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Victory propels Stanford to No. 4By KABIR SAWHNEY

MANAGING EDITOR

The Stanford football team stat-ed its case for a BCS bowl berth inemphatic fashion on Saturday night,defeating Oregon State, 38-0, in thefinal game of its regular season.TheCardinal will now be forced to waitfor a week before learning its finalbowl destination, as the final gamesof college football’s regular seasondon’t wrap up until next weekend.

No. 6 Stanford (11-1, 8-1 Pac-10)now has the most wins in the pro-gram’s history, which stretches backto the founding of the University in1892.

In a game that Stanford headcoach Jim Harbaugh described as“thorough all the way around,” theCardinal dominated the Beavers onboth sides of the ball. Stanford’s of-fense rolled up yards on OregonState’s defense, with a balanced at-tack generating yardage through theair and on the ground.

Sophomore Stepfan Taylor ledthe running attack — he gained 124yards on 14 carries, punctuated by along 62-yard touchdown run in thethird quarter.With his performance,Taylor went over 1,000 yards rush-ing on the season,becoming only thesixth Stanford back to accomplishthat feat. Overall, Stanford gained165 yards on the ground.

However, the story of the day onoffense was the passing game. Red-shirt sophomore quarterback An-drew Luck turned in a completegame,annihilating the Oregon Statesecondary with a 305-yard, four-touchdown performance.Of course,Luck was helped by his receivers,who turned in some great plays oftheir own.

One such play came late in the

second quarter, when Luck com-pleted a pass over the middle to sen-ior receiver Doug Baldwin.Baldwincaught the ball on the left hashmark, eluded one defender’s graspand juked around two more playerson his way into the right corner ofthe end zone. Overall, Baldwinscored two touchdowns on the dayon five receptions for 97 yards.

“Andrew gave me the eye sayingit was okay to go up behind [the line-backer],” Baldwin said. “I got theball in the perfect place,and I just letmy instincts take over after that.”

Stanford also got another greatcatch-and-run from sophomore tail-back Tyler Gaffney.On the first playof the fourth quarter, Gaffney linedup as a wide receiver on the rightside. Luck hit him with a shortscreen, and Gaffney simply racedpast the defense up the right side ofthe field. He eluded a final tacklerinside the 10-yard line and went intothe end zone for a touchdown. The52-yard play was Luck’s longest passof the game.

Stanford’s defensive play was

also very impressive. The gamemarked the third time the Cardinalhas shut out a Pac-10 opponent thisseason — Stanford also pulled thefeat against UCLA in its first confer-ence game of the season and againstWashington at the end of October.

“Our defensive coordinator, VicFangio, can’t get enough praise,”said redshirt sophomore linebackerChase Thomas. “A shutout is thebest compliment you can give thedefense.”

Thomas had an excellent gamehimself, leading the Stanford de-fense in a number of statistical cate-gories.He led the team in sacks with2.5, tackles for loss with 3.5 andoverall tackles with nine, as well asforcing a fumble and deflecting apass.

With Stanford among the coun-try’s best teams at 11-1, the Cardinalmust now contemplate the variouspossibilities that could see it land inone of the prestigious BCS bowls.While Stanford is ranked highly inevery major poll, including the BCSstandings, it is not guaranteed a spotin a BCS bowl unless it finishes inthe top four of the BCS standings orwins the Pac-10 — an impossibilitydue to Oregon’s position at the topof the conference.

However, both the players andHarbaugh believe that the team isworthy of a BCS invitation.

“I think we are the best one-lossteam in the country,” Thomas said.“Our offense is really hard to stopright now, they’re so reliable, andour defense made so many stridesfrom last year. I don’t see why weshouldn’t go to a BCS game.”

“Our guys have stated the caseon the field,”Harbaugh said.“We’re

FOOTBALL11/27vs. Oregon State W 38-0

11/20at California W 48-14GAME NOTES: With big wins over its last twoopponents, Stanford finishes the seasonwith an 11-1 record, including an 8-1conference record. The Cardinal sits atNo. 4 in the BCS standings, and is virtuallyassured of a berth in a BCS bowl. Mostanalysts are projecting Stanford to land inthe Orange Bowl or the Fiesta Bowl.

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JENNY CHEN/The Stanford DailyMembers of the Stanford Band watch the dress rehearsal for this year’s Gai-eties, “The Last Temptation of Cal.” Residents and staff from Ujamaa walkedout of the show’s performance on Nov. 19 after 45 minutes.

By ELLEN HUETMANAGING EDITOR

In response to content they found offensive and insensitive,four staff members and 32 residents of Ujamaa walked out of thelast Gaieties performance of Big Game Week on Nov. 19,prompting plans of talks between the two parties to discuss con-cerns and how to move forward.

Ujamaa resident assistant (RA) Robbie Zimbroff ‘12 calledthe portrayals of certain characters in the show “limited,” sayingthey “made people feel undervalued” and didn’t fairly representthe Stanford community. Zimbroff and Yvorn Aswad-Thomas‘11, another Ujamaa RA, pointed to the show program’s “lexi-con” list, portrayals of Native Americans as visibly intoxicatedand an ad-libbed line about dressing up for a party as “Rosa-Parks black” as a few examples that led to the group walking outof the performance about 45 minutes into the show.

But both Zimbroff and Aswad-Thomas said it wasn’t just spe-cific moments but an overall inappropriate attitude that thewalkout meant to highlight.

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WORLD & NATION

Hecker shares findingsfrom North Korean trip

By DEVIN BANERJEESENIOR STAFF WRITER

For six years, management science andengineering professor Siegfried Heckerhas offered Stanford, Washington and theU.S. scientific community a window intothe secretive world of North Korea’s nu-clear program. The 67-year-old former di-rector of Los Alamos National Laboratorytravels as a nonofficial diplomat, returningeach time with insights, photographs anddiscussion points for U.S.-North Korea re-lations.

But on Nov. 12, during his seventh visitto the clandestine nation and his fourth toits Yongbyon nuclear complex, Heckerwas “stunned” to find that the impover-ished state had accelerated construction ofa state-of-the-art uranium enrichment fa-cility complete with 2,000 steel-rotor cen-

trifuges producing low-enriched uranium.If enriched further, the uranium could

be used to produce nuclear weapons.“If you enrich a little and have that ca-

pability, you can easily enrich more,”Hecker told an invite-only room Mondayat Stanford’s Center for International Se-curity and Cooperation (CISAC), wherehe serves as co-director. “That’s really theprimary concern.”

Hecker was joined on the trip by visit-ing scholar Robert Carlin and emeritusprofessor John Lewis, both of CISAC.Though their guides at Yongbyon said theuranium will power a new light-water reac-tor to generate civilian nuclear energy, notproduce weapons, the team’s findings cap-tured international attention upon theirreturn.

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Student organization sells traditional Jewishbread to help raise money for charity

A Loaf Sold,a Stomach Fed

By AMY LANCTOT

If there’s something Stanford students will supportwithout hesitation, it is probably food. Carbohy-drates are even better. This perhaps explains howChallah for Hunger, providing bread in a variety offlavors to the masses,has found its niche on campus.

Challah for Hunger, an organization started at theClaremont colleges, now has chapters at universitiesaround the country, all of which bake and sell challaheach week, donating their proceeds to charity. Challah, aJewish bread eaten on the Sabbath and holidays, is cus-tomarily braided, a tradition Challah for Hunger keeps.

A little less orthodox in their choice of challah flavors, itschallah loaves can be anywhere from plain and poppy seedto chocolate chip,olive rosemary or, recently,pumpkin.Thechocolate chip loaves are especially popular, selling outquickly at the group’s stand at Tresidder on Fridays or evenby Thursday nights,when they emerge from the oven.

The Stanford chapter of Challah for Hunger was co-founded by seniors Helen Helfand and Eva Orbuch dur-ing the spring of their sophomore year. Orbuch hadworked with the UC-Los Angeles chapter’s head at asummer camp and she was inspired to start a Stanfordgroup.

“It seems that while in the Jewish community there wasan emphasis on social justice, there were no concrete op-portunities for service,”she said. “I wanted to provide thatfor the Jewish community and the wider community.”

“As the social action chair for the JSA [Jewish StudentsAssociation], I had been searching for a way to get lots ofJewish students at Stanford involved in social action,”Helfand added. “Up to that point I had organized a fewevents, but they mostly attracted the same small crowd,and I really wanted to create something that the wholecommunity was excited about.”

Originally baking at Columbae and selling in WhitePlaza, Challah for Hunger has shifted to the Hillel kitchenand Tresidder as it has expanded from a tiny, grassrootsstart.

“We’re officially under the JSA, who subsidizes our in-gredient costs . . . so that all our profits can go to charity,”Orbuch said. “Hillel has also been really supportive inlending us their kitchens and the space.”

And as the endeavor has grown, more space has be-come necessary for a much-expanded group.

“We started with 40 loaves every week and now webake 160,” Orbuch said.“The pre-ordering system has al-lowed us to bake in greater volume, as many Row housesand dorms will order a big batch with kitchen funds.”

Although Challah for Hunger may sell baked goods forcharity, Orbuch said,“We are not just a bake sale.” Half ofthe proceeds each week go to Challah for Hunger’s nation-al cause, the American Jewish World Service’s Darfur ini-

tiative, while the other half of the proceeds go to variouscharities in the area or around the globe. But Orbuch em-phasizes the group’s advocacy component as well.

“We have opportunities for political advocacy at theselling table every week, and we’re hoping to ramp up thisaspect of the organization,” she said.“People are interest-ed in our product, but we are also about education andraising awareness.” She mentioned collaboration withStanford STAND and possible work with the StanfordProject on Hunger and Dance Marathon.

Volunteer coordination Ali McInnis ‘13 deals with thechallenges of producing 160 loaves of bread every Thurs-day.

“It’s a lot more work than I thought,” she said. “Tomake so many loaves you need a lot of people,and the timeit takes can depend on how much people know about bak-ing, and whether they’re there to work or just chill.”

“It’s difficult because no one gets paid or has an incen-tive to do it, so we’re a social group that has to run a bit likea business,”she continued.“We have responsibilities to ourcustomers, especially as we are switching to pre-sellingrather than pre-ordering, so we cannot give people thewrong type; they’ve already paid.”

Stanford’s chapter has found a creative way to workaround the problem of lack of volunteers by having stu-dent groups co-sponsor on many weeks.These groups canchoose the charity to which half the profits go in exchangefor helping out with baking and selling. Past co-sponsorshave included various fraternities, Project Love, FAITHand STAND.

Stanford’s Challah for Hunger is considering donatingits profits that do not go to AJWS to a local organizationon a regular basis, as many other chapters do.

McInnis’s volunteer base comes from the entire Stan-ford community, not just Jewish students. She emphasizesthis interfaith component.

“I myself am not Jewish, and got involved last year in aco-sponsoring event,” she said. “I think this is a differenttype of service,which emphasizes education and advocacyas well. It’s also interesting for people to learn about chal-lah and its traditional use in Judaism.”

Orbuch agrees that Challah for Hunger’s popularity isnot religiously exclusive.

“People come because it’s fun, and community build-ing.We like doing thing with our hands and it’s a chance tobake that you don’t get if you don’t live in a co-op or Rowhouse,” she said.

And although the social action and interaction drawvolunteers and buyers alike, an even greater appeal lies inthe bread itself.

“There is a huge desire on campus for fresh-baked chal-lah,”Helfand said. “Buying a loaf definitely makes you themost popular person in the dorm.”

Contact Amy Lanctot at alanctot@stanford.edu.

and the Vietnam War” chroniclinghow Americans remember theVietnam War. After watching it sellrelatively lethargically,“like an aca-demic book,” Turner concluded hehad a more academic mind than ajournalistic one and decided to pur-sue a doctorate in communicationat UC-San Diego. Before joiningStanford as a faculty member in2003, he taught communication atHarvard’s John F. Kennedy Schoolof Government and at MIT’s SloanSchool of Management.

Today, Turner dips his toes inmany fields: He is the Departmentof Communication’s director of un-dergraduate studies and an associ-ate professor in the Department ofArt and Art History, by courtesy,and affiliated faculty in the Depart-ments of American Studies, Mod-ern Thought and Literature, Sci-ence, Technology and Society(STS), Symbolic Systems andUrban Studies.

He is set to take on a new rolestarting next fall as the director ofthe STS program. His most imme-diate plans for the department are“to build on the intersection of cul-tural and social thought with sci-ence and engineering thoughtthat’s been the hallmark of [STS]for 20 years.”

“Think about where we’re liv-ing,”Turner said.“We’re in the mid-dle of Silicon Valley. This regionright now is changing culturearound the world in a way thatmaybe London changed it in the18th century or New York changedit in the 19th century. The thingsthat are being built around us arechanging the way we interact . . . Imean, we are sitting 100 yards fromwhere the first Google algorithmswere written.”

“That’s an intersection that stu-dents need to know about to be lib-

erally educated in the 21st century,”he added.

Turner described examples likethe website eHarmony.com, which“transform the process of falling inlove into a process of applying, cre-ating yourself as a brand . . . turn-ing yourself literally into a product.That’s a really interesting phenom-ena and that’s something that weneed to be studying here.”

Turner believes that differentdisciplines have much to learn fromone another. He emphasized“thinking about what it means to behuman in a highly technologicalera.”

“There are modes of teachingand learning that are deployed ineach context that are rarely de-ployed in others,” he said.

Overall, Turner wants to “seetechnology and science taken moreseriously as agents of culturalchange by humanists” while havingthe “rich humanistic tradition ofthinking about what it means to bea person brought into discussionsabout how we design things andwhat we design things for.”

Turner on TechnologyOne effect of the interactions

between humans and technology isespecially close to Turner’s heart:how digital media is transformingthe newspaper.

“When I was working as a jour-nalist, I wrote many of my stories . .. on a typewriter,” Turner said.“You had to bring your work intothe office or use a telephone to callit in.”

Turner expressed some hope forthe technological transformation ofjournalism because it allows newsto be gathered, produced and dis-tributed “almost simultaneously”by any individual. He believes thatthis allows more people to speakabout important public issues, butthat at the same time establishedbrick-and-mortar newspapers aresuffering to the detriment of society.

The Boston Phoenix, one of thepapers Turner wrote for in the

1980s and 1990s, used to have 120pages. Today, it has 33. For Turner,large print newspapers witheringaway means “highly qualified pub-lic discourse by expert social critics,expert artistic critics, critics of film,of the arts, of music, tends to disap-pear from public discourse.”

“If you called a source and said,‘Hi, this is Fred Turner from TheBoston Phoenix,’ they actually paidattention to you,” he said.

Thinking back to Watergate,Turner said that the current trendin news — moving away fromstrong media institutions that oncehad resources to monitor the gov-ernment and big businesses —causes journalism to lose some ofits power.

“If [Woodward and Bernstein]hadn’t had The Washington Post’smoney and prestige and ability topublicize their case behind them, ifthey hadn’t had The WashingtonPost’s lawyers, Nixon could haverun them out of town.”

“If you’re going to do journalismthat is watchdog work, if your job isto afflict the comfortable and com-fort the afflicted, then you need tobe able to cover large institutionswith big resources, like the Penta-gon, like big businesses,” he added.“Single people can’t do that.”

And as a single individual pon-dering the fate of print media, evenTurner needs a break.

Around 10 a.m., Turner pushesback from his keyboard and walksto Memorial Church, occasionallystepping in to listen to the organistpracticing.While leaving, he likes totake a look at the four words in-scribed on the facade’s mural: love,faith, hope and charity.

“It’s a nice counterpoint to someof the other things in Silicon Valley,which might include ambition,greed,” he said. “‘Love, faith, hopeand charity’ strikes me as a prettygood motto, and I like to go read itabout once a day.”

Contact Zahra Taji at ztaji@stanford.edu.

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