By THOMAS YEHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University’s new HousingMaster Plan, which was revealed lastFriday, was met with mixed emo-tions among Stanford students andResident Fellows (RFs) alike. Giventhe complex and multifacetednature of the suggested changes,some details of the proposal havegenerated collective approval, whileother aspects have already begun tostir up controversy.

“It’s a lot to take in, especiallyall at once,” said Lovelee Brown‘11. “There are so many different changes pro-posed, and I don’t know how I feel about a fewof them.”

Most students, however, did agree on thebenefits of “unstuffing” overcrowded rooms,voicing support for the steps being takentoward solving the problem of cramped hous-

ing spaces.Alex Song ‘09, a res-

idential assistant (RA) inWest Lagunita, famous forits mini-doubles, wasdelighted when he firstheard about the proposedunstuffing.

“I am glad thatWest Lag will be a moreaccommodating residencein the future,” Song said.“As it is now, the rooms area bit too small to fit twopeople in.”

Amanda Garvin ‘09echoed the same sentiments about her pastexperiences in Mirrielees.

“Mirrielees desperately needs to beunstuffed,” Garvin said. “It’s nearly impossibleto function properly when you have to livewith two other people in the space that’s pro-vided.”

But restructuring these overcrowded roomswill significantly affect the composition ofhouses and dorms on campus, and many stu-dents are strongly condemning the shiftingdorm dynamics that this new housing planentails. A portion of these grievances pertainto converting the majority of Stern and WilburHalls into all-frosh housing in the University’sefforts to bring freshmen together.

“I am not happy about the move away fromfour-class dorms,” said Mindy Schrag ‘10.

Schrag, who has lived in Soto, a four-classdorm in Wilbur, for all three years of herStanford career, emphasized the advantages ofliving with upperclassmen during her first yearon campus.

“As a freshman, it was a great resource tobe able to get to know upperclassmen and askthem about classes or just general adviceabout life at Stanford,” Schrag said. “And now,as an upperclassman, I love having freshmen

By MARISA LANDICHO and KAMIL DADA

The first wave of budget cuts that willhave a direct and noticeable effect on theundergraduate population was announcedby Vice Provost for UndergraduateEducation John Bravman ‘79 in a Jan. 30letter to the Stanford community.

The University’s academic advising pro-gram will be dramatically pared down —the Head Peer Academic Coordinator(HPAC) and Peer Mentor (PM) programs,some New Student Orientation (NSO)programming, some training for residentialand writing tutors and honorarium to pre-major advisors will all be cut from thebudget.

Bravman added that he was not pre-senting an exhaustive list of reductions andmore may follow.

“These decisions were made after muchdeliberation and consultation with campuspartners, and they reflect our clear desire

to reduce program costs before having toconsider eliminating professional academicstaff and frontline positions,” Bravmanwrote.

The vice provost explained that he wasconfident that with the new academicdirectors in place in every residential com-plex with freshmen, and the staff of profes-sional advisors located at the Office ofUndergraduate Advising and Research(UAR), the University has a sufficientlystrong pre-major advising program.

The letter explained that the VPUEderives a majority of its annual operatingincome from funds invested in Stanford’sendowment and a smaller percentage fromthe University’s general funds. Therefore,the sharp decline in the endowmentstrongly affects organizations such as theVPUE.

ASSU Executives Jonny Dorsey ‘09 andFagan Harris ‘09 called a Sunday night

HPACs, PMs and NSO programs first to face the axe

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Students give feedbackon future budget cuts

By ZOE RICHARDS

At their second budget-relatedTown Hall meeting in as manyweeks, ASSU President JonnyDorsey ‘09 and Vice President FaganHarris ‘09 told students about theirmeeting last week with Provost JohnEtchemendy, which both executiveslabeled a success.

“We thought it would go well, andI think it went even better,” Dorseysaid.

The two met with ProvostEtchemendy and the BudgetCommittee last Thursday. Friday’stown hall was intended to maintainthe flow of communication betweenstudents and their elected studentleaders.

Dorsey told students he hoped tobegin the process of clarifying moreconcrete cuts the student body feelswould be possible to make as wemove towards the budget decisions,which are currently scheduled to bemade by mid-March.

“One of the areas that you guysadded the most to in this conversa-tion was the part about frontlinestaff,” Dorsey said. “A lot of theother issues are things they wouldhave guessed students care about.It’s a little counterintuitive to theadministrators to say we’d ratherhave these little program funds go tostaff members.”

“We were pretty nervous goinginto the meeting,” Harris said,“because the University doesn’thave an obligation to listen to thestudent body or the ASSU, and so weput a lot of thought into our strategymoving forward — how can we max-imize our position and leverage tohave constructive input?”

The two executives said they

By WYNDAM MAKOWSKYMANAGING EDITOR

With junior Jayne Appel andsophomore Jeanette Pohlen strug-gling, the Stanford women’s basket-ball team turned to a gritty veteranand a developing star to lead themto victory.

Senior Jillian Harmon and soph-omore Kayla Pedersen provided thenecessary spark in the second half togive the No. 9 Cardinal a 68-51 winover UCLA, Sunday at MaplesPavilion.

After a miserable first 20 min-utes, when Stanford (17-4, 8-1Pacific-10 Conference) shot lessthan 30 percent from the field andled the Bruins (14-6, 5-4) by only twopoints at the half, the Cardinal wenton a quick 8-2 run to create someseparation, and never looked back— Stanford’s lead grew to as much

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The winning play of the Super Bowlwas right out of a schoolyard.

Scamble right, scramble left, findsomeone open.

The perfect unscripted ending to agame of improbable swings.

Their Steel Curtain shredded, BenRoethlisberger and Santonio Holmesimprovised the 6-yard touchdown with35 seconds left that gave the PittsburghSteelers a record-setting sixth SuperBowl victory, 27-23 over the ArizonaCardinals on Sunday night.

“Great players step up in big-timegames to make plays,” said Holmes, thegame’s MVP. He said he told Roethlis-berger that he “wanted to be the guy tomake the plays for this team.”

And he was.Holmes grabbed the ball with both

arms stretched fully above his head inthe back right corner of the end zone,his toes barely dragging inbounds. Hefell, sat up and cradled the ball like theprize it was.

This thriller certainly matched lastyear’s upset of the New England Patri-ots by the New York Giants that endedwith Plaxico Burress’ TD catch — with35 seconds left, too.

But this one was even wilder. Withthe last tension-packed seconds ticking

away, a kneeling Roethlisberger heldcoach Mike Tomlin’s hand as KurtWarner led one last, but futile, drive.

The Steelers (15-4), winning theirsecond Super Bowl in four seasons, led20-7 in the fourth quarter, only to seeWarner and the Cardinals stage a re-markable rally to go in front 23-20 with2:37 remaining.

Fitzgerald could only watch fromthe sideline as Roethlisberger engi-neered a 78-yard drive to win it in whatresembled Heinz Field South. Withwaves of twirling Terrible Towels turn-ing Raymond James Stadium into ablack-and-gold tableau — Steelersfans supporting their beloved team, theeconomy be damned — Pittsburgh’soffense rescued the title.

“I knew it was a touchdown 100 per-cent,” Holmes said, even though it hadto withstand a video review. “My feetnever left the ground. All I did wasstand up on my toes and extended myhands.”

And hauled in the pass that punctu-ated another Pittsburgh championship,adding to those won in the 1974, ‘75,‘78, ‘79 and ‘05 seasons.

The stunning swings overshadowedPittsburgh linebacker James Harri-son’s record 100-yard interception re-turn for a touchdown to end the firsthalf. That looked like the signatureplay until the final quarter, when both

teams shook off apparent knockoutpunches to throw haymakers of theirown.

Big Ben and Holmes struck the lastblow, and when Warner fumbled in thefinal seconds, the Cardinals’ dream ofwinning their first NFL crown since1947 were gone.

“I’m disappointed for our team,”said Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt,the offensive coordinator in Pittsburghwhen the Steelers won the 2005 title.“This is a group of men that I’m veryproud of. They played very hard in cir-cumstances where nobody believed inthem.

Harrison, the defensive player ofthe year, stepped in front of Boldin atthe goal line, picked off Warner’s throwand began a journey down the rightsideline that ended as the longest playin Super Bowl history.

Harrison ran past or through mostof the Cardinals, nearly stepped out ofbounds at one point, and was draggeddown by Fitzgerald as he fell to the goalline. The play was reviewed as severalCardinals knelt on one knee,exhaustedfrom the chase and disheartened by theresult.

“Those last couple of yards wereprobably tougher than anything I’vedone in my life, but probably moregratifying than anything I’ve done infootball,” Harrison said.

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The WorldThis Week

Senator: Appointment wouldn’t affect Senatemakeup

President Barack Obama is expected to pick a Republicansenator,Judd Gregg of New Hampshire,as his commerce sec-retary soon.But officials expect the state’s Democratic gover-nor, John Lynch, to fill Gregg’s Senate seat with another Re-publican.

“In other words, whoever is appointed to replace himwould caucus with Senate Republicans, so I think it wouldhave no impact on the balance of power in the Senate,”MitchMcConnell of Kentucky, the Senate’s minority leader, told“Face the Nation” on CBS.

If a Republican is appointed, the Democrats will be nocloser to their goal of holding 60 Senate seats, enough to cutoff Republican filibusters if all Democrats vote together.They now have 56 votes.Two independents usually vote withthe Democrats, giving them 58 votes. The outcome in a still-disputed Senate election in Minnesota could bring that to 59votes.

The Republican expected to get the seat until a new elec-tion is held in two years is Bonnie Newman, who served asGregg’s chief of staff when Gregg was in the House. She is aveteran of the Reagan White House. Under the deal that hasbeen worked out, she will not run in the 2010 election.

North Korea warns of possible war with SouthKorea

North Korea warned Sunday that South Korea’s con-frontational policies may trigger a war on the divided penin-sula,a message coming two days after the communist countryvowed to abandon all peace agreements with its southernneighbor.

Relations between the two Koreas have been strainedsince conservative President Lee Myung-bak took officenearly a year ago in Seoul, pledging to take a harder line onthe North.Tension heightened Friday when the North said itwas ditching a nonaggression pact and all other peace accordswith South Korea.

Daschle earned $220,000 from healthcareindustry

Tom Daschle collected nearly a quarter of a million dollarsin fees in the last two years speaking to leaders of the industryPresident Barack Obama wants him to reform as the admin-istration’s health secretary.

That was just a portion of the more than $5.2 million theformer South Dakota senator earned as he advised insurersand hospitals and worked in other industries — real estate,energy and telecommunications among them, according to afinancial statement filed with the Office of GovernmentEthics.

Daschle’s finances are drawing additional scrutiny be-cause he failed to pay his taxes properly. Although he hasmade amends with the government, senators said Sundaythey are awaiting guidance from the committee reviewingDaschle’s nomination before deciding whether the tax prob-lem could stall or even derail his confirmation.

Israel strikes Gaza after militant rocket fireIsrael threatened “harsh and disproportionate”retaliation

after Gaza militants fired at least 10 rockets and mortar shellsacross the border Sunday and warplanes later bombed thearea where Hamas smuggles in weapons from Egypt throughtunnels.

Since an unwritten truce ended Israel’s offensive in Gazatwo weeks ago, rocket and mortar fire from the Palestinianterritory ruled by Hamas has increased steadily. Israeli retal-iation, including brief ground incursions and bombings ofrocket launchers and smuggling tunnels, is also intensifying.

“If there is shooting at residents of the south, there willbe an Israeli response that will be harsh and disproportion-ate by its nature,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told hisCabinet.

Israel launched its three-week offensive with the aim ofending years of Hamas rocket fire at southern Israel. It leftnearly 1,300 Palestinians dead,more than half of them civil-ians, according to Gaza officials. Thirteen Israelis werekilled, including three civilians.

Source:The Associated Press

Iraqi electionsignals change

BRIAN MURPHYTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The biggest Shiite party in Iraq onceappeared to hold all the political sway:control of the heartland, the backing ofinfluential clerics and a foot in the gov-ernment with ambitions to take full con-trol.

But the days of wide-open horizonscould be soon ending for the SupremeIslamic Iraqi Council, and replaced byimportant shifts that could be welcomedin Washington and scorned in Tehran.

The signs began to take shape Sundaywith hints of the voter mood fromprovincial elections.

The broad message — built on Iraqimedia projections and postelection in-terviews — was that the eventual resultswould punish religious-leaning factionssuch as the Supreme Council that areblamed for stoking sectarian violence,and reward secular parties seen capableof holding Iraq’s relative calm.

The outcome of the provincial raceswill not directly effect Iraq’s nationalpolicies or its balance between Washing-ton’s global power and Iran’s regionalmuscle. But Shiite political trends arecritically important in Iraq, where ma-jority Shiites now hold sway after the fallof Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-dominatedregime.

“There is a backlash from Iraqisagainst sectarian and religious politics,”said Mustafa al-Ani, an Iraqi politicalanalyst based in Dubai, United ArabEmirates.

Although official results from Satur-day’s provincial elections are likely stilldays away, the early outlines are hum-bling for The Supreme Council. Thegroup had been considered a linchpin inIraqi politics as a junior partner in thegovernment that had near seamless po-litical control in the Shiite south.

Some forecasts point to widespreadlosses for the party across the main Shi-ite provinces. The blows could includeembarrassing stumbles in the key city ofBasra and the spiritual center of Najaf— hailed as the future capital in theSupreme Council’s dreams for an au-

tonomous Shiite enclave.In their place, the big election win-

ners appear to be allies of Prime Minis-ter Nouri al-Maliki, according to projec-tions and interviews with political fig-ures who spoke on condition ofanonymity because official results arenot posted.

It’s a vivid lesson in Iraq’s fluid poli-tics.

A year ago, al-Maliki looked to besinking. Shiite militiamen ruled citiessuch as Basra and parts of Baghdad androckets were pouring into the protectedGreen Zone, which includes the U.S.Embassy and Iraq’s parliament.

Al-Maliki — with apparent little ad-vance coordination with the U.S. mili-tary — struck back. An offensive brokethe militia control in Basra and else-where in the south. His reputationturned around.

And many voters appeared happy toreward his political backers in the elec-tions for seats on provincial councils,which carry significant clout with au-thority over local business contracts,jobs and local security forces.

“Al-Maliki ended the militiamen’sreign of terror,” said Faisal Hamadi, 58,after voting in Basra. “For this he de-serves our vote.”

The Supreme Council, meanwhile,appeared to stagger under the weight ofnegative baggage.

It was accused of failing to deliver im-provements to public services in thesouth.Also, its deep ties to Iran began torub against Iraqis’ nationalist senti-ments.

The Supreme Council’s leader,AbdulAziz al-Hakim, spent decades in Iranduring Saddam’s rule and was allowedan office-villa in downtown Tehran.After Saddam’s fall, the Supreme Coun-cil was Iran’s main political conduit intoIraq even though the group also devel-oped ties with Washington.

A Supreme Council lawmaker,who spoke on condition of anonymitybecause of the sensitivity of the issue, ac-knowledged the election mood wasagainst them.

“We controlled most provinces in the

south, so we were blamed for whateverwent wrong there,” he said.

“The elections gave us an indicationof what will happen in the general elec-tion late this year,” said the analyst al-Ani. “Those who lost in this electionhave nearly a year to learn their lessonand change their strategy. They knownow where the Iraqis stand.”

Nationwide turnout in the electionwas 51 percent, said Faraj al-Haidari,

chairman of the election commission.The figure fell short of some optimisticpredictions, but was overshadowed by abigger achievement: no serious violenceduring the voting.

Associated Press writers SINAN SALA-HEDDIN and HAMZA HENDAWI inBaghdad, and QASSIM ABDULZAHRA in Basra contributed to this re-port.

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An Iraqi girl holds up an ink-stained finger after her parents voted in the country’sprovincial elections in Karabala, Iraq on Saturday. Iraqis passed through heavy secu-rity to vote in crucial provincial elections.

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Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison is chanced down by Arizona Cardinals’ defense while return-ing an interception for a 100-yard touchdown during the second quarter of the NFL Super Bowl XLIII footballgame, Sunday in Tampa, Fla. Harrison ran for the longest play in Super Bowl history. The previous record wasDesmond Howard’s 99-yard kickoff return for Green Bay in 1997.

Steelers win their sixth Super Bowl

GOP leader doubts stimulus will pass

DOUGLASS K. DANIELTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell saidSunday the massive stimulus bill backed by PresidentBarack Obama and congressional Democrats could godown to defeat if it’s not stripped of unnecessaryspending and focused more on housing issues and taxcut.

The Senate version of the bill, which topped out atnearly $900 billion, is headed to the floor for debate.The House bill totaled about $819 billion and earnedno Republican votes, even though it easily passed the

Democratic-controlled House.At some point lawmak-ers will need to compromise on the competing ver-sions.

McConnell and other Republicans suggested thatthe bill needed an overhaul because it doesn’t pumpenough into the private sector through tax cuts and al-lows Democrats to go on a spending spree unlikely tojolt the economy. The Republican leader also com-plained that Democrats had not been as bipartisan inwriting the bill as Obama had said he wanted.

“I think it may be time ... for the president to kindof get a hold of these Democrats in the Senate and theHouse, who have rather significant majorities, andshake them a little bit and say, ‘Look, let’s do this theright way,’” McConnell said. “I can’t believe that thepresident isn’t embarrassed about the products thathave been produced so far.”

For his part, Obama said he is confident Republi-

cans will come around to support the final version ofthe legislation. He and Vice President Joe Biden willmeet with congressional leaders at the White House onMonday afternoon.

“I am confident that by the time we have the finalpackage on the floor that we are going to see substan-tial support, and people are going to see this is a seriouseffort. It has no earmarks.We are going to be trimmingout things that are not relevant to putting people backto work right now,” Obama said.

However, he declined to predict how many SenateRepublicans might switch parties. Biden, a former sen-ior member of the Senate before his election, similarlydeclined to offer predictions last week in an interviewdespite his personal phone calls for former colleagues.

Associated Press writer PHILIP ELLIOTT contributedto this report.

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ASSU Executives Jonny Dorsey ‘09 and Fagan Harris ‘09 held their second Town Hall meeting in Old Union on Friday. The pair met with students to dis-cuss future budget cuts and determine which programs are of highest and lowest priorities.

OFF-CAMPUS

Free the Childrenlaunches in the U.S.

By AMY HARRIS

Children, not champagne, herald-ed the official Palo Alto launch ofFree the Children Friday, a Toronto-based charity that mobilizes youthto stop child exploitation.

Craig Kielburger founded themillion-member strong group whenhe was just 12 years old, and spoketo hundreds of Bay Area children,parents and educators at the cele-bratory youth rally, which was heldat the Lucie Stern CommunityCenter.

“If you really want to leave alegacy, shape how kids view theworld,” Kielburger said. “We are thegeneration we’ve been waiting for,and children are going to make thedifference.”

Free the Children, now in its 14thyear, empowers youth on a domesticlevel to be agents of change forinternational development.

“We’re trying to combat a gener-ation of passive bystanders by reallyengaging the youth,” Kielburgersaid. “We can’t tell young people toclose their eyes to poverty —instead, we show them how they canmake a difference.”

Free the Children uses fundsraised on a domestic level to financeprograms like Adopt a Village, afour-pronged approach to fundingeducation, healthcare, alternativeincome projects and water and sani-tation facilities in more than 16 dif-ferent countries.

Megha Malpani, a 7th graderfrom the Girl’s Middle School inMountain View, decided to help aKenyan girl receive an educationthrough Free the Children.

“This girl my age said that theone thing she wanted in the worldwas an education,” Malpani remem-

bered.Malpani resolved to grant the

Kenyan girl her wish, so she bakedcookies and sold them from herdriveway until she raised $5,000,enough to build a well in Kenya.Access to clean water reduces theburden of chores placed on girls likeMalpani’s friend so that they can goto school.

Thanks to Malpani and the thou-sands of other engaged youth,whose donations account for 65 per-cent of Free the Children’s funding,2007 marked the construction ofFree the Children’s 500th school,giving educational access to morethan 50,000 children every day.

Eva Haller, now on the group’sU.S. Board of Directors and official“grandmother” of Free theChildren, has been with the organi-zation since it began in the base-ment of the Kielburger’s home. Shewas teary-eyed as she explained thatthe opening of a U.S. office was fur-thering “the dream of a 12 year-oldthat became truth.”

“When Craig came to me, he hadno money, no image, no brand,”Haller recalled.

All Craig Kielburger had was amission: to stop child labor. WhenKielburger was 12 years old, hecame across an article in TheToronto Star about Iqbal Masih, ayoung Pakistani boy who had beensold into slavery. Kielburger knewhe had to help, so he rushed to his7th grade class, assembled his 11friends, and Free the Children wasborn.

Haller and others helpedKielburger to expand Free theChildren from just 12 members tothe now more than a million partici-pants. Friday’s move to Palo Altomarks Free the Children’s commit-ment to solidify its U.S. presence.

Erin Barton- Ch?ry, director ofdevelopment & North American

engaged in open discourse with theProvost, asking whether the studentvoice was truly accounted for infinalizing budget cuts.

“We asked him point-blank: Willyou listen to us? Do you care whatwe have to say? And to that he said,resoundingly, ‘yes’” Harris said.“[Etchemendy said] that the petitionand the letter to the administrationhad already had a great deal of influ-ence helping them decide where thepriorities of the student body lie.”

According to Dorsey and Harris,there is much to be learned from theGSC regarding an appropriate andeffective approach to budget cutsand student priorities. Both notedhow the GSC formed a consensus onprograms that were of less impor-tance, and by prioritizing according-ly, they had a clear influence onsome of the budget decisions that

are already taking effect.Mililani Trask-Batti ‘10 came to

the ASSU Town Hall for a secondtime with a group of other studentssporting matching T-shirts. Trask-Batti is a member of the StanfordAmerican Indian Organization(SAIO) and expressed her concernsabout potential cuts to the NativeAmerican Center.

“Our whole point with the NativeAmerican Center is that it kind oftakes all of the other priorities andputs it in there so we have issues ofhealth and wellness that our commu-nity center offers to students andfrontline staff there that we care lotsabout and academics,” she said.

After the first Town Hall meetinglast week, Dorsey and Harris organ-ized and distributed an online peti-tion gathering student signatures.

“We did receive quite a bit of crit-icism regarding the kind of tone ofthe letter for the petition, saying thatit was less adversarial [than it shouldhave been],” Harris said. “We optedfor a course of action that wouldplace a premium on a cooperative,

constructive relationship with theProvost.”

“It’s important to note that thisprocess is happening along twotracks — there’s the graduate bodyand undergraduate body,” Harrisadded, “[The budget committee] hasbeen working with the GSC on avariety of issues and, to be honest,they’re a lot further along for a vari-ety of reasons, so they’re at the pointas of yesterday of presenting specificprograms that they would like to seeprotected. And that’s kind of wherewe need to get to as an undergradu-ate body.”

According to the executives,moving forward requires undergrad-uates to take on the challenge of fur-ther honing in on our highest andlowest priorities.

Angelina Cardona ‘11, executivecabinet chair of Mental HealthInitiatives, agreed.

“There are still some people thatneed to be roped in,” she said.

It’s a zero-sum game becausesmaller cuts in some areas mean big-ger cuts in other programs.

According to Dorsey, true powercomes through defining those areasof most interest to students, as wellas areas that can afford cuts. He saidthat it was important to recognizethat as these cuts are made, studentswill equally be held accountable forthe suggestions they make.

In order to clarify student opin-ions and unify the student voice,Dorsey emphasized the importanceof students sharing their opinionswith undergraduate senators to set acollaborative tone.

“Jonny and I are the official rep-resentatives of the student body, butagain, it’s not up to us to decidewhat these agenda items look like— it’s up to you to decide; you haveelected representation to make thathappen,” Harris said. “This is wherethe rubber hits the road; this iswhere we kind of roll up our sleeves,take a hard look at what we’ve gotgoing on and make some toughdecisions.”

Contact Zoe Richards at iamzoe@stanford.edu.

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This column originally ran on Jan. 21, 2009.

Iam not a fan of a cappella.For those of youwho (somehow) don’t know, a cappella isthe tradition of taking perfectly good

songs and rearranging them so that peoplesing all the parts that our forebears’ designedinstruments do much, much better. Stanford(somehow) has nine of these groups.

Based on science, a cappella began in thetime of cavemen, when our primitive ances-tors would harmonize their rudimentarycaveman utterances into a sound so vile thatit could take down a stegosaurus from 50paces.How were cavemen and stegosauruses,creatures separated by 150 million years,around at the same time? Ask Testimony.

(For those of you who play drinking gamesto my columns, “Testimony” should be thetop “buzzed-word” on your list for today.)

Now, some may say that my dislike of acappella stems from the fact that my ownsinging voice sounds like a cross between BobDylan’s and some sort of cat pinned down bya tractor. However, my sense of jealousy ac-counts for no more than 15 percent of my an-tipathy. From two songs into the first FleetStreet performance I saw at Admit Weekend,I knew that I disliked a cappella,with its over-dramatic soloists and its progressively lessironic use of beatboxing.

But unfortunately, a cappella has bur-rowed itself deep into the intestines of Stan-ford like no other system of groups here have.Take, for example,The O Show — a ceremo-ny that essentially serves as a showcase for allnine a cappella organizations and one or twoother performance groups.Not only is havingsuch a show unfair to the hundreds of othergroups we have on this campus,it’s also unfairto the hundreds of innocent freshmen who sitthrough it in an already very busy orientationweek.

Additionally, whenever dorms needsomeone to perform for parents, dorm showsor ProFros, a cappella groups are normally atthe top of their lists.Why not a dance troupe,or, much cooler, a rock band? At least with arock band,you can stand up and dance;with acappella shows, you try to remember thesongs as you once loved them as you pray forthe whiskey you snuck in to hit soon.

More frightening, unless you stop them, acappella groups will multiply. For everysinger given a spot in a group, three othersare jilted (This is an estimate. No one wantsto fess up to being rejected by Mixed Co.).Nursing their wounds, these members re-group into an even worse a cappella troupe,calling themselves something revolting like“the Harmonics.”

Now, this is not an attack on members of acappella groups — I count many (or, at least,once counted many, depending on how manypeople read this column) as friends, and I’mhappy to see people really enjoying them-selves in performances after spending count-less hours charting and learning to sing diffi-cult songs.But why do we need nine different

a cappella shows every quarter? Why can’tgroups do more collaborative shows? Thenumber of new songs these groups come upwith per quarter is not particularly high,and Ithink sharing shows might help whittle downthe best material from each.

On a more social level, I can assure youfrom experience that nothing kills a partyquite as fast as the Mendicants drunkenlybelting “Brown-Eyed Girl.” Actually, I takethat back — I can only imagine how terrible aparty would be if an inebriated Talismanstarted singing a 40-minute rendition of thenational anthem.And anything by Testimony,I fear, would be much, much worse.

I guess I don’t really know what I want tocome out of this column, though I have a fewideas. Maybe we could see a couple groupsmerge,or better yet,we could create a school-wide ban on a cappella group proliferation.(If we don’t do something now, our childrenmay be forced to attend a Stanford with an“‘80s video game theme music” group, a“songs of Neil Diamond” group or maybeeven a “jazz-infused Kabbalah praise”group.)

Or maybe I’d like to see other groups onthis campus more proportionately involvedin school events.We could have fewer rolloutswith Fleet Street singing in the lounge, andmore with Stanford Taiko pounding the hellout of drums.That’s sure to put a kick in anyfreshman’s morning.

Maybe we could even see a day where acappella shows engage audience members,instead of expecting them to pay for admis-sion and sit through up to 90 minutes of songsthey have mostly heard before.

I think what I want most of all,though,is tobe able to say openly “I don’t really care for acappella,” without making it personal. Whenthe topic comes up,I don’t want to have to seeif anyone easily offended is around.

I want to be able to state my dislike proud-ly, because it means that I have discoveredsomething about my personal tastes, which,really, is what the arts community we needhere should be about: self discovery throughinteraction with art. So if you like a cappellaor if you’re a member of a group,that’s fantas-tic — I hope you’ll keep doing what you loveand won’t hate me for writing this. But if youdon’t fall into either of those categories,knowthat it’s OK not to like everything.

Even Testimony.

Send Kevin angry emails at ktwebb@stanford.edu,though, if possible, he would prefer angry sere-nades.

OPINIONS

Alittle over four months ago, at thestart of Volume 234, I wrote in my“Editor’s Welcome”about how much

of my journalism career has been a “mis-take” — from filling an accidental hole in myhigh school class schedule with Journalism 1all the way to working here at The StanfordDaily.

I made a resolution,though,not to let Vol-ume 234 be an accident or mistake. I ran foreditor in chief with a purpose, and every dayI spent working was going to be for a reason— whether that was for the good of the Stan-ford community, for the sake of The Dailytradition or for the opportunity to work withand get to know the many other students in-volved with The Daily.

But last Thursday at 11 p.m., I made a bigmistake.

When Andrea Fuller, our then-editorialboard chair, asked where my “Editor’sFarewell”piece was,I paused,realizing that ithad completely slipped my mind — that Ihad been thinking all week what I wanted tosay at the end of the volume, but I ended upnot even writing my farewell. It was far toolate to get started, unless I wanted to hold upthe entire night’s production,so I just accept-ed it and moved on.

Whether or not it was an “accident”per se. . . well, I don’t really know. Thinking aboutsaying goodbye to 65 issues of hard work,summing up my experience and sharing whatI had learned was, quite literally, too difficultto put into words. Maybe, then, it wasn’t suchan accident that the writing “slipped mymind.”

At this moment,however,I’m finding thatwriting another “Editor’s Welcome” insteadis much easier. I’m happy to be returning foranother four months as editor in chief, pick-ing up where I left off and working to im-prove this publication with the help of an in-credible staff. While I’m amazed at how farthis paper and its staff have come since Sep-tember, I’m only more astounded by our po-tential as we continue to develop with Vol-ume 235.

And much like myself last Thursday at 11p.m., I recognize that, at times, The Dailymakes mistakes. As student journalists, welearn each day how to better approach andencompass the many issues facing the Stan-ford community, tell its many stories and

serve as a center for campus conversationand record. At times, we may not fulfill theexpectations of others — much less our own— but we do fulfill a need.

Letting alone the times we have to makecorrections; the times we’re our own biggestcritics; the times we have to face up to thelimitations of funding, especially in a pooreconomy and down newspaper industry; andthe many times we unfortunately sacrificeour academics or social lives for the sake ofThe Daily, this paper fulfills a need on cam-pus — for news, for opinions, for entertain-ment and more — and I promise you that itwill continue to do so.

While I’ll of course take with me the manymemories and lessons of Volume 234, I moreimportantly bring with me to this new Dailyvolume an appreciation for what could be.Asmuch as newspapers are holders of the past— recording moments, people, atmosphere— I think their greatest potential lies in thefuture, in what they can find out, what theycan provoke and what they can keep on theminds of readers.

After one full volume of seeing this hap-pen — from our coverage of campus mentalhealth to the impending budget cuts — I canonly expect more from my staff, from ourcoverage and from The Daily overall.

I also expect more from all of you: ourreaders. Last volume, I appreciated everyemail, phone call and — as weird as this maysound — the mere sight of someone with aDaily in hand, someone reading in class orsomeone visiting our Web site. As much as Imay ask for people to contribute to the con-versation that takes place in The Daily, I alsoappreciate their just paying attention to it.

It’s for these reasons that I’m okay withmaking the mistakes, sacrificing my time,working hard on this paper and — most of all— not saying farewell last week.

I’m much more prepared to write, “Wel-come to Volume 235.” Let’s hope, though,that four months from now, I don’t forget towrite that farewell once again.

This column originally ran on Oct. 9, 2008.

If John Lennon were around today, hewould have a solution for the financialcrisis. “Abandon your bailout plan,” he

would plead to Treasury Secretary Paulson.“Forget emergency interest rate cuts,” hewould beseech of Federal Reserve Chair-man Bernanke. “All you need is love,” hewould proclaim. “Love, love, love.”

As complex and confounded as the Trea-sury bailout plan appears to be, it pales incomparison to love. Who really under-stands love? Philosophers have propound-ed theories. Poets have composed verse. Bi-ologists have identified hormones andpheromones. Yet they all remain far fromthe answer.

The economist, on the other hand, has allthe answers.When faced with unanswerablequestions, it takes an economist’s incentive-driven mind to come up with an acceptablesolution. So how would an economist ap-proach the incomprehensible matter oflove?

Well, for starters, love can be put intoterms an economist can understand. TheAmerican love market, that of dating, ischaracterized by anxiety and horror stories,but also by reservation prices and searchcosts. Finding a partner bears a striking re-semblance to shopping for a plane ticket.

First, an individual sets their reservationprice. This is the absolute minimum theywould be willing to accept in their potentialpartner. The reservation price is set based

on an individual’s preferences, their “stan-dards” so to speak.

Those with so-called “high standards”have high reservation prices and typicallyhave to search more than those with “lowstandards.” That is why your friends with“high standards” are often not dating any-one while your friends with “low standards”are dating three people at the same time.

Once the reservation price is estab-lished, participants in the market for lovehave to incur search costs. The idea is thatdating is the process by which you eventual-ly find love and live happily ever after.

As you search for love, you incur thecosts associated with dating and, more im-portantly, failed dates. There are the obvi-ous monetary costs, like that all-too-fancydinner for a girl who wasn’t worth it, thatlimo you rented when the subway wouldhave sufficed or that lavish gift you gave herthat you’re now not getting back — econo-mists call that one a sunk cost.

Then there are non-monetary costs. Get-ting over the heartache of a break up, thememories you shared, the plans you madetogether — how can you put a price on that?Think of the hours of productivity that theglobal economy has lost to men and womenlying in bed, claiming they will never loveagain. Forget interest rate cuts — we shouldbe handing out copies of “Blood on theTracks” to boost the economy.

The search for love is not just aboutcosts, though. There are many, many bene-fits — far too many to discuss, so they are

left to the reader’s hopefully vivid imagina-tion (see your PHE if you are unsure).

The economic formula for love is quitesimple. People set their reservation priceand then enter the market, searching forthat special someone, incurring costs andaccruing benefits all the while. Dependingon the level of the reservation price, and therespective costs and benefits, an equilibri-um is established.

That equilibrium is reached at 27 yearsof age and three partners, on average, ac-cording to the Michigan Institute for SocialResearch. Now, if you have a high reserva-tion price because you are picky, highsearch costs because you are demandingand low benefits because you never havetime, then your equilibrium will be reachedat a later age and with fewer partners.Thinkover-achieving Stanford students.

If John Lennon were around today, hewould not approve of this capitalistic por-trayal of love. “Reservation prices, searchcosts, equilibrium,” he would exclaim in apanic. “Love is all you need,” he would de-clare. And maybe a girl with kaleidoscopeeyes.

Kunal Khanna is currently searching for love.If you’d like to aid in the search, please contacthim at kunalk09@stanford.edu.

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CORNERSTONE RESEARCH

programming with Free theChildren, believes Palo Alto will bean “incubator” for Free theChildren.

“Palo Alto is such a supportivecommunity, and we already haveFTC programs within the schools towork with,” Barton-Chery said. “Ireally see us expanding here.”

Indeed, the Palo Alto communi-ty actively recruited Free theChildren to establish its U.S. base inthe Bay Area. Libby Heimark, aPalo Alto resident and active Freethe Children member, attended atrip to Kenya in 2007 withKielburger and decided that Freethe People needed Bay Area repre-sentation.

“I thought, what an incrediblemovement,” she said. “We have somany interested donors on the Westcoast. Free the People should comehere.”

With an office now in Palo Alto,Barton-Ch?ry says Free theChildren will be exploring partner-ships with Stanford University.

“It’s such a rewarding experi-ence,” Haller said with misty eyes.“The people we help give us morethan we can ever give to them. Howcan you ever give enough?”

Contact Amy Harris at harrisaj@stanford.edu.

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in the dorm. They’re so much morefriendly and willing to meet people,and there’s just a higher energy inthe dorm with them around.”

Even some advocates of the all-freshman dorm experience havebeen reluctant to accept the pro-posed changes. Much of this con-troversy stems from the potentialfate of Branner. News of convert-ing the all-frosh dorm into housingfor upperclassmen has been metwith much criticism.

“It’s not only freshmen; it’s theconcept of 200 freshmen,” said cur-rent Branner resident ChristianSmith ‘12. “It’s a very large concen-tration of people who are goingthrough the same thing you are.And it’s unfortunate that freshmenin the future won’t be able to havea really huge, really nice house like

Branner to experience that in.”Branner alumna Sarah Lee ‘10

agreed.“Branner’s infamous reputation

was one of the most memorableparts of my freshman year,” Leesaid. “Getting rid of it is erasing abig part of a Stanford tradition.Putting upperclassmen in Brannerwon’t make Branner what it is.”

Despite some initial misgivings,Branner RFs Clyde Moneyhun andNancy Buffington have acceptedtheir roles in the conversion.

“When Nancy and I applied tobe RFs, we specified a freshmanhouse,” Moneyhun explained.“When I first heard aboutBranner’s shift to upperclassmen, Itook some time to adjust to the idea. . . but Nancy and I are now dedi-cated to making Branner the bestupper-class dorm on the campus.We’re still feeling our way, but weexpect the residents and staff willteach us what we need to know.”

Florence Moore RF PatrickYoung expressed similar emotions

about the prospective decrease infreshmen living in West Flo.

“We’re losing about 110 frosh,and as a designated ‘swing space,’we will probably be left with about50 frosh in a normal year,” Youngsaid. “I really love working withfrosh, and I’m really sad to seethem go, but by and large, I thinkthese changes are good for theUniversity.”

“Honestly, my life will probablybe a lot easier for obvious reasons,”he added. “I’m committed to help-ing with the transition and makingsure this goes smoothly. I’ve alreadygot different ideas on what we cando with the dorm next year.”

Students are awaiting more con-crete details as the administrationmoves forward with plans. This alsoincludes updates on a proposedreform of the Draw system that willallegedly guarantee better housingoptions for upperclassmen.

“I think the three-tiered drawsystem is a good idea because itmakes things more fair,” Schrag said.

Song, on the other hand, is a bitmore skeptical.

“I would like to get more detailsabout the new system,” Song said.“However, I think a plan takinginto account seniority may be aninteresting change.”

Moneyhun sees the bigger pic-ture, though, and he understandsthe motivation behind the newplan.

“Change is hard, and some of thechanges in the new housing plan arepretty sweeping,” he said. “Even so,I think reaction has been fairly pos-itive among people who understandthe goals behind the plan: unstuffovercrowded houses, createimproved housing for upperclass-men — which all students will beeventually — and concentrate morefreshmen in all-frosh houses, whichthe majority of both incoming froshand outgoing alumni consistentlysay they prefer for the first year.”

Contact Thomas Yeh at thomasy@stanford.edu.

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meeting with members of theUndergraduate Senate to decidethe next steps in the budget advo-cacy process. Senators Luukas Ilves‘09, Yvorn “Doc” Aswad-Thomas‘11 and Senate Chair Shelley Gao‘11 attended the brief meeting.

ASSU President Jonny Dorsey‘09 said the cuts were unfortunate,but necessary.

“I think the reality is that nomatter what these cuts are, they aregoing to be sad and hard for thecommunity,” he said. “The cuts aregoing to suck, but I really appreci-ate that they took our input intoaccount.”

Aswad-Thomas was more hesi-tant to embrace the first wave ofbudget cuts. He particularly dis-agreed with the elimination ofHPACs.

“My HPAC and I were buddies,but all that aside, I think they pro-vide a valuable resource to thecommunity,” he said.

Siding with Bravman, Ilves saidthe HPAC program never had adefined purpose to begin with.

“A junior or senior majoring ingod knows what is not the best-placed person to give specificadvice on your academic career,”he said. Ilves supported the deci-sion to instead rely upon academicdirectors.

Although the Senate alreadyendorsed four main principles —academics, wellness, communitycenters and frontline staff —Dorsey and Harris called for theSenate to make more concrete rec-ommendations.

“The GSC came with very spe-cific concrete programs and cutsfor those programs,” said Harris.“[The Provost] was very receptiveto that.”

Dorsey recognized that theGSC had a smaller number of pro-grams to consider, but he wantedthe Senate to make the effort tospecify in future advocacy efforts.

The question for discussion,then, was how to best narrow downthe four broad principles into actu-al program cuts.

Expressing the need for moreupperclassmen input, Ilves pro-posed holding a closed meeting ofselect juniors and seniors to hold apolicy discussion. Termed a“Student Expert ConsultantMeeting” by Aswad-Thomas, thesession will be held next week andmediated by a GSC member.

Students will also be asked togive ongoing feedback through theASSU Web site.

The details of budget advocacywill be discussed at Tuesday’sSenate meeting, along with a fur-ther discussion of executive andlegislative roles.

Contact Marisa Landicho at landi-cho@stanford.edu and Kamil Dadaat kamild@stanford.edu.

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By DENIS GRIFFINSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Cardinal men came into this weekend of road play inSouthern California with the knowledge that time was runningout for them to find the kind of statement road win that couldhelp boost them into the NCAA Tournament. They left it withtheir backs absolutely against the wall.

Stanford (13-6, 3-6 Pacific-10 Conference) first suffered an-other heartbreaking defeat by just one point on Thursday nightagainst USC, 70-69. Then, on Saturday afternoon, the Cardinalwas hammered bya 17th-ranked Bru-ins squad. UCLApoured it on in thesecond half to de-feat Stanford by a34-point margin,97-63.

The Bruins (17-4, 6-2) particularlydominated Stan-ford early in thesecond half. Se-nior guard Antho-ny Goods hit athree-pointer tostart the half offwell for the Cardi-nal and bring thescore to 41-33 infavor of UCLA.But that would beall the excitementStanford wouldsee for some time,as roughly sevenand a half minuteslater, with 12:26remaining, theBruins led 69-38, a deficit from which Stanford had no chanceto recover.

“This was more disappointing than the close losses,” Goodstold The San Francisco Chronicle after the game. “We actuallyfought against USC.”

It was a familiar foe that truly victimized the Cardinal onceagain in Los Angeles, as UCLA point guard Darren Collisonproved once again why he’s the best in the conference. Collisondisrupted the Cardinal offense at every turn, applying consistentpressure on the ball and scoring 15 on the afternoon.

“Darren Collison played terrific on-the-ball defense,” UCLAcoach Ben Howland told The Chronicle after the game.“Our de-fensive intensity starts with him, and so does our intensity on of-fense.”

In part because of Collison’s pressure, Stanford senior pointguard Mitch Johnson, who was so sorely missed a week ago in theCardinal’s loss to Oregon State, committed six turnovers againstthe Bruins.

Goods was the only player to reach double-digits offensivelyagainst UCLA, scoring 15 points in 28 minutes and going 3-for-6from three-point range. Junior Landry Fields was the next mosteffective player for Stanford, even though he went 4-13 from thefield and had nine points in the game.

Collison, meanwhile, was joined by four other Bruins in dou-ble digits, as guard Jrue Holiday and center Alfred Aboya tied

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as 20 as the game wound down.“It wasn’t necessarily a thing of beauty,” said

Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer.“We did what we needed to,” Harmon added.For the first half, UCLA was able to largely

stymie Stanford’s attack, holding Appel scorelessand keeping all of the Cardinal out of double dig-its.While the Bruins didn’t fare much better offen-sively, they were able to establish a semblance ofrhythm with guard Erica Turkiainen.The junior hitall of her shots, including two from behind the arc,to lead all scorers at the break.At 25-23, the gamewas entirely up for grabs.

But the Cardinal came out strong in the secondhalf, and the defensive rotations that the Bruinsused effectively at the start of the game — whichwere predicated on hounding Stanford’s shootersand ball handlers — began to break down.

“We had a let-down in intensity,” said UCLAcoach Nikki Caldwell. “The defensive schemewent out the window.”

At the same time,the Cardinal’s aggressivenesspicked up.

“No one panicked,” Harmon said. “We neverwant to lose at home.”

In particular, Stanford ran the floor well, withHarmon asserting herself on the wing. She led allscorers with 17 points,many of which came in tran-sition, but her biggest contribution may have beenon the glass — she had seven offensive rebounds,which directly contributed to Stanford’s 20-6 sec-ond-chance points advantage.

“I believe that was the difference in the game,”Caldwell said in reference to the Cardinal’s offen-sive rebounding prowess.“The second opportuni-ties Stanford got shifted the momentum theirway.”

Harmon and Pedersen essentially played theentire game, with Pedersen contributing 13 pointsand nine rebounds of her own. Nine of her pointscame on three-pointers,as the sophomore forwardcontinues to develop her game.While she was usedalmost entirely as a power forward last season,Pedersen has begun playing small forward in 2009,allowing her to be more active on the floor.

“Kayla really helped us with her three-pointshooting,” VanDerveer said. “I like how Kayla’splaying the three.”

“I’m getting used to getting out and running,”Pedersen said.

With the 6-foot-4 Pedersen assuming her newrole, VanDerveer is able to go more often with abigger lineup, often inserting freshmen SarahBoothe and Nnemkadi Ogwumike to complementHarmon, Pedersen and Appel.

Ogwumike was particularly effective on Sun-day, recording a double-double with 11 points and10 rebounds.

Her presence was especially necessary in lightof Appel’s and Pohlen’s struggles — they com-bined to go 8-25 shooting and 0-7 from the free-throw line.

But VanDerveer was able to find a silver liningin their performances as other players stepped upto fill the void.

“It wasn’t Jayne’s A-game,”she said.“But if shedidn’t have her A-game a year ago, we were up acreek.”

Caldwell echoed her counterpart’s point.“They do a good job of balancing their attack,”

she said. “They have Batman, Robin and Batgirl.They have so many options on offense.”

While Pedersen and Ogwumike were valuablecontributors on Sunday,much of the credit went toHarmon for her relentless play on both offenseand defense. The senior veteran’s constant motorhas endeared her to the Maples faithful for years,and has earned her the praise of both her coachand her opponent.

“We need our team to be scrappy and aggres-sive,”VanDerveer said.“That’s Jill’s signature.”

“She is the glue to their team,” Campbelladded. “She stepped up offensively and was solidon the boards.”

With wins over USC and UCLA this weekend,Stanford is now 8-1 at the halfway point of its Pac-10 schedule.The women will face the Washingtonschools at home this weekend, and will have thechance for revenge against No. 7 Cal, who standone game above Stanford in the conference stand-ings after their Jan. 18 win over the Cardinal inBerkeley. The two teams meet again on Valen-tine’s Day at Maples.

Contact Wyndam Makowsky at makowsky@stan-ford.edu.

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SPORTS

No rush atthe

Super BowlThere was no way it was really

happening, was there? ThePittsburgh Steelers and Ari-

zona Cardinals, battling in a way thatwas more than a respectable follow-up to last year’s epic upset victory bythe New York Giants over the 19-1AFC Champion New England Patri-ots. It was a game that carried a magicall its own,that much is undeniable toany who watched it. But more thanthat, it was a game that carried itsown message.

Last year, the story was a simpleone — no matter how high-flying anoffense may be, no matter how manypoints it is capable of putting on theboard, so long as your defensive lineis simply better than their offensiveline, as the Giants’ DL was to the Pa-triots’ front that day, you can win.Simply stated, Tom Brady can’tthrow touchdowns to Wes Welker,Randy Moss,or anyone else if he’s onhis back.

This year, we were treated to thecorollary to that lesson: a great pass-ing attack may not be unbeatable,butman is it nice.

The Cardinals may have lost SuperBowl XLIII (that’s 43 to the non-Ro-mans among us), but if it weren’t forthe aerial assault of Larry Fitzgeraldand Anquan Boldin, orchestrated bythe master of the three-ring aerial cir-cus, Kurt Warner, it wouldn’t haveeven been close.And does anyone re-ally doubt that the Cardinals were ca-pable of scoring again, if only therehad been more time?

But in case you didn’t notice, theSteelers weren’t exactly a power rush-ing team in this one, either. Indeed, afranchise known for its legacy ofsmash-mouth football gained just 58yards on the ground, with a 2.2 yardsper carry average. The birds from thedesert weren’t much better, rushingfor just 33 yards on a slightly better 2.8yards per carry average.

No, what this year signaled wassomething much different from lastyear’s reminder that a good pass rushcan beat a good rushing attack. It sig-naled that you don’t need to be able torun the ball to be a great team any-more.

Really, we should have seen thiscoming.When is the last time a grind itout, power running offense won theSuper Bowl? True, balanced attacks,like those of the Patriots and Giants,have won recently. And pass-firstteams that can throw the ball, butaren’t the most effective rushing of-fenses, have both won and been incontention for winning it plenty in re-cent years.But ground-based attacks?Well, the last one of those to triumphwas probably the Ravens in 2000, andthat win was really due more to thestrength of their defense than to thelegs of Jamal Lewis.

So, really, this is a trend we shouldhave picked up on before. But some-thing was different this time around— neither one of these teams evenmade the pretense of relying on theirrespective rushing attacks in thisgame. No, this one was all about howhealthy Hines Ward was and whetherBen Roethlisberger was over his con-cussion. About how the Steelers sec-ondary would deal with All-WorldArizona WR Larry Fitzgerald, andhow Warner’s line would protect himfrom the Steelers rush that wouldsurely be coming for him. It was agame about the passing attacks andabout what the opposing defenseswould do to stop it.

How many times did we hear TimHightower’s name? Willie Parker’s orEdgerrin James’? Contrast that withthe quarterbacks, the receivers, thedefensive stars and you’ve got to won-der: where exactly did the run-firstphilosophy go?

It’s a question that might have Car-olina and Tennessee fans scratchingtheir heads right about now. Both haddominant rushing attacks and defens-es during the regular season. Neithermade its way to the game that reallymattered. It’s a question we might askRuss Grimm,Arizona’s assistant headcoach. Grimm himself is a formermember of one of the most famed of-fensive lines of all time, the Hogs,whopaved the way for the WashingtonRedskins ground game in the 1980s,and now he coaches an offensive linethat’s all about keeping its quarter-

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Senior Anthony Goods was the only Cardinal player to reach double figures (15 points) in a brutal 97-63 loss at UCLA. Withthe loss, which gives the Card a 3-6 Pac-10 record, Stanford’s hopes for an NCAA berth look grim.

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GAME NOTES: Stanford has dropped to ninth in thePac-10 with three consecutive losses. After a demor-alizing loss to UCLA in Los Angeles, the Cardinal looks to rebound on its home floor againstWashington State. Stanford lost to the Cougars inPullman, 55-54, but hopes to overtake redshirt seniorTaylor Rochestie (12.6 ppg) and his teammates thistime around.

Goods’ 15 points can’t savethe Card in crushing defeat

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Senior Jillian Harmon offered seven offensive rebounds in the Cardinal’s fouth consecutivevictory. Those O-boards helped Stanford outscore UCLA 20-6 on second chances.

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Men’s Volleyball

Stanford finds a second life

Women’s Swimming and Diving

A splash of confidenceBy ZACH ZIMMERMAN

DESK EDITOR

The Stanford women’s swimmingand diving team headed into theirlast home meet with a chance to putany questions about Pacific-10 Con-ference superiority to rest. Unfortu-nately for UCLA and USC, that isexactly what they did.

The No. 2 Cardinal (19-0, 6-0 Pac-10) continued its dominance on Fri-day by demolishing the No. 20UCLA Bruins 166.5-125.5.The meetat Avery Aquatic Center showcaseda multitude of Stanford’s talents.However, no story was more capti-vating than senior Caroline Bruce’sreturn from injury.

Bruce, a 13-time All-Americanand seven-time NCAA champion,competed on Friday for the first timesince the 2008 NCAA Champi-onships. Her time away from thewater did not appear to hamper herability, as she won the 100-meterbreaststroke for Stanford.

“Despite all the setbacks the pastcouple of years [Bruce] has had to gothrough, she pushed past all the ob-stacles and never lost her heart andpassion for the sport,” freshman An-gela Duckworth said. “I would loveto personally commend her for herpassion, commitment, and persever-ance to the sport of swimming.”

Junior Caroline Liu also compet-ed for the first time this season. Sherecorded points for the Cardinal witha second place performance in the200-meter backstroke,and led off for

Stanford’s “A” team in the 4x100freestyle relay.

Stanford looked very impressiveagainst the Bruins, recording firstplace finishes in the first eight eventsof the meet, and 10 of the first 11.

Moreover, the freshmen swim-mers for the Cardinal gained valu-able experience in the win over theBruins. Freshmen Betsy Webb andSam Woodward, along with Duck-worth, each won an individual eventfor Stanford, and the upperclassmenfollowed suit for the rest of the meet.

“Winning is such a great feelingespecially with the whole team be-hind you,” Duckworth said. “Wehave so much talent on the team,starting with the seniors all the waydown to the freshmen.”

Stanford diving also failed to dis-

appoint. Following the lead of stand-out junior Carmen Stellar, the Cardi-nal swept the 1-meter and 3-metercompetitions. Sophomore MegHostage followed close behind,recording second place finishes inboth diving events.

Saturday’s meet was a slightly dif-ferent story, as the Cardinal faced amuch tougher opponent in No. 12USC. The Women of Troy wereahead 116-110 after 12 events andpoised to upset Stanford at home.However, the Cardinal refused to letits most veteran swimmers lose onSenior Day, and had just enough inthe tank for a final push. Stanfordpulled away late to win the meet 163-137.

Stanford junior and Beijingmedal-winner Elaine Breeden ignit-ed Stanford with a victory in the 13thevent, the 100-meter butterfly. Fel-low juniors Kelley Hug and NilashaGhosh came in second and fourth,respectively, in the same race.

Most important for Stanford,however, was the sweep of the 200-meter individual medley, in whichOlympian and junior Julia Smit, out-standing sophomore Liz Smith, andBreeden finished first, second, andthird, respectively.

Stanford clinched the victory overUSC with a win by the “A” team inthe 400 freestyle relay.

The Cardinal victory would nothave been possible against USCwithout another solid performance

By JACOB JAFFECONTRIBUTING WRITER

There really is no place like homefor the Stanford men’s volleyballteam.

After starting the season witheight road matches, the No. 6 Cardi-nal (7-3, 3-2 Mountain Pacific SportsFederation) finally returned homethis weekend. On Friday night, infront of a raucous crowd in MaplesPavilion, the Cardinal engineered amassive comeback to edge No. 7Long Beach State in five sets — 26-30, 24-30, 33-31, 31-29, 15-8. In thethird set, it appeared the Cardinalcould get swept for the third match ina row, but the Stanford defense wasup to the task, and the Cardinalfought off all three match points byLong Beach State.

“Blocking has been a huge im-provement this year for us,” said jun-ior setter Kawika Shoji. “It was cru-cial down the stretch in fighting offmatch points on Friday. [Freshmanmiddle blocker] Gus Ellis had a greatblocking night.”

Ellis had a team- and season-high11 blocks in the match, and Stanfordhad 18.5 blocks overall, 7.5 morethan it had in its past two matchescombined (both losses).

The star performer for Stanford,though, was clearly outside hitterBrad Lawson. The freshman had 27kills, more than doubling his careerhigh of 13 kills, and nine more thanany other Stanford player has had allyear. He also had an ace, 11 digs andhit an astounding .438 for the match,including two kills to save match

points.Shoji summed it up best: “Brad

Lawson was phenomenal.”Head coach John Kosty mixed up

the lineup after two lackluster per-formances against USC and Pepper-dine, starting three players for thefirst time this season: junior outsidehitter Jason Palacios, freshman setterEvan Barry and senior libero JarodKeller. Lawson, Ellis, senior middleblocker Brandon Williams and soph-omore outside hitter SpencerMcLachlin joined the three newcom-ers for the first two sets.

Kosty hoped to provide a spark bysitting his All-American setter, jun-ior Kawika Shoji, leading diggerfreshman libero Erik Shoji and killleader junior outside hitter EvanRomero for nearly all of the first twosets. When the new starting lineupcould not get the job done in the firsttwo sets, Kosty inserted Romero andboth Shojis in the third set. With theusual starters back in the lineup, theCardinal had more of an edge to itsplay.

“I admit I was pretty fired up,”Romero told reporters after thegame.“It was one of those situationswhere you have no choice but to gofor it all.”

As the match progressed, the Car-dinal defense tightened, and LongBeach State’s hitting percentagedropped in each set from a high of.415 in the first set to a low of .111 inthe fifth and deciding set.The Cardi-nal offense, on the other hand, usedthe lineup change in the third set tocome back from poor hitting in thefirst two sets and outhit Long BeachState in each of the final three sets,culminating in a .667 hitting percent-age in the final set.

Coming off such a hard-foughtand emotional match, the Cardinalhad no time to rest. Saturday night, it

faced off against unranked MPSFfoe UC-San Diego in BurnhamPavilion in front of another wildcrowd.

The Cardinal dominated the firsttwo sets, winning 30-25 and 30-23, in-cluding a .548 hitting percentage inthe first set. But just when it lookedlike the Cardinal would easily sweepthe overmatched Tritons, Stanfordran into some problems, particularlyin serving.

“We got a little complacent aftertwo [sets], especially in the servingaspect of the match, and they tookthe momentum,” Shoji said.

This complacency and poor hit-ting opened the door for UC-SanDiego to take the third set,30-28.TheCardinal’s poor serving was bal-anced out by even poorer serving bythe Tritons,who had 25 service errorsto Stanford’s 16. This helped Stan-ford take the last set 30-28 — thefinal point of the match was fittinglya service error by UC-San Diego.

The Cardinal led the Tritons injust about every category, outhittingthem .361-.294, outdigging them 38-30 and outblocking them 12.5-6.Stanford was led by Romero’s 18kills and Kawika Shoji’s 52 assists.

The weekend was important forthe Cardinal after a poor start to theMPSF season.

“This weekend was huge for us,”Shoji said. “We needed to get twowins and stop the slide.We have goodmomentum heading into a toughweek.”

The Cardinal will head to South-ern California to take on MPSF pow-ers UCLA and UC-Irvine before re-turning home for matches on Feb. 13and Feb. 14 against Pepperdine andUSC, respectively.

Contact Jacob Jaffe at jwjaffe@stan-ford.edu.

“This just shows

that the team bond

is always present.”— ANGELA

DUCKWORTH,freshman swimmer

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the point guard’s 15 points. Mean-while, Josh Shipp added 11 andMichael Roll added 12 from off theUCLA bench.

Stanford now finds itself in a par-ticularly dire situation — ninth inPac-10 standings, ahead of onlyOregon’s 0-9 conference record. Atruly disastrous losing streak, begin-ning with the loss to the Beavers aweek ago Saturday, has put anyhopes of Stanford reaching theNCAA Tournament on life support.The Cardinal would need to go 6-3over its remaining nine conferencegames just to finish .500 in confer-

ence play.On the bright side for the Cardi-

nal, the team now has just five roadcontests remaining this year:against California, Oregon State,Oregon, Arizona State and Ari-zona. But this late in the season,that positive comes with the caveatthat the Stanford men could stilluse that statement road win to havea shot at convincing members ofthe selection committee that theydeserve a spot in the tournament.That, of course, assumes that Stan-ford is able to play well enoughdown the stretch to merit consider-ation.

“We know what the problem is— we’re not defending,” Goodstold The Chronicle. “We’re startingfrom scratch.”

The Stanford men will need to do

just that in order to be ready forWashington State and Washingtonthis week. The Cardinal faces theCougars Thursday night at 7:30 p.m.in a rematch of Jan. 10’s 55-54 heart-breaker in Pullman, which was a bigpart of the Cardinal’s current down-ward spiral.

The loss in Los Angeles was oneof the worst in Stanford history, andis tied for the program’s worst mar-gin of defeat in the last 16 years. Itwas a loss that head coach JohnnyDawkins told The Chronicle wasundoubtedly the worst of the yearso far.

“Usually, you can find some pos-itive,” he said, “but I don’t think weplayed well in any category.”

Contact Denis Griffin at djgriff@stan-ford.edu.

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by the divers. For the second day inthe row, Stellar and Hostage led theway for the team. Hostage set a sea-son-high score in the 1-m event, andStanford divers finished secondthrough fourth in the 3-meter.

The two wins this weekendmarked 18 consecutive Pac-10 dualmeet victories for the Cardinal. Theteam has now won 40 of its last 41head-to-head competitions and is a

constant presence atop the nationalstandings.

“As long as I have known aboutStanford swimming and diving, theteam has been strong,” Duckworthsaid. “This just shows that the teambond is always present due to thesuccessful, optimistic, and passion-ate women on the team.”

Stanford has a final Pac-10 dualmeet at Cal on February 14 beforeheading off to the Pac-10 Champi-onships in Washington on February25-28.

Contact Zach Zimmerman at zachz@stanford.edu.

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back upright.The Cardinals didn’t re-ally make much headway on theground this year — they were deadlast in rushing during the regular sea-son.

Whoever you ask, remember, therushing game certainly isn’t dead.You can tell because a good defensestill needs to be able to stop the run.But from all appearances, it may justbe on life support.

Denis Griffin just cried after looking atthe wide receiver and quarterbackcorps of his 49ers. Send him tissues atdjgriff@stanford.edu.

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