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By JOSH HOYTCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Stanford Management Company(SMC) reported a 22.4-percent return onthe Stanford endowment for the fiscalyear that ended Jun.30, 2011,up from the14.4-percent return recorded for the pre-vious fiscal year.

SMC is a division of the University re-sponsible for investing the Merged Pool(MP), a pool of money including the en-dowment as well as other monies suitablefor long-term investment for example,the savings of the Stanford Hospital &Clinics and Lucille Packard Childrens

Hospital.The merged pool includes endow-ment assets and then some additional as-sets that the various schools and endow-ments have chosen to treat like endow-ment assets, but are not, legally speaking,endowment, SMC CEO John Powerswrote in an email to The Daily. Thatswhy this merged pool number is $19.5 bil-lion, and the endowment is about $16.5.

This return comes after Stanfordsrecord losses in fiscal year 2008-09, whenthe investments lost 25.9 percent of itsvalue in that years economic downturn.After two years of growth, the perform-ance over the past three years showsgrowth of only 1.3 percent; the $19.5 bil-lion total of the MP today remains lessthan the $20.6 billion value reported Jun.30, 2008.

Expanding over 10 years,Stanford hasachieved 9.3 percent MP growth, starting

from $7.9 billion in 1999.This growth is inline with what Stanford expects in thelong-term, Powers said.

Our long-term goal is to allow forabout a 5.5 percent yearly payout, andthen there is inflation above 5.5 percent;and then we want to grow the endowmentsome, he continued. So, a minimumthreshold to allow us to make payout andmeet inflation and grow the endowmentis at eight percent or so.

Other universities have shown compa-rable endowment volatility.This years in-vestment return of 22.4 percent is morethan the any of the schools with larger en-dowments, including Harvards 21.4 per-

cent, Princetons 21.9 percent and Yales21.9 percent. Stanfords 2008-09 loss wasshared by all of these institutions as well,with Stanford losing less than Harvards27.3 percent but more than Yales 24.6and Princetons 23.7.

Overall, Stanfords 10-year gains arethe lowest of the group, with Harvard at9.4 percent,Yale at 9.8 and Princeton at 10.

Its like a poker game with friends,Powers said of the investing relationshipbetween the universities. You want towin the hand, but you enjoy the companyas well.

Education professor David Plank,who researches education policy, es-chewed the idea of endowments as acompetiti on to see who has the biggestpile.

The broader context is that these aregreat problems to have,Plank said.Most

students are going to universities and col-

leges without any endowment at all.Powers,who took over the CEO posi-

tion at SMC in 2006, cited SMCs abilityto grow the endowment, even in adecade with several years of losses. Inthe fiscal year 2000-01 Stanford reporteda 2.1-percent loss and in 2001-02, a 2.6-percent loss.

One way SMC said it is planning forthe future is by focusing on the liquidityof its assets. Hundreds of staff lost theirjobs during the 2008-09 crisis,and fundingwas pulled back in departments across

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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

ACM hostsHulu talk onbig data

By ELLORA ISRANIDESK EDITOR

The Stanford Association forComputing Machinery (ACM) host-ed its weekly Tech Talk last Fridaynight in the Gates Computer ScienceBuilding, featuring Shane Moriah09, a Hulu software developer whogave a talk ti tled,I Know What YouWatched Last Summer: AnOverview of Hadoop, Big Data andMetrics at Hulu.

ACMs weekly Tech Talks featuretwo students, faculty or communitymembers giving talks about variouscomputer science-related topics.Thegroups website deems the idea sim-ple smart people sharing theircool CS hacks, research and techdemos with the Stanford CS commu-

nity. This weeks second speakerwas Sam King 12 on Computers,Exploitation and Empowerment.

Moriah spoke on the relevance todata in almost every industry.

Metrics are the core of data-driven business, he said. Prettymuch every business now everytech business, every non-tech busi-ness is interested in metrics.

You can understand your usersand usage,develop and track new ex-isting products and, of course,theres money, he continued. Wemake most of our money off of ad-vertisements, so being able to trackwhat advertisements are shown andwhen thats how we make ourmoney.

According to Moriah,data is usedto track a variety of factors across the

Hulu site:views per video,number ofadvertisements shown, quality ofservice, as well as individual viewer

By ERIN INMAN

A recent study out of the School of Medicinefound that the overall quality of diet during pregnan-cy is associated with the risk of two birth defects:neu-ral tube defects (NTDs) and orofacial clefts.

This study, published online last week in the jour-nal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,marks a shift in the focus of research on birth defectsfrom single nutrients such as folic acid to over-all quality of diet during pregnancy.

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Endowment grows

Brown signs second

part of DREAM Act

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

California Governor Jerry Brownsigned on Saturday the second half ofa bill dubbed the DREAM Act,which will allow illegal immigrant col-lege students to receive state-fundedscholarships.

The bill, written by Los Angeles

Democrat and State Senator GilCedillo, completes the CaliforniaDREAM Act and follows one signedby Brown in July to fulfill a campaignpromise to give illegal immigrants ac-cess to privately-funded collegescholarships.A similar bill for federalaid was voted down in the U.S.Senatelast year.

Going to college is a dream thatpromises intellectual excitement andcreative thinking, Brown said in astatement issued by his office.TheDREAM Act benefits us all by givingtop students a chance to improvetheir lives and the lives of all of us.

California joins Texas and NewMexico as one of three states to qual-ify illegal immigrants for college fi-nancial aid.The DREAM Act passeda Democratic legislature along partylines in September.

The state is also one of about adozen to allow illegal immigrants topay in-state tuition at public schools,given the students attendance andgraduation from a California publichigh school.The new law makes thesestudents eligible for aid at the Univer-sity of California schools, CaliforniaState Universities and 112 communi-ty colleges.

Opponents of the bill have statedthat Californias funds should be re-served for those who are legally in thestate.

Citizens are having a hardenough time getting the classes theyneed now, wrote California Assem-blyman Tim Donnelly, a HesperiaRepublican, in a Sept. 9 letter to

Brown. [California already offers]students in the country illegally in-state tuition;legally documented stu-

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By JACK BLANCHATDESK EDITOR

Andrew Luck looked weary,red-faced, beard unkempt andeyes downcast.

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I think we need to improve.We left some plays out there.Some turnovers, some three-and-outs;its just not good enough,hesaid, wiping his left hand downacross his face.

Judging by his reactions, youwould have expected him to needsome consoling. After all, Luckhad just accumulated 370 yardsthrough the air, the second-mostin a single game in his career,

picked up his 25th career victoryto pass Steve Stenstrom for themost all-time wins by a quarter-back in Stanford history andsteered the Cardinal footballteam to a 48-7 victory over Col-orado.

Just another masterpiece,right?

Am I ever surprised by what

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data, or how people behave acrossthe lifetime of their visit to the site.

He also described how the com-pany collects data through bea-cons on web pages designed totrack usage.

What you do [when you watch avideo] is send this URL off, he said.This is basically what happens whenyou load an advertisement . . . it getssent back to us and processed.

The company records the time,IPaddress,advertisement info, user lo-cation and user ID for registeredviewers using a URL-parsing key; itprocesses about one billion of thesebeacons per day, which Moriahcalled an issue of scale.

Data is also used to balance con-tent and user interface, as well as todrive some larger company deci-sions such as negative resultscom-municating unsuccessful initiatives.

When we launch things,there is atendency to do product design bygut, Steve Jobs philosophy,he said.That sometimes works . . . Some-

times you see that your big dreamprojects should actually get axed.

He also revealed that Hulu is inthe slow process of a site-redesign,which is perhaps a secret.

The Stanford ACM, whichHackathon coordinator Alex Atal-lah 14 calls a computer enthusi-ast group, is a chapter of the na-tionwide scientific and educationalcomputing society. The Stanfordchapter was founded in 2007 and

has approximately 400 members;nationwide, membership was about

83,000 as of 2007.The group reaches out to compa-

nies and students, inviting them tospeak about whatever CS-relatedsubject interests them.According toAtallah,the talks audiences are fair-ly consistent.

The vast majority are Stanfordpeople, Stanford undergrads, hesaid. Its maybe five percent from

outside of Stanford and 90 percentundergrads. The people who come

from outside of Stanford, some ofthem are entrepreneurs . . . Othersare just tech enthusiasts.Theyre re-ally excited about it.

He also said that attendees tend tobe CS majors, although some aresymbolic systems majors or those in-terested in general entrepreneur-ship.

As for ACM, Atallah described

the groups mission as built around atriad.

ACM is the biggest computingenthusiast group on Stanford cam-pus,and we try to get people togeth-er, some of whom are not sure howto start an idea that they have, andsome of them have the technicalbackground, but want inspiration,he said. We try to get these peopleto create at hackathons, to listen atTech Talks and to learn at work-shops.

ACMs next Tech Talk is Friday,

Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. and will feature AliYahya 10 on Software Defined Net-working.

Contact Ellora Israni at [email protected].

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Hulu software developer Shane Moriah 09 spoke Friday evening about the use of data and metrics at Hulu as partof the weekly Tech Talks series hosted by the Stanford chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.

dents from the next state over canonly dream of such a benefit.

For the University of Californias2007-08 academic year, it reportedless than 0.3 percent of students asimmigrants, and more than 68 per-cent of these 1,941 students as citizensor documented immigrants.

The new law will affect less thanone percent of students at state uni-versities about 3,633 and

34,057 of 2.9 million students en-rolled at community colleges.

Ellora Israni

Researchers achieve

cell transformation


Scientists in the School of Medi-cine transformed mature liver cellsfrom mice into functional neuronswith the introduction of three newgenes, marking the first time re-

searchers anywhere have been ableto leapfrog from one fundamentallydifferent tissue type to another, ac-cording to a School of Medicine state-ment.

This same group of researchers,led by assistant professor of patholo-gy and senior author Marius Wernig,showed in 2009 that it was possible totransform mice skin cells into neu-rons.The difference is that this newtransformation occurs without firsthaving to make the cells pluripo-tent that is,without first inducingthe potential to differentiate via theforced expression of certain genes.Previously, this was thought to be a

necessary step.These liver cells unambiguously

cross tissue-type boundaries to be-come fully functional neural cells,Wernig said in a statment. Evenmore surprising, these cells also si-multaneously silence their liver-geneexpression profile.They are not hy-brids; they are completely switchingtheir identities.

Researchers transformed theliver cells, known as hepatocytes, byinserting via a virus three genes:Brn2, Ascl1 and Myt1l. Within twoweeks,cells began to take on neuralidentities and suppress previouscharacteristics.

Wernig, along with postdoctoralscholar and first author SamueleMarro, built on a technique devel-oped by professor of applied physicsStephen Quake. They analyzed theoriginal and transformed liver cellsto show that their product behaveslike a true neuron and shuts down allgene expression associated with itsprevious function.

There is future potential for re-search on the application of thesecells for example,in whether theycan be used to learn more about dis-ease or in treatment. According tothe press release, these cells couldalso help illuminate the process of

cell differentiation.This is fascinating,Wernig said.

We can imagine ways that the threeintroduced factors could stimulateneural gene expression, but how dothey also down-regulate two com-pletely unrelated donor networks those of skin and liver cells?

The research was funded jointlyby the New York Stern Cell Founda-tion,the Stinehart/Reed Foundation,the Ellison Medical Foundation, theHoward Hughes Medical Instituteand the National Institutes ofHealth.

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Stanford center

awarded national

poverty research grant


The $4 million National PovertyResearch Center grant has beenawarded to Stanfords Center for theStudy of Poverty and Inequality bythe Office of the Assistant Secretaryfor Planning and Evaluation in theDepartment of Health and HumanServices.

The grant,to which the Universi-ty has pledged an additional $2 mil-lion contribution, will be used in anational center which monitors,elucidates and originates science-based policies on trends in policyand inequality. Its major develop-ment will be a web portal thatmakes hundreds of statistics on theissue as well as related scientificresearch readily available to thegeneral public.

This is a critical moment in U.S.history in which poverty is growing,long-term unemployment is increas-ing and income inequality is reach-ing an all-time high,said Center Di-

rector and professor of sociologyDavid Grusky in a statement to theStanford Report. The new centerwill be dedicated not just to monitor-ing these trends,not just to uncover-ing what drives them,but also to un-derstanding how national economicpolicies affect them.

The center will focus on regionalissues as well as national ones. Forexample,the new California WelfareLaboratory (C-WELL) will high-light poverty and inequality issues inCalifornia specifically.

Stanford representatives willwork closely with two other Nation-al Poverty Centers at UC-Davis and

the University of Wisconsin, Madi-son,as well as Assistant Secretary forPlanning and Evaluation in the U.S.Department of Health and HumanServices Sherry Glied.

President Hennessy related thegrant to the Stanford Challenge.

The Stanford Challenge, whichwe set forth five years ago, commit-ted the University to seeking solu-tions to societys most formidableproblems, he said in a statement tothe Report.This new national cen-ter allows us,in a very real way,to ex-pand on that commitment.

Ellora Israni

BRIEFSContinued from front page

Corrections

In the opinions column, TheMixed Messages of Modernism:ASSU youre doing it wrong(Oct. 7), The Daily incorrectly re-ported that the ASSU Senate is en-tirely unpaid. In fact, the SenatesChair and Deputy Chair, as well asthe Chair of the AppropriationsCommittee,all receive stipends.TheDaily also incorrectly reported that

the ASSU Press Officer is a paid po-sition.The position is unpaid.

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WALK ON THE EDGE

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Iwalked out the door,hoppedon my bike and braced myselffor the long ride to Stanfordsedge Cantor Arts Center.Peddling closer and closer, I

heard music radiating from PartyOn the Edge.Once I reached a fairdistance, I parked my bike a blockaway and passed by the Rodinsculptures that lurked in theirdimly lit, shadow-covered garden.

Once past the garden, I traipsedthrough the metal graveyard madeup of carelessly strewn bikes. Stu-dents came from far and wide to ex-perience a different type of partyon Thursday night.

As I reached the entrance,shim-mering steel pan drums greeted mewith the melodies of Cardinal Ca-lypso. Next, a wave of heat overacross my face and fingers,defrost-ing them from the brisk,biking air.Students all over shed their jacketsas they absorbed the myriad eventsaround them. They had arrived toParty On the Edge.

After taking it all in, I beganwalking across the venue.After justa few steps,a student stopped meand thrust a pencil andpost-it notes into my

hands. He pointedtoward theIdea Walland encour-aged me toshare my

Stanford arts experiences. I pon-dered what to write while lookingat the walls progress. Initially, thewall was bare,but as more studentsarrived, writing crept across thewall like ivy. Comments includedphilosophical thoughts and re-quests for more arts on the Farm.

More opera! one studentwrote.

While I stood at the Idea Wall,I heard the whispers of one fresh-man. He mumbled possible ideas,but couldnt decide what to write.He pondered for several minutes.Then,stumped, he stormed back tothe table with the post-its andslammed his idea pad down.

I dont know anything aboutarts at Stanford, he said.

After also being lost for words, Istood back, observed others ideas

and smiled. I placed the pencil andpost-its back on the table and con-tinued browsing.Friends jumped infront of me to greet me.Some wereenthusiastic about their imminentperformance. Others were nervousand discouraged me from watchingtheir show. Either way, I was excit-ed about the night that awaited me.

As I reached the student art gal-leries, I made my way through adense pack of students.Some guestsnudged each other as they snappedpictures of the artwork.Others chat-ted about summer vacations, dormsand classes.

Somehow, I felt the other stu-dents and I were out of place.I feltas though our jeans and sweatshirtsclashed with the elegance of theevent. We werent dressed up likethe typical museum-going, art-col-lecting crowd.We were Stanfordstudents, simply searching

for a study break and a relaxingtime.Yet it wasnt fake or inappro-priate.

Suddenly, a project created bySanthi Elayaperumal M.S. 09,Ph.D. 14 and Greg Kress M.S. 09,Ph.D. 14 began to move. Gaspsfilled the crowd.

Oh snap, a woman yelled.This project combined technol-

ogy and art,as it used energy fromplants to power a robotic pen.

After this show,I stepped back andabsorbed the atmosphere once again.The many displays overwhelmed me.There was no way to see and truly ap-preciate all the pieces. Artworkblurred with guests, one body thatdanced as the night continued.

The weeks rain stopped for thisparty.The clouds parted and the sky

cleared. The moon glis-tened white.It was truly abeautiful evening.

I biked home feeling re- juvenated. It wasnt justbecause of the break fromstudying, the cool night airor the spiced tea I drank. Itwas the joy that came overme after seeing the beauty

and talent of my peers.Stan-

ford is, in more than one as-pect,a work of art.

Contact Tori Lewis at [email protected].

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FRESHMAN 15


OPINIONS

This fall, I enrolled in ReligiousStudies 103:Psychospiritual Di-mensions of Violence.Its a won-

derful course, though the material isdark and its implications are some-times tough to grapple with.The classmeets once a week,on Mondays at 7p.m.,to watch and discuss award-win-

ning films about the traumatic effectsof war and violence on individuals,so-cieties and nations.

At the end of each film, there is al-ways an empty, aching silence. Weleave quietly, not sure what, if any-thing, to say. There is no post-classchatter here.We then take two days toreflect before writing a brief responseto each weeks film.

It was during this period of reflec-tion that I thought about why we feltthe way we did so horrified andshocked.I thought that shock general-ly flows from inexperience, and Ithought about what our inexperiencemeant.Here assembled was a class ofexceptionally bright young minds,andwe did not know what war was. Wewere shocked by the face of war be-cause we had never looked it in the

eyes.That was a bit odd,I reflected.After

all, our nation has been at war for adecade now. Should we not know bynow what war is?

But we dont, and it troubles me.Itsignifies, I think, the emergence of anew and disturbing paradigm in ournations conduct of war.

It is an escapist paradigm that al-lows us to cheer for more war withoutbearing any of the cost,to call for morekilling without doing any of it,to cava-lierly send troops abroad without fear-

ing that we will be some of those sent.It is a new paradigm, very unlike theone that animated my grandfathersgeneration during the Second WorldWar.It allows us to watch our wars onour TV screens from the comfort ofour easy chairs,in a twisted sort of vir-tual First Manassas. Where everyone

once chipped in a little,a few now givetheir all.There is no gas tax,no fuel ra-tioning, no calls for spare scrap metalor food for the war effort,no draft,noGI Bill.

Most of us bear none of the costs ofwar,and consequently we do not havemuch reason either to end the war orto support it. Most of us do not sendcare packages to our soldiers or de-mand a cessation to war by protestingits injustice.We do not write letters toour representatives in Congress ask-ing them to devote money to psycho-logical counseling and body armor forthe troops or asking that they vote towithdraw those troops now.We can af-ford to have other concerns,and hencewe do.

For the people who fight our wars,war is everything.For the rest of us,war

is nothing. Our society once experi-enced war as a totality,each and everyindividual involved somehow and insome capacity.Today, we glimpse warin pieces and fragments men-tioned, seen,soon forgotten.We haveoutsourced our wars as effectively aswe have outsourced our jobs.

That is a shame,because only thosewho have fought can truly know howmuch we stand to gain by not fighting.

Last spring, I took an incredibleEthics in Society course called GlobalJustice. In one class session I remem-

ber particularly well, we were dis-cussing the ethics of armed humanitar-ian intervention in Rwanda.The con-versation was intelligent and well-rea-soned standard Stanford fare if,also in quintessential Stanford style,

rather abstract and divorced from re-ality.Then a student in the front rowraised his hand.

He had once been en route toRwanda as a Marine, he said,chargedby President Clinton with stopping thegenocide there.He talked about howthe thought of having to shoot a childsoldier a very real possibility at thattime troubled him deeply,and howthat possibility eventually forced thepresident to recall American troopsfrom the war zone before he fired ashot. He then followed up his storywith a nuanced analysis of war crimeslaw,drawn from his own experience.

It was real, direct, qualitatively dif-ferent and somehow more vivid thanwhat we had heard from everyoneelse.His story reminded me powerful-ly just how valuable the experiences of

the soldiers among us at Stanford are.And it reminded me that we cannot letthe deepening rift between soldier andsociety grow too wide, because eachwould lose an understanding of theother vital to citizenship,to democracyand to peace.

Its easy to let slip the dogs of warwhen youre holding the leash.Its a bitharder when youre on it.

Miles wishes we cared a little more some-times.Let him know you care at mile-

[email protected].

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War in pieces

Ihad a jam-packed summer.Whilemany of my classmates were trav-eling the world and interning at

Fortune 500 companies, I spent thebreak doing two things: watchingevery trashy MTV reality show everfilmed (I now feel so emotionally in-vested in the lives of the Teen Momsthat Im probably going to send

them all Christmas cards) and think-ing about my future roommate.

I wondered about her nonstop.Where would she be from? Whatwould she look like? Would she be aparty-goer or one of those kids wholikes to be in bed by 10 p.m. everynight? Most importantly, would herroom decor coordinate with mine?(Two months ago I had a dream thatmy roommate brought red skull-print bedding, voodoo dolls and ablack light for our room.I woke up ina cold sweat with an intense desire tovisit Anthropologie.)

Then in August, my friends head-ed off to various University of Cali-fornia campuses (not Cal,I promise)and began getting the names of theirroommates. I lived vicariouslythrough them as we spent hoursFacebook-stalking the strangerswith whom they would soon be shar-ing rooms approximately the size of

a tissue box. Out of my 10 closestfriends, nine were lucky enough toget fairly normal-looking room-mates (and by fairly normal-look-ing, I mean they didnt have Face-book pictures of weird shit.)

And then there was Mayrasroommate. Within hours of findingout Mayras contact information, this

girl emailed a long list of RoomieRules. (Rule Number One: No mi-crowaves in the room because theyemit radiation.) Even though thischicks antics made for some prettyamusing stories,they also worried me like, a lot. I wondered if my ownroomie would have a bizarre list ofrules or some other freaky habit. Italso didnt help that my older friends(who knew of my worries) loved totell me roommate horror stories.(One knew a girl whose roommatewould cut her hair and leave it in therefrigerator.) By the time I left forStanford,I was torn between desper-ately wanting to find out who myroommate was and never wanting tomeet her in case she was scary.

When the moment of truth final-ly arrived, I was stunned to find outthat my roommate is . . . just like me.From our taste in clothes,to music,toour mutual love of high heels (to-

gether we brought close to 20 pairs),Emily and I are pretty much the per-fect pair.Our similarities are almostcreepy were within an inch ofeach others height, wear the same

size in both clothes and shoes andhave the same type of relationshipwith our parents. Besides the factthat shes blonde and Im brunette,we could be twinsies. Oh and herdorm decor? Perfectly coordinateswith mine.

While other pairs start buttingheads,Em and I cruise happily along.Our secret? Were nice to each other even when were cranky/tired/hungover as hell.We also dont spendevery second of every day together,which makes the time we do spend to-gether so much more fun.Oh,and weshare food.That last part is super es-sential.

Were you the person who worked topair frosh roommates? Email Bian-ca at [email protected],because she wants to send you on anall-expense-paid vacation to

Aruba!

The roommate

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EDITORIAL

Sobering up atthe OAPE

The new Stanford UniversityOffice of Alcohol Policy andEducation (OAPE) kicked

off the 2011-2012 academic yearwith T.G.I.F. on Friday, Sept. 30.This event, an alcohol-free party,was the place to be,as it featureda popular student DJ,free refresh-ments and distribution of Red

Zone t-shirts. It was, to quote itsFacebook page, a damn goodtime.

The few dozen students who at-tended hopefully had a good time.But overall, the event was notmuch of a success,as other venueslike Sigma Nu and its Disorienta-tion extravaganza attractedhordes of freshmen, many ofwhom were unfortunately notsober.

The offices intentions are un-doubtedly good Stanford has apolicy that does not crack down onunderage students consuming al-cohol in their rooms, and a largenumber of students take advan-

tage of this, sometimes irresponsi-bly. With this in mind, the OAPEseeks to create alternative eventswhere students can go that do notencourage the consumption of al-cohol beforehand.

It is true that one need notdrink before attending a frat party.It is also true that,given their vol-ume, size and inherent character,frat parties might not be very en-joyable to the average sober stu-dent. Contrary to the assumptionimplicit in T.G.I.F, these studentsare not necessarily looking for analcohol-free version of a frat party.Furthermore, they may naturallyshy away from a party of any sortthat is put on by the Office of Al-cohol Policy and Education, nomatter how much free pizza orJamba Juice is supplied.

Again, the efforts of the officeare certainly well intentioned.Butthey lack a certain understandingof what,say,a freshman new to theUniversity might gravitate towardin the face of social pressure.Con-sider the freshman who is facedwith this conundrum: most of hisor her hallway is in the room nextdoor, slamming down shots to thelatest hit by LMFAO as theypregame for a frat party. This stu-dent would rather not participate,and as a result is faced with a limit-ed set of options. Sure he or she

could head out alone, to get somefood at The Axe and Palm, to graba cup of coffee at the CoHo,to any

one of the innumerable eventsthat take place on campus oneglance at the Stanford Events webpage will confirm this.

But what any freshman strug-gles with most initially is finding asense of community, of findinglike-minded students and estab-lishing a group of friends.And so,

it is not so much the events acrosscampus as the social environment

in the dorm that can veer a studentwho is on the fence away from al-cohol consumption.

These efforts are best spear-headed by dormitory staff who un-dergo extensive training in manykinds of University policy.Howev-er, in this scenario, it is not aboutlearning the rules it is aboutfinding the freshmen who choosenot to drink, and thereby perhapsfind themselves isolated, and pro-viding other things to do.We rec-ommend that the Office of Alco-hol Policy and Education down-play its role in putting on theseevents and instead,creatively pur-

sue more organic, dorm-centricmethods of deterring student alco-hol consumption.

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We know that folic acid canprevent neural tube defects, andthat has been a huge public healthstory, said primary author and as-sociate professor of pediatricsSuzan Carmichael. But there arestill babies born with neural tubedefects. Folic acid is not the com-plete answer.

Taking a more holistic approach,the group turned its attention todiet.

We eat foods, not single nutri-ents, Carmichael said. Knowing

that complexity, we took an ap-proach to incorporate that.

The researchers used the Na-tional Birth Defect PreventionStudy database collected by theU.S.Center for Disease Control andPrevention to find its sample popu-lation. The database collects infor-mation on children born with over30 different birth defects.

Mothers were then surveyed ret-rospectively on their eating habitsboth preceding and during preg-nancy. Diet quality was assessed bytwo standards: the Diet Quality

Index (DQI) adjusted for pregnan-cy and a Mediterranean Diet Score.Both favor high intake of fruits andvegetables and low intake of satu-rated fats.

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DQI scores and anencephaly,a neu-ral tube defect that results in chil-dren born without a forebrain. As-sociations were also found for spinabifida a condition in which the

embryonic neural tube is exposed cleft lips and cleft palates.

Though the study promotes ex-panding beyond a single nutrientapproach,Carmichael was quick tosay that this is not an either-or mat-ter.

Its still important to take a folicacid supplement, she said. Butthis helps us remember that quality

of diet also matters; its importantregardless of the supplement.

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Stanford. This was necessary be-cause,while the endowment can beinvested as a large pool of money,itcannot be spent as such, Powerssaid.

One of the things that worriedus the most at the bottom was justhaving enough liquid assets tomeet our various liabilities, Pow-ers said. Our liabilities are ourpayment obligations that we haveto the operating University, as wellas a commitment that we have to avariety of investment funds to pro-

vide them capital for investmentactivities on our behalf over t ime.

Looking forward, Powers iscautious.

Id like to think that the hugevolatility of the early part of the

decade and the latter part of thedecade was abnormal, Powerswrote in a follow-up email to TheDaily.But given how much we seethe market moving around thesedays and how interconnected anddynamic the global economy is . . .it is better to plan for volatility andbe surprised by the lack thereofthan plan for smooth sailing and besurprised by storms.

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SPORTS

SOCAL TEAMSNO MATCH

By JOSEPH BEYDADESK EDITOR

Its still early,but after upendingboth USC and No. 3 UCLA in a

pair of dominant three-goal winsthis weekend, the No. 1 Cardinalwomens soccer team seems to bewell on its way to its third consecu-tive conference title.

WOMENS SOCCER

UCLA 1

STANFOR D 4

Oct. 9, Laird Q. Cagan Stadium

Stanford (13-0-1, 5-0 Pac-12)beat the previously undefeatedBruins (10-1-2,3-1-1) 4-1 in surpris-ingly easy fashion, and in doing so,put a serious damper on the titlechances of a team widely consid-ered the Cardinals biggest Pac-12competition in 2011.The win cameless than 48 hours after the squadearned head coach Paul Ratcliffehis 200th career win on Friday,rely-ing on sustained pressure to downthe Trojans 3-0.

Pauls an awesome coach,said junior defender Rachel Quonwhen asked what Ratcliffe meantto the team. He knows his stuff,and he lets us play soccer hedoesnt make us do robotic things.

Stanford needed all the strongcoaching it could get last week in apair of tight 1-0 wins over the Wash-ington schools. And early onagainst the Trojans, it looked likethe Cardinals scoring woes wouldbe sticking around, on what waslikely to be the most challengingweekend series for the team thisseason.

Controlling play from the start

of the match as it has all year, Stan-ford didnt allow a single shot fromUSC until the 32nd minute whileracking up 16 first-half shots andfive corners against the Trojans.However, the Cardinal was sloweddown by a physical USC squad andwas unable to convert early, beingstifled on all seven of its shots in theopening 25 minutes.

With halftime approaching,however, Stanford began to findopenings in the Trojans aggressivedefense with the help of some sharpcrosses. Sophomore forward Syd-ney Payne finally broke throughwith a header goal in the 33rdminute off a corner kick,which had

been deflected by senior midfielderKristy Zurmuhlen.

Our team really wanted tocome out early and get one early,Quon said.So we thought that thenext couple [of goals] would comesoon after that.

As Stanford continued to gainmomentum, Quon proved herselfright less than nine minutes later,

ripping a long strike off the cross-bar and into the back of the net forher first goal of the season.

The Cardinal never lookedback. Matching the Trojans physi-cality, Stanford allowed only longlooks to USC and nearly connectedon several crosses of its own. Abreakaway tally by sophomore for-ward Natalie Griffen with 30 sec-onds remaining in the match addedan exclamation point to the Rat-cliffes 200th win as a head coach.

But the teams work on theweekend wasnt over yet. Aheadwas a UCLA squad that represent-ed the Cardinals last loss in confer-ence play three years ago.

Things seemed to get off to anightmarish start for Stanfordwhen sophomore goalkeeperEmily Oliver had to fend off aclose-range shot just 30 secondsinto the match. Yet despite herheroic save, the Cardinal struggledearly to maintain possession, mak-ing several poor decisions and fail-ing to put any pressure on freshmangoalie Katelyn Rowland.

It was a shock to our system,because USC dropped off and wehad all day with the ball, Ratcliffesaid. Today, [the Bruins] werehigh-pressuring, and it took us 15minutes to figure it out, to get thespeed of play right.

Even when Stanford did getthings right, it wasnt expected toscore often against a UCLA squadthat, despite having a dozen truefreshmen, had played stifling de-

fense and allowed just four goals onthe year.Yet in a shocking rout of one of

the nations best teams, the Cardi-nal would double that total in thefirst half alone.

Collecting a loose ball in the boxoff a corner kick, freshman forwardChioma Ubogagu put one home toget Stanford on the board afteronly seven minutes of play. Tenminutes later, senior midfielderTeresa Noyola got control of theball near the top of the penalty areawith some nifty moves and fedUbogagu,who dribbled in betweentwo Bruin defenders for anotherclose-range goal, her sixth of the

season.But of all the streaks the Cardi-

nal was able to extend on Sunday 25 straight conference wins, 43consecutive home victories and 57regular-season matches in a rowwithout a loss one did come toan end at the hands of the Bruins.Just 28 seconds after Ubogagussecond tally, junior midfielder Za-kiya Bywaters found herself alone

in the Stanford box and drilled onelow past the outstretched arms ofOliver to get UCLA on the board.

It was the first goal that Stanfordhad allowed in 685 minutes and 25seconds, just 90 minutes away fromthe school record set in 2002-03 and it wouldnt be the last chancethat the Bruins would have toscore. Taking risks on a consistentbasis throughout the game, theUCLA forwards would have sever-al dynamite opportunities.

What the Bruins had in firepow-er, however, they lacked on theirback end, a fact that the Cardinalwould quickly take advantage of.Inthe 28th minute, senior midfielderLindsay Taylor took a Noyola passand showed the sellout crowd whyshe leads Stanford in scoring, net-

ting her ninth goal of the year witha perfect, off-foot lob that foundthe net at the far post.And just 12minutes later, senior midfielderKristy Zurmuhlen added her thirdtally of the year on a wide-openshot near the goalmouth,thanks toa perfect feed from junior forwardMarjani Hing-Glover.

Though the Cardinal wouldntget on the board again, it held theBruins scoreless in the second half,content with a weekend sweep andone of the squads most impressiveoffensive explosions of the season.

To Noyola, the win showed thatStanford has learned how to deci-

sively beat a strong opponent; thesquad has fallen just short in twostraight NCAA Finals matches.

They came out strong, and Ithink we were a little shaky, shesaid. I dont think our back linehad been tested like that yet,and Ithink its good for us in the longrun. I think it shows that we canwithstand the pressure, and itshows us also that we need to come

out a little bit more alert in the be-ginning.Regardless of the big win,things

werent allpositive for the Stanfordcoach.

I think weve got to continue tobe composed on the ball and becareful that we dont turn gamesinto track meets, Ratcliffe saidafter the UCLA game. I thinktoday, it got into a back-and-forthgame, and thats when we getstretched a little bit. I want us tokeep possession and play smart.

Stanford will take on ArizonaState on the road next weekend,before it plays new conference ad-ditions Utah and Colorado in lateOctober.

Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@

stanford.edu.

By DAVID PEREZ

The top-ranked Stanford menswater polo team won its first twogames of the Mountain PacificSports Federation (MPSF) regularseason this weekend,the second ina battle that went down to the finalseconds. Both games featuredstrong defensive efforts, and theCardinal showed why it is going tobe a factor at the top of the leaguethis year,beating No.8 Pepperdine9-5 and No.5 UC-Santa Barbara 6-5 Sunday afternoon.

Up until the final two minutesof Sundays matinee game, itlooked like UCSB was going topull off an upset in these twoteams first meeting of the season.The Gouchos came out confidentlyand took an early 2-1 lead, whileStanford had trouble putting shotson goal all day long.

MENS WATER POLO

UC-SANTA BARBARA 5

STANFORD 6

Oct. 9, Avery Aquatic Center

A big steal in the first quarter bysenior utility Peter Sefton set up abreakaway goal by junior driverAlex Avery,but that was just aboutall of the offense Stanford couldmuster in the first half. A UCSBgoal in the final seconds of the first

quarter and then another in thesecond quarter gave them a 4-2halftime lead.

In the second half Stanfordlocked down on defense, but stillstruggled to get anything going atthe offensive end. This is nothingnew for the team, though. Headcoach John Vargas has preached allyear that we cannot always counton our offense,but defense can al-

ways be consistent. That consis-tent defense kept Stanford in thegame long enough to tie it at fourgoals a piece in the third quarterafter goals by senior driver JacobSmith and junior two-meter For-rest Watkins.

A power-play goal by the Gau-chos gave them another lead with2:03 remaining, but that would betheir only goal of the half.

The Cardinal drew two ejec-tions of its own in the final 1:35

minutes of the game, which set upboth fourth quarter goals. Fresh-man utility Alex Bowen added tohis growing resume with a pair ofclutch goals,including a mid-rangestrike with 1:28 left in the game,hissecond of the day.After a timeoutwith 19 seconds on the clock,Stan-ford set up its power play offenseand Smith netted the winner withfour seconds left on the clock.

Going forward in the MPSFseason, the Cardinal men knowthat even though they are No. 1 inthe polls,there is a lot of work to bedone.

We cant get complacent be-cause all of our wins have beenvery close, said junior driver PaulRudolph. Four of the teams pastfive wins have come by either oneor two goals.

Stanford had a much more com-fortable win against Pepperdine

earlier in the weekend.The Cardi-nal came out strong against Pep-perdine in its home opener, takinga 3-1 advantage after the first quar-ter and a 6-1 lead into the half.Red-shirt senior goalie Brian Pingreeled a stifling defense with some bigsaves in the first half, and driverRyan Kent, another fifth-year sen-

Luckoutplaysstats

Another game, anotherrout for Stanford foot-ball. Heres Stat on theBacks take on thisweeks numbers.

Number of the game: 12What it means: If youre going to

learn the uniform number of one Stan-ford athlete,make it Stanford footballsNo.12.A guy you might have heard ofnamed Andrew Luck tends to sportthat number, and he tends to do sopretty well.Saturdays 48-7 win againstColorado was just the latest example ofwhat No.12 can do.

Why it matters: Stanford playedvery well as a team on Saturday.Thedefense was as good as its been allyear,the running game was strong lateand the Cardinal had a big score onspecial teams early. But this game was

all about No. 12. Luck had one of thebest games of his exceptional Stanfordcareer.He completed 79 percent of hispasses for 370 yards and three touch-downs with just one interception.

However, contrary to most of thiscolumn, numbers cant completelycapture how good Luck was.The factthat he gets credit for an interception isa perfect example of how statistics canbe misleading.That pass was as perfectas his touchdown throws, but ChrisOwusu momentarily forgot how tocatch the ball,popping it up in the air di-rectly to Colorado defensive back Ter-rel Smith. Besides giving Luck an un-deserved interception (his second ofthe year,both on passes off the hands ofOwusu), this play also took a comple-tion and yards away from Luck and

Jacob

JaffeStat on the Back

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Freshman forward Chioma Ubogagu (No. 9) carries the ball against theBruins on Sunday. She scored twice against UCLA for her sixth and seventhtallies of the season. Stanford cruised to a 4-1 victory two days afterdefeating USC 3-0 for head coach Paul Ratcliffes 200th career victory.

Stanford Daily File Photo

Junior two-meter Forrest Watkins (holding ball) scored in the third quar-ter Sunday to help the Cardinal defeat No. 5 UC-Santa Barbara 6-5.Stanford also beat No. 8 Pepperdine 9-5 last weekend.

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erased a good scoring opportunity forthe Cardinal.

But enough of the bad.There wasso much more that went well for Stan-fords all-time winningest quarterback.Yep,the win was Lucks 25th as a start-

ing quarterback, passing Steve Sten-strom for the most in Stanford history.If you want a sense of how good

Luck was,just take a look at whom hethrew the ball to.Once again the tightends made an impact,as the three fu-ture NFL stars were among the topfour receivers on the day,totaling eight

catches for 156 yards. However, theywere only three of the 11 players whocaught a pass.Possession receiver GriffWhalen came into the game with 101receiving yards and no touchdowns onthe season, and he promptly caughtfour balls for 92 yards and his secondcareer touchdown.Fullback Ryan He-witt had two touchdown catches,morethan Owen Marecic had in his entireStanford career. Little-used CoreyGatewood caught his first pass since

2007. Luck even completed passes tothree different running backs.It wasnt just about the breadth of

Stanfords weapons.Luck made all thethrows: standing in the pocket, on therun,across his body,deep,short,over themiddle and to the sidelines.He can real-ly do it all.Oh,and by the way,he called

his own plays, bludgeoning an out-matched Colorado defense into sub-mission. The Buffaloes had no answerfor him,and I dont think there is one.

Other notable numbers:3-for-9, 18: These are the passing

numbers for Colorado in the secondhalf. Though Stanfords pass defenselooked vulnerable in the first half, theCardinal clamped down after thebreak. Colorado quarterback TylerHansen went 13-for-21 for 186 yards

and a touchdown in the first half,but hehad no answer to the Stanford defenseafter that. The Buffaloes could onlymanage 18 passing yards in the secondhalf, and Hansen ended the Cardinalinterception drought by lofting a balldirectly into the hands of Stanfordsafety Michael Thomas. That gifthelped the Cardinal pitch another sec-ond-half shutout.

2.2: Colorados poor rushing of-fense and Stanfords stout rushing de-fense converged to perfection as theBuffaloes managed a measly 2.2 yardsper carry on their way to just 60 rushingyards.And thats including a 25-yardscramble by Hansen and severalgarbage-time runs by backups in thefourth quarter.After a subpar week,the Stanford run defense was back toits old self,moving back up to second in

the country.

5,65:One negative from the game(and there werent many in a 41-pointwin) was penalties.The Cardinal camein among the top third in the country infewest penalties and penalty yards,buta few silly late hits put Stanford intough situations. Five penalties for 65yards were not costly in an easy victorylike this,but in a close game they couldbecome the difference.

50,360: For the second consecu-tive week, the listed attendance was

50,360. In other words, a sellout. Al-though there were definitely fewerpeople in the stands for the Coloradogame than last weeks againstUCLA,the fact that these games areeven close to sellouts is a sign ofmajor progress.One of the big knockson Stanford last year was that evenwith such a successful team, fan sup-port was shockingly low. Well, it ap-pears fans have finally realized whatan exciting and potentially great teamStanford is trotting out on a weeklybasis.Student tickets are running outwithin hours, and you cant spot toomany empty seats (at least until Stan-ford is up by 41 in the fourth quarter).Oh,and Tiger Woods and John Elwaystopped by as well. With the bestgames of the year (Oregon, Cal andNotre Dame) still upcoming,the best

could be yet to come from the Stan-

ford faithful.13: Stanford has extended its win

streak to 13 games, the longest activestreak in the country. It also ties theschool record,set from 1939-41.

With all these wins, many peopleare starting to think about national titlechances.However, this year features alarge number of teams with chances togo undefeated. LSU, Alabama,Okla-homa and Wisconsin are all rankedabove Stanford in both major polls,

and their strengths of schedule figureto be better than the Cardinals as well.So is Stanford sure to be left out of thenational title race?

Consider this: after seven weeks,there are currently 13 undefeatedteams in college football, and all areranked in the top 25. Last year, afterseven weeks there were 13 undefeatedteams in college football, and all wereranked in the top 25.By the end of theyear,the title game of Auburn vs.Ore-gon was obvious, and TCU was theonly other unbeaten team.

Needless to say, theres a lot of col-lege football left to be played.

Jacob Jaffe is seething that he wasntinvited to stand on the sideline withElway and Woods. Cheer him up at

[email protected] and follow him

on Twitter @Jacob_Jaffe.

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he does? I mean . . . sometimes,wide receiver Griff Whalen saidafter the game. He makes somepretty unbelievable plays,but at thispoint we kind of know he can dothat.

Their coach was a little bit more

effusive,though.I thought he was outstanding.He

was phenomenal. There were twocatchable balls that were incomple-tions one was an interceptionbut besides that, he was pretty closeto flawless,head coach David Shawsaid.Every game he does somethingthat not many human beings can do.

Lucks 26-of-33, 370-yard, three-touchdown, one-interception per-formance was the highlight of a gamethat saw the No. 7 Cardinal (5-0, 3-0Pac-12) breeze past the Buffaloes (1-5, 0-2) to extend the nations longestwinning streak to 13 games and giveStanford its first 5-0 start since 1951 but the redshirt junior quarter-back didnt do it all by himself, ofcourse.

Luck ran onto the field with 9:22remaining in the first quarter with a7-0 lead thanks to the first specialteams touchdown of the year ablocked field goal returned for atouchdown.

After senior running back JeremyStewart fumbled the opening kickoffof the game, Colorado took the ballall the way down to the Cardinals 12-yard line before stalling out andbeing forced to kick a field goal.

But when the ball was snapped,the center and guard split, leavingredshirt senior linebacker MaxBergen unimpeded to the backfield,where he blocked the kick,picked upthe ball and dashed 75 yards for atouchdown.

The defense saved our cansearly on, thanks to a great play by

Max Bergen and a great call by [spe-cial teams coordinator] Brian Po-lian, Shaw said. Max did a great

job getting all three: the block, therecovery and the touchdown.

From there on out,it was the An-drew Luck show once again, apartfrom one tight moment in the sec-ond quarter.

After Colorado capitalized on a76-yard screen pass to running backRodney Stewart that led to a touch-down,Luck threw just his second in-terception of the year on the ensu-ing drive,a pass that bounced off thehands of wide receiver Chris Owusu

and into the hands of Terrel Smith,leaving the Buffaloes down just 13-7and in possession of the football.It hit Chris hands, and Chris willtell you hes disappointed by it,Luck said.[The] ball bounced up inthe air, and [the defensive back]made a nice catch.

The Cardinal defense stiffenedand forced a punt, though, sackingquarterback Tyler Hansen, one ofthree Stanford sacks on the day, to

give the ball back to Luck,who morethan made up for the blemish.

After the interception, Luck ledthe offense to touchdowns on itsnext five possessions, engineeringthree drives of more than 70 yardsthat included a 14-play, 84-yarddrive that made the score 41-7 with8:44 seconds left in the third quarter.

Despite the large margin of vic-tory and good defensive perform-ance (the Cardinal only allowed 60

yards rushing), Shaw was still toughon his teams overall performance.

It was a tale of two halves. Ithought we played okay in the firsthalf . . . and offensively we foundour rhythm eventually, but wetalked about starting fast, and we

did not, he said. We cant let thescoreboard dictate our feeling abouthow we played.If we can play better,then we should know it, and weshould play better.

Luck,despite his outstanding sta-tistical performance,was also unsat-isfied, particularly with severalpenalties that hampered the Cardi-nal offense for the second week in arow.

Its all our fault; theresnowhere else to point the finger ex-cept at ourselves, he said. Itsboneheaded by our team; luckily wewere able to bounce out of that holetoday. You cant win consistentlyplaying like that.

Shaw also said he specificallytried to keep his team in a competi-

tive frame of mind by converting ontwo fourth downs when the scorewas well out of hand, as he boiledthe Cardinals present and futuresuccess down to just one word.

Attitude. If its close, with theline that we have,with the fullbacksthat we have,with the tight ends wehave, with the backs that we have,we should pick up anything thatsless than 4th and three. We shouldpick it up,he said. We dont bat aneyelash,we dont think about it, wedont even talk about it on the head-

set. We just get the next call ready.Thats the kind of mentality we needto have up front in order for us toplay the games the way we want toplay them.

The Cardinal will put its winstreak on the line once again this

weekend when it travels away fromthe Farm to take on WashingtonState in Pullman,Wash.on Saturday.

Contact Jack Blanchat at [email protected].


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ior,led the attack with two goals Kent would finish with a hat trick,and Pingree finished with six saves.

The key for Stanford was theteams ability to stop the Wavespower play opportunities and score

goals early in the shot clock. Al-most all of the Cardinals goalscame on fast-break opportunitiesor shots from the perimeter.

The Cardinal will get anothertough home test next weekendwhen it hosts No.3 UCLA Sundayat 12 p.m.The Bruins are the onlyremaining team in the top five thatStanford has yet to face this sea-son.

Contact David Perez at [email protected].

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Wide receiver Griff Whalen (above) fights forward for extra yards against Col-

orado. Whalen entered the game with only 101 receiving yards and no touch-downs on the season; on Saturday he torched the Buffaloes to the tune of 92 yardsand his second career touchdown on four catches in Stanfords 48-7 victory.

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