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GIRL YOU KNOW ITS TRUE

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This week, I write to you a preoccupiedwoman.For some time now,I have beencontemplating a decision that seems to

hold surprising bearing on the way I see myselfas a person.Should I,as a co-term,attend FullMoon on the Quad?

Before you judge me too harshly,let me ex-plain myself as best I can by going through myhistory of full moons in October.My freshmanyear, I was herded to the Quad along with therest of my dorm and spent a few hours wander-ing around with my eyes big as dinner plates.Needless to say, between the shocked staringand shy hiding,I experienced minimal makingout that first year.The next full moon is a littlebit more difficult for me to remember; Ill saythat I probably overcompensated for the pre-vious year and leave my description at that. Ju-nior year,carefully considering my two confus-ing and unfulfilling experiences,I opted out en-tirely and spent the evening in my pajamas inmy room.Last year,my senior year,I decidedmonths in advance that it was going to be myyear, my opportunity to kiss tons of freshmen,

on my terms.I gave myself regular internal peptalks,assuring myself of my more-or-less aver-age sex appeal and my status as an empoweredfeminist. Being prone to overanalyzing andawkwardness, building up the self-confidencenecessary to be ready to throw myself into theQuad to be a make-out-machine was no easytask for me.When the time neared, to furtherlock myself into my commitment,I announcedto whomever would listen my plans to go initi-ate some freshmen, assertions of,I do what Iwant!sprinkled throughout.

My distress was nontrivial when I heardthat Full Moon on the Quad might be canceleddue to swine flu complications.With my prepa-ration already mostly complete,the sudden in-ability to achieve my goal upset me and possi-bly drove logic out of my mind, and I wildlyclaimed that I would hold the event in myroom come one, come all.When I becamesymptomatic of swine flu and started sportinga surgical mask, the reality of the situation fi-nally took hold,and I surrendered my senior

year Full Moon on the Quad to another nightspent in my room,this time quarantined.

I feel like I deserve my senior year FullMoon on the Quad,and if it has to be delayedone more year,I can just consider myself luckythat I am still a student and still in the area.Thevisceral refusal to truly become a sketchygrad student is strong, however, and makesme hesitant to attend. Should I leave theevenings bacchanalia to those who have notyet walked the Wacky Walk? Perhaps I should,but a belligerent voice in my head shrieks,Wewere robbed!whenever I try to cancel my fullmoon plans. I am, perhaps,redefining spoiled

entitlement; it seems that I truly believe in myright to kiss fresh-faced 18 year olds under theguise of tradition.

As I am writing, it looks like I will be in at-tendance, and by the time this reaches othereyes, my decision will have been made. Lastweek,I wrote a schematic for Freshman Bingo,with tiers of point categories based on difficul-ty, though whether I will be brave enough toplay remains up for some serious internal de-bate. Ive been listening to my lady empower-ment playlist on repeat, looking for inspira-tion, and I have carefully crafted my No! listto avoid the worst ramifications.

Is this a time for me to use my secondchance and assert my right to creep on somefreshman? Or am I relegated to the helmet-wearing ranks of my peers? My lingering in-ability to make good choices makes me hopethat it is the former.

Kissed by Jade? Jog her memory and email herat [email protected].

Jade

Wang

Waning Acceptability

NPRs Juan Williams was fired last week,in large part because on Bill OReillysshow on Fox News,he said this:

But when I get on the plane, I got to tellyou,if I see people who are in Muslim garb andI think, you know, they are identifying them-selves first and foremost as Muslims,I get wor-ried.I get nervous.

Later,Williams defended his comments:Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the

truth.The truth is that I worry when I am get-ting on an airplane and see people dressed ingarb that identifies them first and foremost asMuslims.

This is not a bigoted statement.There you have it:saying that scary Muslims

in their scary Muslim clothes (well,technically,

its scary Islamic clothes) are scary is not bigot-ed.This is the part where,if I were looking to re-fute this point,Id point out that the 9/11 hijack-ers were not wearing Muslim garb (whatever

that means), or point to a counterexample(what if it were someone saying they wereafraid of black/Latino/Mongolian people?) de-signed to blow your mind.

But were not going to do that.Instead,were going to accept Mr.Williams

general proposition, which is that Muslims +plane = spooky,especially around Halloween.And well,yes! Plenty of people are very muchafraid of Muslims,especially on planes.

At this point, being surprised that peoplehave racist opinions is like being surprised thatanyone still smokes cigarettes.The science ispretty much in on both of those topics,but peo-ple of reasonable intelligence still do them any-way.As fun and easy as it would be to label anyperson who makes a bigoted statement as an ig-

norant and evil moron who spends all his timethinking up ways to make things worse for mi-norities,thats not how reality works.

Williams also wrote in his statement that po-

litical correctness can cause people to become soparalyzed that they dont deal with reality.

Indeed someone who is so afraid of beinglabeled a racist that he cannot acknowledge aregrettable and bigoted statement as a regret-table and bigoted statement just because it hap-pens to be true is failing to deal with reality.Oh,hes talking about those politically correct wuss-es at NPR who fired him? Never mind then.

For reasons beyond me (do supply yourown!), any whiff of racism is met with muchsharper rebuke from liberals who are usuallymore tolerant of moral failings than the conser-vatives that are traditionally regarded as thesticklers for morality.On one side we have peo-ple saying that bigotry should be scrubbed outof public life.On the other side we have people

who are saying that there was no bigotry inclaiming that Muslims are scary,because if youmean well and dont want to be a racist,then itdoesnt count.

I should note here because apparentlythis needs to be done that even if you canthelp the way you feel,saying bigoted things isstill bigoted.Even if lots of people feel that way,its still bigoted.Even if you wish you didnt feelthat way, its still bigoted. But hey, thats OK!Nobodys perfect, and I really doubt JuanWilliams is more prejudiced than anyone else.But once this situation got out of hand, he hadthree choices:

1) Grovel and apologize to NPR, andmaybe keep his job.

2) Accept the firing, but say that having abigoted belief does not make you an irre-deemable racist, nor does it make you inca-pable of writing award-winning books aboutthe civil rights movement in America.It does

not mean you are a bad person. But it doesmean that you are a person and a personwith flaws and that it is a constant struggle toreconcile your instincts with what you know to

be right. State his hope that any admission ofprejudice no longer meant cowering in fear andawaiting the punishment, and he could haveemerged with his journalistic integrity and dig-nity.

3) Extend a big ol middle finger to NPR,who couldnt even bother to fire him in personafter 10 years of employment, and then sign athree-year,$2 million contract with Fox News.

And were surprised he chose door No. 3here? Really?

Have a multimillion-dollar contract waiting forJordan for when The Daily fires him? E-mail himat [email protected].

NEWS

JordanCarr

Juan Gone: The End of Juan Williams Reign of Terror at NPR

into a laptop at Arrillaga.Here was a recreational ath-

lete that would probably get hurton a football field or crushed on abasketball field, Stein said. Withthis program, people can go outon their own and get their workoutin and be part of something that isreally big.

The challenge allows partici-pants to log up to two hours ofphysical exercise per day.

We wanted to make the timelimit reasonable, Sexton said.We didnt want to encourage peo-ple overdoing it, she added.

Last year, some 3,200 membersof the Stanford community partic-ipated in the challenge. Sextonthinks that the contest is more rec-ognized by students this year thanin years past.

I think one of the things thatwere noticing . . . is that by nowpeople know about it, Sextonsaid.

Volunteers for the fitness chal-lenge stationed in Arrillaga saythat participation could still behigher,though.

Its going pretty well, but ithasnt been too busy, said AnnieFryman 14, who was volunteeringat the station set up in the lobby of

Arrillaga. A lot of people want

free T-shirts and Luna bars, whichis definitely motivating them toregister.

Regardless of whether or notthe challenge really garners thedesired amount of participation orenthusiasm, virtually everyoneagreed that Stanford is an espe-cially healthy and physically activecampus.

The fitness challenge is just oneof the many ways that programs atStanford are trying to promotephysical health. Sexton also citedthe BeWell program, various

healthy dining initiatives, P.E.classes, club sports and group fit-ness opportunities.

I think weve got great re-sources here on campus for stu-dents and faculty and staff, shesaid.Sometimes you get busy andthese things get lost so [those re-sources] are just trying to keepthem in the forefront.

I know a lot of people who . . .were not physically active beforeand have since made the decisionto become physically active be-cause everyone around them is,Fryman said.

Its almost contagious, sheadded.

Amy Harris 14 agreed.Everywhere you go you see

somewhere biking or running orrunning to their sports practice,she said.

Contact Caity Monroe at cmonroe@

stanford.edu.

FITNESSContinued from front page

RESEARCH

Researchers weigh pros andcons of sun exposure

By ALEX YUCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Excessive sun exposure can bring with it life-threatening diseases,particularly skin cancer buta growing fear of skin cancer may lead to vitamin D

deficiency in overprotective patients or those whospend too much time indoors.

The dichotomous impact of sun exposure hasbecome a focus of research for dermatologists atStanford. This months Archives of Dermatologypublished a research study conducted by assistantprofessor of dermatology Jean Tang M.D. Ph.D.03on correlations between vitamin D deficiency and arare form of skin cancer called basal cell nevus syn-drome (BCNS).

Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institutescientist Ervin Epstein and Stanford Hospital resi-dent Eleni Linos also joined Tang in completing thestudy,which examined the blood of 41 patients withBCNS to determine vitamin D levels. The resultsshowed that patients with skin cancer were threetimes more likely to be vitamin D deficient than thenormal population.

Tang and fellow researchers concluded in-creased attention to sun protection among skin can-cer patients is causing the rises in vitamin D defi-ciency.

Our study shows that skin cancer patients whovigilantly photoprotect are three times at risk for vi-tamin D deficiency,Tang said.

In order to prevent skin cancer,many dermatol-

ogists recommend refraining from unnecessary sunexposure. According to Tang, though, such recom-mendations may have adverse effects by reducingthe amount of vitamin D that skin can produce.Vi-tamin D facilitates the absorption of calcium andalso prevents a number of diseases, including can-

cers, heart disease and autoimmune disease.For dermatologists,our study highlights the fact

that avoiding excessive sun exposure is importantfor decreasing your risk for skin cancer, Tangnoted.But for some of our patients, especially iftheyre frail,especially if they have osteoporosis,es-pecially if they have fractures, dermatologistsshould be monitoring their vitamin D levels.

Epstein emphasized the need to compensate forthe decreased rates of vitamin D generation,partic-ularly exhorting dermatologists to pay close atten-tion to vitamin D in their patients.

We,as dermatologis ts, are telling all of our pa-tients to avoid sunlight to reduce the incidence ofskin cancer,Epstein said. The moral of the story isthat dermatologists ought to be telling patients totake supplemental oral vitamin D.

Skin cancer only constituted one of the condi-tions that correlate with vitamin D deficiency.Tangs study also found other risk factors that maylead to vitamin D deficiency,including obesity.

Right now,we dont know for sure the impor-tance of vitamin D in preventing cardiovascular dis-ease or cancer, but vitamin D has gotten a lot ofpress because theres been suggestive evidence that

it could be important in prevention of these dis-

eases and more and more people are becoming vi-tamin D deficient,Tang said.And that is probablyrelated to obesity and a more indoor lifestyle.

Tangs study had many unique elements notfound in previous studies on skin cancer and vita-min D deficiency.In particular, previous studies did-nt look at BCNS and used fewer subjects. Tang alsostressed that her study utilized well-developedmatch control to account for all factors in skin can-cer and vitamin D deficiency.

At Stanford, several dermatological studies arearising as a result of Tangs research. Linos is work-

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MENS SOCCER

Cardinal men suffer pair of tough losses

CARD STAYS

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By MILES BENNETT-SMITHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The mens soccer team fought off injuriesand sickness on a tough weekend road trip,butstill lost two tight matches at UCLA (10-4-1, 5-2-0 Pac-10) on Friday night and San Diego State(8-5-2,2-4-1) on Sunday.The losses dropped theCardinal back below .500 on the season,at 7-8-0 overall and 3-4-0 in the Pac-10.

The two defeats pushed the team back to-ward the middle of a very crowded Pac-10 and

likely out of the title hunt. With a 5-1-1 confer-ence record,California controls its own destinyafter beating UCLA on Sunday,and the Cardi-nal sits in third place with just three games re-maining in the regular season.

It was a tough weekend result-wise,and wehave put ourselves in a really tough position,said sophomore midfielder Hunter Gorskie.We know that we have to take care of businessin the last three games to have a chance to go tothe NCAA Tournament.There are no ifs, andsor buts about it.

On Friday night in Westwood, over 1,000fans turned out to watch UCLA battle Stanfordat Drake Stadium.The conditions were a littlewet and cool,but the rain stayed away and thegame quickly opened up as both teams pressedforward and counterattacked often.The Bruinshad excellent chances off corner kicks in thefirst and 12th minutes, as well as a shot thatbounced off the crossbar in the 36th minute.

The game also saw the somewhat surprisingreturn of injured goalkeeper Jason Dodson forthe Cardinal.A dislocated shoulder and partial

fracture had kept the redshirt freshman out ofaction for the past two and a half weeks,and fel-low redshirt freshman Galen Perkins hadstepped up and performed well in his absence.

But head coach Bret Simon said that despitebeing pleased with Perkins play, Dodson hadagain shown he was deserving of the starting jobin practice.

Ive been really pleased with Galens per-formance over the past few weeks.But if all the

SPORTS

By NATE ADAMSDESK EDITOR

Opening the back half of the Pac-10season with a bang, the No. 1 Cardinalwomens soccer team put on a defensiveshowcase last weekend as it shut out bothArizona schools 3-0 on the road. Juniorforward Lindsay Taylor found the net ineach game,while senior forward ChristenPress added her 19th goal of the season tofurther cement her position as the na-tions top scorer.With the pair of victoriesover the Sun Devils and Wildcats, Stan-ford (15-0-2,6-0-0 Pac-10) remains unde-feated on the season and perfect in con-ference play.

While the final score might suggestotherwise, Stanfords opponent last Fri-day seemed a good possibility to be thefirst team to knock off the nations top-ranked squad.The Sun Devils (8-4-2,2-2-1) came into the match third in the con-ference, hadnt lost to Stanford in Tempesince 1999 and hadnt dropped a singlegame at home in all of 2010.

Stanford,however, was quick to openthe scoring.In just the 16th minute,juniormidfielder Teresa Noyola knocked across pass from Press into the far post,scoring her eighth goal of the season asthe ball sailed past ASU goalkeeperAlyssa Gillmore. The assist was the 40thof Presss career,which ties her with Mar-cie Ward for Stanfords all-time record.The senior forward also recently passedSarah Rafanelli for the Cardinals all-time marks in points and goals.

Stanford extended its lead in the sec-ond half, with defender Annie Case as-sisting sophomore midfielder MariahNogueira and Taylor in the 62nd and 67thminutes. Case, a redshirt freshman, wasmaking just her seventh start of the sea-son as she posted her seventh and eighthassists.

Case began starting on defenseagainst Washington State last week, and

head coach Paul Ratcliffe has used thesame starting lineup since that game.An-other change he made around that timewas moving junior Camille Levin to theforward position after having her play asa defender for most of the season.

Taylors goal put the score at 3-0, andthat is how the game would end.The Car-dinal allowed just six shots on the matchwhile posting 21 of its own.

The Cardinals tough defense carriedover into Sundays match against theWildcats, which it won by the same score.The scoring began at the same point inthe game as on Friday,with Press shoot-ing an unassisted blast from the midfieldinto the right corner of the net.The Palos

Verdes Estates,Calif.native leads the na-tion with 19 goals on the season.

It was a picture-perfect goal, Rat-cliffe said.

As it did against the Sun Devils,Stan-ford extended its lead over Arizona notlong into the second half.Noyola set up agoal for senior defender Allison McCannin the 61st minute, while Taylor postedher second goal of the weekend on an

unassisted shot in the 66th.The junior for-ward has eight scores on the season.

The real story of Sundays match,though,was once again the defense.Stan-ford outshot the Wildcats 22-8, and Oliv-er needed to make only five saves as sheposted the fifth shutout of her rookie sea-son.

The defense is incredible, Ratcliffesaid. The last couple of weeks, theyvereally gotten in sync together. Andtheyve really been knocking the ballaround, not only defensively, but offen-sively as defenders. Annie Case had twoassists on Friday and [sophomore defend-er] Alina [Garciamendez] helped outtoday. Even the defense is getting in-volved in the offense.

Stanford certainly looked to be ingood form last weekend, but as the post-season looms, Ratcliffe is still intent onstaying hot and improving the teamwhere he can.Its about staying sharp,staying focused,and staying healthy and working on ourfitness,he said.Stanford may be the current leader of thePac-10, but with only two weekends ofconference play remaining, it isnt aloneat the top of the standings. Oregon Stateis also perfect at 5-0 in the conference andboasts a 13-1-1 record overall.The No.19Beavers have allowed only seven goals allseason, compared to Stanfords 10. Thetwo conference leaders will face off in thefinal weekend of regular season play, onNov. 5 at Stanford.As for next weekend, though,the Cardi-

nal will head across the Bay to take onrival California.The Golden Bears (7-4-5,2-3-1) lost to the Wildcats last weekendand forced a tie with the Sun Devils afterpushing both games into overtime. Theirrivalry game with Stanford is scheduledfor 3 p.m. this Saturday in Berkeley.

Contact Nate Adams at [email protected].

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GAME NOTES: Stanford, the No. 1 team in the na-tion, looks to remain unbeaten when it travels to

rival Cal. The Golden Bears have had an up and

down season, but few things would please them

more than ending the Cardinals perfect run.While Stanford won both of its matches in Arizona

last weekend, Cal went 0-1-1.

ZachZimmermanDishing the Rock

By JACK BLANCHATCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Last weekend,the Stanford womens lacrosse team headedto Philadelphia, Pa., where it played Maryland, Virginia andPenn,three giants of the lacrosse world.And while the Cardstrip east was an important gauntlet for the girls from the Farm,the sport of lacrosse inexorably headed west.In one week, theMountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) has grown by twomembers,with San Diego State officially joining the MPSF onFriday and USCs announcement that it will be starting Divi-sion I mens and womens lacrosse programs.

San Diego States womens lacrosse program has been aclub team since 2003, but the jump to Division I is a big movefor the Aztecs.The program named former Stanford assistantKylee White as its head coach.White helped guide the Card tothree MPSF championships. Under her watch, Stanford be-came the first program west of the Mississippi River to earn abid to the NCAA Tournament. San Diego State will becomethe eighth team to join the MPSF, and will play a full confer-ence schedule starting in 2012.

Perhaps the most significant step in the westward expan-sion of lacrosse as a whole is USC lacrosse teams becoming Di-vision I programs. New USC president C.L. Max Nikias an-nounced the move last Monday.

Pretty soon we are going to announce that we will intro-duce a womens lacrosse team,Division I,at USC,Nikias saidto USC news source Annenberg TV News. We are in theprocess of recruiting the coach for the team and then we willmake the announcement.

Stanford,Oregon and Cal are all in the MPSF, and USC isexpected to join the conference as well.

Nikias also commented that the Trojans would add a Divi-

sion I mens lacrosse team in the next three to five years.Should the Trojans follow through with the D-I mens lacrosseprogram, they would only be the third mens Division I pro-gram west of the Mississippi River (the others are Air Forceand the University of Denver),a huge step toward expandingthe game in California.

According to USLacrosse.com, youth participation in thegame has grown by 138 percent since 2001, and the number of

juniors playing lacrosse is now over 300,000 strong, makinglacrosse the fastest-growing sport in America. US Lacrossealso reports that there are 447 womens college programs oneither the club or varsity level, and more teams are beginningto spring up every year.

Part of this expansion is due to Title IX, which mandatesthat there must be an equal number of scholarships for bothmens and womens athletes,but,as evidenced by the new pro-grams at San Diego State and USC,the expansion of the gamein California alone is already occurring at a rapid pace. Of theCalifornia schools that are currently in the MPSF, UC-Davisbegan a lacrosse program in 1997, followed by Cal in 1999,St.Marys in 2000 and Fresno State in 2008.

The lacrosse world seems ready to accept the West,and es-pecially California, into the fold.The major lacrosse hotbedshistorically have been in Washington, D.C., Baltimore andNew England,but as the game creeps west,the gap of talent be-tween the East and West is closing,and both Stanford and Den-ver finished in the top 20 in last years final rankings.

Coaches at prestigious East Coast programs are also begin-ning to turn westward.After 11 seasons with George Mason,

current Stanford head coach Amy Bokker left her spot inWashington, D.C., in order to join the Cardinal.Similarly,new

Jay Cutleris bad atfootball

Chicago Bears quarterbackJay Cutler has left me feel-ing like a heroin addict.Watching his psychoticplay is detrimental to my

health,yet I keep investing in the habit,going as far as drafting not one,not two,but three of his targets to my fantasyteam.

But Ive finally curbed my addic-tion.Ive let go of the memories of Cut-ler as a young quarterback in Denver,shredding defenses with his cannonarm and willingness to thread the ballinto the tightest of spaces.Ive stoppedcomparing him to a young Brett Favre,

which,believe it or not,was once a com-pliment.This is because Jay Cutler is really,

really bad.He is literally throwing theBears season into a death spiral. Hisnumbers against the Redskins on Sun-day,at home,speak for themselves.

They were: 26-40,for 281 yards andone touchdown.Oh,and four intercep-tions, one of which was run back for a92-yard touchdown. He should havehad five,but he threw one pass so er-rantly that it smacked a safety square inthe helmet and was luckily caught byone of his own linemen.

Whats worse is that he made Wash-ington cornerback DeAngelo Hall, acareer underachiever, look like theMessiah. Hall was responsible for allfour of Cutlers interceptions. One,maybe two interceptions were legiti-mately good reads by Hall.The othertwo were gift-wrapped.

When are we going to finally acceptthat the guy who threw 26 interceptions

last year actually sucks? Since he be-came a Bear at the start of last season,

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Redshirt freshman defender Annie Case has been a bright spot for the Cardinal since being inserted intothe starting lineup a few weeks ago. Case had two assists in Fridays win at Arizona State.

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford DailyStanford lacrosse head coach Amy Bokker is one example oflacrosse spreading to the West Coast. Bokker coached at GeorgeMason in Washington, D.C., before bolting for the Farm.

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the excuses for his abysmal play havebeen abundant.I bought the he does-nt have chemistry with his receiversyet argument last season. I mean,could we really get on a guy whosemost talented receiver went to AbileneChristian? But now,there arent any ra-tional explanations.

Hes in Mike Martzs system.When you throw the ball 40 times

youre bound to make mistakes!Martz may be the ballsiest, most

pass-happy offensive coordinator inthe league,and his system is a little wild,but he encourages efficiency and truck-loads of scoring.Cutler only providesthe latter,and it comes in the form ofpoints for the opposing team.

Playing with reckless abandon iswhat sets him apart from other quar-terbacks. He wins games by takingchances.What a risk taker!

Yeah,Cutler is a risk taker, but sowas Tiger Woods.Its not always a goodthing. What actually separates himfrom other quarterbacks is his ability torecognize double coverage and stillconclude that it is a good idea to throw

to his undersized receiver.Bears fans have to be dumbfound-

ed and ecstatic when they wake up andsee that their team still has a winningrecord.At 4-3, Chicago is tied for firstplace in what was expected to be a chal-lenging NFC North. Two of those fourwins came over Carolina and Detroit,but they are wins nonetheless.

Still,Cutler is posting a passer ratingof 88.5, which is hovering right aroundhis career average of 83.9. So a guythrows one pick for every touchdownand hes still above his career average.Can you possibly believe that he stillhas star potential?

I dont.If I did,I wouldnt dedicatean entire writing space to one player on

a team with little meaning to me. Butafter watching him perform on Sunday,

I can conclude that he is responsible forthe single worst quarterbacking per-formance that I have ever witnessed.(For those keeping score, I attend aPac-10 school.I have seen Cals KevinRiley and UCLAs Kevin Prince playquarterback. This honor means thatCutler played worse than two of themost dreadful college players in thecountry.Yikes.)

Cutlers job should be safe for theremainder of the season considering

just how awful the Bears backups are,but unless something drasticallychanges, I am led to believe that NFLsquads will drop the he was picked

11th in the draft, so he must be good!mentality.

If not,then four-interception gameswill continue to plague the League andDeAngelo Hall will continue to be-lieve that he can walk on water.

Nobody wants that.

If you have Jay Cutler on your fantasyteam,Zach Zimmerman may be inter-ested in making a trade.Send him anoffer at [email protected].

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tion of lying with telling the truth,andat times subjects repeat stories to thelie detection test to seem as if they aretelling the truth.Ultimately,there aremany different factors for which liedetectors test, including deception,memory and salience of stimuli, butbecause these tests are ambiguous,itis understandable why their use asevidence is questionable.

Hastings law professor David Faig-

man gave the legal-side opinion onthe issue and began with an introduc-tion of the general criteria used foradmission of evidence:qualifications,relevance, reliability and validity.

In assessing these criteria,a judgelooks at how much testing has beendone in the science presented in theevidence, peer-review and generalacceptance in society. Federal Rule403, which says, If probative sub-stance is outweighed by unfair preju-dice, the evidence is not to be used,is often applied to neuroscience evi-dence.

Contact Angelique Dakkak at [email protected].

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goalkeepers are healthy and at theirbest, Jason has proven he is the No.1keeper,Simon said.

Dodson was forced into three earlysaves as UCLA outshot Stanford 8-3in the first half.But the team was stillplaying well despite the shot disad-vantage.

We came out pretty well and werekeeping the ball and sending numbersforward, and playing good defense,

Gorskie said.We had good energy ondefense, and [standout UCLA mid-fielder] Kelyn Rowe was a non-factor.It was an evenly matched game.

But in the 72nd minute,the Bruinsmade something out of nothing.EderArreola dispossessed senior defend-er Cameron Lamming in the back,despite Lammings clamoring for afoul, and passed off to Evan Raynr.The UCLA midfielder blasted a shotfrom 25 yards into the top right cor-ner of the goal past a helpless Dod-son.

The already quick pace picked upas the Cardinal scrambled for anequalizer, but UCLA held on for the1-0 victory.

Stanford came out a little slowerin Sundays game at San Diego Stateafter the tough loss on Friday night,

and the Aztecs capitalized early. Inthe 27th minute,a Cardinal pass wasintercepted in a dangerous positionand led to an easy breakaway for San

Diego States Miles Byass.The highlyrecruited freshman forward slottedthe ball past Dodson, and Stanfordwas in an early hole.

The team played much better afterthe break, and nearly broke throughseveral times in the final 20 minutes.

We fought really hard to try andcome back, Gorskie said. We hadplenty of chances with free kicks andcorner kicks,and in the last 20 minutesthey were really on their heels wegave it our all.

Stanford outshot the Aztecs 8-3 inthe second half and forced keeperBrad Byrns into three saves,but in theend came up a bit short in its sixth one-

goal loss.In a league with a large amount of

parity this year, Stanford has showedplenty of resiliency. But with only a

few games left, it looks more andmore like the Cardinal might be leftout of the postseason for the seventhtime in eight years.

There are a lot of good teamsin the Pac-10 this year,Simon said.Its possible one team will emergein these last few games as the dom-inant team, but everybody is soclose its more likely they will justend up beating each other up.

Stanford will have three morechances to prove it is worthy of anNCAA Tournament bid, startingwith its final homestand this week-end against Washington and OregonState. Both matches will be held at

Laird Q.Cagan Stadium.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at [email protected].

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Senior defender/midfielder Ryan Thomas and the Stanford Cardinal dropped a pair of games in Southern California last weekend. In order to qualify for thepostseason Stanford needs strong performances in its final three matches of the year. That begins with the offense, which was held scoreless over the weekend.

San Diego State head coach KyleeWhite left Loyola University inMaryland, which finished last seasonranked 16th in the nation.To themand others, the lure of beginning anew program out west is too good topass up.

While the economic pinch has putathletic programs everywhere in abind,the growth of lacrosse shows nosigns of stopping.The challenge is to

find enough teams to play Stan-ford had to drop a regular season se-ries with defending national champi-on Maryland because of budget cutsfor both schools.

Ironically, trips to the East Coastare critical in the growth of lacrosse.

A weekend like [this past week-end] is huge for our team to prepareto be one of the best teams in thecountry, Bokker said. The gamesthat we are playing this weekend giveus a good sense of where we are andwhat we need to do to get back to theNCAA Tournament and take thenext step when we are there.

And while the Card must headeast on the road to a lacrosse champi-onship,its only a matter of time nowbefore California lacrosse catches up.Soon,all lacrosse teams could be leftwith only one option:go west, youngman (or woman).

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nt get enough of hearing about Applesantics.

To have your book essentiallycensored by Apple was kind of a bigstory, Carnoy said,so a lot of techblogs picked it up. It sort of mush-roomed. Its all been Internet word-of-mouth, and Im competing withbooks that have multi-million dollarmarketing budgets.

Now,despite the lack of any for-mal marketing budget, the book hasbecome a top-selling e-books. Butdont mistake Carnoy for a guru, hesaid.

A lot of people come to me now

and ask for advice,and its so differentfor every book,he said.I personallyget a little tired of talking about howthe book got published.

Want to publish your own side ofStanford outsiders never see? If youthink your steamy goings-on at LakeLag, tales of sex and death in fresh-men dorms or musings on the Axeand Palms dark side have got what ittakes, the M.F.A. grad urges you topush yourself.

You really have to be incrediblypersistent,Carnoy said.If they slamthe door in your face,youve gotta tryto find a window.

Contact Zoe Leavitt at [email protected].

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sciences, from philosophy, and so on,all speaking on different conflicts andethical concerns that are raised in thistopic, said Scott Sagan, political sci-ence professor and co-director of theCenter for International Security andCooperation (CISAC), one of thecenters involved in co-sponsoring theseries.

Sagan cited the panel discussionscheduled for Dec. 2, which will dis-cuss the ethics of the draft.He empha-sized the interdisciplinary approachesto discussing war topics.

CISAC is actively engaged inteaching questions of war and peace,but we dont have a lot of direct dis-cussion of ethics, he said. Ethicscome in all the time in these issues,butsince were mostly scientists and socialscientists, the ethical dimensions arenot directly focused upon. So, Ithought it would be exciting to domore in these areas.

English professor Tobias Wolffagreed. Wolff is director of the Cre-ative Writing Program at Stanford,an-other collaborating center in the proj-ect.

One of the ways in which peoplediscover the nature of war and the ef-fect it has on people is through litera-ture,Wolff said.There are many dif-ferent ways of approaching this proj-ect. Literature is a very importantone.

Wolff and the Creative WritingProgram will contribute to the projectby bringing in different writers andauthors of works on war.

Besides bringing together English,

philosophy, and political science, theseries will additionally include Stan-ford Summer Theater.Drama profes-

sor and director of Stanford SummerTheater Rush Rehm became interest-ed in the project because of the mate-rial.

Though not directly involved in theplanning process, students will be in-volved in one of the two culminatingevents of the series:a performance ofBetrayed, the 2009 play written byNew Yorker journalist George Pack-er. Rehm is in the process of coordi-nating this springs May 20 show.

Stanford Summer Theater has

done many political works in thepast,Rehm said. And I thought thatGeorge Packers play would be im-portant to be a part of this series.

Were involved in two wars, weovertook the country,and were prob-ably directly responsible for thedeaths of hundreds of thousands ofpeople,and were probably just goingto leave the country, or a lot of it, inshambles, he added. Packers playwill bring to light some of the issues in-volved in war.

The other event,a performance ofThe Gurs Zyklus by MacArthurFoundation genius award winnerTrimpin,is scheduled for May 14.

The next event of the series,TheChanging Face of Photojournalism,the Changing Face of War, will takeplace on Thursday, Oct. 28 from 5:30p.m.to 7:00 p.m.

Contact Brianna Pang at [email protected].

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ing on an offshoot study on differ-ences between sun protection meth-ods,while Stanford Hospital residentAshley Wysong and the Departmentof Dermatology are working withStanford athletes to study sun protec-tion among athletes.

While these studies in sun expo-sure provide valuable informationfor dermatologists regarding the ef-fects of sun on the body, Epstein em-phasizes that patients must also beaware of the repercussions of med-ical advice.

I think its a reminder that med-ical interventions may have both pos-itive and negative effects, Epsteincautioned. Were trying to protectpeople from having skin cancer, yetwe may be reducing vitamin D lev-els.

Epstein ultimately encouragesmedical consumers to consider all

facets of medical advice.If you un-derstand what youre doing,hopeful-ly you can take a double-edged swordand turn it into all good,he said.

Contact Alex Yu at [email protected].

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