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nomineeconfirmed

By IVY NGUYENMANAGING EDITOR

The 13th Undergraduate Senateconvened for its first meeting of the2011-12 academic year Tuesday,confirming Adam Adler 12 as its

new Elections Commissioner anddiscussing several upcoming bills.

Former Elections CommissionerStephen Trusheim 13 nominatedAdler at the Senates final meetingof the 2010-11 school year, but theSenate postponed taking actionamid concerns that Adler thenthe ASSU solicitors general (SG) misused his discretionary poweras SG. After filing a complaintagainst former ASSU PublicationsBoard co-director Alice Nam 11and former Senate Chair MadelineHawes 13 in response to their deci-sion to nominate Zachary Warma11 to the position of publicationsboard co-director,Adler offered hisservices as SG to the respondents, amove to which Nam objected at lastyears final meeting.

Prior to his confirmation, Adlerfielded questions from the Senate,which focused on his platform andhis involvement in the Flipsidessatirical request for a Segway in itsspecial fees budget proposal.

In his brief outline of his plans ascommissioner, Adler spoke ofworking with the ConstitutionalCouncil to redraft the election poli-cies to make them more tightandto create an elections handbook de-tailing all election policies in one

By LAURYN WILLIAMSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Undergraduate Advising andResearch (UAR) reinstated manda-tory quarterly check-ins with pre-major advisors (PMAs) beginningwith the Class of 2014. With a yearunder the programs belt,UAR is fa-cilitating feedback to try to furtherimprove the pre-major advising ex-perience at Stanford.

While the check-in program isnot completely new, it is a revision toa past policy.Under the revision,stu-dents who have not declared a majorare now required to meet withPMAs before they can enroll incourses for the following quarter.Due to adjustments to the Universi-tys enrollment program, UAR isnow able to ensure that undeclaredstudents meet with their advisors byplacing a hold on their Axess ac-counts until they attend the meet-ings.

According to the 2010-11 UARAnnual Report, the hold on enroll-ment was originally instated to rein-force [UARs] commitment thatevery undeclared undergraduateshould have the benefit of regularadvice and guidance from an advi-sor.

Because incoming freshmen andsophomores are now required tomeet with advisors quarterly, UARhas prioritized matching students toPMAs with whom they share a com-mon interest.

The Approaching Stanfordquestionnaire translates into groupsof possible majors,and the Academ-ic Director matches these descrip-tions with a PMA, said Julie Lyth-cott-Haims, dean of freshmen andundergraduate advising.

Kirsti Copeland,director of Resi-dentially-Based Advising, overseesthe process as Academic Directorscoordinate students with their advi-sors.

Unlike the all-volunteer PMA

By JOSH HOYTCONTRIBUTING WRITER

In Tuesdays talk titled AConstitutional Conversation withDan Farber: Why Rick Perry isWrong About Secession andWhat the Answers Imply AboutFederal Power,Farber, professorof law at the University of Cali-fornia,Berkeley,gave a definitiveanswer to the question, Doesany state have the right to se-cede?.

The lecture, sponsored by theStanford Constitutional LawCenter, addresses a question thathas been revisited in recentmonths because of the presiden-tial campaign of Governor Perry,who said in a 2009 speech at a TeaParty rally, Texas is a uniqueplace.When we came in the unionin 1845, one of the issues was thatwe would be able to leave if we de-cided to do that.

He continued by saying,Weve got a great union . . . but ifWashington continues to thumbtheir [sic] nose at the Americanpeople, who knows what maycome out of that?

The answer, according to Far-ber, is definitely not a legal seces-sion from the United States. Far-ber believes that the founders ofthe Constitution did not intend forthe union to be so loose as to allow

for a legal right to secede, a rightthe South claimed during the CivilWar, if only because they gave thefederal government too muchpower to assume the states weresovereign. In his mind, however,the issue wasnt made completelyclear until the Fourteenth Amend-ment to the Constitution was es-tablished.

In his paper, The 14thAmendment and the Unconstitu-tionality of Secession, on whichhis talk was based, Farber wrotethat the 14th Amendment meansno state can deprive any Ameri-can citizen of the privileges or im-munities of citizenship whichmeans that a state, for example,cannot deprive a citizen of U.S.cit-izenship by seceding.

Farber also briefly addressedanother popular claim that Texashas the special right to break itselfinto five different states. In fact,Texas does have this right, but Far-ber doubted it would ever happenbecause they would all want to becalled Texas. He also doubtedthat the Constitutional equalfooting doctrine, stating that thestates must have equal legal rights,

would allow for a split, but admit-ted it is possible.Rick Perry has since backed

away from any talk of secession,going so far as to address it specif-ically on Fox News last week.

While not an issue of national im-

mediacy, the potential for seces-sion has been something of a rally-ing cry for the Tea Party in Texas.

Farber,who was introduced asa big-D democrat, joked thatperhaps this outcome is not so

bad.

After all if you can secede youcan also be expelled, he conclud-ed.

Contact Joshua Hoyt at jwghoyt@stanford.edu.

By BILLY GALLAGHERDESK EDITOR

ASSU Senator Daniel DeLong 13 has been eval-uating students desire for extended Green libraryhours since he was elected this past spring.With helpfrom Deputy Chair Dan Ashton 14 and several stat-isticians, DeLong said he hopes to accurately gaugestudents interest and lobby on their behalf.

DeLong reached out to students before and afterhe was elected, seeking to evaluate their needs andconcerns. He said one of the major responses he re-ceived concerned Green Library.

Students didnt feel there was a safe 24-hour orsafe late night study space for students outside of theirdormitories,he said.

DeLong noted that librarians will make no capital

investments in Meyer,which currently includes a 24-hour study room,because of its planned destruction.

DeLong sent out requests for students to join atask force to examine this topic. He received 17 re-sponses three of whom were from ASSU mem-bers. He said they resisted the initial temptation tosend out a petition, claiming that University officialsdo not take them as seriously.

The last thing they want to see is a petition, De-Long said.Because its very easy to sign a petition.And whos not going to sign a petition saying,I wantlower taxes and I want better education for my chil-dren? Everyones going to sign both of those.

They also ruled out sending a mass email, citingparticipation bias and bias from those who are con-

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ASSU Senator Daniel DeLong 13 is heading a task force on extending Green Librarys operational hours.Green, the main undergraduate library, saw its hours reduced in the 2009 University-wide budget cuts.

Recent Ph.D.grad dies

in accident

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Daniel Strickland, M.A.09 Ph.D.

10,died last Friday from injuries sus-tained in a car crash on InterstateHighway 280.He was 27.

According to a California High-way Patrol report, Strickland hit adeer in his gray Volkswagen nearAlpine Road at 8:10 p.m. on Thurs-day. Shortly after, a red Audi drivenby a Mountain View resident collidedwith the rear of Stricklands vehicle.

Strickland suffered major headtrauma and was transported to Stan-ford Hospital,where he passed awaythe next day.According to a police re-port, Strickland was not wearing aseat belt at the time of the second col-lision.

After graduating from Stanford,Strickland became a junior professorat Santa Clara University, where hefocused on researching affordableenergy conversion.

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Senate approves Adleras new elections chair

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Farber talks Texas-secession plan

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Berkeley law professor Dan Farber speaks about the constitutionality andlikelihood of secession at a presentation at the Law School. The event washosted by the Stanfod Constitutional Law Center Tuesday night.

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SIG Fellow experiences studentprotests in Chile

FEATURES

Protesting 101By THOMAS HENDEE

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ome experiences are expected on aStanford in Government InternationalFellowship practicing the local lan-guage, eating new kinds of food, be-friending locals and being introduced

to a new sector of work.But in Santiago, Chile,I found myself thrown into Protesting 101:AnIntroduction to Revolution.

Santiago on your average day is one of themost orderly cities in South America. Driversfollow the road signs,pedestrians have the rightof way and crime rates are the lowest in the re-gion. The late June day I arrived in my down-town apartment was not to be an average day.The once orderly downtown area was chaos inamid the ongoing student protests that had con-sumed Chiles public education system for overa month.Tear gas,water-spraying military tanksand thousands of military police descended onareas with congregating groups.

A month before my arrival, high school anduniversity students started to take over theirschools and went on strike. The students hadlast rallied together demanding comprehensiveeducation reform in 2006, but the scale ofprotests in this Chilean winterhad never be-

fore been seen.The movements key demandswere quality public education, profit-free pri-vate schools and a revised system for studentsto receive education loans.

Walking through the streets of downtownSantiago, I saw and heard the peoplesthoughts. At one protest, a man on stiltsdressed as Augusto Pinochet, the formerChilean general and dictator, carried puppetstrings connected to another man dressed asthe current president, Sebastian Piera. I sawhundreds of students fake a mass suicide, rep-resenting the nihilism they claimed to en-counter in their educational aspirations. I sawan elderly couple holding hands and a sign thatread,Students, know that your grandparentssupport you. The songs of the protesters of-fered me a glimpse of their views:

Educate the children and you will not needto punish the adults.

I have two children,which one do I educate?If you want to study in Chile,go buy yourself

a lottery ticket.Piera why dont you talk so we know you

exist!

At night I participated in the cacerolazos, away to protest the governments policy bybanging pots and pans. I stood on my balconybanging on a pot, hearing thousands of othersdoing the same.The first week I was in Chile Iheard a similar rallying cry when the ChileanNational soccer team won a game in the CopaAmrica,but the cacerolazos brought the noiseto another level.

Everything around me proved that themovement came from all parts of society, butthe media consistently focused on the vandal-ism and delinquents who took the streets alongwith protesters. Watching the news at night, Iwould not hear about the hundreds of thou-sands of people I saw singing and cheering for abetter future, but rather about the police con-frontations with a small group of violent citizenswho had no connection to the student leaders.

The movement hit a rough patch on Aug. 5,when the government declined to let the stu-

dents protest on Santiagos main avenue. Con-frontations between the police and the enca-

puchados,groups of hooded protesters,ensued.I witnessed park benches ripped out of theirplace and moved to blockade the streets, rocksthrown at police officers and graffiti.The policedetained 800 people,and more than 40 were in-

jured. The media highlighted the destructionand blamed the students for damaging the stateof the country.

Nevertheless, the student protesters cametogether and stood up for their demands.Nego-tiations with the government on education re-forms are set to begin soon, although the at-mosphere in Chile is still tense.

Contact Thomas Hendee at hendee@stanford.edu.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

The Bita Daryabari Endowment for Persian Literature

at Stanford University at the Iranian Studies Program is

proud to introduce, Women Poets of Iran: 1797-1967,

through the Department of Comparative Literature. The

course will be taught by Assistant Professor Dominic Parviz

Brookshaw.

COURSE TITLE:WOMEN POETS OF IRAN: 1797-1967

COURSE DESCRIPTION:in Qajar Iran. The focus will then shift to the emergence ofliberalist, modernist and proto-feminist poets in the early 20thof Simin Behbahani and Forugh Farrokhzad. The course willtrace the emergence of a female voice in Persian poetry in the19th and 20th centuries and, although focused on women, itwill discuss the place within and contribution to the wider poeticscene in Iran by women in some of the most turbulent years inmodern Iranian history.

COURSE INFORMATION:

COMPLIT 118

MW from 11:00am -12:30pmRoom #: 160-315

For more information: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/cgi-bin/web/

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Police stand guard in streets of Santiago, Chile in response to student protests demandingcomprehensive education reform in universities and secondary schools in the country.

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OPINIONS

This summer, I had jury dutyfor the first time.I spent threedays waiting in the back of a

courtroom I missed my mas-sage appointment to uphold mycivic duty, so I was not pleased and when the judge finally called

me forward to state the informa-tion, the first question the de-fense attorney asked me was, So,youre a senior? And what do youplan to do when you graduate?

Like so many of you, I have noidea what Im going to do whenJune rolls around and Im releasedinto the wild. Ive consideredeverything from graduate schoolto running off with the circus, butnothing seems quite right for me.Growing up in a Jewish family, Ibelieved from a young age that myonly two options were becoming alawyer or a doctor, but recentGoogling has proved that this isnot the case there are in factother jobs out there, and some ofthem are even interesting.ThoughI still havent found exactly what

Im looking for, I plan to share mysearch with you by presenting a jobeach week that you might not havethought of or known about other-wise.We have great career counsel-ing resources on campus and Iam not one of them but Imgoing to write about some slightlyless conventional career paths thatI think are worth considering.

This week:the green auditor.If you like the environment and

telling people theyre wrong whilenot sacrificing your love of the finerthings in life (read:eating), this onemight be for you.A green auditor is

like a tax auditor, only with a soul.Companies hire green auditors toevaluate their business practicesagainst an environmental code,findwhere they fall short and help de-sign solutions to bring them to thisstandard. Green auditors will also

sometimes evaluate the energy effi-ciency of building structures, bothcorporate and private. In a worldwhere companies are desperate toproject a greenimage,green audi-tors are increasingly in demand.

As a green auditor, you wouldlikely be employed by a sustain-ability consulting firm, thoughself-employment is another op-tion.You will also get the opportu-nity to do some local traveling,vis-iting companies and privatehomes for on-site evaluations. Asmuch as I love a good road trip,there are aspects of the job thatare even better. First and fore-most,you will be cutting emissionsand helping the environment,which is incredibly rewarding.It ismuch steadier employment than,

say, protesting, and you actuallyget to make a difference. Becauseit is a relatively new field, salary ishighly variable, but Internet re-ports place the average annual in-come of a green auditor some-where between $60,000 and$102,000. Side note: If you do be-come a green auditor, it might benice to use some of that substantialsalary to take this columnist outfor a nice thank you dinner.

Now that you are thoroughlyexcited about green auditing and the chance to have dinner withme well go over exactly how

someone gets into the field of sus-tainability consulting. Though the

qualifications for becoming agreen auditor are variable de-pending on the employer, the In-ternet and I recommend having abackground in environmental sci-ence, engineering, public policy,energy-resource management orany similar field.In addition,greenauditors must go through a certifi-cation process before they canstart laying down the green law.There are several different typesof certification, each of which fo-cuses on different aspects of thefield some qualify you for eval-uating building structure, some foranalyzing electrical appliancesand others for examining businesspractices. Regardless of whichtype of certification you intend topursue, the best way to break into

the business is still with an intern-ship (surprise!), which can alsohelp you narrow down your inter-ests within the field.

Most jokes aside, sustainabilityconsulting is a great place to beright now.In this difficult economy,jobs that are on the rise are hard tocome by,and this one pays well too.Oh, and theres the minor detail ofhelping to save planet Earth.

Do you have other career plans butstill want to take Amanda out to din-ner? Try to charm her with an emailto aach@stanford.edu.

JOBBERISH

The Green AuditorAmanda

Ach

There has been a conspiracy toprevent me from ever takingan art class at Stanford; Im

sure of it.For the most part,its notthat hard to get into classes youwant here, a fact Im blessedly re-minded of every time I see friendsfrom home.The one exception Ivefound to this is our Studio Art De-partment.This is one of my eternalfrustrations at this school: I loveart, but it seems that the Depart-ment of Art & Art History wants

nothing to do with me.In high school, the art room wasmy second home. When I got toStanford, I seriously consideredbeing a studio art major or minor.Iwas forced to drop that idea be-cause I could not manage to get myfoot in the door to take even oneart class. Its actually quite impres-sive; I believe I have been turnedaway from art classes for everypossible reason.

At the start of freshman year, Isigned up for Painting I and Draw-ing I. I was in on Axess, so Ishopped another class duringDrawing I, only to find out laterthat you have to show up to thefirst class to get in.Lesson learned.Then I went to Painting I; it washonestly a little frightening.Thirty-

five kids were crowded into apaint-covered studio,and when theprofessor announced he could onlytake 12,everyone instantly becameunspoken enemies. Sidewaysglances flew around the room aseveryone tried to assess if theywere more deserving than the rest.This teacher gave priority to sen-iors, then juniors, then sopho-

mores. As a freshman, I was givenan automatic goodbye.

Sophomore year, I was pumpedthat I would have a better chance.

The third times the charm, right? Iwalked into Drawing I and was metwith the most ironic of all an-nouncements: this class was taughtby a different teacher who wantedto make sure freshmen got oppor-tunities to try out the Art Depart-ment.He gave priority to freshmenand seniors with sophomores atthe bottom of the list. I was out.SoI picked up my backpack, left andput aside my hopes for majoring inart. Although disillusioned, I wasstill determined to try again.

However, in my one quarter oncampus junior year, I decided notto waste Axess space on a class Imight not get into anyway.I walkedinto the classroom for Painting I.This teacher began by reading offthe list of those signed up on Axess

and asked everyone else to leaveimmediately.I just gave up.After three years

and four attempts, I could not getinto a single class. However sad orpitiful this story may be,I do have apoint. From my experience andfrom the estimated 90 other kidswho were also turned away fromthe four classes I tried to get into,

its clear that when it comes to artinstruction at Stanford, the de-mand is far outpacing the supply.However, there is good news onthe horizon: the Stanford Arts Ini-tiative.The Studio Art and Art De-partments are gaining a new build-ing that will include studios andclassrooms, and construction isslated to begin next year. I hopethat in the future, there will neverbe another student like me at Stan-ford that feels shut out from a de-

partment that he or she desperate-ly wants to participate in.So my message to the heads of

the Institute for Creativity in theArts, professors John Berger andBryan Wolf, is this: please forme and for the hundreds of otherkids that have also been turnedaway from art classes make sureto allocate enough money to theneeds of the students and not justto raise the esteem of Stanford inthe eyes of the art world.Give yourstudents the space and the instruc-tors they need allow us to in-dulge our creativity. Give us stu-dios,rehearsal rooms, performancespaces for student groups; give usplaces with floors that you candance on and mirrors on the walls;give us theaters with wings and

lights. Because if all a student isdoing is desperately trying to takeclasses, no one should feel like anentire department hates themagain.

The Art Department might hateJamie, but you dont, right? Let herknow by sending her an email at

jamiesol@stanford.edu.

You have no idea where youare, who is around you orwhy youre there.You have

no money, you cant do anythingquickly and you dont have any-where to go. Sounds like a bad

dream, right?That about describes the firstcouple hours of being abroad in aforeign city. But I only need twowords to describe how I felt in Flo-rence: abroad and confused.

Even if youve taken the lan-guage for a few quarters or havevisited the country before, thatfirst moment when your hostfamily is talking to you quicklyand youre grasping onto wordsyou recognize as if youre reach-ing for life jackets tossed from asinking ship is overwhelming.

For me, stepping through thefront door and into the home ofGiuliana Calamandrei-Santini, an80-year-old widow, was exactlylike that. Here was a woman a footand a half shorter, four lifetimes

older and much louder than I was.She attempted to explain to mehow to lock the triple-locked frontdoor with a six-inch key, hownever to use more than one light inthe house at a time and how tonever (ever) touch anything in thekitchen (ever!).

After getting whacked with mygeneral incompetence, I was

forced to take a brief walk aroundthe neighborhood to clear myhead and keep my sanity. Howev-

er, it is remarkable how quicklythe language comes to you. I writethis five full days after I arrived inFlorence, and I just finished hav-ing a full and rewarding conversa-tion about Berlusconi (a nightlytopic at the dinner table and animpressively disliked man).

Ive spent many hours on theFarm struggling to absorb (by os-mosis) some last-minute textbookmaterials for class, with my headjust resting on pages trying to soakit all in. Only now does simplybeing around the Italian languagefinally allow me to learn it. Before,it would take me a week to learn asimple list of kitchen vocabulary,but here it takes me one or tworepetitions and the word is searedinto my memory.

One morning during orienta-tion, the program directors ex-plained to us some cultural differ-ences about Florence that weshould understand. For instance,strangers on the street will neversay a word to each other but willmake eye contact for an insanely

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EDITORIAL

New York campusbrings promise,risk

Amid its wide avenues andtowering skyscrapers, itseasy to forget that New

York City began as a small collec-tion of homes outside an unimpos-ing Dutch fort nearly four cen-turies ago.Though New Yorks as-cension to world city status mightseem inevitable to modern ob-servers, its present success is, inlarge part, the result of many con-scious historical decisions.Whether this meant the building ofharbors, the financing of canals orthe laying of railroads, New Yorktook the necessary steps to remainat the cutting edge while compara-ble cities like Baltimore, Philadel-phia and Boston fell behind. Onedecade into the 21st century, how-ever, New Yorks preeminence isthreatened. The firms that havedominated the digital age are over-whelmingly anchored elsewhere,particularly in Silicon Valley. AsStanford bids against other univer-sities for the right to operate a NewYork campus, Stanfords appeal

rests largely on the idea that it cancreate a hub of engineering inno-vation in the Big Apple in the moldof the Universitys Silicon Valleymilieu.

Likewise, a New York campushas a great deal of appeal for Stan-ford.Stanfords symbiotic relation-ship with Silicon Valley has workedwell for it in the past,yet future suc-cess often requires bold action inthe face of opportunity.Many peo-ple thought that Leland Stanfordwas crazy when he announced hisintention to build a first-class uni-versity on the West Coast. But Mr.Stanford knew that he had onlyone chance, and today the entire

Stanford community benefits fromhis decision.The chance to build acampus in Americas largest city isanother such opportunity.Stanfordhas made no secret of its enthusi-asm for the expansion,but it must,if selected,see to it that the campusis designed with the best interestsof the University in mind.

To simply build a miniaturereplica of Stanford in a new settingwould be the wrong approach andpotentially an expensive distrac-tion from the main campus. Stan-ford has succeeded largely because

of the powerful network effectsthat accompany its concentrationand diversity of talent,and it wouldbe a shame to see this dynamism di-minished because of potential di-version of faculty and resources toNew York. These non-financialcosts of the expansion are neces-sarily speculative and nebulous,but they should be seriously stud-ied and weighed before any finaldecisions are made.

If a New York campus is to suc-ceed, it must complement Stan-fords current offerings, not com-pete with them. Stanfords Hop-kins Marine Station, though muchsmaller than the proposed NewYork expansion, demonstrates theconcept quite well. Hopkins Ma-rine Station takes advantage of itslocation on the Monterey Bay andadjacent to Montereys world fa-mous aquarium to play a leadingrole in research that it would other-wise have no part in.Hopkins alsoprovides opportunities for gradu-ate students, recent graduates and

even undergraduates to study theecology of the California coast. InNew York, Stanford must take asimilar approach,identifying whichunique firms,institutions and Uni-versity constituencies stand to ben-efit most from partnerships in NewYork,and building the new campusaround those prospects. Thoughthe focus of the campus should andwill be on graduate education, itwould be a shame to neglect under-graduates entirely. Since engineer-ing students often have troublestudying abroad due to the heavy,linear nature of their coursework,itwould be wonderful if such stu-dents were given an opportunity tostudy at the New York campus fora quarter if they so choose.

Whatever the outcome of thebidding process, New York willgain a prominent center of gradu-ate engineering education, andperhaps sow the seeds of futureeconomic success.By participating,Stanford has positioned itself for arare opportunity to bolster its placein the world of higher education.Whether the opportunity will en-hance Stanfords goals to advancelearning and public service or dis-tract from them remains to be seen.

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SPORTS

A Soxfan is

sweatingI

t seems unfair to call it a collapse,because what the Boston RedSox have managed to do in themonth of September going 7-

19 and squandering a nine-game leadover the Tampa Bay Rays in the racefor the American League Wild Card has been an utter meltdown. AMona Lisa of choking, if you will.

Now, as a card-carrying memberof Red Sox Nation, I have still beensporting my Pedroia Destroy-ahshirt and wearing my Jacoby Ellsbury

jersey with pride (I will save Ells-burys MVP argument for a later,lessstressful date).And for the last weekor so,I walked around campus late atnight trying to convince myself that ifthe Sox could just get into the play-offs,everything would be all right andTerry Franconas club would stopdoing its best 2007 Mets impression.

Its not too late, as the Rays andRed Sox are now tied with identical90-71 records with one game left toplay in the regular season.And if JonLester can make mincemeat of the

Orioles tomorrow night and the NewYork Yankees stop letting the Rayswin (and yes,the Bombers are indeedtrying their best to lose these last fewgames and keep the Sox out of theplayoffs), I could rest easy for a fewdays.

But I dont see that happening.The 2011 Red Sox are too much ma-chine and not enough man. Thechampionship teams from 2004 and2007 both had distinctive team per-sonalities Kevin Millars CowboyUp was the rallying cry in 2004 and2007 featured the Bash Brothers,David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez,with a dash of rookies, Pedroia andEllsbury. But this year has been astruggle to find a team identity, asnewcomers Adrian Gonzalez andCarl Crawford dont appear to have

any emotion if they hit .340 or .250,respectively.

Sure, the lineup is a threat toscore 10 runs every night, but theydont seem to know how to win thegames that matter the most.Againstthe Rays, Boston has struggledmightily, going 6-12 on the seasonand 1-6 against Tampa in the finalmonth. Gonzalez has hit well belowthe Mendoza Line against the Raysall season, and Ellsbury and short-stop Marco Scutaro have seeminglybeen the only ones able to hit any-thing when it counts.

In a city that eats, drinks andbreathes sports,the fans have had toswallow the kind of pain that theyhavent experienced in a decade,thekind of pain only inflicted by thelikes of Bucky F****** Dent, BillF****** Buckner and AaronF****** Boone.

And the players arent immune tothe pain and anger flowing from thehallowed stands at Fenway Park.

If I was a fan, Id be frustrated,too, slugger David Ortiz said fol-lowing last Wednesdays 6-4 loss tothe Orioles. Ive been here, what,nine years? Ive never seen a col-lapse this bad.

I pray that the Red Sox can findsome way to dismiss the losses as afluke, a combination of misfortuneand a tiny pitching slump. But thereis no manual on how to survive alate-season collapse, and when ru-mors are flying about which startingpitcher your club is looking to tradefor just to start the 162nd game of the

season,its probably not a good sign.(For the record, I would have been just fine if General Manager TheoEpstein picked up Pedro Martinezand threw him out on the mound toface the Orioles tonight.)

Thankfully, the Stanford bubbleseems to keep most of the Red Soxhaters away,so I have not had to en-dure much more than the occasionalchuckle from a passerby in a Yan-kees hat, or some good-natured rib-bing from my roommate, a Dodgersfan who is still counting his blessingsthat this story is bumping the FrankMcCourt saga from the limelight.

But if you happen to bump intome on the steps of Hoover Towerand its after 7 p.m. tomorrow,donthesitate to call the police because itwill mean that the Red Sox have lost,

even after having the second-bestrecord in baseball for three months.Im going to need some serious talk-ing down.

If the fate of the Red Sox is anythinglike that of his fantasy baseball team,Miles is cruisin for a bruisin. SendMiles Bennett-Smith clips of Bucknersblunder at milesbs@stanford.edu.

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After losing standout junior linebacker Shayne Skov (above) to a season-ending knee injury, the Cardinal will look to sophomore AJ Tarpley andjunior Jarek Lancaster to fill in on defense. Stanford will face its first test this weekend, with a home matchup against UCLA on Saturday night.

Miles Bennett-Smith

By JACK BLANCHATDESK EDITOR

After a bye week to rest up andprepare for the heart of the Pac-12schedule, the Stanford footballteam is echoing the same mantrasthat facilitated the longest winningstreak in the country, even though

the team is now missing one of itsbiggest stars.

The No. 6 Cardinal (3-0,1-0 Pac-12) suffered a major blow last week-end when junior linebacker ShayneSkov,the teams leading tackler,wasruled out for the rest of the seasondue to a knee injury suffered in thefirst half of the Arizona game.How-ever, the Cardinal players dont ex-pect to see any serious setbackswithout their starting middle line-backer.

I know our defense has otherlinebackers that are ready and will-ing to step up and step in wheretheyre needed on defense, said

junior tight end Levine Toilolo.The whole defense is ready to put

in the work to fill in any slack thatthere might be,but I think we havea good rotation and our linebackersare well prepared to step in.

Sophomore AJ Tarpley and jun-ior Jarek Lancaster will be asked tostep in and are expected to split du-ties in order to fill Skovs spot.Bothplayers have yet to see the field

much in their Stanford careers, withLancaster contributing mostly onspecial teams last year and Tarpleynot seeing the field in his freshmanseason.

But even though neither playerhas notched a significant amount ofplaying time so far, the linebackercorps has faith that both players cancontribute right away, mostly be-cause of the open competition forOwen Marecics inside linebacker

job this past spring.It just kept everyone competi-

tive, it meant that everyones stay-ing sharp, said redshirt senior line-backer Max Bergen. Its better ifyou dont know whos starting soeveryones on top of their play at all

times.That experience, coupled with a

few small changes, should keep theStanford defense strong, Bergensaid.

Youve got to get more vocal,just get used to communicating witheach other, which we already werethrough camp, but I think well be

just fine,he said.Tarpley and Lan-caster are great players, and Skovsstill around to help us out.

Skovs nose for the footballmade the Stanford defense a deadlyadversary on the ground, allowingonly 36 yards per game rushing the best in the entire country soany replacements certainly have bigshoes to fill.They will be challengedearly and often as Stanfords sched-ule now turns to a bevy of teamsthat love to keep the ball out of theair.

This weeks test will be theUCLA Bruins (2-2, 1-2), who, de-spite their lackluster record,can stillmove the football effectively on theground. The Bruins rush for 214

yards a game thanks to their duo ofJohnathan Franklin and DerrickColeman, who have combined for602 yards rushing and six touch-downs already. Last year, Franklinrushed for 1,127 yards the 10thmost in UCLA history and wassecond team All-Pac-10.

The Bruins strong rushing at-

tack means that the new lineback-ers will have to prove right awaythat they can continue the outstand-ing level of play that Skov started inthe first three games of the season.Tarpley and Lancaster will no doubtbe critical to the Cardinals successfor the rest of the season as well,particularly because the toughesttest remaining on Stanfords sched-ule is No.9 Oregon (3-1,1-0),whichrushes for 299.5 yards per game,cur-rently sixth-best in the nation.

Of course, the new defenderswill have an opportunity to meshwith the starters before that Oregontest on Nov. 12, and the Cardinal is

Young linebackers crucial to defenses continued success

LIFE AFTER SKOV

MENS GOLF

Talented squad shinesin team, individual wins

By MILES BENNETT-SMITHMANAGING EDITOR

With three of its top four scor-ing leaders back from last season,the mens golf team felt confident itcould improve on its loss in theNCAA Central Regional last year.Coach Conrad Rays recruitingclass was one of the best in thecountry, and the Cardinal was con-

tent to fly under the radar until itcounted.

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But after a huge win over 10top-25 teams in the OlympiaFields/Fighting Illini Invitationaltwo weekends ago, and the indi-vidual title won by freshmanPatrick Rodgers at the sameevent, it looks like Stanford wontbe able to sneak up on anyoneanytime soon.

The Cardinal had a 54-holetotal of 849,a whopping 16 strokesbetter than No.2 Oklahoma Stateand No. 9 Auburn, who tied forsecond.No.3 Alabama carded the

final days lowest score (+4) to fin-ish fourth at the Olympia FieldsCountry Club North Course,but itwas the steady play of Rodgersthat turned heads in rainy condi-tions.

Entering the final round, theAvon, Ind. native was eightstrokes back of the leader, Stan-ford sophomore Cameron Wilson.

But with the help of a calm,steady putter, Rodgers made twobirdies and no bogeys to storm upthe leader board and run awaywith a three-stroke victory (206, -4) over Texas Dylan Frittelli.

The last Stanford golfer to winhis first collegiate tournament wasTiger Woods, who accomplishedthe feat 17 years ago at the WilliamTucker Invitational.

It was a good steady round,Rodgers said of the final round 68.I made a lot of pars and I misseda few birdie opportunities early,but I made a few coming in.Some-thing I took from that round andthe tournament was that I couldwin without playing my best golf.

Coming off the Walker Cup Ididnt have my A game, and I did-nt have much time to prepare,headded. I was really proud of theway I was able to scrap it aroundand score my golf ball without hit-ting it great.

The Cardinal put on quite ashow in its first team win since theMauna Lani Invitational in Febru-ary 2010. Junior Andrew Yun fin-ished in third place, and Wilsonposted a career-best fourth-placefinish (despite shooting a finalround 76) as Stanford occupiedthree of the top four slots.

This was one of the largestwinning margins in my career,Ray told GoStanford.com. Ittakes five guys to win and all theguys played well. Steve Kearney

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team, Academic Directors are fulltime, Ph.D.-level staff who mightalso teach on campus, Copelandsaid.These staff members have resi-dential offices and oversee the aca-demic progress of nearly 450 fresh-men and sophomores who live closeby.

Matching is a really fun, in-tractable problem, Copeland said.We get to know the advisors andwhat types of students they like.Then,we read the students respons-es and try to think of which advisorthe student would have a productiveconversation with.

The advisor selection process ismeticulous, as the eight AcademicDirectors look at the academic andpersonal interests of the advisors

and of all freshmen and finally hand-

pair the two groups.In a change that will make the

PMA role more manageable, 80new PMAs have joined the pro-gram for the 2011-12 school year,

bringing the total to 310 advisorsfrom 230 a year ago. This increaseallows for each PMA to meet ad-visee groups of only six students in-stead of eight in 2010.

One common misconception isthat PMAs should reflect the stu-dents prospective majors. Accord-ing to Copeland, this commonalityalone does not ensure a good rela-tionship.

In their forms, students oftenmention a number of different inter-ests,she said.Sometimes,[studentsand advisors] share a language,sometimes a home town.It could beanything.

Copeland said UAR understandsthat academic interests of freshmenare very likely to change within thecourse of a year, so matches are

sometimes made based on a side in-

terest. She challenges the freshmanclass to try to get to know enoughabout their PMA to figure out whythey are pairedeven if the connec-tion is not readily apparent.

As for the PMAs themselves,Lythcott-Haims said the breakdownof advisors is roughly one-third fac-ulty,one-third academic staff whoseprimary role is to research and one-third non-academic staff, includingstaff in student affairs and athleticsand alumni. All advisors must havean advanced degree.

If you have an advanced degree,you are able to appreciate the under-graduate experience that muchmore,Lythcott-Haims said.

UAR continues to adjust the pro-gram to fit students needs and hassolicited the feedback of the Class of2014 through a recent survey aswell as by listening to the advisingexperiences of ASSU Undergradu-ate Senators Janani Ramachandran14 and Karl Kumodzi 14.

Both students volunteered to

speak at a PMA training session andexpect their contributions to be con-sidered in future years.The commit-tee Ramachandran heads on theSenate,Academic Affairs,also plans

to approach UAR about increasingpeer-to-peer mentoring within aca-demic departments.

While the program seeks contin-ued improvement, the promise ofthe mandatory advising program isevident in the fact that UAR saw anincrease in sophomores who recon-nected with their PMAs, Copelandsaid. She believes this is due to thefact that freshmen were required tomeet with their advisors.

[Sophomores] got back in touchand really took advantage of the re-source,Copeland said.

These PMAs are not compensat-ed any more than an occasional free

lunch at the Faculty Club. Lythcott-Haims said they advise simply for areason that she labels psychic cur-rency or the reward of hearing afreshman or sophomore advisee say,

you made a difference in my lifeorI appreciate you.Feedback indicates that advisors

often reap as much from the pro-gram as their advisees do.

Serving as a Pre-Major Advisorhas been extremely enjoyable andrewarding, Jennifer Dionne, assis-tant professor of material scienceand engineering, said. I have en-

joyed reconnecting with my 18-year-old self through the experiences ofmy advisees.They are a joy to workwith.

Contact Lauryn Williams at lauryn-dw@stanford.edu.

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spot.He also spoke of plans to in-crease voter turnout and reach outto the graduate student population,a group that traditionally sees lowparticipation in the elections.

The last commissioner was bythe book, but I want to build theelections, Adler said. I want tomake Stanford elections somethingto be proud of.

Adler is the managing editor ofthe Flipside,a position that he alsoheld at the time of the publicationscontroversial Segway request. Al-though Adlers said the stunt wasnot his idea, he said he supported itwholeheartedly as a criticism ofthe current special fees system.

Quoting Adlers comment in apost by the Unofficial StanfordBlog on the debate, Senator BenLaufer 12 expressed concerns thatAdler would misuse his position.

You think that the special feesprocess was ridiculous, and the wayyou went about exposing that was

kind of, in my opinion, snake-like,Laufer said.You went through theprocess by exploiting the system inand of itself.If youre in the positionof Elections Commissioner, myconcern is what youre going to doto the process to exploit the sys-tem.

Adler stressed that he would en-sure to avoid conflicts of interestduring his term and said he wouldappoint a neutralsubstitute to re-view cases where his involvementmight prompt accusations ofwrongdoing.

Im not Robert Mugabe Iwant to avoid that,he said.I man-age the elections; I dont want tocontrol them.

The Senate confirmed Adlersnomination,with Senators Dan De-long 13 and Laufer abstaining. Asthe Elections Commission is al-ready violating bylaws by fallingshort of the required four membersto serve on the commission, theSenate urged Adler to make fillingthe position of assistant commis-sioner his highest priority.

The Senate also heard from pub-lications board chair Kate Abbott12, who announced that the board

will hold its first all-editorial meet-ing next Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. and apublications open house on Oct. 6from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., both in OldUnion.The board is currently work-ing with Student Activities andLeadership to determine better dis-tribution strategies for the publica-tions it oversees.

Appropriations CommitteeChair Brianna Pang 13 then pre-sented funding bills for the evening,noting that Barrio Assistance,a tu-toring service group,asked for $700to pay for unspecified damages to arental car.

President Michael Cruz 12joined several senators in express-ing concern over the fact that manystudent groups often use similarlyvague statements when requestingbudget modifications from the Ap-propriations Committee. The Sen-ate voted to table the bill until thefinancial officer of Barrio Assis-tance could meet with the commit-tee to further explain its request.

The Senate approved all otherfunding bills for the evening.

Contact Ivy Nguyen at iknguyen@stanford.edu.

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cerned about student life and li-brary hours.After Ashton workedwith professor of statistics SusanHolmes with the goal of makingthe survey statistically valid, theydecided to poll students throughrandom selection.

Delong said the survey will notonly be about library hours, as thatmight introduce biases. Rather, itwill ask students to prioritize needs.

If we find out students reallydont want hours at Green Libraryextended, this is not an issue weregoing to pursue, he said.

DeLong said one complication tothe issue is that it may not be afford-able to keep Green Library openlonger.Because of the way the build-ing is designed, it cannot be closedoff in sections or fire safety codeswill be broken.

Prior to 2003, Green Libraryhours were 8 a.m. to midnight onSundays though Thursdays, 8 a.m.to 6 p.m.on Fridays and 8 a.m. to 9

p.m. on Saturdays.The hours wereextended for the 2008-2009 schoolyear to keep the library open until 2a.m. Sunday through Thursday anduntil 10 p.m.on Fridays.Because ofbudget cuts,the hours were reducedfor the 2009-2010 school year,caus-ing the library to close an hour ear-lier at 1 a.m. Sunday to Thursday.

We try to use available funds toour advantage, and reducing hoursis one among a large number ofways to preserve our core functions,such as building collections, An-

drew Herkovic,University Librari-ans Office director of communica-tions and development, wrote in anemail to The Daily. Back in thegrim summer of 2009, we wereforced to eliminate more than 60

jobs,across all the library units andfunctions, and it should come as nosurprise that services and hours, in-cluding Greens,were pared as a re-sult. Note specifically that the lastcutback in hours was purely a budg-etary decision.

Budgetary discussions for thenext school year begin in mid-late

fall quarter. DeLong, Ashton andothers are currently working tobuild-in funding for extended hoursfor the 2012-2013 school year. Al-tered hours not necessarily ex-tended is also a possibility.

According to DeLong, bothProvost John Etchemendy andUniversity Librarian MichaelKeller have discretionary fundsthat could be used for this schoolyear to finance extended hours.

Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg2014@stanford.edu.

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Forcible sex offenses

double,alcohol arrests

down in 2011 safety

report

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Sexual crimes increased signifi-cantly from 2009 to 2010,while alco-hol and drug-related offenses de-clined,according to the 2011 AnnualSecurity and Fire Safety Report re-leased to the Stanford communityTuesday. The number of reportedthefts and robberies also decreased.

According to the report, whichwas released by the Stanford De-partment of Public Safety, 21forcible sexual offenses were re-

ported in 2010, compared to 2008and 2009, which each saw 10 cases.The report describes forcible sexu-al offenses as any sexual act di-rected against another person,forcibly or against that personswill. Forcible rape, listed as a sub-category of forcible sexual offens-es, saw the biggest increase, jump-ing to 13 reports in 2010 from threein 2008 and five in 2009. Eleven ofthe 2010 reported offenses occurredin student residences.

Liquor law violations, which in-cludes laws prohibiting the manu-facture, sale, purchase, transporta-tion, possession or use of alcoholicbeverages but excludes drivingunder the influence and drunkennessviolations, saw the biggest drop,with31 arrests in 2010 compared to 113 in2009.

2010 also saw an increase in bur-glary reports.Vehicle burglaries roseto 78 cases in 2010 from 48 cases in2009,while structural burglaries roseto 180 cases from 146 in 2009.

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By MILES BENNETT-SMITHMANAGING EDITOR

Junior golfer Sally Watson kicked

off her year with a bang, scoringbirdies on four of her last 12 shotsand sinking a 40-foot putt to capturea come-from-behind individual titleand second place team finish at theCougar Cup hosted by WashingtonState.The Daily had a chance to chatwith Watson about her passion forthe game of golf, living so far fromhome and dreams for the future.

The Stanford Daily (TSD): Whatmade you chose Stanford among allthe different schools that were re-cruiting you?

Sally Watson (SW): I think ultimate-ly I decided to come here because ithad the best combination of aca-demics and athletics. Stanford has a

fantastic athletics program, and thegolf range here is unbelievable. Imight be biased, but I think its thebest in the country.And then obvi-

ously the academic prestige of com-ing to Stanford was definitely astrong pull as well.I feel like not onlydoes Stanford give me a great oppor-tunity to be successful in golf,but if Idecide after university that I dontwant to pursue a career as a profes-sional golfer, then a lot of otherdoors have been opened,and I havea lot of other opportunities in otherareas of my life.

TSD: How have you been able tomake the transition to living on theWest Coast and adjusting to being sofar from home in Scotland?

SW:Its probably tougher on my par-ents than on me. Im so busy thattime seems to just fly by, but I miss

home. My sister used to be on theEast Coast playing golf at the Uni-versity of Tennessee,which was nicebecause it was a smaller time differ-

ence, and I could call her at night-time. But now shes graduated andback home, so its pretty much justme over here.But ultimately I want-ed to play anywhere in America andwith the opportunities that I get atStanford, I wasnt going to turn anyof that down just because its fartheraway from home. My parents havealways encouraged us to travel,andIm pretty comfortable livingabroad.

TSD: How did you first get into thegame of golf? What was it thatsparked your love for the sport?

SW: I was about four years old whenI first started playing golf.We have ahouse in a small village in Scotland,

and theres a little nine-hole golfcourse, and all the kids just kind ofhack it around there. And they didsummer lessons, and it was like a

pound for a half-hour group lesson.You just went,had a quick lesson andthen played nine holes. They had acompetition every Friday, and youdwin like a golf ball if you came infirst. Ive always been really compet-itive, so I started playing at a youngage.When I tore my ACL in my rightknee, it stopped me playing basket-ball, and I started playing more golfand had some success in it.Just beinga competitive person, anythingyoure successful at seems to makeyou want to do more of it and contin-ue playing. The more success Ivehad, the harder it makes me want towork. Whats tough about golf is it

just is a really tough game, and itpushes you mentally to be superstrong and super tough.And I thinkthat stanchion can stand in other

areas of your life. I enjoy the chal-lenge and trying to overcome it. Itskind of a never-ending quest tryingto get better.

TSD: What are your goals this sea-son with the Cardinal?

SW: I would like us to win a tourna-ment in each the fall and spring sea-sons. I think were perfectly capableof doing that.Obviously,in golf morethan other sports,it really does haveto be your week.With so many teamsin each tournament and everyonethese days playing at such a highlevel, you need a few good breakshere and there, and everyone has tobe really solid to win. Golf is verymuch a day-to-day sport.Some daysyou play fantastic, the next you goout and feel like a 20-handicapper.You even see it in the professionalswho go out and shoot a 69 one dayand 76 the next. By the end of theyear, I want us to be ranked in thetop five in the country.We all need tokeep getting better at performingunder pressure and performing as ateam.We need everyone to be firingon all cylinders at the same time,which can be tough.

TSD:Speaking of pressure,you sanka pretty clutch putt recently. Whatwas it like to go out and win the indi-vidual title two weeks ago at theCougar Cup?

SW:The last day I was really focused

on the team. But I was really im-pressed with my performance on theback nine. I kept hanging in there,made some good birdie putts and

made some really clutch putts forpar. I stayed patient enough andbirdied the last two holes. And thebirdie on the last, that was a littlelucky.That [putt] was like 54 feet orsomething. I paced it off to try andget a better feel. Im not going to saytheres that much skill in somethinglike that. You have to read it rightand hope you put the right pace on it,but you need things to go your wayfor the ball to drop. Im very fortu-nate,but it was kind of nice to win theoutright title.

TSD: What are your aspirations ingolf after you graduate? Do youhave a goal in mind,or a dream youwant to realize?

SW:Yes,ultimately I want to become

the best golfer in the world, get thatNo.1 ranking. Obviously thats veryhigh aspirations and a tough goal.But even some of the women playingin the Solheim Cup last year, Iveplayed with them before in juniorevents and beat them in tourna-ments. At this point, its not that Idont think I have the right game,its

just learning how to do things moreconsistently especially the goodthings when it counts under pres-sure. I had a solid summer, workingon a lot of things and I think I defi-nitely want to turn professional afterschool, not to just be a professionaland make the cut here and there. Ireally want to try and compete andget as high up the world rankings aspossible.

TSD: What is your favorite thing todo on campus that is not golfing?

SW: I really love hanging out withmy team.There are only seven of us,were a small, wee team,but I reallylove the girls. Relaxing with themoutside of a serious atmosphere when were at practice,its pretty se-rious. I love the team golf aspect atStanford, I must say. Its an individ-ual sport and youre used to doingthat. But the team dynamic offers

just a different way of playing.Wevegot a great team and its fun to be outhere.

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

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determined to maintain the busi-ness-as-usual attitude that has it sit-ting as the only remaining undefeat-ed team in the Pac-12.

Honestly,into the season we justfocused on worrying about our-

selves every game,weve got to focuson what we have to do regardless ofwho were playing,Toilolo said. Idont really know what [Stanfordbeing the only undefeated Pac-12team] says about the rest of the con-ference;we just have to worry aboutwhat were doing in practice andevery Saturday.

Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@stanford.edu.

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WOMENS GOLF

Catching up with junior golfer Sally Watson

had a solid round,Andrew Yun hungin there.It was a great team win.

Kearney tied for 33rd with a 12-over-par 222 and freshman PatrickGrimes finish tied for 46th at 15over par.

Next up for the Cardinal is The

Prestige at PGA West, co-hostedby Stanford and UC-Davis in LaQuinta,Calif., which will take placeOct.9 to 11. It will be a good test for

the Card to see if it can follow upthe victory at Olympia on the GregNorman course, particularly sincethere are just three remaining tour-naments in the shortened fall sea-son.

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

MGOLFContinued from page 5

long period of time. Italians neverdrink cappuccino after lunch, andyoull most likely be refused if

you ask for it. Buses run on what-ever schedule they feel like.

One of the most famous differ-ences, as everyone knows, is thatItaly has a much slower pace oflife. This can take the form ofwaiting 30 minutes in a line for ataxi when there are clearly moretaxis than people lined up, or itcan mean family dinners that lasttwo hours instead of two minutes.But my favorite example of howslow-moving it has been here oc-curred at a TIM store (a cellularprovider).

The time from my buon-giorno at the beginning of myconversation with the sales ladyto my ciao at the end was a re-sounding one hour and 18 min-utes. I wanted to purchase some-thing that cost less than 10 euros.Instead, I witnessed one of thefinest masters of procrastination Ishall ever see. My sales personmanaged to have a cup of coffee,two phone calls with friends, mul-tiple text conversations and abrief chat with her coworker. Sheeven helped another customer all while holding the tiny card I

needed for my phone the entiretime. By the time I ran out of thestore,I desperately needed a gela-to pick-me-up.

Being abroad is a lot to experi-ence, especially when you losemost of the people you know,places you recognize and posses-sions you have.

But despite it all,there are stillthose moments you hoped forwhen you first picked up yourplane tickets for that nine-hourflight across the globe in tight,dark, back-of-the-plane-near-the-bathroom seats.

Hiking up to Piazza Michelan-gelo today, I looked over the en-tire city of Florence at sunset,soaking in the power and historyof one of the great jewels of West-ern civilization and seeing reflect-ed back my own hopes and aspira-tions for greatness. It is one ofthose moments that will remainwith me and inspire me for a life-time and more. The daily mo-ments of respite are what makeme grateful for the opportunitiesI have and the things I will experi-ence while away from my belovedStanford.

So after a few days, Im readyto add another word to my de-scription: abroad, confused andhappy.

Want to give Will a little dose of America? Then email him atwseaton@stanford.edu.

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EGG DONOR WANTEDGay Stanford grad and husband lookingfor egg donor for our surrogacy process.Would love to hear from donors (19-25)who are happy, confident, empathetic,tenacious, and athletic. Email: Seek-ingStanfordDonor@comcast.net

STANFORD FLU VACCINE STUDYSeeking 18-30 year olds!

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