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By JOSEPH BEYDADESK EDITOR

The last time that the Stanford and USCwomens water polo teams met at AztecAquaplex in San Diego, the Trojans swamaway with a 10-9 victory over the top-seededCardinal in the 2010 national championshipgame.

But when the two squads met yesterdaywith another title on the line, No. 1 Stanfordwasnt going to let another title slip away.

The defending-champion Cardinal (26-2)got a late goal from senior driver PallaviMenon and 15 saves from junior goalie Kate

Baldoni to edge the Trojans 6-4 and captureStanfords third national championship inwomens water polo and 103rd overall. Bal-donis 29 saves to just nine goals allowed overthe tournament won her MVP honors, whileMenon capped her Stanford career withseven goals over the weekend.

We definitely have some bad memoriesfrom being here two years ago, but this group,this team has an incredible spirit about themand this amazing attitude, said head coachJohn Tanner. They were relentless today.

Neither squad led by more than a goal be-fore Menons bad-angle shot found the back

of the cage with just 1:11 left in the game.Menon and sophomore driver Kaley Dod-son each had two goals, with Trojan goalieFlora Bolonyai stifling Menon on a latebreakaway in the first half.

We were really frustrated with some ofour missed opportunities, Tanner said. Wethought 0we couldve gotten ourselves a two,three, four-goal cushion, and we just strug-gled to stay up by one. But Kate was ab-solutely phenomenal, and finally Pallavi withthat last goal to give us some breathing roomat a critical time.

Despite the adversity it faced in the finals,the Cardinals road to Sundays showdown

was a relatively smooth one. Stanfordopened its weekend with a 17-5 win over No.8 Pomona-Pitzer on Friday and a 12-3 victo-ry over fourth-seeded UC-Irvine in the semi-finals on Saturday.

Against the Anteaters, freshman AshleyGrossman had a hat trick while Menon andfreshman Cory Dodson each tacked on twogoals of their own, and the Cardinal held theAnteaters scoreless over a 12:56 stretch ofthe first half after they had taken an early 1-0 lead.

No students to be accepted from wait list following yield jump

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Junior goalkeeper Kate Baldoni was named the tournament MVP after she stopped 15 USCshots in Sundays national tit le game in San Diego. Baldoni and the Cardinal have now cap-tured two consecutive NCAA crowns.

National champions

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University braces forlarge incoming class

STUDENT LIFE

XOX plansmarch for

autonomyBy MARSHALL WATKINS

DESK EDITOR

Chi Theta Chi (XOX) residentsand members of the Stanford com-munity will march on the office ofthe Vice Provost of Student Affairsthis morning in protest of the Uni-versitys decision to terminate thehouses lease and in support of thehouses continued independence.

The [University] has repeated-ly ignored and evaded the residentsof Chi Theta Chi during the processof their takeover, said a Facebookevent page dedicated to the march.

The residents of Chi Theta Chiand all those in solidarity willmarch . . . to make their voicesheard.

According to the event page,which listed 85 attendees at thetime of publication, protestors willmarch on the office of Student Af-fairs and make a direct case for thehouses continued independence.

With a forceful and passionateturnout . . . we can show the Uni-versity that this cause will not goaway, wrote George Malkin 13, aformer XOX resident, in a post onThe Unofficial Stanford Blog.

Administrators first moved toterminate Chi Theta Chis lease onFeb. 8, citing pressing life safety is-sues, with the intent of assuming

control of the house on April 2. TheUniversity later postponed thetakeover until Aug. 31, when theannually renewed lease will expire.

XOX Alumni Board represen-tatives and University officials arecurrently close to an agreementthat will provide for joint oversightof the house for a minimum of twoyears.

XOX residents protested theUniversitys Feb. 8 announcementvociferously, disputing various ra-tionales put forward by administra-tors as grounds for the leases ter-mination and criticizing the lack ofnotice provided in advance of theannouncement. In subsequentweeks, a petition supporting thehouses independence gatheredmore than 2,000 signatures, and theASSU Undergraduate Senateunanimously approved a resolu-tion advocating the leases renew-al.

We believe the University isbeginning to understand why inde-pendence is critical to the housesunique character, thanks to the out-pouring of support from alumniand the community at large, wrote

UNIVERSITY

VPSA establishes mentalhealth advisory board

By ALICE PHILLIPSDESK EDITOR

After implementing 18 recom-mendations from a 2008 report oncampus mental health resources, theUniversity oversight committee onthe subject will now give way to anewly-created advisory board.Counseling and Psychological Serv-

ices (CAPS) director Ron Albucherand Associate Vice Provost for Stu-dent Affairs Sally Dickson will co-chair the advisory board, which isexpected to convene formally forthe first time this fall.

In 2006, Provost JohnEtchemendy Ph.D. 82 convened amental health task force, which wascharged with studying the campusclimate and culture surroundingmental health. The task force pub-lished a report in November 2008,which included 18 recommenda-tions that were to be implementedby an oversight committee.

Now that the recommendationshave been implemented, Albuchersaid the committee is no longer auseful body.

[The advisory board] will kindof take over from the oversight com-mittee and continue to keep mentalhealth, well-being, resiliency, even is-sues around substance use, all on thefront burner, if you will, so that wekeep refining what were doing andoffering to meet student needs, Al-bucher said. Well have studentrepresentation on that advisoryboard; well have faculty and staff aswell.

According to Albucher, the new

board will use the next few monthsbefore fall quarter to solidify itsmembership, making sure a broadspectrum of groups on campus arerepresented. The board will alsowork to clarify and cement its pur-pose, and its scope of inquiry.

The mental health advisoryboard is one of several such groupsthat report to Vice Provost for Stu-

dent Affairs Greg Boardman, in-cluding advisory boards on sexualviolence and alcohol use on campus.

One undergraduate and onegraduate student will sit on theboard, according to ASSU Presi-dent Robbie Zimbroff 12, who saidBoardman has asked him to recom-mend students for the posts.

I want kids who are going to be not just by resume good can-didates but also candidates who canconsider lots of sides of any issue,Zimbroff said. Were all for mentalhealth and wellness, but that doesntmean anything when its such a neb-ulous term. You have to be able tosee how things cut both ways.

Zimbroff cited as an examplethat when Resident Assistants(RAs) are trained to help studentswho are stressed or slipping throughthe cracks in getting support, there isa cost for the RAs as well that mustbe considered.

What are the implications of theRA, whos also a student, doingthis? he asked. Zimbroff himself iscurrently serving his second year asan RA in Ujamaa.

According to Zimbroff, he and

A Mothers Day tradition

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Dancers performed during the 41st annual Stanford Powwow heldat the Eucalyptus Grove. The powwow, sponsored by the Native

American Cultural Center, occurs every Mothers Day weekend.

By MARY HARRISONSTAFF WRITER

Due to a three percent increase from lastyears yield rate, the Class of 2016 will haveabout 50 more students than anticipated by theOffice of Admission.

Administrators across undergraduate de-partments are taking steps to accommodate thislarger entering class, including keeping Gavilanas an all-frosh dorm, hiring more Pre-Major Ad-visors (PMAs) and potentially hiring more Pro-gram in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) profes-sors and Thinking Matters teaching fellows.

Freshman class size has steadily increased

over the past three years from 1,675 to 1,709 to1,766 entering students, which is the current ap-proximation for the Class of 2016, according toDean of Admission Richard Shaw.

Right now, the count is 1,786 [students], butsome will withdraw over summer, Shaw wrotein an email to The Daily.

The class of 2014 and 2015 will also gain 27transfer students next year, according to Shaw.

Stanfords yield rate has been consistentlyincreasing from 64 percent in 2002 to this years73 percent rate.

Because so many students accepted their

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offer of admission, Shaw said thatall students who were placed onthe waitlist were released and ad-mission for the Class of 2016 is of-ficially closed.

Although Stanford StudentHousing was planning to convertGavilan in Florence Moore Hall

(FloMo) into a four-class dorm forthe 2012-13 academic year, the res-idence will have to remain all-frosh in order to accommodate thelarge freshman class.

FranCee Brown-McClure, stu-dent affairs officer for ResEd,wrote in an email to The Daily thatdorms in FloMo often changetheir class composition from yearto year.

FloMo is the type of dorm thatcan accommodate a wide distribu-tion of students depending on theneeds of that year, Brown-Mc-Clure wrote.

Brown-McClure added that al-though the number of incomingfreshmen will be higher next year,there is adequate residential staff

in place to meet their needs.In addition to the strain on stu-

dent housing, the office of Under-graduate Advising and Research(UAR) will also see effects of thelarger incoming class.

Freshmen are normally as-signed to Pre-Major Advisors(PMAs) in groups of four to sixother students. UAR has hired ad-ditional PMAs for next year inorder to maintain the intimate sizeof PMA groups.

In an email to The Daily, Deanof Freshmen and UndergraduateAdvising Julie Lythcott-Haims 89wrote that UAR is ready for theincoming class.

Luckily, our recruitment ef-forts this year already yielded the

largest number of PMAs ever, sowere in good shape on that front,

Lythcott-Haims wrote.Vice Provost of Undergradu-

ate Education Harry Elam wrotein an email to The Daily that UARis developing a new online advis-ing tool in addition to the PMAprogram. The new tool, calledProductive Pathways, wouldhelp freshmen select courses andmake sure they feel supportedduring their freshman year.

UAR has also been planning tohire two new Academic Directors(ADs), independent of the Class

of 2016 increased yield, as part ofan effort to bring the overall AD-to-student ratio down, Lythcott-Haims wrote.

Elam added that more PWRinstructors are needed, and thatthe new required freshman pro-gram, Thinking Matters, may haveto hire more post-doctoral fellowsto lead discussion sections in orderto maintain small class sizes.

Despite these necessary adjust-ments, administrators said theywere thrilled with the larger-than-usual size of the incoming class.

On top of the obvious things the academic excellence and in-finite possibility I imagine thegenuine affection we all feel forthe place comes through and mat-

ters to admits, Lythcott-Haimswrote about why the yield rate wasso high this year.

It is good news that Stanfordhas had such a strong response,Shaw wrote. The University hasthe capacity to manage this over-age.

Lythcott-Haims added thatthere is only one potential prob-lem with the freshman class sizeincreasing.

In UAR, we love freshmen, sothere is no such thing as too manyof them, except to the extent wecant fit them all in MemAud, shesaid, referring to New StudentOrientation events held in Memo-rial Auditorium.

Contact Mary Harrison at mharri-son15@stanford.edu.

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Abel Allison 08, president of theAlumni Board, in a March 12email to The Daily.

In recent weeks, residents havebeen much more muted in their

protests. According to GeraldHanono 12, XOX house manager,the shift was prompted by requestsfrom administrators and theAlumni Board to create a lessstrained atmosphere for ongoingnegotiations.

However, as details of the pro-posed resolution emerge, resi-dents and supporters have re-turned to a more vocal posture inan effort to more directly conveytheir displeasure with the settle-ment. Protest organizers singledout an alleged lack of clarity onhow the house can regain its lease,as well as the loss of XOXs singu-lar autonomy under joint over-sight, as particular sticking points.

Residential and Dining En-

terprises and the Vice ProvostsOffice have continuously dis-played a fundamental lack of un-derstanding of [XOXs] culture,Malkin wrote. XOXs culture isrooted in its independence.

Event organizers have alsosought to portray the debate asone with implications beyond ChiTheta Chi, arguing that the deci-sion to let the lease expire is simplya manifestation of sustained Uni-versity efforts to homogenizeresidential life.

We ask you to stand with us(literally) to show . . . that Stan-ford is one community, that the in-

justices faced by one house affectus all, the event page read.

Following an all-campus break-

fast at Chi Theta Chi at 9 a.m. onMonday, marchers will depart for theoffice of Student Affairs at 9.30 a.m.

Contact Marshall Watkins at mt-watkins@stanford.edu.

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Trailing for the first time in thetournament, the Cardinal grabbeda 7-2 halftime advantage with a 6-0run over that same time period, andthe squad was perfect on its threepenalty shots and went 6-for-10 onthe power-play to advance to thefinal.

USC scored 5:12 minutes into

the game to take its only lead, butMenon struck back with a power-play goal just 33 seconds later.Freshman Kiley Neushul, theMPSF Newcomer of the Year,added her third tally of the week-end to grab a 2-1 advantage forStanford.

Each team tallied in the finalminute of the first period, but theback-and-forth affair gave way to ascoreless second frame that sawboth goalies make key saves andseveral Trojan shots bounce safelyoff the goal post.

The Trojans drew even a minuteinto the second half, but Kaley Dod-son responded with a goal of herown just 10 seconds later to grab a 4-3 lead for Stanford. A minute into

the final period USC tied the gameagain, and yet again it was KaleyDodson who came up in the clutchwith a power-play goal at the 4:13mark that would end up being thegame-winner.

Then it was up to Menon to sealthe deal in the final minute and ahalf.

I had taken that lob earlierfrom five [meters], and I waspleased with it, so I just fired it inand really just threw it as hard as Icould, she said. I saw a little open-ing, and I was so happy. I lookedback and the first person I saw wasKate, out to her waist, so excited. Itwas great to see that energy from

everybody.The Cardinals senior class of

Menon, driver Alyssa Lo, driverCassie Churnside and defenderMonica Coughlan was instrumen-tal in setting the tone for the repeatchampions all season long.

Theres so much vitality, Tan-ner said. Usually the seniors arelooking at grad school or their ca-reer, and the freshmen add the en-ergy. Our freshmen did have awhole lot of energy, believe me, butour seniors are every bit exuberant,and that really is uncommon in my

experience.And while the seniors contribu-tions were certainly remarkable,Stanford will likely be the odds-onfavorite to win a third straight na-tional championship next season.Along with a strong class of in-coming freshmen, the Cardinalwill get back junior Annika Driesand senior Melissa Seidemann,who both redshirted this season inorder to train with the U.S. Nation-al Team before this summersOlympics.

After the game, Menon wasasked how strong the Cardinal willbe next year despite the absence ofher fellow seniors.

Oh my gosh, unstoppable,she said. Theyre only getting bet-

ter. Im so excited to watch this teamflourish, theres so much talent.

Until the 2013 campaign,though, Stanford can be contentwith the teams third national title.

What Ill remember is just theexcitement that these guys createdevery workout, every chance to bearound each other, Tanner said.Were looking forward to the factthat were not flying home until to-morrow. We get to spend anotherevening together.

And whats even better theyget to spend it with a brand new tro-phy.

Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@

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NEWS BRIEFS

Study finds learning outlook

affected by environment

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Students outlook toward learning is stronglyinfluenced by their environment, according to a

recent study co-authored by Stanford psycholo-gist Paul OKeefe.The study, published online in the journal Mo-

tivation and Emotion, divides motivation forlearning into two distinct categories: mastery andperformance. Students who learn for mastery areinterested in developing new skills for their ownsake, while those who learn for performance arefocused on displaying their abilities to others.

Psychologists tend to favor mastery-orientedlearning since it emphasizes being motivated in-trinsically and seeking out new challenges. Mostschools, however, focus on performance-orient-ed learning, since students must demonstrateknowledge to others on tests and exams.

OKeefe along with his fellow researchersAdar Ben-Eliyahu of the University of Pitts-burgh and Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia of DukeUniversity sought to explore the effects ofbeing exposed to environments that favor mas-

tery-based learning.We know a mastery environment is great,OKeefe recently told the Stanford News Serv-ice. We know mastery goals are great. Study

after study shows this, so what we wanted to ex-amine was how a purely mastery-oriented envi-ronment affected goal orientations and whetherthese changes would endure when people re-turned to less ideal learning environments.

The researchers surveyed a group of eighth-to tenth-grade students three times over a nine-month period. These students were asked if theyagreed with statements that aligned either with

mastery- or performance-oriented learning, suchas Its important to me that I learn a lot of newconcepts in science or One of my goals is toshow others that Im good at science.

In the first survey, taken while participantswere still in school, students scored high in per-formance-oriented learning. By the time of thesecond survey, however, students were placed ina mastery-oriented environment a summerenrichment program and their responseschanged accordingly.

The largest surprise, according to the re-searchers, occurred six months later when thestudents took a third survey. Students had re-turned to school, but they continued to scorehigh for mastery-oriented learning.

The studys authors concluded that these re-sults suggest that mastery-oriented environ-ments have a lasting impact. According to O-Keefe, the study indicates that teachers and em-

ployers should take steps to foster a mastery-ori-ented environment.

Kurt Chirbas

Committee formed to select

Law School dean

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Provost John Etchemendy has established acommittee to assist his search for a new Stan-

ford Law School dean. Current Law SchoolDean Larry Kramer will leave the post on Sept.1 to become the president of The William andFlora Hewlett Foundation.

The committee, chaired by Law ProfessorMark Kelman, is charged with evaluating can-didates and advising the President and Provostabout the candidates through an unranked list.Candidates currently at Stanford as well as out-side candidates will be considered, according toa Stanford Law School press release.

Kelman will be joined on the committee byVice Provost for Academic Affairs StephanieKalfayan, Professor of History and Political Sci-ence Jack Rakove, Law School faculty mem-bers Rick Banks, Juliet Brodie, Dan Ho, PamKarlan and Mark Lemley, alumna MichelleGalloway 87 J.D. 89 and current student TeddyKider J.D. 12.

Members of the Law School community can

contact the committee with their input byemailing deansearch@stanford.edu.

Alice Phillips

ASSU Vice President WilliamWagstaff 12 are talking to studentgroups that deal with mentalhealth and wellness on campus aspart of their search for candidates.

Its the toughest thing to dealwith on campus when a peer dies,Zimbroff said, referring to the re-

cent deaths of student-athlete SamWopat on March 25 and juniorEnglish major Cady Hine on April1. I didnt know Sam or Cady, andits weighed on me . . . There needsto be dialogue about how you dealwith loss in a community and howyou respond to issues of mentalhealth on a university campus.

Zimbroff emphasized thatthese conversations should takeplace throughout the campus com-munity and not just in Senate oradvisory board meetings.

Two execs and 15 senators arenever going to represent the un-dergraduate body completely, hesaid. Were individuals, and whenit comes to an issue like this, I thinkthis is one where more participa-

tion rather than more representa-tion is probably a good thing, hav-

ing people talk about this in theirdorms to their friends.

He added that the dialogue sur-rounding mental health needs tobe a continuing presence on cam-pus beyond individual conversa-tions or initiatives.

I dont think you have a ducksyndrome conversation, and thenyou check it off and you move on,he said, referencing the well-known phenomenon in which stu-dent stress or anxiety is masked bya deceivingly serene appearance.

Zimbroff said he would like tosee the mental health advisoryboard address issues such as ducksyndrome and other academicmental health issues, directly inlight of the Study of Undergradu-ate Education at Stanford report.

Zimbroff cited one example ofacademic-related stress as theregimented curricula of 100-plus-unit engineering majors, as com-pared to his 63-unit history major,in which students dont have theflexibility to figure out [their]passions.

Having a really honest discus-sion in that area is something thatworks in conjunction with SUES,he added.

Contact Alice Phillips at alicep1@stanford.edu.

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A2008 article in the Times High-er Education supplement stat-ed, School libraries are suf-fering, and even closing, as re-sources are cut, staff rede-

ployed and the Internet deemed moreimportant to learning than printed mat-ter.

Such a trend, however, has not materi-alized at Stanford, according to AndrewHerkovic, director of communicationsand development for the Stanford Li-braries.

[The idea of] the end of the library

turns out to be completely untrue at Stan-ford, Herkovic said. We have not seenany net decrease [in users] over the yearsin each of the libraries, and I dont thinkwe will.

Of the 20 libraries at Stanford, GreenLibrary is the most widely used, especial-ly by undergraduates. According to ChrisBourg, assistant university librarian,Green has averaged over 600,000 visitorsa year over the last five years.

According to Hoover Library librari-an Paul Thomas, most undergraduatestend to use Green Library. He added thatfewer students use our collections be-cause [theyre] more geared towardscholars and graduate students.

Nevertheless, according to NickSierkierski, exhibits and outreach co-co-ordinator at the Hoover Institution, the

Hoover Library does not lack under-graduate visitors. He cites the presenta-tions and tours that he organizes for un-dergraduates, particularly for primarysource materials used in classes in theProgram in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR)and Structured Liberal Education(SLE).

The libraries perform different func-tions on campus. Hoover Library, accord-ing to both Thomas and Sierkierski, isused primarily for primary source re-search, while Green and Meyer Librarieshave more multifunctional roles.

Herkovic pointed out that many stu-dents do work at Green Library andMeyer Library that they could also do in

their dorm rooms or anywhere else.[Students] choose to come to the li-

brary because its the conducive place, itsthe fitting setting for doing their researchand study and secondary reading, hesaid.

He held that the library provides a cer-tain atmosphere rather than just being arepository of books.

People do everything, most of thehuman functions with the exception ofeating [in the library] . . . theres studyand homework and sleep and love, hesaid.

Not surprisingly, the Stanford librari-ans report that the number of students in

the libraries increases tremendously dur-ing the last few weeks of the quarter.

It ebbs and flows, towards the end ofeach term, we tend to see more students;towards the end of the year, we tend to seemore students, Thomas said.

Although the possible demise of the li-brary has sometimes been closely linkedto the increase in the digital availability ofinformation, the Stanford librarians dis-agree that libraries may become obsolete.

I think its a complementary thing,Sierkierski said. You still need librariansand archivists and specialists that really

know their way around the information toguide people to those places, so I think if

anything having our stuff available onlineleads people to come here.

Herkovic noted the increasing role ofthe library on the web.

The libraries spend many millions ofdollars a year paying for subscriptionsand online services, Herkovic said. Inthat sense, we become more and more im-portant to how people get and use infor-mation but we may be less visible doingit.

The mediation that libraries have al-ways provided is still very much at play ina different form, he added.

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SNAPSHOT

Library use steady in uncertain times

By CATHERINE ZAWSTAFF WRITER

Pardonu min . . . ?u vi parolas Es-peranton? isEsperanto forExcuse me, do

you speak Esperanto? Whilemost people will not understandthis phrase, the language was cre-ated to be a universal tongue.

In 1887, L. L. Zamenhof de-signed Esperanto as the univer-sal language in an attempt tobreak down the linguistic and cul-tural barriers that prevent cross-national conversations. In Za-menhofs ideal world, everyonewould continue speaking his orher native tongue, but speak Es-peranto as a second plannedlanguage as a way to communi-cate with all people.

Stanford offers a free drop-inclass called Conversational Es-peranto, the International Lan-guage on Tuesdays from 6:30p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Bechtel In-ternational Center. Students cantake the class for two credits aquarter through the Linguistics

Department. The class websiteguarantees that, following course-work requirements, students andcommunity members will learn thelanguage within a year.

Even four lessons are enoughto get more than just the basics,the Esperanto at Stanford websitereads.

The teacher of the class goes bythe name Trio, explaining that EdWilliger, his given name, just does-nt work in some languages.

Trio is short and is pronounce-able, and as of right now, I haventhad any sort of problem with it, hesaid.

He is reluctant to call himself ateacher, but since he has beenteaching the class for 21 years, he

guesses that he is a teacher justbecause hes been doing it for solong. Trio teaches voluntarily andhas been on the Stanford campusteaching Esperanto at the same lo-cation and time for the last 21years.

Five students, ranging fromyoung undergraduates to olderalumni fill the small back room atthe Bechtel International Centerfor his class, which begins with acultural discussion as well as Es-peranto music of all genres

from rap to rock.One of the students in the class

is Julie Spickler 62, who started tolearn Esperanto in the summer of1994 in a 10 lesson course. By fall,Spickler had finished the class andher teacher urged her to come tomonthly meetings of the local Es-peranto community in San Fran-cisco to converse with other Esper-antists.

I didnt want to go at first be-cause I thought it would be too dif-ficult, Spickler said. But myteacher said to try it . . . youll findit is easier than you think . . . andsure enough I could understandhalf to three quarters of what theothers were saying after just study-ing four or five months on my ownwithout hearing anyone speak it.

She brought a book to class,Konciza Etimologia Vortaro, aconcise etymological Esperantodictionary, explaining that Es-peranto is rooted in multiple lan-guages. Mostly, Esperanto borrowsfrom Romance languages becauseof Zamenhofs own background.

He was very idealistic andlived in a town in Poland underRussian rule where there werefour or five language groups whichwere not always friendly to eachother, Spickler said. He decided

that to help decrease misunder-standings, they needed a commonlanguage. Though its true a com-mon language doesnt preventconflict, it definitely helps.

Spickler has been attending theStanford Esperanto class for thepast 10 years and says that thenumber of students in the classfluctuates widely. According toher, some students come in foronly a few classes and then leave,thanking everyone for helpingthem learn Esperanto so quickly.What she finds curious is that newstudents come in periodically, butthe new male students never seemto meet the new female studentsbecause they come in at differenttimes, a trend that Trio also noted.

We tell the guys, Oh yeah, girls

take this class. There are girls thatspeak Esperanto. You just neversee them, Trio said. This hap-pens all the time its a running

joke among us old farts.Trio is a computer consultant

who uses Esperanto almost everyday. He said that he sometimesplays online Go, a board game thatoriginated in ancient China, withother Esperantists around theworld.

Esperanto is my politicalwork, Trio said. I believe in the

ideals of it, and I believe thateveryone can work together ifeveryone decides to keep Es-peranto as a common language.

Esperanto really levels every-one out, since we all come in on thesame ground, having it as our sec-ond language, he said. There areonly a few native speakers of Es-peranto, but they dont dominate.

Native Esperanto speakers arethose born into families that speakEsperanto and acquire the lan-guage from childhood.

Trio became interested in Es-peranto when he was studying eco-nomics in the 1970s. He had want-ed to live in China, Sweden andYugoslavia but realized that hewould have to learn quite a few dif-ferent and difficult languages.

While reading the book One Lan-guage for the World by Mario Pei,Trio first encountered Esperantoand thought that it might solve theobstacle he was facing.

According to Trio, the Esperan-to community around the worldforms a unique and global bond.

When the war in Yugoslaviabroke out, I had stayed with Esper-antists, who also took in other Es-perantists who needed shelter,Trio said. You wouldnt just dothat with someone else if you both

spoke English. Samideanothats what we call each other. Ittranslates to same idea person,but what it means is that were onthe same planet on the same level.

One of his other memorable ex-periences with the language waswhen he applied for citizenship inHungary, and Esperantists trans-lated the application for him.

Esperanto is the most widelyspoken invented language in theworld. While no definitive number

of Esperanto speakers exists, theBBC reports between 500,000 andtwo million speakers worldwide. Ithas a national organization that setslinguistic standards and is the onlyinvented language for which speak-ers can be certified. Many musicallyrics and works of literature fromdifferent languages have beentranslated into Esperanto for theEsperanto-speaking internationalcommunity to enjoy. For example,Trio finds the Winnie the Pooh Es-peranto translation fantastic.

At Stanford, Scott Parks 13 co-founded the Esperanto Club.Parks became interested in learn-ing Esperanto during the summerbetween his high school senioryear and his freshman year, findingit really, really easy.

We decided we wanted tomake a student group with thelocal Esperanto community andwe have been meeting since then,Parks said.

Although many of the clubmembers were interested in Es-peranto, many were also interestedin what Parks called conlinging,or constructive languages.

So we changed our focus toconlinging and linguistics in gener-al and are working on learningMandarin specifically this quar-ter, he said.

Parks noted that the local Es-peranto community is strong butaging. According to him, not

enough members in the studentcommunity or the younger genera-tion are engaged in the effort tolearn and spread the language.

Esperanto isnt doing as wellas it was 20 years ago, he said.But it isnt going to die out any-time soon either it still has aninternational standing. Esperantogatherings . . . are still goingstrong.

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My planner is packed, and itsone of my biggest crutches.I would argue that every-

thing inside is technically importantbecause I cant miss that meetingand I cant forget that event. Butwhen I stop and breathe, I slowly re-alize something, and only now in

my last quarter at Stanford. Ivebeen squeezing productivity likepulp from every hour and droppingmuch larger concerns. For fourfrenzied years, Ive been research-ing corruption in Italian govern-ment, the nuclear situation inNortheast Asia and religious neo-colonialism in Africa. But only re-cently did I realize that its the mid-dle of May, and I havent yet re-sponded to my grandfathers email the brief, but really loving one hesent me, in January. This is not myidea of good time management; Imafraid of the girl letting this happen.

This may be college, but we havepeers saying, I dont know who Imbecoming anymore. This is thepilot for the mid-life crisis threaten-

ing us 20 years from now. Melodra-matic, but Im serious. Already, inthis supposedly non-real worldworld, lists and lists of things to dothreaten to blur our bigger picture,at which point we ask, Wait, whatthe hell am I doing this for? Its anissue of accidental worship, inwhich we idolize things we nevermeant to, and lose track of what wemost meant to pursue. Micro versusmacro; we dont need to graduate tosee the tension.

Relationships can epitomize this.Were on a campus that parties, soflippant hook-ups play their rerunsevery weekend. Most of theseepisodes arent award-winning life-changers. But as we get caught in amindless routine, sometimes they

take the face of it. Living in our short-term time frames, sometimes wecant help but go with the flow. Lastweek, this week, next week . . . after awhile, late-night calls melt into theo-retical commitments the kindthat just happen because no oneaccepts it, but no one rejects it.

Most of us will admit, though,that were looking for someonewho goes all-in for us on purpose.Most of us want to be with someonewho consciously decides the same.But thats a broader ideal, one thatwe keep pushing to the side formore instant gratification. We havea definite knack for keeping busywith cheap charms, while holdingoff on matters of the heart. Its ro-mantic procrastination, but it stingsbecause its also self-compromising.We forget what we actually wanted.We get distracted.

Interestingly, the same goes forour relationship with our money.The seed for this column was actu-ally planted when some friends andI started discussing what our fi-

nances would look like post-gradu-ation. Someone mentioned omi-nously that the way we use ourmoney five years from now hasprobably already been set by ourhabits right now. I was slightlyfrightened. In the future, I want tochannel most of my money to peo-ple other than me, and I dont wantto be reckless with spare change.Thats how I live now, though, at aschool that already provides mostof my needs. Im selfish with mymoney.

Another person close to metried to reassure me by saying Icouldnt possibly be so idealisticthis far out anyway, since I wasntearning income or facing real obsta-cles yet, which is true. Currently, I

dont feel any real financial heat.But from here, a safe distance frommy future self, I wouldnt trust my-self to keep exception from becom-

ing precedent. As I grow up, Ill goon trips; Ill have a wedding; Illhave kids; Ill retire. And I couldshelve my biggest priorities everytime.

It sounds like Im projecting, butIm not so sure. I wasnt preparedfor college graduation in a month,either. Perhaps stronger than theforce of time is the beguiling natureof habit that makes us forget timepasses at all. ITS WEEKWHAT?! we say. At a school witha cornucopia of resources, opportu-nities and amazing events, our ulti-mate temptation is to drown in a lifeof breathless details.

Personally, the most obviousmanifestation of tabled priorities isthe curiosity about the existence of

a god. So many people are curious,letting themselves consider thattheres more than just this. So, if itspossible to push an issue of thatscale aside, all manner of other val-ues can be forgotten ideal love,good finances, the person we aspireto be, everything. Tomorrow nevercomes, which makes postponingour greatest intentions a dangerousgame to play.

I want to live in the moment, tobe sure. I just didnt foresee gettinglost in it.

These days, Nina is trying to tonedown her incessant email-checking.But if you email her, she wont leaveyou hanging. So go for it! At ninamc@stanford.edu.

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By now, many on campushave read Ken AulettasNew Yorker piece titled

Get Rich U. The article raisesmany interesting questions, themost fundamental askingwhether Stanford is too inter-twined with Silicon Valley.

Among students, the answer tothat question depends on whomyou ask. For many students, Stan-fords links to Silicon Valley ben-efit humanity through innovationand entrepreneurship. Others,though, believe that such closeties to industry conflict with theUniversitys mission to promotean environment where studentsand faculty can pursue scholar-ship without regard for profit.

Both sides of the debate havemerit. The Founding Grant, whileestablishing for the Universitysefforts to be directed at the culti-vation and enlargement of themind, also directs it to promote

the public welfare by exercisingan influence on behalf of human-ity and civilization. In both re-spects, Silicon Valley deservesmuch praise: Innovations andwealth developed in the Valleycontribute to academia and im-prove humanity in a myriad ofways. At the same time, regard-less of which educational philoso-phy you prefer, certain aspects ofSilicon Valley are troubling forthe University and its students.

Whereas a universitys aim isthe pursuit of knowledge, thispursuit is only the aim of industryif the knowledge is profitable. Itshould come as no surprise that,until recently, the record yearlyenrollment for CS106A was atthe peak of the dot-com bubble in1999-2000. Then and now, somefraction of the increase is due tostudents pursuing the field forprimarily monetary purposes. Al-though this indictment is not par-ticular to computer science other majors have students in itfor the money the proximityof Stanford to Silicon Valley am-plifies this effect. Not only dothese students diminish enroll-ment in the less profitable aca-demic fields they leave behind,but they have the potential to cor-

rupt the culture of computer pro-gramming. This may help explainthe Brogramming phenome-non, where machismo and a focuson short-term riches overshadowgenuine innovation.

Furthermore, given howcourses in CS show a general biastoward professional training, theintellectual beauty of the fieldcan become overshadowed bythe message to harness the disci-pline for profit. Classes likeiPhone and iPad ApplicationProgramming and Startupabound and are some of the morepopular offerings in the major.Though many regard these sub-

jects as harmless, some of the stu-dents taking these classes are fo-cused more on the potential pay-out than an intellectual immer-sion into computer science. Crit-ics find CS183 (Startup), taughtby Paypal mogul Peter Thiel, par-ticularly troubling; Thiel viewselite universities as highly over-valued, and two years ago hestarted a program that paid stu-dents to drop out of college andstart companies.

There are other ways in whichacademic pursuit is influenced byindustry. Online education, for in-stance, is widely considered one ofthe next frontiers of technology; asPresident Hennessy said recently,it will change the world and wehave to embrace it. While weagree that online education will betransformative, we are not as con-vinced of his second claim. One ofour previous editorials argued

that an overemphasis on technol-ogy can diminish the quality of ed-ucation. Universities, then, shouldbe wary of technologys role forthe future of education, not blind-ly embracing it. At Stanford, how-ever, there is a profound conflict ofinterest in this debate. Two start-

ups leading the online educationfield, Coursera and Udacity, haveco-founders who are currentlyStanford professors. There is spec-ulation, at least with SebastianThruns (Udacity) class on Ap-plied Machine Learning last fallquarter, that the courses rigor wasdiminished to cater to the onlineaudience. We fear that other pro-fessors who volunteer their cours-es for online education startupswill feel similarly pressured toalter their courses, especially if afaculty member down the hall hasa major stake in the venture.

In short, one is not hardpressed to find ways in whichStanfords close link to SiliconValley may negatively affect theacademic environment. Turningnext to students who look toleverage their Stanford educa-tion to improve humanity, we seethat Silicon Valleys ideal of beinga hotbed of productive innova-tion with which to profoundlybetter the world is not alwaysmet. As tech-journalistHermione Way wrote in 2011,Everyone [in the Valley] is doingsomething amazing and trying tochange the world, but in realitymuch of the technology beingbuilt here is not changing the

world at all, its short-sighted anddesigned for scalability, big exitsand big profits. Although thereare VCs and incubators devotedto social entrepreneurship, thecurrent cash flow seems largelycomprised of investments in so-cial media companies. There isnothing inherently wrong withsocial media, but far too often thenext app or website seems to addlittle real value and instead seemsfocused on drumming up hype tosecure a large exit, Instagram-style. The lure of this pipeline in-evitably draws talent away frommore productive ends, both in theValley and outside it.

Of course, one could just aseasily point out that without Sili-con Valley, entrepreneurshipwould not be as popular at Stan-ford. Or that without the moneythat wealthy donors with ties tothe Valley provide, funding forless lucrative programs in the hu-manities and arts would decrease.But while Silicon Valley mayoffer unique benefits to the Uni-versity, these come at a high cost.Since Silicon Valley and our PaloAlto campus are here to stay,Stanford should consider the in-fluence that Silicon Valley canhave on both its academic andutilitarian pursuits and remaintrue to its mission to further high-er learning without entirely aban-doning the spirit of innovationfound in Silicon Valley. By betterbalancing these concerns, we willmore closely follow the foundingvision of Mr. and Mrs. Stanford.

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Micro, macroNinaChung

The Alternative ReviewProcess (ARP) is a judicialreview system used by Stan-

ford in cases of sexual misconduct.Over the past few weeks, there hasbeen a great deal of debate aboutwhich standard of proof should beused in the ARP. While it is easy toidentify two sides in this debateand to pit them against each other,

such a strategy oversimplifies theissue. The interests of the victimare not, as one might assume, dia-metrically opposed to those of theaccused. This is not a zero-sumgame between the accused and theabused; instead, the interests ofthese two groups complementeach other.

According to numerous stud-ies, there are three reasons whymost sexual assaults go unreport-ed. The first is that many victimsblame themselves for what hap-pened and feel too ashamed to talkto authorities. The second reason isthat victims want to avoid relivingthe incident. Before we discuss thethird reason, it is important to un-derstand a few things about the

ARP. Two years ago, when it cameinto effect, the ARP implementeda variety of reforms which make iteasier for victims to approach au-thorities. These changes were ef-fective: initial figures suggest thereforms led to a substantial in-crease in reporting of abuse to au-thorities. The changes made by theARP, however, do not tell us any-thing about how the standard of

proofimpacts ones willingness tocome forward, since Stanford onlyrecently changed the standard ofproof used by the ARP. For its firstyear, the ARP operated using be-

yond a reasonable doubt. Stanfordswitched to preponderance of the

evidence(PoE) during the ARPssecond year. Current data does notsuggest that the switch to PoEmade it easier for victims of abuseto come forward. To the contrary,we have reason to believe theswitch will actually decrease therate at which victims will reportabuse. To understand why, we canlook to the third reason why vic-

tims do not report abuse.The third reason victims do notreport sexual assault is out of fearthey will lose the respect of theirpeers that they will be perceivedas troublemakers and blamed forharming the reputation of theirabuser. The standard of proof in sex-ual assault cases does impact thisreason in that it affects the extent towhich women experience stigma.One might be tempted to think alower standard of proof would de-creasestigma by increasing the rateat which the accused are foundguilty, legitimizing the claims of thevictim. We contend that a lowerstandard of proof will actually makethings worse for victims. The stigmaexperienced by victims of abuse

does not depend simply on the ver-dict in a judicial affairs hearing, butis also impacted by the legitimacyand credibility of the process.

A standard of proof is only asstrong as its minimum require-ment. The conviction of a man whois unquestionably guilty is no morelegitimate than the conviction ofsomeone who barely passes thePoE threshold. This means thateven in clear cases, a woman whoreports abuse will face doubt andscrutiny from her peers and willsuffer the emotional distress thatfollows. Hence, even when shewins, she loses. The abuser will begone, but the stigma will remain.

Worse still, the incredulity now haslegitimacy, since rational peoplecan, and indeed should, by defini-tion, harbour a reasonable doubtabout the validity of the outcome.

But theres more to it. PoE cer-tainly makes it more likelythat anaccused man will be found respon-sible for sexual assault, but it doesnot guarantee such an outcome. We

have shown that a lower standardmakes a conviction less believable.A corollary is that a lower standardmakes a finding of innocence muchmore believable. If a person isfound innocent at the loweststan-dard of proof, then he would cer-tainly have been found innocentunder a higher standard. Since weknow that people shun negativeoutcomes more than they desirepositive ones, the impact is that thenumber of women who will comeforward as a result of the lowerstandard will be outweighed by themuch larger number of womenwho will now be deterred fromcoming forward for fear of the ac-cused being proclaimed innocent.Since the standard is much lower, a

woman who loses a sexual assaultcase is now much morelikely to beseen as a troublemaker.

Choosing a standard of proof isabout balancing the rights of thevictim and the rights of the ac-cused. Thus far, student debateshave placed the rights of thesegroups in opposition to each other.It is our hope that students and ad-ministrators will recognize that therights of these two groups are in-terdependent, and that the pre-

ponderance of the evidencestan-dard is harmful to everyone

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TWO TRIUMPHS AT TAUBE

By DAVID PEREZSTAFF WRITER

The No. 5 Stanford womenstennis team took the first steptowards a third straight NCAAtournament finals matchup bydefeating Stony Brook and Yaleat home in the first two roundsof the tournament. Stanfordnow travels to Athens, Ga.,where it will likely face multiplePac-12 teams, including the onlyteam to have beaten the Cardi-nal all year, top-seeded UCLA.

Fourth-seeded Stanford (20-

1, 9-1 Pac-12) shut out bothStony Brook and Yale 4-0 overthe weekend, setting up a third-round match with Northwest-ern on Thursday in Athens.

The last time Athens hostedthe NCAA tournament in 2010,Stanford defeated Florida in thefinals. Then-sophomore Mallo-ry Burdette, a Georgia native,won the deciding match in frontof most of her family and along-side her sister Lindsay Burdette,who was playing her last matchas part of the Cardinal.

I obviously love going backthere, said Burdette, who willbe hosting team dinners at her

familys home in Athens. Allmy family will be down there,and its a fun place to have theNCAA tournament.

Stanford also won theNCAA tournament when it washosted in Athens in 2004 and2005 and was the runner-upthere in 2007.

Playing in her hometownmay also help Burdette forgetabout her heartbreaking loss inlast years finals on the Farm.Burdette was again the lastplayer on the court, but this timeshe lost in three sets to Floridas

Lauren Embree as the Gatorsclinched the title.

Three current Cardinal play-ers competed in the NCAA fi-nals in 2010 and 2011: seniorVeronica Li, junior Stacey Tan,and Burdette. That experiencewill be important for the Cardi-nal, especially because it will befacing some familiar foes. Thesquads match with Northwest-ern is a rematch of last yearsthird round contest, which Stan-ford won 4-2. Stanford lost thedoubles point and was down 2-1at one point before winning

By DASH DAVIDSONSTAFF WRITER

The No. 11 Stanford mens ten-nis team booked its ticket to Geor-gia for the Sweet Sixteen of theseason-ending NCAA tourna-ment this past weekend with twowins on its home court at the TaubeFamily Tennis Center. The Cardi-nal defeated Sacramento State 4-0on Saturday afternoon in the firstround and beat Santa Clara 4-1 inSundays second round.

Because they were held oncampus, the first two rounds of theNCAA tournament evokedpainful memories of last yearsSweet Sixteen loss to No. 1 Virginiaat Taube, but these two solid victo-ries surely helped to push those oldmemories out of mind. They wereboth complete wins, showing offthe depth and quality of the ever-changing Stanford lineup.

The Cardinal dominated Satur-days win from beginning to end in

the kind of easy victory that hasbeen a foreign quantity to the teamas of late. The doubles tandems ofDennis Lin and Ryan Thacher andBradley Klahn and John Morris-sey each crushed their Hornets op-ponents 8-1, securing the crucialfirst point of the match.

Singles play featured a lot of thesame one-sidedness. The three sin-gles matches that ended up count-ing had a cumulative final score of36 games for Stanford to just fourfor Sacramento State. A good dealof momentum was built in Satur-days dominant first-round winheading into Sundays matchupagainst the upstart Santa ClaraBroncos.

Santa Clara, seeded No. 39 and

appearing in its first NCAA tour-nament, upset higher seeded Texason Saturday and charged into itssecond-round match against Stan-ford with a large following of bois-terous crowd support. In Sundaysmatch, the Stanford crowd wasgiven the challenge of matchingthe flock of Broncos supporters.

The crowd was huge today,said sophomore Daniel Ho. SinceSanta Clara brought a decentcrowd themselves it was very im-portant for us to match them incheering . . . At one point in dou-bles, we actually missed a shot butthe crowd was so loud that the refwas intimidated and overruled the

Santa Clara call.Every single point in the three

doubles matches proved pivotal, asthe matches were incredibly close.The team of Lin and Thacher fell 8-6 in the first doubles match, whichwas soon canceled out by Klahnand Morrisseys 9-7 win on courttwo, putting the pressure of thefirst point on the shoulders ofsophomore Jamin Ball and fresh-man Robert Stinemann. The twounderclassmen came up clutch in atight, back-and-forth match, ulti-mately winning 9-8 in a tiebreakerto give Stanford momentum and a1-0 advantage heading into singlesplay.

[The doubles win] was defi-nitely crucial, Ho said. SantaClara came out with a lot of ener-gy. Winning the first point shutthem down and gave us energy togo out in the singles and get off to agood start.

Singles play did indeed get offto a good start for Stanford, behind

straight-set wins on courts one andfive from Klahn and Ho that putthe Cardinal on the brink of victo-ry. After a loss by Thacher on courttwo, freshman John Morrissey

By JOSEPH BEYDADESK EDITOR

The No. 12 Stanford baseballteam entered the weekend withmajor questions on the mound,slumbering bats and an unimpres-sive 11-10 record in a conferencethat it was once a near-unanimousfavorite to win.

It leaves the weekend with threedominant pitching performances, arevitalized lineup and a sweep ofWashington State behind it.

The Cardinal (32-14, 14-10 Pac-12) tried some new things againstthe Cougars (24-23, 9-14), and theypaid off tremendously in the third-

to-last weekend of conference play.Star hitter Stephen Piscotty tookthe mound for his first career pitch-ing start on Saturday, and Stanfordgot some of its biggest contributionsat the plate from a pair of under-classmen sophomore DannyDiekroeger and freshman DominicJose who saw nearly no playingtime at the start of the season.

Weve had some guys who had-nt got a chance to play early reallycome in and [make] a difference forus and help us win some games,said head coach Mark Marquess.Thats really going to serve us wellas we go down the road, [getting]contributions from a lot of guys.

Though none of the teamsabove the Cardinal in the Pac-12standings made a major misstep thisweekend, the squad has climbed tofourth in the conference and is with-in striking distance of third-placeUCLA (15-9) and second-placeArizona (16-8). Conference-leaderNo.10 Oregon (18-8) won the firsttwo games of its series against USCand will remain three and a halfgames ahead of Stanford if it finish-es off the Trojans tonight.

But a Cardinal team that losttwo very winnable games at Ore-gon State last weekend will take thesweep nonetheless.

Nearly 4,000 fans showed up forFireworks Night on Friday, but bothteams offensive sparks took awhile to materialize. Washington

State righty Tanner Chleborad heldStanford scoreless into the fifth andjunior ace Mark Appel allowed

only six Cougar hits.Five of those hits were of the

extra-base variety, however, andsenior rightfielder Derek Jones sethimself up to score the first run ofthe game when he doubled offAppel to lead off the fourth. Appelstruck out the next batter but theball got through to the backstop,putting Jones in position to score on

a groundout by senior second base-man Tommy Richards.

There were a lot of two-strikehits, which usually I try to beardown [on], Appel said. They weresitting on off-speed pitches with twostrikes, and we figured that out afterthe fourth inning or so and startedpitching backward . . . It seemed tobe effective.

Appel was dominant with twostrikes the rest of the way, punchingout 10 for the fifth time this season.Stanford erased the one-run lead inthe fifth inning, getting two straighthits to lead off the frame beforeDanny Diekroeger made it 2-1 witha bases-loaded single.

Washington State got a runnerto third in the sixth after anotherleadoff double and a passed-ballstrikeout, but Appel escaped the in-

ning with his seventh punchout ofthe night. Two straight doubles fromfirst baseman Brian Ragira andrightfielder Austin Wilson in thebottom half of the frame extendedthe Cardinals lead to 3-1.

That insurance run would comein handy in the eighth, when thePac-12s leading home-run hitter inCougar junior Taylor Ard sent a

solo shot sailing over the left fieldfences. Though Washington Statemounted an eight-run comeback totake in its series opener againstStanford a year ago, the Cardinalheld on to its lead this time aroundto win 3-2.

Getting that Friday win is hugefor the weekend, Appel said. Itkind of sets the tone, and its verytough to come back, down 1-0, andwin the series.

Stanford was still unsatisfiedwith its dipping production at theplate, though, as the Cardinal hadput up five runs or fewer for thethird straight game. The squad hasonly lost once when scoring morethan five runs.

We hit some balls hard today[but] didnt quite put up the runs wewant, Danny Diekroeger said Fri-

day night. Weve just got to keepbringing it and hopefully the batswill pick up.

And pick up they did on Satur-day, when the Cardinals 15 hitswere more than enough to take theseries in an 8-3 victory. But the storyof the afternoon was Stanfordspitching, not its slugging.

Piscotty (3-2), making his firstcareer start after several successfulrelief appearances this season, daz-zled on the mound by giving up justone earned run in 6.1 innings. In themeantime, he compiled a three-hit,two-walk day at the p late through five innings, he had allowed

just three baserunners and reached

base three times himself.We hadnt tried Piscotty [as a

starter], and obviously he was fan-tastic, Marquess said. He didntthrow many pitches, and he kind ofdoes it all for us.

The Cardinal broke the gameopen with two outs in the third.Danny Diekroeger doubled andPiscotty walked before a Ragirasingle opened the scoring, and athree-run shot from Wilson hisninth home run of the season made it 4-0.

Piscotty singled to lead off thefifth and was pushed across on atriple by freshman third basemanAlex Blandino, but the Cougarsquickly got that run back on a sixth-inning double by Jones.

Junior shortstop KennyDiekroeger responded by leadingoff the bottom half of the sixth witha full-count double. Jose singledhim home and later came around toscore on a sac fly by DannyDiekroeger, increasing the lead tosix runs.

Two unearned runs by Washing-ton State in the seventh made it 7-3and forced Piscotty from the game,but redshirt sophomore lefthanderGarrett Hughes easily finished offthe last 2.2 innings, striking outthree and improving his team-lead-ing ERA to 2.21. A sac fly by juniorcenterfielder Jake Stewart was icingon the cake for the Cardinal, whichclinched its fifth Pac-12 series win of

the season with the victory.

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Sophomore Danny Diekroeger had at least one RBI in all three gamesthis weekend, solidifying his position in the lineup at designated hitterand second base and propelling Stanford to its second Pac-12 sweep.

Please see BASEBALL, page 6

Like Momalwayssaid...

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n honor of Mothers Day, itseemed fitting to talk aboutmy own mom this week.Growing up, my mom had somany roles. On the weekends,

she was a soccer mom. She droveplayers in her minivan, made theteam banner, cheered from the side-lines, brought us snacks at halftimeand even used her own limited soc-cer expertise to help as assistantcoach. She was the ideal supporter ofmy soccer career (as well as myequally rewarding baseball and bas-ketball careers) despite the fact thatI showed about as much athletic tal-ent as a gum wrapper.

And I loved it. Sports have beenmy life for as long as I can remember,and I found a way to enjoy sports thatI sucked at. I loved playing eventhough Ive always despised exercise,and I would have a good time eventhough I was almost always on anawful team (it took until my third

year of playing soccer for my team towin a game). Sports were just what Iwould do besides school.

The only thing that caused mecomplaints was my aforementionedhatred of exercise (seriously, its theworst), but I never really thoughtmuch of it until my mom began toquestion some of my coaches fortheir methods. She would tell meabout how youth sports used to bemore about just kids having fun withless emphasis on being ultra-compet-itive. I know this might sound lame,but were talking about eight yearolds in a recreational soccer league.You get a trophy no matter what.

From then on, I started reallynoticing how intense people getabout kids sports, and its not a prettysight. Parents get thrown out ofgames for screaming at officials, play-ers who have yet to reach middleschool get verbally abused by coach-es at the slightest error, and for what?For a first-place ribbon instead of asecond-place ribbon?

Of course, the goal of many par-ents is to give their child the best shotat becoming the next LeBron James,Lionel Messi, Andrew Luck or Al-bert Pujols (minus 2012). You cantwait until youre 18 to become NovakDjokovic or Tiger Woods, so kidshave to start young to have a shot atbeing an elite athlete.

The problem, though, is that youknow these athletes names becausethere are so few who get to that level.

What about the 99.9 percent of kidsout there playing youth sports? Arewinning is everything and your bestis not good enough really the mes-sages we want to be sending our kids?

Naturally, competitiveness factorsinto sports, and its good to be com-petitive up to a certain point. Butkids will be competitive on their ownwithout those messages beingdrilled into their heads by adults.What kids cant do on their own isput their latest Little League game inperspective. If your coach tells youthat losing will ruin your life, then itsgoing to ruin your life, at least for awhile. And if you think this problemends when kids reach middle schoolor high school, just take a look at theproblems in college and professional

sports.Some of the big issues in sportsright now can be traced directly to theattitudes ingrained in kids throughyouth sports. Football is dealing withproblems from blows to the head andunnecessarily violent play. Baseballhas had to deal with the whole steroiddebacle. Basketball is seeing most ofthe top players skipping their educa-tion, or at least blowing it off, in orderto make money now. Think about it: Ifyoure told to win at all costs as a six-year-old and every week of practicefrom then on, why wouldnt you dowhatever possible to get ahead?

Then again, its definitely a two-way street. If youre growing up idol-izing athletes that hit players in thehead and take illegal substances and

skip college for the money, its hardnot to want to follow in their foot-steps.

There will always be hypercom-petitive kids with dreams of being aprofessional athlete who view youthsports as the first step on their path tostardom. But for the rest of us, youthsports are about having fun the wayonly kids can. And I just hope by thetime I have kids, theres still some funleft to be had in sports.

Jacob Jaffe isnt afraid to admit hes amommas boy. Send some of yourown Mothers Day stories to jw-jaffe@stanford.edu and follow himon Twitter @Jacob_Jaffe.

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Freshman John Morrissey may bemaking his first NCAA tournamentrun, but he was pivotal againstSanta Clara on Sunday, earning athree-set singles victory to clinch aStanford win in the second round.

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Senior Mallory Burdette will return to her home state of Georgia asthe Cardinal begins the Sweet Sixteen this week. Last time the Cardtraveled to Athens, Ga., it won the 2010 national championship.

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three straight singles matches.Last year it was a battle, Bur-

dette said. But we know what toexpect of them this year, and Ithink we are ready for sure.

It is very likely that Stanford

will then play two conference op-ponents if it advances. The top fourteams on the Cardinals side of thebracket are all from the Pac-12.

Stanford could potentially playUSC in the quarterfinals, a teamthe Cardinal defeated 4-2 in theregular season.

If that should occur, Stanfordwould then be in a position toavenge its only loss of the season,which came April 14 at homeagainst UCLA. The Bruins havethree freshmen that play singles,meaning half of their players haveno postseason experience.

UCLAs relative youth couldhelp explain its regular seasonmeltdown, which saw the Bruinslose to USC in a match that would

have secured a share of the Pac-12title.

They have not responded wellunder pressure, especially at theend of the year, Burdette said.

Still, Stanford will be the under-dog if it could make it to the semi-finals, a position the team has cometo relish.

Weve proven throughout the

year that we play best when werein that position, said Burdette.

The Cardinal dominated thisweekend as the heavy favorites.On Friday, the squad defeatedStony Brook, recipients of theAmerican Easts automatic bid.Stony Brook had only five healthyplayers, forcing it to forfeit a pointand giving Stanford a chance togive some extra rest for Tan, who isrecovering from several lingering

injuries.On Saturday, the Cardinal de-

feated Yale behind strong per-formances from its top three play-ers, sophomore Nicole Gibbs, Bur-dette and Tan. Gibbs was the firstto finish, winning 6-0, 6-1, followedby Burdette who won 6-1, 6-3. Tanfinished off the Bulldogs with a 6-4,6-1 victory over freshman HannahYu.

Yale was a step up in competi-tion for us from Friday, and I thinkwe handled it really well, Bur-dette said.

Next weekend will no doubt beanother step up in quality, but oneBurdette is confident the team candeal with.

Weve put in a lot of hard work

over the course of the year, andwere really excited to get toAthens and show what were madeof.

Stanford meets Northwesternon Thursday in Athens, Ga. at 9a.m. PDT.

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There was still work to be done

on Sunday, however, and one gamein the highly competitive Pac-12could quite possibly mean differ-ence between hosting a Super Re-gional and having to go on the roadat the end of the season.

Enter redshirt junior lefthanderBrett Mooneyham, who has beenstruggling over the last month andmissed his start last weekend withthe flu. Making his first appearancein a series finale this season,Mooneyham got out of a bases-loaded jam in the first inning andturned to his defense to make sev-eral huge plays: a leaping grab byBlandino to strand a runner atthird, two acrobatic catches in deepright from Wilson that inspired astanding ovation and a diving stab

by Piscotty in left field to save a run.Wilson also nailed a runner at theplate to help quash the Cougarsfirst-inning rally.

Mooneyham pitched well on hisown part, going seven scoreless in-nings and striking out three.

I ironed out some mechanicaldifficulties; with the week off I wasable to really focus on them, hesaid. Im not really where I want tobe yet, but [I took] a good step in theright direction today against a teamthat has some weapons.

Ragira gave him an early cush-ion with a leadoff double in the sec-ond that turned into a 1-0 lead on aSmith single. With the bases loadedand two outs, Stewart sent a shot toleft that was caught at the wall, justfeet from a grand slam.

As it turns out, Mooneyhamwould get that grand slam in hisfavor just a few innings later. AfterDanny Diekroeger singled home asecond run in the fifth, the Cardinalput runners at second and third inthe sixth and Washington Stateelected to intentionally walk KennyDiekroeger in favor of Jose.

We have this deal where pitch-ers who are on the bench each get abomb card each game, and throw itonce, Mooneyham said. And I

threw mine on that at-bat becauseDoms been hitting well in battingpractice and stuff, and hes probablygetting some confidence now, get-ting a start this weekend. He mademe look good.

Jose ripped the fourth pitch in re-

lief from Spencer Jackson over theleft-field fences his first careerhome run to all but guaranteeMooneyhams sixth win of the sea-son, his first since March 25.Mooneyham had compiled fourstraight losses since that victory overUSC.

Stanford has a great shot at con-tinuing its push up the Pac-12standings next weekend at Utah(13-34, 7-19), the only team in theconference with a sub-.500 recordbesides the 22-23 Trojans. Beforemaking the trip to Salt Lake City,the Cardinal will host San Francis-co at Sunken Diamond at 5:30 p.m.on Tuesday.

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Stanfords Friday win at stanford-daily.com.

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closed out the match with a three-set victory on court four to sendStanford to Georgia to competefor its 18th NCAA championship.

Ho, for one, thinks that the Car-dinal is ready for all the competi-tion that awaits in the final fourrounds of the NCAA tournament.

I think tennis-wise we arepretty well prepared. We just haveto try to stay focused on the goal,he said.

For Stanford tennis, that goalinvariably is an NCAA champi-onship. The Cardinal is now in po-sition to compete for that goal,starting at 1 p.m. PDT on Fridayagainst No. 6 Kentucky.

Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@stanford.edu.

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