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Thirty-three transfer studentsreceived offers of admission thisyear out of a pool of more than1,500 applicants, according to Assis-tant Director of Admission KateShreve. This years 2.2 percent ac-ceptance rate is nearly half of lastyears 4.1 percent rate, when 58 ofabout 1,400 applicants were admit-ted.

We reduced the transfer admittarget by 20 given the higher thanexpected freshman matric[ulation]rate, wrote Richard Shaw, dean ofundergraduate admission and fi-nancial aid, in an email to The Daily.

According to Shaw, 17 of thetransfer students are from commu-

nity colleges, while 11 are from four-year universities and five are inter-national.

We did see an increase in thenumber of applications for transferadmission this year, Shreve said.However, due to the diverse na-ture of the transfer applicant pooland its relatively small size, it is diffi-cult to characterize the pool as awhole and to describe how it differsfrom year to year.

Nonetheless, Shreve said shethinks transfer students differ fromstudents admitted during regularadmissions in some ways.

While we do seek many of thesame qualities in transfer studentsas in freshmen, [such as] a strong ac-

ademic record and intellectual vi-tality, there are also some differ-

ences, Shreve said. With transfers,we look for students who are aca-demically mature and prepared to

jump into Stanfords rigorous cur-riculum mid-stream. We also have astrong commitment to our U.S.Armed Services Veterans and tostudents with non-traditional edu-cational backgrounds.

Shaw added that the transfersare a different population with dif-ferent kinds of experiences and per-spectives. We believe the transferperspective does add to the am-biance of the campus and in theclassroom.

Transfers bring various uniquebackgrounds that diverge fromthose of the typical Stanford stu-

dent who comes to campus directlyafter high school. For example,

Emma Wood 14 transferred lastyear from Williams College afteralso spending a year in Italy and Ar-gentina.

This time was not only produc-tive for academic growth, she said,but was also a way to develop herpassion for food, wine and tangodancing.

Even though not all transfer stu-dents belong to the same graduat-ing class, they still form their ownsense of community, Wood said.

Transfers participate in theirown version of New Student Orien-tation, and this year, most transferstudents live in Kimball Hall orPaloma in Florence Moore Hall,making it easier for transfers to

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Bike crashhighlightshelmet use

By ERIN INMANSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Stanfords Bicycle Program, inconjunction with the Departmentof Public Safety, is working to im-prove traffic control and conges-tion on campus by installing bike-specific stop signs and ridingguidelines on the roads. Two re-cent bicycle-related accidents,however, contribute to this exist-ing call for increased focus onbiker safety and responsibility,according to those involved.

Stanford undergraduateAnna Polishchuk 15 was hitbroadside by a car while bikingon Monday, May 7. Polishchuk

hit the windshield of the car,which was going about 10 milesper hour through an intersectionby Florence Moore (FloMo)Hall. She was thrown uncon-scious two car lengths away intothe bushes.

I was biking home from thedining hall, and then I find myselfwaking up on the ground, Pol-ishchuk said.

Despite the severity of hercrash, Polischuk escaped withminor injuries because she waswearing a helmet.

Stanford undergraduates arenotorious for not wearing hel-mets, and this reputation has notgone unnoticed by Stanford hos-pitals emergency department

(ED), according to Robert Nor-ris, the ED doctor who treatedPolischuk.

I told her she could not be aStanford undergrad because shewas actually wearing a helmet,Norris said.

Polishchuk heard similar com-ments from more of the ED staff.

I was shocked by their shockat my wearing a helmet, Pol-ishchuk said. It was unsettlinghow amazed they were.

Norris commented on thevalue of wearing a helmet.

This $20 investment [the hel-met] saved her life. Period, Nor-ris said. Without the helmettheres no doubt in my mind thatshe would have been an organdonor or dead upon arrival.

The University has been try-ing to fight the stigma behindwearing helmets.

According to Ariadne Scott,bicycle program coordinator, theBicycle Program under theumbrella of Parking and Trans-portation Services (P&TS) continues to offer resources suchas a New Student Orientation

By NATASHA WEASERDESK EDITOR

Graham Brown, director of the Center for De-velopment Studies at the University of Bath,warned against generalizing regional conflicts as

caused by one factor, such as religion or nationality,during a talk Tuesday morning.

Brown said that individuals he called identityentrepreneurs often frame conflicts in terms of re-ligious and national identity so that they can mobi-lize support for their cause. According to Brown, thisis a problematic phenomenon because people face arange of overlapping and intersecting identities toframe their struggle.

Looking at the dynamics of conflicts in Asia,when it comes to a choice between selecting a na-tional versus religious identity, there is a payoff ma-trix, Brown said, referring to the main theme of hispresentation. His talk focused on local conflicts inSoutheast Asian regions, such as the Aceh region inIndonesia, the Sabah region in Malaysia and theMoro National Front in the Philippines.

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ASSU seeks to fill Univ. committee spotsBy JULIA ENTHOVENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The ASSU Undergraduate Senate ad-dressed Tuesday a pressing need to form an in-terim commission to solicit applications, inter-view and nominate student representatives formore than 40 University committees before aJune 1 deadline.

Senators described the process as notideal, tough and even shitty during theirsecond full-length meeting in office.

Nanci Howe, director of Student Activitiesand Leadership (SAL), expressed concernabout the administrations frustration with theASSUs perceived incompetency if it cannotmeet the deadline for nominations.

The last three to five years, the ASSU hasbeen late every year, Howe said. Particularlythe Board of Trustees and the Faculty Senate[are] quite unhappy with the performance ofthe ASSU . . . I worry about the credibility ofASSU as an organization.

Senate Chair Branden Crouch 14 said that

the 13th Senate told this years NominationCommission (NomCom) that the commissionsresponsibilities were going to be dissolved atthe end of this academic year. As a result, theSenate did not recruit new NomCom membersafter the commissions term ended.

The premature anticipation of the previousASSU Senate may have been due to an expec-tation that an updated ASSU Constitution, de-veloped by the Governing Documents Com-

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Stanford students and community members attended a panel Tuesday evening titled, Activism: What Can You Do? The event was part of the2012 Undocumented Students Teach-In at which speakers and panelists talked about obstacles and opportunities for undocumented students.

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Graham Brown, the 2012 Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellow at Stanford, spokeTuesday afternoon on the Global Dynamics ofCulturalized Conflict in Southeast Asia.

By BRENDAN OBYRNEDEPUTY EDITOR

Akash Dube, a freshman fromDubai, died Friday, May 11, due tocomplications from acute lym-phoblastic leukemia (ALL). TheArroyo resident spent most of win-ter and spring quarter in StanfordHospital and the M.D. AndersonCancer Center in Houston, Texas.

He was a really strong, reallyenthusiastic, extremely resilientkid, said Lena Potts 12, Dubes res-ident assistant in Arroyo. He was ahuge member of this community,

even though he was only here for afew months.Dozens of friends posted on

Dubes Facebook page followingnews of his passing, expressing theirgratitude for being able to get toknow him.

I have always been so amazedby the way you care for other peopleand the way you take such genuineinterest in the lives and feelings ofothers, wrote Austin Block 15. Itsso easy to see why we all love you.

You were never here for onlyone quarter, Akash. Youve beenhere ever since the fall, as a part ofthe Arroyo family, and will alwaysbe in our hearts, said Janhavi Var-tak 15.

Even after his leukemia re-

turned, Potts said Dube remainedupbeat.He was still strong. He was the

same little Akash; he was still strongand hopeful, she said. He alwaysreally believed [in himself]. That wasone of the best things about him.

When I saw Akash in the hospi-tal he was not only smiling and opti-mistic, but his primary concern wasto make sure that I was entertainedand not hungry, said Adam Gold-berg 15, a fellow Arroyo resident.If youre battling cancer, andyoure preoccupied with the com-fort of your guests, it really justspeaks to how amazing of a person

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bond in the dorms.There is definitely a transfer

community, and its really wellmixed, Wood said. I think therecan be this fear that transfers will

group off according to where theycame from, but theres no segrega-tion along those lines.

Wood said she doesnt feel asmuch of a connection with the Classof 2014 even though she is technical-ly a sophomore, feeling closer tothose in her academic classes.

I feel like were in this interest-ing place where were betweenbeing a freshman in some senses,and being practically graduated inothers, said Jesse Clayburgh 13,who transferred from a communitycollege in San Francisco.

Aside from this sense of separa-tion from ones graduating class, thetransfer experience has its own chal-lenges. Ronaldo Esparza 13 trans-ferred after two years at a communi-

ty college in Miami.Youre not sure what yearyoure in, Esparza said. For exam-

ple, I was in community college fortwo years, but that doesnt mean Imnecessarily a junior.

It all depends on what classesthey accept, he added. That way,its good to have people from differ-ent grades that you can identifywith.

Stanfords learning environmentwas also distinct from what Esparzawas accustomed to at his former

school.At community college and othercolleges, you have to work by yourselfand ace a test, Esparza said. Here,you have to work together to be suc-cessful. The challenging part is that it isnot only way more difficult [academ-ically] than my previous college, butyou also have to live and develop yoursocial skills.

Wood also said that she had toadjust to Stanfords active socialscene after coming from an institu-tion where academics seemed to bethe schools only focus.

The Office of UndergraduateAdmission hopes to continue tomake these transitions manageablefor incoming transfers through pre-established programs like New Stu-

dent Orientation.We remain deeply committed totransfer students and look forward

to welcoming a vibrant and diversetransfer class to the Farm in thefall, Shreve said.

Contact Sarah Moore at smoore6@stanford.edu.

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Brown is the 2012 Lee KongChian National University of Sin-gapore (NUS)-Stanford Distin-guished Fellow at Stanford. Thefellowship is awarded to onescholar annually to conduct re-search at both Stanford and NUSfor up to six months.

During his talk, Brown warnedagainst legitimizing or misinter-preting the goals of certain groupsof separatists, citing the Filipinogroup Abu Sayyaf, which he callspirates and war profiteers.

He emphasized the need to dis-tinguish between greed and griev-ance as causes for conflicts.

Many times conflicts are notreally caused by religion, but thenit turns out to be in the process, hesaid. People invent causes andframe them into their identities.

As a researcher, Brown saidone of the fundamental problemsis how social scientists conducttheir research in the field.

Political scientists and schol-ars working on religion face theproblem of re-labeling religious

conflicts, which feeds into narra-tives that become accessible togroups [involved in the conflict],he said.

Citing ethnic conflict in SriLanka, Brown argued that schol-ars such as Samuel Huntington in-correctly labeled the Sri Lankanconflict as a religious one, and thusgave identity entrepreneurs theopportunity to manipulate their

literature.Brown further argued the idea

of a relationship between de-mand and supply and identity,stating that not all of these identitynarratives stick.

Attempts to Islam-ize theFree Aceh movement fall on deafears, he said. There is somethingabout the nature of Acehneseidentity that is strong and cohe-sive. People know what it means tobe Acehnese, and Islam is part ofthe project, but jihadization isnt.

He contrasted this example

against that of the Moro NationalFront in the Philippines, which hesaid is a relatively new and delib-erately put-together bunch of eth-nic groups, and therefore there is ademand for more of a jihadizedidentity.

Donald Emmerson, director ofthe Southeast Asia Forum at theWalter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacif-ic Research Center, provided afew comments at the end of thetalk.

Even though he agreed withmost of the points presented, Em-merson noted, Identity is not aclinical choice and people canidentify with multiple identitiesand have a choice.

I am interested in Islam in

Southeast Asia and the idea of Eu-rarabia and whether or not there isa globalized connection of radical-ized Islam, said audience mem-ber Jane Miller Chai 60.

The talk was ambitious, but Ifelt that the idea of Eurarabia wasnot spelled out clearly, she added.

Contact Natasha Weaser at nweas-er@stanford.edu.

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(NSO) program on bicycle edu-cation for freshmen, free bikesafety classes offered twice amonth for the entire campuscommunity and a bike safetyweb page. Additionally, the pro-gram tries to increase helmetusage by collaborating withP&TS to offer discounted hel-mets.

Despite these resources,much of the campus continues tobike without helmets, and whena collision does occur, accidentprotocol can get hazy.

Last month, a fellow in theStanford Department of Pathol-ogy, Ellen Yeh, was crossing thestreet as a pedestrian betweenSerra Mall and the Main Quad

when a bicyclist hit her.I saw him coming really fast,stopped to let him pass, Yehsaid. He swerved into me fromthe front, and I fell onto my back.Both my arms hit the ground.

A witness had called 911, butYeh refused the ambulance, asshe didnt suspect bad injury.

Yeh reports that the bicyclistwas unapologetic and claimedthat he had the right of way.

According to Scott, bikersshould yield to pedestrians onshared paths.

Upon noticing swelling andpain in her arms, Yeh went to theER, where she was informed of

three fractures in her arms, twoin the left arm and one in theright.

You can get really hurt bygetting hit by a bicyclist, Yehsaid. Its not trivial its dan-

gerous.Yeh said her injuries havecompromised her ability to per-form daily functions, as well ascaused her to postpone her med-ical research trip to Thailand.

Theres a hazy part to beinghit by a bicyclist rather than acar, Yeh said, in reference to dif-ficulties in contacting the bikerwho hit her and the reluctance ofpolice to get involved.

The police say theres noreason for them to be involved,and I cant force him [the biker]to talk to me, Yeh said.

I just want him to realize hisspeed, safety and be somewhatcompassionate . . . which is hardto achieve with a bike accident

apparently, she added.To reduce accidents in the fu-ture, bicyclists must get in themindset that they are driving,Scott said. They should be pre-dictable and visible. Bicyclistsshould be 100 percent focused onriding their bike.

Finally, to reduce the traumaassociated with said accidents,Norris encouraged helmet usage.

Ive seen too many youngadults cut off in the prime of lifefor not having a helmet, Norrissaid.

Contact Erin Inman at einman@stanford.edu.s

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Caterpillar outbreak

prompts night spray

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

In response to an outbreak ofoak moth and tussock moth cater-

pillars, Buildings and GroundsMaintenance sprayed oak treesaround Crothers Hall, BrannerHall and Toyon Hall Tuesdayovernight.

The diluted Conserve solutionused on the trees should help pro-tect them from the furry visitorsthat have already caused trees nearCrothers to lose a significantamount of leaves. The Universityimplemented this solution twoyears ago, but the caterpillar popu-lation has continued to spike duringspring.

The spray will provide aid tomore than just oak trees, accordingto an email sent out to residents ofthe affected houses.

Pedestrians also typically do

not enjoy having the caterpillarsdrop down on them as they walkby, so benefit from this treatmentprogram as well, wrote Craig Har-bick, Crothers Hall front desk co-ordinator.

The spraying is part of the Uni-versitys integrated pest manage-ment system implemented thismonth, which aims to address thisseasonal phenomenon of the cater-pillar outbreak on campus whilecausing minimal damage to the en-vironment.

The caterpillars are a devastatingnatural threat to the local oak trees,according to a pest control notice onthe Student Housing website. TheUniversity has created a map ofwhich oak trees will be treated.

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retail and affordable

housing structure

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

After rigorous debate, the PaloAlto City Council voted 7-2 onTuesday to approve the construc-tion of and rezoning for a newgateway building on the corner ofLytton Street and Alma Street ac-cording to an article in the San JoseMercury News.

The three-story, 50-foot-tallbuilding would include officespaces, retail and a 70-foot-tall cor-ner tower. These approved plans area reduction of the initially plannedfive-story building, followingmonths of debate between PaloAltos planning commission andLytton Gateway LCC.

The negotiations also require thenew building to make space for 14affordable housing units.

While the council officially ap-proved moving forward with theprojects construction, speakers atthe council meeting raised issuessurrounding a possible parkingstrain. Many argued that the build-ings location would only contributenegatively to the existing traffic con-gestion problem due to a reductionof parking space.

In response to these claims, thecouncil also approved Vice MayorGreg Scharffs proposal to allocatesome of the funds behind the build-ings affordable housing project tothe issue of parking and traffic con-gestions. The $2 million in questionwould potentially go toward a park-ing garage for city use, but details

are yet to be confirmed. Ileana Najarro

you are.Diagnosed his senior year of

high school, Dube organized theTerry Fox Charity Run in Chennai,India, in 2009. Dube went toschools in Chennai and urged stu-dents to run, in addition to sharinghis own experience with cancer.The race, which takes place in loca-tions all over the world, helps raisefunds for cancer research.

The Arroyo lounge now hosts amemorial to Dube, and a white-board features written memoriesfrom Arroyo residents and friendsof Dube surrounding photos of thefreshman.

Contact Brendan OByrne atbobyrne@stanford.edu.

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By JOSH HOYTSTAFF WRITER

Many homesteaderscame to the Amer-ican West in the19th century withthe tragically mis-

informed notion that the rain fol-lows the plow, a theory suggest-ing that human land occupationand agricultural production of anarea would beneficially alter theprecipitation and climate of thatsame region. Ironically, the home-

steaders land, which is consid-ered to be the backbone of Amer-ican agriculture and produces 50percent of the nations fruits, veg-etables and nuts, is now known asthe Arid Region.

We face some really dire cir-cumstances when we look at thewater situation in the westernUnited States, said AndrewFahlund, executive director of theStanford project Water in theWest.

Water in the West, formed inJanuary 2010, is a joint programby the Woods Institute for the En-vironment and the Bill Lane Cen-ter for the American West. It aimsto engage in research and policyinitiatives from various academic

disciplines in order to deliver so-lutions for the key water chal-lenges in the western UnitedStates.

In particular, the program fo-cuses on three aspects: groundwa-ter management, water recyclingand water system sustainability.Fahlund emphasized that he andhis partners are mobilizing all ofthe relevant expertise at Stanfordto create an interdisciplinary lookat the pertinent issues.

The quality of the engineeringdepartment here, coupled with theremarkable legal minds and theeconomists . . . then you bring inpeople from the history depart-ment and from journalism, and allof them have contributions to take

on a very complicated issue,

Fahlund said.Members of Water in the West

led a 2011 Sophomore Collegeclass on a two-week, 225-mile tripdown the Colorado River in theGrand Canyon in order to intro-duce undergraduates to the com-plexities of the water system in theregion.

The Colorado River supplieswater and power to over 25 mil-lion people in seven states, as wellas to parts of Mexico. The water issupplied to a diverse range of peo-ple, from rural farmers to urban-ites in Los Angeles, and increasing

demand for this essential re-source, coupled with a decrease inwater volume, is causing majorconflicts. The river once ran all theway through Mexico and outthrough the Gulf of California butnow runs dry at many places. Ac-cording to a 2010 Smithsonian ar-ticle, the river is 130 feet lowerthan it was in 2000.

Besides the effects of waterdiversion from dams and irriga-tion, Fahlund stressed that thedire situation of freshwaterecosystems in California can betraced to climate change. Snow-pack in California, a naturalwater storage system, is expectedto decrease by as much as 80 per-cent over the next 50 years, and

groundwater is being pumpedout of the ground faster than itcan be replenished.

Freshwater ecosystems acrossthe West are pretty stressed andthey are really at breaking point,and up until recently they werelargely ignored, Fahlund said.

You dont think about waterpolicy on a macroscopic level, andyou dont think about things like[the fact] that L.A. only exists be-cause they have been swindlingwater, said Andrea Acosta 14,one of the 2011 Sophomore Col-lege participants.

Being aware of these bureau-cratic policy fights and being onthe river and seeing the peopleand places that policy actually af-

fects made the ideas so much more

meaningful, she added.While students of the Sopho-

more College trip reflected thatthey had fun learning to raft andenjoyed being surrounded by thedramatic landscape, many cameaway with deep concerns aboutthe future of the water in the area.

I am not really sure who wouldbe optimistic about this situation,said Julia Barrero 14, who alsoparticipated in the SophomoreCollege class. Maybe I am opti-mistic just because we need to beoptimistic in the face of this crisis.

Fahlund said he sees hope forimprovement by bridging thefields through communication and

cooperation.

We held a meeting just a fewdays ago bringing in groundwatermanagers from around the state ofCalifornia, as well as researchers,Fahlund said. I dont think the re-searchers had historically given agreat deal of thought to what prac-tical questions groundwater man-agers have had, and groundwatermanagers had never bothered toask the question, What could re-search actually do for me in mypractical challenges?

Our job is like translating in asense, he added.

David Kennedy 63, professorof history and faculty co-director ofthe Bill Lane Center, looks to the

history of water in the West both as

an explanation and guide to han-dling the current water crisis.

It is just an incredible engi-neering accomplishment to put inplace the system we have, and itdidnt just happen . . . it took gen-erations and it took focus and po-litical will and engineering inge-nuity, Kennedy said. So if priorgenerations had that much ambi-tion and ingenuity, then I dont seewhy we in future generationsshouldnt have something compa-rable to update the system.

However, he warned, Wecant go on as we have been.

Contact Josh Hoyt at jwghoyt@

stanford.edu.

The hermit ofJasper Ridge

Striding around under the fruit trees of histerraced garden, Domenico Grosso, thehermit of Jasper Ridge, was a familiarfigure to the first few generations of Stan-ford students. He lived beside an aban-

doned mine shaft in a house he had built himself,surrounded by a chicken coop and stables, an out-

door picnic area for his many guests and an orna-mental stream with carefully tended plants.

Its impossible to have a complete picture of lifeas it used to be in the Portola Valley neighborhoodwithout knowing about one of its most intriguingand colorful early inhabitants, said Nancy Lund, thePortola Valley town historian. His life is the stuff oflocal legend.

Grosso, who lived in the Stanford-owned JasperRidge Biological Preserve in Portola Valley, Calif.,was the areas unofficial guide. Especially after theUniversity opened in 1891, Grosso enjoyed the com-pany of many visitors. Hiking through maze of foottrails he maintained throughout the hills was a pop-ular Sunday afternoon community pastime. Stan-ford students hiked the trails often, and even JaneStanford is reported to have dropped in on occasion.Hospitable to the extreme, Grosso would sight visi-tors from afar and raise some combination of hisAmerican, Italian, French and Chilean flags.

He offered visitors homemade wine, a vinegarywhite for strangers and his best red for regulars. Alsorenowned as an excellent cook, he would invite peo-ple over to come on and eat a rabbit leg as he putit. His pickled miniature corn on the cob was a par-ticular favorite.

But if complimented on his cooking, Grossowould brush it off by saying, Julia did it. Or wheninviting friends over, he might say, Dont bring theJulia. If someone played music, he would muttersomething about Julia and ask that it stop. While noone knows who Julia was, it is believed she was anItalian sweetheart he left behind or who died short-ly before he left Italy.

All this could only come from speculation, how-ever, since Grosso was miserly with details of hisprior life. In an interview in 1952, well after Grossos1915 death, his friend Frank Bracesco revealed thathe had served as a soldier under Giuseppe Garibal-

di and had been a valet to the Duke of Genoa.Grosso was most likely born near Genoa, Italy, inthe 1830s. He came to America in 1869 and hintedthat he had spent time in Panama and mining inChile prior to reaching the continental UnitedStates. He first worked for Hippolyte Bellocs bank-ing company and later for Nicholas Larco as a ranchforeman. During this period, he is reputed to havediscovered silver in what is now Jasper Ridge, but heclaimed to have hidden the find by covering it withbrush and burning it.

In 1875, when Larco became bankrupt, Bellocgave Grosso the prospecting rights to the land. Heimmediately moved there and set up his elaborateestate next to the 185-foot abandoned mine shaft inwhich he hoped to find silver. When the Stanfordspurchased the property, they unsuccessfully tried to

evict Grosso, but with his prospecting right, he could

stay as long as he made attempts at mining.For the rest of his life, Grosso would remain ob-

sessed with the idea that someone was trying to takethe mine from him. He went to great lengths to con-vince people he had found large quantities of high-grade silver, although records indicate that he neverfound anything worth more than one dollar per ton.Accounts differ, however, and some insist that hemade a fortune.

He kept mysterious bags under his house, whichhe claimed contained ore of the same quality as thatin his display jars, Lund said. About once a year,hed take the bags to Redwood City in a rentedbuggy, presumably to cash them in.

It seems unlikely that the content of the bagsproved lucrative, since in his later days, after Bellocswidow stopped providing him a pension the rea-sons behind her financial support of Grosso are am-biguous he basically lived off the generosity ofothers, walking around with a sack in which he wouldaccept vegetables and other necessities.

He could not work the mine on his own and wastoo suspicious of potential investors to ever open itup again. Instead, he dug over 20 surface pits in thehope of finding his elusive treasure.

In the spring of 1915, Gross suffered a stroke. Hewas discovered in his bed by Ida Bracesco a few dayslater. He died on May 18 in the San Mateo CountyHospital, at 85 to 90 years of age.

In 1923, the Stanford Mining Department re-opened the Hermit Mine to use as a practice mine.By this time, most traces of Grossos stay there haddisappeared, even his house. But his story capturedthe interest of many students involved in the project.Who was this gentlemanly recluse who spoke fivelanguages and kept up an impeccable appearance?Did the lonely and mysterious figure, with a bearddown to his chest, ever actually make a find? Whatkept him up at night, sweeping his maze of paths in

the moonlight?The last official mention of the mine came in1941, when the head of the mining department stat-ed that it had not been touched in years. Today, thickhedges of poison oak guard the location of the mine,taking on Domenico Grossos legacy of protecting itfrom opportunistic hands.

In addition to an interview with Nancy Lund, this in-formation was gathered from sources includingThe History of Jasper Ridge: From Searsville Pio-neers to Stanford Scientists by Dorothy F. Regnery,Volume 27 of the Stanford Illustrated Review in theStanford University Library Special Collections andThe Hermit Mine by Merle Marion Repass.

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mission, would pass. The proposednew Constitution revised theprocess for committee nomina-tions, establishing a Joint Nomina-tions Committee made up ofASSU elected representatives in-stead of delegating the responsibil-ity to the external body, NomCom.

This new document, however,unexpectedly failed to pass in thelast few weeks of the 13th Senatesterm, leaving the ASSU with anoutdated Constitution and no newNomCom.

ASSU President Robbie Zim-broff 12 initially proposed Tues-day to nominate himself as the uni-lateral chair of an interim nomina-tions committee. Senator GarimaSharma 15 noted, however, thatthis suggestion violated the bylawsof the Association, which say thatno member of the [Nominations]Commission shall, during her/histerm, hold an elected office of theAssociation, disqualifying Zim-broff from such a position.

For the Senate to approve Zim-broffs self-nomination, represen-tatives would have been required

to suspend the Senate bylaws andrules of order, an action opposedby several senators.

Most senators said that whilethey viewed the idea of suspendingthe bylaws and giving the power ofnomination to Zimbroff as flawed,the alternative of losing studentinfluence in committees acrosscampus would be far worse.

If this isnt done, there will bevery drastic consequences, Parlia-mentarian Kimberly Bacon 15said in response to a suggestionthat the Senate have an open appli-cation process for a NomComchair. I dont really see a feasiblealternative in the time crunchwere in.

The senators also discussed

how their decision would affect theimage of the ASSU. Sharma saidthat she believed nominating theASSU president as the chair ofNomCom, against the bylaws ofthe ASSU, would reflect badly onthe Senate in terms of checkingbias.

Howe encouraged the senatorsto worry less about the details oftheir decision and focus more onproducing nominations efficiently.

We have more than just theimage at stake, Jack Weller 15said, supporting action rather thanmeticulous attention to procedure.This is our duty; this is our respon-sibility. So we have to get it done.

The senators compromised byagreeing to reinstate those mem-bers of last years NomCom, whoaccepted a re-invitation. AlthoughCrouch, who served on the 2011-2012 NomCom, could only con-firm that one of the previous mem-bers would return, the senatorsvoted unanimously in favor of therevised bill, with both Zimbroffand the co-chairs of the GraduateStudent Council (GSC) serving asex officio members. The Senate didnot have to suspend the rules oforder to approve the bill.

Former GSC Chair Addy Satijaurged the Senate to ensure the ex

officio status of the GSC chairs,without which the NomComwould not have a graduate repre-sentative. He said that the onlygraduate member on last yearsNomCom has already refused toserve again.

If there is a proposal for Nom-inations Commission with no grad-uate students on it, I know thatpeople would rather defer it andhave completely no appointmentsrather than go ahead with a com-mission that is entirely undergrad-uate, Satija said.

Satija also reported that theSenate budget, which the 13th Un-dergraduate Senate passed in itslast meeting, was rejected by theGraduate Student Council (GSC)

the following day, leaving the Sen-ate without an operating budget.Funds for a retreat including Zim-broff, Vice President WilliamWagstaff 12 and the senatorswhich Zimbroff estimated wasaround $700 for hotel rooms, foodand gas came from the formerSenates budget. The current Sen-ate will discuss the approval of a re-vised version of the budget in fu-ture meetings.

The senators also nominatedand confirmed Senator ChristosHaveles 15 as treasurer.

Contact Julia Enthoven at jjejje@stanford.edu.

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Every now and then, some-thing pops up in my Face-book newsfeed that really

catches my eye and occupies mythoughts for a while. Last week itwas the video of the Harvardbaseball team dancing to CallMe Maybe in the car (the guysleeping in the back seat is my fa-vorite), and on Sunday it was thearticle from The New York TimesMagazine that was titled CanYou Call a 9-Year-Old a Psy-chopath? an unnerving and well-written piece. The other day, how-ever, it was actually someonesFacebook status that caught myeye.

One of my Facebook friendshad written a status that read,Just finished cleaning out myFacebook friends list. If yourereading this status, then congratu-lations, you made the cut! It hadgarnered over 30 likes and got methinking: how does one go about a

Facebook cleanse?The first step is obvious: goingthrough your current friends listand unfriending those who youdont know in real life al-though, to be fair, I dont knowwhy anyone would add those peo-ple as friends in the first place. Thenext thing would be to deletethose individuals you have onlymet once or twice. Easy enough.But then what happens next? Doyou start with the people youknew in high school but no longertalk to? What about old co-work-ers? And how about that one girlyou once worked on an IHUMproject with, because your TFpaired you up, but havent talkedto since? Does she deserve to sur-

vive your purge?A late night discussion withsome friends led to some interest-ing thoughts on the topic. Onefriend of mine insists on keepinghis friend list limited to about 200

people. He believes that thatnumber represents the amount ofpeople he actively interacts withat any given time. He argued thathe knows he doesnt need todelete anyone, and that he knowsthis because he feels comfortablewriting on the walls of any one ofhis friends, and has done so atsome point or another.

Another friend, who has over1,000 Facebook friends, told methat she is completely comfort-able with her social network. Ac-cording to her, you never knowwhen those old connections mightcome in handy, and her only stipu-lation is that she only adds indi-viduals she has met in real life(well, that and she refuses to addher parents). She insists that shedoesnt put anything up on Face-book that she has a problem withanyone seeing, so it doesnt makea difference to her.

In addition to the act of cleans-

ing, theres also the question ofhow to deal with the aftermath ofdeleting a Facebook friend. If youchoose to delete people you onceknew in high school, what hap-pens when you run into them backhome during breaks? One personargued that you merely smile andgesture hello, but that theres noneed for further acknowledge-ment. After all, my friend ar-gued, if she wanted me to knowabout her life in college, shewould have stayed my Facebookfriend. The fact that she was of-fended by the deletion wasntmasked very well.

Now, even though I gave myfriend a sympathetic smile at thetime, her words led me to an en-

tirely different realization: peopletake Facebook way too seriouslynowadays. We are all aware thatFacebook is not real life, yet theidea that things need to be madeFacebook official appears to

have consumed our generation.We feel the need to wish peoplewe would never wish in real life aHappy Birthday because thesite tells us to; we share our rela-tionship statuses with the world,regardless of whether were shar-ing information about a hook-upor a breakup, and we get offendedwhen we get unfriended. Im asguilty of it as everyone else is, butits important to remember thatour Facebook friendships dontvalidate our real ones. At the endof the day, Facebook is nothingmore than a public forum wheresome people choose to share tid-bits of their life and others chooseto share the Call Me Maybemusic video, and taking some-thing like that seriously may be as

ridiculous as the aforementionedmusic video.

Want to call Ravali maybe? Sendher an email first at ravreddy@stan-ford.edu.

If tomorrow it were announcedthat Charles Manson was beingreleased from prison and that

he had a really interesting theoryon sustainable agriculture and

wanted to come to campus to dis-cuss it, what would your reactionbe? Some of the freest of thinkersmight want to hear what he had tosay. Most would think its kind ofmessed up, arguing even if it is aninteresting theory on sustainableagriculture, Stanford should not bebringing convicted murderers tocampus, out of some sense of prin-ciple. Arguing from that sense ofprinciple then, I guess the only dif-ference between the described sce-nario and Tony Blairs arrival oncampus is that Tony Blair hasntbeen convicted yet.

By all accounts, Tony Blairseems like a nice guy, your arche-typal lovable Brit. Charles Mansonis a lot more scowly. However,

Blairs also a lovable Brit who justso happened to wage an illegal war.Thats not really a matter of philos-ophy, of whether or not you werefor or against the Iraq War. Anopinion by George Monbiot pub-lished in The Guardian on January25, 2010, reads:

Under the United NationsCharter, two conditions must bemet before a war can legally bewaged. The parties to a disputemust first seek a solution by nego-tiation (article 33). They can takeup arms without an explicit man-date from the U.N. Security Coun-cil only if an armed attack occursagainst [them] (article 51). Neither

of these conditions applied. TheU.S. and U.K. governments reject-ed Iraqs attempts to negotiate. Atone point the U.S. State Depart-ment even announced that it would

go into thwart mode to preventthe Iraqis from resuming talks onweapons inspection (all referencesare on my website). Iraq hadlaunched no armed attack againsteither nation.

We also know that the U.K.government was aware that thewar it intended to launch was ille-gal. In March 2002, the Cabinet Of-fice explained that a legal justifica-tion for invasion would be needed.Subject to law officers advice,none currently exists. In July 2002,Lord Goldsmith, the attorney gen-eral, told the prime minister thatthere were only three possiblelegal bases for launching a war self-defence, humanitarian inter-vention or UNSC [security council]

authorisation. The first and secondcould not be the base in this case.Bush and Blair later failed to ob-tain Security Council authorisa-tion.

Kofi Annan said the same thingin 2004 in an interview with theBBC: I have indicated it was not inconformity with the U.N. Charterfrom our point of view, from thecharter point of view, it was illegal.

Without legal justification forthe Iraq War, Tony Blair is implicat-ed in the death of over 1,000,000Iraqis and the displacement of2,000,000 more. Just because hewas elected by Parliament orspeaks English or doesnt dress in

crazy military garb or is white does-nt mean that he didnt commit acrime in waging the Iraq War with-out U.N. Security Council ap-proval. The brutality of Saddam

Husseins regime is irrelevant tothis fact.If youre one of those people

who thinks Yeah, but its interna-tional law. You cant enforce it. Whydoes it matter? I want you to takea second and think about how sillythat sounds. Every member of theU.N. agreed to the charter when itwas formed. Were supposed to begrown-ups here. When dealing withinternational affairs, when dealingwith the prospect of invading coun-tries, a snotty You and what armyattitude a la Black Bush is not onlynot helpful, it frankly has no placein the thought process of anyonewho considers him/her/perself aglobal citizen. International law isin fact law, and it needs to be re-

spected. I mean, you do want worldpeace, right?What Tony Blair is on campus to

talk about, the African Gover-nance Initiative, is also problemat-ic, what with him being the formerprime minister of what still techni-cally is an empire. I hope he facesquestions about the implications ofdeveloping a foundation whosegoal in part seems to be assertingde facto control of African govern-ments, but the politics of the AGIaside, Tony Blair is still a war crimi-nal.

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Tony Blair is a war criminal

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As students in classes as var-ied as PoliSci 1 and ME101 know, group projects

are not unheard of at Stanford,and it is quite common for stu-dents to complain about workingin groups. Having reached Stan-ford by succeeding as individuals,the temptation and even prefer-ence to just do the work yourselfis a common one on campus. Nev-ertheless, group projects are ex-tremely valuable, both as a formatof applying academic knowledgebut also for the real-world learn-ing experience they provide. TheEditorial Board calls for Stanfordstudents and faculty to embracegroup projects as a valuable formof learning, and to expand theiruse in programs of study.

Group projects are useful be-cause they test students on morethan one level. Students, ofcourse, need to have a grasp of thematerial that is applied in theproject itself, and they must un-derstand the format of the project

how to best organize a presen-tation or convey an argument inan essay or build a functioningmodel. They also, however, haveto understand how to work withother people in the group. Thiscan often be positive, as it hasbeen shown that teaching others,like fellow group members, is oneof the most rigorous ways of mas-tering new material. Similarly,splitting up work means (in theo-ry) that each individual can dotheir portion to a higher standardthan if they had to do the entireproject alone, and JamesSurowieckis book The Wisdomof Crowds suggests that groups

often produce better decisions to-gether than any individual couldmake. It can also be more con-tentious. Multiple group membersmean that responsibilities must bedelegated, and there are multipleinterests, varying work ethics, andconflicting schedules to juggle, aswell. These difficulties are frustrat-ing and may well lead to lowerquality group work if members

dont cooperate successfully.Above all, though, group proj-

ects are what the real world islike: Work in the real world whether it be doing basic scienceresearch in a lab, working on a po-litical campaign, producing acomputer program, or writing anovel involves collaboratingwith others to produce a finishedproduct. Even the dreadedgroup essay is akin to real-world reports found in manyfields that are rarely written byjust one author. This collabora-tion involves some of the verysame pitfalls outlined above, andit usually offers the same upsidesas well. Thus, having more groupprojects in college allows studentsto show that they have masteredthe material in the manner theyare likely to apply it post-gradua-tion. While the free rider problemexists both in college and in thereal world, many professors in-clude a component that lets stu-dents grade their fellow group

members to mitigate it.Some courses may seem tolend themselves to group workmore than others. Even those dis-ciplines that seem less amenableto group projects, however, should and often do incorporatemore group work. A philosophyclass that requires students to pre-pare a debate, for example, ormore collaborative pieces in stu-dents studio art portfolios, wouldoffer some of the same learning.While the debate about the Uni-versitys role in educating studentsin a practical manner as op-posed to educating for the sake ofexpanding the intellect may go on

indeed, it has been raised inseveral previous editorials there is no doubt that almost allstudents will have to function inthe professional world at somepoint. To this end, departmentsshould utilize more group work intheir curricula because regardlessof which educational approachyou prefer, group projects haveclear benefits.

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RAVALATIONS

The Facebook fallacy

Balloons, glitter and candy candy, everywhere. Just an-other room on Burbanks

second floor (nunnery).Its May at Stanford, and Greek

life has taken over the spring cal-endar. Pledge retreats at countryhomes. Special dinners. Diggingmoats at three in the morning.

Ive never been fond of frater-nities at universities: too many sto-ries abound of alcohol poisoning,hazing and even death. And sure,alcohol and hazing exist here, but iftheres one Greek system that Ifeel does a pretty good job, its theone here at Stanford.

Its not perfect, of course. Therewas an awful lot of heartbreak amonth ago when sorority rushended many smiled broadly, an-nounced what sorority they were apart of at brunch, and you could

just tell they were dying a little in-side. The same can probably besaid for fraternities, though I wit-nessed a lot less of it becauseSigma Chi tapped Burbanks en-tire third floor.

But a lot of it has worked outsince then. Some sorority sisters Italked to admit that they werenttoo thrilled at first with their newfamilies, but more for lack of infor-mation than anything else theyve found camaraderie andgreat pledge peers in their currentclasses. Near-miss fraternity rejectshave gotten over their we-like-you-but-not-enough messages.

But its not always rainbowsand lollipops. Some arent happywith their pledge classes, or evenwith the system. And consideringtheyre going to be (and alreadyare) surrounded by those peoplefor a year, the best theyre doing is

grinning and bearing it.Fitting, because that seems to

be what a lot of rushees I know didduring their entire rush process

man flirting, you could say. Itwas just so shallow, one told me.Im so into this, thats so cool, sonice to see you! It seemed likeeven the most prideful of menwere willing to for a coupleweeks at least parade them-selves and their talents in front of apanel of upperclassmen.

And the looks on prospectivesorority sisters faces when theywould come back from theirevents! Clutching their blisteredankles, rasping to me in hoarse voic-es. We were in there for hours!one complained, describing a social

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TRACK & FIELD

Women second,

men fifth at Pac-12sBy JACOB JAFFE

DESK EDITOR

Five individual titles highlighteda successful trip to the Pac-12 Cham-pionships for the Stanford track and

field teams. The women placed sec-ond while the men tied for fifth, ashost Oregon swept both titles.

Freshman Brianna Bain gotthings going for the womens teamon Saturday, winning the Pac-12title in the javelin. Bains finalthrow of 53.58 meters was goodenough for both the title and a newStanford record.

Success in the field continuedon Sunday, when senior KaterinaStefanidi won the pole vault for thesecond straight year. Her vault of4.48 meters broke her own Stan-ford record and was just two cen-timeters short of the Olympic Astandard that Stefanidi is seeking inorder to represent her home coun-try of Greece in the London

Olympics.In other field events, redshirtsenior Arantxa King and juniorKarynn Dunn placed second andthird, respectively, in the long jump.Kings first jump of 6.42 meters wasthe best in the field until ArizonaStates Constance Ezugha edgedher by three centimeters on herfinal jump. King added a third-place finish in the triple jump, while

junior Alyssa Wisdom placed thirdin the hammer throw.

On the track, sophomore KoriCarter rounded out the individualwins on the womens side with avictory in the 100-meter hurdles.Carter narrowly edged out class-mate Katie Nelms, 12.99 seconds to13.01, and both were far better than

the previous Stanford record of13.13, which was also set by Carter.

Carter and Nelms also con-tributed to a third-place finish inthe 4x100-meter relay. Redshirtsenior Shataya Hendricks and jun-ior Carissa Levingston ran the ad-ditional two legs to help the teamput up a 44.25, good for the second-fastest time in Stanford history.Hendricks also placed third in the100 and sixth in the 200. JuniorKathy Kroeger had the best finishin the distances, placing second inthe 5,000.

Meanwhile, the individual win-ners on the mens side were nostrangers to success in big meets, as

seniors Amaechi Morton and ChrisDerrick both added a Pac-12 titleto their trophy cases.

Morton won the 400-meter hur-dles with the sixth-fastest time inthe world this year. His 48.95

missed his own school record byjust one-hundredth of a second, butit was enough for the Olympic Astandard. Along with his first Pac-12 title, Morton added a second-place finish in the 110-meter hur-dles to account for 18 of the teams78 total points.

Derrick started out his Sundaywith a close runner-up finish be-hind Arizonas Lawi Lalang in the1,500. Lalang and Derrick also fin-ished 1-2 at the NCAA CrossCountry Championships and boththe 3,000 and 5,000 at the NCAAIndoor Championships earlier thisyear. Derrick broke through lateron Sunday, though, edging outLalang and his teammate StephenSambu to win the 5,000. The winwas Derricks second career title inthe event and third overall.

It was a really good day, Der-rick said. For the 1,500, I wouldhave liked to have won, but I got

boxed in a little early. I closed fast,which I was happy with, but I justcouldnt catch [Lalang]. The 5k wasa slugfest. It was a really tough race,and Sambu was the one pushingthe pace. With a mile or 2k to go, Inoticed Lawi hurting, and I hadnever seen him struggling. Therewas a lot of lead-trading, and I wastrying to keep up the pressure to fi-nally beat the guy that had beatenme before. We were all wiped after-ward, but I was pleased to come outon top.

Other top finishers for the menwere senior Benjamin Johnson,

By PALANI ESWARANSTAFF WRITER

On Tuesday night, the No. 17Stanford baseball team camefrom behind to beat the Universi-ty of San Francisco, 6-3. However,it was an up-and-down night forthe Cardinal, which was outhit bythe Dons and left 11 men on base,despite the win.

Stanford (33-14, 14-10 Pac-12)

has now won its last four contests,while the Dons, who recorded asweep over Santa Clara lastweekend, fall to 27-29 overall (12-9 West Coast Conference). Fresh-man David Schmidt, the winningpitcher for Stanford, improved to3-1 on the season.

Offensively, Stanford got offto a fast start. In the first inning,

junior centerfielder Jake Stewartreached on an error, and the next

batter, junior leftfielder TylerGaffney, walked. Junior thirdbaseman Stephen Piscottys basehit loaded the bases with no outsfor first baseman Brian Ragira.

Ragira struck out swinging,but the third strike was a wildpitch and Stewart dashed hometo score the first run of the day.San Francisco sophomore starterJordan Remer settled down, lim-iting the damage to one run. Thebottom of the second was similarfor the Cardinal, with freshmancatcher Wayne Taylor left strand-ed in scoring position and thescore remaining at 1-0.

In the third inning, San Fran-

ciscos offense came to life.Freshman rightfielder BradleyZimmer led off the inning with asingle, and two batters later, jun-ior second baseman Jason Ma-hood hit a towering home run toleft field that put the Dons up 2-1. The next batter, senior firstbaseman Nik Balog, singled toleft. Starter Garrett Hughes, whowas having trouble keeping theball down in the strike zone, wasrelieved by junior Sahil Bloom,and he escaped the inning withoutgiving up any more runs.

In the bottom of the third,Remer walked Gaffney and Pis-cotty, putting men on first and sec-ond with no outs. Remer was re-placed by junior Andrew Pulido,who promptly struck out Ragiraand sophomore rightfielderAustin Wilson.

In the top of the fourth, Donsleftfielder Tom Barry hit a solohome run that stretched the SanFrancisco lead to 3-1.

Meanwhile, the Cardinal of-fense continued to sputter. In thebottom of the fifth, a bunt singleby Gaffney, a hit by Ragira andWilson getting hit by a pitchloaded the bases for freshmansecond baseman Alex Blandino.But Blandino struck out, and onceagain the Cardinal left runners onbase.

In the top of the sixth, relieverDean McArdle remained stellar,

striking out the side, and the bot-

tom of the inning finally seemedto spark the Cardinal offense.Freshman designated hitter Do-minic Jose hit a fly ball to center-field, where San Francisco center-fielder Justin Maffei laid out in anattempt to make the catch. It wasdifficult to tell whether the ball hitthe ground, but the umpire ruledthat Jose was not out, and heended up with a triple. Sopho-more Brett Michael Doran camein as a pinch hitter and drove Josehome, cutting the Dons lead toone run.

Schmidt relieved McArdle inthe seventh inning, and despite afluke single by Maffei and an

error by Blandino, he left the in-ning unscathed. The bottom halfof the seventh was uneventful forthe Stanford offense as relieverHaden Hinkle retired the side inorder.

After a great eighth bySchmidt, the Stanford bats finallyexploded. To lead off the inning,Blandino was hit by a pitch. Jun-ior Elliott Waterman then camein to relieve Hinkle and quicklygave up a walk to Jose. Next upwas junior Eric Smith, who hadcome into the game at catcher theinning before. Smith hit a boom-ing double to right field that drovein Blandino.

Coming off the bench is al-ways tough, Smith said. I justwanted to look for a pitch early inthe count that I could hit, and luck-ily it stayed fair.

After an intentional walk toStewart to load the bases, Gaffneydrew a walk to put Stanford up 4-3. Piscotty then hit a sacrifice fly,followed by a double by Ragira,and the Cardinal had a comfort-able three-run lead. In the top ofthe ninth, sophomore closer A.J.Vanegas struck out three battersto secure the win.

This weekend Stanford willtravel to Salt Lake City to take onUtah in a three-game series, start-ing Friday at 5 p.m. PDT.

Contact Palani Eswaran at palani14@stanford.edu.

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ive years ago, if I hadmade a list of the topAmerican cities in whichI would least like to run

out of gas, Oakland mayhave taken the cake. I really knewnothing about the 510, other thanthat people from the Peninsulamocked it and that it was home toworld-class rioters and high mur-der rates.

Then I met my girlfriend whoresides in the East Bay, took a fewclasses that pulled my head out ofthe suburban Florida sand I hadbeen stuck in for 18 years and slow-ly grew more comfortable makingthe trip over the DumbartonBridge and into one of the moreundervalued multicultural hubs inthe country.

Like any major city, Oakland hasits flaws, but its infamous reputationhas far exceeded reality. Its home tothings like gorgeous hiking trailsand incredible places to eat, andhaving now driven though thetown several times at night, itscomical to think I was once afraid topark my car at any BART station.

In fact, the East Bay now feels abit like a third home. As a displacedsports fan begging for a fresh startwith a few unconventional teams,its no surprise that Oaklands fineststood out. For the past couple ofyears, Ive been loyal to the War-riors, Athletics and Raiders, but itsbeen a difficult adjustment. Theseteams play in venues that are a farcry from the state-of-the-artAmway Center, the playing

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who placed third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, and redshirt

junior Geoffrey Tabor, who placedthird in the shot put. Tabor fouledin every attempt at the discus,though, so he was unable to repeat

his 2011 title.Overall, the men were disap-

pointed with their team finish.We werent too happy with

that, Derrick said. Were at thatlevel as a team where were in apack of quality teams and weneeded a big meet to breakthrough. We had some good per-formances, but not enough. Weknow were built more forNCAAs, though, so were lookingforward to that.

Next up for the track and fieldteams is the NCAA Regional inAustin, Texas, on May 24-26. TheNCAA Championships will fol-low two weeks later in DesMoines, Iowa.

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

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Redshirt senior Corey Dysick (above) and the Stanford mens track and field team tied for fifth at the Pac-12 Championships in Oregon, led by seniorsAmaechi Morton and Chris Derrick. The women's team placed second, anchored by strong performances from Katerina Stefanidi and Brianna Bain.

grounds of my hometown OrlandoMagic. Theyre not franchises youlook to as models of effective man-agement. And, most importantly,these arent bandwagons you hopaboard if you enjoy winning.

Never have I left a game in Oak-land feeling as if a championshipwere on the horizon. I once saw Le-Bron James hit the first game-win-

ner of his career, naturally againstthe Warriors, and that sort of other-team-moment has been all too fre-quent. Games are often attended towatch opposing players compete,and Ive seen cheers for losses thatimprove draft position.

But I keep coming back, becausethere is something endearing aboutthe cluster of stadiums directly offthe 880, and something endearingabout the people who migrate tothem that is tough to put into words.Oakland fans are among the mostpassionate and intelligent in theworld. That may be a hard pill toswallow when As games are regu-larly filled by fewer people than at-tended my senior prom, and RaiderNation routinely dresses like agroup of teenagers headed to agothic Halloween party.

Its fair skepticism, but the regu-lars are more connected to theirteams than just about any other fanbase Ive witnessed, and it is some-thing that needs to be experiencedin order to be understood. (As abonus, parking is free and abundantat the Coliseum BART station.Good luck finding that at any otherstadium in the country.)

Oaklands teams, regardless oftheir recent history, are immenselyvaluable to a struggling city. How-ever, theyre at risk of fleeing in thevery near future. The Warriors arebeing actively enticed by city lead-

ers in San Francisco to move backacross the Bay to their previoushome. The much-malignedRaiders have been rumored to beleaving the Coliseum again, thistime for a potential stadium-sharewith the cross-town San Francisco49ers. And the As, the belovedprinces of the Moneyball era, havebeen mentioned in connectionwith places like Fremont and SanJose. Woof.

Id be devastated to see any ofthe three depart, but my personalhurt would be nothing compared toOaklands. Mayor Jean Quan has

suggested the possibility of buildinga sports wonderland in place of thecurrent relics, allegedly with privatefunding, but the Warriors have abetter chance at a championshipthan that happening in the near fu-ture. Different markets would un-doubtedly garner more money andsupport, but it would kill one ofAmericas best sports cities.

So much of the hurry for reloca-tion stems from outside pressuresthat see Oakland in the way that Iused to see it. Sports are big busi-ness, I understand that, but there areways to at least sustain the franchis-es without shipping them away toless deserving places. The city willnever rival L.A., New York andChicago in terms of financial poten-tial, but knowledgeable and pro-ductive leadership can at least setthings in the right direction.

The moral of the story is thatthings arent always as they seem.The Warriors, Athletics and Raidersare not second-rate organizations ina second-rate city. Oakland doesntneed to go under the knife; it justneeds a little makeup.

Considering that he drives the moststolen car in America, maybe ZachZimmerman should reconsiderleaving his Camry at BART. Sendhim safety tips at zachz@stanford.edu and follow him on Twitter@Zach_Zimmerman.

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scene where women were sup-posed to sell themselves over loudmusic.

And I will spare you the horrorof being with rushees at the Stan-ford Shopping Center, searchingdesperately for a sundress for arush event the next day. As ifshopping werent stressfulenough.

Its kind of a shame, really, ifits true that lots of currentpledges had to sell themselves inorder to gain entry into a socialclub. It would be an even greatershame if they had to be someonetheyre not after all, its kindof hard to fake it for a full year,around people you will be forcedto live with.

Of course, this is all hearsay, be-cause I never bothered to look atthe fraternity scene, partially be-cause of the stigma of AnimalHouse and a couple damningRolling Stone articles.

But again, while its not perfect,

Stanford does do a pretty goodjob. People seem by and largehappy. Theres a lot of PDA onFacebook, on the sidewalks infront of our dorm and at parties.Sister and brother have be-come major parts of studentsidentities in non-biological ways.

It sometimes makes me regretnot giving Greek life a shot.

But then again, how many ofour new happy Greek families are

just grinning and bearing it?

Want to do some man flirting withEd? Send him an email at edngai@stanford.edu.

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