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Study finds rise in income segregationOngoing debate over Row chef

compensation

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

According to an email update circu-lated by the Stanford Labor ActionCoalition (SLAC), University adminis-trators have refused to meet SLACs de-mands regarding holiday bonuses andpaid vacation for Row chefs and kitchenassistants, known as hashers.

SLAC stated that its representativesrecently met with University administra-tors, including Associate Vice Provost forStudent Affairs and Dean of ResidentialEducation Deborah Golder.

Prior to winder break, SLAC circulat-ed a petition demanding the Universityreinstate vacation pay and holiday

bonuses for chefs and hashers in self-ops,Greek houses, and theme houses at thesame level as the 2010-2011 academicyear; give chefs and hashers full heathcare benefits as during the 2010-2011 ac-

ademic year; cover parking permits andhealth certification expenses for chefsand hashers; and leave the kitchens ofself-ops, Greek houses and theme hous-es in control of the students, chefs andhashers that have created these vibranthouse communities.

SLAC claims 1,400 Stanford commu-nity member signatures on the petition.[The Daily has yet to verify this numberbut estimates, due to some repeat andanonymous signatures, that the numberis over 1,200.]

Apple archive opens doors for select fewBy SANDY HUANG

A spotlight has recently been directed ata little-known archive of documents from

Apple, Inc. The collection rests in an undis-closed location, guarded tightly by StanfordUniversity librarians as part of the specialcollections section.

In 1997, Apple donated many of itsfounding documents, company records andprototypes to Stanford University afterSteve Jobs returned to the company. Thecollection has remained largely private,though interest in the archive has risensince the death of Jobs in October of lastyear.

Parts of the collection have recentlybeen opened to exclusive groups such asthe Associated Press, under the conditionthat they not reveal the location. While thecollection is not open to the public, a major-ity of it has been available to Stanford stu-dents for years.

We welcome students, faculty, any qual-

ified researcher to use these materials, saidLeslie Berlin, a project historian at the

Stanford Silicon Valley Archives.The Apple collection, which occupies

600 feet of shelf space, is considered a valu-able resource for researchers interested in

engineering, marketing or those who wishto track how such a powerful corporationcame into being.

I really feel like a documentary recordis as close as you can get to a time machine,Berlin said. Having documents that comefrom the very time that a historian wouldwrite about in the future, those are very spe-cial.

The collection has a wide range of docu-ments. One is a detailed interview with Jobsand his business partner, Steve Wozniak.This interview reveals the reason Jobs andWozniak chose the now-famous Applename and logo because Apple wouldcome before Atari alphabetically in thephone book.

Other parts of the collection offer amore personal peek into the culture ofApple in its early days. For example, a video

called Bluebusters spoofs the popularGhostbusters movie by having company

executives pose as Bluebusters, who re-place PCs produced by then-rival IBM withApples own Macintoshes.

The only part of the Apple collection

still unavailable to researchers is its hard-ware series. According to the OnlineArchive of California, that part of the col-lection will be closed until it can be fullyarranged and described.

We do not have a specific date set forcompleting processing of the hardware seg-ment of the collection, Berlin said.

With many researchers and historians,not to mention tech enthusiasts, itching toget a peek at the display, many are wonder-ing whether Stanford will open up thearchive to the public. Several media organ-izations have speculated that the collectionwould attract the attention of thieves, thusthe enhanced security and restrictive ac-cess.

Henry Lowood, curator for History ofScience and Technology Collections atStanford, was not available to comment for

this story.When asked if any of the other holdings

in the Stanford Silicon Valley Archivescould match Apples collection in terms ofsize, Berlin knew of a few.

In terms of the Apple collection rela-

tive to others in our archives, we have sev-eral comparable collections in terms of re-search value, including Fairchild, Ampexand Varian Associates, Berlin said, listingseveral powerful tech companies foundedin the region. The Silicon Valley Archivesalso feature a collection belonging toHewlett-Packard.

I think that all of our collections havesomething to offer different researchers,Berlin said.

Any researcher can view materials fromthe Apple collection in Green LibrarysSpecial Collections Reading Room, locatedin the Bing Wing, by requesting themthrough a paging process, which can becompleted in person, by email or online andallows up to a maximum of five items perday.

Contact Sandy Huang at sunhuang@stan-ford.edu.

WORLD & NATION

Flu researchsparks debateover censorship

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

ASSU approves funding for two spring concerts

By SHELLEY XU

Researchers successfully created a version of theH5N1 virus, typically only virulent in wild waterfowl,which could possibly be transmitted to humans.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biose-curity (NSABB) was set up after 9/11 to monitor thescientific community for bioterrorist threats. This isthe first time the board has recommended authorsnot publish parts of an article since its inception in2004, recommending scientists redact portions of thearticle which contain the methodology of how toreplicate the procedure.

This is about one of the worst things I can imag-ine, said David Relman, Stanford professor of mi-crobiology and member of the U.S. National ScienceAdvisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), referring

to a scenario in which a transmissible form of H5N1avian flu might find its way into the public sphere, apossibility that recently came closer to reality due tocontroversial research by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists and, independently, Dutch scien-tists.

The reality is that if it escaped, and behaved as wethink it might, it could cause a global pandemic unlikeanything anyone has ever seen, said Relman, whohas been a member of the NSABB since its founding.

The concern of the board is that people who wantto inflict harm, or even people who simply want topush the boundaries of biology without taking prop-er safety measures, could use the research to replicatethe transmissible virus and release it into the public.

On the other hand, many critics say that the rec-ommendation approaches academic censorship andlimits scientific knowledge. Sara Tobin, a senior re-search scholar in Stanfords Program for Genomics,Ethics and Society, is one such critic.

We all benefit from more understanding of bio-logical processes and how viruses work, and whenthings arent published, there isnt any way to use thescientific methods to make sure . . . people can buildon that in constructive ways, Tobin said.

Tobin said the portion of the research which theNSABB recommended to be withheld from publica-tion could help scientists understand how the virustransmission works, and could be, extremely useful

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Coast to Coast on the Railroad

By BRENDAN OBYRNEDESK EDITOR

The ASSU Undergraduate Senatedipped into a $350,000 buffer fund inorder to fund two upcoming concertevents on campus: BlackFest and a

spring concert sponsored by the Stan-ford Concert Executive Committee(SCEC).

The buffer fund results from theASSUs decision to cover a 10 percentrefund rate by charging each student 10percent more on the cost of studentfees than will be distributed to qualify-ing student groups. This inflated costprevents shortfalls when some studentsrequest refunds of their student fees.

Students are able to request refunds upuntil the second week of the quarter.

Many senators expressed surpriseabout the existence of the fund, whichthey previously did not know existed.Senators did not offer an explanationas to why they were not aware of the

fund before.The ASSU maintains a commitmentto cover a 10 percent refund rate bycharging each student 10 percent morethan will be distributed to qualifyingstudent groups. Any unspent moneyfrom the ASSU general fees budgetalso goes to the buffer fund at the endof the year.

The Senate approved the concertfunding measure in a special meeting

during finals week before winter break,hurrying the process so that the groupscould work on signing artists and con-tinuing preparations.

A $40,000 loan was approved to theStanford National Association for theAdvancements of Colored People

(NAACP), under the condition that 50percent of the profits made from theevent would go toward paying back theASSU Senate first. Senator Ben Laufer12 pointed out the NAACP currentlyhas reserve funding upwards of$15,000. Senate Appropriations ChairBrianna Pang 13 said she finds thegroups reserves justified and should

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Historian Richard White discusses his book Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America onWednesday night in Cubberly Auditorium. The book explores the truths and myths surrounding the railroads in the late 1800s.

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Please see FLU, page 2Please see CONCERTS, page 7

By JUDITH PELPOLA

A recent report by Sean F. Reardon andKendra Bischoff of Stanford Universitys Cen-ter for Education Policy Analysis has found asignificant increase in residential income segre-gation in the United States over the last fourdecades.

High levels of income inequality may, but donot necessarily, correlate positively with highlevels of income segregation, according to thestudy authors.

There can be lots of income inequality butno income segregation, said Reardon, an asso-ciate professor of education.

In 1970, roughly 66 percent of families lived

in mixed-income neighborhoods. This has de-

creased to about 44 percent. This shift corre-lates with an increase in families living in neigh-borhoods characterized as either affluent orpoor.

Bischoff cited areas in Silicon Valley, such asPalo Alto, as places with high home values,which contribute to income segregation.

Income segregation increased most rapidlyin the last decade. According to Bischoff, therewas an increase in segregation over larger areasof land as a result of the recent increase in sub-urbanization.

I was surprised at the sheer increase that

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Earth Sciences opensgeobiology programBy BRAD HUANG

The School of Earth Scienceswill begin interviewing candidatesthis quarter to become faculty fora new program in Geobiology atStanford, according to Geologicaland Environmental Sciences pro-fessor Jonathan Payne.

Earth Sciences will make a se-ries of hires over the next few yearswith the help of a newly formedsearch committee, comprised offaculty from three departments:Geological and EnvironmentalSciences, Environmental EarthSystems Science and Biology.

We expect to make three newhires over the next three years(i.e., one per year), wrote Payne,who is an associate professor inthe new program, in an email toThe Daily.

According to the 2011-12budget proposal from the Schoolof Earth Sciences, geobiology is anemerging multidisciplinary fieldthat will be game changing forthe study of the Earth.

Geobiology is the study of theco-evolution of Earth and life. Itinvolves a wide range of ap-

proaches, from studies of microbe-mineral interactions to the influ-ence of biological activity on thesolid Earth, oceans and atmos-phere, Payne said.

The primary challenge for thecommittee is the scientific breadthof the applicant pool.

Given such diverse areas ofexpertise among the applicants, itis challenging [and exciting] toread and evaluate the applicationmaterials in order to identify thefinalists, Payne said.

Geobiology will not be a full-fledged department. ProfessorPamela Matson, Dean of the

School of Earth Sciences, clarifiedin an email: We are notstarting anew department, but instead hir-ing several faculty that will formthe nucleus of a new, interdiscipli-nary research and educational ini-tiative in geobiology.

Because the search committeeis still searching for new faculty, itis hard to tell how many newcourses would appear with thenew program the courses aredependent on the new facultiesdecisions.

However, according to Payne,it is likely that new introductoryclasses will be developed primari-ly on the graduate level, with someundergraduate courses as an op-tion.

Several other peer institutions MIT, Caltech and USC havealready formed geobiology pro-grams.

But according to Payne, Fewof our competitors have major hir-ing initiatives in this area at themoment.

Payne noted that the field ofgeobiology is just coming to thefore as its own discipline. Paleon-tology was the precursor to geobi-

ology, he said.Geobiology differs from pale-ontology through the emergenceof new biological and geologicalresearch tools, including ge-nomics, isotope geochemistry andnanoscale characterization of bio-logical and geological materialsand processes.

Through such tools, first avail-able in the late 1990s, geobiolo-gists can now investigate phenom-ena in the biosphere andgeosphere.

Contact Brad at brad0309@stan-ford.edu.

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in handling flu epidemics.She acknowledges an inherent

catch-22 of sorts, however, be-cause the research has not beenpublished, making the benefitsand risks are both unclear.

H5N1 is an extremely danger-ous virus, much more dangerousthan the average flu virus.

The 1918 flu pandemic had amortality of 2 percent, and killedtens to hundreds of millions, saidDouglas Owens, director of theCenter for Health Policy in theFreeman Spogli Institute at Stan-ford. This virus kills 50 percent [ofthe time]. Its 25 times more fatalthan the 1918 flu.

Relman echoed these com-ments, saying, [H5N1] is a particu-larly lethal disease. There arentvery many infectious agents in theworld that have higher fatalityrates than this virus does.

Because of H5N1s dangerouscapabilities, preventing peoplefrom inflicting harm by using the

virus is a major concern.Bioterrorism now is a very im-

portant national security threat, soyou have to think about this dual-

use biology quite differently,Owens said. He said he agrees withthe NSABBs actions, and that incases like the H5N1 case, scientistsshould act prudently.

The research used ferrets as asurrogate for transmitting the dis-ease. Some say that because of thisdisparity, there is not sufficientground to withhold publication ofthe methodology of the study, as itis not certain that the virus will actin humans as it does with ferrets.But as Relman warns, You would-nt want to take your chances thatits wrong.

The actions of the NSABBhave also raised concern that thereis no proper mechanism for the sci-entific community and the publicto evaluate biosecurity threats be-fore they become published. Rel-man stated that the NSABB hasrecommended to the United Statesgovernment the formation of localcommittees to help scientists asthey formulate research proposalsto determine the possible dangerof certain experiments.

We need to find a really soundsystem for dealing with all thesekinds of cases, and putting it inplace soon, because we cant havethese one-time solutions, Relmansaid.

There is a lot of work that goeson now in biology that could beused for great good or that peoplewith ill intentions could use to doharm, Owens said. This is anissue that will have to be consid-ered as people move forward.

As of now, the government hasnot reformed or changed the sys-tem. Tobin said she envisions a con-ference in which scientists, the pub-lic and the press can come togetherto discuss the various merits andrisks of publication.

I think that a community isprobably going to be more produc-tive than this small group makingthe recommendation, Tobin said.

According to Relman, theNSABB is moving toward votingin favor of recommending a volun-tary moratorium on publication ofthe latest controversial research toallow for a global discussion.

Contact Shelley Xu at sxu8@stan-ford.edu.

FLUContinued from front page

In the update email, SLAC ob-

jected to a Business Affairs audit ofRow finances and said that StudentOperating Services (SOS), previ-ously the only provider of Rowhouse kitchen labor, may havebeen forced to make cuts afterbeing forced to compete with out-side bidders.

Citing differing calculationsfrom bothsides of the debate, SLACsaid that ResEd administrators haveagreed to share a budget to clarifythe debate, which is part of a largercontroversy over increasing central-ization of Row house finances.

Margaret Rawson

Law School

launches new

China project

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Stanford Law School haslaunched the China Guiding CasesProject (CGCP), a project thatseeks to inform scholars in andoutside of China about legal casesdecided by Chinas Supreme Peo-ples Court.

In Nov. 2010 Chinas SupremePeoples Court decided to insti-tute guiding cases that lowercourts would be compelled to fol-low, a major change to the Chi-nese legal system. In addition,higher Chinese courts implied

harsh consequences if lowercourts refused to follow the deci-sions in these cases.

The CGCP hopes to indexthese decisions in an online,searchable format and translatethem to English. The site will allow

legal experts to post commentaryabout the cases, discussing any im-plications or nuances, and will alsoallow for dialogue between com-menters and experts. All cases andcommentary will be posted in bothChinese and English.

The program is led by MeiGechlik, a visiting fellow at theHoover Institution and a re-searcher at Stanford Law School.Gechlik has experience working inAsia and the United States. Shehas testified before Congress andadvised the U.N. about China-re-lated issues.

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By JUSTINE ZHANG

Aboatful of paddles dipped intothe water simultaneously, push-ing the water back and the boatforward. With every determinedstroke, the boat accelerated, glid-

ing onwards despite its heaviness. The powerof the paddlers was surprising for anotherreason: this was a practice held the chillySunday morning before finals week. But theStanford Dragonboat Team, undaunted,took up the challenge.

Theres a dragon head on the boat, onepaddler said, when asked about his rationale

for joining the team.The dcor is striking: a standard boat

consists of 10 or 20 paddlers, a steerspersonand a drummer. On race days, with its paint-ed scales, dragon head and dragon tail, theboat appears to be a mythical beast.

The artistry of dragonboating suggests itscultural roots. The story goes that a Chinesepoet, Qu Yuan, drowned himself to protestan impending invasion by another state. Tokeep fish and evil spirits away from his body,the common folk beat drums and splashedthe water with paddles. Dragonboating, so itis said, then arose as an activity to commem-orate him.

Dragonboating has since transformedinto an international sport. While it is stillrelatively obscure in the United States, it isslowly becoming more popular at the na-tional and collegiate levels. The CaliforniaDragon Boat Association (CDBA) holdsraces for colleges like Stanford and Cal.

Coaches Tek Li 12 and Mike Liu 00 saidthat they are promoting dragonboating atStanford more as a sport than as a religiousevent. Liu rowed in the CDBA before join-ing the Stanford team. Li started drag-onboating in high school. Structuring prac-tices around their experience in drag-onboating and Lis experience on a college

wrestling team, the coaches try to maintain ahigh degree of involvement. This year, theytripled the practices held per week, one on-water and two off-water sessions. Along withimproving the teams form, these extra prac-tices have been really successful in keepingpeople involved with the team, Li said.

While picking up the basic paddle strokein dragonboating isnt difficult, gettingpower out of the stroketakes a lot longer to mas-ter. The force of thestroke should ideallycome as a result of rotat-ing ones core, while min-

imizing extraneous mo-tions. This principle washeavily drilled in theSunday morning practicesession, where paddlerswere constantly focusingon developing their ro-tation, Li said. Li occa-sionally instructed histeam to perform powerstrokes fast-paced,extremely forcefulstrokes that rapidly pro-pel the boat through thewater. Even seasonedrowers like Liu were outof breath after such exer-cises.

Another challengefor dragonboaters is

mastering the timing ofthe stroke. Both coachesare pushing for a fasterstroke rate, but achievingthat requires that teammembers paddle in uni-son. Synchrony is key todragonboating, but is oneof the more difficult skillsfor a team to achieve.

While the Stanford rowers mostly paddledin unison, moments of discord between theoars caused the boats to flounder.

Strokes should be timed to not go anyfaster than anyone can keep up with, Lisaid. While managing the pace poses achallenge, many team members agreed thatthe idea of doing something in sync with 19

other people is also a big draw of the sport.But for most team members, the most ex-citing part of dragonboating is the races.

Its a chance to really hang out with theteam, one paddler said.

A standard race is 500 meters, and theteam is trying to pare down their currenttime of three to four minutes to two minutes.During practice, Li frequently called formock races. This drill was probably themost tiring exercise for the team, but despitethis, the challenge was appealing: one pad-dler said he enjoyed races because every-one paddles as hard as they can.

In the coming quarters, the dragonboatteam hopes to expand their presence oncampus and recruit more members. Li saidthe teams distribution of flyers and emails,along with word-of-mouth, are instrumentalfactors in putting a face to the name drag-onboat and drawing more people to thesport. Li hopes to ultimately quadruple the

current number of paddlers. As a result, noexperience or athletic background is a pre-requisite for participation.

I want to expose a sport; so if someone isinterested, Ill do my best to let them in, Lisaid.

The one requirement, Liu added, is awillingness to do something new.

It matches up very well with a typicalStanford student, whos adept at more thanone dimension, he said.

Contact Justine Zhang at justinez@stanford.edu.

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Stanford dragonboat rowers at the 2011 California Dragon Boat Association College Cup at Lake Merced.

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Nolan named NationalSwimmer of the Week

Freshman swimmer DavidNolan capped off an impres-sive week for the men s swimteam by being named Nation-al Swimmer of the Week bycollegeswimming.com onTuesday.

The Hershey, Penn. nativearrived on the Farm with loftyexpectations after competing atthe senior U.S. Nationals whilestill in high school, and Nolanhas thus far lived up to the hype,

ranking among the top 15 na-tional times in five events aswell as posting the Cardinal stop times in four events.

In Saturday s meet againstthe University of the Pacific,Nolan won the 50-meterfreestyle, the 200-meter back-stroke and the exhibition 100-meter butterfly. Nolan s timeswere good enough to meet theOlympic Qualifying B Stan-dard in each event.

The No. 3 Cardinal has aweek off from competition be-fore meeting Arizona and Ari-zona State in the pool at theAvery Aquatic Center on Jan.20 and 21.

Kristina Vaculik helps Canadiangymnastics team qualify for2012 Olympics

When freshman gymnastKristina Vaculik decided totake a year off from school tocompete with the Canadian na-tional team, she had one goal inmind qualify for theOlympics. On Wednesday, shedid just that, posting her team sbest score on the uneven bars asCanada was one of four teamsto advance to the London

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By TOM TAYLORSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Tonight the Stanford womens basket-ball team starts its first-ever road trip to thenew Pac-12 schools, Utah and Colorado.

The No. 4 Cardinal (13-1, 4-0 Pac-12)will look to secure its position at the top ofthe conference against the Utes (13-1, 2-1Pac-12) in Salt Lake City before headingup to play the Buffaloes (8-6, 1-2 Pac-12) in

Boulder on Saturday afternoon.Stanford has met Utah 12 times before

this season, most recently on the road inNovember 2010, and has won on every sin-gle occasion so far. However, the Utes maydraw inspiration from their recent roadwin against Washington, and the Cardstruggled against Oregon State at Mapleslast weekend. To cause an upset, though,Utah will need to find a way to deal withthe Ogwumike factor.

Senior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumikehas been a consistent force for the Cardi-nal this season and leads the Pac-12 in bothpoints and rebounds, with 24.5 points pergame and 11.9 rebounds per game. Shewon her third Pac-12 Player of the Weekhonor this season for her performancesagainst the Oregon schools last week, andis a leading contender for national player

of the year.Though her sister, sophomore forward

Chiney, has not had quite as much consis-tency or success so far this year, both sistershad double-doubles against Oregon Statelast week. The effect these two players canhave on a team was also evident in the pre-vious contest against Oregon, when theDucks strategy revolved around forcingthe Card to shoot from outside, althoughfreshmen forwards Bonnie Samuelson andTaylor Greenfield are able to hit threes atwill, forcing the Ducks to pay for their

strategy.Utah will look down low to its top per-

formers, as forwards Michelle Ploufe andTaryn Wicijowski lead the team with 15.1and 12.9 points per game respectively. In-terestingly (and unusually, for the Cardi-nal) the Utes might have a height advan-tage in this matchup. Like Chiney Ogwu-mike and four other Stanford players,Wicijowski stands at 6-foot-3, but the 6-foot-4 Ploufe and two other Utah forwards

are only beaten in height by the Cards 6-foot-5 redshirt junior forward SarahBoothe. As a result of its height in thepaint, Utah is fourth in the conference indefensive rebounds, two places belowStanford, and fifth in blocked shots, twoplaces above the Card. However, the Uteshave struggled to use this advantage at theother end of the court, sitting in 11th placein offensive rebounds.

After a solid string of play during thewinter break, Stanford head coach TaraVanDerveer will be hoping that her play-ers can find greater consistency in theirplay. The seven-game stretch featuredsome great individual performances and acouple of routs, but at times the Cardinalstruggled and perhaps relied far too heavi-ly on the skills of Nnemkadi Ogwumike toget it out of tricky situations. While the

conference is only a few games old, bothsecond-place teams, USC and WashingtonState, are locked in rivalry games thisweekend, and a Stanford sweep of the newPac-12 schools this weekend could providea huge boost to Stanfords dreams of win-ning the inaugural title.

Tip-off between Stanford and Utah atthe Jon M. Huntsman Center in Salt LakeCity is at 6 p.m. tonight.

Contact Tom Taylor at tom.taylor@stan-ford.edu.

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MILES BENNETT-SMITHMANAGING EDITOR

It didnt take long for the No. 4 men s vol-leyball team to get on track in its season-opening match against the University of thePacific. After battling back and forththroughout the first set, a pair of kills bysophomore Steven Irvin gave Stanford

some breathing room over the No. 15 Tigersand the Cardinal didnt look back UOPdidnt breach the 20-point mark again asStanford picked up a 3-0 road sweep onWednesday night.

The Cardinal (1-0) came into the matchwith some momentum from two wins overvisiting Thompson Rivers of Canada overthe weekend, but those came in exhibitionmatches, and Pacific posed much biggerproblems with All-MPSF selection TaylorHughes.

In the first set, Hughes looked like hemight prove to be a problem for the Cardi-nal defense, notching four kills and a block.But the Tigers offense went ice cold in thesecond set, finishing with just nine kills on 27swings with four attack errors a .185 hit-ting percentage.

Conversely, Stanford s attack really start-

ed to press the net in the second frame. Afterhitting .265 in the first set, the Card hit .367in set two, as sophomore outside hitter BrianCook turned in one of the best performanc-es of his young career. The Santa Cruz nativehad 13 kills on the night and just two attackerrors, a .478 hitting percentage to go withhis two service aces.

And after pounding Thompson Riversdefense for 15 kills in the last exhibitionmatch, sophomore opposite Steven Irvin ex-panded on what has been a solid offseasonwith eight kills.

With senior outside hitter Brad Lawson a two-time American Volleyball CoachesAssociation First Team All-American

CAROLINE CASELLIDESK EDITOR

Tonight, the Stanford mens basketballteam hosts Utah in its first visit to MaplesPavilion as a Pac-12 contender. The Cardinal(13-3, 3-1 Pac-12), playing in its only home-stand in the month of January, has not facedthe Utes (4-11, 1-2) since 1997.

Both teams came away with splits lastweekend, with the Utes beating WashingtonState in overtime, then losing to Washington,and the Cardinal falling to Oregon beforepicking up an exciting four-overtime win overOregon State. However, head coach JohnnyDawkins hopes that the team and the home

crowd dont dwell on the thrilling victory.Everyone is still amazed about the game

and wants to talk about the game and stay inthat moment, he said. And we need tomove on to our next moment, which is thisweekend, and our opponents that we facecoming up with Utah, so you know we wantto move on.

Utah, who was slated to finish last in theconference, has already exceeded expecta-tions. The Utes offense centers on seniorguard Josh Watkins, who led all players with18 points in the victory over WashingtonState, and ranks fourth in the Pac-12 in scor-ing with an average of 15.6 points per game.He is equally dangerous when creating op-

portunities for his teammates, dishing thesecond-most assists per game in the confer-ence, with an average of 4.93. Defensively,junior center Jason Washburn ranks fifth inthe conference in rebounding, with 6.9 pergame, while shooting 58.3 percent from thefield, fourth-best in the conference.

I think Utahs a good team, they havepotential, Dawkins said. I think theyvebeen getting better all season, culminatingwith the games you saw this past weekendversus the Washington schools. Theyre verycompetitive; theyre a physical team, andkind of resembling their coach . . . You can

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Senior guard Lindy La Rocque (above) and the Stanford womens basketball team head tothe Rockies this weekend for conference matchups against Utah and Colorado.

TIGERS ARE EASY PREY

Jack BlanchatMENS BASKETBALL

Card welcomes Utes to Maples, Pac-12 Shaw alreadyoutclasses

Harbaugh

Youve heard it all yearlong: David Shaw is notJim Harbaugh. DavidShaw will never be JimHarbaugh. David Shaw

cant do what Jim Harbaugh did. Butthats apparently a good thing.

How can this be so? As of today,Shaws first-ever recruiting class is

ranked higher than any class thatHarbaugh brought in during his fouryears on the Farm.

Thats right: with the addition ofrunning back Barry Sanders, Jr., theCardinals incoming recruiting classis currently ranked as the No. 15 classin the entire nation. Harbaughs re-cruiting classes during his four yearswere ranked 50th, 20th, 26th and22nd.

Now, national signing day isntuntil Feb. 1, so that ranking could stillslide up or down, but the fact remainsthe same: Instead of letting Stanfordslide back into mediocrity with a sub-par recruiting class, Shaw has goneout and gotten the Cardinal its high-est-ranked recruiting class . . . ever.(At least since Rivals.com began to

rank recruiting classes in 2002.)Anybody worth their salt knowsthat recruiting rankings are, at best, aflawed metric mediocre NotreDame somehow always brings in atop-20 recruiting class but every-one also knows that there is no wayto win in college football unless youcan recruit well. Just look at nationalchampion Alabama the Tide has-nt had a recruiting class outside thetop 10 since 2006, and even then, ithad the No. 11 class in the country. Itsno wonder that it has been to threeBCS bowls in the last four years.

So even though the Cardinals2012 recruiting saga isnt completeyet, what Shaw has done on the re-cruiting trail has been particularlyimpressive. Not only has he contin-

ued what Harbaugh started, but hesalso already put his own stamp on theprogram by pulling together a trulyimpressive recruiting class in his firstseason as a head coach.

First, he snared commitmentsfrom two high-profile, highly sought-after recruits: running back BarrySanders, Jr. and linebacker NoorDavis.

Sanders, son of NFL legend BarrySanders, spurned Florida State, Ala-bama and Oklahoma State (his fa-thers alma mater) to come to Stan-ford. The Oklahoma City native isranked as the No. 1 running back in

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Games at the Olympic QualifyingTest Event.

One of seven team members,Vaculik is a two-time Canadianall-around champion and wonfour titles at the 2010 nationalchampionships.

As a freshman on the Farmlast year, she competed in allfour events and scored at least

9.825 points (out of 10) in each.Her season-high score came at acrucial time for the Cardinal,when she placed third on thebars at the NCAA Ann ArborRegional.

Assuming Vaculik stayshealthy, she will likely be one ofthree Olympians on Stanford s2013 roster sophomore ShonaMorgan and freshman RebeccaWing competed at the 2008 Bei-

jing Games for Australia andGreat Britain, respectively.

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weve seen, Bischoff said.The recent housing crisis may

have caused an unpredictableeffect on income segregation, ac-cording to Bischoff and Rear-don, especially due to the factthat both low-income and mid-dle-income families were fore-closed on in recent years.

The recession and the hous-ing market crisis has been a hugedisruption to the trends in therelationship between how muchmoney people make and wherethey live, Reardon said.

This trend is troubling ac-cording to both authors, whosaid mixed-income neighbor-hoods provide better publicservices for society.

Higher-income areas oftenspend more on public services,Reardon said. He further noteda smaller need for such publicservices in higher-income neigh-borhoods, showing an inefficient

allocation of resources.Mixed-income neighbor-hoods therefore provide aspillover of public services ac-cording to Bischoff. Such neigh-borhoods provide more re-sources for low-income childrenwho would not have access tosuch services in isolated, low-in-come neighborhoods.

Reardon also cited mixed-in-come neighborhoods as benefi-cial to the political sphere.

We worry that increasingsegregation means increasingpolitical polarization, he said.Should representatives be morefrom mixed-income areas, ac-cording to Reardon, there wouldbe increasing pressure for repre-

sentatives to work toward amore common good, rather thanrepresent the individual interestof segregated districts.

Furthermore, both authorsclaim that increasing incomesegregation decreases thebreadth of perspective peoplehave in regards to the lives ofthose with different economicstatus.

We think that having morecontact with people that are dif-ferent from yourself benefits theability to make decisions aboutsocial policy and the democraticprocess, Bischoff said.Both Reardon and Bischoff saythat developments that promotemixed-income housing in partic-ular areas would help reversethe trend.

The truth of the matter isthat income segregation is hardto reverse, Bischoff said, partic-ularly due to its connection tohousing stock, which changesslowly over time.

Bischoff also stated thatchanges in income inequalitywould have a variety of socialeffects beyond income segrega-

tion, and such changes wouldmost likely be a result of taxpolicy.

The study was an extensionof a previous study done byBischoff and Reardon aboutthe connection between incomeinequality and income segrega-tion during the period of 1970to 2000. The research was sup-ported by the US2010 projectconducted by Brown Universityand the Russell Sage Founda-tion. US2010, led by JohnLogan, is a research project fo-cusing on recent societal trendsin America.

Contact Judith Pelpola at jspelpo-la@stanford.edu.

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not be used given that the groupsannual operating budget is$35,000.

Pang, who is a staff member ofStanford NAACP and currentlyserves as the groups frosh interncoordinator, sponsored the bill.

BlackFest hopes to use themoney to help sign popular hip-hop artist J. Cole, who recently

was nominated for Best NewArtist at this years GrammyAwards.

Another bill also requestedfunding to hold a concert in FrostAmphitheater this year. A billauthored by Stephen Trusheim13 requested $35,000 to supporta concert organized by the Stan-ford Concert Executive Com-mittee (SCEC), a newly formedgroup in conjunction with theStanford Concert Network(SCN).

The bill gives Trusheim, whois a member of SCEC and alsothe executive chair of StudentGroups and Events for theASSU, and Emily Pollock 13, co-director of SCN, authority to

spend the money how they seefit.Senator Alon Elhanan 14

fought hard to tie this $35,000grant specifically to subsidizingstudent costs, and was joined byLaufer in an effort to have spe-cific language in the bill notingthat this money would go towardsubsidizing tickets.

ASSU Executive Michael

Cruz 12 and Senator Nate Gar-cia 14 both argued that it doesnot matter where the moneygoes if it is used to support theconcert. The final bill does not in-clude any language about themoney being allocated to stu-dent ticket subsidies. The billdoes mention students would re-ceive at least a 15 percent dis-count off of the face value of thetickets. The face value for ticketsis still undetermined, making itdifficult to predict how much astudent ticket subsidy would costthe group or save students.

Many of the senators ex-pressed frustration withTrusheim, who did not attend themeeting during finals week ofautumn quarter to discuss thebill and answer questions. Sena-tor Shawn Dye 14, a StanfordConcert Network (SCN) mem-ber, was also absent from the fi-nals week meeting.

Trusheim and Dye must re-port to the Senate at least once aquarter to give an update on howthe project develops and how themoney is spent. Organizers ofBlackFest must report at leastonce every two weeks.

The BlackFest bill states thatASSU Financial ManagerNeveen Mahmoud 11 estimated

that the $70,000 dollar withdraw-al would not be a problem for theASSU.

Financially speaking, theproposal to withdraw roughly$70,000 does not seem like it willdrastically negatively impact thebuffer fund as is, Mahmoud said.

Contact Brendan OByrne atbobyrne@stanford.edu.

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