law (CDDRL), then a Stanford soph-omore and member of the competingslate.

Diamonds slate won the election.

ASSU presidential slate for 1985-86On April 10, 1985, The Dailys ASSU

Elections handbook, where platformsand budget requests were published be-fore the Internet, published presidentialslate Hammer and Coffins officialstatement. H & C, made up of AndrewFrisch 87, Michael Collins 86, LeslieLeland 86 M.S. 86 and Tim Quirk 86,was the Chaparral joke slate that year.

Fuck the Associated Students ofStanford University. Something iswrongwhen we really mean that. The time hascome to change, even to replace, thisgovernment that once at least pretendedto serve the student interest. No longer.Even that pretense is a thing of the past,the statement read.

The slate went on to call for the elim-ination of the ASSU Senate.

We say that we would like to dis-band the student senate and its true. Itsthe least we could do. Disband theASSU. Now. Before every student or-ganization on campus is destroyed ordisenfranchised.

The Daily Editorial Board endorsedthe slate one day later, deciding to takeH & C seriously. The slate won, and onApril 19, stated plans to individuallymeet with all the senators, and try tofind out exactly what kind of beer theylike.

ASSU Executive slate for 2002-03On April 11, 2002, The Daily covered

the slate of Kellea Miller 04 andMalavika Monahan 04 who ran an un-conventional campaign by refusing todistribute flyers or express a concretemessage.

Monahan and Miller and the rest ofthe group said they merely wish to getstudents to examine themselves andtheir world instead of the campus duringthe time of the ASSU elections, TheDaily reported.

Someone asked me when the elec-tion was, and I was like, Uh . . . Mona-han said, laughing.

To elect people based on howmuch paper they can spend is a littledisheartening to me, Miller said,adding that she had approached candi-dates about using recycled paper forthe traditional White Plaza-flyeringmayhem.

Tradition to kill trees! she said.The slate, although sincere, did not

win.

An absurd Senate proposalOn April 6, 1994, The Daily reported

on a proposed bill ConstitutionalAmendment: Senate Bill XXIV-A&R-20 to require ASSU senators to donuniforms on the daysMinion Condensedof Senate meetings.

ASSU senators could be walkingaround campus clad in official uniformsnext year if students approve an amend-ment placed on the spring general elec-tion ballot last night by the ASSU Sen-ate, The Daily reported.

The official Senate uniform will con-sist of an oatmeal-colored sweatshirtthat reads on the front, What is anASSU senator? and on the back, Im anASSU senator, silly! The sweatshirt willalso display the time and location ofmeetings as set by the Senate at the be-ginning of the year.

The Daily Editorial Board supportedthe amendment as a means of improvingthe accountability and visibility ofASSU senators. The amendment passed.

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From right: Larry Diamond 73 M.A. 78 Ph.D. 80, Ann Kimball 72, Diane Fields 72J.D. 75, Doug McHenry 73. The four-person ASSU presidential slate won in 1971 withaims to support the general quest for self-determination among minority students.

By NEHAN CHATOOR

As Stanford students franti-cally try to secure summerinternships and jobs upongraduation, the popularityand presence of prominent

Wall Street firms such as GoldmanSachs and Morgan Stanley has led to aUniversity- and nation-wide debateconcerning the recruiting presence ofthese firms on campus.

There are three things that drawstudents into finance: money, proce-dures and prestige, said Sanjay Saraf12, a pre-med student.

Teryn Norris 12 and Eli Pollak 12brought the debate to Stanford whenthey penned an Oct. 2011 op-ed in TheDaily titled, Stop the Wall Street Re-cruitment, in which they claimed thatover 15 percent of Stanford graduatescontinue to join Wall Street firms annu-ally. The op-ed inspired the launch of theStop the Brain Drain campaign, whichaims to promote the public service in-dustry as an alternative to finance.

Director of the Career Develop-ment Center (CDC) Lance Choy con-tested the 15 percent figure. Accordingto him, only approximately 30 percent

of the student body responds to theCDC career surveys from which Norrisand Pollak extrapolated their informa-tion.

Pollak, however, argued that a 30percent response rate should be morethan sufficient to yield a statistically sig-nificant sample.

Norris expressed opposition towardthe magnitude of influence finance in-dustries exercised over the U.S highereducation system, and particularly onrecruitment advantages.

Choy, however, stated that the num-

ber of technical firms far outweighs thatof finance firms at career fairs, citing thatGoogle is by far the largest employer ofStanford students and has been for anumber of years. He also stated that 160firms participated in campus CardinalRecruiting, out of which only 23 percentwere finance firms.

While to most students Wall Streetand money are closely tied, Norris saidhe does not believe money is the key

reason Wall Street jobs appeal to stu-dents.

Money is not primarily the issue,Norris said. It is really more about whatis promoted by the CDC and the recruit-

ment process. A part of it is cultural andwhat people call a good career.Many students also believe that a

Wall Street job can provide them withvaluable skills and tools for future en-deavors in other fields.

Few students going the investmentbanking or consulting route plan tobuild a career in these fields, saidShahryar Malik 12, who plans to pur-sue a consulting career himself.

Rather they see their first two yearsout of college as a way to learn practicalskills and a professional work ethic they

can apply to business more broadly, headded. It allows them to get a cross-sectional view of many different indus-tries.

Bloomberg View columnist EzraKlein argued in a Feb. 2012 column thatthis promise to give graduates theskills their [liberal arts] university edu-cation didnt is a structural problem ofU.S. higher education titled Harvardsliberal arts failure is Wall Streets gain.

There is uncertainty about what onewill do after graduation, Norris said.Due to the weakness of alternative ca-reer tracks, which are not as clear, and[the fact that they] do not have as much

skill-based training, students end up opt-ing for a finance job.Emma Pierson 13, president of the

Stanford Debate Society, noted that alarge portion of her fellow debaterstend to opt for a finance job.

You can definitely do good for theworld through finance and consulting,but more so through other paths, shesaid. I have met some of the smartestpeople in debates, and they could do somuch more good for the world by goinginto something like research.

Saraf echoed this point.

I am not saying that finance is bad,but if you make a start-up that helps outeven a hundred people, I think that willmake more of a global impact thanworking in investment banking or con-sulting, she said.

Students who choose finance as a ca-reer path disagree. Otis Reid 12, presi-dent of Stanford In Government (SIG),plans to work for consulting firm McK-insey & Company.

When asked what he would say to

people who believe consulting careersdont contribute to social good, heasked, What else would these peoplewant me to do?

Other students say they feel that theentire issue is not as problematic as pre-sented, arguing that Stanford graduatesare less inclined toward Wall Streetthan their East Coat counterparts. Ac-cording to The New York Times, 14 per-cent of Yale graduates, 17 percent ofHarvard graduates and 35.9 percent ofPrinceton graduates pursue finance ca-reers.

At Stanford, students hoping topursue such careers are among a minor-ity, Saraf said. In some sense, I thinkthe Occupy Movement has taken WallStreet recruiting at Stanford out of pro-portion.

And for some, a career is finance isno less legitimate than any other.I believe that if you are really inter-

ested in entrepreneurship or tech, go doit. If you are really interested in going di-rectly into government or nonprofit, godo it, Reid said. If you are interested infinance . . . it will be hard for me to . . .say I know you are interested in finance,but you should go and work in a non-profit.

Contact Nehan Chatoor at nchatoor@stanford.edu.

HISTORY CORNER

The lure ofWall Street

There are three things that drawstudents into finance: money,

procedures and prestige. SANJAY SARAF, senior

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Inever wanted to go to Stanfordfor college. I never wanted togo anywhere in particular. Of

course I wanted to go to college,but I never had my heart set on aspecific college. This, however,was not the case for the girl sittingnext to me in the outfield bleach-er seats at the Coliseum in Oak-land nearly two years ago. She had

finished spring quarter finalsearly, so we decided to catch theAngels vs. As game to celebrate. Ihad a final the next day, but it wasan IHUM final, so I accepted theinevitable B and drove up toOakland.

Stanford University was herlifelong dream. It was where herparents met. It was her motivationto ace tests and join clubs in highschool. It was the only future shedever imagined. And it was thecause of great despair and evengreater joy as she endured thelong, torturous months betweenhaving been waitlisted and even-tually accepted. She was glowing

just talking about it. But the gloweventually wore off as I began to

share the completely under-whelming story of how I only ap-plied to Stanford because mymom wanted to see if I could getin, and how, before applying toany colleges, I had decided to gowherever I got the most financialaid. Thankfully, Stanford is verygenerous with their money.

In one of my classes, we dis-cussed how it is a very common

tendency, especially at this school,to analyze situations rather thanreact emotionally because we feelmore comfortable on intellectualgrounds. This became evident as aconversation intentionally gearedtoward emotional reactions to arecent, tragic event morphed intoan intellectual discussion on de-pression, complete with statisticsand psychological theories. Iveoften been teased and labeled asan Emo Kid (because I listen toawesome music), but I still directproblems to my intellect ratherthan my emotion because emo-tions are scary. It is safer to thinkthan to feel.

Objectivity keeps us distantand removed, an arms length

from situations and possible fail-ure. It cleanses us of responsibilityby placing decisions purely intothe hands of cold reason and logic.By choosing my college based onnumbers, I didnt bear the respon-sibility of choosing wrong, andby keeping the gravity of the situ-ation away from my desires, I in-sulated myself from the pain ofpossible rejection. However, re-moving myself from the emotion-al experience consequentiallymeant removing myself from ex-periencing the full joy of being ac-cepted.

This intellectual default alsoallows us to maintain the image ofbeing composed, mature adults. (Ipromised myself I wouldnt use

the Duck Syndrome here becauseeveryone uses the duckmetaphor.) It restrains our ex-pression of emotion to only whatis justified and considered ration-al and acceptable. But emotionsare hardly ever rational, and weend up disguising how we reallyfeel and consequently who wereally are for the sake of look-ing composed. Part of the appealof getting wasted is the freedomto reveal these dangerously vul-nerable feelings and emotionsthrough the newly provided justi-fication of just being a littletipsy. Its as if we need the excuseof not being our normal selves in

order to be our realselves.Im not suggesting we com-

pletely throw out rationality andintellect and become slaves to ourimpulses and emotions. Im mere-ly giving the postmodern nudge tothe significance of emotion bystating that there are limitationsto rationality and intellect, andthat living purely in your head is

not living at all. Analytical judg-ments allow you to calculate risks,but it doesnt necessarily help youtake those risks. Jim Adkins ofJimmy Eat World (an awesomeemo band) writes, Youll sit aloneforever if you wait for the righttime. What are you hoping for?Theres hardly ever that perfectmoment when chasing yourdreams and desires is also themost sensible and rational choice.Yet, even as the head shakes side-to-side, the heart continues tobeat feverishly.

Dustin Kensrue of Thrice (notan emo band, but an awesomeband nonetheless) wrote in theliner notes of a record, Nothingworth loving is safe to love.

Great rewards are preceded bygreat risks, leaps of faith overchasms far too vast and unpre-dictable for logic and sensibility todare tread. While both intellectand emotion have limitations,they compliment each other intheir weaknesses. By denying ei-ther when considering our ac-tions, convictions and overallworldview, we are denying our-selves.

If your head kept saying No! butyour heart (or body) kept sayingYes! while reading this, let Chaseknow by emailing him at nin-jaish@stanford.edu.

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Coming in at more than 600pages, the federal farm billis an elaborate and convo-

luted piece of legislation that laysout most federal food and farmpolicies. Members of Congressrenegotiate this bill every fiveyears, and it governs everythingfrom farm subsidies to biofuels tointernational food aid. The Food,Conservation and Energy Act of2008, our most recent farm bill, isin effect through September,meaning Congress is currentlyworking to broker a new farm bill.

Current estimates suggest we

have spent more than $400 billionon farm bill programs over thepast five years. That is a lot of fed-eral funding, and a slash-happyRepublican House noticed.

Congressman Paul RyansPath to Prosperity FY2013budget proposes removing over$180 billion from farm bill pro-grams over the next 10 years, in-cluding a $134 billion cut to thefederal nutrition program former-ly known as food stamps. By tar-geting nutrition assistance forcuts, Ryan and the 228 Republi-can representatives who voted forhis plan told the nation that weshould let millions of Americansgo hungry to balance the budget.

Before automatically criticiz-

ing these budget-cutting efforts, itis important to review what thefarm bill actually funds. The Con-gressional Budget Office esti-mates that nine percent of farmbill spending goes to conservationprograms, 10 percent goes to cropinsurance and 12 percent goes tocommodity crop subsidies forcorn, cotton, rice, wheat and soy-beans. Almost 70 percent of 2008-2017 funding is allocated for nu-trition assistance, largely throughthe Supplemental Nutrition As-sistance Program (SNAP), whichsucceeded food stamps.

Considering that the majorityof farm bill spending now goes tonutrition assistance, perhaps weshould rebrand this piece of legis-lation as the food and farm bill, oreven just the food bill. This wouldbetter align the bills title with itscurrent funding goals. And itwould send an important messageto legislators and voters: The bill isnot meant to be an archaic, con-fusing piece of legislation thatbenefits only a small subset offarmers and perpetuates an unjustfood system. In some ways, budg-et cuts and rebranding may be justwhat we need to realign federalfunding with Americans growingdesire to increase access tohealthy, sustainably grown food.

Currently, farmers receive com-modity crop subsidies whetherthey produce a crop or not. We

spend eight times more farm billfunding on commodity crops thanwe do on fruits, nuts and vegeta-bles, but the economic returns oncommodity crops are only twicethose of these other specialtycrops, giving our current subsidysystem a relatively poor return oninvestment. Commodity crop sub-sidies are relics of early efforts toavoid violations of internationaltrade laws, and these commoditypayments, which were intended tophase out decades ago, currentlybenefit a very small portion offarmers. In fact, 62 percent of U.S.farms do not collect any subsidypayments, and in California, lessthan 10 percent of farms receivegovernment subsidies.

Given the current budget-cut-ting climate in Washington, reduc-ing commodity crop subsidiesmay finally be politically feasible.This is an opportunity to strategi-cally restructure the food andfarm bill, but we must be carefulto ensure that cuts do not expandto include crucial farm bill fund-ing for conservation and nutritionassistance programs.

Congress could go beyondbudget cuts and encourage moresustainable food systems by en-dorsing the Local Farms, Food andJobs bill introduced by Sen. Sher-rod Brown (D-Ohio) and Rep.Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), an or-ganic farmer. Among many usefulreforms, the Pingree-Brown billwould increase funding for localprocessing and distribution cen-ters, promote the incorporation oflocal produce into school lunches,facilitate fruit and vegetable accessfor food stamp recipients and sen-iors and increase funding for spe-cialty crops, organic producers, di-versified operations, small-scalefarms and beginning farmers. Theprojected price tag is $100 millionper year, which is less than 0.2 per-cent of average annual spending onthe last farm bill. When coupledwith reductions to commodity cropsubsidies, this could represent animportant opportunity to help re-shape agriculture policy and scaleup local and regional food systems.

Too often, sustainable food ac-tivists are content with buyinglocal and choosing organic. Theseactions, though laudable, are notenough. Many activists bemoansubsidies in blog posts and casualconversations, but these forms ofactivism rarely make it to policy-makers ears. It is time for us to getpolitical. Join me in calling yourCongressional representatives

and telling them your taxpayerdollars should be spent creatingmore sustainable and accessiblefood systems. The message Ishared with Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), who represents the Stanfordcommunity, was simple: no cutsfor nutrition programs, no cuts forconservation programs and sup-port for the Local Farms, Foodand Jobs bill. I hope youll join meand send a strong message toWashington, because voting withour forks is not enough to changeour food systems.

Nervous about dialing your con-gressional representatives? EmailJenny at jrempel@stanford.edu forsome confidence-boosting tips.

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Thebaseballbubble

Joseph Stalin once famouslydeclared, One death is atragedy; one million is a sta-tistic. Perhaps he wasnt

just talking about people.The bigger a number becomes,

the less personal it feels, and when it

becomes truly enormous, it is some-times hard for us to even attempt tocomprehend it. Suddenly its just acold statistic that we journalists canuse to pad out a story, but which re-ally doesnt add much meaning.

When you pay an average of$26.92 to get into a ballpark, and,once inside, get fleeced for around$5 just to buy a bottle of water letalone a luxury item like a hot dog oreven a beer it hurts. Maybe thebeer can take some of that painaway, but knowing that your team,in your house, is clearly taking ad-vantage of your support and yourwallet isnt a nice feeling. Sure,youre grown up now, and you cantcrash at Mom and Dads withoutcontributing something toward the

bills, but you dont quite expectthem to be taking you for a ride.But when you see someone just

walk in and throw $2 billion on thetable to purchase an MLB franchise,as just happened with the Los Ange-les Dodgers, it just doesnt seem toregister the same way.

First, lets get this straight: $2 bil-lion is not a lot of money. Its farmore than that. Its an incompre-hensible amount of money. Try andthink of it this way: If it turned outthe price tag was actually $2.01 bil-lion, would you be significantlymore impressed? No. But that is anextra $10 million, a quantity on itsown that few of us, even Stanfordgraduates, will get to see in our life-times.

And what could $2 billion buyyou? A struggling baseball team,obviously, but also around eight mil-lion tons of ballpark hot dogs, 1.6million barrels of ballpark beer oran entire stadiums worth of MLBtickets for 10 consecutive seasons.

The biggest question, though,about this quantity of money iswhether it is really worth it. What isthe Guggenheim Baseball Manage-ment group really getting for theprice tag?

Bought by Frank McCourt in2004 for $355 million, the Dodgerswere valued at $727 million byForbes in 2010, less than half of theaforementioned purchase. Remem-ber, too, that we are talking about ateam struggling with bankruptcy the existing debt is greater than theprice paid in 2004 and without aWorld Series appearance for morethan 20 years. If the Dodgers areworth this much, what would a teamlike the Yankees cost?

And can the new owners reallymake this investment pay off? Tele-vision rights and real estate devel-opment may go a long way towardthat goal, but the physical price ofthe franchise must at least remain atthe same level to make this work.

Arguably the biggest soccer clubin the United Kingdom, Manches-ter United was bought for nearly$1.5 billion by the Glazer family in2005. Even that was a significantlysmaller sum than we are talking

about right now, for a team and asport that have far greater global ap-peal than the Dodgers or baseball.And has it worked? Although theteam looks certain to win the Pre-mier League yet again this year, it isnow saddled with around the $1 bil-lion in debt.

Right now we are still trying topull ourselves out of a deep hole cre-ated in part by the hyperinflation ofhouse prices. Has baseball not beenpaying attention?

I honestly dont understand howthis valuation can be correct, or infact good, for either the sport or thefans. This $2 billion isnt going toprovide new facilities, train newplayers or even make the game-dayexperience more enjoyable or af-

fordable. There is, really, just onesmall group that benefits: the other29 MLB franchise owners. If thegoing rate of a team keeps rising,then they can feel certain that, winor lose, invest in the team or not,their perceived assets will continueto grow.

At least, that is, until the music fi-nally stops. When the baseball bub-ble bursts, someone is set to lose aninconceivable amount of money.

Please note that Tom Taylor neversaid that Man Us debt made himupset. Ask him how he really feelsabout soccers most popular squadat tom.taylor@stanford.edu.

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Bad news, Bears.The No. 6 Stanford baseball team walloped

Cal 19-6 in a nonconference showdown atBerkeley on Monday afternoon, pulling outthe big bats to reach double digits for the sixthtime this year and set a new season-high inruns. The Cardinals three best hitters jun-ior third baseman Stephen Piscotty, junior sec-ond baseman Kenny Diekroeger and sopho-more first baseman Brian Ragira came to-gether for 11 hits, two homers and an absurd 16RBI to overcome the struggling Bears (17-13,2-7 Pac-12).

Having averaged fewer than five runs pergame since March 31, the offensive explosion

couldnt come at a better time for Stanford(20-7), which has conclusively pulled out of itsearly-conference season slump by winningfour of five since last Monday. Cal, on the otherhand, is still mired in difficulties of its own, nowhaving lost three in a row after promising se-ries wins against No. 21 Arizona State and No.23 Texas.

Junior righthander Sahil Bloom pitchedfive stellar innings in relief for Stanford, allow-ing just three hits and retiring 11 straight bat-ters to get his first decision of the season, a de-cisive win.

The Cardinal swept the season seriesagainst its Bay Area rival in 2011, winning allfour games before the fifth was rained out withStanford in the lead. But three of those fourvictories were low-scoring nail-biters, as Stan-ford escaped with 3-2, 3-2 and 4-2 decisions.

That wasnt the case yesterday, with theCardinal jumping on freshman righthanderKeaton Siomkin for four first-inning runs.Sophomore rightfielder Austin Wilson had a

one-out double and came home on a Ragirasingle. Junior catcher Eric Smith added a singleof his own before a two-RBI double fromDiekroeger, who scored on a single by fresh-man designated hitter Alex Blandino.

Piscotty quickly made it 7-0 in the secondwith a three-run homer, his fourth big fly of theyear, and then brought home two more runswith a bases-loaded single in the third.Groundouts by Ragira and Smith broughthome two more runs to cap Stanfords 11-hit,11-run onslaught over the first three innings.

Cal whittled away at the lead with threeruns of its own in the third to oust Cardinalfreshman John Hochstatter making his firststart since a 6-2 loss to Arizona on April 1 and made it 11-4 with a pair of sacrifices in thebottom of the fourth. But Bloom kept thingsunder control and blanked the Bears in thefifth, sixth and seventh frames.

Singles by junior leftfielder Tyler Gaffney

By DANIEL E. LUPINSTAFF WRITER

The great thing about sports isthat you never know whats goingto happen.

In a match that appearedheaded for a routine sweep, theStanford mens volleyball teamsuddenly found itself with itsback up against the wall on Sat-urday night, forced to fight offtwo match points in the final set.Much to the relief of the rau-cous home crowd, the No. 5 Car-dinal (18-6, 15-5 MPSF) pre-vailed against the ever-resilientNo. 12 Cal State-Northridge

Matadors (11-16, 7-13) in fiveepic sets, 25-19, 25-21, 22-25, 22-25, 19-17.

The victory pushed Stanfordswinning streak to three, and moreimportantly, kept the team incontention for the No. 2 seed inthe conference tournament.

For much of the match, theCardinal appeared to be in firmcontrol. Sophomore Brian Cookset the tone with his match-high23 kills, senior setter Evan Barrykept the offense cruising andNorthridge never led in either ofthe first two sets. With star fresh-man Julius Hoefer struggling tothe tune of a .148 hitting percent-age and after a series of verbalexchanges between Northridge

players and the Stanford studentsection, it did not look as thoughthe Matadors were long for thematch.

Enter 6-foot-4 junior JohnBaker, who completely changedthe dynamic of the match. Bakertallied 20 kills in the final threesets to lead a furious Matadorcharge that saw the visitors rallyfrom 16-14 deficits in both thethird and fourth sets to force thefinal game.

The fifth set was a back-and-forth affair in which neither teamseemed to be able to gain anyseparation, until a kill by sopho-more Brandon Lebrock gave the

Matadors a 12-10 advantage.Suddenly, the match that hadlooked all but clinched for theCardinal nearly an hour earlierwas in serious jeopardy of slip-ping away.

Luckily for Stanford, there

would be multiple heroes on thenight. Senior libero Erik Shojishowed why he is a three timeAll-American and the soon-to-be MPSF Player of the Week, asthe veteran racked up 16 digs andprolonged numerous rallies.

With the score at 12-11 follow-ing a Lebrock service error, Stan-ford sophomore Steven Irvin hita booming ace to even the set at12 apiece. With the set even at 13,Baker came through with his20th kill of the match, bringingthe Matadors to the brink ofcompleting the comeback.

Stanford fought back oncemore, extending the match onsenior Brad Lawsons 18th kill ofthe evening. The Cardinal imme-diately found itself on the edge ofdefeat following an errant swingby Cook.

But losing was not in the cardsfor Stanford, as Barry, who

played a flawless fifth set, cameup with the kill on the fake set togive the Cardinal another shot at15-15. After an attack error byBaker, it was Northridges turn tostave off defeat. Lebrock againcame up with the kill Northridgeneeded to even the match at 16.Stanford was able to side outonce again, this time on an em-phatic kill by sophomore EricMochalski, before Lebrock onceagain responded, registering his21st and final kill of the match.

Stanford was finally able tobreak through thanks to anotherbeautiful set by Barry and the killby Irvin before closing the Mata-dors on a block of Baker by sen-ior Gus Ellis and Cook.

For the match, Lawson, Irvinand Mochalski joined Cook inrecording double-digit kills with18, 16 and 13, respectively, whileBarry tallied 66 assists.

That was such a fun match tobe part of, said Mochalski, whoat one point dove into the standsin an attempt to prolong a point.Northridge did a great jobbouncing back after the first twogames. But towards the end ofthe fifth, Barry took his game toanother level and willed us to theend.

Contact Daniel E. Lupin atdelupin@stanford.edu.

MEHMET INONU/The Stanford Daily

Stanford first baseman Brian Ragira (above) helped lead Stanford to a 19-6 victory over Cal on Monday. The sophomore exploded at the plate,going 5-for-6 with three runs and five RBI. Junior pitcher Sahil Bloom threw five innings of three-hit ball to earn his first win of the season.

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Senior middle blocker Gus Ellis (No. 3) was part of a game-winningblock that stifled a valiant comeback attempt by visiting Cal State-Northridge. The Card escaped on Saturday with a five-set victory.

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Many times, moving out of afreshman dorm often destroysclass spirit and unity as classmatesare more scattered across cam-pus, Hamar said. As freshmen,

we are privileged to have suchamazing class activities andevents that help us bond. Howev-er, many of those events disap-pear as the years go by. We wantto keep our class united throughdifferent events that allow sopho-mores to meet other sopho-mores.

Unlike the freshmen runningfor class presidency for the firsttime, this years upperclassmenpresidential elections featureseasoned members of studentgovernment. Foster the Juniors,the lone junior class slate, hastwo current class presidents onits slate, and The Senior Experi-ence includes one current andone former class president.

Ive had an incredible experi-ence as a junior class presidentand think that being elected assenior class president would yieldeven more opportunities, saidChristine Kim 13 of The SeniorExperience. I love being part of agroup that gets to work with vari-ous Stanford departments andthe administration, in addition toplanning a wide range of events.Senior year is the last hoorah, andI want to do everything I can tomake sure its the best possibleexperience for 2013.

Class presidents work as a li-aison between students, adminis-tration and alumni to plan cam-pus-wide events and address stu-dent needs.

I think the greatest accom-plishment that a class presidentcan achieve is when you success-fully bring your class together,Kim said. One way of enrichingthe Stanford experience for ourentire class is planning academicand social events.

Daniel Hosltein 13 of theslate Senior Moments agreedthat the primary role of the classpresident is social.

Were not going to aggran-dize senior class president intosome lofty, university policy-making position, Holsteinwrote in an email to The Daily

We want to foster momentsyou remember as some of thebest in your life, he added. Formost of us, this is the last year of

our college careers, and if itsanything like high school, a lot ofthese memory-ingrained mo-ments will be during this year.

Each slate has specific goalsto address the concerns and de-sires of its class. In order to makethese plans a reality, candidatesmust first garner the support oftheir peers. The slates methodsfor attracting students to their

campaigns are varied.The Best Party slate runningfor senior class president was in-spired by a documentary of JonGnarr, the mayor of the capitalof Iceland.

The world has always beenrun by the wealthy, educatedpeople, but they really dontknow what the people want, saidGeorge Malkin 13. [His cam-paign] started as a joke, but he ac-tually ended up winning thewhole thing.

Some of The Best Partys goalsinclude not treating sober peo-ple like second-class citizens andPub Nights to which students caninvite professors as a way tobridge the student-faculty divide.

We want to have fun, but weare serious about being class pres-idents, said Savannah Gonzales

13.The Incredibles were in White

Plaza on Friday, April 6 talking tostudents about their campaigngoals and listening to feedback.

We feel as if White Plaza is acentral point on campus, and itsimportant for us to be visible tothe entire student body,McKenzie said.

Other class president slates

will be tabling on April 11. Orderof the Cardinal has a differentapproach to reaching its peers.

While we do appreciate peo-ple going around and activelyspeaking to students as a form ofcampaigning, the reality is thatwe get most of our informationfrom . . . the Internet, so ourcampaign is focused on grabbingpeoples attention online,Hamar said. In a generation andera where communication hap-pens quickest through the Inter-net, we are showcasing our abili-ty to use our resources to get theword out.

Voting for class presidents,ASSU offices and specials feesbegins Thursday, April 12.

Contact Sarah Moore at smoore6@stanford.edu.

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and Wilson led off the top of thefifth for Stanford, and they eachcame around to score on a Piscot-ty flyout and a Ragira single.

The squad put up another two-spot to make it 15-4 in the seventhinning. Ragira got his third homerun of the year, a solo shot, andSmith followed with his ninth dou-

ble, both good for third on thesquad in their respective cate-gories.

The Cardinal added its finalfour runs with a two-out rally inthe eighth, consisting of a Wilsonsingle, a Piscotty RBI double, aRagira RBI single, a Smith walkand a two-RBI single fromDiekroeger. Freshman GarrettHughes and redshirt sophomoreSpenser Linney gave up a run ineach of their late innings, though,as each lefty needed to face six bat-ters to get out of his respectiveframe.

When the dust settled, Stanfordhad totaled 23 hits, with every Car-dinal starter getting a base knockand the two-through-six hitterseach tallying at least three.

Another midweek contestawaits the Cardinal, which hostsPacific tonight at 5:30 p.m. atSunken Diamond before it returnsto Pac-12 play. This weekend thesquad will host Arizona State,picked by Stanford head coachMark Marquess as the preseasonconference favorite in the coachespoll; unable to vote for his ownsquad, Marquess was the onlyskipper that did not choose theCardinal.

The Friday opener against theSun Devils is set for 5:30 p.m. as

well, with a pair of 1 p.m. startsscheduled for the weekend.

Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@stanford.edu.

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grown as it fills with sediment.Stanfords Searsville Alterna-

tives Study Steering Committeeformed in order to find the bestway to address this growing prob-

lem, while mitigating effects onJasper Ridge and surroundingareas. Cohen said that as a result ofthe dams impact over the last cen-tury, preserving the area requiresaction.

The status quo is the only op-tion not on the table, Cohen said.If you want to keep it the way it is,you have to do something.

Cohen said that the committeehas hundreds of options to explorefor action. The major options heoutlined included targeting thedam by either raising, lowering orremoving it; targeting the reser-voir by either removing sedimentor allowing the lake to fill in; andexploring outside options such asadding a bypass channel or divert-

ing water.Part of the recovery process for

the lake, according to Cohen, is

coming to terms with human im-pact on the environment in light ofthe hands-off policy.

The human fingerprint iseverywhere, Cohen said.

The challenge now, he said, is tocounteract the Dams impact withas little unintended effect as possi-ble on the surrounding San Fran-cisquito Creek and Corte MaderaCreek watersheds.

This goal proves particularlydifficult because the ecologicalfactors of the area interact in un-predictable ways. For example, ris-ing carbon dioxide levels, whichwould intuitively seem positive forplant growth, in reality, can inhibitplant growth through various ef-fects on soil conditions and tem-perature.

Because of the complexity ofthe ecosystem, the committee iscommissioning two years of stud-ies to determine the right course torecommend to Provost JohnEtchemendy Ph.D. 82.

Cohen said that funding con-versations will take place after thestudies, but Stanford will fund anychanges to the area.

Contact Matt Bettonville at mbet-tonville@stanford.edu.

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