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tional law from the diplomaticprocess. He argued that Israel hasused its diplomatic leverage, to ex-clude any consideration of the in-ternational law bearing on such is-sues as refugees, borders,Jerusalem, water and settlements.

What in fact was the politicalfoundation of the negotiations wasthe so-called facts on the ground,which is a euphemism for convert-ing unlawful developments into apolitical premise on which negotia-tions are supposed to proceed,Falk said.

He deemed this process, a rati-fication of illegality in the name ofrealism.

Moving to explain his pes-simism at the possible results of thepeace process, Falk said the kind ofpeace process he imagines as hav-ing the potential to produce, a sus-tainable and somewhat just peacewas never given any opportunity

to develop.Falk did, however, emphasizethe importance of finding a resolu-tion to the conflict.

So long as this conflict contin-ues, it produces a cycle of intensetension . . . it produces war-gener-ating situations as now seem to bethe case in relation to Iran . . . itkeeps the whole region in a perpet-ual pre-war condition, he said.

One wouldve supposed thatsomething more imaginative thanthis futile process would haveemerged at this stage, and yet whatdoes one find from our leaders? he

asked. A unified plea to the partiesto resume these fruitless negotia-tions.

Falk attributed this continuedreturn to the conventional diplo-matic framework to the delusionthat a peace process exists throughthis negotiating charade.

There is this sense that some-thing constructive can possiblyemerge, and it removes any pres-sure to do something else, he said.It creates this closure of the imag-ination and . . . takes our attentionaway from the ordeal of sufferingthat has been imposed on the Pales-tinian people.

After painting a bleak picture ofthe peace process, Falk called forthinking outside the conventionalbox.

I cant envision how [the situa-tion] will be transformed in a con-structive way without moving fromthe domain of reason and analysisto the domain of the imagination,he said.

Falk stressed that multiple alter-natives are possible, but focused ona region-wide solution incorporat-ing Israel and Palestine, coupled

with the establishment of a nuclearfree zone in the Middle East.It does seem to be the one kind

of orientation that could reallychange the negative expectationson all sides and produce, with a littlegive on the part of several of the ac-

tors, a genuine win-win outcome forall the participants in the region, hesaid, mentioning the Arab PeaceInitiative of 2002 as an example.

Falk made remarks on the con-textual changes that have affectedthe peace process more recently.He highlighted the Arab Spring, de-velopments within the Palestinianmovement and changing publicopinion.

He described the Arab Spring asencouragement for increased de-mocratization in the region, whichinevitably works in favor of thePalestinian struggle. He alsopraised the great potential he sawin nonviolent military in the Pales-tinian resistance movement.

Perhaps the most importantdevelopment within the Palestinianmovement itself is a strong shift intactical emphasis from armed re-sistance to popular resistance and areliance on a global solidaritymovement of the sort that was soeffective in opposing apartheidSouth Africa, he said. The Pales-tinians have increasingly been wag-ing what I call a legitimacy war tooccupy the high moral and legal

ground in relation to the conflict.Following the talk, John Felstin-er, English professor emeritus,commented that Falks talk pre-sented half the truth, historically.

I provided an interpretationbased on my understanding of how

to see the essential issue, Falkreplied. I would stand behind myview that the essential character ofthe conflict represents this denial . .. of Palestinian rights, the expan-sion of Israel [and] the uncondi-tional way in which the U.S. hashandled the conflict.

Regardless of where you standon the conflict . . . hearing some-one with such high academic stand-

ing and rank in the internationalworld . . . spend most of the timenot imagining peace but shootingdown peace at an event calledImagining Israeli-PalestinianPeace was quite frustrating, audi-ence member Daniel Bardenstein13 said.

Other members of the audienceposed questions on populationtransfer issues, grassroots socialmovements, Hamas charter and itsviability as a partner for peace andthe inevitability of a one state solu-tion.

The event was co-sponsored byThe International Law Society, Stu-dents for Palestinian Equal Rights,the Stanford International HumanRights and Conflict Resolution

Clinic, the Advanced Degree Stu-dents Association and the StanfordAssociation for Law in the MiddleEast.

Contact Marwa Farag at mfarag@stanford.edu.

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These incidents stand out amongrecent history of Stanford Athletics.A 2010 Sports Illustrated-CBS Newsinvestigation ran criminal back-ground checks on the players in everytop-25 Division I football program, asranked by Sports Illustrated duringthe preseason. The University ofPittsburgh led the list with 22 playerson its roster found to have policerecords, while Stanford came in sec-ond to last with only one player witha police record. Texas Christian Uni-versity (TCU) was the only top-25school with no players with policerecords.

Three other Pac-10 schools werein the top-25 at the time of the inves-tigation: Oregon (seven players),USC (seven) and Oregon State(four). Utah (five) was not in the Pac-10 at the time of the investigation, butis now a member of the Pac-12,formed in 2011.

Stanfords linebackers are likely

to be one of the strongest units on theteam next season, with Skov and red-shirt junior Chase Thomas attractingserious NFL attention.

ESPN NFL Draft analyst MelKiper rated Skov as the No. 3 seniorinside linebacker for next year, writ-ing, Skov is an interesting prospect,and if hes fully healthy the Stanforddefense is going to be quite good.

Alice Phillips contributed to this re-port.

Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg2014@stanford.edu.

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his time at Stanford, Booker was notonly named an All Pac-10 AcademicTeam Football Player, but was alsoelected to the ASSU Council ofPresidents. He was later named aRhodes scholar, and after attendingOxford University, graduated fromYale Law School in 1996.

Bookers 2002 campaign forNewark mayor against 16-year in-cumbent Sharpe James was thefocus of the 2005 film Street Fight,which was nominated for thatyears Academy Award for BestDocumentary. While Booker lostthat years election, he would win

the position in 2006 after James de-cided not to run for another term.

Currently serving his secondterm as Newark mayor, Booker was

named one of Time Magazines 100most influential people in world in

2011. American media mogulOprah Winfrey wrote about Book-er in the magazine when he re-ceived the distinction, calling him agenius. Winfrey referenced hiswork reforming Newark schools, in-cluding raising $100 million as theresult of a gift from Facebookfounder Mark Zuckerberg.

The senior class presidents alsoannounced that Hoover InstituteSenior Fellow Larry Diamond, se-lected by a survey of Stanford sen-iors, will be the 2012 Class Dayspeaker. Sister Joan Chittister, aBenedictine nun and co-chair of theGlobal Peace Initiative of Women,will deliver the Baccalaureate ad-dress.

The 2012 Commencement

Weekend will take place June 16 to17.

Kurt Chirbas

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estimated.SPER anticipates making its

first formal presentation to theBoard of Trustees later in the year.Shakir emphasized the groups cur-

rent focus on making the Stanfordcommunity more aware of an issuehe considers relatively misunder-stood among students.

The group is in the process ofputting on a series of public eventsand student outreach initiatives inconjunction with other studentgroups focusing on human rightsand social justice.

Were going dorm to dorm,holding student events, Shakirsaid. We see the campaign grow-ing, and our goal is for students, fac-ulty and staff to continue to raisetheir concerns about this issue.

Two delegates from SPER at-tended a Boycott, Divestment andSanctions (BDS) event at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania this past

weekend. The event incorporatedboth keynote speakers and paneldiscussions on how to force Israelto comply with the movements

perception of international law.Both delegates, speaking on

condition of anonymity citing riskof academic conflicts, asserted thatSPER is currently seeking to dis-tance itself from the broader BDSmovement in certain policy areas.One delegate emphasized thatSPER supports selective ratherthan wholesale divestment andlacks a position on calls to boycott,

sanction and divest from Israel en-tirely. The delegate said thesestances distinguish the Stanfordgroup from its counterparts at peerinstitutions.

The delegate, a Stanford sopho-more, cited the diverse range of par-ticipating individuals and organiza-tions as proof of the conferencessuccess, while Shakir praised theconcept behind the weekendsevents.

The campaign is increasinglygaining momentum across thecountry, Shakir said. Were proudto be a part of this movement, andwe want to strategize about how wecan get more of the country in-volved in [our] activities.

The BDS conference sparkedcontroversy on the Penn campus,with students and faculty sharplyand publicly divided.

Comparisons of pro-Israel cam-

paigners to apartheid South Africaand BDS supporters to Nazi Ger-many, respectively, persistedthroughout the weeks leading up tothe conference.

In an op-ed that ran in the DailyPennsylvanian, University of Penn-sylvania President Amy Gutmanndeclared that the University has,repeatedly, consistently and force-fully expressed its opposition to

the BDS campaigns goals. Sheadded that, just because we dis-agree in this case strongly anddeeply with a groups messagedoes not mean that they lose theirright to voice that message.

Noah Feit, president of PennFriends of Israel, said in an inter-view with The Daily that BDSspeakers made some legitimatepoints and that free speech shouldprevail, but criticized the confer-ences lack of policy prescriptionsand his perception of a dependenceon fringe support.

Every political issue has to be de-bated, said Ania Loomba, an Eng-lish professor at Penn, to The DailyPennsylvanian. If you just out-of-hand dismiss it, thats also shuttingdown the debate.

Contact Marshall Watkins at mt-watkins@stanford.edu

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By JAMES LANCASTER

On a Monday morning atthe Coupa Caf outsideof Green Library, loyalregulars wait in line forcarefully crafted lattes

and cappuccinos. The aroma of fresh-ly prepared Venezuelan dishes andthe sound of lively Latin music en-sconce passersby. Baristas attend tothe hissing espresso machine, tryingto keep up with the seemingly endlessqueue of drink orders from sleepy pa-trons seeking a morning boost.Known for its bold coffee and espres-so drinks as well as its affordableand a uthentic Venezuelan fare

Coupa Caf has become an integralpart of the Stanford community in itsfour years on campus.

Jean Paul Coupal 07, who graduat-ed from Stanford with a degree in eco-nomics, opened the first Coupa Caf inPalo Alto in 2004 with his motherNancy Coupal. Coupals initial philoso-phy behind Coupa was simple: to pro-vide fresh, high-quality and affordablecoffee.

The idea is to get great coffee di-rectly from the source to you, Coupalsaid. We purchase the highest qualitybeans from farmers in Venezuela andthen brew and ship them out to Califor-nia next-day air.

In addition to its bold, fresh coffee,Coupa Caf is also known for its exten-sive menu, which includes dishes such

as authentic Venezuelan arepas, sweetand savory crepes and paninis featuringlocal ingredients served on freshlybaked organic wheat breads.

We want Coupa to be a placewhere you can go and not only get agreat cup of coffee, but also get a greatmeal, Coupal said. I think that havingboth high quality coffee and food hasreally allowed us to be successful atStanford.

Coupa Cafs success on campusbegan with its opening in the Yang andYamazaki Environment and Energy(Y2E2) building in 2008. Upon open-ing, Coupa Y2E2 quickly became a fa-

vorite spot for students and professors.In 2010, Green Library also awardedCoupa Cafe a lease to replace Moon-Beans Coffee, which had occupied theneighboring kiosk for 10 years. Coupalsaid that he largely drew from his ownexperiences at Stanford in drafting aproposal for a Coupa location at GreenLibrary.

I was an undergrad here, so I reallyunderstand the value of having a Couparight at Green Library, Coupal said.

In 2011, Coupa Caf further ex-panded to the Graduate School of Busi-ness and opened an express branch atthe Huang Engineering Center. The ex-pansion of Coupa at Stanford, Coupaldescribes, can be attributed to its pro-

gressive and innovative mindset.We constantly aim to improve our

product, and I think thats why peoplehave responded to Coupa so favor-ably, Coupal said. I want people to re-ally recognize Coupa for its quality.

Coupal also noted how his experi-ences as a Stanford student have beenan immense help in his ventures as arestaurateur.

Economics definitely gave me aspecific mindset for solving problems,Coupal said. A lot of the questions anddecisions I face are modeled by theskills I learned in econ classes.

Though he graduated in 2007,Coupal continues to remain active inthe Stanford community and often pro-vides advice to students who are form-ing their own startups. Coupa Caf has

served as a testing ground for severalrestaurant-related startups.

Many entrepreneurs create a prod-uct, and they can get a lot of exposure atCoupa, Coupal said. Whether its asurvey or loyalty or communicationtool, I like to give tips and advice givenmy own experiences starting Coupa.

Coupals interactions with the Stan-ford community have largely shapedthe growth of Coupa Caf, and Coupalsees a continued dialogue with Coupaspatrons as the key to its future growthand success.

Coupa was really born out of Stan-ford, Coupal said. We can always beimproving, and we will continue to turnto the Stanford community to betterour product.

Contact James Lancaster at jlancaster@stanford.edu.

By ARUSHI JAIN

Before Allen Ginsbergs famousHowl became the archetypalpoem of the Beat Generation, itfirst went through multiple revi-sions. The original manuscript

containing Ginsbergs handwritten revi-sions is part of the extensive collection ofGinsbergs correspondence, notebooks,

journals, photographs and videos housed inStanford Archives Special Collections.

The Ginsberg collection is only one of

the many resources available in the Stan-ford Archives, whose vast historical recordsoffer new opportunities for students. TheArchives consist of three main collectingareas: official administrative records of theUniversity, faculty papers and materialsdocumenting the Stanford family.

[The archives] are very broad and havea variety of formats, Stanford UniversityArchivist Daniel Hartwig said. Currently,we have over 30,000 linear feet of materialand dozens of terabytes of electronicrecords.

Last year, at least three award-winninghonors theses were based on topics cen-tered on research from the archives. Dono-van Ervin 11, who graduated last June, wasawarded the Robert M. Golden Medalfor Excellence for his thesis We ShallOvercome: The Anti-Apartheid Move-

ment and Its Effects on the StanfordCommunity. Ervin focused on how theanti-apartheid movement was used oncampus to fight injustice in South Africaand as a way for black students at Stan-ford to gain a political voice.

I had another project that I had start-ed working on as a junior, but it didntwork out since it was too difficult to getprimary source documents, Ervin said.For this one, I knew that all the primarysource documents I needed would beright here on campus.

Ervins research relied on materialsfrom the archives, including personal in-terviews with alumni and professors, oldnewspaper articles, flyers from school ral-lies, papers written by past activists andarticles from The San Francisco Chroni-cle and The Stanford Daily.

The archives gave me the foundation

to create a story, Ervin said. This al-lowed me to go into deeper analysis ofwhat I was eventually finding in my re-search.

Ryan Mac 11, a former Daily editor,wrote The Long History of ROTC atStanford: From Precursors to the Present,focusing on the history of the Reserve Of-ficer Training Corps and the reasons it leftcampus during the Vietnam Era. To devel-op his thesis, Mac used the Special Collec-tions, several old records, original docu-ments, primary sources and ROTC filesdating back to the establishment of the

Special Collections in the 1890s.The reason why I agreed to do this the-sis is, unlike a topic you have to travel to, allI had to do was go over to Special Collec-tions and walk back to my dorm, Mac said.

Like Ervin and Mac, Hartwig spoke ofthe popularity of the archives among stu-dents in finding materials for the arts,drama, dance, publishing, exhibitions andaudio and video collections. Trends in stu-dent work vary from interest in the wars,womens rights and minority issues dur-ing the 60s and 70s to the growth of theUniversity during the 40s and 50s. Stu-dents frequently address these topics inresearch, Ph.D. dissertations and seniorhonors theses.

Hava Mirell 12 first used the archivesto write a 25-page research paper for aclass on the history of women at Stanford

and its implications for the campus. Mirellbegan by looking through diaries, lettersand albums.

One day, one really helpful archivisttold me about the card-filing system,which is way better than anything online,Mirell said. You look up w for women,and it has a card for every article pub-lished by women or for coeducation atStanford, showing students opinions andgiving a dialogue from that.

From there, Mirells research expand-ed to include presidents reports and bul-letins of courses made specifically forwomen. For the past two months, Mirellsaid she has spent an average of three tofour hours at the archives three days aweek.

Archival research adds a lot of colorto whatever paper you are doing, Mirell

said. It is very valuable to incorporate

actual pictures, cartoons and quotations.The language is so rich, and this [re-search] gives you more respect and au-thority as a writer.

While writing her paper, Mirell is alsoworking on her senior honors thesis onconflict diamonds in Zimbabwe.

The problem is, I cant travel there to

collect primary resources, so I am mostlydepending on secondary information,Mirell said. It is less exciting because youdont really hear the peoples voices, un-like when I am sitting here reading thisdiary and knowing that this is a womanwho was here 100 years before me. Get-ting to see what women like me had toovercome is personally gratifying.

With the increasing amount of stu-dents using the collections for research,the archivists continue to expand theavailability and accessibility of thearchives. According to Hartwig, almost 90percent of the materials is searchablethrough Google, and aids and guides areavailable online. Several audio, video andoral histories have been digitized as well.However, the archives offer somethingdigital versions cannot.

Knowing that the exact same things

that I am touching in my hands were actu-al articles of history makes it tangible,Ervin said. There is a certain level of au-thenticity that makes it easier to relate toand less abstract.

Both Mac and Mirell agreed, notingthe differences between viewing docu-ments in person and on a screen.

On Google, I found a digitized Stan-ford review, and it wasnt the same expe-rience as in the archives because you are

just scrolling instead of looking at everypage, Mirell said. Even with advertise-ments that are online, you are prone toskip over it, but when you see it in a book,you think about what it is saying aboutthe culture of women.

In the case of material that can only befound in the archives, the information isunique to Stanford.

The archives are the most incrediblyhelpful and underutilized resources oncampus, Mirell said. The archiviststhemselves go above and beyond to an-swer any question you may have. They are

just the best.

Contact Arushi Jain at ajain93@stanford.

edu.

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DIGGING UP HISTORY

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OPINIONS

Why hello there, TuesdayReader! Fancy meeting

you here.Allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Chase Ishii, and for thenext four months, I will be yournew best friend. (If you are readingthis next to your current bestfriend, dont worry. Just breatheslowly and act natural, and theywont have a clue. Unless, of course,they are reading this with you, inwhich case, you have been replacedas well, so everything is fine.)

Some of you may know me asthe Thursday Poop NewspaperGuy from last volume (which isactually one of the better nick-names Ive received. Much betterthan Squishy Ishii . . . I immediate-ly regret putting that in print.) Butwith a new volume and a new day

comes a new theme. This columnwill not be a traditional Opinionscolumn, but you will forgive me forit (because thats what best friendsdo.)

I will not be addressing contro-versial topics, such as politics, theeconomy or whether or not the E!Channel is ruining Americas rep-utation more than any act of for-eign intervention ever could. (It is.)

The older I get, the more I real-ize how gray black-and-white is-sues really are and how importantit is to hear all sides (especially theminority) before taking a firmstance. (So, if I ever do write anoverly political column, it probablymeans I have been kidnapped bythe North Koreans and am writingat gunpoint. Rather than assessingthe persuasiveness and rhetoricalstrength of my argument, youshould write a letter to your con-gressman petitioning for my re-lease.)

Ivan Illich, an Australianphilosopher, wrote, Neither revo-lution nor reformation can ulti-mately change a society, rather youmust tell a new powerful tale, oneso persuasive that it sweeps awaythe old myths and becomes thepreferred story, one so inclusivethat it gathers all the bits of ourpast and our present into a coher-ent whole, one that even shinessome light into our future so thatwe can take the next step . . . If you

want to change a society, then you

have to tell an alternative story.This column will be about

telling that alternative story. I be-lieve that with everything we do our actions, our conversations, ourattitudes and our relationships we are all telling a story to the restof the world about who we are,what we believe and what wevalue. It is not a question of if weare telling a story, but what kind ofstory we are telling. Is it exciting?Does it have twists and tensions? Isthere a happy ending? Is my storyworth reading?

And what better way to talk is-sues of identity, belief and worththan through stories and art? Self-awareness is the goal. We can an-swer the who? and why? andhow? and what next? ques-tions much better if we bring the

same level of analysis to our ownlives that we bring to stories andartistic endeavors. I hope that thehonesty and vulnerability in thiscolumn will allow for a dialogue, aresponse in addition to an opinion,on the more abstract and morepersonal aspects of life, the kind ofthings you really only share with abest friend.

In maintaining the dialogue, Iinvite, encourage and beg you touse your voice. If you have opin-ions or questions about my views,email me. If you want to know whyI dont drink or how I can be intel-lectual and still a Christian, or ifyou want a 15-page single-spaced

explanation of why the Angels arethe greatest baseball team in the

MLB, email me. If you have yourown story you want to share thatyou think can change (or shift) so-ciety, email me. This column is aplatform, and your voice in theconversation is the difference be-tween talking at and talking tothe Stanford community. And Imall ears.

Half-Invented refers to theway we experience the world.Without getting into the meta-physics of it all (mainly becauseI dont understand the meta-physics of it all), your reality is

just that your reality. It is theway you, and you alone, per-ceive the world. We hypothesizeto fill in the inevitable gaps wecan never really know themotivations of others, their per-ceptions of us and what we thinkis capital-T Truth and thenwe respond accordingly. We maybe right or wrong in these as-sumptions, but either way, its allwe really have to go on. And inthat way, our lives the storieswe experience and the storieswe tell are always half-in-vented.

See you next week, new bestfriend. Im looking forward to it.

If you want your new best friend tobe your new more-than-just-friends,email Chase at ninjaish@stanford.edu. Cheers!

Welcome to the burgeon-ing local food movement.By local, I do not mean

the Bay Area, nor even the Stan-ford campus, but a certain bed-room in Synergy CooperativeHouse. In preparation for a recentroom warming, my roommatesand I took a trip to CommonGround, a nearby garden supplystore. We picked up potting soil,lavender, chamomile, mint and

thyme, and now the most excitingpart of our room is a set of planterboxes hanging outside our thirdfloor windows.

It was a pretty simple act andrelatively inexpensive, too. Sincetheyre already outside in the sun-shine, all the plants need is a littlewater. I like to think of our win-dow boxes as a romantic state-ment in favor of local food. Theyemphasize my belief that, becauseof our campus culture of innova-tion, Stanford students areuniquely situated to begin advo-cating for more just and sustain-able food practices.

Its useful to step back fromStanford for a moment and re-member the state of our national

food systems. Several author-ac-tivists, including Michael Pollanand Eric Schlosser, have detailedthe problems associated with foodand farming in America; theserange from conventional agricul-tures obsessive reliance on fossilfuels to ongoing inequalities in ac-cess to nutritious, affordable, cul-turally appropriate food. The sys-temic nature of these challengesand disparities demands action atmany different levels, spanningthe extremely personal to theglobal.

Silicon Valley encourages aculture of innovation and rapidprototyping at Stanford, andthese startup staples can be usefultools for improving our brokenfood systems. For example, a win-ter quarter class in the Institute ofDesign at Stanford (d.school),Designing for Sustainable Abun-dance, embraces the type of ex-perimental design thinking thatconsiders not only the environ-mental implications of our foodchoices, but also their power to af-fect our physical and emotionalwellbeing. Last year, students inthe course established a novelcollaboration between thed.school, Stanford Dining and theStanford Prevention ResearchCenter to ideate, prototype andimplement strategies to reducemeat consumption in dining halls.This research highlights another

carefully cultivated Stanfordcharacteristic: collaboration.The problems in our food sys-

tems are multifaceted, rangingfrom the biophysical to the socio-cultural, but food activists oftenneglect to collaborate or even rec-ognize the deeper issues of pover-ty, race, access and power thatallow hunger and food inequali-ties to persist in America. To ad-dress these problems, we need

multi-level solutions that recog-nize the economic, environmentaland social justice framework inwhich food activism is situated.Stanford faculty and students arebeginning to do this through anemphasis on interdisciplinary ap-proaches to change.

This past fall, Stanford hostedits second annual Food Summit,

which was attended by over 400scholars and activists. These sum-mits, spearheaded by Dr. Christo-pher Gardner of the StanfordMedical School, brought togetherindividuals from each of Stan-fords seven different schools.They even featured undergradu-ates, such as Janani Balasubra-manian 12, who established a newASSU Food Cabinet this year.

Both Balasubramanian andGardner are working to garner in-stitutional support for the foodmovement at Stanford. There arealready many indications of thisinstitutional momentum towardestablishing a curriculum and cul-ture around food at Stanford row house and dining hall gardens,a dedicated Farm Manager de-signing a new on-campus educa-tion farm, a Sustainable Food Pro-gram Manager working to bringmore real food to the dining hallsand even the newly-formed Stan-ford Intuitive Eating Group.

The opportunities for studentengagement in this movement arecountless. There are farm work-days, gleaning groups, nutritioneducation programs in East PaloAlto, cooking workshops and awhole host of student groups fromthe Stanford Farm Project to theStanford Project for Hunger. WithChez Panisse and the PeoplesGrocery just across the Bay, Stan-ford is in the hub of the sustainable

food movement, and because ofthe Universitys dedication to col-laboration and innovative, inter-disciplinary solutions, Stanfordstudents are uniquely empoweredto achieve change. It could be assimple as planting some thymeoutside your dorm room.

Think you might want to set up yourown window garden? Ask Jenny fortips at jrempel@stanford.edu.

FROM FARM TO FORK

Creating a food movementat Stanford

HALF INVENTED

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

An introduction (toyour new best friend!)

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JennyRempel

The opportunities for

student engagementin this movement

are countless.

ChaseIshii

The case for an ice

arena on campusDear Editor,

As an alumnus and primemover behind the development ofan independent non-profit skat-ing facility in my current homestate of Maine (with both indoorand outdoor refrigerated sur-faces), I enthusiastically supportthe construction of an ice rink onthe Stanford campus (Ice rinkproposal advances, Jan. 17).

One early lesson in creatingthe Family Ice Center was that icearenas need not be, nor should be,all about hockey. Ice and themany activities it supports offer aunique recreational experience,even more so in a California set-

ting. It is also a great way to beatthe heat.

In addition to providing ahome for Stanford hockey teams(women and men), a rink couldoffer figure skating (singles, pairsand synchronized teams), learn toskate classes, short track speedskating, public skates, intra-muralbroom ball and coed hockey, andeven curling.

An on-campus skating facilitycould also provide a valuable in-terface with the community byhosting youth programs managedby Stanford students (and facul-ty), as well as an out-reach to localorganizations that service disad-

vantaged and disabled youth. AtFamily Ice, Opportunity Skate of-

fers free ice and skates (evenhockey equipment) to a variety ofnon-profits and helps to coordi-nate volunteers yet anotherchance for Stanford undergradsto get involved.

An intriguing opportunity forthe University, from both an envi-ronmental and recreationalstandpoint, would be to combinethe rink with a pool. This may be amore practical and valuable op-tion than the two sheets of ice thathave been proposed. The wasteheat from the compressors thatrefrigerate the ice surface can becaptured not only to dehumidifythe air in the rink but also to heatthe pool water, saving significant-ly on carbon-based fuel. With the

absence of Lake Lagunita, a poolon the West Campus committedto recreational use (and intra-mural sports) would be a tremen-dous asset for the student bodyand greater college community.

In the idyllic landscape of Stan-ford, with its ubiquitous palm andeucalyptus trees, the last thing youwould expect to find is a sheet ofindoor ice. But that is exactly thepoint. Imagine the impact and im-pression an ice rink could have onthe Universitys diverse studentpopulation, many of whom havenever strapped on a pair of skates.

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By GEORGE CHENDESK EDITOR

The Stanford mens swimmingand diving team took a trip downto USC this past weekend, hopingfor some fast individual swimsand a team win. The Cardinal ac-complished both of those goals asNo. 3 Stanford (7-1, 3-1 Pac-12)swam some eye-popping timeswhile defeating No. 5 USC 175-118 on Saturday.

MENS SWIMMING

STANFORD 175

USC 118

2/4, Los Angeles, Calif.

Coming into the meet, therewas little doubt that USC McDon-alds Swim Stadium was going tobe the site of some of the fastestperformances in the nation so farthis season. The quality of competi-tion was top-notch as Stanford,USC and Cal teams all rankedin the top six nationally met fora quasi-tri-meet.

USC and Cal squared off firston Friday while Stanford swam ex-hibition. On Saturday, Stanford du-

eled against USC while Calsswims were not officially scored.Although the Cardinal swimmerscould have just taken it easy on thefirst day, they instead used thisgolden opportunity to put up somefast times against national-caliberteams. Stanford would carry thismomentum and take it to an evenhigher level the next day againstUSC.

The Cardinal made a statementfrom the beginning by winning the400 medley relay against the Tro-

jans. Junior Aaron Wayne was ableto hold off the fastest sprinter in thenation, USCs Vladimir Morosov,in the last leg of the relay. Immedi-ately after, senior Chad LaTourette maintained his dual-meet

dominance by winning the 1650freestyle, the longest event in colle-giate competition. La Tourettewould eventually finish the meet asa two-event winner by also notch-ing a victory in the 500 freestyle albeit by a much smaller margin.

Head coach Skip Kenney wasvery pleased with his teamsoverall performance. He also at-tributed La Tourettes success indual-meet competition to his hardwork and talent as a leader of theteam.

Stanford ended up winning 11of the 16 events in which it compet-

I

t has now been over 24 hourssince Super Sunday, so bynow you are probably awarethat, in between the M.I.A.

bird-flip and the sadly sub-par commercials, there was actuallya football game between the NewYork Giants and the New EnglandPatriots.

And, from a relatively neutralperspective, it was . . . decent. Therewere moments: the penalty-inducedsafety on Tom Bradys first pass, thefumbles the Patriots couldnt recov-er, the iconic Manning-to-Manning-ham connection on the final driveand, of course, the most awkwardSuper Bowl-winning touchdown ofall time, courtesy of Ahmad Brad-shaw. Plus, the game did come downto the final moments, which is, inmany ways, all you can ask for fromany football game.

Then again, it wasnt exactly the

most thrilling game. Unless you are adiehard fan of the Giants or Patriots,or someone who bet a large amountof money on the game, you probablycant remember much that hap-pened between the opening safetyand the last five minutes of the game.Except maybe the new VolkswagenStar Wars ad.

As a stats nut, I love dissectingbox scores, but this one is fairly dullas big-game scorelines go. There wasonly one turnover (which was theequivalent of a punt anyway), onlyone player with more than 73 yardsrushing or receiving and only oneplay of more than 24 yards (theaforementioned pass to Manning-ham).

The games MVP (Eli Manning)accounted for exactly one touch-down; the supposed best player inthe game (Brady) looked off andmissed some crucial throws. The sup-posed genius coach (Bill Belichick)wasted a timeout on a dumb chal-lenge, and the most talked-aboutand prolific pass-catchers (RobGronkowski and Victor Cruz) had51 receiving yards combined.

Yes, there were great plays andgreat performances, but even 24hours later, its starting to be forget-table for me.

Yet if we ignore the Super Bowl,then we have to accept the realitythat we have over 200 days until thenext meaningful football game. Andthat is scary.

Perhaps it is because of this fear,or maybe its just the nature of sportsmedia, but within .02 milliseconds ofthe final Hail Mary hitting theground, you could hear the legacywhispers begin around the country.The first topic on everyones mindsafter running through the highlightsseemed to be about the legacies ofthe players, coaches and teams in-volved.

If youre the kind of person thatonly watches the occasional game

SPORTS

Spare me allthe legacynonsense

By JACK BLANCHATMANAGING EDITOR

After getting waxed in twomatches this weekend at home,the Stanford mens tennis teamwill try to bounce back againstHawaii on Tuesday.

The No. 6 Cardinal droppedlopsided contests to USC andUCLA this past weekend, gettinghanded 7-0 and 6-1 losses, respec-tively, and needs a bounce-back

victory in a major way.The best way to describe it

was painful, said senior captainBradley Klahn about the Cardi-nals performance. It leaves a bit-ter taste in our mouths. USC andUCLA are such a big rivalry, andin my three years, every match hasbeen hotly contested . . . So tocome out and lose 12 singlesmatches this weekend and to putone point on the board, it hurts.

Klahn, who has been sidelinedso far this season with a back in-

jury, said the disappointing week-end should act as a major wake-up call for the Cardinal as itlaunches into the heart of itsspring schedule.

I hope everyone takes away

from this that they dont want tosee that happen again, especiallyon our home courts, Klahn said.I think itd be hard to find a timewhere Stanfords lost 7-0 at homein their history.

Just to see USC taking a pic-ture of the scoreboard, its irritat-ing, and it should irritate all theguys on the team, he continued.I hope it motivates us to dig a lit-tle deeper and gut out one or two

more balls late in that third set thenext time we play them.

In contrast to the Cardinalsrecent performances, Hawaii iscoming off its biggest win of theseason, a 4-3 upset of No. 61 SaintMarys on Sunday but historysuggests that Stanford shouldhave little trouble in thismatchup.

Over Thanksgiving, the Cardi-nal dominated the Rainbow War-riors, 7-0, in an exhibition match

in Hawaii. Stanford was missingits top two players seniorsRyan Thacher and Klahn andstill came away with the victory ina dominant performance. Addi-tionally, Hawaii had droppedthree straight matches before itsupset of Saint Marys, including a7-0 defeat at the hands of the No.14 Mississippi State Bulldogs.

Klahn said that even thoughthe Cardinal has a good historyagainst the squad from the AlohaState, the team should understandthe gravity of Tuesdays match.

We had a good start to theseason, winning two matches inTulsa against a good Tulsa andNorth Carolina team, and we gotknocked down pretty hard this

weekend, he said. So I think itspretty important for the guys tonot overlook anyone at this pointand come prepared for the matchtomorrow.

The Cardinal and the RainbowWarriors square off today at 1:30p.m. at the Taube Family TennisCenter.

Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@stanford.edu.

NEED TO REBOUNDCARD COMING OFF TWO LOSSES

MENS SWIMMING

Stanford

demolishes

USC in L.A.

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Playing without injured senior Bradley Klahn (above), the Stanfordmens tennis team has struggled, dropping all singles matchesagainst both USC and UCLA at home over this past weekend.

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SEASON BESTNOT ENOUGH

By CONNOR SCHERERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Sundays meet against the No. 7UCLA Bruins was full of highs andlows for the Stanford womens gym-nastics team. Despite putting up aseason-high score of 196.450, theCardinal suffered its second straightloss as UCLA put up 197.250.

WOMENS GYMNASTICS

STANFORD 196.450UCLA 197.250

2/5, Los Angeles, Calif.

Stanford and UCLA have longbeen rivals in gymnastics, as theyhave combined for 14 of the last 15conference championships. Lastyear, Stanford controlled the seasonseries, beating UCLA three of thefour times they met (though the oneloss came in the Pac-10 Champi-onships). The Cardinal looked to getan early lead on the season seriesagainst the Bruins on Sunday, butwas unable to do so.

Stanford started on bars, postinga team score of 49.125 and led by

senior Nicole Pechanec, who tiedher season-high score of 9.900.Sophomore Shona Morgan andfreshman Samantha Shapiro alsohad impressive contributions in theevent, as they both posted career-high scores of 9.875. However,UCLAs 49.475 on vault gave theBruins an early lead that they wouldhold for the rest of the meet.

The Cardinal would then go on toput up a season-high score of 49.300

on bars, the first time the team haseclipsed the 49-point mark in thisevent all season. This strong per-formance was thanks in large part to

junior Nicole Dayton, who scored a9.900 for the second-straight weekafter missing a meet against Wash-ington due to injury. Dayton wasmatched by freshman Ivana Hong,whose 9.900 was the best score ofher young collegiate career. Stan-ford managed to narrow its deficit to98.650-98.425 with its impressivevault performance, but still hadwork to do going into the last tworounds.

Please seeJAFFE, page 6

Jacob

Jaffe

Stat on the Back

NICK SALAZAR/The Stanford Daily

The Stanford womens gymnastics team had a bittersweet dual meetagainst UCLA in Los Angeles. The Cardinal put up its best score ofthe season, 196.450, but it was not enough to top the host Bruins,who scored 197.250 to hand Stanford its second straight loss.

FOOTBALL

Tarver leaves

to run Raidersdefense

By JACK BLANCHATMANAGING EDITOR

After leaving the NFL to join the Stanford foot-ball coaching staff in 2010, co-defensive coordinatorJason Tarver is headed back to the NFL this time,as the defensive coordinator for the OaklandRaiders.

Tarver, who coached for the San Francisco 49ersfor 10 years before joining head coach David Shawsstaff last season, couldnt pass up the opportunity toreturn to the NFL.

Tarver joins the staff of new head coach Dennis

Allen, who took over the Raiders head job afterspending last season as the Denver Broncos defen-sive coordinator. Allen had the authority to hand-pick his own staff and, after former defensive coordi-nator Chuck Bresnahan wasnt retained by theRaiders, he didnt have to look very far to find hisnew defensive coordinator.

Tarvers tutelage helped spearhead an impres-sive Cardinal defense this season Stanfords de-fense finished the season ranked either first or sec-ond in the Pac-12 in eight categories, including first intotal defense and rushing defense.

Even with his impressive credentials, though,Tarver has his work cut out for him across the Bay.The Raiders are certainly a team in transition, with

the death of longtime owner Al Davis last fall andthe firing of head coach Hue Jackson and his staffafter finishing last season with an 8-8 record andthat doesnt even begin to sum up their on-fieldproblems.

The Raiders were not only the most-penalizedteam in NFL history, but also the NFLs fourth-worstdefense last season. The Raiders gave up franchiseworsts in touchdown passes allowed, yards per carry,yards passing and total yards. Additionally, theRaiders gave up the third-most points in team histo-ry, all of which led to the major house cleaning inOakland.

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Co-defensive coordinator Jason Tarver, a formerassistant with the San Francisco 49ers, is leavingStanford to take the defensive coordinator postwith another NFL team, the Oakland Raiders.

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and not the 400 hours of pre- andpostgame coverage surrounding it,heres a typical legacy debate: Afterwinning this game, does [insert win-ning teams best player] now belong

among the all-time greats? Well,he won [the game], so he is now def-initely better than [insert historicallyfamous player that everyone knowsis better than the current player] be-cause he won [the game]. Is [insertwinning coach] now a sure-fire Hallof Famer? Does this loss tarnish[insert losing teams bestplayer/coach]s legacy? Yes, hecant win the big one/No, he just did-nt have the weapons around himthis year.

You can tweak a word or two, butthose templates can basically giveyou an entire daily sports show forthe next two weeks. Just fill in EliManning, his second Super Bowl,Peyton Manning, Joe Namath, DanMarino, Tom Coughlin, Bill Be-

lichick and Tom Brady where ap-propriate.

By far the most popular questionseems to be if Eli is an elite, surefireHall of Famer. Brady and Belichick,as the Worlds Perfect Player andWorlds Perfect Coach, are immunefrom insult, and Coughlin is an oldguy who won two Super Bowlswhen people thought hed be fired.Go him. But what about Eli? Did hereally put the Eli in elite?

The general consensus seems tobe that he did. Im fine with that. Hewon his second Super Bowl, and hewas the MVP in both. That seemselite to me. What I cant stand is thatthe conversation instantly goes tohis legacy. A common refrain is if heretired today, hed go down as an all-

time great and a definite Hall ofFamer.

No way. If Eli Manning retiredtoday, hed go down as a guy whowas really good and then randomlyretired at age 31. Hes played eightyears. Lets leave the legacy talk forwhen hes actually done.

This is nothing against him. Idont think it diminishes Eli at all tosay that his legacy isnt something todiscuss right now. Merriam-Webstersays that legacy is something trans-mitted from the past. Elis career,and that of his brother Peyton,Brady, Belichick, Coughlin andeveryone else in that Super Bowl, isstill going. Lets save those discus-sions for when their careers actually

are in the past.Instead of talking about if Eli isnow better than his brother Peyton,talk about how incredible his throwto Manningham was on that finaldrive. Instead of blaming the Patri-ots loss on everyone but Brady andBelichick, hold them accountablefor not stepping up in the biggestgame of the year. You can worryabout how itll all look to future peo-ple when the future actually comesaround.

Jacob Jaffe doesnt worry about hislegacy. Give him extra affirmation ofhis Hall of Fame status at jwjaffe@stanford.edu and followhim on Twitter @Jacob_Jaffe.

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By PALANI ESWARANCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The No. 16 Stanford wrestlingteam had a disappointing weekend,dropping duals to the Utah Valley

Wolverines and the Arizona StateSun Devils, two teams that have los-ing records in dual meets. The Car-dinal (8-8, 3-2 Pac-12) lost to UtahValley on Friday by a score of 25-10and lost to Arizona State on Sundayby a score of 22-15. Some wrestlers,mostly freshmen, wrestled in theCalifornia Collegiate Open in SanFrancisco on Saturday, and twoCardinal wrestlers placed.

WRESTLING

STANFORD 15

ARIZONA STATE 22

2/5, Tempe, Ariz.

In the match against Utah Val-ley, Stanford forfeited at 125pounds once again. Head coachJason Borrelli has chosen to do thisnumerous times this season. Thispast weekend, Borrelli likely want-ed to give No. 8 Ryan Mango sometime off after a tough, physicalmatch against Oregon State. Butforfeiting that weight class put theCard down by six to start the match.

The Wolverines then won threeconsecutive matches, two by deci-sion and one by major decision, to goup 16-0. Stanford won three of the

final six matches. At 157 pounds,sophomore Garrett Schaner won bydecision; at 174 pounds, redshirt sen-ior No. 1 Nick Amuchastegui won bymajor decision; and at 184 pounds,redshirt junior Spence Patrick won

by decision.The match against Arizona

State was much closer if theCard had won one more individualmatch, it might have won the dual.Once again, however, Stanford gotoff to a slow start, digging itself intoa 22-3 hole. The only win in theteams first seven matches was an8-1 victory by redshirt junior MattSencenbaugh, who was wrestlingfor the first time in a month. Theteam finished the match with threeconsecutive major decisions bySchaner, redshirt sophomore BretBaumbach at 165 pounds andAmuchastegui.

At the California CollegiateOpen, freshmen 125-pounderEvan Silver and 197-pounderMichael Sojka placed fourth andthird, respectively. Silver won threematches, including a major decisionand a pin. Sojka won four matchesand looked very impressive,recording two major decisions anda pin in the match for third place.

This past weekend was definite-ly a tough one for Stanford, espe-cially for a team that started off2012 looking very impressive. TheCardinal won four of its first five

matches in the new year, but haslost three straight since. Last week-end, the Card lost a close match toa very good Oregon State team,and, despite the loss, the teamlooked poised to bounce back and

win at least one of its final twoduals. But in both duals, Stanfordlost a lot of close matches, and inthe end those losses added up.

Despite the tough losses, thereare some positives to take awayfrom this weekend. If Mango hadwrestled, both matches wouldhave likely been much closer; infact, Stanford would likely havebeaten Arizona State.Amuchastegui remained unde-feated by winning both of hismatches. He is now 18-0 overalland finishes the regular seasonwith a perfect 15-0 dual record.

The team will have plenty oftime to learn from its mistakes thisweekend, as it does not have anoth-er match until the Pac-12 Champi-onships in Boise, Idaho on Feb. 26.That tournament will determinewhich wrestlers go to the NCAATournament in March, and there isa good chance that many wrestlerswill have rematches against Ari-zona State wrestlers in Boise, mak-ing the next few weeks even moreimportant.

Contact Palani Eswaran at palani14@stanford.edu.

WRESTLING

Card loses two to sub-.500 teams

ed. But it was the combination ofthose first-place finishes with theteams outstanding depth thathelped it quickly pull away fromUSC. The Cardinal managed toswim a 1-2-3 sweep in four eventsand finish 1-2 in four others.

The first of these 1-2-3 sweeps,led by senior Bobby Bollier,came in the 200 butterfly. Thisevent was crucial, as it was nearthe middle of the meet and essen-tially made a USC win very un-likely. From that point on, the gapbetween the Cardinal and theTrojans kept on widening. Withfour events left in the meet, Stan-ford started swimming exhibi-

tion, meaning that some of theteams scored points were not of-ficially counted.

On the diving board, the fresh-man duo of Kristian Ipsen and

Connor Kuremsky respectivelyfinished 1-2 on both springboardevents a feat thats been seenquite a lot throughout this season.The duo led the way for the Cardi-nal diving squad to collectivelyoutscore their Trojan counterpartsby a score of 26-10.

In USCs defense, the Trojansmay have been feeling the after ef-fects of a tough meet against Calthe day earlier. USCs Morosovheld his own against the Cardinalwith two individual wins. But evenhis two victories were not easy tocome by. Morosov barely held offCardinal junior Aaron Wayne inthe 100 freestyle and freshmanDavid Nolan in the 100 breast-

stroke.The race between Morosov and

Nolan was especially interestingbecause the event was somewhatof an unfamiliar territory for both

swimmers. Morosov specializes inthe freestyle events, while Nolansweakest stroke is the breaststroke.In the end, Morosov was able toedge out Nolan by just two-tenthsof a second.

On top of leaving Southern Cal-ifornia with a win, Stanford also gota good preview of Cal, even thoughthe two rivals did not officiallycompete against each other. Itsonly fitting that the two teams willmeet for the last dual meet of theregular season. The Cardinalsshowdown against the GoldenBears will be at home on Feb. 18.

Contact George Chen at gchen15@stanford.edu.

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On the floor exercise, Pechanecscored a season-best 9.900, her sec-ond of the day, and freshmanPauline Hanset matched her ca-reer best on the floor with a 9.850.They helped contribute to the Car-dinals 49.000 in the event, its sea-son best on floor. However, de-spite such a strong performance inthe event, UCLA extended its leadto 0.475 going into the final round.

Having had its fair share of

problems on the beam last weekagainst Oregon State (posting aseason-low score of just 47.750 dueto three falls), the Cardinal hopedto have a better performance thanlast week despite a similar pres-sure scenario as was the case in

last weeks meet, the team was onthe road and needed a strongbeam performance to narrow itsdeficit.

Unlike last week, however, theCardinal had an impressive outingon the beam, posting a score of49.025, its second best of the sea-son. Shona Morgan put up her sec-ond 9.875 on the day, and juniorAshley Morgan also scored a 9.875to improve her score by 0.650points from last week. Unfortu-nately, the 49.025, despite beingthe Cardinals second-best beamscore on the season, was notenough to catch the Bruins, whose49.350 sealed the victory 197.250-

196.450.Impressive individual perform-ances highlighted the day for theCardinal, as two Stanford gym-nasts posted very strong scores inSundays loss. Pechanecs two9.900 scores helped her put up a

career-best 39.325 in the all-around competition, while AshleyMorgan also posted a career-high39.300 on the day. Unfortunatelyfor the Cardinal, UCLA sopho-more Samantha Peszek also post-ed the best all-around score of hercareer with a 39.550.

Stanford drops to 4-2 on theseason (1-2 in the Pac-12) with theloss, while UCLA improves to 4-1(2-1 in the Pac-12). The Cardinalnext meets the Bruins at the Pac-12 Championships on March 24,where the team will look to eventhe season series and take themore important matchup betweenthe two. Next up for Stanford is the

teams first meeting with archrivalCal in Berkeley, where Stanfordcontinues its five-game road swingon Sunday.

Contact Connor Scherer at cscher-er@stanford.edu.

GYMContinued from page 5

The move across the Bay meansthat Tarver will have spent essen-tially his entire life coaching in theBay Area. The 37-year-old graduat-ed high school in nearby Pleasan-ton, attended Santa Clara Universi-ty for college and had his firstcoaching job at West Valley Collegein Saratoga before spending adecade with the Niners.

With Tarver departing for theRaiders, Shaw and the Cardinal willnow need to replace three coacheson staff after special teams coachand recruiting coordinator BrianPolians departure for Texas A&Mand the death of defensive assistantChester McGlockton.

Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@stanford.edu.

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