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Stanford professor and 2004 MacArthur Fellowship recipient Daphne Koller talks with Paul Costello about her beginnings in science.Koller has pioneered research efforts in Bayesian methods aimed at allowing computers to make decisions with limited information.

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STUDENT GOV’T

GSC raisesfinancial concerns

By DANIEL BUI

At its meeting last night, the Graduate StudentCouncil (GSC) reviewed projects proposed by theASSU Executives, heard from the director of theBechtel International Center and went over budgetpolicies for the upcoming year.

ASSU Executives Jonny Dorsey ‘09 and FaganHarris ‘09 suggested a number of changes to how stu-dent government might handle various issues andservices offered to the Stanford community. Part oftheir proposal included the creation of a new branchof government that would handle student services.

John Pearson, director of the Bechtel InternationalCenter, spoke to the GSC next. He outlined the cen-ter’s efforts with regard to immigration and insuranceissues, as well as work opportunities.

“In terms of our services to international graduatestudents, it’s split in two areas,” Pearson explained,noting the center’s advising and numerous programsavailable at Bechtel.

University budget cuts, however, have become aconcern in funding those services.

“Hopefully, we can maintain some kind of balance,even with the budget situation,” Pearson said. “Oncewe know what the cuts are, we will figure out how todeal with them.”

Financial concerns were a major topic of discus-sion for the GSC. Co-Chair George Bloom recentlyreviewed graduate policies with the Universityadministration and seemed to approve of how discus-sions have been developing to ensure student organi-zations still get adequate funding.

“The administration is still very committed toimproving life for graduate students,” Bloomexplained. The partnership between the GSC and theadministration “has only been enhanced in the lastfew months,” he added.

GSC members also discussed the recent loss ofmusic equipment, while considering ways in which theequipment can be made more accessible to students,and Matt McLaughlin, financial manager for theGSC, was reelected for a second term.

Contact Daniel Bui at dlbui@stanford.edu.

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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Ex-CEO relatesexperiences

By MIKE DINGDESK EDITOR

Patty Stonesifer, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation, shared her experiences at the helm of one of theworld’s largest private foundations last night at Leventhal Hall.

Hosted by the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and CivilSociety (PACS), the lecture was structured as an informal ques-tion-and-answer session, first between Stonesifer and PACS co-director Debra Meyerson, and then open to individual questionsfrom members of the audience.

Stonesifer said that private foundations such as the Bill andMelinda Gates Foundation play a vital role in democratic soci-eties.Acknowledging that the foundation is extremely large andwell-funded, however, Stonesifer said it can only function prop-erly in conjunction with other agents in society, such as politicalbodies.

“The mix of actors is what makes this so appealing,” she said.“[The foundation] is only a mega foundation when compared toother foundations. Compared to state actors it’s trying to influ-ence or improve, it is not at all mega. Compared to the CaliforniaDepartment of Education, the NIH or the other organizationsthat we want to work alongside of,even Gates with its money justbecomes an actor and not the actor, and that’s very healthy.”

Meyerson raised concerns that partnerships between the Billand Melinda Gates Foundation and other institutions might beunbalanced simply because of the financial resources available tothe foundation. In response, Stonesifer stressed the importanceof getting feedback from the foundation’s funding recipients.

“It’s always easy when you have money that you can saysomething is great,” she said.“I’ve had a lot of partners pick up aphone and tell me that they don’t like what’s happening. That’san indication that those lines are open. Getting that call tells usthat it is working. If we can keep repairing our system, ultimate-ly we’ll make the progress we need.”

But Stonesifer also said that for such lines of communicationto be established, the recipients of donations must also demon-strate strong initiative.

“It starts with strong leadership on the other end,” she said.“The first thing to do is make sure we’re giving to an organiza-tion that has the right leaders in place. That begins the rightrelationship.They should know that they’re doing us a favor by

By CALLA SHENG

5-SURE has recently acquired a car fromStudent Housing to safely transport theundergraduates housed in Oak Creek apart-ments to and from campus.

Located between Sand Hill Road andOak Creek Drive, the Oak Creek apartments

are currently the only off-campus residencefor undergraduates. About 60 students, mostof whom are coming back from studyingabroad, have been placed in Oak Creek forthe quarter by Student Housing. Before 5-SURE’s service, the residents had to rely onpersonal vehicles or the Marguerite shuttle togo to campus and back.

Because golf carts cannot legally travel oncity streets, 5-SURE was not able to driveOak Creek residents in need at the beginningof the quarter, and had to direct them to thenearest Marguerite stop when they called.

“The result of that is getting together withthe staff at Student Housing,” said AssistantDean of Student Unions Jeanette Smith-Laws, who is in charge of 5-SURE. “Therewere meetings held with Student Housingpeople, and we talked about how to resolvethe problem of golf carts going to Oak Creek.

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STUDENTS, ADMIN.DISCUSS DRAW

By CASSANDRA FELICIANOSTAFF WRITER

Residential and Dining Enterprises pre-sented its proposed changes to the housingDraw in a poorly attended Town HallMeeting last night in Toyon. While each pro-posal was explained and presented for feed-back, issues such as the in-house draw processand preferred/un-preferred housing optionsgarnered the most attention from the lessthan 30 students in attendance.

The recommendations for altering theDraw were drafted and assembled by theDraw Review Task Force — a 17-membergroup of faculty, administrators and studentschaired by Rodger Whitney, executive direc-tor of Student Housing. When SeniorAssociate Vice Provost Shirley Everett con-vened the group in June of last year, shecharged Residential & Dining Enterpriseswith a main objective of simplifying the Draw.

“We want to better allocate the increasingsupply of premiere spaces,” Everett said.“This means taking the buildings back to theiroriginal design, meaning buildings originallydesigned for a single will be reverted back toa single, rather than placing two students intoa private room as we do now.”

The proposals are to: (1) create a three-tiernumbering system, (2) consider class standingduring housing allocation, (3) allow unlimitedresidence choice rankings, (4) allow houseand room-type selection online for the 2010Draw, (5) standardize the in-house roomselection process, (6) replace priorities with

pre-assignments and binding agreements and(7) support gender-neutral housing.

Everett and Whitney presented these rec-ommendations in a town hall setting aftermeeting with residential assistants (RAs), res-idence deans (RDs), resident fellows (RFs),Vice Provost for Undergraduate EducationJohn Bravman and Residential Educationstaff in hope of obtaining student feedback.

“I think the goal of tonight is really toengage students, to have a good discussionabout the housing master plan,” Everett said.“It’s very important for us to implement stu-dent feedback on the recommendations thatwe take forward to the Provost for approval.”

The main issues that students were con-cerned with revolved around the effects of athree-tier numbering system and in-houseroom selection. The new in-house drawprocess would allow students to narrow downtheir draw options to room type and resi-dence, rather than just choosing which houseto live in, and the three-tier system presentsthree alternatives to the current un-pre-ferred/preferred year options.

But before the three-tier system is imple-mented, the details of who can draw into eachtier must be decided.

The first option presented by the task forceallows for rising sophomores to draw into theworst tier — housing corresponding to num-bers 2,000 to 3,000 — while giving rising jun-iors and seniors the opportunity draw intoeither the middle or best tier — housing cor-

LADY LAUNCHERSCARDINAL LOOKS TO CONTINUE ITS BRILLIANT BATTING

By DAN BOHMSTAFF WRITER

The No. 8 Stanford softball team will continue itsnon-conference slate this weekend when it travels toSan Diego for the Campbell/Cartier Classic.

Stanford is coming off of a four-win, one-lossshowing at the Kajikawa Classic in Arizona lastweekend, and will play five games, including twoagainst ranked teams, during the four-day tourna-ment, beginning today at 4:30 p.m. against UC-SantaBarbara.

The Cardinal is led by reigning Pacific-10Conference Pitcher of the Week MissyPenna. The senior went 3-1 lastweekend. including a no-hitteragainst Kansas, with a 0.61 ERAand 39 strikeouts.

Head coach John Rittman seesPenna as invaluable to the team’s

success.“Missy is the centerpiece of this program,” he said.

“She is a phenomenal pitcher who continues to getbetter.”

On the offensive side, Stanford is loaded with tal-ent throughout the lineup. Junior catcher RoseyNeill, recipient of the Pac-10 Player of the Weekaward last week, is a menacing threat in the middle ofthe Cardinal lineup. Last season she blasted 19 home-runs, and she already has three this year to go alongwith an astonishing .500 batting average.

Neill recognized her importance as both a defen-sive player and a hitter.

“My first job is to make Missy look good,” Neillsaid. “On the offensive side, it is to get RBIs.”

Neill gets plenty of chances to do just that as thetop of the Stanford lineup is one of the best in the

nation.Hitting out of the leadoff spot is two-time

All-American Alissa Haber.The junior left field-er looks poised to have another big season, car-rying a .467 batting average and four doublesinto the weekend.

To compliment Haber is freshman phenomshortstop Ashley Hansen. One of the mostdesired recruits in the country, Hansen

comes to Stanford with a great deal ofexperience, having been the only high-schooler to go to training camp with theU.S. National Team before the 2008Beijing Olympics. In her first collegiatetournament, Hansen hit .412, including

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GAME NOTES: Stanford senior Missy Pena is thereigning Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week. Juniorcatcher Rosey Neill is hitting .500 onthe season. Stanford will face tworanked opponents at this week’stournament in Long BeachState and San DiegoState.

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In the course of conversation, the ideaof a vehicle came up, and it ended upbeing our best solution.”

The car, owned by StudentHousing, is 5-SURE’s first since theprogram started service in 1979.Smith-Laws said that the 5-SUREteam is dedicated to finding new waysto improve their service and is excitedabout the new vehicle.

“This is what we do, and StudentHousing stepped up to the plate toprovide a means in order for us to

offer the service,” she said. “It’s justbeen a win-win for everyone.”

Since 5-SURE drivers have to belicensed to drive golf carts, the intro-duction of the car has posed no diffi-culty to the team.

“You couldn’t have found a betteralternative,” Smith-Laws said. “We’reexcited to have access to a vehicle,andprovide [students] the service,because otherwise we would not beable to do it.”

According to 5-SURE managerKyle Knutson ‘09, the car was first putin service a week ago. It is a whitesedan with a Housing logo on thedoor. On trips to and from OakCreek, the car’s pickup point is by theflagpole on Oak Creek property on

the corner of Sand Hill and StockFarm Road.

Elena Fuetsch ‘10, residential assis-tant (RA) at Oak Creek, said that theresidents are very happy with the newservice.

“Maybe 25 percent of the peoplehere don’t have a car, and we don’thave Marguerite service on week-ends,” Fuetsch said.“Plus, many peo-ple can’t bring their cars to campuson weekends if they plan on drink-ing, and we certainly don’t wantthem to drive back. Before theywould just stay on campus for thenight; 5-SURE’s car service is neces-sary and very much like a valuableresource.”

Despite popular demand, there are

no plans at this time to extend thisservice to other campus locations,where golf carts can easily navigate.Housing is committed, however, tocontinuing the service for Oak Creekresidents.

“Student Housing is happy to beproviding a university service vehicleto the 5-SURE program,” wroteRodger Whitney,executive director of

Student Housing in an email to TheDaily. “The service is in place for thisacademic year, and we will continueto work with 5-SURE and others todetermine the best program to havein place for the Oak Creek under-graduate residents as long as they arethere.”

“The fact that 5-SURE now has acar for Oak Creek students is big,”Fuetsch added. “It’s great. It is some-thing that we really need here, andwe’re happy that they’re providing it.”

Contact Calla Sheng at hsheng@stan-ford.edu

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taking the money because we can’tget it done from our offices.

“It takes leadership, not just insidethe Gates foundation, but from oth-ers as well to truly effect change,” shecontinued.“That said, there’s an awk-wardness for every partnershipwhere one has the checkbook and theother has to take the actions.”

Stonesifer attributed a large por-tion of the foundation’s success to itsability to remain true to a set of orig-inal core values.

“We did establish a set of valuesand principles,” she said.“We thoughtwe knew them. Bill knew them.Melinda knew them. We shared thesame values and principles for how

we should go forward.”Stonesifer said that as the founda-

tion grew, the decision was made towrite down some of these values inorder to teach them to new membersof the team. But she cautionedagainst making the values too indoc-trinated.

“As soon as you write down prin-ciples and values, they become sub-jects to becoming slogans instead ofdeeply held principles,” she said.“One of our values was that weremain humble and mindful. But thatguideline wasn’t just about beinggreat people, but also about doingour job right. If you’re going to dosomething like what we do, if you’renot mindful of the impact of whatyou know or don’t know what youhave to learn, you will do it badly.”

Undergraduate students whoattended the event enjoyedStonesifer’s lecture.

Sarah Lannin ‘10, an Americanstudies major, said that she decided tocome to the lecture in order to hearhow someone in charge of a founda-tion as large as the Gates Foundationhandled and managed the thoseresponsibilities.

“I wanted to know what shethought some of the greatest chal-lenges were,” Lannin said. “The lec-ture was very informative.[Stonesifer] has had an extremelyillustrious career so far. It’s reallyvaluable just to hear someone likethat speak about their experiences.”

Lannin added, however, that shewould have “liked to hear a littlemore about how [Stonesifer] wouldrecommend undergraduates getinvolved” with the Gates Foundationand other organizations.

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Last Saturday found me with my fatherat our old stomping grounds, AT&TPark in San Francisco, the one place I

can truly call a second home (other thanStanford, Berlin and about 13 or 14 otherplaces). I was there for the San Francisco Gi-ants FanFest, the annual February pilgrimagethat brings thousands of Giants fans to theballpark for the privilege of waiting in line forhours in the hopes of having their favoriteplayer write his name on a baseball, andhopefully ask us our name, that we may walkaway with a false sense of relevance.

I proudly affiliate myself with this fangroup, fully indulging in the delusional be-havior, truly believing that my wishing TimLincecum luck in the coming year is the soledeterminant between whether he wins 20games or gets placed on the disabled list afterbeing physically attacked by the PuertoRican Sharks from “West Side Story.” Thisbelief may well last me my life because, well,it’s harmless and it’s fun.

But on Saturday, the last remnants of an-other willful delusion were completely shat-tered for all baseball fans, as it was revealedthat Alex Rodriguez, arguably baseball’sgreatest active player, failed a steroid test dis-tributed in 2003. The question of how thisstory got parlayed into the public eye when itwas supposed to have been kept confidentialreflects an invasion of privacy no less disturb-ing than the story itself, but that is a discus-sion for another column.

The story has suddenly taken the entirecountry by storm. Even President Obama,who is suddenly competing for headlines,commented on the story, calling it “depress-ing news.”

“If you’re a fan of Major League Base-ball,” Obama remarked in his White HousePress Conference,“I think it tarnishes an en-tire era, to some degree.And it’s unfortunate,because I think there are a lot of ballplayers

who played it straight.”The news is actually more than depressing

to those of us who care about steroids insports (though it’s fashionable to say, “Whogives an *expletive deleted*,” most sportsfans do care). It’s tragic, because Alex Ro-driguez’s positive test and subsequent admis-sion of three years (at least) of steroid use isbigger than just Rodriguez himself.This scan-dal keeps getting worse and worse, and witheach earth-shaking admission from our base-ball idols, the court of public opinion is grad-ually shifting from a panel of benefit-of-the-doubt jurists to those firmly entrenched inguilty-until-proven-innocent ideology, and— dare I say it — rightfully so.We have beenbetrayed time and again, and the question isno longer who is guilty, but rather, if anyoneis innocent.

But the Alex Rodriguez scandal is biggerthan most. Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire,Sammy Sosa, Jason Giambi and RogerClemens (to name a few) screamed steroids,either through their on-field performance orthrough their subsequent reaction to allega-tions.

Alex Rodriguez never did.Few people,ei-ther within the game or outside of it, implicat-ed him (with Jose Canseco being the excep-tion. Isn’t it ironic that people continue bash-ing him, even though, whatever his motives,he may be the one person who is saving thegame? Think about it. He’s been vindicatedin every single accusation he has made).

And so, with A-Rod’s name, statistics andaccolades being marked with the same “tar-nished” asterisk as with all the other afore-mentioned names, fans no longer have anyreason to trust anyone in the game. MLBCommissioner Bud Selig claims that with theimplementation of steroid testing and penal-ties, the steroid era is over. Says who (I mean,besides him)? How do we know scientistslooking for a buck aren’t working on exactlythe same thing now? Isn’t the fact that someof these steroids were undetectable partlywhat got baseball embroiled in this scandal inthe first place?

Star players say they are clean. So what?Why should we believe them? Every singleplayer embroiled in this scandal said theywere clean, until, and sometimes even after,they got caught. Albert Pujols and RyanHoward put up ghastly numbers every year.Should we believe that they’re clean becausethey say they are? Alex Rodriguez said hewas clean, too.That was before he got caught.

We assume that players who rail on othersusing steroids must be clean.The act could begenuine, or it could be rhetoric; you can’t tellanymore. Every type of player, from thegreatest hulk to the scrawny, marginal major-leaguer, has tested positive for steroids.Any-one could be guilty, and they no longer havethe benefit of the doubt with me.

And so, last Saturday, I roamed the field ofAT&T Park,had Brian Wilson scribble on myglove, yelled at Tim Lincecum to have a goodyear and marveled at all six feet and 10 inchesof future Hall-of-Famer Randy Johnson.Andsuddenly, with no warning, I couldn’t help butthink:Who should I be looking up to?

That’s the tragedy.

Mark would have rather written about the lossof his dog,but a picture’s worth of words wouldnever suffice. RIP Chilli Do(ni)g, the greatestdog in history. mrdonig@stanford.edu.

It’s almost become a Stanford cliche. Themajority of students hustle between thegym and class, stopping to chug a Naked

Juice on the way, while a small contingencyof European grad students and studio artmajors ignore the scorn of these ruddy-faced, young Stanfordians as they light uptheir cigarettes. Ambitious members of theformer group looking for One. More. Hu-manitarian. Cause. start Campaign For aSmoke Free Stanford.

Some Stanford smokers get mad whileothers shrug indifferently and drag on theirCamels. I’m not interested in debating thehealth risks of second-hand smoke.What in-terests me are the reasons behind why themajority of Stanford students don’t smoke,and exactly what causes them to cast suchlooks of derision at anyone with a cigarettestuck between their lips.

This may seem like an odd question toponder. Don’t we all care about our ownhealth? With the exception of the occasionalblackout on Saturday nights,don’t we act forthe most part as if our bodies were the tem-ples housing our 200,000 dollar-educated,world-changing brains? Are Stanford smok-ers godless nihilists? Stepping out of the li-brary for a cigarette break the other day,I re-alized that while this assessment might be anexaggeration, maybe our philosophical out-looks do have some bearing on our healthhabits, or lack thereof.

I was in the midst of writing a philosophypaper when I decided to step outside the li-brary for a cigarette. Waxing particularlyphilosophical during that fateful break, I un-derstood profoundly how lighting up putsme into contact with my own mortality. It ex-tracts me from the world I was in momentsprior, the world in which the paper I waswriting was the be-all end-all of my exis-tence. What smoking induced for me at thatmoment was that “What does life reallymean?” question that is generally associatedwith experiences where one is directly con-fronted with death. Having this epiphanyhelped to put my philosophy paper, and themountains of other work I had to do, intoperspective.

Emo? Maybe.Yet I suspect there’s some-thing in my association with smoking and aharsh existential truth that sheds light onwhy people here abstain from cigarettes.Perhaps this springs from the assumptionthat what they do here at school is impor-tant, that it somehow matters in the grandscheme of things. Playing with meaning is adangerous game when you’re on a tightschedule.

Nagging philosophical doubts tend to belike diseases you can control but never cure:once you catch them, they don’t ever reallygo away,but stay lodged inside of you,flaringup sometimes without warning. It’s far saferand more time-efficient not to ponder cer-tain questions. It’s not that I don’t feel likewhat I do has value generally, yet when Ihave moments of doubt, when I start to feellike I’m just going automatically throughmotions, getting my essays in on time orcompleting my German homework sudden-ly becomes much more difficult. In this way,pondering the nature of the universe poses ahazardous risk to my G.P.A.

Yet even the most health-conscious Stan-fordian commits a certain violence towardherself. She lassoes her mind in from outerspace and slams it into the pages of her text-books. She forces her antsy body to be rigidas she sits in a chair in some hushed corner orthe library for hours. She caffeinates herselfinto oblivion and still somehow manages tofall asleep facedown and drool all over herbooks (or is that just me?). The differencebetween this form of violence and the vio-lence of smoking is that the former is for thesake of academic productivity.Yet instead ofleading us to ponder whether or not whatwe’re doing is truly meaningful, this kind ofviolence has a tendency to distract us fromdeeper questions. It may be the means bywhich we think we are achieving lofty goals,yet our breakneck workload often keeps usso busy that we don’t even have time to ques-tion what these alleged goals really mean tous.

I am of the firm belief that it is a goodthing to stop every once in a while and thinkcritically about things outside of the immedi-acy of our schoolwork.What are we so afraidof? Even if smoking the philosophical stogiesparks a confrontation with the abyss,even ifwe prod the nature of the universe and de-cide there are no absolute truths that shoulddictate how we live our lives, it won’t neces-sarily undermine the things we do here. Onthe contrary, it might force us to justify thechoices we make for ourselves, leading us tolive more authentic lives. What I object toisn’t our thinking that what we do is impor-tant. It’s my suspicion that we hastily fore-close the question of whether it is or isn’tevery time it starts to percolate.

Nicole Demby is somewhere outside the li-brary pondering the shape of a particularlymeaningful-looking leaf.Distract her from hermusings by emailing her at demb33@stan-ford.edu.

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Criticized for his inconsistency, JohnMaynard Keynes once responded,“When the facts change, I change my

mind.What do you do, sir?”On the 200th birthday of Abraham Lin-

coln and Charles Darwin,as well as the 150thanniversary of the publication of Darwin’s“The Origin of Species,” the editorial boardwould like to note one of these two greatminds’ most remarkable characteristics: theability to change in the face of new evidence.

Abraham Lincoln lived in a time whendesire for true racial equality was rare.WhileLincoln always opposed slavery, he was atbest an equivocal advocate of racial equality.Felicia R.Lee’s piece in The New York Timesthis week pointed out that Lincoln neverknew successful African Americans whilegrowing up and living in Illinois — he firstmet educated African Americans while inthe White House. Indeed, Lincoln may havespent less than 24 hours of his entire life withAfrican Americans who were not servants.

But what a difference each hour made.Lincoln went from having no real concept of“highly intelligent” African Americans toasking Frederick Douglass, the great oratorand former slave, what he thought of Lin-coln’s second inaugural address. He toldDouglass there was no other person whoseopinion he valued more. It’s amazing howquickly a man who once had African-Amer-ican servants came to regard Douglass asone of the five most “meritorious” men inthe country.

Lincoln’s attitude towards African Amer-icans evolved drastically over the course ofhis life. His opinions changed as his factschanged. If they hadn’t, his legacy mighthave been very different.

Charles Darwin possessed this trait aswell. In the face of conflicting evidence, he

dared to toss out comprehensive concep-tions of the world and the human race.

At a primary debate this past year, MikeHuckabee scoffed at the mere idea of believ-ing in macroevolution: “If anyone wants tobelieve that they are the descendents of aprimate, they are certainly welcome to do it— I don’t know how far they will march thatback . . . “

Today, when almost every tenured pro-fessor in a biology department regards evo-lution as a scientific fact, many others stillfind it too outlandish to believe. Think ofhow the idea might have seemed to Darwinwhen it was truly novel.

Darwin proved willing to embrace eventhe most profound suggestions from empiri-cal evidence. During his travels and studies,he took notes and drew species assiduously,paying close attention to the smallest details.He approached his research with a deep rev-erence for facts — each and every one ofthem. And when he tried to understand thecausal underpinnings of life and nature, hedid not recoil from the truth. His mindchanged as his facts changed.

Countless books have been devoted todiscussing how Lincoln and Darwin met thechallenges before them and what we canlearn from their examples. But in a universi-ty environment — where students are ex-pected to analyze and make sense of new in-formation that floods them each day, wherestudents are constantly exposed to differentthoughts and ideas — the crucial lessonfrom Lincoln and Darwin is that when thefacts change, we must change with them.While putting all discoveries and observa-tions through a rigorous test is essential to le-gitimizing evidence, the editorial boardurges you to be forever yielding in the face oftrue facts.

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By KENAN JIANGSTAFF WRITER

After an illness struck many ofthe athletes on the No. 3 UCLAwomen’s gymnastics team, No. 4

Stanford competed in an impromptumatch on Sunday against UC-Davis.The Cardinal did not disappoint the1,035 fans present at Burnham Pavil-ion, rolling to a 197.1-189.35 victory.

Stanford’s effort produced the

highest team score of the season.TheCardinal also scored season-highteam scores in the floor exercise andvault, in which they earned 49.35points in each event. The gymnastsare now 9-0 in competition, which isa new school record.

Five-time All American seniorNicole Ourada won all of her eventson Sunday, which included a 39.625all-around score. Her teammate, jun-ior Carly Janiga, achieved her sea-son-best all-around score of 39.55.

“We have a really deep team with16 athletes,” said head coach KristenSmyth. “We can go full strength, anda lot of people can step in at any time,so the team is very well-prepared.”

Ourada, coming off a shoulder in-jury, impressed fans with high scoresof 9.9 on the vault, 9.925 on the barsand 9.875 on the beam. Her 9.925floor exercise tied her career highand her vault and bars scores wereseason bests. After her performanceon Sunday, Ourada moved up sixspots to become No. 2 in the nationalrankings.Stanford also jumped in na-tional standings from No. 6 to No. 4.Ourada earned Pacific-10 Gymnastof the Week honors for her effortsagainst Davis.

After finishing third at NCAAslast year, Stanford gymnastics is offto an excellent start as it pursues thenational title.

“We’ve won three of our Pac-10Championships in the last fiveyears,” Smyth explained. “The alum-ni have poured themselves into thisand have built a great tradition. Themost important thing is continuity inbeing able to have a team culture, agreat team culture.All of our athletesin the program are really lucky tolearn the lessons that have beenpassed down from the past, and alsoto pass down their own lessons forthe future. This continuity is what isreally important.”

Stanford will now face No. 10Oregon State and an unranked UC-Davis team in a triple meet on thisSunday at Maples Pavilion, startingat 2 p.m.

Contact Kenan Jiang at kenanj@stan-ford.edu.

By DANNY BELCHSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The No. 11 Stanford men’s tennis team willhead to the ITA Indoor Championships begin-ning tomorrow in Chicago.A 16-team, four-daytournament will showcase the best in collegetennis, and Stanford is ready to be a part of thiselite crowd once again.

This year’s participants are all ranked amongthe top 20 in the nation. They include Baylor,Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Illinois, Michi-gan, Mississippi, Ohio State, Pepperdine, USC,Stanford,Tennessee,Texas,Tulsa and UCLA.

2007 was the last year the Cardinal partici-pated in the tournament. They went 1-2, losingto Ohio State and Duke before beating Miamion the final day of competition. In 2005, Stan-ford lost all three of its matches. 2004 saw theCardinal make it to the semifinals before losingto top-seeded Illinois. In 2003, the team went 1-2. But this year is a new year, and team is deter-mined to have some different results this timearound.

“We are all looking forward to playing thisweekend,” head coach JohnWhitlinger said.

The format of the contest is a bit differentfrom the standard tournament: each team isguaranteed at least three matches. However, ateam has to keep winning in order to have ashot at the title — one loss and you are elimi-nated from contention and play in the consola-tion bracket.

Stanford (3-0) will face No. 7 Florida toopen the tournament on Friday.

The Gators are 5-1 on the season, with winsover Arizona, No. 14 Texas A&M and No. 10Baylor.They are fresh off a match against No.13Illinois on Tuesday, losing in a final tune-up forthe tournament 4-3. Florida has three rankedsingles players: No. 63 Joey Burkhardt, No. 66Tyler Hochwalt and No. 87 Carlos Cueto.

Stanford will counter with three ranked sin-gles players of its own in No. 14 Bradley Klahn,No. 33 Alex Clayton and No. 62 Richard Wire.Seniors Matt Bruch and Blake Muller andfreshman Ryan Thacher are also slated in thelineup, keeping the Cardinal balanced withboth ability and experience.

“Florida is very good team,”Whitlinger said.

“They are very strong up and down the lineup.We are just going to have to figure out prettyquickly in the match what we need to do.”

Unlike several teams in the tournamentthat have played close to 10 dual matches onthe season, Stanford has only played three.Theseason is still young for the Cardinal, so thetournament will be a great barometer forthem.

“This tournament will be a good test to seewhere we stand with all the best teams in thecountry,” Muller said.

The winner of Stanford-Florida will moveon to the quarterfinals and play the winner ofMichigan-Texas, while the losers of bothmatches will play each other.

“This tournament is always a great tourna-ment to see what the competition will be likefor the rest of the year, to figure out what youneed to do to get better,” Whitlinger said.

“Every team is solid,” he continued. “Itwouldn’t surprise me to see a few upsets. It’sgoing to come down to the doubles points, andwhat guys are playing big points well.”

Stanford and Florida will square off at 10a.m.on Friday,with the match on Saturday tak-ing place at 7 a.m., regardless of a win or loss.

“I think this will be a good test for us,”Wiresaid. “There will be no easy matches, but if theteam comes together and plays well, I think wecan beat any team we play.”

“There are a lot of good teams out therewho could potentially win it this week,”he con-tinued. “And I think we are one of them.”

Contact Danny Belch at dbelch1@stanford.edu.

SPORTS

On deck: thedesignated

juicer

Some people, often jokingly,argue that steroids are goodfor baseball because theymake the players better and

the game more enjoyable for fans.Others think the use of steroids isnothing more than cheating.

But the biggest problem withsteroids isn’t determining if their use ischeating or not,or deciding what levelof “performance enhancers” are ac-ceptable — is laser-eye surgery fair?Are Cortisone shots?

It is the uncertainty that surroundsthe game when you can’t be sure whois/was juicing and when.

Well, there is one solution thatcould make all these problems goaway, so I hope Mr. Selig is paying at-tention: legalize steroids.

But don’t just announce thatsteroids are allowed for whoeverwants them — that would still leavethe question of knowing who wasusing. Instead, use the drugs to bringsome balance between the Americanand National leagues and designatewhich players can be rubbed with“flaxseed oil.”

The AL has the designated hitter— which many baseball purists thinkis essentially cheating and not realbaseball — and the NL doesn’t. TheAL has won 11 of the last 17 World Se-ries,and the NL hasn’t won an All-StarGame since 1996. Clearly somethingneeds to be done to makes things a lit-tle more equal.

So kill two birds with one syringeand institute a “Designated Juicer”rule in the National League.

Each NL team would get one play-er who has the option of using steroidsat will throughout the season.In inter-league games played in a NationalLeague park, the AL team would beallowed to inject one player the day ofthe game. In American League parks,the “DJ,” as he could be called, wouldabstain until he returned to NL play.Meanwhile, test all other players tomake sure only the DJs are using —we want this to be fair.

This way, everyone would knowwho was on steroids and who wasn’t.Itwould take away all the doubt and un-certainty and make the game transpar-ent, which is what everyone says theywant.

Just think about the epic match-upsthis would create: bottom of the ninthin game seven of the World Series withtwo outs, the tying run on base and the6-foot-5, 260 pound “DesignatedJuicer” coming to the plate. His mus-cles are bulging beneath his jersey,andthe ground trembles when he walks.The lanky 20-year-old pitcher, whobarely weighs 150 soaking wet and justmade the postseason roster after wow-ing in a September call-up, is drippingwith sweat but steady as a rock as heglares in from under the brim of hispulled-down cap to get the sign.

Can science win the day, or willskill, hard work and the indefatigablespirit of youth triumph? The storylineis just perfect,and would drive TV rat-ings through the roof.

But the best part is that it would putan end to the “asterisk” debate in therecord books. There could be a sepa-rate category for players on steroids:Aaron could be the home run king,and Bonds could be the “enhanced”home run king (assuming we movedall the juicers from before the DJ ruleinto that category).

And, since our society prides itselfon individual freedoms and letting theindividual make his own choices, thiswould set a great example for our kids.Once they become adults, they couldmake the choice if they want to usesteroid or not — we let them decide ifthey want to smoke and decide if theywant to drink; let them decide if theywant to juice.

Clearly the best course of action issimply to normalize and regulatesteroid use rather than trying to fightit.This way, we will know who is natu-ral and who isn’t, and the NationalLeague will get a much needed “shotin the arm.”

And, if A-Rod decides he wants togo back to the 50-plus home run perseason average he put up in Texas, hecould always request a trade to a NLteam . . . the Giants are looking for athird baseman.

Erik Adams enjoys differing from hisfellow columnists and injecting newideas into this space,feasible or not.Con-tact him at ekadams@stanford.edu.

MEN’S TENNIS2/1 vs. Auburn W 5-2

UP NEXT FLORIDA (5-1)2/13 Chicago

GAME NOTES: Both Stanford and Florida have three nation-ally ranked players. Due to weather, Stanford has onlyplayed in three dual matches this year. The ITA NationalIndoor Tournament features 16 of the top teams in the na-tion.

Dominating Davis

CHALLENGEIN CHICAGO

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Stanford will take on 16 of the top 20 teams in the country at the ITA Indoor Championships.The team, led by sophomore Alex Clayton, looks to remain undefeated on the season.

Women’s gymnastics continues to impress

PAUL ZAICH/The Stanford Daily

The Stanford women’s gymnastics team defeated its in-state opponent UC-Davis in an unplanned match on Sunday. The team continues to pursue a na-tional championship, and its fourth Pac-10 title in six years.

Cardinal heads to Windy City for ITAs

ErikAdamsThe Inside Pitch

SOFTBALL Continued from front page

in her very first at-bat.As a team, the Cardinal is hitting

.367 for the season, with a very im-pressive .480 on-base percentage.

This success at the plate comes asno surprise to Rittman.

“This is a really good team, withlots of talent,” he said.“It is just im-portant for us to get games underour belt early on.”

This weekend, the Cardinalshould be favored in all of its games.However in its opening gameagainst UC-Santa Barbara, Stan-ford will face a challenge in thereigning Big West co-Pitcher of theWeek, freshman Krista Cobb.

The Gauchos enter the tourna-ment with a perfect 4-0 record, hav-ing also taken part in the KajikawaClassic a week ago.Santa Barbara isled by the returning Big West Playerof the Year,senior outfielder TiffanyWright.

The game will be somewhat of areunion for Haber as she playsagainst high-school teammate Jessi-ca Beristianos, a sophomore infield-er for the Gauchos. Both Haber andBeristianos graduated from NewarkMemorial High School in Newark,Calif.

On Friday, Stanford will squareoff against two ranked opponents,first against Long Beach State, andthen against the host of the Classic,San Diego State. Both teams comein ranked among the top 25 in thenation.

As last year’s Big West champi-

ons,Long Beach State should pose achallenge to the Cardinal. They areled in the circle by returning All-American and Big West Pitcher ofthe Year Brooke Turner.The sopho-more posted a 27-6 record to goalong with a 0.80 ERA last season.

In the second game of the dou-bleheader. Stanford will take on an-other conference champion from ayear ago, this time Mountain WestChampion San Diego State.

The Aztecs are still in search ofan ace pitcher but come into thetournament with a 2-2 record,whichincludes a heartbreaking, nine-in-ning loss to fourth-ranked UCLA.

On Saturday, Stanford has whatappears to be its easiest game of theweekend against the Aggies of UtahState. A year ago Utah State fin-ished 14-34 and both of its All-West-ern Athletic Conference playersgraduated.

Stanford will close the tourna-ment Sunday with a second gameagainst UC-Santa Barbara.

Neill sees this Cardinal team asone that is only looking up.

“We played well last weekend,but not to our potential,” she said.“There is still plenty of room togrow.”

And if its development acceler-ates this weekend, the Cardinal canreturn home with five more victo-ries.

Contact Dan Bohm at bohmd@stan-ford.edu.

SPORTS BRIEFS

Stanford women’s golffinishes 13th at NorthropGrumman RegionalChallenge

The Stanford women’s golfteam struggled on Wednesday,falling victim to difficult courseconditions to finish 13th at theNorthrop Grumman RegionalChallenge. The Cardinal shot athird-round score of 33 over par togive them a three-day total of 108over par.

Stanford was led by senior Mari

Chun, who shot a third-round four-over-par 75 on Wednesday. After asluggish start, Chun rebounded tofinish the tournament in 13th placeoverall. Sophomore RebeccaDurham also put in a solid effortfor the Cardinal, finishing in 44th.

Arizona State won the tourna-ment with a third-round, 15-over-par performance. The Sun Devilsshot 18 over par over the course ofthe competition. No. 11 Wake For-est was the runner-up, followed byNo. 1 UCLA.

Stanford will look to bounce

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WOMEN’S WATER POLO

Stanford takes a double dose

back on Feb. 22, when it travels toSonora, Mexico for the ArizonaWildcat Invitational.

Stanford men’s club skiingwins first meet of the season

The Stanford men’s club ski teamhad an outstanding weekend, notch-ing its first win this season.The four-way meet, in which Stanford defeat-ed California, UC-Davis and SierraCollege, also marked the team’s firstindividual championship in at leastsix years.

Team captain Peter Smillie ledthe way for the Cardinal, winningboth the slalom and giant slalomevents on Saturday and Sunday, re-spectively.

Smillie’s teammate, Aaron Par-ness, was also impressive, placingthird in Saturday’s slalom event.

The giant slalom was particularlythrilling.Smillie was trailing by a sec-ond after a first run. However, hewas able to make up time with a veryrisky straight line over a knoll in themiddle of the course.

The Stanford women’s club skiteam also had a satisfying weekend,defeating Davis for a second-placefinish.

Forcier leaves football teamQuarterback Jason Forcier has

quit the Stanford football team. Thecurrent senior, who had an addition-al year of eligibility remaining, cameto the Farm from Michigan in 2007,and sat out until 2008 due to NCAAtransfer rules. He was an importantcontributor in practice, winning theCardinal’s Greg Piers Award for hiswork with the offensive serviceteam.This past fall, in his first year ofaction for Stanford, the versatilepasser was as high as second on thequarterback depth chart.

But he struggled in limited action— in four games, he completed only38.5 percent of his passes, with oneinterception and no touchdowns. Hereplaced starter Tavita Pritchardagainst Arizona after Pritchard sus-tained a concussion,but was soon re-placed by third-stringer AlexLoukas, who led the Cardinal on thegame-winning drive with under a

minute left. After that performance,Loukas took over the backup quar-terback duties for the rest of the sea-son, knocking Forcier down thedepth chart.

With Pritchard and Loukas bothreturning, and highly-touted fresh-man Andrew Luck (who redshirtedthis past season) ready to competefor the starting job, Forcier’s chances

at stardom with the Cardinal ap-peared to be numbered.

Forcier’s departure marks anoth-er loss at the quarterback positionthis offseason,coming on the heels ofredshirt freshman L.D.Crow’s trans-fer to Central Florida.

— By Wyndam Makowsky andZach Zimmerman

BRIEFSContinued from page 4

By MICHAEL LAZARUS

Fresh off its success in the Stan-ford Invitational last weekend, theStanford women’s water polo teamlooks to continue its win streak in adoubleheader against Sonoma Stateand UC-Santa Cruz at Avery Aquat-ic Center on Feb. 14.

The No.2 Cardinal went 3-1 in theInvitational to earn the third-placetitle and improved its season recordto 5-1. Although Stanford has an av-erage margin of victory of more thanfive goals, head coach John Tanner isstill not completely satisfied with histeam’s play.

“Our 6-on-5 (power play) was notsharp most of the weekend, and we’llhave to improve there,” Tanner said.“We’ll also need to improve our one-on-one defense. We spent way toomuch of Sunday’s games on powerplay defense because of those short-comings.”

The power play troubles were es-pecially costly in the Cardinal’s loneloss of the season, against No. 1 USCin the Invitational. Leading by onewith two minutes to play, Stanfordhad the ball on a power play, know-ing one goal would secure the victo-ry. Yet the Cardinal was unable toconvert, allowing USC to come backand force the game into overtime,where the Trojans eventually won.

The upcoming games againstSonoma State and Santa Cruz shouldbe great opportunities for the Cardi-

nal to work on power play situations.Sonoma State did not win a gameuntil last week, losing four straightgames to start the season, including a14-1 loss to Hawaii. Stanford defeat-ed Hawaii 8-6 on Feb. 6.

Santa Cruz has not played muchbetter. The Banana Slugs are 2-3,with their two victories comingagainst a 1-7 Fresno Pacific crew inthe Colorado State Invite.

Part of the Cardinal’s struggles onpower plays can be traced to the ab-sence of senior driver Lauren Silver.The three-time All-American andleading Stanford scorer from lastyear has been sidelined all seasonwith injuries. Tanner is not certainwhen she will be back in the pool.Even though Stanford has been ableto manage without Silver’s talent andleadership, there is no doubt her re-turn will greatly enhance the Cardi-nal’s already potent offense.

In the meantime, Stanford willcontinue to score any way it can.While freshman Melissa Seidemannand junior Kelly Eaton have pickedup the majority of the slack, the Car-dinal has been spreading the ballaround, not relying on any one play-er. During the Invitational, 11 differ-ent Stanford players scored.

With so many legitimate scoringthreats, defending the Cardinal is atall order. Stanford has alreadyscored 71 goals in six games, andwhen Silver finally returns, that num-ber may skyrocket.

While Tanner has been goingdeep into his roster to fill Silver’s of-fensive void, he has the oppositeproblem in the cage. Sophomoregoalies Amber Oland and Kim Hallhave been sharing time blockingshots this season. In the Cardinal’sFeb. 8 victory over UCLA, Olandand Hall combined to hold the No. 3Bruins to only five goals and shutthem out in the first and fourth quar-ters. Oland and Hall will likely con-tinue to split time, especially in theupcoming doubleheader.

If Stanford jumps out to a biglead in either game,Tanner will mostlikely give his talented freshmanclass playing time in order to gainsome valuable in-pool experience.While Seidemann has already estab-lished herself as a formidable force,several other freshmen played sur-prisingly well during the Invitationaland are starting to make names forthemselves. Cassie Churnsideturned in a hat trick against ArizonaState on Feb. 8, and Pallavi Menonhad two goals against USC. AlyssaLo, Monica Coughlan and MimiBury round out a freshman class thatgives Tanner great depth and flexi-bility.

The doubleheader begins at 11a.m. against Sonoma State, with theSanta Cruz match scheduled for 2p.m.

Contact Michael Lazarus at mlazarus@stanford.edu.

responding to 1,000 to 2,000 or 1 to1,000, respectively.

The second option allows risingsophomores to choose between themiddle and worst tiers, and risingjuniors and seniors to draw into anytier.

Finally, the third option requiresrising sophomores to draw into theworst tier, the juniors into the mid-dle tier and the seniors into the besttier.

Concerns over the recommenda-tions included a belief that allowingupper-class students to take advan-tage of premiere spaces — roomsthat give students more privacy,such as singles and two-room dou-bles — would interfere with creat-ing a diverse living environment.

“My concern was that the systemwas going to make it stratified, somuch so that seniors would nevermeet people from different classes,and that freshman would neverknow that other classes existed,which sounds like that might hap-pen with the Wilbur/Stern scheme,but that’s probably unavoidable,”said Alex Brown ‘10.

As a result, when Whitney putthe three-tier options to a vote, themajority of students opted for thesecond option, which would allowrising sophomores more flexibilityin choosing their housing.

“Like they said, there’s nothingthat’s not going to have any glitchesin it,” said Ladidi Garba ‘11. “Atleast there’s some flexibility to [thesecond option], unlike the otherones where there really isn’t. Therecould be much more problems withthose other two options.”

Everett and Whitney pointedout that the meetings they’ve con-ducted with RAs, RFs, RDs andResidential Education staff haveshown much the same preference.

“Stanford’s always been a placethat loves options and flexibility,”Whitney said. “I think that’s whatmakes the second choice a goodchoice. It allows people to do whatthey want to do.We’re probably goingto end up going for more flexibility.”

Overall, students enjoyed theopportunity to engage in a discus-sion with the administration onissues that greatly affect them.

“I like that there’s administra-tors working with students and thatthey’re getting the opinions of stu-dents,” said Nicole Gordon ‘11. “Itsounds sappy, but it’s actually real-ly nice.”

Final recommendations from theDraw Task Force will be availableonline for those who did not attendthe Town Hall meeting. Whitneysaid that the changes are to beimplemented in time for this April’sDraw.

Contact Cassandra Feliciano at ccfe-lici@stanford.edu.

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